Archive for Like and Trust Factor
A new spin on Automated Direct Messages on Twitter
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve written a few times about automated direct messages on Twitter (Should You Send an Automated DM to New Twitter Followers? and Using Twitter: Another Look at Sending Automated Direct Messages)
An automated DM in Twitter is when you use software to automatically send a direct message to new followers. I was (and still am) against them because everyone knows they’re automated and are often annoying to the receiver. They do nothing to help the receiver get to know, like and trust you better. Getting people to know, like and trust you is your main purpose with marketing.
However, I recently received this automated DM and this is the exception to my no auto-DM rule. Why? Because it made me laugh – which is clearly the goal. It is poking fun at how most people craft these types of messages and instantly made me like the sender a little more. Therefore, it did the job.
What do you think? Leave a comment please.
Andrea J. Stenberg
Don’t Assume People Know What You Do
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve heard time and again that you can’t assume people remember what you do. It’s one of the cornerstones of BNI and any other networking group you belong to. You
Don't Assume!
need to show up to give people a chance to know, like and trust you. And you need to keep showing up so they remember you.
I had this point driven home to me last week. On Tuesday I posted an update on LinkedIn, including a link to free ebook on internet marketing I created with some JV partners. About an hour later I received an email from a colleague asking if I do training on internet marketing and social media.
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Are you missing some Facebook Friends?
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When you log into Facebook, the first place you’re taken is your News Feed (or Home tab). This is where you see updates from your friends and the pages you have “liked”. But have you noticed that you’re only getting news from the same small number of people lately?
It doesn’t mean all your other Facebook friends have gone off line. Facebook has added a way to control your newsfeed. You can see the updates from all your friends, or you can set the feed to only show the friends and pages you interact most with.
For many people, if not most, their setting was defaulted to “Friends and pages you interact most with”.
If this had happened to you, scroll down to the bottom of your News Feed and click the “edit options button” on the bottom right of the page.
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