How To Turn Off Twitter Tailored Trends Twitter has been making some recent changes. They have come out with a Tailored Trends option that was automatically checked “ON” for you. This is a quick post and video on how to turn it off if you were out of the loop the last couple of weeks. Twitter is also changing their search options. We have generally been on board and liked the changes twitter has made in the past. Twitter doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon and we are looking forward to going to some or hosting events with the hashtags to see what results that will bring. Ok...

Here’s A Simple Hashtag List To Get Started I just recently wrote an introduction to Hashtag post mentioning the importance of researching some popular hashtags before you start using them. I wanted to go ahead and follow that up with a list to get you started. In some situations such as events/webinars/branding you create one to have a conversation for before/during/after the event or use your company name as a hashtag for branding. I will try to revisit this list from time to time and add the ones you want to recommend to it so it grows. This is just the start of the hashtag list. Don’t...

 Hashtags (#’s) & Why You Want To Be Using Hashtags The hashtag symbol is # (number sign, pound key).  Hashtags are a powerful way to jump into a conversation, start one, or categorize important lists and keywords. Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest are a few of the social media platforms that utilize them. Social Media, including utilizing the hashtag feature is an inexpensive way to get your name out there and start connecting with people. Using hashtags is vital for businesses of all sizes. You don’t have to have thousands of followers to jump into a conversation and start engaging...

Twitter Search Tips We are going to go into some Twitter Tips by using the advanced search option, Hootsuite, and a little trick on Bing to find tweets in a specific area. This social platform is great for so many uses! You can use it to strictly follow news and interesting articles to be able to sit down and get caught up right away, get weather / local / global news, participate in conversations or start your own using # tags (hashtags), customer service, retention, advertising (we will have a post soon on the advertising options), prospecting, sales, contests, keeping up with friends, and much much...