Conversation Creators

Creating Conversations Cohesively

When designing an Online Marketing plan one has to strategise to create a cohesive conversation with the use of a Decent websites, social media & networks and the literally thousands of online plugins, extensions and tools to increase awareness, engage with fans and foes, and listen to what they have to say.

Is Twitter costing your company money?

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

This week a general report stated that Twitter is costing UK businesses 1.4billion in lost revenue per year. Read it 140 Character Marketing would have a adventurous gestimate that the low barrier to entry and the high access to a specific information of users such as age, interest or geo market they are living in, companies are saving million on actually using such services as Twitter. Twitter cuts out the waste and gone are the days of such questions like: 50% of your marketing budget is wasted–... (more...)

Internal Communication with Twitter

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Twitter can be used not only for your external communication but also your internal. We here at twitter140charactermarketing.com also use Twitter for internal communication, and here is how: Set up a new Twitter account for corporate use, and make sure to protect the updates so that the general twitterverse cannot see them. Send the name of the corporate Twitter account to all the relevant people and ask them to apply to follow the account. The administrator of the corporate twitter account can... (more...)

Twitter Stamp Site

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

TwitStamp allows you to use your current Twitter status anywhere – in the form of an image. This means you can post your status on blogs, forums, websites… wherever you want! Create a Widget for your website, like the examples provided below from http://twitstamp.com Share and Enjoy:  Read More →

Segmenting Your Twitter Strategy

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

In this blog post, we want to explore the idea of segmenting your Twitter effort in order to gain more traction from the medium. You don’t have to concentrate all your efforts into one twitter account, just like one person doesn’t have to be responsible for all areas of a functioning business. Develop a more focused niche twitter pages, updated by more knowledgeable members of staff can lead to a greater overall 140 Character Marketing Strategy – Case in point is Dell Dell has... (more...)

Question: Tweet or Blog OR BOTH?

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

We received an email this week from an interested surfer who posed the question, “Blog or Tweet?” to which we immediately wanted to reply “Why choose”. They are not alternatives of each other rather complements of an overall marketing strategy, your use of blogging as a communication technique can become an integral part of your 140 character marketing strategy. Let us introduce you to TwitterFeed, this is an application whereby you register your details, type in your blog... (more...)

What’s Happening with Twitter

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

What’s Happening with Twitter Twitter has adapted its status question from “What are you doing?” to “What’s Happening“! The microblogging site was originally conceived for mobile updating and the founders didn’t foreseen the huge explosion of businesses, celebrities etc using the platform for their marketing and self promotion purpose. Twitter decided last week to change the status, this is really great for businesses as it makes the message much more powerful... (more...)

Dreamhost – The Green Hosting Service!

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 8 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Are you an ethical company, strive to be green? Wish you could offset the effects of your daily work life. Stop dreaming and live the reality with Dreamhost as your provider. The guys at Dreamhost calculated the impact of everything produced in the course of their daily work. They try to offset all of the resources that they use -paper, electricity, servers, fuel in the employee’s cars. They reduce travel for meetings, print on both sides and buy Emission Reduction Credits!!! I feel great... (more...)

Workshop: Before you Tweet, Learn Twitter Language

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 5 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

As Twitter only has 140 characters to convey your message, you have to use the space in the most effective way. Twitter uses specific language symbols and words in order to increase the efficiency of the communication flow on Twitter. Before launching any 140 Character marketing strategy you should learn and become familiar with the Twitter Language Read More about Twitter Language. How To Use Twitter on Howcast Share and Enjoy:  Read More →

Choosing the best hosting option to suit your needs.

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 5 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

There are now-a-days many differ web hosting software’s to choose from and many more web hosting services too. Choosing the right hosting package to suit your needs depends wholly on what you want to do with your site. Your hosting needs are going to be significantly different, if you are just looking for a simple and informative static site rather than a dynamic website with videos, blogs, social networking integration, advertisements or even a forum. Read More about the best web options... (more...)

How can Twitter Help Your Business?

Posted by Steven Mc Guinness On March - 5 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

**Micro effort Macro Results** Twitter can be a powerful marketing and communication tool for your small business once you know how to use it properly and you establish how to leverage your brand with twitter you can see huge increases in traffic volume and ultimately an increase in your profits. Using Twitter as part of your marketing strategy You can listen and follow users comments by your brand or industry by searching. …… Read More about how Twitter can help your Business. Share... (more...)