Three Ways to Improve your Twitter (now X) Hashtags

Hashtags are an incredible way to connect with other X (formerly Twitter) users with like interests. If you’re consistent and honest in your hashtag chats, you can make new friends, colleagues and even business partners.

However, I’ve spent a lot of time in hashtag chats and general hashtag conversations and have seen a lot of people miss the mark. It’s not that it’s “wrong”, but every tweet is an opportunity to say something valuable and on X, people are measured by the consistent quality of their tweets. When a user’s every tweet is funny, informative or educational, the followers will come.

So here are three ways to improve your use of X hasthags.

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Are You Using A Social Media Dashboard? 3 Reasons Why You Should Be

You’ve got two more tweets to send out promoting a new product, a whole queue of questions on your company’s Facebook page to answer, and you know your personal LinkedIn account has been pretty dormant lately. What do you do?

If your answer is to click over to each site, update, click, send, click… you’re doing it wrong.

There are plenty of tools out there that can make your social media life easier, and dashboards have got to be among the best. Here are three ways dashboards can take a little bit of that stress off your shoulders.

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What’s Your Avatar? Understanding Your Social Media Image

Whether you like it or not, a good part of who you are on social media is your image.

The images you choose to represent yourself – the pictures you choose to tweet, your Facebook cover photo, your LinkedIn profile picture – all come together to give the people you’re connected to a glimpse into who you are.

So if you haven’t given your self-image much thought, now’s a great time to start.

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Oppan Social Style: The State of Social Media in 2012

Believe it or not, but the first month of 2013 is drawing to a close.

Hopefully you’ve managed to stick to your resolutions through the month of January, and you’re back in the swing of status updates and tweets.

Since we’re all fully immersed in 2013, we thought that it would be a good time to take a break from looking forward, and look back – back to the state of social media in 2012. If you’re up for a little jaunt down memory lane, read on.

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The First 3 Steps You Need To Take When Launching A Social Media Campaign

Step 1: Write a blog post, send a tweet, post a Facebook status update
Step 2: …?
Step 3: Success!

If that sounds like your hazy vision for how a social media campaign looks, you’ll want to adjust your perspective.

Too many companies think that social media = content creation. It doesn’t.

Content is just one part of the complex machine of social media done right, and it isn’t even the most important part.

Before you write your first tweet or even create your Facebook page, follow these three essential steps – or risk a huge social media flop, no matter how enlightening those status update are.

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