One Week With Google Buzz Now

For now I am about one week in Google Buzz and like some other people I don’t think that Google Buzz goes to overtake Twitter for now. Moreover I think Google Buzz will complement the social media world in a great maybe different way.

When you have accustomed that Google Buzz is making your Gmail account a little bit messy and learned to handle it than it can become a nice place to make new friends.

I hope Google will implement some administration features in the near future to make it an easier to filter and administer messages, etc…

And an old friend named SPAM appeared very quickly on Google Buzz. I have unfriend them and now I got more good buzzes into my account.

In my opinion Google Buzz is a nice tool, no Twitter replacement for now but we will see what the future brings.

I am personally very excited about it because it opens a new channel to make connections, spread information and I am curious what Google further steps are in social media?!

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8 Tips To Get FREE Traffic For New Website

In the last days I was on some forums for entrepreneurs and I discovered a repeating question: How can I drive traffic to my new business and website?

When the website link was included in the forum post I visited the said website and went through to see how it looks like, does it has a blog, Meta Tags, Keywords, etc. Some of them had no blog; some had no Meta Tags or Keywords of great advantage. Some had a hosted blog, mostly from Blogger.

What I can say is that if you like to drive traffic to you website you need to give the people a good reason to visit your website. Furthermore it can be helpful to be found where your targeted market and user base is around.

I have put together some points which you can do for free.

1. Have a self hosted blog. I recommend WordPress. It’s easy to use and free. Get yours here http://wordpress.org/
2. Pick a great WordPress theme, also for free. Here you can find thousands of themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
3. Install a tweet Plugin into your WordPress blog, so Twitter users can tweet your posts.
4. Connect your blog with Twitter. There for you can get various Plugin for WordPress also for free. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
5. Choose your Keywords and Mate tags. Use Keyword phrases of three to four words, you can check popular Keyword phrases here https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Write a short and easy remind able description, include your phrases as well.
6. Connect your twitter with your facebook. The posts which you publish in your WordPress blog will be pinged to twitter and twitter pings them to facebook.
7. Build and engage your twitter followers and your facebook friends. Step into 2way communication. Don’t just broadcast!
8. Post remarkable content frequently. Start with 2-3 post per week and increase the number step by step. Write about the things which your audience is interested in.

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How To Destroy Your Credibility

When I get followers from Twitter, new friends from Facebook and connections from LinkedIn than sometimes there are profiles with no picture or with a stock photo from a model for example.

When I get this invitations and contacts I ask myself why these folks do not show their own picture.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean company logos. I only mean people who do not show their original photo.

I personally do not add requests without a photo or with an obviously faked photos.

I have one example: Before a couple of weeks I have commented on a discussion on LinkedIn where the person has offered financial services.

I think you agree with me that financial services are trust sensitive. The person had no photo with their profile. I have recommended to this person to add his photo.

The next day I got a message where he wrote to me that they will discuss internally to do this.

I was curious and went to the profile one day later to see if he has added a photo. And guess what, he didn’t.

I asked myself, what’s the reason to discuss to add a photo or not to a LinkedIn profile ? Further I asked myself how they want to build trust without to be authentic, means when they did not show who they are.

Would you do financial transaction with them?

I wouldn’t!

Social networking is also to build credibility and trust. And with faked or no personal photo the opposite of this can be achieved.

In these times where everybody has become visible online it is important to live your live every day online like your mother is watching, probably she is.

When engaging in social media there is a huge opportunity to get great connections but only if you are authentic, means show that you are yourself, and you will attract friends and connections which like you and the things  you are doing.

To predict to be something other will not help to achieve any social media goals! This only will destroy trust and credibility!

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Use Google Buzz NOW And Promote Your Content!

These days thousands of discussions appear online about the use of Google Buzz for marketing purposes.

I have included Google Buzz on my page the same day it was made public and I use Google Buzz to include my content like tweets, Flickr photos and video for now. We will see which features will be added in the near future which open further opportunities to spread your content through the web.

For me it looks like that this, what we actually see is only the top of the ice berg and the 70% is still under water and not visible at the moment.

Google’s interest in social media will drive the development and evolution of Google Buzz. There is doubt!

An important fact is the inclusion of social status updates into Google search results and their launch of social search and not forget to mention the Google Buzz on phone which can help to get better found online and mobile. All Gmail accounts have been updated automatically and all android phones as well.

Nobody should underestimate Google’s desire to position in social media. Social media means high quality user data for marketing and this means a lot of revenue potential.

I think this is one key point which drives the future of Google Buzz and also empowers your benefit to position you self, your products and your services where our potential customers are, directly in front of them, with the help of Google, at no cost!

Under this circumstances mentioned above I think you should step into Google Buzz to claim you position.

It is simple to do this!

1. Go to your Gmail account and setup your Google Profile
2. Add your favourite sites, RSS feeds etc….
3. Install this Google Buzz Button on your WordPress blog (this one which you can see below) to get your content Buzzed.
4. Activate Google Buzz.
5. Invite your friends, step into a 2way conversation and build your follower ship.

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80%+ Of Twitter Accounts Inactive – Your Opportunity!

Twitter is one of the top most Social Community in Internet today. There are millions of twitter users from all around the world who use the services of twitter. Recent observations see that 80% of twitter accounts are inactive which brings strong point in the usage of these social communities. There are chances for developing your companies strong hold in twitter by participating actively in twitter.

In April there were comparisons of twitters where it was seen that 60% of users lost interest after registering to twitter and left their accounts dormant. These users don’t have an idea of the powerfulness of twitter and its success as one of the best social community for marketing and advertising.

Inspite of these facts, people who are using twitter started using it more effectively through various twitter tools that are in market. Even now it is possible to integrate twitter in latest mobile phones.

In fact, according to RJMetrics Twitters rate of churn is 80% and not 60% which was found by Nielsen in April. It is seen that 17% of Twitter accounts send a single tweet over the past month which brings into light about how more opportunities are available in twitter to prioritize your market chances.

But this brings into light many things. In early part of 2007, where twitter members were very less, they know the advantages of twitter and there used to be 70% of usage of twitter. But with its popularity, number of users of twitter increased and thereby leading to lesser usage of twitter as many don’t exactly know how to use it.

According to statistics of Twitter, there are around 75 million users of twitter worldwide. Around 51% of users base is from U.S 9% from Brazil 7% in U.K. Out of these 75 million users, number of users who are using twitter is around 10 to 15 million users. These users are strongly committed and use twitter effectively for their personal and business purposes.

As these accounts are mostly inactive, this has good amount of impact on increase in followers of twitter. But this is also an advantage for twitter users who are using twitter effectively to increase their twitter followers and improve their brand image in twitter.

Usage of twitter has fallen down drastically
Twitter activity at all time low
Twitter accounts inactive but core users more committed

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