Yes its’ true we need to engage. On the other side you see some A-lister like Guy K who just post non-stop tweets about the sex life of plants or how holographic memory will work. He never engages and just pays a bunch of people to curate trivia from everywhere. Never understood that.
Not sure what that tells us either.
I use twitter like a chat platform! Cheers Mark, enjoy your weekend

These strategies you mention seem to lack the enrichment of human interaction and relationship building.

From what I understand, Guy is developing some sort of electronic magazine rack..?

Maybe distributing content in the fashion he is will serve him well – I just use the platform for a completely different purpose. He’s a pretty smart fella!

Thanks for popping in John : )

I need more stuff like this Mark. For me, Twitter has always been such a mystery and it’s own universe, where the people there speak a language I’m quite unfamiliar with….

But hey, when I showed up in Chile and lived there for 2 years I didn’t know a lick of Spanish and learned to eventually speak incredibly well….So now I’m on a similar quest.

Until then, I’ll just stumble around and hope to make a little progress.

Marcus

Hello Mark! Twitter is such a simple platform, but like Marcus…I’m on the clueless side at times. I’ve been spending more and more time on there learning the ins and outs…but it’s still foreign. These posts really help a noobie like me. Please please please keep them coming and in time – I’m [hopefully] able to maneuver around that place as you do.

Thank you Mark

Hi Jk — I’m happy that you find these posts useful for your Twitter journey. You are packed with smarts, personality and have lot’s of insight to offer the community. You’re going to rock Twitter’s socks off my man. I’m very glad we’ve connected : )

Happy Sunday to you sir!

This is a no brainer for you Marcus. Just be yourself bro – 140 characters at a time and you will rock the Twitter universe… Period!

BTW – I like your new avatar :p

Make sure you reach out to your community on your blog for folks to connect in the Twitter community too. You can carry the conversations on to the Twitter platform for even more exposure and value creation.

I would recommend you start a small business twitter #chat – maybe once a week (time provided), where SMB’s can interact, ask questions and learn how to leverage blogging and social media to effectively grow their business. I think it could be a fantastic opportunity for you and SMB’s…

Keep rocking it Marcus and thanks for stopping by!

Man, now I feel bad for not being on Twitter that much!

The general gist of this is that the more you give, the more you get. But we can’t go around giving with the expectation of getting. We must give for the sake of giving, for making the online community a better place

Man, now I feel bad for not being on Twitter that much!

The general gist of this is that the more you give, the more you get. But we can’t go around giving with the expectation of getting. We must give for the sake of giving, for making the online community a better place

Hi Stu – you are so right man – giving to get really isn’t giving is it?

I make it my business to just serve others. Honestly, I get more fulfillment out of than do the receivers of my efforts and/or gifts. Many good things happen to me, for which I am grateful for… I’ve been blessed to receive many things I don’t deserve – there are so many more deserving than I!

I’ll let the nature of things work themselves out – when I have the opportunity to help others, I take it and when opportunities make themselves available to capitalize on, I take them too.

Either way, I’m in a state of thankfulness most of the time (unless I’m out of my mind, we all have bad days), its pretty awesome to have another day to do and be better : )

Thankful you stopped in this AM Stu : )

Hey Mark

Good post. I started with Twitter last week – so glad I caught this. Followed you this morning – thanks for sharing a link to one of my posts! I’m gonna fire up TweetDeck and thank you on Twitter now!

Paul

Hi Paul – I have a pretty consistent presence on social networks and since we connected I’ve been anything but consistent. I should be back to a normal schedule mid-week, so let’s stay engaged!

Cheers Paul – thanks for the shout here sir : )

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