Today it is essential that every businessman participate in Facebook, follow him on Twitter, write on his blog, post on Youtube and be listed on Linkedin. It's too much, isn't it? The list seems overwhelming but luckily there are always shortcuts!
Let's see some:
On Facebook
1. Import content from your blog or other networks. On Facebook you can import your Blog, Flickr and YouTube posts to avoid linking them by hand. For that, enter your profile, click on "Options" under "Share". Choose "Settings" and then "Stories published by you". Choose one, put the link and then "Import". From then on, when you post something there it will automatically appear on your Facebook wall.
2. Send content from a cell phone. There are many tools that allow you to post comments on Facebook from your mobile phone. You can post while you wait in a doctor's office or at coffee breaks at meetings.
3. Send an invitation to all your contacts at once. Do you have 300 or 400 friends and want to invite them to a group or event? There is a trick to do it in one go:
- Enter the group or page and click on the link "Suggest page".
- Copy the following into the address bar of your browser:
javascript: elms = document.getElementById ('friends'). getElementsByTagName ('li'); for (var fid in elms) {if (typeof elms === 'object') {fs.click (elms);}}
Address bar of your browser
- Press "Enter" and you will have all your friends marked to send them the invitation. If you press "Enter" again, uncheck them all.
On twitter
4. Define the profile of the people you want to follow. If you have new followers every day, it takes time to define which ones you want to follow. SocialOomph.com makes it easy for you: on this site you can automate your account. It has a free version and a paid one. The free one is already a very good option in itself. If you have decided to follow everyone who follows you, simply choose the Auto Follow option to do it automatically.
You can combine it with the semi-automatic Vet New Followers option, which interrupts the automatic process for 72 hours so you can decide whether to return the follow or not. But the most useful option is the auto-tracking based on the keywords that you establish. This helps you build an audience around your specific interest.
Another helpful tool when defining who to follow is Alerts Grader, which notifies you via email when you have an important follower according to the criteria you have chosen. You can set the user type according to Grade and Rank, and the immediacy with which you want to be notified, either at the moment or in daily reports.
5. See the activities on the same screen. HootSuite is a very useful application. It allows you to see on a single screen what the people you follow post, the tweets that talk about you, the results of your searches, the status of your posts and the tweets that you have pending.
Another powerful tool is TweetDeck. With it you can order the updates of multiple Twitter accounts in columns: make personalized RT (recommendations), create and manage lists, watch videos and photos without leaving the application, follow trends, see your followers, save specific searches and easily edit them. It also has an automatic URL shortener. And as if this were not enough, you can also add updates to your account on Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. There is a version for desktop, for iPhone and iPad.
6. Pay attention to the lists, not only create your own lists but also take into account the lists of others. Perhaps you know that the possibility exists but, like many others, you do not give it the use it deserves. You configure them to see them in tweetdeck, this is useful to organize your timeline, decide whether or not to follow a user, among other things. your time reading only the material that interests you.
You can also create lists to recommend to other users, to thank RTs, as you will see the uses are varied and will save you a lot of time.
7. Use twitter search. It is another simple but effective tip. The search function helps you answer questions about the services you use. It is also useful to find references about a company.
A very interesting tool is Snap Bird, a search engine for keywords in your twitter account, in your direct messages and in other accounts, even among other users' favorites! You can read more on @twittboy's blog.
Use multiple social networks at once
8. Search for a person on all social networks. That allows you Snitch.name. You just upload the person's full name and the program tracks their activity on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hi5, WordPress blogs and Vimeo.
9. Update your blog and social networks from your email. Posterous is a free service for posting to multiple sites from your email.
You just have to put your message together, send it to [email protected] and it will be published automatically on the social networks you choose.
And you, did you try these tricks to save time or do you know any other?
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