Boost Your Social Media Profits With Interviews

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Want more people to interact with you on Twitter?

More readers for you blog?

Or maybe you just want to spread your message to the widest audience?

Here’s how: Give people what THEY want.

So many authors, blogger, entrepreneurs come to me asking “How do I get noticed?”

I tell them to do what I do… STOP trying to get and start giving.

This is not a sermon… it’s just good marketing. You will succeed when you find out what your audience wants and give it to them.

Want more followers. Be follow worthy. Be seen as someone who GIVES help, support and attention to others.

One great example of GIVING is my friend Azim Jamal. He and his co-author Harvey McKinnonwrote a book called The Power of Giving. They get attention from it, but gave all the royalties to charity.

When it came time to promote The Power of Giving paperback, they asked how they could reach more people with the message. The answer GIVE MORE. Azim went to a blogger convention and talked to bloggers about how they give. 50 interviews with bloggers that they could use freely.

NOT talking about Azim and his book.. it’s all about them. Here’s one with Big time blogger and NY TIMES best seller Chris Brogan (author of Trust Agents

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Future Twitter Won’t Need HashTags

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Hashtags (the letters and symbols that work ad a code staring with a pound sign “#”) have been on Twitter since nearly the start

63027c78While they are known for adding silly fun or searchiness to a tweet, that aspect has never been needed. Search can find ANY word in a tweet.

I’ve always liked them for events.  Affiliate Summit, the big show this week in Vegas, could be in a tweet about the event, but sometimes doesn’t fit in the sentence. So without explaining where the tweet comes from, users add #ASW12 and everyone at the event, or following it can easily see what happening in real time.

Twitter didn’t invent hash tags. It’s a hack like comments in software code that was added by users. Over the years, Twitter had made them clickable, and many use them for all sorts of things.

Now Twitter is working on EVENTS.. which will eliminate this necessity

At Twitter, that means associating a tweet with an event, tied to it by a number of keywords. That may mean that the keywords auto-associate to the event itself.

“I think we’re finally going to have the Events feature,” Stone said, in a brief interview. “It’s something we’ve been talking about forever… and now that Ev’s back on products, I think that’s something that’s going to be coming up soon.

“Obviously Twitter electrifies events. You’re connected to it, in this matrix,” Stone added. “You want to be connected to it, if you’re there; but if you’re not there, you don’t want to hear about it… And in a short time, it’s gone.”

My guess would be that hashtags are going to be around long after EVENTS and other features are added.

What’s your favorite tag?

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