Cultivating New Connections on Twitter With or Without Auto Direct Messages

“Hi! Thanks for following me! I’m glad to meet you! Find me on Facebook!” Sound familiar? It’s an Auto DM. We’ve all gotten them. Love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. There are myriad free and easy programs out there that will send automatic direct messages on your behalf whenever someone follows you. [...]

Charming Your Audience: Tips for Writing High-Quality, Professional, Tweets or Facebook Updates

Twitter and Facebook, with their millions of users, generate quite a lot of noise. Not everyone is on these sites to attract customers and clients. Some people are there to keep in touch with family and friends, keep tabs on their favorite celebrities, or just stay current with popular culture and trends. One of the [...]

Put Your Best Social Media Face Forward – Customizing your Facebook Cover Photo and Twitter Background

At WePostMedia, one of the first things we impress upon our new clients is to get a professional images created for Twitter and Facebook. Along with a completely filled out profile and bio, and an attractive profile picture, an eye-catching, brand-focused Twitter background and Facebook cover photo are essential to your success in social media. Nothing [...]

Clean Up Your Twitter Bio! – Working Magic with 160 Characters

It is a paltry 160 characters, but your Twitter bio is one of the most important aspects of your Twitter profile. More often than not it is the first thing a potential follower will notice about your profile. If it’s uninteresting, they won’t bother to read your tweets, and definitely won’t follow you. What are [...]

Yes, You CAN Make Money Using Twitter: The 5 Essentials to Building Your Business Using Social Media

I received an email yesterday from a client WePost Media had assisted in the past. We had done some work on his Facebook Page and managed a Facebook ad campaign for him, but he hadn’t expressed any interest in Twitter, until now. His email went straight to the point. It read: “Question: Have you learned [...]

Friday the 13th – My Twitter Birthday – Four Years Goes by So Quickly on Twitter

Four years ago today (it was actually a Sunday in 2008) I signed up for my first Twitter account. It’s amazing to me that only four years and one day ago I had never heard of Twitter. Wow, has my life changed in the past four years! Twitter years go by faster than Internet years [...]

Parlez-Vous Twitter-ese? Or How to Converse Fluently on Twitter

My recent post, Why You Got Unfollowed on Twitter, generated a little controversy. The biggest controversy centered around the original #4, which suggested that some people (including yours truly) get un-followed for burying their replies. I shared with 15 year-old Portland tech blogger, Colby Aley, about the confusion and he set me straight. I was so [...]

Crushing It with Video – How You Can Become the Master of Your Destiny

Jason Denizac is a software developer who lives in Boise, Idaho. He wants to move to the San Francisco Bay Area and work as a software developer. Rather than relying on a paper resume or a recruiter, he chose to create a video that lays out who he is, what he brings to the party, [...]