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How to Unfollow people on Twitter

stacykinney — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:30:55 +0000

How to Unfollow people on Twitter

UnTweeps

Unfollow Tweeps who do not Tweet often enough

Your Twitter Karma

Who is following you & who is not – Bulk unfollow

Friend or Follow

Who is following & who is not – Se more detail on each person

*TwitFresh (New one I came across – Awesome !)

Unfollow everyone not following you – happens within minutes (WARNING – does no take you to another screen or allow you to pick people. If you put your info in and hit submit then BAM they are all gone)

Download my free social media checklist (sign up in sidebar) for a daily to do list of all the things you need to do to increase your following. For personalized help, contact me for a free consultation on the best way to market your business online including using Twitter and other internet business tools.

Learn How Tweetbeep and Tweetburner Could Help You on Twitter

stacykinney — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:06 +0000

Two Twitter Tools

Tweetbeep and Tweetburner will help you identify people with like interest on Twitter & tracking for your business

Two great tools to help identify people with like interests & tracking for your business.

TweetBeep

TweetBurner

TwitterLocal – Find Real-Time Local Peeps on Twitter to Network with

stacykinney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:30:54 +0000

Twitter Local: A great way to connect with Local people.

http://www.twitterlocal.net – This is a great way to connect with local people on Twitter and to market your local business. It is also a great way to find peeps for your local “Tweet Up” events too!

TwitterLocal

How to Add RT/Retweet Button on Your Twitter Page

stacykinney — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:30:01 +0000

How to add RT/Retweet button on your Twitter page

This a a great little tip to add a RT button to your Twitter page. No more cut and paste. Just Follow these simple steps…

2 Steps to get the Twitter RT button:

1) download this

2) download this

Use Twellow to Find Your Target Market on Twitter

stacykinney — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:30:37 +0000

Use Twellow to find your Target market on Twitter

Twellow lets you find people on Twitter by location and category as well as find people that have your same interests.

Be sure to register so that you are listed in the directory and put yourself in categories like Green, Eco, Music, etc. This way people can find you by category. Then you will want to go and search for people in these categories and follow them.

Create free, customizable Twitter backgrounds using TwitBacks.com

stacykinney — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:30:41 +0000

Twitter Backgrounds with TwitBacks and Picnik

Easily create free, customizable twitter backgrounds using TwitBacks.com. Choose from over 70 pre-designed templates, add your logo and photo, add a bio about yourself and links to your social network profiles. When done you are given an option to enhance it with Picnik.

5 Steps to Producing an Awesome Video Tutorial

stacykinney — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:51:36 +0000

A Video Tutorial Will Sell Your Expertise

Video marketing has quickly become a fun and effective way to promote your business. With so many people turning to the internet to learn a skill, producing a video tutorial is a great way to demonstrate your expertise as well as generate an influx of prospects hungry for what you have to sell.
A video tutorial is a video that teaches people how to complete a task. The best way to show people that you are an expert is to teach another person how to do what you do. For example, if you are a social media marketer, you could produce a video tutorial showing people how to use a popular social networking website.

How to Produce a Video Tutorial

To produce your video tutorial, you’ll need equipment appropriate to the type of tutorial you want to make. If you are creating a video on how to do something using a computer program or website, you can use screen recording software such as CamStudio or Camstasia to record your computer monitor. For non computer related video, such as showing someone how to cook a meal, you’ll need the appropriate camera equipment.

You’ll also need a video editing program, like Roxio, to clean up your footage as well as a microphone to record audio.

Step One – Decide on a Topic for Your Video Tutorial

Perhaps the easiest step is choosing a topic for your video tutorial. You’ll want to pick something of interest to your target market. To maximize the number of views you get, you’ll want to pick a topic that is in demand but where there is a lack of material on the subject.

Step Two – Write a Script

In order to produce a good video tutorial, you’ll need to make sure the lesson you are teaching gives the viewer a thorough understanding of the process.

Start by writing down all the steps involved in the tutorial. Keep in mind the skill level of your audience. Beginners will need to have technical terms explained to them whereas you can skip such explanations if you are teaching advanced techniques to experts. When you are done, write an introduction and an ending.

To sound as natural as possible, use the script more as a guideline rather than memorize it.

Step Three – Do a Dry Run

Go through the video tutorial as though you were recording it but don’t actually turn on your equipment. You do your job all the time and it’s easy to skip over things that seem obvious to you but may be unclear to your viewer. Update your script with anything you may have missed.

Do as many dry runs as you need to feel comfortable making the video tutorial.

Step Four – Produce the Video

With your script in hand, do a recording of the video tutorial then go back and view it. Make note of things that need to be polished especially the use of stumbling words such as “Umm” and “Ahh.” Not only do they sound unprofessional, your viewer is concentrating hard to follow what you are saying and stumbling words will distract them. You may need to do the video a couple of times before it comes out the way you want it.

As a side note, don’t worry if the audio portion of the video tutorial trips you up. You can rerecord the audio portion later.

Step Five – Edit Your Footage

Go back and edit your footage to remove the parts of the video tutorial where you are waiting for the computer to process your commands. If the audio didn’t work out to your satisfaction but the video looks good, go ahead and rerecord the audio portion only and overlay onto the video.

After you have finished editing your video, upload it to the internet and wait for feedback. Producing a video tutorial does involve a lot of work but it is well worth the effort when you have a cadre of videos selling for you even when you are busy having fun on the beach.