How to Grow Your Twitter Flock – 14 Surefire Tips for Explosive Organic Growth

By Hector Cisneros

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Ever wonder why all the media outlets use Twitter? Are you curious about how useful Twitter really is?   What happened?  Are you providing the wrong content?  Are you using the wrong posting schedule? Are you engaging your audience in a useful way? Are you wondering why you only have 300 people following you, after a full year’s worth of work?

The real questions is:  Are you really looking to grow your Twitter following or are you just dabbling in Twitter because someone said it was cool?

How to Tweet Your Way to Success

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By Hector Cisneros

Don't know a twit from a tweet? Do you think Twitter is stupid and a waste of time? On the other hand, are you wondering why all the TV and Radio stations always mentioning their Twitter accounts? If you don't understand twitter, then this article is for you! In this article, I will discuss many of the primary benefits that Twitter has to offer any business. I will explain why you want to consider using Twitter to help grow your business. On top of this, I will provide links to other articles helping with techniques, tools, pitfalls to avoid and shortcuts you can take to become a successful Twitter marketer.

Trick or Tweet? The Vulnerabilities Inherent to Twitter and All Social Networks

By Hector Cisneros

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You may have read that LinkedIn was hacked last year. Twitter was recently hacked, and then it happened  to Facebook as well. Whose turn is it next?  In this article, we will look at the inherent vulnerabilities of all social networks, as well as what can happen should your account get compromised.  We will also discuss how vulnerable your data is on social sites and what you need to do to keep from being hacked, when it's your turn to answer the question, “Trick or 'Tweet?'"

The Future of Web Video – Candid Camera for Everyone

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By Carl Weiss


If you were born in the 50s, you remember the TV show Candid Camera. It always had funny clips of people doing crazy stuff of saying funny things. It was an immensely popular show. TV continued to evolve through the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but when the 90s rolled around, something new happened: the Internet. At first, video was not big on the Internet because connections speeds were too slow. However, by 2000, speed was no longer and issues and video started to take off. 

Hector The Connector's Social Media Marketing Predictions for Next Year and Beyond

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By Hector Cisneros

It’s almost 2013 and what a wild year, it’s been. We had people predicting the end of the world. A wild and woolly presidential election and Social Media has ushered in so many changes that you have to step back just to try to get the big picture. Speaking of big, last year I predicted growth and lots of it. I made several predictions about specific big-time players and I was right 100% of the time. This year things are wilder than ever. If you use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube or Pinterest, you are going to want to read this blog. So let’s get started with the connectors Social Media Marketing Predictions for 2013.

Social Media and Keeping Up with the Joneses (The Competition!)

By Hector Cisneros

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The marketing world we live in today is a far cry from the one our parents grew up in during the 50’s and 60’s. TV, News Paper, Yellow Pages and Radio have hardly changed their format since their inception. In contrast, the internet is a rapidly evolving medium. If you look at all the marketing segments of the Internet, Social media is the most volatile.
In fact, more rapid changes are coming to LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. The last 12 months showed massive changes. The past four months have seen a slew of new features, many updated or upgraded elements and there does not seem to be an end in sight! How will these social media changes affect your businesses' social standing? Will it mean additional changes in how you manage your social media? Are you going to have to join other networks? Read this week's blog post and listen in to our weekly radio show and learn why you need to keep up with the Joneses, (your competition) to win with social media.

The Ghost Says Boo!

By Carl Weiss

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Less than a month after media pundits declared that Google+ was nothing more than a virtual ghost town, Google fired back claiming it has more than 100 million active users.  While this number still pales in comparison with Facebook's reported 955 million user base, this is still nothing to sneeze about.  In fact, for a number of small business owners G+ is the go to site when it comes to doing business online.  Let me count the ways.

In the first place, G+ was not created in a vacuum.  It was designed by looking at the other social nets and taking the best and leaving the rest.  It was also built from the ground up to be able to integrate such things as photos, video and other multimedia components into your posts with ease.  No more cutting and pasting links.  Some of the other features that I find useful:

Six Clear Reasons Why You Should be Using Social Media to Build Your Credibility

By Hector Cisneros

An ad agency client asked me the other day to provide them the primary reason why their clients should use Social Media as part of their advertising mix. Specifically they were talking about Facebook, Twitter and Angieslist. The answer to this question is often confusing and misstated. This article provides six concise reasons why Social Media is so important today.  Reading this article will make it easy for the reader to see why Social Media has risen so quickly in advertising circles and it will help them prosper from using it.  Here are a few reasons why they should use Social Media as part of their marketing mix.