Top Social Media Agency REVEALS: Twitter & Facebook Strategy: How Your Competitor Got 10,000 Followers in

In the good old days, the person with the biggest rollodex had the most business. Then it moved to email database size. Almost as soon as it did, email marketing became almost absolutely unproductive. Now, it's the size of your Facebook and Twitter reach as well as Google+ that determines how how much traffic your website gets. Then, based on how demographically targetted your follower base is, your conversion rate will either make your business prosper or ummm, not.

This is how that competitor of yours with over 10,000 facebook and twitter subscribers built his follower base: via Top Social Media Agencies.

You'll understand the relevance of the muffin image after you watch the video. =)

How to start your own Twitter competitor

1. you dont. It will cost too much.

BUT not for long... when ever a new convention in social media marketing runs away... the open source community feels compelled to democratize. When Digg got bigg, PliGG offered an open source code set that you could install and start your own Digg competitor. When Myspace got bigg... ElGG was launched.

pRETTY soon, There will be a Plitter. It will be open source. 

But regardless, whether you socialize based on

people communicating a la myspace

people reacting to news a la digg

people rambling a la wordpress

people a la twitter

Pick a NICHE! Myspace did! One of the places it started was the auto enthusiasts and car clubs. Pick a niche! Then install the open source versions of the model you want to adopt. Finally make yourself respond to each and every post Gary Vaynerchuk style. Make your social medium your inverted inbox. Provide personalized value. Your users will return the value... PERSONALIZED.

The Digg Gang Effect Surges Into Twitter and Mahalo

You realise that all you need to do to get tons of diggs is make friends with other diggers by digging their under dugg posts? The smart ones would go ahead and digg your spammy blog posts back. Back in the no nofollow days... this was crucial for google love. Now, not so much.

While times have changed, the mob / gang / clan power concept is more effective than ever now. This is totally evident in social media marketing like Twitter and Mahalo. Jason Calacanis, the web genius gets a new user to his mahalo.com ever few minutes. HOW? He treats the people in Twitter very well. 

He engages, respects, supports (never spams (which most ad agencies still dont get!)) and THEN incentivizes to come over to mahalo. (Jason recently offered M$5 to join and ask a question) He has a loyal following. You follow him. HE will be YOUR follower... notice that his following and follower numbers are almost identical? http://twitter.com/jasoncalacanis

Put in your hard time. Deliver value to your virtual community. They will support you when you need them. Heck, that's just good karma.

Best Twitter Data Visualization Tools 2008

mental note: http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/19/5-best-data-visualization-projects-of-the-year

Social media marketing agencies have adapted to the growing complexities of SNS sites. Which has the experience your industry needs?

Twitter is NOT linkpopularity friendly. Nofollow tags everywhere

see DP forum post:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1186940

Top 10 Most Popular Powerful Twitter Users aka Twitterers

How to use Twitter Visualization like a marketing crystal ball

In my last post, I asked you to visualize what you could do with the knowledge of what a billion people are doing and where they are doing it. Then imagine you could get updates from these billions of people every fifteen minutes. What could you do with all of this data?

Well, Twitter already has all this data. It's getting to be as easy as just sending twitter a short sms text message from your cell phone.

I'm going to let my youtube take the Orwellian theme from here:

How to visualize Twitter for business forecasting. Twitter Visualization

First of all, If you don't have the big picture as to why Twitter is growing faster than Google ever did, It's because you may not understand the growing transparency in social media.

What happens when a billion people reveal where they are and what they are doing every 15 minutes from their cell phone by nothing more than sending their twitter account a text message?

Think of the implications.

Eh, No... just watch the video:
Visualizing Twitter Visualization