How to Clean Up Your Facebook Friends List

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jan 15, 2011 in Entrepreneurism | 1 comment

Today on the Your Partner In Success Radio Show I had the opportunity to interview Diane Conklin who  is an internationally known marketing and business strategist. We talked a LOT about Twitter and Facebook and I was delighted to learn a few new tips and tricks from her about Twitter marketing for brick-and-mortar businesses. You will have to listen to the show to hear them!

One Facebook tip that I shared with our audience is how I clean out my Facebook friend list. It is a lot easier than you would think to hit that 5,000 friend limit and once you are there, you have no option but to either remove “friends” or create a Fan Page. So here is how I handle it.

Each day when I login to my Facebook profile I go to my home page and click on the birthdays for that day. By visiting each page listed I have the opportunity to see if this is really a connection that makes sense or if it was somebody that I accepted just because they asked way back in the day when I was first building up my Facebook presence. If that person is somebody that I am connected with at some level and who is active in my FB community, I wish them a very Happy Birthday and then go to the next page. If the next person is somebody that I have never connected with in all my years on FB, or who is using their page largely for personal connections or playing games like Farmville or Mafia Wars, I unfriend them and free up space for people who will have more in common with my business goals. Now before you start yelling at me, I see nothing at all wrong with playing games on Facebook if that is what you enjoy, but I am there for business, so my focus has to stay on social networking. The truth is, that when you have 5,000 connections on FB there are simply going to be some that don’t meet your networking criteria. Mentally wish them well and move on.

Your Partner In Success Welcomes Matt Clark

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Aug 18, 2010 in Your Partner In Success | 0 comments

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

This week I interview Matt Clark of Tweet Pages. By maximizing your online presence in social media with a custom twitter background, you increase your followers and stand out from your competitors.

Matt will share his story about how Tweet Pages was founded and has grown from offering simple, but beautifully effective Twitter backgrounds to creating complete social media branding packages to maximize your business / personal branding.

Matt will offer advice about online branding as well discussing as some of the online tools that he uses and recommends. Tune in for the opportunity to save 10 percent on your custom order.

We will be talking about:

• What is TweetPages.com?
• Matt had an idea and acted on it. We will talk about why working to your passion is so important and why great ideas shouldn’t be allowed to languish in “I’ll get to that project later” land.
• What the importance of social media branding is and why you should be very aware of how your brand looks and feels on the internet.
• Consistency of branding and communication with your audience / clients/ customers/ prospects.
• Tweet Pages has some quite well known clients. We may do a little name dropping!

Please join us in the chat room or on the phone during the interview if you would like to ask questions of Matt Clark.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, August 20, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

Do You Know Your Twitter Temperature?

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Feb 9, 2009 in Internet Mastery | 0 comments

There is a fun little start-up site called Twitemperature that you can use to check your temperature on Twitter. Frankly, I am not convinced that it is all that accurate, but it can be entertaining to enter your user name as well as friends and competitors user names into the form to see what kind of returns you get. I am guessing that they take into consideration the number of tweets that you post, rather than the number of followers or updates. You won’t be asked to enter your Twitter credentials, so there is nothing stored. What will happen is that they return an image grabbed from Flickr and captioned with a smart-alec remark. As I said, it is fun, but unlikely to be accurate. If you are told that you are cold as ice though, it may motivate you to tweet more!

Customize Your Twitter Profile For Only $10

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Feb 6, 2009 in Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Are you in the mood to step up your internet branding and create a great impression with a customized Twitter background? There is no question in my mind that when you visit a Twitter page that has had some care taken with it, that you walk away with a higher impression of that person’s business acumen than you would if the Twitter page was the generic blue clouds that you see just about everywhere.  It is estimated that people who visit a Twitter profile that looks both creative and professional are 3 times more likely to visit the website URL listed on your profile.

My friend Ben Cope just released his Twitter Template System and Ben truly understands the importance of branding your online image. His system offers 100 Twitter templates and if you scroll down the page you will see my Twitter background just above the payment button. Ben designed this system for people who need an easy-to-follow system with step-by-step instructions and video tutorials that will guide you through the process with complete ease.

We would love to see your Twitter page after you use Ben’s fabulous new system so please send a link and we will be happy to post them here.

Enjoy!

BTW, Ben is also using a very neat little piece of technology on his page that I blogged about here recently called BubbleTweet. Check it out!

Google Flags Entire Internet as “Malware”

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Feb 1, 2009 in Internet Mastery | 0 comments

If you were working on the internet yesterday you undoubtedly came across the same issues that had the Twitter world in a panic. It seems that yesterday any search result from Google was getting flagged as malware with a message stating “This site may harm your computer”. In other words, our entire online world was blacklisted for a short time.  The problem apparently affected internet pages across the globe and lasted for about 55 minutes or so before engineers were able to fix the problem.

Twitter went crazy yesterday as people were reporting the problems and just generally commiserating with each other, but I am happy to report today that the Google is explaining this as a “human error” and you can read their explanation here on the Official Google Blog. All is well. Until the the next time.