Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

24th February 2010
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Going Cold Turkey Without Twitter

Despite being active on Twitter for just over a year now, I’m starting to feel that it’s not the social media site for me or my business and as such, to test this theory out; I’ve decided to see if I miss it and kill my Twitter activity for a period of a month [...]

24th January 2010
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Tell Me Your Twitter Success Stories

I’m reaching out to my network, which of course includes you, my blog readers; for some real life success stories on how you are using or have used, Twitter for the benefit of your business.
Why am doing this? Well quite simply I want to use your stories as practical, real-life case studies during my Twitter [...]

10th November 2009
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Why I have Decided to Delete My Twitter Account

I have been on Twitter with the Twitter ID of @inetengineers for just over a year now and Tweet regularly on a daily basis, however I have now decided to delete the account. Read on to learn why.
When I first started Tweeting, like most folk new to the concept; the novelty of it all [...]

8th November 2009
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Use Hootsuite to Set Your Twitter Tweets as Your LinkedIn Status

Back in July I posted a “How to” article which walked you through the steps needed to update your LinkedIn status with your Twitter Tweets.
The article has proven to be one of the most popular ones on my blog judging by the stats in Google Analytics and as a post; ranks well in Google for [...]

15th October 2009
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Bitesize Twitter Workshop over Lunch in Leeds

Due to popular demand, we’ll again be running a workshop on the practicalities of using the social networking phenomenon that is Twitter to help businesses engage with their customers and to help them generate interest.
Twitter in Bitesize Chunks
The workshop will be in two parts – each an hour long and are designed to [...]

1st October 2009
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Can I have $100 Million Please?

Imagine it on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den show. Peter Jones et al have just heard a pitch from for a couple of geeks asking for a $100 million investment in their dot-com business which since its conception three and a half years ago, has:

Made no money
Can’t demonstrate a business model that will generate revenue in [...]

15th August 2009
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Business is Tweet for Bradford Businesses

Bradford was the city of choice for another “Twitter for Business” seminar last week.
Keen to learn the basics of Twitter and how it could be used as a business tool; local company owners and entrapaneurs gathered together at the Park Lane Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire for an informative two hour seminar on the virtues [...]

15th July 2009
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Up and Coming Twitter for Beginners Workshop in Bradford

Missed my Last Twitter Workshop for Beginners?
Following the success of my last Twitter for Business seminar in June; I am, in conjunction with Bradford Grid – Bradford’s business incubation and support social enterprise initiative; repeating the event at the Park Lane Business Centre (off Manchester Road) in Bradford, West Yorkshire on Tuesday 11th August 2009, [...]

8th July 2009
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Forget Your Email Address! What’s Your Twitter ID?

This lunchtime I found myself talking to two business owners over a very decent Indian buffet at a networking event in Bradford (the curry capital of Britain).
As we chatted away, munching on our Samosas and Tarka Dhall; the person I was talking to suggested that we meet-up away from the event to talk things through.
“So [...]

3rd July 2009
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How to Update Your LinkedIn Status with Your Twitter Tweets

Do you, like an increasing number of business people, use Twitter and LinkedIn to keep in touch with your customers and contacts?
If you do, perhaps you’d like to link the two together?
In this short tutorial, I’ll walk you through the simple steps needed to ensure that the”What are you working on?” status in [...]