You never really know who is behind some of the user names on Digg, I didn’t.  An old friend that I hadn’t spoke with in a long while called up and wanted some advice on a server configuration issue he was having.  During the conversation I had mentioned how I read some Linux articles on Digg.  Right away he yelled into the phone “you digg?”  I’m not very active and some people would call me a “front page digger” meaning I mostly digg stories that are on the front page.  We then got into a two hour conversation about Digg.  I asked him if he would do an interview for our blog and he said no.  Instead he came up with this confessions idea, as long as it was anonymous.  Diggers can be like that, they often want to keep their real identities private.

7) Mutual Friends

I will never add you as a friend on Digg unless you are a very active digger.  I don’t mean 25-50 diggs in 48 hours what I’m looking for is 100-300 diggs every 48 hours.  I submit a lot of articles and I need a core base of friends that will digg my submissions, everyday. BTW, if you add someone and they don’t make it mutual you can un-friend them and try it again at a later date.  Every time you add them as a friend they will receive an email alerting them of this.  If someone hasn’t made a friendship mutual within a few weeks the chances are they never will, so un-friend them and try it again.

6) Don’t Over Shout, Tweet or IM

If you shout at me more than 5 stories a day, I will un-friend you faster than cheetah hunting down a prairie dog.  I keep anywhere from 175-300 friends at any given time on Digg.  Everyone of them has stories they want me to look at and Digg.  If you are shouting more than 5 stories in a day it gives me no time to spend on my other 299 friends’ stories.

5) I’m Very Selfish

I’m selfish and this is why I’m a top digger!  I’m selfish because I get paid to submit content and help make it popular on Digg.  I have a handful of clients that are on contract for social media marketing.  Not every story goes popular but it doesn’t matter, I get paid on a monthly basis by helping promote their stories on websites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and a few other websites.  Anywhere from 15% to 30% of the stories I submit go popular.  I often submit other news stories so it doesn’t look like I’m submitting from the same websites over and over again.

4) AIM & Twitter

I use AIM to get many of my submissions going.  I have a list with about 200+ active diggers on it and I will give them a shout-out on AIM so they can digg my submissions.  Many of these AIM digg buddies are not eve Mutual Friends on Digg.  However, we help each other out and send messages via AIM and Twitter to spread the word that we need diggs.

3) It Takes Time and Lots of It

I live on Digg.  I do not use any automated scripts and I spend anywhere from 4 hours to 8 hours per day on Digg.  If you want to be a power user than you need to put in the time it takes.  Sure you can take short cuts but Digg is getting better at catching people that use automated scripts.  I don’t want to risk it, it’s how I make a living.  I’m very careful that I stay within the TOS of Digg, and to do that, becoming a power user takes time.  Anyone can become a power user they just need to put in the time it takes.

2) Friend Maintenance

I constantly (3-5 times per month) maintain my Mutual Friends on Digg.  If you have not been active in the past three weeks or you are not digging my stories I will remove you as a mutual friend.  I constantly look for active diggers that are willing to reciprocate my diggs, this is how it works.  I often use websites that were created just to tell me who is digging my submissions and who hasn’t.  Why should I keep someone as an Mutual Friend if they do nothing for me?

1) I Don’t Actually Read Your Crappy Submissions

I don’t read every story that I have dugg.  If I did I would never get anything done!  I do read some stories but let’s be honest, at least half of the stories are total crap.  For example nobody including myself wants to read the score and summary of some game played in India in a sport I have no idea how to play.  I only digg it so you will digg my submissions.

We get asked this question all the time. In fact it is probably one of the most common marketing questions we get. It seems everyone wants to get involved with social media but they are not sure how it will help their website.

Social Media can be a great way to market your website. Some of the benefits of this type of marketing are:

-Extreme Exposure

-Branding

-Backlinks

-Increased Search Engine Rankings

-Offline Media Exposure

News Aggregators

Websites that can bring the most exposure are “news aggregator” type of sites. Specific examples are Digg, Reddit & Mixx. In these communities users vote on content they like. If that specific content gets enough votes and comments it can go make it to the homepage of these websites, which will bring thousands of visitors.

Why are these visitors important? More than likely visitors from news aggregator websites will not convert into sales or leads. What happens is it brings your website in front of thousands of people. A Digg story that hits the homepage can bring anywhere from 5,000 to 60,000 visitors within 24 hours. A percentage of the people that see your story on Digg will write about it and often will link to it. This is the true value of getting your content in front of the thousands of readers.

You will gain more exposure by getting articles on other blogs and websites. From our experience a story that hits the front page of Digg can get anywhere from 50 to 2,000 external links and mentions on other websites.

Connecting on Twitter & Facebook

Another popular way to get some exposure via social media are to participate on websites like Twitter and Facebook. Some companies do a great job reaching out to their customers or potential customers this way. If you haven’t read our article that provides some examples please take the time out to do it now.

One of the best ways to connect with people on social media websites is to just participate. Users flock to these social media websites for connections and information. Don’t make your business account one-sided. Some of the biggest most successful brands are dominating Twitter and Facebook by getting involved in the discussions.

Gmail is currently offline, for some reason or another and tons of people use it for business and personal.  Try and remain calm as I’m sure Google is working on getting it up as I type this.  It’s amazing to see how people on Twitter and Facebook freak out about Gmail being down.

Most common statement; “I thought it was just my account”

When this happens people panic and feel like something is wrong on their end.  It’s not! Gmail is really down.

Here are some screen shots of some of the Tweets we found.

Here is some great advice from a tweeter that if everyone is so worried then they should invest into their own domain names.  If you have your own domain name and hosting you can set-up your emails to go through your hosting account.

Update:  People have tweeted that Gmail going down *could* overload other services like Twitter and Facebook.

It didn’t take long and Twitter is “Over Capacity”

Update from the Google Blog: (link)

Just because you have a website for your business doesn’t mean you have branded yourself online. You may even have a web presence and rank for some keywords via the search engines but online branding is much more than that. In order to become a well know brand you must dominate a majority of these seven areas.

Video

One of the best ways to get maximum exposure online is to get a video to go viral. Creating an interesting or funny video can grab the attention of people everywhere. People love to watch videos on Youtube and the funnier the better. One suggestion we give is to create a parody and integrate your product or service. Including your brand name in the title, description and logo at the end of the video. As the video goes viral and spreads your business name and logo can reach further than most advertising can.

Videos are relatively cheap to produce you just need to put your thinking cap on. Once you create a great video you can leverage social media websites to help spread your video.

Social Media

Some people think social media has become the biggest thing since sliced bread and they are right. On the World Wide Web there has never been a better time and better vehicles to promote content. Websites like Digg, Reddit, Mixx and Twitter can become powerful tools to help reach people faster than ever before.

Videos are good but some of the most popular websites launched with interesting articles and graphs and those can work well too. Remember that the content has to be great or your efforts won’t get any traction on the social media websites.

Once you have created great content you will need a Social Media Marketing expert or enthusiast to help promote it. On social media websites like Digg and Reddit if the average person submits great content it’s a waste of time. In order for your content to take off you will need someone that has good connections for each of these websites.

Domain Name

What’s in a name? Everything! If you really want to separate your online business from the millions of others in your niche then you need a name that will stand out. Find yourself a unique domain name that can be branded. Too many online business owners go for name with their main keywords in them.

Example:

www.dogtoys.com

www.webhosting.com

www.shoes.com

While these are some great domain names and can make for gaming the searches engines a little easier, that’s all their good for. If you truly want to build a strong brand online you need to separate yourself from the keyword domain names. It is extremely hard to brand a domain like Shoes.com, as customers will get confused with other websites:

Shoe.com

Shoes.net

Shoes.org

Tips: Domain names are very cheap when you find the right name be sure to purchase as many of the domain extensions as you can. As a general rule of thumb we buy the following extensions; .com, .org, .net, .info, .us, .me and .biz.

Search Engine Rankings

Ranking number one in Google, Yahoo and Bing can help your company become a brand. Often searchers see the first few rankings as market leaders within that specific search. Ranking at the top of the search engines can carry more benefits than just leads and sales. 42% of all searchers click through to the website that is listed at the number one position. Ranking for this gives you much more visibility and free marketing. Bloggers will blog, tweeple (people that use Twitter) will tweet about your website and other webmasters will list you as a resource.

When you’re just starting out, establishing your brand via search engine rankings can be hard to achieve. Most websites will not rank well until after years of trust and lots of organic looking links. You can learn about search engine optimization yourself through places like SEO Book or you can hire a reputable Search Engine Marketing firm.

Adwords / PPC

One of the quickest ways to have a web presence in the search engines is to use Pay-Per-Click Marketing. In PPC you pay to have your website listed in a box market “Sponsors” on the search results pages.

PPC can be used to get your name out there while people are searching for related products or services. If you have a big enough budget you can do what some of the car companies were doing a few years back. A few of the big auto makers made ads and choose every keyword they could. For about a week no matter what you were searching for online you would see an advertisement for their new car.

Communities In Your Niche

In every industry there are a handful of successful blogs and forums. This is where people in your niche are looking for some type on information or like to contribute themselves. These communities are perfect for getting your brand name out there.

Become active as much as you can. If it’s a successful blog you could make useful comments on as many post as you can. This works out best when you are the first person to reply to a blog post. Same thing with community forums, people join these places for help so be helpful.

If you have a decent advertising budget you may want to consider banner advertising. While banner ads don’t convert very well for sales it can however get your name and logo out in the community. Just make sure the banner is in a place where everyone is going to look. Banner ads on the side bar of most website will get ignored by the majority of the readers. Sometimes you can get advertisements within articles or on the center of the page.

Blogging

One of the best ways to create an audience is to give them a reason to keep coming back. Creating a blog on your business domain can increase keep readers coming back over and over again. I recommend you add a blog as a sub-domain or a folder.

Example:

http://blog.yourdomains.com

http://yourdomain.com/blog/

Just starting a blog is not good enough you need to give people a reason to come back often. Ideally if you can schedule blog posts for every day you will have a much better chance of growing your readership. Your goal for your blog should be to become a leader within your industry.

If your content is good it will attract people to talk about you, mention you on their tweets and even blog about you. Creating great content will give you free advertising ever time someone links to your website or mentions a blog post of yours.

Advertising itself is not marketing and building a brand is not a one step process. You will need relentless pursuit of each of these seven steps in order to become a true online brand.

Social Media Marketing can bring in huge numbers of visitors, leads and links.  This post will discuss a blog post / video that went viral via social media websites.  The owners of the video and blog did not pay to get their content marketed.  However, this goes to show you that great content plus having someone active in social media can really increase results.

I often hear that social media marketing cannot be measured or can be difficult to measure. Frankly this is completely not true!  I can show you hundreds of examples of effective marketing campaigns and their results. Some good ways to measure social media marketing are:

• Visitors
• Leads
• Backlinks
• Tweets (Twitter)
• Blog Postings
• News Articles & TV

In order to promote something via social media you need at least two factors:

1) Great Content

2) Social Media Marketing Guru

For our case study we will use the “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” video. You are probably one of the 18,393,159 people that have seen this video online. If not go check it our here.

This video was submitted to a few of the social media websites (Digg, Twitter, etc.) on July 19, 2009. Two days later when a social media guru came upon that video it only had 1,200 views on YouTube. Don’t get me wrong, 1,200 views is nothing to frown upon but imagine that number multiplied 5,000 times! (yes it happened)

The original person that submitted it to Digg was not that well connected and therefore within the first 24 hours the video only received 12 Diggs. This is nowhere near the amount of diggs that something would need to hit the front page. In order to get something “popular” on Digg it has to have somewhere between 39 and 250 diggs within a 24-hour period.

This goes to show you no matter how good the content is if you don’t have a person that is connected in the social media circles your good content will go nowhere.  My analogy of this is landing a spaceship on the moon and you call a press conference and nobody shows up.  Sure, you did a great thing that is news/buzz worthy but you didn’t have the connections to get the media there.  Social media marketing is the same way.

The JK Wedding Entrance Dance video did however get a little traction on Twitter. Outspoken Media did a great blog post called “The Power of the Unexpected” that is about thinking outside the box. They used this video as their inspiration to go along with their write up.

This is where the power of social media takes off. An active Digg User submitted the blog post to Digg and within hours the story and video went popular. (hit the front page)  As you can see the story gained more than 5,000 diggs.  Plus going viral all over the Internet on websites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace.

Why didn’t the original video make it to the front page by itself? Again, it takes two things to get stories popular on social media websites Great Content + Social Media Marketing.  The original person that submitted the video to Digg has just over 1,200 diggs but less than 10 friends on Digg.  It can be very dificult to get stories popular without more connections.

If you are lacking one of these elements then what you are trying to promote will almost certainly fail.

The true power of social media websites like Digg, Reddit, Facebook and Twitter can be measured. Below are the staticics from the video and blog post.

Youtube:

First and the easiest are the views the video received on YouTube. The first two days it had about 1,200 views and the next two days it went from 1,200 to just over 6,000,000 views. Now the video is over 18,000,000 views.

Backlinks:

Backlinks are when other websites link to your website. The blog post from Outspoken Media started that day with ZERO backlinks. As of writing this blog post you can see according to Yahoo that single blog post has been linked to over 1,110 times. Why does this matter? Backlinks are what help your website rank high in the search engines. This blog post is only a few weeks old and it’s already ranking for some great keywords in Google.

If you pay a search engine optimization firm to get you over a 1,000 backlinks this can easily cost in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Unique Visitors:

We do not have specific numbers of how many visits came to their blog post but you can see that it quickly became their most popular post of all time.

Twitter:

As you can see from their blog post that specific page has been “RT” or Re-Tweeted 841 times. You can also use http://twitturly.com to gauge how many tweets your URL received.

News Papers & Media:

A few days after the video went viral several news stations through-out the country had stories on the video. This brought in loads of extra exposure for the makers of the video and even a few national TV interviews.

It has been twenty days since this video hit the Internet and both the blog post and video will continue to gets page views.  This is a great example of when you combine great content with social media marketing to achieve outstanding results.

About Brent Csutoras

Brent Csutoras is a seasoned Internet Marketing Consultant who primarily specializes in Social Media, Viral Linkbait and Search Engine Marketing strategies. Known for his work on Weird Asia News, a popular website serving a growing audience of around a million unique visitors a month, Brent has built a reputation as a Social Media expert. You can finding him speaking regularly at some of the largest and well known conferences, such as SMX, Pubcon, SES, and InfoPresse.

He has also been mentioned in Forbes.com, interviewed for Entrepreneur.com, and was recently recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008. You can follow Brent on Twitter here.

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Question 1: What did you do before becoming a social media expert and how did you get into social media?

Brent Csutoras: Before I really focused on social media marketing, I was an SEO with a healthcare company, managing a handful of sites. I first starting using social media as a way to build links off their profile pages. It wasn’t until one of my articles hit the front page of Digg, that I realized the amount of exposure it gave my content. I immediately started participating in the top social media sites and building my accounts up so that I could get my content popular more often. Of course, it is important to note that I was not only submitting my own content, but actively submitting tons of sources and being an active member in the community as well.

Brent Csutoras: I think that a good social media expert’s skills depend on their goal really. I don’t think there is necessarily a specific set of skills that make a social media expert, because social media is a very broad term and encompasses a lot of skill sets. When it comes to social media aggregation sites like Digg, then I think that in order to be successful, you need to have many of the same skills you need to be socially successful in real life. I often say that ‘social media online, is the same as social media offline’ and I still believe that very much today.

Online social communities are still social communities, where you need to establish a respect and presence before you will earn respect, authority, and the ability to succeed. You have to make friends, carry conversations, participate on a regular basis, and be in tune to what the current conversation points are. The funny thing is, that is exactly what you have to do in any social gathering in real life as well… go figure.

Brent Csutoras: I am not normally a big fan of social media tools, as the majority of the ‘time saving’ tools are actually automation tools. I have tried hundreds and use almost none of them. There are some tools out there that offer information, such as the Digg Alerter and 97^th Floor’s Social Media Firefox plugin, and EasyTweets, but all in all, I just don’t have much use for social media tools.

Brent Csutoras: I think it again comes down to what you want to define social as, but there are always a lot of people who call themselves an expert, and seldom are they ever experts. I think the term expert is something that other people say about you and not something you should have to say about yourself.

Brent Csutoras: If you really want to stand out and receive recognition for being an accomplished (expert is a pretty strong word) social media marketer, then you need to be involved in the conversation. You need to blog, network, attend conferences, get involved with the social community sites, and be a leader. I would also really recommend you read an old article I wrote that still applies today called “I know it is social, but STFU already!” and there is a whiteboard we did here.

Brent Csutoras: It depends on your goal of course, but I would say Digg is still the best site out there for promoting content in social media. Of course, with it being one of the best sites, your content also has to be really good to reach the popular section of their site. StumbleUpon has really exploded and grown so dramatically this year and it is a little easier to promote more niche stuff since it is tag based. Twitter is a great platform for getting the message out as well. Those are the top sites right now for me.

Brent Csutoras: The best tip I can give you is to really go the extra mile when creating content for social media. You need to be creative, interesting, comprehensive, and unique with the way you write your content. Success does not come from writing good content, it comes from writing great content at the right time. You need an angle for your content, yet still keep it general and viral in nature, so being involved in the community and the industry you are writing about will allow you to see the angles that will lead to success.

Use images and line breaks, to separate content and make it easier to digest. Don’t clutter your page with ads or other distractions, and most importantly… don’t try to convert the first wave of social media traffic that comes to your content.

Brent Csutoras: Put all the tricks aside and spend your time making real connections. Those are the people that are going to give you the natural and diverse Diggs you need to be successful.

Brent Csutoras: First, it has a lot to do with the audience group. Reddit is not as main stream so its users are much more internet savvy and not so easily appeased with mediocre content. Like any site out there, you need to spend time on the site and learn what the overall community likes and dislikes. A lot of people use Reddit for social media marketing, but not as a real user, like they do on Digg.

Second, Reddit has some huge moderation problems that are better defined by reading Reddit’s Decline in Democracy,  which I wrote after going back and forth with Reddit’s cofounder Alexis for months attempting to suggest solutions and fix their moderation issues. The problem is that Reddit does not share the concerns and figures anyone with a complaint about the way it works is a spammer, in most cases.

Brent Csutoras: Digg) There is a minor level of moderation at Digg that they should stop using. It is very clear that certain domains become penalized and never have a shot at the front page and sometimes content makes it into the Top 10 in Upcoming for over 12 hours and never goes popular. All in all, I am pretty happy with Digg though.

StumbleUpon) They need to allow you to flush all the pages in queue that were sent to you by your friends. They can add up and keep you from being able to Stumble completely new content.

Reddit) They need to take the power back from the handful of private subReddit admins who take up 50% of the front page of Reddit. They are not bound by any TOS and can moderate how they see fit, which has been proven to be very personal and not related to content submitted at times.

Brent Csutoras: Trying to spam and self promote their content without making an effort to participate in the community. Again, the same rules apply for fitting into a real social community offline. If you go in talking about me me me, no one will want to talk to you. So take the time to learn the community and become friends with its users before you attempt to promote your own content.

Brent Csutoras: If nothing else, register your name immediately to keep someone else from using your name to their benefit. Twitter is one of the fastest growing social media communities where it is ok to self promote, since your followers opt into seeing your messages. I would recommend having a real presence and not completely automating your account, but you have a great opportunity to get feedback, reach new customers, and get your message out through Twitter.

Brent Csutoras: Hah… There goes that expert word. I like what I do and I am passionate about social media, but there are many people way smarter than myself. Take Chris Winfield for instance, who is probably one of the smartest social media marketers I have met. He is constantly teaching me new things and pointing out angles I had never even thought of before. Same with Todd Malicoat who has a ton of affiliate and SEO background that helps change the way he approaches social media. Dave Snyder and Tony Adam are really breaking ground on how to measure success and use the feedback you get from your social campaigns to learn and improve. Greg Finn is my go to guy for social media content and what is going to be viral or not. The list goes on and on, and I am sure to have forgot some people.

I am honored just to be in an industry that is so new, exciting, and beneficial to online marketing in general.

Facebook can be fairly easy to use as a tool to increase your brand awareness.  Almost anyone can do it but it helps if you have some experience in networking.  It may take time for you to see results, but if you are persistent, you can acquire a nice following and you will soon be able to jump start numerous successful groups.

Facebook is very simple and allows you to separate friends by groups.  When you start a new group in three clicks you will be able to invite all of those friends most likely to be interested in what your new group is about.  Below are seven great tips on how to market your company using a Facebook Group.

1) Increase Your Friends

It’s pretty hard to tell people about your company if you have no one to tell.   Add at least 100 people you either know or would like to know.  Try and find people that will be interested in the group(s) you may start on Facebook.  It’s a waste of time to seek people out that don’t have similar interests.  Stay focused on adding friends that will want to interact in conversations that your interested in.  For example if you are trying to increase brand awareness for an organic foods company you will probably seek out people with healthy lifestyles and similar interests.

2) Starting a Group

When you start a group the first rule of thumb is the group needs to look full and alive.  Upload pictures, videos and start topics and discuss.  Get a few of your friends to help add to the discussion and post their own questions and content to keep the group going.

Ask a question here and there in the main body of the group and do not hesitate to link to articles on the bottom. The articles should link to informative websites in the industry or your own.  If you manage to write good content on your blog, this is the ideal place to promote new posts.

3) Quality Content

Now that you have a Facebook group started you need to keep quality content and a strong message.  People often join groups on Facebook but then rarely go back to interact with the group.  They may read what’s going on but the reason why they don’t come back, is the lack of quality content.  If you keep the producing quality content, others will see what is going on and this will bring in new members.

4) Moderate Your Group

Do not bombard the members with senseless newsletters or spam.  Someone we know sends out a monthly newsletter that is nothing more than a recap of his blog.  (lame)  Why would I want the information twice?  Wait for something newsworthy or create “how to” articles that people will enjoy and get value out of.   When you create this quality content you can often slip in some mentions of your brand.

5) Networking with Moderators of Larger Groups

Networking with the owners of the biggest groups in your niche or a similar niche can really add value.  If you can do anything of cross promotional together it can help both groups grow, especially the smaller group.  Doing so often can take time to establish a quality relationship with such moderators but you will often get out what you put in.

6) Quality Conversations

Have quality conversations. When a friend has some post you can get in on, then do not hesitate to shine with knowledge, input, and opinion or a questions. You cannot be shy. You need to let them realize that you are a qualified and knowledgeable person and people will be interested in joining your groups and checking out your site.

7) Be Social & Tell Everyone About Your Group(s)

Tell friends about your group, in fact tell anyone who might be interested.  Some of the best ways are to invite people via Facebook and use Twitter to tell others about your group.  A group will really grow when friends from all angles meet.  I always say, once those you know are connecting there and start bringing in fresh blood, your group or community is going to be on autopilot and you will not be needed unless you decide to come in and add something that you believe is going to shine the limelight on your network.

1) BackType

URL: http://www.backtype.com/

2) Minggl

URL: http://www.minggl.com/

3) Flock

URL: http://www.flock.com/

4) Social Mention

URL: http://www.socialmention.com/

5) Social Media for Firefox

URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7888

Many local business merchants want to know what they can do to help promote their business online. Today we are going to discuss marketing for Twitter. Some are caught up in the notion that Social Media Marketing only works if your a big company with national or global clients. This could not be further from the truth and we are going to provide you with 7 examples of how local merchants are promoting themselves online via Social Media Marketing.

1) The Hotel

Hotel Max (Seattle, WA) is the former Vance Hotel which combines art and luxury. The hotel showcases 39 local Seattle artists and photographers, along with nationally known artists.

@hotel_max utilizes their Twitter profile to mention local events, provide discounts, answer questions and has contest giveaways. At least a few times per week they seem to be having “giveaways” where followers can win some prizes like Art Galleries, Max bag and Art Books.

2) The Book Store

Book People (Austin, TX)

Book People is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. They are located in Austin and use Twitter (@BookPeople) to spread the word about new books, pre-orders and book signings.

3) The Coffee Shop

Pumphreys Coffee Roasters (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)

Pumphrey’s Coffee is based at Bridge Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Along with coffee tips and lots of great informational tweets via @PumphreysCoffee about coffee and tea.  This is how they connect with customers letting them know about the Coffee of the Day and their promotional items.

4) The Salon

Emerson Salon (Seattle, WA)

Emerson Salon is located in the Capitol Hill Seattle area.  @emersonsalon tweets connect with their followers and provide information about new stylists and hair tips.

5) The Clothing Store

Banana Republic (Fashion Square Scottsdale, AZ)

Banana Republic is a large company but at least in one of their stores someone (@BRFashionSquare) has focused on Twitter Marketing. This is actually very rare for a large company with multiple locations but others should take note. This is a great way for their customers to keep in touch and find out about new arrivals and promotions.

6) The Wedding Planner

Bridal Bar (Los Angeles & San Diego, CA)

Bridal Bar is a high-end complimentary planning experience where brides and their families can educate themselves with the assistance of knowledgeable wedding professionals. Harmony, the Founder of Bridal Bar, tweets from @bridalbar about special events to stay connected to her Twitter followers.

7) The Band

RevelationSeven (St. Louis, MO)

RevelationSeven is a band based out of the St. Louis area. They use Twitter (@revelationseven) to stay connected to their fans and provide information about upcoming events.

After using Twitter (follow us) for a few months, we have now created a wish list of the things we want to see from Twitter.  This in no way means that we do not like Twitter, actually we find it to be an excellent vehicle for communication.  These are only our top nine and we would like to hear what you guys think or if you have any suggestions of what you would like to see from Twitter.

1) Twitter Dating

2) Groups or Tagging

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