I just got back from San Diego where I attended Mari Smith’s Social Media Mastery Immersion weekend. It was amazing! Mari is just as delightful in person as she is virtually. Besides having a great time and meeting lots of new peeps from all over the world (from the UK, Sweden and Australia!).
I was very excited to take part in a special panel of social media experts (those of us who’ve been personally trained by Mari) during day two of the workshop. We shared our favorite social media tools with the audience of 60 small business owners. In the process, I learned a ton of new and useful information and cool social media tools.
Here are my top 7 tips from the weekend:
1. Tweepml.org – Allows you to follow all the people in a Twitter list automatically with just one click!
2. ManageFlitter.com – A super easy way to clean up and manage who you follow, so you can clean up spam and inactive accounts that you no longer want to appear in your stream. You can also find out who isn’t following you back and easily search inside your Twitter stream.
3. Listorious.com – shows the top lists on Twitter. Then you can find the best lists to follow people in your target market and use Tweepml.org to easily follow the people in the top lists.
4. Tweetadder.com – a Twitter management tool similar to Hoot Suite, but the best part is it helps zero in and locates profiles pertaining to you, then stores them to be followed. You can even export the results to your computer!
5. Twentyfeet.com – Finally! An easy, free social media metric tool that allows you to keep tabs on all your social media and web property metrics from the web. It pulls and generates metrics from: twitter, Facebook, bit.ly, YouTube. Google Analytics, friend feed, RSS-Feeds and many more to come. Further, it displays them in a slick interface all in one place and nudges you, whenever something noteworthy happens. One account each with twitter and Facebook is for free forever.
6. This one’s not a tool, but an insider tip: Facebook is going to be eliminating the FBML function (used for Fan page graphics, etc.) and switching to iFrames. So, if you are thinking of having a custom graphic designed for your Fan page, you might want to wait until this switch happens. Of course, Facebook is secretive, so we don’t know an exact date just yet.
7. Fan Page marketing idea: Put a coupon right on your Fan Page (especially if you are a business like retail or restaurant) When people visit your Fan Page, they become a fan and they can instantly print out a coupon which drives traffic to your website and your store.
Now, go get social! As always, if you need help making sense of the social world, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or question below.
