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Social Experiment: The Twitter-Blogger

The Purpose of A Tweeting Blog

The original idea I had for A Tweeting Blog was to help other blogs advertise their blogs without the hassel of having to find hundreds of followers.  A Tweeting Blog is simple: First, follow @ATweetingBlog.  Next, tweet this exactly as it is:

@ATweetingBlog is a social experiment http://bit.ly/HvGX5 RT and send blog link!

After you tweet this, send a Direct Message to @ATweetingBlog with your blog’s url (perferably already shortened.  You can shorten your URL by posting your link on twitter.  Twitter will give you the http://bit.ly/ shortened version) and 50 or so characters summarizing your site.  Here is a good example:

@Google Help #killsuicide! http://act.ly/h8 and sign the #googlepetition and help prevent suicide.

You can use however many #hashtags and @usernames you would like.  This will then be seen by all of this account’s followers which boosts the chance of your site being found, bookmarked, or subscribed to.

Again, What Do I Do?

Here are the simple steps:

1. Follow @ATweetingBlog
2. Retweet ” @ATweetingBlog is a social experiment http://bit.ly/HvGX5 RT and send blog link! “
3. Send a DM to @ATweetingBlog with your blog’s URL and description.
4. Sit back and watch the traffic roll into your blog.

It’s a very effective way of marketing.  You advertise the twitter account in which your advertisements are also placed; when people follow @ATweetingBlog, there is a higher chance that your site will be visited as well.  It’s a win-win situation!

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Viral Marketing: A How-To Guide to Market Your Site

Viral Marketing– How sinister is a name like that?  A virus almost always has a negative connotation attached to it.  Relax, though, because Viral Marketing has nothing to do with making or using viruses to market someone’s website or blog.  The concept of Viral Marketing is this: Leverage one person to spread news of your site (or whatever it is you are marketing) to only two (or three, five, ten, a hundred, whatever) people.  Then, that person will in turn spread the word to other people, and before you know it, one turns into two into four into eight into sixteen, etc.

A great example of this is the penny analogy.  If you were given a penny of the first day and every day after that penny was doubled, how much would you have after the first 3o days?

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