The Social Media Marketing & Communications guide for Natural Health and Wellness insiders.

Tuesday Tweaks: Set Up Hootsuite for Twitter!

(There’s so much social media advice out there that it can be overwhelming! Tuesday Tweaks are the antidote… simple, step-by-step actions for improving your social media performance. On Tuesdays, but not every Tuesday.)

Are you still tweeting from Twitter.com? Do you find it cumbersome and wonder why they don’t make a more user-friendly interface? There IS a good reason.

Rather than try to please everyone, they keep their design basic and make their data available to third party developers. This means there are dozens (hundreds?) of different twitter “programs” “clients” “apps” “platforms.” Whatever you wanna call em, they all organize twitter data in their own unique way, giving users choices of how they want to view tweets and interact with their twitter communities.

Tuesday Tweak: Embed Twitter Search Columns in Your Website or Blog

(There’s so much social media advice out there that it can be overwhelming! Tuesday Tweaks are the antidote… simple, step-by-step actions for improving your social media performance. On Tuesdays, but not every Tuesday.)

When Prairie Naturals asked me to help them generate conversation about their ReCleanse Whole Body Herbal Detox program, I wanted to do something that hadn’t been done in this industry before.

Hence… “The ReCleanse 7 Day Twitter Review.”

Starting today, about twenty participants will tweet in real time about their experience using the program.

The details of “The ReCleanse 7 Day Twitter Review” are on their Facebook page, but what I really want to share with you right now is Hootsuite’s tool for embedding a twitter search column directly into your website or blog.

Twitter Spam: Gift in Disguise

A Gift... For You!

We all hate spam. Which is why it’s such a big opportunity when it shows up in your DM inbox on Twitter.

People don’t usually mean to send it. They’ve just unwisely given account access to an unscrupulous third party (spammer) application.

Twitter spam generally starts as a phishing ploy.

Trends change, but messages usually look something like this: