Monday, February 6, 2012

title pic Twitter Mistakes… I’ll share mine if you share yours!

Posted by Maxine on March 25, 2011

I’ve been asked what mistakes I have made with twitter and there are a few that spring to mind. I’m not too proud to share them … Mistake 1:  Linking twitter and linkedin account Conversation on twitter is more casual than linkedin and some of my connections on linkedin are more traditional in their views [...]

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title pic The Twitter Marketing Test

Posted by Maxine on March 11, 2011

As much as I really enjoy using twitter for marketing for myself and clients it isn’t always a good media. Here’s why: Some client’s businesses would have other better uses of their time and resources. It mostly comes down to whether their prospective clients or influencers hang out on twitter. Here’s a quick test for [...]

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title pic twitter lists

Posted by Maxine on January 17, 2011

How do you use twitter lists? Here are my thoughts on how twitter lists can be used and I hope this gives you ideas on using twitter lists to get organised and make the most of your twitter time.

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title pic Roll Up Roll Up.. Get your Twitter Newspaper at Paper.li

Posted by Maxine on October 15, 2010

A conversation cropped up at HBN today about being too busy to keep up with Twitter so if this is you and you don’t always have much time to read tweets from the people you follow and top stories, then you may like this service from Paper.li that lets you read your twitter stream as [...]

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title pic Is twitter helping to fill the TPS gap?

Posted by Maxine on July 8, 2010

Many of us know about the TPS (Telephone Preference Service) and up until fairly recently if a phone number was registered then that was that… no other option but to consider other marketing routes. But twitter can be great for filling the TPS gap. Typically any data list usually has around 30% registered on the [...]

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title pic Free TPS/CTPS checks! (twitter exclusive)

Posted by Maxine on June 17, 2010

I have tweeted nothing but rubbish for the last few days.  I’m probably not alone with this.  But just to show a bit of thanks for people who put up with my tweets I would like to offer some free TPS / CTPS checks. It’s only for smallish lists up to 500 each and only [...]

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title pic Cold Calling from Twitter could get you a £5k fine!

Posted by Maxine on May 13, 2010

As most people are aware the TPS for individuals and CTPS for businesses has been in place for a while.  What some people are seemingly not aware of is that calling a follower or someone you are following, or someone from a hashtag conversation is still an Unsolicited Cold Call. That means that if you [...]

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title pic Maxxy's twitter tips

Posted by Maxine on September 2, 2009

I don’t know about you but I am finding that I am discovering twitter tips every day so here are some of my favorite things so far for bearing in mind that I am still a bit of newbie, so if I can use these things then you can too 1)  Twitter Snooze I really like [...]

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title pic Twitter – This is @maxinemaxxy

Posted by Maxine on August 15, 2009

Find out more about @maxinemaxxy, connect at other places too… facebook, linked in, and find out about our twitter habits

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title pic Are you Too-Posh-To-Follow?

Posted by Maxine on August 10, 2009

Why is it that some fairly ordinary people simply feel they are Too Posh To Follow? The cycle goes like this… 1) They follow you 2) You follow them 3) They unfollow you some short time later Is it me or is this just a bit on the snotty side? It is like  a Twitter [...]

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