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October 2012

Scheduling Your Tweets

I tried two new services today – Twuffer and FutureTweets. They are both very similar types of services.  You enter a tweet, then you state the date and time you want it to actually be posted on Twitter.  When the time comes – that tweet gets posted to your Twitter feed. I actually like both of these a bit more than Timely.is – which I had previously been using – as these services allow me to set the exact time.  Timely fed out my tweets throughout the day based on how many tweets/day I wanted (I think I could go in and manually edit […]

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Marketing Defined

What is Marketing? How is it different than promotions, advertising and all this new social marketing discussion? Marketing is a core business function that deals with how you are going to deliver value to your customers.  Marketing takes into account your customers needs and wants, it deals with the organizations communication strategy and it also has an internal communication component. Marketing is all-inclusive as it contains the 4 P’s – one of which is Promotions. When defining the 4 P’s of marketing – Promotions is defined as any way in which an organization spreads the message about their company and their products or services.

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Timely.is retiring

I was just at a site I use for scheduling tweets on Twitter. – Timely.is is a free service that allows you to enter your tweets in advance and it then puts them out on your Twitter timeline over the coming days.  A simple and effective service to stay in contact with your Twitter followers. Unfortunately Timely has decided to quit offering their service.  It is unfortunate as it was a good service. A few options for replacing Timely.is  Hootsuite a very comprehensive tool that allows you to monitor and post on a number of social networks. Buffer is a very user friendly application

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