Category: Twitter

  • How to handle differing digital marketing audiences

    If you didn’t hear about it, Twitter recently released its own version of Audience Insights. I wrote up a lengthy review of it here that you might find helpful for understanding what’s in the box. What’s not in the box is the last paragraph, which is about differing audiences. What do you do when your

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  • How to make Twitter objective-based advertising work

    Twitter recently announced that it was making objective-based advertising available to everyone. These new campaigns ensure that you pay only for the specific result you’re aiming for: On the surface, this seems like an excellent deal for advertisers. You pay only for what you want to buy. The question is, are these things you want

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  • How to build your Twitter SEO strategy

    Tweets are showing up in Google again. This is kind of a big deal. Why? In the past, social search was about helping a searcher find the right person. As my friend Mitch Joel says, it’s not who you know, but who knows you. Social search helped to connect you with the “who”. Traditional search

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  • How to replace Twitter’s website analytics with Google Analytics

    Remember when Twitter rolled out website analytics? It was a wonderful secret just between us marketers. Well, the developers giveth and the developers taketh away. Twitter’s website analytics is no more: So how do you replace this? How will you figure out if Twitter is is delivering website performance to you, if you’d become accustomed

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  • How to analyze all your 2014 tweets

    Twitter’s Analytics tool has never been super forthcoming about all it can do. From its lackluster announcement of a stellar feature to non-obvious ways of getting at your data, it’s a goldmine without a map. As you start looking at the year’s marketing data, you might logically say, hey, can we analyze how we did

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  • Use Twitter to test click through rates

    Ever had ad copy you wanted to test without spending a fortune up front? Ever wondered if your email subject lines are performing as well as they could be? Here’s an easy way to get the answers to those questions: use Twitter. If you’re wondering what sorts of things get YOUR audience to click, throw

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  • How to use Twitter to replace SEO keyword data

    So many SEO folks and blogs have said the sky has fallen with the end of keyword data in our SEO analytics. What’s a marketer to do now that we don’t know the exact words someone uses to search for what we want to rank for? The short answer is that Google is very clearly

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  • A simple, powerful use for Twitter Collections

    Riffing off of one of DJ Waldow’s original ideas about using Favorites as a testimonials feed, now you can make dedicated testimonials feeds with custom Twitter Collections (formerly called Custom Timelines). All you need do is open up the TweetDeck application, start a collection, and start adding tweets to it. Here’s an example of mine

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  • What Twitter’s IPO means for marketers

    UPDATED: This post has been significantly updated and expanded over on the SHIFT blog. Go read it there. As you likely know, Twitter recently filed for its initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities Exchange Commission, a major step in the process of becoming a publicly traded company. For many of its investors, this is

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  • Official Twitter Analytics: Most Hidden Ever

    Over the weekend I was playing around with the different ad platforms for social networks and discovered something interesting: my Twitter account was fully enabled for Twitter analytics. So was the SHIFT Communications account and half a dozen other accounts that I help to manage. Here’s how to find it, in order to save you

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