Archive for the ‘tips’ Category

27
Jul

It’s 2010! Can you finally learn how to personalize an email?

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*Inspired by my daily work and Chris Brogan’s email subscription.

Sometimes all of us get email/twitter/SN pitches from companies that would like us to buy their services or product. Do you ever feel an urge to reply to them? Do they sound appealing and human? No. In 99 cases out of 100 they don’t and you press “Delete” or flag these messages as spam.

It feels that people are stuck in the beginning of 00s’ and have no clue about personalization. With great tools like social search, people search and info available on social networks marketers and sales still fail to compose a custom introductory paragraph for their emails.

Here are several tips to grasp your reader’s attention:

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20
Jul

Twitter Following Policy: Because I’m Looking for Humans to Talk to, Exchange Experience and Learn.

RSS readers: please see the presentation directly on site or on SlideShare.

This is a brief set of actions I perform weekly to follow new people. I do this for simple reasons:

 

What are your regular rules? Do you auto-follow everyone? What is the ultimate thing that will make you follow a person right away? Please share your tips and experience!

16
Jul

Drowning in emails? Help yourself with these simple steps.

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Yes, we (insert social media related profession here) all have several inboxes to manage. Yes, we receive hundred of subscriptions, Facebook updates, direct messages from Twitter, invitations from your networks, offers and deals into our inbox – this isn’t actually spam. But we hate it! (Well, if you don’t, I envy you).

Inbox 0 is bliss, those who can achieve the Zen of email management know how fresh and calming a clean inbox feels. On the other hand, those who have 1736+ unread email just don’t want to open it anymore. Here is a quick set of actions that will help you to get to Inbox 0 and keep the noise volume as low as you can.

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