Showing posts with label scheduled posting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scheduled posting. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Twittertise and How to Use It


Due to the popularity of the "Crazy Marketing Train" that PicardCreative initiated on Artfire, I've decided to explain how to use Twittertise. This handy little tool will make your marketing train tweeting simple and efficient, as you can schedule all your upcoming tweets on the day you get your "artisan list". If you set them all up at once, that's just one more thing you can "fix and forget" for the week, giving you more time for yourself! (You can also use Twittertise to promote your own studio, just be sure you're sending quality tweets as well, not just advertising alone.)

Just be sure you have your Twitter login information ready, and click this link: Twittertise

1. Scroll down the page till you see this:

Enter your twitter username and password in the appropriate boxes and hit "log in".

2. You should be taken to a screen that looks like this:

Choose your time zone and hit "save".

3. Your screen should now look like this:

Click the link that says "create a new tweet".

4. You should now see the "New Tweet" box:

In the first box ("Tweet Text") type what you want your tweet to say. (Let's use our first tweet to get some more readers over here! To do that, just copy and paste this: Are you up to date on your Ninja Knowledge? ) In the second box ("Link") put a link to the shop/item/blog you are referencing (Copy and paste this: http://NinjaKnowledge.blogspot.com). In the third box, type the date and time you want the tweet to show up on your twitter profile. (You may also click the calendar icon and choose a date that way) Once you have all the boxes filled in, it should look similar to this:


5. Hit "save". (To make another tweet, click "Back to Listing of Tweets")

You've now created your first "twittertise tweet"! Now, all you have to do is wait until the scheduled time and your tweet will show up on your profile! (If you'd like, you can create a "test tweet" for about 2 minutes in the future, and then check to see if it shows up. That way, you will know you've done it correctly before you go to all the effort of adding lots of schedule tweets.)

One more interesting thing you can do with Twittertise: Once a tweet has been published, you can track the number of clicks the link you sent gets. To do this, log in to your Twittertise account and go to your dashboard. Click the link that says "Sent Tweets". You should see a screen similar to this:

At the end of each tweet, you will see 3 "paper icons" (). Click the first of these (the "blank paper"). If the tweet is less than 24 hours old, you will see this:

If the tweet is older than 24 hours, you will also see this:

By using the start and end dates below the graph you can see how often the links were clicked and when, or you can use the graph as it is to see the clicks for the life of the tweet! (Just FYI, the second and third paper icons are for editing and deleting the tweet, respectively)

Now go forth and market the heck out of each other!

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Is Your Blog Stealing Your Life?

Hello everyone!

A few days ago I was on Plurk talking to some off my fellow artisans, and the topic of blogging came up. It seems that a common concern is having enough time to do quality blogging every day. Well, let me let you in on a little secret: you do not have to blog every day! You can blog just one day a week and still have a new post show up every day! "But Jenn, HOW???" you ask? Easy! Both of the "major" blogging sites (Blogger and WordPress) have this nifty little function that will allow you to schedule your posts for later publishing. Hopefully, by the end of this post you will understand how to use that function, and you will have freed up tons of time in your schedule!

Just keep reading to find out how!

Ok, I'm going to use blogger to show you how to do this (since I think most of you are using blogger anyway), but the steps are very similar on WordPress. Just be sure you are logged into your blog, open your dashboard, and follow along!

1. On your dashboard, click the "new post" link and it will take you to a window that looks like this:


2. Type anything you want in the title area and the message area. For mine I just typed "TEST" in both.

3. Find the link that says post options at the bottom of the screen and click it. The bottom of your post area should expand and look like this:


4. Now, all you have to do is change the date and time to some time in the future. I'm going to make mine post on March 21st at 9:00 AM. Once you've changed both those values, go ahead and hit "Publish Post"

5. Once you hit "Publish" you should get sent to a screen that has a list of your posts. You want to make sure you see two things at this point. Look for this:


and this:


As long as you see both those things, you did it right! (At this point, you may want to click that little delete link on the right, just so you don't end up with a strange test post on your blog.)

Now, all you have to do is set aside one time a week to blog for the week. For me, that day is Tuesday. On my scheduled day I sit down and write enough posts to get me through the week. I scheduled them all to post on different days, but I try to keep all posts set to publish between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. That way, everyone who reads my blog can check each day around those times and see what has been added. This also serves the function of giving each post about the same amount of exposure at the top of the main page.

I hope this has helped! Please keep checking back as I will be posting about other help topics frequently!

<3

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