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HOW TO CRAFT: THE PERFECT POSTS FOR ‘THE BIG 3’ SOCIAL NETWORKS

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Page 1: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

HOW TO CRAFT

THE PERFECT POSTS FOR lsquoTHE BIG 3rsquo

SOCIAL NETWORKS

marketer sidekick by hubspot13co-author twitter for dummies cookiecakelover13

anum13

ANUM HUSSAIN

BY13

The Big 3 of WWII understood that world domination would only be possible by putting aside their differences and working as a team13

inbound2013

THINK OF YOUR BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWORKS THE SAME WAY

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 2: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

marketer sidekick by hubspot13co-author twitter for dummies cookiecakelover13

anum13

ANUM HUSSAIN

BY13

The Big 3 of WWII understood that world domination would only be possible by putting aside their differences and working as a team13

inbound2013

THINK OF YOUR BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWORKS THE SAME WAY

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 3: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

The Big 3 of WWII understood that world domination would only be possible by putting aside their differences and working as a team13

inbound2013

THINK OF YOUR BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWORKS THE SAME WAY

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 4: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

inbound2013

THINK OF YOUR BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWORKS THE SAME WAY

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 5: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 6: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 7: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 8: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Itrsquos not about

versus 13

versus13

versus13

Itrsquos about creating an alliance between the three greatest social levers you can pull

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 9: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

inbound2013

Now this doesnrsquot mean you just copy-and-paste the same content

across different channels

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 10: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

It means you play to the strengths of each network

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 11: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Introducing 29 tips to craft the perfect posts for Facebook

LinkedIn and Twitter

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 12: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

NOTE

The following 29 tips are collected from various studies on social media effectiveness Use them as starting points for success but test each one to find what works best with

your own audience

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 13: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

FACEBOOK

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 14: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Facebook provides six ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video 13131313 Event 13131313Check-In13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 15: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 16: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

1500 possible stories are filtered through per day on an avg Facebook userrsquos News Feed13

Only 20 of

them actually

make a user

feed

Lars Backstrom Facebook Engineering Manager13

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 17: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

So how do you ensure your content is included in that 20

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 18: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Images on Facebook

constituted 93 13of the most 13

engaging posts13

1 ENGAGE FANS WITH PHOTOS

Source socialbakers

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 19: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Recommended 13Upload Size131200 x 1200 px1313(actually publishes as 504 px width but this ensures quality)13

Shared Link Preview 131200 x 628px1313(actually publishes as 484 x 252 px)13

Shared Video Preview 13504 x 283 px13

2 UPLOAD QUALITY VISUALS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 20: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

3 REMOVE LINKS FROM LINK COPY

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 21: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 22: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with 80+ words garner 2X as much engagement1313Source httpbitlycom10RLYpm 13

4 INCREASE POST WORD COUNT

2 years ago 13the magic formula

was lt80 characters Look how much 13has changed13

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 23: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts with hashtags see 60 more interactions

on average

Posts with

exclamation points see 27 more interactions on

average13

Posts that ask questions garner

23 more engagement on

average13

Source TrackMaven

5 TRY DIFFERENT PUNCATION

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 24: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 25: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 26: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

No post engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 27: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

High post engagement13No post

engagement13

6 POST TO WALL BEFORE ALBUM

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 28: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

7 KEEP LINK TITLES lt100 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 29: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Posts published after hours (5pm ndash 1am EST) see 11 more interactions than those published during the work day (8am ndash 5pm) and 29 more than those published before work (1am ndash 8 am)131313

8 PUBLISH AFTER WORK HOURS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 30: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Less than 18 of posts are published on weekends but posts published on Sundays get 25 more Likes Shares and Comments than Wednesday posts13

Sunday

9 PUBLISH ON WEEKENDS

Source TrackMaven

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 31: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source AMEX OPEN Forum13

10 EXPERIMENT WITH EMOTICONS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 32: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Free Facebook Resource

Havenrsquot built your own Facebook Business Page yet Check out my SlideShare on how

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 33: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

LINKEDIN

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 34: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

LinkedIn provides fours ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photo13 13

131313 1313 Video Link 1313131313

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 35: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Three million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

In fact13

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 36: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages13Source LinkedIn13

87 of users trust LinkedIn as a

source of info that affects decision

making

Three In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 37: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

So how do you ensure your content is among the trusted sources

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 38: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

11 KEEP LINK TITLES lt70 CHARACTERS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 39: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

12 KEEP LINK DESCRIPTIONS lt250

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 40: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

13 SHARE LINKS FOR ENGAGEMENT

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 41: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

14 SHARE IMAGES FOR COMMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 42: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Source QuickSprout

15 POST VIDEOS FOR SHARES

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 43: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Publishing 20 posts per month allows you to reach 60 percent of your audience1313Source httplinkdin1xZZ7GX 13

16 PUBLISH ONCE A WEEK DAY

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 44: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

LinkedIn is 13277 more

effective for lead gen than Facebook

amp Twitter13

17 CONVERT FANS WITH OFFERS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 45: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 46: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Yellow bars indicate leads

generated on day of LinkedIn

announcement13

Two ways to accomplish this13131 Start your own LinkedIn Group13132 Engage in relevant Groups and barter for one of 13 their announcements13

18 SEND LINKEDIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 47: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Free LinkedIn Resource

Want to master LinkedIn beyond posts Check out the ultimate cheat sheet with 35 top tips

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 48: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

TWITTER

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 49: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

Twitter provides four ways to launch your updates

1313 1313 Status 13 1313131313Link 13 131313Photos13 13

131313 1313 Videos 131313131313131313

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 50: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

In fact13

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 51: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

3y 2m 1d is the time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet13Source Twitter13

It now only takes 1 week

to send a billion tweets

In fact13

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 52: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

So how do you ensure your content is seen among all that noise

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 53: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 54: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

2 1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 55: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

2

This RT required the

removal of my keyword

INBOUND1313

1

Source Dan Zarrella

19 KEEP TWEETS SHORT [2 REASONS]

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 56: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

20 INCLUDE USER HANDLES FOR RTs

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 57: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 58: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 59: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Anyone who follows both the

person being tweeted at AND the tweeter can

see a ldquoreplyrdquo tweet

21 UNDERSTAND REPLY VS MENTION

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 60: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Including more than two in a Tweet is probably overkill and you only need to tag the most important word that represents the theme of your Tweet13

Source Twitter and Salesforce13

Tweets with 1-2 hashtags receive 21 higher engagement than those with 3+

hashtags13

22 USE HASHTAGS JUDICIOUSLY

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 61: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

17 of the top 1000 search terms on Twitter ldquochurn overrdquo on an hourly basis13

Source Twitter13

23 DONrsquoT FORCE TRENDING HASHTAGS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 62: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Tweets with images result 13

in 55 increase in leads13

24 INCORPORATE VISUAL CONTENT

Source HubSpot13

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 63: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

Instagram photos donrsquot appear on

Twitter13

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

If you enjoyed this social media presentation from INBOUND 2013 perhaps yoursquoll enjoy my

INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

THANK YOU

Page 64: HOW TO CRAFT THE PERFECT POSTS FOR THE BIG 3 SOCIAL NETWOKS

anum anumhussaincom13

amp the data vouches against direct Instagram

uploads13Source Simply Measured

25 DONrsquoT AUTO-POST INSTAGRAM MEDIA

anum anumhussaincom13

In-Twitter Stream Photo 13440 x 220px13

13

26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

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For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

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26 UPLOAD PHOTOS IN PROPER SIZE

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

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27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

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27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

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27 TAG USERS IN PHOTOS FOR MORE RTs

No RTs from tagged users to reach wider

audience13

RTs from all tagged (plus

others)13

anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

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anum anumhussaincom13

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

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anum anumhussaincom13

For example

Source Dan Zarrella13

28 PLACE LINKS IN MIDDLE OF TWEET

anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

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anum anumhussaincom13

Links can be around 20

characters before they get cropped with an ellipses13

29 SHORTEN LINKS FOR CLEANER TWEETS

anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

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anum anumhussaincom13

The most popular time to tweet is between noon and 1 pm local time1313The early morning hours is when tweets receive the most clicks on average13

Source Kevan Lee Buffer13

30 OPTIMIZE PUBLISHING CALENDAR

Free Twitter Resource

Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

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INBOUND 2014 presentation on business blogging Click below to view

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Want to master Twitter personally and for business Get the full-blown guide to Twitter

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