Jeff Russell - Social Media Expert, Speaker, Author

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I’m going to keep this post short and simple, here are 3 Twitter tips to help you get the most out of Twitter:
1. Keep your tweets less than 120 characters so they can be easily re-tweeted. This is one of my pet peeves, the inability to quickly retweet a great tweet. One of the ways [...]

As part of my social media marketing strategy, I’m always on the look out for interesting people to follow on twitter. With the huge amount of new Twitter users coming on board every day, you really need to spend time on the look out for new people to follow.   The primary way I find people [...]

You cannot pick up a newspaper, watch a tv show, read a magazine, or attend a conference without seeing “social media, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube” splattered everywhere.  With the current exponential growth of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, I think we can all agree that social media is here to stay. What was [...]

Many times people who are new to Twitter tell me that they are confused about what Twitter is and how it can help them. First, Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows you to send out 140 character long messages (tweets). All the big stars from Oprah to Ashton Kutcher are using Twitter, so [...]

Many times people who are new to Twitter tell me that they are confused about what Twitter is and how it can help them. First, Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows you to send out 140 character long messages (tweets).  All the big stars from Oprah to Ashton Kutcher are using Twitter, so why [...]

If you don’t embrace social media and the marketing potential that exists, you are going to be left in the “old economy,” I truly believe in only 5 years you are going to see a shift in the landscape of the Fortune 500. So many of the old dinosaurs just aren’t meeting our needs any [...]

I’m having blast at the 2009 National Speakers Association conference in Phoenix, and I wanted to do a quick brain dump and created this “5 Reasons for Speakers to Use Twitter” quick guide (along with how I did it).
Why would you want to even start using Twitter?  Here are 5 reasons:
1. Help clients find you! [...]

I really enjoyed reading the recent New York Times piece where they reported that since 2007, Dell had earned $3 million in revenues directly from Twitter postings, mainly through coupons and word-of-mouth. Without a doubt,  I think we are on the cusp of a “Twitter Revolution,” I wouldn’t be surprised to see Google Adwords revenues [...]

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been immersed in social media marketing (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr). I was certainly having a hard time getting my head around new ways businesses could use Twitter, and I think I’ve come up with one…. communicating discounts and specials to your clients. If you sell services, [...]

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn… so many choices, how much can one person really handle!  This is a constant dilemma for those of us involved with Social Networking. I came across this post from social networking expert Starr Hall, titled “TOP MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING”
1) They don’t keep sites and posts current, they only [...]