What’s Your Twitter Grade?
I participated in a fabulous webinar yesterday from HubSpot called “How to Use Social Media for Lead Generation.” It was great for several reasons.
It not only reminded marketers about the importance of inbound marketing (HubSpot’s specialty, so of course it did), but it explained ways to DO inbound marketing. It did not just say, “Inbound marketing is important and you need a strong, layered presence on the Web. The end. Now figure it out.” It actually gave tips and examples of ways to do this. And, no one had to pay for the information and expertise, which is a great example of what they preach…a company being open with its audience and sharing valuable content to draw more customers in.
One really cool tool they introduced to me (sorry if you know about it already) was Twitter Grader. It grades your performance—or presence—on Twitter, and you can search it to find leaders in different industries to see what they’re talking about and / or connect with them…which is the point. Simon Salt from Mashable (obviously someone who knew about it before me) wrote a great article on it a few months back. Click here to read it.
I scored 93 out of 100, which isn’t too bad, but I’m a perfectionist so…I’m working on it. Help me improve my rank by following and engaging me on Twitter. It’ll help your grade too!
Follow me @k_duque. Danielle, Mary Clare and Eric can be found at @DNpublicist, @maryclarejensen and @RealYaverbaum, respectively. Check out HubSpot @HubSpot, yesterday’s webinar presenter, Rick Burnes, @rickburnes, Mashable @mashable and Simon Salt @incslinger.
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Great information. Thank you.
One of my associates mentioned this blog to me. And this is the first post I have read. Thanks for the information. Hope you will post frequently.
I follow your boss on twitter and he does not even twitter about his own company blog? You should have included his picture. He seems to like that.
I must say that this blog is a great resource. Why are the posts so infrequent?
Oh no. Not grades again.
PR Maven weirdo. Who cares? Good information.
What is considered a good grade?
Twitter is a fad. I give it six months maximum.
Twitter is not a fad at all. It’s cutting edge, very popular and a tool that will get bought.
Tweetdeck just raised $3.2 million bucks.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/twitter-client-tweetdeck-raises-around-32-million-in-funding/?awesm=tcrn.ch_5bu&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_source=direct-tcrn.ch
So maybe we should all check our “grade”.
Twitter Grade rocks. Thank you.
Is there one central location or list of tools like these?
Thanks for the super post on the webinar. If you’d like to see the recorded version, you can find it here: http://bit.ly/GfNgb
Best,
Rick Burnes
Hi Laurie,
There are several good resources to find tools like these. Mashable.com is a really great resource for information and tools associated with social media. Also, TechCrunch.
-KD
Several?
http://alltwittertools.com/