What is Paper.li?

In simple terms, Paper.li is a free Twitter service that organizes tweets from people you follow on  Twitter into a magazine-style newspaper for easy reading.  It’s appealing layout lets you see at a glance what articles interest you and what you want to read first. Topics include Headlines, Stories, Technology, Business, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Living, SEO and more.

Setting up and publishing your own Paper.li newspaper is very easy.

Just create your free account. Once logged in you can add content streams to add articles to your Twitter newspaper. For example, you can add a stream for a single Twitter user, yourself and people you follow, a Twitter list, or you can add Twitter keywords, #tags or keywords on Facebook.

You can publish your Paper.li newspaper daily, twice a day or weekly and you can even set the controls to automatically publish your newspaper. You can also change the appearance of your paper by adding a custom background.

Other great features of Paper.li

Editing Controls – lets you decide which articles you want to show on your Twitter newspaper.  Delete unwanted articles or change the featured article

Article Tracker – lets you view the article profile, article source and what other Paper.lis are featuring a particular article.

Pretty cool, huh?

It’s a great way to share your tweets and those of your friends in style.

For a sampling visit “The Ilka Flood Daily” or “Top Bloggers Daily”

For more details please visit my friend Ileane Smith’s video on the subject.

As always I would love to hear your feedback in the comments below. Are you already a publisher of your own Paper.li Twitter newspaper or thinking about publishing one in the future?  Let’s hear your thoughts.

To Your Success,

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

P.S. Sharing is caring. So please share this article with your followers and friends using any of the share buttons. Thank You!

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Now there’s a simple question. Are you? Because, if you are not using Twitter for business, you really should consider it.

Think about it…

There are 200 million people on Twitter. It’s the #10 most visited website in the world. If you are not using Twitter to build your network marketing business you are really missing out on a great marketing tool that could help you get more leads.

Remember, the more fishing poles you have in the water the more fish you will catch.

Just in case of the very unlikely event that you don’t know what I am talking about. Twitter is a free micro-blogging platform that lets you quickly share information in 140 characters or less.

While you can tweet (share information) about your company or products I would recommend that you build a relationship with people first and then keep promoting your products or services to a minimum. Because, Twitter is first and foremost a social media tool just like Facebook.

But first things first – Setting up your  Twitter profile

If you are using Twitter for business, your profile should look very professional. It’s best to use your real name if it is available or a variation of it when you set up your profile. Write a short bio about yourself, make it fun and personal, so people can learn a bit more about you and include a link to your website. (Tip: Twitter displays only 17 characters of your website. The rest is not visible to your visitors. So in order to show as much of your website address as possible omit the “www.” Example: http://yourwebsite.com)

What should I tweet about?

Always share value first. A good example would be inspiring quotes. Send these in the morning. People like to start their day on an uplifting and positive note. By the way, quotes get high re-tweets too. You can also share links to great websites, marketing tools or techniques that have worked for you or your own blog posts.

Share engaging tweets. Questions work very well to engage your followers. Ask for book recommendations or the latest movie reviews. If you need help with your business ask questions about that. Start a discussion about something. Make it interesting and fun.

Remember that only 10% – 15% of your audience will be online at any given time. For example if you tweeted your blog post in the morning, send it again in the afternoon as many of your followers may have missed it. Choosing different headlines may get you more click throughs.

Stand out from the crowd by re-tweeting other people’s content. This is not only a nice gesture but also helps in building relationships with other networkers. Remember the 140 characters limit. So to make it easier for other people to re-tweet your content, keep your message under 120 characters. That way people can include your name as the original author.

Apropos name … putting the@ symbol in front of a name alerts that person that you are directly talking to him or her.

Whom should I follow on Twitter?

Follow people in your niche, your company, and/or leaders that you look up to and want to learn from. If you follow people with larger followings your follower count will jump up as well if they re-tweet your content. Think quality before quantity though. It’s better to follow and be followed by 500 quality people than 5000 who have absolutely nothing to do with your niche or industry. A great tool to find people in your niche, even locally in your neighborhood is Twellow.com

Some of the benefits of using Twitter for business.

Keep up with the latest news in your niche. Monitor what is being said about your company, products or people you know. Meet like-minded people and share ideas and build a relationship of know, like and trust.

You can also link up your Twitter account with Facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo just to name a few for updates and additional exposure.

Do you see the advantages of using Twitter for business?

If you have not been using Twitter for business so far I highly recommend incorporating it in your marketing strategies because you can generate and endless flood of quality prospects for your business for free.

To Your Success,

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

P.S. If you are using Twitter as one of your marketing tools please share your experience with us in the comments below. This is a Do-Follow blog so you will get some link juice back.

P.P.S. If you found value in this post, please share it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thank You!

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Create a Twitter List in Hootsuite

I had created a twitter list for different groups on TweetDeck and it worked great in keeping everything organized, but for some reason I never got around to do the same on Hootsuite. Well until today that is.

If you have been on Twitter for a while and you are following a lot of people, you know that it can be hard to keep up with everyone and chances are that you are missing a lot of tweets. Creating a twitter list for different groups helps you keep things organized.

Frankly, if you use twitter for business marketing you want to make sure to keep in touch with your contacts. You probably remember the” know, like, trust” factor. Building a relationship with your contacts, customers and business associates is so very important. Twitter helps you keep connected.

Why would you want to create a twitter list?

The main reason would probably be so you can filter the tweets of people you are following into categories. By creating shorter lists you will be better able to monitor them. You can create a list for family, friends, customers, people in your company, gurus you follow, etc.

So how do you create a twitter list within Hootsuite?

It’s quite simple actually. Just follow the three simple steps below.

1) Log in to your Hootsuite account and click on “Add Stream” just like the picture shows below.

2) Make sure “Twitter” is selected (highlighted in green) and then click on “Lists.”

3) If you have multiple Twitter accounts select the profile you want to use to add a new twitter list. You can either use an existing list or create a new one. Choose if you want it to be public or private and click “Create Stream.”

Congratulations,  you are done! You just created a new twitter list in your Hootsuite account.

Wasn’t that easy?

Have fun adding lists to your account!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

P.S. If you liked this short tutorial on how to add a twitter list to your Hootsuite account leave your feedback in the comments below and please re-tweet and share it with your friends on Facebook.

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Sometimes 140 characters just aren’t enough for what you want to say. With Twerbose that’s no problem. You can even choose to set your tweets as public or private (friends only.)

So, here you have it:

• Post massive tweets easily
• Share photos and videos on Twitter
• Comment on other people’s massive tweets
• Optional advanced wysiwig editing
• Add YouTube videos to your tweets
• Control tweet privacy
• iPhone friendly!

Pretty cools stuff, huh?

Here’s a screenshot.

Happy Tweeting!

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I watched in amazement how Perry Belcher teaches step-by-step how he gained a Fan base of 130,000 in just 9 month. He put 58,000 of those on his personal list..and all for FREE.

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So get it now while you can still get it for free.

Enjoy!

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