I remember the first time someone told me that using Twitter and Facebook were a great way to stay in touch with friends, clients and business associates, and to meet new people. My thought was, “Who has that kind of time?”
Then last year I paid for an online course on how to use Facebook for marketing the business I owned. After the 4 week course, my practice of what I learned and use of Facebook dwindled. I lost touch and gave up because it was just too time consuming and I figured wasn’t a top priority with all of my other business demands.
Then recently I was invited to attend a free training on how to automate social media. Frankly, I didn’t expect to learn much more than before, especially since it was a free class. I figured I would get duped into buying the one thing that would be required to really make this automation thing work. So good news for me (and you, too!), what I learned was VERY VALUABLE AND FREE! No software to purchase, no courses to buy.
So today I’m going to focus on ONE of these tools. It’s called Social Oomph (http://www.socialoomph.com/). Social Oomph addresses many issues that we Twitterers have in common:
- Tweeting throughout the day, even when we’re too busy to add new tweets (create pre-made tweets to send out later)
- Being able to respond in kind to those following you (create automatic welcome messages…even create multiple different kinds of responses for your followers to automatically rotate)
- Being sure to follow back those that are following you (auto-follow feature)
- Being able to unfollow people who unfollow you (another automatic feature)
- Fitting in everything you want to say, with limited character requirements from Twitter (get more space by using the Shorten URL feature, which is placed conveniently next to where you add your tweets!)
I appreciate that Social Oomph is just ONE PLACE TO GO for multiple functions, versus using multiple different programs to perform these same tasks. Twitter Deck and Tweet Later have these functions, too, but it’s just easier for me to use one program – Social Oomph, rather than logging in to Twitter Deck and then Tweet Later.
I love that Social Oomph gives me the ability to leverage my time, to streamline my day, and has minimized the overwhelm I used to have when trying to stay on top of my Twitter activities. It has freed me up to focus more on other parts of my business and personal life! (I know, it sounds like I’m ‘selling’ this software…but I actually am not getting paid for this. I just think it’s a great program. Here again is the direct link to Social Oomph: http://www.socialoomph.com/).
Next post we will go over a step-by-step process on how to set up your Social Oomph account, and get Twitter automated for you. Watch your tweets for the next installment, or to be sure you don’t miss anything, bookmark this page by clicking on the orange button in the upper right-hand corner. Then click on subscribe.
