Tag: Twitter

Some of Today’s Twitter Highlights

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Business and Twitter (and Facebook)

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There are a couple of business owners that God Bless them are embracing Facebook and Twitter to promote their companies.

This is a good thing.

What many don’t realize though is that if your Twitter feed or Facebook page is nothing but a bunch of ads and you retweet and repost them every hour that you are doing damage to your brand. 

Once people realize that all you do is feed them ads for your product or service all day they will either unfollow you or breeze right over your tweets without ever clicking through because they know ultimately they’re really not going to get a payback in the form of something interesting but what they will be getting is yet another one of your advertisements about you.  Yes I understand that YOU are the most important person in YOUR life but to the reader on twitter or Facebook try to engage the reader with something that will be a payoff for THEM.

Retweet other interesting things that are happening in your area, things that speak to you or you agree with and let your personality shine through your Twitter or Facebook presence.  People don’t want to get hammered over the head with ads all day long.  Be judicious with your self promoting.  I’m not saying it’s not important.  What I’m saying is to be more effective, maybe make every 5th tweet about your goods or services instead of 100%.

I guarantee you will be more successful in your marketing efforts.  Be natural, be you and let it shine on through.  Don’t be afraid to promote others you find interesting and they will be more likely to help you in your efforts to show the world how truly awesome YOU are.

Thank you.

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A couple examples of people who are really interesting tweeters and marketers are my friends @JMcElhenny an @DscvrGlstr  If you look at their twitter feed it’s not just straight up advertisements marketing themselves.  They tweet and retweet intersting things around them and their personality shines through.

If you’re wondering if it’s you I’m talking about, step back, pull up your twitter feed and ask yourself if you are just hammering the shit out of people with advertisement about yourself after advertisement about yourself.

Check Out The @Joey_C Cape Ann Retailer List For Local Black Friday Deals

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Check Out The @Joey_C Cape Ann Retailer List For Local Black Friday
Deals-

@Joey_C Cape Ann Twitter List

There are some crazy good deals to be had without even having to go over the bridge.

Toodles toy store for example is having 30% off from 6AM-8AM

You don’t need to have a twitter account to benefit, anyone can view it.  Below is a snapshot of what the list looked like this morning at 4:30AM while I type this but it gets updated as the people that are on the list update their twitter feed.  So if you are a retailer, update your feed and be seen.  You can also check out my Gloucester and Cape Ann Restaurant twitter list here

Check the @Joey_C Cape Ann Retailer twitter list for more crazy local Black Friday Deals!

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Twitter Faceoff @GDTnews vs @Joey_C

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www.visual.ly is a fun site which lets you create infographics based on twitter statistics.  You can have fun plugging in your favorite twitteratti, just go to the site and click on Twitter Faceoff and then enter two twitter usernames and it will create your infographic.

Fun!

You can and should follow the Gloucester Daily Times Twitter Feed here

My Twitter feed can be found here

I plugged in The Gloucester Daily Times Twitter feed and Mine- here are the results they came up with (I based the GDT Character off of my buddy Andrea Holbrook)

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Do You Follow The Captain Joe and Sons Twitter Feed?

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It’ the twitter feed from our dock and contains mostly heavy duty marine industrial wharf stuff.

If that’s your thing follow @CaptJoeLobster

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Follow Eurodam Passenger Nicholas Sabalos Cape Ann Adventure on Twitter

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Follow Nicholas here- @nicholassabalos

of course you can follow your Boy Joey C here @Joey_C

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Proud Papa Joe Unis and Daughter Producer Sarah Unis At The Fox Gloucester ZipTrip

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If you don’t already follow Gloucester native Sarah Unis on twitter you ought to, she’s the bomb!-

@ProducerSU

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Sarah Unis-

Fox 25 Special Projects Producer & lover of the ocean, photography, and my downtime! ·http://www.myfoxboston.com/subindex/news/special_reports

Here is Amanda’s Video of the segment-

Yo, If any of you twitter folks out there don’t know it, Maritime Gloucester Has a Twitter Account.

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Someone asked me for a couple of the must do things in G Town and I replied a sunset cruise on The Lannon, A Visit To Maritime Gloucester, The Cape Ann Museum and a mudiga steak bomb sandwich at Virgilios.

Bill O’Connor from North Shore Kid just so happened to send me in this little blurb about Maritime Gloucester-

Hi Joey,

One of the best things about Maritime Gloucester is that this time of year, there’s always something new to see.  We stopped by on Monday and they had a couple of baby squid in the large tank.  This one was only about 2 ½” long, and was doing his best to camouflage himself…

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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What you twitterites may not know is that Maritime Gloucester has a Twitter presence an dthey are pretty active.  follow them here- http://www.twitter.com/MaritimeGlou

Well Looky Which Local Museum Just Stepped Into The 21st Century With A Twitter Account- Cape Ann Museum- Follow ‘Em Suckas

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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times- if you have a local business or organization and you aren’t doing the social media thing- you are neglecting your business or organization.  Twitter is 140 characters for post.  Can you really not type 140 characters and hit the send button each day?  Don’t be a dope.  Get with the program.

 

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Follow them here-

https://twitter.com/#!/CapeAnnMuseum

Thanks for the heads up Johnnycakes.

Let the follows roll in.

Gloucester Business Tweet of The Day

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A different local business tweet picked at random in order to pick up local business use of social media.  Today a free slinky at Toodeloos.  Click the tweet below to find out how.

 

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and Follow Toodeloos on Twitter–

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Random Gloucester Business Tweet of The Day

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In an effort to get more local businesses out of the stone ages and into 2012 I’ll be posting a random Gloucester Business Tweet every now and again.  Don’t lobby for me to post your business tweet, just get your business active in the social media game, if what you post tweaks my interest you could see it here and folks that may not have even known you had a twitter presence might just find out about your bidness.

Hey, we had over 41,000 folks check out GMG just yesterday on a beautiful sunny Sunday, come get some of that love baby!

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Today Island Art and Hobby Tweets-

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Follow Don Boye, owner of Island Art and Hobby on twitter here

Lookey Lookey Who’s Now On Twitter- Our Kim Smith

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Click here to go to Kim’s twitter feed and follow her

For anyone wanting to get started on twitter you can go to my Gloucester List of Twitter peeps and just follow all those people to get a good sense of what is happening around town.

You can find my twitter Gloucester list here

Once you go there just follow the folks on that list, if they annoy you or seem uninteresting you can simply unfollow them  They won’t know and you won’t hurt their feelings.

Twitter Faceoff- Battle Of The Cutest Couple On Twitter Ryan Pinkham vs Ashley Curtis

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This week we have Ryan Pinkham @RyanPinkham vs his betrothed Ashley Curtis @AshElizCurtis

Pauline Bresnahan From Gloucester’s Pauline’s Gifts Featured on NECN Gloucester Pirate Story

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Pauline is featured 2 minutes into the video.  Click the picture above to access it.

Follow Pauline on Twitter

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The GloucesterCast Podcast Episode 7 Taped March 27th

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Click here to play or save the podcast

In this episode- Who Got Joey Fired Up?- Joey is getting Fat, Groupon, Restaurant Talk, Obnoxious Foodies, GMG Topside Grill Art Show, Paul Morrison’s Seasonal Restaurant Openings, Twitter, Lactose Intolerance, Kenny’s Insane Vegatrian Eating Rules, Local Artists, Dog Park, Kenny’s Real Estate Segment, Duckworth’s Bistrot, Jalepenos, Lakay Island Restaurant, Topside Grill, Top Dog of Rockport, Bean and Leaf, Moovision Cookoff, Paul Ciaramitaro, Melody Phaneuf, Carol Loiacano Watercolor, Bob Aiello, Natalie Nordstrand, Jeff Weaver, Patty Sullivan, Debbie Clarke, Paul Frontiero, Micah Dean, Aron Leaman, Rachelauren Somers, The Hive, Heather Atwood

Please leave comments or questions on which topics you would like to hear more about on The GloucesterCast or how we could improve. Thanks for listening.

Check Out Kenny’s Blog- TheCutBridge.com

The GloucesterCast Theme Song Gloucester Til The End Music is from Earl and Arch- you can download it for free at GimmeSound here– http://www.gimmesound.com/EarlAndArch-1/

The Bean and Leaf In Rockport is Hiring

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Just Saw This Posted On Twitter-

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Have you veer dreamed of working in a coffee shop in a cool seaside community like Rockport Ma on Bearskin Neck?  Well this is your chance.

If you were on twitter and followed them you would have gotten this info even if your boy Joey missed it.   I’m just sayin…….

http://twitter.com/#!/Joey_C

You own a business?  You want people to pay attention?  Something cool happen at your establishment that people might be interested in?  Get your ass on Facebook and Twitter and help the newsmakers help you.

oh, and by the way, when you stop in to apply for the job, tell ‘em Joey sent ya. Smile

Twitter for Artists

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I have some time on my Hands or should I say hand? At the moment and I’ve been checking out twitter lately and I’ve changed my mind on it.

I didn’t like it at first. Couldn’t figure out what the big deal was about. But, it gets addictive. It gives you up to date info on what’s happening on what your interested in.

I follow “TWITS” on Cape Ann, Artists and News.

Here’s a list I found on Artists and photographers. Cape Ann Arts Map is listed here among  thousands of others from around the World.

http://wefollow.com/twitter/artist/

Check it out!

Also here’s my Twitter Address: http://twitter.com/#!/capeannpainter

Follow me and maybe you’ll find an Art Rock this weekend.

I’m Hurt! and somebody’s gotta pay!

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I’m Hurt! and somebody’s gotta pay! and it will probably be Joey! Being left off his Twitter list is an insult! How dare you? No “Art, Rocks!” for you! only for someone who follows my twitter account! http://twitter.com/#!/capeannpainter

Follow if you’d like a Free piece of Art! You’ll have to do some leg work to collect it.  but you have to be one of my Twitter followers. Goodluck! Next rock coming very soon.

Gloucester Twitter Folk You Should Follow- Gloucester Times News- @GDTnews

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Click the link to check it our for yourself-

@GDTnews

Here is an example of the Times Twitter Feed-

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The GloucesterCast Podcast Episode 1

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The GloucesterCast Episode 1

Click here To Listen or Download The First Episode of The GloucesterCast

Hosts:

  • Joey Ciaramitaro – creator of Good Morning Gloucester and co-owner of Gloucester MA Captain Joe and Sons lobster company
  • Kenny MacCarthy – creator of The Cut Bridge and Gloucester MA real estate agent guru

Joey and Kenny discuss Gloucester / Cape Ann:

  • recent happenings
  • upcoming events
  • local real estate trends
  • dog and pet talk
  • sports, technology, social media
  • anything else that comes up along the way

Want to reach us?

Episode 1 link mentions:

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Give it a listen if you will by clicking on the link above. Knowing that we have a way to go we will appreciate your feedback on what you liked and what we can improve upon. Also feel free to leave suggestions on show topics for next week’s podcast.