Are All of Your Followers and Retweets Even Real?
You are probably wondering what is up with such a bizarre title. However, you would be amazed at how many people are using black hat tactics in regards to social media. What is it that I mean by that? Many people are buying Twitter followers, Facebook fans, retweets,...
New Klout Update
Klout has gone through another update. You can now see who has endorsed your answers to questions you have been asked, and they did another make over on their site. Here is the video that is going over the details. They are making improvements and like where they are...
I have Exciting News and another Announcement
I am very excited to announce I am part of the Hey Z Radio Network doing a show called Let's Get Social on Wednesdays at 4pm PST/7pm EST. The show is about anything related to social media and some SEO for the most part. I am really excited because the network is run...
Making Sense of Klout’s New Makeover
Ever since Klout introduced the Q and A feature last week, some people who have gotten access to it asked me about the location of their stats. I decided to do a video on how everything is set up as yes, Klout did indeed go through a massive makeover after this new...
Klout is Heading Towards a Direction that is Beyond Scoring
If you are an avid Klout user like myself, you probably have noticed once in a while since early this year questions relevant to any topic you are influential in popping up in your dashboard that are waiting to be answered by you. Well they were preparing for their...
Are you Going on Vacation? If so Keep the News Off of Your Social Networks.
Whenever something exciting happens in your life, the first thing you would want to do is share it. That is very natural to do. For instance, who would not want to tell everyone that he or she knows that the vacation that he or she has been waiting for years to have...
Are you Crossing the Line?
When people are expressing themselves through social media, they are encouraged to show their personalities through the content they share- as they should. If they make a discovery that they may find interesting, they should share the article related to the subject...
How to be Influential on Instagram
On March 27, Klout had announced that your Instagram activity and engagement was going to be having an effect on your Klout score. Before that date, even though you could hook up your Instagram account to Klout, your activity had no effect. Just like you are able to...
The Funniest Facebook Status Updates
Last fall I found a site where you can find the funniest Tweets around. However, I found a great site where you can find the wackiest Facebook status updates around. Yes that is right. If you write up status updates that are off the wall, be prepared to know...
Instagram Now Contributes to the Klout Score
I was shocked enough last week as it was when I saw a huge jump in my score from adding my Wikipedia page to Klout. I had just gotten up to 78, after slowly climbing, then dropping down a few hundredths of a point - and then mountaineering again at 77 since November...
Increase Readers with Best Social Media Tips for Your Blog
A major criterion for people who own blogs is to get subscribers. There are many ways they can publicise their blog. One of the biggest ways is to get social media involved in your blog, mainly because there are lots of people on these networks who might like your...
And By the Way, Your Offline Influence Matters to Klout
If you Believe Klout is Only Looking at your Online Activity, Think Again Before I write anything further, the point of this post is not to boast about anything. I want to bring up something significant that most people don't seem to understand about Klout. They are...
One Big Way to be Influential is to Have a Podcast
I have talked about online influence a lot in my previous blog posts. As yes it is important to be active on your social media networks, to be active on your blogs, to write up guest posts in your area of influence, to be engaging, and yes to have a high Klout score...
An Overview of Online Influence
Very few people truly understand what online influence really is. For instance, most people believe that if you have hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers while you are not following many makes you influential. Does it really? If you are not putting out...
Rejecting Klout Now is Going to Hurt in the Long Run
Are you Saying "No" to Klout? I realize I have written many blog posts lately about Klout, including a guest post on it that went viral quite recently. I also realize I am one of the fewer individuals that see the big picture with Klout, not just their moments of...
Why I Love Fiverr
I have not written a blog post in a while about Fiverr. So here it goes. I absolutely love Fiverr. In fact, in many ways it has been a Godsend. I know that many feel the same way. There are also a lot of people who absolutely have no idea what Fiverr is. I am...
Can Pictures of Puppies be Influential?
Instead of taking the opportunity to only defend Klout (which I will continue to do since its purpose is still so misunderstood) in this post, I want to dig deeper into something else that I came across. One of the judgmental remarks I have heard many times in regards...
January Sales: How to Make Sure your Business Benefits
Christmas; the most expensive time of the year has just finished and people are not as fool-hardy?with their money and are tightening the purse strings to save anything they can for the upcoming?year. However, January sales can counteract this and drive customers to...