As regular readers will know, I rejoined Klout back in April to see if the service had improved. An apparent spate of stories earlier this year suggested people were being refused jobs for having too low a Klout score or offered better customer service, for having a high Klout score. I wanted to know what… Continue Reading
Marketing tips and ideas to help you grow your business, by Jim Connolly
Category Archives: Social media marketing
Check out these cookies!
Someone asked me a great question last week, about a new page I added to the blog. She wanted to know why I bothered to publish a new page all about cookies, (that’s browser cookies, not the delicious ones!) The new EU cookie regulations! I explained that there was a new ruling here in Europe.… Continue Reading
Bloggers: How I went from thousands of daily spam comments, to zero!
I wrote recently about a real challenge I was facing, regarding spam comments here on the blog. Today, I have the answer I need and also a wonderful piece of advice for any of you, who use WordPress and have a spam problem. My comment spam challenge As I wrote a couple of days ago,… Continue Reading
How to be massively more influential!
If you would like to be massively more influential, in a really meaningful way, this post is for you! Influence Here’s what we know about real influence: It’s powerful. Politicians seek the endorsement of influential celebrities, because it influences how the public vote. Brands pay sports stars to appear in commercials for their fragrances, because… Continue Reading
The Klout Problem: Why multimillionaire investor Ron Conway has a lower score than you!
It’s week number 3 of my Klout experiment and I have already seen enough, to be able to form some solid conclusions regarding Klout and how it scores people. I have invested many hours of my time digging into Klout, monitoring not only my own account, but also the accounts of people I know. I… Continue Reading
Klout experiment update!
It’s a week since I started my Klout experiment and I thought I would give you a very quick update. My Klout ‘influence’ numbers When I set up my Klout account 7 days ago, my initial score was 10. Then, after 3 days the score jumped to 60. Apparently, it takes around 48/72 hours for… Continue Reading
Massively boost your sales and profits by focusing on these 2 things!
If you want to increase your sales, revenues AND profits, you will love this post. It shows 2 areas of your business you need to focus on and provides a link to dozens of practical ideas you can use. 1. You need to focus on increasing the value of your work We live in an… Continue Reading
Klout: Has the service improved?
Klout, the controversial service that claims to be able to measure our influence, say that their algorithm has become more accurate, since I ditched the service last year. Like many users, I was amazed how inaccurate Klout scores were and asked for my account to be deleted. Today, there are well qualified people being refused… Continue Reading