Welcome to Boost Your Blog in 100 Days! I’m so excited you have chosen to take this journey with me and my dear challenge hostesses! I hope to get to meet you a little bit along the way via facebook, twitter, pinterest, and your blogs. My goal for this 100 days is to spruce up our blogs together and kick our usage and understanding of Social Media into high gear.

Guess what folks? Hackers happen to the best of us. Cat’s chew power cords and kids have birthdays. Yep all real-life events that are going on this week around the #BB100 Challenge! I’m pinch blogging so to speak until Honey can safely access her blog again! I promise Honey will catch everyone up to speed on all the awesome tweetiness (just made this up:) she had planned for us all to learn, but for today you have me!

Since I am no way a guru for Twitter and had no intention of teaching anyone about Twitter anytime soon here goes. Some of my favorite Twitter tips from around the web. (Sorry Honey but I had to give these dear folks something).

Here a quick Twitter checklist off the top of my head:

1. What is your Twitter Handle? Your @something2offer.com_______. Does it reflect your blog or brand or platform?

2. Do you have a picture? Is it current?

3. Did you fill in info. on your profile? You gotta have something relevant so people know why they should follow you.

4. Remember Twitter is NOT IM! Yes, tweets go out quickly but please do not tweet just to tweet! YES, reply with a thoughtful comment. YES, Retweet when you see something worth sharing. Please do not reply to everything from everyone.

5. Keep your tweets to 100-120 characters. Use a url shortener like Hoot or Bitly so your characters are eaten by the url.

6. Find a few people from your niche to follow. Engage them by replying or asking them a question. Mention a post you read that was interesting, etc.

Okay, that’s all I got for now. I smell a delicious Chicken Asparagus Dinner calling my name! Check out some more twitter tips below AND watch out for #BB100 TWEETS!

Take the following tips and ideas for what they are worth. I just did a quick google search and read through these quickly to make sure they weren’t totally ridiculous.

10 Twitter Tools to Organize Your Tweeps

 

The Twitter Followholic: An Epidemic

 

Safety tips for parents

 

How Twitter can help your business

Welcome to Boost Your Blog in 100 Days! I’m so excited you have chosen to take this journey with me and my dear challenge hostesses! I hope to get to meet you a little bit along the way via facebook, twitter, pinterest, and your blogs. My goal for this 100 days is to spruce up our blogs together and kick our usage and understanding of Social Media into high gear.

Today starts Challenge 3- Twitter! Your hostess for the next 10 days will be Honey from Honey’s Life. Be sure to head on over for Day 21 of Boost Your Blog.

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Twitter Tips!  Free Twitter Tips!

On your mark, get set, TWEET! This next 10 days you will be learning from Honey all about Twitter! Lots of great tips and tricks for Twitter including hashtags, advertising, what makes a good tweet, what program to use, and how often to re-tweet will be covered. Are you ready for the tweeting journey of a lifetime? Fly right over to Honey’s site to join in on all the tweeting fun.

Have you ever joined a Twitter party? Did you follow along or feel lost? What program did you use to follow: Hoot, TweetDeck, Tweet Chat? Got general Twitter questions. HONEY HAS ANSWERS! Please leave comments and questions here or on Honey’s blog.

Welcome to Boost Your Blog in 100 Days! I’m so excited you have chosen to take this journey with me and my dear challenge hostesses! I hope to get to meet you a little bit along the way via facebook, twitter, pinterest, and your blogs. My goal for this 100 days is to spruce up our blogs together and kick our usage and understanding of Social Media into high gear.

How did you do with the first 10 days? BE HONEST! How many of you are still catching up on commenting JUST LIKE ME? I’ve had a teething baby who is learning to crawl backwards and got sick last week! Now mom is also sick and trying to keep the house from exploding into a big giant mess,lol. Keep with it and do not get discouraged! (I’m telling myself this as well!)

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Today starts Challenge 2- Grammar! Your hostess for the next 10 days will be Michelle from Simplify, Live, Love. Be sure to head on over for Day 11 of Boost Your Blog. Michelle has a weekly series about Grammar on her site entitled: 5 Minute Grammar Lesson

Grammar Day 1: Top 10 Grammar Mistakes Bloggers Make {and how to avoid them}

Grammar Day 2:  Boost Your Blog in 100 Days – Who or Whom?

Grammar Day 3:  Boost Your Blog in 100 Days – Importance of Proofreading 

Grammar Day 4: Why is Grammer and Spelling Impotent, Anyways? #BB100

Grammar Day 5: 5 Tips for Writing Better Blog Posts #BB100

Grammar Day 6: Bias? or Biased?

Grammar Day 7: Less? or Fewer? ~ 5 Minute Grammar Lesson #BB100

Grammar Day 8: Do to? or Due to? ~ 5 Minute Grammar Lesson #BB100

Grammar Day 9: How to Make the Word PEOPLE Possessive #BB100

Grammar Day 10: 10 Helpful Grammar Resources #BB100

Do you participate in blog hops often? What are your favorite ones to link up to? Let’s share links to them so others can link up. Blog hops and link-ups are great for connecting with other bloggers, finding yummy recipes, and seeing fun activities or home decor projects!

Welcome to Boost Your Blog in 100 Days! I’m so excited you have chosen to take this journey with me and my dear challenge hostesses! I hope to get to meet you a little bit along the way via facebook, twitter, pinterest, and your blogs. My goal for this 100 days is to spruce up our blogs together and kick our usage and understanding of Social Media into high gear.

99 bottles of beer on the wall. 99 bottles of beer! -err-I mean COMMENTS! Today you will exceed 99  and reach 100 comments! I’m so excited for you and the success of your blog. Be proud of yourself and working on connecting with others.

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Welcome to Boost Your Blog in 100 Days! I’m so excited you have chosen to take this journey with me and my dear challenge hostesses! I hope to get to meet you a little bit along the way via facebook, twitter, pinterest, and your blogs. My goal for this 100 days is to spruce up our blogs together and kick our usage and understanding of Social Media into high gear.

One more day! One more day! Say it with me will you! One more day! Can you believe you have already made it through 8 days of commenting? Not as hard as your thought, right? Keep up the good work and you are sure to be rewarded. What’s the hardest thing you’ve found about blogging? I think finding the time to blog is hard with four children ages 6 months to 11 years and homeschooling.

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