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Apr 30 2016

Motivational Business Quotes: Why They Stand the Test of Time

Imagine this: you’re scrolling through your Twitter feed and you come across a Tweeted quote that just captures your business in a nutshell. It’s powerful, it’s inspiring, it’s succinct, and it makes you want to go out and make that next sale! After reading such motivational business quotes, wouldn’t you want to hear more of what that company has to say after they made you feel so good?

If you’re using Twitter to share motivational business quotes, the company in question could be yours. While many business owners are focused on sourcing third-party content, the fact is that quotes are actually one of the best and easiest ways to connect with your Twitter following. Here’s what you need to know.

The Power of Motivational Business Quotes

At the end of 2015, Twitter was averaging about 305 million active monthly users. Individual users spend about 170 minutes each month on Twitter and most of that time is dedicated to searching for valuable content. Because so many people spend so much time looking for valuable content, it’s the companies who provide the most of it that get ahead.

Posting motivational business quotes is one of the best ways to offer valuable content for followers, while also maintaining a fresh and unique presence. Twitter followers who find your quotes and are moved by them are likely to share them, like them, or engage with your business in another way. This can help to grow your positive reputation, connect with your online followers and attract more people who emotionally connect with what you have to say. Emotionally connecting is a first step to winning more customers.

Why Quotes on Twitter Stand the Test of Time

Let’s face it: being successful on Twitter requires content, and a lot of it. Unfortunately, it’s tough to keep up with the demand for content creation. Always pulling content from third-party sources places you at risk of always talking about business all the time. We can’t talk about business all the time. What a bore that would be!

Because quotes are engaging, unique, easy to digest, and have stood the test of time, they never go out of style – even on a platform as rapid and ever-changing as Twitter. By posting inspirational business quotes to your Twitter account, you can ensure that you’re always providing valuable content for your followers, no matter how frequently the times change. Because “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

If you’re looking for the perfect partner to help you schedule Twitter posts and dispense business quotes to your Twitter followers, contact the professionals at Nimble Quotes!

Apr 02 2016

Social Media Tools for Businesses: How Auto-Posting Can Boost Your Twitter Presence

Of all the social media tools for businesses that are currently on the market, auto-posting tools are some of the most valuable. In addition to streamlining Twitter interactions for busy marketers, auto-posting tools can also be customized to accommodate your unique tastes and interests. Here’s what you need to know about how these social media tools for businesses can help your Twitter account thrive:

What Is an Auto-Posting Tool?

Auto-posting tools are tools that are designed to post content automatically to a Twitter account. This content is often pulled from third-party sources and should be relevant to the Twitter account owner’s target audience. In the case of Nimble Quotes, the content posted consists completely of inspirational business quotes, which can help to motivate and engage a company’s followers.

How Do Auto-Posting Social Media Tools for Businesses Work?

When a marketer uses an auto-posting tool, he or she is required to enter the time zone and posting schedule desired. This helps the auto-posting tool learn when to post content on the marketer’s behalf and can help the marketer target peak times when his or her Twitter audience is online.

Why Choose an Auto-Posting Tool?

Auto posting tools like Nimble Quotes offer many benefits, including the following:

Convenience. Auto-posting tools take the guesswork out of trying to figure out when and what type of content you should post.
Quality. Nimble Quotes has Canadian researchers who find quality, inspirational business quotes from multiple third-party sources around the web. Each quote is evaluated thoroughly for any controversial or non-secular material before being posted, so you always know your content is high-quality.
Engagement. According to Buffer, companies that want to grow their Twitter following should be posting between 3-14 times each day. What’s more, these Tweets should be spread out so as not to annoy and overwhelm your audience. If you don’t have time to write 14 personal Tweets each day, an auto-tweeting service may be for you. Designed to take the grunt work out of interacting with your followers, auto-posting services make it easier to provide quality Tweets at acceptable timeframes.

If you’re confused about social media tools for businesses, an auto-tweeting service is a great place to start. Nimble Quotes is the leader in inspirational business quotes for Twitter and can help you grow and inspire your Twitter following in a hurry. Contact us today to sign up for the 30-day trial!

Dec 11 2015

Want to Connect Emotionally? Start With Inspirational Quotes

Using inspirational quotes on Twitter is a fast way to connect with others. They can help us be more relatable, particularly on a platform like Twitter where we are connecting constantly with ‘strangers’ and need a way to break the ice to start the conversation.

Here are some of the reasons tweeting quotes helps you connect emotionally with your audience. Consider adding a couple of quotes per day to the information you share on Twitter. It can be just the thing that sparks the connection with another.

Inspirational quotes are valuable

Emotionally valuable, that is. Quotes can inspire, motivate, and entertain.

Quotes can cover a variety of topics—it doesn’t have to be all business all the time. Be aware that the quotes you pick must speak to the people you’re trying to reach and need to convey the feelings and values that you and your business stand behind. If you’re a consultant working with executives, for example, consider sharing quotes related to leadership.

Inspirational quotes say it best

What is is about inspirational and motivational quotes? To us at Nimble Quotes, they really do feel like little statements of wisdom. They are here to help us push on, try just once more, go for it – particularly when we are tired, scared or feel a little defeated. What is it about a few words strung together in a way that has a positive knock-on effect the more it is shared? Who knows, but do take advantage of this wisdom.

more you position yourself as someone knowledgeable in your industry, the more weight you’ll have with potential customers. Quoting famous business men or entrepreneurs can accomplish this, as well as quoting people who are known figures in your industry.

If you have content that you want to share, like a blog article or a video, you can also pull a passage from your blog and use that as your quote. You can even quote your own company wisdom by sharing a quote by one of your company executives.

Inspirational quotes connect us

Not just on Twitter, but take a look at any social network, listen to a business talk, attend a conference and guaranteed some one will be referencing a famous quote to make a point. The quote will be one or a few sentences which sum up exactly the point someone is trying to convey. We read it or hear it and nod or say “Yes! I get it, I know what you mean.” What a beautiful way to move from stranger to known and start the conversation.

Let the quotes do the work for you.

We’ve collected thousands of business-appropriate quotes you can add to your Twitter feed automatically. Check out NimbleQuotes.com for 30-days free and see what it feels like to have quotes added to your Twitter feed and be connecting daily with your followers.

Jul 28 2015

How to Share Company Wisdom With Your Twitter Audience

Your company has insight, expertise and wisdom helpful to your customers, audience and people just becoming aware of you. Why aren’t you sharing it?

Quotes from the very famous and very inspirational are not the only type of content people can emotionally connect with. What about all the tips, hints, and expertise your company has learned along the way? Why not share your own custom quotes?

How Do I Know If My Business Has Custom Quotes?

Think of quotes as content. You probably have generated a lot of excellent material and just don’t see it as being parsed into quotable nuggets of wisdom in 140 characters.

Start by looking at your website copy and at your collateral (whitepapers, ebooks, brochures, newsletters, slide decks, product information, FAQ, data sheets). Think about some of the information taught in your training sessions or webinars. As long as it is OK to share publicly, this type of content could be ideal for you to use as your own custom quotes.

Examples of Custom Quotes

When you’re thinking of custom quotes, take the pressure off. This doesn’t mean it has to be something profound said by your founder, unless of course you have those kinds of quotes. Think of custom quotes as tips and evergreen content that can help year-round. Here are some examples:

Automobile companies: find tips on extending gas mileage, keeping the paint shiny, and ensuring the Bluetooth connects to my device when I get in the car.
Cosmetics companies: share tips on moisturizer, prolonging the life of my nail polish top coat and making my eye shadow last all day.
Personal financial companies: share your tips on how to save a little more each week, how to start to understand the stock market, what to know about retirement savings.

What is Timeless Content?

The ideas listed are timeless. Meaning that whether they appear in your company Twitter feed today or next month, they are still relevant, helpful and applicable. This type of content is the kind that can cycle out repeatedly.

Help for Your Social Media Team

When your timeless custom quotes are set to appear from your Twitter account continuously, this frees up your social media team to do what they do best. They can community manage, listen, respond, create timely content and ensure your company is responding and interacting with your audience.

Nimble Quotes has a Custom Content subscription where your quotes/tips/hints that are automatically tweeted from your Twitter account are your own custom quotes. Nobody else can have access to them. Check it out here. If you’re interested in trying Nimble Quotes, register for our free 30-day trial. Not ready? Sign up for our newsletter instead.

Jul 21 2015

How to Start Conversations on Twitter with your Audience

People ask me all the time, “Jen, how on earth do I start conversations on Twitter?”

They ask, “How do I ‘engage’ on Twitter?”

We hear these words and we all know what conversations are. We know what engaging conversations are…but how do you really have conversations on Twitter?

Twitter moves fast and it can be daunting. Perhaps the best way is with an example in real life.

Conversations in Real Life

What if an in-person conversation, one in real life, went like this: First I said “This quote about books is interesting.” Then my colleague said, “Yes it is, I really like this quote.” Then I said, “This quote reminds me that reading is so important. What are you reading right now?” Then she told me. And then I responded with what I was reading this month.

That seems like a normal conversation, started with the question, what are you reading now?

Imagine if the authors of the books we mentioned we were reading were able to jump into the conversation and thank us for reading their books? Wouldn’t that be kind of cool too?

Real-Life Conversations on Twitter

That is just what happened on Twitter. Hopefully this step-by-step explanation of an actual Twitter conversation, about actual things, can help you with starting your own conversations with your own network on Twitter.

First, I had a quote go out in my Twitter feed:

Second, upon notification that my tweet was favorited and retweeted, I looked to see who that was…it was Hilary!

So I thanked her for re-tweeting the quote, and as the quote was about reading, I asked her what she was reading:

She mentioned two books and used one of the the author’s Twitter handles in the conversation:

One of the authors of the books she mentioned favorited the Tweet mentioning him AND replied:

Now it was my turn to respond with what I was reading.

What I did was I wrote in text which books I was reading, mentioned the authors’ names AND took a picture of the two books on my coffee table.

Both authors I mentioned got involved in the conversation; Grant Cardone gave it a RT with a comment that told me to “Be10X Awesome”(referencing the topic of his book).

And Hilary and Nir Eyal (the other author mentioned) favorited the tweet.

So there was our conversation on Twitter.

Here are some gems that came out of it:

This interaction has started to strengthen our relationship
We know a little more about each other
We got the thrill of having the authors interact with us too

I know what Hillary is reading – I can keep it in my mind for our future conversations (on Twitter, in real life, on email, over the phone).

And I learned a little more about one of my contacts that I didn’t know previously. It’s great to know another person who is an active reader. This is an example of a first step to starting conversations and building relationships with your network. Try it today with your audience on Twitter.

The quote that started this conversation on Twitter came from Nimble Quotes. Try it today for 30-days free. Wondering what Nimble quotes looks like on a live Twitter account? Check out Nimble Quotes in action on these Twitter accounts: @jenkellyjen or @newimarketing.