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Social Media Experiment - Final Update

So here is a quick update on my Social Media Experiment, to discover what really works and what doesnt.

So if you haven't read the first posts or the subsequent posts here they are.


Social Media Experiment - Tag Tag Tag #socialmedia




Well lets start this off with a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I do apologize for taking such a long time to post this next one, but this part of the experiment took a while to do and with all the caroling and merrying i had to do, well I Kinda got held up. 

So basically the last part of my experiment was the following: 

  • Tweet well and tweet often
  • Use #hashtags
  • retweet your most popular tweets
  • use follow websites
  • Follow people that you want to follow you
  • mention your twitter account everywhere possible
  • post later in the day
  • Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun
So here is the break down of what happen. 

I started this experiment on the 11th of December 2012. 

This was where my klout, kred, followers etc were at during that time.
1059 Facebook friends
343 likes on facebook page
 @Cordiervoodoo twitter has 107 followers
@trashbaggery twitter has 95
 for cordiervoodoo i have a klout score of 17.34
 kred score i think was 238/2

Todays date is the 31st December and this is where i stand today:
1062 facebook friends
373 likes on facebook page
@cordiervoodoo 170 followers
@trashbaggery 100 followers
klout - my klout went up to 61 now it is currently 58
kred - 737/5

So all in all, the advice works. I have had a dramatic increase in social media in less than 3 weeks. 
But at the end, still no new leads or sales have come of it and it has been a great deal of work. reply to every mention,come up with original posts, try and keep the momentum. Not sure what happened with klout in the past few days as it seemed to have dropped suddenly for no apparent reason. 

And this experiment doesn't include my other social networks such as instagram, google+, tumblr etc. 
I will be doing experiments on those separately  only because it is too much to do it all at once, you have to almost become a full time social media poster just to keep up. 

So here is the ice breaker, is it worth it? Well if you are trying to create your own brand and get your name out there, then YES! 

It has put my name out there and I have noticed I'm getting a lot of recognition for my art. No sales, but at least recognition. 

But when do you say it is enough? Unfortunately many people see the social media nation as a leader-board competition, and they are trying to get to the top no matter what it takes for no apparent reason.  If social media is working for you already, it is sometimes best to maintain what you have, rather than crucify your existing followers with an overload of useless information and tweets. 

So in summary, these tips do and have worked. They took a great deal of work, I spent the majority of my day on my phone and computer coming up with unique tweets and posts and replying to tweets, engaging with others and so on. It has assisted with my artwork status. I have a small following so it doesn't hurt to increase my social media influence. 

If you already have a large following it may be best to keep it as it rather than bombard people with a million posts a day and risk loosing followers rather than gaining them. 

Fun experiment and will continue to maintain my influence as is for the mean time. 

Cheers everyone 

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