There are enough posts on how to grow your audience or monetize your distribution by staying consistent and collaborating with other creators. This newsletter is not about direct growth but rather leveraging underrated features effectively.
Here are 5 social media hacks you should know of!
1. Add CTA to your Tweets
You can now make it convenient for your followers to connect with you by simply adding a button to your tweets.
Here’s how you can do it:
Get the user ID associated with your username. You can do this by going to any of the messages. For each chat, your id will be associated with the id of the other person in the chat. The one which occurs in each chat is yours.
Create a URL like the one in the screenshot below!
Paste this URL in whichever tweet you want to add the CTA.
2. Add a tracker to your docs
Do you send out important documents, presentations, and PDFs to people you might not know? Or do you need to double-check whether your documents are actually accessed without having to ask the recipient?
Bingo! There are document management tools to not just help you create but also track your documents. You can see when your documents are opened, viewed, and completed, and collect the email addresses of your recipients too.
Tools like DocSend, PandaDoc, HelloSign, and HubSpot barely takes a few minutes to set everything up and perfeclty does the job.
3. Personal Internet Scraper
With this one, you can turn Google Alerts into your own personal internet scraper to find if you or your content is published/featured on any media outlets. All the alerts get served right to your Inbox.
Follow these steps:
Search Google Alerts → select your preferred email → look up the keyword you want to track → create alert → set frequency, language, source, etc.
Boom! You’re set!
Note: This trick however is effective if your name is a little unique (like mine lol) or/and if you want to track something which is very specific.
4. Organize your Twitter Feed
If you have curated multiple lists to consume content on Twitter and also want to keep track of your drafts, DMs, and Notifications at the same time, you can have it all organized on one page.
→ TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application that allows users to manage and organize their Twitter accounts.
→ You can create columns in this customizable interface to display specific content, such as mentions, direct messages, hashtags, search results, etc.
5. Add yourself to Google Search for free
You can add yourself to Google Search and no, you don't have to be a celebrity or spend tonnes on PR. It's absolutely free.
Here’s the simple 3-step process to do it:
1. Open Google and search "add me to Google". This is called Google's People Card and the feature is available in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
2. Tap on 'Get Started' and fill out the information you want to share publicly on your card. Name, location, about, and occupation are mandatory fields. You can add your workplace, education, socials, etc. too!
3. Tap on Submit and Google will show you a preview of your People's Card. Double-check the details and click Save. And you're done!
And it’s a wrap!
I hope you found today’s newsletter helpful. Let me know what you are struggling with and I will cover the issues in the upcoming newsletters.
Until next time, cheers!
~ Kritarth Mittal
Some interesting hacks I never read before. Saving this issue. Good share, Kritarth :)