50 Things to do Before You Die

If you are able to do all of those, you’re formally Oli’s hero. Add up what number of you’ve carried out and share within the feedback. Whoever has the best rating will get a free hug!

And simply so you understand, that is supposed to be fairly ridiculous (with some helpful perception added in right here and there).

1. Discover somebody who nonetheless makes use of MySpace…. Then slap them.
2. Fill out your Fb timeline with significant occasions – as a substitute of the same old inane drivel you harp on about.
3. Purposely arrange an auto-follow in your Twitter account. The following day, your feed will naturally be crammed stuffed with nonsense – use this to encourage a ridiculous weblog put up.
4. Work out how you can actually use Google+. Then, truly use it. However don’t get too connected – in spite of everything, you’ve bought higher issues to be doing earlier than you croak it.
5. Host a Google+ hangout – however don’t invite anybody – simply discuss to your self for an hour.
6. In the event you can’t determine what a Google+ hangout is for (in all probability true after the final concept), get another person out of your area to co-host one with you. Then in case you don’t get anybody displaying up you’ll not less than have one good friend – and may repackage your senseless dialog as a podcast.
7. Submit an image on Fb of you doing the other of what everybody else within the workplace is doing. Like a headstand. (You would possibly need assistance with the digicam).
8. +Ok somebody on Klout who truly deserves it. On Valentines day. #CreepyMuch?
9. Determine 100 enterprise prospects by looking out your Twitter feed. Then be ok with your self for a day earlier than you overlook all about it and do one thing completely different.
10. Use Skype to satisfy with a consumer or colleague on the opposite aspect of the world. TIP: have a bathe first in case they need to flip the video on! Eww.
11. Unfollow everybody on Twitter and begin over, being extra choosy, such as you would with *actual* buddies.
12. Run a Fb contest to drive follower progress. Go actually massive with the prize. It could be scary from an ROI perspective, nevertheless it could possibly be an actual recreation changer. So long as you’re getting individuals to do one thing for you by coming into (similar to writing a weblog put up) then you may even purchase somebody a home! (Too quickly to joke about that?)
13. Attend a Tweetup – and ask a extremely obnoxious and off-topic query within the Q&A session.
14. Ship a private message to every of your Twitter followers. However provided that you’re tremendous unpopular. I believe I’d die earlier than I managed to speak to 24,000 individuals (did that sound smug?).
15. Submit an image of your self you’d in any other case remorse, like your fifth grade class image full with buck tooth and coke bottle glasses.
16. Begin a rumor of your demise, sit again and watch the feedback roll in.
17. Cyber-stalk your rivals and replica their social media methods, however make yours higher. Until in fact, you;re a frontrunner in your house, during which case you possibly can simply watch others do that to you.
18. Attempt to weed out your actual buddies out of your faux ones by posting a cryptic goodbye message and gauging who appears genuinely involved.
19. Go viral with video (cos it’s that straightforward proper?). Assume Numa Numa or All the Pregnant Ladies. Get inventive. Informed you it was straightforward.
20. Verify in to a prestigious convention on Foursquare. *With out* attending. Waaaaay extra enjoyable.
21. Spend a day trying to make your identify a trending matter on Twitter. Enlist your pals and followers to assist. This might go nicely with the faux demise one.
22. Discover out what occurred to the sparks tab on Google+. Srsly. Attempt to discover it – with out Googling it.
23. As a substitute of thanking everybody who re-tweets your Twitter posts, reciprocate by re-tweeting a useful put up of theirs. They’ll recognize it much more.
24. Host a Twitter chat to reply your prospects’ or prospects’ most burning questions.
25. Truly learn the emails you get from all of the LinkedIn teams you joined in that second of enthusiasm (as a substitute of deleting them whilst you drink your morning espresso).
26. Submit a Fb or Quora query and use it as market analysis. BTW good luck asking query on Quora with out getting it rejected.
27. Create a customized Fb touchdown web page and dare individuals NOT to love you – simply to see what occurs. Type of like that basic “Don’t click on me” advert.
28. Submit a weird picture and tag each one in every of your contacts on Fb. Once they ask what it’s, act offended that they don’t already know.
29. Supply Fb followers an incentive for liking your enterprise web page, similar to a free product or session.
30. Add a signup field to your firm publication to your Fb model web page. (That was one of many boring actual ideas).
31. Tag different pages in posts in your Fb wall to draw followers.
32. Discover a social media administration app that meets each enterprise want.
33. Use LinkedIn Answers to ascertain thought management.
34. Begin a Quora group. (Do you even know what these are?)
35. Submit a Fb be aware and observe search engine outcomes.
36. Run a Fb advert marketing campaign to advertise your model web page and see the way it compares to Google AdWords or LinkedIn adverts to your demographic. Then create an superior infographic to check the completely different networks. #LotsaInboundTraffic
37. Use your social media prowess to learn a charity. In the event you’re gonna die, it’s best to not less than do one thing good!
38. Create a Twitter record of all of your firm workers, so your prospects can get a sneak peek at your organization tradition.
39. Use Twitter trending matters to attract consideration to your enterprise (that is tougher to do than you suppose whereas nonetheless staying related to your viewers).
40. Add your entire attention-grabbing infographics, movement diagrams and different imagery to Pinterest.
41. Add social sharing widgets to your content material, together with weblog posts and static net pages. In the event you produce numerous visible content material – be sure to add the Pin It button (scroll all the way down to the ““Pin It” Button for Web sites” half”.
42. Add one self-serving hyperlink per day to every social media platform you make the most of.
43. Be part of Posterous. Why? You ask. No clue actually.
44. Use Dlvr.it or Ping.fm to auto-feed new weblog posts to dozens of social networks.
45. Let your persona shine by means of. Drop the enterprise persona and touch upon real-world occasions which can be significant to you. LolCats work wonders I discover. 🙂
46. Ask your followers to suggest you or your enterprise to not less than one new individual. Ask and also you shall obtain. In the event you do that in a pleasant method you possibly can see superb outcomes. Belief me, I’ve by no means carried out it.
47. Add a Twitter favourites widget to your web site to show tweets you’ve favourited. The important thing right here is to solely favorite optimistic buyer feedback on Twitter, to supply a stream of optimistic social proof. Yupi, superior.
48. Be taught to make use of Pinterest as a enterprise advertising instrument. (Notice, it’s bought a present demographic breakdown of roughly 92% girls – so think about that while you add content material).
49. Add an empty Google+ circle to create the social media equal of a listing put up. For instance, 100 blogs about conversion price optimization. Then share it on Twitter (cross pollination of networks will help get individuals extra engaged with them).
50. Create a Noob Information to one thing (together with an infographic and big blog post in PDF format) and use viral strategies to unfold it on Twitter (case study here).

— Oli Gardner & Angela Stringfellow