Fine Art Discussions

Judy Kay

Just curious...I was invited to join this website. Is anyone familiar with it? http://klout.com/home

Mike Savad

unless they have a cover page of who they are and what they want, i don't want them to have my info for nothing.


i always thought klout was a cheap knock off soap.

---Mike Savad

Judy Kay

I was invited by one of my FAA/Facebook likes....Basically, it measures how much Klout you have...I already know ...none!

Rebecca Sherman

It's a way to measure your social media presence/ impact which may or may not be accurate depending on whose articles you read.

Mike Savad

i wonder how it measures it by, and what they get out of it.


---Mike Savad

Mike Savad

ok, so i have a temp score of 39, according to my twitter people. i didn't do facebook, because i know that's a 0.


---Mike Savad

Rebecca Sherman

There was some hoopla a while back when they changed their process and everyone's numbers fell through the floor. Apparently marketing managers had been gauged on how successful they were at their jobs, with raises and bonuses tied to these Klout numbers. I stopped using it at that point.

They record how many people respond to your tweets/g+/facebook posts, how many followers you have and so on to give you a score, so you can do different things to improve. I think their income is based on outside advertising just like any other site.

Abbie Shores

Yes, I am on Klout and have been for about a year I think

It's fine

Rebecca Sherman

Here are a couple articles I found interesting from a quick Google News search:

How I Increased My Klout Score by 6 Points in 2 Weeks With 7 Tweets a Day

Debating the Social Resume: Does Klout Really Matter?

Andee Photography

Ken mentions that in his free eBook

The Art of Social-Network Marketing

Mike Savad

i don't see how it will help me though. even if i had a score of a 100, the only thing that matters is - am i making sales from my efforts?


---Mike Savad

Rebecca Sherman

Since you're a self-described social media lazy-person (and I don't mean that in a critical way), you probably shouldn't bother as you are already making sales from little marketing effort, but I think a fledgling interest in marketing will show that the more interest in You, the more in your product, and being able to measure that interest and guide it in a quantifiable way is important. As one becomes more influential, sales should follow.

Andee Photography

I do find it odd that when it lists all the high scoring folks to the left in one area of my profile page that Klout only

has an 86..how do they only have an 86? My thing is I forget about Klout. SO many things to thing and worry

over then do other things it can be overwhelming at times.

Harry Lamb

I already know I would be a "0" on any barometer. I get no retweets and less than 10 views a day. Most views are robotic. No sense in wasting any more time in that area. If I get 6in 2013 or so sales a year, that's a miracle enough. That is more than I would get out of the stock market for $30.00. So I'm happy. In 2012 I got 4 sales with no tweeting, and I don't want any part of FB. I have enough work to do processing images.

Abbie Shores

My Klout is only 54 :(

Judy Kay

I do not have a twitter account...Does this mean I should not use Klout...? I use google+ and Facebook 2...Can hardly keep up with that.
Elizabeth...54 out of 100?

Mike Savad

i'm up to 40... oh i'm so happy now,.... i'm tempted to add other accounts, but eh.


---Mike Savad

Abbie Shores

Yes, you do not have to do anything on this. Just join, add your accounts and thats it basically

Judy Kay

I may try it out for fun! How is it really different than Google Analytic's? or any other site that measures traffic...Do they take the statistics and generate a report or statistic not measured by them?

Mike Savad

google analytics shows you where people have been. this site just gives you a number based on whatever formula they use. it doesn't tell you much. other than i'm under rookie moms and obama. but i'm higher than billy.


---Mike Savad

Mike Savad

i just hooked up my facebook page so i'll see if i go up from 39. i can't do my google plus probably because i'm banned from there, so that's useless.

---Mike Savad