Does Your Social Media have Klout?

If you are into social media deeply or have been using it for some time, then you are probably somewhat familiar with Klout.  Klout is a company that tracks your social media influence.  It is easy to sign up for and gives you a
measuring and marketing platform to see how effective your efforts are.  This company has been around awhile but recently has gained some popularity and is  getting a foothold in businesses  for providing  analytics. The key word here is influence and not so much anything else. 
So having said that who would care about using Klout?  In a nutshell those who are trying to influence their audience or market share.

As you use social media and are trying to get a certain sector of the population to pay attention to you or your product or service, then using Klout will help you via your score they provide.  The higher the score, the better your influence.  If you are a small business or enjoy a local or small regional market then Klout is probably not for you. 
Klout works best on a national or international stage.

How it works.  As you produce engaging content or topics, followers who tap into your feeds are tracked by Klout through their very detailed analytics or algorithms.   Simply, the higher your score (up to 100)
the better you are influencing your followers.  Some say that
Klout does not really work that well and at the moment as I stated for small business, that is true as there just is not enough sampling for the system to be strongly effective. But if you are a say a famous speaker,  offer a service or product geared toward a specific market and you are wanting a larger share of that market then give Klout a try.  You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.  Get yourself a plan of action, build great content and
start loading your social media!