What is a blog?

www.pajamamarket.com An example of a blog showing its features and how it is different than a “traditional” website.

Tools To Turbo Charge Your Twitter Building Efforts:

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Get A Explanation of Each Twitter Tool Below
Finding people:
Twitter Search
Google
Socialoomph
Tweetadd
What to say :
Stufftotweet
Shorten links and track:
Bit.ly

Balance:
Friendorfollow.com

Twitter Karma

Automation Tools:
Socialoomph
Tweetadd
If you are looking to have a whole bunch of targeted twitter followers that listen to what you have to say and follow your every word, then here are some amazing tools that you should seriously look into.
Finding People:
Twitter Search Tool– This is great for conducting a once of search, sometimes if there is something topical that happens or a day that is special this is the tool to use.
Google Advanced Search (search on the site twitter.com) – Google advanced search is basically exactly the same as above but with more steps involved. Because you have to click on advanced and etc. Although this might be easier to find exact phrases and the google search engine may give you different results to the twitter search engine
Socialoomph- This service is super amazing and what I got started with and still use to this day. In this section I will just talk about its ability to find people. This tool is great because you can get daily keyword lists sent to you, personally I love this tool and you will find it very useful.
Tweetadd- Very powerful and time saving, you can conduct a search for certain keywords and then make a list of all the people that are worth adding related to that keyword.
It simplifies the whole process by just making a list in the software memory and then it will start adding people. It will never add the same person twice, has the benefit of you not having to click on each name and follow each person individually which takes AAAGGGEEES! Fast simple, and super time saver if you are doing this long term. It is however the only non free service but at the same time it is a small once off fee as opposed to other services that charge monthly so in my eyes well worth it.

Finding out what to say:
Stufftotweet– This is a super amazing website that has all the top stories from around the internet on any particular day, if you are looking to tweet things that people will find interesting then this is a great spot for pre-tested content.
It is already popular and people have said they liked it, if it is on the site. I go there constantly and get all the top stories from twitter, digg, del.icio.us , cnn, youtube and many many more.
Obviously not every story will be suitable for your business, but I can say with confidence that I am sure that you will find something of interest always to the people that are following you, and that is what it is all about.
My only warning is careful, the site is addictive and you can end up spending ages on there reading all the great stories ?

Shorten and track:
Bit.ly
If you are getting links from sites like the one above then you really must shorten the links, but why just shorten, many url shortening services will now tell you how many clicks you have got on your link and give you a whole bunch of analytics. One example is Bit.ly, you need to fit your message and url into 140 characters, even less if you want people to retweet your message (a retweet is where your followers forward your message onto people they know and give you credit)

Balancing Tools:
Friendorfollow.com -
This is a simple tool, enter your username, it will tell you who is following you and who isn’t, it is then a bit of a hassle since you have to unfollow each person individually but that also makes it a great tool if you are trying to be very careful. Also this does not need to log into your account.
Twitter Karma
This tool is very powerful, basically it will tell you all those people who are not following you and you can bulk unfollow all these people. The only issue is if people don’t use this properly they could potentially hurt their marketing efforts. Always try and give people a chance to follow you after you have added them. I would use this, add people for a couple of days, then hold on for three and then use twitter karma to bulk unfollow. This also requires you to login so that it can do everything for you.
Tweetadd
Possibly the best because you can bulk unfollow but it also has the fail safe system so that you don’t unfollow people that you have just added. This also allows you to do both daily. Again while the others are free this is a one off fee for the software.

Automation Tools:
Socialoomph -
This one is great and a great beginner tool, with it you can automate and schedule your tweets, you can automatically follow back people when they add you, it will send you keyword lists and a couple more bits and bobs. Definitely worth having a look at, it is free and there is an optional upgrade, I found that the free version perfectly suited all of my needs and it really is useful for scheduling, automatically following those people that follow you, and even automatically sending people a welcome message.
Tweetadd
By far my favourite of the bunch, I have used all the other tools but when I started using this it automated 90% of what I used to do before, while you can definitely do all the tasks above for free, this will pretty much save you an hour or two every day and for me that was worth it. In fact the tool once set up properly can have you building profitably just doing 15mins a day. The biggest time saving activities come in the form of adding people, it does it automatically so you don’t have to click each link and click each page.
Also the unfollow it always waits three days to unfollow people, plus it is super intuitive so it stops you making mistakes. It also does what socialoomph does, automatically follows back, schedules messages etc. Basically this one is the all in one software.

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Social Media In Plain English

Social Media in Plain English

Since I am speaking at the social media forum in Abu Dhabi on the 18th and 19th of October, i thought i would share with people what social media was.
I know many of you actually know however i had a lot of friends that would smile say they are happy for me and have no clue what i was talking about…
then they would go back to chatting to people on facebook!

Thats okay before i got into social media, i didn’t know what it was, I was a super newbie and so i thought this video was a great intro.
In fact i am a big fan of the “in simple english” video series since so many people all start out in the same place, not knowing all that much.
And for people who have been doing social media for a while, it is very easy to get caught up with using all the technical jargon!

Anyhow i hope you enjoy this video that explains social media in plain english

Online 2021 : Internet Advertising – IAB Engage 2007

IAB and chums celebrate 30 years of the internet, presented at IAB Engage 2007.

Web Site Terms and Conditions of Use

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This part in between the stars is not legal stuff:

For those great visitors who are reading loads of my content, i just thought i would explain this post, it is just standard and best practice to have your website terms and conditions on your website for your users, I would like to do things as properly as possible and therefore I wanted to add this to my website and it would be good practice for you to place one on your website as well.

I just thought i would warn you since this probably isn’t your typical post on internet marketing, comedy, personal development etc.

Okay non legal stuff over

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