Url shortening is a technique in the web when a web page is made available by a provider under an extremely short url in addition to the address it had originally. There are many reasons to use url shortening. One reason is to avoid lengthy, hard to remember url’s for easy remembering. Copying an extremely [...]
What can you do with 140 characters? Obviously, not much, but using Twitter for the past few months has somehow given you the “talent” to think of the best 140-character phrases– that is, if you want to broadcast your ideas to the world and yet, be understandable.
If Twitter allowed more than 140 characters for [...]
Its a simple phrase really, “How Can I Help?” . Do you use it often and do you really have the intention behind asking the question of others? I hear it sometimes and its used passively by those in customer service jobs. Rarely, it seems, do those that ask that question really mean it. On [...]
The Twitter bird and the blue block for FaceBook—these are but common icons we usually see on blogs and websites, and these icons are basically telling you the same thing. The Twitter bird simply tweets, “If you’ve got Twitter, follow me,” or “if you have FaceBook, join my fan page or add me to your [...]
I was reading a blog post today over at Grant Griffith’s BlogforProfit.com. The post lends suggestions on creating a successful publishing cycle and takes you through the thought, planning, action and promotion stages to keep you on track.
Earlier this week, I was pondering (Pinky, are you Pondering what I’m Pondering?), on how to take over [...]
I attended a conference two weeks ago and watched this video that had I had seen before. I had the opportunity to absorb some of the ’stats’ that you are about to see and was blown away at some of the numbers and facts that were shared in this video. Below the video are some [...]
Find out which micro-blogging websites are giving Twitter a run for their money.
A percentage of the people you meet online and offline might not have Twitter accounts, but just because they’re not on Twitter doesn’t mean they haven’t heard of these eight micro-blogging websites that look and “feel” like Twitter. It’s [...]
By Invitation Only: Free! The Brain Alchemy Masterclass (Worth $2500)
Wow! I got an invitation to join this program this morning from Michael Martine of Remarkablogger. He wrote a blog post at 2 am to get this invitation our to his list of subscribers because he feels that this is such a great offer. He also [...]
Brand Monitoring is just a good idea. For those of you in business, brand monitoring is essential to keep you in the know about what is being discussed in the world. This is also very important in the ever growing Social Media world. In the vigilant style of Google Alerts, a useful online tool [...]
One of the big questions out there is “How do you monetize Social Media?” Sites like Twitter and Facebook reportedly have yet to figure out how to positively monetize their sites. One example of a successful model would be the company Zynga, you know the company, the one that brings you such gems as “Mafia [...]