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Twitter Marketing

2009-05-22T12:08:00.000-04:00

Thanks to the internet, you can now access the world market to promote various products and services. Many individuals now maintain their own websites to market their business. There are also lots of online tools that you can use to increase traffic to website and one is through Twitter.

If you don’t have an account in Twitter, it’s time to create now.

Advanced Twitter Marketing is now possible. The site has millions of subscribers worldwide and so you can easily find prospects there. By building relationships, you can increase your site traffic and at the same time, increase the sales.

In marketing your products or services, you must be able to penetrate your target market. You can use Twitter to build relationships with your prospects. Making new friends is quite easy with the help of social networks. You must study the behavior of customers. You must ensure that your prospects know you. Introduce yourself to them and make friends. By building relationships, your prospects will eventually like you. Once you earn their trust, you can now offer your products/services.

Upload pictures to your account so that everyone who follows you will know who you are. Talking to them can also lead to more intimate relationships that can go a long way.

Interaction is also very important. If someone sends you a comment or a tweet, you must respond immediately. Building conversations is one way to make friends. If you have lots of followers, don’t ignore them; try to send them comments as well.

Twitter marketing should not be done all the time. Just limit your marketing campaigns and communicate more. You see, when you communicate often with your followers, you can make more friends. The more friends you have, the more you can market your business effectively.

Since you’re going to promote your business, your ID should be related to your business. That way, your followers can easily identify you. It is not a good idea to market your business during your initial conversations. Again, the importance of building relationships should not be overlooked. Twitter is a social network website so you need to socialize with others. You must make them feel important. Talk to them by responding to their tweets. Don’t forget to post tweets regularly. Make your tweets interesting and helpful. You can also put links on your account that lead to your business site and to other helpful resources.

If you have gained friends through Twitter, it will be easier to pool more prospects. Your business will become well known by word of mouth. If some of your friends in Twitter like your product or service, they will surely recommend you to their followers. So you see, even if you’re not marketing your business all the time, prospects will come to you.

You must take care of the relationships you’ve built online. Taking care of your regular customers is vital and don’t stop looking for new ones.

Sign up with Twitter and use it as an effective marketing tool. Choose your ID carefully and make it catchy. You must learn how to use Twitter properly to maximize results. Join groups that offer similar products or services and learn from the experts. Even if you’re asking help from others, you should educate yourself further. By knowing the different Twitter tools, you effectively market your business.

Allow Google Tell You What Search Results To Dominate

2008-10-16T09:12:00.001-04:00

In this post I want to share a very simple tip that will help you not only determine what to write about but also show you how to allow Google to tell you what search result pages they WANT YOU to dominate!

It is not a lesson in SEO, although it partially covers the point, but a strategy to help you get more targeted traffic to your blog. And if you are like me - you wouldn’t mind to get a few more visitors to your blog, would you?

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Free PLR Giveaway Launched - Get Your Goodies

2008-10-12T13:05:00.001-04:00

As of few minutes ago my friend Doug Champigny and his partner Xavier Nelson have launched round 5 of Free PLR Giveaway. Unlike many others, I love this even and even though I have been avoiding most giveaway as plague lately - I’m taking part in this one.

And Not ONLY taking part but highly recommend you take advantage of the offer!

Quality And Uniqueness of contributions is one of the factors behind it but not only…

WordPress Forums Plugins To Build Community

2008-10-11T08:03:00.000-04:00

Growing your blog beyond publishing can be done quite easily by using WordPress Forums Plugins. Community growth greatly depends on ongoing communication and forums integrated into your WordPress blog through plugin or as an add on should be an option to consider.

Good news is - you have several choices, as with anything related to WordPress plugins but you have to make evaluation and decide which forum model fits better for you. And I simply want to assist you in this post to make that decision or at least explain your options..

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7 Guaranteed Ways To Beat Blogging Distraction | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

2008-06-24T10:21:00.001-04:00

Bloggers have one major enemy. It is called distraction. We experience it everywhere we are, whether we blog in an office, at home or on the road. Sometimes this enemy is responsible for a whole afternoon of lost time that will never come back and it is enough to put us so off track we wish we never switched on the damn computer at all.

However bad the gloom at the time there are some sure fire weapons we can use against distraction.

From: http://ping.fm/bMycb

Fighting SPAM Not Commenters

2008-06-23T09:44:00.001-04:00

Comment spam is quite annoying and while plugins such as Akismet do a fair job of reducing it - they still a lot to be desired. As result we see a whole lot of plugins coming out to address the missing functionality and add even more protection to Comments on WordPress blog. Problem is...

Sometimes We End Up Fightings Commenters and Not Spam!

In this quick post I want to address this issue and ask for your feedback...

As I have progressed in using WordPress I have had a chance to experiment with multiple plugins that help you fight Comments and Trackback spam on your blog. Some faired better some worse but each did the job to some extent. Unfortunately it is very hard to automatically determine what is "spam" and what is legitimate comment.

Sometimes it even depends on how you personally perceive the comment left on your blog by a visitor. While is it not automated submission it can easily be an "SEO Spam", where commenter provides no value and simply leaves generic crap such as "I like this post" just to get his chosen keywords to be linked to his site or blog. Some even outsource the process... innovation, huh?

To make long story short - I have successfully used several plugins to fight the spam and at same time share link love with legit comments on my blog. But as I was forced to install WP-Super-Cache plugin on my blog I have discovered that one of my favorites - Math Comment Spam Protection plugin created a few false positives and as such deprived legit people of leaving comments.

Finding solution to this one might not be as easy as one would think. Super Cache plugin creates static pages and it appears some visitors don't get the correct SPAM protection number. I have looked at some captcha plugins and other dynamic option and didn't like any.

So, as it stand now - I have disabled Math Protection and installed following plugin that claims full compatibility witch caching:

WP Spam Free - "An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam"

I would appreciate your feedback if you encounter any issues while commenting on my blog. And as I have promised, here are other plugins I personally use to battle the spam and still share link love with fellow bloggers:

Akismet - spam protection
CommentLuv - Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Will parse a feed from most sites that have a feed location specified in its head html
KeywordLuv - Reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords, in the link to their website, giving them improved anchor text. For example, leaving “Stephen @ Custom WordPress Plugins” in the name field, will result in the following: Stephen from Custom WordPress Plugins.
Lucia Linky Love - Permits a blogger to “dofollow” comments for regular visitors. There are many options.
WP Spam Free - An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam (Alex Note: still to be tested :-) ).

So please do comment, and let me know if any issues. I do know that my feedback form works with no problem if your comment fails! (continue reading &aquo;)

Using Free Resources To Increase Your Blogs Traffic | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

2008-06-20T15:24:00.001-04:00

For the purposes of illustration we will pick a topic and use a bad word in my vocabulary ass/u/me that you have done the research and found to have profit potential about Bumble Bees. (Hey I am old and bald bare with me here.)

You buy a domain, create your blog and start putting content there to draw traffic. You are posting at least daily to get started and more often if Bumble Bee is a very competitive keyword. (Yes, I know I just picked that and have no idea if it is a competitive word. Boo hiss on me.)

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Seth's email marketing checklist

2008-06-16T09:20:00.001-04:00

A common sense driven, yet so often ignored checklist to be used by email marketers. While I don't agree with each and every one of the definitions he uses, they do make sense ...

Read more here:
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Earn Your First Dollar From Blogging In 7 Days - Guaranteed - Web 2.0 Wealth System Review | Infusion Marketing Secrets

2008-06-14T10:29:00.001-04:00

Who Should Buy This Product?

If your like 95% of the individuals that buys one product after another without putting into action or quits right away, chances are slim that you’ll put the product to good use. On the other hand, if you are a go getter, and a hard worker, the Web 2.0 Wealth System can help you earn your first dollar, even if you absolutely have no technical knowledge or marketing experience.

Is There Customer Support?

Great customer support is hard to find these days, but Alex, in my opinion provides excellent customer service. There is a members only support forum, a help desk, and Alex also provides his personal email address, should you not find the answers to your questions. I can personally say from experience, that Alex has provided me with excellent customer service on many occassions when I’ve encountered a problem with my blog. Most customer support issues are answered withing 24-48 hours.

From: http://www.infusionmarketingsecrets.com/my-reviews/earn-your-first-dollar-from-blogging-in-7-days-guaranteed-web-20-wealth-system-review

2008-06-13T11:57:00.001-04:00

Real Estate Blog - ePerks Sues Blogger To Silence Him? (http://ping.fm/aTZ92)

Real Estate Blog - ePerks Sues Blogger To Silence Him?

2008-06-13T11:56:00.001-04:00

ePerks Sues Blogger To Silence Him?

The only thing I hate worse than 3rd party lead generation companies is 3rd party lead generation companies that think they can bully agents into submission. If you have ever even considered doing business with ePerks I would highly recommend you do some intense research about them before hand. You will change your mind.

When they came on the scene they hired Bloggers to spread the word about them and one of those Bloggers, Vlad Zablotskyy apparently realized quickly the kind of people he was dealing with so he started a Blog that discussed his dealings with ePerks.

His Blog was intensely popular with people that had dealt with ePerks and there were numerous horror stories posted about the way ePerks treated people. His Blog was then inundated with anonymous posts praising ePerks. Yes the anonymous posts were most likely ePerks employees or other Bloggers hired to defend them. It appears to be their MO, hit and run anonymous posts.

From: http://ping.fm/aTZ92

Speed B.L.O.G. Or How To Escape The Blogging Monster | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

2008-06-13T09:08:00.003-04:00

Blogging takes up a lot of time and energy for many of us. The interesting thing is that most bloggers do it for the sheer fun without expecting anything in return, except of course a ton of readers, comments and perhaps some money.

With the creative notions we use to write down our thoughts, ideas, beliefs and just about anything else that pops to mind we could simply go on forever and ever. But there comes a time when the blogging gets harder. Those times are when we start to evaluate too much on what we are trying to do.

From: http://ping.fm/hzpJR

2008-06-13T09:08:00.001-04:00

Speed B.L.O.G. Or How To Escape The Blogging Monster | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er (http://ping.fm/hzpJR)

2008-06-13T08:56:00.001-04:00

“Are All Marketers Actors?” (http://ping.fm/mUnKG)

2008-06-13T07:05:00.001-04:00

SEOmoz | Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline: Don't End URLs in .0 (http://ping.fm/P475J)

2008-06-12T13:14:00.001-04:00

Re-Discovering Opera 9.5, and I got to say - DAMN! Huge improvements since about 3 years ago when I last used it. Fastest browser. Period.

2008-06-12T10:10:00.001-04:00

shared hosting is getting old! as much as I would love to test wordpress in environments similar to my customers - it is got to go!

2008-06-12T08:18:00.001-04:00

some info on what is currently generating the buzz http://ping.fm/itFpB

2008-06-12T06:52:00.001-04:00

Why "Big Jason" is branding himself as "Big Marketing" - watch the video :-D http://ping.fm/dsL5M

2008-06-11T21:18:00.001-04:00

Your impact is been heard! have you read it yet? (http://ping.fm/hgFkp)

jvAlert Live Reflections Part Two | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

2008-06-11T21:06:00.001-04:00

Second part of my reflections on jvAlert Live by Ken McArthur in Philadelphia. And in this post I want to address one main thing - what does my networking mean to you, my reader?

How will you benefit from my experience? And I promise you will…. whether you like it or not :twisted: (just kidding). After all…

* You are interested to learn how to generate hips of traffic?
* Deliver your message?
* Make the Impact?

Well, lets dive in then!

From: http://ping.fm/vWyXQ

2008-06-11T21:05:00.001-04:00

jvAlert Live Reflections Part Two | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er (http://ping.fm/vWyXQ)

First post

2008-06-11T20:38:00.001-04:00

First post is created