Monthly Archives: April 2011
Blog Contests, Surveys and QuizSnack Winners
Competitions It’s always surprising to see how many contests are running on different blogs, but even more surprising is how many people don’t actually enter them. Most contests consist of just leaving a comment or subscribing to a mailing list. Sometimes you will even have high end prizes for laptops, software and cash prizes… but the results are still low. I ask this question because last month we ran a very easy contest promotion for ...
Continue readingHigh School Taught Me Crap About Being Successful
Making Money Recently I talked about should high schools teach internet marketing because of the lack of successful people coming out of college in today’s market due to the economy and more. People are leaving high school and going into college and finishing in four years and can’t get a job. Even though they can’t get a job, they still have to pay back that $50k to $150 college fee that they have no clue how to pay back without having any income ...
Continue readingSeveral Things That Improve Your Content
Blogging It’s always good to have one eye on well written content whether you’re writing your own blog or someone else’s for cash. There are several little techniques that make your prose better and once you groove them into your writing habits, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them before. Self editing helps. When you can , it’s a good idea to put the piece that you’re working on away and then come back to it with fresh eyes ...
Continue reading7 Ways to Have Private Group Chats via Twitter
Social Networking As someone who lately used Twitter private DMs more than public tweets to talk to friends, I’ve been looking for a way to have private group chats. DMs are nice, but you can only talk to one person at a time. Sometimes you just want to talk to a few people via Twitter, yet you don’t want it to be totally public. So here are 7 ways to do that by having private group chats and conversations via Twitter. Privately Privately was ...
Continue readingRetweet@ – A New Way to Share and Discuss on Twitter
Reviews, Social Media Retweet@ is a useful tool that allows you to share the current page you’re on and have discussions all from within a sidebar on your browser. It’s all done by a simple bookmarklet that you add to your browser toolbar. Clicking that bookmarklet opens up the Retweet@ sidebar which then allows you to tweet quickly, tweet with text or jump into a discussion with someone else who has shared that page on Twitter. If you can’t come up ...
Continue readingWhy Twitter and Facebook Won’t Send You as Much Traffic as You Desire
Blogging If I ask you the question how can you get traffic to your website? What will be your answer? I’m sure if you’re a new blogger or if you don’t yet know how the system works your first answer will be by creating a twitter and facebook account and having a lot of twitter followers and facebook fans. I’m sorry to tell you this, but that approach no longer works. Getting real traffic to your blog isn’t about having a lot ...
Continue readingAre You Using Email Marketing? – Tips for Getting More Subscribers
Social Networking Everyone wants their website or blog to be successful, whether you sell your own products, someone else’s or you just want to share great information and it’s not about making money, if you don’t have a way to email your readers frequently, you may lose their attention and money. One of the best ways to reach your readers outside of your website is with a weekly newsletter. It takes a little more work on your part each ...
Continue readingSocial Ads Trail Traditional Media But Everything Still Points To The Website
Blogging There’s a bunch of people out there that always said using Twitter and Facebook for advertising your internet based business was only a fad and the smart cookies would always follow the trends but recognize them for what they were and keep socking their online advertising money into the more traditional venues like blogs and articles. It looks like those people were right. A new report out has the tweets on Twitter and the likes on Facebook ...
Continue readingAizon.me Lets You Keep Track of Your Productivity Using Twitter and Facebook
Productivity, Social Media Aizon.me is tool that monitors your Twitter and Facebook updates in order to track your productivity. It “analyzes your status updates [...] and draws a productivity chart and will help you focus on the important things in life.” You’ll need an actual Aizon.me account to get started, you can then add your Twitter and Facebook accounts once logged in. Twitter Settings You can choose whether or not to sync your tweets to your ...
Continue readingReceive Reminders for Important Events with Romulist
Productivity, Reviews Romulist is a dead simple (for now) reminder service for important events. It will send you emails each day (at the time you choose) so that you’ll never forget your important tasks or events. Right now you can only add items that occur each month, so things like birthdays, anniversaries, one-time appointments or weekly events will not work. That’s not to say that these kind of events won’t be added in the near future though. ...
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