Mar
16

Scheduled Tweets vs. Automated Tweets: There’s a difference

By | Social Media

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I schedule tweets so that I don’t annoy everyone else I recently wrote a guest post entitled To schedule tweets or not to?  Two Reasons and one of the comments I received helped me to come to the conclusion that there’s a difference between scheduling tweets and RTs and totally automating your tweets – so…
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Jan
27

Book Review: Inbound Marketing

By | Books

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I’ve just finished reading Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media), and wanted to pass it along to my readers as a pretty good starting place for those new to marketing services and products on the web. Inbound Marketing is a good primer on the basic…
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Jan
19

One Cool Way to Grab My Attention

By | Business, Networking, Social Media

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On January 12th, I posted a tweet asking the question, “If a business were going to hire you for a few hours per week to apply your social media savvy, how would you best use that time for them?” I asked it because it was asked of me in just that same way.

Jan
06

Cliqset is What Twitter Could Be and What Friendfeed Almost Was

By | Apps & Tools, Networking, Social Media, Technology

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I’m assuming you’ve heard of this new thing called Twitter. It’s okay. It has a few fans. And maybe you’ve also heard of a tool called Friendfeed.. It used to have a few fans, but they all left when Facebook bought Friendfeed. (I exaggerate.) Well, enter Cliqset. I’m in love.

Dec
11

Six Twitter Alternatives to #FollowFriday

By | Networking, Social Media

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When I first started using Twitter heavily, the #FollowFriday hashtag was just taking off, and I genuinely looked forward to Fridays because of it (which might be a sign of a social media addiction). I’ve always appreciated anybody that has mentioned me. But has #FollowFriday lost its original luster? I say, if you enjoy #FollowFriday,…
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Dec
07

Why I De-activated My Sponsored Tweets Account

By | Monetization, Social Media

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I’ve sent out over 20,000 tweets since getting started on Twitter. Exactly three of them have been sponsored (via Sponsored Tweets). Each carried a disclosure of some kind and I earned a total of $23 from those tweets. But some feelings kept nagging me, so I erred on the side of caution and de-activated my…
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Nov
19

One Awesome Three-Pronged Approach to Twitter Marketing

By | Social Media

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Twitter + Marketing = One Big Controversy. I have all kinds of opinions about “marketing” yourself on Twitter and what that means, but Brian K. McDaniel (aka, bkmacdaddy) seems to sum it up quite right. Though Brian and I probably wouldn’t line up 100% on every issue, I do love his three major points… Stop…
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Nov
09

A Twitter List for Bloggers and Writers – Post Yours Too

By | Networking

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There’s this thing called Twitter… and it has these new things called lists. They’re pretty good for connecting and marketing, even though Chris Brogan isn’t necessarily down with them. I’m keeping a list of bloggers and writers, which you can see and follow here, but be warned – it’s not complete yet. In fact, it…
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Nov
05

Blogging Won’t Kill You, It Won’t Even Make You Weird

By | Networking, Social Media

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People who hang out online, whether on those things called “blogs” or those other things called “social networks” (especially Twitter and Facebook) are all really weird, right? They’re socially out-of-touch recluses who are damaging their psyches? Well, apparently NOT.

Nov
04

Great Online Hangouts for Bloggers

By | Networking, Social Media

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When I was a kid, I hung out in the woods and baseball card stores. When I was a teenager it was the mall and the movie theater. Now? It’s bookstores like LifeWay, Borders, and Barnes & Noble. But online, I have some places I like to hang out as well. Call them time bandits…
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Nov
01

If You’re Not On Twitter, You May Not Exist

By | Networking, Social Media

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I’ve said for years that if you can’t be found in Google search results, you may not exist. (I also heard this from Phil Cooke.) I don’t mean that about people – just websites. Now I’m beginning to say the same thing about Twitter. If you’re website’s feed isn’t fed to Twitter in some way,…
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