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May 21, 2012

My Lazy Approach to Twitter

I barely tweet at all, but after realizing just how many more visitors were coming to my site from Twitter, I became a real twit one day last week. Posted 30 tweets in one day. That was good for some fun, but I’ll stick with my lazy approach to attracting visitors with Twitter. Works like [...]

Twitter more with these software apps & services

You’re probably already posting tweets to Twitter directly on the Twitter web site. However, did you know that there are an increasing number of different applications which are designed to let you post to Twitter directly from your desktop or from specific devices, including your iPhone, Mac and Blackberry? Or, that you can schedule tweets [...]

How to Get More Traffic from Twitter

Although I don’t post to my blogs every day and barely tweet at all, (OK, I went nuts one day and updated almost 30 times, but that was a BIG exception) I’m getting much more traffic from Twitter by using a special service. Best of all, it’s free, only takes 2 minutes to set up [...]

Increase Your Facebook Network with Applications

This is the fourth of a 5-part series about social media marketing using Facebook by guest blogger, Alexander Alaric. You may read his other posts here. Start Your Own Group The advantages: Although it does take time to administer and oversee a Facebook group, one of the main advantages to starting a group is that [...]

5 Reasons a Site Won’t Make Money

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If you’ve been working on your web site for more than a couple of months and still haven’t made any money, or your sales are dismal to the point of being depressing, you should consider the 5 points listed below very carefully. One or more of them will likely explain why your site still isn’t [...]

Five Tips to Make Your Blog More Sociable

What separates a blog from a web page? It isn’t RSS feeds or the author interface, but tone. If you want a real, organic audience you need to set your blog apart from your site’s standard copy. People read static web content for raw information, but they read blogs to learn more about people. If you use the same third person “corpspeak” that you’d put on any other page, potential readers will lose interest. There’s a time and place for aloof, formal business language, but in most companies, a blog should represent a chance to loosen your virtual tie, so to speak.

Are You Losing Money Due to Slow Page Loads?

Look at the image on the left. That’s what I got to look at for 24 seconds while waiting for a popular blogger’s site to load. UGGGGGHHHHH! And no, it’s not a slow connection on my end — almost every other site I visit loads instantly. What’s worse – every page on this blog takes [...]

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