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Twitter Tools: Tweet Scan & Summize

May 8, 2008 | Filed under: Blogging      Comments(1) | expand » | « hide comment

Tweet Scan & Summize are 2 twitter tools you want to add to your arsenal. Personally I prefer Tweet Scan.

The search feature that comes with Twitter is lacking to to say the least; type any keyword or phrase and you’ll see it list people who haven’t been active in ~8 months or so. Maybe they give priority to seniority? I’d say it should go with relevance / latest update but that’s just me.

The two tools above let you find people based on conversations. Say you’re a guy that sells back pain relief. Wouldn’t it be cool to add people discussing back pain? I use it for less direct methods of marketing. I’m into blogging / vlogging / podcasting / SEO and now Social Media. Therefor I search those types of terms or people talking about forums and then add them.

Try the tools out and let me know what you think. I’ll be pumping more tools down your RSS …

Free Business Blogging Webinar May 7th 2:30EDT

May 6, 2008 | Filed under: Blogging      Comments(0)

Title says it all folks.

Tomorrow May 7th at 2:30 EDT there will be a free business blogging webinar being held by Logoworks an HP company. The webinar is titled “To Blog or Not To blog?” and is free as mentioned earlier. If you run a small business and are thinking of starting a blog this could be for you.

All participants will receive a free PDF full of information to help in the creation and implementation of a business blog.

Want to know why you are losing your rankings to newer sites? Velocity of inbound links. Your site is stale so no one links to it; only makes sense for search engines to find one that is more ‘popular’.

By adding a blog you’re adding fresh content and giving people a reason to link / talk about you. In 2000 you started to need a website; now you’re starting to need a blog.

Take advantage of this free webinar and let …

Do Free Samples REALLY Increase Sales?

May 6, 2008 | Filed under: SEO and Marketing      Comments(1) | expand » | « hide comment

Today we have another guest post. It’s written by BizyMoms.

When was the last time that you were given the opportunity to try a product for free? Did you like the product? Did you become regular consumer of the product after trying it? What is the purpose of giving away free samples?

Since the business environment is very competitive and volatile, almost all the firms in the market are trying their best to stay ahead of the competition. Due to this reason, they try various methods to gain the maximum market share in the shortest possible time period. Free samples can be identified as one of these methods that businesses try in order to win a higher percentage of the market share.

Now you must be wondering how this really helps to increase the sales volume of a particular business. Let me explain.

When we consider the market that exists in the modern world, it would be clear to anyone that the …

MyBloglog and BlogCatalog - Work the System

May 4, 2008 | Filed under: Blogging      Comments(1) | expand » | « hide comment

So today I got an email from mybloglog (MBL) and it said it had auto joined me into some communities that I often frequent. I thought sure whatever; that’s kinda cool. Then my mind started racing about the whole “automatic” principle.

Disclaimier: Before I get into what I came up with lest it be known that I have never done this nor would I be proactive enough to take the time to do this as I’m clearly much to lazy and impatient. Also I’m not suggesting you do it; but knowledge is power so let me empower you with this possibility.

If you want to work the system for maximum exposure through their widgets what I’d say you do is make a macro that in a browser with images off takes you to all your top 50 or 100 favorite HIGH TRAFFIC blogs. If you made the macro to do it automatically each day you’d always appear as one of the …