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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

9 Things You Should Tweet

If you become a respected member of the Twitter community, you can throw in messages directly related to your products or services, but those need to be counter-balanced by tweets completely unrelated to your sales efforts. There is no single formula that is guaranteed to work, but here are 9 things you should try:


1. The “we are on top of industry trends” tweet:

If your business is based on being on the cutting edge of your industry, show the world by providing links to the latest studies, trends, breakthroughs and advances. This serves the dual purpose of providing interesting content and proves to your audience you are serious about staying ahead of the curve.

2. The “there are human beings behind our brand name” tweet:

These are tweets designed to humanize your company. Links to photographs of your employees, offices, celebrations, etc. remind your followers that you are the kind of people they’d like to do business with.

3. The “twitter-only promotion” tweet:

Everybody loves a deal. By giving discounts or other benefits to your Twitter followers, you give them a reason to follow you and you get a captive audience for other business messaging.

4. The “we’re listening to you” tweet:

Twitter is an amazing tool for customer service. If you fail to monitor what is being said about your company on Twitter you’re making a huge mistake. Simply monitoring the messages and taking no action is a mistake, too. Only when you monitor and respond appropriately will you get the full value of Twitter as a customer service tool. This doesn’t mean that you have to respond to every negative statement, but when there is a real issue or if a person has a specific question, you need to address it quickly and honestly.

5. The “sharing our great content” tweet:

If you have a company blog, if you’ve written article or white papers, use tweets to link to your content. If you are a thought leader, an expert, or just have some unique thoughts or perspectives, tweeting is a great way to get your expertise in front of a large audience.

6. The “promote our favorite charity” tweet:

Remember, social media is social. We are all part of a greater community. If your business donates or is otherwise involved with a charity, use your Tweets to promote it. If your business doesn’t have a direct relationship with a charity, pick one and use Twitter to promote it.

7. The “we’re proud as hell” tweet:

So your company has won an award, gotten a great review, garnered some major press or has a killer testimonial; don’t be shy about using Twitter to broadcast the great news.

8. The “we found this to be hilarious and hope you do as well” tweet:

While Twitter is a fantastic place to do business, the compelling thing about it is that it’s not all business. If visitors think you are just trying to sell them all the time, they will unfollow you or, worse, complain about you on Twitter. There’s a lot of funny content on the Web, whether it’s on YouTube, in The Onion, or on any number of humor sites. Sharing humor with your target audience (via links) not only humanizes your company, it gives your followers a reason to seek you out.

9. The “I found this amazing article I think you’d love” tweet:

These are not direct plugs of your business, but links to articles that would be of interest to your target audience. If you sell health-related products, then link to news stories or tips on wellness. If you are a podiatrist, link to stories about marathons, hiking, etc.
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Make your website mobile-friendly in minutes

You already know that measuring visitor interactions with your site can provide insights that help grow your business. With millions of users now surfing the mobile web on their smartphones, be sure to have a mobile friendly website. GoMo initiative offers the ability for small businesses to turn their desktop websites into mobile-optimized sites in minutes and measure the impact with Analytics.

New do-it-yourself site builder, powered by DudaMobile and customized specifically for GoMo users, easily converts regular websites into mobile-friendly sites in five simple steps.
GoMo and DudaMobile have partnered to help you make your desktop website more mobile-friendly. Just enter your web address and they automatically create your mobile site with their professional templates. Further customize your new site if you’d like, and then go live with a single click.
And it allows you to add features like a click-to-call button, mobile maps and Google AdSense and Analytics. Sites that are created with the GoMo-DudaMobile tool will be hosted free for one year (value $108).
Free hosting for 1 year - no contract, no obligation
Professional designs and premium features
Unlimited email & phone support
Easily track mobile traffic with Google Analytics

*Duda Mobile Premium service is free for a year. After the free period you can sign up to continue for $9/month, however there is no obligation to do so. Flash sites, framesets & e-commerce sites cannot be converted at this time.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Local - The What, The Why, The How

Internet marketing, also known as web marketing, online marketing, webvertising, or e-marketing, is referred to as the marketing (generally promotion) of products or services over the Internet. Internet marketing is considered to be broad in scope because it not only refers to marketing on the Internet, but also includes marketing done via e-mail and wireless media. Digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems are also often grouped together under internet marketing
This video explain how to use online marketing and find new ways to attract local customers online.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

7 Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 12.04

Tutorial of seven things to do after Installing Ubuntu 12.04



1-Change Update Server and Run Updates
Speed up your downloads and get your system up-to-date

2- Install Proprietary Drivers
e.g. nVidia / AMD ATI Graphics Card, Wireless network, TV Cards, etc...

3- Install Proprietary Codecs
To Play Adobe Flash Videos, MP3 Audio, MP4 Videos, and a few other codecs

4- Customise Desktop with MyUnity
MyUnity allows you to easily customise your desktop to change transparency settings, launcher size, and icon theme.

5- Keyboard Shortcuts
Bring back familiar Windows shortcuts such as
Win+E for Home Folder (Nautilus File Manager)
Ctrl+Alt+Del to open System Monitor

6- Privacy Settings
Prevent history being recorded for certain File Types, Folders, or Applications.

7- Setup Ubuntu One Cloud Storage
Gives you 5Gb of online storage for free. Great for getting same configuration between different computers.
Ubuntu One can synchronise between Windows, iPhone, and Android Smart Phones

How to Keep Track of How Other People Are Using Your Media Online

Whether you have a blog, you post photos on photo sharing sites, or you're a YouTube star you probably wonder when and how your media is getting used by other people. Regardless of whether it's free-to-use media or copyrighted material the process of tracking it down is the same.

Depending on the type of media you're producing you can track it in different ways. For our purposes we'll break the search into three types: art and photos, writing, and videos.

Track Where Your Photos and Art Appear Online

Tracking where photos and art appear online is pretty easy if you don't mind doing it manually. The webapp TinEye provides a dead simple reverse image search that will track anywhere your image turns up online. All you need to do is upload your image and TinyEye will search to see if it appears anywhere else online. Google's own Search by Image will do the same thing.

Less helpful but still useful is your image host's built-in stats page. If you're using any of the big image hosting sites like Picasa (views), Photobucket (Home > Stats), or Flickr (Your Stats), you'll find a statistics page showing when people link to your images. Provided someone is linking and crediting your image you'll see where it's coming from.

Track Down Writing Quotes, Links, and Everything Else

Tracking down your written words is a bit tricky. The simple and automated method is to create a Google Alert with your name, but that's only going to show up when someone is linking to your writing with your name included. The other easy method is to setup trackbacks on your blog so you can tell when people link to you. If your blog doesn't support trackbacks (or you're not using a blog format) you can use Google's Webmaster Tools for free. Once Webmaster Tools is set up, click Traffic > Links to see who is linking to you.

Of course, not every usage of your writing media is going to link back to you. To find out where you words might also be appearing you can use a copy search engine like Copyscape. In Copyscape you paste the URL you want to check and Copyscape will pull up any links that are identical. You can also sign up for the automated service Copysentry that does the same thing for $4.95 a month.

Find Where Your Videos Are Getting Embedded

Tracking where your videos you create turn up online is remarkably easy and built right into the two major video sharing platforms, YouTube and Vimeo. You can check where traffic comes from and where the video is embedded.

For YouTube, click your account name in the top right corner, then select Video Manager. Next, click the Analytic button. Here, you'll find the traffic of all your videos and a breakdown of where that traffic comes from. To find out where the video is embedded, select the video you want to track and then click the Analytics button. Select Playback locations, then click on the "Embedded player on other websites" link. Here you'll find every site that has embedded your video.

For Vimeo you need a paid Plus membership to see where you videos are embedded. Click Me > My Stats > Advanced stats > Embed. Here you'll see where your videos have been embedded.

So whether you're just curious as to how your freely available media gets used or if you're trying to hunt down someone breaking copyright the above tips should get you on your way. We weren't able to find a good way to track down how music is used save for a Google Alert or a store's built-in statistics tool (the online store Bandcamp, for instance, gives you a breakdown of incoming links)

From : LifeHacker

 

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