Recently I’ve been relying more and more on social networking sites like Twitter to communicate with people and get answers to questions. I’ve even learned about a some useful tools that have helped me with Internet marketing.
But as great as Twitter is there are times when it’s left me hanging when it comes to tracking replies. Not everyone on Twitter replies instantly to your Tweets and that means you can miss replies that come in minutes or hours later.
If you’re gonna build relationships on social networks you have to be responsive. Until now it’s been a problem for me on Twitter. I tried using TweetBeep to track Twitter messages, but it just didn’t catch all the messages to keep me on top of things. But thanks to a tip from @BradMcFadden at FishWitz I now know of a great way to track Twitter replies.
RyanK from TweetTrak has created a bot that converts your Twitter replies to direct messages. If you have SMS turned on for direct messages you’ll receive a text message each time someone replies to you on Twitter. It’s a great way to track Twitter replies using SMS.
According to @RyanK, the TweetTrak website is suppose to be coming soon and it will allow you to filter out people you already have device notifications turn on for.
After researching, writing, gathering links, and cropping images, optimizing a blog is usually the last thing a blogger thinks about. But the truth is, all that hard work could be going to waste if your blog isn’t being seen and the appropriate action isn’t being taken.
Slow blog load times can discourage visitors from digging [...]
If you are trying to decide which eBook cover program to buy or you need a program that makes retail box images for you then save your money because here is a free resource that does the same thing as those expensive photoshop addons.
I don’t remember how I found it but the site is called [...]
Here’s a great rank checker from SEOBook that will help you check your search engine ranking on Google. Sure you can do it by hand, but who has the time to do that!
Be sure to checkout Aaron Wall’s SEOBook blog. He has lots of useful tools over there.
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
There’s been a lot of talk lately about eBay’s recent round of affiliate layoffs. No one seems to know exactly why the account terminations took place, but one thing is for sure it’s been a wake up call for affiliates. Just like the Adsense shake up, the eBay affiliate layoffs are proving the same lesson [...]
Recently, while I was buying a Private Labels Rights (PLR) package from one of my favorite freelance writers, I had a self-proclaimed creative idea for advertising online businesses.
I originally posted the idea in the Open Source Marketer Community Forum, but I thought it was worth posting on the blog as well. Basically, the idea [...]
Recently I’ve been relying more and more on social networking sites like Twitter to communicate with people and get answers to questions. I’ve even learned about a some useful tools that have helped me with Internet marketing.
But as great as Twitter is there are times when it’s left me hanging when it comes to tracking [...]
Tonight I’m in San Antonio Texas for a few days of fun and sun with the family at Sea World. It’s about a five hour trip from where I live so I had some time on the road to listen to audio books and think. I took in about four chapters of The Four Hour [...]
I have a new social media friend and no, I’m not talking about the tons of random friends requests you get on a daily basis. I’m talking about a piece of social networking software that can help you get your arms around the online social scene. I’m talking about Flock, the web browser that’s [...]
Here’s a short video I came across that explains some of the new features in Adsense for search. Custom search can be a great way to integrate another method of monetization into your site. It’s also a great way to help visitors find what they’re looking for on your website.
Personally, I like the fact that [...]
Recently Paul Collier, author of “The Bottom Billion”, gave a talk on Ted.com where he outlined a high level plan to improve the lives of what he calls the “Bottom Billion” of people who live in developing countries and are unable to affect change to improve their situation given the current political and economic systems. [...]
Coming up this weekend is the World Internet Summit in Dallas. In case you haven’t heard of this event, it’s one of the premium places to go to connect with other Internet marketers and find joint venture partners. There will also be a list of well known “guru” marketers there that will be presenting information [...]
If you run any type of offline events to promote your blog, and you collect phone numbers from your meeting participants, then you might want to take a look at phonevite.com. This handy service helps you automate your call list so all you have to do is record your event announcements once and then have [...]