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 [...]
Running your own ad server can open up a lot of possibilities when it comes to delivering ads on your blog or across multiple blogs. If your looking to centralize management of your ads, create a unique offering, cut down on ad blindness, then running an ad server is the way to go.
An easy ad [...]
Well, it’s been four days since I posted about BrightKite and now I’m in. Someone was kind enough to send me an invite. I’d like to give a big thanks to whoever it was. The invite didn’t tell me so unless you speak up, it will just have to be your secret.
I’m looking forward [...]
Where to place your email sign up form and RSS subscription badge is an interesting topic to me. I see a lot of variations and each solution seems to have it’s own set of mertis.
Regardless of style and arrangement, the one most important piece of advice I could ever give a new blogger is [...]
Online social networking is still a very young industry and because of that there is still a ton of room for new ideas that can stretch and grow the current social landscape.
BrightKite is a new social networking player that’s bringing fresh ideas to the table. BrightKite combines a Twitter like social update service with mobile [...]
Recently I came across yet another spam blog trackback in my moderated blog comments. I’ve tried to ignore these as they’ve continued to increase. But enough is enough and now I’m looking at ways to simplify the abuse reporting process.
There are two simple steps you can take to hit a splogger where it hurts. You [...]
If you want to know how much website traffic a competitor is getting then you’ll want to take a look at Compete.com. Compete offers site analytic that let you do side by side website traffic comparisons between several sites. Compete also offers search analytics that can tell you what keywords a specific website is getting [...]