Monthly Archives: October 2010
How to Get Started with Your Website’s Compatibility Test
Are you turning away customers just because your website is not compatible? Though compatibility is one of the biggest challenges in website creation, it is also one of the most overlooked. So, how do you find whether your website is compatible or not? To begin with, let us first be clear about what website compatibility [...]
A Look at the New FeedBurner Beta
Ok, I know, I know. Tons of people are not fans of FeedBurner due to their inconsistent RSS subscriber count. But let’s get past that and look at the other things you can learn about your RSS subscribers through FeedBurner in their new beta version. How to Get to the Beta Version If you want [...]
Link Builders Toolkit v2.0 Launch w/ Special Offer
Since the launch of the Link Builders Toolkit back in April of this year, I have received a ton of positive feedback on the product. I also received some awesome suggestions on how I could improve it. So I took all of that feedback and have updated the toolkit to provide the additional data and [...]
Filter Your Following with Forumlists
While perusing the recent Twitter lists that I have been added to, I spotted several that were generated by @formulists. Intrigued, I Googled it and was led to an interesting service that automatically creates Twitter lists based on particular specifications. Basic Options With each list, you have the option to have it only follow up [...]
Making the Most Out of Guest Blogging
There have been a lot of great posts that talk about guest blogging and show you the value of reaching out to other authoritative blogs in your industry. However I thought I would take a different angle on this post and talk about what makes your guest post stand out from others who use the [...]
How to Increase Your Revenue by Retaining Customers
It’s well known that it costs more to gain a new customer than to keep an existing one. In fact, in the book “Leading on the Edge of Chaos”, Emmett C. Murphy and Mark A. Murphy find that the costs to acquire a new customer can actually be FIVE times greater than retaining existing ones. [...]
Get More Followers with the Official Twitter Retweet Button
I have been avoiding putting the new Twitter retweet button on my site for a few reasons. For starters, it uses the t.co shortener instead of giving the option of getting to use the URL shortener of your choice like you can with the Tweetmeme button. And there are no color options, like there are [...]
Is Twitter a Stethoscope or Megaphone??
I just don’t get Twitter!!! This is the catch cry I constantly hear from business owners almost every time I speak to them about social media interaction and marketing. And you know what?? This lack of understanding of how to use Twitter effectively doesn’t really surprise me. Let me explain why… Firstly it comes back [...]