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December 8, 2009

10 Content Crimes You Should Avoid Committing!

“What is written without effort is, in general, read without pleasure.” Samuel Johnson

First and foremost, allow me to thank Chris Spooner, designer and writer, for motivating me to write this post as, what I would like to call it, a follow up to his recent post: 10 Usability Crimes You Shouldn’t Commit. I highly appreciate the unintentional inspiration!

Content is the Key by www.all-sorts.biz

Content is the Key by www.all-sorts.biz

There are millions of posts out there that provide you with tips and know-how’s for appealing content; stressing how the post should be long sometimes while, at other times, advising you to keep it short. Telling you that you need to have clear headings yet highlighting that they should not be different.

For this post, we will spice it up a bit for you! We will address the 10 content crimes you should avoid committing in efforts to answer the following questions: What kind of content has the power to drive people away from your site? What content related flaws might cause visitors to disregard the mere thought of reading your posts? What are the most annoying mistakes you can do in content writing?

10 Content Crimes You Should Avoid Committing:

1. Avoid Cluttering!

Although you might feel the need to write long posts to convey and explain a certain idea or concept, and despite having to write pages of factual content as times, make sure that your page has a clean clutter-free look!

Cluttered Text!

Cluttered Text!

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October 14, 2009

50 Top Noise-Free Twitter Tips in Social Media, Marketing, SEO & Design! Part 4

Wouldn’t it be just great if you could find the most useful tweets and links about the hottest most interesting topics online, all in one place? Wouldn’t it be just convenient if you could link that valuable information to the tweeple who posted it so you can have continuous access to his/her tweets by following him/her accordingly?

Below you will find our fourth specialized well researched list of 50 Top Twitter Tips and Links divided into 5 distinctive categories: 1) Social Media & Technology, 2) Marketing & Advertising, 3) Design, 4) SEO, 5) Motivational & More.

1. Social Media & Technology Tips & Links:

An RT for John Lusher

An RT for John Lusher

Bonus (funny video): @sarahamam: Social Media Addicts Association Meeting – http://bit.ly/18Eyv3

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October 12, 2009

How to Best Promote Your Brand Using Social Media [read @ bkmacdaddy.com]

This article was written as part of our first article exchange with Brian McDaniel (@bkmacdaddy on Twitter). Brian wrote us a great article entitled ‘Google Wave: First Impressions from Real People, Not “Experts”‘ which got more than 700 views and 50 RTs in under a day. In exchange, we wrote this article (click here to read full copy at bkmacdaddy.com) for his blog. Enjoy!


People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps”. Mary Kay Ash

Celebrating Success By Michael D. Brown

Celebrating Success By Michael D. Brown

Whether we like it or not, people – customers- are and will always be the main focal point of any marketing, promotional and research and development efforts. They are, as the quote above clearly indicates, the real assets of any business with which it can’t operate or function without. Therefore, when considering the best practices for promoting any brand or product, through social media or offline,  the first thing the company has to consider is its target audience, in terms of demographics, education, backgrounds, likes, dislikes and so on and so forth.

Yet, since the simple marketing mix theory consists of 4 main elements: product, place, promotion and price, the tricky part is figuring out the right mix that suits a liquid medium such as social media.

Therefore, this article will discuss, in details, the best 10 top tips and ideas that can help steer a brand towards success and away from mistakes that might lead to utter failure and losses!

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September 8, 2009

50 Top Noise-Free Twitter Tips & Links in Social Media, Marketing, SEO, Design & More! Part 3

Wouldn’t it be just great if you could find the most useful tweets and links about the hottest most interesting topics online, all in one place? Wouldn’t it be just convenient if you could link that valuable information to the tweeple who posted it so you can have continuous access to his/her tweets by following him/her accordingly?tips

Below you will find our third specialized well researched list of 50 Top Twitter Tips and Links divided into 5 distinctive categories: 1) Social Media & Technology, 2) Marketing & Advertising 3) Design, 4) SEO, 5) Motivational & More.

1. Social Media & Technology Tips & Links:

2. Marketing & Advertising Tips & Links:

August 7, 2009

50 Top Noise-free Twitter Tips & Links in Social Media, Marketing, SEO, Design & More! Part 2

Wouldn’t it be just great if you could find the most useful tweets and links about the hottest most interesting topics online, all in one place? Wouldn’t it be just convenient if you could link that valuable information to the tweeple who posted it so you can have continuous access to his/her tweets by following him/her accordingly?

Below you will find our second specialized well researched list of 50 Top Twitter Tips and Links divided into 5 distinctive categories: 1) Social Media & Technology, 2) Marketing & Advertising 3) Design, 4) SEO, 5) Motivational & More.

1. Technology & Social Media Tips:

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July 7, 2009

15 Types of Twitter Users: Which Type Do You Think You Are?

Are Twitter users all the same to us or do we have different types of Twitter followers, regardless of their numbers and reasons for being on Twitter? What are the main types of Twitter users and what are their distinctive characteristics?

I am confident that throughout each of our offline daily experiences, we sometimes find ourselves categorizing people into different groups in order to determine how to better deal with them or not deal with them at all for that matter! When it comes to friends, different people have various categorizations of their friends depending on their personalities, behaviors, closeness, actions and common interests, this highly applies to our virtual online experiences, namely in Twitterverse.

I personally enjoy Twitter and the different personalities I encounter every day through tweets and mentions, which is the main basis for the idea behind this post!

Types of Twitter Users (organized from not annoying to very annoying!):

15. The Do-Gooders: Tweeples who put so much effort to provide their followers with valuable information, tips and advice through sharing content and links they find and retweeting valuable tweets.

gooders

The Do-Gooders

14. The Dreamers: Those are the tweeples who tweet too many motivational words and optimistic ideas to their followers on a daily basis. These tweeps make you feel as if we are living in a problem-free world and that every story ends with a happy ending.
13. The Thankful Darlings: Tweeples who focus many of their tweets and retweets around giving love and spreading smiles and thank you’s to their followers.

lovers1

The Thankful Darlings

12. The Conversationalists: These tweeples will ask questions regarding different topics of interest to them, and to others, and based on the retweets they get, they will start valuable discussions with their followers.

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July 2, 2009

18 Top Free Twitter Content Sharing Services Based on Compete Analytics…

The days of sharing content solely via e-mail are gone, nowadays, there are newer, more advanced and faster services which allow us to share any kind of content through any social media channel we choose. But what are those services and which content sharing categories do they fall under?

After extensive research, we were able to find out 6 different content sharing categories, with top rated services as examples of each. The approach we applied was looking online for the top Twitter sharing services of photos, music, and so on, and using Compete.com to map traffic graphs and accordingly informing you only about the ones worth mentioning!

Comparing Twitpic.com, Flic.kr, Tweetphoto.com and img.ly

Comparing Twitpic.com, Flic.kr, Tweetphoto.com and img.ly

1. Photo Sharing:

  • Twitpic: is by far the most popular tool allowing users to easily post pictures to the Twitter microblogging and other character-restricted social media service. This is also one of the most popular service for Twitter in general.
  • Flickr on Twitter (flic.kr): is a Flickr2Twitter integration enabling Twitter users to share posted content on their Twitter accounts using a simple web-based sharing button or via email/mobile using a unique “2Twitter” email address. The problem with this service is that Flickr “should have allowed users to choose to auto-tweet about new batches of photos without having to select each pic individually after the fact“.
  • Tweetphoto: this service has the following unique features: allowing automatic geo-tagging of photos sent from GPS enabled phones, providing information on how many people have looked at the photos, in addition to allowing for direct commenting on those photos.

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June 29, 2009

50 Top Noise-free Twitter Tips & Links in Marketing, SEO, Design & Writing!

Wouldn’t it be just great if you could find the most useful tweets and links about the hottest most interesting topics online, all in one place? Wouldn’t it be just convenient if you could link that valuable information to the tweeple who posted it so you can have continuous access to his/her tweets by following him/her accordingly?

Well, I for one would love to have such a collection of valuable information at my disposal, not TweetMeme or Twitturly style, rather ThoughtPick style!

Below you will find a specialized well researched list of 50 Top Twitter Tips and Links divided into 5 distinctive categories: Social Media & Marketing, Design, SEO & AdSense, Writing and Motivational.

Award Winning Tips & Links

Award Winning Tips & Links

1. Top Social Media & Marketing Tips and Links

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