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January 21, 2009 By

Social Media Ranking Tools – One Step Beyond?

Recently those wacky folks at Hubspot released another of their Grader tools. This one is for Facebook. It joins the others in their stable of Press Release, Website & Twitter. I like Hubspot, I like some of their tools. I use Press Release & Website Grader as they provide a pretty decent overview of a [...]

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January 19, 2009 By

5 Ways Twitter can Monetize without Ads

Recently there has been some discussion about Twitter monetization. Its the same conversation that has been going on for the past few months as people become more aware of Twitter. Unfortunately all the conversations seem to come back to the same suggestions, how Ads can be worked into the Twitter stream without annoying Twitter users. [...]

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January 12, 2009 By

Intro To Twitter

I am presenting at a conference at the end of January and as part of the promotional work for that I took part in a webinar hosted by Brad Kleinman of Work Smart who are the organizers of the conference that I am speaking at. I’ve done a far number of webinars before but always [...]

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January 9, 2009 By

Look Who They Got Their Hands On Now

Twitter, like other new things, has both its fans and its critics. I happen to be a fan. Some people take longer to be convinced of the effectiveness of a tool. I want to share an experience I had recently that would not have happened if it were not for Twitter. I use Twitter for [...]

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January 8, 2009 By

How To: Use Multiple Accounts with Twitter

One of the questions I am asked by clients is how to achieve more with Twitter with the same resources that they already have. Quite often this is one person, who also has a bunch of other tasks they are doing so trying to manage multiple Twitter accounts becomes an increasingly difficult challenge. In these [...]

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January 7, 2009 By

5 Things I Asked Guy Kawasaki and What He Replied

A few weeks ago I decided to go out on a limb and see if I could get the person I admire most in Marketing to take part in a very brief interview with me. Obviously you know that person was Guy Kawasaki. Guy has a reputation of being accessible, but he is also extremely [...]

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January 6, 2009 By

5 Things Reality Check Taught Me

I took part in the Alltop promotion by signing up and allowing the site to send Tweets out under my name. I did this for a few reasons, I thought it was a neat way of marketing something and I wanted to see if it worked, I like Guy Kawasaki’s approach to business and figured [...]

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