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Setting Up Your Twitter Feed

March 4, 2010 By Ms. Liz Leave a Comment

I finally decided to set up my Twitter Feed on my blog which you can see at the right as well as on my website.

It was pretty easy to set up actually and now I've got my latest Tweets in place for everyone to see.

Twitter makes the set up simple. However it was a little confusing at first because you set up your Twitter feed in your 'settings' profile, not in the profile from your main page. 

Between playing with the look and feel and getting it just right, all in all it took me about 15 minutes to do. 

If you'd like to do the same here are the steps: [Read more...]

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Using Twitter Effectively

February 26, 2010 By Ms. Liz 6 Comment

While I was checking my twitter followers this morning I began to really notice who the real business folks were vs. the money makers.  You may not realize there’s a difference but there is.   

I'm an internet business owner and a marketer so I use Twitter as one of my main social networking sites which means I socially network, but judging from the followers I get each day that's not how they use Twitter at all.  Simply put, they use it to promote their stuff and that's not an effective way of using Twitter. [Read more...]

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Using Social Bookmarking To Build Links

January 26, 2010 By Ms. Liz 4 Comment

Using Social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg and Technorati  is an excellent way to build links to your website because it allows others to grab those links and add them to their own lists, making your URLs go viral.

These sites can also be great for getting more traffic to your own domains as well.  You can even bookmark your sites yourself hoping others will share the links, sometimes they may even put in an extra vote for your entries which is something Digg users do a lot. 

In fact if enough people vote for a story it could make it to the front page of the bookmarking site and a front page listing could mean thousands of visitors a day.

But be careful, getting traffic from bookmarking sites won't happen if you're promoting a sales pitch, your links have to be of interest to the readers.  For example, you could use news pieces to bookmark your site for more links, here's how…  [Read more...]

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Social Networking – Making Your Business Personal

January 14, 2010 By Ms. Liz 7 Comment

If you have an internet business, social networking should be at the top of your list as a way to personally connect with your readers and followers.  This is not all about business, it's about being personal too.  

This sort of hit me the other day while watching one of my favorite movies, 'You've got mail", there was a line in the movie that got my attention with regard to my own business.

It's about making your business personal.  

As Meg Ryan fights to save her business by telling herself that the fight is not personal it's business, she ultimately realizes that her business is about being personal.  She asks "What are we if we're not personal?"  So true.

Social networking is the same thing, it's about getting personal.  That doesn't mean posting every nitty gritty personal detail of your life for everyone to read, but we have to put enough of ourselves out there that our readers and followers can see that we're more than just someone trying to make a buck online, that means we have to walk the talk and put our customers, colleagues and followers first.  Often easier said than done. [Read more...]

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Social Marketing on Squidoo Guide & Bonuses

January 7, 2010 By Ms. Liz 6 Comment

One of my new year's business resolutions was to get more acquainted with social marketing on Squidoo. The reasons are threefold – higher search engine ranking, more Traffic and overall profits.

So living up to my new resolution I came across a Squidoo resource that I've been so impressed with I couldn't resist passing it along.

It's Tiffany Dow's “Social Networking on Squidoo’. Tiffany is one of my favorite writers and social marketers, so naturally her guide got my attention. 

I have to admit however that when I first came across the guide I had already been on Squidoo several times before and thought "What can a book on Squidoo possibly tell me? I mean, how hard can it be?  Write a few titles, descriptions add a page of content and you're good to go, right?"

Well there's a lot more than meets the eye I found out. [Read more...]

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