Using Twitter Effectively – 11 Twitter Tips for Businesses

If you are breathing right now… YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT TWITTER! The social media site has become enormously popular with everyone from celebrities to major corporations. For small businesses, Twitter can be a valuable tool – if you know how to use it effectively. That is the key… How do you use Twitter effectively? Here [...]

Twitter To Find A Job?

Are you on Twitter? If you are, you certainly know that you are not alone–32 million others are tweeting right along with you. But did you know that you can use this awesome social media tool to help you find a job? A recent Yahoo! HotJobs poll showed that only 8% of respondents have used [...]

Get 10,000 Twitter Followers! Really?

There is so much talk about Social Media, it is literally everywhere. But, what can you believe? I follow the rule that says if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. Do You Want 10,000 Twitter Followers? Well signing up for a service might get you 10,000 followers – but chances are [...]

Hackers Suck! Twitter Overwhelmed by Attack

About a week ago one of my clients was subject to a Hacker Attack! Why? Because Hackers suck. Evidently they have nothing better to do with their time except break, distrupt and destroy… It actually seemed very automated but very clever too. The Hackbot found its way into the shopping cart admin – a bug [...]

Twitter Spam

Spam comes in all shapes and sizes – and now it is hitting stride (or should I say critical mass?) on Twitter. We love Twitter! In fact, those who don’t love Twitter (and its amazing ability to get what you say in front of thousands (potentially millions) of people in 140 characters or less) fall [...]

Suspended by Twitter

Lessons Learned from a Twitter Timeout Yesterday provided an amazing lesson. A ton (yes, probably a ton, if you could weigh them) of legitimate Twitter accounts were suspended. WOW! We’re not talking any accounts here, we are talking big hitters like my friend and social media goddess Mari Smith (Twitter – @marismith), Twitter blogger @AlFerretti, [...]

The Amazing Power of “HTTP://”

Huh? What’s that? Or even “yeah, so what…” How many times in an email, Facebook, Twitter or other sites have you seen a web address like this: www.govisitmysite.com and the damn thing isn’t clickable? A little annoying, right? How many times have you copied and pasted the link? My guess… very few. By adding these [...]

The Power of Twitter Introductions

Funny thing happened on my way to filming a Twitter Introduction… Yesterday morning, I uploaded a Twitter Introduction Video to YouTube. I had seen a few others and thought that the notion of a Twitter Introduction video would be great. Twitter is such an amazing platform. Not only can I really connect with people and [...]

Yes We Can! The Fed Website goes 2.0

Interacting through social media (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and others) is quickly becoming an integral part of business (large, small and entrepreneurial) promotion online. Through Twitter interaction with your followers, you can keep them updated with your goings on and more. Faceboook provides a platform for deeper interaction when you start using their posted items, groups [...]