First posted in Dec 2008
Short sarcastic Twitter post;
Please! if you want to be successful on Twitter whatever your goal please follow these steps;
Don’t put anything in your bio.
Don’t update your avatar. Continue Reading
You dont get shit you dont ask for
My Dad always used to say this to me, well more in the form of ‘you don’t ask you don’t get’…
Using Markdown for real this time
OK so yesterday I started a post meaning to talk about what Markdown is and why to use it, that post flew off at a tangent and didn’t really cover anything to do with Markdown.
Briefly.
Markdown allows you to write plain, easy to read text that can be then automatically formatted into HTML for example for blog posts like this.
Using Markdown
Startup Tools
If you’re starting up a new business there are so many tools available out there, here is a quick selection of some options that I know and recommend.
Unbounce
Unbounce is a self-serve hosted service that provides marketers doing paid search, banner ads, email or social media marketing, the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages without the need for IT or developers.
Running a Social Media Competition?
Then have a read of this article over on SocialMediaExaminer!
Publishing tricks for Facebook
A good selection of tips from AllFacebook to get better exposure for your Facebook updates.
Thursday is the best day of the week to get the most visibility for a Facebook post.
Mint.com Marketing plan
Not sure about you but reading a Marketing plan for a company that sold for $170,000,000 …..well, it’s quite interesting…
Full original post 3 Inbound Marketing Lessons I Wish I’d Known @ Mint.com
Seal the Deal: 10 Tips for Writing the Ultimate Landing Page
But what I quickly discovered was this – there wasn’t a series of landing pages. There wasn’t even one landing page!
Some great tidbits of info on landing pages, don’t spend a dollar on advertising without thinking about where you are going to send the clicks!
Seal the Deal: 10 Tips for Writing the Ultimate Landing Page
How not to launch your new product
O.K so these are just personal gripes but let me know how you feel about them too.
Virlnet, well they say some things but I’m not really sure what they mean, and to sign up to be notified about the launch and learn more I have to give them access to my Facebook account, errr NO!
A friend of mine Brett Nyquist made a good comment on Twitter which I wanted to add in here:
Focus on your writing
Some people need tools and focus some just need more writing skills.
I’m the latter, for me it’s not the tools that I need it’s the practice.
Minimal writing apps are all the rage, I have to admit I’ve checked most of them out at some point or another.
I came to the conclusion for me that the app doesn’t matter, it’s what I am writing and just doing it.
Free Facebook Page Templates & Resources
On my travels around the Internet and having an interest in both Design and Social Media I thought it might be handy to collect some useful Facebook resources & layouts in one place.
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Frequency caps in Adwords
Ad Retargeting or Remarketing as Google calls it is a pretty effective Ad tactic.
If you don’t know what it is then Retargeting, in the case of Adwords, is a cookie that gets placed on your computer upon visiting a companies site that has activated remarketing in their Ad campaign, later when visiting other sites in the Google content network then Google know that you had an interest in certain sites before and will show you ads from that company again.
The main problem with many companies is they don’t set up Frequency caps, ie. how many times your ads are being shown to a site visitor.
Why are those Adverts following me?
Did you ever have the feeling that you we’re being stalked by an Advert on multiple websites?
Well you probably are!
It’s called Retargeting.
In a nutshell retargeting works by tracking you the visitor, when you visit site X it places a piece of code on your computer, this then tells potential Advertisers when you visit another site that you have been interested in a previous product from Site X.
Not your language, not your problem?
This morning I had a complaint against a local Telecom company (don’t we all).
Long story short, ordered a phone and they didn’t tell me it was out of stock and would be 3 weeks delivery when I placed the order, blah blah blah, when asking what can be done about it the customer support agent replied:
‘what would you like me to do? Bake you one?’….
WWWHHHHAAAATTTTT!?
Wars come and go, but my Mac Apps stay Eternal
- Tupac.
Yep! a bit OTT but I think the quote is pretty cool.
WARS COME AND GO, BUT MY SOLDIERS STAY ETERNAL….
What this has to do with Online Marketing? Nothing specific, we use tools everyday like our computers and apps so here are some apps I use on a Daily basis.
5 Ways to Write High-Quality Content – Fast
Thankfully, there are a few simple, universal habits that will help you do your best writing in less time. Here are five tips for becoming a creatively prolific content producer.
The 7 Biggest Fan Page Marketing Mistakes
Good post over on AllFacebook:
If you want to get better Facebook fan page marketing results, check this list and find out whether you’re making any of these mistakes.
Introduction to Social Media Measurement With HootSuite ~ White Paper
This is the first White Paper in a series by HootSuite and Nichole Kelly to demonstrate how to successfully measure social media to determine the return on your investment.
Introduction to Social Media Measurement With HootSuite ~ White Paper.