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April 9, 2010

How to change your Facebook Vanity URL for a second time!

In 2009, when Facebook introduced custom URLs (also known as vanity URLs) for your profile and fan pages, Facebook claimed that the custom URL you choose can be only set once. Once the custom URL (example http://facebook.com/techthinker) has been set, it cannot be changed to another URL. But it looks like Facebook is giving a [...]

March 26, 2010

How to Write a Good Twitter Bio

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So far I have written on how to choose a good Twitter username and how to choose a Twitter profile picture. Today, in this post we will look at how to write up a great Twitter bio. Writing a Twitter bio is hard because you only have 160 characters at your disposal. The challenge [...]

March 11, 2010

Tips for Making the Best Profile Picture

In my last post, I provided some tips for selecting a good username on Twitter. In this post I will give you some tips to get your profile picture right. The tips in this post not only apply to Twitter but also for other Social Networks.
Your profile picture is the first point of contact for [...]

March 9, 2010

How to Choose a Good Twitter Username

As a business owner you may want to give some thought into the selection of your Twitter username. A good Twitter username can give you an advantage in marketing yourself or your business.
When it comes to Twitter usernames you have the following 3 choices:
1. Use Your Real Name (example @RichardBranson)
This is the best option [...]

March 6, 2010

How Businesses can Make Money on Twitter

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While Twitter as a company is not making any money, entrepreneurs and businesses can make money on Twitter in number of ways. Twitter is a very valuable tool to promote your brand, build relationships with clients and eventually make money by selling your products and services.
So, how your business can make money on Twitter? [...]

March 4, 2010

Flavors.Me – Consolidated your Social Media Services

Flavors.me is a simple site that pulls all your social media content into a single location. To use flavors.me you simply signup for an account and start importing your content from other services into flavors.me. The social media sites and services supported in flavors.me include Twitter, FaceBook, Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, Wordpress, LinkedIn, GoodReads, NetFlix, last.fm, [...]

March 2, 2010

No Social Media Saturdays

The following is a guest post by Zack Shapiro.
Zack Shapiro is an entrepreneur, tech blogger, journalist and world traveler. You can find him on Twitter @ZackShapiro and on his blog at ZackShapiro.com.
Over to you Zack:
Humankind has never been more linked together than we are today. And tomorrow, we’ll be even more connected.
With the [...]

November 3, 2009

3 Easy Ways to Attract Twitter Traffic Using Lists

A quick post on how you can use the new Twitter List feature to attract followers and get popular on Twitter!
1. Create a content rich list
Create a list that a person in your niche would love following. For example, if you are into Logo Design, create a list called “100 Top Logo Designers”. The trick [...]

October 29, 2009

Twitter Introduces New List Feature!

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Today, when I logged onto Twitter, I saw the following message on my home page.

The Twitter List feature allows you to group your followers into different lists. So that you can easily keep track of Tweets within each group. For example, you may create a list for family members, a list for professional bloggers [...]

October 21, 2009

Following, the most neglected aspect of Twitter!

If you are on Twitter the most common question that your friends ask is probably “How many followers do you have?”. Everyone seems to be obsessed with this number. In order to create a large number of followers, most of us Auto Follow anyone who follows us. While Auto Following has its own merits, following [...]

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