Filed Under (social media) by willowdan on 08-02-2010
It’s fabulous to think that only 2 years ago, this word was unknown and didn’t mean anything to most people.
Now Twitter has become one of the center-pieces of marketers than know how to handle social media, and require to make it a powerful piece of their marketing puzzle.
As general concept, you require finally both free and paid marketing on your arsenal, that is how you can take huge action and get huge results, but this is for another broader topic.
In this editorial you’ll learn how to automate your twitter marketing by quitely putting your acount to work, and deliver hundreds of followers per day, but simultaneously by keeping your account tidy and compliant to Twitter-rules so that you don’t get banned!
1. Think it like going to a party….
You would not say to somebody you meet at a party…” hey how are you? Here’s my business card, hope to see you in my store!” Probably not…. and you need to think of your account as a magazine or radio station as well… bottom line, you NEED to offer lovely content of REAL value for your followers. Mix it up, don’t blast out ads only.
The biggest thing you will do when you automate your twitter promotion is schedulingall your tweets…. you don’t need to be on there all day, you have other things to do.
2. The power of scheduling and forget… go about your day with your tweets being posted.
3. How to Follow people every day in a smart way
I suggest 10-12 tweets per day, a lovely mix of value for your followers (quotes, articles and free reports) and tweets with your business link. a 3-4 to 1 ratio is lovely… where the 1 is a tweet with your personal link
Here’s what is safe to do so you won’t get banned from Twitter: add 100-150 people a day until you get to 500 followers… than start adding 200-300 a day.. when you are around 1000, you can add 400-500/day.
The best way is to pick 1 or 2 people that relate to your business, and follow their followers.
4. Tidy it up
VERY IMPORTANT, when you get over 2000 followers: you cannot follow a quantity of people that is higher than 10% over your followers…. Example: if you have 2000 followers, you can be following over 2200 people.
Every morning, you ought to UNfollow people that are not following you back. There is no point in giving them a few days to do it. Tidy it up every day.
My first software suggestion is Hummingbird 2,a wonderful software that will automate many cool functions for you. You can google it. This is a ONE TIME fee. This can do all of the above and more for you.
The other is SocialOomph … cute name I know, this one offers a lot for free…. for all the other bells and whistles you will have to pay a small mothly fee.
I really hope this will help you get started in your Social Media adventures, to market in the best way possible, which is giving before receiving.
ClixSense lets you earn up to $5.00 for every 30 seconds you view other advertisers web-sites. Unlike a lot of networks they don’t charge you anything to get started and you can signup for free with them. If you are interested in promotion with them they charge as small as one penny per targeted visitor to your web-site.
The ClixSense Domain was registered in December of 2006. This MLM Promotion company gives you a chance to earn extra income by referring others in to their network. You ultimately get paid by viewing their advertisers web pages. Each ad you must view is 30 seconds long. The company pays you one time per month as a result of your efforts.
ClixSense is not an autosurf by it is most technical definition. Autosurfs tend to load their adverts directly in to the browser and the view doesn’t necessarily must see the ad. With this program it is great for the advertisers, since each ad has to be viewed for 30 seconds and the member has to be alert to be able to click on the next ad.
Of coursework ClixSense does have a Premium Account upgrade option available to its members. Premium members will be able to view more ads than free members can. This gives Premium Members the chance to earn lots more funds than free members. And paying advertisers have the option to only show ads to Premium Members since they would display their paid ads to customers which have proven buying power.
I can vouch for the fact that ClixSense gets a whole lot of traffic. As of the time of this review, they are in the top 4000 web-sites on Alexa which does say a lot. They even let you list your ebay auction with them to improve the chance of selling your ebay items. This company can send the funds you earned with them straight in to your paypal account. They currently pay commissions on 5 levels.
You only require to earn $10.00 before ClixSense will cut you a check. However if you require to set the amount higher, say $25.00 or $100.00 you will be allowed to do that through your back office. be aware that if you are not using a standard browser that you may not be able to view the timer frame at the top of the screen. So it is preferred you use either MSIE or Firefox when viewing your ads. Finally the company only allows one account for every household. But if you have a relative at another physical address this is all right.
Filed Under (motivational) by willowdan on 24-01-2010
To recognize that the Lord Jesus is that stronger person to whom we can rely, brings us to our knees, to worship Him and give gratitude, abundant praises. The song is quite encouraging, please play it and be blessed.
Filed Under (social news) by willowdan on 22-01-2010
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — The U.S. price tag for relief in Haiti has hit $170 million, the federal government announced Thursday as ton after ton of relief supplies headed into the island nation through a crucial reopened pier.
The vast majority of the committed federal aid — $140 million — is from the U.S. Agency for International Development under the State Department, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
And the need within Haiti — still reeling from last week’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake — only grows by the minute. After days of being closed to much needed food and supplies, the south pier at Port-au-Prince was channeling aid into the leveled capital city. The supplies were brought into Port-au-Prince on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.
Sidewalks were crowded with street vendors and kiosks and many small food stores were open. Dozens of stalls at a dusty market sold fruits and vegetables along a pocked and rut-filled dirt side street. A smaller market on a street corner saw some business.
However, the longest and most visible lines in Haiti’s capital were not for food, water or gas — they were for money. Earthquake survivors need cash and are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses, including Western Union, that are starting to reopen. Banks remained shut.
“I have not eaten for two days,” said 32-year-old Anderson Bellegarde, who waited more than six hours outside a money-wiring branch. “I’m only drinking water.”
Meanwhile, a Dutch Navy ship, the Pelikaan, was docked at the city’s south pier Thursday, unloading 90 tons of humanitarian aid. Two other ships had previously offloaded containers.
The reopened pier is older and smaller than the north pier, which was rendered unusable by the January 12 earthquake. The south pier was damaged, but Haiti port authorities and the U.S. military were able to put it back in adequate shape. Workers also repaired the road leading into the city and laid gravel on it.
By the numbers: The U.S. military’s response to Haiti quake
Here’s a look at the U.S. military response to the earthquake in Haiti, based on figures the military released Thursday:
Troops:
– The U.S. military has 13,121 troops in and around Haiti: 2,676 on the ground in Haiti and another 10,445 off shore. (The numbers fluctuate because many Marines spend time in Haiti during the day but sleep on ships off shore at night.)
– More U.S. troops are scheduled to arrive in Haiti by this weekend, bringing the total number of U.S. personnel on the ground there to about 4,600.
Aid delivered so far:
– More than $100 million worth of aid has been delivered, including:
– 22,000 pounds of medical supplies
– More than 700,000 meals
– 1.4 million bottles of water
By Air
– About 120-140 flights a day are landing in Haiti
– 840 flights have landed since the earthquake
– 1,400 flights are on a waiting list to fly to Haiti
– The military has 63 helicopters in or near Haiti
– The military is flying into the main airport at Port-au-Prince as well as airports in Jacmel, Haiti, and two cities in the neighboring Dominican Republic.
By Sea:
– The U.S. military has 20 ships in Port-au-Prince, ranging from aircraft carriers and floating medical hospitals to ships meant to help clear the port.
– The Navy has set up a logistics field at its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to support bigger ships in the region.
Unloading of aid, however, was a slow process. The road allows only for one-way traffic, meaning a truck drives to the end of the pier, is loaded with supplies, and then drives out. Also, because of concerns about overloading the pier, only one truck is allowed on it at a time.
Repairs on the pier continue, said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Mark Gibbs. “We’re working on it. We’ve got a long ways to go. … If we lose this pier, that’s it. We can’t bring in anything.”
However, the reopening of the pier and the repairing of the road represented a major development in efforts to get aid to earthquake victims, in that ships can carry much more cargo than air airplanes.
Authorities hope to get two-way traffic going on the pier by Friday, which would speed up the process.
A 5.9-magnitude aftershock Wednesday stopped efforts at the pier for about three hours. U.S. Navy divers had to go back in the water and reassess the pier’s structural integrity, officials said. There was no immediate word if two less intense aftershocks Thursday, measured at magnitude 4.9 and 4.8, also caused a delay.
Lt. Gen. Douglas Fraser of U.S. Southern Command announced the pier’s reopening on Thursday in Washington. Officials hope to move about 150 containers of aid Thursday and 250 on Friday. They want to increase that to 800 containers a day.
The reopening comes as U.S. officials have been stung by criticism of aid efforts in recent days.
Some of that criticism has been leveled by aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders, who blamed five victims’ deaths on delays, saying several flights carrying medical supplies had been diverted from the Port-au-Prince airport into the neighboring Dominican Republic.
Working under adverse conditions with limited supplies, medical teams have been forced to improvise.
Renzo Fricke, field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders told CNN this week that staffers had to buy a saw in the market so surgeons could do amputations. A CNN crew loaned a medic a pocket knife for another operation.
Lacking rubbing alcohol, doctors have used vodka to sterilize equipment and instruments. Surgical patients are being given over-the-counter pain medicine because doctors lack any stronger medication. One nurse used a string of Christmas lights as a makeshift extension cord. A belt was used as a tourniquet, and when that broke, a garden hose.
Canadian troops, meanwhile, were working to open an airport in Jacmel on Thursday, another step that could speed delivery of relief supplies.
And U.S. Southern Command, through its component Air Force South, conducted an air drop of food and water over Mirebalais, Haiti, on Thursday. Mirebalais is 25 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince. A C-17 delivered water bottles and 17,200 meals ready to eat, the military said in a statement.
Troops secured an area in which to drop the supplies and, once the supplies were on the ground, the military, the U.S. Agency for International Development and other personnel distributed them, the statement said. Nepalese troops also assisted, the Air Force said. Thursday’s air drop was the second since the quake; the first was Monday.
Fraser said Thursday that 120 to 140 flights a day are coming into the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 per day just after the quake struck last week. More than 840 have landed since the airport was reopened, but there is a waiting list of 1,400 to come in, he said.
A senior administration official acknowledged that not all aid, particularly medical supplies, is getting through fast enough but said that in recent days, at least half of the flights entering Haiti are carrying humanitarian supplies. Most of the other 50 percent of flights, including those of the U.S. military and foreign governments, are still carrying some kind of aid.
“Of course I’m not satisfied with getting material and personnel in for everyone who needs it,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier Wednesday. “Realistically, I am aware of the difficulties that this terrible natural disaster has posed.”
The senior administration official said that more than 300 aid distribution sites are up and running. Fraser said more than 700,000 meals and 1.4 million bottles of water have been delivered, along with 22,000 pounds of medical supplies.
About 13,100 U.S. troops are in and around Haiti, nearly 2,700 on the ground and another 10,400 off shore. Many Marines spend time in Haiti during the day but sleep on ships at night. More U.S. troops are scheduled to arrive by this weekend, bringing the total to about 4,600 troops on the ground.
At least 72,000 people — including dozens of U.N. staff members — have been confirmed dead in the earthquake, according to the country’s prime minister.
International aid contributions have totaled hundreds of millions of dollars, but relief agencies working in Haiti say transportation bottlenecks and poor communications have slowed the delivery of food, water and medicine to survivors.
On Wednesday, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah ordered more medicine and other supplies to be sent within the next 24 hours, the administration official said.
Lt. Gen. P.K. Keen, the head of the U.S. military task force in Haiti, said any aircraft identified as carrying medical supplies would have priority for landing. They are turned away only “if there’s no parking space on the ramp, and they don’t have sufficient fuel to hold in their holding pattern,” he said.
Another senior U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that the priorities for aid flights are set “by the government of Haiti first and then by the U.N. second.” But the number of flights that can land at Port-au-Prince is “a sheer issue of physics and geometry; you just can’t get them all in there.”
To improve the flow of air traffic, the U.S. military said Wednesday it had obtained landing rights at the Dominican Republic’s air base at San Isidro, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) east of Port-au-Prince.
The U.S. military has the ability to build dirt runways that rugged cargo planes such as the C-130 Hercules can use, but the equipment needed to build those is “always at a premium,” the senior official said.
The military has 63 helicopters in the region, Fraser said.
CNN’s Arthur Brice, Susan Candiotti, Jill Dougherty, Eric Marrapodi and Elise Labott contributed to this report.
Filed Under (entertainment) by willowdan on 22-01-2010
CLEVELAND — Kobe Bryant is taking a pass on the slam dunk contest, no matter what Shaquille O’Neal has in mind.
Bryant nearly burst out laughing Thursday when asked about O’Neal’s idea that the Lakers superstar should appear in next month’s All-Star weekend dunk event with LeBron James and Vince Carter.
O’Neal suggested the star-studded field as a way of luring James, who is skipping the dunkathon after initially saying he was in.
Bryant won the dunking crown when he was a rookie. He says players should not feel a responsibility toward entering the contest as a way of giving back to the league. James has been criticized for backing out. Bryant would like to see the MVP take part.
“Responsibility? No,” Bryant said following the Lakers’ shootaround. “People want to see it, so it’s good to do it at least one time in your career. It’s fun.”
The contest is Feb. 13 in Dallas, and Bryant has been giving tips to Los Angeles teammate Shannon Brown. Does Bryant think James would win?
“I think he would come in a close second behind Shannon Brown,” he said.
Few years back we witnessed how “We Are The World” topped the music charts … I believe its essence is again being felt, now for the Haiti people. Let’s do our share … like simply tweeting how others can help. I affirm recovery for Haiti.
Following is CNN’s report,
LARRY KING LIVE - HAITI: HOW YOU CAN HELP
As relief efforts to aid victims of Tuesday’s earthquake gather momentum, CNN’s Larry King Live airs a two-hour special Monday night (8pm ET) on how you can help. Below are some organizations specifically helping Haiti. Full Haiti Coverage | Tips to Giving | Feeding Haiti
Filed Under (social news) by willowdan on 17-01-2010
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton on Saturday began their new joint venture to raise money for the Haitian relief effort from corporations, foundations and ordinary Americans, as President Obama continued his efforts to ramp up the American response to the devastating earthquake.
The three men who have occupied the Oval office for the past 17 years stood side by side in the Rose Garden to announce the launch of the new venture, complete with its own Web site: www.ClintonBushHaitiFund.org.
“We just met in the Oval Office — an office they both know well,” Mr. Obama said. He described the phone calls he made to the two men in the aftermath of the earthquake. “They each asked the same simple question: ‘How can I help?’ ”
It was an historic, if surreal moment: Mr. Bush, in his first visit back to the White House since he left office, standing next to Mr. Obama, the man who had, during the 2008 presidential campaign, criticized Mr. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
And, on the other side of Mr. Obama stood Mr. Clinton, whose relationship with the president remains complicated after the bruising Democratic primary campaign that pitted his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton — now Secretary of State — against Mr. Obama.
But the untold number of the dead in what has turned into by far one of the worst natural disasters in a century apparently gave the three a rallying point to express common ground and belief in the American spirit of giving, and that they did.
“I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water,” said Mr. Bush, who looked tan and chipper. Then he flashed a familiar grin, as he echoed what relief efforts have been saying for several days: “Just send your cash.”
Mr. Clinton apparently wasn’t about to be outdone. He gave a side glance at Mr. Bush after he stepped up to the microphone, and then said, grinning: “I’ve already figured how I’m going to get him to do some things he hasn’t signed on for.”
For all of the jocularity, though, all three acknowledged the mammoth job ahead as the number of people who can be rescued dwindles and the full extent of what has befallen Haiti becomes more clear in the days ahead.
During a conference call Saturday morning, White House officials acknowledged that so far, American search teams have only been able to rescue fifteen survivors in Haiti — half of them American and half of them Haitian. Mrs. Clinton flew to Haiti Saturday carrying relief supplies, and the Haitian government turned control of the main airport over to the United States.
“We will also be conveying very directly and personally to the Haitian people our long-term, unwavering support, solidarity and sympathies,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters before she left.
Gabe Bondoc is popular indie pop/acoustic artist based in San Mateo, California. He is of full Filipino descent. He rose to fame with his One Take Sessions of famous songs and his own compositions in video blogging site, Youtube.
Since then, he has held a lot of shows across the West Coast. More so, he has already released two EPs, “Gentlemen Don’t” in 2006 and “Hi, My Name is Gabe” in 2007.
Just click the
Watch the Keynote 
Watch the video 
| 
Full Feed RSS
