Beiträge vom December, 2009

Dec 30

Be Yourself No Matter What

Wednesday, 30. December 2009 10:53

Sometimes people just don’t react the way we want them to. Maybe they are not happy with our services, our prices, or our personality. They might come out of left field with a criticism or you heard rumors about them dissing you behind your back.

Stuff happens. People are not always perfect.

In business, we are told to go along, be professional, suck it up, put on a good face. But who has told you recently to be yourself no matter what?

I had a little run in with a vendor recently who was not happy with me to the point of sending me nasty, threatening emails that seemed way out of character. I had the inkling and the urge to respond in kind, to lower myself to that level and give it some good old fight.

But that’s not who I am and when I am focused in that way I am not getting what I say I want to attract.

As soon as I realized that I derived great joy in NOT responding in kind, in just being old peace-loving self. I realized this person was there to show me who I really am, and who I am really not.

So next time someone seems ready to succeed at pushing you off your balance, see if you can remember who you really are and be that, no matter what the other people in the world are doing or saying. Staying in your center, connected to your source, is always the fastest way to get what you want!

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Dec 30

Software Review: Tweet Adder

Wednesday, 30. December 2009 8:46

If you’re in to Twitter at all, you know that you can grow a following faster there than in the other social networks with just a little effort… or automation. Because Twitter ediquette says that “whomever follows me I shall follow in kind,” you have a good chance of growing your followers list by following a bunch of people first.

However, you don’t want to grow your Twitter with just anyone. You want to follow people of like mind and heart. This is what makes Tweet Adder Software so useful.

BENEFITS OF TWEET ADDER

GROW YOUR FOLLOWING FAST: The main benefit of the Tweet Adder software is that it can help you automatically follow folks by keyword, a lot of folks (up to 1000 per day). Tweet Adder will also remove people who haven’t added me yet in a set number of days. This helps me to maintain a reasonable ratio of “following” to “followers.” And I can add certain people (like my mentors) to the “safe list” so they won’t be removed in my ‘unfollow’ sequence, even if they haven’t yet followed me.

LOCATE PEEPS BY KEYWORD OR ZIPCODE: I use Tweet Adder to grow my following using keywords like “law of attraction” or “#loa”, “Consciousness” and “Gratitude”. I can select how many people per day I want to add using these words. I can even look at all the people Tweet Adder will add before I add them if I want. If I want to attract local peeps, I can search by Zip Code and keyword simultaneously. There are other powerful ways to find your perfect customers using Tweet Adder.

SCHEDULING TWEETS: You can use Tweet Adder to schedule tweets in advance. (similar to Future Tweets and Tweet Later) Use this feature to plan out your tweets for the day all at once and save yourself time going back into Twitter to send your tweets. I actually still use Future Tweets for this so I can easily see all my tweets at once (see my Future Tweets review HERE.)but on occasion I will use Tweet Adder for this.

FEATURE RICH: There are a host of features Tweet Adder boasts that I haven’t used yet, like Automated Direct Messaging to welcome new followers and announce events, a Twitter music promotion tool, URL shortening on the fly, and full Twitter stats. They keep adding features too so this is a robust tool for anyone wanting to maximize the benefits of Twitter.

DRAWBACKS TO TWEET ADDER

COSTS TO USE: This software is not free like some of the other software I review in my blog. You can take it for a test run and check out the various features, then if you like it, you’ll be paying $55 for one Twitter profile. There are higher price options for multiple accounts. The upside is that this is a one time fee with updates for life.

MUST LOG IN: Another drawback to this service is that you must log on to the program to use the automated features. You can’t just set it and forget it the way they advertise. The program will not run unless your computer is on and you are successfully logged in to the software. Also, if you want to use it on 2 computers, because they don’t have a synch mechanism yet, you need to move your Tweet Adder file back and forth between the computers you are using. Best to just keep it on one computer till they create the synch mechanism!

The benefits Tweet Adder boasts are:

  • Increase Twitter and Site Traffic to your event, charity, service, business, band, or website
  • Find Like Minded Twitter Followers in Seconds
  • Auto Follow up to 1000 Targeted Profiles per Day
  • Get up to 500 new twitter followers per day per profile
  • Multiple Accounts, Unlimited Twitter Profiles & Chaining
  • Automate Twitter Posts, Scheduled Tweets, Stay active without actually being active
  • Automate Scheduled Direct Messages
  • Auto Unfollow, VIP Safe List
  • Best Twitter Search, including Global Location and Multi Language Searches
  • Set it and Forget It! Runs Daily, Automatically
  • Every Twitter Feature imaginable!
  • Spend time with your family, take off for the weekend, go on vacation! We’ll do the rest!

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Dec 29

The Yoga of Marketing

Tuesday, 29. December 2009 10:39

In general, conscious entrepreneurs and spiritual practitioners tend to avoid marketing as long as possible. They prefer to focus on their gift and marketing seems like just another thing they don’t want to have to do.

The fact is that if you are in business for yourself, you must market. One of my marketing mentors, Fabienne Fredrickson, says that we should be marketing 4 hours per day or just go get a job. I can’t really argue much with that.

If you need customers, you need to be spending time marketing.

My suggestion is to set up a sustainable marketing system that stretches you a bit every day. Like in yoga, you don’t want to go into the advanced pose on your first try then forget about it the rest of the month. You want to start where you are, work at it every day and stretch a bit more each time.

So the yoga of marketing is to go out a little bit more each day, a bit farther.

That might look like spending an extra 10 minutes to connect with new people on facebook, or spending some time writing a blog post, or exploring a new social network.

Be consistent and persistent and you will see the results.

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Dec 28

Software Review: SocialToo.com

Monday, 28. December 2009 18:16

I have been using SocialToo, a Twitter application, for about a year or so mostly for the Daily Stats email they send me almost every day. For a one time fee of only $20, I get a daily email including a whole list of all new followers and new unfollowers and info about them including what tweet was live when they followed or unfollowed me and how many followers they have.

They also automatically follow anyone who follows me included in that one time fee. Since it’s good Twitiquette to follow everyone who is following you, it’s handy to have a tool automatically do that for you.

That would be enough for me, but there are some other features that SocialToo offers at a very low cost.

Catchup Your Previous Followers
For $5 SocialToo will follow anyone who is following you that you have not yet followed. This helps you catch up on followers from before the time you start the $20 service.

Create a SocialSurvey
With SocialToo you can poll your Twitter and Facebook Friends with a SocialSurvey. I have not used this feature yet, but I bet I could come up with some good uses for this. According to SocialToo, you can create a survey, ask your friends a question, and share to Twitter or Facebook. Your friends can comment directly on the survey, and their own comments will go back out to Twitter with a link back to the survey for their own friends to take.

Automatic DM Filters
Sometimes Direct Messages that are automatic can fill your Twitter DM inbox with a bunch of Spam. You can use SocialToo DM filters to apply actions to specific keywords or phrases, including unfollow and blocking.

Vanity URL Creation with Tracking
Track visitors to your Facebook Profile with a Vanity URL created by SocialToo. This URL tracks people that click on the URL, where they came from, and where they were when they clicked on it.

All in all SocialToo is a useful and inexpensive service that runs without me thinking about it, and reminds me of its existence almost daily. It’s handy to have those emailed stats so I can see how fast my Twitter has grown over time.

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Dec 27

Software Review: Hub Pages

Sunday, 27. December 2009 4:19


I learned about Hub Pages about 2 years ago in a free class on how to dominate page one rankings on Google. Since then I have gotten to page one of google for a number of keyword phrases with the help of Hub Pages. When I am hired by solopreneurs, companies and websites to improve their Google page ranking, Hub Pages is often the tool that gets the fastest results. In this review I’ll lay out the simple “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for Hub Pages and help you get started.

The Pro’s: A Great Authority Site

Hub Pages is a free web service that hosts informational web pages for its users. It is considered an Authority Site because it gets high ranking on Google and has lots of visitors; great for getting to page one of Google.

You can create as many “Hubs” as you like, and add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Hub. Hub Pages rewards pages with lots of great content by giving them great ranking both within HubPages (where dedicated Hubbers can find your stuff) and in Google.

The Hub Pages interface is very basic and easy to follow. You start by selecting your title, URL, and tags (make sure to include your keyword phrase in all three areas.) Then select a basic template and Hub Pages will quickly set up a starter page for you.

You can customize your pages with a simple stylesheet as well as bold, italic, underline, sub and super-script, bullets and numbered lists.

Include photos and videos whenever possible. HubPages loves media and will reward your page with better ranking. Other features are available in the Capsules options area, including news, links, text, photos, comments, ebay, html code, quiz, rss, polls, amazon.com search and tables. Using several of these features in your Hub will enhance your site ranking.

Hub Pages: Some Challenges to Overcome

HubPages insists on original, unique content on its pages and punishes you if your Hub is “Over Promotional.” That means you have to use unique content and link sparingly. This is a huge drawback to Hub Pages in comparison to blog sites like Blogger and WordPress, or even Squidoo, all of which allow you to post duplicate content and multiple links.

You can program in links but again, be careful with links on HubPages. I cannot say that loudly enough because if you link to one website more than 2ce in your Hub, HubPages will flag your page and deny your publishing request.

When you have finished your Hub, make sure to promote it. Hub Pages provides forums where you can pal around with other Hubbers and include links to your new hubs. Also invite friend from your social networks using the share button.

Hub Pages continues to be a great tool for Search Engine Optimization. It gets me to page one of Google almost every time. Just be cognizant of the rules and offer real, consumable content.

Here are some links to some of my Hubs:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Attraction-Marketing-for-Conscious-Entrepreneurs

http://hubpages.com/hub/High-Quality-Website-Designs


http://hubpages.com/hub/caring_for_alzheimers_and_dementia(for icarevillage.com)

http://hubpages.com/hub/Why–What–Where-the-Bleep-Should-I-Blog

Join and start Hubbing now. It’s easy, it’s free, and you’ll love the results.

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