Getting the Twitterati to Talk about You

Chris Winfield of 10e20.com published a blog post today about Twitter. It’s a great example that if you talk about those who talk, you are going to be talked about. Most marketing is common sense. Big up ten people and you will find ten people bigging you up in return. Does this represent a new [...]

How I Use Twitter for Headline Examples

I finally found a use for Twitter which combines my love for knocking headline ideas around. Check out these twitter headlines. Basically, I get a headline idea which I think worthy of the Twitter mosh pit and I throw it in. If I get feedback great, if not, the headline needs serious work. Even is [...]

The Problem With Linkbait

When you have every social media marketing blog loaded in your RSS reader, you soon come to identify a problem within the space. The problem is the term Linkbait, it is overused, misused and stretched to cover almost all content ever published on the web. Different definitions of linkbait I have heard: A top ten [...]

A Message to Twitterers from the Middle Ages

“Keep silent unless what you are going to say is more important than silence” It’s a self portrait of Rosa Salvator from the 17th century. Its unusual for it’s age as the quote is actually in the painting. This is one of my favourite paintings in the National. If the quote is familiar it is [...]

Are Your Digg Buddies Holding You Back?

Check this out, this digg front pager greeted me at 5am on a Saturday morning. I noticed out of the 20 other front pagers there were 7 stories similar. As you can see, none of my friends dugg. But what is interesting is I cannot see any of the usual suspects. Friends of ours. Kinda [...]

I Hate the How to Linkbait Ebook

A year ago I thought about writing an ebook about linkbait and social media marketing. It seemed the most effective way to teach what I have learned and to do in a format that is financially rewarding. At the time I had to postpone it as clients got in the way, all wanting me to [...]

Digg Not Saved, Please Reload and Try Again

Or go to a site which actually works. From the Digg blog, “Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible [...]

Stumbleupon Grid Display

Stumbleupon now allows you to change your stumble blog from a list to a grid. It takes a screen cap if the pages you have stumbled and makes a very cool grid. Here is a screen cap of my own blog which you can find here. A lot of changes to websites such as SU [...]

How Ed Dale Hammered in the Final Nail of my Twitter Coffin

So I previously made fun of Twitter, but there was something about it which kept my attention. One thing which kept me connected was the fact that my peers were spending time there and a conversation existed. Not knowing what the conversation was about became painful, so I had to keep dipping in. And, there [...]

Success is Sometimes Just about Sticking Around

In December 2005 I wrote a blog post for Darren Rowse on Problogger.net , that’s over two years ago. It’s not a bad little article, although I no longer agree with a couple of things. Keep your posts down to 250 words! No chance, a post should be as long as it needs to be. [...]

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