This URL shortener not only shrinks links down to about 20 characters, it also keeps track of your links for you and provides some basic analytics to see how many people click and retweet the links and where those users are coming from.
The most popular tool for sharing photos on Twitter is Twitpic, which allows you to take a photo on your mobile phone and email it to a customized Twitpic email address. You simply type your tweet into the subject line of the email. (See also: Flickr2Twitter)
If you’ve ever used Google Alerts, then you’ll understand Tweetscan. It scans Twitter for your keywords and sends you a daily or weekly email of all instances where your keywords were used. This can be especially helpful for tracking brands. However, the service is not free. It costs $20/year.
Twitter is great for promoting blog posts and other types of content. If you have a blog and you want to automatically send out a tweet every time there’s a new post, then Twitterfeed can do it for you. It also has some nice customization options.
If you live in Microsoft Outlook — like many business professionals — and would prefer to interact with Twitter from there, TwInbox integrates Twitter into Outlook. And, the product is free. It was formerly known as OutTwit.
CoTweet provides an entire business workflow for companies that are serious about using Twitter for business. CoTweet allows you to manage multiple Twitter accounts, it allows multiple users to access a single account, it can assign tweets to employees for follow-up, it can monitor keywords and trends, it can track clicks to links, and it can allow employees to schedule tweets out into the future. This is not a free tool. (See also: HootSuite)
This site provides statistics for individual Twitter users. Simply plug in the person’s Twitter username and you’ll get a plethora of stats, such how often a person tweets, when the person tweets the most, who the person replies to most often, who the person retweets the most and which interface the person used the most to post on Twitter. (See also: TwitterGrader)
This free tool allows you to schedule tweets out into the future. For example, I like to post an inspirational quote of the day on Twitter. But sometimes when I’m looking up quotes I’ll come across with several good ones at a time. So, I use Twuffer to spread them out over several days.
One of the most useful things to do on Twitter is to crowd-source a question or ask a quick straw poll. Twtpoll is a tool that makes it very easy to officially do a poll. (See also: StrawPoll)
If you want to see watch how a keyword has been viewed over time, Twendz provides a very simply and useful chart. The chart is updated in real time. (See also: Twazzup, Twist, and Twittercounter)
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When I met Dave my website was a site that nobody could find. I rarely had any visitors. Except for the term “Custom Ceramics, ” I was not located anywhere in the top hundred for my keywords. Dave and I worked together to figure out what keywords I wanted to target. He then did his programming magic and optimized my site to be search engine friendly. Dave showed me a few tricks of the trade that would help make my site even more search engine friendly. I had previously been told that it took at least 6 months to get to page 1 or 2 for your keywords. With whatever work Dave did, I quickly saw results in my rankings on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Month by month my rankings have increased. I am on page two and page one for most of my keywords and for many related phrases pulled from the website’s content. The best part is that my online sales have increased. Dave is honest and does fabulous work. He totally knows what he is doing. I’d recommend his services to anyone.
We came to David with a problem that two other web site developers had tried (or said they’d tried) to solve, with no success at all. The problem is that we sell a service that hardly anyone has ever heard of. We offer very short-term knowledge transfer about acquiring and implementing a kind of complex business software called ERP. When we get to tell people who use ERP software about it, most say it’s a very good idea, whether they have a current need for it or not. But nobody goes out looking for it, because most people think they cannot purchase this kind of information except by hiring their own experts or through long term consulting engagements. Some companies do go searching for the traditional kind of ERP consulting, but our best prospects know they don’t want that, so they don’t even look. It’s terribly hard to be found by people who don’t know that they’re looking for you. This is the problem we brought to David.
Together we did quite a bit of brainstorming about what our natural prospects would be looking for, since they’re neither looking for us nor for long term consulting. We knew that they’d be looking for information about ERP software acquisition and implementation practice, but how would they be looking? If you’re selling tomato soup, you can do well by loading your web site with the keyword phrase “tomato soup”. If you’re selling a new alternative to every currently popular kind of soup, that doesn’t work. You could try alternative phrase like “new kind of soup” and the like, but what are the odds that anybody will search for just that phrase? What David led us to is the concept of organic search engine optimization (SEO), where your message is delivered through meaningful content, instead of by simple keyword searches or (worse) by horrendously expensive “pay-per-click” advertising schemes. What we’ve learned from David is that recent developments in search engine evolution mean that search engines will find us if we just put enough meaningful information into our site and optimize it according to some principles that are only now emerging. I just asked Google “how do I manage risks for ERP acquisition and implementation projects?” Our site – which has been up less than two months – came up third, out of 740,000 sites returned. We expect this to improve, as we are a long way from implementing all of David’s recommendations.
