I love my clients!

So today, I am helping to promote an event that the Brides Buddy Blog & Receptions are hosting on Thursday, July 28. If you are a Cincinnati area reader, this is a great opportunity to visit Receptions. They specialize not only in wedding receptions but also business events.

Wine & Weddings

Cocktail Hour at Receptions

Thursday, July 28, 6-7pm

You can RSVP online by visiting the Wine & Weddings Homepage.  

Do you need help implementing an email newsletter or creating an online event? If so, I can help. Contact me for more information.

8 ways businesses can share their experiences on Twitter

This a blatant repost of information I found on the Tweepi  blog. Tweepi is a great resource for streamlining your follows and followers. And I always chuckle at their "flush the unfollowers" terminology! Check out Tweepi's various services, some available in FREE packages.

FROM THE TWEEPI BLOG:

One of the goals of a business presence on Twitter is to build a community and improve credibility with the entire tweeps’ population. To be able to do that, the usage of the service by businesses should extend beyond just marketing of their services or talking about themselves, they should also strive to develop a personal connection with their audience.

Twitter for Business

Here are some of the ways to achieve that:

• Share some tips related to your business and how you manage to balance between your work load and life commitments. This will help you to connect with other in your line of work on a more personal level.
• Help others to solve their problems, even if they are not related to your business line and especially if you are a small business.
• Post your thoughts on your Industry, business and other topics of interest.
• Share photos of your business, staff, conferences and events. Pictures will help make your Twitter feed a friendlier place.
• Hand pick news items that are related to your business, share them and provide some commentary on them.
• Link to other people’s articles, posts, tweets and commentary and what kind of insight or value they add.
• Cover conference and events that you attend. Usually those insider tips and insights are really valuable to those who haven’t had the chance to attend.
• Diversify the viewpoints that others can view your company through, encourage your fellow co-workers to Tweet under the company’s name and make sure to utilize the Twitter background to inter-link them.

no nonsense tip of the day

I am guilty of this so I thought perhaps some other bloggers may be as well. I work like a crazy woman for one day or night or maybe over the course of a few days to design, update and add new things to my blog. And then...I go for a very long time without revisiting things like links/hotlinks, items in my sidebar, the list of my favorite blogs or the hotlink to my facebook page etc.

Guess what? Links can go bad, blogs and websites can fall off the face of the earth (or at least the world wide web)...basically, things change.

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So my super easy and quick tip of the day is to occasionally visit your blog as if you are just that, a visitor. Click through every link and be sure it works properly. Review your content and be sure the lists that you share are still timely and in keeping with your focus. By doing a review like this, you ensure that your blog will be putting it's best face forward and it is ready to meet the public each and every day.

Follow Friday Helper: Twitter Tip

If you are already an active Twitter user (hooray! I applaud you!), I would like to suggest this free tool to enhance your participation on Twitter. This is how Follow Friday Helper describes their app:


FF Helper... makes it dead-easy to recommend tweeps on Twitter. FFH shows you a filtered list of users you interact with on Twitter. You can then write more personal #TY, #Gratitude, #FollowFriday (..etc) tweets using the user's name, URL, bio and location with just a few clicks.

Although they describe their service as an "app" in reality you authorize Follow Friday Helper to access your account information by allowing them access to your Twitter account. It's not scary, trust me. And it is safe.

And one last thing, you can use this any day of the week. Not just on Friday.

iPhone photography hits the big time

I am an avid photographer. I have a digital SLR camera and know enough about it to be dangerous. Same goes for PhotoShop but the iPhone 4 has really revolutionized things for me. I use it exclusively in place of my former pocket camera and it is my only current means of videotaping. Tack on some of the cool apps like Hipstamatic or Instagram, and I am a full fledged junkie. So I was more than pleased when I saw that the next issue of Martha Stewart's Every Day Food will feature a photo spread taken with an iPhone.

 

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Yes, this is affirmation that the iPhone + apps is very worthy. And that is a very good thing.

To view the entire magazine spread, go ::HERE::.

Do you have an iPhone or Smart Phone? Do you use the camera?