Archive for the 'Social Media' Category

Product Review – Tweet Dynamite

After a fair amount of deliberation I took the plunge and purchased Dave Nicholson’s new product, Tweet Dynamite, a few days ago. Regular readers will know that, although I post regularly on Twitter, I am something of a cynic a far as Twitter being a money making opportunity is concerned. Hence the deliberation – but [...]

Twitter – How Not To Tweet!

Right – I haven’t had a rant about Twitter for a while now! Today I would like to talk on how not to use Twitter. Now, before anyone harangues me on what I have to say, please remember that my comments are my opinion only. On the other hand there are a lot of social [...]

The Value Of Social Media In Internet Marketing

The use of traditional forms of advertising and product marketing platforms, such as newspapers, magazines and television, is slowly on the decline. It is evident that an increasing number of businesses are turning to the internet for promotional needs, for the simple reason of cost effectiveness gained from the enormous reach of web based advertising [...]

Twitter – Follow You, Follow Me

I think I’ve just about got my head around Twitter now; I’ve made nearly 300 Tweets and have about 200 followers and am following about the same number. To make things easier I downloaded a free interface tool called TweetDeck which basically has automatic page refresh and allows you to view Tweets, @replies and Direct [...]

What Are You Doing?

I signed up for a Twitter account just over two weeks ago and am was initially a bit unsure about how to go forward with this massively popular social networking website. Twitter is very straight forward to use - a 140 character limit answer to ‘What are you doing?’ leaves no room for ‘beating around the bush’ [...]