There’s a first time for everything, right? And this will be my first post with links to various posts out there that I’ve come across this week…all via Twitter, my new online addiction.
First up - a great post at Marketing Fit on the fastest way to lose your followers on Twitter. As a newcomer to Twitter I immediately became besotted with twam via direct messages. Yuck. Me no likey. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Then read the post!
I very much like the Salesblogger’s post on the importance of choosing your words. We all need reminders like this every so often!
As a fellow parent, I can completely relate to the issues of putting kids to bed over at Clark Kent’s Lunchbox…though, of course, I only have one kid to deal with. But I feel the pain. Oh, do I feel the pain.
Follow these tips to avoid email overload.
Angel McClinton’s Media Mojito site is the perfect cocktail to make me wanna start vlogging. Because I just know you want to see me in my pjs while tip-tap-typing away on my laptop in bed. Seriously, though, you gotta read her top ten ways to get on camera and not freak out.
I’m especially fond of one particular post over at Linda Locke’s Moms in Business site because yours truly wrote it. But you can also find advice from 3 successful business moms and advice from successful people is always cool!
Read up on your earning ability.
Jason Crouch is in real estate and yeah, he posts on real estate…because that’s his biz. But he also posts some funny stuff like how he misses some of the old TV commercials…holy crap the mention of the scary miniature chuck wagon gave me flashbacks!
October 5th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Found you via the trackback feature on my blog. Thanks for linking to me so I could discover your blog. The offending tool that people are using to send automated direct messages on Twitter is TweetLater.com. I truly expect an automated response when I sign up for an ezine, but not when I follow someone on Twitter. It’s icky.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Twam is the worst. I’m not a fan of direct messaging on twitter, but to receive one that is a plug for an ebook is a complete turn off and will definitely be followed with an unfollow.
Thanks for sharing these links.
Cheers!
October 5th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
@ Leesa - I’m sucha twitter newbie that I didn’t even know about tweetlater.com.Yeah, I’m not a fan of auto response tweets.
@ Justin - Thank God I’m not the only anti-DMer.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Hey Ms Tina,
Thanks for the link love and for linking to other cool blog posts. I really appreciate it!
I absolutely love Twitter and have met several awesome online friends there. There are so many cool Twitter features too. My thing is as long as you are providing VALUE anywhere online (even if the messages are scheduled) people are attracted to you.
Twitter also allows you to brand yourself relatively quickly. Glad you’re there and looking forward to our tweets, girl!
Dali Burgado
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I’m so sorry for saying this so late, but thank you for the mention!