Resources
40 INTERNET MARKETING RESOURCES FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Twitter
Setting Up Your Profile
Twitter Setup – Follow the easy steps to complete your profile in about 5 minutes!
Twitter Backgrounds – Find hundreds of Twitter backgrounds and even customize your own for free.
TwitBacks – Create free customized Twitter backgrounds in less than 2 minutes.
Professional Twitter Clients/ Shorten Links
HootSuite – Post scheduled tweets, personalize views, setup brand-monitoring tools, and track your statistics.
TweetDeck – Shorten URLs, setup keyword monitoring tools, manage conversations and multiple Twitter accounts.
bit.ly – A simple URL shortener that allows you to shorten, share and track your links.
Mobile
TwitterBerry – Twitter built for various BlackBerry devices. Update and view timelines with ease.
UberTwitter – Very comprehensive in features and abilities. Only for various Blackberry devices.
Nambu – This iPhone application brings popular desktop client features to your phone. It’s a free way to fully engage with Twitter
Facebook
Setting Up Your Profile/Fan Page
Create A Facebook Fan Page – If you already have a Facebook profile, follow this link to simply start the creation of your very own Fan Page!
Successful Facebook Fan Page – 5 elements of a successful Facebook fan page
Optimize Facebook Presence – 5 tips for optimizing your brand’s Facebook presence
Useful Facebook Apps
Facebook Exporter for iPhoto – Tag, caption, and export photos from your iPhoto library directly to Facebook.
eBay Auctions – List auctions you are running on your own page, browse others, make wishlists.
PayPal – Need to pay someone? Someone owe you? You can handle it all from here.
Twitter – Update your Twitter status and run your feed in Facebook.
Blogs
Setting Up Your Blog
WordPress – Open source blog publishing application and can be used for to set up your blog for free. Easy to upload pictures, videos, content and includes many themes to choose from.
Blogger – Blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
Tumblr – Blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio. Tumblr’s emphasis is on customizability and ease of use, with a relatively simple sign-up process.
Blog & RSS Feed Analysis
Technorati – Measures the popularity of blogs based on the number of people that have “favorited” them using the service.
FeedBurner – The most widely used tool for measuring stats on RSS feeds for blogs and podcasts,
LinkedIn
Setting Up Your Profile & Success Stories
LinkedIn – This is where you can start and created your profile as well as your company profile.
Success Stories – A list of success stories on the LinkedIn blog that will spark ideas on how you could best leverage this platform for your business.
Online Video
Online Video How-To
Better YouTube Video Quality – This guide helps you with getting the best possible video quality on YouTube, can be applied to other sites as well.
Make Internet TV – This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing videos on the Internet.
WebVideo University – This weekly podcast teaches you how to create dazzling videos for your web site.
Video Sharing
YouTube – YouTube is the king of the video sharing sites, it has more users and videos than the others. Any video you can think of it probably already on YouTube.
Blip.tv – Blip.tv is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast makers. It’s designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media and then send them to their feed for the users. They also let you add ads to you video so you can make some money.
Vimeo – Vimeo is a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s users. The video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts by aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.
Metacafe – A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community that filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.
Your Website A-Z
Analytics To Measure Your Website
Google Analytics – Google’s free analytics software. Includes tight integration with AdWords.
Crazy Egg – Provides visual “Heat Maps” to show where your visitors are clicking.
SiteCounter – Offers free stat tracking of key metrics like visits, page views, and referring source for sites with less than 250,000 visitors per month.
Market Research & Site Rankings
Compete – Want to see how your site stacks up against the competition? Several companies provide publicly available data and rankings on web traffic.
Alexa – Provides widely-reported and widely-criticized statistics on relative popularity of web sites, based on usage of those that have installed the Alexa Toolbar.
Nielsen Online – Offers web analytics package that compares your site with others in your industry. Produces widely followed research reports in dozens of different Web verticals.
Additional Resources
RSS Readers (Web Based)
Google Reader – In addition to tracking your feeds, Google’s popular RSS reader allows you to star items (like in Gmail) view trends in your feeds and reading habits, and recently added an option to read feeds offline.
Netvibes – This personal homepage provider includes hundreds of “modules” you can add to your page from Hotmail to your Flickr photos, but also lets you create your own modules by simply entering an RSS feed URL.
My Yahoo! – Still the most widely used custom homepage on the Web, My Yahoo now allows you to add RSS feeds alongside your weather, stock quotes, and news. Similar to Netvibes and Pageflakes, My Yahoo allows you to re-arrange your feeds with drag and drop features.
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