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Touch Me On The Twitter

		Thursday, 27 September 07 - 12:21 PM (GMT) By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - News(From RSS)

Twitter has become my pseudo RSS feed

OK let's set the scene. It is 1987 and I have been working for a few years in the Australian Videotex industry and had had a PC almost from the day they had been released in Australia (oh yes the wonderful TRS-80). I have never been without a PC nor outside of any form of communication with others. Whether it was through Viatel, bulletin boards, IRC right up to the last 10 years where IM has really taken off. I think I can safely say I know how to communicate on the internet, and can adapt to whatever the norm is for that type of communication.

But it is only recently I took up Twitter and developed my Twitter taste into what I like, and what I don't like, about it as a communication tool.

BAD!

1. Some people use Twitter strictly for spamming their affiliate links. How rude is that!? Sure it is easy, especially with the new tools that will tiny URL with your affiliate link intact, but that is just nasty dark grey hat in my book.
2. People do not Twitter enough. Don't tell me you are going to go get milk, then not post anything for 3 days. I get worried something has happened to you. At least post you are back ... or going on holidays...or something
3. Automated blog posting of Twitter back to the blog as main posts. I prefer a sidebar of old Twitters, so it doesn't break up the flow of the "good stuff" that you have put a lot of effort writing into.
4. Posting you are looking at something on the net and NOT including a link. That is anti-intuitive for the internet.
   

GOOD!

1. People who realize that having followers is having an obligation to produce quality content just like any other web outlet.
2. People who post the stuff they are looking at so you have the opportunity to "look over their shoulders". After all that is what all this social book marking is all about, finding things that interest you by leveraging on where others have been.
3. People that mix it up a bit and have a surprise package of things they are doing, things they are looking at, things they are reading, things they are listening to... the whole shebang.
   
4. People that post that they have just blogged with a link. Totally addictive and if I am following you you can bet I am looking at your link moments after it pops up.

Community Internet Marketing

		Wednesday, 26 September 07 - 01:08 PM (GMT) By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - News(From RSS)

It is with great interest that I watch the direction Ed Dale is taking his Thirty Day Challenge project...

See Ed is ruminating on the idea of whether an open source-like space be set up where the large community that follows Ed, can gather and help educate each other.

The idea certainly has some merits and being the eternal optimist I can envisage an Internet Marketing Nirvana where all is community bonding, friendship and the desire to help their fellow man. Whether that can be created remains to be seen ...knowing human nature, and reflecting back on the large online community projects I have been involved with, the burn out that comes with dealing with the opposite to that ideal can take its toll (but can be handled with knowledge and a lot of break taking and fresh blood).

So how would I go about setting up such a source of knowledge. Wiki is being mentioned a fair bit. But personally i would be more inclined to go with a YouTube type of setup where content can be rated not only by the people that watch it (which would remove the spammers because we all know what shit content looks like, right?) and also that those in the higher echelons can also put their stamp of approval on it.
This can also go for audio presentations as well.

If Wiki and YouTube can be mated and the main substance of the writing come from experienced and proven internet marketers then i would be more inclined to believe its authority. If the majority of writing is done by Fred Blogs who just completed the 30DC and wants to tell me that affiliate marketing is the only way to go, my cynicism is going to walk me right out of that door.

Now if someone did a video series on how to get creative product ideas when you are running a "free" niche then I will be watching that with great interest. Especially if it has a Gold Star from one of the big hitters who are guiding the project :)

Did You Hear Internet Marketers Suck?

		Monday, 24 September 07 - 03:15 AM (GMT) By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - News(From RSS)

 Well did you?

Actually I am trying out Odiogo on the blog to see if there is any advantage to using that over actually blogcasting each post myself.

So far I am undecided.

For a start the voice is male, and I am not male, I don't want to sound like a male. Text to voice has come a long way but has a few hundred miles to go to sound natural.

The more I think about it the more I think I will just blogcast for those that like to multitask and for those readers that have vision issues.

Tell me what you think, maybe you can use Odiogo on your site for something?

This Blog #1 In Google in 8 Hours

		Wednesday, 19 September 07 - 09:37 PM (GMT) By Allison Reynolds in Internet Marketing - News(From RSS)

 Don't believe me? You can look for yourself, I will put the link up in a moment.

Who else but a newbie like me would be checking their ranks only hours after putting up their site?

I have to admit that I think I have a problem unhealthy obsession good handle on checking statistics. The old rule says you can't manage what you don't measure but I have become obsessed with my statistics.

I have a site that gets 100+ visitors a day who are spending over 2 minutes on the site yet they don't buy a cracker. On the other hand I have a site that has only had 97 visitors in total and yet has made a sale. Talk about the sublime to the ridiculous.

This blog itself has had 50% of visitors who have left after <5 seconds of viewing. These are internet marketers who are looking. I wonder if the layout makes them think it is a sales letter.

Yes the layout is a bit of a piss-take!

That needed to be said. And because you should never deviate from you one idea in a post I will now give myself several e-slaps for breaking a sales/blog rule

p.s. Here is that link I promised

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