Tips and Tricks

With Inflation Skyrocketing Use Twitter To Look For Free Coupon Deals

February 27, 2011

I’ve been noticing  the recent ascent of prices at my local grocery store and it’s becoming somewhat alarming. I’ve never been one to use coupons on a consistent basis. For one thing, my local grocery store always gives me coupons for items I would never purchase or for cheaper, lower quality brands. I’ve seen a bag of potatoes double in the last 2 weeks and poultry increase around 30 percent. Then I see that gasoline is increasing rapidly, another 20 cent spike in

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Twitter to Launch a Tool for TweetStats

November 28, 2010

Twitter is gearing itself up to face the competition in the social media market, and it’s beefing itself up by adding newer and better features for the big fight. The new twitter has already rolled out all the world and had made #twitter a hot topic again, and the latest arsenal is a new stats tool which will let a person monitor the popularity of the updates posted. This means that people will find out exactly how useless their ‘took a break, hit the toilet for a leak’,

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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business

August 30, 2010

We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act

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How to Force Anyone to Follow You on Twitter

August 30, 2010

Follow this dead-simple guide to force any Twitter user—from Oprah to Kutcher—to follow you. No, seriously. (Update: Here‘s what happened.) I have no idea how a hole this large could be left in a service as popular as Twitter, nor do I understand why it hasn’t been shut yet. What I do understand, though, is that Oprah is following me right now, and receiving my DMs. So anyway, here’s how it works: 1. Open the Twitter web interface (I haven’t been able to get it to

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Twitter for Beginners – 5 Things to Do as a New Twitter User

August 30, 2010

Yesterday I added all 538 Twitter users that submitted their details in our Social Media Love In. It took me a couple of hours to do – but I’m glad I did it because already there have been some wonderful conversations emerge. As I was adding new people to follow I noticed that there were a real range of people in the list. There were Twitter users with thousands of subscribers and others with 20 or so. Among the list there were quite a few who had literally just started using Twitter in

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