Bob retweeted you earlier. Wasn’t that nice of him? So, you decide to retweet a link to Bob’s blog in return, which all your followers can see. Wasn’t that nice of you? It turns out that Bob’s blog post is ill-informed trash. You just retweeted information, which is toxic for anyone who does what his…
Yesterday, Feedburner, which is the free service I use to deliver the email version of my blogs went nuts. Feedburner is owned by Google and used by almost every blog I know. The thing is, it’s free and customer service is all but non-existent, just like another great free service; Twitter. The problem with free…
I had an interesting exchange on Twitter yesterday. A lady I have never heard of, took time out to send me a tweet, to let me know she didn’t like my Twitter avatar picture. She went on to say she thought the picture on my marketing blog was OK but that I looked wrong for…
When someone I follow on Twitter tells me you’re great, it immediately puts you on my radar for all the right reasons. I have a positive expectancy that when I check you out, and I will, I’m going to find something of value. When you tell me on Twitter that you’re great, it immediately puts…
I was just reading an interesting post over on Gemma Went’s Red Cube Marketing Blog, which I believe you might find useful. It’s the 3rd post in a 3 part series, which Gemma put together after she surveyed a number of her contacts, to find out about the tools and apps they used. The resulting…
I remember a chat I had a year or so ago, with Robert Scoble. He made an extremely interesting point about Twitter. Here’s what he said: “It’s not the people who follow you on Twitter that defines you. It’s the kind of people YOU choose to follow, which tells people far more about you.” We…
An accountant friend of mine is a regular visitor to a UK based business forum. He tells me that often, when a person posts an accountancy related question, a number of accountants will start sending that person messages, quoting their fees. That’s totally lacking in class and makes them look like desperate fools. Occasionally, I…
I was just chatting with my friend, Liz Pullen @nwjerseyliz on Twitter, about how different it feels, tweeting to her now that she has swapped her avatar image from a photo of herself, to a logo. The logo is just being used as part of a twitter prank, but the point is still an interesting…
