299 Steps to Website Heaven

For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients - and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures - everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats - I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.

I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!

And then I found GetClicky.

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Fantastic post from Chris Brogan on using Social Media to improve your marketing:

50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

1. Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing.
2. Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques.
3. For every video project purchased, ensure there’s an embeddable web version for improved sharing.
4. Learn how tagging and other metadata improve your ability to search and measure the spread of information.
5. Create informational podcasts about a product’s overall space, not just the product.

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Want to get your message out via Twitter? Why not help your followers by pre-populating their Tweet message in the following way:

To create your own pre-populated tweet link just format a link as follows:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere

Like this - tell people about 299 Steps to Website Heaven being FREE for one day by clicking this Twitter link

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Twine went up in my estimation after a shaky start, by using Twitter for their online reputation management.

Click through to Business on Twitter to find out how you could do the same!

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If you’ve been hearing all the hype about Twitter, and Tweets, Twits, Twhirls and whatnot, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d ended up on another planet.

Well, help is at hand with our Twictionary - a twitter dictionary to help you through the Twitter minefield.

Part one is here …

Part 2 is here …

Part 3 is here …

You can join Twitter here

You can follow me on Twitter here

And you can learn more about using Twitter for Business here or by emailing me with any questions!

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