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OMC Social Media Promotions

A fantastic resource library of how-to’s that will get you started with building your own website. OMC Social Media Promotions is hosted by One Man Can, a professional coach and technology consultant who offers unique support to get your website up and running, as well as teach you the ropes. Monthly coaching package of $250.00 gets a hosted WordPress site, hosting fee included during coaching gig, and monthly support that can consist of coaching & training, working on the site with you, advancing your social media footprint and skills up to a maximum of 8 hours per month.

If you’re looking to get your presence known on the web, to your clients and target audience, then this coaching and hosting package is a great starting point. His social media influence alone will guarantee immediate traffic results and an increase in viewers and fans to help get the ball rolling.

TweetAdder Software Voted Best Twitter Tool

Always busy searching for different tools that will help succeed with Twitter, and other Social Media Platforms, TweetAdder is a major player always coming out on top.

After trialing the software, running our own rigorous tests before recommending anything, you are assured you will be 100% satisfied.

Our review indicates many reasons this software will be a hit with Twitter users seeking an edge and wishing to save time. Take a look below at the list that will help you take your business to the next level with Twitter.

• Increase Twitter and Site Traffic website destination – the links you will share!
• Improved ease to Find Like Minded Twitter Followers in Seconds.
• Auto Follow up to 1000 Targeted Profiles every day when they Follow you.
• Increase New Twitter Followers up to 500 per day per profile.
• Easily Manage Multiple Accounts.
• Automate Twitter Posts, Scheduled Tweets, keeping your accounts active while you run your business.
• Automate Scheduled Direct Messages with laser precision.
• Auto Unfollow, VIP Safe List, helps manage deadwood on Twitter, without affecting the keepers.
• TweetAdder has the Best Twitter Search, which includes Global Location and Multi Language Searches.
• Once setup properly, let it run automatically. Now go do your business!
• More Twitter Features than you could image!
• Now you can can spend time with family, take a weekend off, and even go on vacation!

Busy Professionals use the best software, don’t you deserve the same? Find out more.

Versions for Windows and Mac are available.

Tweetlater now Gives Social Oomph!

Tweetlater is now called SocialOomph!

This is a brilliant tool created to save time, increase productivity, and definitely ease the ability to market and drive traffic to your website(s). I’ve been using this for most of the year along with a variety of others to assist in the management and development of my own, and client Twitter profiles. This ensures we are better able to focus on our business. As a social media educator, tools aside, myself and clients must still take a few moments each day to login and ensure we’re engaging in conversations and @replies.

The Busy-ness of Business

No sane business person has the time to spend the number of hours necessary in the early stages of establishing a Twitter profile to increase their Follow list; their business can’t afford the distraction! As such, many of my clients and business peers (not industry) were initially hesitant to jump into using Twitter. In their eyes, Facebook was enough of a drain on their time, not to mention other social sites that come highly recommended for their industry.

In Comes SocialOomph

The sweet-spot of SocialOomph is with the User Interface (UI) that offers a variety of account management features and views for managing the volume of twitter traffic and tweets. Managing client Twitter Accounts, for example, whether monitoring, tweaking, or re-strategizing, SocialOomph becomes very useful with streamlined means to navigate profiles without constantly logging in and out of Twitter.

Advantages

Read their home page and you will see a host of benefits they talk about. Listed below is my own list of useful pieces of the puzzle, and my personal recommendation with it. 

• Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget!
• Track keywords on Twitter — Empower yourself!
• Save and reuse drafts — Save hours of typing!
• Bit.ly URL shortening — Track those clicks!
• Follow those who follow you — Automate!
• Unfollow those who unfollow you — Automate!
• View @Mentions & Retweets — Multi-account efficiency!
• Purge your DM Inbox — Keep it tidy!
• Personal status feed — Your own tweet engine!
• Unlimited Twitter accounts — No charge!
• Manage all your Twitter accounts — One integrated console!
• Integrate all timelines & keywords — Boost your productivity!
• Filter your timelines — Tune in only on favorite friends!
• Do the same action on multiple accounts — One click, save time!
• Mute annoying tweeters — Avoid frustrations!
• Hide read tweets — Unclutter your view!
• Delegate your Twitter account management — Free up time!
• Schedule recurring tweets — Without them being repetitive!
• Pause & unpause recurring tweets — Fine-tune campaigns!
• Bulk upload & schedule tweets — Save time!
• Get all new enhancements — No extra charge!
• NEW!! Monitor Channels – System default channels & Your Own Custom Channels!

Disadvantages

That’s quite a list of advantages, and it is necessary to speak to what I perceive as disadvantages. First, It is important to recognize that software services evolve as the demand for certain features increase, and SocialOomph continues to evolve, bringing new enhancements, features, and controls; something that is necessary to combat some of the negative aspects of Twitter Users inappropriate Tweet-Behavior.

Recurring Tweets: A great idea with a pitfall if relied upon too heavily. It becomes apparent to your audience when you rely too much upon this feature and can cost you followers who “give up” on following a non-person entity. This is not to say there isn’t the right time and place for the feature.

Follow / Unfollow: This simple drawback has a management feature that offers some protection. The issue with it is the limits placed upon API requests by Twitter. Were abusers to follow / unfollow repeatedly, their actions affect the number of interactions that become successful for building your list. That said, my observations suggest SocialOomph has some controls implemented to attempt to counter this, though the systematic tools have limitations over the creativity of the human animal’s unpredictability. Overall, a minor disadvantage.

Recurring Tweet Management: As a power-user of systems, databases, spreadsheets, the one-by-one management of scheduled tweets, retweeting them, recycling for scheduled tweets, can be a tad tedious. Rather than get bogged down online, the counter-recommendation is to begin the practice of offline tweet management and using their Bulk Upload feature.

Deleting / Cleaning Up Tweets: Reviewing history, or adjusting scheduled tweets, multi-select and taking action upon them in bulk is not an option. It’s a one-by-one process, and if deleting, editing, etc., this can be tedious. Recommendation: Get it right the first time.

OVERALL RECOMMENDATION

This is a great tool, and I highly recommend its use for managing your Twitter Account(s) and your client’s Twitter Accounts(s). With the affordable monthly cost, I definitely suggest the Pro Account for Increased Productivity while improving your Time Management significantly.

As a Pro Account user, all upgrades and additional features are available for life.; another serious benefit.

Your Online (Internet) Business Management Tools

Build a website, sure. Make it a plain site without a blog, multimedia, or engagement tools? Never!

Today’s technology has propelled us to a new level of engaging each other online. As a business ventures onto the Internet, online marketing becomes a necessity. Otherwise, you only get traffic typically from who you know and have met. What you want, combined with the social media profiles you have created, is a site that is dynamic, flexible, robust, and offers business tools that make it easier for you to:

• Build and Launch the website quickly
• Customize the look and feel easily
• Add your own content and have a blog with RSS feed
• An easy way for people to sign up for more information and newsletters
• An ecommerce tool to upload your product info and sell directly from your site
• A Contact Management database section to add new contacts, or have contacts add themselves through the website
• An email center that ties to the contact database and can do email marketing campaigns
• A workflow automation tool to set-up complete sales and communication cycles with new clients signing up, or for purchases.

Being asked often about this business of getting online, having a site, a blog, being involved with social media, I will often refer new clients to this tool for it’s ease of use.

Since we get asked often about this online business, getting a website up, what to sell, what tools we need, etc. I will often refer people to XLsuite for great starting tool.

From our sister site, OMC Social Media Solutions, you can own site and see the template sites ready to go.

With this systems full tool-set behind the website, designed for online business management and marketing, building your online business has never been easier. More services under one roof at a fraction of the cost. Versatile too.

Go check them out now and sign up for their free trial. Post your questions if you have them. We’re also interested in seeing you succeed. For early-adopters, consider joining the Reseller Program with multiple avenues of generating revenue streams.

Brief Twitter Use Overview – Beginner Level

Many people are hearing the buzz about Twitter rush online to create an account and get started, and quickly fizzle out. Working with many business clients, too busy running their affairs to take on the time investment, have me get them set up and raring to go. Once online, they become a little lost as to what to do with it once they’re there.

This video briefly explains some of the basics once you’re logged in. Nothing fancy, just some simple basics and reminders if you get lost.

Good Use of Social Media in Practical Way

Visiting Good Life Vancouver, an excellent example of integrating social media into a website can be found. Just the quick glance at the home page reveals a Flickr Slideshow, a YouTube video, and the quick-link invitations easy to see and click to connect on Facebook, Twitter, as well as sign-up for the RSS Feed and Newsletter.

Coming from a good source, it is also understood that the Flickr integration may well incorporate a Good Life Vancouver Flickr group; an idea that is being tossed around.

You’ll also note the Podcast channel that is ready to go. This site being such a new launch, live less than a week actually, the podcast audio from the radio program is still on hold.

The other thing about this site, which didn’t exist a month ago, is that it is already yielding tremendous traffic results. Part radio-show and friends, and even still, more via social media sites.

Starting Online Internet Business Ideas

OMC Social Media Solutions website is going to launch a series of guides that will educate the do-it-yourself, or small business owner looking to understand the landscape before doing business. The sort of topics will cover such things as:

* choosing a domain and a host

* structure and planning for the site

* the website as a business model, not a billboard

* recommendations for best services and applications online, as well as strategic use and best practices with these services and web applications

* guidance and recommendations on how to use social media, including Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, LinkedIn, and many more.

Many people venturing into the online world see the opportunities, and fail to realize them simply because they don’t know where to start. This series, how it is structured and presented, will take users through the basics, and moving beyond with the insight and knowledge to then be able to self-sustain.

Benefits include:

* Increased web-traffic by 300%

* Huge Time Savings with systematic processes

* Build friends and followers by the hundreds, then the thousands easily

Visit the Starting Online Internet Business Ideas post at OMC Social Media Solutions to sign-up for the announcement. A cool benefit is he is asking for you to include your questions too.

Tweetlater: Advantages and Disadvantages

This brilliant tool, which I’ve been using for a couple of months, has made a tremendous difference in my time saved with Twitter management. For one thing, I work with a variety of others to assist in the management and development of their Twitter profile while they continue to focus on their business. They do the normal chatting things, I take care of the other stuff.

The Other Stuff

No sane business person is going to spend the number of hours necessary in the early stages of establishing a Twitter profile to increase their Follow list; their business can’t afford the distraction! As such, many of my clients and business peers (not industry) were hesitant to jump into Twitter. In their eyes, Facebook was enough of a drain on their time.

In Comes Tweetlater

Tweetlater is another tool that came into my sphere some time ago, and has no direct connection to other automated pieces of the puzzle. It’s sweetness comes in the UI and the opportunities it presents. Helping others manage their accounts, and managing my own accounts (for more than one site and industry), whether it simply be monitoring, tweaking, or re-strategizing, it becomes very useful having streamlined means to navigate all these profiles without constantly logging in and out.

Advantages

Read their home page and you will see a host of benefits they talk about. Listed below is my own list of useful pieces of the puzzle, and my personal recommendation with it. If I omit anything from their own list of benefits here, it still remains for you to discover as I did not find significant value in my sphere yet. We rarely use all the drillbits in our power drill, we use the drillbits for the kind of jobs we do most often.

• Automatically sends Welcome DM (direct message) to new followers
  (our recommendation: Don’t, it bugs a lot of people)
• Autofollows those who Follow you. (
  our recommendation: DO, they’re interested, build your list, you’ll be able to leverage their audience too)
• Auto-Unfollow ensures Tweetlater drops the shifty people who like to Follow to get you following them, and then Unfollows thinking they’re 1) making their life easier with their data stream, or 2) enhancing themselves as more of an expert by articially influencing their Follow list without showing any reciprocity. This is dependent on other factors.
  our recommendation: DO, you’ll be glad you did. Once you reach a certain level, this becomes less a factor, however when building a list this is key to keeping it consistently growing
• Optional @Replies Digest Email helps you review the responses people sent to you each day in case you didn’t get logged in.
  our recommendation: DO, as a busy professional, you will find this saves you tons of time and allows you to laser target your responses as necessary. This will minimize the time and effort with social media conversations.
• Manage Many Accounts with TweetCOCKPIT is available for the Pro-Version. You can still manage multiple accounts free of charge, however, the TweetCOCKPIT view enables me to monitor and action all accounts from one page. BIG SAVER!
  our recommendation: DO, when you are promoting more than one website. Websites are keyword and destiny specific most often. There is more background to this advantage than I can explain here.
• Delegating Twitter Account Management ensures that I can also extend access to other Tweetlater professionals. They access only the account I give them access to, so as a team (as designed personally) you leverage each others time and talent.
  our recommendation: DO, if you have a team or staff, this will get more active participation going across the Twitter accounts of these staff and the company stream. A big piece of this is strategy and set-up, and offers more uses than I’m sharing for the sake of brevity.

Disadvantages

As a subscriber to this service, I find myself in the uncommon position of wanting to share a disadvantage or two about this tool. As I began, I started with the Free before moving up to the Pro version and watched it benefit me overall. Once at the Pro version, I immediately began taking advantage of more of the features.

• Recurring Tweets:  One feature in particular that I liked about the Pro-version is the Recurring Tweets. This is a brilliant idea. We know what self-promotional bits and links we want to share through the course of the week, so why not pre-schedule them? This just allows you, as a business person, to manage your time commitments and keep working on your business. But there is an apparent disadvantage.

  As Twitter matures, more features, tools, and applications pop up that other Twitter accountholders use. Whether it is a Twitter client such as TweetDeck, or a browser plugin, I’ve noticed that the Twitter streams are revealing more detail about the Tweet, rather than just the content provided.

  Why I feel it is a disadvantage
  
  When I began using it, and had the other automated tools working, one of these  other tools emailed me a Unfollow report everyday. In it I would see who unfollowed, and what Tweet came out right about the time they unfollowed. Observing this over the period of a couple weeks (I like to be sure), I found that people consistently unfollowed the Tweetlater recurring tweets.

  our recommendation: DON’T, unless your systems, purpose, vision, and audience are the type that will support what you’re doing.
  

• Account Management Interface

  This isn’t an uncommon complaint of mine, it’s just that Tweetlater also needs to know about it, consider it, and hopefully make some improvements.

  Managing data is a task, and not always a fun task. As users of systems and interfaces, we want to see and experience solutions that streamline and improve our experience. One very important aspect is saving time. As with most online software services, this seems lacking.

  With rows of accounts, tweets scheduled, etc., I prefer the concept (not a proposed solution, only making the point) of how spreadsheets work (databases too). If I need to delete a bunch of records, Select All, Delete. In Tweetlaters case, as an example, I’m stuck Deleting one tweet at a time. This is painstakingly tedious when when I’m cleaning things up.

OVERALL

I like it, use it, and don’t think about it much anymore. It has become my friend and I’m comfortable suggesting you try out the free version, and then upgrading to the Pro to take advantage of its other features.

By the way, being a Pro user, all upgrades and additional features are available to us.

leedman

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11 June 09 at 19:55

Time Saver: CopyTalk Copies What You Talk

Recent conversations about work-flow, capturing ideas, and leveraging knowledge turned up a site and service I had not seen. Looking over there offer left me some questions since I would be accessing the service from outside the United States.

I phoned their toll free line 1-866-267-9825 and ended up speaking with Linda Baxley at extension 438. If you call, use her extension and tell her you found out about her from Lee Down. I can’t commend her enough for her superb manner, expertise, and service. You can also visit CopyTalk.com directly and sign-up.

Speaking with her I had my questions promptly answered, and she helped set me up right there on the spot. CopyTalk.com has trial offers and I was considering the “Buy 1 Month, Get the 2nd Month FREE” option. She gave me the afternoon to play with it since I was working on a book that afternoon.

Here’s How It Works

• Call the toll-free line for the subscription (not customer service) and enter your PIN
• Say “Subject: _______” and then start talking.
• At the 4-minute limit warning, quickly end speaking, follow the prompt to accept this recording.
• TRICK: each phone call is permitted FIVE four minute recordings, so stay on the line, speak the subject at the prompt again as you did previously.
• After the Five four minute recordings are captured, dial back and continue.
• Within 24 hours, you should receive your transcribed recordings via email.

Now that you’ve got this great content in your email, now you can cut/paste, organize it however you need it for web copy, for ebooks, brainstorming, and so forth.  This is a great time-saver, really well suited to auditory thinkers/doers and creative types.

Annoying 4 Minutes?

It seemed annoying to have to limit my time, though I do understand from a technical standpoint that setting a limit aids in the processing behind the scenes. Giving it a try, I found myself initially dialing back after each 4 minute recording until I clued in that I was being asked to continue after my first recording. This made a huge difference. That’s a lot of good content written in 20 minutes, but there’s a catch.

What’s the Catch?

I tend to speak, explain, teach, and sometimes even write in a conversational tone. Speaking is obviously worse than writing as I’m able to edit on the fly. So I learned quickly that if I want to maximize the return on this tools potential, I would have to ease up a bit. That was the problem: Trying to get it all said in four minutes.

Now that I’m signed up and no longer testing, slowing down the thoughts, the dialogue, and my emotional energy, I can focus more clearly upon each item I wish to capture and speak it out as though I’m reading a book. Slightly different voice, better use of words, appropriate grammar, etc.

Good News

With practice, the transcriptions received back via email the next day are often ready-to-go with very minor editing. Previously, I’d stitch together the copies, have to do major edits around my conversational style when I recorded the call, and I’d lose all interest in using the service. So the good news is with practice, and realizing there’s no limits which allows so much more time to relax and do this well, great content creation with minimal effort no matter where you are.

My Recommendation

I find it an incredibly useful tool. While the monthly fee seemed pricey, the lack of limits and the potential to get enormous value from that far outstrips their monthly rate of approximately $80.00/month. It’s cheaper than hiring a temp, and when you experience how much you can get out of it when you use it, you’ll see the incredible value it offers immediately.

Tweetlister.com for Real Estate & Property Listings a Dream Home

Real Estate Professionals are going to feel like they did when they first sold a couple their first dream home. Always engaged in promoting themselves, and informing their audience of new listings via social media tools such as Facebook, Friendfeed, and Twitter, they are absolutely going to love this.

Tweetlister.com is a fairly new online Twitter application service that allows Real Estate Professionals to add excellent details about their property listings for sale, and to auto-tweet these, save them, re-use them within your Tweetlister.com account.

Signing in to Tweetlister.com is easy using your Twitter account details — a necessity as it will Tweet listings on your behalf. The interface and data entry for this online application shouldn’t intimidate any seasoned real estate sales professional. The MLS tools and such used often have much more complexity of detail and such that I’ve heard many a complaint about.

Yes, Tweetlister.com is going to make a noticable difference in the lives of many real estate professionals.

If you’re wondering why there’s mention of Facebook and Friendfeed also, please visit OMCsocial and ask about how these can be streamlined to save you time.

kernelali

great information and very helpful. I was looking for this type of information to pormote my real estate business in ...

5 April 10 at 17:16