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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. I wanted to see two things: Would the second (or sometimes even third Tweet) convert enough people to my blog to make it worth potentially annoying some people on Twitter? So, whaddaya think?

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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The Men of Pinterest

InfoChachkie

Most focus on two things though, the amount of women that use the site and the amount of money dirty marketing people are going to make from it. The inspiration for this blog post via a recent Tweet , Hunter is a force of good at Youtube and Google. He also recently blogged his feelings on Pinterest mania. Hunter Walk.

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. He derived five lessons from his latest guerilla marketing triumph.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates. Skimlinks is an affiliate marketing tool that allows website publishers to readily monetize their online content.

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. I predict that hyperlocal services sites will continue to emerge and flourish.