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A new Twitter novel - It all begins with a sunset
Since 2009 when I was writing my bachelor's thesis about social media in marketing I've been fascinated by the idea of writing fiction on Twitter. It was back then when I was first introduced with this sort of use for said service. Already back then there were people who wrote short stories or longer novels 140 characters at time. Tonight I finally started a new fictional story on Twitter. It was supposed to be just one Tweet long fiction (which are internationally very popular right now), but the one I wrote inspired to write more. I already have six more in store. The first "chapter" of...
The web is never ready
I've been working in a whole bunch of web projects. The projects have varied from business sites to educational applications and personal projects (like this blog for myself). And one thing I know I've learned is there's not such thing as ready and same when making a website. During these over 10 years I've been messing around the conventions, standards and techniques have changed so much the past feels like a whole different world. For instance for my last blog, sometime in the early ears of this century, I built the whole content management and commenting system. I can assure you it wasn't...
Thinking inside the Dropbox
I wanted to move most of the photos and videos from my iPhone. All the options I had available to accomplish this seemed so slow and too much work. So I dusted my old unused Dropbox account, installed it on my computer, got the iPhone app and started to copy the photos from iPhone to Dropbox and from Dropbox to my hard drive. This isn't one of those horror stories where everything goes wrong and then all the way wrong. Nope. Everything actually worked. And pretty nicely too. I had rather lots of photos (and some videos too) on my iPhone so the moving them around took some time. But it was fa...
Twitter Tuesday: How to get your Tweets noticed
Getting your Tweets noticed is sometimes easier said than done. Your followers are following tons of others and those tons of others are Tweeting like maniacs. Making them pay attention to your Tweets (and perhaps click the links too) may prove to be difficult. It's not impossible though. Here are a couple of very simple ways to help your message to be noticed. Repeat Because your followers are likely to be using Twitter from different time zones or at least they are using it different times, it's best to repeat the most important Tweets. Try and get your Tweets out when your followers ar...
Marketing basics: Do it yourself
This is a basics of marketing series aimed for small businesses and self employed individuals. Especially now that everything is so viral, it probably seems like your brand is forgotten completely. Nothing gets shared and liked, nobody comes to your website and you don't create the sales you need. That might be so. If you don't already have a huge bunch of fans and if your friends and family members don't care that much, no-one else is going to help you with your marketing. Not at this moment. Promoting yourself or your own stuff might feel a bit cheap thing to do. "Look at this cool ...
Simple ways to multiply blog traffic
Something has happened. The traffic of this blog is up, multiplied. Over four times more visits than the same time last year. Even more pageviews. Almost six times more unique visitors. Double of new visits. And this has happened in a very short time. What's different? Well, that's not an easy thing to answer. There are lots of smaller things in the play. In the following are a couple of things I've done and what you can do as well to get your blog traffic up. Much more promotion I have always been a bit shaky about marketing my own stuff. Yeah, it's silly, but I've been raised not to ma...
Twitter Tuesday: What if I have nothing to Tweet about?
We all have one of those days in time to time. Well, all and all. Some people seem find inspiration to Tweet from the color of their underpants. But the rest of us have those days, weeks or even months when we feel like there's nothing to say. Or rather Tweet. So what to do when this happens? Most Twitter advice by most Twitter "experts" would tell you to keep consistently Tweeting. Sharing links, scheduling, giving tips, being all social. They are right and they are wrong. If you are Tweeting for your work and keeping a brand alive with it, having one of those days may seem like a bad idea....
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