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Twitter Tuesday: Url shortening
Last week I wrote about sharing links on Twitter and therefore I felt it appropriate to write about url (link) shortening this week. Because of the 140 characters length restriction url shortening is often needed in order to fit the link in a Tweet. These days Twitter automatically shortens urls in Tweets with their own t.co shortening system. It seems to be a decent system, yet not the only one available. Of course you can always build your own url shortening service with your own domain and all. But if that's not your thing, there are plenty of existing services to go for. Some of...
Farewell Juuso
15 years ago my parents and I brought Juuso, the little brother of Eetu home with us. He was a tiny thing, scared and confused by the car ride, the new people and everything. After a little while he set in and became a part of the family. Juuso loved being outdoors. He was known of spending the days and nights out, sleeping somewhere, climbing to dizzying heights and entertaining himself with hunting small prey. He was a little wild like that. A couple of years back Eetu had to go and last year it was Miku's turn. Today Juuso had been put to sleep after his health collapsed rather su...
Marketing basics: Stop selling, start giving
This is a new basics of marketing series aimed for small businesses and self employed individuals. It's a commonly known fact that (most) people don't like being targets of marketing. Especially they (we) hate advertising and selling part of it. Of course as a business owner you'll need sales. It would be ridiculous to think otherwise. As long as your customers are aware of the fact that they are being "victims" of marketing, they will fight against it. In order to make them stop fighting, you'll need to stop selling so hard. Selling needs to come naturally, in the way the custom...
A couple of web design tips
As someone who's job is to make websites look good and work well, I'd like everyone to use professional help with their web designs. Unfortunately this isn't always a possibility. I get it. An attractive and accessible design with the interesting content will lure more visitors, invite them to come back and stick around. And a good design will give a boost for your content as well. It'll improve readability besides of looking good. It works also as a sign of professionalism and tell that you are really invested in your site. The following tips are aimed mainly for those who aren't exactly...
Twitter Tuesday: Sharing links
Lots of people use Twitter to share links. And lots of people use Twitter to keep up with things by following those who share links. Links to interesting sites, articles, videos, images and what ever they (we) stumble upon while roaming all over web. Therefore here are a couple of cute tips on sharing links. Try these and your sharing will have more effect and won't alienate all of your followers. Read it first Make sure you know what you just Tweeted. Instead of sharing the link just cause the title seemed interesting or someone said it would be interesting, check out what it's made of....
What's your favorite color?
I've always found the questions about favorites (colors, movies, television shows, songs, artists etc.) really difficult. I think I can have several favorites and sometimes they change in time. I like the color orange. That orange orange, fresh and fruity. Actually if I think of it I like lots of different juicy colors, like that green of insides of a kiwi (the fruit, not the bird or a person). And the strawberry red, complemented with deep green is simply beautiful. There are also other pretty colors and loads of color combinations that make me drool. Like a bright, sunny yellow. Or hot p...
Twitter Tuesday: Tweetbot
Last week I got myself the Tweetbot app and I really really like it. Tweetbot is a Twitter app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It costs 2.99 USD (about 2.40 EUR) and is very much worth it. Before Tweetbot I used Twitter's free official app and I wasn't really happy with it. It is better than for instance the Mac app (which is pretty plain), but lacks of some nice little things. The main reason I bought Tweetbot is it's muting feature. You can mute certain hashtags (love it), keywords, clients (like paper.li for instance) and even users. They can be muted for 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or...
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