J’s Ramblings

Scheduling Your Tweets

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I tried two new services today – Twuffer and FutureTweets. They are both very similar types of services.  You enter a tweet, then you state the date and time you want it to actually be posted on Twitter.  When the time comes – that tweet gets posted to your Twitter feed. I actually like both of these a bit more than Timely.is – which I had previously been using – as these services allow me to set the exact time.  Timely fed out my tweets throughout the day based on how many tweets/day I wanted (I think I could go in and manually edit […]

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Timely.is retiring

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I was just at a site I use for scheduling tweets on Twitter. – Timely.is is a free service that allows you to enter your tweets in advance and it then puts them out on your Twitter timeline over the coming days.  A simple and effective service to stay in contact with your Twitter followers. Unfortunately Timely has decided to quit offering their service.  It is unfortunate as it was a good service. A few options for replacing Timely.is  Hootsuite a very comprehensive tool that allows you to monitor and post on a number of social networks. Buffer is a very user friendly application

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Love / Hate relationship with Technology

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It started back in high school I believe – the first time I was creating some program in Computer Science 10 class.  Using good old Basic programming language.  Some bug in the code was driving me absolutely nuts – and I HATED it.  Then finally I managed to solve it – and I LOVED it. It happened again and again in my graduating year of high school when my best friend Aqeel and I were putting together a project for the Canada Wide Science Fair – a computer learning project. Many nights I was locked in this Love/Hate euphoria. It was almost enough for

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Couple Social Media Concepts

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Two quick ideas related to Social Media that I want to talk about today. First is the concept of ‘Likes’ – in particular Facebook Page Likes. You see all the advertisements to get more likes, get 10,000 likes, how I got 5000 likes, etc. Many people judge a businesses Facebook page by the number of Likes. Well – my question is does every business want to be Walmart?? Walmart needs lots and lots of people – since they are a LOW-Cost provider. Do you want to be a LOW-Cost provider. Think of other Low-Cost providers – Mcdonalds, SuperStore, etc. If that is your business

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Basics of Marketing

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Many people I talk to struggle with the concept of marketing. They understand many of the different strategies included within marketing – such as advertising, creating a website, building customer relationships, but they don’t know how this all intertwines into a marketing plan. Let’s start off with a very simple marketing definition: ‘Marketing is EVERYTHING related to (that affects) the sale and transfer of Your Product to Your Client‘ . . and remember The Customer Experience is EVERYTHING! Let’s delve a little deeper into the Customer Experience. First – what do we mean by Customer Satisfaction? The first criteria is did our product or

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