How to Lose a Twitter Follower in 10 Days

The notification pops in your e-mail: “@SoAndSo is now following your tweets.” You are ecstatic! You are joyful! You have one more person who has deemed you worthy of a follow, of learning more about you and your ventures, of being an online friend that could grow into a devotee. Getting a new follower is easy; keeping one is the hard part. There are many ways to make a follower lose interest and hit the big “unfollow” X on your profile info. What was once a beautiful thing is now no more, over the span of 10 days in one follower’s tweeting life.

The Midwest Winter Blizzard Phenomena

The mass email has gone out. People are expected to be coming in late or not at all. My insurance agent has already told me she wont be in the office tomorrow due to the storm.

This is what happens in the Midwest when news of a major winter storm is eminent. Blizzard pandemonium has officially set in. Most of us have lived here for years and yet every time a big storm comes around people go into survival mode. I’m not criticizing, nor am I making fun. Hell I subscribe to some of this myself. I’m just pointing out what it’s like living in the Midwest in the winter time.

How to use Firebug To Speed Up Your Website

I’ve been using Firebug for a while now, but never realized this cool network debugging feature existed. It’s pretty easy to use and can help you speed up a slow website by pointing out what is taking your page so long to load.

Too Busy To Blog

I just wanted to leave a quick post as I haven’t been busy on this blog or any of the social networks as of late due to some really fantastic news. On January 14 at 3:48 pm Tori Michelle was born. Since then we’ve been busy with our newest wee one.

The Title Tag – Most Important SEO Factor?

This week’s guest post comes from SEO professional Kevin Budzynski. Kevin is responsible for managing the digital marketing team for the Quantum Interactive Group and author of the Baby Joey SEO Blog.

What is the title tag?

The title tag has been one of the most important factors in achieving high organic rankings. The title tag defines the title of the document. The title element is required in all HTML/XHTML documents.

Quick Tips and Easy Tutorials For Using Adobe Photoshop

The following tutorials have been designed to help enhance and automate your projects with Photoshop. Whether your a beginner or an advanced Photoshop user the lessons below should be easy enough to follow. Each tute is numbered and accompanied by screen shots of the processes. If you have any questions or would like to see how a different aspect of Photoshop works leave a comment and I’ll be happy to create a tutorial to suit your needs.

The Antisocial Network

An explanation of social networks and how they’ve been misnamed and misused and how to change that. Also a guide of how to maintain and grow multiple social networks.

Adobe Premiere Quick Tip – How To Create Animated Gifs From Movie Clips

Here’s another quick Adobe Premiere tip for creating animated gifs out of movie clips. Some times providing an image instead of a video is a good way to get around having your user install 3rd party plugins. The animation linked below is far bigger than what you would want to use for marketing purposes, but for a bit of fun and to show some love for the HBO series Eastbound and Down I let this slide at 43.6 MB.

Constant Contact Email Checklist

If you’ve never done any email marketing and are interested in sending out campaigns with Constant Contact you’ll want to read on. First off is a list of good practices for email marketing.

Download Free Website Templates

This week’s guest post comes from Amy Hall of www.websitetemplatesonline.com. Pay them a visit for free premium website templates.

Whether you want to build a new website or update the one you have, a website template is needed so that your project is completed on time, on budget and with minimal efforts.

How To Add Embedded Meta Data To Your Images For Relevant Image Search

Why do this?

To apply this extra image meta data I’ll be using Photoshop, but I first wanted to go over why this is important to do as your average visitor will never see this information. In all honesty there are a only a handful of people that even know where to look for this data. So why is this important you may ask? This info is for the search engine bots. It gives them a way to better index these images. These images then show up in popular image searches such as Google images, Yahoo Images, etc.