What I’ve Been Up Too…

mindmap1Lately I’ve been busy concentrating on building a new business online. In fact I have a couple of things going right now. Since my wife and I closed our t-shirt printing business of 14 years, I’ve been researching the Internet for an online business to start. My goals are to provide the both of us, the income that we lost from closing our business and the lost from our 401K that fell victim to a bad economy.

I think it’s time to lay the foundation for a new venture and prove that a conventional business is not the only way to earn an income. This business will also provide my wife and I an income to supplement our retirement. Through the research that I did, my direction will be towards Affiliate Marketing and Designing WordPress Themes and WP Plug-in. I started a mindmap to keep me focused on my goals and a step by step plan that I’ll follow to give my business the momentum that I will need to keep it moving forward.

This is just an update to inform my readers what direction I’m headed in and I’ll post my activities on this site as my business grows. I’ll be creating a page on this site with graphic designs for you to use if you have a web site. It’s F.R.E.E.! Aloha till my next post!

WordPress Newbie Goes Wild!

healthy150x150Starting a new Word Press Blog can be intimidating if you’re a newbie. It’s even more intimidating if you were to get into code hacking and customizing your blog. With all the Word Press plug-in and themes to choose from it could be a little over whelming for a person who is just starting to blog. In my opinion as a newbie, Word Press is the way to go. I used Frontpage [Read more...]

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter!

twitter2One of the best social tools created, that rapidly gained popularity in a short period of time. Twitter is a mini-blog that let its users post as much as 140 characters to its followers. Followers could be friends, family, business acquaintance or people who find your tweets interesting.

Since the conception of twitter there have been many other additions’s to complement the mini-blog idea. From twitter locators, twitpics twitter groups, twitter grader, twitter feed and most recent, bubble tweet which adds a 30 second video bubble that appears on your twitter page, delivers your message and disappears. Twitter is a great idea for your social pleasure.

Socializing, interacting and providing useful updates can create a lot of people following you. Twitter is also used for networking, latest news updates and all sorts of information that you can provide to your followers within your 140 character limitation. The key here is to add value to your tweets. Oh yes, there are boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed and you will see people spamming but it’s easy to solve that problem, “UNFOLLOW”!

Relationship building can be a great experience using Twitter. What better way to meet new friends and build a relationship. It’s almost like a forum, participate add value and build relationships. A lot of local tweet-ups are popping up all over the place. People are organizing tweet-ups to get together over lunch or a drink and socialize, take pictures or videos and add to their blogs.

Marketing with twitter can be another avenue to pursue as long as you’re careful the way you present yourself. Trying to sell and push your marketing to your followers will only turn them off, which could lead them to unfollow you. Twitter is a free tool to use and can be a marketers dream come true if you build relationships. Twitter is a Hugh community of friendly people.

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