I use Mailchimp to send out my weekly newsletter and numerous one-off email messages (I can hear you groaning already he’s on the sell again :)) I thought I would write a quick blog post saying why I use this over other systems such as Aweber or Contant Contact, Free For First 2000 Signups I bet that caught your attention, yes Mailchimp is completely free for the first 1000 subscribers you have.  You can send out 6000 emails per month, with a cap on 1000 emails in any 24 hour period. This is great if you are just building your […]

I’m stepping away from WordPress in this post, I hope you don’t  mind, I want to talk about twitter for a moment. Your WordPress site is probably acting as a hub with spokes connecting your social media profiles at twitter, Facebook et al so the link is not that tenuous. I want to explore why I think twitter search or search.twittter.com could be one of the most important tools for businesses to find new leads and monitor customer satisfaction. Search.Twitter.Com Search.twitter.com allows you to perform a search on the live twitter stream. What’s the big deal about that, and why […]

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