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Google is offering a free service called Google Alerts. The service will alert you by e-mail every time your keyword or keyword phrase appears anywhere on the internet. This includes discussions, blogs, news, Twitter feeds and YouTube.
You can request an alert every time your company name or your product is mentioned. You could also request an alert every time your competitor’s name is mentioned. This could help you stay informed of their price changes or promotional announcements.
Your alerts could also track what your key customers are doing online. If you u can request these alerts daily, weekly or even in the moment.
are an industry guru you could use alerts to follow a particular event or technology.
Google alerts should be incorporated into your sales and marketing plans even if all you’re marketing is your blog. Let’s face it, the more information you have about your business or industry, the more successful you can be.
Sign up for it today and tweak it as you go along. You can always add new phrases for additional alerts and remove existing ones as they lose their importance.
Their link is: Google alerts
India’s Press Information Bureau announced in a recent press release that India has developed the world’s cheapest tablet. This touch-screen computing device will be available in 2011 and will cost $35.00. It is expected to drop to $20.00 and finally to a mere $10.00!
Although the information regarding its hardware is sketchy, it is portable and has a 7 inch touch-screen. It will have office software, a PDF reader, web browser and media player included in the price. The software is linux based and will be open source.
Other capabilities include video conferencing, remote device management and have multi-media input and output ability.
According to Minister Kapil Sibal, India’s Human Resource Development Minister, “We have reached a (developmental) stage that today; the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything.”
It’s amazing that technology has become so cheap! At the projected final cost of $10.00 I would think it will have an impact on other manufacturers worldwide.
StoryJumper is a neat website that helps you create and publish your own children’s book using photos, text and simple images in just minutes. If you are concerned that you don’t know where to begin, they offer a guide to help you.
The first thing you will need to do is register on their site and verify your e-mail address. Then you can start. If you need to be inspired, there is a green explore button that allows you to review some of the books that have been created. You can also personalize some of them.
Once you have a story idea you simply start with each page. You are able to select a background, add images and write your text.
If you are stuck they offer a step-by-step guide to help you through the process. As each page is complete, you can add others until your book is done.
When your book is completed, you can share it with a link, embed it in a blog or even offer it to the public for sale. If you are so inclined, you can even order a printed version of it.
You can create and print other things like a treasure map or a pre-written story. StoryJumper is designed to create your own story and allows you to print and share it free. It is simple enough so your children can create their own stories too.
Their site is located at: http://www.storyjumper.com
Your Tribute offers a free service to help you celebrate life events such as births, memorials, anniversaries, wedding, birthdays, and graduations. You can create a free website that includes virtual gifts, a guestbook, your story, multiple photos and videos, all on separate tabs.
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Bolder is an interesting website designed to inspire actions from its visitors that will benefit society. These are simple challenges known as micro-actions. Micro-actions are an inspiring concept. They are simply small things all of us can do that will benefit us in some way.
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I recently found Fast Company’s social media experiment and was immediately intrigued. It is dubbed the Influence Project. The premise is to sign up, post your photo and a short bio, and try to influence as many people as you can to click on your link. As you gain clicks, or in Fast Companies terminology “influence,” your photo will get larger. They will publish all photos in their November magazine and announce who the most influential person is.
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I am sure that you recall the commercial whose tagline is “There’s an app for that”. There are many apps available for photographers to use and it is difficult to know which ones will give you the results you are looking for. Following is a review of five of what we believe to be the best apps for photographers. Some of them are free which makes trying them out an easy decision.
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Facebook has given third party developers the ability to create tools through Facebook API. All seem to be very helpful. We have found some that can help improve your marketing success on Facebook. They are listed below.
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There are several differences between reading a magazine or newspaper and reading content on a website or blog. When reading web content, visitors generally:
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Today, whenever anyone considers marketing a new product, brand, or simply their blog, they think about how they should use social media. Simply having a presence on Facebook and Twitter is not enough. When you use social media sites for business, you need to manage your program to prevent unplanned glitches.
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Comment by Frank Freund Sr.
on Five Phone Apps for Photographers
Search Engine Marketing
Yes and it looks like there are more free ones every day!