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I pulled this list of time management on social media from an article in Square Martini Media
Have fun,
Jim

…list of Ten Easy Tips for Finding Time for Social Media Marketing during your day to get you started:

1. During a Coffee Break
2. While Waiting for a Meeting to Start
3. Scheduling 15-30 Minutes at the End of Every Day
4. When You Can’t Sleep
5. When You’re Stuck on Solving Another Problem (Give Your Mind a Break and Market)
6. In a Taxi, on the Bus, in the Train or on an Airplane
7. Anytime You Are Following Up from an Event (A Conference, Association Meeting, Networking Event)
8. While Your Children are Doing Anything That Takes Too Long
9. While Stuck in Traffic
10. Waiting in Any Line

Ten Easy Tips for Finding Time for Social Media Marketing | Social Media | Square Martini Media.

This is another very good article from the eBay Selling Coach (see link at the top of my pages).  Suzanne consistently provides valuable information for newbies to long time online sellers.  Her blog is one of my daily stops before starting my day.
Jim

Monday, November 8, 2010, Building Passive Income Streams – Anyone Can Do It

People often ask me if all I do is sell on eBay. No. I have many other income streams. eBay is just one of them. The key to making money with multiple streams of income is persistence, time, and commitment. For example, here is my history on eHow – an article writing site.

I started writing for eHow back in June 2007. I didn’t even know the site paid its writers. I was just writing articles about how to do stuff on eBay. In January of 2008, money started showing up in my Paypal account. I have submitted 316 articles to eHow since September 2007. The last article I submitted was in February 2010. (I stopped submitting articles when the system changed and it became more time consuming to write there.) Click here to see my profile. My articles have had over 1 million views in the last 3 years and I am now making about $35 a day and haven’t submitted anything in over 8 months. I now make enough money from this income stream to pay my mortgage.  Continued below:

at  eBay Selling Coach.

Pretty good information on listing as places.  Toward the end of the article is a listing of numerous sites worth checking to see it you are listed and more importantly, if you are listed correctly.  I found that some sites show my new store is a block away from its actual location.
Have fun,
Jim

From Net Magellan, 3 November 2010, Superpages.com tops 2010 USA IYP Rankings | Net Magellan

“Just over a year ago I published SEO ranking of US IYPs across 274 cities. Exactly a month ago I took the same ranking measurements, but did not publish them owing to a lack of time. A couple of days ago, Google announced the deployment of Place Search, (a new layout of the results page) which is not yet firmed up (in my opinion) but which has caused consternation among some observers in the popular Webmasterworld forum. I also blogged about it yesterday.” continued

I frequently meet folks involved in non-profit or charitable efforts who have no idea about how to leverage the free services found on the Internet.  I asked them to check on this site and send any questions they may have because there are a lot of us willing to help at no charge.

I found this article By Rich Brooks, at Social Media Examiner. on November 2, 2010.  Hopefully it will help and help you when you are trying to assist those groups.
Have fun
Jim

Click on 21 Ways Non-Profits Can Leverage Social Media | Social Media Examiner

“By Rich Brooks, Published November 2, 2010:  Like their for-profit brethren, many non-profits understand that using social media can help them reach and engage their audience, create momentum and build community.  However, there’s uncertainty around how to create a sustainable social media campaign, although the tools are plentiful and often free.

It looks like this feature may be used to help or hurt online ecommerce.  This needs to be evaluated in depth.

From Practical eCommerce, October 28, 2010, · by Jill Kocher

Bing Social Search: Are ‘Likes’ the New Links? | Practical eCommerce

Organic search revolves increasingly around personalization, delivering relevance not just to a searcher’s literal query, but also to the implied intent, geographic location, and historical preferences.

Earlier this month Bing took another step toward integrating Facebook’s social data into the personalization mix by launching “Liked Results and Facebook Profile Search” in its primary web search results. Bing discussed the launch in its blog post “Bing Gets More Social With Facebook.”

This must be good it is a lot of what I think, put in much better words.  Building a business while fighting your fears is no picnic.

From Copyblogger  7 Ways Being More Confident Will Make You More Money | Copyblogger.

Talk about time management.  About the only thing better than the information in here is removing and blocking all games.  Here is another Practical eCommerce article that we can all use.

Managing Pop-Ups in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome | Practical eCommerce

Ecommerce professionals spend many hours each day online. They monitor their businesses, check email, market products, post to social media sites, watch the competition, or otherwise do any one of a hundred business-related activities.

Into the midst of this online experience come pop-ups—ads, forms, controls, whatever. Perhaps, most of the time, you don’t want pop-ups interrupting your browsing. But other times, you do. For example, if you are looking at prices or specifications on a competitor’s site, the “compare products” feature probably opens in a pop-up window. Some ecommerce platforms also use pop-ups to display reports or other information. And, more specifically, if you use PayPal to process online orders, you must allow pop-ups for at least the PayPal domain.

In this article, I will describe how to find and use the pop-up manager in three popular web browsers: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 9, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrom…READ ON..

Oct
15

Top 10 Myths About Domain Names

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Of all the people using the internet and browsing websites everyday, the domain name industry is still a mystery to the majority of people.In this article I will do my best to educate you on the little known aspects of the domain industry and debunk some of the most common misunderstandings and myths about domain names.1. All the good domains are taken.According to the latest VeriSign domain industry brief, there are over 80 million .COM domain names …more… at Top 10 Myths About Domain Names.

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More information on the expanding Google services in support for businesses.  Worth reviewing and considering.  It is not going to replace my MS Office programs, yet, but it is looking good.
Jim

via Google Apps: Free Business Tools, Plus Collaboration Services | Practical eCommerce

As Google expands the number of tools and services it offers, it also seeks to package those services so they can be linked with each other and between the main user and other collaborators. This is the idea behind Google Apps, a suite of productivity and collaboration tools.

Google launched its Apps program in 2006, with “Gmail For Your Domain,” with 2 GB of storage and the ability to link the Gmail account to a custom domain name. Later that year it included other services like Calendar, Talk and Page Creator.

Sep
21

eBay: Duplicate Listing policy

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Great news, IMHO, this is one of the best changes I have seen.
Jim

From eBay: Seller Information.
:lol: New policy improves search for buyers, boosts exposure for sellers

This year eBay will help drive a more successful holiday selling season for all sellers by ensuring buyers have a quick, inspiring view of the great selection available for their holiday purchases.   Effective October 26, the new Duplicate Listing policy will help prevent search results from being dominated by multiple duplicate listings of the same item from the same seller, and improve exposure for great listings from many more sellers. Duplicate Listing policy New policy improves search for buyers, boosts exposure for sellersThis year eBay will help drive a more successful holiday selling season for all sellers by ensuring buyers have a quick, inspiring view of the great selection available for their holiday purchases. Effective October 26, the new Duplicate Listing policy will help prevent search results from being dominated by multiple duplicate listings of the same item from the same seller, and improve exposure for great listings from many more sellers.

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