I will be re-designing my blog over the course of this week. Please excuse me while I re-arrange some things to make it better 
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At some point you might want to flush out Twitter Spammers or unfollow other users that don’t share your interests. Twitter itself does not offer a way for users to mass unfollow. It kinda of defeats the purpose of Twitter. However, with a lot of marketers and businesses using Twitter the wrong way, its easy to see how many of us end up with a ton of followers that don’t match our niche.
This was the case when resurrecting my old video site Leetstreams. I had acquired a following of users who did not match my gaming niche. This was back in the day before I really knew what I was doing with Twitter. So I wanted to find a way mass unfollow some 500 followers without taking the whole day to do so.
I found a lot of different apps and websites that offered the service but some were paid versions and some were banned by Twitter. One website I found to meet my needs is Tweepi which offers a way for you to mass follow or unfollow users. You have 4 very cool tools to use all for free:
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I came across this gem a long time ago but it wasn’t until I had the time to really use it. It’s called SearchStatus and is available as an add-on for Firefox or Sea Monkey. By the way, who uses Sea Monkey anyway?
So what does it do and why is it so important? Without going into too much detail, it is very important to know where your competition is getting their traffic from as an Internet Marketer. Using SearchStatus you can check every incoming link for a website or page without much hassle. It also allows you to view Alexa ratings, Google Page Rank, Google Category, Compete Ranking, and some other cool stuff.
The add-on displays in the right corner of the screen and gives a very balanced view of a particular websites efficiency and potential link juice.
Chances are you have this already if you are a serious Internet Marketer or maybe you use another tool? Either way it can be a very valuable tool for multiple reasons. I thought I would share one of the many tools I use.
I am interested to hear your thoughts? Have you tried it? What other methods do you use? As always I look forward to any comments.
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For almost a year I have been building Wordpress Sites using Thesis. As a matter of fact, most of the sites that I have built over the last 6 months have been using Thesis.
What is Thesis?
It is a Wordpress Theme and Framework. It makes it easy to create a unique design for every project. The cornerstone of Thesis is its Hooks and custom_functions which allow the end user flexible options to build a robust website or blog without messing with the core files. In fact, Wordpress reccomends that you don’t touch the core files of a theme.
Thesis is the Brainchild of Chris Pearson. He and a team have put together a great package with great support. Since the launch of Thesis there have been a lot of other developers moving in the same direction that Thesis has. But DIYThemes was the first to offer such an amazing platform.
Yes Thesis is easy out of the box and requires less coding knowledge for the average blogger with little HTML, PHP, or CSS experience. But when it comes to understanding and utilizing the full potential of Thesis, its important to get a Thesis Developer.
I want to offer my services to anyone needing a developer for Thesis.
Contact me any time if you have questions. If you don’t already have Thesis, be sure to pickup a copy here.
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I have decided to change my personal blog a LOT! I really want to focus more on content, less with photos and fancy stuff. I changed the design as you an see. Also on the front page I have it setup to display excerpts which makes it a little bit cleaner.
My goal for my personal blog is to write more often. I want to focus on three primary categories that interest me quite a lot. Those are, Web Design, Internet Marketing, and Blogging. As you know I have started several other blog networks so time has been an issues. I really want to make this blog more personable, gain some readership, and most importantly, use it as a tool to further my writing style and express my thoughts, passions, and goals for my life and my work.
The bottom line, this is a personal blog and I plan to treat it as so.
I would be interested in hearing what else you have to say about this. Please leave a comment below if you think this is the right direction. Also comment on my design if you like it!
Thanks for stopping by!
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I have been using Facebook to promote and manage several blogs for a while. I just launched a new blog at www.onebiginternet.com and added a fan page for it as well. There are a lot of benefits of using a Facebook fan page for your brand. But how do you set one up? Also, how do you create a custom “splash” or landing page for it? In this tutorial I will try to simplify this process and share how I setup my Facebook Fan Pages. As always if you find this useful, share it, tweet it, and subscribe!
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Looking for a more productive way to keep track of your ideas for a blog post? Every time I get a great idea for a blog post or website concept, I like to jot it down on paper. But since I spend most of my time online, I wanted a better solution.
This is where Zenbe Lists comes in. It is a free application for the I-phone and I-pod Touch and can be accessed online from any computer just by logging on to their website. Since I started using this app, I have created a large collection of blog post ideas. Read further to see how I use Zenbe:
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At some point you will find the need to touch up a person’s face for a portrait, magazine cover, or just for fun. If you are an avid Photoshop user, chances are you have tried numerous methods to achieve this. Just about every magazine that you read or glance through contains models that have been re-touched using Photoshop. In fact, no image makes the final print or photo release without some Photoshop touch-up work.
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The economy is BAD I would agree. But you have to look at it this way. We are transitioning into a new era. It’s only recently that the word “tweet” became a household name! Even the Russian President sent his first tweet yesterday. But how can “tweeting” pay the bills? It really can’t. But social media can give you the power to sell your ideas, brand yourself, and start an online business.
Photo by: Swedish Pavilion
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A good info graphic can speak emotion, give instruction, or solve a problem. Flow charts can also help present information in an organized and informative manner. Designers can be very creative with these graphics since it’s the designers job to take complicated data and display it in a visually appealing manner. This can be harder than you think and that is why I have put together a list of some of the most masterful flow charts and info graphics found on the web. Enjoy and share this if you like it!
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