Archive for January, 2010

Social media is a popular way to promote your business, help you receive online popularity and connect with potential customers online. Twitter is a useful online tool to help your company succeed online.

When you get a large following on Twitter, a single post that you send out could potentially become viral. Research topics within your business niche to invite other small business owners to follow you. Finding new connections that offer tips, updates and possibly new customers. By investing some time into Twitter and networking with other business owners, you could increase your chances of having a successful enterprise.

If you use Twitter professionally for business, you could find yourself generating more business online. Read my entire article on Twitter: How and Why Should We Use It? on Earticlesonline, or read my blog post entitled Twitter-A Powerful Networking Tool.

Also have a look at these other tips on my blog:

Tips Designing a Fast Loading Website
Tips on Writing Blog Posts
The 7 Best Website Optimization Techniques

There are so many websites online that allow you to do things with your cellular mobile phone. Some of the things I have found that you can do with your cell phone through the internet include scheduling free text message reminders, finding the answers to difficult questions, converting MP3′s to ringtones, and downloading pictures, music, books, videos, ringtones and games.

View these mobile phone related websites for things you can do right from your mobile phone.

Try out BeamIt to download pictures, music, videos, docs and any other file to your cellphone/iPhone. Bitbom is a useful tool that lets you schedule free text message reminders to your mobile phone either online or using mobile. CallTheFuture allows you to Schedule text messages to be delivered as a voicemail on any desired date in the future. GameJump is a mobile phone website that has loads of free games for mobile phones. To forward anything you find on the web to any mobile phone for free, use GoogleSendToPhone. Jott is a simple and convenient service for leaving yourself notes and todo reminders using your mobile phone. Text questions from your mobile phone and receive answers with Mosio. You can download ringtones, games and wallpapers for your mobile phone with Sendme Mobile. Soonr allows you to access your PC or any other PC remotely with your mobile phone. Schedule and receive wake up phone calls, weather forcasts, reminders, jokes, and more with TelePixie. TellMe is a free local directory service for maps and directions of business listings sent to your mobile phone.

Have a look at many more mobile phone related websites in my resources section of this website.

You can text message from your computer for free when you aren’t able to text from your mobile phone. Setting up a text messaging account is easy and free. Text messaging services online allow you to send, receive and set up contact lists for any mobile service provider.

If your mobile service is disconnected, or you don’t have your mobile phone with you, using your computer for texting is just as easy if not easier. I have tried a few text messaging services and found one of the best ones is Textem.

Free texting from your computer is useful when alternate resources are not available. Take advantage of these texting services when you want to text from your computer. Try Textem now.

Also try these computer to text websites:

ipipi.com
TextMagic
txtDrop.com
WhitePages Text

Projecting a positive business image is important when interacting with your potential customers online. You should define an online presence that is both professional and attractive. You want your online peers to take you seriously and want to contact you to enquire about your business.

When using social media, be sure that you use the most professional photo possible for a positive first impression to potential customers. Use an appealing background to attract your online peers to be interested in doing business with you. Don’t use pictures taken in such a casual setting that your potential clients will think you are lacking a business demeanor.

This concept even applies to a basic implements such as a voicemail message.  If you’re expecting to receive calls from prospective employers or clients, a professional voicemail is a necessity.  Speak in a clear, articulate voice, annouce who you are and that you’ll get back to your caller as soon as possible.  Doing business on the phone is no time to lack professional business skills.

Projecting a positive business image allows your online presence to be taken seriously. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and if you make sure that your photos are professional, you might have an easier time attracting potential customers to your business.

Sometimes translating a language online could be difficult if you don’t know what language you are trying to translate. These language detecting tools make the task much easier by telling you the name of that foreign language. Then once you identify what language you are trying to translate from, you could use these tools to translate text and website pages.

Simply copy and paste the text into the search box of these language identifiers in order to be on your way to translating unidentified foreign languages. Some of the most popular tools I have found online include Google Translate, Whatlanguageisthis.com, and Polyglot 3000.

Of these three tools for translating text, Polyglot 3000 can recognize the most languages overall, about 400. This is the only downloadable desktop tool of the three, so you don’t need to be online to use it. All three of these foreign language detectors are free to use for an unlimited amount of time.

RapidShare’s online file transfer system is both free and easy to use. Ususally trying to send large files via email could be a problem because most services only allow files of about 10 megabytes at a time to be attached to an email. RapidShare makes it possible to send up to 200 megabytes at a time to anyone you want to online.

Instead of sending a large amount of files in multiple emails to someone, RapidShare makes it easy to send the entire group at once. This free service is easy to use and even has an online video tutorial that makes it even easier.

Simply upload a file and send the link to the person you want to send the file to, and you can delete your files any time you like. Read more about RapidShare in the resources section of Coderepair. Take advantage of this easy and free way to transfer files online.

Tags: file file transfer free rapidshare

Besides writing blog posts, adding website pages and submitting to directories for inbound links, it could be to your advantage to write articles to promote your website. By writing articles about your business niche you can get more backlinks to your website, increase visitor traffic, and receive more exposure for free.

Write often to increase traffic and keep it interesting for your readers. Give your website visitors a reason to visit regularly. When you constantly offer new content, your website growth shows. When you write articles to be published by online article publishing companies, your website gets more exposure, more links to you are avaliable online, and you may find you get more traffic than usual. Growth in online traffic is to your advantage because chances are that with more exposure, you could get more business by potential customers.

I’ve been writing more articles lately because I notice the backlinks I get from it is growing more and more. It’s important to write within your business niche about things your potential customers would like to learn about. Keeping them interested in your website could get you referrals to other potential clients as well. The more you write, the more exposure you could get.

Some Great Websites to Submit Your Article:

Acme Articles / Articlebliss / Articledashboard / Articlefeeder / Articleland / Articlerich / Articlesbase / Articlesnatch / Articlesrightnow / Amazines / Earticlesonline / Ezinearticles / Ezineseeker / Ideamarketers

You can check your website’s inbound links online with a domain inbound links checker. By finding out what other websites are linking to your website, you can figure out which methods of establishing backlinks that you are using are actually yielding results.

Backlinks, or inbound links, are incoming links to a website that are an indication of the popularity of your website page. More websites that link to you is an indication of approval online, and can lead to increased traffic to your website.

I have compiled a list of free directories to submit your website for inbound links, it’s free and easy to do. You could also have a look at my blog post on how to submit to free directories for inbound links.

Simply go through each directory link one at a time and find the niche that your website would fit into. Once you navigate there, on each website, you can click on “submit url”, “submit links” or “suggest a site” either at the top or bottom of the webpage. Then there will be a form to fill out including your name and email, the URL, title, description and keywords of your website, and perhaps a category your business fits into. Submit the form after filling in captchas, choosing “free regular link” and making sure it is complete. By tracking your stats as well, you can see how much your website visitor count goes up.

Check the inbound links to your website and find out what other websites are linking to you. Backlink Watch is a free tool to find out exactly what websites are giving your site inbound links.

This post is dedicated to some common mistakes that may make your website hard to read. A hard to read website can send your website visitors away to other pages listed in their index of search results. The idea of having a website is keeping your visitors on your page and getting them interested enough in your products or services to contact you. Avoiding these common mistakes that make your website hard to read may help.

Appropriate contrast between text and background is important so your content can be read easily. You don’t want your website visitors squinting to see what you write, so make text as readable as possible with high contrast against the background.

Don’t tire out your reader by writing long paragraphs. By breaking up the text into shorter paragraphs and using headings to break up the page, you give your reader the ability to scan your website page much easier.

Avoid using wide columns so your reader’s eye doesn’t get lost following a long line of text. Divide your text into multiple columns or use right and left margins to fit everything on the screen.

Highlighting with bold, italics, bullet points and hyperlinks can break up your paragraphs as well. Draw your readers into your website by linking to other pages that have a common theme with what you are writing about.

Avoid long website pages and using too many navigation links because this is just too much for the reader to take in. Keeping a minimum of links could keep your readers from being overwhelmed by so much to choose from.

Avoid these mistakes that make your website hard to read and you may find that your visitors will stay on your website longer when you track your stats. Visitors that stay on your website longer are more likely to use your products and services because they are impressed with how comfortable your website makes them feel.

Read more on related subjects on my blog:

Small Business Website Navigation
Small Business Website Home Page Advice
The 7 Best Website Optimization Techniques
10 Ways to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas