14 Mar 10 3 Social Media WordPress Plugins that Will You Connect Better

Extendibility of WordPress is what makes WordPress such a powerful blogging platform. You can extend the capability of your WordPress blog by adding plugins. There are all types of plugins available. In this post, I will share three must-have WordPress social media plugins that will help your blog connect with your end user.

Sociable

If you want to install just one social media plugin on your WordPress blog then be it Sociable. It is highly customizable, and has built-in support for all the major social media sites. Once the plugin is installed you can enable as many social bookmarking buttons as you want to. You do not need to enable all the buttons, as it will clutter the space. You can even rearrange the icons to suit your specific need.

Tweet This

Do I need to say what it does, or the importance of the thing it does? Twitter is a magical word on the Internet, it has redefined the way we share, communicate, and even search. You would want to use. Tweet This plugin to seed your blog posts in this media. Tweet This usage an URL shortening service (Bit.ly) to make the URL of your blog fit the 140-character specification set by twitter.

Social Homes

As the name suggests, Social Homes helps you tell the visitors of your blog about all the online places you call home. You can add links to all your profiles in the sidebar of your blog using this plugin. Setting up this plugin is quite easy. All you need to do is add URL and the name of the website to set this up. The plugin will fetch icons of each of the URLs you entered and display it in your sidebar.

None of the above is optional plugin. You need to use all of the above, if you want to make your presence felt in the social circle.

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Tags: Capability, Fetch, Icons, Magical Word, Online Call, Plugins, Presence, Profiles, Sidebar, Social Bookmarking Buttons, Social Circle, Social Media, Tweet, urls, Wordpress Blog

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14 Mar 10 More Marketers Turn to Social Networking

In a study conducted by Unica, a marketing technology provider, it was found that almost half of the global marketer (47% to be precise) uses social media to promote their products, and another 23% is planning to use it this year. If we add to this equation those who are planning to use social media after 12 months then the percentage will increase by another 10%.

In total 80% global marketers either use or are planning to use social media. (See image for details).

This study also found that 58% of US and Canadian marketers use social media to promote their stuffs, while, just 34% of their European counterpart use it. But this figure will likely change this year as 30% European marketers shown their interest in using this year compared to 18% of North American marketers who showed inclination towards using social media in 2010. (See image for detail).

Tags: 12 Months, Canadian Marketers, European Counterpart, Global Marketer, Global Marketers, Image, Inclination, Marketing Technology, Social Networking, Study Also Found That, Stuffs, Technology Provider

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13 Mar 10 3 E-mail Hosting Account Buying Tips

Having an e-mail ID on your domain for each of your employee is no longer an optional step to be taken. It has become mandatory now, and this change has been brought forward because of the two important changes:

Employees no longer wish to use their personal mail IDs for your work because of the frequent job changes and privacy.
A mail sent from salesXYZ@gmail.com does not look as professional as a mail sent from sales@xyz.com.

Therefore, you must have a professional e-mail ID and for that you do not need to invest thousands of dollars in installing e-mail server. You can get everything by just buying an unlimited e-mail hosting account. You would not like to have an account that limits you and ask for more money as soon as number of users grows. You need to look for the following three things when deciding on an E-mail Hosing account.

Is it truly unlimited?

This is quite a valid question to ask. You will not want to buy a hosting account that charges for every new user. Ask if the e-mail hosting account you are considering offers: unlimited Email Accounts with at least 1GB per mail box. Does it support mailing list should you decide for sending mass mail to all your customers.

Is it safe?

Does the e-mail hosting account you are considering provide virus protection? Does it have Spam Protection? Do you have DNS control? These are the questions you need to ask while finalizing your e-mail hosting account.

What features does it have?

Online address book, folder management, SMTP/POP3 and IMAP as well as webmail access, sorting and searching, vacation auto responder, etc. are some of the features you need to have in your e-mail hosting account.

And on top of that ask yourself whether it is in your budget or not.

Note: You may want to check Gossimer’s Ultimate Email Plan that offers lots of feature and charge you just $1 per month for unlimited e-mail accounts. In fact, it has all the features we discussed above. Check it out the Ultimate Email Plan!

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13 Mar 10 Email Hosting Updates & Telescopic Pricing

Dear Resellers,

We are proud to announce two very big developments at Gossimer:

Completely Private-labeled Email Hosting (Discontinuation of ‘Mail.pw’)

Telescopic Pricing for your Customers

Completely Private-labeled Email Hosting (Discontinuation of ‘Mail.pw’)

Based on the feedback gathered from Resellers, we are making our Email Hosting Product completely private-labeled once again. This change will be conducted between the 20th and 24th of March, 2010. The ‘Mail.pw’ branding will be completely removed and replaced with the white-labeled/private-labeled URLs listed below:

New URLs and Branding:

Webmail URL: webmail.<domain name>
IMAP URL: imap.<domain name>
POP URL: pop.<domain name>
SMTP URL: smtp.<domain name>
Email Hosting Control Panel: mailhostbox.com

Impact on Email Hosting Orders post the 20th:

New Orders: All new orders will be completely private-labeled.
Existing Orders using our DNS Services: We will migrate all existing packages to private-labeled packages between the 20th and 24th of March, 2010.
Existing Orders not using our DNS Services: For such orders, you will need to add a set of DNS records to avail of the private-labeled Email Hosting Services. We will send across the necessary information to the affected accounts shortly.

Telescopic Pricing for Customers

In the coming months we will be introducing Telescopic Pricing; a feature that allows you to incentivize Customers to purchase Products for multiple years. This feature will be available to both you and your Resellers.

With the current set up, your Customers are charged the same amount regardless of the number of years the Product is purchased for. Using this feature, you will be able to set a different price based on the number of years the Product is purchased for and hence tempt Customers to purchase Products for a longer period. For instance, if you are offering .COM Domains @ $10 for a single year, you will now be able to charge a Customer $90 for a 10 year registration instead of a fixed fee of $100.

There are several advantages of multiple year purchases such as:

Greater Customer Retention: the tenure for which a Customer does business with you is greatly increased and thus gives you the opportunity to build Customer loyalty and drive renewals.
Greater Upselling Opportunities: with a longer tenure, you have that much more time to upsell your additional Products and Services and hence earn more off each Customer.
Greater Revenue Earned: through multiple year purchases, you can earn more on every Product sold and hence increase the revenue earned.

Customer Slabs:
To be able to integrate the Telescopic Pricing feature, we will first need to modify the implementation for Customer Slabs. As part of this process, we will be removing the ability to create new Customer Slabs in the Control Panel. This will be implemented between the 15th and 19th of March, 2010.
Resellers who have already set Customer Slabs will not be affected by this change as of now and their slabs will remain as is.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact your Account Manager or simply write in to us at Sales@Gossimer.com.

Best Regards,

Gossimer Customer Relations

Gossimer.com
Blog.Gossimer.com
Support Desk

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12 Mar 10 What is the Single Most Important Thing in Keyword Research?

This is tricky, isn’t it?

So, what is the answer…?

Is it the search volume? Or is it competition volume? Better still, is it the nature of keywords? Or is it the intent behind the keyword search? Or is it the title competition? Or what?

Whew! Too many to juggle with….

Well, do not waste your time on thinking hard in the solitary corner of your messed-up room (messed up room is common with all the webmasters, do not get sold for the sleek, and well-arranged rooms that you see in the A-listers videos; they are done on a purpose) because the answer to the above question is none of the above.

All of these things are important, very important, but nothing is half as important as important for a successful keyword research as is the common sense. You knew the answer? Hey, Einstein, why didn’t you tell me so? J

Now, let’s get serious.

Keyword research is a process of funneling down the information searched by the customers in your niche so that you can come up with terms that are searched by the many users and have fewer competitors.

The definition is sweet and sleek. Take a note of it. But, keep in mind that this definition rests on two variables: information entered by your customers and process of filtering down.

To get what?

To find the right keyword for your website or campaign, and in both the cases you will need to use your common sense. It is your common sense that will tell you how much a keyword is valuable. For example, let’s say you have optimized your website for “beach hotels” seeing its volume and competition, and despite everything being just right you are not getting any traffic, at least not substantial. Why?

Because you may have been suggested by your keyword tools that “beach hotels” is the most searched term in your niche, but it didn’t say that no one searched for “beach hotels”. Rather people searches for terms like “Miami beach hotels”, “OC beach hotels” “beach hotels in Florida”, etc., as “beach hotels” is a local keyword. And people search this keyword as a compound keyword along with some city, county, or state’s name.

This is all common sense. Take it out of equation, and you end up getting no traffic, regardless of your ranking.

Say again, which is the most important factor in keyword research?

Well done! You got it right this time.

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13 Mar 10 3 E-mail Hosting Account Buying Tips

Is it truly unlimited?

Is it safe?

What features does it have?

13 Mar 10 Email Hosting Updates & Telescopic Pricing

12 Mar 10 What is the Single Most Important Thing in Keyword Research?

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