Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen

SocialMention: real-time social media tracking - Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen

Social Mention allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.

You can also sign up for Social Media Alerts to receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a developing news story, a competitor, and more.

Visit http://www.socialmention.com/

---

Got Google juice?
Get more!
60 SEO Ideas in 60 Minutes

Health club marketing: wedding party pumps iron - Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen

A smart health club saleswoman I know never misses an issue of the local paper. She turns immediately to the engagement announcements for info on newly-engaged couples. She sends a handwritten note to the bride and groom, congratulating them and offering a special training package for the entire bridal party. She also uses her regional newspaper's Web site to search for more soon-to-be-married prospects.

---

Got Google juice?
Get more!
60 SEO Ideas in 60 Minutes

LinkedIn: how to export your connections - Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen

Want to export your LinkedIn Connections as a .CSV file for inclusion in Outlook or other email program?

Follow these instructions:

1) Log in to your LinkedIn account
2) In the left column, click the plus sign to the right of the word Contacts to expand the column
3) Click the Connections link just below Contacts
4) Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and, on the left side of the page, click the Export Connections link
5) Export as a .CSV or .VCF file
6) Type in the text for the security image, if the system asks you to do so.
7) Click Export

---

Got Google juice?
Get more!
60 SEO Ideas in 60 Minutes

Slideshare.com: promote your product or service - Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen

Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare, a business media site that features an active professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. Content also spreads virally through blogs and social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter.

Individuals & organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them. The site is growing rapidly with over 17 million monthly visitors.

Use Slideshare: http://slideshare.com

---

Got Google juice?
Get more!
60 SEO Ideas in 60 Minutes

Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen: 35 photo effect tools available online

Make your pictures more lively, apply fancy effects and create real eye-catchers with this collection of 35 different, easy-to-use photo effects from Tuxpi.com.

These photo tools are browser-based, very simple to use and can be combined with each other.

---

LEARN PHP: Download the free PHP Code Starter Kit today.

Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen: Append your current location to your Gmail signature

On the go, and need to let your team know where you are now? Check out Location in Signature from Gmail Labs to add your current location (city, region and country) to the signature of your outgoing emails.

1) Sign into your Gmail account.
2) Click the green beaker Labs icon
3) Find the Location in Signature option and select the Enable radio button to activate.
4) Switch to your Gmail account's General tab and check the box next to "append your location to the signature."

Once enabled, the Location in Signature app will use your current IP address to make the best guess of your location.

Read more at The Official Google Blog

---

LEARN PHP: Download the free PHP Code Starter Kit today.

Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen: Railo: free, open-source alternative for ColdFusion

Railo is a free, open-source alternative for ColdFusion application development. Started in 2002 as a student project, and continuously developed over the years until its first launch in late 2005, Railo obeys the CFML markup definition, is very similar to HTML and therefore very easy to learn.

Visit www.getrailo.org for more info, and to download the latest release.

---

LEARN PHP: Download the free PHP Code Starter Kit today.

Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen: Post more than 140 characters on Twitter

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 characters just isn't enough.

With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link to what you said will automatically be posted to your Twitter account.

Visit http://www.twitlonger.com/

---

LEARN PHP: Download the free PHP Code Starter Kit today.

Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen: YouTube video tutorial success story

Lauren Luke, a U.K. single mom and creator of the YouTube channel panacea81 began selling makeup on eBay in 2007. When her customers started asking her how to achieve the looks she was creating -- step-by-step -- using the makeup she was selling, Luke created her YouTube makeup tutorial channel.

Her persistence and participation in other social media venues such as Twitter and Facebook brought her over 289,000 YouTube subscribers and over 8 million channel views. This caught the attention of the mainstream press, as well as the makeup retailer Sephora.com, who recently partnered with Lauren to release her own makeup line.

Visit http://www.bylaurenluke.com and panacea81. After you've had a look around and view a video or two, ask yourself this question: "How can I turn what I know into a YouTube success story like Lauren?

---

LEARN PHP: Download the free PHP Code Starter Kit today.

FAQ page copy a hoot at Woot - Learn One Thing from Mary Gillen - Copywriting Idea

Woot.com, based in Austin, Texas, started as a market-test site for an electronics distributor, and has "taken on a life of its own." The Woot folks offer a new item..in limited quantities...for sale every single day until it is sold out or until 11:59 p.m. CDT when it is replaced with another new product for sale. Woot.com has also joined the ranks at Twitter, broadcasting its latest deals via Tweets.

And Woot has unique FAQ pages...informative, yet totally irreverent and a whole bunch of fun. It keeps 'em coming back for more.

Sample section:

Question: I missed yesterday's item, can I still get one?

Answer: No. Each woot.com product is discontinued at 11:59 pm central time. That's that. Period. We may get more at a later date if we're lucky, but we offer no guarantees, we allow no backorders, and we have no waiting/notification lists. Too bad."

Sounds like the way my Irish-Catholic mother used to talk to us kids.

Read the rest of Woot's FAQ here