The Nexus Connection

TweetMyBlog is beginning to look tailormade for me.

Initially, I thought Twitter was a really stupid idea. Let strangers know your minute-by-minute activities. Isn’t that what nosey next door neighbors are for? And what the heck is “microblogging” anyway? Who is really going to whip out their cell phone to text message a “tweet” for all the world to read? Apparently, a LOT of people.

I picked up a free Twitter account to keep up with a few buddies. It’s easier than sending out the same text message multiple times. Then I noticed people “following” me that I did not know. That made me nervous until I realized those people are following hundreds, even thousands, of people on Twitter. Why do they do follow thousands of people? Who knows? But the potential audience is awesome.

Now, the darnedest things float through my mind. I am not particularly shy about sharing these random thoughts. I guess that is why I like blogs. But these thoughts often do not form complete blog entries, and the world at large loses out on my dry wit. But that tragedy is no more thanks to TweetMyBlog.

Modern technology again to the rescue! I can post all of the strange and amazing ideas and associations that my ADHD brain cells can muster, on the fly yet from my cell phone if I choose, to Twitter which will then in turn show up the TweetMyBlog widget on my WordPress blog. Oh, and it goes both ways. When I write a blog post, TweetMyBlog sends a message to Twitter with the permalink to my new post.

Killing two birds with one stone? Maybe. I think of it as the ultimate in outsourcing. More work done with less effort, huge viral component, and NO monetary output on your part. That is wicked kewl.

Things move quickly in Internet marketing. How does one keep up?

Nexus Exchange member, Pat Grilliot, turned me on to Internet Marketing News Watch. It’s a great site that keeps track of the late-breaking news in Internet marketing. It’s all in one neat package in a blog-type format, easy to read, and easy to navigate. Posts are categorized by how “new” the news is. Archives go back to August 2005. You can even subscribe for email updates, which is what I do.

One of the blog posts highlighted by Internet Marketing News Watch on July 29 was by John Tan of SBO Academy. What caught my eye was that the post is about what NOT to do if you want to make money online. I firmly believe that we learn better from mistakes than successes.

Read 5 Mistakes Made by People Making Money Online by John Tan

Like most of you, I use Firefox for browsing the traffic exchanges. I don’t have near the problems that my teammates at Traffic Era seem to have with pop-ups and browser freezes. I think that is because I have NoScript installed. NoScript is a nifty little Firefox add-on that blocks a lot of nasties by blocking Javascript, Java, and Flash.

I also noticed, however, that if I found something that I wanted to purchase or signup for, often I couldn’t do so from Firefox. After the third or fourth time I couldn’t get to PayPal from a sales page in Firefox, I finally figured out that I needed to “allow” something that was tied into NoScript.

NOW Sunny Suggs comes out with an ebook that would have saved me a whole lot of trouble. I don’t have to give up NoScript, and I don’t have to switch browsers to take advantage of offers on the traffic exchanges. And the ebook is FREE.

If you have similar problems with using Firefox and traffic exchanges, you might want to check out the book.

Get your copy of the ebook by Sunny Suggs.