Before i jump on to the ways through which you can get genuine and quality twitter followers,
 

Lets talk about why should every online business have an expanding twitter following

 
So as far as I am concerned, personally I have never met a single twitter user who does not wants to grow his/her twitter following base.
 
Now let us assume why would a twitter user want more followers:
 

#1 More Sales>

If you run an e-commerce store,a product, a corporate brand or whatever field you may be in, having a large no. of dedicated twitter followers is always an added advantage in your business model as it will create a sales funnel for you to generate more leads and conversions.

#2 Increase Your Influence Base

One fine morning you might be taking a shower and you experienced a “eureka moment” that would just be a great idea worth sharing with everybody. So you picked up your phone and tweet the idea. Believe me within hours your “GREAT IDEA” would have reached people across the globe, and this would only be possible if you had a large no. of dedicated twitter following.

#3 Get Noticed By The Big Players

So what happens after your idea spreads far and goes viral ?

Firstly, your twitter following increases many folds and due to your increased reach you will be able to get noticed by the big players of your field/niche. If you are a bit more lucky then they might decide to follow you. And if this happens, pat yourself on the back because that very moment you jumped numerous steps in the social authority rankings.

Without wasting any more of your precious time let’s get started with the sure shot ways to increase your twitter followers-

Strategy #1 – Social Media Leveraging

You must be having profiles in each of the social networks such as twitter, Facebook and YouTube. If you don’t, it’s high time you have one.

So what you should do to leverage the power of various social networks to get more dedicated and large no. of twitter followers -

Type in your twitter handle link on your Facebook Page’s website section. And if you are into videos, there is always an option to link your twitter account in your your bio and also try to incorporate your twitter handle link on your videos either by mentioning it in the video or watermarking it when you create the video.

Strategy #2 – Power of Your Email List

Now if you already have thousands of email subscribers with you and if you are not leveraging their presence to increase your twitter following then mark my words this one flaw is costing you thousands of dedicated and converting twitter followers.

Remember your email list is dedicated and loyal towards you so if you are able to show them a way or lead them to your twitter profile, trust me you will see a massive SPIKE in the no. of your twitter followers

Strategy #3 - Your Bio – the first thing that people NOTICE

“First impression is the last impression” and twitter by default reiterates this famous quote. You get a small, precise “has-to-be-short” opportunity to make your BIO an attractive and appealing one and if you get this wrong, will definitely lose many interested and prospective followers of your niche. 

In short your BIO should be inspiring, attractive and attention-seeking one. It should instantly capture eye-balls from your niche/field.

Strategy #4 – Regularity Is the KEY to MASSIVE Twitter Following

It is very simple to get an account on twitter. Hundreds and millions are opening an account each and every day. But to have an account and on top of that maintaining it to get a huge following needs a small amount work to be done everyday on a regular basis.

I have personally seen thousands of people just follow the mass and get their account opened on twitter and do nothing on it and later on crib on “how they do not have any following and etc”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?

Your account stays dormant for months after months without any activity or any tweets and you still believe that you will eventually get a huge following.

THIS AIN’T GONNA WORK

You have to tweet interesting, latest and newsworthy information at least once a day  if not twice or even more. This gives you an opportunity of being visible on a regular basis and giving your tweets the added benefit of being Re-tweeted by a large no. of followers and non-followers.

Just simply tweeting once or twice a day gives you a further increase in the visibility of your tweets to a large user base thus resulting in more people related to your niche following you.

Strategy #5 – Pictures Speak A THOUSAND Words

Twitter is bombarded with text links to various sites and pics and on top of that they also have the nagging word limit. So sometimes it is very much possible that you are not able to put forward a certain idea clearly and still have that compulsion of doing it under the word limit.

DON’T FUSS ! instead of words try using a pic that has the ability to CONVEY your idea to the target mass, PURSUE and CONVERT as well.

If the picture has the interesting and engaging elements to it, then it can be Re-tweeted a no. of times and thus increasing your visibility and also helping you in getting a large no. of instant twitter followers.

Some of the widely used twitter pic sharing tools are -

• Twitpic
• Tweetphoto
• Yfrog
• Twitrpix

The above mentioned 5 tips are one of the most widely used by experts out there to increase their following.
 
Till then if you have any useful tips that you want to add or has given you results by increasing your twitter following, please feel free to share with us in the comment section below.

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Anyhow, since most people work with freelancing projects online, there is a concern about how to bargain with customers when not dealing face to face.
 
 

 
 
Here I bring a few ethics one should adopt while dealing with others on the internet.
 
 

For freelancers:

1.Never show that you are amateur:

Never approach a person in a manner of pleading. Be serious and professional and prefer to apply for a freelancing job only and only when a vacancy is outed for the same. Never apply for work without being sure about vacancies. This way you will be able to work at your terms and conditions and that too with self respect.
 
 

2. Your first discussion should never be on phone or video chat:

Make it a point that your first discussion should be via written chat and not voice. The reason is because that is when you will discuss the rates. Now what happens is that when on call, you will be answering the contractors questions in random. In this case you will not be able to bargain due to the fact that you won’t get time to think when asked a question. When conversing in written, you get a few seconds to think after every message from the contractor. And furthermore, you have the choice to edit your words before pressing enter.
 
 

3. Try to find some person who worked for the contractor before you:

Check the contractors profile and search for possible writers in his mutual contact list. Ask them about what they charged from him so that you could get an idea about what should be demanded from him.
 
 

4. Show him your best possible work, which is possibly published somewhere else:

Showing your contractor soft copies of your work will make him believe that you are an average writer. Show him samples that are published on the internet. This will give him an impression that you are not a newbie and hold some experience in the field. Furthermore, it will show that since there is someone else you are working for, you are not totally dependent on him.
 
 
 

For contractor:

1. Never quote your price first:

See, most freelancers don’t know their actual worth. Thus they will readily agree at lower rates. So don’t expose your rates in advance. Ask for their samples and then ask them the name of the person they worked for along with the rates. They may lie about the rates, so pull that figure down by bargaining on it.
 
 

2. Don’t appreciate his samples:

Always tell the freelancer that his samples are average or decent. Never say that they are excellent or their work is above average. This is the best policy of bargaining. Once the freelancer gets it in his mind that he is not being appreciated as much, he will automatically reduce his rates.
 
 

3. Tell him that other work at lower rates:

Tell the freelancer that the market rate for the quality of work he provides is less. Give him examples of others doing the same thing working at lesser rates. This will automatically make him reduce his rates.
 
 
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And the answer to this question is a BIG YES. Facebook is on everyone’s brain nowadays. And that makes Facebook as one of the biggest marketing playground to sell products as well to sell information.

Assuming that you are one of those individuals who need to know how to profit with Facebook, here are certain thoughts to help you kick off in profiting on Facebook.
 

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1. Using Facebook Ads to Sell Your Products/Services

Facebook is trying damn hard to make it super easy for the advertisers to advertise via Facebook ads and I believe they have been pretty much successful in this.

Facebook ads helps you select a highly targeted user group for your product/service. You can select your user group with the criteria like age, sex, location, interests and many more.

With more than a billion people on Facebook & easy one click set up of Facebook ads, there is no reason for not profiting from this strategy.

A lot of big brands & service providers have made their entire buyer’s list from Facebook ads alone. So, make sure you use Facebook ads, drive traffic to your product/services landing page and convert them into your clients.
 
 

2. Facebook guides/training related to Facebook

I personally know two of the online personalities that have a business model that is only related to Facebook. And they both are: Amy Porterfield & Mari Smith.

Facebook is a huge website and not all of the individuals can use it completely and to the extent that they make profit from it.

Compose a little and to the focus e-book/training module about Facebook and how to utilize it. Start selling that product for a very affordable price i.e. $7 or so, just to make your name in the marketplace.

As soon as people recognize you as a Facebook expert, then go on for products/services that can sell for a lot more than this.
 
 

3. Blogging about Facebook

As already said Facebook has a large number of user-base. Thus, making it one of the highest searched keyword around the online world. You can start a blog that contains information, articles, videos & all other content forms related to Facebook.

You can easily find readers for your blog over Facebook itself. And the best part is that if you get recognized around the network, your blog alone can have the potential of more than thousands & lakhs of hits every single day.

You can then use Google Adsense to monetize the content or sell banner ads on your blog and make money out of it.
 
 

4. Make a Facebook application and sell it.

On daily basis, around hundreds of apps are launched on this platform. You know why? Just because they are profitable and easy to develop.

If you are a developer, then why not utilize your abilities to make a Facebook application of your own and offer it to Facebook clients?

Once you have made it, you can utilize the same procedures specified above i.e. Facebook Ads to push your application to reach a larger audience and make a profit.
 
 
Have you ever made any money because of Facebook? We would love to hear your views via comments.

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As the user of a PHP editor, the very first thing that comes to the mind the look and feel of the PHP editor. Let me express myself, codelobster does match the standards that a user will set for his PHP editor.
 
 

 
 

Specifications of Codelobster

Let this be very clear to all the readers that codelobster’s basic version is on for free downloading but one will; have to buy the premium version.

Now to say about the specifications, the free version itself has so many options that sometimes you will be bewildered thinking how so many options can be present. To be very genuine, codelobster is a complete different genre of PHP editors.

Codelobster is an auto complete and powerful PHP editor as it provides functions for CSS, CSS3, PHP, HTML, HTML5 as well as JavaScript. Each system has a project structure fully identified for its purpose and the application enlists the complete list of the methods under the segments.

Codelobster supports context help on most of the languages. On pressing the “F1 “key, a complete list with the description of the page enrols down to help its user.

The application also supports an debugger for PHP.  The debugger executes the steps of the PHP scripts line by line at the same time keeping an eye on the values.

The SQL manager allows the user to perform all the required functions related to Database like adding, deleting or editing a structure or record. It also allows the export of data and executes the SQL queries.

The support that codelobster allows for FTP, allows the user to work on data in the remote computer. It also allows changes to be made in the set of data in the remote server.

Let us just have a summary of the good things that codelobster provides:

• Not just a PHP editor. Even works for HTML and JavaScript.
• Powerful Debugger.
• Provides an edit features which is not available on many other editors.
• Shows the output for three leading web browsers: Firefox, chrome and Internet Explorer.
• Adding to everything, the application is extremely stable.
• The application being portable helps to ease many problems of the user.
• Codelobster also provides special plugins for: WordPress, Drupal, CodeIgniter,etc.

Points to Improve

Now let us just have a word or two about the drawbacks of the application. Not to say drawbacks but rather a few points, which, if taken care of, will make codelobster one of the best PHP editors in the market currently.

1. The editor does not support the comparison of two files. in any cases, we often need to compare two files before creating a new one.

2. The editor does not have the ability to integrate with source control software.

Basically, no leading PHP editors have these options. But if codelobster can provide these options as well, then there is no stopping for the applications.
 
 

Verdict for Codelobster:

To say with an overall view, codelobster is an excellent PHP editor. I would say, users, go for the application, you will like it. Here’s the link to their website: http://www.codelobster.com/

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Before I begin to showcase some of the best examples of the blog headers, I would really like to share some points that will throw some light on the important of the blog headers.
 
 

3 Reasons Why Blog Headers Are Really Important?

1. First Impression is the last impression.

2. Showcase the theme of your blog. A fun or creative blog can use vibrant colors in the header design and vice versa.

3. To initiate quick action from the visitor by showing the main content & links of the blog.

 
 
A lot of blogs out there are doing extraordinary job with their blog headers and today I would be compiling a list of 8 blogs with their header designs that you can keep in your mind while designing your blog’s header and use them as inspiration.
 
 

8 Examples of Perfect Blog Headers

1. Octwelve.com

2. Petersbodyshop.net

3. Thatindiedude.com

4. 1369coffeehouse.com

5. Kevinjohngomez.com

6. Searchenginewatch.com

7. Chrisg.com

8. Tutcandy.com

 
 
We would love to hear your views via comments on the design of the above mentioned blog headers.

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Twitter has a user-base of billions and I personally believe it has a lot of potential in it and alone has the power to take your blog’s traffic shoot up. I, myself, is able to drive a nice chunk of traffic from Twitter consistently.

So, today I would be sharing with you tips that can help you generate traffic from Twitter.
 
 

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5+ Ways to Drive Traffic From Twitter

1. Use Twitter Search to Connect with Your Audience

Twitter search is an awesome way to search people in your niche and connect with them. Go to search.twitter.com and search for your keyword and see who all people are sharing content related to the same.

Connect with them, share their content, get into a conversation with them and get you name out in the community. By this way people will recognize you and would love to connect with your blog as well.
 

Twitter search is an awesome way to find people in your niche.#twitter #blogging #socialmedia

— Harneet singh bhalla (@Harneetbhalla) March 10, 2013

2. Get Targeted People to Follow You

The worst case scenario is the people following you that have no interest in your niche. They followed you because your follow me link was found in a irrelevant category on some website.

So, always try to attract people to follow you but make sure they are of your niche only. For e.g. I embed tweets in my articles, so if people follow me from there, they will be highly targeted followers as they already read my blog and would love to read my tweets as well.
 

List your Twitter handle in Wefollow.com to get targeted people to follow you.#twitter #tips

— Harneet singh bhalla (@Harneetbhalla) March 15, 2013

3. Learn Copywriting Skills

One of the reason why your blog is not getting traffic from twitter is because you are not posting links that motivates the other person to click on it and see what’s in there.

So, the only solution to it is to learn the copywriting skills and make your tweets in a way that motivates the other person to read your content and it will increase your CTR (click through rate) on Twitter.

For e.g. If you write that, check out on how to earn $500 from your blog. Here’s the link: xyz.com. It will be normal.
But, if you write is like: “Check out how a 22 year old village boy made $500 from his blog in just 29 days. Here’s the link:xyz.com.

The second one is a whole different story and will definitely increase the click through rate and you will be able to drive traffic from twitter.
 

140 Characters is the maximum that you have. Make the most of it.#Twitter

— Harneet singh bhalla (@Harneetbhalla) March 15, 2013

4. Encourage Tweeting on Your Blog

To encourage tweeting on your blog will definitely make a huge impact. Make sure your readers know that you are active on twitter and you want them to share your posts or content.

For it, you can embed your tweets in your articles that will help you get some re-tweets, and also do add a small line at the end of the article like Please tweet the article so that you followers can benefit from it as well. or Tweet it to help us spread this word.

Lines like the above one will definitely increase the Twitter engagement from your blog and will help you get a lot of new followers and traffic will increase consistently.
 

Embed your tweets in your articles. It will help you to increase the engagement on your blog.#twitter #blogging

— Harneet singh bhalla (@Harneetbhalla) March 15, 2013

5. Measure Results

This one thing is that we never ever work on. But let me tell you, measuring results is one thing that will make the whole difference in the end. You need to check what all factors are helping me to get more traffic from twitter.

And when you find the positive factors, make sure you use them over & over again. And do also note the negative factors, and make sure you don’t use them again to avoid the negative effect.
 

You Can’t Improve What you Don’t Measure.#results #measure #quotes

— Harneet singh bhalla (@Harneetbhalla) March 15, 2013

Some More Ways to Drive Traffic from Twitter

 
1. Tweet on a consistent basis. 4 – 5 times a day works best.
2. Complete your Profile & Make it interesting.
3. Avoid Spamming as it will only decrease your trust.
4. Use URL shortner service as it makes easy to track the number of clicks you get.
5. Use Twitter Chats. Check out: 6 Twitter Chats in Which You Should Definitely Participate
 
 
We would love your feedback via comments and make sure you mention that whether you able to drive traffic from twitter or not?

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Some Email Marketing Stats

 
- Data compiled by digital marketing agency Monetate showed that 4.24% of people sent to a website from an email campaign buy something. This number may seem insignificant, but it is huge in comparison to the 2.49% and .59% logged by search and social media respectively .

- A survey conducted by email marketing firm ExactTarget found that even in the social era, email is the number one method of sharing content with friends and family.

- According to Epsilon, roughly 50% of a mailing list will have active members. That means half of your subscribers are either opening a message or clicking the links it contains.

Email marketing is thriving and the business community is all over it. Experts have projected that organizations will invest $2.5 billion in the method by 2016. The numbers are impressive but enough with the statistics.
 
 
Let’s take a look at how you can use this powerful tool to improve your blogging efforts.
 
 

1. Optimize Your Sign-up Process

An optimal sign-up process is critical to growing your list. Many bloggers use free gifts and incentives to coax their readers to join. This is fine as long as whatever you’re offering has some value to it, and the process itself is as easy to complete as possible.

If people have to give up too much information or have a difficult time to getting to your sign-up form, they’re likely to bail altogether.
 
 

2. Follow Up Promptly

If your proposition is attractive, adding new members to your list will be something you do on a regular basis. However, there is plenty to do from here, and it starts with conducting a proper follow-up. Whenever you get a new subscriber, welcome them with a message that reminds them why they’re hearing from you, and reiterates the benefits of being on your list.

I also recommend getting the subscriber to complete the double opt-in process by having them reconfirm their interest. This way, you make sure they are truly ready to connect via email.
 
 

3. Target the Right Readers

Email marketing is far more effective when using segmentation to target different groups within your list. For instance, a blogger might want to have a group for loyal readers, one for newbies, another one customers … you get the idea.

Through segmentation, you can target the people on your list with content that best suits them personally, and up your chances of getting a good response.
 
 

4. Think About Your Mobile Audience

These days it is common for people to read blog posts from their favorite mobile device. Reading email via a mobile device may be even more common. Forester Research predicts that by 2017, 78% of email will be opened on a mobile device.

Right now that percentage is around 38%, which is higher than the percentage for desktop (33%) and webmail platforms (29%), according to data from Litmus. Needless to say, if you’re going to use email, make sure your messages are optimized for your mobile readers.
 
 

5. Incorporate Social Media

There is nothing stating that you can’t use blogging, email, and social media all one glorious package. Email marketing companies are making this easier than ever by providing tools that help integrate your strategy.

For instance, there are sharing buttons that enable readers to contribute to a viral impact from the inbox as well as reporting tools that allow you to measure the influence of your campaigns across the social web. The exposure this combination creates could work wonders for your blog.
 
 

6. Make It Worthwhile

What’s the point in dealing with your emails when they can get the same information from your blog posts? This is what many of your readers will have on their minds, so you need to make the email experience a unique one with exclusive benefits.

Perhaps you treat them to special offers normally reserved for customers in your rewards program. Maybe it’s a free weekly report non-subscribers don’t have access to. Whatever it is, it must be something that clearly distinguishes being a subscriber from being a regular reader.
 
 
Are you using email marketing to power your blogging strategy? If not, then what are you waiting for? You have very little to lose, yet so much to gain if you follow in the steps of superstar bloggers already making it work.

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It’s all because of some factors that they take care of while others sleep. So, how do they go about it? And how to replicate what they are doing.

So, today I would be sharing with you some of the aspects that pro-bloggers take care of and most of the small bloggers don’t. And that will help you to make your dead blog into a live working machine.
 
 

 
 

4 Steps to Make Your Dead Blog, A Happy Blog

1. Have a Content Marketing Strategy

Content marketing strategy is one thing that most of the bloggers ignore. Writing anything that comes to your mind is not how your blog gonna be loved by your readers.

Readers want solutions to their problems and want to know the latest updates from the industry. Publishing anything that comes to your mind is not what you should be doing.

Create a content strategy based on the audience you want to target and see the results. Your audience will love you because you will create content that they were expecting from you.

Note: If you are not posting content on your blog, it will definitely become a dead blog in no time. So, never ever stop posting content.
 
 

2. Master the Art of Analyzing Google Analytics

To know the exact areas from where you get traffic is one secret of increasing traffic to your blog/website. If you are very sure of the aspects that produce results, you can replicate the exact same strategy over & over.

For e.g. a few days back, I tried blog commenting on two of the popular blogs, and unexpectedly I got more than 30 visitors from their alone each single day I commented on their posts. Google Analytics showed me these stats.

Here’s the catch, I know that secret of blog commenting, and I will replicate it to 3 – 4 more blogs and get the desired results. Thus, generating an extra 100+ visitors a day. Not a bad number if you are trying hard to make your dead blog alive.
 
 

3. Build Connections For Your Dead Blog

Connections are something that can make your blog go places and that too in a very less time. Just think, if a popular blogger in your niche, tweets about the blog post you wrote or shares it on Facebook. The impact of it would blast your blog with the visitors.

So, try to build connections with people in your niche and try hard to make them spread the word about you. It will not happen overnight, but whenever it works, it works like anything.

A lot of people out there are able to earn more than $20K per month just because their services are promoted by experts out there.
 
 

Build Connections – Not Links.#blogging

— Harneet singh bhalla (@Harneetbhalla) March 9, 2013

4. Try to Be Everywhere

Being everywhere is all about being present on all the areas where your readers gather. Whether it might be a Twitter chat, a Facebook group, a popular blog (through guest blogging), a forum and conference & public meet-ups.

You have to try to impress people in all the above places so that they consider you & your blog as a hub for knowledge sharing and they come to your blog whenever they need information related to your niche.

Gaining small number of visitors from everywhere would help you get off the start that you were looking for. And from there, you can grow it big time.
 
 
Are you facing issues to get a start of blogging? We would love to hear your views on how the above mentioned points can help you make your dead blog alive again.

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After the launch of the graph search, Facebook is trying die hard to increases the level of connectivity among people whom we know around the world and to some extent Facebook is able to deliver what people are looking for.
 
 

 
 

Some of the features of the new Facebook news feed are:

a) Ultra Responsive
b) More visually appealing
c) News Feed divided into sections
d) Less Cluttered
e) Picture Rich
 
 
Check out the video for more details:

How to Enable the New Facebook News Feed

Just like the graph search, Facebook has not released the new news feed to each & every profile. To begin with, they will be updating it on some personal profiles they have, and to the people who have opted to get it.

If you want to be on the waiting list, then you need to click on the link below and scroll down the page and click on “Try the New Look” message. Here’s the link:

https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed
 
 
We would love to hear your views on the new Facebook news feed via comments.