Since singing up with Twitter, I have worked on enhancing my presence as though my life depended on it. From being an active member, I have come to discover that there a number of methods which would make the chances of me following you much slimmer. While speaking with other tweeple (twitter people), I also realized that other people share my thoughts on the subject.

Here is my list of 5 things that I tend to avoid on twitter:

1. Marketing bots

Do you do nothing but twitter about yourself – your e-books, your programs, your that, your this, and how people can purchase your stuff with special coupons? Whatever the case, if you do anything similar to those just mentioned, people will be less inclined to follow you. If you are promoting something and send a direct message about an awesome product that can get me thousands of followers, you should at least have thousands of followers, as well…just to prove your theory.

2. False link advertising

If you end up tweeting something similar to this: “read this comprehensive article regarding the best places you can find in Brazil” in a link that you send to others, it better have a list of great places that people can find in Brazil rather than links to adult websites, for instance. 

3. No variety

Tweeting the exact same stuff over and over again all day is sooo uncool. Although it may not have been exactly like this, someone sent a series of useless tweets: “Check out this shirt, look at this shirt, were you aware that a lot of people wear shirts?” Believe it or not, they were selling shirts.

4. Porn links

Seriously, the minute an adult site link is found within a tweet, you will get unfollowed – even if it clearly states that the link will send you to one. A lot of people simply aren’t interested in tweets like this.

5. Nothing original

People that do not come up with anything original are “quote bots” since that is all they do: tweet quotes. Several quotes may be good, but constantly sending them all day (sometimes repeatedly, for that matter)… just… no.

Additionally, tweets that aren’t active bug me as well. If a month has gone by since your last tweet, you will most probably get dropped by twitter. Everybody is allowed to follow a particular amount of people and if you are not active, why should we keep following you in place of somebody who is actually active and has interesting stuff to share?

So there’s my quick list. In the end, you will not want to have reasons to stop following someone, but these would be my biggest reasons in doing so. What are yours?

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Home based businesses have become very popular as they offer a number of advantages. A home business makes you financially independent and makes you free from the 9 to 5 rat race. You can be your own boss and have more time to spend with your family and friends. But success in home business requires hard work and proper time management skills. The following tips will help you to become successful in your home based business:

(i) Set a goal for each day. Work hard to meet your goal. If necessary, work extra hours. Avoid unnecessary surfing on the internet. Turn off your distractions (like television) while working. Try multitasking. If necessary, you may outsource some of your jobs. 

(ii) It is better to have a separate office in your home. You may turn a spare bedroom into your office or may use a part of your bedroom as the office. Nobody should disturb you while you are working in your ‘office’.

(iii) Before starting your business, do some market research and make a detailed business plan. Only promote such products which are in demand and offer high commissions. The business plan should show the initial investment required, the different advertising techniques to be used and other related matters.

(iv) To promote your online home business, you must build your own website or landing page. The website/landing page should be promoted by using different internet marketing techniques such as, PPC advertising, banner advertising, e mail marketing, article marketing, forum marketing etc. Different social networking sites like, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter etc. may also be used to promote your home business.

(v) Try to build backlinks to your website. The more the number of backlinks, the higher will be it’s position in the search engines, then you dominate the SERPS.

(vi) E Mail marketing is a very important tool for promoting your internet home business. Try to build your own opt-in-list by capturing the names and e mail addresses of your visitors. In exchange of their names and e mail addresses, offer them something of value, such as, an e book or an e course. You can offer your products and services to the members of your list.

(vii) Start with one internet home business at a time. After you become successful in that, you may branch out to others.

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For those involved in Internet marketing or who are building a major presence online, it can be devastating for another person to open a social marketing account with your screen name. It’s a great idea for webmasters to have a presence on every social networking website. If your online identity is JoeSchmo, someone could open a Twitter account with the screen name of Joe Schmo and hurt your online socializing and even kill your website traffic. If the person who owns JoeSchmo on Twitter says some really mean stuff to people, it won’t drive people from just him, it’ll drive people away from you. People will naturally associate you with him, which can really hurt your efforts. Now, let’s say that JoeSchmo on Twitter is your competition! Instead of people going to you, they’ll go to your competition. This can build him up and eventually tear you down. I personally know of a few cases where social networking identity theft has happened and I feel bad for the person whose identity was stolen. The worst thing about it is that social networking identity theft is completely legal, so once your name is taken by someone, they have the right to keep it, that’s why you need to protect your social media identity!

Since there are around 150 social media sites, it can be a huge waste of time signing up for all of them. Signing up to each site will take approximately 5 minutes. If that number is multiplied by 150 sites, well… it’ll take a really long time! There are many programs that will fill out the information and join for you, but often they put the wrong information in the wrong fields. This will give you a presence on these social networking websites, but can also make you look like an idiot. Also, these tools may actually just scour these sites for your presence and open accounts in your name, but for themselves and not you.

With online name branding and social networking becoming more and more important, it’s a great idea to get what is called social networking identity protection. I stumbled upon a website the other day that really does the job. After ordering Social Media Identity Protection, real people got to work in getting my name up on 150 social networking websites. Not only did this get my presence all over the internet, but it brought me a little bit of traffic from each social networking site.

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This is just amazing, according to Internet Evolution, using data collected from Bear Sterns & Co, comScore, Credit Suisse and Google, the big G will spend over $2 million daily to keep the site up to the 375 million expected daily visitors.

Now, Google does not disclose sales figures by division, so there is no definitive revenue number for YouTube. The range of estimates from financial analysts stretches from a low of $90 million (Bear Stearns) to a high of $240 million (Credit Suisse).

All the numbers are well below the estimated maximum of $753 million Google is spending annually, based on our calculations. So, depending on whose version of revenues you accept, Google is losing anywhere from $513 million to $663 million annually on YouTube, or anywhere from $1.4 million to as much as $1.65 million every day (see chart below).

Google is paying big cash to allow us to watch all those videos in exchange for ads that aren’t even coming close to cover the expenses. Big numbers.. All what I can say is “Wow…Great Job Google!” What do you think?

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