The Real Shaq is now on Twitter

As a Orlando Magic fan it was always exciting to see Shaq play. Now Shaq has taken it from the court to Twitter. Looks like he just started his @THE_REAL_SHAQ account on Nov 18th. He is pretty outspoken on it already. You can read about the guy trying to call Shaq out that it could not possible be "the Shaq" on Twitter. The guy ended up getting a personal phone call from Shaq.

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]

Is Your Data All Over The Place? Take Control!

With the economy in the dumpster, it's more important than ever to take control of all of your lists. It could be the thing that gets your business through any tough times. Plus, you might miss out on sending email...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Email Marketing Idea for Print Publishers

If you live in a print world where you're sending out a publication like a magazine, a printed newsletter or even a newspaper, email marketing can be a great complement to your current print activities. The San Francisco Business Times...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Governor's Conference on Small Business & Entrepreneurship in California

I'm in LA at the Governor's Conference on Small Businesses & Entrepreneurship. They're launching Global Entrepreneurship Week in conjunction with the Kauffman Foundation. It will be the third week in November. There are over 350 people attending, all amazing businesses...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Retailers: Great Internet Retailer Survey

Internet Retailer published their Holiday Sales Survey recently. It's a pretty comprehensive survey that might give retailers out there some ideas for the holiday season. It was surprising to me that most of the retailers they surveyed had sales revenue...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

The Real Shaq is now on Twitter

As a Orlando Magic fan it was always exciting to see Shaq play. Now Shaq has taken it from the court to Twitter. Looks like he just started his @THE_REAL_SHAQ account on Nov 18th. He is pretty outspoken on it already. You can read about the guy trying to call Shaq out that it could not possible be "the Shaq" on Twitter. The guy ended up getting a personal phone call from Shaq.

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]

Day 2 - Governor's Conference on Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Yesterday morning I was lucky enough to participate on a panel with David Fischer, VP of Online Sales, Google, moderated by a fantastic young speaker Arel Moodie. Arel is also a great motivational speaker on the college circuit, getting college...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

How Using Twitter Can Grow Your List

If you didn't know, VerticalResponse is on Twitter! Follow us, we're VR4SmallBiz. We're having a blast with it, watching more people follow us every day. Why should you start to "tweet"? 1. You want to be where your customers are...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

TwitPic - Post Photos to Twitter

The photo sharing site, TwitPic, allows Twitter users to upload and share there photos directly on Twitter. Now the site will not post an image into Twitter, but an URL to the hosted image on TwitPic (unless you get their Twitpic Greasemonkey script). You can either upload the photos on the site, post them from any cell phone or use one of the many Twitter clients such as Twirl or Twitterrific.

Tip: You do get an individual profile page with an unique URL. While they nofollow the URL in your Twitter profile, they do provide a dofollow back to your Twitter profile.

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]

New Features: List Management

A quick note if you're a VerticalResponse customer. Recently we released a range of exciting new list features for customers who have gone through our list consolidation process (it's free btw) . If you're wondering what you need to do,...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

eMarketer Article: Pinching Pennies Online this Holiday Season

eMarketer just came out with this interesting article. It stated that consumers have devised a variety of strategies to save money beyond just buying fewer and cheaper holiday gifts.To save money on gas, shoppers will shift some of their store...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

How Using Twitter Can Grow Your List

If you didn't know, VerticalResponse is on Twitter! Follow us, we're VR4SmallBiz. We're having a blast with it, watching more people follow us every day. Why should you start to "tweet"? 1. Your want to be where your customers are...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Reporting: How Are You Using It, Or Are You?

If you are currently using any reputable email service provider like VerticalResponse, you definitely have access to basic reports about how your email marketing campaigns are doing. The real question is, what are you doing with that information? I've put...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

New Features: List Management

A quick note if you're a VerticalRespone customer. Recently we released a range of exciting new list features for customers who have gone through our list consolidation process (it's free btw) . If you're wondering what you need to do,...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

Can Your Business Be Socially Responsible?

I'm sitting at a pretty large tradeshow called Dreamforce, about 9,000 attendees. I'm listening to the head of Google.org, Larry Brilliant, talk about the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs of Google and Salesforce, where each donates 1% of profits, 1%...

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[Source: VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business]

How To Increase Your Number of Followers on Twitter

Guy Kawasaki's post, "Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter", provides some great insight on how you can effectively increase your followers. Here is a recap of some of his tips.

1. Find the big players on Twitter and follow them.
2. Send a message to these big players. Perception is sometimes reality. In that it may look like you know these big players. People see that and will start to follow you.
3. Provide a professional looking avatar, but one that stands out. Upload a larger version (around 500x500 px) for best effect.
4. Follow everyone that follows you. (Not a fan of this school of thought)
5. Link to interesting stories, just don't keep writing about your cat.
6. Repeat your tweets. (I would say at a maximum twice...otherwise looks desperate and spammy if any more)
7. Ask people to follow you

I encourage you to read the entire post as well as the 100+ comments for some additional insight to increase your followers. Good luck!

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[Source: Twitter Tools, Reviews, & News - eINFO]