So, you are hoping to sell your products, or have people join your mailing list and position yourself as an expert in your industry.

Well, Twitter is a great way to accomplish those tasks, however you have to do it the right way to make it work. They think that all they need to do in order to make money from Twitter is to get lots of followers and then send out sales link after sales link as their Tweets.

You’ve probably seen this yourself. I’ve seen examples of people sending out TWENTY or more sales links in an hour with no useful content or freebies at all. Sadly, there are automated tools to help promote this kind of Twitter spam and make it easier to blast out the ads.

This technique is very questionable and for the most part it is simply known as SPAM. And beyond that, it is a marketing technique that simply does not work. It’s like with a mailing list, people need a reason to follow and continue following you. Give them a good reason – make them interested in you and your Tweets. Start building relationships on Twitter and you’ll see far greater results – with people actually buying your products and opting into your promotions as a direct result of your Tweets. You will start to find people following you because they are genuinely interested in you and your Tweets and not simply because you followed them first in an attempt to have them follow you back. These types of followers are exactly what you want. These people will be the most responsive followers of the bunch.

Building relationships on Twitter – Here is how to do it:

Treat your followers well, and give them good information. Do you know what they are interested in? Ask them what is hot in the niche.

When a follower is interested in something, point them in the right direction. Don’t think about selling – instead concentrate on giving value and building relationships.

Ask questions, send people messages, and join in with the Twitter community spirit. If you like another Tweeter’s post, be sure to re-tweet it. This will be greatly appreciated by the original Tweeter as well as appreciated by your own followers for the added information.

Make sure to include photos and video links as well. People really like videos and pictures, and even more so if there is a little bit of gossip involved with them.

So in a nut shell, just provide true value and join in the social aspect. Taking this approach to Twitter will help you build a growing foundation of followers, which will ultimately help you make money on Twitter and lots of it.

Here is an interesting news post that one of my article writers thought I should share.  (I have not used either Posterous or VigLink myself, so I have no additional comments to add.)

Posterous is a very simple content publishing system allowing users to publish to many different services via email.  Their business has been going strong for quite a while now, resulting in them gaining many dedicated users.

Recently however, they have committed a fairly large no-no for a web startup, violating their users’ trust.

As one Posterous user has reported, they have been silently converting links inserted in content passed through their service into affiliated links using another service called VigLink.  VigLink, in and of itself, is a legitimate company, allowing users to accumulate revenue without inserting affiliate links themselves.  It also ignores all already present affiliate links, meaning if you put in your own Amazon link to a certain product, it will still be there when posted.

So in short, VigLink plays very fair, but Posterous, in using them, has not been doing so at all.

Co-Founder of Posterous, Sachin Agarwal conceded in a phone interview that they were definitely in the wrong when not informing users of what they were doing with links.  He also brought to light some other interesting tidbits of information.

Apparently, they have been doing this for a while now, it is just that no one has noticed it before.  He said they are just experimenting, and are not sure at this point whether or not VigLink will be permanently integrated into the Posterous service or not.  Regardless of whichever happens in the long term, users will be able to opt-out, or maybe even have to opt-in to use the feature.  Argawal has stated that if the permanent integration does occur, and a user is opted-in to use the feature, then they will be able to generate revenue from using it, which might actually increase the usage of the service, because not only will it be an easy to use content publishing service, but it will be an easy to use content publishing service that can make a user some easy, passive, revenue.

Posterous, Argawal also stated, is in the process of drafting a statement about the integration of VigLink, a company that has recently received capital from the likes of Google Ventures.  Little is known about how much this incident have affected their usage right now, but the possibilities of future money making, might actually serve to make this good press for both the Posterous, and the VigLink services.

Argawal needs to get this under his belt and move on, this was a huge mistake and very dishonest business move. Users realize the bills need to be paid, however they prefer transparency from their service provider and regaining their trust after something like this is going to be pretty tough.

Google search has been pretty static for quite some time, the search giant is usually pretty slow to make changes to its main sections of the site, namely search and the homepage. However, Google released on May 5, 2010 screen shots of the changes that are coming to Google.

Google has always been my search engine of choice, it just made sense and was the easiest of all the search engines I have ever used. I will admit, however that Bing really caught me off guard with that amazing homepage layout, sometimes I just visit their site to look at the interesting photos. Sorry, back on track, Google has made some pretty big (small) changes.

The first thing you will notice is a much improved sidebar experience. Google has now added a sidebar to the search results, you now have a ton of different options (like you did before with a bit more work to find them) of narrowing down your searches. On the sidebar now of Google search you have: Everything – which is the normal, vanilla Google search, News, Blogs, Images, Books, and a drop down menu called more, much like Google has on their main navigation along the top of the site. This will allow you to search each section more easily and quickly. Sometimes I had to Google “Google Blog Search” in order to find blogs that were relevant to my searches. Not anymore.

The second thing you will notice on Google is some more color! Well, not really but they have added some new icons, which are still just blue and green, but it is a start I suppose.

Google also has a new feature called Google Squared, which is available through the always fun Google Labs part of the site which basically allows you to find and compare different things. A great example of Google Squared is one of their sample searches on the Google Squared website located at: http://www.google.com/squared/ which is a search for “best picture oscar winners” and it brings back up a table of all of the Oscar winners from every year and has them sorted in table format for easy viewing. Way cool. I think it feels a lot like searching Wikipedia for something similar, where you would find a list, albeit this is much more detailed that Wikipedia is usually in such lists. I can see this being a very useful feature in the future.

Google is also launching a new mobile version that will help streamline the search process for those of us that always seem to be searching from our smartphones.

Google is always on the cutting edge, or close behind it when it comes to new technology and features for it’s services. Google has done a great job with these revisions and I can not wait to start using them myself, make sure you check them out as soon as you can. Start by Googling it!

With the economy in it’s current state, a lot of people are out of work and looking for additional ways of making money.  One of the easiest ways (if you can put words together properly into a sentence) to make money is by writing.

Now don’t worry, you don’t have to write novels or award winning poems.  You can simply write articles or reviews on practically any subject.  And if the topic is something of interest to you, you should be able to put a few paragraphs together without any issues.  There are plenty of people (and companies) online that need fresh content written for their websites and blogs every single day.  There are also online (and offline) magazines and newsletters that need material on a regular basis.  Quite often the owners of these blogs/sites/magazines lack the time to write the material themselves, so they simply hire someone to write the material for them.

The more you can write and the better the quality, the more you can make and the more you will be in demand.  Once you find a few buyer’s of your content and they like how you write, you will most likely be booked for quite some time.  There are many, many places where you can sell your material online.

So if you are looking to make money online, why not start by writing?  It’s an easy way to get started and it is always in demand.  You can see how  basic articles are used online by visiting Ezine Articles.

Feel free to post any questions or comments below.  I will be glad to assist in any way possible. Earn extra cash as a Freelance writer.

The recent earthquake in Haiti has raised the concerns of many and it is great to see so many people offering to help in any way possible to the victims in need.

Godaddy, which I buy all my domain names through, made a contribution of $500,000, WOW! That is awesome.

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Today Go Daddy sent a check for $500,000 to Hope for Haiti, an organization committed to making a difference in Haiti by focusing on education, nutrition and healthcare.

Hope for Haiti Executive Director Elizabeth Davison was in tears as she spoke with Go Daddy executives by phone this afternoon. “We’re overwhelmed by Go Daddy’s quick response and generous contribution,” Davison said. “We plan to use this money to help rebuild the hospital and the orphanage in Port-au-Prince.”

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This makes me feel proud to continue doing all my domain business with Godaddy!