Hootesuite now a premium service .. say it isn’t so!
I’ve had Hootsuite since the inception and frankly I’ve loved their service! So when I went to login today and found I couldn’t I was like wtf! As usual, I’m late catching up on the latest uptakes! Normally I login and set up my next months worth of post the last week of the month. This month however trying to login and catch up simply wasn’t working. It seems I missed the official announcement that Hootesuite has a new pricing plan.
How am I going to handle this, well if I can recover my account I plan on trying the free version which allows 5 social networks and 1 RSS feed. However I know there are other alternatives like for example; Tweetdeck & Seesmic but I also know neither offer the features of HootSuite. Which offers time-posting your content making it easy to setup a full months worth of facebook or twitter post as well as rss feed posting & letting team members join to help you in monitoring and posting — something tells me switching to the new pay structure may just be in my future. You can check out the plans here: http://hootsuite.com/plans.
The packages range from free to $99 a month. The only thing you get for free going forward is 5 accounts, 1 RSS feed and no additional team members. You’ll also have to deal with ads being placed in your Twitter stream.
The features Hootesuite offers makes for a very compelling case to join those who are now paying for the service. Personally I’m frugal so I find it hard to start paying for a formerly-free service however If the 5 accounts limit becomes an issue I may just have to do it! Did you switch to the payment plan?
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Go Daddy
I personally love GoDaddy.com I have had around 80 domains registered through them at one time or another. I recommend Go Daddy for registering domain names, I find there domain control panel easy to use especially compared to other registrars. However I don’t use Go Daddy’s hosting or SSL Certificates — I’ll post my recommendations on these services another day.
I would also note, you should never pay full price for new or renewed domain names. Goto your favorite search engine and search for “Go Daddy Code” I never pay full price and most of the time I only pay around $8 each domain name – the last code I used was OK412
Domain Names
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Email
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Business
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Dust Bunnies Beware…
Hello World, I’m working on cleaning up my domain list and I decided to use this domain as my central hub — I’ve decided to use my old domain for something else. As far as my other domains; either it’s online now, going online now, or it’s a goner! In the last six months I’ve gone from about eighty domain names down to hovering just around fifty with another handful still to go bye-bye for sure. I can’t believe how many domain names I found I’ve owned three or more years and not a thing had been put on them, wait “I’m the Procrastination Queen” so yes I can believe it!
Currently I’m focusing on stores sites. I normally prefer hand-coding but lately I’ve been trying out some shopping cart systems. Cube cart & Zen cart we’re both available via Fantastico so I tried both. The Cube cart was hacked right away, so I downloaded and manually installed the newest script version. That store is still online but currently closed since the supplier temporarily closed it’s drop shipping program. I just don’t want to order the minimums and get stuck with a lot of UN-selling merchandise (like I have in the past).
Zen cart was nothing special, actually off the top of my head I can’t even remember why I didn’t keep it. Then I came across OpenCart which has a multi-store feature all running off one central product database. I’m finding there’s a huge learning curve with the script setup/customization so it’s taking me way longer to even setup one store but I really do like many of it’s features and it’s open-source so free — wishlist, comparison shopping, and from what I understand it can take all those multiple stores and combine the checkouts.
And I didn’t know it till very recently but Open Cart can also be installed/updated via Fantastico!
I’m the worst blogger …
I must be the world’s worst blogger. I mean really why do I own so many blog sites, it’s not like I keep any one of them up to date! I’m not a writer I’ve said that over and over. Actually I find I can re-write way easier than writing from scratch!! So why don’t I dump my blogs .. because I’m a glutton, yes a glutton!!
I love my websites way to much LoL!!
Guess I’ll have to make the rounds to see what’s new, what’s old, who’s still around and who’s thrown in the towel?
I picked up Sniper 2.0 last month and I’m currently working on three sniper sites this minute. When I purchased Sniper 2.0 I actually had no idea it was Internet Marketing based rather than ad6ense based. Not that I think that’s a bad thing but a unfortunate thing for me since I’ve yet to have a single success at IM in my 5+ years in this racket. I enjoy working on the IPK websites but I wouldn’t classify them as a success, not with the small change they’ve made.
Info Product Killer
Break time is over, I’ve got to get back in the game! Since several people asked what I thought of IPK I thought that would be a good place to start.
My IPK sites went online July 2010 but I made only seven sites using this system so in all honestly I think you might agree that’s just not enough to firm up a real response to that question.
- game product – G rank ?? – yahoo rank #20 – bing rank #22
- toy product – G rank #12 – yahoo rank #5 – bing rank #5
- christmas – G rank ?? – yahoo rank?? – bing rank??
- halloween – wordpress – G rank #22 – yahoo rank #40 – bing rank #40
- halloween – wordpress – G rank ?? – yahoo rank #33 – bing rank #36
- halloween – wordpress – G rank #49 – yahoo rank #2 – bing rank #2
- halloween – wordpress – G rank #151 – yahoo rank #40 – bing rank #39
If your wondering, a rough estimate of my income from just these seven sites would be somewhere around $185. I wish that was a monthly estimate but it’s not, it’s the full six months. I plan to go over each site and make sure I included all the pertinent information. I’d like to add more product information pages to fill each site out more. And to round the numbers out I plan to add three more domains to the list. I know that doesn’t compare to others who have 20, 40, or more IPK sites but it’s a good number for me.
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