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10 Ways Social Media Can Help Your Business

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:07:35 +0000

Social networks are vibrant and constantly evolving. Yet the fact today is that Social media is beyond adding friends and sharing status. More and more people are getting involved in this area to perk up their business. Be it small business or huge, the adoption of social media is just augmenting with time that because of the outcome it has to offer. Some of the reason for businesses to get involve may include, getting new customers, increase awareness and stay connected. According to Jody Nimetz, author of Marketing Jive, there are five major uses for businesses and social media: to create brand awareness, as an online reputation management tool, for recruiting, to learn about new technologies and competitors, and as a lead gen tool to intercept potential prospects

We also know some companies that have made excellent use of social media to establish themselves. If you are selling products/services or just publishing content for ad revenue, social media marketing is an effective method that would make your site profitable over time. So the important factor here is to know why any company would need to incorporate social media into their ideas and strategies. Once that is clear your quantifying gains become a much simpler task. Let’s now have a look at some of the reasons why a company might use social media and how the approach is different:

10 Ways Social Media Can Help Your Business

1. High Traffic and Links

By using Social Media methods you can bring high traffic to your site. They are of two kinds one is primary traffic where you get direct visitors from social networking sites and then we have secondary traffic, which is actually indirect referral traffic from websites which is linked to and send you visitors. By becoming popular on top social bookmarking sites can boost your site traffic visibly and bring you large number of links, sometimes may not even be relevant, yet useful.

2. Cost Effective Method

A wide-ranging Social Media Marketing (SMM) strategy could certainty provide a full or at least partial replacement to traditional advertising at fraction of costs when compared. Social media, which tends to have lower costs than other forms of marketing could be beyond doubt cost effective for those required to get customers spreading and sharing messages. Then again, marketers should be careful, because doing it in a wrong way would result in more work, and at times, brand backlash.

3. Direct Conversation

Conversation is the most important part in any kind of business and Social Media is a source that let you to have direct conversation with your customers. One way it will help you is by providing the products and services they desire and secondly you can get their feedback and ideas to improve further. And these days as social media is more about demographic so marketers are more viable to get new target audience, or new people to do business with. Chrisbrogan writer of Trust Agent shares 50 ways marketers can use social media to improve marketing.

4. Powerful Recommendation

Anybody rather than buying from a company who is faceless would prefer going by some recommendation. Yes, of course even in our daily life we believe to purchase in what is been recommended to us. As we know that influencers play a vital role in buying process, one way you can reach your audience is with Social Media. Once you are popular and trusted there, your brand will automatically be suggested to other connected links. Understand it is not about pushing your message, but putting forward a positive image always, building trust and value, and attracting the right clients to you like a magnet.

5. Shaping Relationships

There are ways you can be social without social media , but the initial goal behind networking online is to build relationships that can be the most effective way towards successful business. You can look at bloggers who are making the best use of it by the RSS feed reader, where one can read the post as soon as published on the blog they admire, which can further be commented on. But through Social media – especially Twitter and Facebook, you can have direct conversation with many bloggers and audiences to shape your relations further in also about 140 characters. That’s the power of social networking for business.

6. Chance To Improve

With Social Media sites you have the biggest market research company at your finger tips. Can there be a better way to improve your offering than by getting direct feedback from your consumers? Obviously not, because with valuable feedback from the customers you have a chance to improve your product and services carving their needs. But be careful while working on their wants, it could be difficult to filter out pointer and work on the valuable ones.

7. Enhance Brand Exposure and Loyalty

Social Media is the quickest way to enhance personal branding, which also makes it easy to track social media buzz around your brand and monitor it. You have higher exposure to your brand with online networking, and with spread you can gather hundreds if not thousands of prospect, and among them at least one web 2.0 company will become a loyal customer for your ongoing annual revenue. Don’t forget to take personal care of your customers, even by adding online events and responding to your users can build loyalty.

8. Time Saving Element

It is always said that everything on Social Network is quick and that holds true for any kind of business too. SMM is unquestionably cost effective from monetary point of view, because it actually does not cost anything and it is also effective from time perspective when compare to traditional marketing methods. All that a business owners need to do is their homework and to make sure they are spending their time in the top social sites in their particular industry niche and their specific business requirements.

9. Get Connected To Your Peers

Social Media again gives you a quick chance to get connected to your peers when required. For example, a web designers, developer and programmer can get help for any related issues just by a tweet message on twitter or status update on Facebook. You can always count on Social Networks for help on any particular issues at the same time you can offer help when required by your peers. While it might take time to get connected to people on other sources, social media work like cream!

10. Obvious ROI

It goes without saying that if you focus on your audiences, customers and add value to their lives, you will surely attract followers. They will soon become your fan and start trusting your brand, which in turn gets you more leads. So all you need to do after that is to measure your Social Media ROI.

It’s Your Turn

So let us know, which of the social media sites you love? How do you use it for your business and how does that help? What’s your strategy and idea? Share and help us grow via comment!

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How To Create Album Art For iTunes

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:56 +0000

There are many music lovers out there who are always busy downloading music to update their collection of iTunes. iTunes is a very popular software application which people have been using all around the world for maintaining a digital collection of music. But many of those find problem while managing the songs downloaded by them. Now have you ever thought of downloading other application which can solve this problem of yours? If no then give it a thought and start using web application called art4itunes which will prove quite beneficial in keeping your songs in a systematic order. With this web application you can find cover art for the itunes present in your collection.

Create Album Art for iTunes in four simple steps -

Step 1: Export Song List as plain text from iTunes

iTunes 8: Select a playlist, then click File > Library > Export Playlist (use Plain Text)
iTunes 7 and older: Select your ‘Music’ library, then click File > Export… (use Plain Text)

Step 2: Upload song list below in the motioned field

Step 3: Album covers and track listings will be displayed for your iTunes music collection!

Step 4: Drag and drop the album covers onto the image box in iTunes.

I am sure after getting to know about this you might want to give this a try. But it would be better if you have some preliminary knowledge about the application so that handling it becomes easy for you. There are different ways by which you can get a cover art for your albums by making use of art4itunes. One way which is easy in comparison to other one is to use software available on the website which helps you in getting cover art automatically. It takes very less time and you do not have to export the lists of songs when using it.

But if you are a perfectionist and want everything to be done properly then other way is best suitable for you. In this you have to visit the homepage of the web application where you will be asked to export the list of songs for which you want to obtain a cover art. After exporting the list you have to upload it. Once both the things are done cover art and titles will be displayed for your music collection. You can choose anyone which you find the best. After using art4itunes managing songs will become an easy task for you.

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Cool Website To Play And Download Free Online Games

Nikita Porwal — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:48:40 +0000

Games are something that all of us want to play at one point of time. However the craze for games is too much amongst young adults and they are always found searching for new games. These days, there are available different ways by which one can play games of their own choice. In market you can find different gaming consoles and can buy their CDs and DVDs for playing different types of games. But this makes you lose loads of money and I am sure many out there are looking for some cheaper ways. There is one way out to save money and still have the same amount of fun and enjoyment. There are website on which you play games online and even download free of cost.

Out of many different websites, dailygames is a great place to look out for different games. The games on this website are divided into categories so that users can easily find out the game that they want to play. It is not possible to mention all the categories here but the ones which are most popular include car games, strategy games, puzzles, board games and lots more. If you do not find the category of your choice on homepage then do not worry, just do a search of the category you are looking for and most probably are would locate it. The related results will be published on the page and you can select any of them.

The website also helps users looking out for games which rest of the world is playing by mentioning the recent games on it. In brief they have done every possible thing for users so that they can enjoy games to the fullest. If you have not visited the website then visit it and get started with online gaming right today with dailygames.

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10 Tips To Become Social Without Using Social Media

Nikita Porwal — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:02:29 +0000

A famous writer once said, “Getting social is a cup of tea of an extrovert.” Therefore always try from your end to be an extrovert. An introvert can never be a great social person. If any of the following questions is hindering your mind then follow the tips given further. Are you in mood of making your social circle? We are all social beings and like to spend time with others, right? If you want to improve your social skills, then it is better that you start with yourself. To become social, you must take positive actions along with your extrovert nature. Although social media has given us great opportunities to get social with world around, yet there are many places where you need to be social without social media. With that in honeytechblog shares Top 10 Tips to become social without using social media, which is sure to help!

1.Remove Shyness

First tip of getting social is removing shyness from your end. Never be shy in any matters and see the crystal results.

2.Eye Contact

Make an eye contact. First of all to be social you need to have self-confidence. Without this virtue, you will not be able to believe in yourself

3.Conversation

Talk part in conversation with friends and relatives. Try to talk to the people around you. To start with you can take part in conversations about subjects in which you are familiar with. You can ask questions or tell jokes to become a part of the conversation.

4.Hang-in or Hang-out

You have to give your effort to become social. If you are alone at home, then try to give a call to your friends and relatives. If they are free, you can ask them to come over to your place.

5.Interact

Try to mix up with others. During office or school lunch hours you can sit with a group of your classmates and colleagues and have your lunch. You can also ask them to share your lunch with them. To become social you need to interact with more than one or two friends

6.Talk About Our Self

We all love to talk about our self. You can ask people to tell something about themselves and share their experiences on a particular topic. You can draw out their interests and ask further questions on them. If they share their sorrows with you do sympathize with them. Moreover, if others ask you to speak about yourself do not hesitate to do so. Rather share your experiences and interests with them.

7.Extra Curricular Activities

Take part in various competitions like sports, cultural or any competitions or probably one that you are already good at.

8.Party Animal

Do not turn down any invitation offer. If your friend has invited you for any party celebrations try to accept the offer. It is the best way to tell others that you like the company of others. You can also invite others to your home.

9.Be An Optimistic

Try to be an optimistic. People like to spend time with optimistic people rather than wasting time with so called pessimists who are always upset with this world. You must try to find out ways to be happy and always be positive.

10.Genuine Compliment To Others

To begin the conversation you can always compliment people. Irrespective of age, people like to get compliment. Moreover, it is also a great conversation-starter.

Bonus

Making your conversation interesting is by knowing about others and doing things or favor for others can help in building your social status.

Great socializes make other people feel contented and interesting. How do they do that? By being really getting legitimately fascinated in other people, if you are talking to someone and you feel boring or inferior, ask yourself the reason. Is it really all your accountability? Perhaps yes, because all you need is to become social by yourself and not by force! Getting social will not only bring up your social status but will also boost your confidence, which is the ladder to any success in life!

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Cool Web App To Find Similar Books, Movies, Music, And More

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:52:01 +0000

Tastekid is a cool web app which helps you to locate similar music, movies, authors, bands, books and more. You can meet Emmy who has extensive and growing knowledge to give recommendations and help you discover new music, movies and books, based on what you already like.

To use the website is as simple as eating hot chocolate cake, the simplest way is to write down in the big text input your favorite band, artist, movie or book, and hit “Enter” or click “Suggest”. It will display you with all the similar stuff in three different categories as:

I think you might like some of these
Stuff I heard about recently
Stuff that seems to be kind of popular

For example if you type in “Lady Gaga”, then you will get similar results for bands/artists as Flo Rida, Keri Hilson, Katy Perry and more. For the movie result you would get 17 again and stuff I heard about recently you will have Los Latigos, Dave Grusin, and others. Finally for stuff that seems to be kind of popular you get, Violent Femmes, We The King, Lawrence Of Arabia and others. Likewise, you can find more similar stuff for your favorites.

Another interesting thing about Tastekid is that they have developed a free iPhone App so that can get music, movies, shows, books and authors recommendations straight on your iPhone, without having to launch the browser and visit the website. Having an intuitive and easy to use interface especially designed for the iPhone, the app provides the same functionality as the website. You can type in your favorite bands, movie or show titles, books and authors, and you get instant recommendations of things you might enjoy, based on what you already like. You can even watch the Youtube clips or read the Wikipedia excerpts available on the website.

This stuff is free and handy for all the users not looking to spend hours of time in libraries or online to find similar stuff on what they like. Go ahead give it a try, you would surely be surprised!

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RapidWeaver – Excellent Tool To Design Beautiful Websites In Minutes

Nikita Porwal — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:35:07 +0000

Are you looking to create a blog to display your work? Or just out of passion do you want to share your thoughts? Website sounds like a cool option to share anything these days, but then do you really have the time to spend hours on learning the codes and graphics? Not everybody, so for the people looking for a quick and smart answer towards creating a website we have RapidWeaver as a solution.

RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design applications to assist you easily create professional good-looking websites in minutes. It is a template-based website creation tool, from Realmac Software, and is exclusive to Mac OS X. You might have come across tons documentation before starting a blog or a website. But with RapidWeaver all you need to do is to download the application and start playing with it.

Interesting Features of RapidWeaver:

Offers clean, beautiful code that adheres to modern web standards.
Drag and Drop technology
CSS / HTML / PHP code inline editing
Powerful (and numerous) plug-ins
iPhoto Integration and Automatic Navigation building
FTP & Mac Publishing
Side by side, text and code
Lots of nice templates along with Flash Based Slideshows
Blogging with RSS Feeds and excellent Podcasting
Photo, Movie Albums and styled text
New version is compatible with Snow Leopard.
Scale & Rotate Images
Smart Publishing

How does RapidWeaver Work?

Well, working for this excellent app is very easy. You can choose following types when working on any new website project – Blog, Contact Form, File Sharing, HTML Code, iFrame, Movie Album, Offsite Page, Photo Album, QuickTime, Styled Text. For example, if you need to create a blog, all you need to do is click on “Add” button on the main page and select “Blog” as your option. Next give title for your blog by selecting “Save” option on file menu. To further change other elements of your blog such as caption, header, footer or other, you should open General Tab of the setup menu, where the options are available.

Advance option such as external links or other services such as Google Analytics can be added with the help of Setup menu. Next the very important part comes, which is adding content. If you want to add some text content, just type it in the top area of the right panel. The toolbar that divides this area from the Themes one offers you with buttons for altering the font, alignment, style, or the color of the text. It further comprises of a drop-down menu that is actually a shortcuts for adding titles, new paragraphs or subscripts.

Then you can choose from many themes that suits your blog best. Do a preview check before finalizing the theme. Further when you need to add images, you can use the excellent drag-and-drop technology and pull it from your desktop. Then of course you will be eager to know how does the website look with content and images, so click “Publish” and there you go.

Conclusion

Overall, it is very much possible to create a website in 15minutes with RapidWeaver, which is beyond doubt amazing. And the best thing is you don’t have to be a HTML and coding guru to build your own blog here. Just by providing some standard forms and valid server detail you can complete the task. This user-friendly editor is well-suited not only to newcomers to Web design, but is also brilliant for small business owners who don’t wish to spend a lot of time learning the tricks of Web design and development, in fact, even children can give it a try.

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Top 50 Sites To Watch Free Online Videos

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:42:55 +0000

Gone are those days when we had to wait long to catch up our favorite show or a movie trailer on Television. Today online video is the newest trend in media and increasingly people are getting involved to watch anything they wish. Watching online videos are exploding around us and thanks to Internet for giving us a very amazing way to experience news and entertainment. According to an interesting post shared last year by mediapost, a whopping 158 million U.S. Internet users — or 80% of the nation’s online population — watched online video. And of course the figure is rising each day, in fact the success of sites such as YouTube over few years has helped open the door for those who desire easy access to watch and share videos over the internet. Most people get their hands on YouTube or Google Videos to catch videos, but then there are many other alternatives that can offer great videos too. So with that in mind, honeytechblog has segregated the Top 50 sites to watch free online videos in terms of music, movies, educational, TV and news.

Top 10 Sits To Watch Free Music Videos Online

Music is everywhere, it permeates our world. Everyone knows music has power and is importance in everybody’s life. So if you are looking to watch music videos online then check out the below sites that provide music video fans with a high quality experience to watch favorite videos and discover new artists.

1. MTV

2. AOL Music

3. Yahoo Music

4. Vh1

5. Artistdirect

6. Yallwire

7. In

8. Roxwel

9. Blastro

10. MySpace Music

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free Movies Online

Did you miss your latest movie release at theater? No worries, you can catch it over few interesting sites that offer you to watch full movies online. In fact, watching movies online is the ultimate way to enjoy a movie because it’s instant, you can watch a movie on your giant HD flat screen, or on your laptop while sipping your favorite drink at a local coffee shop – or while travelling. So check back to the following sites when looking to improve your movie watching experience.

1. IMBD

2. Google Video

3. Hulu

4. Veoh

5. Dailymotion

6. Metacafe

7. Onlinewatchmovies

8. Joost

9. Movies-on-demand

10. Babelgum

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free Educational Videos Online

Everybody needs to watch educational videos when they truly want to learn something. Because when you watch something and learn, it comes out better than reading materials. Following are sites that offer you best educational videos across the web. They have everything from tutorials for kids to graphics designer to just about anything.

1. Educationalvideos

2. Archive

3. Brainpop

4. Nationalgeographic

5. Fora

6. Videojug

7. Learner

8. Greenenergyty

9. Neok12

10. PBS Video

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free Online TV

Missing favourite television show due to various reasons is a common thing. But no more as you can catch the repeat telecast of it via various following sites. Online video search engine has created a better way for people to search, discover, and watch their favourite TV show online. So make sure you come back to the following site when desire to watch Television shows online.

1. YouTube

2. Freetvonline

3. Surfthechannel

4. Chooseandwatch

5. History

6. Videosurf

7. Blinkx

8. Tvshack

9. Letmewatchthis

10. Free-tv-vidoe-online

Top 10 Sites To Watch Free News Online

We all wish to get updated about latest news around the world, but we should have reliable source for it. Below given sites are especially dedicated to offer you latest news across the world and which are reliable too. You can watch news videos online in about all categories such as tech, politics and business.

1. Abcnews

2. BbcNews

3. Cnn

4. Cbsnews

5. Foxnews

6. Ndtv

7. Thedailytube

8. Forbes

9. Ctv

10. Thecurrentaffairs

We hope you have a great experience visiting these videos sites and also let us know if we missed some of your favorite online video sharing sites. Meanwhile, you can follow us on Twitter and subscribe for our RSS feed to get update on each post of honeytechblog!

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Top 10 Websites To Get Royalty Free Images

Nikita Porwal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:59:49 +0000

Google Image Search is one of the top technologies today at Googleplex as it serves millions of users around the world that are looking for appropriate images. That displays the importance of images in each one’s life. Especially if you are blogger, web designer or a graphic designer then you highly rely upon new images for day to day work. When you develop a website, the first thing that strikes our mind is to get more views, visitors and incomes. And images help the readers for better understanding of the text content. So generally do Google Image search or may be Yahoo Image search, but at times the result may be disappointing and you might feel like digging the alternative sites too. However, this certainly does not mean that you have shell out dollars to obtain images, there are few excellent royalty-free image sites existing that offer equal quality product at low or no cost. With that in mind, honeytechblog compiles Top 10 websites to get royalty-free images, which can certainly help you getting amazing images.

1. GettyImages

Gettyimages is the leading provider of digital media worldwide, creating and distributing a range of assets – from royalty-free stock photography and editorial images to footage, music and multimedia – that help communicators around the globe tell their stories. Getty Images creates and distributes the world’s best and biggest imagery collections, making them available in the most reachable and usable way – 24 hours a day, every day. From contemporary creative imagery to news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, their products are found each day in the full range of traditional and digital media worldwide.

2. Corbisimages

The Corbis Royalty-Free Collections covers health, nature, sports, and a full range of current, relevant subject matter. Search unlimited-use images at incomparable value. Corbis imagery is packed with power and emotion and includes areas such as business, technology, people, lifestyle, nature, places and backgrounds. It’s a library of more than 140,000 images and 264 CDs from which to choose from.

3. iStockphoto

iStockphoto is the internet’s original member-generated image and design community. Get easy, affordable inspiration with millions of safe, royalty-free photographs, vector illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash files. The site’s photo library contains over 4.5 million stock photos, vector illustrations, Flash files, video footage and audio from over 75,000 artists.

4. Photoxpress

PhotoXpress.com is the world’s largest free premier-quality image bank, providing creative professionals a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use – including Web site design, brochure illustrations, advertisements and editorial illustrations. You get free, high quality, high resolution images and that is up to 10 downloads a day.

5. Freedigitalphotos

At freedigitalphotos you get thousands of royalty free photos and illustrations for websites, newspapers, magazines, video and TV productions, iPhone applications, PowerPoint presentations, forums, blogs and school work. All photos available there are free for corporate and personal use. Every image is free, with an option to buy high resolution versions for use in print or graphic design. If you are a photographer then you can create a free account to share and sell your photos.

6. Morguefile

Morguefile offers outstanding collection of photos for download. The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. Don’t forget to check out their top free photo collection, which is indeed worth looking at. The best part of morguefile is that you can download images from the site without even creating an account.

7. Imageafter

Imageafter is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. In the directory you can expect free high resolution images of objects, places, animals, mechanics, insects, signs, circuits and plants etc. All stock photos can be freely downloaded and used in you commercial or personal works. The size of the images range from 1600×1200 to 2560×1920.

8. Photovaco

Photovaco offers free stock photos with high resolution for both personal and commercial projects. You can use these free photos in websites, video, TV production, forum, blogs, school projects and print medias including newspapers, magazine, books, CD covers. That means you can download, edit and use all photos anywhere and anyhow you like except for abuse.

9. Jupiterimages

Jupiter Images is one of the leading suppliers of stock photography in the world – with a comprehensive photo library covering royalty free images and stock illustration. You’ll find top collections including Ablestock, Comstock and PhotoObjects. Between them, they offer imagery for almost any project, with a wide range of conceptual and lifestyle photography, including everything from holiday photos and sports stock to industrial shots.

10. Picturesindia

Picturesindia is an Indian site that wishes to provide an enticing and enchanting journey for its viewers by presenting them a collection of royalty free images, encompassing sections of never explored India. This unique collection has all possible intricate details that will surely be a visual treat for its viewers. From images of hotels, monuments and tourist attractions of India to photos of ancient Indian civilization everything is just a click away at Pictures India. Browse through the vast collection of images of India and download these images free of cost for various purposes like advertising, publishing and web designing.

So which is your favorite site to get royalty-free images? Do share those excellent sites with us via comment.

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Top 10 Tips To Enhance Personal Branding

Nikita Porwal — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:59:37 +0000

Personal branding has been one of the biggest trends in 2009 and one that is probably to play an indispensable role in 2010. Yet, even as everyone agrees on its importance and that it is fast growing, very few people could actually master the art. Most people mistake personal branding as to build better product, but it is actually to build better perception of yours among others. That’s because when you are online, your presence is important and people will judge accordingly whether you like it or not. So you really need to care about other’s perception about you as a brand. And most people also think personal branding is difficult, but if you believe in your skills and ability – it becomes easier for you to sell your brand. The basis of personal branding is that success doesn’t come from personal development or hard work. Instead, personal branding proponents claim that success comes from self-packaging with needed skills.

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First everyone should understand that personal branding is just not a buzz word or a way for self-promotion today. It is process by which we can market ourselves to other and this can be done not only by famous celebrities, but also by every individual online. In other words, your personal brand is who you are, what you do, and your leading quality in the eyes of your ideal target market. Through social networks or social media you can get in touch with tons of people and this network will help you build your brand. Today there are ton of social media tools available to help you achieve incredible heights in no time and each one should understand the process to master it. With that in mind, honeytechblog today shares Top 10 Things To Do To Master Personal Branding to achieve your desirable success.

1. Select Niche

Personal brand in nutshell, is nothing but who you are and so it becomes important for you to select a niche for your persona. To separate yourself from the rest of the crowd, create your own niche that increases your visibility and preserve your reputation. Your selected niche should involve the application of one’s name to various products. For example, celebrity real-estate mogul Donald Trump uses his last name extensively on his buildings and on the products he endorses (e.g., Trump Steaks). When branding yourself bear in mind that you must create a strong and reliable brand.

2. Identify Your Positives

Never be weak at your mission, you need to build up goals that can be achieved in a particular time. And for that you need to identify your positives and forget what is negative. Set up you goals and write down your mission statement along with a development plan on how to go about. Your statement must tell everyone what you do and who you serve. Note down some inborn skills that match up to your personal mission. Perfect, cultivate and grow these talents to move ahead.

3. Be Precise and Clear

It is obvious that you want all the business you can possibly get your hands on but that is not how to grow a strong and reliable for long time. You need to specialize. You cannot certainly be all things to all people. You must be precise and clear about that one particular niche that will serve your audience neatly. Don’t run behind ten different things and lose your precious clients. Accept the fact, if you might be good at one particular thing and perform that well, so that you never miss any opportunity to grab your audience. It is ok to be narrowed down than to be dumped.

4. Establish Yourself In Chosen Niche

The key to productively branding yourself and doing it successfully is to first establish yourself as an expert in your chosen field. Once you have done that concentrate on who you are and what you stand for within your selected niche. Your next step will be getting the word out through a variety of social media channels that are viewed by the people most likely to be interested in your message.

5. Let People Locate You Easily

Now that you established in your niche, you should allow people to locate you easily. Create social profiles at Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and more, so that you are spread all over, so audience can locate you easily. But make sure you maintain your social profiles, otherwise your whole brand can go for a toss. Use business cards and email letters to strength your brand identity. Highlight your personal brand message with professional marketing communications tools. Every email message gives you a direct chance to connect your personal brand with a new company or individual.

6. Build Your Reputation

Building strong reputation is the most important thing you could do to maintain your brand. Create your own personal branding website with your domain name, so that when web surfers and other employers search your name, they get information about your career history, personal information and educations qualifications. Build a solid personal brand with online activities which will further promote your personal mission and emphasize your career success optimistically.

7. Explore Your Audience

Audience is what we need the most to build up personal brands, they are the people that would pay attention to your work and also spread the good work around. So if you trying yourself to wrong hands, and then certainly it will be a waste of time. You must locate what consumers and companies will be interested in what you have to offer. Your audience should be your niche group of people and you must try by all means to give them as much value as you can sooner or later.

8. Locate Your Competitor

This field today is too competitive to rest on your laurels. You should make sure that your name remains in consumers mind when they need you, may be in next six month or later. You cannot assume that they would remain your loyal buyers if you fail to keep your relationship current with them and your competitors will grab your buyer. So locate who is your competitor and stay ahead of them without trying to break their status.

9. Monitor Your Brand

A personal brand is just like an exotic sports car, where you cannot afford to let it run at top speed without any maintenance. If you do so, it would burn itself up. Likewise, in personal branding you got to regularly monitor your brand to keep it relevant, alert, emotionally connected with audience and to be different from the competitor. It is all about seizing every opportunity to meet someone new and maintain the pace with it.

10. Content Is Still The King

People enjoy reading fresh and relevant content, which is unique or in some way special to them. So to do this, you should customize your pitch to fit their preferences. Using social media – Twitter, Facebook or Social bookmarking sites, you can spread your information online and make connection with like-minded people. Write articles and blogs that can augment audience’s knowledge about your brand in the industry.

Of course the most important factor here is trust! You must build trust with your audience, just think about service provider in your own life – be it your manager, your hair stylist or your account – all get your business because they carry good relationship with you, and that counts in so far as the service they provide. Try building personal rapport with the things you and your audience have in common. Bottom line is trust; your consumer/buyer must trust you emphatically!
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Top 10 Amazing Go Green Sites – Guide You To Save Planet and Money

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:42:21 +0000

Global Warming is serious issue today and need to be taken care urgently. The world is more concentrating on making peace with neighbour countries, developing science and investing in technology. But what is the point if this beautiful planet may disappear soon? So the best way one could help save planet is to go green. On the other hand, globalization has made the world smaller and every single thing we do in our day to day life has an impact directly on planet – be it good or bad. But each individual today has the power to save earth by adopting responsible lifestyle. “Go Green” and “Save Energy” is the new mantra that is helping and will help in future. Practising a greener lifestyle will not only help save energy and environment, but it can also improve your health, pad up your bank account and maintain high standard of living. To help you get the right way, Honeytechblog herewith offer you Top 10 amazing go green sites that will guide you to save planet and save money!

1. Earth911

Earth911 is your one-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you’ve got and recycling your trash. They help you in finding over 100,000 recycling locations across the US, where you have a chance to you recycle hundreds of products from packing peanuts to computers. It’s a very interesting site that offers many articles as well like going green at office and others.

2. EnviroGadget

Enviro Gadget features the latest news about eco-friendly gadgets and technology. We all know that we need to do more to look after the planet and that’s why EnviroGadget focuses on gadgets that look after the environment or respect the planet in some way. A surge in consumerism seems to be fuelling a throwaway society. So let’s enjoy gadgets and gizmos that give something back or consider the environment. They also feature solar powered gadgets, wind powered gadgets and other that helps to maintain environment in a fun way.

3. Paytolivegreen

Pay to live green mainly focuses on different ways to save money while going green. As we know green movement does involve expense, so this site can be a great help for anyone interesting in going green and saving money. The site also believes going green does not mean that you have to completely alter your lifestyle or sacrifice things just to make a difference. Just be open minded and see how to save money and planet together. Apart from that the blog also discuss topics comprising environment, technology and alternate source of energy.

4. Myboneyard

Myboneyard is a simple, safe and smart way to recycle electronic. This site was created with the intention to help people recycle electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops in a smart, responsible and eco-friendly way. They even recycle accessories such as keyboard, mouse, power cords, and phone charger, battery. Apart from repairing, recycling and reusing things, the site also make sure to offer you proper credits for the same.

5. Go-green

Go-green is a huge web portal intended to remind people to be alert and sensitive towards natural environment in their day to day life. The chief objective of the site is to create/increase awareness on environmental issues among people. The site features ‘Green Stories’ that demonstrate the steps taken by corporations as part of their commitment to preserve the planet. It is updated 24/7 with information relating to news, events, technologies, videos, web resources and success stories in the field of energy conservation, sustainability and environmental protection. Their Green Heroes Program’ offers credit and encouragement to individuals.

6. Thegreenguide

The green guide is been designed by National Geographic team offers tips on how to go green in various ways. Dubbed the “green living source for today’s conscious consumer”, this makes living in an environmentally-aware way personal, practical and positive. Intended for general consumers, it shows people how to make small changes that add up to big benefits for their wallets, for their health, and, of course, for the health of the planet. Not political or activist, the green guild is just chock-full of simple, useful, ideas, broken down into achievable steps, that make going green a gradual and affordable process rather than an all-or-nothing plunge.

7. Freecycle

Free cycle is a nonprofit website for the people who are giving stuff for free in their own towns and thus keeping good stuff out of landfills. Their mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community. Freecycle.org is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer and membership is free.

8. Eco20-20

Eco20/20 is an informational website that is determined to bring accurate and unbiased information about clean energy. Clean energy is hot button topic and this is the place to turn for reliable knowledge. Renewable Energy is the wave of the future. There is nothing more pressing today then finding renewable, clean energy sources. Renewable Energy is abundant and we need to find a solution in harnessing that energy. Eco20/20 hopes to lead the way in providing alternative-renewable energy articles, videos and product reviews.

9. Yourenew

YouRenew is the easiest, fastest and greenest way to turn your old electronic devices into cash. The site makes sure that you get paid for recycling your old electronics and for being good to environment. Even in case the device does not have any value, the site will pay to ship it for recycling. So, obviously everyone has an old electronic device they’d like to recycle. Why not get paid for it and help the environment in the meantime?

10. Stopglobalwarming

Stop global warming is a collective working to encourage governments, corporations, and politicians take the steps necessary to stop global warming. Virtual March is a non-partisan effort to bring citizens together to declare that global warming is here now and that it is time to demand solutions. With the support of leading scientists, political, religious, cultural and business leaders, the Virtual March is creating one, loud collective voice that will be heard around the world. By spreading the word, they are building a movement to stop global warming. You can join the site and make a difference to the environment!

We all understand the importance of going green, so why not take some necessary steps and make it all possible. It benefits everyone on the planet to help keep healthy lifestyle alive and growing. There are many interesting articles like, Top 50 things to do to stop Global Warming and 15 green tips to recycle. So save the planet as good planet are hard to find!

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How To Integrate Facebook In Firefox Browser

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:51:22 +0000

There is no ifs and buts about how interesting Facebook is, but once you enter the world of this social-networking you will probably be a bit besieged with great entertainment methods, social events and interest groups it carry. So obviously you would want to enhance the experience and access it fast from anywhere. That is why, we have cute little tools such as Facebook Toolbar that can be integrated with your Firefox browser and stay up-to-date with latest Facebook activity just on the go while browsing website of your interest. In other words, if you have this excellent toolbar installed in your browser, you will never miss any friends request, pm or event invite at your Facebook account, while at work or in middle of anything.

Interesting Features of Facebook Toolbar

Facebook Toolbar integrates the facilities offered by your favorite social networking website into your browser.

Search Facebook from anywhere

The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results.

Get Notified

Icons on the toolbar tell you how many new pokes, friend requests, and messages you have. A pop-up will notify you when your friends update their statuses, write a new note or interact with you on Facebook.

Connect with Friends

Click the icon to open the Facebook friends sidebar. You can sort your friends by name or status and easily interact with them and their profiles.

Share Content

The share button lets you share the page that you are currently browsing by sending it to friends or posting it to your profile.

Look and feel

Once the toolbar is installed, you will notice a tab opened that will visually explain how elements in the toolbar works. The chief elements from Facebook Toolbar are – Search option, a drop-down menu having, Quick Links, Home, Five Notification Buttons, Share and Login. Further you will locate a small icon facing Search option, which will offer you to hide or open Friends Sidebar.

In case you are already login at Facebook, the Sidebar will show list of friends that are online. For each of your friends you will have few details such as profile photo, name and date of last updated. Another interesting feature you will find here is quickly send your friends a message with options like write a message, post something on the wall or poke friend. Other options in the drop-down menu of “Quick Links” might impress you with Profile, Photos, Groups, Friends, Notes, Events, Privacy Settings, Links, Account Settings, Videos and Toolbar Settings.

Furthermore, you will have set of buttons on every browser’s page namely Application, Share, Chat, Calendar and Notifications. The deal does not close here; in addition you will find a button next to Quick Links menu that will take you to Facebook Homepage. Here you can find number of unread messages and posts written on your wall.

How does Facebook Toolbar work?

As I told you there is a left side that offers information about your online friends, here you can open or hide the statusbar by clicking on script-like icon placed in search bar. You can next find out more about friend’s status just by keying the name in search box. If you want a picture about the changes made in your profile go to Quick Links menu, here you have posts, short notes, new groups and account settings.

For events information that you have already joined in, click on events link that will give you description of past and future events. Obviously here you have details of event type, location, and guest and attendance status of yours. You can react whether you are Attending, Not Attending or Maybe just by hitting placed without visiting the event page. Also check out on your top-right corner, you will locate search-for-events link that will help you create new events.

Accessing videos is a piece of cake, all you need to do go to Quick Links and click on “Video” and you will find snapshots of every video posted by you and your friends on Facebook. The most interesting feature, which could actually simplify your work, is one that would let you update your Facebook status right from the toolbar. Edit applications page can help you change further settings.

Most important part of Facebook is certainly uploading pictures and this toolbar will help you create a new album or even edit the present one in few clicks. Finally your Facebook toolbar also allows you to edit the Notifications page, which offers you actions that needs to be taken. For example, when you receive a new message, when someone write on your wall or any event invite.

Conclusion

We at Honeytechblog think that Facebook Toolbar is a cool tool and is highly recommended for any user. Even if you already know how to play around with Facebook, this add-on will certainly help you make your work quicker and organized. This user-friendly tool can no doubt will be of fun and help you save time, by maintaining your favorite social network uninterrupted even at work.

Although Facebook Toolbar is here for quite some time, there are many users unaware of it. With that in mind this review is been written. We hope the information was useful to the readers and do share your experience working with Facebook Toolbar with us via comment.

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Top 20 “How To” Sites For Just About Anything

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:40:51 +0000

With the number of netizens increasing day by day, it would not be wrong to say that technology has bettered the way we look at our lives and day to day activities. Actually with changing times and hectic lifestyles, people want everything to be better, quicker and faster. Right from “what should I wear to today” to “how to make money online” everything is been surfed online to get the answer. With that in mind honeytechblog today will give you some interesting sites that can be used for just about anything. Check out Top 20 “How To” Sites For Just About Anything.

eHow

eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 337,000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything”. eHow content is created by both professional experts and amateur members and covers a wide variety of topics organized into a hierarchy of categories.

CNET

It is a part of CNET website, where the tech expert offer you free online how to classes and tutorials on everything from iPhone technology to photography. You can search for more than 1,000 tips offered and help on various buying guides and tech related topics.

Howstuffworks

HowStuffWorks is a commercial edutainment website that was founded by Marshall Brain explaining the how many things work. The site uses photos, diagrams, videos and animations to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language. It covers hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP.

Wikihow

WikiHow is a wiki-based community with an extensive database of how-to guides. wikiHow is a wiki, which is a website that anyone can edit. It operates on open source software and an open content licensing model allowing free use and community ownership of the content. wikiHow’s mission is to build the world’s largest and highest quality how-to manual.

Howto.wired

Wired is one of the most interesting website you will come across. While many may not that that it does have a How-To section that is full of help. This is the site carries many technology tutorials that truly help you in figuring out how do things yourself. In How-to Wiki you can search the library, create an article, join the community, and many more.

How to write a resume

How to write a resume is all-inclusive sites that assist a job seeker with how to write a resume without any costly mistake. Further the site also helps you to write cover letter, distributing a resume to hiring managers, and assistance for composing a thank you letter. This site is been designed for everyone from a novice job hunter to the hr professional.

Garysimon

If you are looking for some web design information then this is your source. It gives you fully comprehensive step by step tutorial, from design to HTML & CSS. Gary Simon has over 8 year of experience in web and print industry and offers excellent design tutorials. You will also learn how to make money here.

Howtodothings

HowToDoThings strives to solve people’s everyday problems by compiling reliable information from experienced contributors and making it available to inexperienced readers. Some category would include, Automotive, business, careers, health and fitness, spirituality and many more. Explore and have fun.

How-to-podcast

How To Podcast is an interesting sites that teaches you how to create podcast in an fun way. The site further comprises of everyday terms, step-by-step instructions, informative articles, video tutorials, and real world examples.

Howtodrawmanga

Do you love manga? If so, then you will have great time visiting how to draw manga. You can find amazing tutorials on drawing manga. Apart from taking online manga classes, you can also read online manga, check the blog, and take part in manga forums for more interesting stuffs.

How-to-meditate

We all know the importance of mediation, who has time to join those lengthy classes? That’s why, how to meditate was created to offer practical information about Buddhist meditation in clear, simple and easy to understand for all. You can also check out breathing mediation, Meditation for Beginners – Videos, Books on Buddhism & Meditation, and many more links.

Wonderhowto

WonderHowTo.com is a community-fueled, search engine and directory for Free How-To Video. With an index of more than 225,000 videos (October 2008), they provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly vibrant space.

Makezine

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

Howstuffismade

Howstuffismade (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products. It is a free, independent, academic resource published by engineering and design students, who research and produce summative photoessays describing the life cycle of the product, with a view to improvement.

Digital-photography-school

Digital Photography school is a website with simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras. Discover how to use your digital camera with their Digital Photography Tips. They have a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography.

Howtocleanstuff

This is a bright and beautifully designed website offering you tips on how to clean stuffs. There are latest guides on cleaning just about anything. You can learn everything from How to wash a rabid monkey to how to clean your PDA.

Treehugger

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. They have handful of excellent tips on how to go green on your daily life and make it better.

Howtogeek

How to geek offers awesome collection of computer tutorials that carries everything from building your own computer to how to work with open source software and much more. You should not miss this site if you find yourself in from of computer every now and then.

Video-tutes

Video-tutes is one of the most admired website that offers video tutorials for variety of software programs including Photoshop cs2 & 3, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash 8 and Flash 8 video, Adobe Premiere pro and more, 22 titles in fact. Tutorial video collection is designed to help beginners and those wishing to learn new software to become productive faster & those wanting to advance their skill set.

Blog-tutorials

At Blog Tutorials, you get help on how to build a blog (or improve your blog if you already have an existing one). Whether it’s about blog software, writing, or even earning from your blog, this is the source for everything on blogging.

These are some How-to sites that you will not regret visiting. We all are here to learn and share, go ahead enjoy surfing through. Meanwhile, you can also follow me on Twitter and bloggers here have a great opportunity to join hands together with – Bloggers On Twitter.

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How To Backup Your Facebook Data Using Firefox?

Nikita Porwal — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:38:32 +0000

Many users just rely upon Facebook to keep in touch with friends, family and work. Newer services like Twitter and FriendFeed are yet to reach many people. But of late we have seen many users complaining about their Facebook account getting deleted, so obviously all our valuable data are at risk. What if Facebook account gets deleted? And you wanted to have a backup of data elsewhere? With much advancement each day to Facebook it is still difficult to perform this task. But this problem gets solved for Firefox users.

A simple way to back up and achieve all your data is ArchiveFacebook. This is a free tool that allows you to save content from your Facebook account directly to your hard drive. If you are using any other browser then you will have to use extension by installing Firefox so as to backup data and it can be uninstalled later.

Currently ArchiveFacebook can save your:

Photos
Messages
Activity Stream
Friends List
Notes
Events
Groups
Info

All you need to do

If you are Scrapbook Firefox Extension users then you would have to uninstall it as both cannot be run simultaneously
Then get a Facebook vanity URL for your account as ArchiveFacebook does not work without it. Once you log in with username you are set for further.
Now you can install Archive Facebook extension from your add-on gallery. Just visit the page and click on download.
Once the installation is done you should see a new menu item “ArchiveFB” in Firefox between the Bookmarks and the Tools menu.
Select ArchiveFB –> Archive from the main menu.
Have patients. It will take several minutes to an hour to archive your account depending on the amount of content to be archived.
When the archiving has completed, you will see a “Facebook” menu option added to the ArchiveFacebook menu. Select this option to view your archived account.

ArchiveFB will store your Facebook date copy within your browser Firefox; you can find ArchiveFB folder automatically generated in your browser profile folder where your data is stored. In case you use different browser then go to Tools > Options > Organize tab and specify the location where you needs the data to be stored. You might have also tried SocialSafe that offers the similar service at $2.99, however ArchiveFacebook is a better option because it is free of cost and can be used right from your browse.

Firefox has always impressed it’s user with add-ons and this is certainly a great addition, go give it a try now and back up all your imperative data!

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How To Edit Your Favorite Video Online?

Nikita Porwal — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:42:37 +0000

Trust me most of the video editing software sucks, some ask to take classes, some just consume so much of time that you lose interest in that video itself and others take installing at huge cost. But then here is a savior, if you desire to edit video without installing any software and without much of work then check out Pixorial! It is a new web based tool that allows you upload, store, edit and organize your personal home movies/videos online. Registered users can collaborate with others by adding and sharing full resolution home movies in the secure Pixorial service. Further quick edit and remix online content to create unique, customized video products is possible. The final products retain the full quality and resolution of the master movies regardless of source.

The interesting part is you have password-protected digital video library on web and can be edited right at your browser. And to get the footage into the site, check the two options: send your media by UPS or you can upload digital video directly. You could ship the following formats to Pixorial for doing base work of digitally recording them for you: VHS, VHS-C, Digital8, Hi8, Betamax, miniDV, and 8mm, Super 8 and Super 8 film with sound, DVDs, and even memory cards up to 6 GB. For direct uploads it supports .avi, .flv, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .dv, .rm, .wmv. and 3gp.

As for the fee structure you have free option for 10GB limit on uploads and a 60-day limit. If you wish to go for an annual membership with unlimited storage ad-free applications and other boost then you got to pay $24.99. Currently it supports Firefox and Internet Explorer, however it does not support safari because Safari’s cache won’t store the large files needed for video. Therefore each time you use Pixorial, you would have to wait for your videos to load. Firefox and Internet explorer eliminates this issue.

Overall its neat and friendly user interface designed for easy to use tools for video editing, collaborating and extremely flexible methods for getting your video footage done. So gear up now and hold your memories today by having a look at Pixorial and discover how it can actually help you stay with great moments!

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How to use Nokia Music Store

Honey Singh — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:07:04 +0000

Nokia launched Nokia Music Store in India and this Friday we are invited for the Nokia Boot Camp in Nokia Bloggers Meet 2009(at Park Hotel, Parliament Street New Delhi). They launched their new website NMSBOOTCAMP for the latest updates going in around Nokia Music Store. After researching on Nokia Music Store i came up with this post and hope it will helps you in understanding the use of Store.

Simple steps to use the Nokia Music Store

1.Download and Install the Nokia Music

2.After installing the Nokia Music, Sign-up for a free account

3.Browse to different Music of Nokia Music Store

4.You can listen to 30 second clip of any music for free

5.You can also redeem your PIN by Entering your Nokia Music PIN

Few drawbacks that need to be resolved in Nokia Music Store:

1. Nokia Music Store is officially supported only on IE.

2.Nokia Music store is bounded with DRM,the music is not DRM Free. They should realize that DRM Free Rights is a violation of people’s Freedom Of Speech And Expression.

3.Nokia Music is not supported via Bluetooth.

Note: If you have any issues or needs any suggestions, catch @nokiamusicindia on twitter ( http://twitter.com/nokiamusicindia )

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