Google Steps up Email Marketing Efforts

I noted a very significant event in the form of an Email from Google encouraging me to “focus more on analytics, less on IT hassles” this morning. As an Analytics customer they used that as an opportunity to send the first of it’s kind marketing Email. Obviously Google is ready to challenge and market their services more aggressively at this point.

I cannot help but wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg in a larger campaign to push additional services to individuals and firms that are using many of Google’s free tools. What are your thoughts?

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Quick Video – claiming a vanity url or username on Facebook

I thought a quick tutorial on claiming a user name/vanity URL would be useful to have on my Youtube channel so I recorded this today. The super fast text version is access this url: http://facebook.com/username

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Quick Posting Primer (Video) for WordPress Newbies

I created this Screen Cast to help one of my customers with posting to WordPress and thought it might be useful for some of my readers or their friends.

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Joe’s Content Proliferation Model

I’ve settled in to a content model for social media. After playing with a number of different programs this is the result:

Content Proliferation
Wordpress Blog – articles generated on Word Press. By design this provides an RSS feed.
Twitter Feed – checks the RSS at the Word Press site 1x per hour and pushes new articles to Ping.fm (using API key)
Ping FM – pushes to Facebook Fan Page, Twitter (when it is working) and any number of other channels.

I prefer this model for organizational type websites such as my Rotary Club or my businesses website. I am not using any automation with this particular site as I set status updates through ping.fm with a long list of configured resources.

How does this differ from your model? Was this post helpful?