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Official user wide launch of twitter lists - if you couldn't get them yesterday should be able to now.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
blog 3# subjects Twitter lists and Virtual gifts on Ning
Twitter Lists
So, busy yesterday looking at twitter lists. Looks like you can have 20 lists which are like sub accounts - I am using these lists to put twitter contacts into groups - this will take some time, but not that long as I have around 5000 on @lemonknickers and a couple thousand on several other accounts. The list names are changable, I might even merge my accounts as the reason I opened up multiple accounts was to track different subjects - not to spam!
Most of my current lists are private, but I have the directory - of products and services open, and cool people - which are people that have my kudos!
open lists - that are still being sorted - on an ongoing basis:
http://twitter.com/lemonknickers/directory (Products and services)
http://twitter.com/lemonknickers/cool-people (People I give kudos to)
http://twitter.com/lemonknickers/top-cats (People that are known to be head of the pack)
http://twitter.com/lemonknickers/ning-nomads (Ning friends)
http://twitter.com/lemonknickers/local (Weston-super-Mare)
My use of the lists is mainly to organize people by location, UK, USA and by subjects like Coffee - all twitter need to do now is add a status box at the top of these lists so users can message people just in that list (like the message all members of this group function on Ning) maybe that is something they could charge people for ?
The private lists are for my use, I might open them eventually.
Other subject Ning Gifts - idea is good - I still think they need to add a few more free ones, like profile comments or HI5's - so that people can give them out as welcome presents, as I think it takes a while to build up motivation to pay for virtual gifts, it need to be ingrained into the network - like the game of monopoly - who want's the racing car and who wants the old boot ? - answer different people like the different ones like flavours of crisps - i.e you all rush to get the car (or the salt and vinegar crisps in my family) a mystery gift might be good in that it could be opened and a person won't know if they are going to get a generic gift like a heart or a lucky clover - or like the lotto they might get some bling/sport car/luxury gift. The virtual gifts could have collectable themes too, like an eco friendly collection or a love heart collection - reasons to make the person want the whole set - like people that collect thimbles - they get the case free then buy new thimble every month. These kind of ideas could make virtual gifts work - if someone created a coffee collection for example - I'd collect them myself and give out coffee gifts to new members or if they liked rainbows or cats - I might leave them a gift relating to their hobby/niche - a fisherman might collect fishy's - not rocket science is it ?
be interesting to see if they do develop the gifts, as they are it is very basic, not enough to motivate me to spend real cash on them just yet - alot the point prices need to vary - it is dumb to give people 100 points free to start when gifts are 75 each - better to add some at lower points like 25 - so atleast a person can try the gift function twice before having to pay out.
If they aren't going to add freebies other than cancer, aids and army for free (good causes, but not universal in appeal when trying to sell the app to potential new users) they should let a person be able to sent at least 7 gifts free - I use 7, as 7 times is 7x exposure use of the gifting feature - and they say it takes atleast 7 times to 'sell' an item to some people before they buy - these gifts aren't shiny enough for compulsive buyers yet in my opinion - if the price varied - with some lower and some 'expensive' like $5.00 each you might get a complusive buyer or buyers buy them as mini status symbols - as in "I like you and respect you so much I am wiling to buy you this diamond encrusted virtual rose, because money means nothing in comparsion to your beauty!!!" see what I'm saying ? - A person that has alot of shiny gifts have alot of people that care enough to spend on something so trivial. - this would work with charities - if you are socially minded - as 'save the rain forest' could recieve donations via gifts to each other on a network - maybe Ning could offer that function to network owners - to have 25% of the 50% rev share donated to a charity - that way, everyone would have themed gifts that benefit 1. Ning, 2. Charity/social cause 3. Network manager 4. givers 5. recievers who are sharing - how can that kind of win/win deal not work for mutual benefit eh ?
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Hi All blog 2#
Hello This is my new universal blog, posted from posterous it in theory can act like a bigger update than a tweet and also get to some of the blogs I don't get to sometimes - speaking on which I have a godaddy blog that I need to add once I figure out how to add it.
I'm going to try and write something most days (she says) mainly about my current favorite subjects - i.e Coffee, web tools, social networking, on-line life and my dog.
I usually get fed up and forget to blog - but like a diet - I will try to post 5 out of every 7 days - 7 days when ever possible. I will probabley add reminders to myself on here too.
Sooo, what are you up to Zara ?
Well... at the moment I am setting up a place to add profiles - over on www.totallyu.co.uk that site is made using a script I brought via a web script reseller buddy of mine (I have the resell rights myself - once I've got the hang of it I might offer custom installs), I am customizing it at the moment - sign up is quick, what a person can do there is add a profile, add video's from youtube, add photos, I might turn it into a social network for my coffee affiliates actually, people that join either the healthycoffee downline builder , or are coffee fan's from I Love Gano but anyone can add a profile or start a journal/blog there - coffee drinkers / coffee fan's only please!
I have a both free and paid web hosting I use - my coffee venues are like little kiosks - I'll plonk one on most social networks where it is allowed - imagine a franchise like a chinese takeaway or a news agents or a mini version of a starbucks / costa coffee - then imagine - they are all coffee themed places, where you can chat with people about coffee, social media, web tools, blogging, with coffee games and links to coffee websites and coffee experts (I am in the process of looking for coffee experts - I have already found a few good ones in UK and USA) and it's on-line. That's kind of what Zara's Coffee Venues is about - I'm your Barista / cafe owner type person - if you buy a coffee product either directly off me or via an affiliate link, I will earn a commission and that will go towards a wage to make me finacially independent. Once I can earn a profit that can keep me from being homeless - then I can think about hiring others that wish to help out - a bit like Cafe World on Facebook !!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Coffee Games for you play :-)
A coffee related set of games I found on the Big Fish Network - I will be adding these to my coffee venues, the bonus with these games is they are also a revenue stream - they have other niches - but as this is a coffee blog - well you get coffee stuff.
There are on-line games and trials for PC games - on-line games are the business at facebook - as in they are one of the profit making activities that keep it paying their bills, games are fun, ideal for coffee breaks and appeal to a wide range of people:
Here are six I found:
There are on-line games and trials for PC games - on-line games are the business at facebook - as in they are one of the profit making activities that keep it paying their bills, games are fun, ideal for coffee breaks and appeal to a wide range of people:
Here are six I found:
Monday, October 19, 2009
Healthy Coffee
Want a healthy Coffee Banner ? - I made this one - you can use it if you want too.
If you are not a member of healthy coffee USA yet, they are worth considering as an option, they are making an impression in the off-line sales presentations - I will add more details at a later date - can't hurt to get a downline started with these guys. ($29.99 a year for the back office or $9.99 per quarter) first month of back office is free so you can get in there and get your affiliate links / URL locked in for free. (the coffee tastes good too!)
www.healthycoffee.com
here's a link to the 728x leader board banner:
http://sites.google.com/site/zaralockwood/home/healthycoffee728.jpg
hi all
Just another quick update to say hello, year seems to have flown by so quick.
Any how lots of ideas are buzzing about my head again, I'm in the process of setting up a social networking site (using a script - note I am not a script expert so there are more bugs in it at the moment than a bee hive - BUT I'm getting there!) that will most likely be coffee related too but may have another theme twinned with it.
Coffee and cookies, coffee and ? - any suggestions - cookies are a bit unhealthy - coffee as most know is now being heralded as a possible tonic to help prevent Alzheimer's - coffee really is becoming healthier by the day it seems.
It's late - or rather early, so I'll think on it for a bit.
Zara x
PS - I will probably be adding facebook connect and/ or google connect to the healthy coffee downline builder over on http://incomeclubpro.com
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Any how lots of ideas are buzzing about my head again, I'm in the process of setting up a social networking site (using a script - note I am not a script expert so there are more bugs in it at the moment than a bee hive - BUT I'm getting there!) that will most likely be coffee related too but may have another theme twinned with it.
Coffee and cookies, coffee and ? - any suggestions - cookies are a bit unhealthy - coffee as most know is now being heralded as a possible tonic to help prevent Alzheimer's - coffee really is becoming healthier by the day it seems.
It's late - or rather early, so I'll think on it for a bit.
Zara x
PS - I will probably be adding facebook connect and/ or google connect to the healthy coffee downline builder over on http://incomeclubpro.com
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To ME: (yes I subscribe to these updates by e-mail! - another good reason to use feedburner!) remember to add 3cm articles on incomeclubpro!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Hi Gano Buddies, an update stock etc
I've sorted out the problem that occurred as seen in the previous blogs - you have just got a glimpse of an old problem in the marketing industry, that rears it's ugly head newbie or old timer.
Time to move forward now - blinkers on the horse as it has a place to go, no use getting distracted by things either side of the road.
Okay so what am I doing. I've rewritten my profile at the place concerned so it should be clear that permission to use my profile/photo is required before use. Just like the license I give you on blogs that you may reuse.
I've got my local brand coffee - I am still undecided if to give the lot away to a local charity I know that might want it or if to sell it on ebay - I might do a mixture of both - it depends on if they are allowed to accept gifts from strangers - or if this as a gift would be of any use in their fund-raising ?, I'll give them a ring and see how their current efforts are going as if the charity is to close down I might be better off with the eBay plan - maybe 50/50, it would be nice to at least make my money back.
DXN - I soooo wish they had an on-line shopping cart system. My Upline owns an off-line coffee shop so he stocks a certain amount of the product I want to resell - so umming and arring on that still.
Energi Coffee - this is my other favorite in terms of taste - these people are really starting to market their products well off-line in coffee shops - so I am tempted to upgrade to a gold membership on this product line.
More Private Label
back to private label coffee, I am looking at getting some more samples from other wholesalers so I can compare products.
My business cards are on their way, they are mainly to pop in any ebay items I ship out, ebay haven't banned this yet as far as I am aware - if they have I will just have to order packaging with my twitter address all over it instead! (unless they plan of banning packaging too!)
So usual administration hiccups to getting this thing on the road - another good reason some might say to stick to Affiliate products instead - no people, no sticky tape, no red tape... well you still have to find the customers either way, and the top in the game in the States all recommend getting a potential customer on your own list BEFORE you hand them to the affiliate link - so I'm following that advice.
Time to move forward now - blinkers on the horse as it has a place to go, no use getting distracted by things either side of the road.
Okay so what am I doing. I've rewritten my profile at the place concerned so it should be clear that permission to use my profile/photo is required before use. Just like the license I give you on blogs that you may reuse.
I've got my local brand coffee - I am still undecided if to give the lot away to a local charity I know that might want it or if to sell it on ebay - I might do a mixture of both - it depends on if they are allowed to accept gifts from strangers - or if this as a gift would be of any use in their fund-raising ?, I'll give them a ring and see how their current efforts are going as if the charity is to close down I might be better off with the eBay plan - maybe 50/50, it would be nice to at least make my money back.
DXN - I soooo wish they had an on-line shopping cart system. My Upline owns an off-line coffee shop so he stocks a certain amount of the product I want to resell - so umming and arring on that still.
Energi Coffee - this is my other favorite in terms of taste - these people are really starting to market their products well off-line in coffee shops - so I am tempted to upgrade to a gold membership on this product line.
More Private Label
back to private label coffee, I am looking at getting some more samples from other wholesalers so I can compare products.
My business cards are on their way, they are mainly to pop in any ebay items I ship out, ebay haven't banned this yet as far as I am aware - if they have I will just have to order packaging with my twitter address all over it instead! (unless they plan of banning packaging too!)
So usual administration hiccups to getting this thing on the road - another good reason some might say to stick to Affiliate products instead - no people, no sticky tape, no red tape... well you still have to find the customers either way, and the top in the game in the States all recommend getting a potential customer on your own list BEFORE you hand them to the affiliate link - so I'm following that advice.
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