Olympic Day Contest

On every 23 June, Olympic Day is celebrated all around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people – young and old – participate in sporting activities, from a brisk walk to a fierce competition to cheering in the stands.

To commemorate Olympic Day 2011 the International Olympic Committee is giving one lucky Twitter user an all inclusive trip to the London 2012 Olympic Summer Games.

So get active, get Tweeting and get into #olympicday.

 Click here to go to contest Website 

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All the best 

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Social Media Consultant: How To Earn $100-$300 Per Hour In This Career – Even As A Newbie

Social media marketing іѕ аll thе rаgе today, аnd businesses аrе willing tο pay very well fοr thіѕ service. Many whο hаνе thеѕе skills take thеm fοr granted. Thеу hаνе nο thουght hοw much money thеу сουld bе mаkіng bу offering thеm tο corporate India.

Hοw Much Dο Social Media Consultants Earn?

According tο SimplyHired, a leading job search site, thе average salary іn thіѕ niche $55,000. Bυt gеt thіѕ, consultants іn thе field earn much more. Proof?

ReadWriteWeb, a leading blog renown fοr offering іn-depth analysis аbουt thе daily happenings іn thе tech world, surveyed ѕοmе leading bloggers аnd social media (SM) consultants аnd guess whаt, NONE οf thеm wеrе earning less thаn $150 per hour fοr consulting. In fact, thе average rate wаѕ around $300 per hour.

And, ѕοmе commanded fees οf $2,000- $4,000 fοr јυѕt 20-40 hours worth οf work. [Source: Article οn ReadWriteWeb website entitled, Hοw Much Dο Top Tier Bloggers аnd Social Media Consultants Gеt Paid? Wе Qυеѕtіοnеd Thеm!]

Sο, now thаt уου know thаt іt’s possible tο earn thіѕ much іn thіѕ niche, hοw dο уου gο аbουt mаkіng іt happen? Following аrе three key elements thаt mυѕt bе present.

Starting a Social Media Business? Here’s Hοw tο Ensure Yου Earn thе Industry Average οf $100-$300 Per Hour

1. Assess Yουr Skills іn Thіѕ Area: Yου doubtless know much more аbουt thіѕ niche thаn уου rесkοn. If уου υѕе Twitter, аrе active іn groups οn LinkedIn аnd know hοw tο maneuver οn Facebook, chances аrе уου hаνе thе skills tο bе a SM consultant.

Note: Businesses expect results frοm thіѕ medium. Sο, јυѕt bесаυѕе уου “play around” οn sites lіkе thе ones mentioned above dοеѕ nοt mean thаt уου know hοw tο gеt results. Bυt, wіth a few tools аnd thе rіght advice, іt’s ѕο simple tο learn уου′d bе amazed thаt businesses аrе willing tο pay уου fοr іt.

2. Price Yουr Services Rіght. Aѕ a social media consultant, уου саn charge аѕ much οr аѕ small аѕ уου want.

A Social Media Practiced Whο′s Tοο Busy Charging “Onlу $125/Hour”

One practiced іn thіѕ area reported being ѕο busy charging “јυѕt $125 per hour” thаt ѕhе raised hеr rates tο lower hеr client load. Shе wеnt οn tο note thаt many οf hеr colleagues іn thіѕ niche ѕtаrtеd offering workshops tο businesses bесаυѕе thеу couldn’t possibly handle аll thе clients soliciting thеіr services.

Nοt οnlу dіd thіѕ add аn extra revenue stream tο thеіr business, іt allowed thеm tο bring οn more “certified,” higher-paying clients.

3. Outsource thе Actual Work: Via sites lіkе Elance аnd Guru, уου саn find certified talent tο dο thе actual work, whіlе уου market fοr more clients.

Freelance οr Want tο Work-frοm-Home fοr a Living? Whу Recognizing a Niche Cаn Propel Yου іntο a High-Paying Career Quickly

A few years ago, phrases lіkе “SEO content,” “backlinks” аnd “content marketing” wеrе ѕο nеw, thаt οnlу industry insiders knew whаt wаѕ being talked аbουt. Now, phrases lіkе thіѕ аrе раrt οf еνеrу online marketer’s vernacular.

And, freelance writers whο wеrе savvy enough tο spot thе trend capitalized; I know, I’m one οf thеm. Many SEO writers whο wеrе struggling јυѕt a few years ago now mаkе hundreds per day аnd hаνе teams οf writers under thеm bесаυѕе thеу recognized thаt SEO writing wаѕ a needed service аnd thаt businesses wеrе willing tο pay well fοr іt – іf уου knew hοw tο market tο thеm.

Well, social media marketing hаѕ now reached thіѕ point. It’s those whο аrе forward-thinking enough tο recognize thе trend аnd jump οn іt whο wіll reap thе benefits іn a year, three years аnd five years.

Social media consultants аrе highly paid, highly sought аftеr professionals thеѕе days. Thеrе′s never bееn a better time tο ѕtаrt thіѕ career.

NOTE:
Dіd уου know thаt social media consultants earn οn average $200-$300 per hour? Yου саn learn hοw tο ѕtаrt commanding thеѕе fees іn јυѕt a few small weeks. Many freelancers report getting busy ѕο qυісk offering social media marketing services thаt thеу raised thеіr rates јυѕt tο keep low-balling clients аt bay. Thіѕ саn bе уου tοο!

Answer & Win Contest

Mobigyaan brings a contest where You can get a chance to win loads of prizes like mobile recharge , mobile phone, etc

How To Win:

• Like Their fanpage & follow them in twitter 
• Answer to daily questions

Two simple steps makes you win big !

Win an iPOD Shuffle

Want a brand new Apple iPod Shuffle? All you need to do is write a review for a school on  which you have studied.

To enter :

To write review click here: 3Pundits.com 
contest ends on : 15th January,2010

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Samsung Galaxy Tab design contest (ZOOPPA.COM)

Hey Fellas, designers and producers,

Create great videos and compete for $30,000 in prizes! Zooppa need your creative ideas to help welcome the future of tablet computing. The Samsung Galaxy Tab, running Google Android 2.2, is a powerful, sleek, must-have device, with a host of features designed to help users realize their on the go entertainment potential.

There’s an early entry prize of $5,000 for videos submitted by October 30th! Here’s what you need to do: create a video up to 60 seconds long, showing the creative uses you might have for the Galaxy Tab. Print and banner ads are also eligible for awards.

The contest is underway and runs until November 19th. To find out more go to: http://zooppa.com/
For questions, contact: zooppa.usa@zooppa.com
End date: November 19, 2010
Prizes: early entry video prize – $ 5,000

See Brief for Details

sharing sweepstakes prize – $ 5,000

See Brief for Details

video 1st – $ 7,500

video 2nd – $ 4,000

video 3rd – $ 2,000

video 4th – $ 1,000

video 5th – $ 500

video 6th – $ 400

video 7th – $ 250

video 8th – $ 250

video 9th – $ 100

video 10th – $ 100

print 1st – $ 1,000

print 2nd – $ 500

print 3rd – $ 250

print 4th – $ 100

print 5th – $ 100

banner 1st – $ 1,000

banner 2nd – $ 500

banner 3rd – $ 250

banner 4th – $ 100

banner 5th – $ 100

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Note: If a Indian Resident wins a Amount will be easily transfer to their paypal Account

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People More Likely To Lie On Twitter

Some people said that it's hard to get much information out of someone in 140 characters.  It may also be more difficult to obtain the truth.  I've  found that individuals are more honest when dealing with each other face-to-face than when using Twitter.

We'll admit that this behavior seems a little irrational; lying when the falsehood will survive online forever, depending on the fail whale's mood, isn't too smart.  Still, researchers focusing on email have come to similar conclusions in the past, and in this case, the margin wasn't very close.

Opinium Research polled 2,012 adults on behalf of Direct Line, and Direct Line stated afterward, "Just one in five people (20 per cent) profess to being more truthful on Twitter or text, compared to a third (31 per cent) who state that they are more frank when speaking to someone in the flesh."

Then, if you're interested in a breakdown of the data, the statement continued, "[M]en are less likely to be honest via text than themselves (17 per cent of men compared to 21 per cent of women) . . . .  [W]omen are less likely to be truthful in person than men, with 12 per cent more men claiming to be honest face to face than women."

Hopefully this research won't cause marketers too much trouble when they attempt to use Twitter.

Twitter Search Volume Up by 33% Since April 2010 !

According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival recently, Twitter is handling 800 million search queries per day.

At Twitter’s Chirp conference in April, Stone said Twitter was serving 600 million search queries per day — 33% less than the microblogging service is processing now.

The number reminds us of Bing’s impressive growth last year, when Nielsen reported that Microsoft’s search engine was growing 22.1% month-over-month. However, Bing was unable to continue growing at that rate; it lost 5% of its stake in the search market the very next month.

All this time, Twitter’s search has been growing; partly due to Twitter’s growth in use and users, and partly because Twitter’s real-time search is one of the best ways to find out what’s happening right now. With the recent launch of Twitter’s ad platform, a huge search volume will definitely help Twitter increase its revenue stream.

Tips: Bulk Follow Tool !

* Twellow – Find Twitter users in a specific industry using this service.
* Twitseeker – An alternate search engine for finding twitter.com users. Many of the favorite but not mine. Also, this tool is currently blocked by Twitter as per the violation of terms. It find users basis on the search terms and users tweets/profiles and you can follow all those searched users in bulk.
* Tweepi – (“Select All” feature is disabled on 28th january as per “Twitter TOS”) I’ve searched a new tool for getting huge followers. It’s a good tool to attract huge followers within minutes . Now the procedure to use:
o Find a twitterer, who’s having similar profile like you
o Login into tweepi with your account.
o Now you can follow other twitterer friends within minute.
* Refollow (Now My Favorite) – Free, superb tool for bulk follow & unfollow feature & lots of other creative features like:
o Find twitterers, whom you’re following but they’re not following you.
o Find twitterers, who are following you but you’re not following.
o Find friends whom you didn’t follow previously.
o Have or don’t have pictures on their profile.
o When they last tweet.
o Number of days since they last tweet
o See number of followers.
o See number of friends.
o Locked & Unlocked twitterers.
o Can set the filters like search for any term or exclude any term.
o & many others features.

Tip : How to increase Followers ??

* Search & invite people which have same profile like you.
* Search and invite people which have huge followers.
* Ping your twitter account through ping.fm.
* Find your mutual friends, followers, followings etc from various twitter tools.
* Unfollow those who stop following you.
* If you have a website or a blog, display the follow me button at the top or any other highly visible space.
* Invite all friends of your Gmail, Yahoo mail etc as they are the most potential followers you can ever get.
* Follow others users. If you do not follow others and keep expecting lot of people to start following you, this will not work.
* Follow the top twitter users and watch what they tweet. Pay attention to the type of content they sent out and how they address their audiences.

Twitter Tools

* Friend or Follow – Friend or Follow helping you figure out who your friends, follows, and fans are on Twitter.
* Qwitter – Once you’ve done your initial cleaning, Qwitter is a nice app that will update you via email whenever someone stops following you. It will even let you know what you tweeted that caused them to stop following you, which could be useful (if you lose five followers every time you tweet about your cat, for example, that might be a hint to stop talking so much about your cat if you want to retain followers).
* GroupTweet – Create private groups to communicate with your group members alone by sending the tweet as a direct message to the group tweet account. That will convert the DM back to tweet and publishes only for the group users. Private communication is established through this way.
* Tweetmeme – Displays popular topics on Twitter and those people talking about that topic.
* TweetBeep – Just like Google Alerts, this service will send you an alert whenever your set keyword is mentioned on Twitter or when somebody link to your site.
* TwitterCounter – With this plugin, you can display the number of followers you have on Twitter.
* Socialoomph – You can send auto direct messages, follow those who follow you, unfollow those who stop following you. You can manage multiple accounts and you know everything the biggest thing is it’s free.
* Mrtweet – Find folks who are highly relevant. Add value to awesome people – recommend them. Be found by people who are naturally relevant to you.
* Ping.fm – This service will update all of your social networks at once.
* Twitterless – Get notified when someone stops following you with Twitterless.
* TwitResponse – TwitResponse makes it easy for you to schedule the delivery of your tweets ahead of time.
* MyCleenr – Sort your friends by their last tweets, and you can get rid of the inactive and useless accounts you’re following.
* Tweetwasters – Find out how much time you and other users waste on Twitter.
* 2tweet – Tweet photos and videos by email
* FutureTweets – Schedule your Tweets.
* TwitPic – Share photos on Twitter – Share photos with your friends on twitter with twitpic. No signup required, just login using your twitter account
* TweetWheel – Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other! – Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other.
* TwitBacks – Free Twitter Backgrounds – Create your own Twitter background with your branding – Free
* TwitterFone – Send Messages to Twitter with Voice – Send messages to Twitter using voice!
* Twollow – Auto Follow On Twitter –
* Who Should I Follow – Twitter Friend Recommendations | Who Should i Follow? – WhoShouldiFollow recommends people to follow on Twitter.

Tips About Tweets & Posts

* Be active on twitter through different types of posts.
* Tweet valuable things. Don’t just try to get traffic to your blog by tweeting only about your articles. Mix your tweets with friendly content.
* Tweet about your passion in life and use #hash tag them.
* Every tweet should be independent. It shouldn’t depend on previous or any other tweet.
* Try to show the main things within first 32 characters as only they’re visible firstly until & unless s/he is your favorite friend or must following u. Persons, who are online through devices can’t able to see more than 32 characters at first.
* Post your Digg story into twitter as new status http://twiggit.org
* Keep space between 2 links within your tweet. For e.g. during replying to some post if 2 links occur and they’re more closer than there are less chances of clicking these.
* Save your time by configure your blog RSS feed into http://friendfeed.com. Friendfeed submit new posts automatically to your twitter account.
* When you tweet something worth Re-tweeting, then use less than 140 Characters. Because, if your twitter ID has 5 characters, then a re-tweet will add a @ “a symbol” and “RT:” thus making a total of 140+1+3+5=149 characters. So use 125 or 130 characters.
* Tweeting link of some good pictures and breaking news get viral most of the times. You can also tweet about a new job or event.
* Asking questions – By asking questions, you can easily start the conversation with any stranger. May be they’ll follow u.

Tips For TwitterHolic

* Fill out your bio. Leaving it blank or non-descriptive doesn’t encourage people to add you.
* Treat your twitter profile as you would treat any other website. Send as much traffic as possible to your twitter profile.
* Use a “tweet this” button above/below all your articles which you think can go viral in twitter world.
* Add your name to twitter directories like: tweeps.pbwiki.com, justtweetit.com etc.
* Add twitter apps in your Facebook account that can send your tweets automatically to your Facebook profile.
* Link your twitter profile with your Digg, LinkedIn, Facebook, Blog etc.
* Use your twitter profile as email signature, forum signature and everywhere else you live online.
* Add yourself into more & more Twitter Lists.
* Bring your twitter account into the physical world. Broadcast your twitter account everywhere like in seminar, webinar, business card etc.
* Customized your twitter background. Use pic which is relevant to your nature/business.
* Set “auto welcome message” when someone start following you.
* Use your twitter profile URL while commenting on other blogs.
* Apply your real photo or your blog logo/banner on your twitter profile.
* Ask other twitter members to recommend you to their followers and you can recommend them to your followers.
* If you have good followers say 500+, you can display it on your blog as a widget/badge.
* Try to be more active on weekdays because on weekends, people enjoy their weekends & don’t care much.
* Participate in certain groups. Groups can be created using hashtags. And sometimes if the group message is a hot topic, then your tweets will be listed in “hot trending topics” in search or other famous twitter services. Ex:- #followfriday
* Bring your topic into top 10 Trending Topics.