I have accounts at about a dozen social media sites. From Facebook to StumbleUpon to LinkedIn, I have tried to keep my usernames consistent just for simplicity reasons. If you are a social media junkie, a marketing professional or just a geek like me and you want to have accounts on all of them and keep the same username for all, you can go to each site individually and see if your username is available.
Check multiple Social Media Sites
I was directed to a website called Username Check that you can …

I follow a lot of people on Twitter. Other than the random update that amuses me, I really like to check the links to the sites and blogs they recommend. Twitturly let me identify just those Twitter updates with links and also shows how many times that link has been copied.
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.The easiest way to understand how Twitturly works is, if you are familiar with digg, then you already know essentially what we …

Twitter started off as a place for geeks to communicate with others and send updates on what they were doing. Over the past year or so, Twitter really has become a professional platform for many people that work as freelancers or are deeply involved in the social media ecosphere. Twitter initially had one theme that was available and has always allowed people to upload their own images for the background. Now Twitter has 12 backgrounds available but the over achievers have taken their professional Twitter background to a new level.
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I don’t think I have to explain to anyone what Facebook is, since practically everyone is on it already - or at least it seems that way. For those who are small business owners, there are some simple ways for small business owners to market themselves on it. One of those ways is what I did this week, which is to create a page for Addicott Web.
What is my goal in doing this? Simply put, it’s just another way to help people - either in my network, or on Facebook …

Perhaps the most poignant scene in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible happens at the end when the protagonist, John Proctor, refuses to sign his name on a false confession. When asked why he refuses to sign the document, even though it could save his life he cries out in anguish, “Because it is my name. It is the only name I will ever have.” It is a heartfelt and stunning reminder that our identity begins at birth when our parents name us. A web site also depends on its name, …

If you are using your autoresonder to only answer your email when your out of town or away, you are short changing yourself. These programs do more than just answer your email automatically. I will show you a few ideas that will help you turn your autoresponder into a profit machine.

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Distribute a mini-course. Have your autoresponder send out a lesson every other day. Make sure each lesson has good quality content. Do not sales pitch your reader. Let the content you provide do the selling for you. It …

Domain names aren’t immediate online identities these days. They are the most vital piece an online business owns.
Many businesses are eliminated simply because the owner came upon on a popular quality domain name. These people are mining currency like crazy and many reuse this money to erect superior businesses.

If you have invested in stocks you know that bad news can utterly change the value of any stock. Why not put your money into online domain names that are moderately trouble free and easy to get a hold of.
For the every …