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Tonight we’ll be discussing various ways of attracting readers, highly targeted and shotgun effect, to your blog. We’ll also add the caveat “without spending any extra cash” as on buying clicks or placing ads that cost more than you want to spend.

Ken Cook will be facilitating and you will be bringing the knowledge with you. We’ll have about 6 statements/questions as topic starters and the conversation, as always, will get lively from there.

You will need a Twitter account to participate but you can watch without one at http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23tuethun although the best way is with a third party application like http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=1&q1=twitter&q2=%23tuethun or by going to http://tweetchat.com/room/tuethun where you will not have to enter the hashtag (#tuethun) every time you tweet!

See you there.

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This Tuesday October 5 at 9PM Eastern http://tweetchat.com/room/tuethun (sign into Twitter) we’re talking about QR codes. QR is “quick response” and when you use one just once you’ll be quick to recognize their power.

I little less than a year ago I used a QR code, like the one pictured here, as my Twitter and Facebook image. Hardly anyone knew what they were and I spend a good deal of time explaining them and why I believed they would soon be prolific both on and offline.

By now virtually everyone has seen one and may or may not know what they are – simply put they are a graphical representation of text which can include contact information, a short message (SMS) or even a URL to a website. The one used in the image on this page, in fact, leads to the URL for Social Media Edge. It could just as easily lead to a map page, an invitation to a special event page or a home listing.

QR codes are here. Some religious people may think they are the precursor to an evil coming into the world – and they may be – but for now they are a tool to be used for sales, invitations, publicity (PR), inventory tracking, communication, and more. The uses are limited only by your applications.

Join us on Tuesday at 9PM Eastern – 6PM Pacific for Tuesday Thunder http://tweetchat.com/room/tuethun and let’s put some lightning in a jar so we can take it out at the right time and use it for its best purpose.

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Join us at 9PM Eastern at http://tweetchat.com/room/tuethun for an hour of small business chat about the importance of building back links and using inbound traffic for your online marketing performance.

On Tuesday, April 27, 2010 join us at http://tweetchat.com/room/tuethun at 9PM EDT (8 Central, 6 Pacific) for our first public Twitter stream chat session for Small Businesses. This session is for beginning users to intermediate users of Facebook for business. The chat session will last approximately 1 hour and will be lead by the Twitter Small Business community.

Joining the discussion could not be simpler but you do need a Twitter account even if you create one just for participating in the chats. Simply go to http://tweetchat.com/room/tuethun and sign in with Twitter. You can watch without being a member but you will not be able to ask or answer questions or otherwise join in the chat.

Discussion will include how to setup a Facebook business page, how to use Facebook’s pay-per-click or impression marketing system and how to profit from your presence on Facebook. We will be joined by members of the social media community at large and some will have deep experience to share while others may have service for hire availability.

If you are a restaurateur, insurance rep, small publisher, plumber, hair stylist, or pastor of a small church – or anything in between – you will benefit from the investment of these few moments to hear from seasoned pros of online community building.

If you would like more information on becoming a Lightning Rod (Ambassador) simply complete the short form online and someone will contact you as quickly as possible.

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