Today, I’m going to share with you two very powerful (and free) tools to use for not just Twitter, but all of your major social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and more!

I’ll keep this very short and sweet, so stay with me a bit

The first social media tool is Ping.fm

Ping.fm is a social media distribution application. In simple words, you can type your message once and it goes to every social media site you have associated with your Ping.fm account. The beauty here is you can associate nearly every major social network with this application, allowing you to spend more time focusing on the message you’re sending out rather than worrying about getting that message into all of your social networks.

The second social media tool is HootSuite

HootSuite, like Ping.fm allows you to associate your social networking profiles, but here’s the part that makes HootSuite shine over all others: not only can you associate multiple Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and even Ping.fm accounts, but you can schedule your status updates for weeks or even months out in advance and the built in reporting is simply amazing.

The conclusion of the matter is this: social media can be very powerful, but it can also be extremely time consuming. By leveraging these two social media tools, you can get more content out to more places in far less time!

Reply with your questions or comments about Ping.fm and HootSuite.

There have been lots of posts about submitting articles, but here are the top 50 by rank (Alexa and Google PR). Don’t submit your article to just one site – just like you would just submit your videos to YouTube, or your website to Google only.

Are you looking to put your article submissions on autopilot?

Big thanks to VREToolbar for this fantastic compilation!

Are you looking to put your article submissions on autopilot?

If you are like most internet entrepreneurs, you need to be writing articles about your niche. When you write articles, post them to a niche blog and at the very least to

If this is your first time publishing articles, go setup a free blog at www.wordpress.com (or you can setup your own fully customizable wordpress blog) and setup your free account with the article site mentioned above. Also, get an account with www.elance.com if you don’t already have a source for your article production. Then you’re off – make a goal to do 10 new articles about your niche!

Now to the secrets… it’s more of a system really.

1. Put your main article ideas on paper
2. Write out some points to hit on in each article
3. Get bids for writing your articles
4. Publish your articles

What’s so Secret?

Two things… first off, the way in which to structure your articles – subject title and points – will save you a lot of time when putting your first 10 articles together. Second, you will have a systematic way of getting your articles produced without breaking your brow or your wallet.

Article marketing is a very successful business marketing strategy. You should employ this system more than just the initial 10 recommended, but shoot for thousands over the course of two years.

Why Should I Submit Articles

If you’re still asking this question, then I need you to think outside the box for a minute. Article marketing serves two purposes, really it can serve more, but for business intent there are two main reasons you would employ this strategy.

1. Authority – providing you with an internet presence and expert status
2. Traffic – providing your business landing pages with high quality traffic

You want both in virtually every industry – so get crackin!

When visitors come to a website, the last thing they want in their experience is annoying fly-in subscription forms, pop-ups, pop-under (grr) and warnings in their browser if they happen to have blocker software. While these advertising strategies still work, they are not optimal for the user experience.

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Incorporate this marketing & advertising strategy into all of your online ventures! The uses are endless, let your imagination and passion run wild as you load up yet another bullet to the revolver that is your marketing strategy. They are especially useful for landing pages and a nice alternative for forum and blog advertising.

Since Twitter API hit the scene, there’s been a huge influx of new Twitter tools on what seems like a daily basis!

It can be confusing at times, not knowing which tool to use and, more importantly, how to use it. I’ve tested nearly 50 Twitter tools that have had at least decent reviews, but I want to share the top 3.

First and most impressive, in my humble opinion, is HootSuite:
http://hootsuite.com/

For Twitter tools, this one is a stand up tool – it allows you to manage and distribute tweets across multiple twitter accounts. That’s just for starters – it also has a built in URL shortening service ow.ly (cute name too). Last but certainly not least, you can setup your tweets for timed distribution.

Since having niche twitter accounts is a great strategy for making money on twitter, you can really leverage this tool, together with the two below, to grow your online business or rise awareness for your cause fast!

Next, is Twollow:
http://twollow.com/

Twollow is a neat app, as it allows you to save hundreds of hours of searching for people tweeting about the things that interest you most. You can set the process up for each of your twitter accounts and assign niche phrases for the service to automatically follow. The more phrases, the better you results will be.

When it comes to following people, you want to spend your time communication with a list of followers that care about your content and with whom you can engage in conversation with. It may take you a week or so to find out just how powerful this tool is – but you can also take the shortcut can check your phrases against the twitter search (search.twitter.com) to see how many and what kind of results are coming up.

Lastly, we’ll look at TwitterFeed.
http://twitterfeed.com/

While at times this thing can be annoying, due to high frequency – you can setup twitter feed to post once an hour, or even better, 4 times a day (every 6 hours). This allows you to have relevant and valuable content flowing through your twitter accounts. Just like HootSuite, you can manage all of your twitter account under one Open ID login, which is very cool!

Imagine, having 10 twitter accounts for differing niches and keeping relevant content flowing through each of them, daily.. this tool is more for the twitter fanatic and it truly takes some common sense, otherwise you can fall into that spammer category real fast.

Five words of caution: Low Frequency, Nice Feed Content.

There are a ton more tools, as I mentioned I tested nearly 50 of them this past year. These are the cream of the crop to me. There are some honorable mentions though, and in no particular order, they are:

TweetLater – Great service for sending automated and timed direct messages and managing follower karma. http://tweetlater.com

TwitterCounter – A useful tool for doing some research into your new followers, competition and sharing your twitter profile on other websites with it’s embedded tools. http://twittercounter.com

Twellow – A twitter yellow page directory that allows you to seek out and follow people – it also has a great expanded profile feature when you confirm your twitter profile listing. http://twellow.com

I hope you got some value from these 6 tools and my brief review of them. I encourage you to test out new and emerging twitter tools as well, and post a comment with anything spectacular you find!

Copied with permission from: Joshua Jones