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Secure Your Twitter Name Now (or suffer later)Today

Keep Your Brand Safe

Get your Twitter name before someone else does!

Even if you do not plan on using twitter as a way to promote your business or brand - you need to secure your twitter ID so that someone else out their doesn’t snag it and ruin your brand reputation.

Think of it as a matter of “brand security”.  It is like abstinence before you are married - it keeps your reputation intact.

Things To Consider When Choosing Your Twitter User Name

1.  Your twitter user name is limited to 15 characters (no spaces).

2.  I recommend NOT using dashes or underscores.

3.  Secure your actual company name if possible.

For example, if your business is Starbucks then your Twitter user name should be Starbucks. If your actual company name is not available then think of appropriate variations.

4.  Secure all appropriate variations of your twitter user name.

Sometimes you need to redirect twitter traffic

3 Amazing Organizations & Causes for 2009December 30 2008

For those of you who have met me, you know that I have “save the puppy” syndrome and want to help everyone and every cause that I believe in.  That being said, I have decided that in order to keep my sanity I needed to select a few organizations or causes that were important to me for 2009.  I invite you to select your three most important causes for 2009 and share them with everyone as well.  This initiative should help to create awareness for what we believe in, and thereby help the ones we would like to assist.

Here are the three causes Creative Wisdom and Blueleaf Creative have chosen to support on 2009.

1.  Count Me In. is the leading national not for profit provider of resources, business education and community support for women entrepreneurs seeking to grow micro businesses to million dollar enterprises.  The program provides a combination of money, mentoring, marketing and technology tools that women entrepreneurs need to help grow their businesses from m

Why Blueleaf Creative Featured on Career GirlsDecember 23 2008

candid career advice for twenty-something divas

Nicole Crimaldi @ExecutiveVision on Twitter
(http://twitter.com/ExecutiveVision) has featured the Make Mine a
Million $ Race as well as Blueleaf Creative on her blog Career Girls.
You can read the article here:
http://careergirls.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/make-mine-a-million-business-race/

Career Girls is a great new blog that targets “twenty-something” women to help them become successful women with not only their careers, but all things important to that age group.  Nicole has some interesting posts - and I’m looking forward to see what her future posts offer.

Posted in Featured Articles, Social Media, Web 2.0   Tagged: Blueleaf Creative, Count Me In, Creative Wisdom, Make Mine A Million $ Business, Twitter   

Make Mine a Million $ Business RaceDecember 11 2008

Join The Race in 2009

Ladies as a fellow female entrepreneur I am always looking for ways to increase the revenue for my business.  I have to share with you a unique and very special organization that will help you on your path to success in doing so.  Count Me In - the organization for women’s economic independence is the single most worthwhile organization you should join. Women business owners who participate in their “Make Mine A Million $” business program see increases of revenue up to 40%.  Why?  Because Count Me In provides you with the resources and tools to make your business a success.  Count Me In founder, Nell Merlino (who also instituted Take Your Daughter To Work Day) has partnered the organization with corporate sponsors like OPEN from American Express, JetBlue, Dell, FedEx, Sam’s Club, Reader’s Digest and other organizations that are committed to helping women take their business revenues to a million dollars or more.  (If that isn�

How to Find People to Follow on TwitterNovember 26 2008

Find people to follow on Twitter

So you are new to Twitter and you want to find people to follow.  Good people.  People relevant to your industry or markets that you find interesting.  How do you find them?

There are sites that offer tools to help you find people to follow - they are very useful tools in finding new people to follow.

Twellow is cool because you can search for people by catagory.  The services also tells you how many followers a person has.  This is important becuase if they have a lot of followers, then they should have interesting content.  I always check a persons Follwers/Follow ratio.  If they have a lot of followers but they don’t follow many people, then they are likely not going to follow you.  I look for a mutral follow relationship with most of my follows as I belive Twitter is all about creating new opprotunities for building relationships.  Expect to spend some time on Twellow as you will have to navigate from catagory to catagory to find the people that you find interesting.

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