Bill McIntosh

I’m sure you’ve heard it’s critical that your business use sites like Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz & the dozens of others like them. The problem is that it takes so much time! You’ll want to tune in LIVE tonight because I’ll show you how to create your very own social command center so you can be active on all these sites without wasting hours & hours of time…

The show starts TONIGHT Tuesday March 2nd at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:  Read more... (156 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

Ah one more Google property. One more social network to figure out how to use. Lucky for you, I’ve been playing with it to figure it out, and I have a clip showing how some of the features actually work so you can see it.

Interested?

Watch the clip!

Yesterday was a BIG day for Google. And for social networking. I went over it in my live show at BusinessInnerCircle.com, as well. But I wanted to make sure and post it here so everyone knows.

Google released their newest product called “Buzz” yesterday. Essentially, it’s a social network which links your twitter feed, your youtube videos, your flickr pics, and all other social networks that Google can figure out that are connected with you…all to your gmail.  Read more... (329 words, 2 images, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

I mentioned this on the Tuesday show, but I wanted to post a reminder on here for those of you who might be interested.

Backupify is an online backup tool that backs up your social data, blog posts, pictures, etc. from your Wordpress blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and many other social networking sites. Until the 31st of January it’s FREE. So if this is something you are interested in, you only have 2 days to get it for free. I’m not an affiliate for them, and this isn’t a product I own or sponsor in any way. I just thought it was cool, and I like to promote helpful tools to my friends and fans.  Read more... (178 words, 1 image, estimated 43 secs reading time)

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it many more times: Local, mobile and social are the future of advertising and marketing.

What does this mean? People search for local businesses all the time. Where’s a good thai restaurant nearby? Where’s the closest place to get my oil changed? These searches are being done at home, on laptops in coffee shops, from people’s iPhones. And as a business owner it’s important that you know what’s happening and adjust your marketing strategy accordingly.  Read more... (314 words, 2 images, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

There were a TON of great questions from the members-only chat and the public chat on this week’s live show! It started with questions about mobile marketing, then branched out to all kinds of interesting topics. Here are some of the answers you’ll get in this newest Q and A clip:

1. Should I focus on Yelp and Foursquare for local marketing?
2. What kind of smartphone should I get for mobile marketing?
3. Will Flash be a thing of the past since mobile phones can’t handle it?  Read more... (187 words, estimated 45 secs reading time)

Just after reports of Twitter being hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army” the website now appears to be completely offline. Attempts from several different locations have all resulted in various connection errors.

Previously when users visted the Twitter site they were presented with an image stating that the site had been hacked as some sort of protest over Iran.  The hackers also provided the email address: iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com as a means of contacting them. This image began appearing 6 a.m. GMT today.  Read more... (115 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Google finally gets their fingers into the URL shortener pie.

There are numerous companies who create URL shortener tools. These are tools that take a long url and shorten it so that it fits into a character-limited field like Twitter or a status field in one of your other social networks. They help ensure that your social network messages don’t get cut off, give you more space to say what you want to say, make it easier to forward, share, retweet, etc. without cutting off bits of the long url.  Read more... (218 words, 1 image, estimated 52 secs reading time)

Tonight you’ll really want to tune in LIVE to learn about buying and selling websites. How do you value a website? How do you find diamonds in the rough that you can buy for cheap and turn into money making businesses? I’ll show you when you tune in tonight!

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS: I’ve also got a very special announcement tonight for you. If you’ve ever wanted to sit down 1-on-1 with me to discus your business in person and get my help: you’ll want to tune in tonight and get a special sneak preview about this! and don’t worry… it will not cost you a dime!  Read more... (201 words, estimated 48 secs reading time)

I’ll see you on the live training!  Read more... (203 words, estimated 49 secs reading time)