Bill McIntosh

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)

Every week on my live show I answer questions from both the members-only chat at BusinessInnerCircle.com and also the public chats. This week’s questions answered covered a variety of marketing and advertising topics:

1. The best Twitter app
2. How long I’ve been blogging
3. Good keyword tools
4. Tools to submit sitemaps
5. Good pay-per-lead programs

For answers to these questions, watch the clip. And stop by tonight to get your own specific questions answered.  Read more... (139 words, 1 image, estimated 33 secs 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)

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)

You’ll really want to pay attention because today’s the final day to win ContestBurner prize entries!

Today at 3PM Pacific / 6PM Eastern (and various other times around the world) I’ll be doing my first annual reverse birthday LIVE show where I give you all the presents. Since I’m now turning 21 years old (What’s the matter? Don’t believe that?) I decided what better day to end the contest and hand out the prizes!  Read more... (232 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)

On tonight’s live show: I’ll premier for you a funny video from a talented 10 year old filmmaker and let you watch live as I make it go viral. Then I’ll share with you some techniques for doing the exact same thing to your videos. A video going “viral” and getting huge traffic isn’t random chance. There are specific steps you take to cause it to go viral and these are skills you really need to know. That’s why you’re gonna really want to tune in tonight!  Read more... (193 words, estimated 46 secs reading time)

I told you yesterday about how I’ve got some big plans to give away a bunch of premium stuff on tonight’s live show. Well, that’s tonight & I wanted to remind you to tune in live.

I’m also awarding the prizes from the $5,000 ContestBurner Viral Marketing Contest. If you haven’t seen it yet, ContestBurner is a WordPress Plugin & Twitter App rolled into one. It runs right from within any WordPress blog and puts you in total control of your own viral Twitter contests. If you have a blog, you can have a contest running in just minutes. I’ll be talking about this tonight on my show & giving away $5,000 in prizes live tonight.  Read more... (267 words, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

I just launched Contest Burner the Viral Marketing WordPress Plugin that enables anyone with a WordPress blog to run a viral contest on their website. It’s extremely easy to set up: Just upload the plugin, activate it & in under 10 minutes you’ll have your very own viral marketing campaign running on your site!  Read more... (216 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

On tonight’s live show over at: http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live (the show starts tonight July 28th at 6:30 PM Pacific Time & 9:30 PM Eastern Time) I’ll be handing out $100 cash!

That’s right… it’s your shot at a game I’m running on Twitter.  Just retweet: this post on Twitter

I’ll randomly pick one of the retweets and hand out $100 cash on my show tonight.  So the more retweets you send the greater your odds   You’ll also need to be watching the show in order to collect your cash.  Read more... (154 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)