Meetup, Blogtronix & Other Hot Tools For Your Blog

mWeb 2.0 Expo learning sessions were great and the floor was filled with all type of web 2.0 technology, from blogging tools to Social Networking and aggregation platforms, besides website products like hosting, search engine IMB and much more.

At the Web 2.0 Expo floor we’ve got to know the Meetup.com system. We started using it for our Workshops and Tweetups, and our first event is going to happen on Tuesday, December 15th, at 5PM. Wow! This is taken off great! Meetup.com is definitely an awesome and easy way to bring passion to what you do and find others who want to be involved.

Understand how companies are using Twitter for advertise their business at the next iBreakfast

A lot of people are hearing that getting an account on Twitter is good for your projects and businesses, but there are much more things involved on the Twitter use.

The Twitter tool might work as a way of attract people to your blog, but there are manners and a few tips that can really make the difference for the reputation of your brand. on last, January the iBreakfast, the topic was “Glitter in Twitter”, and the main discussion was How Business are Using this micro blogging tool.

In the video above are a few insights from the speakers on the panel:

• Howard Lindzon, from StockTwits

• Stephen Gilberg, from WineTiwts

• Chris Muscarella, from mCommons

• Gregory Galant, from Sawhorse Media

Micah Baldwin talks about Lijit’s corporate blog, his personal blog and gives good tips for new bloggers

How can you divide your time to blog more professionally and more productively? We have just finished a nice interview with Micah Baldwin, from Lijit.com and this was one of the most interesting insights of our conversation.

Micah writes his personal blog Learn to Duck, and he actually got the job at Lijit after installing it to his blog. “I believe that having a personal blog is extremely important”, Micah said on his interview for Bloggers School Radio, on BlogTalkRadio Network.

He gave these really helpful tips for ADHDs bloggers just like us to divide and organize our time having time for reading and writing. Micah has three rules of blogging:

Make your business free of the Yellow Pages and advertise for free using Inbound Marketing online

You know you have a good product, but is difficult to make sales because the costumers can’t find you? Then you figure you need some marketing and advertises: flayers, Yellow Pages, announces on newspapers… Okay, might work, but this is kind of expensive. Besides that, why do you think people are going to choose your product in the middle of so much information, so many options?

Don’t get desperate. Breath and think about Inbound Marketing. Instead of getting yourself out there and trying to catch people’s attention in an ostensible way, make the costumers find you. They prefer this way.

The biggest tip on this post is:

Give up information for free
Sell your knowledge, expertise and solutions

What it means is nowadays, with so much free information, people search, compare and need to trust your product and your brand before purchasing. You educate first, and then you sell.

Blogging and Social Media have been doing an amazing job when comes to advertising your business for free online. Check out these videos from HubSpot, witch are Inbound Marketing campaigns for itself. HubSpot is authority on Inbound Marketing and their videos are fun, funny, instructive and really make you feel like “Hum, I want to learn more about this company and its products”.

The video below became and internet viral campaign and it is a parody of Alanis Morissete song “You Ought a Know”.

This second video is another fun approach from HubSpot for telemarketing sales and old school marketing techniques. Have fun!

coComment and Lijit on the new Eye Candy Web 2.0 – Hot Tools and Cool Sites to Power Your Blog series

The first episode of our new series Eye Candy Web 2.0 – Hot Tools and Cool Sites to Power Your Blog starts this coming Wednesday, January 7th 8pm (EST), on BlogTalkRadio. Bloggers School first guest will be coComment. They are going to be talking to us about two aspects:

1. the tool’s technology, including tips for better using;
2. the tool as a business, creating a product, founding a company and making money

Listen to part of Bloggers School interviews coComment at BlogWorld Expo, last September at BlogWorld & New Media Expo, in Las Vegas.

On the second show of this year, on January 14th,  Micah Baldwin, Chief Evangelist of Lijit will be calling in to the show. Check it out if you need a nice search box and traffic analytics for your blog.

To make 2009 you best year blogging you must improve your skills and use all the best tools you have available to make your life easier. Bloggers School have been testing Bookmarks, Search Boxes, Feeds, Widgets, Plugins, Analytics and Advertise sites, besides Tracking and Logistics tools. These are only a very few things to  blog more professionally and start monetizing your blog.Bloggers School interviews coComment at BlogWorld Expo