I just watched the best video over on Perry Belcher’s site…
SocialMediaMoneySystem.com
…that explains how a business person should behave in social media settings.

It’s just like you would behave at a real-life party…

• You go to a party (Twitter or Facebook)
• You talk about light, fun topics (you don’t sell your Tupperware)
• You make a few new friends and invite them back to your house (your blog) for a BBQ
• They walk into your house on BBQ day, and again you keep the conversation light (no hard-selling)
• Once you get out to the porch after dinner, they ask “So, what do you do (for a living)?”
• This is your chance to casually tell them what you do. If they need your services, they’ll tell you so. If they have friends that need your services later, they will refer them to you.

I know this seems so obvious, but it is not what how most business people behave. We’ve been trained all our lives how to socially interact at BBQs. Who knew the same rules apply online.

Be sure to check out the free videos for yourself. This was just a brief summary.
SocialMediaMoneySystem.com
There are also a couple free mindmap downloads you’re gonna want to grab.

Enjoy!

I recently found Bust-A-Name…
http://www.bustaname.com

Bust-A-Name lets you enter up to 20 keywords, group them, then see what combinations are available. I used to use DomainTools, but they are no longer a free service. You can purchase the domains you find at Bust-A-Name from your favorite registrar/host (i.e. GoDaddy) with a single click, but it’s optional.

I’m always looking new domain tools. If you know of another good one, please share it below. Thanks!

Wordpress.org has quickly become the hosted blogging platform of choice for many professional bloggers. Why? It’s powerful, expandable, and it’s FREE!

Here is my list of must-have FREE Wordpress plug-ins…

TRAFFIC GENERATION

Sociable
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

SEO

All in One SEO Pack
Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Simple Tags
Related tags, Tags suggestions, Auto tags, Auto link tags, Autocompletion, Tags management (rename, delete, merge, search and add tags, edit tags ID), Edit mass tags (more than 50 posts once), Possibility to tag pages (not only posts), Dynamic Tag Clouds with colors in Widgets (random order, etc), and Related content

ANALYTICS

Google Analyticator
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging.

OTHER

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. Also great for affiliate links.

CommentLuv
This plugin will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit. It has been found to increase comments and the community spirit for the thousands of blogs that have installed it.

I’d love to hear your opinion on this list. The list of available free plug-ins is growing every day and the top spots in each category are still up for grabs. Please post a comment if you know of a new hot plug-in that our readers need to know about.

We all know that Google keeps most of their Adsense revenue, sharing only a small portion of it with the publishers who post the ads on their sites. That’s all about to change…

EchoCurrent (echocurrent.com), free-of-charge, will help you present relevant ads to your visitors, right out of your Commission Junction (CJ.com) affiliate account. You keep the WHOLE commmission for yourself! I’m sure EchoCurrent will soon offer some premium services for a fee, but this service is free and it’s awesome, especially if you are an autoblogger serving dynamic content on your site that constantly changes.

What other ways have you found to serve relevant, high-converting ads to your visitors? Share the wealth!

I’ve been using Aweber (http://freetestdrivepromo.aweber.com) and have been pretty happy… low cost, easy-to-use, etc. What services have you had success with? Thanks.