Want to know who is talking about you on Twitter? Try TweetBeep, a new Twitter app, that enables users to keep track of preferred keywords on Twitter and sends email alerts when someone uses those keywords in Twitter updates. So, you can call it Google Alerts for Twitter!

You can use TweetBeep as a fun Twitter app or as an online reputation management tool. How? Want to know who is talking about you or your company on Twitter? Just open an account with TweetBeep and add an alert for your name or company. That’s it! Whenever someone is twittering about you or your company, you will get the alert email from TweetBeep.

Similarly, you can set alerts for virtually anything. For example, you can use this app to keep track of the Twitter conversations on your website, blog, friends, foes, products etc. For websites or blogs, you can use their domain alert. Whenever someone links to your domain and even if they use an URL shortening service, TweetBeep will notify you.

So, if you are a fan of Twitter and want to know what people are saying about you or about something you are interested in, try TweetBeep today. I am sure that you will like it.

Want to try something new? Take a look at Mycrocosm, a new web service that will enable you to share snippets of information, opinions or anything else in the form of simple statistical graphs. Sounds strange or odd, but the ordinary data in the form of graphs really looks good!

Mycrocosm is a project of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab and it’s basic goal it to help users communicate in an alternative way. In their own words:

Mycrocosm is a web site that makes it possible for people to use statistical graphs and other visual language tools for expressive social communication. In particular it provides an alternative to purely text based micro-blogging software (such as Twitter).

In order to use Mycrocosm, you must have an OpenID account. Well, as it is an experiment, in the beginning you my find some difficulties. Still, you can try it! Once you have your own Mycrocosm profile, you can start adding data in the form of various commands. Then it will create a dataset for you that depicts the data provided by you.

Mycrocosm offers some features to collaborate with your friends. It offers a “follow” function that enables sharing of datasets between friends or followers. It also allows comments on datasets and data entry from a mobile device.

MediaText is a new online advertising service that provides In-Text ad solutions. They are the only in-text ad platform that delivers images with all advertisements. Advertisers can choose from video, animation, images or text ads to get the maximum benefits from their promotion and increase their click-thru rates. When a rich-media is not provided by the advertiser, MediaText will display thumbnails of the destination URL, whenever possible.

As a publisher, you can earn in three different ways from this In-text ad platform – from content, from empty space and from referrals. Unlike traditional pay-per-click and banner ads, MediaText does not take up any additional space. It only highlights certain keywords that the advertisers wants to use. That’s why it is called In-Text advertising. When a visitor mouse over a highlighted keyword, a small ad window appears with the advertisement. When visitors click on the in-text advertisements, the Publisher will get a share of the revenue generated by the click.The interesting point is that, they have a new feature called VisioMedia, which allows you to embed text-link ads within your web pages. It is a great way to monetize the empty space on your website.

Want to earn more? They pays for referrals both active and passive. Refer other publishers to their service and get 5% of the revenue generated by them.  You can get referrals through your own promotion or through the ads served on your web pages.

MediaText shares revenue in a 50:50 ratio with it’s publishers, which is good for publishers. They offers a number of payment options like check, PayPal, bank wire, ePassporte and Stormpay. The minimum payout is just $25 for all paymet methods, except Wire Transfer where you need to earn $250 for payout. So, if you are not getting good results from Kontera or other in-text ad solutions, give MediaText a try!

Want to try a new Twitter-based application? Take a look at Dwigger, an interesting tool that enables voting and threaded conversations on Twitter tweets. That’s why people have started to call it a mixture of Digg and Twitter! Dwigger is powered by VaroCMS, the same platform that powers VideoShift and it really looks great.

So, how to start? First log in to Dwigger by using your Twitter username and password. Then, you can post the URL of any Tweet that is already on Twitter or simply write a new Tweet from Dwigger. That’s it, the Tweets submitted by you are now open for public votes and comments. And you can start a new Dwigger conversation thread via SMS. All you have to do is send the SMS to “dwigger” Twitter user account.

You can also take part in existing conversations that appears on Dwigger by giving your own comments and votes. On Dwigger, the threaded comments are Tweets and your Dwigger comment will be posted as a reply Tweet. If the comment you are posting contains more than 140 characters, only the first part of your comment will be displayed on Twitter, followed by a link back to your full comment at Dwigger. And the interesting part is, you can vote up or vote down any conversation. The highest voted Tweets of the week are shown in the frontpage sidebar of Dwigger.

Dwigger also shows what the World have been talking most about in the past few days, in the form of a word cloud that they call as ‘Zeit Cloud’. The more frequently and recently a word is used by Dwigger members, the bigger it appears in the Zeit Cloud and by clicking a word you can view all the Dwigger posts that contains the particular word. Try it today!

Want to start a contest on your blog? Need some professional help? I think, you can give ContestMachine a try! ContestMachine is a new web service, that will make it easy for you to run a contest or promotional giveaway on your blog or website. They will provide you a cool contest widget that you can display on your blog and collect entries of your visitors. In my view, this is a cool idea. What you think?

Running a contest or giveaway with ContestMachine is very easy and involves only four steps. The first step is to create your contest or giveaway by setting the entry requirements and dead line. The second step is add your prizes and customizing your widget. Once your contest widget is ready, you need to embed it on your blog or website. That’s the third step, where ContestMachine will collect entries from your users. And tin he last step you will have to select the winners. That’s it!

ContestMachine contests allow you to choose winners based on entry content, and award prizes. Even you can manually disqualify those entries that do not meet your entry criteria. So, virtually you will be able to run and manage your own contest, without spending a lot of time. There is no limit on total number of entries entries and even they offers Email Opt-In service.

They offers three types of accounts – basic, monthly and annual account. The basic account costs you nothing. But the number of promotions per month is limited to 2 and there is no Email Opt-In service. On the other hand, monthly and annual account holders are charged $8.95/month and are allowed to run up to 10 promotions in a month. The annual account holders can run 50 contests per month and are charged $90/year. Both monthly and annual accounts includes Email Opt-In service and are allowed to export entries as a CSV file.

The basic free account is ok to start testing their system. But the drawback is that, you will not be able to export the list of entries as a CSV file and there is no way to let participants sign up for your email list. So, decide on the type of your account, as per your own requirements and enjoy running your blog contests in an interesting way!

In affiliate marketing, the more you learn, the more you will earn. As a beginner you will commit many mistakes. It is natural and good for your success. Learn from your mistakes and try not to repeat the same mistakes, again an again. And soon you will understand the benefits of affiliate marketing and will achieve success.

Today, let’s talk about some important points that we must consider before getting into an affiliate marketing program. Do you think that simply becoming affiliate of a few programs and promoting them like mad will make you rich like the super affiliate? Do you think that all affiliate marketing programs are same and can generate same amount of profits for you?

My friend, if you are thinking that affiliate marketing is simply promoting products/services and making money online, then I am sure that soon you are going to hate affiliate marketing! Because, it is not that easy, like it sounds! Yes, you can start affiliate marketing without your own website and even without any initial cost But, if you want to become a super affiliate and get big checks from affiliate programs, you need to work continuously on gaining knowledge about your market and sharping your affiliate marketing skills. And first of all, you must be able to pick the right affiliate marketing program for yourself. But how? Below, I have listed a few points, that I consider important while picking products or services for affiliate marketing. Read them and try to correlate them with your experience. I am sure that you will know, where you need some attention!

Know Your Target Market:

In order to get big affiliate checks, you must know your target market. You must understand the behavior of your target audience. Why? Because, affiliate marketing is a simple case of offering people what they want or what they need. Why would people buy something they are not in need of? Can you think about pleasing your cat, by giving a bowl of vegetables? I don’t think so. Similarly, in affiliate marketing, can you expect to generate a lot of sales by promoting gold jewelry in make money online niche? Ask it yourself.

Many new affiliates commits this mistake by giving out wrong things to the wrong persons. If you don’t want to join them, start to know your target market. Once you have your target audience, go and offer them the products or services that they wanted to buy.

Know about the Quality of the Products/Services that you are promoting:

One of the most deadly mistakes that many of the new affiliates commits is that they market a product or service that ends up in delivering something that was not promised in the sales letter. This not only decreases your income, but also harms your reputation and credibility. So, it is always wise to examine the product first before recommending it to your target audience. Promote a product or service, only when you feel that it is useful for your target market. Otherwise forget about it. Because there is no scarcity of good products or services related to your niche or target market.

Know the Sales letter and the Marketing materials:

The sales letter is the connection between your affiliate marketing efforts and the profit you are going to make from it. A killer sales letter always gives the best results. While, an ordinary or spammy sales letter increases the chances of ruining all your marketing efforts. Think from customer’s point of view and ask yourself whether you are going to buy that product after reading the contents on the sales letter!

Most affiliate programs offers their affiliates with a number of tools and promotional materials to be used in marketing. Good marketing materials always increases the chances of making a sale. The more materials you have, the more you can focus on marketing.

Know about the Profitability of your affiliate marketing campaign:

The last thing you must consider is how much you will be paid, in relation to your marketing efforts. A higher commission percentage can be a big motivational factor. On the other hand, there is no meaning of promoting a product/service that results in nothing but a few cents per sale? Would you like to use such an affiliate program? Try to find and promote products with a higher end pricing or those that offers residual income. But, don’t forget about the conversion rate. Regularly check your marketing portfolio to drop the poor performers. Some affiliate programs offers excellent bonuses for outstanding performance. Think about them and get paid for your extra effort.

So, these are some of the points that I consider important for finding the Right Affiliate Marketing Programs.  Consider them, next time you pick an affiliate program and get the Most out of Your Efforts. If you want to add something, feel free to leave a comment.

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