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Today I received a missive in my email box touting an expert website analysis for the same amount that my family’s grocery bill is for the month ($300 plus). Because I’m thrifty and frankly prone to becoming agitated when anyone is selling something that as an author you can do for free (and still get great results), I’m now compelled to share again three fantastic FREE, FREE, FREE tools for you to use. (These tools can be used for any website, no matter what the product by the way.)

Here they are:

1. HubSpot’s superb and (did I say free) Websitegrader - it will take your site through the veritable ringer of analysis and give you actionable insight on how to improve your SEO in a nifty little report delivered right to your email box.

2. HubSpot’s PressreleaseGrader - cool FREE tool that grades your press releases for higher searchability and good usage of keywords. FREE!

3. The latest tool in their vast grading empire - co-developed with one of the finest brains on the Web today David Meerman Scott, this tool is the Gobbledygook Grader. Use it and be free of gobbledygook. (I have to give a Web-hat tip to David Henderson who talked about this tool last night at the IABCHouston Quill Awards during his keynote.)

And no, I’m not an affiliate of HubSpot - I just like Mike Volpe and think they are doing a great job of giving real tools that people can use…for FREE!

Now I’m off to go see a “two tix for the price of one” show at HydeParkTheater in Austin!

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Facebook in real Life…

by Nettie Hartsock on March 10, 2009

My friend and social media partner Jennifer Robenalt sent me this hilarious YouTube vid, \”Facebook in Real Life\”  scary and brilliant all at the same time.

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Social Media is Not Your Personal Chia Pet

February 18, 2009

“Social media is not your personal Chia Pet.”

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Superb Article on Twitter

February 13, 2009

Solis on Twitter tips

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Holy Web-Man - You Still Think You Can’t Tackle Web 2.0?

February 11, 2009

End of marketing and PR? You can’t Handle the Truth…

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Happy Birthday Facebook

February 4, 2009

Happy birthday Facebook!

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eM+C’s ING feature

February 3, 2009

ING’s “tail” of social media

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Should Every Business Have a Blog?

January 28, 2009

Does every business need a blog?

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Soliciting Author Blurbs

January 28, 2009

Author blurbs you can’t live without em!

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Great piece on Microblogging

January 23, 2009

“Microblogging is my new schtick…

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MarketingSherpa best enewsletters

January 7, 2009

Still think you don’t need an e-newsletter?

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E-newsletters Still Have Value

December 11, 2008

“oy vey in my day we loved the e-newsletters!”

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