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We get tons of questions about service providers for social media and the internet. Here are some of InSights Recommended Resources to Enhance your Online Presence. *Some are affiliate links

• Amazon – Visit InSights Store
• Eventbrite – promote events, collect RSVP’s and Payments online
• Facebook
• Feedburner – Feed Syndication, Email Delivery
• Foursquare -
• Foursquare For Merchants – how to claim your venue and get started
• FTC and Disclosure Regulations for Bloggers
• Goo.gl – share long URL’s and also help you track their popularity
• Google Analytics
• Google Calendar
• Google Docs
• Google Maps
• Google Places
• Google Reader
• Google Webmaster Tools
• Gravatar – Create your online avatar for blogging and commenting
• ??Klout Score – how isyour influence on Twitter? (learn more).
• LinkedIn
• NameChk.com – a list of Social Media sites and the ability to check to see if your username is available
• Networked Blogs – import your blog into Facebook
• Ratepoint - Free Trial of this Email Marketing service
• Ratepoint – $25/month for up to 2500 contacts
• Social Mention – Real-time Social Media Monitoring with Social Mention
• Su.pr – Syndicate content to StumbleUpon, Facebook, and Twitter with one click
• Twitter
• TwitterFeed – syndicate your blog content to multiple sites
• YouTube – Video Hosting up to 10 Minutes and Research on Anything
• Vimeo – Video Hosting up to an Hour or More
• Viddler – Video Hosting up to an Hour or More

Facebook Resources

Guide to Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads Help Center
Facebook Ads
Facebook Connect
Facebook Deals
Facebook Pages
Facebook Marketing Solutions
Facebook Pages / Public Profiles

Keyword and Statistics Research

• Compete.com – track the traffic of sites, who links to their site and the top 5 keywords that bring them traffic
• Google Adwords Keywords Tool – Keyword Research
• Google Search-based Keywords Tool -
• SEOmoz term extractor – find the keywords that are being used to target search engines
• SEOQuake’s browser plugin – viewing keyword density

Twitter Tools

• Facebook to Twitter Linking Tool
• HootSuite – monitor Twitter for mentions, responses and keywords
• Pinboard, a paid tool,  lets you store your tweets
• TweetScan – track your data back to 2007, and, using OAuth, will even grab your timeline, tweets from friends and direct messages
• TweetStream – back up your data as well as mine it for information and statistics (LONG run time)
• Tweet Tank – a Twitter Tool

WordPress Resources

Some Cool WordPress Themes by Kriesi.at

Cool Video Explanations

InSights Group Recommends these WordPress Plugins

SEO PLUGIN LIST

• AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
• Add Twitter : Displays your public Twitter messages or someone else’s for everyone to read on your blog.
• Advanced Category Excluder
• Akismet : Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
• Author Box
• Author Spotlight (Widget)
• Audio player
• Blogroll Links
• Contact Form 7
• Enable Media Replace
• Exclude Pages from Navigation: Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
• Facebook Comments
• FD Feedburner Plugin
• Follow Me
• Google Analytics for WordPress
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Hello Bar -
  
• Lightbox 2
• Online Backup for WordPress :Online Backup for WordPress will automatically backup your WordPress database and email it to you
• Pages Posts : Amend pages and put posts inside them – either by category or tag
• Sharedaddy : The most super duper sharing tool on the interwebs.
• ShareThis
• Subscribe Remind
• Tags 2 Meta Generator

• Twitter Comments – Twitoaster – Twitter Comments system. Automatically retrieve Twitter Replies and/or Twitter Retweets to your Blog’s Posts using WP built-in comment system. Also bring Twitter Statistics.

• Ultimate Google Analytics : Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.
• Wibiya - A super cool toolbar that sits at the bottom of your page. You have to use it!
• WordPress Database Backup
• WordPress Importer
• WP-DB-Backup – backs up your WordPress site at intervals you choose , e-mail yourself the backup file at your google email
• WP FB Like Button
• WP Greet Box : Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from.
• WP Highrise Contact
• Wp-Cumulus – A fun spinning word cloud
• WP Super Cache : Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Social Media & Marketing Websites & Blogs

• Sazbean
• All Facebook
• Brass Tack Thinking
• Chris Brogan
• Duct Tape Marketing
• Econsultancy
• Jim’s Marketing Blog
• Marketing Charts
• MarketingProfs
• Mashable
• Online Marketing Blog
• Social Media Examiner
• Social Media Explorer
• The Bivings Report
• Web Analytics World
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah
• GigaOM
• Google Webmaster Central
• Practical eCommerce
• ReadWriteWeb
• Silicon Alley Insider
• TechCrunch