Facebook pages are being added every minute but how do you make yours stand out in the crowd?
Here are the key items to that EVERY page should have.
1. It’s own Username so you can promote it with the short url
Tip: Once your page has 25 fans go to http://www.facebook.com/username/. Select the page, enter the preferred [...]

There are tons of RSS directories that you could promote your feeds to for FREE. Below is a roundup of directories that you can submit your feeds to in order to help you get more traffic.
NOTE: I do not recommend going to each directory today. Bookmark this page and stagger your submissions [...]

Your wrote your tutorial. You tweeted your tutorial on Twitter. You posted your tutorial to your FaceBook Fan Page. You posted your tutorial to your FaceBook Profile. Then you wait… and wait.. and wait some more. You ask yourself “Where are all the visitors? Did I reach as many people as [...]

Almost everyone is using Social Media one way or another. Social media is transforming the way we communicate with each other. This post is not about telling you that what you are doing is right or wrong. This post is just a helpful way of pointing out the Do’s and Don’ts, courtesy of The [...]

There are so many blogs out there in the blogger sphere so you need to be able to why not stand out from the crowd. Write great content that is fresh, makes sense and interesting. Once the visitors start coming to your blog you may want to make some money, either to help pay for [...]

Fast Company is searching for 2010’s Most Influential Person Online. You are more influential than you think.
Fast Company created a platform where anyone can see what happens to his or her social network when people are asked to take an action. The scoring is based partly on how many people click on the link to [...]

Your wrote your article. You tweeted your article on Twitter. You posted your article to your FaceBook Fan Page. You posted your article to your FaceBook Profile.Then you wait… and wait.. and wait some more. You ask yourself “Where are all the visitors? Did I reach as many people as I [...]

There are currently over 9,000 plugins available for WordPress but the question is which ones are the best ones to use. Every one has their own list of what to use and how to use them. Below is a list of plugins that I have found to be the most useful:

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OverDrive has put together a great social media guide on ways to make:

friends
followers
likes
fans
subscribers
connections

If you are looking for ways to expand your network for free, low/medium costs take a look at this guide:  100-Ways-to-Make-Friends
What are your thoughts on these tactics? Are there any tactics that you have found that work the best?

This is a extension of the blog post “10+ Software Testing Blogs“. This blog post has 200+ software testing blogs and tweeters.
I also created the Twitter List “@jayphilips/software-testing” so you can follow all of the people listed on this post with one just click.

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