Each morning I scour through many blog posts in my RSS reader and share out the most interesting and helpful ones on twitter. To avoid overwhelming my followers, I’ve begun using bufferapp to spread my tweets over a predetermined schedule throughout the day.

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I followed a few random people, or perhaps a few bots, last week, and was amused at some of their automatic welcome messages. For your viewing pleasure…

You realize we’re on twitter, right? Perhaps you should market your LinkedIn course on LinkedIn.

Again, I really don’t care about your facebook page. I connected with you on twitter, remember? This is the most common auto dm I received this week.

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Yesterday I shared a tutorial on how to share photos on twitter without tasteless advertising, while keeping visitors on a website you control. Oh yeah, it was all completely free.

Let’s extend the conversation to Facebook today. Without any extra work, I’ll show you how to share the same pictures on Facebook automatically. If you completed yesterday’s tutorial, there’s no extra work involved except to link it up behind the scenes.

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Over the past few months I’ve enjoyed sharing personal photos on the go, right through my iPhone. Since many people ask how I do so much in so little time, allow me to share some behind-the-scenes with you.

When I started sharing photos earlier this year, I realized there many free websites I could send photos to. I was also overwhelmed by how many of them offered tasteless advertising that distracted from the photos I wanted to share. Case in point with this recent photo that someone shared with me through twitter.

At least it wasn’t an advertisement for women’s underwear.

What I’m about to share with you is completely free, though I choose to pay $10 per year and I’ll explain why.
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I grabbed a subscription from Hy.ly this week to test the creation of custom landing pages and I like it.

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As much as I can, I’ll help you answer the question, “How do you get so much done, Justin?”

Rapportive is a gmail plugin I use to, among other things, introduce me to new newsletter subscribers, know where they live, what they do, and where they are online.

Check out this video to see how I use it and how it not only saves me hours every week, but helps me meet real people and build relationships with them at the same time.

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Perhaps you’ve had the same problem. I was hesitant to jump into Google+ because I felt like I didn’t need the extra work of another social network. It’s not yet integrated with Hootsuite so that means I’d be posting updates by visiting the site directly or using the iPhone (or Android if you swing that way) app.

I found a neat plugin called Publish Sync for Google+ (chrome extension) and right now it’s the missing link to sync (selectively) google+, twitter, and Facebook.

I have twitter and facebook linked up which means I can post to all three profiles by selecting a checkbox when I’m updating any of the three websites. Still don’t have an invite to google+? Join here.

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A common question for business owners new to WordPress is how to remove the blog from their home page. The great news is that it’s really simple to do.

The step-by-step directions in this video show you the steps for making any page on your site the home page with just a few clicks.