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Why Flock Rocks For Social Media Marketing

Frankie Hayward — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:18 +0000

In 2006 Robert Scoble raved about it and had Geoffrey Arone, the co-founder of Flock, demonstrate how Flock integrates in services like Flickr photo sharing and Del.icio.us bookmarking. Later Michael Arrington(TechCrunch) named Flock one of 2007′s Web 2.0 companies he couldn’t live without.

Even Netscape recommends Flock as “a web browser, built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase, enhanced to deliver your friends, feeds, sites and media in one convenient view”. They also say that Flock “eliminates the need to continually click from site to site to stay up to speed with your friends and interests.”

At the cutting edge of technology Bart Decrem, founder and former CEO of Flock, said ”Web 2.0 is a stream of events, people and connections.” Flock is a browser that allows you to easily navigate this new user environment.

Flock is designed for social interaction and consolidates all of your favorite online tools so you no longer have to worry about visiting each site seperately.

Flock makes sharing photos, videos, links, and other content extremely easy via drag and drop capability across more than 20 available social media services.

Being based on Firefox 3 code, Flock is very similar to Firefox when it comes to speed, performance, security, and features.

However, when it comes to social media integration, Flock simply ROCKS!.

Here’s just a taste of what you’ll find inside…

: Image by mynetx via Flickr

Social Network Integration. If you’re like me, you probably use multiple services every day. You’re sending tweets out on Twitter, uploading pictures to Flickr, bookmarking on Digg and Del.ici.us, saving web sites on StumbleUpon,and reading multiple RSS feeds. Flock is a tool that combines all of your favorite social activities into a single application.

As I write this, I have Flock open with a sidebar with tabs for Twitter, Facebook, Digg, YouTube, and Gmail – giving me instant access and updates to all of my favorite online tools. Flock makes all of your social media tools feel like part of the browser, not just an add-on.

Better Bookmarks. Flock has put bookmarks on steroids, allowing you to organize your favorite sites with tags and descriptions.

Built-in Web Clipboard: This is definitely one of my favorite Flock features. Web Clipboard allows you to drag and drop images, text, and links into the sidebar for later use. You can also organize all of your web clippings into folders. It’s like having an organized collection of post-it notes on your browser. These items can then be added directly to your Emails, blog posts, Flickr, Forums, and more via drag and drop.

Blogging. Flock includes a WYSIWYG blogging-engine built directly into the browser, allowing you to post directly to blogs on WordPress, TypePad, Moveable Type, Blogger, and other platforms. Flock allows you to blog on the fly from anywhere on the Web. Now isn’t that COOL!?!

Media Bar. The media bar opens up at the top of your browser window. Here you can browse pictures loaded up by your Facebook friends, Flickr feeds, Photobucket pictures, and even YouTube videos: all while you are browsing other sites.

RSS Reader. This is one area where Flock beats Firefox hands down. Flock has a really nice built-in RSS reader that lets you organize all of your favorite RSS feeds into folders.

Photo Uploading: Flock allows you to edit and upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to Flickr, Photobucket, Piczo, Facebook and Picasa.

Best of all, most Firefox extensions will also work in Flock.

Flock reminds me a lot of Mac. It just makes everything easier.

Everything is drag-and-drop simple.

Flock delivers one of the best browsing experiences, combined with unique social integration.

Flock has recently obtained another $15 million in funding, so we should be seeing even more exciting features in the future.

If you’re a Firefox user, conversion to Flock is quick and simple. Flock will automatically import all of your Firefox settings including your browsing history. So, you no longer have any excuses for not trying out this new social media browser. Flock will import all of your browsing history, prefereces, bookmarks, and passwords. The only thing you’ll need to install are your favorite Firefox plugins and Flock is now compatible with almost all of them.

Download it now at http://flock.com/

If you’re like me, it will be love at first sight…

Flock Browser is Web 2.0

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Consistency In Action – The Key To Success

Frankie Hayward — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:00:13 +0000

Pablo Picasso once said that “action is the foundational key to all success” and he hit the nail on the head with that one. Not just any action though, consistent action focused on a goal, with unwavering dedication to achieve it! Consistent action builds momentum and plows through obstacle that get in the way.

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How to Avoid Procrastination – The Negative Action

Frankie Hayward — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:00:18 +0000

Having a carefully laid out to-do list complete with action plan worksheet for each goal is great and all but what about the obstacles. We’ve already discussed time wasters and how to stay on task and focused. Now I’d like to point out a HUGE cause of failure for any business or person in general – procrastination, commonly mistaken for inaction, is actually an action which causes a negative result.

Everyone has procrastinated about something at one point in their lives. Procrastination can become an easy habit with devastating results. The longer you do it, the longer it will take you to have Internet marketing success or any other success for that matter.

It only takes a minute for you to put off tasks that need to be completed. You put them off for one day, then another, and another. The cycle continues to go around in circles. It gets to the
point where you put off doing your tasks for so long that they mean nothing to you.

You start to get lazy and aren’t as concerned about creating a business from internet marketing. The money starts to trickle; eventually, you won’t have any money coming in.

When you continuously wait until the last minute to do something, you add undue pressure to yourself. You can miss out on other opportunities and additional income because you don’t have your stuff in order.

You allow time to pass you by. Granted, there may be some things in your Internet marketing business that you don’t like to do, but they have to be done in order for the business to run properly.

Is there a remedy to this awful habit? Yes, there is, but you must be willing to take action to get back on your feet. You have to know what is going on with your business, or what’s not going on with your business to start.

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Incase you’re wondering, YES! I’m guilty of procrastinating, not making to-do lists and carelessly overlooking details in action plans… which have all resulted in negative consequences for my life and my business. I hope you can appreciate the foundation I’m laying out for you. It’s solid and stable, so be patient and it will save you much heartache and pain. (not to mention a few dollars)

Writing Goals For Your Internet Marketing Business

Frankie Hayward — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:00:20 +0000

Staying organized is extremely important to any business so if you haven’t really addressed this issue, please revisit this article and learn how to get your business organized. Now that you’re in order and ready to tackle anything that comes your way, it’s time to define what your business goals.

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Funny thing that as I was writing this my fiance wanted to go to the gym and didn’t want to wait for me to finish, so I had to stop what I was doing to join her. Sometimes you need to rearrange your schedule, which is not procrastination. Anyone else have this happen to them?

Being Organized or Get Organized and Stay Organized

Frankie Hayward — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:00:25 +0000

Just to recap what we’ve gone over so far, you’ll want to:

In the midst of getting all of this together, make sure that you are organized. Organization helps to reduce clutter and saves you time. If you have everything you need in one centralized location, you are able to work better. You don’t have to waste time looking for things that you need in order to start working.

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Dealing With Time Drainers And Wasters

Frankie Hayward — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:00:09 +0000

Look over your to-do list and action plan worksheet. Are you feeling energized or overwhelmed? Staying on task is going to be difficult in the beginning but once you build momentum, your tasks will start become a habit. Utilizing a to-do list along with your action plan will help you focus on reaching your goal in the shortest amount of time. Now you can develop a personal time management system for any goal or project.

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Please leave a comment below sharing some time wasters and drainers you’ve had to deal with in your Internet marketing business. Thanks a bunch, you are much appreciated.

Creating An Action-Plan Worksheet

Frankie Hayward — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:00:01 +0000

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By now you should have a pretty good idea of what you will need to do from start to finish outlined in detail on several to-do lists. Right? If not make sure you do not proceed without getting your to-do list down on paper. You will need this information readily available to begin working on the next step of the process.

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Making Your To-Do List Effective

Frankie Hayward — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:00:16 +0000

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If you haven’t started your to-do list yet, go back and create a workable to-do list outline immediately. When you’re writing out your to-do list, make it as detailed as possible. The more detailed it is, the easier it will be for you to complete the activities or tasks at hand. It’s easy to create a to-do list. You can use the sample to-do sheet provided to you in the last article to give you a start.

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Creating A To-Do List

Frankie Hayward — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:00:42 +0000

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Yesterday we went over how to develop a plan of action and create an outline of what you will need to do to reach your goal. Once you have outlined your action plan, you will need to organize these action steps into an easy to follow check list or “to-do” list.

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Developing A Plan Of Action For Time Management

Frankie Hayward — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:00:09 +0000

Working your internet marketing plan can be extremely simple if you plan each step and how much time to spend before moving to the next. Using cost-effective strategies like article marketing can be time consuming but developing a plan of action to manage your time will increase productivity and enable you to attract highly targeted traffic to your business website.

In this article you’ll learn how to effectively manage your time to see your business grow in the shortest amount of time. In the simplest terms, here is what you need to do…

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