Twitter News ::::::::::

New Twitter Marketing Guide Available from WebFadds…

You’ve heard about it — even C-Level executives are buzzing about Twitter.  How can you make it work for your business? We’ve produced a Guide with answers, including time saving professional tools, a directory of twitter advertising services, and  links to businesses with details on how they’re making Twitter work in their company (right) — download it today.

CRM Solutions Embrace Twitter…
It’s all about relationships.

In the early 90′s I worked for an international company of some size (about 3,000 employees).  For around a year after email became prevalent — the key decision makers thought the company should not enable it.  It was a sort of bunker mentality — “too dangerous”… the competition might find out what we’re doing.  “Too dangerous”… some employees might abuse it.  Well, we know now that email has become an essential business tool… just like those “antique” fax machines.  Next, up is Twitter — it’s not “too dangerous” to use… it’s too dangerous not to use — your competition is embracing it.  And, major CRM (Customer Relationship Management) service providers are building it right in as another tool to get closer to prospects, leads and customers:

Above:  Salesforce.com builds in “conversation details” from Twitter  for your key contacts into its “Real Time Cloud”, while the Open Source CRM competitor — Sugar CRM — is integrating real time Twitter Search.

> Read more about Social Media Marketing Solutions.

WORDPRESS Attacks & Updates ::::::::::

A number of sites are reporting that WordPress business blogs and CMS installations are under attack — like this report from 9/5 at TechCrunch:  “Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack”.

We recommend you immediately update to the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4), plus install some key plugins to monitor your system and protect files.  We can do this for you for $69 on our servers (we recommend WPsiteHosting.com — an international service with great WordPress Hosting), or $199 on yours.

Here are the steps we recommend:

• Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress
• Install and configure two protective plugins for Virus Check & System Health Monitoring
• Install & configure two Back-up options (one emails backups — the other saves them at WordPressBackup.com)
• Contact your host and enable backups via your Control Panel

Take a look at how the AntiVirus plugin helps alert you to viruses:

Above, the Virus alert program has flagged a front page for review — you then check the file for suspicious code and delete if needed.

Contact us today — we look forward to helping you Optimize, Connect, and Convert.