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Kick ass web tools to help launch your next web business into success | Refresh San Diego

What do you think are the best web tools to use for a web project? Sure you can do it on your own, but there are thousands of online tools to use for planning, development, testing and beyond. We thought it would be a good idea to have many of them on one page to refer to instead of searching around for hours online. This list is only a fraction of the sites available to help create a successfull web campaign.

Comment on the sites you like and why (or Digg it).

Concepts – Creativity - Research
http://faveup.com/ - Logo ideas
http://99designs.com/ - Get artists to design a logo to your liking.
http://www.domaintools.com/ - Registering domains, look ups, with a list of domain registrars cheaper than $9.
http://StumbleUpon.com – Creative ideas on many topics if you just can't think of one on your own. Inspirational.
http://smashingmagazine.com - Excellent content and a bunch of cool freebies.
http://www.coolwebsiteideas.com/ (maybe not so cool)
http://www.dailybits.com/11-undiscovered-website-ideas-to-steal-and-make-you-rich/
http://webmastercourse.com/articles/101/personal/
http://www.google.com/insights/search/# - See what people are searching for on Google
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/63/1/Where-to-get-ideas-for-a-niche-website **

Kick ass web tools to help launch your next web business into success | Refresh San Diego

Top Tweeting Tips for Twitter

Using Twitter more Effectively

These days it seems that you can't escape stories about the latest social networking phenomenon, Twitter. With all the hype and celebrity endorsements, lots of people are asking “how do I use Twitter?”.

There are plenty of sites out there that will tell you how to use Twitter, but not so many to warn you of the pitfalls.If you take a minute to learn from this list of Twitter tips then you'll be Twittering away with the best of them.

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• DO watch what you say.Unless your updates are protected, anyone can see what you are currently Tweeting. Bear in mind the story of the girl who Tweeted her way out of a job because a hiring manager read her thoughts on the position she interviewed for.
• DON'T use it as another chat client.No one wants to see their screen full of irrelevant Tweets from a conversation they're forced to eavesdrop on.
• DO retweet other people.This can be a very good way to build up a following of like minded People.
• DON'T constantly self promote.Okay, we get it - you have stuff to sell.Twitter is by no means one way traffic - interact!
• DO follow users back, but….
• DON'T be offended if not everyone follows you back.Users with thousands of followers are unlikely to see your Tweet through the hundreds of other tweets anyway.
• DO be funny, entertaining, informative and creative with your tweets.
• DON'T use the auto-DM feature. This is the Twitter equivalent of spam and a faceless “hi – thanks for the follow” is impersonal and off-putting.
• DO use it to ask other people for help. Once you have a reasonable following you’ll find it easy to find answers to your questions quickly.
• DON’T twit anything if your message is going to exceed 140 characters.Spreading messages over multiple tweets is just going to confuse and annoy the people who are following you.

These handy hints should be enough to start you off. If you are likely to spend a significant proportion of your online time on Twitter then there are plenty of guides on the net telling you how to use Twitter effectively.

Top Tweeting Tips for Twitter