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How To Start Analytics For Tweets

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This is a guest post by Jane Smith. If you would like to write for the3dtechnologies, check our guest posting guidelines.

We all know about the power of social media networks. If you are running your online business then you will definitely want to promote it online as well. There are different social media websites on which you should create your accounts so that you can promote your business on these websites. If you are using Twitter to promote your online business then you must also want to analyze the success of your online marketing campaign.

The good news for you is that, there are different applications and tool that can be used to analyze the tweets. Once you tweet something through your twitter account, it is visible to the time lines of all those people that are following you. If you want to analyzes the success of your tweets then there are a few cool tools that you can use.

Archivist

Archivist is one of the best and finest tools for tweet analyses. This tool will give you a complete insight of your tweets, their activeness, and re-tweets that were generated in result of that tweet by you. By these results, you can easily analyze your marketing position and make your plans in accordance to that.

Portwiture

This is another unique and stylish twitter application. This application will show you the success and progress of your twitter campaign but the results will be shown in photographs instead of graphs.

MentionMap

This is a cool network exploring tool. With the help of this tool you can explore different networks that can be useful for you to promote your products and services online. Sometimes, this tool may become a little awkward when you have to navigate through it but in the long run, this is an awesome application.

Trendistic

This is a twitter trend graph sketcher. We all know about twitter trend. If you want to write about something that is in demand then you can use twitter trend tool to find out what world is looking for today. With the help of Trendisitic, you can get a graphical description and visual of different trends on twitter.

5K Twitter Browser

If you want to find out the followers of your followers then you can easily use this tool for this purpose. However, you will see names of the profiles but there will be no links at all. You will have to write the name in twitter and find that particular user. If a username is long then it may not be visible completely in search results.

Twitter Counter

With the help of this tool, you can track the growth of your own twitter followers and not only that you can also track the growth of others as well.

Visible Tweets

If you want to search tweets that are based on keywords or usernames then you can sue this tool. This tool works as a screen saver that shows tweets instead of photos or videos.

Tweetstats

As you can get an idea from its name, tweetstats is the statistics application for twitter. With the help of this tool, you can analyze your tweeting style and make it more convenient according to the need of time.

About The Author

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How To View Your Website From The Perspective Of Another State Or Country

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I’ve been around affiliate marketing for a while and it’s taken me years of painfully slow progress and hard work and error to get some results.

One of important thing anyone trying to making money from this method must know about the importance of having a global perspective of your business.

A little trouble comes when people surfing on your site from different country. Often, search results not display a site at the same manner. Sometimes they don’t even load fully.

Checking out how the website looks in one country or in another one is quite crucial to understand how to move in the affiliate market.

So, when it comes to get a worldwide viewpoint, there’s a plugin available that once installed on your web browser can you easily help you choose which country you want to view the website in! If you did not heard about it or using it yet, then continue reading this post and I will tell you more about a new service came to my radar.

GeoSurf is a useful tool that enables you to surf around 80+ different countries and check up how your site may be viewed by people that surf from these countries. What you have to do is just download a plug and play toolbar, and Geosurf do the rest of job for you.

If you are a plublishers, advertisers or better a company no matter from what country your site is hosted, through this toolbar you can improve your business, enhance traffic acquisition capabilities and strengthener your position globally.

Geosurf in particular simplify your job by:

See who is competing on your traffic sources in high value countries.
Ensure compliance across your network and properties.
Ensure proper deployment of geo targeted content and ads.
And much much more…

All these sounds good but the question now is: Why doesn’t use free prox service over Geosurf?

As Geoserf, even a free proxy service can help you view your website from the perspective of another stat or country. The only problem is that often free service have all the same kind of problems: They are slow, unreliable and buggy. I even think there’s no any proxy or VPN service which has so many countries. So, is more convenient and fast try this plugin.

How Do It Works

Geo Surf has four key positive aspect that make their tool unique and surely worth a try. The advantages are:

Reliability
Privacy
Credibility
Transparency

You can choose to download and install Geosurf toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser. The entire installation process is very fast and take you just a few second before to be completed and you’re able to testing out different Geo locations for quite a few affiliate offers. E.g, you can test how the landing pages looks for these offers.

Also, if you’re think to make money on Facebook you can even target international markets. Through this tool you can easily create an international account, for example Germany, and spy on Germany ads.

Another interesting features is that it let you search Google for your niches and keywords that you want to rank for and see what the results are. Ever wondered how your site ranked in Russia or France for your main keywords? This tool let you do this.

There are a new version of GeoSurf™ Toolbar out, and this is one of the best updates in a quite while. Now, here’s the new goodness:

New Settings Selections. When you select the Settings button, you display the new settings options. The General tab allows you to check the following options when switching locations: Clear cookies cache, Clear browser cache, change browser language.

Next, if you go on the the layout tab you can display the “Recent Locations” on the toolbar. You can select a number max of 10 locations. Then, the Recent Locations flags can be clicked on to quickly bounce between frequently used locations.

Proxy: The proxy tab allows advanced proxy settings for companies with complex configurations.

According to GeoSurf guide:

“Using GeoSurf™ with a Transparent Proxy or a Direct Proxy Relay: GeoSurf™ can use either port 80 or 3128. If your internal transparent proxy or direct proxy relay is set to port 80, please contact us so we can change your account settings to route through port 3128. Please remember to verify that port 3128 is open on your firewall as well. Once enabled, you will need to log out of your toolbar and log in again for the change to take effect.“

GeoSurf Toolbar(for Firefox only) even includes a Mobile Emulator which let you to view any website as seen on the selected device. Once selected the mobile device from the listing, you can view geo-targeted ads for any website. The mobile emulator (WAP) is included in all of their packages.

What Does It Cost To Use The Service?

Even GeoSurf isn’t free like a proxy route, it offers lots of benefit that could beat its competitors, so it surely worth pay a little fee for use it.

The pricing scheme is reasonably competitive too.

Plans goes from $29 a month and if you’re a company you could share this single account with multiple employees. The monthly bandwidth is 100MB.

If you want to to preview sites through a simulated WAP browser, then you should pay $59/month for the Pro plan. The bandwidth is 300MB.

Make Money With GeoSurf Affiliate Program

Affiliate marketing are one of the best ways to generate a strong revenue stream. GeoSurf provides an interesting affiliate program that allows you to recoup some of these costs for register to their tool. You earn a lucrative commission of 50% per each paying customer lifetime, not bad right?. All you have to do is to sign up on Clickbank and grab the text link to put on your site.

The best thing is that it is a lifetime commission for however long your referral subscribes to the GeoSurf service. You can test the free five-day trial on any package size, but you will need to provide your credit card information to get the free trial.

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How Riding Your Bike Can Make You Richer, Biking vs. Driving Calculator

Written by The3dtechnologies · 1 Comment

We’re paying more for our car than we think. High gas prices is one of the reason.

Personally, I’m excited about the next generation of electric cars. But until them does not invade the vehicle market, and we become less dependent on oil, we have to find other alternative in order to save money.

It’s a fact that bike advocates often point out how much people can save by driving less. I love biking since I was a kid. I always used this means to go on the beach here in sardinia.

So recently spurred by the high cost of gas, I decided to use this alternate transportation. In May, I biked to go to library, over 360 miles. In June about 380. It was an informal experiment.

Biking is eco-friendly, cheaper than driving, and sometimes I just relax and enjoy the journey. Sardinia has not one of the country’s best biking cultures, because lack of efficient cycling, but it’s so easy to do. And fun. And it’s cost effective. Of course, for longer trips, I’ve been using my car.

I know that now the first question that popped in your mind is: How cost effective?

I love Michael Bluejay website and how he runs the outstanding Saving Electricity. Recently, Michael come up with a biking vs. driving calculator that lets folks plug in the numbers for their personal situation.

At his site, Bluejay writes:

“Riding your bike can make you a millionaire! You’re paying more for your car than you think. A typical American who goes car-free for 35 years can save nearly a million dollars, even adjusted for inflation, and even if they pay for taxi, bus, and car-share trips often. Use the calculator to find how much you can save in your particular situation.”

Of course, it’s very hard that many people give up their car despite is so expensive to mantain one. So, I think it is better to change strategy.

So, don’t give up your car completely, instead I think its more pratical to drive it less. It’s fun to biking into my city but I’d admit biking isn’t going to make me a millionaire.

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How Business Entrepreneurs Will Benefit From Project Management System, Free Tool To Creating An Effective Project Management Process

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Project management is something that takes time and experience before to learn and refine like any other skill.

It isn’t so simple to become an expert in this field. In general, Project management processes are organized into five main stages:

1. Initiation – This is the initiation stage in project management, which has to be performed well in order to have successful in any project.

This first step is where there needs to perform tasks such as analyzing costs, benefits, business needs, current operations, and understand the needs of support personnel and users, influenced by the project.

2. Planning and Development – This stage involves in creating a detailed plan to manage the project. In this case there’s need of a project manager to allocate budget, and resources appropriately, and time so that the project will be completed as soon as possible and with minimal risk involved.

3. Production and Execution – In this step the project manager will coordinate resources and people to ensure that project progresses according to plan. In particular there’s need to make sure that all aspects of the project can be properly integrated to produce the best results.

4. Monitoring and Controlling – When the project plan is being executed, the project manager has to monitor all the processes of the project, so that he or she can identify outcomes that deviate from the plan.

5. Closing – After the project is complete, it is typically submitted for a formal approval. The project files should be archived, and the contributions of team members during the project should be documented.

Why Get A Communication And Project Management System In One Place?

When you utilize an online project management solution, you and your team should be able to communicate and collaborate all togheter.

There are huge benefits to increased collaboration and communication within the project management system itself. The biggest benefit is that, of course, you not separating communication from the work that is being done.

So, in a nutshell:

Make sure you are using project management tools that allow for communication and collaboration, and includes file sharing features, instant messaging and commenting features.
Make sure the team works at project within the same system, so makes it easier to ask and answer questions, locate important information, and focus more time and energy on completing a project with quality.

How Internet Entrepreneurs Will Benefit From Project Management

Imagine you’ve a team of 4-5 people that has the purpose to build a website from scratch for a client(set up the blog, installing wordpress, customize site design, layout, creating a logo, working on seo, as marketing as well).

Without a Project Management solution, when you had a question about a project, you had to move away from the system in which you are documenting your activity and email someone.

Then, many time later you finally get an answer, but without context you aren’t sure what it means. So you spend a couple minutes figuring out what the answer is referring to, then you have to get back in the groove of completing your task.

As you can see, this process causes you to lose time and effectiveness when completing your work. Here’s where Project Management software comes into play.

A Free Project Management Solution For Everyone

I love web-based project management software and I think my readers should find good value in Project Kaiser. Free to use, this is a web-based project management software for managers and executors that includes a powerful set of tools for working with projects of any difficulty or size.

Project Kaiser isn’t just an easy issue tracker, but a complete and functionally web-based project management software which includes several tools such as, project documentation, collaboration tools, hierarchical project structure support and multi-language content management. It is all-sufficient and comfortable in use.

When I download, then installed it, the first thing I noticed is that there is no client-side application needed, Project Kaiser is a cross-platform solution. Server-side is a lightweight Java application which allows running on any Java-compatible web server.

The application users can working with Project Kaiser from any PC directly from their internet browser. You can work with Project Kaiser from office, home or even internet-cafe.

It’s available in two delivery options:

Win32 distributive – It including Tomcat server with embedded Project Kaiser server.
Universal option – Web software archive (WAR), which can be manually deployed on any web-server which supports Java applications.

Project Kaiser provides powerful user and team-based security. The best part is that it doesn’t required any special knowledge to use it. It is ready for use in different business areas and fast and stable.

When the project plan is being executed, the project manager can monitor all the processes of the project and can identify outcomes that deviate from the plan.

When a trouble occurs, he or she can take the necessary measures to overcome modify the plan to meet any new developments.

While I wrote this post I just installed the new version: Version 5.3 includes new features for working with issues, improved notification system, and has other improvements. The latest version can downloaded(41.26MB) directly from here.

Features:

Project documentation management
Issue tracking
Requirements management
Milestones management
Embedded wiki and forums
Powerful security subsystem
Hierarchical project structure management
Multilingual content management
Extendable multi-language support
Easy install and update
All popular browsers supported, including IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome

The following video will go into detail

The best part of Project Kaiser is that is free for 5 users. One license can “activate” one server only. For maximum 25 users the price is $450.00, and so on. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Project Kaiser, you can buy this project management software for $3250.

Download latest Project Kaiser version

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Five Best iPhone Apps For Managing Finances

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This is a guest post by David Spader. If you would like to write on the3dtechnologies.com, check our guest posting guidelines.

Mint

Mint is a fantastic app designed to help people manage all of their finances. By entering your account information, you can keep track of your bank accounts, loans, and credit cards in one spot. Mint also tracks your spending habits. If Mint detects that you are spending more than your budgeted amount on groceries, they will notify you.

The same is true if account balances fall below a certain amount, if you are pushing your credit limit, or if you had a large deposit or withdrawal. Mint updates regularly and has an easy interface. There are also tools and suggestions designed to help improve your financial habits.

PageOnce

This is a great app to help you organize your bills. You can load all of your bill information on the app. It will then notify you whenever you have a new bill, as well as how much it is and when it is due. You can look at a calendar to see all of your due dates.

The app also offers a graph that lets you know how much you are spending on bills each month. For example, you can track your electric bill to see which months are higher than others. In addition, you can load your checking accounts, credit accounts, and investment accounts so that you can better budget.

PayPal

With online payments becoming more popular, PayPal is a handy app to have. You can easily track your balance, send money to someone, or transfer money to another bank account. The app is constantly improving, and now allows people to conduct transactions by touching their iPhones together.

PocketMoney

There are many apps designed to work as checkbooks on your iPhone. However, none are better than PocketMoney. The app can keep track of every account you have, making it easy to monitor everything in one spot. Additionally, you can use the auto-complete feature to finish transactions.

The app is also perfect for travelers. It can generate expense reports, making it easy for people to prepare documents for work accounts. Overall, the interface is very user friendly. For financial novices, this is the perfect app to have.

Calcmoolater

This app may have a funny name, but it can save you tons of money when it comes to making important financial decisions. The app has a bunch of calculators to help you figure out smart financial moves. Want to know if it is better to rent or buy? This app will tell you? Do you want to know how much you will save by adjusting your credit card payments?

This app can do that for you as well. There are many categories of calculators, and more are added regularly. It is easy to use, and it can help you figure which move works better for your budget.

About the Author

David Spader is a freelance writer who normally provides savings accounts reviews over at SavingsAccount.Org. He recently wrote about the best CD Rates available right now.

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How To Become An Online Florist And Make Money Online With Florist One API

Written by The3dtechnologies · 13 Comments

When people plan on making money with a blog, the first two things they tend to think are things like Adsense and affiliate marketing. In my experience as affiliate marketer and internet entrepreneur, the second one is by far the strongest and best way to monetize a website, a blog or a niche site.

One of my favorite if not the favorite techniques to sell product online is to redirect my visitor toward the website of the vendors page.

Anyway, there is a best solution to this one that let you, improving the set up process to build your landing page, grow conversion rate, and don’t lose time to playing with any php or css codes.

In a nutshell, you can set up your own online shop directly into your website.

Let me make an example. Have you never throught to sell flowers? Flower niches is become very profitable today. With strong demand for all types of flowers, especially unique or hard-to-grow varieties.

According to a U. S. D. A. Horticulturist, a good flower grower can produce and sell over $100,000 worth of plants in one season with a $15,000 greenhouse, so think what you can do if you send flower online.

As I said before the common way to make money with this kind of niche is to choosing an profitable affiliate program, creating a strong landing page and send your visitors away of it to the vendor page.

Another solution, maybe the best solution is to make use of the Florist One API to set up an online storefront and sell flowers to the general public. This api give your customer’s another perspective. They will buying directly from your store.

Commission for any flowers using the florist one API is 22%. Flowers buyers migt be members of an organization, or employers of a company as well.

Just An Example Of A Florist One-Powered Storefront

This screenshot above show a great example of store you can build with this API. Peoplesflowernetwork.com, a site owned and run by the people behind the Florist One API.

Through this site you can have an overview of what the potential of this API is, and what really you can do with it.

Your website makes a call to ‘Get Products’ which will return information about flower items available for sale. Information for each item will include the name of the item, the price, a description of the flowers, and an image url used to display the flowers.

This information returned from “Get Products” is used to display flowers on your website and create your own fully customizable storefront.

How To Get Your Code Samples

To start creating your flower site, all you have to do is to fill out the form here to signup to the Florist One API and receive an API key. At this point you have to choose the codes for the Florist One API in one of the following languages:

PHP
ASP.NET
Java
ColdFusion
PHPASP.NETJavaColdFusion

A Niche For Any Event

The product information retrieved is also used to display individual products in detail. (Look the image above).

February 14th is near and with Valentine’s Day around the corner, can be a great opportunity for you to make money online. One way to do that is to use the Florist One API, and make money selling flowers.

However, this API may be even more powerful for more specific applications. One of the best examples given is wedding. Your could really benefit from having its own wedding flower shop. A similar result could even get with charitable organizations, dating sites, and much more.

Shopping Cart And Checkout

Once customers come to your flower store and choosed what to buy, they can add flower items to their shopping cart.

As administrator you have two choices: You can use your own shopping cart or you can use a series of calls on their API that help you create and manage a shopping cart for you.

The checkout process captures information about the order including information about the payment, sender, the recipient, and the items purchased.

The ‘look and feel’ of the Shopping Cart and the Checkout is totally customizable by you – the HTML, headings, colors, fonts, layouts, and arrangement can match your website.

Does It Work?

In my view, it sounds like the Florist One API have a huge potential for those looking to build a flower store, but don’t are coders or have not time to spend for it.

However, once set up your store, you still have to work a lot on increase traffic and drive potential client to it. You can do that manually by following these simple step:

Do Article marketing – Write content on daily basis and link to your store.
Use social networking – Facebook and Twitter are must for (most) Businesses. I Prefer Twitter over Facebook to promote my niche site, but I think a flower store should works well on Facebook as well.

Florist niche is very profitable that why I would highly encourage to invest your time on that API. The only thing I would have prefered is to have more examples of sites that use the Florist One API so that people would have a better idea of how it could be utilized.

In addition to the API, it would also help to have some pre-configured website templates (even if they are sold at a premium) that use the API.

This would make for a more “turn-key” business. Make it easier to use and understand, and you could have a lot more Florist One-powered sites out there.

GET YOUR API AND START MAKE MONEY ONLINE

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The Ultimate Web Hosting Service Guide, How To Find And Choose Your Ideal Hosting Provider

Written by The3dtechnologies · 15 Comments

When it comes to start a blog or website, one of main question is surely how do to select the ideal web hosting provider, or better yet, which are the specific features and key criteria to be used for selecting a web hosting solution.

So, if you want an exaustive answer, keep reading and I’ll tell you more about how to make your choice among multiple competing hosting services.

What Is A Web Hosting Provider?

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Hosting provider is necessary if you want to create your own website without utilizing free platform like Google Blogger or WordPress. To get a full sense of what a web hosting provider is, according to Wikipedia a web hosting service is:

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

In general, there are different key factor that you have to check when you’re going to select a web hosting for your blog or website.

Storage – Storage space for your web site pages and data.
Custom support – You should wonder to this question first to chose a web hosting: Have a customer support Phone number? Have an email support? Which hours of the day and which days of the week do you get it?
Stat and analytics – Check up if your web hosting are able to give you all tool to look well inside the traffic data and tracks your progress.
Online reputation – Just don’t go for any name, check out if they are serious guys first.
PHP, Perl, MySQL Support – Some of features required to run a website or blog today are PHP or some kind of Perl programming language. Also you have need of create MySQL database in order to build a website.
Bandwidth – It is the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a site.

Why Free Webhosting Is not Recommended?

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I think there are 4 reasons why I never recommend Free Web hosting to anyone:

1. No control – The main downside of using free webhosting service is that you’re not direct ownership. As a esult, once the hosting change their service their service and policies you risk to have need to switch to another hosting service and taking a risk to lose your content during the transfer of your files.

2. No maintainance – Just because you are using a free service and not paying for getting any support. If your website face downtime, there no guarantee that webhosting will try to get your website upp soon.

3. No extra benefit – If you’re looking to have sub-domains for promoting new products, or you want more diskspace or bandwidth as well you wont get with free webhosting

4. Advertising – When I used Altervista as my first web hosting they do not allow me to add banner Adsense to their site. That was the reason I switched to a paid hosting service. Also, many of free hosting want that you host your blog in exchange of add one link back to mantain hosting site.

Top Web Hosting Provider Compared

Below I listed what I think are the best Web hosting on internet. To help you compare these different services I highlighted the main features through different colors. In particular:

Unlimited domain: You are able to create many domain as possible.
Unlimited bandwidth: You are able to carry an unlimited amount of data from one point to another in a given time period.
Unlimited Disk space: Amount of space to store your files and folder.
cPanel: It is a graphical web hosting control panel used to make managing and hosting a web site much easier. For instance it allows you to install WordPress in a few click.

Note about unlimited bandwidth: Despite this is a promise often made by web hosting companies, it is impossible for any provider to actually provide an unlimited amount of bandwidth or disk space. It’s just not possible.

Host Monster – It is become one of the better known web hosts in the industry by being themselves. You can have unlimited domain, unlimited disk space, cPanel, and many more. Hosting plans start at around $5.95/month.

HostGator – It is probably the best company available out there. For just $4.95 per month you can get unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, cPanel, single domains($7.95 for unlimited doman), unlimited email accounts, Cpanel access, 1-Click Script Installs, unlimited FTP accounts and a lot, lot more. It also provides good support, easy to contact, and competitive pricing.

DreamHost – DreamHost boasts perhaps the most loyal customer base in the web hosting industry, with many customers rising to defend the company in times of trouble. The most recent promotion gives you unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domain names, full shell access, unlimited email accounts, unlimited MySQL databases, and a Linux operating system. The company’s hosting plans start at around $8.95 and they offer free domain registration.

Justhost – Justhost is a hosting company which offers to be host and provides servers and domains to many companies on their websites. JustHost provides unlimited domain , unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. The number of e-mails can be unlimited so that you can provide each of your employees with a personal e-mail address. Plans start at around $3.45 per month.

Bluehost -It is another great web hosting company; which is born in the year 1996. There are a lot of customers which benefit by the service of Bluehost. They gives new customers unlimited disk space, bandwidth, unlimited additional domains and features like 2500 POP3 internet-based email accounts, FTP, PHP, CGI, cPanel, and much more.

FatCow – This web hosting provider was born in 1998. From the start they wanted to offer their own twist to the hosting industry. They offer a hosting package that is only $66/ year. This plan has unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space, unlimited mailboxes for the whole herd and much more.

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