Hooqy Media Blog

Twitter’s got just such a personal feel that complete strangers are always going to be willing to lend a hand. (Biz Stone, who appears not to have a car, has twittered that people keep offering to lend him theirs.)
Ask your followers what sort of posts they’d like to see on your blog then and [...]

When publishers first started writing blogs, they were meant to be nothing more than online diaries, a place for people to write their thoughts and feelings… and let anyone read them who wanted to. They’ve become much more than that.
Today, blogs are a very effective publishing system. They’ve evolved to become online magazines rather [...]

So you can try to build up a follower list that’s packed with people with useful skills, and who have lots of friends. You could also try approaching some of the big names on Twitter.
That’s always going to be harder, not least because you can never tell whether they’re typing their tweets themselves or [...]

Sometimes you don’t need 140 characters to get something incredibly valuable out of Twitter. In April 2008, a graduate journalism student at Berkeley was photographing a demonstration in Egypt.
During the demonstration, he sent one word on his mobile phone to Twitter: “Arrested.”
His followers on Twitter saw the message and alerted both Berkeley and the US [...]

In order to be profitable, your blog or website must generate sufficient income to cover not only your actual costs, but to pay you for your time and expertise. The costs you can keep under control by intelligently managing the money you spend on promotion and bandwidth. Potential customers you manage by attracting and keeping [...]