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Are you getting enough Whine in your diet?

by T. W. Seller | Oct 28, 2019 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Social Networking and Blogging, Timeless | 0 |

For a long time, The Whine Seller mailing list was just a sub-section of my fiction mailing list...

On full content RSS (not excerpt only), spam blogs and content thieves

by T. W. Seller | Jul 6, 2011 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Social Networking and Blogging | 8 |

In the last week, I’ve needed to file copyright complaints on two different spam blogs. Both were reprinting, in full, the entire content (full posts, pages, etc) of this blog without permission or a link back. Both had...

See who’s tweeting your links even if they don’t use your username with RSS alerts & Twitter search

by T. W. Seller | Feb 22, 2011 | Marketing and Promotion, Social Networking and Blogging, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 0 |

Anyone with a blog or webstore knows how powerful tweets and retweets of your links can be for getting traffic to your site. Many people, including myself, like to try to thank people who pass along links from my blog through...

Subscribe to my Marketing! The RSS or Email Mailing List conundrum

by T. W. Seller | Jan 10, 2011 | Customer Service & Bettering your Business, Marketing and Promotion, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 0 |

Many years ago, I had two mailing lists: one for my writing and one for my company. Then Web 2.0 took over and the free mailing list service I was using went under and I realized that, since Feedburner gave me the option to let...

YouHaveIWant: 140 character classified ads for selling on Twitter and Facebook? Jury is still out.

by T. W. Seller | Mar 10, 2010 | Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 10 |

I recently got an email from a staff memeber of YHIW or YouHaveIWant.com, a new classified service. I get a lot of similar emails and sometimes I just plain don’t have time to look at the site and sometimes I think the...

You have to post something on your blog every day!!! Or…what exactly?

by T. W. Seller | Jan 20, 2010 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Social Networking and Blogging | 1 |

I have been doing some thinking about blogging lately. I enjoy it, obviously, or I wouldn’t do it. But how important is it that I post something on here every single day?Now, of course, this is one of 5 blogs I manage but...

Give your blog a more dynamic list of links with WP Social Blogroll wordpress plugin

by T. W. Seller | Jan 13, 2010 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 0 |

If you read this blog on the actual Whine Seller site (instead of through an RSS reader) you may have noticed a few new features on the sidebar. One of these is the long overdue links or blogroll section towards the bottom of...

Powerful new Twitter Profile and Search Widgets make for some bangin’ badges

by T. W. Seller | Sep 8, 2009 | Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 0 |

Twitter recently revamped their official widgets and while you may have already falling in love with an unofficial badge or widget, I want to give you a few reason to consider going official because these are really slick. There...

How I Use Twitter One Year Later

by T. W. Seller | Sep 1, 2009 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Social Networking and Blogging | 6 |

So let me start off saying that the title of this post is a total lie. I actually joined Twitter on April 1st, 2008 like the April Fool that I am. So at 517 days at this moment, I’ve been a member for more than a year....

Import your blog RSS to your Facebook page or profile as links instead of notes with NetworkedBlogs

by T. W. Seller | Aug 31, 2009 | Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 12 |

Previously, if you wanted your RSS feed (be that the one for your blog, Twitter feed, eBay store, whatever) to import into Facebook, your best option was Notes. When you imported your RSS via Note, you simply went to the notes...

Amazon’s Author Stores and Pages program gives authors a bigger presence on the site

by T. W. Seller | Jun 1, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, Publishing: Independent, Small Press, Self, POD, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 0 |

Back on January 22nd, 2009, I wrote a post about Amazon Author Stores which are also called Amazon...

Overzealous Twitter follow limits force you to only follow users that follow you back

by T. W. Seller | May 15, 2009 | Social Networking and Blogging | 16 |

Twitter recently changed one element of their service. In their words:We’ve also placed limits on the number of people you can follow. The number is different for everyone, and is based on a ratio that changes as the...