How To Easily Embed Chatwing into Your Site

Starting an online business requires a lot of effort, especially when it comes to gathering more clients. As such, it is important that as the site owner, you must treat each and one of them with utmost importance. There are a lot of ways in how you can provide customer satisfaction – one of it by providing a chatting tool they can use to communicate directly with you.  And when it comes to setting a chatting tool on your site, using Chatwing is going to be your best option. 

Setting up this nifty gadget on your site is very easy. And if you’re the type of person who wants to do things that aren’t much of a hassle, then you’re surely going to love this. Here’s how…

First you need to have a Chatwing account. You can gain one by registering at the site. It’ll only ask for a valid e-mail, a password, and agreeing to their policies (click on the box) so it’s surely hassle-free.

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Afterwards, you’ll be headed to the Dashboard. This is the place where you can create new chatroom boxes, customize existing ones and use them. For now, you’re provided with a default chatbox, so press the Use Chatbox button and head on to the next step.

The next step is choosing how to use your chatbox. You can either use it directly, or embed it in your site, or use a popout icon that will show the chatroom in another window once clicked. Since you’r embedding the chatroom as a whole, click on the Embedding Options tab. You’ll see a scale which you’ll need to use if you want to adjust the size of the chatroom when it goes live on your site.

After that, you’ll need to copy the code below the adjustment scale – this is the html code for the chatbox. Paste the code into your site’s widget section (if it has one) or paste it directly as a new post (though this doesn’t work with free wordpress sites). After saving your progress, your site will have chatroom for you and your readers to use. 

Chatwing is a great chatting tool to use, and it even gets better after you have customized it. To do so, all you have to do is go back to the dashboard page, choose the chatbox you want to modify and press the Customize Chatbox button. The customization page is where most of Chatwing’s functions are located and can be modified for better use. 

Here’s what it looks like:

And here’s what a Chatbox would look like after modification:

As of now, Chatwing is still being improved to provide for the needs of its users. It has been proven to be a very effective tool in connecting people and bringing them much closer through live chat. And if you’re a site owner who’s still looking for a chatting tool to compliment your site, then you better try this one. This chat software is very effective and affordable too – it’s free. 

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Why bloggers should not be on every other social networking sites!

This is the decade where everyone is talking about branding, building online-reputation and gaining a huge fan following to increase internet visibility. It's a common notion that is spread across the web like a wild fire that you need to exist on every other social networking site to market your content and generate leads to the products or increase traffic to your blog. 

However, this might not be "your" requirement at all! But how do you know if you really need to show up on most of the existing social networking site or not? Let's begin by answering some of these simple yet complicated questions.

1) Why do you feel the need to make your social media presence? What is your purpose?  

Be clear of your purpose. List out all the points that you think make you qualify to register on all the or at-least most of the social networking sites. You may be selling products or marketing affiliates or seeking traffic to your website or blog or may be you are doing non of the these. Just come up with your list to be clear of your purpose for registering on any social media.

You will soon realize that you have little time and no purpose to get an account on many social sites.

2) Do you know who are your customers or blog audience? 

Analyzing the sex, age, country or work background of your blog audience is crucial. This is not only helpful in generating the content for your target audience but also lead you to the right marketing strategy and picking the right social networking site to begin your journey.

For example: If you are writing for women or parents then "Pinterest" would be your best option to consider other than some generic social networking (Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon, twitter, ...) sites you may already be active on.  

3) Have you hired any social media manager (or other staff) or intend to do so?

If you are an one man army who creates content/products and also markets them then you might want to strictly monitor your steps. Doing all the things alone will not only eat up your time but also can be very stressful to manage. Unless you have hired a social media manager who efficiently takes care of all your social media updates and marketing you better stay out of getting rolled up in too many social networking sites. You have every chance of loosing focus on content creation and hurt your source, your blog.

4) Is your online presence your day job or is it another source of income or an hobby?

If its your only source of income and you believe you have all the energy to put and also you think you can do just about anything to make your blog popular then you may think of joining more than five social sites. However, if you lack this kind of zeal and you have a day job to finish then this might not be the right thing for you to do. Too much will only spoil your online reputation not being able to keep all the sites updated.

It's important to find answers to all these questions before you decide to register your name or brand on all the social networking sites. There are many constraints that you may have to face in future and the biggest of them all is the time constraint. It is always better not to begin something you cannot manage rather than starting it and not being able to stick to your commitments. 

Social media presence is very important for any blogger to generate traffic and build audience for the blog. But trying on too many social networking sites may do more bad than doing any good. 

• Being on every other social site gets you easily distracted.
• As part of social media presence you also need to respond to your followers' comments and direct messages, think of your time.
• You are basically taking off your focus from your main job i.e. blogging.
• The more the number of social media sites you are active on the more the need to keep yourself abreast of latest happenings and inclusions to those sites. This can be good (if you blog about marketing and social media) or bad depending on your requirements.

Registering on some of the very popular networking sites which can almost be termed as Generic social sites is no doubt necessary. But my only advice is about choosing the right secondary or specific (as I would like to term it) social sites. Be picky before registering on any social media and stick to the type of social media which might have the right followers as your blog audience. 

If you are a beginner or if you are thinking of increasing your social media horizons then generic social sites are the best to start with. Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, StumbleUpon, etc are few such sites that you just cannot miss!

Do you believe in quantity over quality? How many of the social networking sites you are active on and which are they? Do tell us...

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Benefits of Using Chatwing Chat Software as Primary Communication Tool

We are now in the communication era where information is the primary commodity. In media and the Internet, content is king. The advent of the World Wide Web has provided millions with a free and reliable platform to communicate. One of the most benefited sectors is business. Businesses can represent themselves on the Internet through websites and blogs. The challenge is how to reach more eyeballs and let more people know about your existence and the things you offer. It is important that you establish a professional and credible image backed up with sensible posts.

To be interesting, it is essential that you are sincerely interested with your target customers or web surfers. Interacting with them provides you and your business numerous advantages. A lot of free reliable communication tools are available on the net yet it is still important that we choose what to use or include in our website. Remember, the website represents you and your business, everything on the site must be in alignment with the image you are trying to project.

Real time interaction with other web users can be easily achieved using Chatwing chat software. Chatwing has consistently risen in rankings. More website owners are using it because of its simplicity and numerous useful features.

The dynamic chat widget comes in three styles. The regular shoutbox and pop-up window can both handle thousands of users while maintaining stability. Vanity URL on the other hand generates username and shortlinks to enable private chats among your selected chatters. You can set a discussion for many users that will help you gain insights about what the masses cares about at the moment or initiate a group chat among selected subjects for a more thorough market research.

Chatwing chat software has social media integration capacity that makes it accessible to Facebook and Twitter users, which are by the way millions across the globe. Social network expansion can be attained efficiently which will ensure you of consistent, if not increasing, traffic. Real time interaction with customers and non customers will give you an idea on what to include on your site or how to improve it to attract more visitors.

Chatwing’s customization capacity is ahead against other shoutboxes. Users can literally change every aspect of the chatbox to fit their sites’ theme. Its advanced modification features include image and MP3 link upload.

No matter how well designed or sensible your site is—as long as you don’t have an effective way to engage web visitors—expect that you will be at the losing end of the competition. 

Chatting widgets can be worth using on blogs and sites to keep your readers engaged and help yourself reduce the bounce rate (wink wink)! 

Are you using any of such widgets to provide the chatting facility to your readers? If yes, which is it and how do you think it has helped you?

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Why personal growth as a blogger matters for your financial freedom

Blogging seems very simple and easy, but it is not that easy as you say when done in real life. To become a successful blogger you need to work few tips that help in generating high income revenues from your blog, this will not happen overnight. One of the important factors that contributes to blog success is your personal growth, your ability to manage finances that are essential on time and the tips you follow to have financial freedom also do matter to become a successful blogger. The following are a few tips that aid for financial freedom especially for blogger.

Visualise your future financial state: 

Before you start a blog to earn money, it is very important to understand and visualize your financial position, that means you should be able to anticipate how your finances get affected by implementing certain changes to your blog or updating new technique.

Set goals and targets: 

The goals you set can include getting huge website traffic to your blog, to get more earning as an affiliate and so on. Setting goals that you are quite confident enough to achieve can make your job much easier and simpler. Work according to your targets and goals. Managing personal finances is also very important; the following are some tips that help you set financial goals.

• Create a list of goals that you want to achieve
• Visualise how you want to see yourself after one year
• Based on your goal, set short-term targets to achieve
• You can even create a financial plan that helps you acquire your goals
• If you have a passion for writing it would even be great to find some blogging jobs for additional income.

Create a budget plan: 

Develop a budget plan that deals both personal and business finances. Make sure you locate necessary funds in your budget to cover your debts if any. As a blogger, you may require to fund initial investments or some techniques to get good website traffic. So, determine how much amount you need and make sure to cover within your budget. If possible you can even cut down some expenses and can utilise that amount for your blog development. The following are a few tips to create a budget plan.

• Extract all your expenses and identify which of these expenses can be trimmed to save some money
• Manage your online investments with your current debts
• Don’t neglect monthly bills to be paid
• Commit yourself to be smart to achieve financial independence

Protect your personal finances: 

Unless you are able to secure your personal finances you cannot anticipate growth in your online business as the increase stress levels will not allow you to focus on your job and becomes very difficult to get peace of mind. For example, taking Payment Protection Policy (PPI) along with your personal finances help you compensate their monthly payments in certain situations by using PPI claims.

Identify best blogging tips: 

Know what tips can help you make more money from your blog. Do not forget at any point of time that readers are your first priority and thus hold on from turning them off! If you are not sure of any technique, you can even take advice help in making a successful blog. Optimize your blog to social media and search engines to get best results. 

About the Author:
The guest post was contributed by Maria, financial guest blogger from Manchester, UK. Apart from blogging, she does research on PPI Claims. Find out more about her finance related blogs at financeport.

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Image advice for bloggers

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Any blogger will acknowledge that their 500-1000 words of text sometimes just isn't enough. Whether it's seconds after accessing the page or after scanning through four paragraphs of unbroken text, some readers are heavily influenced by presentation. It's a blogger's duty, therefore, to compliment their entry with engaging themes, fonts and, perhaps most importantly, a few carefully-placed images.

Image selecting has become a staple for amateur and professional writers around the world as it allows them to quickly convey a message. Some won't even start their text before listing a thought-provoking headline and an image below. That's right, they believe people want to be told exactly what they're about to read before reading it. The text then expands on this point and aims to bring an individual's view to the fore.

However, as with most things, there are ways to image placement well and there are ways to do it not so well. Here's a little quality guide for bloggers seeking their own screening process. 

1) Relevance > style

A quick scan through your stock image provider's library will reveal some quite breathtaking captures. The only problem is, most of them will have absolutely nothing to do with your topic, target audience or blog. Going for style over relevance will only leave your audience confused by the text that follows. Images serve as a vital component in your blog, breaking up the text and saving you hundreds of words (thousands, if you live by the well-known phrase) explaining a particular event or setting. Look for a natural connection between text and image to help your piece flow. 

2) If you’re serious about blogging, always outsource

Think about all the time you spend retouching skin blemishes, removing a speck on the camera lens, injecting some much needed vibrancy into the photo. This could have been spent fine-tuning your article, focusing on your actual duty as a blog writer. You should be leaving the additional fields to the professionals.  

Stock photos will give you all the quality you need without the so-called obligatory purchase of a pricey SLR. Bloggers feel they need to take their own high-res images to make their piece all the more authentic, but there's no sign above your work saying 'I took this' unless you put it there yourself. Stock photos and downloaded themes save both time and money when it comes to creating an engaging space on the web. Use them. 

3) Avoid boring, generic selections

Easier said than done, this one. You'll only realise how boring and generic your images really are by taking a good look around the competition. Judging by the evidence, website designers think a picture of a laughing family, strolling along an English countryside, looking at each other with glee are ideal for, say, an article on hill climbing. In reality, they turn people off. 

In this instance you'd be much better off searching for an awe-inspiring picture of the location in question, maybe the matter at hand. This will relate specifically to your article and will encourage people to read on. The pictures that command attention will also ensure that your text isn't being ignored and that users don't sift through your piece. With the number of high quality selections available, you shouldn't settle for anything less.

Celebrated for high quality images, production values, and crafted with 13 years of stock photography experience, Image Source is the best stock photo library for licensing Rights Managed and Royalty Free images, dedicated to producing outstanding stock images for inspirational communication.  

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Videos for the next Generation: Effective Video Seo makes them possible

Online Videos and their major importance

With the advancement and a rapid race for promotion of personal achievements in career or items, the time for public advertisements using pamphlets are now over. Most of the advertisements and promotional activities are now made through online videos which can be seen in some of the popular websites like YouTube. Video websites make a good sense of ranking a company or an item by which people can get and understand things more clearly.  The main factor that comes in online promotions through videos is their priority upon other competitive products in the market. 

An online video gets its priority when ranking and searching is optimized and the content of the video is secured. A video that has such quality gets popular among Google and many such popular sites. Video Seo is such a part where the priority of their client’s video files gets the top notch over any other video files in the search engine. Making innovative techniques using advanced software tools, effective Video Seo furnishes the video file of the client as the top ranked video among the various millions of uploaded files. The jamming of the signal is also prevented with less cache to data. Effective Video Seo makes the use and ranking of clients business reach the top brands than other competitive companies in their field. 

Video seo: the name with fame

The name of Video seo has been one of the upcoming names in the market of Search and Optimization. Effective Video seo usage provides clients the most effective way to optimize their search and market their videos online among millions who people who would gain attraction to their video files. Software engineers at SEO work so that they can make a consistent development in searching and security of data.

Video online are of high demand in market. Studies reveal that in February 2010, 178 million Internet users browsed and visited several online videos. This huge ratio makes the jamming of the network signal more high. In such case, an uploaded video by an Internet user doesn’t comes into significance unless and until they are given a priority by some special software licensed and registered by an organization. EffectiveVideo seo plans and strategies make such solutions for their clients.

The stand position of seo is such that it can reach its wide range of clients through simple online tools and software. The best of the techniques are combined to make videos get maximum exposure. The major benefits of using this site are multi-dimensional. The brands of the organization are marketed online worldwide and are projected at the top ranking list so that users can keep noticing the videos and links all the time. Video Seo was first introduced in YouTube in the year 2005 and from then, within a few years, the link has gained enormous height among Internet users from all the corners of the world.

A premier brand of an established global leader in Search Marketing. Video SEO is driven by award-winning marketers and SEO engineers with a singular goal – remarkable growth for our clients through effective video optimization. 

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GIVEAWAY: ScreenCamera, the application that transforms the desktop into a webcam.

Here is a giveaway happening on Queen’s Quill just for you! Every registration will win this product. No random number generation, no limit on number of SearchCameras to be won. You register, you win.

First have a look at what you might win and how useful it is going to be for you. Also the major point is a chance to win this awesome product called ScreenCamera free and save $49.95. Yes, the original price for this product is $49.95.

So why wait then, let us proceed-

ScreenCamera transforms the desktop into a webcam that you can use to broadcast the contents of your desktop using any video-conferencing applications and websites. 

• It can be connected to any application that a webcam can be connected to. Some examples of applications and websites supported by ScreenCamera are: MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, AOL, Live Messenger, PalPalk, Camfrog, AIM, Stickam, AnyWebcam, or any other video conferencing program or website. 
• After ScreenCamera is installed and properly configured you will be able to use your webcam on any number of applications/websites at the same time. ScreenCamera is a webcam splitter.
• It can be used for remote technical support, software demonstrations, document reviews, presentations, sharing photos and videos, to create narrated tutorials and more.
• ScreenCamera also supports PiP (Picture in Picture).
• The most appreciated feature is the quick access buttons which allow users to share and record exactly what they want and do it fast. It even remains invisible for those remotely viewing your desktop.
• It is indispensable for anyone because it transforms the desktop into a webcam complementing the user video conferencing experience and boosting up your PC with a new cam. How cool is that?
• ScreenCamera will run on 2000/XP/2003/Media Center/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 and requires at least a 1.3gHz processor and 256mb of memory.

I know you cannot wait to register and it’s just as tempting as a cone of ice-cream!

To win this product and receive your free copy of ScreenCamera you simply need to do at-least one of the following:

1. Like the facebook page QueensQuill
2. Follow on Twitter @QueensQuill 
3. Subscribe by email for updates and offers. 

You can register for free to win this product in just a matter of 2mins here:

pcwinsoft.com/promotion/QueensQuill/registration

You got it right, every registration will win the software. Starting from today October 9, 2012 you will have three months time to win this product worth $49.95 free. Get going asap! 

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Two Indian bloggers thrased at Samsung's Mobiler's IFA, Berlin!

When the position of moon and stars are just not in favor, things are always bound to go wrong. After the great battle between two tech giants Apple and Samsung where the verdict went against Samsung with $1Billion fine towards patent infringement in USA court Samsung is back in news again. Clinton Jeff, blogger from India of unleashthephones.com fame is one of those two victims in Samsung’s Mob!lers event in Berlin who were threatened by Samsung! According to Clinton Jeff, he and a fellow blogger (who chose to remain anonymous) were invited to Samsung’s Mob!lers IFA Berlin, Germany and were covered for the flight tickets and Hotel accommodation. Jeff said, they were asked by the company if they were attending the event as Samsung’s promoters or reporters and it was made clear that the two would attend the same as reporters only.

The two bloggers were forced to jump into Samsung’s shoes and promote their devices failing which, the two would be denied of return tickets and Hotel stay. The two bloggers were flown by the company and abandoned them in a foreign country away from home.  

Advantage Nokia: Nokia quickly made a move to rescue the two by providing them return tickets and made the Hotel arrangements.

Samsung, realizing the damage caused to the image of the company and the products apologized to Jeff. The Samsung representative said:

I would like to reach out to you and deeply apologize to you for your experience in Berlin at IFA. We put you through undue hardship and we are trying to rectify the situation.

and more where as the company framed the whole incident to be a misunderstanding in public statement creating a huge difference with the two statements!

Samsung Mob!lers is a voluntary community of active Samsung mobile device users, who are offered the opportunity to participate in our marketing events across the world. At these events, all activities they undertake are on a voluntary basis. No activities are forced upon them.

We regret there was a misunderstanding between the Samsung Mob!lers coordinators and the relevant blogger, as we understand he was not sufficiently briefed on the nature of Samsung Mob!lers’ activities at IFA 2012. We have been attempting to get in touch with him.

We respect the independence of bloggers to publish their own stories".

Well, the wink-wink game did not work out for Samsung and Nokia rightly grabbed the PR opportunity! And jeff says this on twitter:

What do you think, bloggers need to be more cautious?

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Why are you turning off your readers? Hold on, Go slow!

Is your blog’s name ‘Advertising mania’!

Money speaks, money wins and money matters; but!

Let us together begin our talk by bringing the goodness about you and your blog.

Your blog- I know you have a nice blog, killer content, and interesting niche. Your blog has a very good Page rank, Alexa rank and Moz rank. Your blog is search engine optimized. It has a very good number of subscribers, Bravo.

About you- You are a self-made blogger earning the upper four digit income in dollars. Your content is so popular that you have a great fan following on various social networking sites like google+, facebook, twitter, tumblr, and more. You are sincere and determined blogger working hard to keep up the expectations.

I like to congratulate you; you are the micro-entrepreneur. 

Ads on in-between the posts and pop ad before home page

 

Okay, let’s come to the most important part of your blog without which you are nothing, your readers and your loyal readers (I know you just read readers and loyal readers, I come to it later).

•  What have you been doing to satisfy your readers apart from giving them awesome content?
• Did you ever wonder about your blog’s user experience?

Here we go to the real part of this conversation, the problem of your blog named ‘Advertising mania’.

Come again, that’s not your blog?

But I am sure that is your blog. I am your reader and I have named it as ‘Advertising mania’.

• You have an ad on your header, that’s okay.
• You have ads on your side bar but even that is fine.
• You have ads at the end of every post, which is bearable.
• You have ads in-between the post, which is becoming a little too much.
• You have ads linked up to the keywords in every other sentences, are you testing my patience?
• You have ad popping up the screen even before I have reached your home page, now I feel like closing the tab of your blog in the browser.

Please, I want to breathe but I am feeling short of open space!

I understand the fact that you are a blogger and you need rewards for delivering awesome content. I also agree that monetizing your blog is your right. I know, maybe this is the whole source of income for you and you are a full time blogger.

But, aren’t you getting a little greedy over money? You are some times confusing me by mixing the content and ads together. Some times you are eating up my time by those unnecessary pop-ups.

Let us take a scenario where you are watching your favourite TV show or a movie; you want to watch it full but you don’t have much time left.

The channel needs to make money for the services they provide. If ads keep interrupting you every five minutes, how do you feel, isn’t that frustrating?

Even the channels these days are worried about new channels mushrooming every now and then and giving them tough competition. That is why they have started the concept of one break movie, no break movie and some of the channels even show the countdown as ‘show will be back in- !! mins/sec’.  

They have understood the meaning of ‘turning off their viewers'- it’s simple that the viewers will move on to other channel.

I don’t need to explain you about the growing blogosphere. We all are aware of the fact that there are 100’s of blogs on the same niche if not 1000’s. And it is growing every day.

So, your readers have a choice, okay!

Your readers get a bad impression on their first visit! Your loyal and regular readers have mean while found other blogs which have good content and are also clutter free (without the hurdles of ads when not necessary). These blogs have promising user experience. 

Your loyal readers now have a choice to opt out from visiting your blog. 

Take me for granted, I am not at all against blog monetizing but please not at the cost of losing your readers! 

So come on tell me what are you going to do about these ads? I cannot give you tips on how many ads you need to display. It’s up to you; you have to decide on it depending on your income requirements and your priorities on your blog.

But yes, I would like to tell you one thing, the pop ups irritate a lot. Try to keep the ads that do not force your readers to click on it by peeping in unwanted places. Choosing the right location for ads on your blog is what I am asking you to do.

Do you get me! Tell me what you are doing to act upon the menace so that I can visit your blog very often.

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