A Rocking Twist to the Rocking Chair

I don’t know about you, but I love, love, love rocking chairs. I think it just reminds me of the good ol’ days when I was a child and I would sit on my rocking chair for hours just reading. But now, since my mother sold that chair years ago, I am left without a rocking chair. Well, now here’s a great modern rocking twist to the rocking chair.

Yliving designs the best modernized furniture hands down. For design enthusiasts, this is a website you should be browsing for either purchasing items for your next home or just for inspiration.  For me, I can settle for being inspired.

These deliciously handsome looking chairs sell for about $479. If interested, click here: Yliving Eames Molded Plastic Rocker

A Blazing Twist to Lighting a Match

This wooden block comes with 100 matches and is made out of entirely one piece of wood. To use, just break off the match and strike against the black part of the box. Boom, you got fire!

This design was brought to you by Fitzsu.

Social Search Engines: Fans and Followers are Becoming Links

I had the pleasure of attending the Hubspot Webinar on “How to Use SEO & Social Search for Lead Generation” presented by Mike Volpe. I learned how social search is progressing not only by search engines but by social search engines.

What will 2010 and beyond look like for SEO and Social Search?

1. Personalization: It depends who you are and where you search. It is based on what social networks you are on. Who are you linked to? Who are you familiar to? Use this information to find potential customers and consumers.

2. Blogging: I don’t think I can stress this enough. More blogging increases revenue. Taken from the Hubspot Webinar, it was reported that 46% of companies have gotten revenue because of blogs.

3. Search engines are adding data from other sources to determine rank: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, Digg, Foursquare, and other social networks

4. Fans and followers are becoming links: As you have noticed, this is becoming prevalent in Facebook Ads. If a friend similar to your “Likes” has liked a band, company, musician, or etc, it will show you on the right hand side of your Facebook page that your friend has liked that band. This isn’t by accident or by random choice. It’s strategic. Coming from a consumer perspective, if you are searching “cool alarm clock,” search engines will scramble through the web that also links you to your friends and other people who are similar to you (based on items you search on the web and social networks) and will grab those links (websites) and rank them higher so you can click on that website first.

5. Search from a consumer perspective:  I recommend searching from a consumer perspective than from a business perspective. How would you find a product? What phrases would YOU use? For example, I am in need of an alarm clock. I want a cool alarm clock. How do you market a cool alarm clock that will attract potential buyers to buy your product? Research how people will get to your blog or website. What key phrases are people using to find an alarm clock? Google Keywords would be great for this. Who are you marketing to? Use keywords similar to “cool” such as “kickass” “best” and so on.

Now add those to the metatags and headlines.

To learn more about this webinar click here: Hubspot Webinar on “How to Use SEO & Social Search for Lead Generation” presented by Mike Volpe.

The Young Tech Lady Business Card

Still in the works.

Wake Up to A Kickass Alarm Clock

I’m currently hunting the web for an alarm clock to buy. It has to be financially practical….I’m not going to spend 100 dollars on an alarm clock. I have my phone thank you very much. But now, since my phone sometimes fails and after waking up late numerous times, I told myself to buy an alarm clock. But if you know me, if I buy something—-it has to stand out. So I found this on a blog and they didn’t have a link to a website I can buy it from. Ridiculous!

Confused by how this alarm clock would work? Picture this: You set your alarm, morning comes, your alarm goes off. You’re in bed. You grab the gun and point it at the alarm to turn it off. Quite childish? Perhaps, but we’re all children inside :)

Have some fun waking up. Imagine shooting bad guys, maybe you’ll still be half asleep doing it, but hey, it’ll be fun!!

Now if someone can find this, send me link!

A Yummy Twist to Cereal Brand Packaging

This brand packaging design is genius! With this design I can come up with so many ideas! For example, with this bucket you can now have a cereal bar. You can mix and match different cereal types from sugary to healthy to a combo of sugary and healthy cereals. You can bring this bucket to set location, pick the cereal you want, and walah—cereal lovers will praise the king.

The design is fun, catchy, and brings a new twist to cereal branding. Adults can now have fun with this as well as children. And when you are done with this bucket, it can be a great bucket for pencils, pens, brushes or whatever you want to put inside.

This yummy twist to cereal brand packaging is brought to you by Black Garlic.

Hubspot Webinar: How to use SEO and Social Search for Lead Generation

For those who want to learn more about SEO and Social Search to optimize more visits and ROI for your website, I suggest you attend this webinar hosted by inbound marketing software, Hubspot.

This webinar will cover:

  • How content variety is the key to ranking higher in search
  • Why Page Rank is no longer a relevant measure of search success
  • The use of social media for search and its impact on legacy search
  • How to use SEO and social search to drive more visitors and leads

I’m particularly interested in why PAGE RANK is no longer a relevant measure for social success. I have been seeing mixed results for this that I can agree with this topic and disagree as well. Let’s see what I can learn more about this.

Marketing professionals, marketing students, business owners—this a must attend for you! You can’t turn down a free opportunity to learn more :)

Sign up here:  Hubspot Webinar: How to use SEO and Social Search for Lead Generation

A Pre-Post Modern Twist in Turning your iPhone to a Desk Phone

If you have an iPhone and you have a desk, I think you may need this to run your business more smoothly–without the hassle of always charging your phone. Desk Phone Dock uses the iPhone as your one and only handy-dandy desk phone.  They are integrating the modern office and mobile environment into this great tool for “traditional telecommunication.” IP phones and desk phones are becoming use-less as the business of communication is becoming more mobile because every information (contact numbers, email addresses, etc) is stored into your iPhone.

Now with the Desk Phone Dock, you can combine your desk phone and iPhone into one accommodating tool.

Features:

- Charge & Sync
- Audio: Equipped with two stereo speakers
- Speaker Phone and Headset Call
- Instant Muting

Visit their website here: Desk Phone Dock

A Unique Pre-Modern Twist to the Computer Keyboard

Steampunk Workshop actually shows you a step by step process in which they had converted an ordinary computer keyboard into a great concept that mixes back old school technology with current technology.

I miss the good ol’ days of typing on a typewriter. What I don’t miss is when you make a mistake and you have to use that white paste or black tape to erase a mistake and type all over again. With this great combo—-I can relive my glory days (as a 8 year old typing on my dad’s typewriter in his office) and feel post modern at the same time.

Steam Punk also offers other pre-modern twists to other devices such as the LCD computer screen, headphones, and so on. Have fun with it.

Blogging 101: How Important is Your Title

In the last month, I have worked on this blog continuously and worked my way up to a Alexa rank of 767,163. Not too bad for the first month of blogging. I was surprised by the turn out and the feedback and grateful at most. But silly me, I decided to purchase my domain name at a later time—-now this blog will be known as theyoungtechlady.com.

But little did I kn0w—with a new domain name, your website rank disappears. Ahhh, all is LOST.

Yet in good time, I can build my website rank again in no time. So why all the fuss? What’s a rank got to do with a website or blog?

A good rank equals a good reputation about you, your blog, your connections to other people, your social media profiles and so on.But then again—–lots of people have good blogs but not a lot of people get to see that. I always stress that once blogging is perfected, you will then generate a sold readership.

How do we generate a good readership and following?

Advice #1 from a fellow blogger:

Always tailor your title to your audience: The hardest part of writing a blog is not writing the blog content, it’s writing the title afterwords. You got great content, good for you. But the first thing readers will see is the title of the post. They will ask—”what’s in it for me?” Will they learn from it? Is it interesting? Sometimes confusing titles just pushes away potential readers. Sometimes keeping it simple works out.

Just like the TV show Lost, their title sequence is simple and short yet it entices you.

The beauty of titles is at your hands.

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