Tao of Twitter

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            The Tao of Twitter written by Mark W. Schaefer is an excellent book about using Twitter to your advantage. To begin using Twitter you just need to post one thing and the ball begins to roll. Interacting with Twitter frequently and thoughtfully will gain you followers and allow you to keep them. Before you know it you will have more followers than you could have ever thought.

          
            The addition of followers will open opportunities up to you that you otherwise may not have had. This may be in the form of job opportunities, community event, or a new hobby. As a business owner, being able to advertise to your target market more specifically is greatly valuable, especially considering Twitter is free. It can also make your life much easier as a consumer when you are looking for goods and services.

           
            Before reading this book I was not familiar with some of the features that Twitter had to offer. Now that I am able to sort some of the information better, I can make sense of the great amount of information it has to offer. I know this book will help the everyday person because my mom also enjoyed this book. She was a novice computer and Twitter user and she can also say that it benefited her. I would recommend this book to anyone who uses Twitter or is interested in being acclimated to the Twitter community. 

Press Release

Fishing Guide Service Offering a Free Seminar With Prizes!

Lake Masabesic, Manchester NH- Pullin’ Larries bass fishing adventure tour will be offering a free seminar at the boat launch at 10 am on May 15, 2013. Learn the secret you have always wanted to know and were never able to hear. A drawing will be held for a free prize package! Come early to get even more advice and reserve a good spot.

Local fishermen will share their lifelong withheld secrets about their various types of fishing tactics. They will also be available to answer any specific questions you might have. Here you will also be able to sign up for guided fishing trips. To find out more information on these trip please visit our website mitchellplanty.weebly.com.

The goal of Pullin’ Larries is to offer you a unique experience outside of your everyday activities without interrupting your everyday life. A weekend morning trip will have you home by 10 am and a night trip can be taken right after you get out of work! After taking one trip you are guaranteed to be hooked!

Mitchell Planty, CEO  Pullin’ Larries

1010 Commercial Ave. Newport, WI

Office: (513) 513-8008

Fax: (513) 313-8008

mitchellplanty.weebly.com

World Wide Rave

            A book called World Wide Rave has been all the rave at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester’s Media Writing class. This book helps to develop and promote your online image for any type of business or event. I have read this book as required for a media writing class and do agree with the advice this book has presented. Now time will tell if I can properly implement this advice on an artificial business of a bass fishing service I have created. Although bass fishing may not be a serious business now, the information could be helpful in a future business plan down the road. I would recommend this read for anyone with or who is planning to start a small business.  

Business Project

Pullin' Larries is a bass fishing adventure that is designed to introduce the everyday person to the sport of bass fishing. Everyone has been fishing and most have caught a fish. Common tactics rely on luck and patience in order to catch a fish. At Pullin' Larries, we dont have time for that. We go to where the biggest fish live and make the fish bite. With our Biologist CEO Mitchell Planty studying the behavioral patterns of largemouth bass for the past five years and the use of underwater surveying equipment, the chances of catching big fish are severely increased. Locating the bass is only half the battle. Our team has studied the use and techniques of hundreds of different lures and are just waiting to pass the knowledge to you! Pullin' Larreis believes bass fishing is for everyone no matter your personality or skill level.

Micro-Fiction

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Who put water in my cooler? I had a strict grocery list Thursday morning of, beer, chips, and granola bars. There was not going to be room for anything else, besides I had money and could always buy food when I got there if I needed any. Beer, ice, Beer. That was the most efficient way to fit the most beer in the cooler. It only held two thirty racks but we had two extra packs under our bags. Three whole days. Seem hardly enough but we wanted to be prepared. We stopped at a store where the clerk knew us by name. “A handle each? You guys must be partying.” “It’s not a party, it’s an experience.” We both said in our own ways. Another hour on the road led us by a firework store. “Um yup,” “We have to stop there.” Being careful to save enough money for food and gas home we spent the last of our dollars at that little store. “What’s the coolest thing we can buy for $28?” he showed us to a back room where he said. “You have to be very careful with these, they recently became illegal and I have leftover inventory.” “Oh of course” We said, trying to act clam but we were looking at each other like “this is so awesome.” We left full of excitement as the weekend had just gotten that much better. 

We arrived and the place looked alright. We didn’t know what to think. “It’s Thursday night and there’s already ten other people set up here.” “I heard it gets packed around 5 PM Friday.” Our spot was on the river, right up front, prime territory. We unloaded the truck and drank some beers as we set up the tent. The population had doubled by the time we were finished setting up. “Good thing we got here when we did. Our friends are lucky we saved them spots.” Thursday was relatively quiet; we had a nice fire going, about ten of us catching up. I woke up feeling like I had slept on rocks. It didn’t matter it was forecast to be 80 and sunny and the smell of bacon was in the air. As more of our friends showed up so did hundreds of other people. The trip from the river to the cooler became repetitive. Two at a time was more efficient. “Who put water in my cooler?” I said around three PM. Realizing now my mother must had packed them before we finished packing. Pushing the water to the side I reached for more beers until they were gone. Around midnight came the choice of cold water or warm beers. Warm beer wasn’t bad by that time in the night. “Hey man! Remember those fireworks we bought?”

The Art of Food Delivery

            I have been in the delivery service for over seven years. The more experience you have the less it becomes a job and the more it turns into a hobby. You learn things about your delivery area that is often overlooked by most people. Since you are out on the streets tens of hours a week you know where every pothole is in the road, the fastest ways to get from point A to point B, who lives in almost every house, what the inside of their house looks like, what pets they have, what cars they drive, and the list could continue on. The advantage of experience turns the work of “I have to find this address” to “I’m driving to Mike’s house, I wonder if he fixed his boat yet.” As I said before it is an art. When I first started I studied maps in my free time and now know every “trick”. Delivering is not for everyone. I have seen many people attempt delivering only to fail when they think they can rely on a GPS. Usually they will end up twenty minutes outside our delivery area looking for a road that is right down the street or taking fifty-five minutes on five deliveries that should take twenty-five minutes because they drove to the houses in the order they typed them into their GPS and not the most practical way. You MUST learn the roads. It’s hard enough with duplicate road names in your own delivery area (I can think of six). I myself despise the use of a GPS and have never used one for delivering. We call these people Tom Tom’s and they are usually bad drivers.