I’ve lately jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and started trying to use it for marketing and publicity. At first I thought it was just so much “Today my 3 month old spit up her strained pears onto my best Vera Wang scarf” and not much else. Because I really couldn’t care less what I had for breakfast, much less what YOU had. :)

Since then, I’ve had an epiphany and see that quite a number of high profile folks are using Twitter to promote themselves, their services and their web sites. It’s perfect for a web design company to announce site launches, new free themes, design specials and promotions, and to update folks on what we’ve been doing.

With that in mind, I’ve listed below a few Twitter tools that I am checking out. If you think of others that should be on the list, feel free to drop a comment!

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Last week, I talked about what a great application WordPress is for the solo professional or small business owner. It’s easier than ever before to create a professional web site with just WordPress and a few handy tools. (Of course if you really want a site that knocks their socks off, it would be money well spent to hire a web designer to create a professional design and pull all the pieces together for you!)

Whether you roll up your sleeves and do it yourself or hire someone to do it for you, you should think about employing at least these five plugins to help drive traffic to your site, to add functionality to your site or to otherwise enhance it so that the visitor’s experience is the best. If visitors to your site don’t like what they see, or if the information they seek is not easily attainable (read: no more than two mouse clicks away), they won’t stay. And what’s worse, they won’t return.

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