Kutenda offers Internet marketing software for small businesses. I’m sure most small businesses have experienced a similar situation to me- logging in to multiple accounts, trying to prioritize my marketing efforts and do it efficiently. Kutenda is helping to solve many of those problems.

The features included in the toolset are pretty comprehensive. Just to name a few: Web builder, email marketing tools, PPC management, local listing submission, detailed reporting & more. The ease of having each of these pieces in one place is great- it definitely helps bring some continuity to your campaigns.

The web builder has some good features. While HTML experience is not required to use the WYSIWYG editor, it can be helpful to make more in-depth changes. If you’re used to calling your web designer to make one minor change though, this is a great alternative. There is also an on-page SEO tool, which aids you in optimizing your content and really get results in the search engines. Additionally, Kutenda has a drag-and-drop form builder, giving you the ability to easily create custom forms, which we all know can be challenging.

No Internet marketing endeavor is complete without email marketing and Kutenda does this well. They offer auto-responders, professional templates and list management. Plus, their auto-responder is multi-step, allowing you to schedule several emails in a campaign, which a lot of other popular email tools don’t offer. With detailed reporting on each campaign, you can track your performance and get better results.

If you’re feeling intimidated by the idea of managing your websites, have no fear! One of Kutenda’s best assets is in their ability to train. They’ll work with you from the ground up to help you achieve your goals. Check out Kutenda and you’ll find a ton of tips and tricks to help you get the most of their tool.  You don’t have to be an expert to get started, but be prepared to set aside some time to attend their extensive, live training programs.

While Kutenda is definitely in its beginning stages, there is a lot of potential there.  If you’re managing a small business and have no qualms about getting your hands dirty with web development, be sure to check them out and take advantage of the free 15 day trial!

(NOTE: This review is for TA 1.0. Tweet Adder has recently been upgraded to version 3.0. See our TA3 review. )

I like to test products and services out for at least a month or so before writing a full review. I’ve been using the twitter tool, Tweet Adder for about 3 months now and the verdict is in: If you want to get followers fast, you have to try Tweet Adder.

Everyone wants to know how to get more followers on Twitter. With Tweet Adder, I’ve acquired over 6,000 quality followers across 4 different twitter accounts in a matter of 3 months – and they’re still growing.
Tweet Adder is a software that helps you manage multiple twitter accounts. What it does very well is to help you find good tweeters that fit the niche of your twitter account and then follow them based on parameters that you set. The philosophy here: if you follow, they will follow back. It doesn’t do what Tweetie or TweetDeck do. You can’t easily post a single tweet or see your tweet timeline. It isn’t meant for that. What it’s meant to do is to build your followers, and that it does very well.

You start by downloading the software at tweetadder.com. You can try it out for free or buy a registration that will allow you to manage 1, 5, 10 or an unlimited amount of twitter accounts all from the comfort of your tweet adder program.

After you download and install the software, you add your twitter profiles by entering your twitter username and password. When you log in via tweet adder you’ll see the amount of followers you have, how many you’re following and your follower ratio. This is where the fun begins. Clicking on “search” will offer several ways to search for people to follow. Remember the idea is: if you follow, they will follow back. Among the ways to seek out people to follow, you can search by keywords tweeted from a specific geographic location of your choosing (by zip code, city or state) and search the tweeters following someone else. When you do a search, Tweet Adder stores the tweeters that you’ve searched out in a database and will follow them for you based on criteria that you set under the “follow” tab. Even more importantly, tweet adder will remember when you followed each person and allow you to unfollow them based on whether or not they follow you back after a certain period of time has passed. More on that later.

So, if you sell motorcycle helmets you can find people to follow in your area tweeting about motorcycling or just set tweet adder to follow everyone who follows Harley Davidson. Of course, the following is the easy part. The goal of all this is to get those you follow to follow you back.

To get people to follow you back, you need to tweet often with consistency. Tweet Adder has a solution for this, but it will make you the very thing the Social Net Ninjas despise most about twitter: A spammer. Tweet Adder can tweet for you. Simply come up with a bunch of tweets (140 characters or less of course), enter them under the “tweets” tab, let Tweet Adder know how often to tweet, and Voila! You are now a spam artist.

The Ninjas have said it before and we’ll say it again: Social Media is supposed to be SOCIAL! If you want to build a quality following, leave the “tweets” tab alone, post daily tweets yourself via tweetie and use the other great features of this software.

If you follow... they'll follow back.

We recommend:
Choose a search option that makes sense and fill your list to about 10,000 people to follow.
Let Tweet Adder follow 35 or so people for you per day.
Let Tweet Adder follow back 20 or so people for you per day.
Let Tweet Adder unfollow 60 or so people per day.
Only unfollow those who don’t follow you within 10 days.
Set your follow ratio to 3 to 1 and check it.
Set your unfollow ratio to 1 to 1 and check it.
Under the “Automation” tab, UNcheck “Automatically Post Updates…” and “Automatically Post Replies…” Check “Do the following tasks..” “Automaticall unfollow users…” “Automatically Follow Back Users…”

Watch what the people you’re following tweet about and tweet back at them. Retweet their tweets, comment on what they’re doing; just be social and they will follow you back.

TIP:
It’s easy to end up following and being followed by spam bots. Following these bots is hazardous to your twitter health because they will muddy up your tweet timeline. You want to see real tweets, from real people so you can interact with them in a timely fashion. It’s tough to have a dialogue when you have to filter through a bunch of get rich quick schemes and ads for penis enlargers. To avoid spammers, under the “search” tab, select “search by tweet keywords” and use a word that your target audience would use but that a spammer likely wouldn’t. Keywords like “going shopping” or “making dinner” will be tweeted by moms or dads, but not by spam bots. Use your noggin, and find people to engage. If you grow your twitter account this way, you’ll be able to activate a real audience who follows you in twitter because you’re real!

Other cool things Tweet Adder does:
Mass delete up to 150 DMs per day via the “Misc” tab.
Send up to 250 DMs per day via the “Messages” tab.

Be patient and tweet with consistency and the twitter gods will reward you with a growing list of followers. With its automated tweet and automated reply features, Tweet Adder can be used for good or evil. Leave “tweets” and “replies” tabs alone and use it for good! As always, if you don’t have the time to work with social media, we offer social networking services.

I’ve gotta admit feeling a little bit giddy as I signed into my LotusJump account for the first time. Based on the taste I got at Pubcon Vegas, I was prepared for a multifaceted SEO tool. After an hour or so of hands on time, it was obvious that Lotus Jump is more than a tool; it’s a veritable SEO assistant.

What’s it do?
LJ’s main function is to help you boost the search engine clout of your website and to make you aware of favorable web networking and traffic driving sites.
It searches the internet for back linking, directory submission and and even article submission opportunities. What you might not expect, and what LJ does phenomenally well is provide step by step instructions for submitting those links, urls and articles. It’ll even provide you with html code you can include in your text and blog comments (”html code”: a fancy word for a “link”).

How does it work?
Sign up for LotusJump.
Choose a domain.
Choose keywords.
LJ will take the domain and keywords and return a list of simple SEO tasks to complete.
Click a task, read the easy to follow instructions and follow them.
Done.

It sounds so good, there’s gotta be a catch.
Well, the only draw back to Lotus Jump is 1 single bug I found that sometimes lists tasks that cannot be completed. An example would be a task that asks you to comment on a blog but fails to indicate how to do so. After a month of using the application I only ran into this problem 2 times. Each time I simply deleted the task and moved on.

What’s it cost?
LJ has 2 levels of subscription. $24 a month will get you access to tasks based on any 3 keywords of your choosing for 1 domain name. Opt for the Pro package at $49 a month and they’ll more than triple the keywords (10) and add a competitive backlink task that isn’t included in the basic package. If you’re working with multiple websites you can manage them all for an additional $19 each.

Sum it up?!
LJ was created for the internet layman. Yet, it is a smart, savvy, all-in-one, SEO assistant that this Social Net Ninja would dare call indispensable for anyone with a website. Go with the $49/p mo package to get the extra “Competitive Backlinking” task and triple your keywords and you’ll be cooking with gas.

Tips for using LotusJump:
-Filter tasks by keyword and then complete them by task type. Click filter options, choose one keyword (uncheck all other keywords) and then choose one task type. Click apply filters and complete all task types that LJ assigns you.  Once you get in a groove with a specific task type and keyword you can really fly through your tasks.

-Article Submission tasks: It may seem like a lot of work, but I recommend writing different articles for each article submission. Many sites require that the content you submit be original and unique. At the very least, if you intend ignore this advice and use articles you’ve already written, never use the same article twice.

Jump on LotusJump!

I walked into room N2 of the Las Vegas convention center feeling
underwhelmed by the volume of it all. Thankfully, the one and only Eric from EricKnowsItAll.com was there to make light of the drab circumstances. Apparently, only a few dozen companies and a few hundred guests made attending a priority. Meandering about this event that touted attendance in the thousands, the social networking ninjas wondered if the whole thing wasn’t hyped up just a bit.

However after only a few minutes, we’d discovered several promising new
web tools with free trials, signed up for a free subscription to
website magazine, and had a baker’s dozen worth of requests to make use
of our ninja skills by silently offing this or that president of this
or that competiting social media corporation. If we can’t be contacted
around 2AM, now you know why.

Here’s a brief run down of the companys and their tools that we felt
really have something to offer. We’ll provide more in depth reviews of
these later:

LotusJump.com – For a few Benjamins a month, their service will track a
minimum of 10 keywords across as many websites as your heart desires
and provides a list of recommendations as to how to rank better for
those keywords.

Seotoast & Seosamba – CMS software optimized for SEO. The prior is free, the latter comes with a fee (ninjas only rhyme when they’re really excited about something). Seotoast and Seosamba both make it easy to build a fully seo’d website from the ground up. Make and maintain as many sites as you want for free with SeoToast. When your repertoire of websites grow to massive proportions, switch to SeoSamba for a nominal monthly fee and maintain every one of your websites from one easy to use dashboard.

SEOENG – A search engine optimization engine. Very cool.

More to come so stay tuned or follow us on twitter.

Social Networking Ninja

Intimidated by the evil forces of technology? Are the terms “social networking” & “social bookmarking” hairy, slobbering monsters that send shivers down your spine? Well fear no more! The social networking ninjas are here to karate chop your fears by providing you with the knowledge you need to tame the social networking monsters and even train them to do your bidding.

Building your network will take time, dedication, patience and the will to learn. If you have what it takes, check back weekly for the latest networking articles. The free information we provide here will make using the internet to reach your market a lot less intimidating and hopefully even provide a laugh or two along the way.

So prepare thyself young stink beetle, there is work to be done. Or if you prefer the path of the Emperor, we’ll do the work for you.