One of the best tactics to do that, is the use of sites like tweetlater.com, which allows you to set up tweets at any future date, time, etc that you choose.  Sites like these are a great tool to keep your tweets regular.  So if you know you’re going to be busy later, or if you have a great idea now, you can always save them to use at a different time.  Keeping your tweets coming regularly, and keeping them all stellar, is the best way to keep interest.

Other tools like Twazzup lets you track hashtags, allowing you to see what’s going on in relation to your tweets.  This is extremely useful so that you can see who is re-tweeting your hashtags, and what context they’re being reused.  This can help you formulate strategies by sticking to campaigns that tend to be more successful than others.

Don’t forget to make use of tools that asses the market you’re trying to reach as well.  Services like the Forrester Profile Calculator help you find where and how potential customers are looking for information.  Making use of these can really help you grow your page, because you’ll know just how to target that demographic that’s most important to your page.

Finding them is easy enough, but remember that you have to keep writing interesting and engaging tweets to keep them there.  Holding attention in the long run is much more difficult that gaining attention at first.

First off, ensure that you know the situation.  If your company is basically on fire and jobs are falling left and right, and not even your boss seems to be safe, probably not the best place for a raise.  But if things seem fairly comfortable, with a few worries here and there, you could have a good shot.  Just make sure you don’t paint a target on your back by asking for more than the company will think you deserve.

Asses your worth to the company before asking for a raise.  If you find people have been laid off or fired in your department, but you have survived the scrutiny, there has to be a reason for that.  Asses your accomplishments and your skill set, so that you can see why the company values you.  This will give you good groundwork to make use of in an argument for why you deserve a raise.

Finally, using your track record as a resource, go in and ask for a raise with your previous accomplishments as your foundation.  Be prepared to get rejected, after all it’s recession, and this is more of a long shot than anything else.  But be courteous and stay positive, and illustrate this isn’t a deal breaker for you, as to whether or not you’ll stay with the company.  You’d just like a raise or a promotion for your continuing efforts in helping the team strive for success.  Make that point evident, and you’ll be fine.

Make peace with yourself before you try anything on your boss.  Cope with the fact that they aren’t rude or angry with you because of your job performance.  Rather it’s just a negative personality trait that your boss has.  Just like a bully, the bad behavior is a social issue that they have, not something you’ve done wrong.  So don’t let it bother you as much as it might, because their rude attitude has nothing to do with you.

Asses the problem, and after you’ve made peace with the fact that the anger isn’t about you, evaluate your options.  If your bad boss is a real problem, you may have to take the issue higher within the company.  Consider your options for reporting an issue like this within the company, and also your legal rights if you feel the treatment is completely unwarranted.  Otherwise this may be time to asses your career.

If you feel this problem can’t be solved within the company, you might just have to suck it up and look for a new job.  If you don’t like the way things are going at your current company, you just might have to pack up and go to a different one.  If you just can’t work with your boss, and don’t have any other avenue to correct the situation, it’s not a bad idea to start again somewhere else.

1. Figure out your needs for successfully running your business.
2. Figure the budget that you have to spend on new tech.
3. Combine your findings from the first two, to find the most relevant technology.
4. Allow time to test new tech and figure out realistic application within the company.

So firstly, you want to asses what you need to successfully run your business.  Target what your business is going to offer, or already offers, and look to technology surrounding that.  Whether it be computer software to better manage your clientele, or even faster computers to provide for better overall service.

Figure out how much money you can afford to spend taking risks on new technology.  For any sort of advancement in any field a certain amount of risk taking is necessary, and you need to determine how much money can be spent on those risks.  You want to have plenty to try and keep up with potential money saving/making technology, but not so much that a bad investment would hurt the company.  Never be afraid though, as that new piece of tech could solve some financial problems in ways you couldn’t imagine.

Combining your findings means using the budget you’ve made for new technology, on the features that are going to be most helpful to your company first.  Go after the tech that has the likelihood changing your company in the most dramatic ways, and target that first.  You’ll always be taking a risk, but by targeting a weak point, or point that you could strengthen, you take the positive chance of reorganizing your company to be stronger than before.

Allow for time to test every investment you make before making a final judgment as to how it will apply to your company, and whether the investment was a success or not.  Sometimes reintegration of an old system can take a while.  Or sometimes fully understanding the nuances of a new item can take time before you fully understand how to make the best use of what you’ve bought.  Give it some time, and let your investments play out, because that new technology could pay dividends like you couldn’t imagine.