When Oversaturation Dilutes Your Marketing Message

So the Internet and Social Media has become a huge sea of marketing messages everywhere you look. And no matter where we turn we see PPC ads, Banners, Blogs, SEO this, SEO that…what’s one to do?

How do you ensure you’re message doesn’t get lost in the abyss of messages that are flooding the internet? How do you stand apart?
Well, we know it can be very intimidating but there is a way to STAND OUT! There are ways to ensure your message is seen, heard and most important effective.

Here are 5 tips to help you stand out amongst your competitors:

• Don’t be boring
• Make your Website and your Social Media Presence easy to find
• Safe is Risky
• Target Your Market More Precisely
• Position Your Firm As Experts

Lastly, think of the internet as one big NETWORKING event. Place yourself at the center of everyone’s attention.
• Be the LIFE of the PARTY!
• Work the room!
• Leave a good impression no matter where you’re present!
• Arrive first but leave last!
• And by all means BE INVITING! Make people want to connect with you, click your banners, follow you to your website and ultimately, do business with you!

You can be the BIG fish in the BIG pond. You just gotta know how!

What Is Keyword Research?

Keyword research is a practice used by search engine optimization professionals to find and research actual search terms people enter into the search engines when conducting a search.

As Joshua Wexelbaum of Keywordresearching.com explains,

“If you are marketing on the internet, you need to know what words people are using in their searches. Without knowing the most popular words in your industry, you cannot effectively target the people who are searching for what you sell.

Once you find the keywords that are relevant to your industry or niche, you can use these keywords on your website to attract natural search engine traffic. You can also use these keywords in your pay per click advertising campaigns on Google, Yahoo, or MSN.”

There are many great tools that will allow you to do some basic keyword research for free.

First Book Mark this- the Google Keyword Toolbox: www.googlekeywordtool.com
This page includes the Google keyword tool and the top 50 Google Tools

I would also suggest you download the Google Official SEO Starter Guide here

Here is a quick list of free tools I have used and found helpful.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
recommends keywords based on a keyword you enter or a URL

http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook
Free tool based on wordtracker.com API

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com
free keyword suggestions from Wordtracker

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html
free keyword tool from Trellian

http://wordze.com
one of the better “classic” keyword research tools on the market.
They offer a free limited access membership.

http://www.wordstream.com/keywords
allows you to export a list of thousands of keywords for free

http://labs.google.com/sets
creates a set of keywords based on a keyword you enter

http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions
shows questions people searched for that contain the root keyword you type in

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com
Has a free trial

Trend related:

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
shows keywords that are recently hot. Also archives older hot keywords

http://www.google.com/trends
shows seasonal search trends for most popular keywords.

http://www.google.com/insights/search

shows keyword trends, hot keywords by category, and top geographic regions for a keyword

SEOBook.com offers many more free seo tools including competitive research tools and link analysis tools.

Their SEO Basics Knol will help you get the basics of SEO down in about an hour, for free.

This is a fascinating read that while it talks about Google and the way Google as a company operates…their business practices and philosophies…why they work so well… the book really isn’t about Google. It’s about using Google’s successful business model and applying it in to own business as we move into the Web 2.0 ‘Google’ world….

It’s about being open and transparent. And as the book itself states- in the end it’s about You.

The rules have changed. Consider this your rule book to doing business now and into the future.

I challenge you to read this and NOT find something useful that you can apply to your own business or see new and exciting opportunities. You can pick up a copy at Amazon.com or major bookstores. I highly recommend it.

If you have read it, I would love to hear your feedback- what was your favorite chapter or specific quote from the book?

Watch this amazing video by  Eric Qualman from Socialnomics

Then check out some very interesting stats below – for example did you realize…

• 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees

• More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.

In the near future we will no longer search for  products and services- they will find us via social media.

Stats from Video (sources listed below by corresponding #)

1. By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
2. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
3. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
4. Years to Reach 50 millions Users:  Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
5. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia
6. Yet, some sources say China’s QZone is larger with over 300 million using their services (Facebook’s ban in China plays into this)
7. comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month – Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network
8. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
9. 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum
10. % of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees….80%
11. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
12. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Ireland, Norway and Panama
13. 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
14. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
15. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
16. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
17. Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
18. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
19. 54% = Number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily
20. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
21. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
22. Facebook USERS translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0
23. 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
24. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
25. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services  than how Google ranks them
26. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
27. Only 14% trust advertisements
28. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
29. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
30. Hulu has grown from 63 million total streams in April 2008 to 373 million in April 2009
31. 25% of Americans in the past month said they watched a short video…on their phone
32. According to Jeff Bezos 35% of book sales on Amazon are for the Kindle when available
33. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
34. In the near future we will no longer search for  products and services they will find us via social media
35. More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily.
36. Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like David Ogilvy Listening first, selling second
37. Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser

In reality, Internet marketers can pick and choose from a whole host of options available to help them make money.  Your opportunities are virtually endless, and include one or more of the following:

•    Selling digital downloads (information products like eBooks)
•    Promoting other people’s products for a commission (affiliate marketing)
•    Selling on eBay or other auction sites
•    Running a membership site
•    Selling and promoting your own online services as a freelancer (writing, graphics, programing, consulting etc.)
•    Owning a website that sells dropshipped or wholesale items

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Being a newcomer to Internet marketing, you might be worried that you don’t have anything to sell.  That’s okay – most people don’t start out with anything, and you never have to stock a tangible inventory if you don’t want to.

Internet marketing creates no gender or age boundaries for you.  There are teenagers who have launched multi-million dollar companies as budding Internet marketers whose ideas sprung to life and catapulted them to instant success.

You don’t have to do anything unethical or shady to succeed at Internet marketing, and in fact, launching a respectable business with a solid reputation is the secret ingredient that will allow you to hatch an empire on the ‘net to fulfill all of your dreams and those of your family.

I’m afraid I’ve neglected my blog in the process. It’s Friday and before I let another week go by I wanted to let my readers and the blog community know about 2 exciting Social Media education opportunities available to you.

First, a little more about Social Media Magic and a free live webinar.

Social Media Magic is a marketing and PR firm specializing in managing social media campaigns for busy business entrepreneurs, CEO’s and executives.

Social Media Magic delivers strategic, comprehensive social media solutions so you can focus on your core competencies while we focus on ours—bringing you effective, affordable, and on-point social media campaigns to maximize your marketing ROI while saving you time and money.

For the past several months, we’ve been successfully helping our private clients:

• Set up totally customized social network accounts.
• Writing and posting their keyword-optimized profile.
• Discover revenue opportunities where they can add to the conversation and then post strategic, keyword-driven communications with customers and prospects.
• Helping them build their standing as a Subject Matter Expert in their field with engaging, ongoing content distribution.
• Helping them own, control and protect their online reputation from competitors and imposters.
• Establish, build, and maintain quality customer relationships.
• To use Social Media to attract top paying, high-end clients
• Find business partners, affiliates, and investors for their company

We just recently launched and made available our Social Media marketing solutions on a grander scale at SocialMediaMagic.com and are kicking this off with a series of Free Live webinars.

Social Media Magic presents…
“Capitalizing on the Conversation”

How To Increase and Optimize Your Social Media Marketing ROI … for Businesses and Executives

A no-nonsense discussion of how successful entrepreneurs and executives are using Social Media to generate revenue, increase site traffic, build new business partnerships, and bring in new, qualified leads.

I invite you to register to attend for free here.

You’ll get clear answers to these important questions:

• How much revenue is actually being generated for those successfully using Social Networks? (A lot more than you might think.)
• How do successful individuals and businesses get started—and how do they sustain it?
• How can entrepreneurs and executives manage the time-sink Social Networks require for success?

In this 90 minute webinar you’ll also learn:

• Real solutions to minimize your time investment and maximize your social media marketing ROI
• How to ramp up more quickly for more aggressive returns

Register for Free here >>> SocialMediaMagic.com/webinar

In the next day or two, I’ll be posting here another Social Media Marketing event coming up in July that you don’t want to miss!

~ Rhonda

If you’re looking for a simple but clean looking solution to create your popups then I recommend you check out GreyBox. It’s easy to use and install and it doesn’t conflict with popup blockers. It’s lightweight and you can easily modify the styles in css.

You may be familiar with the popular ‘lightbox’ script and Greybox is similar but it allows you to display more then just images.

I now use Greybox just about anytime I need to create a popup plus I’m always finding other uses for it. As it says on their website… Greybox is a popup window that doesn’t suck.

Click here to download Greybox for free.

Let me know how you like it.

Enjoy!

~Rhonda

I’ve personally noticed an increased interest in ‘what I do for a living’. I’ve been working from home for several years now but I’ve never has so many people at once ask me to show them how to make money from home.

There are other posts here on the blog about starting your own online home business(i.e. as an affiliate marketer or creating your own product or service) but this post is really about work from home and telecommuting ‘job’ opportunities. These days ‘working from home’ falls into many categories and there are more options then ever before.

For example, there are now many companies that hire you either as an employee or independent contractor, pay you an hourly rate while you work from home, in most cases on your own schedule. I’ll list several of these for you in a moment.

Telecommuting and web work jobs seem to be on the rise. Whether this is in spite of the economic downturn or it is due to the the increasing unemployment rate pushing more people into freelancing positions while they look for other work is a question up for debate.

oDesk, a popular and high quality freelance site, said job posts on oDesk were up *120%* in Quarter 4 of 2008 compared with Q4 2007. They posted on their blog some stats showing the skills with the highest growth rates in 2008 Blogging seems to dominate as a tech growth area in 2008. Demand for WordPress designers has increased by more than 4 times. Demand for freelance writers, a good portion of which are online or blog related, more than tripled.

Whether someone is laid off completely or the economy has caused a reduction in hours or commissions, if you have skills such as customer service, writing, data entry, computer and tech related, consulting, even cooking… there are ways to get some extra cash working from home.

I did some research and put together a list on some of the best ways to earn some extra cash from home and some of the best companies that are hiring right now.

1. Get Paid for Writing or Blogging

You don’t have to publish a bestseller to get paid for your love of writing. Content is King online and there are many companies and blogs that are in constant need for fresh quality content. Here are just a few:

Constant-content.com – They buy unique articles, tutorials, and purchase all types of content for your magazines and websites. They offer opportunities for freelance article writers, blog writers, review writers. They even buy videos and photography.

Payperpost.com – Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.

AssociatedContent.com – Another site where you can be a content producer and get pad to write and submit content. Content can be in the form of text, videos, audios and slideshows.

Helium.com – a knowledge co-operative where writers are also editors who read and rate every article on the site. Write, Get Published, Get Paid!

oDesk Writing Jobs

eLance Writing Jobs

2. Customer service or technical support representative

Alpine Access - this company plans to hire 1,200 new employees in the first three months of 2009. Besides offering the flexibility to work from home, Alpine Access, a virtual call center, provides health-care benefits, 401K, flexible work schedules and opportunities to grow. Each worker is an actual company employee with regular work hours and assignments.

1800flowers.com- If you have a phone headset, a way with people and, hopefully, a love of flowers, consider working for the long-established 1-800-FLOWERS. The company expects to hire temporary, full-time customer service representatives this year. It even promises competitive hourly rates plus a bonus at the end of the temporary assignment.

Aetna - From nurses to contract negotiators to account managers, Aetna is a nationwide company with a variety of telework-friendly jobs to offer. Whether you are medically savvy or are simply good with people on the phone, you could find a position with this reputable company that offers benefits and a possibility of a bonus.

Arise – offers opportunities for work in technical support, sales, and customer service with some of the most exciting companies in America. They offer the certification courses you need to become an Arise Certified Professional, which signifies that you have the basic skills and knowledge to be a customer interaction specialist. As an employee of Virtual Services Corporation, once you are certified as an Arise Certified Professional, you choose which clients to serve, when you work, and how many hours each week to work.

3. Virtual Assistants

A virtual assistant is a professional office administrative assistant who can work from anywhere.

HireMyMom.com – a Web-based job service designed especially for professional working mothers. One of the most popular positions HireMyMom.com is a virtual assistant. You provide the skills. They provide the clients.

You’ll also find multiple Virtual Assistant Job posting on the Simply Hired job board.

4. Typing and Transcription

Workingsolutions.com – If you are a fast and accurate typist, you might be interested in a contract position as a transcriptionist. This is someone who types down information from a audio or video recording, live reading, or conversation. Established in 1996, Working Solutions hires independent contract agents for various transcription and customer service assignments. You can earn up to $30 an hour if you have the right skill-set and experience.

Here are 2 other transcription sites to explore.

www.tigerfish.com
www.speak-write.com

5. Work From Home Teaching

Sylvan Online – If you have experience teaching but aren’t interested in managing an entire classroom or have lost your teaching job due to cutbacks and layoffs, Sylvan Online may work for you. It’s a Web-based tutoring service that seeks certified teachers to tutor various subjects and levels. Job requirements include a current teaching certificate, a Windows-based PC and high-speed Internet access. Sylvan offers paid training on-line and opportunities range from 8 to 29 hours per week.

Language Lab: Language Lab lets at-home students visit “English Town,” a virtual city where teachers help them learn English as a second language. Language Lab is looking to hire more English teachers. The company also plans to hire actors and part-time customer service reps.

6. Computer Skills

If you have web design, programming, marketing, seo, IT and networking then freelance sites like Elance and Odesk can match you up with clients who need your services.

Side Note: oDesk also has career openings within their company http://www.odesk.com/w/careers

7. Be An Online Juror

Yea- this one was new to me…

Instead of spending time watching the courtroom programs on TV, try making some pocket money while determining verdicts as an online juror. Lawyers deciding whether or not to accept a case or looking for preliminary feedback on cases they’re currently handling use various websites as a cost-effective tool for research and focus groups before heading into a real courtroom.

Sites include
www.ejury.com
www.onlineverdict.com
www.trialpractice.com

8. Cooking Consultant

Think you’re the next Top Chef? That might qualify you to become a home-based consultant for Chefsline.com , which provides live, professional advice to anyone who needs help with cooking or baking. Chef consultants must excel at cooking, teaching, and customer service, and must be available to take calls for a minimum of eight hours per week during afternoon and evening hours. A culinary degree is preferred, but not required.

9. Internships

This is not really a true work from home job but internships, especially with web startups, can really open some doors and get you some valuable experience and contacts.

Conotes _ If you’re just starting out and want to get your foot in the door with some great web startups, head on over to http://conotes.com/

Twitter is Hiring! Twitter, a well known privately funded start up offers an internship. They also offer competitive salaries and full benefits, including health, dental, vacation, 401k, and stock options. You would be joining a unique group of experienced folks who are doing their best work to create something great.

On a sidenote: For companies and business owners looking to hire interns, Conotes also has a free listing service for internships.

Another free resource that includes many many ideas for starting an online home business, download a copy of my book Escaping Your 9 to 5 here.

If you know of any work from home job resources, other companies hiring, or have some experience in any of the job categories or companies above, please share them in comments.

Here are a few tips and suggestions to get you started organizing your home office, improve your time management skills and increase your overall productivity.

Update: I wrote this post at the beginning of the new year but there are many tips and tools shared here that you will surely benefit from even now so read on…

We all tend to start each New Year with a few resolutions. As we ring in the New Year its a time to reflect on the previous year and to look ahead to the coming year with renewed hope and commitment.

Aside from the common resolutions we have all made one year or another such as, spending more time with family or getting fit, in this article I want to get specific to home business related resolutions.

For those just starting their online business, one of those resolutions may look something like this:

New Years Resolutions:

Actually make some money in my business this year!

or…

This is the year I finally Fire My Boss
and Go Full Time Online!

With the right planning, commitment and tools you CAN do it. It starts with organization and knowing how to manage your time.

Here are a few tips and suggestions to get you started organizing your home office, improve your time management skills and increase your overall productivity.

Home Office Design and Organization

We tend to spend as much time in our office sometimes as we do the rest of our home- and there are days when it seems we actually live in our office. Since so much time is spent here it just makes sense that it should be setup and organized right.

• If you’re just setting up your home office, you’ll want to put thought into the right location. Number one it should be in a quiet area. If you have a spare bedroom this is typically ideal but if not, you just need to get a little creative in finding the right area of your home to work. Think outside the box- something completely unconventional may be the perfect solution such as an area under the stairs, using a screened in porch etc. Your home office location may change too over the years as your family changes.
  

• Make it comfortable and set the mood. From your desk, to your chair, to the paint color on the wall…make this space you. Hang pictures, add candles, plants. Do you work better with a little music in the background or do you need complete quiet?

• Make sure you have everything you need in a convenient location. If you find yourself constantly moving around hunting for things, this is a good sign that you need to rethink your organization and where you keep things. The first step to organizing is to make sure you have plenty of storage space. There are three ways of getting more space. You can increase the amount of storage space ( move your office to a larger room), use the space you have more efficiently (by adding a bookshelf, file cabinet or overhead cabinets) or reduce the amount of things you store in your office.

• The best organization and time management investment you can make for your business is a good desk. This doesn’t necessarily mean an expensive desk. Just one that is comfortable and offers plenty of built in storage space. When I first started my business, I was using a make shift desk- an old dining table in fact. It had absolutely no storage space and things were all over the place. Several years ago, I purchased a complete set of office furniture- desk with built in drawers and shelves, matching bookshelf and hutch…the transformation in productivity was amazing. It’s also a little subliminal in that you just ‘feel’ more like an entrepreneur with the right office furniture and setup.

• I also find that by taking an extra few minutes to straighten my desk at the end of the day or at the very least at the end of the week, I start each morning off better and tend to be more productive throughout the day.

Time Management

We all have one thing in common- we only have 24 hours in every day. By the time you deduct sleeping, eating, taking care of your family, working out, and your day J.O.B if you have one, we can only carve out so much of this 24 hours for actually accomplishing something in our business. The portion of the time you have set aside for work should be spent on income producing activities. You have to learn to identify the time stealers and eliminate them as much as possible.

• Focus on the current project- Don’t let all those great new ideas distract you

Stop trying to juggle 10 projects at once. So you’ve got this great new idea or strategy and you can’t wait to implement it. Now may not be the right time. Instead keep all these great ideas written down in a notebook. Once you’ve written it down it’s now out of your head but not forgotten. Now get back to the current task or project- complete it. You always have your notebook of new ideas to refer back to when you have the time to tackle them.

• Set a schedule and time limits and stick to it

Map out a Daily Method of Operation. Organize your week just as you would your office space. For example: You’re going to spend Monday going over numbers, stats, and planning. Tuesday is for writing articles and blog posts. Wednesday you work on product development…. You set a limit on reading email, your social media responsibilities…even phone calls. You can break each day, or each month down. Take some time and draft out a tentative schedule. You may have to adjust as time goes by but the important thing is to get something down in writing now.

Important: Repeat after me… NO. Learn to say no more often.

• Get Inspired

I also recommend scheduling in some time for some inspiration- whether its a few minutes at the beginning of every day or some time during your week. We all need a little kick now and then to stay focused and motivated. Read a good book on personal development, listen to a motivational podcast, or watch a video on YouTube from a great coach or leader in your industry.

• Use our Time Analysis worksheet

Analyze your time and energy busters. Are your truly productive or just busy? Download this free Time analysis worksheet and find out. Complete one sheet per day for one full week. After doing so you will get a better understanding of where you are wasting your time, what you struggle with, what you hate doing and what you enjoy doing, what makes you money and what doesn’t.

There’s no need to be a one man show these days with all the great and affordable outsourcing resources. Learn to delegate more and stop wasting time on things you struggle with or just hate doing.

Productivity Tools

• Brainstorming and mind maps. bubbl.us is a free service that lets you create mind maps online. You can share them with your colleagues, print them and embed them in your blog or websites.

• Pick up a copy of “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. You’ll learn a lot about how to get your life organized. You may also want to check out, Propelr.com which is a web based productivity application based on David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD) methodology.

• RescueTime is a free time management software application that you download to your computer. It tracks your activity and gives you a birds eye view of how you spend your time.

• Time Driver is a free appointment invitation system. It makes it easy for clients and customers to connect with you and no more phone or email tag. We’ve been using this in our business for a couple months now and love it. You can check out how we use this tool here.

• Remember The Milk takes the To-Do list to a whole new level. With this free task management application you’ll never go back to sticky notes again. Also available as an iPhone app, Blackberry, Gmail and Twitter.

• Google Docs -create, store and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations and online forms You can work on your own or collaboratively. You can also import docs from MS Office and Open Office. This is a tool I use daily.
  

• Social Media Status Updater: With Ping.fm you can update Twitter and a plethora of other social sites such as Facebook, Friendfeed, MySpace and Pownce all at the same time. This is a great time saver and it’s free!

• With Mobile Apps like Twittelator for your iPhone (download from the Apps store) or Twitterberry for your Blackberry you can keep up with your Twitter peeps even while you’re on the go.

• By far the very best online Project Management and Collaboration tool is Basecamp HQ. We’ve been using this in our business for the past 2 years and it has been an invaluable communication and organization tool for us and our clients. Its simply brilliant!

• Billing and Invoicing is a drag but a necessary task. Freshbooks takes some of the sting out. Allows you to create and send invoices, track time and expenses and more. Several plans to choose from and range in price from Free on up to $149 per month.

• Need a new contract or legal document? Try Docstoc.com, a community for people to find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents.

• WP Contact Manager. Rather than being a WordPress theme to help create a small business website, this is a theme that can help create a more productive workplace, by providing a common area to keep everybody’s business contacts up-to-date. You just install the theme, and then start posting your clients’ contact details to keep them in a central repository. (Free)

• Inspired by Twitter and made for WordPress, Prologue is a group blog theme designed for short update messages. Small teams collaborating on a particular project could use Prologue to effectively communicate about who is doing what and when. (Free)

What has worked well for you?

Any tips to share?

free christmas icons for social bookmarking

Christmas comes alive with the beautiful Christmas Icons for Feeds and Social bookmarks, designed by Dirceu Veiga from Fast Icon Studio.

The “Christmas Social Bookmark Icons”, a collection of 17 freeware icons in iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Mister-Wong, Netvibes, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Ta-Da List, Technorati and You Tube.

Did I mention they were FREE ? You can download them here.

Want to add a Santa hat to your logo? Although it’s not free, you’ll find a nice looking Santa hat here too.

Beyond the holiday season, they have a large collection of icons- some free- others priced very reasonably.

Happy Holidays,

Rhonda