BrandMyMail has a drag and drop interface. It supports plenty of social sites including Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, and Quora. BrandMyMail stands between you and your recipients. Templates are applied as emails pass through their servers. The service has a browser extension and provides support for iPhone and iPad too.

In order to use this service, you should start by customizing your e-mail template. Once you connect your account to Gmail, you are ready to go. You get multiple content sources, layouts and designs. Overall, BrandMyMail is a wonderful tool to use to put together rich e-mails.

This plugin is simple and highly customizable. It has a widget you can drop onto your sidebar. The script requires your username to work. The number of pins displayed and the size of thumbnails can be modified. “Follow Me On Pinterest” are also included.

If you are active on Pinterest, there is no reason you should not add your pins to your website. The Pinterest RSS Widget has you more than covered.

Once you install this plugin, you can start importing posts by linking this script to your Tumblr account. The Tumblr import capability should be available under Tools > Import. The script keeps track of the posts you have imported to your blog to save you time. Overall, a very simple plugin to use to import your Tumblr posts to your site.

In case you have not noticed, Twitter has been going through many changes recently. One could argue that it has moved to a whole new level. The new interface makes interacting with others and finding new people to connect with a whole lot easier. Here are 5 things you can do to get even more out of Twitter:

• track activities: tracking others’ activities on Twitter is a whole lot easier these days. Just go to #Discover and browse through user activities on that page.
• embed tweets: did you know that you can now embed live tweets in your blog? You can do so by expanding the tweet and clicking on details link and grabbing the provided code. You can style these tweets easily.
• discover: the new Twitter interface lets you discover new, interesting users easier. You can take Twitter’s suggestions or search for users by category. Twitter displays the top stories under Discover tab as well.
• find tweet interactions: want to know how many times your tweets have been favorited or retweeted? Now you can see these numbers by expanding tweets.
• connect with your contacts: the new UI lets you easily follow who is interacting with you and your brand on Twitter (the new brand pages are going to be very exciting too). Under the new interface, you can keep track of mentions and other interactions easily.

Twitter has stepped up its game dramatically in the past few months. It will need to continue doing so to stay relevant in 2012 and beyond. The new updates are a good start.

You can search through top G+ players on CircleCount and find out how fast they have progressed over time. You also get to find out how many comments, +1s, and reshares each top G+ member has received for each story posted. This is invaluable information that would show you which types of content may work for your account.

CircleCount offers a bunch of nice reports on G+ users (including geo, job, and gender reports). The Cream of the Crop list gets you familiar with some of the rising players in this community. What’s nice about CircleCount is the fact that it also covers Pages in addition to individual profiles..

Being active on Google+ is nice. But you also have to pay attention to what other top users are doing. CircleCount helps you figure that part out.

There are plenty of royalty free music sites available on the Internet. Jamendo happens to have some very unique titles, which makes it perfect for people making their works stand out. Jamendo has multiple plans for businesses and production professionals. Small business owners can use the content from Jamendo in their business settings (e.g. restaurants). Content professionals have over 100K titles to go through to find the ones that fit their needs.

Jamendo has plenty of search options to save you time finding the exact style of music you need for your work. The plans are cheap, so most small businesses can afford them. This is a nice place to find music to jazz up your content with.

Google launched Google+ pages for brands a while ago. Many Google+ users are confused about ways they can use their pages to drive leads for their businesses. In reality, your approach to Google+ pages should not be that much different from the tactics you use on your Facebook pages. Here are 6 ways you can go about developing a more successful Google+ page:

• Build a killer profile: you can’t expect to achieve a lot of success with your page if you have spent only a couple of minutes putting it together. In order to build a killer page, you should add all the relevant information to it. That includes information about your business and what it offers. Adding photos and videos to your pages is a very good idea as well.
• Promote your page: Google has set some limitations for Google+ page owners. For instance, you can not circle people who have not circled you. That’s why it is so important for page owners to use all their outposts to promote their pages. Don’t forget to add your page badge to your website.
• Offer page specific content: People do not come to your page to see the same content you are sharing in other places. Adding exclusive content to your Google+ page goes a long way towards helping you achieve success with it.
• Vary your content: many Google+ users only add text articles and comments to their pages. You could have an easier time engaging your fans by adding video, graphics, and other types of content to your pages or profile.
• Engage your fans: as a page owner, you do not want to be doing all the sharing. Getting your friends involved on your page is a must. You can always peak their interest by adding questions and provocative discussions to your page. When someone takes time to respond to your posts, you should reply back.
• Give your visitors incentive to stay connected: in the past few weeks, I have seen people who have used giveaways and contests to get the word out about their Google+ profiles. The same approach can be used for pages. Just make sure you don’t violate Google’s guidelines.

Building a killer Google+ page does take a bit of time and effort. The above steps should help you get on the right track.

What tactics are you using to promote and enhance your presence on Google+?

If you have started a Google+ page for your business, you should also take time to connect your page to your website. Google has made the process easy by providing this amazing tool:

In order to use this tool, just provide the long number in your Google+ page URL to this tool. Grab the appropriate code and install it on your site. There are two parts to the code. You should insert the first section in your site header. The second part of the code goes where you want your Google+ button to show.

In order to have a successful Google+ page, you need to have a real content strategy. Connecting your G+ page to your site is a good place to start though.

Google+ Search: the best way to find interesting content on Google+ is by tracking your favorite keywords. By doing that, interesting content won’t ever be more than a couple of clicks away.

What’s Hot: Google is constantly improving Google+. What’s Hot is a cool section on Google+ that lets you find stories that are getting a lot of attention in the community. You can make interesting connections and finding super stories in this section.

Google+ Circles: Circles are quite powerful if used the right way. If you take time to organize your circles and add the right users to them, you will have an easier time finding interesting stories on topics that interest you.

Google+ is quite a vibrant community. With all the content being shared on Google+ every minute, there is no excuse for not having interesting content to share/re-share.

In order to strengthen your presence on Google, you are going to have to be interesting enough to get circled in that social network. Here are 8 ways to do just that:

1. share great content: don’t just focus on one type of content when it comes to sharing things on your Google+ profile. Include videos, infographics, articles, audio links, and … Also, don’t share things just for the sake of doing it.
2. reshare others’ stories: if you want your content to get reshared, you should be ready to reshare the work of others. The more you put in this community, the more you get out of it.
3. comment on posts: by commenting on other people’s stories, you will have an easier time connecting with more people. It also shows you are active on Google+ (not everyone is).
4. ask questions: those of you who already have many followers on Google+ should try asking interesting questions to engage your community. Questions can do wonders for your profile.
5. hangout with your friends: Google+ Hangouts can be quite addictive once you give them a try. They are great for connecting with your friends and strangers online.
6. take advantage of Sparks: Sparks can find you decent content to share on Google+. Just add the topics that interest you and Sparks tracks top stories on them.
7. throw contests: some folks have had a lot of success throwing all kinds of other contests on Google+. If your contest goes viral on Google+, it could get your profile a whole lot of attention.
8. manage your circles: many folks share everything they find with the public. Circles are there for a reason. By sharing the right type of content with the right circle, you could have more success in this community.

Some people are born interesting. But even if you don’t have one interesting thing to say, you can use the above tips to change your fortunes on Google+.