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If you have a large mailing list or database of people, and you are one of the hip people who uses Twitter, you're in luck. With a bit of magic, Twitter can find out which of those e-mails are on Twitter, and import them to your Follow list.
- Save your spreadsheet as a .CSV file - you need to have the following column headers (and only these): First Name, Last Name, Email Address. See this Gmail KB article
- Make a new Gmail account. The best way to do this is to have someone send you an invitation through their Gmail account. You can also send yourself an invitation. The reason you want to do it this way is because if you are a random person signing up for the first time from gmail.com, they will ask to send you a SMS message to verify you're a human. You can only do that once, so try the invitation method. You should now have a completely blank Gmail account with only the welcome e-mails in your inbox, and nobody in your contacts list.
- Import your .CSV file into your Gmail contacts list. On the left side of Gmail, you'll see the word "Contacts" - go in here and on the upper right is the word "Import". Follow these steps if you get confused. NOTE: You can only hold a few thousand contacts at a time. Break your spreadsheet into multiple chunks if you need to and repeat this step after you upload your first chunk to Twitter.
- Log in to Twitter
- On the upper-right, click "Find People"
- Click the tab called "Find on Other Networks" - Use your newly-made Gmail account to have Twitter pull in those contacts. You're done! Read on for another tip.
- I recommend making a note of who these contacts are so you can put them into a Twitter List later for a quick look at your customer or mailing list database tweets. More on these new Twitter Lists can be found on Hubspot's blog post:
An Inbound Marketer's Introduction to Twitter Lists
- If you have more contacts that couldn't fit into your Gmail contact list, go into your Contacts section, delete everyone in there, and Import chunk #2.
- Rinse and Repeat if desired.
Sick of dragging out a huge mop + bucket of crappy water around, I needed a new solution to a dirty linoleum kitchen floor - without needing to buy a Swiffer.
Here's how I did it:
- Sweep the floor as usual, picking up loose dirt and things, put in a dustpan and throw in the trash. Well, don't throw it - it usually ends up back on the floor that way.
- Get some of your favorite cleaning wipes. They come in a plastic canister, are moist, and you pull them up as if they were tissues. Soggy Kleenex if you will. Either way, I had some of the Clorox brand wipes from Target.
- Pull two of them out.
- Place on floor. Don't drop them, you're not good enough to have them land perfectly flat.
- Step on them with shoes on. I recommend Saucony running shoes.
- Do a little dance. The trick here is to scrub back and forth with your feet staying on the floor. Try to incorporate "The Robot."
In 60 seconds or less, you TOO can make this quick and delicious pie.
The Story:
My girlfriend wanted some pie the other night. We haven't had dessert in our apartment for some time. Stop & Shop was open (they're open late), but it was late and we had a podcast to finish. Also, pies from the store cost money.
The PIE:
1. Grab a small plate of some sort. Not as small as a saucer, but just a bit bigger.
2. Unwrap 5 granola bars. These should be the Quaker oats chocolate chip granola bars.
3. Lay them out like this: |||| so you basically have 4 bars side-by-side, and one laying lengthwise around them.
4. Squish the hell out of them until you have something that resembles a round granola-y pie crust
5. Slather two Snack-Packs of chocolate pudding on top of your granola mass. Use good care in texturing the surface so it looks totally delicious.
6. Tell your girlfriend you got a really expensive pie and get kisses.
Bonus: it slices pretty well, believe it or not. You get pretty perfect little triangles of fun if you did step 4 right.
IT'S THAT EASY, FOLKS!



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