So you’ve wowed a client with your professional and brilliant work. Now what? Ideally, you want to keep a relationship going. This isn’t to sell any kind of post-product add-on or anything(Although, that’s possible if that’s your bag.) Rather, it’s just to keep a a healthy business-to-client relationship going. This awards many benefits as far as referrals and, well, just plain ole human decency. Not to mention repeat service.

So how do you do it? There is really no reason to contact them once the work is done, after all. You don’t want to seem like a desperate person you met once who is always asking you to hang out even though it’s obvious it’s not gonna happen.

Here are five natural and effective ways you can do it.

Send Newsletters

Does your company send out a monthly newsletter? If not, get on that. It’s a good way to stay in touch with customers and let them know you are still around, doing your thing. Even if you don’t have a formal mailing list, you can still send out emails to key clients every now and again that take the form of a mailing list email . This way you can keep those key relationships alive.

Clip Items of Interest

As you go through your day, reading newspapers, blogs, books or any other business reading material, keep an eye out for subjects your key clients would be interested in. If you find something that reflects their industry’s needs, send it along with a note.

Over time, this will become second nature and will begin to take no time at all. Your eyes will be trained to notice things regarding their interests and you’ll have it packed up and sent before you know it. It can do a lot of good in the long run.

Chat ‘Em Up on Social Networks

If your clients participate in the same social networks as you, make an effort to befriend them to stay in touch. If you are not on the same social networks as them, join the ones they are on. Social media is great for quick check-ins, and it can also give you a way to stay in tune with what’s going on in their businesses. This way you can be ready to offer your services when the need eventually arises. Instant business.

Make a Call

This is simple and obvious. Give a quick call to say hello. Of course, do this in extreme moderation. You don’t want to overstay your welcome. You may want to also email first as a sort of “warning” that a call will be forthcoming.

Send Referrals

Conventional wisdom dictates referrals as client-to-vendor benefits, but why not refer others to the businesses of your clients? It sure would make them happy, and get them to return the favor at a later date. Make a habit of keeping an eye out for potential customers for your clients when you do your networking rounds.

Throughout all of your interactions, don’t forget to ask the clients what they have going on. This is a great way to potentially get in the door with return work via happy clients. Remember, a happy client is a client who will work with you again.

So that’s about it. What do you do to maintain that all-important client relationship once the work has gone the way of the Dodo?

To say social networking sites are all the rage would be something of an understatement. Privacy issues withstanding, they feature some of the highest traffic on the Internet. So get in on the game! Adorn your website or blog with some of the best and creative social bookmark icon sets around. Here are 30 simply astounding sets to get you started. If you know of any more, please drop them in the comment box.

1. Web 2.0rigami – I Am Paddy

2. Social.me – jwloh

3. Socialize Icon Set – DryIcons

4. Social Icon Set – Stylelion

5. Social Media Mini Iconpack – Komodo Media

6. Nurture Social Icon Set – Smashing Magazine

7. Heart: A Free Social Icon Set – Smashing Magazine

8. Social Icons Made of Wood – webtoolkit4.me

9. Web 2 Icons – Fast Icon

10. Free Vector Social Bookmark Icons

11. 13 free social bookmark icons for your blogs – Edward de Leau

12. IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark

13. Social Bookmark Iconset: Part II – Vikiwork Studio

14. Social Bookmark Icons – Fast Icon

15. Social Web Buttons – WebFruits Blog

16. Social Web Buttons – Set 2 – WebFruits Blog

17. Social Networking Icons – AODdesign

18. 6 Social Icons – Design Reviver

19. The Leaves Fall – Smashing Magazine

20. Aquaticus.Social – jwloh

21. 34 Social Bookmark Buttons – SoulVisual

22. webtoolkit4.me Icon Set

23. DelliCream Free Social Bookmark Icons

24. DelliCake Free Social Bookmark Icons

25. Social Bookmark Iconset

26. Cheers Social Bokkmark Icon Set – Smashing Magazine

27. Function Free Icon Set

28. Circle Social Bookmark Icons

29. Social Media Icons Pack

30. Handycons

Social media sites can mean big business for your, um, business. After all Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and those crafty blogs have all become a part of the daily machinations of the business world. So how do you keep track of all of your accounts while on the go? With an iPhone of course! Apple’s megapopular multitasking device has a boatload of social media-related applications you can download. Too many, actually. Hundreds upon hundreds. We took it upon ourselves to narrow it down to an essential 14 apps. These are the 14 “must have” applications to keep your business flying in the age of the social media. And as always, they are all available at the Apple Appstore.

Official Apps

These are official applications available for download from the bigwigs, the cream of the crop of the social media world. No funky upstarts needed here. These are all must haves.

Facebook – Free

The official Facebook app provides easy and simple access to your trusty Facebook acount. The grid interface makes browsing and posting extremely user-friendly.Push notifications let you know when you have new messages or other details. This is a great functional app for managing your primary Facebook account. Great for single-account holders.

Twitter – Free

Twitter functionaly on the iPhone used to be handled by a handy little app called “Tweetie 2.” Well, Twitter bought them out and now what used to be known as “Tweetie 2″ is simply known as “Twitter.” Easy and functional are the names of the game here. Login to your account and post away, or read those you follow. All on the go. This is what Twitter was made for.

LinkedIn – Free

This is the only app we use for LinkedIn. Check out new messages, import addresses from address books located on other devices, or just browse around. Anything you can do on the website you can do here. Manage your professional contacts with ease. Of paramount importance for you freelancers out there. Don’t want to miss any jobs, do you?

Multi-service & Multi-account Feed Management (Twitter and Others)

If you run a business, or even do something creative like play in a band, chances are you have more than one account on social networking sites. After all, one does not want to mix apples and oranges. Here are several applications that are perfect for managing many accounts on the go.

TweetList for Twitter – $1.99

A simple Twitter client that manages multiple twitter accounts. The interface is ultra-clean and the UI makes it the perfect app to manage the newest and best feature on Twitter’s roster, lists.

Seesmic – Free

This iPhone app is great for quickly navigating between several Facebook, Twitter and Ping.fm accounts. It features a minimal design that may be low on extras but is great for, you know, actually getting the job done. Quick and works like a charm every time. What more could you ask for?

Brizzly – Free

Brizzly is the hip, new social media kid on the block. It simplifies all of your social media accounts into one simple to read feed. Guess what? The iPhone version does the exact same thing. Perfect for those who hate to type in those pesky urls all of the time.

HootSuite for iPhone – $2.99

This iPhone app gives you easy-to-use access to all of your Twitter feeds at once. It really is the gold standard for this kind of thing. It’s clean, minimal and easy to use. You’ll be multitasking in no time, managing dozens of accounts and making Ashton Kutcher look like a rank amateur. Well, that last one you could probably do anyway. 

Handy Apps for Facebook

Facebook is a repository of contact information, media content and simple brainfarts. It’s number one for a reason, after all. Here are some applications for your iPhone that make getting the most of the site as easy as pie.

VideoUp for Facebook – $0.99

So you wanna upload video content to Facebook from your phone? Of course you do! Then get this app. It does exactly what it purports to do. Handy for you would be Spielbergs out there. Everyone knows he started on an iPhone camera. Time loop.

SmartSync for Facebook – $4.99

Sync all of your friend’s information to your address book, including their profile pictures. This makes it easy and, dare we say, fun to keep your ducks all in a row.

Facebook PixSter – $0.99

So you wanna upload pictures to your Facebook account? Of course you do! This is the app to get, then. It’s easy and that’s all it does. Why mess with a good thing?

Blog Management on the Go

What happens when that great idea strikes and you are nowhere near a computer? Do you risk it? Hope your brain will remember the perfect wordphrasing until eight or nine hours later, after you’ve had a few drinks and exhaustion has set in? No way! Get one of these iPhone apps and start posting on the go. Your readers, or customers, will thank you.

WordPress – Free

The official WordPress app gives you access to any WordPress blog that you have access to. This application allows you to then post something straight to the web. However, it’s been our experience, it is better suited for drafts. Darn these fumbly hot dog fingers!

TypePad – Free

The official TypePad app, if your blog is on the TypePad platform then this is the one for you. Similar to the WordPress app. Post right to the web or set up drafts for later posting. Easy and quick.

iBlogger – $9.99

Yowch. This app sure is expensive, isn’t it? However, if serious blogging is the name of your game, it might be worth it.  iBlogger gives you the capability to do just about anything with a blog post that you can do on a computer. The most comprehensive on-the-go blogging tool out there. Highly recommended. Come on, live a little. Then blog about it.

That’s it for now. As always, leave us some emails or comments with what apps you think should have been on this list. Stay on the go and keep the social media home-fires burning!

You want your Twitter page to look good, right? You want your precious lil Tweets to get a fair shake in the universe, and the best way to do that is with a clean and cool looking main page. Now, there are many tutorials out there to help you achieve Twitter Feng Shui. The one we’ve been using when we need to update our Twitter look is located right here. This tutorial offers so much useful advice it’s enough to make one’s head spin and then post about said head spinning in 140 characters or less. Check it out and get to redesigning!

Calling it “an offer we can’t refuse,” the founders of a photo-sharing service called Divvyshot announced Friday that they have been acquired by social network giant Facebook. Financial details and other minutiae were not discussed, but it was assumed that the design team would remain on board.

Divvyshot allows for group photo sharing: multiple users can edit albums, which are grouped around various events and places. As part of the acquisition, the service will be shutting down.

“Divvyshot will begin winding down operations as of today,” the announcement explained. “Existing users can continue to use Divvyshot; however no new accounts will be issued and our iPhone application will no longer be available for download.” In six weeks, Divvyshot.com will start redirecting to Facebook.

Private e-mail addresses that many Facebook users obviously wanted to keep hidden were revealed publicly last night on a multitude of Facebook profiles, Gawker reports. The glitch lasted about 30 minutes before Facebook went ahead and sealed the gap.

An anonymous tipster let Gawker know of the breach in a message riddled with expletives: “6:46PM: I cannot [bleeping] believe it. Everybody’s email has been turned on to the public for at least the past 30 min. I tried going into my account to remove my email b/c I have an issue with a crazed stalker. But I wasn’t able to. God I [bleeping] hate FB!! When will they ever learn?!”

Hopefully soon, FB, hopefully bleeping soon.

The Los Angeles Times has reported this week that contrary t o the point of origin for the website, most Tweets originate from overseas.

Semiocast, which recently analyzed 13.5 million tweets, found that 30% of messages on Twitter come from the U.S. The remaining 70% originate in countries around the world.

According to Semiocast, the number of tweets coming from the U.S. still outnumber any individual country. But as a whole, the U.S. is far behind the rest of the world and that trend will likely not change. Americans out there, get to Tweeting!

Hitwise, an internet research company, has announced that as of 13th of March 2010, Facebook achieved 7.07% of all internet traffic to their homepage, compared to Google’s 7.03%.

But what does it all mean exactly? How accurate are these stats? Do they take things like toolbars and phone usage into account? Social media in SEO is an ever increasing part of successful SEO campaigns, but really could such monetization kill Google?

One thing that must be remembered: This is Google search we are talking about here. Google has been expanding their empire for quite some time and these stats do not take into account Gmail, Analytics or any of the other services the company provides. In short, they are a behemoth.

However, let’s not forget Google’s recent flop of an entry into the  social networking world, Buzz.  Buzz was hit hard with initial privacy issues and is seen as a general flop in terms of its rivals Facebook and Twitter – although of course it is in it’s early days still.

Let’s keep an eye on this in coming months. The future is social, to be sure. But who will be pulling the strings?

Justin Bieber is some young singer your 12 year old daughter, or creepy friend, probably loves.  His identity is unimportant. What is important, however, is his manager was recently arrested because of an incident with…Twitter.

Scott “Scooter” Braun, manager for the tween heartthrob, was arrested on Long Island today on charges of reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance, reports AP.

Why was he arrested? Believe it or not, for NOT Tweeting.  In November, Braun, 28, took Bieber to a mall appearance  in Garden City, N.Y. The crowd of teenage girls became unruly, and police told Braun to announce on Twitter that the event was canceled. Prosecutors say he waited an hour and a half to drop the Tweet. Braun and his lawyers say he took only seven minutes.

Meanwhile, Justin tweeted earlier today:

You’ve got my total support @scooterbraun Wish you were here in Chicago with us #FreeScooter

What a world.

For a while there, the amount of Spam was getting a bit out of hand. How many times had you gotten follow requests only to find out they weren’t a real person, rather an ad for erectile dysfunction or pornography? Well, the folks at Twitter got on that and are now reporting their successes.

Twitter boasted that the number of daily junk tweets and blatant spam profiles have been reduced to almost one percent. In a blog posted Tuesday Twitter displayed a graph that spans from February 2009 to February 2010 showing the rise and fall of garbage tweets clogging the micro-blogging site.

“Posting harmful links to phishing or malware sites, repeatedly posting duplicate tweets, and aggressively following and un-following accounts to attract attention are just a few examples of spam on Twitter. Like it or not, as the system becomes more popular, more and more spammers will try to do their thing. We’re constantly battling against spam to improve the Twitter experience and we’re happy to report that it’s working,” Twitter wrote in its blog.

The graph, it should be noted, contains no actual numbers.