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Looking For Easy Social Media Buttons

By Lynette
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Social media sharing tools

Want a bunch of those snazzy social media sharing buttons for your site? Great! You’ll be happy to know it is super easy to put them up too. If you’re using WordPress all you need to do is install a plugin and tell it to automatically append to your posts or pages. There are tons of plugins that do this. Here are a handful of popular ones that you might want to check out. SexyBookmarks Sociable AddThis If you’re not on WordPress you can try AddThis. There are a lot of other sites that do similar to what AddThis does but I like their buttons. They are highly customizable if you are the type you likes to dive into code easy copy/paste if not and you get stats if you sign up for an account. If you’d prefer something that uses your own short links. I recommend Pretty Link Pro. It does more than just add share buttons. Visit their site for a full list of features.

10 Productivity Tools, Utilities And Shortcuts

By Lynette
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Boomerang for Gmail

My husband often tells me I’ve got my computer set up in such a way I literally whiz through a task – leaving him in a fog. It is strange how you never quite see it that way when you’re in the middle of things but he’s right. Over the years, there are certain productivity tools and utilities I install immediately upon receiving a new computer. I do this even before I get my data transferred over. It is that important to me because if I do not have access to those tools, I know I wouldn’t be productive with the data/files. He’s often asked me to share a list of items I have so he can set his computer up that way too. And I so here it is. These tools allow me to jump from one spot to another, help keep my sanity, spend less time looking for stuff and overall – shave time off here and there. Ditto – this is a clipboard utility. It can save up to 500 of your last copied items. How this helps: When you’re writing emails, working on affiliate stuff, designing sites, or coding the last thing you want to do

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Quickly Send Files To Dropbox Without An Account

By Lynette
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Send file(s)

Many service providers (including our team) rely on Dropbox to share files within the team and also clients. The not so fun part is when you have a client who does not have an account. Then, the sharing becomes one way (you to them) instead of both ways. That is a pain because the key things are: You want clients to use your tools so you don’t have to re-learn things You want to make it super easy for them to upload files to you There are options. Perhaps one of my new favorites is via FileStork. The concept is uber simple as you will see from this step-by-step overview. Get started by authorizing FileStork to access your Dropbox account and send an email request. You can have a title and even description – great place to remind the client what files and information you need (no screen shot). Client receives email notification Client clicks the link and sees a simple Select Files dialog to upload the files you need When they are done, they simply hit Send Client is notified of the sending process Confirmation screen files are successfully uploaded You receive an email notification And the files requested

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XRefresh Automatically Refreshes While You Code

By Lynette
Friday, April 8th, 2011
XRefresh graphical representation

We absolutely love writing plugins, hacking scripts, building themes and more. On the other hand, I’d be lying if I said some parts of it isn’t a little cumbersome. One of them is having to constantly refresh a page when you’re working on it. It isn’t that is it so difficult. People have asked me questions like, “How difficult can hitting F5 be?” or “Hitting F5 doesn’t take more than a second” Yes. I agree to both statements. However it is troublesome because you often have to switch windows to hit that F5 refresh button. When you’re in your editor, hitting F5 can (sometimes) lead to disastrous results. So there’s actually two things I have to do. Activate the browser window and then hit F5. If you’re doing small tweaks trying to get things *just right*, this can be repeated many times in a short frame of time. Then, I discovered XRefresh. It is a software that sits on your computer and every time I save my file with the edits, xRefresh will also refresh my browser. Since finding it, I’m hopelessly hooked. This is one of those things that you don’t really mind doing manually but when you have

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Want To Secure Your Amazon S3 Downloads?

By Lynette
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Amazon s3 expiring URL generator

Amazon S3 is a great way to store and distribute files. In particular large media files that could suck your web hosting bandwidth quickly if you uploaded to your own web site. And S3 is very, very affordable. A question that comes up regularly is when people start storing files exclusively for members on Amazon S3. You see, in order for others to download a file you uploaded to Amazon S3, you have to make the file accessible to everyone. And everyone means – everyone on the Internet. In a membership site setting, that may not be what you want. The good part is, Amazon S3 already has a way to allow authenticated downloads. I won’t get too technical here but it basically involves making sure the URL people are clicking through from includes a special ‘key’. This takes a little bit of coding but if you are using WordPress, there’s a wonderful little (and free) plugin that does the job beautifully. It is the Amazon S3 Expiring URL Generator. Using the, you can set a certain time the URL’s will be ‘active’ and it will expire after that. Keep in mind this has nothing to do with membership expiry

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Website Promotion Tools

By Vanessa
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
website-tools

There are many free website promotion tools available to help you promote your web pages and they all basically fall into certain specific categories. This is a list of examples, but not meant to be in any way exhaustive or absolutely complete. As you grow in your expertise with website promotion, you are likely to find many more of these at your disposal. This is a list to help get you started, Search Engine Optimization Tools SEO toolkits may include other optional tools. In general these will ask you to give the address information of your website URL. Using it will allow you access to in-depth data concerning your web pages. You can use this to rework the information on your pages, and in your html, to raise your position and rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines on the World Wide Web. Keyword Suggestion Tools These tools utilize single keywords in order to help generate the best possible options for optimization of individual websites with the search engines. There are many versions of these, most ask you only to enter a keyword in the tool and various suggestions will be given. This is the most basic kind

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Create A Product With Evernote: A Practicle Guide

By Lynette
Friday, February 25th, 2011

Here’s more Evernote goodness for you. This time, a video guide. It outlines how you can use Evernote in a practical manner – developing an info product. The video is about 10 minutes long. The video also mentions a list of notes you can add to your product creation notebook. You can download this list here. But don’t just grab the list. It will make more sense after viewing the video.

Marketing Automation Success Requires More Than Just Software

By Lauren Carlson
Friday, February 11th, 2011

Sirius Decisions reported a staggering statistic: only 25 percent of marketing automation software users are getting the full value from their system. Marketing automation is a rapidly growing segment of the enterprise software market, but clearly something is missing. Software is an excellent way to automate and streamline processes in the front office, but you can’t just install it and leave it. Software requires a strategy for success. As part of their Executive Interview Series, the folks over at Marketing Automation Software Guide spoke with executives from the Annuitas Group and Manticore Technology about the marketing automation industry. In the Annuitas Group video, CEO Carlos Hidalgo discusses best practices for implementing a marketing automation strategy. Christopher Doran, VP of Marketing at Manticore Technology, talks about the importance of the vendor/client relationship. Each thought leader provides keen insight on how to achieve the greatest value from implementing a marketing automation system. You can view the videos below: Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group Christopher Doran, Vice President of Marketing, Manticore Technology

Nice Time Saving WordPress Photo Plugin

By Lynette
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Photo by kennymatic

Once in a while, along comes a really cool plugin that I find myself getting hooked on. One of the most recent ones is Grab & Save. It’s so simple it’s brilliant (by the way, have you noticed how brilliant stuff are usually simple? But that’s for another post). Using Grab & Save, instead of downloading an image to  your computer, edit it and then upload it to WordPress, you simply tell it where the URL of the photo is. It will grab a copy of that image, save it to your own web server and you can manipulate, edit and add it to your post in the usual way. Now, remember we said simple? I’ve been doing that download/edit/upload song and dance for so long I didn’t think it was that bad. But after trying out Grab & Save, I would be rather insane to do that again. Not only does it make things easy but oh my does it cut down the steps and saves so many minutes/seconds in between and you know I love automation. By using this plugin, you: No longer have to download an image to your computer (saving some bandwidth for those of us

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Business Card Scanner Apps – Nice!

By Lynette
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
CamCard business card scanner

At any seminar or conference you’ll be bound to collect a ton of business cards. But once you come home, they get set aside or even *gasp* filed in the round file. In the past, we’ve scanned them in using CardScanner. A handy little thing that. Loved it. But I promptly uninstalled the software too because – well it was just too large a software for me to keep on my computer plus, I don’t get cards too much. But now with smart phones, everything changes. I came across CamCard (Business Card Reader) for Android by accident one day, installed and it quickly impressed me. It is so nice to be able to capture the contact information immediately and better yet have it ready on the phone where you’d need it most. You know what I like better than anything? Because my phone is in sync with my Google Apps email (and Gmail), those contacts are at my finger tips when I need them sitting at my desktop. This type of automation rocks. It was a pity I didn’t find this sooner because at the last event I was at, some people were running out of their cards. I could

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