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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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WordFlood Article Software Review

By Lynette
Monday, December 6th, 2010
WordFlood

For many marketers, the thought of using software to re-write content is blasphemous and some get truly upset with anyone using an article software. I used to be on the edge of that camp. I’m saying on the edge because if there’s one thing I believe. That is sometimes, when we pre-judge the results, you could be missing out on huge things. When WordFlood was recommended to me, I was naturally skeptical and you should have a dose of skepticism. You see, I’ve tried an article software in the past and frankly it sucked. If you’ve followed me in those days you may have heard me say things like, “you can’t automate article writing“. I still believe that, but WordFlood has helped me see things in the right perspective. What made me adjust my thinking on this article software? It’s simple. WordFlood is not a content spinner or article re-writer. It may be marketed or categorized as one but in my eyes it’s not because it is not automated. It relies on user input. Here’s how it works. You load an article into the software. WordFlood will then analyze the content and provide alternatives for highlighted words. You can see

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3 Tools For Working With WordPress Offline

By Lynette
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Offline

When you are developing a WordPress powered site, sometimes it is just not practical to put your designs online. The reasons could be: You don’t want people snooping You don’t want to mess with password protection and extra steps that may slow down your development process You are on limited bandwidth. Could be your ISP limits your transfer or you are running out of transfer for your web hosting account – remember every time you save you use up some transfer. You want to be mobile You want to get offline to focus on your work <- my favorite reason Whatever your motivations are, the good news is you can very easily develop a site entirely offline before you put it online and make it live. We have been teaching students at Blog Theme Bootcamp how to do that for a long time. We call it the Sandbox. It isn’t all difficult you just need to set up your workspace and because PHP runs on a web server with PHP installed you will need to install a web server onto your computer. Yes, it can be done and don’t be intimidated by the sound of it. Also, just because you

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Delavo: Free Shopping Cart Software Review

By Lynette
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Delavo, a free shopping cart software

For many years, we have used a special self-hosted shopping cart for our company. This cart is what you currently know as Delavo. While the name is new, the software itself is not. Delavo has gone through quite a few years of re-branding and upgrades, beginning as JV Manager, Fantasos and now Delavo. We have been using the cart since JV Manager 1 days and can say from a user and ‘insider’ point, this is far from just a re-branding and re-naming exercise and I’ll talk a little more about that shortly. For now, let’s look at what you get for your money. Pricing Here’s the good news. Delavo is free. I purchased it for a couple hundred and others paid over a thousand for it before. But now you can now get it at the super affordable price of $0. The Catch I haven’t seen one, but I suppose it’s what you consider a catch. If you want to add plugins, they come at a price. You may be thinking now, well there’s the catch. Give you crippled software so you will upgrade. Not true. Delavo is marketed as a Freemium shopping cart solution. The free version is fully

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What To Use To Broadcast Text Messages

By Lynette
Monday, August 9th, 2010
SMS

Many establishments these days are concerned about the safety of people who visit their premises. Office buildings, schools, colleges are a few that come to mind. There’s been a lot of news of schools using text message systems to alert their students. Text is not only a popular tool for young people but it is increasingly popular as across the board. If you manage or have clients who manage such property, and are looking for such a tool, here’s a list of what I’ve found that will work. PhoneFollowup. While this is not originally created to do emergency alerts, it can definitely function as such. There is a monthly fee involved. There is also a voice option. Ez Texting. Pay as you go or monthly plans available starting at $10/month for 200 emergency alerts. Group2Call. Has both voice and text broadcast. Pay per message at 6¢ a message of subscription plans starting at $15 a month Boomtext. Pricing unclear. Call-em-all. Can do voice and text. Pay as you go starting at 9¢ a credit or subscription plans for $7.50 a month Photo by Florin Ungureanu

How To Get A Free Copy of Upcoming “Rockstar Business” Book

By Lynette
Friday, July 30th, 2010
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So news has reached me that Adii Pienarr, the co-founder of the wildly popular Woo Themes is writing a book called “Rockstar Business”. The book will be coming off the press in September. But you can secure your copy without even hitting the book store – virtual or offline – and for $0. Here’s how. Pienarr has partnered with the guys at Wishlist Member where anyone who buys the Wishlist Member plugin between now and August 27th, 2010, will get a free copy of the book. It’s that easy. Now, I have not said a whole lot about Wishlist here on my blog but I can assure you, I do use it. That is what we run TechBasedTraining with and it is super easy to use. Talking about TechBasedTraining, we also have a training course on quickly setting Wishlist – it comes with a complete kit to help getting the site up and running like snapping your fingers. But that’s another story for another time . Right now, if you have been kicking the tires, thinking about getting Wishlist Member, this is as good a time as any. I do not know much about the book or vouch for it.

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