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2012 Predictions – Forecast Your Future With a Purpose

In 2012 Forecast Your Future With a Purpose Ask almost any online marketer what they wish they could change about their journey and it would probably be something along the lines of better planning. When you’re first starting out, it’s hard to consider your future. After all, you’re not even sure if you HAVE a [...]

9Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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2012 Predictions – Be Long on Value and Short on Greed

In 2012,  Be Long on Value and Short on Greed You’re desperate for money. You’ll do anything to make $1,087 by next Monday to get your mortgage paid.   We all understand that.   But keep your ethics intact and realize that short of offering services to other successful marketers, you’re not going to become successful by [...]

27Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Text Messaging and Social Media Marketing

Reach people where they are – on their mobile device! Your customers read their text messages. They use social media to find out what their friends are recommending. Are you using text messaging and social media marketing as part of your outreach to existing and new customers? If you want to learn more about how [...]

30Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Using Your iPad for Business Productivity

Over three million iPad owners already know the truth – that the iPad can be an invaluable tool for personal, school and business use. Yep – they are sexy and hip.  But the beauty of the iPad isn’t only it’s entertainment value. It’s a “magical’ device that was designed for content consumption. The only place [...]

6Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Facebook iFrame and FBML Changes March 10th

If you are using a Facebook Page to market your business, then please pay attention to this email because Facebook is making changes that directly affect you. As of March 10th, Facebook is doing away with their “FBML” application. This is the application that allows us marketers to create “custom tabs” or “landing pages” on [...]

3Mar2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Instant sales letter pages – No copywriting required

A common misconception of most authors or writers  is that they assume that great copy can be written by anyone.  Wrong! There is an art to copy writing and generally needs to be written by professional writers. While this is a good measure to take, pro copywriters can be VERY expensive. See, the secret is [...]

26Feb2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Backup Facebook to the Cloud

While social media like Facebook and Twitter are ‘free’, you have invested time in acquiring your friends, fans and followers. Back in December I wrote about how you can backup your Facebook profile; and, said at that time I was testing a third party program called Backupify. http://www.backupify.com/ Backupify is an amazing service which caters [...]

2Feb2011 | | 2 comments | Continued
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“Writing Your Book” – Happy New Year!

“We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ~Edith Pierce Wishing you all the Very Best Success in the New Year… ~Susan

1Jan2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Social Media Predictions for web ranking in 2011

As we head into 2011 Social Media becomes more important than ever. Facebook becomes one of the most powerful forms to advertise on and build a community with.  Even recently it was announced by Matt Cutts – a software engineer with Google – says that Social Media sites will even help effect website rankings.  See [...]

22Dec2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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New Facebook Profile has arrived

I’m not sure how I like it, and I haven’t changed my profile yet – but if you want a preview of the changes before making a decision, take a look here Preview New Facebook Profile If you are logged in to Facebook when you view the above link (not required to watch the video [...]

9Dec2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Time to Backup your Facebook Profile and Pages

Lately, I’ve had clients contact to me say that their Facebook Pages have disappeared – and it’s seems that learning how to backup our important social media accounts is a priority.  We’ve all invested time in building our profiles and pages – and think about it – there’s a lot of data we’ve accumulated:  photos, [...]

4Dec2010 | | 6 comments | Continued
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Live “Group” Chat – Facebook takes a run at Yahoo Groups and more

I read an article on Wired about a month ago, and thought that adding live chat to Facebook was very interesting. However, this morning, when I opened my Inbox to literally hundreds of emails that at first were notifying me I had been added to a live chat group then followed by people’s comments who [...]

2Nov2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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GoDaddy Hacked Again – Change your FTP password

If you follow my blog, you know that I do not recommend GoDaddy hosting. However, I know that many people have blogs using that company. I just got a phone call from a colleague to let me know that GoDaddy did get hacked again this morning and asked that I let everyone know. They’re cleaning [...]

21Sep2010 | | 1 comment | Continued
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YouTube Marketing – Smashingly successful yet still misunderstood

Reading a recent article on Mediapost, I found myself silently cheering because I loved what I was reading; and, know that what I was reading is truth. Yet, if you read the one comment, the person who commented, did not understand what the article was saying.  And that is the truth as well. Marketing has [...]

24Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Select a Good Hosting Company – not all hosts are created equal

If you are considering the development of a professional web site then don’t underestimate the importance of a good web hosting service.  Not all hosting companies are created equal! First of all, do not ever – in any case – choose a free hosting account provided by your ISP, etc.   Some main reasons are: -Generally [...]

10Aug2010 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Elizabeth Gilbert discusses creativity and the ‘genius’ factor

Staying both inspired and continuing to believe in yourself are two ongoing skills that all authors, entrepreneurs and creative people need to embrace in order to overcome self-doubt – especially when the going gets rough (which we all experience at one time or another). I wrote “The Land of I Can” to assist with that [...]

7Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Amazon and Facebook Unite!

“Why do I have to list my book on Amazon?” is a common question when I am working with an author and their website development. Amazon is the Good Housekeeping seal of a approval and lends credibility. While many authors try to bypass Amazon for their books because of the huge percentage they give up [...]

28Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Will Smith embraces the message of “I Can”

Take 10 minutes right now and watch Will’s insights on the power of believing, the power of “I Can”, the power of focus and how he moves past fears. I particularly loved his approach of building a wall one brick at a time. Confucius said: “He who says he can and he who says he [...]

23Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Which do you prefer: e-books or print books?

Even though I believe in all things ‘online’ and own a Kindle, ebooks will never replace the printed book for me.  I have a treasured library of antique books along with current hardcover favorites.  There’s something so tangible about a ‘book’ in your hand from the smell of the ink to the tactile experience of [...]

20Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Spread Your Influence with Fast Company!

Fast Company has joined the social media bandwagon with “The Influence Project”.  Why?  Because social media platforms work! Now Fast Company magazine wants to include your photo in the November 2010 issue, as part of a neat project it calls the “2010 Most Influential People.”  This is a terrific chance to generate publicity from a [...]

7Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Focus on your strengths and look what can happen!

A client sent me this video because he knows I’m an animal lover. However, this wonderful dog and his human parents demonstrate: Acceptance Love Focus on your strengths Take a couple of minutes to watch a video that so perfectly shows what is possible when theses principles are applied to anyone’s life!

18Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Ongoing Facebook Changes

Some of you may have found your pages on Facebook all disfigured this morning. The images on the pages got resized to 399px in width.   An associate of mine  found information in the forums that apparently Facebook went through and cached the pages and somewhere there must have been a glitch in their caching and [...]

27May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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50 Powerful Social Media Tactics for YouTube

Here are the first ten, and there is a pdf  report available at the end of this post where you can read all 50: 1. Make the videos viral, and spread them to as many websites as possible. 2. Use other social media sites like Twitter and Digg to post your videos. 3. Create well [...]

26May2010 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Move over Google – You’ve been bested by WolframAlpha

This web site that contains amazing knowledge data base – so much so it’s made Google obsolete! Take the 13 minutes to watch the video – lots of cool things you can do with this site whether it be for science, finance, medicine, etc. http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html This is an amazing free website! It instantly calculates so [...]

5May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Future of Publishing – Your Point of View

It’s often the perspective given that makes a difference – not the situation itself. As on Online Marketer since the late 90′s, I’ve seen many changes in publishing both online and offline.  Ebooks have been around in Internet Marketing for years.  Now the traditional book market enters in the ebook format and new devices like [...]

28Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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