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How To Sell A $3,200 Product Using Free YouTube Videos

December 3, 2007

If you’ve ever wondered about the power of influence that videos – even free ones – can have in selling commercial products, look no further. Recently, I was on the receiving end of this power, as I shelled out about $3,200 to buy a Yamaha Motif Keyboard – thanks(!) to two powerful videos on YouTube. [...]

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Download of the day: Snag-It – Free, Full-featured License

November 26, 2007

Camtasia is giving away a slightly older version of their famous screen-capture software, Snag-it, that lets you go beyond the “Prnt Scrn” button. Here’s where you can download it. A Print-Screen Tip If you press the “Alt” + “Prt Scrn” buttons together, you will capture only the front-most (active) window – which means you no [...]

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7 Steps To Remarkable Customer Service

October 8, 2007

Going by the PageRank (PR 6), you can guess how many sites are linking to this post on JoelOnSoftware. The content is that powerful. Here’s the summary: 1. Fix everything two ways 2. Suggest blowing out the dust 3. Make customers into fans 4. Take the blame 5. Memorize awkward phrases 6. Practice puppetry 7. [...]

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Podcasting With WordPress

August 26, 2007

The whole idea of podcasting is not to be just able to publish your audio files online, but to make your audio posts “subscribable” – i.e., your listeners should be able to set up their podcasting software (like iTunes) to subscribe to your feed, in which case the software (in this example, iTunes) will automatically [...]

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You, Me and Mona Lisa

August 7, 2007

Creating an e-business… Learning a new skill… Being the best at what you do… Building something worth building… Creating something worth creating… Saying something worth saying… Doing something worth doing… All of these take plenty of time – and effort. It is very easy to just look at the end-result of other people’s successes, ogle [...]

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How Much Money Can You Make From Your Blog?

August 6, 2007

Maybe quite a lot, and mostly not a lot. “Huh?”, you say? If you look at this “top bloggers” list, you may end up buying into the fantasy that blogging will make you big bucks. Not every blog will make that kind of money. Actually, it would even be fair say, that less than a [...]

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How To Use Blog-And-Bookmark To Send Your Traffic Through The Roof

July 11, 2007

You know what is Blog-And-Ping. Blog-And-Bookmark is quite similar. You first blog about something (hopefully) interesting, then once your blog’s ping service has done its work on the back-end pinging all of the various web sites and your post is live, then you go to work as follows. Use a one-to-many social bookmarking tool like [...]

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How To Get Back 43 Days Of Your Life (Hint: Grocery List)

June 13, 2007

I save about 1/2 hour every week on grocery shopping thanks to this list. That’s 26 hours a year. Assuming I would have done this for at least 40 years of my life by the time I’m dead, that means 1040 hours saved (26 * 40). 1040 Hours = 43.33 Days Yes, I get (at [...]

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Bad Words To Blacklist In Your Blog’s Comments

March 27, 2007

I was getting about 500+ spam-comments a day. I’m now down to about 20. Based on my personal experience with spam, I have created a list of “bad words”, which, when used as a blacklist, will make most of your spam go away. If you’re using WordPress, copy the list below and paste it into [...]

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How To Start Your Own Video Channel On YouTube

March 19, 2007

Backdrop and Shower curtain from Wal-Mart: $18 Tripod from Sears: $30 Expensive, Wireless Headphone (with “compander circuitry”) that sounds like crap: $100 Cheap-looking, Wired Headphone that just works: $20 Pink-shade Table Lamp: $10 100W bulb (that you need to keep switching off between takes because the lamp-shade says it can handle only 40W): $2 CyberLink [...]

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How to Setup a FTP Client: A Video Tutorial

December 27, 2006

FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol”. It is what you use to “transfer” (or upload) files from your computer to your web site – and vice-versa. To make it easy for you to learn how to use FTP software, I have created a video tutorial, available at this link. It is about 2+ MB in [...]

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