Daily Polaroids Detail Last 18 Years of NYC Man's Life

Whether it was as ordinary as a window, or as big as his wedding day, Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid photo to document his life every day for 18 years.

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World Food Prices Will Remain High, Report Says

The recent steep jump in global food prices should ease in the near term, according to a new report, but prices over the next decade are likely to remain high, spurred by the rising cost of oil, the declining dollar and increasing demand for biofuels

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Zara's sub4sub The Mutual Exchange (subs4subs) show

Welcome To Zara's sub4sub The Mutual Exchange (subs4subs) show - if you are interested in social networking, love websites like facebook, digg, pownce, twitter, youtube etc.

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How to earn 40k a week in your undies...only joking...I think ?:O

$90,000 A Month From A Free Ebook?

A brief history of name squeezes, opt ins, ebook incentives
and other intriguing stuff related to how much you bank this
week.

The secret story behind $90,000 a month from a free ebook

By Marlon Sanders

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When you're just starting your online business, here is the
one key to your success:

With all the high tech and marketing wizardry on the Internet,
the basics have been, are and always will be -- basic!

Step one:  Get people onto your list using a FREE or highly
attractive offer.

Step two:  Get 'em to make purchase #1 from you.

Step three:  Get 'em to make purchase #2.

Step four:  Go for big ticket sales or recurring monthly
billing.  You could move this step up to three or even two
in some cases.

In the field of Internet marketing , step one has just
gotten pummeled over time in terms of what it takes to do it.

Here are the stages opt-ins have gone through:

Stage one:  The free report or newsletter

Originally, you could offer a free report or newsletter and
get people to join to your email list.

Jonathan Mizel coined and TRADEMARKED the term Name Squeeze.
He was smarter than me. I've originated and innovated many
things in this business but never had the smarts to trademark
them.

Then, later on, people deny what you did.  If you trademark,
you got the PROOF.  Mizel? He's a smart man.

Oh, other people CLAIM they invented the Squeeze Page. Ask
them whose coaching club they were IN.  And WHO owns the
stupid trademark.

Yeah, ask them that. Watch them dance.

Stage two: The ebook

Later, Terry Dean popularized the free ebook in exchange for
the opt in.  The problem became that everyone started offering
low quality, crappy private label rights ebooks for the opt in.
(Not that all plr ebooks are low quality.)

So people stopped opting in for those because they figured the
value was equal to the information -- worth less than nothing.

Some people went to offering a BUNCH of plr. OK.  If one piece
of crap doesn't get your attention, I'll throw in a whole bunch
of it.

Again, I don't want to be overly critical of reprint rights or
plr.  I'm just explaining the history and psychology of what
has gone done.

Stage three:  The seven day ecourse

About the same time, Ken Evoy of Site Sell fame started the
whole 7-day ecourse craze.  That became watered down into
7-day pitches and low quality information.  Plus, the delayed
nature of the gratification didn't make it the ideal system
from the outset.

All of these incentives for opt ins were initially effective
but lost their punch as everyone and their dog jumped on the
band wagon.

Thus, Marlon's rule of the band wagon:

When everyone else jumps ON the band wagon, the results will
diminish.  That doesn't mean jumping on the band wagon is
always bad.  For example, some would call video on the Internet
a band wagon.

That's more like a here-to-stay thing. Not a band wagon.  Kinda
like TV vs. radio.  You couldn't really call TV a "bandwagon"
although in the early days I'm sure some did.

Anyway, usually, when everyone starts doing something, the
effectiveness goes down.  Often, way down.

Kinda like sales letters.

When you see so many, the bar is raised as to what it takes to
create a sales letter that works. You can't use the same formula
I used years ago. You have to adapt and improve.

Everyone says you can be lazy in niches. And it's sort of true.
But you know what?  I often see the BEST sales letters and
marketing being done in niches. I can't explain why. But that's
what I observe.

Stage four:  The 50-page report

Rich Schefren wisely came out with a free report that was 50 or
so pages for his first launch.  I don't know if he was the first
person to do a lead generator like this.

But his certainly hit big. He repeated his formula with "The
Attention Doctrine" manuscript. I think Rich has added in Stomper-
type videos to his mix.

Scott Boulch pioneered his List Virus software and method where you
pay affiliates .50 to $1.00 per download of the free report.  This
is typically in the context of a big product launch.

Stage five:  The case study videos

Stompernet innovated by putting out extensive in-depth case study
videos to get opt ins. Some of them are an hour long. I think they
may have added in videos.

You will notice things went from simple free reports to sequences
of very elaborate videos and PDF's.  If you're competing in the
Internet marketing niche, and doing big product launches, this is
what it takes.

In most other niches, you can be 10X lazier. Although like I say,
sometimes the sophistication of what people do in niches is far
beyond what you might expect.

So where does that leave YOU?

How do you get people on YOUR list so you can move on with the
equation?

1.  Test and try different things.

What's old can be new again.  I know of one marketer just killing
it with a free ebook offer. Others have gone to offering free
video downloads. Others have gone to a free members site
structure.

2.  Whatever you use as your opt-in incentive, you have to sell
your offer.

Don't assume people will want it because it's free.

There is no shortage of free information on the Internet today.
So sell your offer.

3. Watch your opt ins live!

This is a great idea I picked up today from Jason "video guru"
Moffatt.  He keeps his aweber open live and watches opt ins as they
come in.  That's just to keep opt ins on his mind.

I love that idea.

What you pay attention to grows.
 
What you don't, withers.

So now back to my grabber.  I love that term.  I guess Gary Halbert
started it way back when by calling the dollar bill at the top of a
direct mail letter a "grabber."  More recently, terminology was
picked up in an outstanding book called Neuromarketing by Renvoise
& Morin.

My grabber to get you to read this article was the $90,000 a month
from an ebook.

So I have a new friend/consultant. I paid him for an hour of his
time 'cause he's an Adwords guru and "old school" marketer, which I
respect.

Anway, he's killing it on Adwords with a front-end opt-in incentive
of a free ebook.  Yeah, that's it.

A free ebook.

Terry Dean would smile and feel vindicated.  Personally, I was
shocked.

So what's his secret formula?

Step one:  Offer incentive -- free ebook
 
Step two:  Get email address
 
Step three:  Send emails
 
Step four:  Ask for money

How's that for back to the basics?

The one thing he does is builds a little more credibility for his
free ebook vs. what you normally see. Frankly, the campaign in terms
of execution is underwhelming.

The graphics are kinda ugly.  The content is nothing revolutionary.
There isn't a real USP that screams at you.

It's just the basics very well executed.

But WHAT you offer doesn't matter.

Could be videos.  Could be a printed book. Matt Bacak is using the
free CD.  Could be a free membership. Could be about ANYTHING that
lights a fire under your customers and gets their tail end off the
sofa, as I think John Carlton would say in a little more spicy
language.

So my new friend gets 22% to 30% opt ins on the front end. I'm not
really sure the exact numbers.  He changes the story a bit from
time-to-time.

Doesn't really matter.  And he's in a niche vs. competing in the
fast-paced life of intensely competitive, superstar Internet
marketing "guru" launches.

My numbers right now are around 15% at my current name squeeze:
http://www.pushbuttonletter.com

That's the page I'm using as my opt in from a Google Adwords
campaign.

I'm still an Adwords hack to tell the truth. But I'm learning slowly
but surely.

I've never been super fast out of the gate.  I'm more of a keep at
it and keep learning type.

Do you know what your numbers are on your opt-in page?  Or if you
have a sales letter with an opt in somewhere within the page, do you
know your numbers?

Do you track them?

Have you tried a different incentive lately?

My new objective is 25% opt ins.  If you get 1000 clicks from Google
organic or paid search and you get 250 opt ins, then convert a decent
amount of those into customers (2% to 10%), you have something you
can make bank with.

It's all numbers.

My friend spends $1.00 a click.  25% opt in.  So out of 1,000 clicks
that's $1,000 spent and 250 opt ins.  10% buy at around $40.00.
That is $1,000.  So basically he breaks even on the front end or
first sale and makes money on the back end or follow up sales.

That's pretty much the formula that makes any business successful.

Now, most people only get 5% to 15% opt-ins from Adwords from what I
hear. Like I said, to date my best is 15%.  And converting 10% of
opt-ins is a challenge.  2% to 5% would probably be average,
although I haven't looked at the numbers lately.

Conversions depend on the offer -- what is the price and what do you
get for your money?

You test and try different things.

Oh, I'm NOT telling you WHO my friend is or what his business is.

Why?  'Cause I don't want people copying my friends ads and trying
to destroy his business.

The point of this article is: If you aren't getting enough people
into your marketing funnel, increase the attractiveness of your
incentive.

If you compete in the arena of Internet, using flanking and
guerrilla moves to avoid the need for Stomper style content videos
to generate leads.

If you're unfamiliar with flanking and guerrilla moves, you really
need to get my Red Factor training. I can't even remember if it's
still available or not. I think we took the offer off the market.

Oh well. You snooze, you lose.

I hope this article has given you insight. To reiterate, there's
a simple formula that works online. It IS the basis of what I first
wrote about years ago in "The Amazing Formula." And it still works
today and will always work.

Step one:  Generate a lead by offering a very attractive low cost
or free offer

Step two:  Follow up
 
Step three:  Ask for money
 
Step four:  Build customer relationships and provide good service
 
Step four: Ask for money again and again

Step five: Treat your customers well. They are the goose that lays
the golden egg

Step six: Smell the roses.  None of us are here long enough.

Marlon

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Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Info Product Dashboard."
If you want to create your own info products, go to:
http://www.productdashboard.com

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Healthylemons News Show #7 31 May 08

Healthylemons News Show #7 31 May 08

windows 7, blackberry,wordpress,blogote,hellotxt,sub4sub,ustream

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Windows 7 video shows off multi-touch interface

Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 12:07pm.As expected Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates demonstrated Windows 7 Tuesday night at the annual D Conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal.

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Free BlackBerry downloads: 5 open-source mobile apps - Netwo

Blackberry 8320 T-Mobile Vodafone Orange O2 3 BT Mobile Virgin Mobile

Contrary to popular belief, when it comes to software, open source does not always mean "free." Not always...but in this case, it does.

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15 Premium Money making wordpress free themes

Stuck in choosing a theme for your wordpress blog ?? Here is a list of 15 amazing Money making themes for your blog. And the best part is they are all free :)

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UK's Yokels Into Social Networks, Online Shopping

By Doug Caverly - Thu, 05/22/2008 - 5:03pm.Put city dwellers to shameLook for the CEOs of online retailers and social networks to start acting kindly towards the UK's rustic types; new Hitwise data indicates that people living in rural areas tend to out-participate city folk in these two categories.Zara's note; ARRR! get off my land - a farmer knows the value of his/her domain I'm sure!

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GaydarRadio.com top UK commercial online radio station

GaydarRadio was the most visited UK commercial online radio station for the four weeks ending May 17 2008, according to new data released from Hitwise.

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How ‘imprinting’ can boost your marketing

By Bryan Urbick, CEO & President of Consumer Knowledge Centre Out the corner of your eye you see someone pounding on a ketchup bottle and it’s likely that the familiar Heinz shape, or simply the Heinz brand, springs to mind.Zara's Note: - 'Imprinting' sounds similar to the point I was trying to get across about viral advertsing - this article explains the thing about emotional triggers that 'stick in the brain' better than I can explain it!

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Next phase of working at home: Leaving home

ROSWELL, Georgia (CNN) -- More than a decade after the Internet allowed millions of people to work at home, the next phase of telecommuting involves, well, not working at home.

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Chemists Create Cancer-detecting Nanoparticles

Scientists have found that magnetic nanoparticles can be especially helpful in locating cancerous cell clusters during MRI scans. Like teeny guide missiles, the nanoparticles seek out tumor cells and attach themselves to them.

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Fish fossil proves animals had 'fun sex' 380 mil. years ago

Sex for pleasure is a lot older than we thought, according to a stunning new fossil find announced by scientists yesterday.A fossil of an ancient, extinct Australian fish which died just before giving birth to a live baby is, according to the scientist who made the discovery, 'the earliest evidence of vertebrates having sex by copulation – not ju

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Shoot The Boss

This is a website about animation, advertising and so on.... We do everything that deals with 3D animation. It would be so nice of you if you could check out our creations and tell us what you think of it. We need your comments and your thoughts to evaluate our possibility to move up and how to move up. Thank a lot and have a good end of week.

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The International Dirty Word Database

A database project is created that automatically generates a six-character identifier beginning with "AAAAAA," then "AAAAAB," etc. Oh no! One day it will be, by chance, generating dirty words and embarrassing the client. So the programmers are tasked with building a dirty-word database of forbidden words -- multilingual no less.

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Tornado warnings: Can there be too much of a good thing?

An F5 tornado is coming: How could 60 seconds advance warning be better than 20 minutes? That's what a pair of Texas researchers have suggested. And even the CTO of Weatherbug, whose company makes a living from its severe-weather warning network, agrees that it's possible in some cases.

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Hellotxt - aggregate of microblogging services

HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way.Zara's note: I've added the facebook app version - thy are upgrading their servers at the moment - but looks like it is a very compatible tool for microbloggers and covers facebook updates, pownce,twitter and loads of other all at same time - many via one interface is the key to a tool being useful - is looks like it' worth the time registering as it covers services i've not used - but other might - the more places you can reach the more niches you cover with the same amount of effort as one.

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Security Alert - Flash Vulnerability

A warning came on the Blizzard World of Warcraft official forums today. Everyone should take actions and upgrade their browser Flash Player.

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Healthylemons News Show #6 29 May 08

Healthylemons News Show #6 29 May 08

visit my blog for details and links to articles featured in todays headlines which include:http://www.yahoo.comhttp://www.digg.comhttp://www.youtube.comhttp://www.vodafone.comhttp://www.guardian.comhttp://www.networkworld.comhttp://www.washingtonpost.comhttp://www.keatons-world.com

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This Is Sparta Techno Remix

Viral video - a classic example - check out the related videos - watch about 5 different versions by different people, I think you can aborb the info needed to do your own effectively after that :) The idea isn't to make sense of what you are watching, but to view the different elements that trigger off different emotional responses.

This one may come over as aggressive if you weren't brought up around this kind of music - so an alternative retro viral video could be the Apple Vs Mac video or the Burgerking Chicken or the "I like you" monkey's - failing that jut type "numa numa" into youtube.

my first rosette on youtube for something

Thanks to a mystery flood of visitors to one of my videos, I can show of my first directors rosette on youtube, thanks ladies who ever you are :)

Social Networks' Sway May Be Underestimated

Facebook, MySpace and other Web sites have unleashed a potent new phenomenon of social networking in cyberspace. But at the same time, a growing body of evidence is suggesting that traditional social networks play a surprisingly powerful and under recognized role in influencing how people behave...

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zara's note: two quote sum up well from this article:

"People quit in droves -- whole groups of people quit together at roughly the same time," Christakis said. "You can see it ripple through a network. It's sort of like an ant colony or a flock of birds. A single bird doesn't decide to turn to the right or the left; the whole flock has mind of its own."

Virgin Radio signs up for social media

Virgin Radio partners with the Geneva-based social media start-up to roll out community discussion tools on its website.

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Yahoo postpones board meeting, director resigns - Network Wo

Facing a battle for its board, Yahoo on Thursday pushed back its annual meeting until the end of July and announced the resignation of a board member.

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RSS feed serendipity - Network World

One of the more useful tools for dealing with the flood has been produced by Narciso Jaramillo. It is a tool called Snackr.Zara's note: Sounds a bit like Aidrss - I'll have to check it out

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Vodafone CEO Sarin steps down, to be replaced by Colao - Net

Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin will step down from the top job at the mobile operator in July, the company said Tuesday.

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Types of Social Media Content - A Conceptual Overview

In this crystal-clear blog post Joe Quipp, of "Search Engine People" fame presents the 3 types of social media content and the different ways they can be used, either on their own or combined

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Google: YouTube Suit Hurts Freedom - TIME

(NEW YORK) — A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

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Swimwear for curvy girls

A guide to choosing the most appealing swimwear for your body type if you are on the curvy side!

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How To Make Your Inground Swimming Pool Purchase A Success! How To Buy A Pool The Right Way, From The Right Company, At The Right Price, Written By The Owner Of One Of The Successful Pool Companines In The Us, Marcus Sheridan, Is A Definitive Guide For Anyone Considering The Purchase Of An Inground Swimming Pool.



Tri Swim Coach. Swimming Help For The Beginning Through Intermediate-level Triathlete. The Complete Guide To Triathlon Swimming.

10 Awesome Foods That Can Boost Your Mood

There is an intrinsic link between the foods we eat and the way we feel. Curious about what could help you feel better? The answer might just be right in front of you, sitting on a plate.Here is a list of foods that can help you be happier, more alert, and jump start your energy levels.

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Healthylemons News Show #5 27 May 08

Social Web Tools

Social Web Tools - your #1 source for blog, website & social network tools as well as social applications, widgets & gadgets.

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Healthylemons News Show #5 27 May 08

another installment of Zara news inc:web news, review,zaralockwood,#5,feedjit,zorpia,digg,wayn,ipod

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New Facebook import feature for blogs / Flickr / YouTube etc

New Facebook feature to import feeds into mini-feed and news feed - is this different to the developer applications already there?Zara's note: this looks useful, like friendfeed

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Zorpia - social networking heavy on photos

not quite flickr and certainly cooler than myspaceZara's note: Zorpia's best feature is the geo targeting for users - i.e you can find other Zorpian's in a town near you.The music player widget is cool and the method of verifiy your ID is basic but fun/ - i.e you write your screen name on a sheet of A4 and take a photo of your self and upload it :)

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Tagged social networking site

Tagged is an interactive social experience for people like you. It's a place to come every day to meet new people, hang out with your friends, and show off what you're all about!Tagged.com was launched in 2004, and is an explosively growing social-networking portal developed specifically for teens aged 13 through 19.Zara's note:In my experience tagged in full of middle aged men - so where the idea that it's just for teens comes from is strange - as surely not all the middle aged men on there are looking for teenage girlfriends eh ? apart from that confusion - the site and layout are great - I use it and I'm 35 - anybe they need to open up the age range abit - I never relised it was up to 19 - that's abit ageist too!

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IM Etiquette: 8 Tips from Top Social Media Users

“Don’t waste my time on IM. If you need something - let me know right away. Be cordial but don’t be annoying and try to “force” a conversation.” Chris Winfield

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Rhythm is a Dancer - itunes puts it back in the charts!

The Drench water commercial + itunes + YouTube have relaunched a classic 90's dance track!

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Zara's Latest Diggs on Digg!

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Feedjit ? Lijit - cool, free widgets to track vistors to your blog or website

This is a good set of free widgets for bloggers and webmasters to show popular pages, where visitors came from, other pages visited and a map option for their web site : examples below:

note: they are currently only available in javascript, there is a button to add directly to blogger or typepad blogs too.

where people come from bar







live traffic map






visitors to this page also liked






popular pages today

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another service is Lijit

BlogTV — How To Promote With This Hot, New Way To Develop Incredible Bonding And Relationships With Your Niche Using Web Cam, Text And Screen Drawings

BlogTV — How To Promote With This Hot, New Way To Develop Incredible Bonding And Relationships With Your Niche Using Web Cam, Text And Screen Drawings

Healthylemons News Show #4 25 may 08

http://www.youtube.com/pancea81
http://www.youtube.com/whatthebuck
http://www.youtube.com/omovies
http://www.youtube.com/lisanova
http://www.youtube.com/rhondaanthonytanner

Want to be an astronaut? Recuitment Program Now Open

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is looking for individuals who want to be part of the next generation of space explorers. Two applicants will be selected to join the Canadian Space Agency Astronaut corps. A pool of qualified candidates will also be created for future needs.

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Healthylemons News Show #4 25 may 08

http://healthylemons.blogspot.comyoutube special - see blog for details!http://www.youtube.com/pancea81http://www.youtube.com/whatthebuckhttp://www.youtube.com/omovieshttp://www.youtube.com/lisanovahttp://www.youtube.com/rhondaanthonytanner

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blogmonkey - th lil monkey

http://www.youtube.com/omovies

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lisa nova

http://www.youtube.com/LisaNova

Lisa Donovan

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rhonda's coaching

Brittani Taylor

another youtube favorite channel
http://uk.youtube.com/rhondaanthonytanner

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what the buck

Video Favorites - some of Zara's influences -
Michael Buckley

http://uk.youtube.com/whatthebuck

What The Buck - I like how he manages to speak for fast yet understandable too - it's funny - got cute dogs- and is entertaining - just what I like in a news show !

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How Digg Motivated Me to Blog

I've been a Digg member for awhile now and in digging stories, I started noticing how I was looking at many, many blogs to look for new things to submit.

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Free eBook From Mark Shaw

new free eBook from Mark Shaw. Top Tips on How to Sell eBooks. download from here for free.. http://tinyurl.com/5dqqn3

Here's my latest pagecast on pageflakes

I'm using flock's blog this button although a link doesn't appear to have shown up in the blog - it may do it automatically but incase not I'll add my own link to the pagecast - I've updated one of my widgetbox widget and plan on doing the other ones in a moment too

the page cast:
http://www.pageflakes.com/Zara_Lockwood/

nope the blogit feature didn't add the URL I was blogging about (the flock version i'm using is the beta version - so I'm not expecting it to be perfect yet!)

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Friendster - Zara Lockwood

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Does Twittering Mean you Blog Less?

Interesting results in a comparison between blogging and microblogging activity.

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Laptop losers hall of shame

Here's a list of the 10 biggest (known) security breaches from lost or stolen laptops, where government agencies, corporations and colleges failed to safeguard the names, Social Security numbers and other personal info of their customers. Encryption software - which costs as little as $10 per laptop - could have prevented most of these incidents.

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KIM KARDASHIAN Ultra smokey make up inspired look

http://uk.youtube.com/panacea81

Lauren Luke

healthylemons News show #3

healthylemons News show #3

just a quickie with some freebies etc. including: news healthylemons zara lockwood healthmad networkworld mark shaw cnet ecademy sitepoint ebook photoshop techreviews

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New red spot appears on Jupiter -Cnet news

Images from the Hubble Space Telescope confirm the appearance of a third giant red spot on Jupiter

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The OTHER side of social networks

Half of the social network traffic is going to niche sites which you've probably never heard of.Zara's note: ....which is ideal for the niche marketer!

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25 Steps to eBook Success -

25 Steps to eBook Success - 25 Really important points to consider that may well be the difference between selling no ebooks and a whole stack. by Mark Shaw

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Science fiction's goofiest gadgets and technology[Slideshow]

From screen-house tanks to Super Soaker-style phaser rifles to mysteriously menacing bubble machines, science fiction movies and television shows have given us a wide assortment of silly technology that even the swarthiest Jawa would be embarrassed to use.

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Virtual Binge-Drinking To Become Latest Gaming Trend

Do you still long for the competitive nature of drinking games, but no longer enjoy slamming plastic cups full of warm, shitty beer or have been forced to remove your ping pong table from the dining room by your shrewish wife? Well, the gaming universe has finally answered your prayers: Beer Pong for Wii.

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Brace yourself for barbecue shock

Hamburgers and hotdogs are going up in price by 6% in USA - and there's me thinking it was an article about food poisioning!

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Whirlpool to add iGo's gadget recharger to refrigerators

If you dream of turning the front of your refrigerator into something other than a place to stash alphabet magnets and smudged Christmas photos, so does Whirlpool.

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How can you NOT know Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen?

Kidding, yes. Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait did forget that bit of moon minutiae -- for a moment -- but that isn't the point here. The point is actually a question: If everyone makes mistakes -- and they do -- why are so many people unwilling to accept the mistakes of others (not to mention their own)?

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The Ultimate Secrets to Keeping Fit Inside Your Car

Obesity is constantly a growing problem throughout the world. Many people do nothing about it. However, by exercising in your car, as shown in this article, anyone can stay in shape.

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The Ultimate Secrets to Keeping Fit Inside Your Car

Obesity is constantly a growing problem throughout the world. Many people do nothing about it. However, by exercising in your car, as shown in this article, anyone can stay in shape.

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I spy your PC: Researchers find new ways to steal data

Researchers have developed two new techniques for stealing data from a computer that use some unlikely hacking tools: cameras and telescopes.

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Free Ebook on Photoshop

Sitepoint is giving away a complete ebook on learning photoshop for free. So if you have not grabbed your copy you might wanna do so from Sitepoint.

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Maybe USA could do with a bit of English political comedy?

if only the debates in the House of Congress and the Senate were as funny as this! Parliament in London is more like a comedy than serious political debate!

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FM transmitters for your iPod

Cool little gadgets that allow using your iPod with any Car Stereo, with no need for AUX.

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Dozens fired from Texas psychiatric hospitals rehired

Dozens fired from Texas psychiatric hospitals rehired for similar state jobs.Nice to know the State of Texas is on the cutting edge of hiring excellent employees.

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Case studies from Toronto SEO service company in Canada

There are currently 13 (thirteen) informative case studies posted on our website. Please review the information below, to find out more about how our SEO Programs can achieve great search engine ranking results like these for your company's website!

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Here's the REAL sticking point between Microsoft and Yahoo!

Microsoft's desperate struggle to acquire Yahoo! has gotten hung up not on disagreement over a fair price for the latter's online advertising operations, this report says, but rather the value of Yahoo!'s iconic exclamation point. After all, it's the only punctuation mark on the Internet that yodels.

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healthylemons Web News part 2

zara lockwood's look at favorite websites and social media stories part 2 - 20th of May 2008.Included: Flock, addictomatic,lou reed radio show, marketing vox,mixx,webpronews,zaralockwood.tv,youtube,digg,twitter - I still haven't decided how often to do this show yet, as it's still a baby!

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Zara lockwood domains active

okay I brought my name domain(s) again, I mean it's not like anyone else wanna be me at this point is it ? - up to my eye balls in unpaid debt and a social phobia deeper than the mankiest root canal, okay and i can't spell either, there - I strangled myself yet again - so can I plug my domains now even if it only for my own benefit.... echo, tumble weed....sure I guess you can Zara....watch out though you are starting to sound like you do on your myspace blog....

Okay thanks for the warning, I will try and keep my crazy rantings locked away over there as usual.

Where was I, oh yeah, domains. I brought them mainly as easy to remeber short cuts to some of my favorite places other than here :)

www.zaralockwood.com - is this my fan club!
www.zaralockwood.TV - goes to my YouTube channel
www.zaralockwood.net - goes to my networking fav. (my Ecademy profile)
www.zaralockwood.org - goes my to BLOG community (my Mybloglog community)
www.zaralockwood.info - goes to what I'm doing (my Friendfeeder profile)
www.zaralockwood.co.uk - goes to my top favorites (my Digg user profile)

CNN Jumps Into the Mixx

As you may have heard, later today, CNN will be launching “Mixx It” buttons on all of their stories. CNN is the gold standard of news, both online and broadcast, and we’re excited to have them recognize us as being a growing presence in the social media space. Zara's note: I like mixx, be great if they had a blog it gizmo like this one at Digg, I could set up my other blog to that!

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John Gabriel's Greater Internet F**kwad Theory

Penny Arcade often says neatly what otherwise cannot be said. In general, this link is handed out to people whose behavior is obviously based on the idea that they can say whatever they want to someone because said someone won't come find them and beat the piss out of them.

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Self review and comments about my TV show

okay it's a video show, but tv, video, DVD it's all media to me....

I did a review of my first edition, to be able to state the obvious - but anyway here is that review at linkprimer:
http://linkprimer.com/blogs/lemonpie/did-first-go-web-news-show-yesterday-youtube-using-vegas-8

Here that first edition incase you missed it... ear plugs are optional :P

The reddot at the beginning is ment to be like a laser beam full of information - which is like the web streaming information to the brain - or maybe targetting it like a bullet ? well I used to like panorama as a kid...
the snazzy guitar rift is part of an audio swap video i did using a song called flicker by sumbersed - it has a sort of 'American show sound' about it i like.

Flock social web browser adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail

Flock, the social web browser built from Firefox code keeps getting more social. Flock 1.2 beta adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail integration. Once you login to Digg for the first time from the Flock browser, you'll have the option of opening up a Digg sidebar which shows you all of your Digg contacts and their recent activity.

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Use Addictomatic To Search Yourself

By Rohit Bhargava - Fri, 05/16/2008 - 1:47pm. If you're among the social media initiated, chances are you are Googling yourself more than once a day. In fact, you probably have Google alerts set up with your own name to notify you (and your ego) whenever anyone mentions you.

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The top 10 social networking annoyances - Network World

The same question people used to ask about PCs can be asked of social networks: Were our lives easier or harder, better or worse, simpler or more complex, before they came around?

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Lou Reed Takes a Walk on the Sirius Side - MarketingVOX

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lou Reed is joining Sirius to host his own weekly radio show, beginning Saturday, May 17 at 6 pm, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.

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UK Orders Data Retention for ISPs

May 16, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A report issued this week by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown will require phone and Internet companies to keep logs of Internet usage, and to make those logs available to the police. Zara's note: Oh I thought they were already doing it with Phorm anyway - no wonder BT aren't worried!

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VeriSign Patents Typo Redirection

May 16, 2008 -- ( http://www.thewhir.com WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports posted Thursday, .com registry operator and security firm VeriSign won a patent this week for the controversial redirect service it said helped users find the sites they were looking for.Zara's note - This sounds like that Barefruit service a4u were talking about

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Healthy Lemon's Webmaster Tool Kit: Marlon's 12 Step Formula to Sales Letters that Work

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Marlon's 12 Step Formula to Sales Letters that Work

Sales Letters -- How And Why I Created The 12-Step Formula Everyone Uses To Teach Sales Letter Writing By Marlon Sanders
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When I started as a copywriter back in 1983, there wasprecious little to learn from. A few John Caples books. "The Robert Collier Letter Book."Dan Kennedy's book. Victor Schwab. A few others. Greatbooks in their own rights. But lacking in terms of astep-by-step, actionable formula in my opinion.


And my perspective is as one who ONLY had those books tolearn how to write sales letters from. It took me a long time to learn what you can grasp in afew dedicated months of study today. If you read muchabout how to write sales letters on the Net, you'll see over and over a 12-step formula for writing sales letters.


This is my formula. I created it. It's spread without attribution. But I want people to know the truth. That's all. I'm the ONLY person who can tell you where this formula came from and how it was developed. I can ALSO tell you that prior to this formula, the only things that existed as sales letter formulas were grossly lacking.


How about this barn burner: Attention, interest, desire,action. That's one that I had to learn from. No wonder it took me so long to learn. I dare you to take that formula and try to write a sales letter from it. It's what copywriters taught to make the process sound mystical and complicated, thus generating clients and jobs.


Or here's another one: Problem, agitate, solve. Alright. Nice formula. Totally lacking. There were other formulas. All lacking. Now, to be fair, the person who REALLY solved the puzzlewas NOT me. It was Bob Serling.


See, back in the day, I was a copywriter at a company called National Response Corporation. And they sold Bob Serling's products. Bob had a coursethat taught an intricate but solid 16-step formula forwriting sales letters. He was to my knowledge the first to TRULY codify a sales letter into practical, actionablesteps you could follow step-by-step.


The thing is, I felt a formula was needed that expressed how I had learned to write sales letters through the school of hard knocks. I created a 12-step formula and later codified it in "The Amazing Formula" as as chapter. And broke it out into a separate product. Actually, I first sold it in an ebook called WSOTM, Web Site Order Taking System. But that's going way back.


As proof, I might site the fact that I OWN salesletters.com. And I HAVE owned it a long freakin'time. That's for all the skeptics who think I take credit for things that don't deserve it. Anyway, I taught this formula at a lot of seminars. The old Boulder seminars with Jonathan Mizel and Declan Dunn.The Carl Galletti seminars.


Before long, everybody and their dog grasped onto the 12-step formula. Wrote it up in free ebooks. Wrote it up in articles and posted it on the Net. All fine. All well and good. Would have been NICE to give attribution. I guess they argue they changed SOMETHING. What? I'm not sure. But something.


Anyway, to make a long story longer, I found out at some point that even though I was teaching the 12-step formula,people were NOT following. That is how I created a whole entire category of software and products referred to as "sales letter generators." I created a product called "Push Button Letters" that forced people to follow the 12-step formula.


It was a blockbuster hit so many people created their ownsales letter software programs. More power to them. As long as it helps people. There are so many things that have been invented on the Internet, you could never keep track of who invented what. Or it would sure be tough. I don't even know that it's important that I get any credit.


I can tell you that Bob Serling deserves a lot for figuring out what he did. Corey, when he was living, bought the rights to Bob's outstanding sales lettercourse. The point of this article really isn't to pat myself onthe back, although I reckon I've done that a little too much. It's really about you, your sales letters and your sales.


Here are a few take aways I hope you find valuable.

1. You can now learn to write basic sales letters in a month or two, versus the 20 years it took me.

2. There are formulas you can learn that greatly speed your progress.

3. If you struggle, there are software programs that canhelp you follow proven formulas.

Marlon Sanders For more free tips, articles and resources on how to promote with blogs,podcasts, Facebook, Twitter, and all kinds of other stuff, visit: http://www.marlonsnews.com
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Marlon's Marketing Minute is copyright 2008, Higher Response Marketing Inc. All rights reserved.

The Essential Guide to Managing Your Reputation Online

Here’s a list of what NOT to do if you value your online reputation.

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FT.com / Companies / Media -talksport doing well

Two companies holding regional ITV franchises have broadcast contrasting stories about their national radio holdings.Zara's note: yeah, of course they are doing well - I've been 'tuning in' since 1995:)

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just thinking about social networking and it's impact on the biz op market

Now I know there is a HUGE market for work at home products, courses, services etc. - now a thing i've noticed with the offers - or maybe I'm just becomming used to them again, it just that htey aren't grabbing my attention, me the compulsive buyer isn't feeling the need to buy knick naks on-line so much as social networking provides lots of pretend money, pretend toys, pretend status etc.

As a kiddie, like most girls i was into Barbie ans Sindy, had the mansion house the horses the four poster bed, playing out little games etc. - social networking feels like that on some levels and i wonder how this transferance from usually buying ebooks or software or info products - to buying pretend money with pretend money (or the option of real money to buy pretend money and 'premium pokes') effects the 'micro payment' markets - these micropayments are being funnelled into the latest internet platform in the form of images and video..

..ahg I lost the thread, there is a thread somewhere, it's to do with a shift in spending habits on a small scale that can effect a larger whole - rather like if 100 people buy a broom from your store - thouse mini payments are going to add up, then if someone else starts selling fancier brooms and the customers start going that way, you don't just loss the first sell, you lose the back end sale, the follow up sale and all these repeat sales

mjuTV - video site

Lori Drew Charged In MySpace Suicide

Megan Meier's suicide after breaking up with a fake boyfriend created by Drew on MySpace led to her indictment on federal charges.Zara's note: This is a really tragic story, a grown woman would know just what emotional triggers to destroy a girls heart and emotions :(

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10 affiliate sites that rock A4U

- by Kieron Donoghue Last week in this post I said I would give 10 examples of affiliate sites that I think are cool and are of real value to their users. Here we go.

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6 Similarities Between Running Websites and Drug Addictions

It was about 3am. I was hunched over my keyboard staring at my LCD screen. There was a foul odor in the air, most of which was emanating just from my person. Yet I was awake at this ungodly hour so that I could take care of various updates and other website maintenance. It was then that the following list started to form in my mind.

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Find Niche Blogs By Using Google Alerts

Here's an easy way for niche bloggers to find same interest bloggers out there. As a niche blogger, you may have a hard time finding other person to link with and share interests especially if you have a knitting, carpentry or botany blog. An easy way to find people & blogs like yours is Google Alerts.Find like-minded bloggers Google Alerts.

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Yahoo / BT downgrades antispam measure

The problem arose when Yahoo decided as an anti-spamming measure to stop any emails going through the servers, which it runs for its partner BT, that did not have a matching BT/Yahoo address in the From: field

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A Close up Flower Photo from Grove Park

I like this picture of a yellw flower I took in grove park, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, UK the other day, I took it using a £30 (abt $60usd) digital camera and it's come out rather well I think!

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Business : Failing In Business, Only to Succeed Second Time.

..Round. by Naz Daud Franchise Business Opportunity.A key fact about business and entrepreneurialism generally is that failure is extremely likely in your first venture. Only 1 in 5 new people entering business for the first time are likely to make a profit.

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Amazon Launches The MP3 Widget

With all the widget junks to add to your blogs out there, Amazon is coming up with their version to tap into the big mp3 download market. Amazon associates are now able to embed slightly cool-looking widgets to their sidebar to offer their viewers a sample of the latest and most popular MP3 songs today. Associates are able to handpick the songs.

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Now explain me how multiple email support saves my time!

Recently we rolled out an interesting feature where users can set up their multiple email accounts. This multiple email account is like having having multiple passports. You can travel to the wonderful world of blogging and twittering from any email clients.

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Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?

Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google’s search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft?

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Which IT security skills are most important?

Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs?

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Illegal Giveaway Event Warning

This is a post warning about the scams and illegal activities that may affect many online marketers.

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Submit your RSS Feeds

This article gives some tips on submitting RSS feeds to search engines which is useful as i didn't know you could do that :)

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Zyra a bit of everything a social network within itself mayb

Zyra was one of the first cyber personalities I communicated with on-line - so is like a 'internet deity' to me! - I think I was looking up "O-negative, vampiric aliens" in a search engine (as you do!) and Zyra's website came up in the top ten.Zyra was also a past regular at kensington High Street market - where I used to spend loads of time window shopping and buying hair extensions and other goth/kinky stuff ...Zara's note: Zyra was also one of the first Affiliate marketer's I'd come across that had a good, ethical approach to the whole web thing - so all hail Zyra!

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Support Our Troops Until The Mission Is Done

this video shows you what our brave military men have to go through every day in their job to keep us safe and free. The least we could do is support them until the mission is over, so they can finally come home without worrying about going back again 15-20 years from now.

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Scoutle: Automated Social Networking For Bloggers

"Dutch startup Scoutle marries different networking ideas to deliver what they call an “Automated Social Networking for Bloggers.”

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Affiliate Marketing Is The Way To Go!

When it comes to earning money online using your websites or blogs, affiliate marketing is second only to selling your own stuff online when it comes profitability. Affiliate marketing is simply selling other people's stuff online and getting a percentage of the sale made by your clients. There are a number of ways to earn money online; get paid to

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Photoshop Nightmare

The gorgeous ladies of Sex In The City have had their promo stills for the movie photoshopped so much that it made the real women look really bad and old.

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StumbleUpon Records More Video Providers

Six content companies add video for StumblersThe StumbleVideos section of StumbleUpon gained in content with the addition of several new content partners. By David A. Utter

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eBay To Move To PayPal Only In Australia

No similar plans in U.S.After negative publicity about an eBay plan to require users in Australia to use PayPal-only, its online payment system, rumors about a similar policy in the U.S. were met with a forceful denial from the company.By Mike Sachoff

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YouTube Begins Buzz Targeting

Buzz Targeting Points advertisers towards "about-to-go-viral" clips - By Doug Caverly

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Healthy lemon Classifieds USA

Scifi Movie Locations in the Real World

Science Fiction Movies and famous architecture have a particularly strong tradition, however the link is not always flattering. Since much science fiction deals with a dystopic vision of the future, architecture is often seen as part of the environmental cause.

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Polish affiliate market!

I represent venture capital fund Xevin Investments. One of companies in our portfolio is the biggest SEM agency in Poland...are looking for joint venture...Zara's note - I'd be interested in displaying Polish adverts on my Weston-Chatter site.

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A4U Awards Nomination Shortlist - A Cat Amongst The Pigeons

Opening The Brown Envelope .. Oops Sorry .. I Mean The Gold Envelope … drum roll … Farcical, that is the only way I can describe the nominations for the Publisher (Affiliate) of 2008. Lets not hold back the expletives please with false pleasantries. I’ll come onto the other more respected categories a little later...

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Interview with an Iranian Blogger

Near the top of the foreign policy issue list is Iran’s nuclear program. The next president will have to tackle this issue head-on. Recently, I bumped into a fellow blogger, writer and journalist from Iran – Kourosh Ziabari. Here’s part I of IV of our conversation about Iranian and U.S. politics and culture.

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General Motors Passes on Vista

A Number Of Companies Are Opting Not To Embrace Redmond's Latest Operating System And, Like GM, Are Waiting For Windows 7 Instead.Interesting - maybe vista is being seen as the ME of OS systems and Window 7 ???

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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – The Love Triangle

Information and technology are two industries that have the power to change the entire outlook of global business. These multi billion dollar industries are proving to be the bone of contention for industry leaders like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. The dogfight we have been seeing clearly indicates the vested interests of the industry leaders

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50 Ways To Get Backlinks And Traffic To Your Blog or Website

These are my 50 ways that will gain you both backlinks and traffic.

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Facebook Connect Announced

Yesterday MySpace announced that you can use your MySpace profile on other sites. Not to be outdone, today Facebook announced their version. It’s called Facebook Connect..

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Half a million computers infected with 'malware' in 7 days

Experts are warning internet users to be on their guard after more than half a million computers were infected with a single piece of malicious software. Experts believe it is the biggest outbreak in several years.

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Inside China's Intenet censorship system

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand. Based in Beijing, Fallows has researched the underlying technology that the Chinese use for Internet censorship. One surprise: the censorship is easier to get around than you might think.

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Hacker Social Networking? An Oxymoron?

Social networking is all the rage but can it get any level of acceptance in one of the most private communities on the Internet?

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New Visual Search Engine Picitup Needs to Pick Up Its Game.

Visual search and image recognition is one of the holy grails of consumer Internet technologies. Picitup is jumping into the deep end of this space by announcing the launch of its public beta.

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Help this guy get 20,000 twitter followers before Alex

He's way behind but if he makes it he will get a diggnation tattoo and broadcast the whole thing on ustream or some other online video service. Digg this up and follow @hamburgers on twitter to see some jerk do something really stupid.

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What Marlon Sanders has been up to

How To Profit With Facebook Marketing, Skype Out, Twitter, Submit Your Article And Blogging By Marlon Sanders ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hello, In this article, I'm going to share my own personal experiences overthe past few weeks using a variety of ways to get traffic to your web site. Keep in mind this traffic is from NEW stuff I'm mucking around with.

We get thousands of visits a week from existing marketing. I'mtalking about new stuff I'm doing. I wanted to give you a peak inside, so you can see my result as Iramp up some new methods. Now, this past week someone read one of my articles, called intothe office and asked, "Why do I need to promote or get traffic if I don't have a product yet?"

My answer to that is you can start building your list now, so whenyou do have a product to sell, you have a list to sell it to. Inaddition, in the meantime, you can sell affiliate products. I might add that if you use my methods, you can create your owninfo product in six weeks -- or less.

Let's move on to discussing my results.

1. How To Profit With Facebook Marketing

I've been pleasantly surprised at the visitors I've received from Facebook just from people seeing the URL of my blog on my profile page. I'm getting visitors every day. If you have no visitors, start a blog, get on Facebook and network.

You can have your own blog in 5 minutes by going to Wordpress.com and creating a hosted blog. My friend Tinu, the "Queen of Free Traffic" has a really good Facebook system and I plan on using it more. You'll likely also see me promote her product. Reading it is what convinced me to muck around on Facebook more.I learned new things. But even if I didn't, it would have beenworth it just because it gave me the kick in the tail end I needed to get it going!

2. How To Profit With Twitter Marketing

If you're out of the loop on this, Twitter is at Twitter.com. It's free. It's a way to send out very short notes on what you're up to. I've seen people with up to 5500 subscribers to their Twitter. Mine is rather anemic. I'm not seeing a payoff yet. But I plan to experiment more.

3. How To Profit With Blogging

Here's the thing I've found on blogging -- It's not as easy to get your blog set up to get traffic as you'd think. I'm just now getting mine in any kind of shape at all, and I still have work to do. In the past 7 days, I've received 254 visits and 54 clicks.

Whilesome of those came from my ezine last week, most are the result of my blogging. I have 163 total subscribers to my blog feed, where people read it in Bloglines, Google Reader or another RSS reader. That's not many subscribers. But I haven't been doing this long. That number is down from 171 a few days before.

If you blog, I'm told you need to make one or more posts daily to really get some action on Google. That takes maybe 30 minutes a day. I think the payoff is there long term. But there IS a learning curve. And it does take that consistent effort.

4. How to Profit With Podcasts

It took a bit to get Podpress plugin installed and working on thelatest version of Worpress. We're now designing a special page to put my podcasts on. I bought this new Macbook and will use Garage Band to make podcasts. If you have a PC, Audacity is free and actually has some featuresGarage Band doesn't.

Garage Band has the edge in terms of easy-of-use. I'll say this: If you aren't good at using computers, go the Macroute. Podcasting as a Meme or concept that spreads virally is on the wayout. But if you look at usage by the media, it's up 40%. I'm going to try a little podcasting and see what happens.

The cool thing is, it's free to get your podcast listed in iTunes.I actually wrote an article about how to do that on my blog. And iTunes gets a LOT of traffic! Plus, there are many podcastdirectories you can get listed in. And those listings can get ranked in Google,MSN and Yahoo. So why not do it?

5. How To Profit With Skype Out

I just bought the coolest tool. It's a little phone that plugsinto the USB of your computer and lets you make Skype calls that are amazingly clear! The thing actually works. Here's the profit angle: It has a record button. With oneclick you can record conversations!

You can do testimonial interviews, product interviews and even do group calls,depending on which phone you get. I plan to do a little write up on my blog about this andpost a picture. The thing is, it took a bit to figure outhow to make the sound broadcast through the phone.

This is really awesome. Now, anywhere I'm on wifi, I canplug this phone in and make phone calls. I'm thinking ofsending one to a friend in the Philippines who has Internet access but has to pay a lot to make long distancephone calls!

6. How To Profit With Submit Your Article There's an online service you can use to submit yourarticles called: SubmitYourArticle.com. Another one I planon using is called Article Marketer. Anyway, I just used this yesterday to submit an article.

I haven't done this in a long time because I always left thedoor open for my affiliates to promote us. Since a lot of affiliates are now just promoting theproduct launch of the week, we are going back in marketingmode. When I say "we," I mean my team. The awesome thing is you get stats on your submissions.That's sure an improvement from the old days.

So far, since yesterday, I've had 24 article views, 12people have published it and 1 subscribed to my contentfeed. I can't say those are world-beater numbers yet. But it's agood start. And it's only been a day. I plan to take each article and put it on my blog, send itout through a submission service and turn it into a videoand podcast using Matt Bacak's brilliant A9 formula.Thanks Matt for figuring that out!

One reason I hesitate to publish things like this is Internet marketing is a very ego driven field. Keep inmind the results above are from only a few days or weeks effort. There's always that person who comes along and says,"Well, my articles get 10 million views." Or whatever. Oneoneupmanship.

Yeah, and they likely use methods you may not feel comfortable using or they're on a very wide-interesttopic vs. a specific niche. I wanted to post result that anyone can achieve with amodicum of effort. That means you. You can do what I've done and likely get similar results.

Marlon Sanders

For more free tips, articles and resources on how to promote withblogs, podcasts, Facebook, Twitter, and all kinds of other stuff, visit:

http://www.marlonsnews.com ---------------------------------------------------------------"Marlon's Marketing Minute is copyright 2008, Higher ResponseMarketing Inc. All rights reserved.

Will Google Acquire Blinkx Video Search ?

Blinkx, the largest and most innovative video search engine on the web

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Twitter Business Model, Why google is scared

Read Write web recently ran a post on monetizing twitter with a business model using ads. The post was good, and i believe it makes sense However i believe they missed one key point. Twitter can be used from your mobile phone. Zara's note: Found this via a Thomas Power tweet

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Eric Preet's Week of Sins

A hilarious story of one man's battle against the Seven Deadly Sins spread over one week.

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Are You Happy To Be ‘Bought’ By a Merchant?

A bit of background is required for this blog: We recently started promoting a new merchant. We have a ’suck it and see’ policy and can quickly tell whether it’s going to work (i.e. earn us commission) or not work.Zara's note: Another link to a post From an affiliates4u person - this ones interesting just because of the odd collection of items he was bribed with - and the responses.

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OMG Tradedoubler Don’t Make Choice Of Network List...

One of the big surprises amongst this year’s A4UAwards, other than this blog getting a nomination, was the shortlist for Publisher’s Choice Of Network 2008. Despite being number one in a recent list for UK Affiliate Marketing by NMA (Webgains Blog), Tradedoubler failed to attract enought nominations to make the shortlist of six which comprise:Zara's note:I blogged this link to remind myself to remember these affiliate awards - in october - I'm not going or anything so clever but I might do a story on it - on my super snazzy webby news show that I am inventing - now what was that gadget Simon said about ? - something to do with blogs and e-mails but not feedburner...anyway, blogging out loud again....

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Avoiding Social Media Burnout - Stephan Spencer

With the amount of time needed to stay at the top of the game in social media, it is inevitable that you will eventually burn yourself out.Zara's note: - I think this article applies to all niches of interest on-line - i.e if you get too obsessed (posessed!) with any one mental addiction or need >>>

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Metacafe Video

I think this will be my leading into summer song for this year

Zara Lockwood Audioswap Submersed Flicker May 06 2008 - The best video clips are here

Five ways to Score Big on Digg - webpronews

The big social media sites receive thousands of submissions continually. Yours doesn't have to be one that never escapes Digg's Upcoming section, or the basement of any social bookmarking presence.

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Rain - drawn by Simon Ellinas - London Caricaturist

found via a twitter post

Poor indoor coverage holding back 3G - Network World

Mobile operators have been urged to improve the reception of 3G signals inside buildings in an effort to increase the appeal of 3G networks.

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Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers

You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members.

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Best performing brands on YouTube revealed

More than 80 million YouTube videos are watched every day.“You could argue that YouTube is the single most influential form of media available today,” says Internet Retailing.

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Combining TV and online ads benefits advertisers

Using TV and online together in advertising campaigns is significantly more effective for advertisers than using either in isolation, according to new research from Thinkbox and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).

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Free tools for Writer's and Lovers of Literature

Some great igoogle homepage tools to add here from ModeRoom - I like the writer's unblock tool called Writer's Idea Bank.Handy for bloggers who may want to get creative too.

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Thursday, noon (PST) is best. Never on Monday.

What are the best and worst times to post that gem of a blog item? The answer is early to mid-afternoon, but never on Monday, according to a statistical analysis conducted by one blogger/programmer. Time part makes sense, but are Mondays really a blogger's Bermuda Triangle? If so, why?

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PCs of the future, here today [Slideshow]

Technological advances like the LCD monitor and the 'small form factor' motherboard are allowing PC vendors to innovate with all-in-one computers or 'cube' or 'lunch box' style PCs. Here's a look at some desktops that are already at the leading edge. Will all desktop PCs look like these soon?

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Researcher hides IE bug on his blog

Security researcher Aviv Raff has published code that would allow someone to take control of a computer running Internet Explorer, but there's a catch. He's not saying exactly where he's hidden the attack. "Somewhere in my blog, I embedded a proof-of-concept code which exploits this 0day vulnerability," Raff wrote.

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April US social networking traffic down

The market share of April US visits to a custom category of 57 of the leading social-networking websites increased 3 percent from March - but was down 16 percent from April 2007, Hitwise reports - Zara's note: The slowing down of traffic is bound to happen at some point which is why I've been pushing some of the features on facebook - like now - as people get borred quick - will be looking for a variation on a theme - the novelty aspect will wear thin inceasingly so - I'm expecting the next interest peak leading up to christmas time when social grouping tends to take place again - make the most of creating your groups this springtime into summer !

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404 server not found - it's been stolen

"Websites go down every day (see, for example, Twitter), but this is the first time I’ve heard that the reason for an outage was due to servers being stolen from a data center."

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