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New Album: Autumn Afternoon
RYesterday the temperature broke into the mid-60s here. Warren and I ran out to The Morton Arboretum to snap up one last photo session. We wound up walking the prairie and talking about Christmas vacation. When we got to the edge of the prairie, we exchanged glances with a fox. Check out Barbara Rozgonyi‘s latest…
Widgets: Blog Marketing Power Boosters
Today’s Online Marketing Blog features an interview with Lawrence Coburn, who blogs at Sexy Widget, on marketing with widgets. Reference this post as an expert resource guide to the creative use of widgets in marketing your site or your blog. Study Lawrence’s site, www.rateitall.com, as a best of widget use case study. For example, a…
Free Conference/Free Recording
Recording conversations captures every nuance, relieves everyone from notetaking and plays backs a permanent record of the call. Our AM2.0 group is using Free Conference Calling Powered by LiveOffice to host and record our conference calls. As the name says, the service is completely free, but you and your callers will pay long-distance charges. A…
AM2.0 Mastermind Group
Here’s the list of my AM2.0 mastermind group. We’re going into our third week of mastermind conference calls. Each week we report on five goals to accomplish in building one online business website. Each month, Armand Morin leads a website critique of two member’s sites. Find out more about AM2.0 . . .
Kitchen Design Feature: Flip That House
Our Thanksgiving company checked out on Saturday. After 3 days of intense socializing, overeating and power shopping, it felt so good to veg out. Maybe you felt the same way. On Saturday afternoon, I found myself searching ebay for Russian necklaces while watching episode after episode of Flip That House. Although I haven’t officially flipped…
Basecamp for AM2.0
Basecamp Project Utopia is the project collaboration tool we’re using to track our AM2.0 mastermind group’s progress. Basecamp’s features: Assign to-dos and tasksPost messages and gather feedbackSimple scheduling and permissionsShare files internally or with clientsTrack people’s time
Basecamp for Masterminding and Project Management
Basecamp Project Utopia is a project collaboration tool that’s a great way to track a mastermind group’s or a client’s projects progress. Basecamp’s features: Assign to-dos and tasks Post messages and gather feedback Simple scheduling and permissions Share files internally or with clients Track people’s time
MTN: Did I See You on YouTube [Yet]?
This post is a copy of our MNT ezine, now public for your reading pleasure . . . Welcome to Marketing Transformations Network News Engaging PR and Marketing Tips to~ ~ ~ Create Business for Your Business November 16, 2006 To: Our MTN Community From: Barbara Rozgonyi RE: Promoting Via Video [Sooner Than You Think] …
Is Email Outdated?
Yes, if you’re a teen. At least that’s what my informal survey of our in-house teen trend researchers say. A direct quote: “Why are you still emailing?” my techno-enraptured high school senior asked me as she glanced over at my Outlook screen beaming brightly on my laptop. “That’s soooooooo early 2000s. Everybody’s texting or blogging…
Biggest Big Seminar Takeaways
Someone asked me yesterday about the Big Seminar format. Here’s what I said: speaker, break, speaker, lunch, speaker, break, speaker, dinner, networking. Then I had to tell them about the overarching theme to give the experience an identifiable framework. I like to recap my biggest takeaway (from any event) into the smallest possible nugget. After…
Grab the Ad Age Search Marketing Guide
Ad Age released its first Search Engine Fact Pack in a 52 page .pdf loaded with stats – and a few ads. This report is a search marketing must-download, even if all you’re after is the top 12 SEO strategies on page 38. In September 2004, the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce asked me to…
Blogs: Technorati’s Healthy Forecast for Fast Growth
Technorati’s third quarter report on the State of the Blogsphere gives a healthy content population growth forecast: 100,000 new blogs are born every day with 54,000 fresh posts going up every hour. And, the size of the blogsphere is doubling every 230 days. So, jump in! Knowing that Technorati trac ks over 57 million blogs…
Blogs: Technorati’s Healthy Forecast for Fast Growth
Technorati’s third quarter report on the State of the Blogsphere gives a healthy content population growth forecast: 100,000 new blogs are born every day with 54,000 fresh posts going up every hour. And, the size of the blogsphere is doubling every 230 days. So, jump in! Knowing that Technorati trac ks over 57 million blogs…
Abraham Lincoln First Technology President
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln first technology president! Did you know Abe Lincoln’s T-Mail Can Teach Us About Blogging ? Here’s a brief clip from author Tom Wheeler’s site about his book, Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mail . . . “The Civil War was the first ‘modern war.’ Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided nation during a…
Abe Lincoln and high-tech Civil War communications
Found this post about What Abe Lincoln’s T-Mail Teach Us About Blogging , on the MicroPersuasion blog today. Here’s a brief clip from author Tom Wheeler’s site about his book, Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mail . . . “The Civil War was the first ‘modern war.’ Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided nation during a period of…
Chicago Online Calendar Listing Guide
Here’s the list we use to post events to online community calendars in Chicago . . . CBS Channel 2 News NBC Channel 5 News ABC Channel 7 News Fox 32 News WGN Radio Community Calendar – 6 weeks in advance WMBI Moody Radio Chicago Tribune 2007 Event Sponsorship Guidelines WLS Radio Post…
Non-Profit Blogging Resource
Today I met with a large and established non-profit agency who wants to raise their donor awareness profile. Of course I suggested blogging as a way to blast open online communications. Here’s a non-profit blogging, podcasting and social media resource site for those who want to get going and posting. You do, don’t you??? If…
Sleep Out Saturday Rallies for Homeless Families
It will always be the first Saturday in November. "It" is Sleep Out Saturday, a county-wide effort to raise funds and awareness for Bridge Communities – DuPage county’s oldest and largest provider of transitional housing for homeless famlies. Visit our online Sleep Out Saturday media guide for more event information. Every $25 donation delivers 24…
Moving to Word Press from Typepad
Okay folks. This was ridiculously easy. All you do is click on list posts in Typepad, then import/export, go to export, then right click on export, save the file to your computer and then upload on Word Press. Voila! Two blogs in one. Now the question is, which do I write for – or do…
Typepad Versus Word Press
My Typepad blog’s been up and running since this summer. It’s easy to use, I love the stats and I love my layout. So, why am I here? Because everybody who’s anybody in the Internet marketing world says this is the only place to be. It’s amazing to see how many sites run off of…
Get in The Internet Marketing Game and Win Faster: Brought to You by Nick Dunin, Richard East and Harris Fellman
Up for a challenge that will stomp out your Internet marketing frustrations? Well, here’s a big one for you . . . The Internet Marketing Game is completely unlike anything you’ve ever seen on the Internet before. Harris Fellman’s joined forces with Nick Dunin and Richard East to come up a sort of Wheel of…
Happy [Halloween] Holiday PR: Start 2007 Planning Today
As Halloween trends into a major holiday, why not tap into the promotion potential and be part of the revelry? For the past two Halloweens, I’ve promoted my business by posing as a PR Witch. How do I get visibility? By judging the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce’s costumer parade, of course. That’s me over…
Big Seminar 8: Day Three Recap
Sylvie Fortin was first up with "Outsourcing Mastery," making a good case for the need for outsource management vs. outsourcing task by task. Sylvie said top Marketers have 4 things in common – have voracious appetites for information products, they can’t wait to see what’s coming next, they know it’s the only…
Big Seminar 8: Day Two Recap
Let’s start with the end of the evening – the awards dinner – and work our way backwards . . . The big announcement . . . Alex Mandossian is leaving AM2Gold to form the Electronic Marketing Institute. Name stays. Armand stays. Updates today. Meeting tomorrow. Is joining AM2Gold worth the $500 monthly membership? Well,…
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