Dominate Your Local Market!

Even though the title of this ebook is “Make Money Blogging”, any beginning blogger should read it whether they want to make money with their blog or not.

Daniel Scocco of Daily Blogging Tips has put together a tremendous resource for beginning (and I’d say up to intermediate level) bloggers. He shares tips and strategies to help your blog reach it’s potential in quality and attract readers.

He covers everything from “what software should I use?” to “killer articles” vs. “normal posts”, and than gets around to that “making money” part.

Here is some of the things covered:

• The three mistakes that bloggers make when choosing a niche.
• The three characteristics of good content.
• Why your content strategy should have one cornerstone.
• The two factors that create magnetic headlines (and how to apply them).
• A deadly mistake that bloggers make when designing their blogs.
• Practical tips that you can use to network efficiently.
• A promotional strategy that most people forget to use.
• The two requirements for making money with Google AdSense.
• The best trick available to make money with CPM deals.

This ebook is filled with no-nonsense advice for anyone starting out in blogging or just thinking about it.

I’m a regular reader of Daily Blog Tips for the wealth of information it provides. In “Make Money Blogging”, Daniel has assembled a great deal of his hard-earned knowledge in one place. And the best part is – the ebook is free.

Click here to get “Make Money Blogging” right now.

If you missed yesterday’s release of the Apple iPad, here’s a chance to catch up by watching Apple’s promo video.

But the day before, Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress) published this post with a video that outlines a whole new way of looking at your computer interface. Could the durable mouse’s days be numbered?

At 12:01am today, Facebook began letting you select your own username. That means that you can now have your own name on Facebook like this:

http://www.Facebook.com/bobstovall

instead of those cryptic, long default Facebook URLs.

This makes it much easier for friends to find your Facebook page and is easier to remember for those you give it to.

Now, as you probably realize, many people have the same name on Facebook. And I’ve always recommended grabbing your own name as a domain name. I am just as enthusiastic about grabbing your own name on Facebook.

So if you want your name, you should go get it now.

Here’s how:

Log into Facebook, or click the link below and then login.

Then go to http://www.Facebook.com/username

Once you are there, it will suggest a variety of names. That doesn’t mean they are the only ones available, so click on the ‘more’ link and it will let you
select a different name. For example I picked bobstovall instead
of bob.stovall or bstovall, but you can pick any variation that’s available. There is a button to check availability of the name you choose.

Don’t hesitate of you could miss getting your own name. Go to:
http://www.Facebook.com/username
now and get your own name while you can.

Sometime on Tuesday, more than 15,000 Web sites connected to San Jose, Calif., based Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net) went dark. 3FN’s sites were disconnected after a Northern California district court judge approved an FTC request to have the company’s upstream Internet providers stop routing traffic for the provider.

Bob’s NOTE: If you’ve noticed a little less “spam” in your Inbox the past few days, this is why.

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There’s a Memorial Day Sale on the three best-selling video tutorial sets at HowDoIDoThatVideo.com. 20% off makes this the best price ever on these complete tutorial series. But the sale only runs until 11:59 PM EDT on Monday, May 25, 2009 so if you want to jump on this, click here to go to the Sale post now.

Ever sent a long URL in an email only to have it break in many of your recipients email program? Email clients sometimes break the lines in a long URL causing them to become unclickable.

BudURL offers shortened URLs that will not break under most circumstances. An added advantage of using BudURLs is link click tracking. Here is how the service is described on the BudURL website:

“BudURL was designed from the start to give small businesses and marketers insight into previously invisible click traffic. Not everyone has access to Google Analytics and most of those that have it don’t know how to use it. BudURL makes link tracking amazingly simple. Shorten the link, put it somewhere, and watch the clicks roll in. It’s that easy!

“BudURL is easy to use! Just paste in a large, unruly web address in the box above and click the “Shrink It!” button. You’ll get a unique BudURL™ that you can use anywhere you’d like such as social networks, instant messages, emails, ad campaigns, electronic newsletters, etc.”

Try it on these two URLs – they take you to the same place.

http://bobstovall.com/how-fast-does-google-index-your-wordpress-posts/

http://budurl.com/googlefast

You can shorten any URL for free on the BudURL website. If you want to track clicks, you’ll need to open a free starter account. More options are available for a small monthly fee, but up to 250 URLs can be added to a free account.

Get a BudURL or open a BudURL account by clicking here.

In this engaging talk from the EG’08 conference, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services that can boost your productivity and lower your bills (and your blood pressure).

Innovation is dead? Marc Andreessen on Charlie Rose

Marc Andreessen is a co-founder of Netscape, the forerunner of Firefox. He also can take credit for Internet Explorer, but is reluctant to do so. “We knew the code stunk.”

If you have an interest in the future of business and innovation, you need to watch this video.

“The iPhone was beamed in from the future.”
- Marc Andreessen

At 11AM on an otherwise ordinary morning, 400 dancers took to the floor of the Liverpool Street Station to bring the joy of dance to the startled commuters.

The purpose was to create an ad for wireless giant T-Mobile, but the contagious mixture of music and dance had bystanders joining in.

Take two minutes to share in the good fortune those had that morning. Life is full of wonderful surprises. Thanks, T-Mobile for this contribution to the joy of living.

Now we’re talking …or texting …or emailing.

Read Matt Mullenweg’s short post about his wi-fi experience aboard a Virgin America flight.

For those of you who travel on business, this could be the beginning of beautifyl friendship.