Dominate Your Local Market!

6 reasons why you need to be able to answer that question right now:

1. 5.8 billion mobile subscribers worldwide by 2013. No other media channel offers anything like this reach.
2. Smartphone sales will be 29 percent of all cell phones by 2014. This means a richer mobile Web experience for mobile users and an opportunity for those marketing on the mobile web.
3. 3G and even faster networks based on High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)are being rapidly deployed worldwide.
4. 60 percent of the world’s population is now covered by a next-generation High Speed Packet Access mobile network (3G).
5. By 2011 analysts expect data to be bigger than voice. Mobile Internet users will be sending and receiving more data in one month than in the whole of 2008.
6. No matter how bad the world recession becomes, mobile services revenue will continue to increase (ABI Research).

What does this mean to you?

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The Mobile Web already reaches more users than the World Wide Web. The growth in smartphone usage over the past few years has been phenomenal and promises to accelerate as the economy recovers.

• If you own or operate a restaurant, deli, bake shop, salon, spa, hotel, motel, rv park, travel destination, attraction, auto dealership or any other business that people drive to or get delivered from, you need the facts!
• If you’re a Realtor®, broker, auctioneer, car salesperson or if you sell anything at all – you need the facts!
• If sell, rent, lease or lend anything people need right now – you need to get the facts!

The Mobile Web is about to become your best friend or your worst nightmare – the choice is yours.

We’ve put together a few pages at OrangeCat.com to get you up to speed on the Mobile Web and how it effects you.

The whole thing is about a ten minute read, but you’ll have some solid information WAY ahead of your competition.

Learn more about the Mobile Web now »

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.

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

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?

The other day an article appeared in the Technology section of the New York Times dealing with passwords that are just too popular to be secure. In If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe, author Ashlee Vance states that back at the dawn of the web, the most popular password was 12345.

Today, despite all the security warnings and millions of words written on the subject, the most popular password is 123456. That’s right… fifteen years of experience and all we’ve done is add one digit.

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It may not be the thing we want to think about, but it COULD happen. Most of us have much of our life’s information online and letting those that could survive us know how to deal with them is becoming an important issue.

Rocket Mom has posted a Squidoo lens to deal with the issue. It is an ongoing process that she hopes other will share in to increase everyone’s savvy. Read the “How would he get to my PayPal account if I died tomorrow?” lens and contribute if you’d like.

We’re getting down to the last days of this holiday shopping season. I sincerely hope you are experiencing a good year, business-wise.

I also want to be sure you are setting the stage for a better year in 2010.

This post has just one message… get their name and email address!

Get them from everyone who walks in the door – no exceptions.

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“A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.” – Henry Ford

According to some of the latest economic figures, we are in the beginning stages of economic recovery. I’m sure this is a relief to all of us even if unemployment figures are still way too high. Employment always lags behind in a recovery.

It may be a slow road back, but at least we are moving in a positive direction. Sadly some businesses have not been able to survive the downturn, but those that have will have an unprecedented opportunity for growth in the coming years.

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Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is one of the most cost-effective ways to market your local business online.

SEO is what will determine your placement in search engine results pages (SERPs) for certain keywords or keyphrases. And the higher your placement on those pages, the better your chances of sending traffic to your website.

Your SEO strategy will be different depending on your particular product(s) or services. A retailer’s SEO needs will be greatly different from a service’s, which in turn will greatly differ from a restaurant’s.

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