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Clearer Fonts on Laptops & LCD's

John Martel — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:30:00 +0000

Most people these days are running Windows XP, but most of them are probably not using ClearType. While using it will not make a huge improvement in font quality on a normal CRT screen, the improvement is quite dramatic on higher quality LCD's and especially on laptop screens.

Of course, big surprise, you'll have to use Internet Explorer to use it. I tried with Firefox, but it kept telling me to "turn it on" even after I checked the box that was supposed to do just that. Then I tried MSIE and gee, it worked. Go figure. Then on the next screen it installed an Active-X component, so that explained why it wouldn't have worked anyway.

Go to ClearType Tuner

P.T. Barnum Lives

John Martel — Wed, 17 May 2006 03:38:00 +0000

P.T. Barnum came to life a few days and passed the marketing baton to Joe Vitale, who is without a doubt one of the greatest marketing minds alive today. View the video below and then read more about the event and Joe's latest book, There's a Customer Born Every Minute at K9Concert.com

Movie Site - Web 2.0 & Amazon Money Maker

John Martel — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:28:00 +0000

I just stumbled up WatchThisNext.com from one of the many blogs I read every few days. At first it just seemed like a fun, and addictive web 2.0 web site. They show you 4 movies and you drag and drop them into one of 3 categories... and another movie appears.

It's addictive, hypnotic, whatever. I'm sure the movie site would make Joe Vitale proud. Speaking of Joe, have you read his latest bestselling book yet? It's another winner, don't miss it!

WatchThisNext.com, besides perhaps suggesting a movie you may want to see, is sort of pointless. But it's a great example of web 2.0 in use... and it may also be a money maker for the creator as every title links over to Amazon. Not that Amazon pays all that well, (though they did just increase commissions for sales of 20 or more items), but it will probably make them some decent money.

Too bad there isn't any way to save your selections... and they should probably also add a banner for NetFlix and perhaps Blockbuster to make even more money. I just wish I thought of this viral web site first.

The Violet Flame Forum

John Martel — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:37:00 +0000

Event Producers, LLC is proud to announce an alliance with The Violet Flame of 42 Bridge Street in East Windsor, CT. The Violet Flame Forum (site not yet active as of March 2nd) is a series of weekend events featuring outstanding presenters who specialize in Spiritual and Holistic topics.

The first weekend will feature my client Barbara Hardie of Angel Connections.

To find out about other weekend events, join their mailing list here

Upcoming Angel Connections Workshops

John Martel — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:07:00 +0000

Barbara M. Hardie of Angel Connections has recently scheduled several special workshops to be held in MA and CT over the next 5 weeks.

The events include; March 4th - Angel Workshop, March 5th - Soul Purpose / Life Mission Workshop, March 11th - Angel Workshop, March 15th - Ascension Workshop, April 29th & 30th - "Huna" Intensive Workshop - Secrets Of The Ancient Hawaiians Revealed

View workshop schedule

Google Maps On Your Web Site

John Martel — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:40:00 +0000

I love Google Maps. It just keeps getting better and better. You see a very detailed street map, a satellite view and even a hybrid overlay view. Zoom in, zoom out, drag the map with your mouse, it does it all.

You know you can type in an address and view the map and directions on Google Maps, but did you also know that you can get a free Google Maps API Key and load a map to your web site or blog? Well you can, and now you can learn how to add a Google Map to any web page in just minutes.

Bridgewater Festival of Lights & eBay Auction

John Martel — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:37:00 +0000

Grants Rental in Bridgewater, Massachusetts is proud to announce that they are once again sponsoring the annual Bridgewater Festival of Lights.

They also have a Thawzall™ Model 2M Ground Thawing Heater currently for sale on eBay. (Update: Now Sold)

Network Solutions Buys MonsterCommerce

John Martel — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:39:00 +0000

I've been using MonsterCommerce to host the shopping cart for a few of my larger clients for several years now. There have been a few ups and downs, but this once very small company has grown and thrived throughout the years.

This year the "St. Louis Business Journal ranked MonsterCommerce as the fastest-growing business in the region -- expanding sales by 812 percent between 2002 and 2004." Considering they took in $12 million this year, those are some very impressive numbers indeed.

Earlier this year Network Solutions decided to go shopping for, well, for a shopping cart company. And after looking at several companies, they settled on MonsterCommerce.

Read more from MSNBC:
MonsterCommerce bought by giant Network Solutions

I wish all the best to MonsterCommerce as they look to double their staff and continue to expand and innovate in 2006 and beyond.

First Expos of 2006

John Martel — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:05:00 +0000

Barbara Hardie's first 2 Alternative Connections Expos of 2006 are posted on her web site.

Sunday, January 29, 2006
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Cromwell, CT

Sunday, March 26, 2006
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel
Marlborough, MA

For more information, including expo agendas, visit AngelConnections.com

Firefox 1.5 Is Awesome

John Martel — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:40:00 +0000

Well it's out, and has been for a little while now... the final release of Firefox 1.5 from Mozilla.

I installed it towards the end of November and got to say that it's better then ever! If you're still using MSIE, you really need to switch. Even casual web surfers are missing out on so much. And if you're a power user such as myself, you'll never go back to MSIE once you make the switch. For security alone you'd want to switch, but there are just so many great features in the program.

If you need some help in the transition from the "dark side" of MSIE, you can check out "Firefox: How to..." The unofficial guide to Firefox. If you hurry you can buy it for just $17, but the price will be going up soon.

Besides the standard features, you can also add on extentions that increase the fuctionality of Firefox. Once you have tabbed browsing setup, you may want a quick way to navigate between tabs. I just got an extention called foXpose, which allows you to see a small screen shot of all of your tabs and jump quickly from one to another. I've seen this sort of thing for every window on a Mac, now at least you can use it for web surfing.

You can find and search all the available extentions on the Firefox Add-ons page.

Some other favorites are; BetterSearch (add screenshots to search engine results pages), Sage (RSS Feed Reader), Deskcut, Forecastfox, Tab Clicking Options, BlankLast (for tabs) and NoScript for that extra bit of security. And when you've got a good list of extentions installed, get InfoLister to keep a record of all the extentions, plugins and themes you have.

Stop Internet Explorer

John Martel — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:10:00 +0000

I just found a cool site and of course in light of my last post about how much I love Firefox, and their 1 year birthday, it just made sense to mention this site.

StopIE.com
Help stop Internet Explorer, the world's most popular and worst internet browser. This site tells you how and why to switch.

Firefox Turns One Year Old

John Martel — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:35:00 +0000

Today is a great day - it marks about 1 year since I have used MSIE as my day to day browser. The reason? One year ago today, Firefox, a much better and safer web browser hit the market.

Since day one of using Firefox, I fell in love with it. How could you not love a web browser that in my experience crashes maybe once a month as opposed to every few days like MSIE? Firefox while not perfect, suffers from a lot fewer security problems than MSIE does.

And talk about customizations... it may have started out smaller, but today there are more than 700 extensions or "add-ons" for Firefox. Another feature that increases productivity immensely is tabs, a feature that MSIE to this day does not have in its current public release. (Those testing Vista finally can play with it though).

Happy Birthday Firefox
May this be the first of many great years to come!

I'm currently beta testing the Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 and look forward to the release of the final version, hopefully later this year!

Bill Gates Trivia

John Martel — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:10:00 +0000

Check out "14 things you didn't know about Bill Gates"

"Gates told his teachers in university he would be a millionaire by age 30."

Well, "Gates turned into a billionaire at age 31" so I guess he showed them!

Read More Bill Gates Trivia

Hundreds of New Books Added

John Martel — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Dicount New Age Books is growing...

Over 200 new titles were added to the site in October, including several books in the "Total" health series.

View these new titles.

Stay tuned, lots more new titles will be coming soon.

Marketing Your Home Business in Just 30 Minutes a Week

John Martel — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:52:00 +0000

It’s all the rage. It’s what everyone is talking about. It is unquestionably the most effective form of marketing available to home based business owners. It costs almost nothing, it takes about 30 minutes a week, and it makes your business stand out above the competition.

What is this thing that everyone is talking about? The buzz is about “article marketing” – the practice of providing royalty free content to websites, e-zines and newsletters.

It works like this: You write a simple article that is interesting to a particular group of people. It doesn’t have to be The Great American Novel, just about 500 words on the topic of your choice. Then you submit your article all over the web to ezine publishers, newsletter editors and content-laden websites.

When they publish your article (and they almost always do) your target market reads your words, sees you as an expert (after all, you’re a published author!) and they click on a link to your website that you conveniently provided at the end of the article. Viola! Instant, qualified traffic.

And it’s not fleeting traffic. Your article remains out there for people to find for weeks, months, even years. As new people happen across your article, they click the link and visit your site. You have a perpetual traffic machine, driving tons of pre-qualified, open-to-an-offer, interested traffic to your site. This is better than advertising, and far less expensive.

The problem is the effort of submitting your articles to enough sites that you really make a splash. Most authors will submit their articles to 20-30 places before getting totally burned out on the submission process. It’s tedious, dull, drudge work.

There are three online services that automatically submit articles for authors. Each of these services explain the intrinsic value of publishing your articles, and of course they each describe their services as best-in-class. They range from single submissions to unlimited submissions and from completely free to $119.85. Check them out and draw your own conclusions.

http://www.SubmitYourArticle.com

Sends out articles in three categories: * Internet marketing/online business * Self-improvement/motivation * Health and fitness. (They promise “Business-General” and “Finance/Investment” categories soon.)

Submits articles to an undefined number of ezine publishers and 15 or more article announcement lists with over 10,000 subscribers.

Special Feature: Offers an article management suite to retrieve, edit, or resubmit your article.

Cost: * Bronze membership, $37.00/month, you may submit one (1) article per month * Silver membership, $57.00/month, you may submit two (2) articles per month * Gold membership, $75.00/month, you may submit three (3) articles per month * Platinum membership, $90.00/month, you may submit four (4) articles per month

http://www.ThePhantomWriters.com

Accepts articles in nine categories: * Business and Marketing * Coaching and Personal Development * Health * Internet * Money Saving Tips * Home and Family * Pets * Writing Related * Christian.

Submits articles to about 20,000 publishers and webmasters. Depending on how you categorize your article, it will be submitted to appropriate publishers.

Special Feature: No limit to the number of articles that can be submitted. (Is this really a "special feature"? They seem to think so. I guess it's better than SubmitYourArticle.com's one article/month limitation)

Cost: * One article: $49.95 * Three articles: $119.85 + $39.95 per article thereafter.

Best Bet - http://www.ArticleMarketer.com

Accepts articles in 27 categories, with tons of subcategories which (for the sake of space) I won’t list here. These are the main categories: * Art * Books * Business (with 41 sub categories) * Consumer (6 sub categories) * Current Affairs * Education (1 sub category) * Entrepreneurship (19 sub categories) * Family (2 sub categories) * Finance/Accounting (12 sub categories) * Government * Health & Beauty (4 sub categories) * Hobbies (4 sub categories) * Home & Garden (2 sub categories) * Internet (22 sub topics) * Internet Marketing (9 sub categories) * Law & Legal (6 sub categories) * Politics * Psychology/Sociology * Recreation & Leisure (2 sub categories) * Religion (2 sub categories) * Self Improvement (3 sub categories) * Social Issues * Sports * Technology & Science (3 sub categories) * Travel & Tourism * Women’s Issues * Writing & Speaking (6 sub categories)

Submits articles to over 50,000 people. Depending on how you categorize your article, it will be submitted to appropriate publishers.

Special Feature: An “auto pilot” feature where an author can submit several articles at once and have them distributed on to a custom defined schedule. (That’s one of my favorite features. I just set it up for the month and don’t have to think about it again. The articles are consistently distributed.)

Cost:
Free Article Distribution: goes to over 2,000 people
Best Exposure: goes out to over 50,000 people: $8.95 for one article
3 months of Best Exposure: $39.95 for as many articles as you want to send out

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All three of these services seem to do a fine job submitting articles. They appear to have automated the process and articles are distributed within a few days of submission. Of course, each offers the disclaimer that your article will only get published if it’s interesting.

If you agree that Article Marketer is the best bet, then visit ArticleMarketer.com today!

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Guest Article By: Chris Ellington

Chris gives effective and easy to implement marketing strategies to small business owners and home business entrepreneurs. His Simplified Selling System has been a favorite of salespeople around the world. Get your free marketing strategies at http://www.simplifiedselling.com.