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How to increase profits and boost income
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If you’re selling products or services you’ll know that one of the biggest challenges we face is getting repeat traffic.
A great way to do that of course is by building a mailing list of opt-in subscribers or directing customers to your best products and services.
The problem is how to capture your visitor’s details without alienating them with a huge great hover popin or such like.
Well now I think I’ve found a solution…
I’ve recently come across a cool little script called Ultimate Footer Ad that slides a small strip up from the bottom of your browser.
You can use it to capture email subscribers, as well as convert visitors to rss subscribers or twitter followers.
It does it all…
What it doesn’t do is annoy your visitors by stopping them from reading your valuable content.
The feedback on this software has been amazing:
John Chow describes it as…
- One of the best promotional tools I have ever used.
And Legendary marketer Terry Dean had this to say…
- I’ve added 126 extra new subscribers to my list just in the past week.
Not only that, it’s dead simple to use. You can literally have this thing installed and running on your website in 10 minutes.
So if you’re looking for a way to increase traffic and revenues with your blog, hit the link below now to grab your copy before this really catches on…
Best wishes,
Quentin Brown
P.S. Top UK marketer Frank Haywood used this tool to increase his average daily blog subscription by 249.84%. So the longer you wait, the more subscribers you’re missing out on. Check out it out now
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Free list of video software!
I just wanted to share with you this tools.
With this software you can do all this tasks.
Free Studio is a single package which bundles all free software from DVDVideoSoft to work with DVD, video and audio files!
With this free software you can convert video and audio files between different formats and to iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and other portable devices; burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs; upload and download videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone and BlackBerry; perform basic editing of audio and video files.
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Free Studio is a single package which bundles all free software from DVDVideoSoft to work with DVD, video and audio files!
With this free software you can convert video and audio files between different formats and to iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and other portable devices; burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs; upload and download videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone and BlackBerry; perform basic editing of audio and video files.
Free YouTube Download
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter
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Free Video to Flash Converter
Free 3GP Video converter
Free Video to iPod and PSP Converter
Free Video to iPhone Converter
Free Video to MP3 Converter
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Free Video Dub
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Desktop Sharing for your business using Mikogo
Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support.
And it’s FREE for both commercial and private use.
Effective communication is the key to successful business. Although face-to-face communication can appear fast and straightforward, in many cases, it is simply impossible due to distance. Thus, people travel for their business meetings.
According to the statistics published by the UK Department for Transport, commuting and business trips constitute 19% of all trips made in 2008; and of all miles driven by car, almost 40% were composed of commuter and business travel. While business travel facilitates communication, it carries with it the substantial expense of both time and money.
Luckily, advances in technology have brought new possibilities. And desktop sharing software is one of these. Desktop sharing software is an application through which one can share computer screen content live over the Web with others. It might sound trivial, yet it is a powerful tool, applicable in various business occasions such as online meetings, web conferencing, web presentations, online training and remote support.
1. Online Meetings:
Desktop sharing allows for real time cross-office collaboration among many colleagues. By sharing the same screen content, such as an image, a graph, or a chart, meeting participants can see exactly what others are referring to very quickly.
Session time is shortened because the desktop sharing app saves you the time that you would have spent describing what you see to meeting participants. Moreover, the “switch presenter” function of the desktop sharing tool allows an appointed participant to share his/her screen. This transforms a one-way communication into an interactive one and thus makes the meeting more productive.
2. Web Conferencing:
Desktop sharing tools are frequently used to conduct web conferences as well. The presenter can use the desktop sharing tool to send out an invitation and inform attendees of the necessary info to join the web conference. There is no need to distribute files in advance because participants can view any files shown on the presenter’s screen in real-time or ask the presenter to transfer the files via the desktop sharing application’s file transfer feature.
3. Web Presentation:
Web presentations enabled via desktop sharing are a perfect way for companies to interact with customers and clients. With desktop sharing tools, not only can salespeople demonstrate their products but they can also invite customers to experience the product, such as software programs, by handing over remote control of the computer’s mouse/keyboard.
4. Online Training:
By using desktop sharing tools in employee training, companies can save considerable money because they no longer need to set up projector equipment or pay for the travelling cost of external lecturers. Instead, a lecturer’s teaching material can easily be shared from their computer screens via a desktop sharing app for all their participants to view. Lecturers can also utilize such desktop sharing features as “participant pointer” or “whiteboard” to engage trainees and thus create an interactive learning environment.
5. Remote Support:
Some desktop sharing tools include remote keyboard/mouse control function, which is particularly popular among IT companies. Now, with just a few mouse clicks to start the desktop sharing app, support personnel can request to view a clients’ computer screen as well as control the client’s keyboard and mouse and therefore offer timely technical support. One can also record the whole technical support session for documentation and any future cases.
Understanding the advantages of desktop sharing applications is one thing; finding the most suitable one to achieve the greatest effect may be another, especially when there are several desktop sharing tools on offer and each has its own features. Here are a few things to consider:
Functions
When choosing desktop sharing tools, start from scratch and list the functions that you truly need. For example, if remote support is part of your services, then you should exclude those without remote keyboard/mouse control.
Computer Knowledge
The point of using a desktop sharing app is to facilitate communication. High level technology only works when users know how to make it work. Thus, choose a tool that is accessible and easy for users, including the average computer novice.
Video Tutorials for PC and Mac
Security
In the business world, the confidentiality of business information is of great importance. Choose a desktop sharing tool that conveys your information in a secure way. 256-Bit AES encryption is widely recognized as a secure form of communication architecture.
Reliability
It is crucial that the desktop sharing solution is reliable. If it freezes during your session, this would disrupt the flow of communication; even worse, you would leave your customers/clients with an unprofessional impression.
Budget
A desktop sharing solution is not an exclusive privilege to big companies with huge budgets. Small businesses with small budgets can also enjoy the convenience brought forth by small business software including desktop sharing tools. Freeware is actually a good starting point as it does not incur any costs and usually includes the core functions you would need in online communication.
In a time of globalization, businesses and services take place anytime and anywhere. Desktop sharing solutions improve the efficiency and effectiveness of cross-office collaboration, online product demonstrations, employee trainings and customer services at little or no cost. With it, small businesses can save a substantial amount of time and money and achieve greater success.
Search Engine Optimization for Business
One of the key skills we teach you in The Internet Marketers Club is Search Engine Optimization.
Now there are a lot of courses around on this however we like to give it to you straight from the horses mouth.
The following link is the online Google’s SEO Starter Guide which is in PDF format.
This is the basics of Search Engine Optimization and once you have learnt this we can then move onto more advanced optimization techniques.
The Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing.
Videos
There are lots of videos available directly from google Chief Matt Cutts
These areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types.
Throughout the guide, they also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand their explanation of the topics. They plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.
Download the Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide
Google Products
Below is a list of all of the google products I could find. Add any more I have missed in the comments.
Standalone applications
- AdWords Editor (Mac OS X, Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista)
- Desktop application to manage a Google AdWords account. The application allows users to make changes to their account and advertising campaigns before synchronising with the online service.
- Chrome (Windows XP/Vista, GNU/Linux (Beta), Mac OS X (Beta))
- Web browser.
- Desktop search application, that indexes e-mails, documents, music, photos, chats, Web history and other files. It allows the installation of Google Gadgets.
- Virtual globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.
- Gmail/Google Notifier (Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP)
- Alerts the user of new messages in their Gmail account.
- Pack (Windows XP/Vista)
- Collection of computer applications — some Google-created, some not — including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Talk, and Google Chrome.
- Photos Screensaver
- Slideshow screensaver as part of Google Pack, which displays images sourced from a hard disk, or through RSS and Atom Web feeds.
- Photo organization and editing application, providing photo library options and simple effects.
- Picasa Web Albums Uploader (Mac OS X)
- An application to help uploading images to the “Picasa Web Albums” service. It consists of both an iPhoto plug-in and a stand-alone application.
- Quick search box (Windows, Mac OS X)
- A tool box like run in windows from where you can avail all the features of the run dialog, type a keyword and search google, type an application name (on your computer) to launch it, type a web URL and launch it from the default web client. This tool box is very user friendly. Based on Quicksilver (software).
- Secure Access (Windows 2000/XP)
- VPN client for Google WiFi users, whose equipment does not support WPA or 802.1x protocols
- SketchUp (Mac OS X and Windows 2000/Windows XP)
- Simple 3D sketching program with unique dragging interface and direct integration with Google Earth.
- Talk (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista)
- Application for VoIP and instant messaging. It consists of both a service and a client used to connect to the service, which uses the XMPP protocol.
- Visigami (Mac OS X Leopard)
- Image search application screen saver that searches files from Google Images, Picasa and Flickr.
- Pinyin IME (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Vista) (Google China)
- Input Method Editor that is used to convert Chinese Pinyin characters, which can be entered on Western-style keyboards, to Chinese characters.
Desktop extensions
These products created by Google are extensions to software created by other organizations.
- Blogger Web Comments (Firefox only)
- Displays related comments from other Blogger users.
- Dashboard Widgets for Mac (Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets)
- Gears (Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari)
- A browser plug-in that enables development of off-line browser applications.
- Send to Mobile (Firefox)
- Allows users to send text messages to their mobile phone (US only) about web content.
- Toolbar (Firefox and Internet Explorer)
- Web browser toolbar with features such as a Google Search box, phishing protection, pop-up blocker as well as the ability for website owners to create buttons.
Mobile products
Online mobile products
These products can be accessed through a browser on a mobile device or a standard desktop web browser such as Firefox.
- Blogger Mobile
- Only available on some US networks. Allows you to post to your Blogger blog from a mobile device.
- Calendar
- Read a list of all Google Calendar events from a mobile device. There is also the option to quickly add events to your personal calendar.
- Gmail
- Access a Gmail account from a mobile device using a standard mobile web browser. Alternatively, Google provides a specific mobile application to access and download Gmail messages quicker.
- News
- Access Google News on a mobile device using a simpler interface compared to the full online application.
- Google Mobilizer
- Makes any web page mobile-friendly.
- iGoogle
- Simple version of iGoogle – you must visit the information page to choose which modules to display on your personal mobile version as not all modules are compatible.
- Product Search
- Updated version of the previous Froogle Mobile
- Reader
- View Google Reader on a mobile device.
- Mobile search
- Search web pages, images, local listings and mobile-specific web pages through the Google search engine. If a webpage is not tailored for a mobile device Google will provide a simple text version of the webpage generated using an algorithm.
- Picasa Web Albums
- Lets you view photo albums that you have stored online.
- Google Latitude
- Google Latitude is a mobile geolocation tool that lets your friends know where you are via Google Maps.
- Google Maps Navigation (Mobile, Android only)
- A GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting.
Downloadable mobile product
Some of these products must be downloaded and run from a mobile device.
- Gmail
- A downloadable application that has many advantages over accessing Gmail through a web [interface] on a mobile such as the ability to interact with Gmail features including labels and archiving. Requires a properly configured Java Virtual Machine, which is not available by default on some platforms (such as Palm’s Treo).
- Maps
- Mobile application for viewing maps on a mobile device, available for Android (also includes navigation), BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Symbian, J2ME and Palm OS smartphones or any phone with a properly configured Java Virtual Machine.
- Mobile Updater (BlackBerry only)
- Keeps all Google mobile products up-to-date. Also allows installation or uninstallation of these products.
- Sync
- Synchronizes a mobile phone with multiple Google calendars as well as contacts using a Google Account.
- Talk (BlackBerry only)
- VoIP application exclusively for BlackBerry smartphones.
- Talk (Android only)
- Text chat application, lacking the VoIP function present in BlackBerry version.
- Sky Map (Mobile, Android only)
- Augmented reality program displaying a star map which is scrolled by moving the phone.
- YouTube
- A downloadable application for viewing YouTube videos on selected devices.
- Listen (Mobile, Android only, from Google Labs)
- A downloadable application for subscribing to and streaming podcasts and Web audio.
Web products
These products must be accessed via a Web browser.
Account management
- Dashboard
- Dashboard is an online tool that allows Google Account holders to view all their personal information Google is storing on their servers.
Advertising
- Ad Planner
- An online tool that allows users to view traffic estimates for popular web sites and create media plans.
- Ad Manager
- A hosted ad management solution
- Advertisement program for Website owners. Adverts generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis, and adverts shown are from AdWords users, depending on which adverts are relevant.
- Google’s flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.
- AdWords Website Optimizer
- Integrated AdWords tool for testing different website content, in order to gain to the most successful advertising campaigns.
- Audio Ads
- Radio advertising program for US businesses. Google began to roll this product out on 15 May 2007 through its existing AdWords interface, however has been discontinued.
- Calling system so users can call advertisers for free at Google’s expense from search results pages. This service was discontinued.
- Internet ad serving provider.
- Grants
- Scheme for non-profit organizations to benefit from free Cost-Per-Click advertising on the AdWords network.
- TV Ads
- CPM-driven television advertising scheme available on a trial basis, currently aimed towards professional advertisers, agencies and partners.
Communication and publishing
- Google 3D Warehouse is an online service that hosts 3D models of existing objects, locations (including buildings) and vehicles created in Google SketchUp by the aforementioned application’s users. The models can be downloaded into Google SketchUp by other users or Google Earth.
- Custom domain and service integration service for businesses, enterprise and education, featuring Gmail and other Google products.
- Weblog publishing tool. Users can create a custom, hosted blogs with features such as photo publishing, comments, group blogs, blogger profiles and mobile-based posting with little technical knowledge.
- Free online calendar. It includes a unique “quick add” function which allows users to insert events using natural language input. Other features include Gmail integration and calendar sharing. It is similar to those offered by Yahoo! and MSN.
- Document, spreadsheet and presentation application, with document collaboration and publishing capabilities.
- News feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities.
- Friend Connect is an online service that empowers website and blog owners to add social features to their websites. It also allows users to connect with their friends on different websites that have implemented Google Friend Connect on their website.
- Mini-applications designed to display information or provide a function in a succinct manner. Available in Universal or Desktop format.
- It is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are.
- Gmail (Also known as Google Mail)
- Free Webmail IMAP and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface. It was first released in an invitation-only form on April 1, 2004. Mobile access and Google Talk integration is also featured.
- iGoogle (Previously Google Personalized Homepage)
- Customizable homepage, which can contain Web feeds and Google Gadgets, launched in May 2005. It was renamed to iGoogle on April 30, 2007 (previously used internally by Google).
- Web clipping application for saving online research. The tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from pages while browsing, save them online, access them from any computer, and share them with others. Google recently stopped development on Notebook and no longer accepts sign-ups, While old users can still access their notebooks, newcomers are offered to try other services such as Google Docs and Google Bookmarks[1].
- Knol is a service that enables subject experts and other users to write authoritative articles related to various topics.
- Marratech e-Meeting
- Web conferencing software, used internally by Google’s employees. Google acquired the software from creator Marratech on April 19, 2007. Google has not yet stated what it will do with the product.
- Social networking service, where users can list their personal and professional information, create relationships amongst friends and join communities of mutual interest. In November 2006, Google opened Orkut registration to everyone, instead of being invitation only.
- Photos of the world.
- Online photo sharing, with integration with the main Picasa program.
- Web-based news aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It allows the user to search, import and subscribe to feeds. The service also embeds audio enclosures in the page. Major revisions to Google Reader were made in October 2006.
- Sites (Previously Jotspot)
- Website creation tool for private or public groups, for both personal and corporate use.
- SMS Channels (Google India Only)
- Launched September 2008, allows users to create and subscribe to channels over SMS. Channels can be based on RSS feeds.
- Questions and Answers (Chinese / Russian / Thai / Arabic Only)
- Community-driven knowledge market website. Launched on June 26, 2007 that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by other users. [1]
- Known as “GrandCentral” before 2009-03-11, this is a free voice communications product that includes a POTS telephone number. It includes a follow-me service that allows the user to forward their Google voice phone number to simultaneously ring up to 6 other phone numbers. It also features a unified voice mail service, SMS and free outgoing calls via Google’s “click2call” and 3rd party dialers.
- Still in early developmental stages, Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. [2]
- Popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. In October 2006, Google, Inc., announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for $1.65 billion USD in Google’s stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006.
- Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that enables you to contribute and read helpful information alongside any web page. The service came to be online since Sep 23, 2009?. [3]
Development
- Open Source mobile phone platform developed by the Open Handset Alliance
- A tool that allows developers to write and run web applications.
- Google’s site for developers interested in Google-related development. The site contains Open Source code and lists of their API services. Also provides project hosting for any free and open source software.
- Mashup Editor
- Web Mashup creation with publishing facilities, as well as syntax highlighting and debugging (Deprecated, since January 14, 2009).
- A set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites.
- Allows developers to create custom search results that Google users can add to their search pages.
- Webmaster Tools (Previously Google Sitemaps)
- Sitemap submission and analysis for the Sitemaps protocol. Renamed from Google Sitemaps to cover broader features, including query statistics and robots.txt analysis.
- An open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java.
- An Operating System utilizing the Linux kernel and a custom Window manager.
- A compiled, concurrent programming language developed by Google.
- Javascript tools used by Google products such as GMail, Google Docs and Google Maps
Mapping
- Mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing driving directions and local business search.
- Edit the map in more than a hundred countries and watch your edits go into Google Maps. Become a citizen cartographer and help map your world.
- Web Based building and editing tool to create 3D buildings for Google Earth.
- Imagery of Mars using the Google Maps interface. Elevation, visible imagery and infrared imagery can be shown. It was released on March 13, 2006, the anniversary of the birth of astronomer Percival Lowell.
- NASA imagery of the moon through the Google Maps interface. It was launched on July 20, 2005, in honor of the first manned Moon landing on July 20, 1969.
- An Internet tool for viewing the stars and galaxies, you can now access this tool through a browser version of “Google Sky”.
- Taxi, limousine and shuttle search service, using real time position of vehicles in 14 US cities. Ride Finder uses the Google Maps interface and cooperates with any car service that wishes to participate (discontinued as of October 2009).
- Public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface. Google Transit was released on December 7, 2005, and is now fully integrated with Google Maps.
(For Google Earth, see “Standalone applications“)
Search
- Accessible Search
- Search engine for the blind and visually impaired. It prioritises usable and accessible web sites in the search results, so the user incurs minimal distractions when browsing.
- E-mail notification service, which sends alerts based on chosen search terms, whenever there are new results. Alerts include web results, Groups results news, and video.
- Google submission database, that enables content owners to submit content, have it hosted and make it searchable. Information within the database is organized using attributes.
- Blog search
- Weblog search engine, with a continuously-updated search index. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Results can be viewed and filtered by date.
- Book Search (Previously Google Print)
- Search engine for the full text of printed books. Google scans and stores in its digital database. The content that is displayed depends on the arrangement with the publishers, ranging from short extracts to entire books.
- Online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Webmasters can choose to implement Google Checkout as a form of payment.
- Search engine for programming code found on the Internet.
- Once part of Google Translate, it is now a standalone service that allows searching of words and phrases from over 22 languages[2].
- Directory
- Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, but are sorted using PageRank.
- Directory (Google China)
- Navigation directory, specifically for Chinese users.
- Experimental Search
- Options for testing new interfaces whilst searching with Google, including Timeline views and keyboard shortcuts.
- Online news aggregator that mimics the experience of flicking through a newspaper or magazine, allowing visual search of stories in manner similar to microfiche.
- Searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Features include company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts, executives information, discussion groups and a portfolio.
- Web and e-mail discussion service and Usenet archive. Users can join a group, make a group, publish posts, track their favorite topics, write a set of group web pages updatable by members and share group files. [4]. In January, 2007, version 3 of Google Groups was released. New features include the ability to create customised pages and share files.
- Game that induces participants to submit valid descriptions (labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve Image Search.
- Image search engine, with results based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image and text adjacent to the image. When searching, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed.
- Collection of linguistic applications, including one that allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another, and another that allows searching in web pages located in a specific country or written in a specific language.
- Life Search (Google China)
- Search engine tailored towards everyday needs, such as train times, recipes and housing.
- Movies
- A specialised search engine that obtains Film showing times near a user-entered location as well as providing reviews of films compiled from several different websites.
- Music (Google China)
- A site containing links to a large archive of Chinese pop music (principally Cantopop and Mandopop), including audio streaming over Google’s own player, legal lyric downloads, and in most cases legal MP3 downloads. The archive is provided by Top100.cn (i.e. this service does not search the whole Internet) and is only available in mainland China. It is intended to rival the similar, but containing links to illegal music, service provided by Baidu.
- Automated news compilation service and search engine for news. There are versions of the aggregator for more than 20 languages. While the selection of news stories is fully automated, the sites included are selected by human editors.
- Feature within Google News, that allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.
- Search engine to search through millions of patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims and citations.
- Product Search (Previously Froogle)
- Price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products.
- Rebang (Google China)
- Google China‘s search trend site, similar to Google Zeitgeist. Currently part of Google Labs.
- Search engine for the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and scholarly fields. Today, the index includes virtually all peer-reviewed journals available online.
- Sets
- List of items generated when the user enters a few examples. For example, entering “Green, Purple, Red” produces the list “Green, Purple, Red, Blue, Black, White, Yellow, Orange, Brown.”
- SMS
- Mobile phone short message service offered by Google in several countries, including the USA, Japan, Canada, India and China and formerly the UK, Germany and Spain. It allows search queries to be sent as a text message. The results are sent as a reply, with no premium charge for the service.
- Creates tables of information about a subject from unstructured data
- Suggest
- Auto-completion in search results while typing to give popular searches.
- University Search
- Listings for search engines for university websites.
- U.S. Government Search
- Video search engine and online store for clips internally submitted by companies and the general public. Google’s main video partnerships include agreements with CBS, NHL and theNBA. Also searches videos posted on YouTube, Metacafe, Daily Motion, and other popular video hosting sites.
- Voice Local Search
- Non-premium phone service for searching and contacting local businesses
- Web History (Previously Google Search History / Personalized Search)
- Web page tracking, which records Google searches, Web pages, images, videos, music and more. It also includes Bookmarks, search trends and item recommendations. Google released Search History in April 2005, when it began to record browsing history[3], later expanding and renaming the service to Web History in April 2007.[4]
- Web search engine, which is Google’s core product. It was the company’s first creation, coming out of beta on September 21, 1999, and remains their most popular and famous service. It receives 1 billion requests a day and is the most used search engine on the Internet.
Statistics
- Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strong AdWords integration. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns, based on the statistics that are given. Analytics is based on the Urchin software and the new version released in May 2007 integrates improvements based on Measure Map.
- Gapminder
- Data trend viewing platform to make nations’ statistics accessible on the internet in an animated, interactive graph form.
- Graph plotting application for Web Search statistics, showing the popularity of particular search terms over time. Multiple terms can be shown at once. Results can also be displayed by city, region or language. Related news stories are also shown.
- Zeitgeist
- Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists. Closed 22 May 2007 and replaced by “Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends“.
Hardware products
- Hardware device that can be hooked to corporate intranets for indexing/searching of company files.
- Reduced capacity and less expensive version of the Google Search Appliance.
- A 4U rack mounted server for Google Radio Automation system.
Other products
- Google’s directory assistance service, which can be used free of charge from any telephone in the US and Canada.
- Puts you in charge of your health information. It claims to be safe, secure, and free. Organize your health information all in one place.
Plantronics Savi Office
The other day I purchased a Plantronics Savi Office wireless phone set which enables me to talk on the phone or interent all from one convienent spot.
Add to this skype and google talk plus some recording software and I have a complete meeting house where I can talk and record teleseminars, interviews etc all from one convienent place.
The main reason I got this was I like to get away from the computer so now I can sit outside and enjoy the sun while still being connected.
BTC Direct here in Australia sells and services these great phones.
Some people do amazing things
November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008 one year on foot – 4646km through China unlimited beard & hair growth.
If you have ever made a movie you will appreciate the amount of work that has gone into this short video. Well done.
Be sure to watch full screen.
Enjoy
Quentin
Advanced Internet Marketing Strategies
Lots of people have been asking about what to do once you start making money on the Internet so I thought I would show you some of the things I look at.
Once you start getting some extra income you will need to develop some investment strategies and we will discuss some here for you.
Obviously once you start making money online it is good to get some advice from an accountant. When picking an accountant try and find one who is entreprenurial. You want one that can give advise besides just doing your tax.
As many of you know we run this program mainly to support our charity work where we teach orphans and disadvantaged youth in third world countries like Thialand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Next year we will be initiating Train the Trainer program where we will be working with some of the better students so they can start teaching as well. This site will be their main point of reference and so by simpluy joining the program you have helped us begin this project.
To achieve this we are looking at ways to raise more income and on the weekend I met a young lady called Carly Crutchfield who was talking about property development. I am going to list her presentation below if you are interested in this field.
Some other things we do is invest some in shares, the money market and long term investments and of course property.
We also look out for opportunites from our existing customers and clients. Building websites for other businesses can be a great source of potential business ideas.
For example this week we are building a site for a mechanic and learnt all about HID lighting for cars etc. Do a goole search for it.
This may develop into another business we can set up selling these kits.
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So thats what we do and here are Carley’s videos which explain property development. Here is the first one and the links to the others are below.
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqEjcQLOIA
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIvqX6kNxao
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e76AtOhiCO4
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bo49l-TX-4
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5oFR6J4PpY
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bf5uos7els
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-L9pCadUY
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVDqSaKE9M4
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNC5j0tunk
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJCmBDwOzpM
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftO2SWvf9D4
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6F1EiUF1bU
Selling or renting a property using Google Maps
GOOGLE has added a real estate search to its Google Maps application in Australia – letting users quickly check out a property’s “location, location, location” online.
http://maps.google.com.au/help/maps/realestate/
The search covers buying and renting and lets users filter properties by type, price, location and real estate agent.
The properties are then displayed on the map, which automatically updates with relevant listings when panned or zoomed to another suburb or when the criteria is changed.
As a member of the IM Club this could be an interesting development if you wanted to get into providing the listing service for customers.
Clicking on a marker or a small circle provides more information about the listing, as well as the contact details of the listing agent and a link to their website.
Google spokesman Andrew Foster said the company had worked with local agents to provide a bank of listings before today’s launch.
“Google Maps gets used a lot as a research tool,” Mr Foster said. “People use things like Street View to check out a street before they go past the house to look at.
“Real estate companies can also integrate their property management systems and listing systems directly with maps so that when the status of a property changes they can send that update directly to it.”
The feature also allows independent sellers to list their properties for free, so long as they are shown on a website.
“People can upload a feed of all of their properties and they can do that one or more times a day to keep the information up to date,” Mr Foster said.
According to Nielsen statistics, 87 per cent of Australians looking for real estate are using the web to find properties.
The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) is one of the first Australian companies to list their properties on Google Maps.
Spokesman Greg Brier today said the industry was always trying to keep up with changes to technology.
“The industry has become very strongly focused around information technology and websites play a critical role in that,” Mr Brier said.
“With cities like Perth being so remote from the eastern seaboard, this kind of technology will be an advance for interstate investors who can do their research and go on virtual tours that they might have not seen.”
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