This Wednesday I’ll be interviewing Christina Hills live about her interactive WordPress workshop. Christina can help you overcome the technical learning curve so that you can set up and manage your own website on a WordPress platform.

Join us live on Wednesday at 1:00 Eastern (10:00am Pacific):
http://www.websitecreationworkshop.com/lynn/

The interview on Wednesday is not the actual workshop, but it will give you an opportunity to learn more about it – and decide if it may be right for you.

Most people that I have talked to are frustrated with starting their online business for one of two reasons: 1) struggling to set up a blog or website, or 2) frustrated with outsourcing the design & development due to lack of knowledge and understanding (ie what to request, or double check).

Unless you have a web dev background yourself, I’m sure you can relate to one or both of those scenarios. Not to mention the cost of design and development, changes you realize need to be made, and ongoing site/blog maintenance.

I know people who have spent thousands of dollars – and still don’t have a working website.

Even if you plan to outsource, it pays to know what needs to be done and why. Not to mention what doesn’t, so you don’t get sold a whole slew of services you don’t even need…

I hope you’ll join us for this live call. Also leave your questions and personal experiences below. Christina and I both will be checking in on your comments leading up to the call on Wednesday.

Best,

p.s. Be sure you click here and sign up for the free call so you don’t miss out:
http://www.websitecreationworkshop.com/lynn/

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If you had to answer without putting too much thought into it, would you say that the majority of your time online is spent creating content – or consuming content?

For awhile now I’ve been on a one-way street. I’ve been so busy creating and managing my content that I haven’t had much opportunity to read or study anything new.

I’d be willing to bet you’re having the opposite problem – you’ve been so busy consuming and studying content that you haven’t had much time left over to work on creating your own contribution to the web. Am I right?

Both of those scenarios present their own set of problems.

Obviously you are going to have a difficult time getting your online business up and running if you are too busy downloading, reading and studying. There are only so many hours in a day.

Likewise, it’s very easy to become stagnant if you aren’t consuming niche news and information on current trends. One of the keys to being a market leader in your niche is to be in a position to report on that news, and share opinions and actionable tips with your readership.

The key is to find balance between creating and consuming.

I realized that very recently, and have been making strides toward improvements. This is one of the primary reasons that I have been attending more internet marketing events and studying new info products.

On the flip side, if all you do is attend events and study guides & blogs… you aren’t publishing or creating. Which is not going to get you anywhere fast.

Prior to the rise of Social Media, people either got online to publish information or to consume information. Now most users are both creating and consuming information every time they log on. So in addition to following news and trends, you also want to keep an ear on the conversations related to your niche(s). Not only should you read those discussions, you should get involved in them.

The first thing I recommend is that you keep a Time Log for the next 72 hours. Make note of how much time you spend working, and exactly how you are spending that time. Simply keep a notepad on your desk or beside your laptop, and keep an ongoing log of times & tasks.

You can take it a step further and document your entire day for the next 3 days. Including family obligations, tv time, sleep, social events, etc. It’s incredibly enlightening, and you will see areas where you can make dramatic improvements right away. (This is one of the reasons I use paper & pen vs software that tracks online activities only)

Next, set up systems and schedules for both consuming and creating. There are a lot of options including software, outsourcing, mobile apps, and different strategies. What works best for one person won’t be the ideal solution for the next, so you want to choose a system that works best for you.

I put NewsRob Pro on my Droid so that I can access my Google Feed Reader on the go. This cuts out my consumption time in front of the computer, and allows me to keep up with topics and Google Alerts while I’m mobile. I find it’s much more efficient to keep an eye on them when I have a spare minute here and there, than to get completely drawn in for an hour or more while I’m sitting at my desk.

That won’t work for everyone, but it works great for me.

Also set aside a specific amount of time every day to create. Make it a routine until it becomes a habit. Set a timer for 30, 60 or 90 minutes during this time and turn everything else off so that you can focus on publishing for your niche.

Whether you’re working on a new product, blogging, mailing your list – whatever you’re doing, make time to do that consistently.

Start with the Time Log. It’s a simple exercise that can make a huge difference. Are you consuming too much information and not creating enough (or any) yourself? Are you out of the loop because you aren’t keeping an eye on the content & conversations others are publishing? Make it a point to find some balance with all of the information, and make sure it’s flowing smoothly on both sides…

Best,

p.s. If you choose to take the Time Log challenge, I would love to hear what stands out to you most from analyzing the way you spend your time working online. Did you see an immediate area where you can make serious improvements?

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You’ve heard it a thousand times: the money’s in the list. If you’re serious about getting results online, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list.

So how do you get people to sign up for your email newsletter?

You probably already know the answer to this one: Reward them. Give subscribers something great as a “thank you” for signing up. This is usually some form of content — a useful video, a killer PDF special report or white paper, an exclusive podcast.

Sure, everyone else does that. Because it works.

It works . . . if you do it the right way.

Giving away something good will get people to sign up for your email list, no question.

The problem is, what address will they do it with?

It’s not like it’s hard to find an email address. Gmail is just one of the many excellent services that will give you one (or a bunch) for free.

Double opt-in forces your reader to give you a real email address. But real addresses are cheap. Readers have dozens of ways to capture your valuable free reward, then ditch the rest of your email once they’ve got their prize.

They might unsubscribe (best case scenario). They might throw the email address away or just quit checking it. They might set up a filter that automatically pours your messages right into their Delete folder.

If they’re jerks, they may just mark you as spam so they don’t have to see you again, rather than take the “trouble” of unsubscribing. It happens.

(Incidentally, this is why you must make it stupidly easy to unsubscribe from your stuff. If it’s more than a click or two, you’ll regret it.)

You can’t make anyone pay attention to you in the virtual world. You can’t trick them into it either, at least not for more than a few seconds.

Some of the smartest traditional advertising writers figured this out a long time ago. They created advertising that didn’t look like advertising . . . advertising that was inherently useful.

Make your advertising too valuable to throw away

It’s funny how many of our moms’ and grandmas’ most-treasured recipes came from the back of product boxes.

Food packagers know that recipes are irresistible. Human beings are an omnivorous and naturally curious creature. We enjoy novelty. We benefit from eating a variety of foods.

Put simply, we want something new for dinner.

Recipes teach readers how to use more of the product being sold. And recipes feel inherently valuable. They promise a fantastic collection of benefits: Exciting new tastes, happy family members, harmony at dinner time, and kids who will actually eat their green beans.

Recipes, including back-of-the-box recipes, get clipped and passed along and carefully preserved. A good-sounding recipe is reason enough to try that pancake mix or new pasta shape.

The recipe on the back of the peanut butter jar is advertising, yes. But it’s advertising that actually gets your attention. It’s too valuable to throw away.

Your topic has a recipe

Some topics have literal recipes. (Weight loss being the most obvious one.) The act of nourishing ourselves has spawned hundreds of sub-niches, from slow food to raw food to grab-some-calories-on-the-run food.

For most topics, the “recipes” are metaphorical.

You might teach a recipe for financial independence. A recipe for a fulfilling retirement. A recipe for getting a better job. A recipe for a happy marriage.

Some recipes are complex and some are simple. Some readers want Gourmet and some want White Trash Cooking. You’re the one who decides how easy you’ll make the recipes you offer.

You can use a recipe anywhere

Great blogs usually give lots of good recipes. The special report or white paper can be a single very strong recipe. And a great information product or membership site is often a collection of recipes that work together.

But one of my very favorite spots for a recipe is the email newsletter. More specifically, it’s the email autoresponder, a tool that I now consider essential for every marketing project I work on.

Newsletters (what’s new in your business, what’s the latest promotion, what fresh exciting offers can you make to your customer) are an excellent tool. But they’re 1000 times better when they kick off with a terrific autoresponder.

Maybe it’s 8 Tips for Being a Better Dad, or 7 Ways to Know if Stock Trading is Right for You, or 20 Keys to Internet Marketing Success.

There are always a number of steps. (In fact, they look a lot like our friend the numbered list post, don’t they?) They always build on one another. And they’re always a recipe for some result the reader wants to have.

A sequence of steps trains your reader

Are you seeing why this works better than a single-shot special report, podcast, or video?

When you create an email sequence that forms a killer recipe, the reader develops the habit of opening each message. It’s got a critical step, after all, to the recipe he’s trying to cook up.

Sure, he can still ditch you when he’s finally captured the final sequence. But by that time, if you’ve given a recipe worth having, you’ve created some trust. Your reader has started to know and like you. You’ve built a little sense of reciprocity.

You’ve emailed him 9 times in a row and you haven’t sent him any crap. Just valuable, good stuff that gets him a result he wants.

Think he’s likely to open that 10th email?

The recipe for a great email autoresponder

1. Make sure your “recipe” delivers a solution that your reader really wants.
2. Break your recipe into a sequence of 7 – 10 steps. (You can do more if you’re ambitious.) It’s best if each step delivers a positive result and stands on its own.
3. Deliver your recipe via the autoresponder function of your email marketing program. If your program doesn’t let you put together a robust autoresponder, find a new program.
4. Write the best content you can for your autoresponder. The time you put in now can continue to work hard for your business for years to come.
5. Rather than selling your products or services, start to “sell” your terrific free autoresponder. It will build trust and rapport so that down the line you can fully explain all the benefits of what you do.
6. If you want an example of what we mean, take a look at our own version, the free Copyblogger Internet Marketing for Smart People newsletter.

How about you? Are you delivering a recipe to your readers? What formats are working well for you? Let us know about ‘em in the comments.

About the Author: Sonia Simone is Senior Editor of Copyblogger and a co-founder of Inside the Third Tribe.

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At the beginning of the year we discussed predictions for 2010, and I mentioned that Offline Consulting – or offering online marketing services to offline business owners – would be a huge opportunity this year and beyond.

My friend Maria Gudelis has put together an Offline Money Mindmap and a system to set you up to take advantage of this hot business model. You’ll get the mindmap you can use in your presentation with offline business owners, video instructions on how to present (to double your close!), a training webinar and more.

This system is normally $197, but Maria has extended a generous special offer for ClickNewz readers to get it all for only 17 bucks! Keep reading to find out how…

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In the video above, Maria outlines the 2 things you need to be successful in this business model – and how easy it is to earn money just doing what you already know. You’ve spent the time to learn things like social media, blogging, search engine optimization, video marketing, branding, content development, etc. This is exactly what local business owners need in order to compete in the current & future landscape!

Huge Market, Huge Demand

Offline business owners are struggling with high advertising rates and low return. They may be running pay-per-click advertising online with poor results due to lack of keyword targeting & ad writing skills – if they even know about the opportunity at all! Many of them are completely lost as to where to even begin making use of the social media tools. And there are many out there who aren’t even online at all…

This is where you can step in and put your skills to good use, help them achieve awesome results, and earn a great income all at the same time.

Just one of my clients Lynn, who paid me $5,000 upfront and $2,000 a month for SEO and branding has realized a return over one year of an increase in their sales of over $600,000 (that is right from the clients CFO)

Maria Gudelis’ Offline Money Mindmap course provides you with a ‘magical piece of paper ‘ that will get you hired. It presents a simple step by step system that they can easily understand, and that you can use as your service model.

Maria says: I’ve had many clients say to me that I’m the first marketing company that has demonstrated such a clear and concise plan for their business – and that is exactly why they hired me.

There are a lot of courses and guides out there about the Offline Consulting model. Many of them are high priced, and some of them are offered by people who are not even consulting offline themselves. Maria has offered to share the exact system that she is using herself – and she is practically giving it to you for only $17!

Hey – my special coupon code for you to get that $17 deal is “clicknewz” (that is a 87.8% discount!) Go to www.offlinemoneymindmap.com

With all of the time you’ve invested to learn Internet Marketing, if you’re not already making a consistent monthly income at it… this may just be the perfect business model for you.

Best,

disclosure: this blog post was sponsored by Maria Gudelis

This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work.

Nicole Johnson wants to get babies and their moms some much-needed rest. She’s packed napping plans, schedules, and strategies into her $37 ebook/consultation package. She’s tried different pricing, Google Adwords, different offers, freemiums, and more to pop conversion, but her results still ping between a snoozy 0.5 to 3%.

She has good traffic, but needs more help getting those tired, sleepy moms to buy. Let’s see if we can’t help Nicole give her sales a much-needed wakey-wakey.

• The Goal: Increase conversion (currently below 4%).
• The Problem: Nearly 3,000 visitors monthly, who show an interest in the free information but don’t ultimately translate to sales.
• Content Marketing Strategies: Various. Nicole’s free Baby Nap Guide is one piece she uses to get users into her email funnel
• The Current Landing Page: www.babynapswell.com (home page)
• Value: $24.95 to $37

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The Maven’s 10-Point Critique

#1 – Your first screen has to answer the question — Why do moms want their babies to nap?

Because they’re exhausted! They want a relaxed, rested child and a chance for themselves to rest and recharge for a few hours. They’re desperate for RELIEF and they want it now.

What’s the deep, realized benefit to your ebook? Your ebook helps break the vicious no nap/irregular nap cycle, makes mom feel more competent and secure as a parent, and makes it easier to enjoy her baby.

So here’s the problem — you’ve got 2-3 seconds from the first screen to get your reader involved in your message. Perhaps they’ve already reviewed the free nap info, perhaps not. In either case, you don’t present them with a rich, emotionally resonant headline. You’ve basically repeated the banner head as if it was a headline. It’s not. At first glance, I also have no idea you’re selling anything at all. It isn’t clear to me.

So be clear. Develop and test your headlines that speak directly to the mom’s emotional environment — Too tired to enjoy your baby? Dread the nap-time power struggles day after day? In just XX days, you CAN turn your pint-sized nap-fighter into a sweet-smiling, nap-lover. All you need are the right strategies and tools . . . and so forth.

#2 — Get personal. Get emotional. Talk to your readers, Mom-to-Mom, in a letter format.

Dear Cranky Mom,

A few years ago, I was just like you. I was a new mom with a new baby that no matter what I did wouldn’t nap or when she did, it was short and fitful. When this kind of stuff goes on too long, even the most confident mom in the world begins to think she stinks at this mom thing. I was sure I was doing something wrong but I didn’t know what to do instead.

Your current copy is factual, but a little bloodless. It doesn’t speak to the heart and the desperation that I know I felt when my kids were little and wouldn’t sleep. If ever there was a problem/solution fraught with anxiety and a deep need for help, this is it. Make sure your copy reaches the frazzled mom with solace and hope that she will, once again, get a chance of closing her own eyes for an hour or two in the afternoon.

Get personal with video. I think this could be very effective for you, especially if done professionally. (I don’t think a simple chat to the webcam would support your value or credibility.) Imagine how wonderful it would feel to “Tired Mom” to have someone talk right to her and tell her that relief is in sight.

#3 — Make the case why napping issues need a $37 solution.

There are a ton of books, sites, products, and even support groups devoted to sleeping issues. I wondered why I needed a special book about napping as opposed to a broader sleep solution. That’s probably the biggest challenge you have to overcome. You’ll want to make sure your copy continues to underscore how the daytime napping problems are different and need a different set of strategies to solve them.

#4 — Show and tell the product you’re selling. Put your first call to action in the first screen.

If you want people to know you’re selling a book, you gotta show them the book and YOU’VE GOT TO SHOW THEM THE TITLE. I didn’t even realize your ebook was called “Mastering Naps and Schedules” until I saw it mentioned in a testimonial at the end of the second screen.

Your cover is very appealing so I’d definitely give it above-the-fold prominence, perhaps working it into the banner art. You also need to give your prospects the opportunity to order at several points in the copy, starting with the first screen. You want one button, text link or other call-to-action (CTA) device per screen scroll. (Right now, it takes me 3 screens to locate the order buttons.)

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I prepared a heatmap so you can see what people look at and what they look at first. Too much attention to elements that don’t promote your message means lost sales opportunities for you. (Free heatmap courtesy of the technology at Feng-GUI.com.)

#5 — Tell me precisely what I will get and learn from your ebook.

Give your readers a bulleted list or two of goodies, and be specific.

• 28 proven strategies that will . . .
• 3 easy-to-use tools that make . . .
• 12 ways to get well-meaning grandma off your back . . .

Etcetera. Nothing strengthens copy more than specificity. You already do some of this. Do more.

Also, take the feature and expand it into its core benefit. For example, “How to get LONGER naps” becomes “10 ways to get longer naps from your baby and more couch-time for you.”

#6 — Emphasize that your system works for nearly all babies and parents.

Everyone, including me, thinks their baby and parenting situation is unique. That’s why you’ll want to make sure your copy reinforces that your system works for nearly all young children — preemies, internationally adopted toddlers, twins, and also that it works for all sorts of moms and dads. Use your testimonials as a way of underscoring this.

Think about personas representing your customer types. Who is this ebook really for? Write out 3-5 ’stories,’ each representing a key member of your core parenting market, and make sure your copy delivers the message, “Yes, this ebook is perfect for someone like me,” for each one of them.

#7 — Establish and reinforce your expertise on the subject. Add a headshot.

Who are you and why are you qualified? That’s another one of the big challenges your copy needs to address. Unless I missed it, I don’t see anything about you. If you want me to spend $XX, I want to know enough about you to think I’m spending my money wisely. You don’t have to have an alphabet soup of degrees following your name, but you do need to reveal something of yourself and background within the context of your offering.

#8 — Edit, edit and edit some more.

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Your moms are tired. Their eyes are glazing over looking at dense, forbidding text in super long paragraphs.

Think shorter, 2-5 line paragraphs. Use lots of subheads and bulleted lists to hook the eye and make scanning and scrolling less like a chore. People only need the science/other background about napping to support your ebook’s information. Don’t give more background than is necessary to help folks make a decision to purchase.

#9 — Test a 2-column format. Load your sidebar with testimonials.

Get the bulk of your “Mom-and-Baby-Tested” testimonials here. Again, edit these judiciously. You want each of these to amplify and illustrate your ebook’s core strengths. I’d also get some pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, daycare center directors, home daycare moms, etc. to weigh-in with their big thumbs-up. Run these short, punchy kudos adjacent to your main copy.

#10 — Simplify the offer.

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You need to differentiate your offers more emphatically with titling– “The Deluxe Complete BabyNapsWell System with Personal Consultation” and the “Standard BabyNapsWell System” — and with better design. I might box these and play them side by side. Perhaps add your headshot into the Deluxe box as a reminder of the relief AND personal attention your prospect is about to purchase.

BONUS:

I’d think about giving your ebook a new title. This is a huge topic for so many parents living in the fog of “my baby never sleeps.”

“Mastering Naps and Schedules” lacks the emotional juice of “No More Naptime Tears: Get Your Baby to Love Naptime So You Can Love Yours” — or something like that. You want a title that clearly, perhaps cleverly gets the point across fast. You want your title to spell RELIEF IS AT HAND.

My thanks to Nicole Johnson for her patience and support of Heifer International. Look for my next makeover in approximately 3 to 4 weeks.

Want to get a future Copywriting Maven landing page makeover?

Got a landing page that’s more poop than pop? Willing to share with Copyblogger readers? Prepared to put a little of your own “skin in the game” for a Maven Makeover? Then follow your click to Maven’s Landing Page Makeover page for all the details. I’m booked for gratis “Heifer” critiques until 05/15/10.) If you’re interested in a private critique/makeover, site audit, or other services, please email me directly.)

About the Author: Roberta Rosenberg is The Copywriting Maven at MGP Direct, Inc. Find her @CopywriterMaven on Twitter.

When you write a post for your blog, your headline is the last thing you should be thinking about.

OK, I realize this is Copyblogger heresy.

There’s a lot of emphasis on writing a good headline. Hell, I’ve written posts about how to write an eye-grabbing title myself. Brian wrote an entire series on headlines (including a post on why you should always write your headline first), and he’s been known to come up with some pretty catchy ones.

But while crafting a good headline is critical to getting people to read a blog post, open the email, or get past the headline to the copy, it’s actually the last thing you should be thinking about when you first sit down to write.

Who’s your audience?

Get this wrong and you can mess up a lot of potentially awesome headlines.

Your headline could fit the perfection checklist to a T. It could be a list with a number. It could have action words. It could be creative, intriguing, ask a question, be a little crazy, hint at a secret. But if it isn’t written for the right audience, you’re screwed.

5 Powerful Headlines that Get You All the Chicks — and How to Write Them

That’s a pretty decent headline right there. But if the majority of your audience is work-from-home mothers, that headline isn’t going to get you as far as it would if you were writing for an audience of straight single men.

Know who your audience is, and know what kind of language appeals to them. Lexi Rodrigo wrote a post not too long ago about feminine words that sell. There were plenty of responses to that post in the comment section, some of them from women saying which words wouldn’t necessarily appeal to them, and why.

You have to get in the brain of your audience, and you have to know the words that work for them.

There are no short cuts. It’s not just about appealing to women or men — the question is, which women or men. You have to figure out your precise audience, and you have to write directly to the way those specific people are feeling when they read your post.

What do you want them to do?

If your blog attracts new customers and enthusiasts, then every single post you write should let your audience know what you want from them.

Now hang on there — before you run away because you run a strictly informational, no-sales blog, we’re talking to you too.

Even if you have no intention of getting sales from your blog, you still want your readers to do something.

You want them to think about what you’ve written. You want them to feel something. You want them to take some sort of action. You want them to comment. You want them to get into conversations with other people. You want them to follow you on Twitter or friend you on Facebook.

You want all kinds of stuff. And yeah, sometimes you even want sales. But before you scribble down that headline and start writing, you need to know what you want. Then you need to leverage your headline to make sure you get it.

What are you going to give them?

Brian recommends writing your blog title before you write the post, and I agree with that as a general rule. Writing down your headline reminds you of what the focus of your post is supposed to be.

But even if you haven’t written the post yet, you still need to know what you’re going to be writing about. This makes logical sense — and oddly, a lot of people don’t seem to think about it.

They say they’re going to offer you “10 Secrets of Copywriting” and they write that headline down, but what they end up writing about is common knowledge on every marketing blog out there.

If your title is going to be about secrets, you need to be prepared to write about secrets. If you’re only prepared to write about what someone already knows, then you’re not going to be able to deliver on the promise of your title.

Before you write your headline, you need to know you’ll back up the promise it’s making.

All right, then. Have you thought about all that? Good. Now you’re ready to tackle the last thing you need to think about:

What’s your headline going to be?

Your headline might need to be last on your task list, but last doesn’t mean least important. Often, it means just the opposite.

How about you? What else do you think people need to do before they get to their headlines?

About the Author: James Chartrand is the copywriter setting your business priorities in the right order. Check out Men with Pens for more tips, tricks and techniques on how to write better blog posts, or better yet, sign up for the Men with Pens RSS feed right here.

I got in late last night from the Underground Seminar event in DC – yes finally, after several flight delays and an unexpected overnight stay at the Hyatt! – so I’m just sitting down to my desk this morning for the first time in 6 days… What a mess!

While my desk space is actually clean, well – after I went through the stack of mail at least, I was a bit overwhelmed at the number of Firefox windows and tabs I left open. Everything from PDF files to blog posts to things I was in the middle of when I left last week. I must be truly ADD to have so many things going at once!

I thought it would be fun to give you a super-quick sneak peek at the content of all those tabs & windows…

Here goes, in no particular order:

Aweber’s Improved Broadcast Archive
You can now add an opt-in box to your email archive pages, which is cool!

One of my 4 Gmail accounts

SSWT Discussion Forum
I was actually in the middle of a reply, even!

ThirdTribe Community
The topic this month is “Email Marketing Strategies That Work”

How to Launch Your Ebook (PDF)
A product launch guide by Dave Navarro I am currently reviewing

Using Surveys & Polls for Publicity, Part One and Two
Blog posts by Shannon Cherry

Highlights from a 2-hour interview Jack Born and Bryan Todd did with PJ Eby
With interest in the links to Perry Marshall’s Renaissance Club

Members Area for Guest Posting (by Chris Garrett)
Open to a list of sources for guest blogging opps & guest bloggers

Random Thoughts on Being An Entrepreneur
Funny! – on GapingVoid.com

Optimizing for Rich “Jump To” Snippets
an SEO article

WordTracker’s Free Keyword Tool
open to a set of keyword search results I’m analyzing for an upcoming series

Business Strategy Smackdown: Membership Sites Vs. Virtual One-Offs
by Jonathan Fields

3 Tabs for an Affiliate Program I just joined
affiliate login, sales page, affiliate tools

How To Create Amazing Side-By-Side Interviews Using Skype
…with plans to do this

James Schramko’s Blog
because I think he’s cool and I keep running into him all over the world!

Affiliate Sign-up Page for the new Transcription Cash Course
I’ve previewed it – it’s good!

Twitter Advertising Business Model Coming Soon
on Tech Cocktail

Craigslist – where I’m searching for cars, real estate, great danes up for adoption and other random stuff…

Apple Downloads: Screenflow
Need to download that on my Macbook Pro

Elance Made Easy by Susan Hill (PDF)
I just opened this one this morning to print & review

And of course Facebook, Twitter and the Comments tab in the backend of ClickNewz. So there you have it – all the stuff that is currently spread across my desktop. My mission today is to read it, print it, review it, delegate it, or whatever it takes to get back to some sort of manageable workspace!

Best,

p.s. It’s really great to be back in my office. I can’t wait to dig in, catch up on the discussions at my forum, and start implementing all the cool action points I picked up at Underground 6!