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Tools and resources available for free. Why pay for things when you don’t have to?

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[28 May 2009 | 3 Comments | 189 views ]
Easy Photo Editing with Picnik

Adding images to your blog posts or to your website is a really effective way to dress things up and add to your message, and WordPress makes it silly-simple to do. But if you’re getting your images from your digital camera or a stock photo site, those images can be way too big to upload the way they are. They need resized, very likely.
I use PhotoShop to do this (and much more) to images for my site and my client work. But, what if you don’t want to buy and …

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[22 May 2009 | Comments Off | 188 views ]
Have You Gotten Your Report Card yet?

Today is the last day of school for my kids, so when they arrive home, I’ll be handed their report cards.
Have you gotten your report card(s), yet?
What? You didn’t know there were report cards for you? Oh yeah…and here they are:

Website.Grader.com – Free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website
PressRelease.Grader.com – Evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score
Twitter.Grader.com – Evaluates your Twitter profile
Facebook.Grader.com – Evaluates Facebook personal and business pages
Gobbledygook.Grader.com – Check your content for use of gobbledygook words
Personality.Grader.com – Evaluates your …

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[15 May 2009 | Comments Off | 357 views ]
Think Google Knows Everything? Check out WolframAlpha.com!

Have you ever tried to use Google to ask a specific question to get a specific answer? Doesn’t work all that well, does it?

Introducing WolframAlpha.com

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[11 May 2009 | 3 Comments | 263 views ]
The Unconventional Marketing Guidebook for Soul Proprietors

Marketing is a scary word for a lot of folks. Just the mere mention of the word send chills down some spines and conjures up the sleaziest of scare tactics and pressure sales antics imaginable. For example, how is it possible there are only 23 copies of an e-book left? A printed book – absolutely – all of the copies printed could be sold, but come on – only 23 “left” of an e-book? Do they think we’re stupid, or what?
Let me introduce you to my friend, Marty Marsh. …

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[3 May 2009 | Comments Off | 548 views ]
Social Media Marketing Survey Says…!

Social media marketing – is it really effective, or is it just a great way to feel busy, like you’re doing something to promote your business?
If Social Media Marketing is something you?ve been interested in exploring, you?ll want to download and read this excellent report, ?SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING INDUSTRY REPORT: How Marketers Are Using Social Media to Grow Their Businesses? by Michael Stelzner. You get the report absolutely free. (You don?t have to enter an email address or anything.)
Michael set out to uncover the “who, what, where, when …