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Are You Suffering From Information Overload?

30 juin

This seems to be a common complaint from Internet marketers. There’s too much info out there and they can’t keep up with it all. As a result, they’re completely overwhelmed and get nothing done. Are you one of these poor souls? If you are, don’t fret. There are ways to deal with information overload. Even as an established and successful marketer for over five years now, I have to deal with this problem as well. In this article, I am going to share my personal tips for dealing with information overload. I have no doubt that you will find these to be very helpful.

At the top of my list is doing just that…making a list. What kind of list? Let’s say that you’ve decided that you want to learn pay per click advertising, list building, article writing and copywriting. Now, obviously, you can’t learn all of those all at one time. Your head will explode. So what I do is make a list of each item I want to learn and order them according to importance. In other words, which one do I need the most right away? I then concentrate on that one and ONLY that one until I have mastered it. I then cross if off my list and move on to the next thing. Trust me, this is a very effective method to dealing with information overload.

Another great method for dealing with information overload is developing what I call tunnel vision. This is a little harder to do, but if you can pull this off, you’ll be way ahead of the game. Let me try to explain how this works. Let’s say that I am working on a project that requires me to do certain things and have certain skills. I will look at my list of things I want to learn and see if any of those skills for that certain project are on it. If so, I will tackle ONLY that skill and master it. I will pretend that the other skills don’t even exist, no matter how tempting it might be to include them in the project. If they’re not needed, pretend they don’t exist.

Basically, what this all comes down to is discipline. And quite honestly, I don’t know how to teach that. Yes, it’s very easy to see the new shiny ebook on whatever and convince yourself that you have to have it. But if you really look at it rationally, you’ll discover that there are very few things that you really need.

And THAT is how you handle information overload.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Affordable Mentoring Services From A Marketer In The Trenches. I’ll keep you on track.

http://www.stevewagenheim.com/mentoring/mentoring.html

 
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Social Links

30 juin

Back in my last post here that I entitled Link to Your Success, I talked about some extra ways of obtaining good, strong keyword anchored backlinks for your sites. Well in this instalment, I’m going to follow that on with another useful way of obtaining links directly for your blogs as well as helping their SERPs ranking at the same time.

Most bloggers have heard of Digg, or the many clones that are available to submit your posts to in order to boost traffic. Such sites that emulate Digg are driven by software that comes from pligg.com and are known as « pligg » sites. I’ll tell you a little more about pligg in a moment. But how many bloggers know that by submitting posts to some of the lesser well known social bookmarking sites can actually benefit your blog more?

Some, like Blogging Zoom are getting big and more popular, but are still very useful for building links and boosting SERPs authority for individual blog posts. They do that by publishing your submitted posts on their main page after your post gets a certain number of votes from othe rmembers of the site. With Blogging Zoom that number is currently 15. So if you join a site like that, it pays to make friends!

But that idea can be followed on to the next level by the smart Internet Marketer. How?

Build your own social pligg site!

Yes, if you have your own web host, then you can build your own pligg site, publicise it and attract new members to build the site from the ground up. Pligg.com provide the software free of charge, so its just a case of downloading it, creating a new MySQL database in your cPanel, following their instructions and uploading the files to your server. You can also download a free template if you don’t like the original and with some cosmetic tweaking, you can have your very own, Google friendly social site up and running within a few hours.

The benefits of running your own pligg site are obvious – you can submit all your own posts to it and build up lots of links to your blogs as well as boost their SERPs rankings. In the early stages, you can set the number of votes to 5 to get your posts onto the front page fast, so their links carry with them any Page Rank your new site has.

A timely tip is to buy an expired domain that already comes with some Page Rank and established links to ensure it keeps it. You, of course can promote your new pligg site and get it more backlinks to further establish its authority quickly.

As you may have guessed by now, I have done exactly what I have been telling you about, so that the information is coming straight from the horse’s mouth! Yep, I built my own pligg site called TheFB and you can easily register for free and then submit blog posts to it directly from the site.

TheFB can be found by clicking on this link: TheFB

TheFB is a PR2 site at present, which I am building links for to improve its ranking over time. So feel free to sign up and make use of this valuable link building resource and get in on the ground floor. It takes only 5 votes to get your post to the front page at TheFB, so what have you got to lose?

And much to gain!

Terry Didcott
Owner of The Honest Way Forum

 
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Posted in Blogging, Guest Authors, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization

 

Publish / Print picture to you Coppermine Gallery using Windows Vista

29 juin

Since Windows Vita was released, Microsoft decided to hide the feature to publish pictures on te Gallery sites.

Here is a hack to get it back…

Here’s how to reclaim the joys of the Web Photo Publishing Wizard in Vista:

In the registry (or in the .reg file you downloaded from your photo gallery software), find:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PublishingWizard\PublishingWizard\Providers\NameOfYourGallery]

and change it to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PublishingWizard\InternetPhotoPrinting\DownloadedProviders\YouPhotoGalleryName]

You may have to adapt the path to fit with what you’ll find in the InternetPhotoPrinting registry folder.

To publish to your gallery, install the .reg file if you haven’t already.

Next, open the Windows Photo Gallery in Vista and select the photos you wish to upload.

Under Print, choose Order Prints. Your gallery should show up as a « company » to send prints to. Walk through the rest of the wizard as per usual.

Here is a sample reg file that fit for Coppermine v1.4.x:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PublishingWizard\InternetPhotoPrinting\DownloadedProviders\YouPhotoGalleryName]« displayname »= »PhotosGalleryName »
« description »= »SiteDescos »
« href »= »http://www.youdomain.ext/coppermineOrOtherRootFolderForYouroppermine/xp_publish.php?cmd=publish »
« icon »= »http://www.youdomain.ext/favicon.ico »

 
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