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34 Tools to Help You Create Better Content From Start to Finish (and Beyond) CreativeLIVE. Membership Sites and Landing Pages. Stealthy Marketing tools, software and tutorials. Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle Online. More than a decade ago, back when the Internet was not being fully utilized for anything more than banner advertising, I found myself thinking of new and creative ways to leverage this exciting platform.

Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle Online

Although over the years I worked for top publishers, I didn’t always have a huge budget to help with list building efforts. This turned out to be a good thing, as it helped me be ‘creatively strategic’ in terms of using old, cost-effective tactics in new ways. You see, back then, I started using a powerful direct response tool (surveys and polls) on my employer’s website to help gauge investor insight, which in turn, could then be tapped into for product development and client retention efforts. Fast forward seven or so years when a global phenomenon, known as ‘Web 2.0′, is all the rage. Web 2.0, is quite simply, the art of enhancing user experience, interactivity, and participation on the Internet through two-way dialogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. Newest Courses — Learnable. Export Excel Data to Google Maps. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could export an Excel list of addresses to Google Earth and Google Maps?

Export Excel Data to Google Maps

Thankfully, there are several ways to do this but the only question you need to ask yourself is, “How secure does my data need to be?” Although Google Maps gives you the option to remove your saved maps from search results, a public URL of your map still exists and can be accessed by anyone with that URL. If in doubt, keep your map’s URL to yourself or use Google Earth instead. Mapping Excel Data Using VBA Process Trends created an Excel spreadsheet that incorporates the work of Juice Analytics and simon_a to geocode addresses and prepare them for Google Earth and Google Maps. **Attention Excel 2004 for Mac users, the MapExcelData.xls spreadsheet will not work due to the missing VBA Split function.

Step 1: With macros enabled, open the MapExcelData.xls spreadsheet and go to the KML_details tab. Step 4: Once geocoding is done, click the Gen KML File button and your KML file will be created. Bonus Gifts. How to Supercharge All Your Favorite Webapps with ifttt. Web Marketing: What is the best way to learn internet marketing. Top 50 websites every Webmaster should know. They are in no particular order because I would hope people would discover some amazing new sites they did not know existed!

Top 50 websites every Webmaster should know

Let us know any we have missed off and we can add them below! 1. Obvious really.. Youngwebbuilder.com 2. 3. 4. 36 Books on Digital Marketing. The rapid expansion of both the internet and ecommerce has resulted in some seriously dramatic shifts in terms of business marketing best practices.

36 Books on Digital Marketing

12 Effective Music Tricks To Boost Your Personal Productivity. The poet Berthold Auerbach once said music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

12 Effective Music Tricks To Boost Your Personal Productivity

If you feel your workday life getting stale and your output is dropping, music may hold the key to get you producing like it’s performance review season. It’s true that the scientific research isn’t definitive on whether music really helps productivity or not “” some studies say it helps, some say it hinders. 88 Content Creation Ideas for Better Business Blog Posts, Images, or Videos. 12 Things You Should Be Using Your Blog For (Besides Blogging) So you want your business blog to perform better.

12 Things You Should Be Using Your Blog For (Besides Blogging)

What do you do? Uhh ... Blog harder? 15 social media tips for small businesses. You and your small or micro business need to have a social media presence.

15 social media tips for small businesses

That we know. If your potential clients, customers, and audience live on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and so on, then it's only reasonable that you go to those places to reach them. They ain't coming to you. 3 Steps to Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO. There’s no doubt now that your social media presence influences your rankings within the search engine results pages.

3 Steps to Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO

However, what is up for debate is the specific mechanisms by which social media signals influence your site’s SEO. In lieu of a definitive answer from Google (which we’re not exactly crossing our fingers for!) , we’ve compiled the existing research on the role of social media in SEO to come up with three overall recommendations.

Following these steps should help your website take advantage of the power of social media marketing, no matter how these markers are being weighted in the algorithms. Step #1 – Increase Social Shares According to Eric Enge, writing for Search Engine Watch, social shares are a “noisy” signal: “Likes, +1s, and social links are still a noisy signal, which affects their use by search engines. By “noisy”, Enge means that existing social signals – including Facebook “likes”, Twitter “tweets” and Google “+1s” – still have some serious weaknesses. Week 3 Fast Web Formula News 11th May 2012 - New Courses Added and Live Training Scheduled.

HOW TO: Spring Clean Your Twitter Account. It's no secret that we love Twitter.

HOW TO: Spring Clean Your Twitter Account

It's a fantastic social media tool, a window on the world that can keep you updated on the big things, such as global news and events, the little things, like where your buddies are headed on a Friday night, and just about anything in between. However, once you're following more than a dozen or so people, the service can get a little busy.