We all know that keeping our goals in our heads does not help us achieve them. So why not list your goals, share your progress and cheer others on who are doing the same? Join the goal-oriented people at www.43things.com who are already sharing and achieving their goals! Get your clients to list their goals on this site as well and be sure to cheer them on.
ou can also link your blog to your list or add to your list through your blog!
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April 29th, 2008
Do you have to schedule an upcoming meeting? Is it difficult to organize each attendees’ schedule of when they can and can’t attend a meeting? I know, this is the same problem my MasterMind group is having. Actually we have this problem each time we try to meet in person. With 10 people coming from 3 countries it becomes frustrating trying to organize which dates are good for a 3-day meeting.
That’s when I found www.whenisgood.net! This website will allow you to pick a number of possible days and times for your meeting. If you are dealing with more than one time zone, choose “turn on time zones”. Then enter your email address and the name of your event. When is Good will then email you a customized link to send to your attendees. Attendees simply click on the days and times they are available. You can then go back to your event and see which days and times are the best for your meeting.
There are just a few things you need to know. You must choose hours and not a full day, i.e. for our full day meetings I couldn’t choose “February 1st” as an option. I contacted them and they are already working on that. Another thing I noticed is that you cannot use this system more than 6 months in advanced. They are working on that as well. It’s a fairly new tool so there are a few things to tweak but overall it’s a fabulous tool.
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April 17th, 2008
Last week I got together with my Mastermind group online. What does that mean? Online? Instead of flying everyone to one hotel to meet in person, we all met on the web. We used GoToMeeting which provided us with a bridge line and the ability to display documents so that everyone in the meeting could view them. So during our 5 hour meeting last week we shared PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, websites, spreadsheets and other cool online tools that we use. Everyone in the meeting had their chance to “present” which means we were all able to view their computer and their documents (with their permission of course). Those who were watching were able to follow along quite easily. There was no “did you get my email with my presentation attached?” or “We are now on page 17. Is everyone on page 17″…what a time waster.
You can use GoToMeeting to present webinars, meetings, training etc. Why not take your PowerPoint presentations that you have already created and offer a webinar?
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April 5th, 2008
The most popular currency converter out there is www.xe.com. You can convert ANY currency in the world on this site. Convert Oman Rials to Thailand Baht. Try it out at http://www.xe.com/ucc/full/
Calculate your credit card company “hidden fees” on your next vacation abroad, using their Credit Card Charges Calculator http://www.xe.com/ccc/
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April 1st, 2008
If you are researching a topic, wondering what “rss” means or curious what happened “today in history”, check out www.wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is the largest reference website on the internet. Wiki is a type of website that allows anyone to edit or add content to it. This online encyclopedia is continuously being updated with relevant information.
So the next time you are researching a new project, helping your kids with their homework or you are bored head over to www.wikipedia.org to learn something new.
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March 3rd, 2008
You may have come across website addresses that begin with http://www.tinyurl.com. These mini web addresses are created to replace a long website’s address (such as a link to a map at mapquest, or an affiliate link). The reason why they have gained in popularity is because they are easy to remember and they don’t “break” in an email. Have you ever received a link to a web address in an email where the link didn’t work? Chances are it was too long therefore it ran along two lines and the link “broke”.
To create your own tinyurl go to http://www.tinyurl.com, paste your long web address into the form provided and click “Make TinyURL!”. Your long web address will be processed and a smaller URL (uniform resource locator a.k.a. web address) will be created. Copy this new URL into your emails and you are set.
You are unable to choose what the end of the URL will be, as it generates the URL randomly. This service is complimentary.
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February 29th, 2008
If you ever need to do a background check on someone or you just want to see what information is out there about you check out www.pipl.com. This awesome search engine will search for a person based on their name and location in the world as well as just their name. Of course you can just “Google” a name but Pipl searches deep into databases to find member directories, personal profiles, publications and even court records (oh my!).
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February 24th, 2008
If you are looking for a free keyword search tool that is not inventory.overture.com (let’s face it, it’s slow, it’s a busy website and so it’s hard to get on the site in the first place and the results are based on data from 13 months ago.)
So here’s a free keyword search tool brought to you by our friends at Google!
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
You have two options:
1) enter the words or phrases that you want new keyword ideas for
2) enter your website address to see what Google thinks are your keywords
Enter the words/website on the right and click “get keywords ideas”.
What will appear is what Google suggests for those words/websites.
How do you use these results?
If you used option #1 then you will want to scan through the keywords and see which ones are high in the columns “Avg Search Volume” (average search for the past 12 months) and January Search Volume (the results for searches in the previous month). Use these keywords, only if they are relevant, in your blog and website for increased traffic…give people what they want and are searching for right? Create blog postings around these keywords.
If you used option #2, consider what Google thinks are your keywords. If they are the keywords and terms that your ideal client would use to find you (ie. they are relevant to what you do or offer) then you are rocking and rolling. If they are not, then take a look at your website/blog copy and see what needs to be changed so that your ideal keywords (see option #1) are noticed by Google.
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February 19th, 2008
I almost always get asked “Sandra where do you get the cool pictures you use on your www.HelpDeskForCoaches.com site? Did you create them yourself? Or did you buy them, and if so, does it cost you a fortune?”
I wish I was a great photographer! I was a great artist until I was in my teens when I left my love for drawing for my new love math and computers…who does that? hee hee.
Anyhow, I get my photos at a low cost, approximately $1 per photo, at istockphoto.com. Photos range from $1 upto $20 depending on the size you choose. But the good news is that you only need the $1 photos for your website, ebooks, blogs etc. The $1/1 credit size is noted as xsmall, but it’s xsmall only if you mean to print it and put it up on your wall. It’s the perfect size for your web content. In fact you might want to resize it and make it smaller for your web content.
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February 15th, 2008
Need a headset for your cell phone? Sick of your partner holding their cell phone while driving their car? You may not be able to pull the phone away from them but here’s another solution. FreeHeadset.org is giving away free headsets to help solve this problem. All you have to do is pay for shipping!
http://www.freeheadset.org
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