Great Web Graphics & Web Graphics Optimization Classes (free)

Hi! These were recommended in the SEO class, so I thought I would share. I looked through them quickly and they look decent! I'll have to go back and look later when I have time. Fortunately, I don't have many graphics yet.

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

Keyword Suggestion Tool

Here's a handy tool to help you determine what your key phrases should be, and how many searches they get per day!

You can use the link above to go to their home page, or enter your phrase in the text box, and hit enter, and it will take you to their page to enter a verification code, then you can see your results.

For some reason the code isn't working right, but it all still seems to work.

Get Suggestions For Phrase: Brought to you by Digital Point Solutions

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

Effective Brand Toolbars

UPDATED!


Unfortunately I have uninstalled the effective brand toolbar. I had 2 occassions where the toolbar took over my screen, opening at least 30 new windows on one occassion. IMHO this is completely unacceptable behavior.

When I wrote the company, they said there was a bug in that version of the toolbar, and all I had to do was download it and I wouldn't have any trouble anymore. The thing is, I had reinstalled the toolbar the day before, and then I had the errors again.

Even if they had updated the version of the toolbar, which I am not sure they did, I think they should have notified it's users that there was a bug in that toolbar. After all, if people are using their toolbar to promote their websites, and they are guaranteeing that the toolbar is adware and spyware free, when the toolbar starts opening 30 pages in someones window, the person who is promoting the toolbar is going to lose credibility. And that is not acceptable.

Here is the original message.

I got my very own toolbar for my site-so can you.

I ran across Effective Brand while searching the web, then got a newsletter about the toolbars being good, and spyware free, and effective, so I figured I'd try it. I think this will be an effective business tool, if we can get people to download the toolbars. The toolbars are customizeable by the maker, and by the user once they are downloaded, so it's pretty cool.

I put an RSS feed on my toolbar, so each day I go to effective brand, fill out a form, and send a message to the toolbar. In my case it's the site of the day, but you could use it to announce sales, specials, the arrival of new products, online parties - or you oculd even do something wild, like send a message and say the next person to email me gets a free item. (I saw something where someone had posted a message on a message board that said the first person who emails me gets 3 lotions, and I was really impressed. I think that is a great way to engender good will towards their business.)

I have a radio with preset stations, and you can also add your own stations-the only problem is you just have the call letters for most of the stations, so you have no idea what kind of music they play until you listen to it.

I also have a search engine (they get their revenue from sponsored results from the search engines, so the toolbar is completely free to download) they do offer to let you plug your code in so you can get some of the money from the search engine results too, and I believe they alternate using your code and their code in the search results. I also have it set up so that the Etailers Mall logo is displayed on the search engine results page.

I do have the Etailers Mall logo on the toolbar, and if you click on that it takes you to the Mall.

I also have a link to the forums on the toolbar.

And I have my very own toolbar chatroom, which is interesting since I was thinking about putting up a chatroom on Etailers Mall.

There are several other options that can be added on the toolbar to customize it.

The toolbar fits right underneath my google toolbar so it's pretty cool. Just so you know...I'm pretty paranoid about downloading stuff. I just downloaded the google toolbar this weekend. LOL. But I really do think this is safe. I haven't had any trouble with the toolbar so far. But I will definitely let you know if I do!

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

Craftlister.com

Craftlister.com has craft experts, articles, and listings for all those craft shows!

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

Networking Times University

Networking University is pretty cool. They offer free seminars weekly, usually on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and 9 pm EST. (Yes, I'm listening now.) You do have to sign up for an account, but they don't send too too much mail most of the mail I get because I sign up for all of the seminars, so I get an email reminding me of the seminar, then I get a follow up email about the seminar. Which I've never filled out. Oops. I do have to reinstall the chat software everytime, but it doesn't take too long. Now I'm not saying that I go to all the seminars, but I try. Sometimes I just don't feel like it, and since I am listening to an average of 2 dani johnson calls while I am working each day, I figure that's ok. I haven't really checked out more of the website, but I probably should when I ever get enough time.

They do have paid memberships, and I'm not sure how they work, because I'm not paying for anything from them at the moment.

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

Dani Johnson Calls for new recruits

These are calls that are recommended for new/potential recruits or people who are new to the business by Dani.

April 11, 2005

January 3, 2005

May 31, 2004

I would recommend March 28, 2005. In this call Dani goes through some of her coaching sessions, with real students on the phone. I found this call very interesting and helpful, and I probably need to listen to it again.

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

Passion Fire Training Links

I haven't looked at this yet, but he's got a lot of links-it might be taking you to other sites to get you to buy stuff though.

He also has training calls on Monday at 10 pm EST (look at free calls), I haven't made it yet. I wish they would put them on the website...but oh well. I can't remember if Dani Johnson's calls are at 9pm, or 10, but I usually listen to them on the website the next day.

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

119 Places to find a craft show

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Sarah

Business Radio Programs and Seminars

danijohnson.com

wahm talk radio

direct sales talk radio

Although some of these are targeted towards direct sales and mlm, I think most of the ideas can be applied towards the general business world, especially with Dani Johnson's calls.

If you know of any more let me know!

Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

GNC Web Creations Seo Class

This is great so far. It's a lot of info to take in, and I definitely think I will have to take it a couple of times, but it's been very helpful.

The new class started yesterday, and classes repeat on a continuous basis, so if you get behind it's no problem, you can work at your own pace, and take the class as many times as possible.

I highly recommend this class! Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah

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Best Wishes For a Prosperous Business,

Sarah