The Root Cellar

Hi Dr Wendy... pretty easy application isn't it.  Perfect for your needs.

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My friend Donna is here -- I'm showing her how easy it is to do a BLOG like this without a lot of training requirements - WHoo! WHoo!

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1.  Free Internet Conferences
www.DimDim.com
FREE - Up to Five (5) People -- Dimdim lets anyone host and attend online meetings, demos and webinars using just a web browser. Save money, time and travel by instantly sharing documents, web pages, whiteboards, audio, video even record your events - with no software to install. Dimdim is free for small meetings and starts at only $25 per month for unlimited use with more participants.

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1.  Surfing Efficiency
If you do a lot of web surfing like we do here, then you'll appreciate this tip.  Once you get it into practice you'll use it all the time.  Next time you type in a keyword/phrase search on the results page simply [RIGHT-Click] and select:  Open In A New Window.  Now you will be able to easily go back and forth between your variable search criteria you are managing at any give time.

 2.  iPad Application ($4.99):  Sound Paper
http://soundpaperapp.com
SoundPaper is the best way to take notes on your iPad.  It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail.  While playing back your recording, just tap a word; SoundPaper will jump right to that point in the audio.  Email your notes or recording or both for your particular needs; great tool for students, those attending meetings etc.

3.  Acknowledgements:
I'm blessed with a lot of brilliant people in my network who contribute to my life almost daily around here. It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge their gifts for providing useful information like they do from time to time not only to me but thousands of others.  To list just a few:

Denny Andrews, WA - Motivational/Technology & Communication Consultant
Ivan Radziak, Tiburon, CA - My 18/Year Old Bill Gates neighborhood friend :O)
John McCubbin, San Rafael, CA, Research Specialist
Rod Cook - MLM Guru:  www.MLMWatchdog.com

 4.  Jobs - Jobs - Jobs!!
Site #1:  www.Guru.com
Site #2:  www.Elance.com
Whether you need more work, or need to hire a subcontractor for a special project.  Check out the above two sites!

 5.  Cookies - Changing Privacy Settings

B.  Mozilla Firefox - Allow Sites:

1. Go To:  Tools
2. Select:  Options.
3. Click [TAB]: Privacy.
4. Click: Exceptions
5. Type [URL Address]:  www.google.com Web Site Section
6. Click:  Allow.
7. Click: OK.

If you're accessing Google Accounts from behind a firewall, proxy, or anti-virus program, temporarily disable the program and try signing in to Google Accounts. If disabling the program resolves the issue you're experiencing, then most likely the software is causing the problem.

We suggest consulting the program's online support center to find out why it might be interfering with your ability to access your Google Account.

Note: if you're using a work computer, the problem may be related to your computer's corporate security settings. We suggest checking with your system administrator.

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1.  FREE Publicity
Go To:  www.HelpAReporter.com
Go To: www.PitchRate.com

2.  Step It Up Online with Jing Project!
Go To:  www.JingProject.com
Screen Casting - Easy screen capture, annotate, and 5/minute audio and send finctionality.  Perfect tool for training online.  There's a short interactive tutorial to walk you through your first screen-capture.  I'll bet you'll get the hang of Jing very quickly. 

Jing remembers everything you capture on your computer and stores the images and videos as thumbnails in the History.

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1.   Local Business Resources - Events Where Are They?
a)  Go To:  http://www.meetup.com/
Share Something - Change Something - Do Something - Learn Something
Simply enter your Zip-Code and find a local networking group near you.
Check out groups of people with shared interests, meetings of offline clubs in local communities around the world.  Want to know what's happening in your community?  Check it out!  Great resource for those who networking is part of their marketing strategy/sales tactic.

2.  Media
a) Go To:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHieqM1hKsg 
Americas Freedom - Tea Party Speech by an eleven year old - Tallahassee, FL
b) Go To:  http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm
America The Beautiful - 50 States
c) Go To:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmcf4Y3lGM
A Parody [ Hitler ] Real Estate Downfall - Housing Bubble
d)  Go To:  http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=3133
The Secretary of Labor is using taxpayer dollars to argue undocumented, illegal immigrants deserve to be paid fairly... watch the video. Interesting times.

3. I-Pad
a) Purchase: $.99 [Good Reader]
Turns your I-Pad into a hard drive so you can upload most of your favorite programs right onto your I-Pad converting it into more of a laptop.
b)  Summer Months - IPad Overheating & Automatically Turning Off.
Wait until your IPad cools a bit, then HOLD:  Home & Turn Off; do NOT slide.  This will create a Hard Reboot.  You'll first get the Apple symbol, a clearing of memory, and your IPad will function again.

4.  PING.FM - Social Networking Tool
http://ping.fm/
Register with Ping, post one time and your message splays out to 10-20-30 Social Networks you are a member ofin 60/Seconds!

5.  Google - Advanced Search
www.Google.com
Refine your "search" criteria for better results

6.  Investigate Like A Detective!
a) www.123People.com
b) www.Pipl.com
Be sure to check what you can find about yourself!

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1.  Go To:  www.FreeConferenceCall.com
You can host up to 96/people and talk for six hours if you need to.

Great way to communicate and strengthen relationships with clients, referral partners and even family !

Free conference calls are simple and easy to use, requiring only a name and an e-mail address to receive an instant account.

Once you enter your name and e-mail address, you will be instantaneously provided with a dial-in number and access code for immediate phone conferencing.

Your teleconferencing line is available to you 24/7 and there is no need to schedule or make reservations. Each conference call account accommodates 96 callers on an unlimited number of 6 hour free conference calls.

2.  Go To:  http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/
If you are attempting to become more on purpose with your time, and limit for instance how much of it you spend playing around with your friends on facebook -- check this out!

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Common Blog Mistakes

Blogging gets easier with practice.  The more you blog, the easier it becomes but be prepared to make some common mistakes along the way.  Some of the common mistakes people make when blogging are described below.

• Expect people to read your blog.  It takes a lot of time and effort to establish a popular blog.  Don't expect people to read your blog just because you posted it.
• Lecture readers.  The real magic of blogging happens when people comment on what you have written.  However, writing in a way that sounds like you are lecturing does not encourage people to comment.  When you write, use your own voice and involve readers in your discussions.
• Ignore headlines.  Headlines are what catch people’s attention.  If you want people to stop and read your blog, you need to create catchy headlines.
• Blog without purpose.  If you don’t have anything to blog about, don’t blog for the sake of blogging.  Save your blog for another day when you do have something you want to share with people.

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Actually, for me its time to turn in (4:30 AM) PDT.  I've been up adding to our new club web site; Networking Entrepreneurial Women of Marin (www.NEWofMarin.com) the guests who attended Tuesdays meeting at the Il Fornaio restaurant; hopefully we won't outgrow them for awhile, and adding the new members, plus customizing the photos I took for our directory, and not least getting the group emails out.  All administrative and time consuming! 

Photo Album-Set:  N.E.W. of Marin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11339092@N04/sets/72157624490435236/

I'm also working on updating the directory for my high school class; Mount Baker High School, Deming, WA -- Class of 1965.  It's our 45th reunion this year, and I'm coordinating/doing the admin all from down here in CA.  Thank Gawd for flat rate long distance and the internet!!  We have a bunch of gypsies in my class :O)

Tomorrow is going to be another busy day.  I have a job applicant coming in to assist with site maintenance, some more sites to work on, and of course the "Doggie Park" with Heidi Ho! or she won't speak to me for hours.

This weekend I started drafting another site:  www.OurRootCellar.com
Something I've been going to work on for some time.  I get a lot of calls here from people just wanting to do show & tell on items they want to get rid of; new and used products.  They don't want a web site, or to learn eBay, nor deal with all the emails that can get generated from doing Craig's list who want the lowest "deals", so maybe this will help.  First in this week is antique marine/nautical items from an estate sale - high quality, low quantity -- they can be found on this page:  www.OurRootCellar.com/estatesales.html

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Tip:  OutLook E-Mail Message Delivery Receipt
To have Outlook 2007 request a delivery receipt for a message you are composing:

• Go to the Options tab in the message's ribbon toolbar.
• Make sure Request a Delivery Receipt is checked.
  • You can also check Request a Read Receipt to ask for notification when a message has been opened (as opposed to merely delivered).

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Its rare I take time to just work on our own web site; busman's holiday syndrome?  I've written articles over the years, updating from time to time about search engines.  Today, I finally found my way to this one:  http://www.designcarte.com/library-seo-sem1.html

There's some good factual information in these pages, abbreviated down the best I can do.  These pages just may be helpful to other web designers and web site owners, or the curious.

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Entertainment - 50's Music:  http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/50s/sitemap.html
I get a lot of email.  Some I pass on, and some of them only make the "X-File".  Marty Komitopoulos sent me the above link this morning.  She's an "experienced Real Estate Agent by the way (415-454-4598, martyksellshouses@comcast.net) I usually open her email because she ONLY-SENDS the best :O).  Thanks Marty!  Gave me a good jump start on my day this Monday morning. I'm working away while listening -- great mood setter. 

Business Networking:  Connections of Marin
Date:  Tuesday, 06 April 2010
Time:  6:00 PM
Location:  E & O Trading Company
[Note] This is our first time meeting at E & O.  Normally our meetings take place the 2nd Tuesday of each month.  This month is an exception.
Price:  $25 Advance-RSVP, $30-At The Door

Web-Work In Progress:

1) Hungry Hound Bakery: 
www.HungryHoundBakery.com
It's getting a facelift, plus new products being added.

2)  Victory Medical Solutions:  Embryo Stage
www.VictoryMedicalSolutions.com

 3)  My True Love Path with Dr. Wendy
www.MyTrueLovePath.com

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Today is one of the those great days to catch up on some reading; pouring buckets and the wind is blowing.  I can see white caps through my window on the channel!

Below are some of my notes from filtering through magazines, and RSS feed printouts.  I can barely jam more reading in myself, so if this is your MO too, then you'll appreciate what you see below.  It's "shorthand" in comparison to what I've culled through today.

For those who own a web site / or into marketing online etc.  you may find some of what I read and subsequently documented for posterity in My Root Cellar of interest to you:

-- Cost of Leads:
a) $0.60 [All Industries]
b) $2.27 [Premium Leads]

--  E-Mail Marketing:-- Writers - Publishing Format for Online Distribution:
http://bit.ly/v5p5c
Publish & Profit! Infinite Sells - No Additional Costs!

-- GOOGLE
a) Google Analytics
http://webanalyticssolutionprofiler.com
[NOTE] Check top entry page and exit page - optimize those with a 40%+ exit rate.
b) Google Alerts [Keywords/Phrases]
www.Google.com/Alerts
[NOTE] I use this service quite a lot.  It's not new really.  Just automated now days.  Years ago businesses hired "clipping-services" to do a "like" job.
Other Services:  www.Alerts.Yahoo.com, or www.Alerts.Live.com

-- SEO Sources:
www.SEOmoz.org
www.WebsiteGrader.com
www.SpyFu.com

-- Twitter Clients:  Most Popular
[NOTE] Social media sites are frequented most during business hours.  The best time to submit content to these sites for maximum visibility varies but is almost always early morning around 8 AM PST.

1. http://www.senderok.com
2. www.LisTrak.com
3. www.iContact.com
4. www.ExactTarget.com
5. www.ShareThis.com
6. www.SocialForward.com
7. www.MailChimp.com
8. www.GetResponse.com

1. TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com )
2. Tweetie (www.atebits.com)
3. HootSuite (www.hootsuite.com)
4. Twhirl (www.twhril.org)
5. Twittertfon (www.twitterfon.net)
6. Seesmic (www.seesmic.com)
7. Ping.fm (www.ping.fm)
8. UberTwitter (www.ubertwitter.com)
9. Twitterrific (www.twitterrific.com)
10. TwitterFox (www.twitterfox.net)
    
    
    

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Meetings/Presentations/Trainings/Personal Occasions:  First you have a plan.  You create, print, assemble whatever materials/media you may need to support those attending; you might even clean up the office, home, or make a special treat, beverage for your attendees.  Don't all professionals?  Don't all individuals who have "intention" behind their words?  And then the day of your event, you shake your head in disappointment while you watch the "reality show" unfold. 

First you deal with those who can NEVER get where they are supposed to be on time; and think it's ok I might add if they arrive late.  What applies to others definitely shouldn't and doesn't it seems apply to them.  These are the folks who believe disrupting the training, or meeting due to their tardiness should be perfectly acceptable for whatever reason/explanation has been brought along in tow to present to the others who did make it on time, and in fact, many of which arrive early enough to be ready at the exact hour stipulated.  Would it surprise anyone that these same tardy people are also the ones who create an additional disruption with "OMG I really must go now?"

Would it surprise anyone that these same people are the ones that say:  "I'll call you!",  "I'll be right over!"  "I'll be right back!"  "I'll send you the information we discussed!", "I'll call to schedule an appointment!", and rarily if ever do?

And, you continue to allow them into your life - space because?

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Training (Homestead.com):  Donna Hale, Tracy Brown
Trainer Assist:  John McCubbin

Doggie Park - Heidi Ho!

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