Earlier this afternoon I was fortunate enough to listen to Howie Schwartz for over 90 minutes as he answered over 300 Traffic questions live. It was packed with content and people. Listeners on the call were able to simply fill out a form and ask/submit any traffic question(s) they had.

Yes he did promote an upcoming event, but hey, the content he covered and gave away for free on this call was well worth the time. And I’m sure, just a sampling of what you’d get from ANY of his Live events. In a previous post about attending live events, I spoke of my experience at Howie’s Online Profit Workshop. And I’ll still stand by what I said, “If you can get to a Live event, Go! If you can get to a Howie Schwartz Live event, Go faster!

If you’re interested in listening to the webcast replay of this call, visit                                 http://tinyurl.com/6rczhs

If you’re interested in attending Howie’s next Live event, go to: http://www.TrafficTornadoWorkshop.com
I believe you should also be able to listen to the replay here, if he takes it down from the site listed above.

And No this is Not an affiliate plug. This is just my humble opinion and strong suggestion as to where to go and who to follow/listen to when it comes to Making Money in any Niche Market.

Peace and Prosperity!

As an immediate follow up to the post on FireFox 3.0 and ScribeFire – Awesome! This nifty blogging tool is going to make my blogging life so much easier. And in return, I’ll be able to post more and with less effort. Imagine reading around the web and being able to create posts to your blog right there on the spot. Can’t tell you how excited I am to get to know this powerful tool.

And just so you know, there is well known web 2.0 marketer who not too long ago released “for sale” a very similar tool. Can’t beat “free” value!

Get it today!

FireFox 3.0

ScribeFire Add-On

Okay so up until today I’ve pretty much used IE as my browser. I did try FF before but my computer wasn’t able to handle having both browsers open at the same time. Not sure I needed both open at the same time, but that’s how I began using it. And you know how it is, it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks and it’s human nature stick with what you know.

Yet, since turning to online marketing, I’ve forced myself to do many of things that are a little uncomfortable for me. Like opening up to complete strangers, posting my picture, recording my voice and soon to be posting live video with myself included (up until now, I’ve only posted a PP presentation with my voice as audio).

With an upgraded computer on hand and the newly released version 3.0 of FireFox, I decided to give it another shot. And wanted to try this ScribeFire add-on I saw on the TechCrunch site. There appears to be quite an extensive amount of add-ons and plug-ins available for FF and I look forward to playing around with it.

I’m actually doing this post with the ScribeFire add-on at this very moment. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that intergrates with your FF browser and lets you easily post to your blog. When I’m done with this post, I’ll just push a little button “publish as a page” and viola! If all works well it should show up as a new post in my blog! How easy is that?

I also believe, but haven’t gotten that far yet, that I should be able to drag and drop formatted text from pages that I’m browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs. Sounds pretty cool if you ask me – and I’m far from being hip and up-to-date with the latest and greatest techy computer stuff. I will keep you updated but for now lets see if this really works. Drummmm roll please . . . I’m pushing the button . . .

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap just for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1. Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and get lost between the many pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost of ease.

2. Conveying your site’s theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time. 

3. Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every other page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every other page of your site gets indexed by the search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap should be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

4. Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

Taking the above reasons into consideration, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. But for those that are not of considerable size, its good practice and it will still be beneficial in all the above mentioned ways.  In the end, you will be able to keep your website easily accessible and neatly organized for everyone.

 Action Is Required!

This past Wednesday – June 4, 2008 – I attended my first live event – Howie Schwartz’s Online Profit Workshop – and all I can say is, “WOW” what a wonderful experience.  I had no idea what to expect and actually was a little nervous about going because I wasn’t sure my knowledge would be up to par with the content to be delivered.  I wasn’t that familiar with “Social Marketing” and “Web 2.0″ and that is one of Howie’s fields of expertise.

I had heard Howie a few months ago on a teleseminar with another well-known Social Marketing Web 2.0 genius,  Jack Humphrey.   I was simply amazed to hear what they had to say, but in retrospect, I was not ready for the content they delivered.  It just sat there in the back of my brain as I continued to focus my efforts in other areas.  The impression lasted however and the names would not be forgotten.  I continued to keep up with Jack through his Friday Traffic Report and heard Howie maybe one other time (not really sure of this as I think I had him mixed up with someone else).  In any case, I liked the quality of content they delivered and put them on my “worth following” list.

Then I heard Joel Comm on Ask.JoelComm.com answer the popular question,  ”What’s the fastest way to make money online?”  You can watch the clip here if you like but the short answer was, “Go to a conference!”  “Go to a conference!”  

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