tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173428952012-02-03T04:41:43.316-08:00This blog is developed by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, who is helping affiliate marketers and small businesses develop their affiliate business through social media marketing. This blog offers free resources for affiliate marketing, small business marketing and social media marketing - articles, e-books, reviews of affiliate programs and evaluation of affiliate marketing strategies. Learn about social media, blogging and building your blog traffic.Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-18773682363684808592012-02-02T16:07:00.001-08:002012-02-02T16:07:27.808-08:00

How To Be Productive: The Internal ChallengesIf you are a small business owner engaged in small business marketing, it is absolutely critical that you learn how to be productive. There are many demands on your time through email and phone communications, staff management, stock control, product and service development, accounting and taxation, relationship building with clients and strategic

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Google is Integrating Google+ With Search Engine Results January 16, 2012 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Google is changing the whole landscape of Internet search through integration of Google+ with organic and paid search results. A number of prominent Internet marketers have reported recently that they are seeing this integration of Google+ in the search results and have

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Squidoo is a Search Engine!: Implications for Small Business Marketing December 18, 2011 By Ron Passfield 1 Comment Squidoo is a search engine in its own right with other 2.5 Million lenses focused on key topic areas.   Even experienced lensmasters tend to forget this aspect of Squidoo. As Squidoo grows so does its data base of information.  So if you are searching for

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You are here: Home / Squidoo / The Many Ways to Market Your Small Business on Squidoo The Many Ways to Market Your Small Business on Squidoo December 17, 2011 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment  Squidoo, as a multimedia platform, offers many ways to engage in small business marketing.  You are really only limited by your imagination so it is well worthwhile

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You are here: Home / outsourcing / Is Outsourcing the Right Option or Should You In Source? Is Outsourcing the Right Option or Should You In Source? October 18, 2011 By Ron Passfield 1 Comment   Small business owners frequently turn to outsourcing instead of in sourcing for their online small business marketing.  However, it has been my experience that in

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You are here: Home / marketing style / What is Your Marketing Style? What is Your Marketing Style? October 15, 2011 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Are you aware of the marketing style that you use in promoting your small business?   Developing a consistent and congruent marketing style is one aspect of effective business branding. This point was brought home

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You are here: Home / social bookmarking / RedGage: Social Bookmarking with a Difference RedGage: Social Bookmarking with a Difference October 14, 2011 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment   Social Bookmarking is designed to create online bookmarks that store information about your small business. Sites that provide social bookmarking often have a high Page Rank

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      I was just checking the Alexa ranking for Posterous this morning and found the following information:   Traffic ranking globally:       506 Traffic ranking US              453 Traffic ranking UK              349   Compared to the general Internet population, the site appeals to people who have graduate education, browse from work and have no children.  Additionally, age groups 25-

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Backlinks: To Buy or Not to Buy, That is the Question! October 15, 2011 By Ron Passfield 1 Comment   Backlinks are one of the core measures that Google uses to evaluate a small business website/blog and determine where the site will appear in search engine results.  Unfortunately, many small business owners have been convinced by some Internet marketers to buy links to build

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Social Media: Where Are Your Customers Conversing? By Ron Passfield on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 | No Comments   With the growth of social media, small business owners face new challenges in terms of locating their clients/customers.  Added to this is the fact that recent estimates show that 80% of people who have access to the Internet start their search via

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Turn Photos into Video to Promote Your Small Business By Ron Passfield on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 | 1 Comment   One of the easiest ways to market your small business is to turn your photos into video.  You must have lots of photos lying around that you can use for this purpose.  However, if you want to make the most of this highly effective marketing option,

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Are Your Listings in Local Business Directories Accurate? by Ron Passfield on Monday, October 10th, 2011 | No Comments I was checking the search results for my business name, Merit Solutions Australia, in Google and was surprised with the results from local business directories. A lot of the entries in the first two pages of Google results were listings from local

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Small Business Marketing: A Personal Odyssey By Ron Passfield on Sunday, October 9th, 2011 | No Comments Human Resource Consultancy Our small business was created in 1996 and following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, we found that we had to become actively engaged in online small business marketing. Up until the GFC, our gross income had been growing at

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Google has recently started to change the Search Engine landscape, partly as a response to Facebook. Google is in the process of a fundamental paradigm change: from content to people from "page rank" to "author rank" Google has established its own social network in the form of Google Plus which is only open by invitation at the moment (ask your friends or contacts for an invitation!). It

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Whenever you write something on the Internet, either by way of articles or comments on social media sites, you are branding yourself in the eyes of your readers and Google. When you think about it you are always forming an opinion of an author when you read what they have written. You may decide that they have something to offer because they come across as insightful or positive or because

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Wizzley, a community for writers, launched recently and provides the perfect platform for book reviews that can produce affiliate income from Amazon. One of my first articles on Wizzley was a review of Donna Leon's book, The Girl of His Dreams. The ease of creating book reviews was a real attraction.  There is a text module which allows single and double column text with full composition/

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Wizzley, a new writers' community, has been in public launch for just over a week. There are now over 350 authors and more than 350 original articles. Wizzley is an article site with the option to add images and video and other modules to enrich the article content. There is a strong emphasis on quality with the minimum requirement of 400 words per article.  The site has inbuilt duplicate

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Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks Social networks shape our thinking, our lives and our actions. They are arenas of influence. Nicholas Christakis in this video presentation shows how social networks can explain the growth of philanthropy, obesity and drug use. His visual presentation of the forming and re-forming of a social network over 15 years is stimulating

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As you would be aware, Facebook has changed its requirements re the creation of Facebook Pages. You now have to create Facebook Pages using iFrames instead of Facebook's FBML (Facebook MarkUp Language). This Facebook change in March 20011 means that you now have to develop Facebook iFrame Pages and host the design offsite. The four basic steps now are: 1. Create the framework for a

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Marlon Sanders has just released his Traffic Dashboard which gives you 16 ways to generate traffic to your website, blog or Squidoo lens. The rows in the Dashboard represent 6 broad traffic sources: article marketing search engine optimization social media marketing banner ad marketing email marketing (incl. solo ads) affiliate marketing (for your own product) I purchased the system after very

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In this audio I discuss three things that can get in the road of your motivation at work or with your online activity or, more specifically, with your social media marketing. These barriers to motivation are: your mindset your comfort zone your past experiences The audio discusses how these things dampen your motivation. In the my Social Media Training Program, I address these issues and

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Facebook will be replacing FBML Facebook Pages (Facebook Markup Language) with the new iFrame Facebook Page with effect from 11 March 2011. You will no longer be able to use FBML to build your Facebook pages.  You will have to host your own Facebook Pages. This means that you will have to learn about iFrames and get access to some templates to speed up the process of making Facebook Pages for

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Info PR: 3 I: 3,180,000 L: 0 LD: 204,748,582 I: 323,000Rank: 7 Age: Oct 12, 1999 I: 0 whoissourceRobo: yesSitemap: no Rank: 1586 Price: 989030 Links: 12|3 Density Quality Criteria for Authors In response to the Google Algorith Change 2011, Ezinearticles.com has now finalized its new Quality critieria for authors. The list is provided here: Doubling the time for editors to make quality

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Google bots on-the-move If you thought it was difficult in the past to get your article published on Ezinearticles.com, things are going to be even tougher in the future.  Ezinearticles.com is predicting that it's current 40.6% rejection rate will climb to at least 60% because of new measures it is putting in place to improve the quality of the site. These changes have come as an immediate

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Here’s a link to the Two Page Strategic Plan Template It’s a zip file that contains the template and a sample of it filled out for a fictitious business in both a Microsoft Word document and in PDF format in case you don’t have Word. And here’s a video that describes how to do fill it out. The key here is that it’s not the form that makes the difference, it’s the thought behind it. So, I

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I've just completed the 24th PDF Lesson in my 6 month training program on social media marketing. This Graduation Lesson titled, "Where to from Here?", is designed to help participants explore how they can best use the ideas in the SquidooRoo Program which covered content creation, social networking and promotion, including press releases and social bookmarking. In the final Lesson, we

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Press the PLAY button on the video below to begin watching. Text Transcript of VideoDownload the text transcript [ PDF ] via entrepreneurs-journey.comIn the video you see one way to gather live feedback from real people about potential topics and also gauge how popular topics could be. The video above helps with Milestone One (Topic Selection) from the The Roadmap to Become A Blogger: http://

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9 Traits of Successful Internet Marketers (Part 2) As promised, 5 more traits of successful marketers from Neil Hartley and Dush Ramachandran’s presentation at the Internet Marketing Party – a gathering of like-minded Internet marketing entrepreneurs and marketing professionals held the second Tuesday of every month in Austin, TX and run by Dave Gonzalez. They take action.

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I am writing this post from my evacuation location following flooding in Brisbane. The Brisbane River broke its banks two days ago and now thousands of homes are flooded and the river has entered the CBD of Brisbane, Queensland's capital. The CBD and 115,000 people are without power as a result of the need to cut power to flooded areas. Boats and pontoons have been racing wildly down the river

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Social media strategy implies a direction, a path or purpose. Fundamentally, it implies a choice - choosing one focus other another.  So, social media strategy implies exclusion as well as inclusion. The challenge is to make the choice - decide what you will focus on and what you will give up (or exclude). If you try to cover all social media for example, you are not being strategic.  You

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This video is produced with Article Video Robot that enables you to convert any text (e.g article or blog post) to video with background, music and voice over (your own or prerecorded voices). It is quick and easy once you understand the formats and you can create multiple videos. The beauty of this video marketing tool is that you can post the video to blogs, Twitter and Facebook from the

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I joined Squidoo in 2007 and I have been reflecting on what this social network has meant to me. What I value is the encouragement to pursue your own interest and passions and to share them through the creation of Squidoo lenses (of which I now have 100+). Squidoo itself is highly innovative and very supportive of innovation, so I found that I could give expression to my creativity.  This has

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There appears to be two opposing "tribes" that inhabit social media. The first tribe, the goldiggers, consider social media a goldmine to be mined mercilessly without any consideration of the impact on the community environment within the various social networks. For this group, it is okay to auto-generate thousands of artificial user identities and spam blogs with auto-generated posts. It

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Marketing on Web 2.0 sites through social networking requires a change in mindset away from the traditional Web1.0 mindset. Unfortunately many traditional Internet marketers have been contaminated by the thought processes embedded in Web 1.0 technology. The change in mindset for Web 2.0 requires a shift to: a collaborative mindset - away from the competitive mindset natural organic growth -

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Listen! via AudioBooPosted via email from Ronpass posterous In this podcast, I discuss various ways to improve the search engine optimization for your Wordpress blog. I mention the SEOPressor Wordpress plugin created by Daniel Tan. I have been using this since June 2010 and it has given a great boost to traffic to my blog on social media marketing. It has helped dozens of people to get on

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I get affiliate sales from a number of sources but rarely, if ever, from the people who send me emails with the heading, "You Got an Affiliate Sale". I find these false emails manipulative, demeaning and humiliating.  I wonder how it impacts on people who have never had a sale or had limited affiliate sales? Does it destroy their hope completely? It was bad enough when inexperienced marketers

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Listen! via AudioBooPosted via email from Ronpass posterous Ron Passfield is a Giant Squid100 and social media consultant.  His 6 month social media training program is available at: http://www.squidooroo.com Sign up now for a FREE ecourse in social media marketing: Social Media Marketing Tips  

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One way to start a Twitter conversation about a particular topic or niche, is to set up a TweetChat. You can use this strategy to bring together your downline, membership subscribers or members of your mailing list. Alternatively, you can create a tweetchat for a wider audience, including those who are not currently following you on Twitter.  One of the easiest ways to create such a

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The SquidooRoo Program offers 6 months training in  social media marketing. The social media training covers content creation, social networking and promotion including social bookmarking. Weekly PDF lessons and bonuses are focused on helping you to take real action to achieve your online goals. For example, the Facebook Marketing lesson covers Personal Pages, Fan Pages and Facebook Ads. 

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Joel Therien has just released GVO Conference at a GoDaddy price point - $8.97 per month for a 50 seat Online Conference Room: http://demo-986.myprelaunchinvite.com/2/en/ I hosted my first sites with Joel's company 5 years ago and he has come a long way since then. GVO Conference is state-of-the-art in online conferencing - Joel has picked a price that is in line with GoDaddy's onslaught

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My very first online mentor, Anik Singal, has just released his free 158 page report, The Empire Formula: http://www.bit.ly/9qXxjF I first came across Anik when I joined his Affiliate Classroom in 2005.  I became a life member in 2007 and subsequently joined Anik's PPC Classroom and his Article Directory, AffSphere. Anik has created a $10 Million per year online empire.  His report details

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Should you use Blogger.com or WordPress for your blog? It's a matter of preference.  Some experienced marketers dismissBlogger.com because it is not as sophisticated or as flexible as WordPress. But there are other considerations. The fact of the matter is that a number of the world's top bloggersstarted out on Blogger.com (including Darren Rowse), partly because not much was available then

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Social Learning : the videoThanks to Conrado Schlochauer of LAB SSJ in Brazil for sharing this video with me - and thanks for the mention! via janeknight.typepad.comJane Knight recommends this video about the value of content creation and social networking for social learning. This is a fundamental theme of my training program on social media marketing: http://www.squidooroo.comPosted via

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SquidooRoo is a 6 month training program in social media marketing. The SquidooRoo Program covers content creation, social networking and promotion including social bookmarking. Weekly lessons in PDF format are provided over 24 weeks and each week's lesson includes bonuses designed to help you take action. Lessons on content creation in SquidooRoo include aspects such as article marketing,

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  Squidoo has implemented a new option that enables you to include a Yahoo audio player on your Squidoo lenses. You can see it in operation in the Introduction module to my latest Squidoo lens: http://www.squidoo.com/gull You'll see a hyperlink titled, "CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO - Ron Talks About Richard Teare - Founder of GULL". Beside the link is an arrow which indicates an audio player.

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The GULL Vision - Building Community Through Developing Leaders GULL is a nonprofit public benefit corporation incorporated in California, USA. GULL is recognized by the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and endorsed by other Governments, Leaders & Institutions. GULL's aim is to equip everyone, particularly the disadvantaged and dislocated, to acquire practical knowledge and skills through

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I was recently asked about the need to add meta tags to Squidoo lenses for SEO purposes. For one thing, Squidoo would not allow the relevant coding. For html code that is allowable, visit: http://www.squidoo.com/basichtml However, the main issue is that it is totally unnecessary as the meta tags are auto-generated by Squidoo (thanks to Seth's genius). Meta tags are already embedded in

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The following podcast discusses the growth of podcasting and encourages use of this medium. The flexibility of podcasts, for access and use, make them a very desirable marketing medium. Also podcsts reveal a lot about you and personalises you to the listener. Podcasts are easy to create and very cheap (just the cost of headphones with microphone). *******************************************

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via animoto.comThis brief video has been built with Animoto - you can make an unlimited number of 30 second videos at no cost. You can also make an unlimited number of videos of unrestricted length at a minimal annual fee.Posted via web from Ronpass posterous

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Squidoo is a superb platform for affiliate marketing.  Being a multi-media platform with multiple modules and plugins, Squidoo provides endless ways to present your affiliate offerings - whether affiliate programs, products, services or software. Recently, I was presenting a webinar about Squidoo affiliate marketing for members of the 12 Second Commute Program (integrated online marketing

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My Squidoo Marketing Strategies lens was awarded a Purple Star during the week. According to Squidoo, Purple Stars are awarded for qualities of excellence: "...standout lenses, both new and old...Masterpiece lenses. Lenses making a name for themselves. Lenses trying new things." The Purple Star is a reflection of Seth Godin's theme in his book, Purple Cow - be remarkable by being

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I have been blogging on this blog (Blogger.com) for more than 5 years now. Recently I started developing a WordPress blog for a social media marketing site. I became very frustrated at times trying to find the right themes that required minimum effort on my part to customize the site to suit my specific requirements. Then there was the issue of finding the right plug-ins to enable me to add

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  Ed Dale has done it again.  He has produced an online training course that lets you in on his secrets for creating online content. Ed is the creator of the free 30 Days Challenge which has been completed by thousands of Internet marketers. I have participated in the equivalent Master Class, 30 Days Challenge Plus, and learned so much to help me with my social media marketing. Ed provides

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There are three very important trends you need to be aware of with respect to Facebook. 1. Facebook traffic exceeded that of Google in March 2010 "Social networking website Facebook has capped a year of phenomenal growth by overtaking Google’s popularity among US internet users, with industry data showing it has scored more visits on its home page than the search engine." from ft.com 2.

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[06/03 05:23PM] 7 Key Strategies for Effective Squidoo Lens Design  Training Conference 1: Squidoo Lens DesignSquidoo is a free multi-media hosting site that

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Gimmicks, Gadgets & Fads Don’t Work. 12 Second Commute is a superior collection of proven tools and training that should be required by law if you want to be in business on the Internet. For those just starting out we have absolutely the best cutomer service you will find anywhere on the web. You may work alone but you will never have to be alone. We will even help you get started...

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Today I had the honor of interviewing Seth for his next book and I wanted to share two stories that he told for my new book to help me illustrate how small actions can make a big difference.  It was a gift Seth gave me without any expectation it would ever pay off for him. Now I’d like to pass this gift onto you. Enjoy Seth’s amazing stories! Ken McArthur Talks To Seth Godin0:00 / 0:

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, There are many barriers that create a ceiling on your online income whether you are earning $100 a month or $1,000 (or more) per month. In the following 5 minute podcast I address some of these personal barriers and identify strategies to overcome them. To play the mp3 click on the the image or on the link below: How To Improve Your Online Income To download, use "right click" and

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Featured Lenses: Sunshine Coast  Maroochydore through the photographic lens of Barbara J H This is a Squidoo lens with a difference. Its sole purpose is enable you to see Maroochydore through the camera lens of Barbara J H, a local photographer. This unique perspective is designed to showcase not only Maroochydore but also Barbara's photog...

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There are two key tactics you can use with Flickr to increase the exposure of your website, blog or Squidoo lens. 1. Add the URL of the target website to your image description on Flickr The desired URL should be placed at the start of your description and a related URL can be added at the end.  Just make sure that there is some obvious connection between the URL and the image description.

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My latest Squidoo lens discusses how to improve your content creation by removing the barriers to personal productivity. The barriers are identified as: procrastination information overload activity focus lack of clear goals The three building blocks of personal productivity online are identified as: focus discipline leverage The Squidoo lens identifies strategies in each of these three areas

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Merit Solutions Australia is bringing job application training and management coaching to Cairns, North Queensland. Merit HR Consultants have worked with over 5,000 Government selection panels over 13 years. They will be sharing their knowledge and experience in two workshops in Cairns: 1. Winning Government Jobs Success Strategies for Job Applicants Breakfast Presentation Friday 26 March -

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Bread Making Tips | Dough Temperatures | Mixing The DoughDough TemperaturesIn a bakery, maintaining the correct temperatures for preferments—generally cool—and proof boxes for dough rising are critical for consistency of flavor and an efficient daily baking routine. The ideal dough temperature is around 75 degrees, and to keep it at this temperature requires an ambient temperature of the same.

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Membership HERE has its advantages A subscription WorldAcupuncture Members Only Program gets you instant access to: Every item in the World Acupuncture Catalogue Every issue of Alan’s WorldAcupuncturBlog Tips and Marketing articles on Growing your Business from altMD Downloadable videos, DVDs, Seminar Discounts, and helpful hints by Alan Jansson Downloadable practice development guides

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Psychometric Assessment - Merit Solutions AustraliaPsychometric Assessment Merit Solutions has applied the PAPI assessment tool to a number of senior selection processes in both State and Local Government agencies.  These assessments have assisted to refine selection strategies and added significantly to the panels’ insight into applicants, particularly when fields are competitive and

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Torah Bright - Australian Flag Bearer 2010 Winter Olympics Here I am following the framework I developed for Squidoo lens design: 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens I developed this lens to acknowledge the achievement of Torah Bright in winning the Gold Medal for the Women's Halfpipe at the 2010 Winter Olympics (18 February). 2. Concept of the Squidoo Lens

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Bulimba, QLD, Australia Listen! procrastination productivity content creation social media marketing blogging Share This Boo 0Share via audioboo.fm Podcast recorded on my iPhone via AudioBoo. Explains how I have implemented my New Year's Resolution to improve my productivity and overcome the

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How to use Posterous for leverageHow to use Posterous for leveragePosterous.com is a free program that allows you to do email blogging and blog via screen capture.  It is simple to use but incredibly powerful. You create an account by emailing post@posterous.com and your account and Posterous blog is created for you. via redgage.comThis is a RedGage.com blog post where I explain how to use

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Report this boo Bulimba, QLD, Australia Listen! via audioboo.fm My Podcast at AudioBoo where I discuss Posterous.com and its many applications. Posted via web from Ronpass posterous

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I have just returned from a great week's holiday at Mooloolaba Beach. We were treated to perfect weather in this idyllic holiday location on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland (about 1 1/2 hours drive from Brisbane). Mooloolaba is noted for its surfing, restaurants and accommodation. Here's the video I created from photos I took over the week. I took about 200 photos and selected about 60 to

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Well the "so what" is a natural reaction when people see this comment on Twitter for the hundredth or thousandth time. The same applies to the comment, "I'm reading [lens]". These are the default settings when you use the Squidoo facility to tweet about Squidoo actions. It's important to make the most of each tweet and make it meaningful. Ways to do this are to: advise readers of the

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Well now that I am in my holiday break, I decided that I would re-visit some of the digital photos I had taken during the year and turn them into videos. I told myself, "This is not work - it's too much fun, and it is!" I get great satisfaction from turning my digital photos into animated music videos.  I like the professional image of the the finished product and the video gives me new

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  / Over the past couple of months I have participated in the 30 Day Challenge Plus Internet marketing training. There is no doubt about it, but this is certainly leading edge stuff.  You actually get to look over the shoulder of the Master Marketer, Ed Dale, as he creates and markets original content. Ed Dale not only takes you into his office and his car, he also takes you

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Well, here in Australia it is New Year's Eve - with 2010 fast approaching. It's the time for New Year Resolutions to cover all aspects of your life (so that you can achieve some balance). However, I just want to focus here on improving personal productivity in your online business. I've been reading some great resources lately to help me overcome information overload and to

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\ The Adwords "Bulls Eye" Profit Report by Alex Goad is one of the most comprehensive and valuable free reports that I have accessed in some time. It's not only relevant for people engaged in PPC campaigns, but also for anyone involved in any form of Internet Marketing for affiliate products or their own small business.     Alex's central premise is that if you define your

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Garrett Pierson has just released a new training product, Building Social Equity. [BSE for short herein] As part of the product launch, Garrett offers free access to a number of interviews (both mp3 & PDF) with leading social media marketers. By signing up under my affiliate link below you will have access to free interviews with Alex Mandossian, Dave Lakhani, Martin Wales,

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How are you currently branding yourself as a small business or affiliate marketer?  What perceptions are you creating in the market-place? Branding can create recognition, positive customer perceptions and  loyalty. So, how do you create your small business brand or brand yourself as an affiliate marketer? Cindy Ratzlaff, Brand New Brand You, suggests that there are four key branding elements

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Well I have just listened to Mike Litman's The Force That Creates Your Future track on his 'Greatness Held Hostage' CD. He makes the point that the difference between medicocrity and greatness has a lot to do with habits: People form habits and habits form futures But it is not just any habit that makes the difference, it's a distasteful habit: Successful people make a habit of

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Here I am following the framework I developed for Squidoo lens design: 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens I developed this lens to promote Merit Solutions Brisbane, a networked organization of human resource consultants based in Queensland, Australia.  The global economic crisis had impacted heavily on the organization's income because of a major reduction

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Here I am following the framework I developed for Squidoo lens design: 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens The main purpose of my Tropical Rainforest Squidoo lens was to share something of my experience of walking in the Mt Glorious rainforest in Brisbane early one misty Sunday morning.  My subsidiary purpose was to promote rainforest

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I was recently asked by Mari Smith, Facebook and social media expert, to present a webinar on Squidoo for her Social Media Certification Course. My webinar covered the philosophy of Squidoo, the steps for effective lens design, how to promote a small business, integrating Squidoo with other social media and how to build your personal brand on Squidoo through congruity and transparency. Here is

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In a previous post, I identified the 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation, so I will use these steps as a framework for discussing this new lens. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens Alan Jansson is an expert in Japanese Acupuncture who is dedicated to his profession and keen to train others in the subtleties and potency of his art.  The lens is designed to promote his teachings and workshops

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I've created 3 Squidoo lenses lately that address the issue of creating an authority site. The first of these looks at "why create an authority site"?: http://www.squidoo.com/authoritysite The arguments for an authority site are numerous and I can vouch for the positive impacts of having an authority site. The second explores the reasons why you should create your authority site on

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I have been with Hostgator.com since 2006 and currently have five web sites hosted with them.  Besides hosting your website you can easily add a WordPress Blog. What appeals to me about Hostgator as a web hosting service is: online chat facility to address any technical problems quality training materials including videos  speedy response to requests competent, expert staff capacity to

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In a previous post, I identified the 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation, so I will use these steps as a framework for discussing this new lens. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens In this lens I wanted to focus on the health and wellness of Baby Boomers, challenge a damaging myth about BabyBoomers and technology and promote an affiliate program for anti-aging fitness. 2. Concept of the Squidoo

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 I have created two new audio tutorials about RedGage. 1. RedGage Explained Discusses the RedGage site as a social bookmarking andsocial networkingsite and explains the four ways to earnmoney on Redgage.What is RedGage?  2. How to Promote on RedGageShows how to use the cross-posting facility on RedGage tobuild multiple backlinks for your blogs, websites and Squidoo lenses.Promote Your Squidoo

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Here are four ways to promote your Squidoo lens on the socialbookmarking site, RedGage.1. Upload the URL of the Squidoo lensUse the "upload link" option to record the URL of your Squidoo lens.You add title, description and keywords.2. Upload the URL of a module of your Squidoo lensAgain use the "upload link" option but select an appropriate moduleand add a relevant title and description and

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Well I was the guest speaker on BlogTalkRadio forthe Giant Squid Open Mike Show onMonday 18 August.This was great fun and a fantastic way to connect topeople and hear their voices. Besides, it is a greatforum for learning about Squidoo and Web 2.0 marketing.This venture by Joan Adams and Kate Loving Shenkis very much in line with Seth Godin's philosophy ofcollaborative marketing epitomized by

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This post discusses the lens design for my 87th lens,Montville Queensland.In a previous post, I identified the 7 Top Strategies forLens Creation, so I will use these steps as a frameworkfor discussing this new lens.1. Purpose of the Squidoo LensThis lens was designed to share the beauty and romanceof Montville with others. I wanted to highlight thepanoramic views, romantic accommodation,

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My 86th Squidoo lens introducesa range of videos I havedeveloped about the newRedGage social bookmarkingand social networkingsite.What differentiates RedGage is thatit pays you for your content.My Squidoo lens about RedGage video tutorialscovers a number of key areas:why use RedGage?3 ways to make money on RedGagesocial networking on RedGagehow to add friendsYou can view the video tutorials about

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My Squidoo Lens about the wonderfulFootpath Library initiative recently wona Purple Star Award.The Purple Star award is given only for outstanding lensescreated by Giant Squids. So you have to first become aGiant Squid to be eligible.Details of the Purple Star Program on Squidoo canbe found here:http://www.squidoo.com/purplestarHow to win a Purple Star? Here's the advice from theProgram

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In a recent invited post for the SquidLog blog, I highlightedthe need to be conscious of the way that Google indexesSquidoo lens.Some of the key messages were:it is not enough to concentrate on your primary keyword alonetoo much emphasis on the primary keyword can result in loss of rankusing keywords irrelevant to the lens focus can result in penaltiesThe secret is to think broad and stay

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RedGage, the new social bookmarking and social networkingsite has monthly contests to encourage users to contributepositively to the development of the site.The details of the August RedGage contest are shown here:August ContestFor the month of August, the RedGage Contest has two parts:a raffle and a competition.The RaffleRedGage users can collect points for receiving views,rating content,

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Well this email was a surpirse:"You have been chosen to be one of the sixteenFeatured Users on the RedGage Homepage.Click the following link to view the homepage:http://www.redgage.com/"So if you do click the home page you will see me (ronpass)featured - just click the username and that takes youto my profile page and my Collections.So what did I do to deserve this featured status?I don't know

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Squidoo: The Challenge to Make a DifferencePosted using ShareThis

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Squidoo provides the opportunity to promote your favorite charity.You can build a lens promoting the charity, encourage charitymembers to create their own Squidoo lenses about theorganization or work with the charity over time tohelp them to become recognized by Squidoo.If you take this latter course the charity will be able to receivedonations via Paypal from Squidoo members and Squidoo

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Redgage is not just a social bookmarking site foruploading photos, links and videos. It is very mucha social networking site. The richness of the onlinecontent is more than matched by the richness anddiversity of the network.RedGage facilitates the building of your social networkthrough the add a friend button, the ability to store contentin Collections and the capacity to develop a

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Well I joined RedGage about a month ago and I am nowenjoying the fruits of my efforts.I've made $83 to date just from uploading some of myonline content (a miniscule fraction - about .1%).There are three ways to earn on RedGage as I explainin this video:I like the fact that you get paid for your backlinksthat you create on RedGage - much better than havingto pay for them (...and some of mine have

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No, not really, there are no Monsters at Squidoo.Squidoo is currently experimenting with differentforms of advertising to increase revenues for charityand Squidoo Lensmasters. Obviously, the currenteconomic recession is biting into revenues everywhere.Squidoo, as usual, is being proactive about the currentstate of the economy.So you may have noticed green in-line hyperlinkson your Squidoo lenses

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Squidoo has made some major Policy Changes!!You have until mid-July to get your lenses inorder or they may be locked or deleted.Key areas of change:#1 No Spam#2 No X-Rated or Porn#3 No junk topics#4 A new limit on "overly promotional lenses"#5 Plagiarism takedownYou may think you know what these mean, but checkthis out closely. "Junk Topics" may include any lens on"weight loss" for example.Let's

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