Why podcasting is such a valuable marketing channel

Podcasting is a wonderful marketing channel that is widely misunderstood. I love the fact that for free you can basically have your message heard by potentially tens and even hundreds of millions of people. I think most people shy away from podcasting because they don’t understand the potential reach. The tools are not as well [...] Read more »

How to Podcast with Garageband and Publish on iTunes

How to Podcast with Garageband and Publish on iTunes by Steinar Knutsen

In this course, I show you exactly how to record your podcast in Garageband, export your episodes as MP3′s and publish your podcast to WordPress and iTunes. This is great because listeners may now listen to your podcast on your WordPress blog and subscribe to your podcast on iTunes. The lectures are recorded with professional [...] Read more »

Please Don’t Complain to Me About Facebook’s Data Use Policy

Use your Facebook account to Sign in on other Websites

I got an email today from a visitor on my site who was concerned about my Aweber email newsletter sign up form.  Aweber uses the Facebook API to detect if you are signed into Facebook, and if you are it preloads the form with your email address.  It also indicates your number of friends. Facebook’s [...] Read more »

First Impressions of Apple iBooks Author

apple ibooks author software

Apple launched iBooks Author this week and it’s pretty amazing.  Basically, it’s free software that allows you to create media-rich, interactive ebooks.  It’s available for download on the Mac App Store. Typically, this has been a pretty difficult task, but iBooks Author is so simple because it plays nice with Pages, Keynote and several other [...] Read more »

Grasshopper: #11 Essential Online Marketing Tool for 2012

Grasshopper Virtual Phone System

What is Grasshopper? The Grasshopper virtual phone system helps entrepreneurs sound more professional and stay connected from anywhere. Features include toll free and local numbers, custom greetings, multiple extensions for employees, call forwarding to any phone anywhere in the world, voicemail to email and more! Get a Toll Free or Local Number With Multiple Extensions [...] Read more »

2011 YouTube Video Traffic Review

2011 YouTube Anayltics Review

As many of your know I like to shoot a lot of video.  In fact,  I published 61 videos on Youtube in 2011 – you can see them here on my YouTube channel.  I have several other YouTube channels too, but I’m not going to refer to those in this post. I like video as [...] Read more »

My New Video Introduction for New Site Media

keynote build for custom video introduction

I do a lot of video – some for this blog and some for my company at New Site Media.  I’ve tried a variety of video introductions using some of the preconfigured transitions in iMovie but thought it was time to get a little creative and make my own from scratch.  I considered using Fiverr [...] Read more »

OptimizePress: #10 Essential Online Marketing Tool for 2012

OptimizePress Wordpress Squeeze Pages and Sales Funnel

What is OptimizePress? Many of the world’s top Internet Marketers, Experts, Speakers and Coaches use OptimizePress to build their sales pages, launch funnels, membership sites or squeeze pages. It’s simply the easiest way to create an online sales funnel fast.  It’s packed with customization options and built-in graphics that would take hours or days to [...] Read more »

LinkedIn is Top Social Media Channel for B2B Marketers

linkedin b2b marketing channel

LinkedIn is the smallest and oldest of the big 5 social media platforms, yet is surprisingly the preferred social media marketing channel among B2B marketers according to a recent study by Safefrog Marketing Greoup. Survey respondents often cite LinkedIn as the top social media site for B2B marketers, but others put Facebook and Twitter above [...] Read more »