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 »

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 »

DropBox: #9 Essential Online Marketing Tool for 2012

dropbox file cloud storage for Mac and Windows

What is Dropbox? Dropbox allows you to easily store and share files online in either a private or public setting. Dropbox works hard to make sure that all your files are the same no matter where you’re working from. This means that you can start working on a computer at school or the office, and [...] Read more »

Commenting on Blogs for Knowledge, Brand Building and Market Leadership

commenting for market leadershipa and brand building

Commenting on other blogs is a fantastic strategy for building your brand online. So few people leave comments these days that you can easily differentiate yourself with this simple tactic. Not only does commenting get your name out there, it also gives you a chance to learn something new and connect with other thought leaders [...] Read more »

MindNode: #8 Essential Online Marketing Tool for 2012

mindnode mind mapping for mac iphone and ipad

What is MindNode? MindNode Pro and MindNode are elegant and simple-to-use mind mapping applications for the Macintosh that help to 1) visually collect, classify and structure ideas and 2) organize, study and solve problems. Available for Mac, iPad, & iPhone Visually Appealing Mind Maps. There is no need to spend hours playing with the visual [...] Read more »

Skitch Image Capture: #7 Essential Online Marketing Tool for 2012

skitch image capture for Mac

What is Skitch? Skitch is  Mac desktop and Android mobile image editing tool that lets you grab, annotate, edit and share your screenshots and images fast.  Skitch revolutionizes basic image editing tasks, delivering a quick and easy tool that offers most image editing features you’ll use day to day. Screenshots are easy: Skitch makes grabbing [...] Read more »