Information Sells

Lots of people hate Word. I am not one of them. I use Word constantly. I’ve studied it, written about it, taught it. I find that Word is much richer, much more versatile than most users imagine. In short, I like Word. But Word is word processing software. Word is not blogging software. Word creates [...]

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From now until June 5, TechSmith is giving a free, legal, licensed copy of SnagIt v7.25 to anyone who requests a copy – just for giving TechSmith your email address. SnagIt is simply the very best screen capture program there is. The latest version is 9.1 and costs $50.00 – so for free, you’ll be [...]

Tags: screen capture, snagit

Give Away of the Day is on a tear lately, with one great offering after another. Today, Monday, April 20, they have SoThink’s JavaScript Web Scroller Creator. It creates horizontal or vertical image scrollers, news scroller, ads, events, image slide shows, etc. You’ve seen similar scrollers on eBay (Auctiva’s scrollers are an especially popular way [...]

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If you do any photo editing work – whether as a hobbyist photographer or as a web site owner – you know you need Photoshop Elements. If you’ve been waiting to buy – you are in luck. From now until April 23, Adobe is selling Photoshop Elements 7 for $59.99 when you buy direcly from [...]

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Have you calculated the Total Cost of Ownership for your free software? Are support calls killing you? Did your upfront savings turn into a downstream nightmare? If so – you’re not alone. When you start a new business, it is not only normal, it is necessary to count every penny, to try to find less [...]

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Don’t be tethered to a desk. Give yourself a Christmas treat while indulging your geeky cloud computing cravings this holiday season. LOG ME IN Do you need remote access to your PC? Do you use LogMeIn? If you use anything except LogMeIn, you are paying too much. LogMeIn is free and it is safe, secure, [...]

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Amazon dropped the price of Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack to $70.00. This version is bundled with Vegas Movie Studio9 Platinum Sound Forge Cinescore themes 1001 Sound Effects Various NewBlue 3D transitions and special effects If you plan to shoot and edit in high definition, this is the package you need. It’s [...]

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Today only- Friday, Nov 28,2009 – Give Away of the Day is offering eCover Engineer. If you make and sell information products, you know your conversion rate is much better if you have a graphic that looks like a physical product. For ebooks, you want to create something besides a flat “cover.” Even for CDs [...]

Tags: box shots, ebooks

If all the doom and gloom economic forecasts are true, now is the time to take a good hard look at business expenses. Where can you save, what should you dump, where should you expand? If you are like many small business people, your cell phone is your lifeline. You may be on the phone [...]

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Do you use GMail and Google Calendar? Are you tired of flipping between tabs to check your appointments when you check your email? You can finally stop grinding your teeth. The long wait for an integrated calendar is over. When you are in GMail, click on the Settings link in the top right hand corner [...]

Tags: gmail, Google Labs

Does your business use a FAQ? OK – let’s reword that. Could your business use a FAQ? Sure it could. Enormous amounts of time are spent answering the same questions over and over. Good Customer Service demands that we don’t say, “I AM SO SICK OF THAT QUESTION! READ THE %$#@ TERMS!!!!” Instead we politely [...]

Tags: email, gmail

You can’t get away from GMail. Since it was introduced about 4 years ago, GMail has changed the way email is accessed and stored. There were certainly online email accounts before GMail – and it’s not like HotMail, AOL, or Yahoo mail were difficult to use. But GMail just did so many things right (including [...]

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Adobe Creative Suites 4 is available for pre-order. Thank goodness I dithered for six months trying to decide whether or not I could afford Adobe CS3- and if I could buy it, which version I should buy. Otherwise, I couldn’t look forward to another six or seven more months of vacillation. Instead, I’d have to torment [...]

Tags: adobe, creative suite 4, indesign, photoshop

Would you like to make your Flip camcorder twice as useful without spending a penny? Today you can (tomorrow, it will cost.) Give Away of the Day is featuring Wondershare’s WebVideo Author today. Among other things, it will convert AVI clips into both SWF and FLV. Why is this good news for Flip owners? The [...]

Tags: flash, flip, flv, give away of the day, swf

What do you need to sell information products online? The list changes constantly. Some of the services I couldn’t do without might be meaningless to you. Even so, here’s the beginning of a list of essential web sites, tools, applications, and services that no online entrepreneur should be without. WEB SERVICES AND ACCOUNTS Email Accounts [...]

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