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Seagate in Australia

    I’ve had a Seagate external hard disk drive for years and it still works well – the only problem I had was I accidentally threw out the power cable (doh!) and had great difficulty with the folk at Seagate to understand the product I had and whether they had a replacement cable.

    Then I had a Maxtor One Touch III which still works fault-free today. I use it when I’m travelling to take a lot of my work files with me. It’s only 80gb (that was big when new!) but does the job.

    Earlier this year I upgraded the external hard drive I use for backups to a 1TB Maxtor. And it’s already making a very sick sound. Searching the internet I decided to stop trying to make it work by hooking it up to other computers as this may be causing damage. So, in my travels IRead More »Seagate in Australia

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    Email Marketing Tips for Autoresponders

      email marketing, autoresponder messageWriting up a series (or even one!) email broadcasts can be challenging. What do I write? What do I say? etc etc.

      Before you even start to write up your emails, ask yourself these three questions :

      1. Why am I writing anyway? What’s the purpose? What am I trying to achieve? Is it to have the reader click a link to something? To deliver content to the reader after they signed up for something? To build a relationship by following up on a conversation? Decide what your purpose in writing is and that will give you a clue as to where to start and finish. Oh, and always provide a link – to a sales page, a blog post, a website, a download or whatever. You want to train your readers to click on those links so make sure they are worthwhile.
      2. Who is your target reader? Who are you actually writing to?Read More »Email Marketing Tips for Autoresponders

      Free Video Grabbers

        If you’re looking for a tool to download and convert video from public storage then these free ones may be the go for you. No recommendations as I haven’t used them but wanted to post here so I don;t lose the links! http://clipgrab.de/en http://youtubedownloader.com/ http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/ http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Song-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75289616.html http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm http://download.cnet.com/aTube-Catcher/3000-2071_4-10969422.html http://keepvid.com/ http://www.save2pc.com/download.html http://www.flashvideodownloader.org/fvd-suite/ Let me know below if you find any others or have feedback on these.

        No BS IM

          “There be dragons there!” In the ‘make money online’ world there are lots of dragons, complete with fire and puffing and dangerously swagging tails. It’s refreshing then to find someone who seems more genuine than most. Meet Steve Scott. I like his style. http://www.stevescottsite.com/authority-internet-business-overview

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          Outlook Email Addresses: All the Tricks

            I wrote about this guy and his post a few years back and I find I still have to remind myself to go there when I need sorting out with my Outlook issues. Popped back there today as I need to clean up Outlook again and noticed he has updated and extended the tricks and techniques to grab your email addresses from Outlook (if you’ve been naughty and not saving to address book as you go!) as well as : extract email addresses in bulk extract email addresses from folders and sub-folders remove duplicates extract all attachments in one go search for an… Read More »Outlook Email Addresses: All the Tricks

            Get Better Ranking in YouTube: SEO Trick

              Here’s a really cool technique to increase the chance of getting your YouTube videos to page one in Google. I’ve heard of this method before but now the steps are clear in this video:

              1. choose a four-word keyword phrase that has thousands of searches
              2. make a short 2-3 minute video on the topic with a call to action to go to your website
              3. upload the video to YouTube
              4. do something special with the title, description and tags
              5. add some more seo, get likes, shares, ping etc
              6. sit back and see if it works!

              My notes from the vid:

              • Title – up to maximum of 12 words in title. Use the 4-word keyword phrase AND 3 word keyword phrase repeating 3 of the 4 words AND another 3 word keyword phrase repeating 3 other of the 4 keywords . Example BEST JALAPENO CHILLI RECIPES – BEST CHILLI RECIPES – BEST JALAPENO RECIPES
              • When producing your video, include Captions and Callouts –Read More »Get Better Ranking in YouTube: SEO Trick