What I Didn’t Learn At School

I have always been interesting in tracking my goals and habits. Not just my regular to-do list, but my real goals in life. Like my first $500 earned online, then my first $1000 and $10,000. There is a lot of steps that needs to be done everyday to reach those goals but I have never really had a great tool for tracking this.

Many Schemes and tools out there has been to massive and heavy to mess around with. But the other day I finally found a cool online tool that makes tracking and assessing my goals simple. It’s called Disciplanner.

We all have a bunch of habits. Both positive and negative ones. (At least I do) And Disciplanner let me make categories for them. This way I can track how long I watch useless TV shows (negative habit) instead of working on recording great new content for my subscribers (positive habit)

All I need to do is to visit Disciplanner in the end of each day and put in the number of time spent on the different categories. (You need to be honest with yourself here) And after a week or two it will all make sense with a cool graphical report. Now you ca see where your time went. Finally!

Best of all it’s totally FREE but you need to register for an account. (How else will it be able to track you?)
It’s time for getting rid of those bad habits!

Visit Discplanner.com here

We have been playing around with email now for over 40 years. Email was invented the same year as the Lava lamp. It’s an old way of communicating and when more then 3 people is in the same mail conversation discussing a subject it often gets very messy, don’t you think?

At least Google’s Gmail started to fix the problem and made threaded conversation easier to follow.  At least it was a big step up from my Outlook inbox. Now Google is doing it again. They invented a new platform of communicating. They call it Wave. You have probably heard something about it but are not sure how it will work. Here is a great animated explanation that I just found.

What is Google Wave

For a long time I have been using Google reader for all my RSS Feed’s and later turned more and more over to LazyFeed to get more inspiration for new sites in the topics that I’m interested in. Now I’m looking at 44tips.com, something completely fresh and cool that in the end of the day might be my new startup page.

One of my marketing strategies to get more traffic and build backlinks is to comment on other blogs. I want to be one of the first to comment on a blog for 2 reasons:

1. I get more traffic that way since there is a bigger chance that other comment readers are reading the first comments then the 48th comment.
2. I have a bigger chance of getting noticed by the blogs owner for the same reason as described above.

Here is my 44tips.com Review
To keep track of all the latest blog posts on the blogs that I follow I use Google Reader, but after trying out 44tips.com I now see that login in to Google reader to catch up on important blogs is a lot of job and takes time that 44tips.com saves me.

As an Internet Marketer I’m also monitoring my Twitter, Facebook and a few other social medias. I’m searching for pictures for my blog posts and  I often watch youtube clips on various topics. And don’t forget music. I always need my music when I’m working and I stream it from youtube or get the latest re-mixes from many different music sites.

Am I getting to the point soon?
Yes! My point is, 44tips.com has gathered all this information on one nice start page. You can connect to every social network and at the same time get faster to your bookmarked websites and follow all your RSS subscribes sites in one place. It’s super awesome and time saving from an Internet Marketing view.

You should absolutely try it out.

This is the first tips about podcast’s of many to come that I want you to listen to every week. Last night I gave you a great tips about the very new Internet show, TWiST or This Week in Startups. Today I want to give you a tips about a show that is more for all you Internet Marketers out there.

The podcast’s name is Internet Marketing This Week and is brought to you from four of the biggest Internet Marketers out there. You should by now know the name and faces of Ed Dale, Lynn Terry, Michelle MacPhearson and Paul Colligan. Every week they get their skypes together and talks about various topics that is important in the Internet Marketing world.

I really connected with them on a whole new level when listening to them every week talking about their up’s and downs, what type of products are selling best, different kinds of product launches, what mistakes people do and what super cool product creation tools that are out there.

You learn so much more then just jumping around their blogs and you get an insight of how much work it actually is to be one of the best Internet Marketers out there. So start educating yourself on what’s new in your industry. Listen in on Internet Marketing This Week now.

Today I finally got to watching one of my new favourite shows, This Week In Startups. It’s a very new Internet show but with the well connected powerful man Jason McCabe Calacanis in front of the camera, you know you’re getting some valuable stuff to watch.

Jason brings on like minded people from new and upcoming startups on the Internet, and on This Week in Startups it’s one of the 3 founders of Posterious, Garry Tan.

Now I’m a big fan of Posterious and have been a user since the 28th of June 2008. I’ve been using it a bit on and off, but when I use it it’s mostly for posting pictures from my phone. It’s so easy to do. I just send and email with pictures as attachments and Posterious makes it all look perfect on my Posterious blog.

Jason brought Garry Tan on this weeks program for 2 reasons. Not only have Garry Tan and his team made a super easy to use blog platform, they have just recently made a kick ass Autopost to Everywhere future that makes your posterous posts show up automatically on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr or your other blogs. That means there is now just one stop to get everyones attention from just one email.

This is such a time saver and really a powerful marketing tool. So if you want to drive traffic to something, this one tool automagically tells all the traffic sources for you. You can be sitting in your car sending an email and soon after, your Twitter list, blog readers, Flickr fans and Facebook friends will all get your message and link . Let the traffic come and the money grow.

So listen to Jason when he talks to Garry Tan about his startup and learn about what’s to come in the near future for Posterous. It’s gone be awsome, that’s for sure.

It’s about time to use Google Analytics for what it’s worth. I have always known the importance of tracking the traffic on all my website and projects. I automagically install Google Analytics on all my sites too but I must admit, other then getting the traffic count I didn’t know what to use the rest of the numbers for.

Google Analytics is still free to use and it’s still one of the most powerful analytic tools for the web out there, so why not learn to use it and get the most out of it?

If you are one of those that uses Google Adsense as your part time income you are also in for a treat. Google Analytics will show you how to monitor what people read on your page so that you can preform way better with adsense ads on your site.

So head over to Smashing Magazine to get the complete Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools now!

I think it’s about time I slow down a bit and listen more to my visitors to get an better understanding on why you are on this blog and what you want to learn from it. That’s why this blog post will be a poll with the question; What do you want to learn in Internet Marketing?

I know a lot of the right people that are helping me, but what I struggle with is maybe not what you struggle with. So with a better understanding I hope to make this a better blog. So please take a few seconds and help me out. Also if you can, give me some comments so I have more to go on. Thanks!

Today I want to share with you two products that I have used this past 9 days to really get the ball rolling on Twitter. As you should know by now, Twitter is one of the traffic sources out there not to be missed.

Every now and then when I send out a link that I want to share with people around 2%  of my followers will click it. That’s one if the reasons to go out and get people to follow you and follow them back. Other reasons is to find cool people to connect and network with, maybe find a future business partner.

There is a big difference between a mass follow and strategic building of your Twitter list. The two products I have used the past 9 days  explains this very well. People uses Twitter for different reasons, mine is to network with other marketers and teach and learn things to build my business.

So here is how I went from 380 – 2058 followers on Twitter in 9 days…

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Since this is a marketing blog I will try to answer this question from a marketing perspective. Today you need to be all over the social medias to get seen online. You need to promote yourself, your blog and your business to get some revenue at all.  A blog by itself is not enough.

But when you have 5000 friends on Facebook, 40.000 followers on Twitter and even a bunch of followers on MySpace, LinkedIn and many more it’s hard to be productive and get down to a personal level

First Things First
Facebook newly got a nice “hide”- function on the main feed. It’s really easy to use. If you don’t want to hear any more from the people that update their status every minute or those guys that always take those quiz’s to find out who their real parents are or who they are in the show “How I Met Your Mother”, you can easily click the hide function and remove them from the feed. (They will not even notice) Then…

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Today I’ve used a lot of time studying Twitter profiles. A few profiles stand out and are really cool to look at but most of them still use the standard twitter backgrounds. I believe that you need to stand out from the masses with your twitter profile if you want people to follow you. Don’t just be another follower, be interesting so that people actually pays attention to your twitts and follow you back. So get ready for transformation, I’m here to Pimp Your Twitter Profile!

First, let’s answer an important question. What should be included in a custom Twitter profile background? Short answer, everything you can’t fit into your profile bio. All types of contact information,  more websites you would like to draw attention to, a bigger picture of yourself and a bigger about you text. It also depends on why you are on Twitter. But if you are there for business and networking, you should draw attention to your business and tell people why they should follow you. But don’t over do it. Less is still more on Twitter too.

Knowing that her is my 5 ways to pimp your profile.

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