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Cross The Digital Divide, Sell Amazon Products

July 11th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Today’s Free Friday was about selling Amazon.com products on your site, or through e-mail, to create a passive stream of income for your business. Let me know what you think by commenting below.

I’ll be teaching, in my online classroom, how to create and maintain an Amazon store for your website. You can find more information on my Online Learning page.

 

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Introduction To Blogging Video

July 11th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Last Friday I held the Free Friday webinar and introducted blogs to the participants. Blogs, and more particularly the RSS feeds are core to the social networking trend we are experiencing right now.

If you have a passionate message you feel compelled to share, blogging is the tool of choice. You’d be amazed at how you can syndicate your content across the web.

Let me know what you think of the video by commenting below.

 

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Cross The Digital Divide, Free Friday Webinar

July 10th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Cross The Digital Divide with Debra SimpsonCross The Digital Divide with Debra Simpson in this week’s Free Friday Webinar.

I’ll be sharing with you how you can sell Amazon products on your website, or through your e-mail. Discover how becoming an Amazon Associate can add passive income to your website, turning it from a free-loader to a fee-loader.

Sign up here to attend the webinar. If you’ve been in the room before, just click on the Conference shortcut and come right in. Kick your feet up and relax with a beverage of your choice for 30 minutes and learn a little more about marketing your business on the Internet. It’s one more piece of the puzzle!

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Mikogo Shares Your Desktop

July 2nd, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Skype Extra MikogoOne step towards taking your business more into cyberspace is the ability to communicate over the web. I’m a Skype user, which allows me to IM my clients and associates, as well as make Skype to Skype calls. Skype also has what they call, extras. Extras extend the functionality of the software. One extra, Mikogo, which allows you to share your desktop with others. I put it to the test last night and will really thrash it tonight. So far, I’m impressed!

I had a total of four users join the meeting. We were able to easily watch the desktop being shared. We used a PowerPoint presentation and the lapse between clicking the slides and them visually changing was 3 seconds. One of the features I particularly liked was the ability for me, through a mouse click, to point to a part of the page that was being discussed. It’s hard to sit and watch someone else’s cursor on your screen, it’s nice to be able to interact to a degree with your cursor. It’s the ability to say, look at this!

Did I mention, it’s free? All you do is go to Mikogo, sign up for an account and download the Mikogo.exe software. You’ll also want to download the connect.exe found by tapping the "Join Meeting" in the header.

It’s an easy application to use and it will support 10 people in the meeting at one time.

As a blog coach, I find the ability to share my desktop to be essential, especially if I’m training my client on a program or task. If you have any need to share your desktop, and are a Skype user, this is one extra you don’t want to be without.

If you try it, or are working with Mikogo, let me know what you think by commenting.

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Small Business Video, Introduction to Audio

June 20th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Missing A Piece of the Internet PuzzleConquering The Digital Divide presented an online webinar sharing why adding audio and video to your site will help bring and keep visitors. Adding multimedia adds stickiness to your site. What I mean is that when your visitors land on your site, with audio or video they have something to do, keeping them on your site longer. That’s a good goal for your site, keeping them glued to it.

 

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