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As you may remember, one of my New Years resolutions was to get back in to blogging with at least one post per week. I’ve got tons of ideas for new blog posts but I want to get a feel for what people like to read about. I created this cool little poll to get your opinions. If you wouldn’t mind letting me know what kind of topics you like to read about and respond to, I’ll have a better idea of what direction to take future blog posts.

I really appreciate all the feedback and all of the support you guys have given me over the past few months since I’ve dove in to internet marketing head first. It has been an amazing ride so far.

If you are curious about how I made this poll and how you can implement one on your site, check out Blogpolls.com. It literally takes about 4 minutes to set up a poll.

Please make yourself heard in the comments below. If there’s something you’d like me to talk about that is not mentioned in the above poll, let me know.

Thanks so much for you input!

So Easy Video Player is out and ready now! I shot a quick video to show you just how cool it is and how easy it is to use! You will love this! Check it out!

This is the exact program I used to host all of the videos on all of my sites including The Wordpress Classroom and the List Building Classroom. If you are serious about internet marketing, you’ve got to have this!

You can get your copy here.

My good friend Josh Bartlett is getting ready to launch his new product called Easy Video Player. Despite the fact that he is working 20 hours per day to get his launch in place, he’s taken the time to jump on a call and answer some questions.

This is a great interview where Josh talks about his past before internet marketing, why he loves video so much, and how he’s had personal phone conversations with one of the biggest internet marketers out there right now. He also discusses all of the current features in his product as well as what may be in store for the future.

It’s a great interview and if you are serious about being an internet marketer going in to the future, you really need to listen. This really is where we are headed.

To learn more about Easy Video Player and to jump on the early bird list, check out the EVP page here.

Please post comments or questions about the interview in the section below. I’ll make sure Josh stops by to help me answer any questions you might have.

Being an online marketer, you are going to need some tools.
I have compiled a list of some of the best tools you can get without spending an extra dime. Check out all of these tools and feel free to make a comment with your recommendations.

Comment Kahuna – This is probably the coolest free tool that I have found. Basically you type in a keyword like “internet marketing”, select that you are looking for a WordPress blog, and click go. This will find a ton of blogs that are talking about the keyword you specified. It will also tell you if the blog is Follow or NoFollow and it will give you the blog’s pagerank (how relevant Google thinks it is). You can then go around finding high Page Rank blogs that allow Following and comment on them. This will allow readers of that blog to find your site and it will also make Google think your site is more popular. This is probably the most used traffic generation tool in my arsenal.

Google Analytics – Probably one of the most important tools you can have as a website owner. This will allow you to track everything about your site. You can see how many visitors you have had, how long they stayed, what site they came from, what site they left on, and so much more. An absolutely essential tool!

Cam Studio – Free software that lets you record a video of what you are doing on your screen. Remember that video that I made yesterday? I used this program to create it and I didn’t spend a dime to make it. I highly recommend it!.

Open Office – This is like Microsoft Office but free, and in my opinion, better. You basically have programs similar to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and more. It is great when it’s time to make an ebook because the program similar to Word allows you to save your document as a PDF file (With all of your hyperlinks intact).

Keyword Difficulty Check Tool – When you are trying to figure out which niche to blog about, you can use this tool to check how stiff the competition will be in that niche.

The Link Popularity Checker – This will allow you to see how many other sites are linking to your site. You can also compare your site alongside two other similar sites if you’d like. It’s a great way to check what is necessary to climb the ranks of Google.

Weebly – You can use this site to quickly and easily create a free webpage on any topic that you’d like. The web address will end up looking like yournich.weebly.com. It’s actually a really great, free, web site creation and hosting tool.

Blinkweb – Very similar to Weebly. You can quickly create a website and they will keep it hosted for you.

Picnik – This site allows you to quickly and easily resize images so that they fit better on your webpage.

Tweetlater – This site allows you to set up Twitter so that you can autofollow anyone who follows you. It also allows you to schedule tweets. If you are about to promote a new product, you can preschedule a series of tweets about your product and it will post them throughout the day.

BrowserShots – This site lets you see what your website will look like in pretty much any other browser out there. This is an important tool to make sure that your site looks as good to everyone else as it does to you.

FileZilla – The best ftp program out there. This will allow you access to your server’s FTP so that you can manually upload and download files from your server.

Survey Monkey – Create surveys and polls to gather information about users and site visitors. A great tool if you are trying to figure out what your audience really wants.

MindMeister – This is a recently discovered tool for me. You can create mindmaps for any ideas that you might have. Over the last three days, I have created mind maps for every one of my blog posts and I have laid out an entire 18 month business plan. Once you get goin, the mind starts flowin… (I just made that up. Cheesy right?)

Online Stopwatch – It is exactly what it sounds like. I use this a productivity tool. It has a count down timer as well. I set the countdown for 60 minutes of work. When times up, I take a 15 minute break before getting back to it. It’s been amazing for my productivity.

A few more that you might have heard of already

Twitter – One of the best marketing tools out there! Build up a following, tweet things that interest people, and watch them check out your blog because they like what you Tweet!

Skype – Get in contact with other like-minded people. I can’t use Skype enough. I have had conversations with some of the most successful people that are more than willing to share ideas just by contacting them on Skype! You can chat with Voice over internet protocol with them too! How cool is that? Free long distance…

YouTube – Make videos and post them there. Mention your website and people come… Easy enough right?

That’s the best I can do for now… I may make a part two in the future. There are so many great tools available!

I need to give some credit to others for this list as well. Thanks goes out to:
Rob Willis, Shirley Cheung, Adam Spiel and Joe Fier.