Jim Edwards here with an update…

I just published an article (below) for about 4 new tools at Google that I think are worth a real look (and they’re free too)!

This article (below) runs in my newspaper column tomorrow, but you get the "scoop" today

By the way…

I’m going to be releasing the DVDs from my SOLD-OUT "UK Workshop" shortly… and I’m only going to make 500 copies available – EVER – at an insanely low price…

Also, to make this a Summer Blowout, I’m also going to include the DVDs from my SOLD-OUT "Info-Marketing BootCamp" held this past January…

It’s going to be THE deal of the summer… so keep your eyes peeled so you don’t miss out on snapping up a set of these incredibly valuable DVDs that should sell out in the blink of an eye!

To your success,

Jim

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What’s New At Google?

      – by Jim Edwards

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The world’s most popular search engine just keeps chugging
along – the little train that could (and did) make billions
of dollars and dominate the Internet landscape.

Like a giant tree with a root system extending deep into the
earth, Google seeks to expand and diversify far beyond mere
online search.

In their quest, the little elves at Google never seem to
sleep and toil endlessly to bring us new gadgets and gizmos
intended to make our lives better, both online and offline.

These four latest free offerings from Google’s Labs
http://Labs.Google.com – will help you do everything from
organize your thoughts to find the local pizza restaurant’s
phone number through your cell phone.

** Google Code Search **
http://www.google.com/codesearch

This one should have the geeks salivating like Pavlov’s dog
sniffing out a rump roast!

This new search tool at Google allows you to search for
public source code, the lines and lines of code that make
your nifty software programs actually function.

Instead of writing all the code themselves, programmers can
find and grab huge chunks of code free for the taking.

This makes a great staring point not only for programmers
who want a leg up on finishing projects, but also neat for
would-be software entrepreneurs who want to surf for ideas.

** Google Voice Local Search **
http://labs.google.com/goog411/

Ok, I’ll admit to some skepticism when I saw that Google
would help me find the number for the local barbershop just
by talking into my phone.

But Google actually surprised me when I dialed
1-800-GOOG-411.

The phone asked me to say the city and state I wanted to
search, and then asked me if I wanted to search by business
name or business category.

Once I found the business I wanted, Google went ahead and
dialed the number for me.

I found the service no worse than the automated search from
the phone company, and Google offers this service FREE.

Well worth a call if you find yourself paying some hefty 411
fees to the phone company or your wireless provider.

** Google Reader **
http://reader.google.com/

The jury is still debating whether my dear sweet mother will
ever subscribe to an RSS feed (the syndication feeds from
blogs, news services, and more), so I’m not sure how
universal RSS will ever get.

However, Google doess offer a free RSS reader online that
enables you to easily subscribe to blogs, news feeds, and
any other RSS feeds you like.

The readers lets you organize your feeds, update, and view
them all in one place.

Not as powerful as some readers you pay for, but very
functional and hey, you can’t beat free!

** Google Notebook **
http://www.google.com/notebook/

Google Noetbook is the most recent graduate of the Google
Labs.

This handy program allows you to organize your notes and
clippings as you travel the web.

Instead of just bookmarking a site in your favorites and
trying to remember why you liked it, with Google Notebook,
you can highlight what you want and click the "clip" button.

You can then organize your notes however you want and then
search through your note text at any time. 

You can even share your notes with others.

Google Notebook is available through your web browser after
you download and install special extensions to help you clip
items you find on the Web.

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creator of www.TheNetReporter.com – a hard-hitting, no-
holds-barred website that will teach you step-by-step and
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Jim Edwards here with an update I think you’ll really enjoy…

It’s an article I just wrote for my newspaper column about how to tame the email beast once and for all.

If you spend more than 2 hours a *week* on email, this article was meant for you!

This runs in my newspaper column tomorrow, but you get the "scoop" today

To your success,

Jim

PS – By the way, if you’d like to comment on this article, please drop me a line below… I’d love to hear from you!

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Is Email Ruining Your Life?

      – by Jim Edwards

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Recently I started reading a book with a seemingly
improbable title, "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferris.

In the book, Ferris makes a number of assertions about how
we all, whether employed or self-employed, can work less and
enjoy life more through leverage.

He makes some excellent points and I’d encourage you to read
the book.

A couple of pages in the book, however, caused me to re-
think one specific activity I engage in on an almost hourly
basis -email!

Though I’ve tried to "tame" the email tiger in the past, I
always seem to slide back into the habit of whacking the
"send / receive" button every 15 minutes and getting side
tracked.

But, this book reminded me that I really need to start
living (again) by the "5 Golden Rules" I suggest for
everyone else.

Rule #1 – Only Check Email Twice Daily

It amazes me how many people tell me they go out of town or
on vacation and only check email once daily and the world
keeps on turning.

If you can do it on vacation, why can’t you do it at home?

Only check email two times daily.

I’ve chosen 12:00 noon and 4:00 p.m. as my times and plan to
cut that down to just once a day at 4:00 within the next 60
days.

Rule #2 – Separate Business and Personal

Operate with a different email box for both your business
and personal email.

This keeps personal crisis from spilling over into business
and vice versa.

That way if you must "cheat" a little because of a special
project, you reduce your chances of getting derailed with an
email that could have waited if you never saw it.

Rule #3 – Eliminate Customer Support Email

Never handle customer support via email, especially if you
handle your own customer support.

Always route every bit of customer support through a help
desk system that tracks each "ticket" and communication with
the customer.

Also, this enables you to manage people’s expectations about
when they’ll receive a reply since you can place hours of
operation on a help desk.

Rule #4 – Not Every Email Warrants Response

Somewhere along the line, many of us adopted the belief that
every email message needs a response from us.

NO!

If an email needs to get deleted with no response, do it and
don’t feel guilty about it.

Rule #5 – An Empty In-box Equals Bliss

Never, ever, under any circumstances leave email messages in
you in-box to handle them later.

You won’t handle them later and it just leaves you with a
general sense of uneasiness about leaving things incomplete.

At the end of the day, take one of three actions on every
message in your in-box:

1. Delete it

2. Refer it to someone else

3. File it in an email folder

Supposedly email would make all our lives better, but that
little dream train ran off the tracks for me back in 1997.

Don’t let email dictate everything from your work hours to
your general mood, or even whether you have a "good" day or
not.

Take control of email and use it as a tool, not as an excuse
to feel productive when all you really succeed at is wasting
time.

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Jim Edwards with a free LIVE webinar invitation for you…

This Tuesday (June 12th) I’ll be grilling a former Google
employee, Simon Leung, who worked behind the scenes in the
AdWords department for almost 4 1/2 years!

=> http://WebinarKing.com/adwordsinsider/free-webinar.html

I’m going to make him reveal:

- The REAL Reason behind the Google "slap"… and how YOU
  can beat Google at their own game just by knowing it…

- The biggest AdWords mistake people make on their sites
  that will immediately KILL your quality score …

- How one simple graphic can mean the difference between
  getting "slapped" or getting high marks (and low-cost
  clicks) when a Google Reviewer shows up to your site…

In fact, I’m going to grill him for "The TOP 10 Secrets
Google Doesn’t Want You To Know (From an AdWords INSIDER)"

=> http://WebinarKing.com/adwordsinsider/free-webinar.html

To my knowledge, this is the FIRST time anyone has actually
grilled an ex-Google Employee about what is REALLY going on
and what Google REALLY thinks (not just blind speculation
based on a few tests)… especially with AdWords.

Now, the webinar is gratis, but seating is *limited*
(only 500 slots, of which Simon and I take up 2) and the
clock is ticking!

Grab your spot now!

=> http://WebinarKing.com/adwordsinsider/free-webinar.html

Jim

PS – I have no idea if I’ll make the replay available or
not… AND I will be sharing info on the LIVE event that
will NOT be on the replay… so my advice is to be there
live!

Jim Edwards here with an update…

Here’s my latest article (below) that was just published in my newspaper column.

It’s about 3 really cool fre~ tools you can use to make your life a lot easier online…

One lets you create your own "TV" station… another lets you share files with anyone anywhere… and the other lets you grab "clips" from the web and share them, archive them, or even email them.

This article (below) is running in the papers now, but you get it here without killing a tree (for the paper) because you’re a valued subscriber.

Cheers,

Jim

By the way — I’m doing a BIG webinar next week… stay tuned for details on how you can get on live at no cost

 

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3 Cool Browser Tools

      – by Jim Edwards

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The great thing about the Internet is that new things come
along all the time.

Every great discovery or tool seems to spawn at least two
new things to go along with it.

In fact, the world of "cool tools" grows daily and keeping
up can represent a real challenge.

The following 3 tools rate a closer look if you want to save
time and avoid effort in a big way.

** Clipmarks.com **

Ever seen something extremely cool online that you wanted to
pass along to a friend, but you didn’t see an easy way to do
it?

Maybe you wanted to pass along a web page or share specific
text from a site, but copying and pasting into an email just
wouldn’t do it justice.

Or perhaps you saw a video that needed a friend’s attention,
but you couldn’t download it.

Or maybe you just saw something cool and wanted to save it
for yourself, but didn’t have an easy way to archive the
material.

Well log on to ClipMarks.com, download the browser toolbar
(available for FireFox and Internet Explorer) and start
clipping!

Clipmarks makes it easy to select snippets of text (up to
1000 characters), pictures, and more and then email them to
a friend, print them, or even post them to your blog.

What makes this little tool so cool is that it’s so
versatile and easy to use.

I call it a "head slapper" because you want to slap your
head and say, "Why didn’t I think of that?"

Clipmarks also helps when you surf around the Web and want
to collect up ideas on a certain topic or research subject
and then store them in an organized fashion to review and
sort through later.

** UStream.tv **

Turn your computer, Internet connection and webcam into a
live TV station that can broadcast in real time to hundreds
of people all at the same time.

Currently available for free, this service allows you to log
in and start broadcasting to the world.

UStream.tv can make a great tool for everything from holding
a family meeting to doing question and answer sessions with
customers and prospects.

Now, before you start threatening Walter Cronkite’s iconic
status in TV history, understand that, though the technology
rates high on the "cool" scale, the audio and video does not
rival TV quality.

The audio jumps and the video can cut in and out, but, if
you have any experience with online video, the quality may
actually surprise you by how well it can stream to large
numbers of people.

** TubesNow.com **

Ever tried to send huge files as attachments through email
only to have your email time out, your attachment get
blocked by a firewall, or your message just plain disappear
from the face of the earth.

Well now you can use a free program called "Tubes" to
establish a secure connection between your computer and a
friend or business associate.

Once you open up a tube (peer-to-peer connection) between
your two computers, you can transfer files simply by
dragging and dropping.

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