Download FREE Spring Wallpaper Calendars
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Freebies on May 12, 2011
We always try to challenge our artistic abilities and produce some interesting and creative artwork. That is why we decided to create some wallpapers for the month of May, 2011 with hopes that they are a bit more distinctive than the rest of the stuff you find here. We have decided to offer these wallpapers free of charge.
It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!
Please make a note that:
You can preview the wallpapers by clicking the images and then right click to set them as your desktop wallpaper. Enjoy!
Spring Flowers Calendar 2560×1600
May Galaxy Calendar 1600×900
Blossom Calendar 2560×1600
Fantasy Calendar 1920×1200
Minimal May Calendar 1600×1200
How to Include Your Blog in the Technorati Directory
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Blogging on May 10, 2011
My blog token for Technorati is B9EMVW5HVS7P. Please ignore this number as it is only listed here in order to get index myself with www.defactomind. Please read on.
With over 250 million blogs indexed by Technorati is hard to ignore such a powerhouse if you want to promote your blog. The process is easy and joining it’s free.
Before we start please make sure that you have an RSS Feed for your blog. You can find it here: http://feedburner.google.com. In order for this to work you should also have a Gmail account. The article “Subscribe via Email to Feeds in 5 Easy Steps” will explain how to do this.
Here are the steps:
Step 1: Go to www.technorati.com and click the “Join” link.
Step 2: Next, you need to claim your blog by clicking on the button called “Claim”. Pretty straight forward, huh?
Step 3: Just fill in all the required information and don’t forget the URL for your own blog. You do this in the box at the bottom of the page where your “Profile” is. The box is under the heading ‘My claimed blogs’. Once you are done, just click “Claim”.
Step 4: Fill in all the relevant tags related to your blog in the box provided.
Step 5: You will also be required to fill in your RSS Feed URL. Refer to the Notes before these steps.
Step 6: Now you wait until you receive an email from Technorati with your token. Sometimes it’s minutes but sometimes it could take days. The email will say:
“Thank you for submitting your blog claim on Technorati. Technorati will need to verify that you are an author of the site [your site URL will be here] by looking for a unique code. We have just assigned the claim token [your number will be here] to this claim. Please visit http://technorati.com/account/ for more details, including how to use the claim token.”
The number inserted in the beginning of this post is my “Claim Token”. It has to be in a post to prove that I am the author of the blog.
In order to post your token you can create a simple post with the title as “Token post for Technorati – Please ignore” or something of that effect and within the post copy & paste your claim token number.
Step 7: After your post is live, you need to visit http://technorati.com. Sign in and click on the ”Check Claim” button at the bottom of your account page.
Step 8: You will be asked if you have already made a temporary post – and you have – so confirm by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
Step 9: You will then receive an email confirming that Technorati has successfully indexed your blog and found your pesky “Claim Token”.
Once accepted, you can view your blog listing on Technorati. This listing will help others find your blog much easier.
The 10 Laws of Powerful Marketing
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Top 10 List on May 9, 2011
Law 1:
Become the expert in your niche market (or persuade the audience to perceive you as the expert)
Law 2:
Make as many friends as possible (on and off line)
Law 3:
Communicate directly, clearly and to the point.
Law 4:
Reputation – Get, guard it and maintain it like your life depends on it. It actually does.
Law 5:
Be bold. Be colorful. Stand out. Do whatever you can to not be lame but be polite.
Law 6:
Invite everyone to participate in everything you do. Well, almost everything…
Law 7:
Understand and master the concept of “Call to Action”. Bait people to come to you.
Law 8:
Show, don’t tell.Say what you mean and mean what you say.
Law 9:
Make your customers beg for more but don’t let them wait for too long.
Law 10:
Always present information based on customer’s point of view – WIIFM (What’s In It For Me)
Super Cool Tip to Increase Productivity
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Personal Growth on May 5, 2011
Either I have ADD or a very short fuse because I have no patience waiting to load websites or applications off my computer. I always wanted to have a dashboard on my screen that would take me in a fraction of a second to all these resources. That day has come.
The following is a very sweet and short tutorial where you can setup your internet browser home page to your liking; where you can have all these applications just 1 click away instead of 3 or 4.
Subscribe via Email to Feeds in 5 Easy Steps
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Applications on May 4, 2011
If you would like to deliver your blog feeds using the “Subscribe via Email” feature, this article will show you how in 5 easy steps. I am assuming you already have a blog and produce articles on set schedule. In that case this feature will come really handy. Here are the steps:
Step 1:
Open your browser of choice and type in: feedburner.google.com. You should see the following screen:
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Social Media on Steroids
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Social Media & Web 2.0 on April 18, 2011
As a business owner you should encourage all your staff to engage in promoting your products and services on Social Media.
This activity should be daily and performed religiously. These activities should be separated on the type of platform they are using, thusly:
…and then I fired my Client
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Marketer's Schedule on February 8, 2011
Shocking, right? We all have programmed to think that whatever the client says – the client is always right. Right? Well…I am not that sure anymore. I start to feel a bit like Martin Luther. How about a project that should easily be completed in 3 weeks keeps on dragging for a long time. How does 4 years sound? Is the client still right or are you just plainly too nice (queue “stupid”, “sucker” and other self demeaning words) to accept the fact that the client is not Alpha & Omega?
Run Your Small Business for Less than $100 per Month
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in General on July 11, 2010
Most (if not all) small businesses are concerned with operating costs and cash flow, especially when they are in the start-up stages. In this article you will learn how you can handle business with less than $100 per month while all your business activities are humming at the right speed.
I chose to stay away from the obvious and instead give you the resources you might not have heard about, while others might be obvious but not quite known at this time. I have divided the must-have business activities in 3 major sections:
Free Internet Marketing Tools Every Webmaster Should Have
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Freebies on June 20, 2010
FREE Internet Marketing Tools; Blog directories, Domain Search, Keyword Analyzer and much more
Google AdWords
This Keyword Tool allows you to enter one keyword or phrase per line for each keyword suggestions. This will help you better target your online ads.
7Search.com
This Keyword Suggestion Tool allows you to enter keywords or keyword phrases in order to get additional keywords and keyword phrases suggestions. You’ll also be able to see how many searches were done for the last month on this site for each keyword and phrase.
What Your IT Department Doesn’t Want You to Know
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in Applications on April 18, 2010
This real case is about the owner of the small business who, luckily, was in-tune with the ever changing technology and saw the opportunity to save money and increase productivity.
The owner, let’s call her Mary, managed a staff of 75 and was struggling with the following problems:
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