R. Pamela Adams Alexander, Technology Strategist

Today's Entrepreneur

Hello, Everyone! Today's featured entrepreneur is R. Pamela Adams Alexander, a Technology Strategist, Speaker, Author, Minister, and Entrepreneur. Alexander is the owner of BizLynks Consulting Group, LLC, an Atlanta-based technology consulting firm. She is an Internet television personality and the Executive Producer of BizLynks TV Network, a business Internet television platform featuring dynamic programming designed to inform and educate entrepreneurs, small businesses, associations and non-profits. To learn more about Alexander, please check out her about.me page. Below, is a snippet of her page via a widget!

New Adobe CS5.5 Deskstop Subscriptions: Software On An As-Needed Basis

An Exceptionally Good, Powerful Software Suite Now More Accessible Than Ever Before for Small Businesses and Freelancers

Adobe CS5.5 Student
and Teacher Editions.
Save BIG!

Hello, Everyone! Adobe has launched a new product: Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 and the addition of NEW Adobe Desktop Subscriptions which are ideal for:

• Freelancers or owners of small businesses 
• Anyone who needs the flexibility of software on an as-needed basis

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Subscriptions are available worldwide (excludes volume license TLP orders and Education store orders)! These new products became available for pre-order on April 12, 2011 and they include free shipping!



What Are CS5.5 Desktop Subscription Editions?

Subscription editions of Creative Suite software are just like regular Creative Suite products -- they are installed on your computer and provide all the same features and functionality. In the video below, Yashodhan Gokhale, CS Group Product Manager, gives us excellent details about the CS5.5 Subscription Editions.

What Can You and I Do With Creative Suite 5.5 (CS5.5)?

Business Advertising with Twitter: How To, Step by Step

99 Ways To Make
Money Using Twitter

How Twitter Sells Itself to Advertisers

Hello, Everyone!  I'm a Tweeter and many of you are Tweeters too. Therefore, you are familiar with Twitter already. As a Twitter user you are aware of the benefits of using this service.  Some people use Twitter to stay in contact with family and friends, to make new friends that share common interests and/or to promote their business(es).  You may be among those using Twitter for business promotion, which is great.  If you aren't, you may find it quite beneficial to do so.  If you'd like to do so, the following video is a very helpful, concise how-to guide from Twitter of how to use Twitter as a source of paid-for advertising utilizing 'Promoted Accounts' and 'Promoted Tweets'.  Also, you may find '99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter' a very helpful and concise resource, as well.  I wish you, 'prosperous Tweeting!'

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Tools for Entrepreneurs: Super-fast, Eco-friendly Memjets

Memjet Office Printer
Image courtesy of Memjet

Efficient, Eco-friendly, Fast Memjet Printing

Hello, Everyone! This post features an amazing, new, high-speed color printing technology called 'Memjet' that will make printing far more efficient and less costly. Also, these devices are more eco-friendly than printers of the past. In the first video, while at TechWeb TV Fritz Nelson, Editorial Director at Information Week, discusses Memjet technology with Bill McGlynn, President of Memjet and we get more details about it. The second video features an inkjet printer versus a Memjet printer. These printers will be available, globally, this year. Entrepreneurs, it looks like this printing technology will be a total asset for us!

In addition to these video, you may check out more Memjet demos/demonstrations at MemjetPrinting on YouTube.

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Building Your Fortune in 2011? Goal Trackers Can Help

Business Building Teleseminars

Track Your Goals and Achieve More

Hello, Everyone! In today's feature, Than Merrill, Fortune Builders, Inc. shares details and steps he's used to achieve business goals, fitness goals and other personal goals consistently. Merrill specifies simple and easy things you and I can do to get more things done in our businesses. Also, he's shared the Excel and PDF documents (tools) he uses to help himself stay on track in achieving his goals.


Than Merrill's Goal Tracking Tools

• Weekly Goals - Blank.xls 
• Monthly Fitness Goals - Filled.xls
• Monthly Fitness Goals - Blank.pdf
• Weekly Business Goals - Blank.pdf
• Daily Implementation Goals - Blank.pdf

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Social Media Tools: Six More Worth Discovering

Photo courtesy of Photos8.com

Six New Social Media Tools Worth Discovering

Hello, Everyone! Here's and interesting article, over at Jay Baer's site Convince & Convert, "6 Newfangled Social Media Tools Worth Discovering".  He highlights features of six social media tools he's been utilizing recently.  They are:

• LinkedIn Signal - streams news and updates from contacts in real time.
• Hello Bar - an unobtrusive, highly visible web toolbar that sits at the top of your website and used to engage your site's users and get them to take immediate action.
• Wibiya - a free web toolbar for blogs, e-commerce sites, small businesses and others by providing access to innovative, useful web applications (apps).
• Arkayne - provides Internet marketing software the helps businesses get foung online, generate more leads and convert a higher percentage of those leads into paying customers.
• Formulists - generates filtered lists of your Twitter timeline based on location or bio, tracks unfollowers, and more from your Twitter home page.
• Curate.Us - gives end users a simple and visually compelling way to repost content, instantly boosting the impact of blog posts, e-mail, websites, and social networks.

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Pollinate Your Brand - @JasonSilvestri

Building Brands for the Elite

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Jason Silvestri.com.  Jason Silvestri is a 360○ leader & serial entrepreneur that uses design, social media, technology and genuine relationships to help cultivate brand messages for elite brands (personal and business) to distinguish such brands from their competition. Currently, Silvestri is contracted at MIT.

In the following video Silvestri shares encouraging words of wisdom with us regarding branding and particularly, "YOU have to act!", "Everybody is worth something!" and "Some of the best relationships are made face-to-face.".

Thank-you @JasonSilvestri (another of my @DelynMiche Tweeple) for sharing with us!

Related Book:

'10 Steps to a Winning Brand'
The author, Jon Ward, is a brand consultant, marketing strategist and business educator.
As a faculty member of Trump University he helped fashion the branding and development
of this hugely successful online educational enterprise. He is co-creator of more than a dozen Trump training products, including 'Branding for Profit', 'How To Build A Fortune' and the 'Wealth Builder’s Action Plan'.

Public Speaking Tips for Business - @speakingexpert

Public Speaking: Your Topic, Who Decides?

Hello, Everyone! This post features 7 Greatest Fears of Public Speaking, the video tips channel of  fellow @Chaella Tweeter, @speakingexpert (a.k.a Jim Davidson). Davidson helps business leaders and entrepreneurs improve their public speaking skills so they can promote their business, products and services and inspire their teams.

In the following video Davidson shares public speaking tips for choosing your topic when asked to speak. Thank-you @speakingexpert for sharing with us!

Video Tutorials for Internet Marketers - @Blogport

'What Promotional Video Are You Going To Create To Get Web Traffic To Your Website?' and 'Affiliate Marketing Help - Just Say No To 'Cookie Stuffing''

Hello, Everyone! This post features my fellow @DelynMiche Tweeter, @Blogport (a.k.a Brad Patrick). Among the services offered by Patrick are Video Tutorials for Internet Marketers. Two of the video tutorials Patrick has shared are by The Marketing Assassins and NetMarketingCourse.

Thank-you @Blogport for sharing with us!

Social Network Marketing: Drastically Improve Your Brand Identity and Reach - @ScottyMore

Social Network Marketing
Hello, Everyone! This post features the services of fellow, @DelynsBliss Tweeter, @ScottyMore a.k.a Scott Perry. Perry is a Social Media Strategist, Social Network Management Coach and Consultant. Also, he offers Enterprise-level solutions.

As Perry explains, "Your Social Network is the "Glue" that connects your online relationships together - thus becomes the basic building blocks of your "Viral Sphere." Your "Viral Sphere" is your Twitter, Blog, Landing page, Website, Facebook, YouTube and the world of other Social Networking sites and apps that weave your online relationships together.

Not meant to replace your current and successful advertising and sales programs, Social Network Marketing can drastically improve your brand identity and reach of your products or services. When used properly, Social Network Marketing allows you to have a continual conversation with your customers and prospects - putting you in control of your message 24/7! It is your choice as to how to use your Viral Sphere! Even the smallest of companies can be brand leaders!" ~ Scott Perry

Thank-you @ScottyMore for sharing your video and information with us!

Build Your Online Business Website in Minutes - @getawebsite

Online Businesses: A Fresh Approach

Hello, Everyone! This post features fellow @DelynMiche Tweeter, @getawebsite and their Website Hosting and Website Building software product.

Using getawebsite software, business owners get eCommerce, Email Marketing, Content Management, Integrated CRM, Reporting and Analytics and web hosting in one, integrated solution to build an online business website, rather than a basic website.

Thank-you, @getawebsite for sharing your business videos with us!

Build, Make & Create Your Own Website! Website Hosting & Website Building Software from getawebsite.com on Vimeo.

Interactive, Clickable Videos for E-commerce

VideoClix.tv Interactive and Clickable Business Videos

Hello, Everyone! Today's featured business is VideoClix.tv, a video software application from VideoClix Technologies, Inc. that makes video clickable and interactive. "VideoClix Technologies Inc. was founded in 1999 by creator and CEO, Babak Maghfourian. VideoClix’s original clickable video authoring software segmented, tracked, tagged and categorized objects within videos. Once this was complete, VideoClix Software exported interactive videos that could be shared or served over the Internet. Today, VideoClix is significantly different from where it was 10 years ago. Now, three words can describe VideoClix’s core business: Clickable Video Monetization. Over the years, the company’s products and services have matured into a scalable solution that can identify the 3P’s of online video: People, Places and Products." ~ VideoClix

Entrepreneurs, once you view this VideoClix tutorial, you'll clearly see the value of having clickable, interactive video(s) for your business.

Using Animated Cartoon Videos for Business Marketing

Using Animated Flash Cartoons as a Business Video Marketing Tool

Hello, Everyone! Today's featured business is Go!Animate. "GoAnimate.com is an entertainment website that enables the simple creation of unique computer animated stories, satires and sentiments that can be shared with the entire online community. The site offers simple to more advanced innovative features that provide users with a multitude of possibilities for customizing their animations." ~ GoAnimate

You may not immediately associate an animation-creation software application with business/organization video marketing tools. However, after you've watched the GoAnimate demonstrations/demos (first two), watch the demos for Noah's Light Foundation and Fractured Artist and you'll discern the value and possibilities.

This demo, below, introduces the GoAnimate animation studio, animated character creator and more.





To see more of what GoAnimate is about watch the demo, immediately below. It will show you how GoAnimate empowers anyone to create animations!





GoAnimate.com: Noahs Light Foundatin by fireplague

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!



GoAnimate.com: What is Fractured Atlas? by null

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

To view more demo videos visit: GoAnimate - YouTube and GoAnimate Tutorials.

Online Video Marketing for Businesses - @reelseo

Videos Marketing 

Hello, Everyone! Today's featured business is ReelSEO.com a video marketing company which I learned about via my fellow @DelynMiche Tweeter(s)/Tweeple, @reelseo.

"ReelSEO.com is 'The Online Video Marketer’s Guide' – a place for valuable news, research, analysis, tips, and other resources for video search optimization and online video marketing. ReelSEO is focused on internet video marketing, video advertising, SEO, video production, the online video industry, social media, YouTube, and anything else that can help marketers leverage the power of online video." ~ ReelSEO

The video below is an example of their work:

Be sure to read the ReelSEO.com article Interactive & Clickable Video Drives E-Commerce Conversions for more information about interactive and clickable video.

Thank-you, @reelseo for sharing your information and videos!


Note: Tweeple, if you would like to have your business video featured on this blog, please read the message in my right-side sidebar at the top of the page for a link to the details. I'm looking forward to featuring your business! Thank-you!

Exuberance Provides Custom Video Production for Small Businesses - @scottkoegler

Custom Video Production for Small Businesses

Hello, Everyone! Today's featured business is Exuberation, a video production company that produces affordable, short, video 'commercials' for small businesses. Exuberation is the business of Scott Koegler, one of my @Chaella Tweeple: @scottkoegler .

Exuberation can produce your short video in a single session, then post it online for your prospects to see. Their small business package makes uploading your video affordable. To view some of their sample videos and see what $350 can get for you, visit Exuberance.com and click the link 'Video Examples' or click the links, below:

• Yadkin Wines and Kitchen Magic
• Invitation to Shadow Springs Winery

Thank-you, @scottkoegler for sharing your information and videos with us!

Note: Tweeple, if you would like to have your business video featured on this blog, please read the message in my right-side sidebar at the top of the page for a link to the details. I'm looking forward to featuring your business! Thank-you!

Synching & Sharing Calendars, Scheduling Meetings

Tungle.me: Click to Meet

Hello, Everyone! Tungle.me is a personal scheduling page, which lets business people publish their availability, accept appointment requests, and plan meetings, making scheduling meetings easy. ~ Bing

Tungle.me:

• Makes scheduling meetings easy across organizations, calendar systems, and time zones.
• Eliminates costly double-bookings, frustrating time-zone mishaps, and the endless back and forth e-mails and phone calls for finding a time to meet.
• Syncs with your existing calendar(s): Outlook (with or without Exchange), Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac and Lotus Notes (Beta).
• Is free and does not require meeting invitees nor visitors to a user’s Tungle.me page to sign-in nor register to schedule meetings.
• Supports scheduling meetings on-the-go with Tungle.me for iPhone.
~ CrunchBase

View Tungle.me Makes Scheduling and Calendar Sharing More Social to learn more about this web-based app/application.

Business by Numbers

Ask Norm: Business by Numbers

Hello, Everyone! In this brief, concise video Norm Brodsky, a veteran entrepreneur and Senior Contributing Editor of Inc.com, answers a reader's question about how to deal with a change from using part-time accountants to using a full-time controller.

Virtual Assistant Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

Virtual Assistants for Small Business Owners and Writers

Hello, Everyone! Ivy Hartman of SBTV.com speaks with Sharon Williams, President of ' The 24 Hour Secretary ', an administrative, secretarial and Internet-based marketing company supporting busy and, often, overwhelmed executives, entrepreneurs, speakers and authors, virtually.

In the second video they talk about the International Virtual Assistant Federation (IVAF), as well. The IVAF's goal is to make sure you can count on receiving high standards of quality service from accredited Virtual Assistants. Additionally, the IVAF is a valuable resource for entrepreneurs who desire to start their own virtual assistant business.

The topic of the third video is Virtual Assistants for Authors. Hartman states, "Recent studies find that authorship adds to the credibility of many entrepreneurs." However, entrepreneurs do not have to attempt writing that book alone since a virtual assistant can help with all the tasks that go along with launching a book, as well.

Related Links:

• The 2-Second Commute: Join the Exploding Ranks of Freelance Virtual Assistants
• Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA

Small Business? Discourage Employee Theft and Fraud

Small Business Advice: Tips for Discouraging Fraud

Hello, Everyone! As we know theft by employees hits small businesses, too, and particularly hard. Yet, there are ways business owners can detect and discourage theft and fraud. Wall Street Journal's Sarah Needleman tells Kelsey Hubbard what business owners can do to protect themselves from theft and fraud.

Digital Photography Entrepreneurs: Extraordinary Photo Editing Software for You

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

Hello, Everyone! Here's a NEW Adobe Europe [Germany and the United Kingdom (UK)] offer! Save 20% off the standard price of full versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (Mac and Windows) and save 15% off upgrade versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (Mac and Windows)! This offer is valid through April 11, 2010. Click the images, below, to learn more.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 is the newest version of the #1 selling consumer photo-editing software that combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips.

Key Features

• Do it all with one powerful, yet easy-to-use product — Use Photoshop Elements 8 for all your photo needs. Manage, edit, and enhance photos; make unique photo creations; share in print, on the web, and on popular devices; protect photos with automatic, online backup and 2GB of free storage†—enough for up to 1,500 photos or 24 minutes of DVD-quality video‡—and view photos anywhere you are.
• Experience the ultimate media management hub — Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place, and easily find your best stuff, fast. Then, dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.
• Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds — Get just the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. And now, when you perform one-step photo adjustments (including color, contrast, and lighting) you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.
• Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use options — Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.
• Count on step-by-step assistance — Want to touch up a scratch? Create a scrapbook page? Add artistic effects that make a photo look like a pencil sketch? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast. ~ Adobe