Part 3 of a 12 Part Series- Blogging for leveraged web marketing and clever customer relationship management.

The following information is an extract from The ‘120 DAYS TO $120K’ Web Entrepreneur Success Program created and presented by Jennie Armato.  

Welcome to Part 3.  In Part 2 I outlined why you want to use the WordPress Platform to create and build your blog – on your own website.  Other platforms do not have the same options and capabilities as a wordpress blog on your own website.  From this Part onwwards, all features and benefits pertain to you have a wordpress blog on your own website.

What Key Features Must I Have On My Blog? 

-       Blog Key Features continued

Following is an essential element of making your blog function effectively and efficiently – creating content and connection with your marketplace.  Today we will cover the blog key feature known as Plug-Ins.

• Plug-ins (Installed,  Configured and Activated) enhance and ‘empower’ your basic wordpress blog shell.

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In the directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer.  For instance, the ”Share” buttons on this blog post is a plugin.  It was installed, configured and activated on the basic wordpress blog that this site started out as.  

Watch this video to see HOW to add a plugin to your wordpress blog (note I am installing a plugin listed below that we recommend you have on your blog if you wish to maximize it’s power – effective, efficient and connecting with your marketplace.

(In case you could not view the video on this page, here is the link:  http://www.screencast.com/t/2UkjKEsIZ

Here are some basic plugins that are essential to have on a wordpress blog on your own website. 

PLEASE NOTE: Using plug ins is a 3 step process:  1) Installation 2) Activation 3) Configuration.   There are five plug-ins in the following list that are not free.  There is a very good reason you want to pay for these.  They are plug-ins that distinguish your site from others because they include powerful attributes you will not get from the ones that are free.

Key WordPress plug-ins to include and use on your blog, A-K are:

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions below.

In Part 4, Plugins L-Z for your blog will be listed.

Do you have any questions about blogging or do you have some ideas you would like to share too?  

We would love to help you and also, if you have ideas, we would LOVE to promote you.  Please share your questions, comments and ideas via the comments box below.  

Need a cheap yet powerful blog in a hurry?  The VERY BEST and Cheapest Self-Start Blog Kit we have found, that comes to you ‘ready-to-activate’ is under $350.  It is incredibly easy and very powerful to get started with your own new break-through blog today!   

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Jennie Armato (affectionately known as The Godmother of the Internet) is Head Coach and Success Mentor at Web Business Academy.   She provides education programs, marketing strategies and systems plus the most powerful tools to manage and accelerate your web success.  Jen’s “120 Days to $120K – The Web Entrepreneur Success Program” offers you an extended report plus a one hour complimentary webinar where she reveals the keys to moving forward faster to your best year on the web yet!   Grab your FREE ACCESS to the webinar PLUS learn more about the entire Web Entrepreneur Success Program.

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Part 2  <——>  Part 4

Part 2 of a 12 Part Series- Blogging for leveraged web marketing and clever customer relationship management.

The following information is an extract from The ‘120 DAYS TO $120K’ Web Entrepreneur Success Program created and presented by Jennie Armato.  

What Key Features Must I Have On My Blog? 

-       Blog Key Features

Following is a checklist of some of the necessary features you will want to have installed and activated on your blog, so that you gain maximum benefit from the mass exposure of a well structured online marketing plan.

• WordPress Platform blog (this has fast become the world favorite).  A basic wordpress blog can be added to any site instantly (via cPanel –> Fantastico) and you can do this for free.  However, all you get is the ‘shell’ of the site with absolute bare-basic functionality.  You can ‘add a theme’ using a template design and/or you can engage a web designer to create a custom theme for you - you will want to do this if you want your blog site design  to include specifics about you – like your own photo.  In this example, you can see what a standard wordpress blog looks like – upon being ‘born’ and then a theme template is added to it as well as a designer customizing it, to be specific to me.  This is the cheapest way to get a custom-built blog designed to be run as a business to build your business and your brand. 

In this example, you see a basic blog transfored in to a theme-based then customized version.  This cost me less than $350 to get done.  I could get a theme added to a blog – easily and cheaper than that BUT getting a professional business web customization, I got a blog that will work for business.  There’s a HUGE difference between a web SITE and a web BUSINESS – and the same applies for blogs too.  Many people are fooled by the idea that they can get a cheap (and even free theme) added to a basic blog and that’s it!  BUT all they have is a template theme design, not a system for selling, as a web business.

BASIC (Original) WordPress Blog	……..	Theme-added and Customized version

Once you have your design and business presentation sorted out for you, you want to add plug ins to your blog.  Web Developers (these are the techno-geek peeps) around the world have created ‘plug-ins’ that are added to the basic blog to further enhance the power of the theme design and customization.  Together, the developers and designers improve functionality and also the impact your blog can have as a marketing tool.  Some Web Developers have no or very little understanding of design and many web designers have no or very little understanding of web development.   And soYOU as the web business owner need to have an understanding of what expectations to have, what person or persons you need to recruit and most importantly, what outcomes you need to achieve.  Remember, there is a great big difference between a web site and a web business – and the type of blog you have is as equally important. 

Web Developers have created amazing, powerful plugins to make your blog work at its best for you.  You will receive our list of recommended web business blog plugins later in this series.   

We recommend you set up your own site with a wordpress blog and never host it on a 3^rd party site like Blogger or WordPress.org – not only are you limited in functionality and impact, you have absolutely no control over the ‘real estate’.  Any decsions and changes they make, can affect you, without recourse.  You can use these 3rd party sites as a supplementary tool – in an advanced strategy – after you have built your own foundation.

• Be sure to have a VERY SECURE password for the wp-admin – login to your blog dashboard.  Make it as complicated as possible as hacking and hijacking is a constant pursuit of the underground on the inter-webs.

• Comments box:  This is critical, as mentioned previously.   Make it as easy and quick as possible for people to leave comments on your blog.  Avoid security checks as this can ‘kill the party’.  Experienced bloggers will use “gravatars” (explained later) so be sure to include these fields in your comments section:  “Name”, “Email” (not published), “Website”, “Comments”, “Submit”.  Ensure your comment box is at least 12 lines in height and at least 1/2 the width of your posts. 

• RSS Feed:

This should come standard with your blog, be sure it is activated as it is key to building your influence via many of the social media sites.  We recommend you add “Feedburner” to your RSS Feed set up.  More information about this will come in Part 6 of the series.

• Social Engine icons (placed above the scroll on your blog).

Add links to your social sites via image buttons (icons) on the side menu of your blog.  Ensure they appear ‘above the scroll’ – that means that they are visible upon loading a page on your blog, without scrolling.  You can do this quickly and easily by adding a social media links ‘widget’ to your blog side bar.  The widget we are using on this site is called ”Social Media Widget”.  You install it then add links to your different social profiles and channels and your links go to the relevant social site via its icon.  (Scroll back up the page to see ours if you missed it.) 

You add a widget via the plugin section of your wordpress blog dashboard (wp-admin)  Dashboard –>Appearance –> Plugins –> New.  When installed and activated, go to –> Widgets and activate it then customize it.

This video explains what a Widget is and how to manage them:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Do you have any questions about blogging or do you have some ideas you would like to share too?  

We would love to help you and also, if you have ideas, we would LOVE to promote you.  Please share your questions, comments and ideas via the comments box below.  

Need a cheap yet powerful blog in a hurry?  The VERY BEST and Cheapest Self-Start Blog Kit we have found, that comes to you ‘ready-to-activate’ is under $350.  It is incredibly easy and very powerful to get started with your own new break-through blog today!   

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Jennie Armato (affectionately known as The Godmother of the Internet) is Head Coach and Success Mentor at Web Business Academy.   She provides education programs, marketing strategies and systems plus the most powerful tools to manage and accelerate your web success.  Jen’s “120 Days to $120K – The Web Entrepreneur Success Program” offers you an extended report plus a one hour complimentary webinar where she reveals the keys to moving forward faster to your best year on the web yet!   Grab your FREE ACCESS to the webinar PLUS learn more about the entire Web Entrepreneur Success Program.

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Part 1  <——>  Part 3

Part 1 of a 12 Part Series- Blogging for leveraged web marketing and clever customer relationship management.

The following information is an extract from The ‘120 DAYS TO $120K’ Web Entrepreneur Success Program created and presented by Jennie Armato.

What is a blog?  How does it work, Why should I have one? 

-       Blog on your website and/or a website that is a blog

No matter what type of site you operate- a product sales site, a membership site, a directory site, a forum site or any other kind of site, it must contain a blog on it.  The entire site can be a blog or you can add a blog as a section to a non-blog website.  (BUT, your blog for business MUST be on your own web site!)  

A blog is blend of the terms web and log.  Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries, known as posts, of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order with the most recent post appearing at the top of the blog home page.  Blogs and blogging can be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.  

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and easily share blog posts across the social engine landscape.   

It is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.  AND it is this inter-activity that makes them incredibly powerful tools to boost your profile, create impact and  build influence on the web.  The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of why blogs are so popular with people.  They are also very popular with search engines because they are generally editorial in nature and will are likely to help fulfill the needs of a person using their search function for information and a web page based on their chosen keywords.  

Blog topics vary and are usually best delivered and received under a theme or topic.  Blogs can provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function more as a personal diary. A typical blog combines text, images, audio, video and links to other blogs, web pages and other media related to its topic.  

Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on visuals like art and photography (an art blog or a photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts, similar to the 420 character status updates on Facebook.  

As of 16 February 2011 there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.  That number continues to grow.  

This video explains more about what a blog is: If you do not have a blog on your existing site, contact your webmaster or access your cPanel and install one via ‘Fantastico’.  You will then want to have a graphics person enhance the design for you, to match your existing site.  

Click here to view the embedded video.

My amazing team can set up, design, assemble and activate a complete blog for you on a brand new site, for less than $600.  (Please note this minimal charge includes Project Coordinator for client and contractor consultation and information dissemination, Designer consultation, concept, correction and Programmer installation and addition x 1 ‘round of changes.  Design changes and technical/content additions for 2^nd and subsequent sets of changes attract an hourly charge rate of $55 and will be advised to you prior to exercising operation).  

OR, if you are willing to D-I-Y, the VERY BEST and Cheapest Self-Start Blog Kit is just under $350.  (They will NOT add a blog to an existing site, only on to a new site).  It is incredibly easy and very powerful to get started with a break-through blog today!   

Do you have any questions about blogging or do you have some ideas you would like to share too?  

We would to help you and also, if you have ideas, we would LOVE to promote you.  Please share your questions, comments and ideas via the comments box below.  

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Jennie Armato (affectionately known as The Godmother of the Internet) is Head Coach and Success Mentor at Web Business Academy.   She provides education programs, marketing strategies and systems plus the most powerful tools to manage and accelerate your web success.   Jen’s “120 Days to $120K – The Web Entrepreneur Success Program” offers you an extended report plus a one hour complimentary webinar where she reveals the keys to moving forward faster to your best year on the web yet!   Grab your FREE ACCESS to the webinar PLUS learn more about the entire Web Entrepreneur Success Program.

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Unlock the TRUE POWER And Enjoy REAL RETURNS on The Social

Engines – Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, LinkedIn and More”

You are probably like most other business and website owners - frustrated that your web marketing efforts seem to be going nowhere.  You are not getting the results you expected from all your online promotional and marketing work.  It’s not just the operational costs either, it’s all the time invested too.  And as the web evolves, it seems more and more time is being taken up trying to sift and sort and filter and connect up with the right leads.

Unless you have been living in the center of the Sahara desert, you would have heard all the buzz about ‘Social Media’ and how it has revolutionalised the way we communicate and how we do now do business online.  Maybe, like many of us, you have tried to get your head around it and maybe you have already (unsuccesfully) invested heavily in it.  And what you have out of it  right now, as a return, is very little more than feeling completely overwhelmed and probably even, already over it.

I know how you feel and I’m SO glad you have connected with this post  today!

The Single Biggest Revolution Since the Invention of the Internet Is Happening Right Now!

Yes, this is the single biggest revolution that forever changes how we communicate, how we do business and how we spend our professional and private time.  Let me get straight to the heart of  it-  the single biggest revolution is the phenomenon of open, bias conversations on Social Engines and it’s here to stay!  Why?  Because it includes websites that people are ‘crazy‘ about going to.  So ‘crazy‘ that it’s like an addiction and it’s definitely a social habit.  And there’s no signs of it stopping any time soon.

SO, MY QUESTION FOR YOU – WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT ADDING YOU, YOUR BRAND AND YOUR PRODUCTS TO THE SOCIAL CONVERSATION? 

AND, DO YOU HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN OR ARE YOU JUST MODELLING WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING?

People Make Buying Decisions Because Of What They ‘Hear’

From Others Just Like Them On Social Engines

Are The YES Decisions Including OR Excluding You?

Would You Like These Decisions To Positively Impact Your Bank Too?

Here’s what you can do right away to align your social engine efforts with a plan for a real return:

1)   Facebook – get a Page set up asap and ensure you complete ALL the information tabs, including a person who ‘owns/operates it’.  Search for Groups and other Pages you can make a positive, helpful contribution to.  Read the history in these groups and on these pages, paying particular attention to the potential for positive references to influence buying behaviour.  Network in a friendly, helpful manner.  People embrace good behavior quickly and banish bad behavior equally quickly.

2)  Twitter – search for other users via topic (hashtag) and connect with them.  Don’t look at Twitter like a digital advertising billboard. Take a genuine interest in striking up meaningful conversations and exchanging ideas and/or ooffering help – even to a perceived competitor.  In the early stages, make time to understand leaders on topics and in  niches. Make some notes on hot and trending topics that are relevant to you.  Write a blog about it/them.

3)  LinkedIn - complete your Profile to 100%.  Connect with suppliers/vendors, customers, colleagues that already know you.  Ask those that know you well to make a recommendation for you.  Add your blog feed and list any events you have coming up.  Search and join two groups on a topic directly related towhat you do.

4)  You Tube – create your own channel (url should be consistent with your business brand).  Use keywords to search for videos relevant to what you do.  View and select the top 5 and leave a video message comment on them.  Also, make a notation (file) of keywords that your top 5 use for their channel and individual videos.  Subscribe to your favorite channels and send a message to introduce yourself.

These tips are basic strategic moves to help position you for maximum success with minimal effort.  Consider this a new beginning.  It is time to stop wasting your precious money and resources on the Social Engines and instead – invest the next 30 days developing a strategic plan that is leveraged, built to last and delivers bucks directly in to your bank!  It is time, to make THAT promise to yourself!

Do you have some other strategic tips you would like to share too?

We would LOVE to promote you.  Please share them via the comments box below.

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Jennie Armato (affectionately known as The Godmother of the Internet) is Head Coach and Success Mentor at Web Business Academy.   She provides education programs, marketing strategies and systems plus the most powerful tools to manage and accelerate your web success.   Jen’s “Social Engine Success Blueprint” offers you an extended report plus a one hour complimentary webinar where she reveals the keys to moving forward faster to your best year on the web yet!   Grab your FREE ACCESS to the report and webinar PLUS learn more about the entire Social Engine Success Blueprint and Education Program.

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“Search More Social”

SEARCH ENGINE BING AND SOCIAL ENGINE FACEBOOK

NOW FULLY INTEGRATED!

Microsoft, the owner of Search Engine “Bing” and Facebook have strengthened their connection (and corporate friendship) with the announcement this week of the integration of Facebook user preferences into search results.

When you now search using Bing, data from your Facebook friends user profiles and pages as well as things they “Like” will be included in the results provided to you.  It’s considered an enhancement and a form of endorsement to the usual static results provided (that are arbitarially selected by the Search Engine).  This is a giant leap forward in making our Search Engine experience more relevant and believable.  The same feature will also appear on searches made from within Facebook.

This very short video introduces the concept …

Click here to view the embedded video.

Although becoming ‘social’ online means as individuals we forego the privacy of our personal interests, desires, preferences and pursuits, for business owners, the intelligence now available and this kind of integration simplifies and ‘straightens the line’ we must take to make direct, relevant connections and offers with our target marketplace.

Expect to see more and more of this information integration between all the engines – Search, Social and Spender, it’s the next phase of the Information and Communication Online Revolution.

Here’s to Your Greater Web Success

Jennie Armato

Head Coach and Success Mentor (Godmother of Web Success)

PS:  Want to know HOW to Create YOUR Greater Web Success?  Check out Jen’s “Web Success Club”  Watch the FREE Online Webinar NOW!  >>

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AMAZING New App SAVES Consumers

Even MORE When Shopping Online

CALLING FOR 12 ENTREPRENEURS COMMITTED TO

HELPING PEOPLE SAVE WHEN SHOPPING ONLINE!

 (Clever, FREE Web App Builds YOU Another PASSIVE Income Stream)

A MAXIMUM of 12 entrepreneurs who want to be placed in key positions to lead large teams are sought immediately to bring this amazing, time and money saving app to the consumer market.  If you like the idea of earning a ‘commission’ for clicks (like how adsense on your own site works), then this FREE DOWNLOAD APP called “My Shopping Genie” allows consumers to shop and find the cheapest suppliers online. 

If it were any simpler, it would confuse you!  You give away the app for FREE.  Everytime one of your people who want to save online click on an advertiser selling the product they are wanting to buy, you will earn commission – it’s totally passive income to you and it’s totally free to your consumer to use.  BUT THAT’S NOT THE BEST PART … YOU are invited to build a team of distributors and earn passive income from their ‘give it away’ activities too. 

Hi and Welcome, I’m Jennie Armato, Head Business Coach and Success Mentor at Web Business Academy. I’m also known as “The Godmother of Web Success” because I help people unlock the true potential of online earnings, recurring income and passive streams …  and what I want to tell you about today fulfills every one of those criteria.

Right now, together with the Team at Web Business Academy and My Shopping Genie, I’m seeking true Online Leaders … that is (1) the idea I’m telling you about ‘clicks’ in your head – it makes perfect sense and (2) the opportunity to earn passive income and help others do the same too warms your heart. 

I want YOU to join me in the first Leveraged Distributor Biz Opp I’ve seen – that makes sense for web entrepreneurs who want residual income from advertisers online – free to consumers to use. Finally this sounds like a winning formula. Im inviting frontline people only after u check out the video and then click on the link below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

 FIND OUT MORE RIGHT NOW!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE ALLIANCE

IF you see the value, I would Love to work with you. Here’s how…

I’m setting up to launch this distributor network opportunity to my global client database but want my Top 12 Team in place before I put out the Lead.  If one of my top 12 should be you, NOW is the time to take action … 

TO JOIN THE WEB SUCCESS BUSINESS TEAM AND SAVE MONEY WHEN YOU SHOP:

Go to http://www.MyShoppingGenie.com/websuccess and click on the “Become A Distributor” link on the top menu.  (There’s a $200 one-time-only Distributor Registration Fee and $29USD per month for the Distributor rights – to give away the app for free and earn commissions on clicks PLUS build your own distributor network team.)  You can also download and use the app for your own shopping too.

TO ONLY SAVE MONEY WHEN YOU SHOP:

If you do not want to join our Web Success Business Team but you DO want to save on your own online shopping, simply download the FREE APP via the Free Download button on the top right hand side of this page:  http://www.MyShoppingGenie.com/websuccess

Best wishes for YOUR Greater Web Shopping, Saving and Earnings Success

Your New e-Biz Alliance – Jennie Armato, The Web Business Academy Team and My Shopping Genie

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Last week, Head Coach of Web Business Academy Jennie Armato presented the Academy’s Web Success Financial and Marketing Blueprint at our one day “Web Success Workshop” – Perth, also being held in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne soon too.

During the free one day web success workshop, Jennie revealed the blueprint for maximum web coverage for your online marketing as well as how to develop and diversify your income streams using the most popular web sites, with millions of people visiting them every week, to provide your traffic for you.  She revealed the future of business and the successful business people of the future – “The New Economy Business and Entrepreneur“.

Here’s the underlying framework of what Jennie teaches at the Web Success Workshop – don’t be alarmed if you do not understand, that is what this free web business workshop is all about – enlightening and inspiring you to greater heights of web success.

This amazing free gift of one entire day of FREE internet marketing coaching and web business success mentoring was met with gratitude and excitement by the people of Perth.  Here’s a moment during the day when Jen captured on film their entrepreneurial spirit and excitement about what was just revealed:

Click here to view the embedded video.

The remaining capital cities of Australia, already scheduled in are Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.   A limited number of seats remain at each of these events.  To claim your own FREE Internet Marketing Coaching and Web Business Success Mentoring from Australia’s leading internet marketing specialist, who runs the best coaching program available today for anyone wanted to get started on the internet but has no business or website and for any existing business owners who want to increase your results 3 or 4 times over your current success on the web.

Claim Your AMAZING FREE GIFT from the Academy right now!   Here’s how:

 Click on the location best suited to you:

Brisbane 5 February | Sydney 6 February | Melbourne 7 February

PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE ONE TIME ONLY EVENTS, SECURE YOUR TICKET TODAY!

We apologise in advance if FREE tickets are not available when you attempt to book.  The full ticket price of $247 will be charged instead.  Click the Ticket to claim you free gift right now.

CLAIM THIS AMAZING FREE GIFT, RIGHT NOW!

I thought our world, at Web Business Academy Headquarters ‘spun fast’, but check out the combined power of the people across social media outlets and services and how much data (information, images etc) is being transmitted second by second.

Gary Hayes of http://www.personalizemedia.com/ has produced these incredibly informative aggregated metrics on ‘information transaction and movement across the internet.’

The speed of this information (data) is represented in real time, meaning what you’re watching is ‘in the moment’ transmissions and transactions – fascinating and edifying for web business owners who choose to be the providers of the products and services purchased through these various communication media and mediums.

(Note you can switch counters by clicking on the tab in the top right hand corner “Social Media”, “Mobiles”, “Games” (in green, red and yellow respectively).

Here is some of the supporting data that Gary has used to create this counter.

I quickly built and coded the app based on data culled from a range of social media sources & sites at the end of Sept 2009. The design will be finessed and I will be adding extra functionality (such as week, month & year lookahead/backs plus dynamic data input).

The social web has exploded in the last year and below are some of the key data points that the ‘Gary’s Social Media Count’ is based on (many will be updated!).

20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)
Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per month, 700mill & 4 mill respectively (source Inside Facebook Feb 09)
Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily (source TechCrunch Apr 09)
iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future (Aug 09)
900 000 blogs posts put up every day (source Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008)
YouTube daily, 96 million videos watched, $1mill bandwidth costs (source Comscore Jul 06 !)
UPDATE: YouTube 1Billion watched per day SMH (2009)- counter updated!
Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)
Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)
Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)
Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)
SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)

The counter also has mobile and games added – soon to be included will be ‘heritage or traditional’ media (films shown in cinemas, TV shows being shown globally etc:). The statistical sources for the mobile & games counters are added below (even though they are in other posts).

Some of the sources for the mobile counter

TechCrunchies – Mobile Video Viewers Statistics
AdMob June 2009 Mobile Metrics Report
PortioDirect Mobile Factbook 2009
Mashable – CITA report – 4.1 Billion SMS Messages Are Sent Daily USA
iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future
Research and Markets Global Mobile Broadband – Statistics and Trends
Smartbrief Sharp Increase in Mobile Internet Adspend…
ABI Research In 2014 Monthly Mobile Data Traffic Will Exceed 2008 Total
HotHardware Huge Growth in Daily Mobile Web Access
Ecoustics
Cio GPS Enabled Mobile Phone Shipments to More than Double Over Next Five Years
Nielsen Americans Watching More TV Than Ever: Web and Mobile Video Up too

Some of the sources for the games counter:  50 million daily users of Zynga social games$2.8 bill generated yearly by China MMOG players16 million quests per day completed by WoW players$22 Billion US games revenue in 200950 000 person to person auctions per day on Gaia1 million currency transactions per day in Eve Online9 games sold every second 2007$5.5 bill spent on virtual goods globally4.1 million new MMORPG subscribers 2009$125 mill advertising revenues in Social Virtual Worlds575000 log into Fantasy Westward Journey per day250 thousand virtual goods created on Second Life per day$594 million invested in Virtual World companies in 20081.5 million new 3-11 US children subscribing to Virtual Worlds annually1 million message board posts per day in Gaia online7.5 million per month use Habbo$2.45 billion per year revenue made from World of Warcraft13.4 million portable game units sold in 2007936 mill Chinese user hours per week in online games (78 mill @ 12 hrs pw)1250 text messages sent per second in Second Life465 million user hours in second life over the last year50 million daily users of Zynga social games (Inside Social Games 2009)
$2.8 bill generated yearly by China MMOG players (Raph Koster 2009)
16 million quests per day completed by WoW players (Maximum PC 2009)
$22 Billion US games revenue in 2009 (IDE Agency 2009)
50 000 person to person auctions per day on Gaia
1 million currency transactions per day in Eve Online (MMORPG.com 2009)
9 games sold every second 2007 (GrabStats 2007)
$5.5 bill spent on virtual goods globally
4.1 million new MMORPG subscribers 2009 (MMORPGChart.com 2008)
$125 mill advertising revenues in Social Virtual Worlds (GamineExpedition 2008)
575000 log into Fantasy Westward Journey per day (Seeking Alpha 2009)
250 thousand virtual goods created on Second Life per day (MarketWire 2009)
$594 million invested in Virtual World companies in 2008 (Engage Digital Media 2009)
1.5 million new 3-11 US children subscribing to Virtual Worlds annually (GamineExpedition 2009)
1 million message board posts per day in Gaia online
7.5 million per month use Habbo
$2.45 billion per year revenue made from World of Warcraft (Edge Online 2008)
13.4 million portable game units sold in 2007 (Grab Stats 2007)
936 mill Chinese user hours per week in online games (78 mill @ 12 hrs pw) (Futures of Learning 2008)
1250 text messages sent per second in Second Life (Linden Lab 2009)
465 million user hours in second life over the last year (Linden Lab 2009)

I encourage you to connect with Gary and his innovative approaches to understanding the true power of social media and the internet.  His website is http://www.personalizemedia.com/

Have A Great Day – from Jen and the Team at Web Business Academy.

Jennie Armato can be found on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. She is a best-selling Author, Public Speaker, Director of Auto Web Business .com and Head Coach of Web Business Academy .com – a coaching consultancy service for small business owners wanting to do more for less, far easier than ever before. Special Give-away to all Web Business Academy followers – Claim Your FREE One Day Workshop (limited to 50 Free tickets). Claim Your Free Ticket at www.WebBusinessWorkshops.com

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This can be costing your web business credibility in your marketplace and also with the Web’s biggest players online – who YOU DEPEND ON … like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and more.

If you care about being compliant and want to be a leader in your Industry and Market, check your website code is compliant with the Web Consortium- the Global Web Standards and Guidelines bodies (headed up by the inventor of the w-w-web, Tim Berners-Lee).

This video explains the history and purpose of the W3 Consortium:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Visit their site, check your home page url.  If you have errors, get your webmaster to fix them pronto!

This is costing you credibility with the Web’s biggest center’s of influence. http://validator.w3.org – there is no excuse for poor coding – NONE!

Your site’s poor coding could be wasting your hard-earned time and money in ‘trying to win the respect’ of the search engines and others.  Take the presentation of your web business seriously – it’s not only important to have a good LOOKING website for marketplace credibility, it’s equally important (and maybe even more important) to gain the respect of the biggest players online today by having your coding LOOKING right too.

Have A Great Day – from Jen and the Team at Web Business Academy.

Jennie Armato can be found on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. She is a best-selling Author, Public Speaker, Director of Auto Web Business .com and Head Coach of Web Business Academy .com – a coaching consultancy service for small business owners wanting to do more for less, far easier than ever before. Special Give-away to all Web Business Academy followers – Claim Your FREE One Day Workshop (limited to 50 Free tickets). Claim Your Free Ticket at www.WebBusinessWorkshops.com

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Attention Forward-Thinking Web Business Owners – Lead the Way with Internet Access and Improvements!

Stop for a moment and think about how you got to this website.  You came to your computer – connected to the internet and your serfing led you to this page.  Access on the internet for many of us is done so easily and readily we forget the privilege of the process and access we have and the power we possess with a medium and media such as the World Wide Web.  Access and power like you have as a web user and more importantly as a web business owner is a challenge for many still, for various reasons.   In particular there are entire places in the world where resources, access and therefore power is limited and in some cases non-existent.

As a web business owner you may be thinking this has nothing to do with you.  You could quite easily ignore ‘the bigger picture’ and just think only about you and your web site.  On the other hand, Forward-thinking Web Business owners who want more traffic understand that if you can be part of making the web and your website more accessible to more people YOU and your Web Business will benefit.  The true impact of the power and influence you possess lies in understanding this basic truth about the internet and world-wide-web:

“Peoples’ lives now are as dependent on the Internet as they are on the basic services and provisions like roads, energy supplies and running water. We can no longer take that for granted, and we must advocate for the Internet politically and support its vitality personally.”

This video, although a tad cheesy says it well:

Click here to view the embedded video.

An official day – ONE WEB DAY – has now been created to celebrate, educate and activate ways to make getting on the web and using it easier for everyone.

Background Snap-shot of One Web Day.

In 2006, Susan Crawford, Cyberlaw Scholar and now Technology Policy Advisor to President Obama, launched the concept of One Web Day – a day for those in a position of power and influence, including Web Business owners, to consider what we can do to contribute to making the internet and world wide web more accessible – both for you as a web user and also as a website owner.

Taken from the official OneWebDay (OWD) website – www.OneWebDay.org – It’s like an Earth Day but for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value, focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.  So, think of OneWebDay as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem. It’s a platform for people to educate and activate others about issues that are important for the Internet’s future.

At the same time, we’re suffering from enormous digital divides. Lower-income and rural communities don’t have adequate connectivity. Senior citizens and minorities are often left out. Skills are inadequate, and there is a lot of fear of using the Internet still to be overcome.

OWD is an annual global celebration of the Internet and Web Business owners are perfectly positioned to be a part of the future direction and experience people will have when you and they use the net.

Here’s some remarks from true web industry leaders, (your equals in web business) and their perspective on One Web Day …

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, said: “OneWebDay reminds us that the net really is a democratizing medium, that everyone gets a chance to participate. If you want, you can stick your neck out and speak truth to power.”

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, added: “OneWebDay is about ‘one web’… Let’s celebrate, and let’s constantly work to make more, better, cleaner, stronger, deeper interoperability across the planet.”

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The evolution of the internet will continue around you.  Today is your day to be a part of the future direction it takes by completing a few simple steps.

How You can Help Improve the Web on OneWebDay

1. Update or Upgrade Your Web Browser. Use a standards-compliant Web browser like Firefox or Opera. They’re free, fast, and protective of your privacy. And because they conform to Web development standards, they make things easier for people who make Web sites.
2. Test your websites are compliant with the w3c’s Markup Validation Service.  This ensures they are easy for search engines and vision-impaired people to accurately ‘read’ your web pages.  If you have errors in your website coding, get this fixed by your webmaster pronto!
3. Edit a Wikipedia article. Teach people what you know, and in doing so, help create free universal knowledge.
4. Take steps to ensure that your computer can’t be treated like a zombie. Computer viruses can steal your personal information. They can also cause major network outages on the Web, slowing things down and making sites inaccessible. Vint Cerf estimates that more than 150 million PCs have already been zombified, and are now awaiting their next order, which is designed to harm you and others too. To learn more about the threat of zombie computers, read this article.
5. Help someone get an advert on the web – this will be a good way of doing service for someone to experience online exposure for the first time and promote that they consider getting a web presence too.
6. Join the Web Business Academy client community:- Claim your free gift to our global ‘one day web success workshops’ and learn cutting-edge site and selling strategies and tactics and become an affiliate and help us promote the Web Success Wizard – ‘easy to do’ website creation and management tools.
7. Contribute to the Official One Web Day Cause. Visit the site, make a donation and sign the pledge to end the digitial-divide between us and people less fortunate.

And if you want to do more than that, think about how you can use this as a marketing tool for your customers too.  An example of this is happening today in the Phillipines - I-CAFÉ Pilipinas, an umbrella organization of internet shop associations, will invite internet shops nationwide to offer FREE tutorials for an hour, or even one whole day on Sept. 22.  So webshop owners will be encouraged to share something for free as part of the One Web Day celebration.  What could you do too that will also be an effective marketing strategy to generate new customers, while supporting OneWebDay?

“The web has transformed the way we do business and has helped us empower thousands of people around the world – Quicker, Cheaper and Easier than ANY other communications medium and media EVER in the history of business.  That’s worth Celebrating, Nurturing, Influencing … and Protecting!”

Happy One Web Day for You and Your Web Biz from Jennie Armato and the Team at Web Business Academy

Jennie Armato can be found on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. She is a best-selling Author, Public Speaker, Director of Auto Web Business .com and Head Coach of Web Business Academy .com – a coaching consultancy service for small business owners wanting to do more for less, far easier than ever before. Special Give-away to all Web Business Academy followers – Claim Your FREE One Day Workshop (limited to 50 Free tickets). Claim Your Free Ticket at www.WebBusinessWorkshops.com Ticket Number 918

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