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The A2Z of Cool Internet Marketing Resources,

Websites & AppsBy Perry Stevens

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AWeber is a industry leading autoresponder, a professional email signup form & direct marketing service that makes it easy for you to build your email list and stay in touch with customers and prospects.

Aweber gives you the ability to send or schedule bulk emails, newsletters, create an autoresponder series, manage unlimited email marketing campaigns, publish an optin box on your website or blog and a whole lot more. Aweber also gives you the ability to track everything with analytics like open rates, your subscribers and unsubscribes.

Aweber has over 150 email templates that allow you to easily create great looking emails and even RSS to email tools that turn your latest blog post into an email newsletter so you can really leverage your content.

Discover more about Aweber here.

Where would we be without Bitly? Bitly is a simple URL shortener that helps you collect, organize and share long ugly links. It’s ideal if you are a regular user of twitter where you are only allowed 140 characters or want to track clicks from your Youtube videos.

bitly is accessible via website, browser extensions and mobile web. All links shared via bitly allow the user to track and view complete, real-time traffic and analytics data.

Web publishers and brands can take advantage of bitly’s enterprise analytics service to help grow their social media traffic.

Discover more about Bitly here.

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ContactMe is an easy-to-use contact and task management tool that will help you run your business more efficiently.

ContactMe helps you work more effectively and helps you grow your business. Of course being organized has major benefits, you save time and effort and run a more professional and profitable business and have more free time to share with your friends and family.

ContactMe allows you to keep you on top of your deadlines, tasks, correspondences and appointments and it’s very easy to set up and manage from your desktop or smartphone.You can create free buttons and web forms and then add them to your websites and blogs or just about anywhere on the web. There is also a great Facebook App and much more so you can capture more leads and sync them up to your autoresponder.Discover more about ContactMe here

Dropbox simplifies the way you can create and share you documents and media files and always have your stuff available, wherever you may be.Dropbox lets you take all your photographs, documents and even large media files like videos anywhere and share them easily with who ever you choose – friends, colleagues or your whole team. You no longer have to email files to your self to work off more than one computer. Everything you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your synced computers, smartphones and even the Dropbox website.

If you accidentally knock a cup of tea over your laptop or even if it was stolen, Dropbox has you covered and none of your files will be lost.

Dropbox is also available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry.

Also, for every friend you invite and who consequently joins and installs Dropbox, they will give you both 250 MB of bonus storage space up to a limit of 8 GB.

Discover more about Dropbox here.

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E is for Easy Video Player 2 F is for Fiver

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Marketed as the Most Powerful Video Marketing Software On The Planet! And we have to agree Easy Video Player 2 is pretty special. It finally breaks down all the barriers to video marketing so you can start to make money today!

Here are just a few things the Easy Video Player 2 can do… You can embed your “buy now” buttons and “opt in” forms right inside the video. Add “overlays” to grab viewers attention and make buttons and content appear at designated times which adds an interactive element to your web pages.

The Easy Video Players 2 allows you to split test your videos so your can get the maximum ROI for each and every video and of course there are detailed analytics that are stored automatically to your dashboard so you can track your Internet marketing campaigns.

Available as a Wordpress plugin.

If you are serious about marketing your business, products and services online you should be using video. If you are using video, you really should be using the Easy Video Player 2.

Discover more about Easy Video Player here.

Fiverr is one of those ideas that you say to yourself ‘I wish I thought of that!’ Basically it is an online marketplace that allows you to find people who will provide a service for $5.

If you are looking for someone to make a logo, perform a social media or SEO task, make a unique gift, proof read, write or even make a video ad for your business, you’ll find them on Fiverr.

It’s very customer friendly and strangely addictive. We use it a lot for making website headers, banners, logos, video title clips and even cartoon characters of our friends and ourselves.

Discover more about Fiverr here

5 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

G is for Groupon H is for HelloTXT

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Groupon negotiates discounts,usually 50-90% offwith popular local businesses. They send the deals to thousands of subscribers in a free daily email, and send the businesses registered with Groupon and running promotions a ton of new customers.

As a business it’s easy to register and start a promotion to attract new customers with an attractive promotion. Savvy local consumers check their email, Facebook or Twitter feeds for daily deals on cool local businesses and can easily discover you.

Groupons are often shared with friends and are passed along by email or broadcast on social networks. That’s viral marketing at it’s best!Customers can print out the voucher or bring it up on their Groupon mobile App, then present it at your business to get the offered deal.

91% of Groupon customers report getting more customers as part of their promotion.9 out of 10 Groupon customers spend more than the face value of the Groupon87% of business owner say their Groupon promotion increased their awareness in the community.Discover more about Groupon here

Hellotxt is an online and smartphone communication tool that allows you to syndicate and digest of all your social bookmarks and information from one easy to use dashboard.

It’s easy to post text and rich media content across all your social media channels like Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook (up to 50 networks) with one click saving you valuable time while effectively communicating and marketing on multiple channels.

By posting your status updates about your business on all your web services from the same application you can easily keep everyone in your networks up to date and build backlinks with social bookmarks to your website at the same time.

Hellotxt also allows you to post your messages from email and your smartphone (Get the App) iPhone, iPad and Android device and include photos and video embeds.

Discover more about Hellotxt here.

6 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

I is for Involver J is for Jing

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Involver Apps integrate robust and powerful audience engagement tools to your social media channels such as Facebook Business Pages. With over two-dozen applications tailored to Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone, they offer a huge range of options for continuous two-way communication between your business and it’s customers.

These Involver Apps are proven to multiply your fan base and ensure that your brand makes the most of the incredible opportunities on the social web.

Basic Involver Apps such as Twitter, Youtube and Flickr are free. However users are allowed only 2 basic applications per Facebook Business or Fan Page. To use more than two applications and access additional functionality an upgrade to the Professional account is required

Discover more about Involver here.

Jing is a free and easy way to create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen then share them instantly online!

Simply capture an image (screenshot) of what you see on your computer screen and use mark-up tools to enhance your image, like arrows, text and boxes. Alternatively you can record what you see and do on your monitor (screencast) in a 5 minute recording and share with your audience via their free hosting Screencast website.

Of all the cool tools and resources I’ve found and share with friends a collegues, Jing is always the most popular. It’s easy to add notated screenshots to all your online conversations, or create a quick tutorial video you can share with the staff, sales team or customers. It gets everyone on the same page fast and is fun to use.

In fact I couldn’t have made this book without it or communicate with my team and clients across the world as effectively as I do without it! Jing rocks!!

Discover more about the Jing here

7 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

K is for Klout L is for Local Search

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Klout is a web-based tool that set the standard for measuring your influence on the web.

Throughout history people have always had the power to influence others, and that power is being democratized with the power of social media.

Klout provides insights into everyone's influence online by measuring their activity across the 5 major social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Foursquare and now Google+. More are being added.

Your influence is measured on your ability to drive action in social media networks.

· Twitter: Retweets and Mentions · Facebook: Comments, Wall-Posts & Likes · LinkedIn: Comments & Likes · Foursquare: Tips, To-Do's & Done · Google+: Comments, Reshares & +1’s

Klout process this data on a daily basis and gives you an updated Klout Score. It’s a good representation of your ongoing social standing online.

Discover more about Klout here

The Local Search SEO Contact Page Plugin is designed for websites and blogs built on the WordPress CMS (Content Management System). It’s a simple solution to quickly create a local search engine optimized contact page for your site.

This handy plugin will take all your business information from the settings page and populate your entire contact us page or just parts of it. This includes your business name, full address and telephone number in hCard/vCard formats. You can also include your hours of operation, preferred payment methods, social media buttons, links, QR code, Google Places and more. All of these are highly customizable for your business needs.

Discover more about Local Search SEO Contact Page here.

8 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

M is for Mailchimp N is for Namecheap

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Even in these days of social media, email marketing is still one of the most powerful direct marketing strategies available. As a business owner you need an email–marketing service that takes care of all the complicated stuff so you can focus on running your business.

MailChimp makes it easy for you to design great email campaigns, share them on your social sites, integrate with web services you already use, manage subscribers and track your results. It’s like having your own personal newsletter-publishing platform.

Setting up an autoresponder is relatively straight-forward while maintaining optins and unsubscribes is a breeze with Mailchimp.

You will need to have an optin box on your website or custom Facebook page and link it to yourautoresponder. If you need a good entry level autoresponder that can grow with your business and your list, your really can’t go wrong with MailChimp.

Discover more about MailChimp here.

Namecheap are a leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company from the USA that’s been around for over a decade. Namecheap currently has over 500,000 clients and over 2 million domains under its management.

Namecheap offers some of the most affordable domain names in the industry with free email/URL forwarding, in addition to full-featured web hosting packages, secure SSL certificates, WhoisGuard domain name privacy protection, and a whole lot more.

There customer service is unparalleled in the industry, and their products are simple and of excellent value.

Look out for their ‘coupon codes’ and special offers on their social media sites for even greater value.

Discover more about Namecheap here

9 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

O is for Optimized Press P is for Ping.fm

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Many of the World’s leading Internet Marketers, Experts, Speakers and Coaches choose the OptimizePress platform to build their sales pages, launch funnels, membership sites or squeeze pages on Wordpress. There are also thousands of businesses owners using this incredibly system on a daily basis.

OptimizePress has been designed to make building a website or sale page really easy. This includes integrating it with an autoresponder, adding ‘add to cart buttons’, split level private membership areas and Facebook comments.

It has a excellent video training library, so even if you are a complete newbie to building a website, you can follow these step by step instructions and have a great looking site up in minutes.

If you are selling products online or want a secure membership site than I would highly recommend OptimizePress.

Discover more about OptimizePress here

Ping.fm is a simple online and mobile service that makes updating your social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace quick and easy.

To really benefit from using Ping.fm you first need to register with as many of their social network partners. Then when you want to send a message or social bookmark, you can simply blast it to 20+ networks from Ping.fm with one click. This can be done through email, SMS, GTalk, AIM, Yahoo! Live Messenger, Smartphones, Jabber and over 50 3rd party Apps using the Ping.fm API.

Social bookmarking with Ping.fm not only alerts your friends, fans and followers to your new marketing messages, videos and blog posts but also drives more traffic to your website with additional SEO benefits.

Social is the new SEO, so get your bookmarking on steroids with Ping.fm.

Discover more about Ping.fm here.

10 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

Q is for Qype R is for Roost

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Qype is a free App available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia that puts over a million local business reviews and recommendations right in the palm of your hand.

As a business owner you need to register your business on Qype so more prospects have the chance to find you online and on their mobile phones. So, when they are searching for local businesses like yours, be it a restaurant, bar, hotel, retail outlet, gym, orthodontist or any other service they’ll always be able to find, review and share it with others in their networks.

All the information your potential customers need to discover your business is at their fingertips, including addresses, directions, phone numbers, photos and vouchers. To really make Qype work for you, drive customers to your business with special offers and coupons.

The Qype App also lets you find and connect with your fans on Facebook, Twitter and Gmail so you can share your latest or daily Special Offers with them too.

Facebook Places has now been added to the Qype App so you can Check-in directly to Facebook Places and much more.

Discover more about Qype Mobile App here

Roost were recently acquired by Vertical Response. They are a self-service social media marketing platform is designed to offer tools that save small businesses time, increase engagement rates with their customers, increase the impact of social campaigns through Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin while managing it all from one place.

Vertical Response also provides a full suite of self-service marketing solutions including email marketing, event marketing, direct mail marketing (check out their postcards) and online surveys. Their aim is to empower small businesses to easily and affordably create, manage and analyze their own marketing campaigns. Additional social networks are currently been added for you to publish too and they have also introduced an App that is available from the Apple Store.

Discover more about Virtical Response here

11 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

S is for SEOQuake T is for Tweet Adder

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SEOquake is the free but essential toolbar for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari It’s a very popular and extremely handy analytics tool.

SEOquake helps you easily obtain valuable information about any website for a wide range of parameters such as page rank, Google index, Alexa and many others.

The Keyword Density tool serves to demonstrate the number of times a keyword or keyword phrase appears on any web page. SEOquake has a parameter that highlights no-follow links.

It’s a great tool to start reverse engineering your competitors websites to discover where they’re getting their links from and finding high PR blogs to leave juicy comments on yourself to boost your own SEO.

Discover more about the SEO Quake here

Tweet Adder is a very powerful tool for growing your network and profits on autopilot.

It’s ideal for a local business as you can set your search terms by keywords, location, recency and language spoken. This way you can build up a targeted twitter following relevant to your business. You can even do this over multiple accounts.

Tweet Adder also allows you to follow a pacific Twitter follows or followers of a user. It posts your automated tweets throughout the day and also takes control of your Retweets, RSS tweets, Mentions and shortens your URL links and a whole lot more.

Now the search engines take into account your social media score it worth remembering to add your website links into your tweets for good practice SEO. This will improve your website rankings and get more traffic visiting it.

Discover more about Tweet Adder here

12 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

U is for USB Mic V is for Vocalyze

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If you are recording audio for your online videos or vblog you may have noticed that the sound isn’t too great when recorded straight into your computer or flipvideo. To get a deeper, richer tone and all together more professional sounding recording you need a USB microphone.

The AT2020 USB condenser microphone offers studio-quality results and a fraction of the price. It plugs right into your computer's USB port, and functions seamlessly with your favourite recording software. Equipped with a USB digital output, the AT2020 is perfect for home studio recording, field recording and voiceover video and vblog use.

The AT2020 USB is based on the design of Audio-Technica's critically acclaimed AT2020 cardioid condenser microphone. Like the AT2020, it features a low-mass diaphragm, custom-engineered for extended frequency response and superior transient response.

This is a robust microphone that allows you to record quality sound directly into your PC or mac and I would recommend it highly.

Discover more about the Audio Technica AT2020 USB Cardioid Condenser Microphone here.

Vocalyze is web-text-to-speech technology that creates a real-time audio stream of your blog.

It can be easily installed on a Wordpress blog as a plugin and is also available for Blogger and Tumblr. Visitors to your blog can click on the Vocalyze button and listen to your posts. This is an ideal solution when you’re multi-tasking, have vision-impaired visitors to your site or have just very tired eyes!

Vocalyze gets really interesting when it on your smart phone. It’s available as an App so you can listen to any website directly from your smart phone - iPhone and Android.

This wonderful App allows you to listen to all your favorite websites and blogs while you are driving, washing the car or when you are running up a sweat at the gym. There is also a Twitter integration feature in Vocalyze so you can add your favorite comedians and followers to your list for a few laughs.

Discover more about Vocalyze here.

13 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

W is for Wisestamp X is for Xomba

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WiseStamp enable you to bring a social functionality in to every email you send.

They have over a dozen Apps you can choose from in their gallery including social Facebook Page, Google+, Linkedin and Twitter. There are also Music, Charity and Quote Apps available to spice up your emails.

WiseStamp is very easy to set up and is compatible with gmail, hotmail, AOl and Yahoo mail. They are light weight, clean and a must have addition to your email that can help grow your Facebook page ‘Like’ and twitter followers.

Discover more about WiseStamp here.

Xomba is a free social networking site for people who like to write, comment and share ideas. You provide the content in the form of unique articles and Xomba provides an audience.

Xomba gives you the ability to post 5 types of Articles: blog posts, bookmarks, lists, recipes and reviews. There is no upper length to the articles you write but the minimum number of words for each of the five categories is:

• Blog: 300+ words• Bookmark: 100+ words• List: 50+ word intro, additional text

required for each list item• Recipe: 50+ word intro, additional text

required for ingredients, directions• Review: 300+ words

You can also generate a revenue stream by posting articles on Xomba as it uses Google AdSense on most of its pages on the site. Any posts made by the user will display targeted ads on his or her Article or Bookmark. Xomba automatically rotates ownership of the ads between users and the website. Sixty percent of the impressions will show your AdSense code, and 40 percent will show Xomba's. You are paid by Google when someone clicks on these ads if you have a adSense account.

Discover more about Xomba here.

14 Copyright © 2012 Perry Stevens www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

Y is for YouLikeHits Z is for Zoomerang

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You Like Hits is a community site where you are awarded points to like, follow or view other community member’s social pages.

Once you have some points you can add your own Facebook pages, Youtube Video Channel, Twitter, Google+, Stumbleupon, Digg, Myspace and website to You Like Hits.

Next you need to set a ‘payout’ amount. EG. The number of points you want to give away to someone to visit your Facebook page and like it. The higher your payout is, the faster you will get more likes.

It’s a great way to get some likes and views to a new Facebook page so you can quickly claim your vanity URL, get more video views or people to visit your website.

Discover more about You Like Hits here

How do you make important decisions that affect your business and your bottom line, consult a clairvoyant, read tea leaves or maybe play best of three paper-rock-scissors?

Zoomerang helps you get the information you need simply and easily with online surveys and polls.

What ever kind of poll or survey suits your needs, Zoomerang have a template for it including Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Event Planning surveys, Employee Satisfaction Surveys, Non Profit Surveys, Market Research Surveys and Educational Surveys.

You can use Zoomerang to conduct mobile surveys and even Facebook surveys, yes there’s an App for that! Why not add photos and videos to your surveys for extra power!

There basic level is Free and offers unlimited surveys and polls, and real-time online results. Zoomerang’s website also has a wealth of information about the questions you should be asking and how to get the most from your surveys.

Discover more about Zoomarang here