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Regularly referred to in the media as "Australia's Richard Branson", Pete Wililams is a serial entrepreneur, author, internet marketer and ego maniac. This blog is where he shares his rants and raves on all things business, marketing & publicity - in particular, how to successfully mix internet marketing & business...

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YouTube Video Annotations - An Overview For Marketers

I’ve just recorded a short video on the new YouTube Annotations feature…

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Now, the thing I didn’t test before putting it all together is if it would work when you embed the video on a blog etc… Well the result is a big fat NO.

I tried to embed the video here for you to watch, but the annotations didn’t appear… which sucks more then Amy Wino-house.

Anyway, check out the video directly on YouTube here - http://youtube.com/watch?v=vdHgC4Ek7rI

The Best Firefox Add-Ons For Internet Marketers [Video]

Firefox is regarded as the best Web browser in terms of extensions - i.e. small browser add-ons which modify or add to existing functionality. It has hundreds of add-ons, which can be downloaded from here

But out of all of these, which is the best for us Internet Marketers… watch the video to find out.

Download Hi-Def m4v Version Here (Right Click and download it)

Here’s the list…

Google Global - Google Global is an unobtrusive Firefox extension that allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations.

ScribeFire - ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

Update Scanner - Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don’t provide Atom or RSS feeds.

CoLT - CoLT makes it easy to copy either a hyperlink’s text or both the link and the link’s text (in a format you specify). Two handy context-menu items make this possible, and don’t add clutter; the items are only visible when right-clicking a link!

Window Resizer - Allows you to resize your browser to common resolution sizes allowing you to view website designs in a variety of popular browsing dimensions.

MeasureIt - Allows you to overlay a ruler on a browser page so you can verify width, height and alignment of page elements.

DownThemAll! - Download one link or multiples, has a built-in accelerator.

Screengrab! - Saves the entire web page as an image.

Download Helper- Will extract content (read:videos) from many different sites (read:youtube)

Firefox Companion for eBay - Keep an eye on your eBay trading wherever you are on the web when you install the eBay Companion for Firefox.

Dummy Lipsum - Generate “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text (from http://www.lipsum.com).

ColorZilla - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

Fast Video Download - Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more.

Tab Scope - Preview and navigate tab contents through popup.

Shareaholic - Shareaholic allows you to share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages quickly via a wide array of web 2.0 social websites without cluttering up your browser!

Session Manager - Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs.


How To Set Up An Amazon S3 Account & Sync With Transmit.

After an awesome response from my Twitter question; “Is anyone interested in a video on setting up an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) account and learning how to link it with Transmit on the Mac?”

Here it is…

(Not sure what happened with the start of the video. The picture kicks in after about 6 seconds)

Download Hi-Def Version Here (Right Click and download it)

As mentioned in the video Here is the link directly to Amazon S3.

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WordCamp Melbourne 07 Review…

A weekend or so back, I attended the WordCamp Melbourne 07 event.

It was all about the blogging platform Wordpress, which is what this site/blog is built on. Now, I am not a coder by any means so a lot of the content went well over my head, but one particular presentation by ProBlogger Darren Rowse was right up my alley - Making Money With Wordpress.


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Another entertaining presentation was from Alister Cameron, who i’ve known for awhile (since he worked with Brent and Steve McKnight at Propertyinvesting.com)

Alister’s presentation was again, a little over my head, but his passion and goal to evangelise the sandbox theme for wordpress is very captivating.

Video courtesy the blog of the sponsor EightBlack.


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Search Engine Marketing Search Engine!

Are you wondering how to get on the first page of Google, stuck on the validity of a particular META tag or need clarification on Adwords phrase matches?

Well look no further, just enter a search term below to search an exclusive list of the top 260+ Search Engine Marketing blogs, as chosen by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing:

The Search Engine Marketing Search Engine Explained…

Well firstly we must thank two men - Blogologist Alister Cameron for developing the application, and Lee Odden for releasing his OPML file of top Search Marketing Blogs.

…While thinking through how that list would be most valuable, Alister enlisted the help of Google, and created the Search Engine Marketing Search Engine! (Insert imaginary sounds of drumroll and orchestral fanfare here. - Alisters request)

What sites does SEM Search include in its search results?

That’s Lee Odden’s decision, and his alone - the search list is based on his TopRank Online Marketing OPML file.

Here is a snapshot of some of the 400+ sites though:
Analytics Talk - Justin Cutroni of EpikOne writes about the array of Google products, including analytics, he works with.
Blue Hat SEO - Eli writes about some cool advanced SEO tactics.
Dosh Dosh - This is one of my favourite blogs… Maki, a Political Science and Philosophy student in Toronto Canada, writes about making money online and along with that comes posts about professional blogging, affiliate marketing, get-paid-to programs, advertising networks and social media monetization.
Google Analytics Blog - Official blog for Google Analytics with tips and resources from the GA team.
Hitwise Intelligence - The HitWise team posts tasty insights about search trends.
InsideGoogle - Nathan Weinberg’s long time blog about Google and the search industry.
Matt Cutts - Google’s famous engineer and search spam fighter dispels wisdom, insight and squashes SEO myths.

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