Well He´s done it !

Garry Parkes Has managed to pull off an incredible feat today with the launch of his Profit pulling Project. This guy is an absolute dynamo. The twice monthly newsletter is, as I have found out since reading it from digital cover to cover jam packed full of great content.

By his own admission he had some able contributors in the guise of  Nigel Yip, Garry Simpson and Mark Austin to name but a few.

The brilliant thing is that Garry has given us the opportunity to rebrand the newsletter to send to our own list. Obviously this will work so much better if everybody joins in, so that we can all benefit from the increased leverage.

I wish Garry every success with the subsequent editions of his Profit pulling Project.

As we are all aware good traffic is the lifeblood of any website.

You can obtain traffic by various methods be that paid or free. The paid version can soon become very expensive if you choose a high cost key word phrase.

I have, in the past, done quite a lot of article marketing to generate traffic, but have found it to be very time consuming and labour intensive, although you can gain some good traffic using this method. I recently purchased a product by Michelle MacPhearson ´Thirty Minute Backlinks´. The programme itself is based around producing small pieces of software, but please do not be put off by my remarks about ´software´as it will become abundantly clear that if you are able to fill out a form this is all that is required.

The idea behind this product is that you produce a small piece of software, which is normally a toolbar. Within the product you are given full video tutorials and all the contact information of the companies who will be producing these small pieces of free software, at no cost to yourself.

After you have produced your software, you send it to many of the online software directories for inclusion. At this point this is where the magic starts.

Obviously these software directories more often than not have very high PR rankings, and when they link back to your site, as you can imagine, this will give your own rankings a great deal of benefit. I have various other sites in other niches, one of which is in a male medical niche.

The site is impotency self help review. Just recently I have started to utilise the Thirty Minute Backlinks method on my own site and have had some very good results. For one of my keyword phrases I am at position eight on the first page of Google for the keyword phrase ´impotency help´, and on Yahoo I am on page one, position two for the phrase ´impotency help´and also position two page one for the phrase ´impotence help´.

If the idea of having to write articles to generate traffic to your site seems like a lot of hard work to you then this ´Thirty Minute Backlinks´could be the best choice for you.

Normally when you want to produce a bespoke design for your eBook cover you usually have two choices available to you. One you outsource, or two you use Photoshop with one of the handful of addon programmes designed specifically for this task. As a lot of you know Photoshop is a gargantuan programme and is not the easiest programme to learn to use with any degree of proficiency.

I do use Photoshop myself for a lot of my artwork, but I also have a small programme available to me so that if I need to produce a slick looking eBook cover on the fly with the least amount of work this is the one I choose. The name of this programme is Trueboxshot, and the beauty of the  programe is that you can use it in conjunction with any or all of the other free graphics programmes.

This little beauty is simplicity itself, once you have produced your basic artwork on, for arguments sake, the free graphics software from paint.net, you import your artwork into Trueboxshot. You establish your design perameters based on whether you are producing a CD, DVD cover, a box, a book, or even a membership card. After establishing these parameters, all you do then is click ´render´ and immediately you are presented with a great looking cover.

A prime example is the eBook cover for ´My Journey So Far´ which took me no more than around 15 minutes from start to finish to accomplish. You can download a trial copy of this by clicking on Trueboxshot.

With most products available on the market today they normally have a free version. More often than not the freebie does not have all the bells and whistles that the paid version does. I have tried quite a few different screen capture tools of late with varying degrees of success. Just recently I downloaded a screen capture tool from Wisdom-soft by the name of Screen Hunter. This particular product does have a paid version but to be honest I don´t see how they can better the free version.

The product interface is very simple. To capture an image all you do is position the cursor near the image that you want to capture, hold down your left mouse key and drag over the image. Once you let go of the left mouse key the programme immediately deposits a jpeg of the image you have just captured directly to your desktop. Now what could be easier than that ? You can download this product from Wisdom-soft totally free of charge.

Also on offer at their site there is a video capture tool, again totally free of charge.

Happy capturing !