Down In The Trenches - Internet Marketing http://scotstandke.com Scot Standke Dot Com Sun, 02 May 2010 15:16:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Free Plugin To Track Your WordPress Yahoo Backlinks http://scotstandke.com/free-plugin-to-track-your-wordpress-yahoo-backlinks http://scotstandke.com/free-plugin-to-track-your-wordpress-yahoo-backlinks#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 15:09:00 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=113 Hey there,

For those of you that use WordPress for your blogs, I have a cool plugin for you to grab today and it’s totally free, no strings attached.

My friend Paul Forcey at The Newbie Helper has been creating useful WordPress plugins for a very long time and this one is very useful.

What this plugin does is it keeps track of how many backlinks your blog has on Yahoo.

From your WordPress admin panel, you get an instant glimpse into exactly how many other websites are linking back to your blog.

There’s also a short, two minute video, that shows you how to install the plugin in a few short seconds, directly from within the admin area of your blog.

You can use this on as many of your WP blogs as you want.

Head on over and grab your Free copy of “Yahoo Backlinks” right now:

http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/free-plugin/

Enjoy!

Scot
]]> http://scotstandke.com/free-plugin-to-track-your-wordpress-yahoo-backlinks/feed 4 Using Craigslist Barter To Get Services You Need http://scotstandke.com/using-craigslist-barter-to-get-services-you-need http://scotstandke.com/using-craigslist-barter-to-get-services-you-need#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:55:13 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=107 Hey there,

Here’s a little something that looks like it has some great promise.

I placed an ad on my local CraigsList last night in the barter section, offering my local search positioning and/or basic website building in exchange for local services.

I posted the ad late last night and have already gotten some interest this morning.

One gentleman may be pouring me a new concrete slab in my driveway and the other may be providing my landscaping and lawn care service.

These are things that you would normally have to pay out of pocket, why not barter and get them for a few hours of your time?

If the driveway deal goes through, I’ll be saving around $4,000 and the website he wants built will take me very little time to build and get ranked for him in my local market.

Give it a try, you never know what you’ll find out there. A lot of folks would love your services in exchange for what they do and these would be folks that would probably never seek this type of service from you in the first place.

It really makes no difference to me whether I make $4,000 on a job or am able to save $4,000 on something I need done anyhow. Money saved is money earned in my book.

Your results may vary, depending on your local market and how you word your ad, but I got these two replies within 12 hours here.

Let me know if you try this and get any results.

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/using-craigslist-barter-to-get-services-you-need/feed 11 The Ultimate 10 Minute Video Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy http://scotstandke.com/the-ultimate-10-minute-video-guide-to-writing-powerful-advertising-and-marketing-copy http://scotstandke.com/the-ultimate-10-minute-video-guide-to-writing-powerful-advertising-and-marketing-copy#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:46:53 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=105 Admit it, we’ve all been there, no matter how long you have been copywriting, we all hit walls or writer’s block at some point in time.

I watched a video a while back from Jay Abraham that really and truly eliminated that from ever happening again in my own copywriting.

I stumbled across the video again today and bookmarked it this time, and thought I’d share it here with all of you, it’s just that good.

If you are new to copywriting, I strongly urge you to bookmark this page right now and watch this short ten minute video over and over until it sinks in.

By doing so, you will be light years ahead of many that have paid thousands for the long, dry, boring copywriting courses by some of the masters.

If you don’t have the ten minutes to watch the video right now, PLEASE bookmark it, you will thank me when you find the time to watch it!

Jay Abraham Copywriting Video

Enjoy!

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/the-ultimate-10-minute-video-guide-to-writing-powerful-advertising-and-marketing-copy/feed 0 Tony Robbins Interviews Frank Kern & John Reese http://scotstandke.com/tony-robbins-interviews-frank-kern-john-reese http://scotstandke.com/tony-robbins-interviews-frank-kern-john-reese#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:23:30 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=102 Hey gang,

A big thanks goes out to Dave Tropeano for pointing this out to me.

This is a MUST SEE video if you are struggling online, offline, in life in general.

This is the answer to get you to where you want to and think you can go in any business.

Take a half hour or so and watch and listen and let the information sink in because this is truly THE ANSWER folks!

Tony Robbins Interviews Frank Kern And John Reese

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/tony-robbins-interviews-frank-kern-john-reese/feed 0 Organize Your Desktop Once & For All http://scotstandke.com/organize-your-desktop-once-for-all http://scotstandke.com/organize-your-desktop-once-for-all#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:09:57 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=99 Hey gang,

This post has nothing at all to do with making money online, but…

It will make how you do that a heck of a lot easier and with no more clutter.

If you are like me, your PC’s desktop is a nightmare, files, folders, programs, shortcuts cluttered everywhere.

What if I told you I found a free program that will neatly organize your desktop, instantly?

Check this out!

StarDock Fences

Now if they would come up with something to clear the clutter in the rest of my office ;)

Enjoy!

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/organize-your-desktop-once-for-all/feed 15 Google Set To Introduce New Operating System http://scotstandke.com/google-set-to-introduce-new-operating-system http://scotstandke.com/google-set-to-introduce-new-operating-system#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:26:49 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=96 Hey there,

There has been a lot of talk about “Cloud or virtual  computing” lately.

Well, it seems, Google is close to unveiling it’s new Open Source OS called “Chrome”.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/google.chrome.os/index.html

I can’t wait to try something like this on the new, small, netbooks.

Your thoughts?

Do you think this will effect MicroSoft’s bottom line?

There are certainly some interesting times ahead.

Scot

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Sorry for the lengthy delay in posting here, but I’ve been buried in a new project and have not really had much to add for the past month.

I will have some amazing things coming out in the next month or two, so keep your eyes peeled ;)

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/some-big-things-in-the-making/feed 0 Google Wave – Are You Ready? http://scotstandke.com/google-wave-are-you-ready http://scotstandke.com/google-wave-are-you-ready#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:39 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=92 Hey gang,

I’ve got something to show you today that I think will completely revolutionize they way we communicate online, and I mean that seriously.

If you have not seen this yet, be prepared to be blown away.

Harry McCracken at technologizer.com says the following:

A new service which – well, it’s one of the most ambitious services that Google or anyone else has cooked up? How ambitious? Project leader Lars Rasmussen says that it began with the question “What might e-mail look like if it were invented today?” … It:

* Is a service that looks like a rich piece of client software;
* Behaves like sophisticated threaded e-mail;
* Acts like IM when multiple collaborators are online at once.
* Is one of the most real-time collaborative tools I’ve ever seen.
* Has revision marking and versioning for workgroup editing.
* Has instant photo sharing.
* Allows its functionality to be embedded into blogs and social networks;
* Can serve as a container for OpenSocial applications;
* Has what Google says is a revolutionary spell checker;
* Comes in mobile flavors for Android and iPhone;
* Is an open-source project that lets developers write both Wave extensions … and their own servers.more

This is something you need to take a serious look at right now, before it slips your mind because this is going to create some huge new waves, pardon the pun.

Here is a 2 hour developer preview Google I/O where they take you through Wave:

Google Wave Preview Video

Notice I said “developer”?

Yes, it is Open Source ;)

Let me know your thoughts on this thing, the possibilities seem endless.

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/google-wave-are-you-ready/feed 15 Microsoft About To Launch Bing Search Engine http://scotstandke.com/microsoft-about-to-launch-bing-search-engine http://scotstandke.com/microsoft-about-to-launch-bing-search-engine#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 04:37:07 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=89 Hey gang,

Have you seen or heard of the latest search engine about to be released by MicroSoft?

It’s called BING

It’s not been released yet but they do have a large group of beta testers and this preview video:

http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html

I have no idea how well this will be received in the world of search, but they did add a bunch of very useful local search tools.

I don’t know about you, but finding something locally is always a crap shoot here, let’s hope they can get rid of some of the directory type sites. Who wants to go from a search engine right to a directory?

Anyhow, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

Scot

]]> http://scotstandke.com/microsoft-about-to-launch-bing-search-engine/feed 0 Become a “GURU” for just $1.00 – Honestly! http://scotstandke.com/become-a-guru-for-just-100-honestly http://scotstandke.com/become-a-guru-for-just-100-honestly#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 00:42:47 +0000 admin http://scotstandke.com/?p=86 He there,

I’m up at my camper for the weekend and it started raining so I hopped in the Jeep and headed out to this little hole in the wall discount grocery store around here for something to do.

I love this little store because they always have a large variety of strange foods, snacks and drinks that you never see in a regular grocery store.

While my son was browsing the large selection of energy drinks they had in stock he asked me, “dad, what’s a guru”?

I did a double take and said, where did you hear that term, that’s something someone is called when they are the best at what they do, the all knowing one.

I then asked him where he heard the word and lo and behold, he handed me a 10 oz can of “Guru”.

Here’s a picture

guruWhile waiting to check out I had visions of the cashier trying to up sell me on a 12-pack of the stuff, or an auto-ship of some sort

It was warm so I had to put it into the fridge when we got back to the camper, but I plan on cracking that baby after dinner and becoming an instant “Guru”

For Only $1.00

Be on the lookout tomorrow where I espouse my new found wisdom in the form of a $4,997 coaching program WSO from a true Guru

All kidding aside, Happy Memorial Day weekend, get away from the computer, jeez I even live this stuff in the middle of nowhere lol

Scot

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