First:
I’m making my entire marketing team available to help your business. If you’ve got an existing business and you need a website makeover or help with your marketing… they can help you! These are the same people who work on my sites & they’d like to help you with any aspect of online marketing & site design:

Call 1-877-797-6825 to learn more about how they can help you.
or visit:
http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com

Second:
My live show is TONIGHT at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time! I’ll be handing out an iPad on tonight’s show so you should really tune in:

http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/forum/forum/addonchat.php
(If you’re not a member yet, just click the link & sign up… it only takes a minute)

If you didn’t join the contest to win the iPad now’s your last chance. I’ve even doubled the points until we award the contest tonight! Now’s your last chance to get some bonus points into the contest (or to join the contest before it’s over).

So go right now to promote your word of mouth contest links on Twitter, Facebook & Google Buzz for double points. Just for hitting the “like” button on Facebook & using our FaceBook App you’ll also get double points!

Get your contest links here for the last chance to get bonus entries to win the iPad:

http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com/contest

You can then check your contest standings here:

http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com/viral-online-contest-standings

Don’t forget… this is not a contest where the number 1 winner gets the prize. This is a random drawing and the more points you earn the better your chances are to win. You have until April 27th during my live show to get points. So the more you talk about the contest online the greater the odds are you’ll win… So what are you doing reading this? Get started already!

All the best,

Bill McIntosh
http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com
1-877-797-6825

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To make it worth your while… I’m DOUBLING all contest points for the last 2 days of the contest!

So go right now to promote your word of mouth contest links on Twitter, Facebook & Google Buzz for double points. Just for hitting the “like” button on Facebook & using our FaceBook App you’ll also get double points!

Get your contest links here for the last chance to get bonus entries to win the iPad:

http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com/contest

You can then check your contest standings here:

http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com/viral-online-contest-standings

Don’t forget… this is not a contest where the number 1 winner gets the prize. This is a random drawing and the more points you earn the better your chances are to win. You have until April 27th during my live show to get points. So the more you talk about the contest online the greater the odds are you’ll win… So what are you doing reading this? Get started already!

All the best,

Bill McIntosh
http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com
1-877-797-6825

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Yesterday was a BIG day for Google. And for social networking. I went over it in my live show at BusinessInnerCircle.com, as well. But I wanted to make sure and post it here so everyone knows.

Google released their newest product called “Buzz” yesterday. Essentially, it’s a social network which links your twitter feed, your youtube videos, your flickr pics, and all other social networks that Google can figure out that are connected with you…all to your gmail.

So now in your gmail, you’ll see a real-time feed of your friends’ posts on their connected social networks and your own. You can post directly from your gmail homepage, add links and pics and it goes into the feeds of all your Buzz friends instantly. The more connected sites and friends you add, the more feed data you will have, and the more people will see what YOU’RE talking about as well.

According to the very first link I saw from an internet geekstar in my feed when I signed up today, “Facebook has just lost half of its value.” I don’t know how true that is, but Google Buzz certainly has potential to be THE go-to place for all of my social media activities. Because if I can do it all from one place, why not?

Only question I have at the moment is how Google plans to allow me to link to my other sites which it didn’t automatically find for me. There are many that it didn’t even see. So I’m trying to figure that out at the moment, and I’ll keep you posted with the results.

Meanwhile, here’s the link to Google Buzz so you can check it out for yourself.

And if you want to stay up-to-date on other breaking news in the internet marketing industry, stop by my live show @ BusinessInnerCircle.com every Tuesday night @ 6:30 pm PST!

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1. The best Twitter app
2. How long I’ve been blogging
3. Good keyword tools
4. Tools to submit sitemaps
5. Good pay-per-lead programs

For answers to these questions, watch the clip. And stop by tonight to get your own specific questions answered.

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Backupify is an online backup tool that backs up your social data, blog posts, pictures, etc. from your WordPress blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and many other social networking sites. Until the 31st of January it’s FREE. So if this is something you are interested in, you only have 2 days to get it for free. I’m not an affiliate for them, and this isn’t a product I own or sponsor in any way. I just thought it was cool, and I like to promote helpful tools to my friends and fans.

Cheers!

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Previously when users visted the Twitter site they were presented with an image stating that the site had been hacked as some sort of protest over Iran.  The hackers also provided the email address: iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com as a means of contacting them. This image began appearing 6 a.m. GMT today.

Can you access Twitter from your area? Or is it down for you too? Drop me a comment and let me know…

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There are numerous companies who create URL shortener tools. These are tools that take a long url and shorten it so that it fits into a character-limited field like Twitter or a status field in one of your other social networks. They help ensure that your social network messages don’t get cut off, give you more space to say what you want to say, make it easier to forward, share, retweet, etc. without cutting off bits of the long url.

So why would Google create their own URL shortener? Well, if you wanted to know what social media users were talking about, so as to create products and services that are aligned with current trends, what would YOU do? Most likely you’d do everything that Google does.

Without further ado, here’s a clip from the live show demonstrating Google’s URL shortener and all its features inside the Google Toolbar.

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Today at 3PM Pacific / 6PM Eastern (and various other times around the world) I’ll be doing my first annual reverse birthday LIVE show where I give you all the presents. Since I’m now turning 21 years old (What’s the matter? Don’t believe that?) I decided what better day to end the contest and hand out the prizes!

So act fast! Go forth and Tweet, Facebook & Youtube your contest links for ye only have hours left to go!

Comment, rate, subscribe these videos for bonus points:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIElRVj3NYM
&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JRqpxsSoY

(You should post a video response to those & you’ll get a whopping 25 bonus entries!)

Here’s a quick link to enter the contest if you haven’t already. It will send you to a page where you can do 1-click posting to Twitter, Facebook & dozens of other sites:

http://www.contestburner.com

You can also just send any Tweet on Twitter & just use the @contestburner reply or use the contestburner.com domain in any link and you’ll get bonus points for every Tweet.

The other way to earn bonus points is by commenting on the Comment Burner blog. Feel free to comment & earn yourself some points right now:

http://www.contestburner.com/category/contest-burner-news/

Thanks for taking part in the contest.

Good Luck!

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Tonight’s live show at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. (drop in early, I’m going to try and fire up the show early and socialize a bit before we start the “official” show) Tune in, stop by & say hi:

http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/forum/forum/addonchat.php
(If you’re not a member yet, just click the link & sign up… it only takes a minute)

I look forward to seeing you there!

All the best,
Bill McIntosh
http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live
Follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/billmcintosh

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I’m also awarding the prizes from the $5,000 ContestBurner Viral Marketing Contest. If you haven’t seen it yet, ContestBurner is a WordPress Plugin & Twitter App rolled into one. It runs right from within any WordPress blog and puts you in total control of your own viral Twitter contests. If you have a blog, you can have a contest running in just minutes. I’ll be talking about this tonight on my show & giving away $5,000 in prizes live tonight.

You don’t have to wait for the show to download the plugin. You can download the “lite” version right here:

ContestBurner WordPress Plugin Download Information

Then tonight, tune in to my live show at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern: I’ll tell you how to get the premium version without having to spend a dime! Plus I’m giving out those prizes:
http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

Don’t miss out on this amazing tool. You’ll be able to run very cool contests right from your own site and send a huge flood of new website traffic. (not to mention a shot at all the prizes in the contest!)

Let me know what you think about this new Twitter tool by dropping a comment on the post here.

All the best,
Bill McIntosh
http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live
Follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/billmcintosh

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