John Jonas Blog» tools http://www.jonasblog.com John Jonas on Living The 4-Hour Workweek Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:24:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright 2003-2009 John Jonas John Jonas On living the 4-Hour Workweek No No A tool for making Article Resource Boxes http://www.jonasblog.com/a-tool-for-making-article-resource-boxes http://www.jonasblog.com/a-tool-for-making-article-resource-boxes#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:58:03 +0000 John http://www.jonasblog.com/?p=557 I’ve been doing article marketing for a long time.

Here’s what I always tell people:

“Article marketing is the second most effective thing you can do to market your website. Google Adwords is #1″.

I use UniqueArticleWizard to do all my article submissions. It’s by far the best tool out there.

However, up until now, it’s been difficult and confusing how to get the resource boxes correct.

That’s why I made this article resource box creator.

Use it (or have your employees use it) to get good, correct, useful resource boxes for your articles.

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So, this video is a bit longer than I said yesterday was acceptable, but I think you’ll find it interesting. If not, you can always watch it at 2x normal speed!

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I met Matt at Wordcamp Utah back in September.

Here’s where you can find Jeff’s outsourcing workshop and his monthly outsourcing coaching as well as his free ebook on outsourcing.

The websites I show in this are:

My point of this is to help you realize that you can make wordpress do anything. I think it’s worth spending a few hours of your time looking at the wordpress plugins, wordpress themes, and looking at the options inside your wordpress website and configuring it to do the things you want it to do. I think that time will pay off over and over again over the years as you use WordPress to build different websites. It’s amazing how much easier your business becomes when you know you can make your website do whatever you want without having a webmaster or a programmer to do it.

]]> http://www.jonasblog.com/tools-i-use-wordpress/feed 297 Tools I use: Speed up online videos http://www.jonasblog.com/speed-up-online-videos http://www.jonasblog.com/speed-up-online-videos#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:25:45 +0000 John http://www.jonasblog.com/?p=468 You know how people have been creating these 45 minute marketing videos recently.

No more!

speed up online video

Install, watch video, make it play faster.

Who knows why people think a 30 minute video of just them talking is appropriate.

You get 10 minutes…MAX…to hold someone’s attention.

UPDATE (11/14/2008): I’m totally addicted. I love that I can watch/listen to an online video in 2x speed. It cuts through all the crap so much faster.

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It makes your home (or work, or media) computer always accessable. It’s convenient. It makes getting a new adwords account possible. It makes it easy to give an employee (maybe one in the Philippines) access to your softwares so they can do your work for you.

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Here are 4 tools I use in my business to connect to other computers and share screens.

The 4 tools are:

Please post other tools you use and/or questions in the comments.

I didn’t talk about VNC just because it’s a bit more complicated. It’s still a great tool.

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But sometimes it’s necessary. So here you go.

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Audacity is a great free audio editing tool. You can use it to edit or record mp3′s or just about any other audio file you have.

The reason I show how to use a tool like this is because I think it’s important to know the basics of editing so that you’re not always dependent on other people. Obviously my video isn’t a full tutorial on how to use Audacity, but you can find one here.

You can find audacity here.

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It makes any computer job, whether it’s an online business or not, easier.

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Jing allows you to easily and quickly capture images or video on your computer screen and then to share it. The 3 best parts of it are:

  • There’s not software to start up when you want to use it. It’s already started.
  • It makes it a total no brainer to upload it to the internet. You don’t have to do anything.
  • It makes it even an easier no brainer to share the capture. All you have to do is paste (you don’t even have to copy!)

Thanks Techsmith! for this amazingly useful piece of software.
Download Jing Here

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I realized recently that I use a lot of tools that make running my business online a lot easier.

Lots of people don’t know what these tools are, so I’m going to start a series on my blog about tools I use, how I use them, and why.

I’m making this post so that I can link to all the other posts from it.

Tools I Use To Run My Internet Business