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Below is a an update I added to the news feed inside the partners portal, in reference to a post I did about a specific feature/function we are going to add to the apps.

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In the previous post I referenced a section of one of Trey’s launch videos which was on YouTube, and if you clicked the play button you would have noticed it started playing at the 7min 21 second mark… pretty cool, eh ?

Some of you probably already know how to ‘link to’ a YouTube video and make it start playing a specific time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8yJ0C462U#t=7m21s

The “#t=7m21s” takes you straight to 7 minutes and 21 seconds in a video.

… but how do you do it on an embedded video ??

Well, we need to use the “start” parameter. Note that start takes seconds as a parameter, not minutes and seconds separately.

For example, to start this embedded video at 7 minutes and 21 seconds into a video, 7*60+21 = 441 seconds, so you would use this code:

&start=441“>&start=441” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”640″ height=”390″>

… and it will play like:

Kinda cool and very handy…

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2011 Preneur Marketing Awards

Pete Williams — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:49:27 +0000

Links To All The Nominees

Software:
- OmniFocus
- MindNode
- SimplyNote + Notational Velocity
- DropBox
- OptimizePress

RSS Feeds:
- Four Hour Blog
- Google Webmaster
- Texts From Last Night
- You Look Nice Today
- Small Business Big Marketing

Best Resource / Product
- Screencasts Online
- Challenge Plus
- Video Boss
- Michel Thomas Method™

Best Documentary
- Tales from the Script
- Art & Copy: Inside Advertising’s Creative Revolution
- Food, Inc.
- The Social Network

Best Technology
- Apple’s iPad
- Creative Labs Vado HD Pocket Video Camcorder 3rd Generation
- Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone
- Hot Diggity Dogger Hot-Dog Maker

Best Book
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

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How’s the Timing…

Pete Williams — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:56:39 +0000

Speaking of software:
http://www.preneurmarketing.com/SoftwareSystem.

For those of you saw my post the other day about ‘My Crazy Idea‘,
you’ll want to check this out as well.

It talks about why software is the most profitable business and why it’s so easy to sell!!
http://www.preneurmarketing.com/SoftwareSystem

Enjoy,
Pete

p.s. I also think I’ve worked out how I’m going to make that ‘crazy idea’ work … I’ll let you know in a day or 3.

p.p.s. In the meantime make sure you check out Trey’s video.

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AdPack iPhone App

Pete Williams — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:02:10 +0000

You’ll Never Be Stuck Developing Ideas To Promote Your Business Again.

The lateral thinking process built into AdPack offers you a process to develop 120,000+ business marketing ideas.

The cards contain proven techniques including pros, cons and suggestions that are current and relevant in today’s business – techniques that many small, local and national businesses use successfully every day.

Simply click START and you’ll be presented with three AdPack strategy cards that makes brainstorming ideas for advertising easy, quick and fun. Double click on the card to get more details on that technique.

Just shake your iPhone to be presented with new combinations; Ideas you may never have contemplated. Ideas that will set you apart from your competitors. Ideas that will increase your sales and generate more profit.

The 150 “trigger cards” are divided into three sections – Media, Offer and Power Words.

The Media Cards show you what vehicles you can use to promote your business. Just tap on the card and you’ll find valuable pros, cons, hints and tips to get the most out of each media.

The Offer Cards help you develop powerful offers to draw people into your business.

And the Power Word Cards are 50 of the most powerful words in marketing when used in a headline or body text.

There is no other product on the market (let alone as an iPhone app you can have with you at all times) that helps you develop fast, cost effective advertising and marketing solutions like AdPack.

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StyleLife iPhone App with Neil Strauss

Pete Williams — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:32:12 +0000

Hey Gang…

Our latest iPhone Application is now live in the Apple iTunes App Store – it’s a project we did with the author of the New York Times Bestseller, ‘The Game’ – Neil Strauss (alias Style) who was named the World’s Greatest Pick Up Artist.

StyleLife is the first iPhone app from Neils academy for dating, pick-up and attraction – StyleLife Academy.

We’ve assembled some of the most successful openers, pebbles and attraction lines in this ‘swipe-file’ style iPhone Application.

Simply open the app in a bar, club or mall and you are presented a selection of great PUA style openers that you can use in your approach… You no longer have to do what Neil once did when he was learning the game- pulling out bits of folded up notepaper in the club.

In version 1.0 of the StyleLife App, along with all the swipe file content, you can have the opener appear on your phone as a ‘Fake SMS’, so if you’re out sarging by yourself, you can approach someone and start a conversation by asking for ‘help responding to the sms’… Plus, there is a series of video tips direct from Neil Strauss himself, to help you refine your game.

We’ve also got some really cool functionality planned for future updates including; global voting on the best lines, ability to add your own openers to the database, along with the ability to update/purchase additional openers direct from Neil and the team.

The StyleLife iPhone App is available here – http://www.StyleLifeApp.com.

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Advertising Ideas That Really Work! [AdPack]

Pete Williams — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:56:34 +0000

Have you ever been frustrated at the amount of money you spend on advertising that just doesn’t work?

Are you stuck for ideas on how to promote your business?

With all these questions, does this post sound like an infomercial ?

Either way, Adpack is an amazingly simple solution, developed by an Aussie to help small business owners advertise and promote their business. It’s and awesome brainstorming tool that I’ve been using for a few years to generate up to 125,000 ways to successfully promote and market a business fast.

As the video points out, Adpack is a system of strategy cards that helps you create many successful and exciting advertising campaigns. The cards contain proven techniques including pros, cons and suggestions that are current and relevant in today’s economy – techniques that many small, local and national businesses use successfully every day.

How does Adpack work?
Adpack is made up of 150 ‘trigger’ cards. Each of these cards combine to help you create your own incredible marketing and advertising ideas for your business. Ideas most people wouldn’t even consider. Ideas that are used successfully by large and small businesses right across the world - including mine.

There is no other product on the market that helps you develop fast, cost effective advertising and marketing solutions like Adpack.

Do I need to be familiar with marketing and advertising concepts to use Adpack?

Not at all…. Anyone can use Adpack regardless of previous advertising experience. That’s the beauty of Adpack.

What media will Adpack work for?

Adpack incorporates strategies for ALL major media including radio, TV, newspaper billboards and the Internet – but Adpack does so much more. Adpack helps you develop strategy that incorporates many not-so-obvious areas, such as joint marketing, loyalty programs, seminars, trade exchanges and so on.

Do I need to spend any more money on Adpack after I have bought the package?

No – There is no forced continuity or anything… Adpack is fully self contained and has all the material you need to develop your own successful advertising campaigns.

Can I afford it?

AdPack costs less than a 1 or 2 hour coaching session with me, and less than the cost of a ‘one-of’ ad in the paper – but with enormous returns.

It only takes ONE idea to recoup your investment. Adpack gives you 125,000. And it’s totally RISK FREE. If you don’t agree within 30 days, just send it back for a full refund.

Who should buy Adpack?

Adpack is ideal for any business that spends money on advertising: business owners, marketing professionals, business coaches, accountants, trainers, teachers and students.

How do I buy Adpack?

Adpack can be purchased online at their website.

(Yes, this is an affiliate link, but I only make like $40 per sale, so I ain’t recommending this for the pesos. If you don’t want to shout me a drink, you can visit their site at www.adpack.com.)

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The Best Mac Software for Productivity & Getting Things Done.

Pete Williams — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:03:49 +0000

This blog post is a culmination of a few events of late…

Firstly, my good pal Brent Hodgson has seen the light and made the jump from PC to Mac. (come to think of it Brent ‘kinda’ looks a little like the MAC guy).

Secondly, I’ve implemented a few changes in the way I manage my time and the way I get things done… which has resulted in some amazing results… and these changes have primarily come from threes sources: David Allen’s book ‘Getting Things Done’, Eben Pagan’s ‘Wake up Productive‘ Course and the book ‘Power Of Full Engagement’

And thirdly it’s largely thanks to some MAC software I am using to implement the ‘lessons and actions’ drawn from the above resources, that’s resulted in my ability to get more done, and I wanted to share some those Mac programs with everyone.

So here is my list of the top productivity tools and Mac Software for getting things done.

1.MailTags

Apple’s Mail application offers some pretty powerful tools for organizing your email, but it could do so much more….

Que Drumroll.

And thanks to indev software’s MailTags, it does. MailTags is a plug-in for MacMail that lets users attach metadata (multiple tags) to messages, which can be anything you want: Your own custom keywords, project names, or anything else you can think of to help organize your email and your life… I use tags such as @reply @discuss @phone @pay @dispatch, to donate the action I need to do regarding the particular email.

…and if you want to add notes to an email, that’s not a problem. MailTags adds a notes field to each message which I find invaluable, and those notes can even replace the subject line in the summary section of Mail..

Once you start adding your own tags to messages, you’ll want to take advantage of Mail’s Smart Mailbox feature. The keyword data MailTags adds to your messages is fully searchable, so it’s easy to create smart-mailboxes that automatically fill with just the messages you need… For example you can create a ‘@Phone’ mailbox (or simply use the search function) to only include/show the emails that require a follow-up phone call allowing you to dedicate uniterupted blocks of time to particular actions.

You can even set priorities for messages, and even set due dates for responding (which appear in iCal and your iPhone as To Do items ). This can be really helpful when you get a message you donâ€™t want to reply to right away, but you know you need to handle by, say, next Tuesday.

All in all, it’s been such a powerful tool for getting my inbox organized and under control.

You can find MailTags at http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html

2. AudioBook Format on iTunes & iPods

Cookies are to the CookieMonster, what AudioBooks are to Me… Even to the point, where Fleur (my girlfriend who doesn’t have an entrepreneurial bone in her body) is ‘forced’ to fall asleep a couple of nights a week to some type of business recording or podcast.

And something I have been doing at lately, is listening to my audiobooks at double speed… I can get through content in half the time without any loss in comprehension – Studies show the average person speaks 125-150 words per minute yet you can comprehend up to 600 + words per-minute.

I do a lot of my listening to business audio visa my iPod, which has the feature of playing audiobooks at a ‘faster speed‘

The catch is that you can only increase the speed of audiobooks, and until recently it was almost impossible to convert a standard mp3 audio file or ‘music track’ to an audiobook inside iTunes.

But, with the release of iTunes 8 you can now quickly and easily tag any file in your iTunes library as an audiobook and move it into the Audiobooks section of iTunes and your iPod.

Just right-click a track and select Get Info, head to the Options tab, and then select Audiobook from the Media Kind drop-down menu. The file will instantly leave your Music library and head straight for your Audiobook library, where you can listen at twice the speed. The only remaining step is to tick the Remember Position checkbox if you haven’t already, and your tracks should now have easily found their way to your Audiobooks section, and even better, they should work like an audiobook.

As a side note, if anyone knows of a program, or wants to create a program, for the mac that will replicate http://www.fasteraudio.com/vip/index.php please let me know.

3. Evernote

It took me awhile to really ‘GET’ the benefits of Evernote, but now I am experiencing the same feeling that Britney Spears would be… “what the hell was I thinking”

Evernote boasts a variety of features that make it a super-cool application, including automatic synchronization between your computer, the web and your other devices such as iPhones, tagging and sorting features, an online client that makes it accessible from anywhere via the web, and a search feature that can even search text stored within images.

The one thing that I have found Evernote great for is an always-accessible idea file… As ‘LifeHacker’ points out “It can be hard to think of new ideas constantly, and when you do come up with one, it tends to happen in a very strange, awkward spot. Evernote means that youâ€™ll almost never be caught without a way to capture it and compile an idea file – once that list starts filling up youâ€™ll never be short on something to write about.”

And it’s because of Evernote I have really been able to start pumping out blog posts again… Ever time I get an idea for a post, I simply create a new ‘note’ inside Evernote and then as inspiration hits (no matter where I am) I can add to the notes stored inside Evernote – via my laptop, and internet cafe or iPhone.

You can find Evernote at http://evernote.com/

4. Things

Things is a task management applications based on the Getting Things Done process created by David Allen.

I am in the process of putting together a longer blog post on the ‘GTD’ process, which will be up in a day or two…

… but for now, the main premise of GTD and Things, is organizing all the ‘tasks’ that need to ‘actioned’ in order to complete a project.

The software has been built entirely around the GTD model and has an ‘inbox’ where you can do regular brain dumps of everything you need to do… You can then organize and sort these actions into their relevant project.

And give these ‘actions’ a context in the same manner as mentioned in MailTags: @Phone for a phone call action, @Online for a action I need the internet for, @Pay for an action that requires me to pay something etc etc etc

This then allows you to focus solely on the ‘next action’ that you must do to move your project forward… and it’s the focus on ‘cumulative actions‘ rather then ‘goals’ and the ability to easily focus solid blocks of time on a particular context, that has really changed my approach to time management.

You can find Things at: http://www.culturedcode.com/things/

5. QuickSilver

Now Quicksilver is something I haven’t quite mastered (or really looked into yet), but it’s a tool that is very widely spoken about and used… so I thought I should atleast mention it here.

I should really read Merlin Manns guide ‘Quicksilver: Grab a copy and play along at home‘ but if I can’t listen to it as an audiobook at 2x speed I won’t get to it soon.

Can someone please ‘pitch’ this too me and tell me why I should be using Quicksilver.

And while you’re at it… What other Mac Software do you use to ‘Get Things Done’ & Be More Productive?”

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