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This even works with iPhones and iPads.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Prospects And Customers Need Systems That Work

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Systems are wonderful when they work, when the people responsible for them maintain them. But when systems become barriers to customer interaction, they fail as being anything of value to a customer, leaving angry, dissatisfied customers.

This can be avoided quite simply. More in the podcast.

Use Your Talents And Balance The World

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Inside of YOU is where the gold is. 

There is plenty of noise and distraction in the world. Many things want your attention.

Paying attention to yourself, your inner YOU, is your best defense against the derailing onslaught of external expectations and distractions. 

The more you pay attention to your inside matters, the less need there is to pay attention to outside concerns as a source of direction.

You’ll see this happen. Because as you DO something, instead of figuring out what you are supposed to be doing, your results, your ideas, your plans, your work, change. They change for the better. No longer based on “figuring”, but on actual experience, your progress is noticeable and actual…not something you are going to do but something you’ve done. 

More inside this podcast. 

Opportunities In Video Marketing Still Exist

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Large companies use videos but those videos are not indexed on Google, Yahoo or Bing.

YouTube gets billions of views yet most major companies are not yet there.

This means opportunity for you.

Three quarters of the top 50 Internet retailers have no video presence on Google.

Start with this free report on http://www.sundaysky.com/resources/download-q210-report.html and see what you can do. More info in the podcast of course.

Simple Static Websites At Amazon Web Services

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Amazon Web services has a new feature, that allows you to create simple static websites. They don’t call it by that name, because they don’t talk that way.

Now, when you create a bucket, you can put a default file in there, that will show when somebody types in the bucket name.

What this means for Internet marketers, is that they can create simple static websites. Create a bucket that’s named the same as your domain name, put in an index.html file and you’re ready to go.

This works especially well if you are already hosting audio or video at Amazon. Because now, with a simple one page site at the same place your audio and video already is, it makes that type of website much easier to create and maintain.

How To Know What To Do

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Is there a right way? People say there is. Sadly, these right ways have not worked for me.

What has worked, is doing my best and listening to myself. Doing a little bit at a time, taking it easy at other times, eventually things come together.

Fast and easy video creation using an iPhone and YouTube.

Producing content quickly and with as little effort as possible is what this video is about.

I mentioned an iPhone video editing app in the video, but that took too long use. Putting in a title takes too much time/power on the iPhone as the entire file needs to render. Using YouTube annotations (later, via a computer) is probably the better easy way to accomplish watermarking or titling your video.

I’m still figuring out the fasted/easiest way to get either the YouTube link or embed code onto my Tumblr blog when using the Tumblr iPhone app. With a computer, it is easy and obvious what to do, using a phone requires some fancier footwork that I haven’t fully developed yet. But I’ll let you know…

How To Exercise Your Improvisational Muscles

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Listen to me wing it with total improvisation. I did this podcast as an exercise to uncover directions and barriers within myself. And to demonstrate how to create something when you have no notes, no ideas; where you just go and do something come what may.

“Control” Doesn’t Always Work

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Some days spin out of control. Is that a bad thing? Not always. This podcast touches on some of the good points of letting it all go.