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How YOU can get the most from your Membership! A Message from Tink! Click on the Button to listen. Be sure you have the Audio turned on!   Click HERE to read the Message!

Blogging for Wholesalers & Designers - Part 2 Tackling Technorati!    Blogging for Wholesalers & Designers - Part 2 Tink's Blogging Cheat Sheet    Blogging for Wholesalers & Designers - Part 1 The first Part of  a multi-part series explains WHY you need to Blog. Information on HOW will be coming soon!   Favicons - Small but Mighty! What is a FavIcon and why should you consider adding one to your site?   Email Issues for  Designers & Wholesalers - Part 1 Email Issues for Designers/Wholesalers - Part 1 *Email Issues for Wholesalers, Online and Offline* is a multi-part series, and is an important one to anyone using email as a Marketing device, in ANY way! In this series, the 2 Mail Categories of Wholesaler Email are described and explained. The first Category to be addressed in this series is *Informative/Marketing emails sent by a Designer/Wholesaler*.    Survival Skills The first installment for a multi-part web course, with more to come in the future!   Time Management     Impact Web Audio - Basic Edition Right now, I am classifying this issue as a Two Mouse topic... I expect that within a year it will be a Three Mouser! This software is available at a Special MEMBERS ONLY price! To help you get off to a QUICK start, when adding Audio to your website, I am offering TWO GREAT products... FOR ONE GREAT PRICE!   Impact Web Audio, so that you can add Streaming Audio quickly and efficiently, along with a choice of Control Button styles! AND...   Louis Allport's *Easy to Understand * AUDIO MASTERY Video Course, showing you how to use the FREE Audio editing program, Audacity! The Basic version of Impact Web Audio and the Pro upgrade give you a leg up on the competition and allows you to experiment with adding Audio to your site with a very short and gentle learning curve. In addition, with Impact Web Audio, it is easy to put more than one Audio message on a page. Many of the current, more expensive and sophisticated solutions that are currently available won't support this option! Multimedia is coming fast and the technology can be overwhelming. I have been researching and working on this for the last year... Impact Web Audio is a brand NEW software solution that offer the chance to play in the wading pool before diving in the deep end! I have added a page of Tips and Tricks and would be happy to create a Tutorial, if there is enough interest.

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How YOU can get the most from your Membership

I have been spending a LOT of time trying to figure out the best way to help all of you use the resources of this membership site and to guide you into taking action...

We sometimes let ourselves feel a sense of 'doing something' because we "bought the book", signed up for the class, or  joined the membership site *smile*.

There are a couple of things that get glossed over or over-looked completely all too often though when people talk about 'taking action'.

One thing is people think it takes massive action.

Hey, it helps, but all those old sayings about taking things step by step can't be all wrong.

What it does take is CONSISTENT ACTION.

It was the challenge of *taking action* that I was puzzling over... and as I did so, I realized some very significant things. ;-)

   One of the greatest challenges that keeps most people from reaching success is their inability/reluctance/failure to *Take Action*

   I decided that what I actually need to do is to provide a framework which will enable yyou to efficiently utilize the resources (and the future resources) that are provided here.

   At this point, the actions to be taken fall under four major topics:
(and yes, there will be some overlap between topics! *smile)

1) Creating a Web Site (for those of you who don't yet have one)

2) Promoting Your Site

3) Site Traffic Issues (including Email Issues)

4) Improving Your Site

It may be that as we advance, it will make sense to add to this list, but for right now, four is more than enough! *VeryBigGrin*!

I have also decided that the best place to implement this strategy is within our Private Yahoo Group.

Tink

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Thanks to your interest, I now have the NEWEST audio software available for you. Impact Web Audio - Basic Edition was released just a few weeks ago and I bought it immediately.

I was able to have my first message up and running in an hour... and the first time is the longest.

This time I was able to do it in about 30 minutes, including writing the message! WOW!

I have included a page of Tips and Tricks to help you! You can see it all by checking out the vertical navigation bar on the right side of the screen or by looking at the Site Map.

This is a GREAT tool to reach your web visitors in a very personal way... and you can do it quickly!

I have added a new category on the Forum which will be devoted to discussing the multimedia options available now. It is called *Bells and Whistles*

If anyone needs a tutorial on Impact Web Audio, please mention it in the Forum under *Bells and Whistles*

As we gear up, I hope that you will make it a point to check in regularly.

Also, consider spending time in the Forum. It provides a great way for us to interact and get to know each other.

Sharing the Road to Success!

Tink