The Iron Marketer

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Hotmail and innovation: Those two words haven’t been used in the same sentence for years.

But when Microsoft launches an update to the online mail service (officially known as Windows Live Hotmail) sometime this summer, it’ll include some features that are genuinely innovative, well-thought-out and useful.

As with Bing, it feels like Microsoft hasn’t been content just to copy popular traits from its rivals, but find compelling new ways for people to interact with e-mail.

I got a chance to play with the new service early and here are a few of my highlights:

1. New Inbox Views

These automatically generated filters help you find what really interests you in your Inbox.

The most useful is probably… Read more of 5 Reasons Why the NEW Hotmail is Cool

I think Google Buzz allows you to make way more meaningful connections with people as opposed to something like Twitter where you’re just getting “followers” who aren’t really paying attention (how can they when the dashboard is always full of posts and the posts are limited to 140 characters.) Not to mention most of these followers were likely generated / auto-followed by Bots anyway!

Don’t get me wrong, reading about what you ate for lunch or other random thoughts are cool in some respects, but if you want to make better connections and share content and engage your audience in a more meaningful way, I think Buzz is the way to go – nevermind the amazing interface with gmail, google reader, google wave and integration with your mobile device… Read more of Thoughts on Google Buzz?

Google Buzz: What, Where, When, Why and How

So with the plethora of social media sites and mounds of garbage that is coming out trying to monetize those sources, it’s hard to separate the good and the bad. How many “followers” do you have in Twitter? Do they even care what you’re saying? There’s a definite difference between a “follower” and a friend. All this stuff can be automated and all these folks with tens of thousands of followers got those because of some piece of software – not from creating REAL relationships with them. THAT is where the value is in your follower list.

This is where Google Buzz comes in – it allows you to really filter the noise and only get exposed to people… Read more of Google Buzz - Is This the Next New Thing? | 1 Comment

My buddy Ryan Deiss’ Facebook Ad Power is
the #1 traffic training in the World right now and
tomorrow he is shutting it down.

Why?

Ryan told me that he simply doesn’t want too
many people to ruin his best traffic honey hole.

Here is a link to his video (if it’s still up)

The free video alone is nothing short of eye
opening and a great lesson in video marketing.

Ryan explains SO many ways Facebook is better
than Google, you’ll be shocked.

Click the link below to watch now

FACEBOOK MARKETING!

Do in NOW or that’s all she wrote

-… Read more of Facebook Marketing - Yay or Nay?

It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
– President… Read more of High Achievement