I had oodles of fun this weekend painting our deck with my husband and one of our sons. Well, let me specify, I had fun Friday and Saturday.  Sunday was alright, but Monday it wasn’t fun anymore at all. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t wait to finally be done.

It would have been nice if we had a couple of extra days to spread the job out a bit more, but unfortunately that wasn’t an option because the deck had to be finished before our first major snow stormed arrived. It started snowing last night and it’s still going strong.

So we were putting in eight hour days, getting up and down that ladder, standing on footstools or just crouching down. Oh our achy bones! This morning, admiring the fine work we had done, my husband and I looked at each other and agreed, “We will never do this again.”

Have you ever wanted to speed through a lengthy webinar replay but didn’t want to miss out on any of the information? Or have you ever followed a tutorial but wished you could slow down the video so you could apply the steps without having to pause the video? I know I have.

Well now there’s a solution. A little software called MySpeed.

MySpeed basically lets you view any flash video as slow as 3 times slower than the original speed. This is great for watching tutorial videos and following along without having to stop the video altogether.

What is a QR Code?

Okay, I admit it, until about a week or so ago I had absolutely no idea what a “QR Code” is. Let alone a QR Code Generator. But I guess it’s becoming a really big deal. This technology is already very popular overseas in Japan and Europe but it is quickly gaining popularity in the United States now also.

You may be more familiar with bar codes, the two-dimensional codes that were first seen on Wrigley’s Chewing Gum in 1974. Today you see bar codes everywhere.

Well, QR Codes are very similar. They are two-dimensional as well but instead of bars they consist of squares and rectangles.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression online. Why not make it GREAT with “web graphics?”

They say… “A picture is worth a thousand words,” so blow your audience away by creating eye-catching PowerPoints, kick-butt Webinars and/or dazzle them with videos that are out of this world.

You can do all that with this value-packed Webmaster Graphics Package.

When I heard about the prelaunch of GVO Conference and its incredible low price, I had to jump on it. This was an opportunity I did not want to miss out on.

In the past my husband and I had been using web conferencing software to do live presentations with our prospects and it worked extremely well for us averaging about 7-8 sign ups per 10 people who watched our presentation.

Lately it has almost become like a contest between my husband and me. Who can find the coolest tools and gadgets on the internet to help us in building our businesses. I have to admit, so far he is winning. He comes up with the neatest things.

His latest find, the Google Wonder Wheel. Until a couple of days ago I had no idea that it even existed. Since then I have had a lot of fun with it, just for the heck of it.

What is the Google Wonder Wheel? Its a little search engine tool that lets you drill down your search terms.

You find it in the left-hand menu of the Google search engine after you click “Show options.”

And this is how it works. Let’s say you are searching for “home business”, which is a very broad keyword. It then shows you a wheel with related search terms or keywords and key phrases. Like home business ideas, internet home business, starting a home business, work from home and so on. You can click on any of them to drill further down. It also shows you the results of your search on the right.

Let’s see what happens if we click on “work from home”. . . Cool isn’t it?!

You can just keep on drilling down from there and refine your search until you find what you are looking for.

Pretty awesome tool, huh?

Now, I am really curious. Did you know about the Google Wonder Wheel before I did?
Let me know your comments below.

See what your website or blog visitors focus their attention on or where they are zooming in at when they come to your home page or landing page.

Now that you’ve put so much time and emphasis into creating the perfect website or blog for your home business, wouldn’t it be interesting to know what exactly your visitors focus on when they get there? What do they look at first? What second? Do they even pay attention to the things you want them to pay attention too? Wouldn’t it be great to find out? My husband recently shared this very valuable business building tool with me, that lets me find out exactly what the visitors to my blog look at first, second, third, ect.

Attention Wizard is a visual attention prediction tool. A business tool, that points out the hot spots on your page. Pretty cool! It’s kind of a simulator of how the human brain works. Don’t you think it would be kind of cool to get right inside your visitors brain and guide them to the most important info on your marketing blog or business website?

I took a screenshot of my blog and ran a heatmap. It was quick and easy to do and within minutes I found out exactly what my website visitors look at first, second, third and so on.

Although I am pretty happy with the results, I wish I could zoom in their focus a bit more. But, since I am using a WordPress template that won’t be as easy to do as if I would have designed my blog from scratch. However, if you have a squeeze page or a landing page you can definitely zoom in your visitors attention right to the call of action.

I hope this free business building tool will help grow your home based or network marketing business.

Try it out and share your thoughts in the comment box below.

Twitter List Builder

Every once in awhile I come across a great tool that I just have to share with everyone. TwitterListBuilder is such a tool. It’s pretty cool too!

If you watch the video it will show you how you can easily and automatically build a list of thousands of followers with just a click of a button and 100% FREE. You activate the software by posting one simple tweet and you will automatically follow the seven people below you. And when you send people to your unique referral link they will follow you automatically too. After that, it’s just duplication, duplication, duplication.

But in my opinion that’s not even the best part about Twitter List Builder. To me the best part are the videos. I have seen Twitter tutorial videos before but these are by far the best I have ever seen. You’ll learn step-by-step how to generate traffic, leads and sales from Twitter.

You’ll also learn…

• How to Set Up My Twitter Account
• How to Create a Twitter Background Image
• How to  Add a Custom Twitter Background
• How to Get Tweeps (Followers)
• Learn about Twitter Tools like Twellow, TwitrPwr, Twitter Fox, Tweet Later, Twitter Toolbar, etc.
• How to Combine Emailing & Twitter
• How to Combine Blogging & Twitter (with Twitter Tools for Blogs…cool stuff!!)
• Twitter Traffic Tips
• …and lots more.

I highly recommend Twitter List Builder to anyone who is using Twitter, whether they are just starting out or even if they have been tweeting for a while. The information on these videos is priceless. Twitter List Builder gets a “two thumbs up!” from me.

Have fun!