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[Webinar Replay] Hurray for second chances!
I’m not sure if you had a chance to check out the replay to Danny Iny’s blockbuster FREE training webinar, but if not, you’ll have to get on it right away.
>>> LAST CHANCE (JAN. 25TH at MIDNIGHT) - Course Builder’s Laboratory - The proven new system for creating and launching profitable blockbuster products with repeatable and reliable results.
The value Danny provided on this training was absolutely off the charts.
No fluff. No filler.
Just the proven, reliable, and repeatable strategies you can implement right now in your business to launch massively successful products while minimizing risk and maximizing profits.
And since the material he was revealing on this webinar had previously only been shown to closed-door consulting clients and high-ticket coaching groups, needless to say, they were less than thrilled to have it “out in the open”.
So if you want free access to what people have paid thousands to learn, then you’ll need to grab it here within the next few hours.
And… don’t be a dummy like me, and make sure to watch till the VERY end where Danny reveals how you can get access to a bonus worth an additional $10,000. Yeah… it’s crazy good. 😉
Search
Google’s John Mueller: building high quality links sounds like building unnatural links. I suppose no link building is the new link building…
Google posts idiot-proof instructions ‘for all the Google Search-loving Firefox fans’ out there on how to dump Yahoo search. Considering Firefox seems to reset your settings back to Yahoo search with every update, you might want to remember this.
Google released Chrome 40 for iOS with Material Design, support for bigger phones, and more.
Social Media
Apparently, Facebook News Feed is now showing fewer hoaxes.
New Deloitte Report says Facebook 1.35 billion users have $227 billion global economic impact.
Twitter now officially uses Bing Translator so you can read Tweets in multiple languages.
You can now use Cortana to launch a new tweet in the Twitter app for Windows Phone.
Pinterest continues to tweak the site to lure the other (generally slower… lol) half of the population - men. It rolled out personalized search results where gender is factored into the results. Quite fascinating…
The ad-free Ello said Hello to videos and music — with ads? I suppose it’s hard to escape the ad-driven reality of our lives, huh?
Now onto news about Google+ ads: +Post Ads (social lightbox ads) now include polls, and your related posts in the ad.
Unprecedented: The White House published the entire State of the Union speech on Medium.com before the speech was delivered. Time to look into Medium for business?
Speaking of SOTU, here’s what Obama’s State of the Union address means for the tech industry - in a nutshell and minus applause.
Congrats, you now have the ability to use WhatsApp on your web browser. Unless you are a Mac user, of course - ‘due to Apple platform limitations.’
And by the way, if you’ve recently been banned by WhatsApp app, you must have installed a 3rd-party version of WhatsApp client, like WhatsAppMD or Whatsapp PLUS.
Twitter Digits, the company’s login product that works with a phone number, is now available for the web.
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Marketing This & That
Breaking: it appears that Google has reached a deal with Sprint to sell wireless service!
The future is here: during its Windows 10 event this week, Microsoft revealed the HoloLens augmented-reality headset and the Windows Holographic platform. It’s incredible. Just watch this video. And here’s what else Microsoft announced at the event.
Windows 10 is now available to the Windows Insider Program, aka the guinea pig pool. Test away! If, however, you prefer to sit back and watch, check out this video for a demonstration of the Office universal apps for Windows 10 on a tablet.
U-n-believable… Hacker’s List is a new service that offers to connect customers and “professional” hackers for hire.
SkyMall magazine has delighted bored airline passengers since 1990, and now its glory days are over as the industry giant declares bankruptcy. Makes me sad…
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SLIGHTLY SLOWER half of the population. Heyyy… I resemble that remark.
Plus, I only just got it 😉
I am so excited by Danny Iny’s course. I did watch the webinar and stuck around for the bonus… won’t give that away here because, you know. Spoilers.
But the idea of making a product that’s the minimum version of itself… just something that’s quick and dirty and solves a hungry target customer’s problem RIGHT MEOW (instead of when the “perfect” product comes out…) is fabulous.
Danny talks about getting feedback from those first-in-liners… to
1) find out what else they need to see improved, both for themselves and for future customers and
2) to garner a few early testimonials for the sale of the re-iterated product!
This process really rings true for me. I didn’t have access to Danny’s course back then, but fell into the process, which is exactly what enabled me to create my first product in 2002.
Since then it’s had TWELVE iterations, and gotten sold in 38 countries.
From what I heard on the webinar, Danny has this process WIRED. I highly recommend following the steps he outlines because even the process ITSELF has been through a number of iterations under Danny’s watch and he’s the voice for these principles now.
Ana, thanks again for what you do here in this space. The Skinnies are where I go to BEGIN my reading list for the week, which I rarely finish 🙂 but which help me stay abreast of the most helpful news to marketers.
And thanks for promoting only products and people that YOU truly believe in and want to align the TGC message with. I’m raving about Danny Iny’s course because it’s exactly what I WISH I had when I started marketing my information product online twelve years ago. It would have saved me a number of wrong turns and disappointment.
Keep Stepping!
Kurt
I look forward to digging into Danny’s course and applying to Trafficology Blueprint! But to think you were telling me all this before Danny packaged the ideas of pre-selling a product into… a product (that he pre-sold before actually creating it, lol). And that makes you brilliant in my books, Mr. Frankenberg!
Good timing, hmmm?
I believe that all good things happen in a certain season, for a certain reason.
We were talking about how this pre-selling principle worked for me… then shortly after Danny comes along with an entire COURSE built around this principle… yup.
Almost like someone’s tryina TELL you something 😉
And no one is more excited to see your Trafficology Blueprint than me.
Sign me up for your pre-release, pretty please!
Keep Stepping,
Kurt
Ana, I practically visited about 50 percent of the link and I most your strategy is truly awesome.
That is Linking directly to the G plus platform and subsequently linking out to other sites.
Did link out to you but that should be on saturday of last week
I’ve played with a few different formats, Peter, and this one seems to work the best. Good for TGC, good for my G+ profile, and my readers seem to like to come to one central place for the info.
Didn’t see your mention; send me the link please. And thank you!