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Free eBook from DailyBlogTips

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Daniel Scocco of DailyBlogTips.com released his free ebook on Make Money Blogging topic. I just downloaded it and skimmed through the contents of the book. It’s a great book with no nonsense content, Daniel discusses things as he always does, right to the point. (hate those people who just write nonsense so that the ebook has more pages)

It’s a good ebook for ‘to-be-bloggers’, but for those of you seasoned bloggers, I don’t think you will find something new. It’s also not only talking about ‘making money’ per se, title might be misleading in that sense, it’s more about blogging, namely; starting a blog, avoiding mistakes, choosing a niche, frequency of blog posts, making money etc. So making money is just one portion of the ebook.

Contest: Win one of 2 Laptops

With launching of his ebook, he is also organizing a contest giving away two Acer notebooks. Entering to the contest is easy. 1) Just tweet about it - this gets you 1 entry. 2) Review the ebook (like me :) - and this will get you 5 more entries. Contest closes on Monday 31st August.

Details: www.dailyblogtips.com/make-money-blogging/

Free Book: Go it alone, The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own

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Here is a free book on entrepreneurship.

Go it Alone: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own by Bruce Judson costs $14.95 at Amazon.

However you can read the whole book online for free at www.brucejudson.com. Judging by the reviews at Amazon it seems a good book. Perhaps it can give you some idea or motivation to start your own business.

PDF: Know your UpTime

Posted in » Advice to Businesses, e-books - by Ades

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What does it really mean when a hosting company says they provide 99% uptime guarantee?! It means they guarantee not more than 7 hours (seven hours!!!) of downtime a month or not more than 3.5 days of downtime a year.

So if your business can’t afford to lose downtime of 10 minutes, don’t ever get close to those companies who offer 99% uptime! Rather go for companies who guarantee not more than 10-20 minutes of downtime per year.

Below is a cheat-sheet on uptime calculation provided by guys over at pingdom.

Download PDF: click here

Kindle2 Usability Review

Posted in » Usability, e-books - by Ades

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Usability guru Jakob Nielsen takes on Amazon’s Kindle2 usability. His verdict:

Amazon’s new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content.

… Awkward pointing + slow reaction = a bad user experience that discourages people from exploring and attempting different tasks.

Read the full review here.

This review makes me feel like to wait for Kindle3, was really looking forward to purchase one. Anyone knows any other (brand) good ebook reader?

Kindle2 goes iPod style

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Amazon’s new Kindle2 looks great, a lot like Apple’s iPod design actually. Kindle is Amazon’s ebook reader device. It has 6″ diagonal display with 600 x 800 pixel resolution and weighs 10.2 ounces. It’s as thin as most magazines with 0.36″ in profile.

It supports the following formats: Kindle (azw), txt, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (aax)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.

With 2GB memory (approximately 1.4GB available for user content) it can hold up to 1,500 ebooks. Whenever you don’t feel like reading, you can switch to text-to-audio version and it will read the ebook for you.

It’s priced at $359.00 and will be released on 24th February 2009. Amazon is now accepting pre-orders. It’s definitely in my wishlist.

Read more on Kindle2 on details page.

Productive Magazine: Free Monthly PDF Magazine

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New free PDF magazine on productivity and GTD (getting things done) has just launched. You can download the first edition here. First edition includes interview with GTD guru David Allen.

It’s quite an interesting project I would say, first of all it’s going to be free. Secondly, it’s going to be PDF magazine. And thirdly, it will focus on productivity only. Let’s see how it will progress over time. I wish them Good Luck!

In their own words…

Productive Magazine (PM) is (going to be):

• a regular magazine (monthly or bi-monthly - yet to be determined)
• featuring the best articles (blog posts) from best productivity bloggers
• Downloadable in a nicely-formatted PDF format
• for FREE

URL: www.productivemagazine.com

Guerrilla Marketing

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Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best-selling marketing series in history, “Guerrilla Marketing,” plus 30 other books. His books have sold 14 million copies worldwide. His guerrilla concepts have influenced marketing so much that today his books appear in 41 languages and are required reading in many MBA programs worldwide.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation by Jay that contains over 90 field-tested tactics to get your business into the frontlines. download here

The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II

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Normally, this book The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II written by Dave Balter who is also the author of the book called Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing costs $45.00 at Amazon.

It’s a new book published in 2008, the interesting part is - author has decided to release the PDF version free of charge. You can download the ebook here.

I think he has done a right move. Because how many of you guys have finished the whole (100 over page) ebook (any ebook) reading from your computers? I haven’t… If I really like the book, I will rather buy the hardcopy. So, I’m sure if the book is good, the free version will actually increase its hardcopy sales.

After all, he is a word-of-mouth marketer, so he knows what’s he doing. Because surely free book like this will create a lot of buzz on the net.

Download the eBook: The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II

SitePoint Promotion: Free eBook + 30 Marketplace Credits

Posted in » General, e-books - by Ades

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As you know SitePoint had a facelift for its marketplace. In fact, it’s now called Marketplace 2.0.

In conjunction with launching their Marketplace 2.0, Sitepoint is offering a promotion. Actually if you are a frequent user of sitepoint.com’s marketplace, this is quite a nice promotion.

You get 30 Free credits + Free eBook “Flipping Web Sites For Profit” valued at $29.95 for every 100 Credits you buy for the rest of April.

Book Contents

• Site Flipping Demystified
• Buying a Site
• Adding Value
• Selling a Site
• Resources
• Site Valuation Worksheet

ZenHabits go open source, no copyright whatsoever

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Popular blogger Leo Babauta has gone Open Source, he says it’s okay to steal my content now. He is allowing people to use his blog’s content in any way people like. After this, I am sure his blog posts will be popping up in many blogs throughout the internet (especially when people are out of ideas and have nothing to post about).

His ebook Zen to Done is very popular too, selling over 1,000 copies within two weeks. It’s an ebook about productivity that is created out of his blog’s content. Currently selling at $9.50. If you do not want to go through his blog’s archive, you can buy this book.

In the same post, he argues that going open source won’t hurt his PageRank and his eBook sales. As you know Google sometimes punishes for duplicate content, when people start copying his content, his blog might get punished. He also talks about other interesting issues regarding copyright, check out his post.

In my opinion, he will do just fine, I think going open source will bring only good things for him. He will get free advertising and his readership will jump many many folds in the near future (currently he has more than 36,000 RSS readers).

What’s your opinion on Leo’s move? Do you think other bloggers should follow his suit?