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Track marketing campaigns and leads with AIMpromote

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Those of you who have small, medium or large businesses where you sell products or services to clients might be interested in visiting the AIMpromote website to learn more about their lead management system.

You can use the AIMpromote lead management system to improve your marketing effectiveness. You’ll get real time reports as to how well each of your marketing campaigns are performing, and how effective your sales representatives are being when they are out talking with clients and trying to generate both leads and sales.

You can use the AIMpromote lead management system to track every single lead, campaign and revenue dollar. The lead management system doesn’t just track from the point of lead generation. No, it begins tracking with the actual website visit and or advertising campaign that generated the lead in the first place. When you use the lead management system you’ll be able to figure out if your marketing campaign and the budget that you’ve allocated to that campaign is worthwhile or if you should switch to a new form of marketing campaign. In this way the AIMpromote lead management system can save you money and help you generate even more sales by allowing you to focus on the campaigns that are working for your product or service.

The system integrates directly with many of the other popular lead venders such as LendingTree, LoanBright, eLeadZ and many others. You can use it to track your mortgage lead management, or paper product supplies lead management. Whatever your product or service you can track all of your leads right from the start.

When compared to other lead management systems AIMpromote is one of the least expensive and appears to be one of the most effective systems that you can use. No matter which plan you choose, you will receive all of the system features. The AIMpromote team wants to help you make your business grow quickly, so why don’t you check out their lead management system?

If AIMpromote sounds like the kind of lead management system that you’ve been looking for why not sign up for their 14 day free trial? Two weeks should be enough time to find out if this system will work with your business.





Protect your online privacy by hiding your IP address

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I’ve always been concerned about online privacy, probably more so because I’m a woman.

Have you ever tried looking up someones IP address in order to find out more about them? Sometimes it’s really easy to discover things that others might wish to keep private.

Now just to explain a little bit. An IP address is a unique internet ID that’s assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider. Everyone has one. Your IP address might change each time you go online or it might always be the same address for as long as you are serviced by your current Internet provider.

If some really wants to find out who you are, and even where you live, your IP address might be able to tell them that information very quickly and easily.

Isn’t that a scary thought?

NetConceal incorporated was established in 2005. The company has concentrated on developing software products to protect online privacy and has created online security solutions for personal and corporate customers.

Now you can take advantage of NetConceal’s expertise and use their new NetConceal Anonymity Shield to hide your IP address.

The ability to hide your IP address that the NetConceal Anonymity Shield offers will virtually protect your privacy and keep websites from collecting your personal data when you surf online. Netconceal works by leaving random fake IP addresses whenever you visit a website that collects data.

You can use the Netconceal Anonymity Shield while surfing the web or doing any other online activity such as emailing your friends, relatives and businesses, or even when you’re using P2P file sharing, or chatting online using instant messengers.

The website knew I was located in Canada since I’m not yet concealing my IP address, so when I went to check to see how much this software costs it gave me the price in Canadian dollars. It’s $30.48 Canadian, and the US price is $24.95. That seems like a fairly low price to pay for online privacy and security doesn’t it?

If you’d like, you may download a trial copy of the NetConceal Anonymity Shield prior to buying the software program. A trial version will work for either 8 days, or 8 runs – whichever comes first.

Make your dreams come true with Dream Manifesto

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Everybody has dreams and wishes. Dreaming about our future life often starts when we are just small children playing games with our friends. I don’t know how many people ever end up being what they dreamed of being as a child, but I bet, even if they didn’t follow their childhood dreams that a little bit of the dream is still alive in them today.

The great thing about having dreams and goals for ourselves, our family and our futures is that we can set new goals or start new dreams at any point in our life. It’s almost never too late to change the track that your life is on.

Dream Manifesto has created a software program that helps your focus your dreams and your goals into successful accomplishments. The companies motto for their new software is – Dream Manifesto – Create Prosperity & Abundance in Your Life. Sound good?

It’s an interesting software concept. You just use the Dream Questionnaire or the Wizard to create a dream that you want to manifest in your life. The software then helps you direct your thinking towards making your dreams and goals come true. There’s nothing like having a program on your computer that works to motivate you towards making things happen in your life.

Here’s a recent press release from the Dream Manifesto company, read it to learn more about this interesting software program:

PETALUMA, CA (March 9, 2007) – Dream Manifesto, LLC. releases the Dream Manifestation Wizard V1.1 for Windows & Mac.

The Dream Manifestation Wizard® is a software application to manifest your goals & dreams and to create abundance & prosperity in your life.

Once started, the Wizard will ask you what dream you want to manifest in your life. If you are not certain about it, you can use the built-in ‘Dream Questionnaire’ to find one or more powerful dreams that you would like to manifest in your life. Learn the simplicity of creating your dream template that consists of text, an image and your voice. This template will function as your dream blueprint.

Command the Dream Manifestation Wizard® on how often per day you want to program your dream into your subconscious. Once this is done, relax, sit back and work normally on your computer. The Dream Manifestation Wizard®, running in the background, will provide an audible cue – a gong – before it appears on your screen.

The Dream Manifestation Wizard® comes complete with over 100 dream templates, so you can start immediately manifesting what you always wanted.
The Dream Manifestation Wizard® creates an exact blueprint in your subconscious of what you want to manifest. Your subconscious mind will immediately start to work on turning your dream into reality, applying the latest discoveries in quantum physics to shift and direct your attention toward new possibilities.

Requires Windows XP, Vista or Mac OS 10.3 or later.
The program is available for immediately download or on CD-ROM and costs $29.95. With the current promotion you save $20.

New digital media convert makes it easy to convert video and audio formats

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Last summer I was lucky enough to be given a free Nokia smart media phone. My new phone could take pictures, record audio and voice, play MP3’s, and record video. One of the very first things that I did with my new phone as I returned home with it was to record a video as we were driving. You see, my husband and I had accidentally discovered that we could drive on the Molson Indy race track that was being set up in downtown Toronto the day before the big race was to start.

How exciting! Our car on a race track and we could record our adventure too!

Unfortunately, when we got home I discovered that our new cell phone recorded video in 3GP format. At that time, I don’t believe that YouTube or Google video accepted uploads in that type of format. That was a huge drag since I wanted to post my little film on this site.

I got busy searching the internet for a free program which would convert the 3GP format over to AVI which was accepted at Youtube at the time. Problem was I could only find programs that would convert 3GP to another format, before I could use yet another free conversion program to convert the video to AVI. My video lost a lot of it’s quality along the way and I was very disappointed with the results. As a result of this I’ve made very few videos with our cell phone.

Lucky for me, and any of you who have gone through some of the type of experiences I’ve just described there’s a new digital media converter available and it converts a multitude of video and audio formats quickly and easily. No more fiddling around and losing quality!

You can easily convert video and audio files from one format to another. You can even batch convert too. Common formats that work with the new digital media converter are VCD, DVD, AVI (DivX, MS MPEG4, uncompressed, etc), MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PAL, NTSC), MP3, MOV, WMA, WMV, DVR-MS, ASF, AIFF, AU ,VOB (DVD Video files), SND, DVR-MS (including radio station DVR-MS file format), 3GP, DV-AVI, MP3 and WAV formats.

We have a DVD recorder but it doesn’t record in a format that our DVD player accepts. Now, if I were to get this software, I can record shows and movies with our DVD recorder onto a re-recordable DVD disk and pop it into my computer and convert it to a format that our DVD player will accept.

You can also use this converter to extract the audio from a video and save just the audio tracks. That would be great for recording really wonderful movie sound tracks wouldn’t it?

There are all kinds of great features in this new digital media converter. Using the advanced settings you can change the video frame size, audio/video compression codec, number of channels in an audio stream and the frequency too.

I think I could go on and on about this media converter. Probably because I spent so much time searching for a decent one last summer. So I’ll just tell you about one last feature that I think just about everyone would want to try. If you have an iPod, Sony PSP or another type of portable media device and say that you are about to take a long road trip, or perhaps your commute to work daily is by bus or train and it takes an hour or so to get from home to work. Why not convert DVDs and films that you like to a format that works with your portable media player so that you can watch them whenever your out and about, traveling or commuting? I know that if I had a long commute or a long trip coming up I’d do that.

You can learn more about this digital media converter by visiting the information page I listed above. You can also read a number of articles that will teach you how to use the media converter in different ways.

If you want to try this software there’s a free version at http://www.Deskshare.com. You’ve got nothing to lose by downloading the free trial. Give it a try.

Working on our sites – Odd Planet gets makeover

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I busy working on redesigning some of Chris and I’s websites! The first one to get a major makeover is Odd Planet. It has a totally new look!

I’ve been busy trying to get that site organized. I added a new wordpress plugin called SimpleTag to all of our WordPress sites. I haven’t activated it on all the sites yet, but it’s working on Odd Planet. Check out the Tag and Category cloud that I added to that site. Now it’s easy to see what kind of topics are posted about most often or to bring up all the posts under a specific category or tag – like “Strange Happenings” or “Dumb Criminals” for example.

I was using Jeromes Keywords and Related posts on our sites, and still am on some, but it hasn’t been updated for use on WordPress 2.1 and the tags would disappear whenever anyone would leave a comment on one of the sites. Now we can have tags in posts and show related posts with this new simpletag plugin too.

It’s taking a bit of time since I have to convert the keywords that I was using with Jerome’s Keywords to SimpleTag format. It’s easy enough and doesn’t take much time but it’s an extra step that I’ll have to go through on each site as I activate the plugin.

Anyway, go check out Odd Planet and leave Chris a comment if you like the new look. It’s certainly easier to leave comments there now that the site isn’t using a mucked up theme!

Update: For some reason this post was marked private. I never mark posts private. I wonder if my messing around with things caused a little glitch? Weird thing is that I haven’t even begun to work on the mess that is this site! Oops!

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