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04.03.01
Hi WebSiteNotes Readers,
For you Mac music lovers boy have I got a present for
you today! The
new MPlay software has so many goodies, it will surely
provide you
with hours of enjoyment.
For the rest of you Linux and Windows users, this issue
provides great
tools to update some of your current basic applications.
These
programs will add some really cool features to your
email and
graphics capabilities.
Best Wishes,
Peter Thiruselvam
& Stephanie
Mitchell,
WebSiteNotes Editors
Gimp
v. 1.2.1 (9.1 Mb) - Linux OS
GNU Image Manipulation Program is suitable for such
tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring. It
can be used as a
simple paint program, a expert quality photo retouching
program, an
online batch processing system, a mass production image
renderer, a
image format converter, etc. It is designed to be augmented
with
plugins and extensions to do just about anything. The
advanced
scripting interface allows everything from the simplest
task to the
most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily
scripted.
MPlay
1.5.6 - Mac OS
MPlay supports MP3 and many different audio formats.
It has many
features including playlists, skins, easy operation
and lots of
special features. Among the special features is the
Audio Track Mixer.
This function ermits the mixing of two tracks (enabling
DJ-like mixes)
made possible ith MPLAY's two separate playback engines.
ePrompter
v. 1.04 (676 Kb) - Windows OS
ePrompter is an e-mail notification program that automatically
checks
up to eight password-protected e-mail accounts for AOL,
Hotmail,
Netscape, Yahoo, and hundreds of other e-mail domains--simultaneously.
Some of the cool features of ePrompter is an audio
prompt screensaver
that lets you know the number of new messages in each
of your
accounts, an autodial feature that can automatically
dial up an online
connection to retrieve your e-mail and update the notifications
accordingly, and you can read and/or delete your messages
online or
offline with the click of an icon.
Explore The Hunger
"Don't sell the steak. Don't even sell the sizzle.
Explore the
HUNGER!" Kent says. Find where the customer is
hurting and solve that hurt.
Kent illustrates it like this: "If someone calls
me at 3:00 in the
morning to tell me that because I am such a good friend,
they are
giving me FOUR new tires, and they are letting me know
the tires are
now in my driveway, I'd probably say 'thanks' but then
I'd be
thinking, 'why the heck did he call at 3:00 am' before
drifting back
to sleep."
"On the other hand, if the same friend called
me to say he just drove
by and saw someone taking ONE of the tires off my car,
I'd probably
thank him profusely, leap out of bed, and run to the
window before
calling the police."
Most folks are motivated a lot more by a pressing problem
or fear of
loss than by the chance for gain. Make your marketing
explore the
customer's frustration and pain.
Have your product or service be the cure.
by Kevin Nunley
Marketing Expert!
Use Radio To Get Lots of Visitors From Search Engines
You may have read some of the headlines lately that
Internet radio is
starting to take audience from regular radio. Now 14%
of North
Americans listen to radio via the Internet.
Watch for regular radio to start working with the Internet
in a
variety of ways. Here is one great idea that radio stations
are
starting to use.
You can increase the number of visitors your website
gets by
advertising your keywords in radio commercials. Your
commercial can
say "check out our website or type 'tall man' into
a search engine."
Many people who won't remember your web address WILL
remember the keywords to use.
Radio commercials tend to be a lot cheaper than other
types of big
media advertising. You can also tightly target certain
groups in a
specific town or region. If you offer a product or service
only to the
people in your city, radio can be the perfect way to
send local folks
to your website.
by Kevin Nunley
Marketing Expert!
Kevin Nunley provides marketing and copy writing.
Read all his free
tips at http://DrNunley.com
Reach Kevin at kevin@drnunley.com
or
(801)253-4536.
We at the Editorial Team would like to thank all our readers for reading WebSiteNotes.
Sincerely,
Peter Thiruselvam
The Editorial Team
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