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Mindjet’s long-awaited MindManager 7.0 pro update is now available–and I consider it a “must have” update for mind mapping users.
Over the past few years, MindManager 6.0 Pro has saved me thousands of hours of time preparing for–and delivering–numerous projects, including:

Planning the curriculum for a year-long graphic design program in less than an hour
Preparing and presenting […]

Bob Treloar’s free Rank Magic Newsletter is a great resource for those who want to know more about the in’s and out’s of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Advertising.
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Bob Prosen, a recent guest on my Guerrilla Marketing Association Expert Interviews, is the author of the best-selling Kiss Theory Goodbye. This week, Independent Publisher announced they had awarded Bob the 2007 Silver Medal for Excellence.
Bob’s book was selected from a field of 2,690 submitted from 50 U.S. states, 8 Canadian provinces, and 17 […]

If you attend my expert interviews, you undoubtedly remember the great call where I interviewed David Meerman Scott, who had written his way to success with an e-book that was downloaded by over 50,000 readers of his blog.
In the months that followed, David expanded his New Rules of Marketing and PR into a beautifully-produced, […]

If you want to write more effective marketing materials to promote your small business using proven direct response writing techniques, download a free copy of Ben Hart’s Automatic Marketing.
Automatic Marketing is a 235-page book on proven direct marketing techniques, whose direct marketing copywriting techniques have generated more than $500,000,000 worth of sales and donations.
I’ve examined […]

Jason Beaird’s Principles of Beautiful Web Design is a refreshing departure from the wealth of web design books on the market.
I’m impressed by the logic and simplicity of the topic organization, the book’s ideal mating of design theory and web technology, plus the links to the relevant examples included.
In contrast to many “step-by-step” guides which […]

The latest issue of Design To Sell describes how you can use Mindjet’s MindManager to save time when planning your blog. Planning blog posts in advance ensures that you won’t overlook important ideas, or inadvertently repeat previous ideas.
Tracking your blog posts with MindManager also makes it easy to recycle your blog posts into articles, e-books, […]

From Philippe Gralle, a Frenchman living in Tokyo, comes yet another example of aself-promotion based on two sides of a single sheet of paper. Check it out.

Catherine Lee’s www.creativeleejewelry.com offers an excellent example of using Flash to organize and simplify a website. This site’s use of Flash combines one-at-a-time product focus with a broad variety of product choices. This use of Flash to organize and focus is a departure from the usual “Flash for Flash’s sake” approach.
Selecting one of the home […]

Mindjet, publishers of the popular MindManager mind mapping program used within 85 of the Fortune 100 firms in America, has just introduced Version 7 for the Apple Macintosh and computers using the Windows operating system.
In addition to major enhancements, such as the ability to save and reuse frequently used queries and filters, most users will […]