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I have been a loyal NameCheap customer for years. I have registered 100s of domains with them and referred countless people because of their pricing and control panel. Plus since I have over 100 domains they give me a discount for every domain I register or renew.

Sure there have always been cheaper solutions but the cheaper ones either have way to many upsells or a poor control panel. Some have both!

But now, after years of being a loyal customer, it’s time for me to say,
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Camtasia is the premier software solution for recoring your desktop to create video tutorials, promotional videos, demo videos, etc. As with most premier solutions, Camtasia also comes with a premium price. However, there are some free alternatives to Camtasia that will allow you to create screen capture videos just as well.

Here are 20 of the best free Camtasia alternatives.
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There are a lot of ways to increase your income but the absolute easiest way is to reduce your expenses.

Yes it’s that simple but most people don’t ever think about it. The ones who do, normally don’t ever get around to it.

A few month ago I increased my income by a little over $300 a month. Part of it took a couple of days but overall, it only took a few hours. Plus I paid someone a few bucks to do some of it.

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One of the most over looked ways of building your business is giveaway events.

Basically, a giveaway event runs for a specific amount of time, usually set around a theme, and people (contributors) donate products that members can download for free.

There are a lot of ways contributors benefit from particiating in giveaway events but the three main ways are:

1. When people want to download their product(s) they must enter an email address. Thus, building their lists.
2. They can run an OTO to create an upsell either before the download or on the download page itself.
3. They also profit when members they refer purchase an OTO upon joining the giveaway site.

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GetResponse has made it’s new email creator open for beta testing and it’s pretty nice. In my quick testing I only found one bug. You can’t edit buttons more than once.

Besides that error, they no longer offer a blank template with an HTML editor. They offer a “blank page” you can type HTML code but it doesn’t have a WYSIWYG editor.

There seems to be less premade templates too. I’m sure that will be changed.

Of course it’s no surprise that the new email creator doesn’t fully work in IE, GetResponse does give a notice this time. Maybe they got tired of me always emailing them about the errors and posting about them.

Overall, I think it’s a great addition.

Garrie

I’ve already given you some content creation tips and now I have one more that involves video.

The basics is that you find an interesting video on YouTube, or other site that will let you add the video to your site, in your niche and write about it.

Note: You could use something like http://www.thenewsroom.com and get paid for people watching the video too.

Now, I did not say to transcribe it. That would be time consuming and boring to read. You should talk about the meat of the video.

Example: I watched a 15 minutes video on making a solar heater. Since 12 or so minutes of the video was “filler” someone could write about the important steps and/or whats needed.

That’s about it.

- Garrie

With the sudden and huge growth of sites like Pinterest, infographics are becoming more and more popular. They are great for advertising, branding, telling a story or anything else your imagination can come up with. Provided you are a graphics designer or can afford one. At least that use to be the case.

Thanks to the new site Visual.ly, anyone can easily create an infographic. Of course it does take a little creativity.

Check them out and if you create one, leave a link to it in the comments.

Garrie

I’ve already told you about running a WSO but there are other ways to advertise on the Warrior Forum like classifieds and banner ads. However, there are a few free ways, besides signatures, that most people over look.

Note: Some of these are only available to War Room members. So technically they aren’t free.

So let’s get to them…

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On April 30th GetResponse will be officially launching their new campaign settings interface. They are calling it their “Spring Innovation.” Basically it’s moving campaign settings into three different setting; General, Profile & Permission.

The changes appears to beneficial for the average users as it is laid out better but calling it an innovation is a stretch. Especially since it’s basically a face lift and re-arranging some things that shouldn’t have been an issue. Not to mention they are removing some advanced features.

I’m not going to cover the basic changes here since GetResponse covers those pretty well on their blog. Instead, I’m going to tell you about issues you may need to be aware of.

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When I design websites normally I can do it locally without any issue. Yet when I need to test a script or work with PHP, it isnt the case. Having to modify, upload, check and repeat is not only time consuming but a pain. Not to mention testing new scripts on live servers can be dangerous.

In the past when I had to do a lot of editing I would use Netdrive to mount my server as a local folder. Of course with Windows 7, the version I like doesn’t work but isn’t actually needed because you can MAP an FTP server natively. However, it’s still not smart to work on a live site.

I finally decided to install a local webserver. I’ve never done this before because I didn’t want to install Apache, MySQL, PHP and everything else needed. Not to mention figuring out how to configure everything.

So I sent off an email to my programmer and she told me about WampServer. WampServer installs and configures everything you need to run your own server. It’s really simple to use and it’s free. You should check it out.

Garrie