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Today I noticed that Skype has a service for your mobile phone. At this point it only runs on windows PC, makes me wish I had got the Windows version of the Treo. This means you can make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world with your Windows Mobile Pocket PC device, whenever you have a high speed WiFi internet connection. The only thing is that you still have to pay for your mobile internet service. But let me explain how I think we will all have FREE cell phone service in the next few years.

Last Thursday Paul Allen told us that it won’t be long before everyone in the US has access to a FREE WiFi internet connection. Google and others are already giving WiFi internet connections for free in select cities. Also, it seems that each day in my MarketingVOX news letters I see a new Mobile phone advertising service popping up. New services like Pay-Per-Call instead of just pay-per-click (ie. You use your mobile internet phone service to search for a tow truck while you are stranded on the side of the road. Your search engine uses the GPS system in your phone, finds the towing company closest to you and places an ad at the top of your search. You click your ad and your phone automatically calls the towing company.). It won’t be long before a mobile phone service provider disrupts the entire cell phone industry and offers all ad based cell phone service.

Skype’s tag line is, “The whole world can talk for free”. It might just be a dream of mine, but I can’t wait for the day when I don’t have to call Sprint and argue with them about confusing, infuriating, phone bills. No more overages, no more $.10, 60 character limited, text messages, and no more proration.  Freedom from the clutches of the likes of those cell phone giants.

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Currently I send out probably 20 emails per day. Some are to teachers, others for work, some to friends. Paul Allen gave us a great idea in class yesterday; you put an ad in your email “signature”. I figure at an average of 20 emails per day times 365 days a year, I will promote what I desire 7300 times per year.

Below I posted my old work email signature vs the new email signature I created yesterday, I kept it small from side to side so that it is easier to read and I made sure that it had a call to action and a link:

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The information contained in this e-mail and any of it’s attachments is intended for the sole use of the individual or entity it is addressed to above and is considered confidential unless otherwise marked.   If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, they are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited.

VS

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“God gave us memories, that we might have
June roses in the December of our lives”
- James Barrie - Scottish poet

Preserve your memories at
www.iMemoryBook.com

Which one do you think does more for your business?

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Yesterday in Paul Allen’s internet marketing class a man came in and explained that when he learned that CleanFlicks and CleanFilms, and the others like them were going out of business, he went and looked for a couple of movies that he wanted. He couldn’t find them in his local store. He began calling around for it. Then he had an ingenious idea. He put together a bunch of money and bought out all the inventory of over 50 stores! He is now selling the edited DVD’s online. He has already sold over 600 titles in this project already! Unreal.

This guy (sorry, I didn’t write down his name) now has a complete monopoly. Yet, he is selling them all for $9.95 or less. Not only that, but there is a major scarcity! To maximize the leverage of supply and demand, I would create an Ebay store, and begin auctioning the movies off then I would drive traffic to the store by Pay-Per-Clicks and a couple of press releases on campuses, on the evening News, on KSL, pretty much everywhere I could. I know that if I was in a situation and there was only one edited: Gladiator, or Shawshank Redemption, or BraveHeart, or Last of the Mohicans, I would pay some significant cash for that movie. Add in the auctioning power of Ebay and you will multiply your revenues by 2 fold.

He was in our internet marketing class to find a couple of students who would like to manage his pay-per-click campaigns. He would pay the student until the campaign was over and he would give all the edited FREE movies we want! I almost jumped out of my chair. I had to calm myself down and remember that I am already so swamped with preparations to launch the new iMemoryBook system that I could never effectively add another item to my to do list. Dang…I remember thinking when I first saw the announcement of all these stores going out of business, “Man it would be smart to buy a bunch of these and resale them.” Although I never really seriously considered buying a bunch of these DVD’s I did consider investing a chunk of savings into Google’s IPO, and Vulcan’s IPO (all of these would be fantastic investments). I chickened out on each of them. The only time I have jumped at a great opportunity was when I jumped on with FamilyLearn, which I am certain will pay off sooner than later.

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I have been asked what I used to make my blog twice now. They like the look and feel. Here is what I did to set up my blog. I asked my brother who is a computer geek to help me. He showed me how to do the following. It was a hard process for me to learn. Now that I have done it once, it is really pretty fast to change it all. All I can say is that the blogging world has a pretty high barrier to entry. I feel like I am being assimilated into a geek, checking my analytics several times a day, reading at least an hour of blogs each day. What has happened to me! I suppose it won’t be long before the world of the internet and the real world come together as one world.