The IPhone 3g Sold Out in Many Places - Learn the Secrets to Finding Your IPhone 3G Today

The iPhone 3g is a brilliant phone, but so difficult to track down. Everyone seems to want one straight away and there just simply isn't the supply to cope with the demand.

So why do you want an iPhone 3g? Here are some of the new specs to get your mouth drooling. If you're losing motivation trying to find the phone just think of.....

3G internet, this is the major one!

GPS built in

Third party app allowed

Whatever you do don't try to buy one off ebay at the moment because the prices will be incredibly high and overpriced. If you can't find anywhere else to buy, even the sold out iPhone 3G isn't worth the extra money and you are better off waiting. This happens with all major products releases where there is a chance of it being sold out, don't encourage the people who are trying to make money out of peoples disappointment.

So where can you buy them? Surprisingly if you go into some of the smaller shops in your neighbourhood you will be more likely to find them. These shops get loss of a stock to start with but far fewer people think of looking there.

Another option is the iPhone tracking websites which allow you to look for the nearest shop to you that has them in stock. As the iPhone 3G sold out so quickly these sites can be extremely useful, but make sure you use one which has its list updated regularly.

The New IPOD Touch - A Marble in Mobile Entertainment

This amazing new innovation from apple redefines the standard of "cool" and Apple has done it again. With the new IPOD Touch Apple has truly transported multimedia entertainment into a mobile platform and changed the way people experienced music, video and the Internet forever.

Multimedia systems, like Blackberries and other phone based mobile computing devices have been around for a few years, but these multimedia systems have always been focused more on voice and text capabilities than any other functionality. Until along came Apple with the IPOD Touch.

With the new iPod Touch you can play MP3 music, surf the Internet, watch a video and more with just a touch of a finger. And because the IPOD Touch comes with built-in wi-fi capability, you can access the internet from just about anywhere you go and browse your favorite places as if you were sitting in front of a computer. You can buy songs directly from the Itunes store and download them directly into the IPOD, so you won't miss a beat. Not to mention the sound quality on the Touch has been improved over the previous IPOD models.

The IPOD Touch is visually appealing and intuitive with a very sleek 3.5-inch wide touchscreen that allows you to operate its array of functionality by simply touching any of the colorful menu icons directly on the screen. The large icons make screen navigation almost too user friendly that anyone can find their way through the maze of handy features by simply touching one of them on the main screen and following the subsequent icons underneath.

Need more space for your movies, photos or MP3s? No problem. The IPOD touch comes in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB of storage space, which offers great flexibility to accommodate your needs for additional storage. This system is also compatible with the Mac and PC platforms.

These are some specs for the IPOD Touch directly from Apple:

• Includes the ability to use the following with a WiFi connection
o Mail
o Google Maps
o Weather
o Stocks
• Capacity for an 8GB model:
o 8gb flash drive
o Holds up to 1,750 songs in 128-Kbps ACC format
o Holds up to 10,000 iPod-viewable Photos
o Holds up to 10 hours of video
o Stores Data via USB flash drive
• Size and Weight:
o Height: 4.3 inches (110 mm)
o Width: 2.4 inches (61.8 mm)
o Depth: 0.31 inch (8 mm)
o Weight: Weight: 4.2 ounces (120 grams)

Blogging - How to Make Sense Out of WordPress Options

When I first started out and was taking a tutorial on setting up online marketing, the subject of blogs came up. It was suggested that a blog was a very good tool for marketing and making yourself known on the WEB. The program suggested starting with WordPress. I had never heard of WordPress so I went to the WordPress site to find out what it was all about.

This was all new to me so I followed instructions on the site and presto...I had my first blog set up in a few minutes. It wasn't pretty and I had no idea what I was doing. The interface was new, the tabs were a mystery and the general functions available were a guessing game for me. That said, I forged ahead, wrote a post and then tried out different tabs and selections to see what would happen.

What I didn't realize was that there are three varieties of WordPress, and you should know that upfront, so you can decide what works best for you. I learned of these 3 options later when I used another tutorial and set up another WordPress blog on a host site.

So what are those three options?

Option One

The first one I'll mention is one that doesn't concern the individual affiliate marketer but you should be aware of it. It's called WordPress MU. MU stands for Multi-User and it allows you to run several hundreds to thousands of blogs on one domain. It really applies to corporations, groups, organizations or maybe super affiliate marketers that have their own servers and run a network of blogs. Until you reach that scale you needn't know more than that about WordPress MU.

Option Two

The next option open to you is WordPress.com. This is the one I first used. It is hosted on WordPress servers and offers an easy to use template you can follow to start your first blog. You can choose your own user name to individualize your blog and it will get assigned to the WordPress domain. For example, if you choose to go with your name to set up the blog, your domain would look like http://www.yourname.WordPress.com. This assumes your choice was available.

Another point to remember is that on WordPress.com you are subject to the guidelines of your host. That means that commercial applications such as Google Adsense and other plug ins used to create revenue streams or optimize for search engine discovery, are not available. The blogs are really designed for open and useful communication without the volume of commercial and affiliate selling that takes place on other blog environments. This isn't to say that you cannot create links to affiliate programs and place some banners, but the WordPress.com blog is not the most optimum environment to run a marketing based business. The next option is best suited for that purpose.

Option Three

The third option is the one used by most affiliate marketers who set up their business on an independent hosted environment outside of the WordPress hosted site. It's called WordPress.Org and is software that is downloaded to your own Web server to run on your domain. It is often accessed through the Control Panel of the Web host you have selected to use in your business or blog. Some free hosting services may not offer the Control Panel feature so you have to follow what ever process they use for downloading blog software.

In the case of WordPress.org, the software offers greater flexibility that WordPress.com and allows you to download plugins that are not available to WordPress hosted blogs. For example, you can download Google AdSense ads mentioned earlier or Google Sitemap which allows search engines to find and index you more efficiently so you can place better in search results. You can place html code to more effectively design web pages for commercial application in affiliate marketing campaigns. In short, it offers more options and better capabilities for running a business than WordPress.com. It is the option that you will come to by default when setting up a blog from your host site. You will notice a different set of options such as a plug-in add on feature that is not available with WordPress.com. In summary, this is the option you will find most suitable for affiliate marketing. It gives you more ways to create revenue streams for a business.

Conclusion

Depending on your objectives for blogging, these are the three options you can select from when considering WordPress. There is plenty of documentation to help you with the details of how to use the features and tools offered in each option. The point here is to make sure you are aware of what is available so you can make an intelligent decision.

With that in mind, good luck in your blogging and may your travels be prosperous.

Affiliate Marketing Tips - You're Doomed If You Do These Things

Marketers who know me well, know that when I say something, they better
listen. When it comes to affiliate marketing, there are some things that
affiliates do that are a sure ticket to failure. And yet, they do them
anyway. It just boggles my mind. Well, if you don't want to end up as an
affiliate failure, you'll take my advice and avoid these things like the
plague.

At the very top of my list is the choice of the product itself. So many
affiliates jump on the "me too" product of the day and think that
because everybody is talking about the product that it's going to make
them a ton of money. What they don't understand is that these high
profile, high end products, are being promoted by every top marketer in
existence. Do you REALLY think that as a beginning marketer you have a
chance against these people? You certainly don't, especially if you make
any of the other mistakes on this list. However, to give yourself more
of a chance, don't jump on the product du jour.

Next on the list is ads. I marvel at some of the ads I see for these
products. Why do I marvel? Because they're all the same. The only thing
different is the affiliate link in them. Oh come on, you know it's true.
You write to the merchant, ask him to send you some ads, he gives you a
link to get your "affiliate tools" and you copy and paste the same ads
that everybody else is sending, changing nothing but the link. Yeah,
that's really going to make you stand out and get your share of the
sales...not. So for crying out loud, write your own ads.

Finally, there's the means of promotion that affiliates use. They either
use the most expensive forms, such as pay per click, where to get a
decent position you have to spend a buck or more per click, or they use
forms of promotion that aren't worth squat. Look, if you're trying to
fight the pay per click wars in highly competitive niches, you're dead.
The heavy hitters will eat you alive. And using poor sources of
advertising is a total waste of time altogether. There are great sources
of advertising and great advertising methods that won't cost you an arm
and a leg. You'll find some great info in my signature.

If you avoid these common affiliate mistakes, you can easily become a
successful affiliate marketer for almost any product at all.