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This is so weird.. I was just thinking about this today, when I was arguing with my wife about why I post so much stuff. I'm thinking that personal branding is important. - Joe Mac Stevens

Really good stuff, Chris. Thanks for sharing. - Bruce Turner

Thank You! Excellent topic that I will delve into right away. - Wendy J. Roan from twhirl

Excellent piece by Chris! - Charlie Anzman

add this to listropolis - http://www.listropolis.com/2008... - shaun mclane

except that you do a US only list it is a nice list. would it really be asked too much to at least recognize that for example linkedin does not rule the world and write "join the leading biz network, like for example linkedin"? - Nicole Simon

Holy crap, Chris! This is great stuff! Would you say personal branding is for anyone, or more for people who have something to sell through their online persona (a product, service, or opinion)? - Zach Landes

thanks Chris - what a great resource - wil be sending this to all my staff - if only they will DO IT! :) - Brad from twhirl

Wow, this list is awesome Chris. Thanks for sharing it. - Jason Runyan

Kick Ass - Dave Peck

great article with fantastic tips - Mick Edwards

100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media. Your title is awfully modest considering you covered every marketing aspect in the online world. - Collin

Bless you!!!! I was also getting confused. Paul Rocks - easy cheat sheet!! Thanx! - Sheryl Loch

Thank you to everyone who posts and provides extra help like this. It's very beneficial to people. - Wendy J. Roan

T - traffic. C - competition - Garth Bradley

It took me 2 days to really understand the tricky of samurai - Jeremy

It's not hard once you clear out the mental block - Raymond

And you know, the stuff you'd pay for isn't half as good as what's taught in the 30DC - Ken Nadreau

it is not only free, but Ed actually pays to bring us thet training. With so many people participating even Amazon S3's fee can be significant... - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Every market needs good Samaritans like Ed, Dan, Bob, Eugene and Brent - Will Ponder

That is an awesome story - Relational Marketing... I love it! - Wendy J. Roan

Sound advice! "If you cannot describe what you are doing as a process, you do not know what you are doing." - W. E. Deming - Paul King from twhirl

I had some problems with the older version with getting temporarily banned. Haven't fired up new version yet. Fingers crossed! I love Market Samurai! Awesome is an understatement. - Wendy J. Roan

Unfortunately I could not get results from it until I ran it through a proxy server that is located in the US. I'm in Turkey, where Google SERPs return in Turkish by default. I do have it running well both on Windows and Linux though... - John Serra

Did you notice Ed's video on the blog where he talks about dealing with any issues? http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/blog... - SimonWJ

the blank results is a known issue check the saurai knoledge base - Ed Dale

Also had issue of ?'s being returned for competition, MS generally sluggish. I seemed to be getting better results, although not perfect after closing the program and giving it an hour or so before continuing. - Jayne Burch

i cant get this to install. when i double click it after downloading it nothing happens - brian

I was getting blank results - but the samurai team was quick to answer my ticket! Close it down and then try a new search - do not use a saved search... I'll post my e-mail from them... - Jolly Panda

Hi all, yes it only seemed to work for the first keyword, wouldn't do anything after that. I ran the tutorial from them and from Rob while I did the first one. That helped. It is a complex application. I wish they had those little popup windows like Google used in Adwords that describe what all those codes at the top mean. Just a bunch of letters is just way to confusing. After it wouldn't work anymore I just went back to Google Key word tool and regular google and found my niches just fine. - bruce jones

Great resource! Some more we can deep into country category - Jeremy

I had some very nice results with them. But, unfortunately, half the time they don't work (in my experience thus far). Admittedly, haven't been back for a month. Great service when it works. I tested it by asking an x-files question... about # of times a quote was said... I got responses! - Wendy J. Roan

Oh, and when they didn't work, they crashed my browsers (plural) every single time. - Wendy J. Roan

It doesn't even work right now - maybe if they improved it... - Jenny

did a web search of a 6 year old site leaving off the www. and the .com and it failed to find it. - gerry

Needs a lot of work refining it's search algorithm functions - Eric Gehler

Doesn't do much for me at all, 3 searches failed to find any results at all, In fact accused me of making typo's, Google still rules for now. - Guy McLaren

I guess that they miss the point by far. What is the value proposition? In what is better than what google offers? - Juan Pablo

Google is Google, I can't see anyone who could beat him, even Microsoft with all of it's money couldn't do it - Juraj Briskar

Apparently it uses content to decide relevancy which is the model google dropped due to its relatively poor results! - Paul King from twhirl

Great Job PHILL!!!!! Kudo's - Eric Gehler

Phil - awesome work, someday - we should jam. Eric - thanx for posting the link - SteveH

Gave you a thumbs up!! - Sheryl Loch

I stumbled it with a Thumbs Up as well - Show your Love Stumble Thumbs UP!! - Eric Gehler

Phil you have made us proud - Pamela

It's nice to know you can learn how to start a business and still have fun and relax along the way. Great song !!! - Debbie

Agree with you Debby. So much fun :) - e521

At first I wasn't sure, but it's pretty catchy! :) - Paul King

don't forget to Digg it http://digg.com/music... - Lisa

this song sucks. Liked the old one more. the only thing i like in this video is the girl in white :) - brian

This should be on TV! :) - Wendy J. Roan

Sorry Man, but I also like last years song much better and I like you with your cloths on, much better than bouncing around half naked. - Sarah-Ann McLeod

Well, I found a solution. If you go into your Friend settings it will allow you to create an 'Imaginary Friend'. This allows you to give your friend a name and choose which service you want to pull in. For example I chose to pull in only the service 'Twitter'. I am then asked for my imaginary friend's Twitter Username, which when entered, pulls in my friends Tweets only. In effect all the people I am following on Twirl will now show up with their Tweets on FriendFeed on my 'Friend' page... - Mark McGimpsey

but I don't have to suffer all the other activity! - Mark McGimpsey

I hope this helps you with organising your FriendFeed more effectively. - Mark McGimpsey

There's an option to hide entries from friends-of-friends in the built in filters. Click "Hide" on one such entry, then "See options for hiding other items like this". Note this doesn't apply within rooms. - Andy Roberts

You can hide friend-of-friend activities - I do. Read http://www.louisgray.com/live... - thefluffanutta

Thanks Guys! This will probably help a lot of people. I'm afraid this is just my inexperience of using FriendFeed showing. - Mark McGimpsey

Jani, I would be a little more specific than just cards, is your niche for playing cards? greeting cards? business cards? card games? etc. - Scott Bannon

I second Scott...I have found that too broad of a term makes you work to hard to filter out the good stuff. - Andy

Definitely be a *little* more specific, but not too specific - remember you're going to be scanning headlines quickly, so you can afford a reasonably sized net. - Matthew Hall

I think it depend what niche we are having. - SK WONG

Definitely agree... a bit more focused but still general. Or create a feed by not including certain words or phrases like this: cards -"she's a card" -"he's a card" -"gift cards" - Wendy J. Roan

It would look like this: cards -"she's-a-card" -"he's-a-card" -"greeting-cards" -"gift-cards" - Wendy J. Roan

I think there would have to be a Feed set up to come into this room (added by admin) to pull in all #30DC comments. It would get very noisy in here. There are 1000s of comments including #30DC. - Wendy J. Roan

Right so they aren't connected by default. It only goes into your own feed. I can imagine it would get noisy in here. Thanx for the feedback. - Greg Martin

Bit hard to review when it has not been released :-) - Ed Dale

Preparation & Land Grab via The Edge Training :) - Eric Gehler

Would love to see this tool in action - David

Edgers get to beta test I hear!!! Value Added Immediately!!! - Eric Gehler

where's the beef? did it run off the edge? oh can start super samurai at weeks end better carb load for all the fun. - JuneM

This really looks like a very useful tool! - Mauro Gonçalo

Will it be as powerful, now that google has brought out their new keyword tool? - D andrews

It's Powerful - 24 hours after research, and site built - ranking #10 on google for the term I found!! - Eric Gehler

This tool is the best I've seen in the industry. I need to get my hands on the videos though. - Wendy J. Roan

if you go to http://www.marketsamurai.com/ it asks you to log in so you can get the 40day trial. When I do that it just takes me to the 30dc site but there is no further mention of marketsamurai. Are any of you also getting this and how do we go about this? thanks! - Teri

To the best of my knowledge Teri the 30 DCers get access on August 1st free for 40 days. - Mark McGimpsey

Teri, you will get access via #30DC very shortly - Eric Gehler

an awesome tool - Shakeel786

Does anyone know how much MS will cost yet? - Greg Martin

Ok, thanks all! - Teri

also just realised i am no longer subscribed to many of the people i was subscribed to originally. I saw another post in a room where someone was ranting about this, i didn't have many followers but to lose them overnight is a bit bizarre? - Wayne Brewin

Ye, lots of people but not myself. See shttp://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... - Andy Roberts

I lost about 2/3 followers and 1/3 following - hope they get it fixed - Eric Gehler

Not personally, but kevin gianni has been saying the same thing - i think it was more than half, more like three quarters - Frann Leach

Yes, I have experienced the same problem. Exactly half of the original number... very odd indeed. - Sam Sotiropoulos

this was going on last night, it was twitterpause (menopause) counts down, back up, back down, back up, hot cold & crankie - JuneM

I lost followers and following. I commented on a rant blog myself. - Wendy J. Roan

I lost about 30. I thought it was strange that so many would stop following at the same time. Good to know it wasn't do to me not providing quality content. Sucks to think Twitter caused this. They probably won't realize it for days. - Craig Eubanks

The worst thing is that I (you) have to subscribe to them again... one by one - e521

Twitter is suppose to be fixing this and will restore all followers except known spammers. - Karen Kramer

Thanks Andy & Pelle for the web links. Guess we just have to wait some time to see if they restore it. - Wayne Brewin

Yeah, I lost Ed Dale during the latest update. :( - Gerald Williams

What kind of worse things would twitter have to do before people finally abandon it? - Andy Roberts

Twitter are on it and do plan to restore all followers. I don't think this should deterr people from using Twitter, though. Every new idea has it's bugs and gremlins and this is no different. How soon people forget what a sludge the internet used to be 12 or so years ago...:o) - Peter Horsman from twhirl

http://chrisbaskind.com/2008... - Andy Roberts

Bill, this was very good information. Thank you. It aligns perfectly with what Ed_Dale is teaching. Excellent tips were provided that I have noted. - Wendy J. Roan

thank very much for the great tips! - Portik Z.

$1 in a month? lol i dont know whether that is a joke or not? - Jani

Welcome Jani. I'm happy you could join us and hope you enjoy it as much as I have. :) - Wendy J. Roan

Welcome Jani. Like you, I'm looking forward to the challenge - Raymond

I would say that making a $1 is not that important for me but by getting in the challenge at least I will learn how to use all the social network programs and put them in my marketing. - Govindji Patel