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If you haven’t yet created a Twitter account then you are really missing out.

This service has exploded in growth in the past few months and I don’t see it slowing down anytime soon.  There are now MILLIONS of users and it’s becoming really mainstream. In fact i see Twitter related sites popping up all over the web.

I’ve been running some interesting tests and I’m already seeing some great traffic results — far greater than the traffic from Facebook or any other “Web 2.0″ service.

Facebook and the others certainly have their place, but Twitter is more powerful.  At first I didn’t really “get it” but now I do and the traffic stats don’t lie.  It works.

As a communications tool, Twitter is probably only second to email right now. It’s a great way to network with people as well as to drive visitors to any of your sites, blog posts, or sales pages.

But Do Not Wait…

Create a Twitter account now and start ‘following’ the people that you want to follow. Others will eventually follow you in return.  Observe how others post and you’ll quickly learn the culture, etiquette, and uses for Twitter.

It’s not rocket science.  In fact,  it’s a lot of fun. Just watch this short video on Twitter:

You really need to start today because the sooner you start the sooner your followers list will start growing and more people will see your posts, which will then virally grow from there.

Make Sure To Follow Me! There is also a link to Follow Me, right here on the Blog.

I’m actively tweeting ( explanation is below) all the time.

Create an account then go here:

Omarra Byrd

Click the “Follow” link that shows under my photo. There is also a link to Follow Me, right here on the Blog.

That’s it.  Everytime I post you’ll see it in your main “timeline” area.

After you click to “Follow” me look at the right-hand side of my profile page.  Click the blue “Followers” link and you can see all the people currently following my posts.  Follow some of these other marketers also, if you like.

Twitter is extremely viral. When you make posts (called “tweets”) they can be exposed to all the friends (followers) of others.  Then they can choose to follow you.

I think Twitter is going to really evolve into a “must use” marketing tool.  It’s a great way to announce you’ve just made a new blog post, released a new product, or anything else you’re up to.

I’m already seeing 40+ visitors each time I make a tweet that I’ve made a new blog post.

So trust me, this is no flash in the pan.  In fact, this may be one of the most powerful marketing tools ever, depending on how it evolves. 

But so far you’d be crazy not to use it.  It’s producing great results.

Take 2 minutes to create an account, you’ll want to do it now so you can at least get your name before someone else takes it.  Or your company or product name, etc.

Just go to:

 http://www.Twitter.com

Then visit my page at:

Omarra Byrd

And click the “Follow” button that is displayed under my photo. There is also a link to Follow Me, right here on the Blog.

See you on Twitter!

You will definitely want to be following me on Twitter because I’m going to be doing some really cool stuff with it soon.

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

I know, I know, it has seemed like forever since you guys have received a RoboForm Video. I would give the date of the last released video but that would only make myself look even more like a fool than I already do! I know that there is never any excuses but if you have been reading the blog then you know that I had a major disaster recently that I have been trying to rectify.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, you can check it out here:

My Major Mishap!!!

Fortunately, my incredibly idiotic actions have been remedied. Not without much effort and time constraint on my activities. Want to see the new and improved version? Check it out and don’t forget to tell me what you think of it in a comment below also. Anyway here is the link:

The New & Improved!!!

The good news, is now that the doofus debacle has declined, so now I can get back on my schedule. I swear that there is always a burning fire that needs to be put out! Thank the heavens for RoboForm! I need to save all of the time that I can possibly muster up!!!

Before we get to the new video, I have a small intro explaining the whole 1.5 nonsense, here it is:

Okay now, no more side notes to mention, so here it is:

RoboForm Video #1.5

Please leave me any comments, critiques or criticisms in the comments section below. I’d love to get your own personal feedback directly to me. Especially if you answer the survey questions. The survey will only send me your answers to the survey, if you have an Outlook or Thunderbird email account. If you don’t have either one of those email clients, then the comments section below is a great place to post your feedback. Your opinions are important to me, I would love to hear each and every one of them. That is negative, positive or complete indifference.

I hope to hear from you, until next time…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Okay, so here is the whole gory story of the membership site meltdown! If anyone uses any kind of software on a regular, then they know that there is always frequent updates that are released for any software. So it becomes your job to constantly update your software with the new version. Not actually a bad thing, just really inconvenient at times.

So the new update for the membership site was out for a few weeks and I had yet to install it. So here is where I made the blunder that caused the whole thing. Instead of uploading the update file to my server I accidentally uploaded the whole core download. This is what you would download if it was your first tme putting this software on your server.

So in essence, I took all brand new files and wrote over my old ones. Erasing all of my hard work in the process! True story. Now, what do you do if you were a member already before and you still want to be a FREE member? Then you need to go to the link below and create a new account.

Once you create your account you can see just how much I have tried to improve this site to make it better! Take your time and explore, leave a testimonial or even become a contributing member by posting a product, audio or video of yours. What ever you do…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

I know that you may have been looking for your BooksBonkers CMSI Membership Site. Unfortunately, due to a mishap, by yours truly, there are some serious technical difficulties with this site. It is being addressed very vigorously and I hope to have it remedied very soon.

I’m sorry that I never sent out an email explaining that the site was down for some internal repairs but in the midst of this whole unfortunate process all membership information has been lost! So I was unable to email any members. I never used your email information outside of your membership, so I had no backup of your email addresses. Even all of the BooksBonkers CMSI affiliate information was lost in the process.

I know that some of the former members may decide to not even go thru the minimal effort needed to re-establish their FREE membership and that is fine. For others they may have found their membership to be a great resource to visit regularly or even occasionally. If you are one of the latter then please send me an email at omarrabyrd@booksbonkers.com with your username, password and your full name and I will have your membership all set up and ready to go upon completion of the site re-haul.

If you were an affiliate and wish to remain an affiliate then you will have to sign up to be an affiliate all over again once the site has been repaired. I am sorry that I created this inconvenience for all affiliates involved.

Again I apologize for the inconvenience and I hope that all previous members will join again as I have some great plans in store for all members of BooksBonkers CMSI!!!

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Not too long ago, I sent out an email explaining about a hectic Sunday morning that I had when every last one of my websites were down. In that email, I expounded on how I happened to accidentally find myself with not a single one of my websites online! I’m not going to get into detail about that now, rather I’m going to share a resource that I think that any one who has a website should be using.

Server up time is a crucial factor when you are paying a premium price for your web hosting account! Even the best web host will be subject to downtime issues here and there! That is just the nature of this business. If you have a web host that tells you that he can guarantee 100% server up time, then I can tell you right now, that they are liars!

So what can you do to stay ahead of the game in this regard? You can use a service that monitors your web hosting server up time. There are two that I have used personally in the past that I will provide the links for. By the way both are FREE. One offers a paid service but for me the FREE version worked absolutely fine. The first one that I highly recommend is:

     Downtime Witness

This service can be set up so that you will receive an email when your site is down and then another to notify you once you are back online again. The second one is called:

     Host Tracker

They also offer a paid service as well. And they will contact you by email, text message or even both to warn you of server downtime.

This is priceless when you are running an AdWords campaign. You don’t waste your money by not knowing that your site is down. You also don’t piss off potential customers by sending them to a dead URL! As soon as you get a warning that your site is down, you just simply pause your AdWords campaign until you get the message that you are up and running again.

These are the two that I have personally used in the past and I still use Downtime Witness currently. Now a frequent contributor to the blog, with always timely comments, has told me of a service that he has used for many years. So, I have included this one also in this post. You can thank Hermas Haynes in your comments for providing this resource:

     Internet Seer

Check all three of them out and then pick one to monitor your site! After all, they all offer their services for FREE. What do you have to lose? Besides a little headache and stress, I venture to guess nothing! More resources to come!

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

As ashamed as I am to say it, I actually forget that I have a blog sometimes! Anyone will tell you that you are supposed to post at least 2 - 3 times per week to your blog. Yet, every time that I try to, I wind up getting sucked right back in to the same old rutt again. The rutt that I call, “LIFE”!

I guess sometimes you just have to hunker down and “GET-R-DONE”!

Well this is a short post today. I just wanted to let all of my raving RoboForm fanatic fans out there know that if you use RoboForm and you also use a BlackBerry, that you can now combine the two of them to create BlackFormRoboBerry. No I mean a RoboBlackFormBerry. Okay I’ll stop before I offend somebody.

But on the serious side, RoboForm is now capable of being used on your BlackBerry. Two very cool pieces of technology making a merger is always a win-win for everybody. There are some limits to what it can do as this is only in the BETA stages but I’m looking forward to seeing how it works.

You can get all of the details here:

     http://www.roboform.com/blackberry.html

You can stop thinking of different ways to turn RoboForm & BlackBerry into one word now!

If you think this information is worthy of telling others about, then by all means hit the “Share This” button below and share this! Or the bookmark button for more choices of social sites.

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Sorry that this has been so long in the making. It took longer than I thought. It is my hopes that the next one doesn’t take nearly as long. Anyway you have been delayed enough, so here it is. Please give it ample time to load as it is a very big file!

 The RoboForm Video #1

I hope that it helps you to see how easy the use of RoboForm is and how much you need to be using it. If you haven’t downloaded your copy of RoboForm yet then I suggest you follow along with the video and do so! You’ll be happy that you did!

As always your comments are welcome here, please take the few moments needed in order to share your thoughts with us. It would be greatly appreciated!

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Who is this guy, and who is he to claim that he has a Cure for Internet Marketing? Well, his name is Scott Boulch, and he creatively calls himself a “Doru”! You might be saying, ‘What the *#@! is a Doru!’ If you are, I can’t blame you, I said the exact same thing.

The Internet Marketing Cure!

The Internet Marketing Cure!

His explanation is that a Doru is a person who is doing and implementing whatever it is that they are trying so whole-heartedly to sell you on. He claims that they are the exact opposite of a Guru who attempts to sell you on any and everything that he can promote without ever implementing ‘the next best thing’ himself first! His only concerns is his affiliate commissions! So he will get into bed with any marketer who has a huge commission and promote that person’s product with the fervor of a raving lunatic!

That is just the tip of the iceberg! He touches on many more subjects like this in his ebook. Subjects that hit home with stinging truth! I won’t get into all of them here because I don’t want to spoil the read for you. Just click either of the two links above or below the ebook image, download and read the ebook! Then, of course, you have to come back here and tell me what you think by leaving me a comment!

Now on to a lighter note. You may have noticed that my comments on the blog have a picture of me by my posts. You may have thought that this was because it’s my blog and that was simply a feature of my blog. Well it isn’t. Anyone can have this same feature on any of their posts on any blog. It’s called an avatar. But how does it know when to put my picture up and not someone else’s? I ain’t no tech guy, by any means, so I can’t tell you how that works. What I can tell you is where you can go to get your very own avatar at though.

Just visit:

     Gravatar

and create your own by following the simple instructions there. Then show it off when you post a comment here!

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

I have to tell you right off the top that you and me are quite possibly very much alike. Me myself, I am a very impatient man! If I want something, I want it now and I don’t want to have to wait until later. Are you like that also? Usually, most people are.

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IN A HURRY? It can all be easily explained here: PC Secret Formula

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I know this isn’t one of the best traits to have in your personality but I’m just a man, I ain’t perfect. So what does this have to do with what your computer may need?

Well your computer may be a lot like mine also. My computer was slow as blackberry molasses. That is until I came upon this valuable resource that changed all of that for me and my slow poke PC. If you thought that RoboForm was an incredible time saving tool, wait until you see this resource that I have tested and that I highly recommend for you and your computer!

Ever get frustrated with your dead slow PC that used to run like a champ? Are your downloads and uploads taking you crazy amounts of time? Do you wonder sometimes just how safe your PC is from identity thieves, viruses, malware and hackers?

Then you definitely need to discover this life saver of a resource that I just found out about. Developed by a former hacker turned certified computer geek, this is an easy formula that helps average, everyday folks like you and me to Speed Up, Optimize and Secure ANY COMPUTER… new or old, PC or laptop.

This formula literally takes you by the hand and leads you click-by- click, step by step through the process that your local computer geek or the guys down at the Big Chain Electronic stores will charge you hundreds of dollars for… all for an incredibly low price!

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IN A HURRY? It can all be easily explained here: PC Secret Formula

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Besides, have you ever used one of those guys to fix your PC? I have… and the results were a joke. About $250 later and my computer still didn’t work right. Plus I really don’t trust just handing over all of my private files and data to just anyone! Would you?

I’m sure you’ve heard all the horror stories that I have heard… critical files and data lost forever, fried hard disks, virus and spyware attacks… just to name a few. Wouldn’t it feel better to KNOW that you’re protected? I can tell you with great certainity it does for me.

How about speed? Do you realize there are hundreds of programs and scripts recording and archiving your every move as you use your computer on a day to day basis? Even worse, every last one of these things hogs up all your system’s resources and slows your computer down to a crawl. Use this formula to remove the programs and scripts that are not needed. The formula will show you how.

Now, I can tell you the best part, this formula is designed for even the BIGGEST COMPUTER ILLITERATES out there (that would be me). I am not tech savvy at all. Yet, this formula is so easy to follow even I could do it! I even followed along like I knew what I was doing!

If you still don’t think you can do that you can get the videos that were created to go along with this formula, that takes you through the process step-by-step and click-by-click with video. Some people work better when they can see it being done. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Better yet still all the resources that you need to follow this formula and implement it on your computer are FREE! You just need to get the formula!

It’s called PC Secret Formula and you really should do yourself a favor and check it out right away.

It was one of the best decisions that I made in a long time! Check it out now before the price increases again. I got it for $9.97 and it has already went up $5.00 since I purchased it. The owner must have saw that it was selling like hot cakes! In order for you to take advantage of this hugely discount price you need to get your copy RIGHT NOW!

If you go to the link and you see that the price has increased then that means that you were too late. I hope all of you can get there as soon as possible because your computer needs this formula and you need to get The PC Secret Formula at the discounted price!

If you do pick this up, please be sure to drop me a line and let me know how you liked it? The same goes for the videos too! In the meantime here is a video showing you just how this formula works on my computer!

Okay I need to give you this warning before you start the video, I haven’t optimized my mic on the live feed yet, so the start of the video is very loud. You may want to turn your speakers down. But, my screen capture part of the video is done with my headset, which I have optimized, so once you get to that part of the video you may need to turn your spekers back up again. Sorry for the inconvenience! Now with no further delay…

As always please leave me your comments, concerns and questions! Tell me what you think, what you feel, heck tell me what kind of day you had today. I would love to hear from you! Until next time…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

I believe that RoboForm is one of the most useful Internet Marketing Resources that is not used to it’s fullest potential! I have been a firm believer in RoboForm for a couple of years now. If you have ever followed any screen captures of the so-called “Gurus” online, you will see that almost all of them have a RoboForm toolbar in their browser window. Why is that?

Well, simply put, it’s because the potential of RoboForm makes it any Internet Marketer’s dream tool. The various options that you have for it’s use are many. In fact I created a PDF Report that deals with many of it’s uses from an Internet Marketer’s point of view. These uses are not the standard uses that Tech Smith intended for it’s software but they are uses that RoboForm can perform well within it’s scope of intented use.

For instance do you use article marketing as one of your ways to drive traffic to your site? Did you know that RoboForm could help you in this capacity? In fact, not only help you but also cut the time that it takes for you to manually do this task drastically. I show you how in my Special Report.

Do you search various sites on the Internet for information. We all do, that may have been a stupid question! The real question is, did you know that you can save all the different sites that you search to your RoboForm toolbar and now search any one of them in two clicks? One click to the toolbar and then one click to the search button. I show you how in my Special Report.

Want a free download of RoboForm? There is one in my Special Report! Watch the video:

     The RoboForm Video!

Now do you want to read the report? You can get it here:

     The RoboForm Report!

Enjoy and please leave me a comment and tell me how you liked or even disliked it.

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd