10 Firefox add-ons, Spam Bacn & Sausage

Personally delivered to you by Steve Lindhorst, author of
"Selling on 'the River' and "The Niche Book"

I hope you're all well. I just got back from seeing Monsters vs. Aliens at the theater, and a trip to the candy store with my 9-year old boy and visiting twin six year-old girls. If you think selling online is tough, try that. On to the newsletter...

In This Issue

1. 10 Essential Firefox Extensions
   
2. Three Really Good eBooks You May Have Missed
   
3. Spam, Bacn, & Sausage
   

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1. 10 Essential Firefox Extensions

Just about half of my readers use Firefox for their internet browser. I switched away from Internet Explorer years ago, and I've never been sorry. The Firefox browser allows heavy internet users much more freedom over the way their browser works. They do this by allowing outsiders to create and submit "extensions" or "add-on" applications. I've listed my favorite add-ons below and highly recommend them if you are working regularly on the web.

These extensions are free and easy to download and add on to your Firefox browser. If you would like to try Firefox, you can download it for free at: www.mozilla.com. Once you have Firefox installed and running, find the "Tools" tab in the top navigation bar and select "Add-ons" from the drop-down menu. From there you can see the add-ons you've added, if any. If you'd like to browse the add-ons Mozilla recommends, you can visit their site and click the "Add-ons" tab at the top of the page.

Here are my personal favorites (in no particular order):

1. ScreenGrab - Screengrab! saves webpages as images... It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images - either to a file, or to the clipboard.
2. Gspace - This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system.
3. MeasureIt - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage. This one is AWEsome!
4. Tabbrowser Preferences - Enables enhanced control for some aspects of tabbed browsing. If you try this one you won't want to live without it.
5. Colorful Tabs - Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.
6. Print/Print Preview Button - Replace the default "Print" button with the Mozilla Suite style "Print/Print Preview" toolbar button/menu.
7. SearchStatus - Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
8. ColorZilla - Get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can also measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes.
9. Firebug - This one's a must if you tinker with your own website or blog. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
10. TwitterFox - TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' status on Twitter. Based on the number of people who picked up The Twitter Trick last week, this one should be popular.

You can get all these Firefox add-ons and find hundreds more at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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2. Three Really Good eBooks You Might Have Missed

Over the past year or so I have recommended a few ebooks that were packed with info and each for a cost of less than $10. Some of these were only mentioned in single emails and weren't listed here in the newsletter. For those who may have missed them, I wanted to list them here for you. They are all extremely helpful, and at least one is not available any longer on the original site. Here they are:

• How to Find a Killer Niche, $10 - This is a great, simple ebook that describes several very effective methods of locating a niche market for selling products online. Really good information for setting up a niche website, or a niche blog whether you sell your own products or sell products as an affiliate.
• SEO Wars, $7 - If you have a website or blog and would like to generate more organic traffic through the major search engines, this guide will help. While it sounds pretty complicated, after reading this you should understand how search engine optimization works.
• The Twitter Trick, $5 - I sent an email recently with info about this incredible package of five ebooks that will help you learn all aspects of the social networking tool that everyone is talking about. This is a TON of info for an super-cheap price, and Twitter can really boost your connections with your customers.

As always, if you have problems with any of the downloads or with the files, I'll do my best to help you as soon as possible. I answer your emails personally, so please be patient with me.

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3. Spam, Bacn, & Sausage

I know you think I mispelled a word there - but I didn't. It's Bacn (pronounced bacon). If you haven't heard of it, it's a relatively new term for email you want, but just don't want to read right now. Bacn is not the same as Spam, which is email you didn't ask for, and don't want.

I sign up for a lot of things online. But I don't want those things cluttering up my email box. I only send you something about once per week, some of these guys send stuff every single day and frankly I don't have the time or desire to read it all. Even then, some of the information is very helpful and I want to read it - just not right now. If you sign up as an author at eZineArticles.com, you'll receive a very good (free) article writing course via email. You'll get one segment per day for quite awhile. It's valuable stuff.

To keep things for later, and keep your inbox clean - you should set up a BACN email address. For example, I grabbed emailbacn@gmail.com. When I sign up for a newsletter I use that address. Now, when I'm in the mood to read them, I have one email address to visit. Set up a bacn email for yourself and keep emails for when your in the mood.

If you receive my emails, at some point you signed up to get something, a bonus, or an ebook and were added to my list. So my emails aren't spam. I do however understand that you might want to unsubscribe at some point, and on each email you receive there is an unsubscribe link for that purpose. When people use the "Spam" button to unsubscribe, the sender is often (unfairly) penalized. In order to help fight true spam, make sure when you use the "mark as spam" feature, it's truly email you never asked for.

What about the sausage? Maybe it's the email we all really welcome. It is widely believed the term spam is derived from this 1970 SPAM sketch of the BBC television comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

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