Grab Bag: Your Five Links of the Week
Posted in: Web Info, Tips & Tricks
- www.TheColorOf.com — What is the color of summer? Of happiness? Of fear? What is the color of school? Of work? Of Monday? This simple site attempts to answer these questions. Type a word into the box on the homepage and the site will look through search results to find associated colors, all the while building a beautiful, digital painting right before your eyes of its interpretation. Make sure you take a minute to browse the gallery.
- http://tinyurl.com/6djtqvb — Where and when did you learn to open doors? I’m going to go ahead and guess that you didn’t learn how to open doors in the proper manner. Good thing this 1979 Finnish instructional video, helmed by a man with the most fantastic of mustaches, walks you through the correct manner in which you should open all outward-opening doors. Super awesome.
- www.Grasshopper.com — Grasshopper is an entrepreneur’s/small business owner’s phone technology dream with “all the features to run your business from anywhere with no hardware to purchase.” Get your calls, voicemails and faxes anywhere — and oh so much more. Plans range from $9.95/month up to $199/month and come absolutely overflowing with features. We’re talking unlimited extensions, on-hold music, conference calling, customized call forwarding and screening, read-your-voicemails technology, fax on demand, true 800 number, number portability and even informational extensions that let your callers learn everything they need to know, from your hours of operation to driving directions to product descriptions.
- www.GetConcentrating.com — (For Mac users only!) An impressive online tool that eliminates distractions and allows you to work (or study) more productively. If you might benefit from a good distractions-prevention tool, I recommend popping over and watching the homepage intro video to get a better idea of how Concentrate could help your productivity. You can sign up for a 60-day free trial and, if you like it, purchase a license for $29. (Family license packs are offered for $44.)
- http://tinyurl.com/7c25cbv — Is link building a part of your SEO strategy? Do you spend time each month reaching out to other websites in hopes of increasing your site’s total number of inbound links? If so, do you ever feel frustrated because a large number of your link requests fail? This blog post by Ken McGaffin of WordTracker walks you through 10 possible reasons your link requests are failing and how you can address each issue to increase your link building success.
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