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I heard about this tool from Michael Hyatt. It's pretty cool, its called Similarweb.com I could write a giant blog post about it, but in the end it would take last time to just go use it. You learn all sort of great insights into your website (that in theory you can get from analytics), but you can't get analytics about your competition - and you can enter their URL and find out all sorts of cool stuff about them. You can see if what people are paying on their site, where there traffic is coming...

Everyone and their brother is promoting this tool, and there is a reason for it. This seems very, very cool (I bought it today, but I haven't used it yet). It works on both PC or Mac, and it's super cheap. It's called Video Maker FC. Here is what you get: 240 Animated video slide templates (you can customize these). 20 Royalty Free Tracks 1 Year of Support and updates Completely edit the background It takes some of the best-looking examples that you've seen in other videos and rolls them into on...

There are some tools I spotlight on this show that I just have to buy and MySpeed is one of them. I can't believe how much I'm using it. What does it do? It speeds up flash videos or html videos (or audio). It also slows them down if you need to take notes. It works on just about anything (it doesn't work on Quick Time videos, but for me, it works on YouTube which is all I needed).Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_Y8SrGQAw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_Y8SrGQAw) If yo...

Today we talk about Twitonomy.com an interesting tool that gives you great insights into your twitter account, your followers, people you are following, as well as any search item or hashtag. You can export all of this into Excel or a PDF. (http://weeklywebtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/twitonomy.jpg) Get detailed and visual analytics on anyone's tweets, retweets, replies, mentions, hashtags... Browse, search, filter and get insights on the people you follow and those who follow you Backup...

One the great things about this time is there are a ton of people creating great looking, extremely flexible, feature rich wordpress themes. Today I stumbled across Atomlux from less than $40 (http://weeklywebtools.com/atomlabs) . The theme is not only flexible, but has a ton of training to go with it. Here is an example of one of their videos on making a call to action. http://youtu.be/ucq1dBEaNbs (http://youtu.be/ucq1dBEaNbs) Check out Atomlabs Website (http://weeklywebtools.com/atomlabs) Full...

Today we talk about PaywithaTweet.com an interesting idea that I could get to work (see video below) and we start a discussion on leaving aweber manage your email list(s) using Wordpress abd Raoid Mailer plugin. Pay With a Tweet This is an interesting idea. It seems simple to use, except when I tweeted it, I got an error message and never got my download. http://youtu.be/t8RedefjnDY Rapid Mailer - Gain Complete Control of Your Mailing List Click Here for More Information (http://www.weeklywebtoo...

Live Chat Plugin (http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-live-chat-plugin/3952877?ref=jammindave) If you are looking for a live chat system without the monthly fee, then you might be interested in the Wordpress Plugin call (creatively enough) Wordpress Live Chat. Install on your own WordPress and start to use it Very clean code Cute skin (fully customizable) Create your own operators Chat logs, of course ;) More than one operators can reply the same user’s question Visitors can fill out contact fo...

Today we talk about consuming the show and another time scheduling tool. Then we get into the instasuite of products that I discovered after purchasing instatheme. Betty Scheduling Tool trybetty.com is a free scheduling tool that works inside your email. I looked at it, but for me personally the biggest hurdle of scheduling on a global scale can be a nightmare when it comes to time zones. I was using calend.ly and it messed them up. I tried timetrade.com and others. Betty makes me manually choos...

Every now and then doing this show costs me money. Why? Because I come across a product so powerful and unique that I just have to purchase it. Today's show (episode 239) is one of those shows. I came Across Survey (http://weeklywebtools.com/surveysale) 2 Sale (affiliate link) and I was like WOW!. I contacted the developer and he was nice enough to come on the show and explain it. I have this implemented at www.schoolofpodcasting.com if you want to check it out. The Idea You build a survey for y...

Today I point out a very cool task management system that not only makes handling all of your project a breeze, but it integrates with sites like Evernote, Dropbox, and Google Calendar. Here is where things get cool. You can have multiple tasks added by sending ONE email to a special email address assigned to your account. All you do is separate the tasks with a period. So it might be .bring home milk .text wife a loving message .call you mother and all those three items would be turned into sep...

Simply Measured is a cool website that has free reports to help you determine where your traffic is coming from. this video helps you understand (not sure why the audio is out of sync, its like a bad Godzilla movie). Check it out at www.simplymeasured.com (http://www.simplymeasured.com)

Full notes at www.weeklywebtools.com/236 (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/236)

I just discovered Freshdesk. This is a SUPER EASY support system. It offers SO MUCH. I was looking for a basic FAQ program found this system that not only does FAQ, but it provides live chat, forums, satisfaction surveys and much much more. I looked into it. I saw they had a free version and I had it setup in less than 10 minutes. I love that they have mobile apps to help you stay in touch. Right now they have an android app, and a soon to be iOs app (they do have an html5 version). Prices are n...

Monkey is a standalone web based app where you can simply login to your account and create countdown(s) inside your account without downloading or installing anything. Once your countdown is saved you are given a code to copy and paste into your pages. Your subscription includes all future updates/upgrades and because this is a hosted service you'll never have to do any kind of updates or re-installs yourself (our goal is to ensure you never even notice them) They do have some very cool features...

Today we look at a great tool for selling products with an alternative to paypal. Check it out at weeklywebtools.com/232