I know that I am a few days late putting this information out, but I wanted to make sure that you are aware of this.  If you are into Internet Marketing, there is a good chance that you have purchased a domain.  Yes, I know that domains are really not that expensive, but if you can get them for free, why not take advantage of it?

Starting on June 3rd and going until June 18th, NameCheap.com is running a Twitter Travel contest where they will be giving away prizes every hour.  They will be giving away three domain names every hour on the hour for two weeks. The top two players and one person at random will win $1000 each towards the vacation of their choice. Three players will win Canon PowerShot D10s.

So now you ask. . . How do I win?

You will need to sign-up for a free Twitter account and follow Namecheap by clicking here. NameCheap will be posting a trivia question every hour on the hour starting from June 3rd 11 am EST – June 18th 10 am EST. Three people who reply to the tweet with the correct answer will get a $9.69 credit to their NameCheap account.  If you have been holding out on purchasing a new domain, here is your chance!

The first person to reply to the tweet with the correct answer will receive a $9.69 credit to their NameCheap account. Two other domain winners will be picked at random, so don’t give up if you aren’t the first.  NameCheap will announce the winners and answers on Twitter. To claim the credit, you should link your NameCheap account to your twitter account (click here to find out how to do this).

I hope that this has been helpful for you!  The competition for this is pretty heavy, but just answer and even if you are not the first to answer, because of the random drawings, you still have a chance!  I look forward to your questions and comments below!

Go Hard or Go Home!

Chris Jensen

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Last week, Google announced that later this year they will be launching a new real-time communication platform called Google Wave (see image below). After researching all day, I am going to attempt to answer the question that people all around the world are wondering, “What is Google Wave?”

According to Google:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

To sum this up, Google Wave is going to be a communication platform that will combine many of the attributes of email, social networking, instant messaging, and web chat all in one.

According to Mashable.com, Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:

- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.

- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.

- Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.

- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.

- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.

- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.

- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

As you can see, what Google is cooking up here is going to cause a wave of traffic blowing down its doors once this Google Wave goes live.  It is being analyzed, picked apart, and criticized by all of the biggest names on the world wide web, and we all know that we cannot wai to get our grubby little fingers on it.  Of course we will never know until it happens, but some experts are saying that Google Wave is going to put a hurt on Twitter.  I really doubt that Twitter is going to be knocked out, but it might be nice to see all of the spammers and affiliate links slowly start fading from Twitter.  Who knows, this might even help Twitter.

Well, I hope that you find this information useful.  I have a lot of ideas running through my head right now, so if you have any questions about anything to do with Google Wave, feel free to leave me a message.  If you have any more info about Google Wave, please share with us.  This might lead to a great opportunity for Internet Marketers.

Go Hard or Go Home!

Chris Jensen

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Here's a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

Ever since I started with Internet Marketing just over a year ago, I have used article marketing. Article Marketing can be useful in a couple of ways. I personally have two major uses for Article Marketing. I use Article Marketing to test out affiliate products, and then I use articles to build traffic and back links to sites that I have built. No matter what the reason is for you using Article Marketing, there are a lot of places to go to get your articles online. I have put together my top ten list of sites to submit articles. I have my reason for believing that these are the best. I look for page rank, popularity, and ease of use.

Here we go!

#1 – isnare.com – page rank 6

#2 – ezinearticles.com – page rank 6

#3 – articlesfactory.com – page rank 4

#4 – articledashboard.com – page rank 5

#5 – articlecity.com – page rank 5

#6 – articlealley.com – page rank 5

#7 – amazines.com – page rank 4

#8 – businessknowhow.com – page rank 4

#9 – promotionworld.com – page rank 4

#10 – goarticles.com – page rank 6

What do you think of my top ten list of sites to submit articles to? Are you using any of these sites? Do you have any that you think should replace something on this list? Like I said, these are the sites that I like for my own reasons. Article Marketing can be one of the most important parts of your marketing campaign if you use it correctly.

If you have any questions, please let me know! I look forward to hearing from you!

Go Hard or Go Home!

Chris Jensen