Unreal Hail Storm – Baseball Size Hail [Video]

I found this on Break.com via Digg.

Unreal – Wait till the one minute mark of the video. All hell breaks loose.

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The other day I was surfing around Facebook and I noticed something strange. In the language settings I noticed a language titled “English – Pirate” So I clicked it and to my surprise someone over at facebook has developed a language setting for pirates.

Not only have they developed the language, they have gone to great links to change almost every aspect of common text in Facebook. It’s impressive and entertaining. Some of my favorite lines are:

• What be troublin ye?  replaces –  What’s on your mind?
• T davy jone’s with it!  replaces – Delete
• 10 Sorry louts think they’re your mates. replaces 10 friend requests
• Shiniest booty – Fresh booty. replaces Top news – Most recent

The list goes on and on – even the notification emails are in Pirate. Check out this video I made to demonstrate how to change your language settings. Also about two minutes in, I play a prank on my wife with her settings.

Enjoy.

About 5 months ago, a mutual friend Introduced me to Than Merrill as he was needing help figuring out how to use Twitter for his online business and for his real estate business. He had been fledgling along for over a year and was not getting any value out of  Twitter.

In the few weeks that followed that introduction we had several phone calls & one on one webinars where I got a good understanding of his goals and needs and gave him some advice on how he could use Twitter.

In this call you will here how Than & his company:

• Added 9,000 new leads to their email list
• Added over 150,000 new followers in 5 months
• Tracks his progress on Twitter (he has this down to a science)
• Spends 5-10 minutes a day on Twitter & remains effective and relevant
• And much more

Listen Here

A few things to note –  we did this on skype with the webcams running and at one point when I was asking him about the value of the lead – I saw him reach for his iPhone, so you’ll here me ask him “are you calculating the value of the lead?”. I should have recorded that skype call with video, I dont know why I didnt think to do that.

The most Important thing I want you to take away is that Than had a plan.  He had a simple blueprint and the tracking in place to measure his results. Anyone can do this – that is if you have the discipline to make a plan – measure your results and stick with it.

It was a pretty fun call and I think we will do a follow up – so please if there is anything more you want to hear or for me to ask him – leave it in the comment section and I’m sure I can get your questions answered.

In this post & video I want to share with you a technique I use to maximize click throughs -(not opens) with each email.

I know every email marketer always talks about the importance of split testing and open rates – but in this video I want to share with you a little technique I use to maximize click-through rates Read More→

This has to be one of the funniest, clean & safe for work videos I have seen in a while. Before you watch it, consider this social media tip.

I like to share funny thing’s on social media. I recommend you do the same.

These types of posts get a lot of traffic and re-tweets on Twitter. When someone RT’s you on Twitter it includes your username which inevitably drives traffic back to your profile, which inevitably Read More→

Today I logged in and noticed some changes in my facebook account. I think I have finally made the ‘beta list” as some people have not gotten this update yet – w00t!

I made a video for those who have not seen it! Read More→

Hello from Argentina. Despite a flight being cancelled, sick kids and everything else above the equator – we made it! The dream I had 5 years ago to spend an entire winter (summer here) has officially become a reality. I wanted to share with you a few things I did to prepare for coming down here that have made life a little easier. Read More→

Are you using email marketing for your business? If not, you should be.

Most marketers agree that email marketing is more effective than direct mail and also a whole hell of a lot faster than snail mail. I am an advocate of snail mail and have literally sent hundreds of thousands of direct mail pieces – but nothing beats the immediate impact of an email campaign.

Also the data tracking that is available allows you to really figure out how effective particular campaigns were. There is many more aspects of email marketing that are incredible like – split testing headlines, or list segmentation etc – but in this post I wanna focus on how to increase how many eyeballs see your message.

This little technique was one that I learned middle of 2009 and its a dandy! It increased effectiveness and more importantly revenue. In the video below I will show you how to increase open rates by re-mailing those who didnt open your email the first time.
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Hello World from Austin.

Finally, my new site is up and ready.  I just got the email that this is finally live. I wanna thank Matt & his team from Turbo Social Media for building this site for me. I met Matt through Twitter and what a treat it’s been to work with him & his staff. They are truly top notch.

I plan on using this site to share with you anything and everything thats on my mind. After all it is seanmalarkey.com! In all seriousness you can expect content ranging from Twitter, Internet marketing, my ramblings, social media, real estate, etc.

Why am I in Austin?  I decided earlier this year that I wanted to move.  Ohio has been great to me, but for the first time in a long time I am no longer tied to a business that requires me to be in a physical location. For the last 10 years I have been working in the real estate indusrty and did not really have the freedom to move. So almost exactly one year ago to the date I decided to make some changes in my life that would allow me to have more freedom.  The freedom to choose where to live was a big part of that decision process.

So prior to going to Argentina in a few days, I decided it would be nice to break up that long ass trip. We fly out of Houston to go to Argentina – so I thought this would be a good opportunity to check out Austin and cut some travel time off the usual 30 hour trek to S. America.

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