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TypePad for ProStores

ProStores and TypePad: A Perfect Combination for your Online Business

The Spirit Work blog is the perfect complement to their online store.

ProStores gives you a professional, easy-to-use online store, customized with your own branding.  Now you can expand the reach of your store with a profesional, great looking blog from TypePad.

TypePad is the premier blogging service for professionals, hosting many of the world’s most popular blogs and small business websites. TypePad’s ease of use enables you to create a blog in minutes.

If you read blogs, you've read TypePad blogs.  That's because the world's best blogs, from your favorite small businesses and world-class news organizations alike, run on TypePad. 

TypePad makes it easy to get started, and grows with you.  Start with TypePad’s professionally designed blog templates, customize them with our point-and-click tools, or build your own from scratch.  TypePad makes it easy to tell the story of your business, through WYSIWYG editing, built-in support for photos, audio and video, and automatic generation of RSS and podcast feeds.

You can connect your blog to your online store.  With the new ProStores Search Widget, a TypePad blog is the perfect complement to your ProStores web store. Set up your blog with TypePad, then install the Widget to start driving sales from your blog today.

A TypePad blog connects you with the people that matter:  your customers, your prospects and the world at large.  And now you can connect your TypePad blog to your ProStores online store.

Get started today.  As a ProStores subscriber, you can get 15% off the first year of your TypePad blog subscription. Just use the discount code "PROSTORES-15" when you sign up.

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Job-a-matic

Add paid job listings to your blog with Job-a-matic

You’ve built a targeted audience for your blog. Now, let Simply Hired help you monetize that audience with Job-a-matic. 

Employers are eager to promote their job listings to qualified candidates. And savvy candidates always keep an ear to the ground for interesting opportunities. By adding job listings to your site with Job-a-matic, you provide your readers with a useful service and make good money along the way.

• Sell job listings on your blog. With Job-a-matic,  employers who want to reach your audience can post job listings on your blog. You pick the price for paid listings, and you customize the look and feel of your blog’s job section.
• Add more paid listings from Simply Hired. With millions of paid listings in our database, you can supplement the listings you sell with more from Simply Hired.
• Wow your audience with useful content.  With targeted job listings, you’re giving your readers valuable info… and making money doing it.
• Make your job board look like your blog.  Job-a-matic now features a TypePad style importer, to help you customize your board to make it look and feel like your blog.

Also, with Job-a-matic, your listings are displayed across the Simply Hired network, which means they'll be seen by visitors to sites like Simply Hired, LinkedIn, and MySpace. And the greater the visibility your listings receive, the more traffic your job postings customers will get.

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ProStores

ProStores is a powerful ecommerce solution that gives you everything you need to build and manage a professional, completely customizable online store in one convenient package for a great price.

ProStores can help you:

• Enhance your brand with a customizable online storefront and a personalized web address
• Gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace by never missing a single opportunity to make a sale
• Grow online sales and accelerate business growth through multiple online sales channels

With ProStores you get all the components of a powerful online store in one complete solution. Customize your store to fit your brand, organize and cross-reference your catalog, and even manage an affiliate marketing program for your online store. 

Plus, easily list product from your ProStores catalog to eBay and integrate your store with popular services from QuickBooks, FedEx, UPS and more.  ProStores can even automatically submit your store catalog to popular shopping sites like Shopping.com, Yahoo! Shopping, Shopzilla, and Froogle.

And now with the ProStores Search Widget a TypePad blog is the perfect complement to your web store powered by ProStores.  With just a few clicks you can turn your TypePad blog visitors into buyers on your ProStores web store. Install this Widget on your blog and start driving sales from your blog today!

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Vizu Answers

Vizu Answers is an innovative way for bloggers to generate revenue.

Instead of serving banners or text links from your site, Vizu Answers pays you to host interactive Web polls.  The polls only appear in locations that you specify and are from individuals and organizations that pay you to ask questions of your users. 

You make money from Vizu's clients who would like to ask questions of the unique audience that frequents your site. Vizu's clients might be students, inventors, entrepreneurs, writers, consumers, marketers, or researchers - essentially anyone with a question they want to ask your readers.

Why add Vizu Answers to your blog?

• Unlike ads, Vizu's polls do not take visitors off your site
• Polls are interactive and encourage user participation
• Polls fit the look and feel of your existing visual design
• Polls provide content targeted to your audience
• Polls are an excellent way to monetize your site traffic

And for a limited time, you can earn a $25 bonus after you earn your first $25 from Vizu Answers.  When you register for Vizu Answers, just enter the referral code TYPEPAD.

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Q-Ads

Your blog can earn money with embedded ads from Q-Ads

Looking for a way to extend the revenue potential of your blog?  Qumana has just introduced the all new Q-Ads Tool, a powerful and unique way for you to embed ads in your TypePad blog posts directly.  Q-Ads lets you choose the keywords for you post, so you're in control of the ad your website visitors see.

Once you have a Q-Ads account, you can use the Q-Ads Tool to easily insert ads into your blog posts. 

• The plugin for Firefox or Internet Explorer will add a "Q" button to your browser toolbar. 
• Just click the "Q", enter your username and the keywords for your post. 
• You can tweak the look and feel of the ads, and click "OK" to insert them into your post.

Getting started is easy. Simply complete the application form at Qumana.com and you will be sent an email to activate your account.

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We're building a directory of products and services that work well with TypePad.  Whether it's to help you build a better blog, expand the reach of your blog, or find ways to integrate your blog into the rest of your business, tools.typepad.com will be the place for you.

Right now we're in the initial stages of building out the directory.  Have a tool that works well with TypePad?  Let us know and we'll be in touch.

LinkedIn

Connect and communicate with TypePad and LinkedIn

Your TypePad blog tells your story. Your LinkedIn profile presents your professional identity. Now LinkedIn and TypePad make it easy to link your audience with the new profile widget.

• Build relationships with your readers. Steer your TypePad audience to your LinkedIn profile and gain new prospects, partners, and connections.
• Express your identity. Your blog broadcasts your message. Your profile shows the professional behind it. Linking them connects the dots for your readers
• Promote your blog and your brand. Linking your blog to your profile makes you more visible on Yahoo! and Google and promotes your blog to 7 million LinkedIn professionals.

Share your LinkedIn profile on your TypePad blog with our new profile widget!  No LinkedIn profile?  No problem!  Joining LinkedIn and creating your profile is fast, easy and free.

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Qumana

Looking for a rich, easy-to-use desktop blog editor? Want to be able to easily post to multiple blogs? When we’re working offline, we use Qumana’s personal blog editor.

Qumana is available for both Windows and Mac, and features easy text formatting, image insertion, Technorati tag creation, and Q-Ads, the easy way to insert contextual advertising directly into your posts. You can use Qumana even when you are offline -- save your blog posts to your hard drive and post them whenever you like. It’s great for bloggers on the move.  Best of all, Qumana's free.

Qumana features:

• WYSIWYG editing. 
• Instant tag insertion. Qumana lets you easily insert Technorati tags into your posts.
• Earn money from your blog.  Use Qumana’s Q-Ads system to insert contextual advertising into your posts, with one click.
• Easy cross posting. Qumana makes it easy to publish a post, and then instantly republish it to another blog.

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Skype and Skypecasts

TypePad and Skype: two great services that go great together. Now with Skypecasts, you can host a live, moderated discussion with your readers. Share your passion with people who share your interests around the world.

Hosting a Skypecast is easy:

• Schedule your Skypecast.  Got a topic for discussion?  Got a time?  Visit skypecasts.skype.com and schedule your Skypecast.  It will be listed for anyone to discover and join.
• Promote it on your blog. Once you’re listed in the Skypecasts directory, promote your Skypecast on your blog. Link to your listing directly in your post, or use the Skypecast Widget.
• Host your discussion!  Share your passion, connect with your audience and have fun!

Skype is a little program for making free calls over the Internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It's free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers.

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Mozilla Firefox

Why do we love Firefox? There are the obvious reason -- it's fast, stable, secure and does a great job of blocking all those nasty popups. But what makes Firefox near and dear to our hearts is that it makes us better bloggers.

How, you ask?  With tabs, of course!  With Waxy's links open in one window, the New York Times Select Op/Ed page in another, our customized Yahoo News in a third, and the TypePad posting screen in a fourth, tabbed browsing makes it easy for us to stay on top of the world and share our thoughts about it at the same time.

The geeks among us love that Firefox supports browser extensions, and  hundreds of third party developers have built tools that enhance Firefox's capabilities.  From the Sage RSS reader to the del.icio.us social bookmarking extension to the hacker's paradise of Greasemonkey, there are dozens of ways to make Firefox your ultimate swiss army knife for blogging.

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