I told you there was value in every thread…
This is simply from a snippet gleaned from the forum – the thread was filled with much more!
Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer
“This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. As you know, reaching your customers in an deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting, and your headline is unquestionably the most important piece of copy you use to reach prospects.
Your headline will be analyzed and scored based on the total number of EMV words it has in relation to the total number …read more

Obviously a great deal of effort went into this tool…
Because it’s Brad’s I’d recommend it anyway but I think you might want to seriously take a look at this. Here’s some of the email Brad sent out;
A new website creation program that allows you to create truly professional looking websites with absolutely no website programming knowledge, whatsoever.
You can create sites that look identical to those created by professional web designers!
We’ve been working on it for more than 8 months now. We just opened up the site to the world and you can sign up for free and start making your …read more

“Is your web site just not cutting it anymore? Would you like more sales?” Google is ready and willing to help, if you can win their contest!
h/t to Search Engine Watch and Nathania Johnson;
Pump Up Your Site with Website Workout
“This afternoon at the SMX Seattle conference we announced the Google Website Workout contest.
The idea behind the contest is simple: we’re looking to help four businesses “pump up” their websites so they can get more sales, leads, or signups. Our consultants will work with the four winners to increase their sites’ performance by identifying and testing which combinations of page design, …read more

And I’m all for it!
I guess I could say I wish I had seen this from its inception but that isn’t true. Since posts about Walmart’s Classifieds have part of my current interest, I saw Erick’s at TC and read through the comments, coming across one by Bob Wyman. He mentioned the “no-coincidence” thought that Walmart’s new classifieds are being publicized at about the same time the newspaper industry is attempting to “recapture” the classified ad business.
Hence ReinventingClassifieds.com.
From their very first post;
“We’re especially looking for ideas that will help the newspaper industry figure out how to recover some of its …read more

CNN is carrying a good read informing those of you interested in a web site exactly what mind set you need to determine what the right cost for a web site ought to be.
“The number-one reason for wildly variable cost quotes, Schwab says, is that many small-business owners don’t have the time or knowledge to put together a “comprehensive requirements document”: something that spells out to the letter the kind of site you need built. Without a detailed requirements list, bidding companies may be coming back with services that aren’t necessary, or leaving out features you’ll need.
Getting a clearer sense …read more

It has been suggested that I attempt a bit of a different focus at Workboxers by those who think I can do better… could they be right? Well, heck yeah!

I want to pass this on to you because it comes from a marketer that I respect. Yes, there is an affiliate link included. I’ll give you a choice.
Many of you know about eBay. I’ve written a bit about it lately. Did you know eBay has an affiliate program? Well, what I’m about to introduce to you is designed to help you take full advantage of eBay’s affiliate program (eBay Partner …read more

And I found our CEO hanging out there! :)
New Forum: How To Buy and Sell A Web Site at Sitepoint which Shayne Tilley calls “a dedicated place on the SitePoint forums for people to share their own experiences in buying and selling websites.”
The first thread is a sticky from catweasel, “Advice For Buyers” and offers some helpful advice, including;
Google is your friend

Make liberal use of google. If the site has a 1800 number google it, maybe there are duplicates.

Select a bunch of text from the site and google it to check for …read more

Because I’ve seen folks concerned about code in your page affecting Google PR. From the W3C…
The Markup Validator is a free service by W3C that helps check the validity of Web documents.
Most Web documents are written using markup languages, such as HTML or XHTML. These languages are defined by technical specifications, which usually include a machine-readable formal grammar (and vocabulary). The act of checking a document against these constraints is called validation, and this is what the Markup Validator does.
Validating Web documents is an important step which can dramatically help improving and ensuring their quality, and it can save a …read more

And I’m sure many of you know that already :)
A real copywriter – someone writing sales and marketing copy. Content writers – depends entirely on the subject matter. Sales letter writers are copywriters but called “direct response copywriters.”
[Quote compiled from two resources - Digital Point and "Writers vs. Copywriters"]
Here are some places you can find some of the best known Internet Marketing Copywriters I know. Please feel free to add your recommendation in the comments.

Too Many To List In The: Copywriter’s Forum by Michael Fortin

Too Many To List In The: Warrior Forum Copywriter Directory

One of b5’s Own: Brian Clark at …read more

Google’s are free – MS’s aren’t, and that ought to say a lot :)
Thank you to Elinor Mills at the News Blog;
Gadgets comes to Google Docs
Google on Wednesday unveiled Gadgets for Spreadsheets in Google Docs, allowing people to create graphical representations of data in spreadsheets and publish them on Web sites.

[Google Docs lets you turn your data into a Motion Chart in a spreadsheet via a Google Gadget. (Credit: Google)]
For consumers, this means they have a dozen or so new ways to look at data in their spreadsheets. Google has put up a gallery of specialty gadgets to choose from. …read more