Derek Franklin's Digital Laboratory
A daily discovery of new ideas related to multimedia, marketing, blogging, rss, search and creative thinking

You Need To Smile - Watch This!
Watch the entire 16 minutes - It's awesome!

The Mini Search Automator Widget For Your Site Has Arrived!
After many, many requests, and quite a long time of leaving it on the back-burner, I've finally completed creating the *free* Mini Search Automator widget for your site.

This little gizmo packs a lot of search power into something less than the size of a matchbook (you can see in action to the upper-right side of this page).

The page where you configure your own explains all the features, so I won't go into a lot of details other than these:

Place the power of Search Automator on your own site Customize yours with several unique featuresCreate as many custom Mini's for as many of your sites as you likeBuilt-in, hands-free affiliate features that allow you to earn commissions two waysEasy to use - just copy the generated code and paste it on your site!Your visitors are going to love its usefulness and the value it adds to your site
The following page explains everything simply, you can play with a live demo, and you can begin creating Mini's for all your sites right away - there's nothing to sign-up for:

www.searchautomator.com/mini.htm

Now, in case you're wondering why it took so long to get out the door, all I can say is, it was always on my list, and I finally got around to it. :)

Enjoy, and as always, I'm happy to hear your feedback, and I try to respond to as much of it as I can.

Have a great day!

Derek

I Did It Because The Economy Stinks!!!
I'm sure you've noticed that everyday the news has more and more stories about:
rising gas pricessoaring food costsrecord foreclosurescuts here - inflation thereIt's getting ridiculous! Don't you think?

Each and every one of us are being affected somehow.

The bottom line: We need some relief!

While we can't really do much to change the state of the economy (even the best minds in the world are being challenged), we *can* take control of our own money - both how we spend it and how we conserve it. Wouldn't you agree?

Last month, as I thought about this, I realized that the news does a great job of painting a 'doom and gloom' picture, but provides nothing in the form of tips and ideas for dealing with it.

Considering how much the mainstream media focuses on negativity, this wasn't a shock.

So since you couldn't expect them to step-up to help you, I thought I would!

So here's what I did...

I spent the last month on a mission to use my research expertise to achieve a single goal: Discover the best ideas and strategies for helping you get the absolute most for your money.

I'm talking about *simple* ideas (which are usually the best) that can have a huge impact on your budget.

I've compiled all the great things I discovered into a easy, fun-to-read book I call:

The Biggest Bang For Your Buck Book!

Here's a link so you can read more about how it can help you right now, and when you're ready,
grab a copy:

http://www.biggestbangforyourbuckbook.com

Be sure to check it out, because the page contains information about something very special to help you get even *more* bang for your buck.

To more money in your pocket!

Introducing The Internet Marketing Seeker
Let me state right off that what I'm about to share with you is only applicable if you have an Website of any kind or have an online business.

If this is you, then read on...

As you may know, I have several Websites myself.

I'm also a search expert/dude. I can tear through the Web and find virtually any kind of information I want or need.

As a Website owner, like yourself, some of the most common topics I want to learn more about include:
Web trafficCopywritingList building Viral videosBlogging And other important marketing topics.
When I put my mind to it, I discovered that the Web is just full of free tips, strategies, complete books, and even videos that explain how to master any of these topics, and more!

Information other people pay for, I was finding online with a simple search.

Did you realize this was possible?

I did to some degree, but when I actually saw the amount and quality of the content
I was stumbling across, I gotta say, I was pretty surprised.

In an effort to automate the process (that's what I do), I created a simple tool to help blast through the Web for these goodies.

As a Website owner, I think you could benefit from this unique tool. Here's a link to look at it yourself, as well as a video of it in-action.

Click on it now and take a look:

http://www.internetmarketingseeker.com

You might be surprised at what you discover.

HowToSeeker.com - Become Better At Life!
What do you want to do better in your life?

If you're like me, there're probably quite a few things that come to mind. :)

After all, part of living a fulfilling life is expanding our knowledge, and improving our skills, right?

Well, I'm here to tell you that no matter what you want to do better in your life that it's very likely that there's a site, article, news story, or even video to help you do it - probably lots of them!

That's the great thing about the Web. People a constantly creating quality how-to content about virtually anything you can imagine.

With video, it's become even better!

This is information you *used* to have to pay for in the form of books, DVDs, etc.

Now it's online - yours for the taking - *if* you know where, and how to, find it.

In the tradition of creating quality tools to help people discover great content online, I recently made it my mission to develop a new tool built specifically for helping you find all this great how-to content online.

I call it the How-To Seeker.

I crammed virtually everything I know about finding how-to's and tutorial-type content into this new tool, but I didn't lose sight of the fact that it needed to be simple and fun to use.

I really think I nailed it! :)

Take a look for yourself - I've put together a short video showing it in action:

http://www.howtoseeker.com

If you get a chance, I'd love to hear your feedback about this type of 'niche-specific' search tool.

Also, in case you're interested, this new tool is included within my TopicSeekers.com membership site:

http://www.topicseekers.com

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