DeMarr Zimmerman was nice enough to post this photo to Facebook that he took while on the stage at the training event. I added the arrow to point to where I was sitting in the crowd.

This was by far the BEST conference that I ever have attended based on the level of professional production, content, energy of the presenters and the spirit of the people attending. SendOutCards founder and CEO Kody Bateman got us all off to a exciting start with several announcements regarding changes that the company was making to make it very easy for customers to join us and, reducing the cost for new distributors to join the business.

After being a member of SendOutCards for just over 4 years I finally had the opportunity to tour the home office which includes our start of the art printing and mailing facility. After nearly 7 years SOC has perfected the systems to print, stuff, stamp and mail out hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts each week.

The week just before Christmas 2011 we topped our previous record by printing and mailing over 2.4 Million cards… in just one week.

SendOutCards is focused on leading the greeting card and gift giving business to new heights as we expand into over 130 countries in the next few years with our network of distributors. Being part of this fast growing company with the goals of helping people to act on their promptings to encourage and bless others while creating a vehicle to provide millions with the financial freedom that comes from owning their own businesses is truely exciting for my wife and I.

You can learn more about our Retail Customer program here: www.HometomeMarketingCards.com

Or, if you want to learn more about the business opportunity available with SendOutCards, go here: www.BeachHomeOffice.com

For the past three years my wife and I have been using a very simple and easy system to send out holiday cards to family, friends and business connections… stress free. We don’t go to the card store and we don’t even go to the post office to mail them. Watch this video from a Webinar replay that I did a few days ago.

Click on the image above to play video.

Kindle Fire brings everything we’ve been working on at Amazon for 15 years together into a single, fully-integrated experience for customers – instant access to Amazon’s massive selection of digital content, a vibrant color IPS touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle, a 14.6 ounce design that’s easy to hold with one hand, a state-of-the-art dual core processor, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, and an ultra-fast mobile browser – Amazon Silk – available exclusively on Kindle Fire.

I have been using Amazon S3 services for over 3 years to host audio and video files for my websites and for my clients. I love what Amazon has provided to me… low cost storage and high availability with high speed streaming of audio and video files. I look forward to giving the new Kindle Fire tablet a try this Fall when it becomes available. Heck, for under $200 it is a super deal. Thanks Mr. Bezos, good move.

Watch this video about the Amazon Silk web browser.

Click here to view the embedded video.

This month has been very busy with new website projects for clients and launching of a new product/service, Mobile Apps for iPhones and Android phones for local business owners. It has also been a time for thinking and planning for the future and that is what I wanted to share with you tonight.

As most of my readers and followers on FB know, I’m a distributor for Send Out Cards and have been for over three years. I joined after seeing a presentation by my friend Larry Benet and liked how he showed he used it for prospecting and following up with clients as well as staying in touch with family and friends by sending real printed greeting cards in the mail. I’ve used Send Out Cards that way myself but didn’t really look at the business opportunity it holds until lately.

In the past several weeks a number of things have happened that opened my eyes to the real potential that Send Out Cards has for me and my family in the coming months and years. If you are reading this and frustrated about trying to find a way to bring in extra income please watch the short 3 minute video from this link. www.HometownMarketingCards.com

If you are interested in learning about a successful network marketer who joined Send Out Cards in the past year and why he did it, you can also watch the video below from Eric Worre. Eric made over $5 million dollars in the past 5 years with another network marketing business but decided to move into SOC. Watch the video to learn why.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you want to learn more about Send Out Card be sure to watch the 3 minute video and you can also contact me directly from the link there or my website here.

There are lots of other cool features too besides being able to save QR codes as EPS files. Have a look at my public page at msprings.delivr.com If you have an iPhone or Android with a QR Codes Reader be sure to scan my QR code to get my information.

Watch this video to learn more about what Google+ and what it can do for you.

Social Media Pro Explains Google Buzz: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com

Now with this WordPress Video Manual Plugin I can provide all my clients with instant access to 30 videos and a 100 page manual that is always up to date no matter what version of WordPress their website is on. When they can’t remembers so little detail about posting, adding images, permissions or whatever it is, they can quickly look at the videos hosted within their WordPress Dashboard.

I’m now including this as a free resource for all my clients and installing the plugin for them. So far the response has been great, they love the easy to understand videos and some have even printed out the manual to have their own hard copy next to the computer.

If you create WordPress websites for others or even for yourself, the WordPress Video Manual Plugin is a great tool that you need to start including on your clients websites and your own.

When you purchase the plugin subscription you have access to install it on unlimited websites. This is a small fee for a tool that will give you and your clients a huge payback.

Do you think that perhaps finding more ways to use mobile phones to promote businesses and products is a good plan for your companies future?

I’ve tried several applications over the past few months that support mobile phone uses on my websites. Today I installed the best one I have found to date, the WP Mobile Detector that works with my WordPress website.

The WP Mobile Detector allows you to display a mobile theme to mobile devices in minutes. Simply install the WordPress plugin and activate it. You can easily configure a premium mobile theme with an interactive mobile theme editor without affecting your desktop theme.

It works by detecting a mobile device and displaying the active mobile theme to the mobile device instead of the active desktop theme. For desktop users, the plugin does not change anything. Think of it as being dormant until a mobile device visits!

If you have a mobile phone, and who does not, just enter the URL of my website here at http://whoishenry.com into your phone and see what my website looks like.

Do you need help with online solutions for your business? Contact me today for a free consultation and let’s see what I can do to help you drive traffic and sales UP and provide the ROI your business needs.

According to the Official Google Blog…

Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.

So, how did your websites do? Did you feel a “Google Slap” or did it help you?

For most of my own websites I saw a positive result increasing my sites one full PR point and I see other good coming from this.

Most of what I do is focused on helping local business owners who lately for the most part are benefiting from the changes Google is doing with the tweaking of their systems. Google Places pages showing up on page one for keywords in local niches is just one place that Google is helping.

Please post a comment below on how you think Google is doing.

February 25, 2008 was a Monday that set me free from the JOB as an IT Manager helping to make someone else rich. I would love to say that I’m now rich myself but, while that is not true financially, I do have all our needs and more taken care of. Also, I have time to enjoy my family doing what I want and not what I have to do everyday.

Last week my wife, son and I had a wonderful time escaping the snow and cold of Minnesota for the warm sunshine of Orlando, Florida. We had a working vacation together and still had time to play and do fun stuff. The three of us helped my friend and client Jeff Mills present his Clickbank Masters USA conference there in Orlando.

I am blessed to be able to change my work and lifestyle by making use of the Internet as a communication tool and a medium for building virtual businesses online. Sometimes online marketers make it sound soooo easy and talk about how anyone can build an online business. Well, that is not true anymore than anyone can open a successful business in your city.

My primary focus for 2011 is helping local business owners who need help to understand and utilize online tools and technology to get customers in the door or sell their products or services online. I will always be open to helping anyone who wants to start an online only business but that takes skills in business and administration that most folks don’t have.

If you don’t currently own and operate a business in your community but would like to find a way to build a part-time or even full-time business and, you have at least some basic computer skills, I would recommend you look into starting your own Greeting Card Business. My wife and I have done this and enjoy working this together. You can Watch a Short Video Here and learn more about it. You can try Sending a Couple Cards yourself and see how cool it is.

If you have questions about using the Internet for an existing or new business I would be glad to answer them. Just use my Contact Form to get in touch with me.