Powerful Bid for Liberty

The bid for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat is underway in Massachusetts. Republican Scott Brown seems to be overtaking Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. Apparently in such a democratic state, the people of Massachusetts are not happy with the status of the Obama administration as it becomes more obvious in the polls. Perhaps next week a huge upset will occur and the administration will be forced to listen to the people - rather than pushing their own agenda as the majority voice is ignored.

Websites about Mesothelioma

My former business partner and I created several websites about Mesothelioma, Asbestos, and Asbestos Cancer as an experiment in internet marketing. We were able to get some pretty good rankings in a very short amount of time and unique content on each site.

However, we are no longer working together and would like to sell the sites to someone who would like to pursue building them and growing them. But what is the best way to sell the sites? I have looked into Flippa.com - but are there other ways that are better?

C-Span Calls Out Obama

Karl Rove on C-SPAN's request to Congress to televise health care meetings. Watch the interview.

President Obama promised to make the Health care debate open and transparent. Stop your secret health care shenanigans and let C-SPAN cover the meetings. No more secret sessions. No more sweetheart deals. The American people have a right to know. If you don't have anything to hide, you would welcome the light. Let the cameras in. Sign the petition for health care transparency.

Google Launches iPhone Competitor - Nexus One

The iPhone has a new competitor with the announcement of the new phone released by Google. The Nexus One is available through Google's online store.

(Media-Newswire.com) - Major cell phone announcement about the new Google Nexus One phone that the company will be releasing next Tuesday. The much anticipated phone will be available through mobile phone provider T-Mobile.

The new Google Nexus One phone is set to be manufactured by HTC. The operating system will be a newer version of the popular Google OS Android with v2.1 to be installed on the new phones.

Besides purchasing from T-Mobile stores, Google also announced second way to get the new phone starting next week. Google will setup a new smartphone marketplace where phones can be bought along with service plans, phone support and information.

The cost of the phone will be $179 with an approved two year contract or an unlocked version for any provider at $529 which will be available for purchase directly from the Google smartphone marketplace.

The new phone will have special features including a 3.7-inch OLED 480-by-800 display which is less than the newly released Droid but superior with the OLED.

USATODAY
Google's Smartphone
(by Jefferson Graham)

Taking direct aim at Apple's iPhone, Google on Tuesday introduced its most advanced phone to date — the Nexus One — and opened an online store to sell it directly to consumers.

The phone, available at google.com/phone, costs $179 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile. Similar offers will be available from Verizon Wireless and British carrier Vodafone this year.

You can buy the phone without a contract for $529.

The Nexus One runs an updated version of Google's Android operating system. Built by HTC from Google's direct specifications, it has a touch-screen and a fast processor. It includes a 5-megapixel camera for video and photos, a Global Positioning System (GPS), and stereo Bluetooth connection for headphones.

Among gee-whiz features: speech dictation, which lets you speak and compose e-mail messages, Twitter tweets and Facebook posts without typing.

Google has lagged Apple in the mobile market. It has tried to be a major player with Android, which it offers free to manufacturers and wireless carriers. Some 20 Android phones are available, but few, with the exception of the Verizon Droid (by Motorola), have been big sellers.

The Nexus One could change that, says Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research: "It's the best Android to date."

Apple has sold nearly 30 million phones in 100 countries. Its U.S. carrier is AT&T. On Tuesday, it said iPhone and iPod Touch owners have downloaded 3 billion applications since it launched the App Store, a marketplace for 100,000 applications that do everything from play games to translate words.

There are around 10,000 apps for Android phones.

The message to consumers is that Nexus One is the flagship Google phone, and the others aren't as good, says Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Interpret. "If I was a Droid customer who just bought the phone a month ago, I might not feel so good," he says. Google "made it clear that not all Android phones are created equal."

Google's Andy Rubin, who oversees Android, says with its own store, Google could potentially lower wireless plan costs, since it "won't have the built-in costs" of heavy advertising.

Golvin predicts Nexus One will result in sales of "a couple million" phones this year and bigger market share. But Google must push into more countries, and "that's going to take awhile."

Achieving Goals

Well, my goal today was to write blog posts for each of my 9 blogs. And I am very happy to say that I have reached that goal. Now I need to get writing on my book which has to be finished by January 15th.

I'd love to hear your goals and what you've achieved so far this year. :)

Business Goal Setting

I love the new year and taking the time to set goals for myself. However this year I have determined to also create time for business goal setting. I have over a hundred domain names, about 20 websites, and much more to do. But if I don't set specific goals, I may come to the end of 2010 and discover I have haphazardly gotten further along, but have not really accomplished what I could have done if I had gone about it with a plan.

There is power in being specific with business goals, writing them down and creating a plan to achieve them. If you don't write down a goal, it's not really a goal. If you don't create a plan, then your goals likely will not be accomplished.

Internet marketing is a wonderful and fun way to create successes. There are so many areas where goals could be set. I could set goals for getting high quality backlinks to my sites. I could create better website templates and each month launch a new site. My business goal setting could be focused on only financial outcomes (but then I'd still need to create smaller goals and a plan to achieve that additional income). Whatever I determine this year, I predict it will be a very productive way to increase my reach and enhance my existing internet properties.

In your own business goal setting, you may ask yourself or your business leaders the following questions. What is our main business? How are we getting better? What can we do to serve our customers more efficiently? How can we create more momentum? How can we assist our employees in becoming more effective and enjoying their work more? How can we generate more income and better quality products? At the end of 2010 what do we want to have achieved?