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How did I come to read this fascinating prose?

Yep, they closed it down. No idea why. All I know is that if I needed the emails in that account (which I don’t), I would be SOL. In business? Have your own email account that you control…

According to The Wall Street Journal, ABC says the app has been downloaded 205,000 times in the ten days following the iPad’s debut, and that is has been used to watch at least part of 605,000 TV shows.

Perhaps the best news for ABC, however, is that the app has served up “several million” ad impressions, although the exact number is apparently still being calculated, with ABC only adding that it is “pleased with the results.”

Also, the most popular single show watched with the app? Why the episode of Modern Family where Phil Dumnphy gets an iPad, of course.

Apple first opened the App Store in July 2008, along with the launch of the iPhone 3G and the release of iPhone OS 2.0. Sales were brisk, with 300 million apps sold by December. After the holidays, that number had jumped to 500 million. Earlier this month, Apple announced that sales had topped 3 billion; that means iPhone users downloaded 2.5 billion apps in 2009 alone. Gartner’s figures show another 16 million apps that could come from other platform’s recently opened app stores, giving Apple at least 99.4 percent of all mobile apps sold for the year.
Chart: Gartner figures for mobile app sales and revenue

“As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores become the focus for several players in the value chain, more consumers will experiment with application downloads,” Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner, said in a statement. “Games remain the number one application, and mobile shopping, social networking, utilities and productivity tools continue to grow and attract increasing amounts of money.”

Gartner’s predictions for 2010 are 4.5 billion apps sold, for a total of $6.8 billion in revenue. If Apple can merely maintain its current rate of about a quarter billion app sales per month, and revenue share tracks with market share, it stands to be responsible for 3 billion apps sales—67 percent—good for about $4.5 billion in revenue. Apple’s cut would be $1.35 billion, with developers taking the remainder. However, as Apple gains more users from sales of new iPhone models and possibly from an expected tablet, Apple could get an even larger share of the mobile app market.

Predictions for 2013, just a few years away, are even bigger—21.6 billion apps sold for a total of $29.5 billion revenue. The firm predicts that by then, 25 percent of the revenue generated by mobile apps will be from free versions supported with advertising. “Growth in smartphone sales will not necessarily mean that consumers will spend more money, but it will widen the addressable market for an offering that will be advertising-funded,” Baghdassarian said. That makes Apple’s acquisition of a mobile advertising firm seem like an even smarter move, just for the extra revenue alone.

The App Store model has become de rigueur on all the smartphone platforms, with RIM, Microsoft, Palm, and Google each building a similar way for developers to make apps available, and for users to find them and pay for them. Gartner warns that developers will have to carefully consider which platform’s app store is best to promote their app. Even with the hundreds of thousands of options that vie for users in the iPhone App Store, the numbers suggest that Apple remains most developers’ best bet.

UPDATE: A number of people have expressed concern that Gartner’s figure only count apps sold, and not free apps. Gartner’s press release indicated otherwise, and we verified with Baghdassarian that the figures include all apps, free or otherwise, distributed from every app store. According to Apple, it moved 2.5 billion apps, free or otherwise. We contend that the 99.4 percent figure is accurate.

The law firm marketing experts at SEOLawFirm.com released their podcast a couple weeks ago and it is now available in the iTunes store.
“The podcasts discuss various legal marketing topics that are covered on the company’s blog.”

SEOLawFirm.com’s parent company, Adviatech Corp., is no stranger to podcasting. In May of 2009, they developed Your SEO Update with host Sierra Winter to develop a monthly podcast. As production time increased on the 15 minute program, the episodes were later delayed until recently shortening the podcast to less than five minutes.

Now on their legal marketing side, the company is doing the same thing by hosting shorter podcasts on a bi-weekly basis. “The podcasts discuss various legal marketing topics that are covered on the company’s blog.” However, the podcast gives them an opportunity to discuss tips and tricks in more detail and even answer questions that come in between episodes.

The first episode went live a couple weeks ago and was posted on SEOLawFirm.com and their Twitter account. Close to 150 listeners have since heard the podcast and given positive review as well as ideas on things to change in the future to make the podcast even better.

Aside from time restraints in production, the law firm marketing podcast is also shorter due to its target market. Attorneys are often strapped for time and rarely have the opportunity to sit down for 15-20 minutes to listen to a full length episode. It was also believed by SEOLawFirm.com management that it was possible to include so much information in one podcast episode that the listener would not be able to retain it, thus preventing the podcast from being a valuable legal marketing tool.

With their slogan being “Law Firm Marketing Is Evolving,” it is no surprise that SEOLawFirm.com would use podcasting as a medium to spread their message. The podcast is free to subscribers.

To learn more, visit http://www.seolawfirm.com/category/law-firm-marketing-podcast/ or follow SEOLawFirm.com on Twitter at http://twitter.com/seolawfirm.

Last Saturday afternoon my son’s baseball team was
leading 7-3 in the third inning. Both sets of grand-
parents were watching the “sure-thing” victory.

Two innings later, the game ended 11-7. The kids
were crushed.

But their coach knew just what to say to lift their
spirits – and I took note.

“Men, the best thing about losing games like this
is you get to forget about them. But when you WIN -
you get to remember those moments FOREVER.”

WOW. What a great message. Focus on your victories.
Forget about your losses.

Two weeks ago when I was coaching a group of men
and women in Phoenix, Arizona, I put everyone through
an exercise where you go back into your past and find
your “winningest moment.” Once found, you relive it
with even greater emotion and glory than the day it
happened.

Before doing this exercise, a 53-year old Canadian man
came forward to tell a story about “the hit” he got in a
baseball game when he was 12.

His team was down by a run – with two outs and the bases
loaded. As he took the plate he overheard people in the
stands saying, “Ah, we got this one. This guy’s our home
run hitter.”

And he was. That year he’d slammed 14 home runs.

He swung and missed the first two pitches. Then on the third
pitch he connected with all his might and the ball sailed into
the outfield. Deep, deep into centerfield.

As he was telling this story I noted water in his eyes, 41 years
after the fact.

I wondered why. Then he revealed the rest of the story…

The ball sailed and sailed. It was going to be the game winning
walk-off home run. He would be the hero of the day.

But at the very last moment, the outfielder leaped high
enough for the ball to hit his glove.

And caught it.

Game over.

“You told me you got a HIT,” I said “In the U.S. that’s not
a HIT – that’s an OWT (trying my best to speak Canadian).”

The man smiled for the first time – but was still a bit choked up
about his memory.

“How many home runs did you hit again,” I asked.

“Fourteen,” he said.

“Could you tell me about the best one you hit.”

“Actually, I can’t remember any of them.”

“Huh? You hit 14 home runs in one season and you can’t remember
any of them?”

“Correct.”

“Well, your assignment for right now then is to remember your home
runs. ALL of them.”

I then turned to the others and said, “And the same assignment applies
to you. Remember your home runs – and create more of them. Stop
focusing on the losses – unless you want more of them.”

Over the next few hours our Canadian brother began to recall his REAL
hits – his home runs – and then he relived them in his Theatre of the
Mind. And when he left the meeting he was all the better for having done
so.

Focusing on your victories is basic and fundamental to your success.
And like anything, the basics and fundamentals are the keys to victory.

If you haven’t updated and/or reviewed your WIN LIST – do so immediately.
Then focus on your victories and forget about your losses.

The best thing about your losses is you get to leave them behind.

The best thing about your wins is that you get to remember them
for the rest of your life.

Matt Furey

P.S. In Zero Resistance Living you learn how to focus on your victories in a
way that will catapult you onto success, day after day. Year after year.
Discover how by going to http://psycho-cyb.com/zrlcourse.html

Wonder who he was talking about?

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Stella Grizoni – The “For Women Only” Branding Queen: Women entrepreneurs succeed twice as often as men. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling to women only, businesses only, pet owners or even parakeet owners only, this former senior brand strategist at one of the world’s largest ad agencies (and the director of Ladies Who Launch) is going to show you how to set up your web site to appeal specifically to your target niche.

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Lockhart Steele – Six Figure Blogging: Like to gossip about celebrities, write about motherhood, sports, your favorite hobby or the city you live in? Lockhart Steele, former Managing Editor and Founder of Curbed.com, is a guy who’s made a fortune blogging on everything from NYC, where to eat, worldwide travel to real estate. Learn to choose a theme for a blog, what & how often to write, and why it’s easier than you think.

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