I absolutely love Google Alerts. Its brilliant.

Google Alerts is a content monitoring service by Google that automatically notifies users when new content from the web, news, blogs, video, discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by a user or yourself. Notifications are sent via email, as a web feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page.

Users can set the frequency of checks for new results. I’ve set mine to once a day. This means Google sends me an email and notifies me of any new content which matches my search. I’ve put up alerts for myself and my products / company. You too can set this up easily & quickly.

You can see from the above screen grab, I’ve received two alerts for myself. One is from ePhotozine and from Twitter. I can click on the link and go straight to ePhotozine and read what they’ve written or published. This costs nothing and is completely free.

Through Google Alerts I also found the below:


Jason has blogged about Foto SF and here is the text if you can’t read from the above:

“I attended, yesterday, an amazing demonstration of some great software for photographers.

Called Foto SF, the software was designed by Uzair Kharawala, and it makes light work of organising your business life, as a photographer. Aimed mainly at wedding and social photographers, but I can easily see how virtually any photographer could easily recoup the modest investment.
Uzair has been doing some free talks, demonstrating the SF software, but I must stress, this was not a hard sell pitch! He spent most of his time telling us some pretty cool marketing tips. I learned more about web and email marketing in 2 hours, than I have managed to learn in the last 2 years!
Anyway, I shall be buying Foto SF, from Calumet, I strongly recommend you consider it too. Visit his website fotosf.com”
Here is the link to his website. I’ve now created a backlink to Jason’s website which is good for him as it helps improve his page ranking. Thank you Jason for you kind words.
Without the Google Alert, I wouldn’t have come across his blog. If you haven’t set up Google Alerts yet, go and set it up now.
Oz

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