Everyday I get up in the morning and drive to work.  For the 30-45 minutes each way to work, I sit in traffic and  need something to take my mind off of things… keep me motivated,  inspired and help me with my pre-occupation of making money online.

Last year, for my birthday my wife gave me an iPhone.  I was blown away but also very terrified.  Sure they’re cool and all,  but they are also pretty damn expensive!

“We can’t afford one of these things?!?! ”

Of course deep down inside  I was thrilled.  I love little gadgets like these and  I have to say I love my iPhone.

Since then I’ve been checking out the world of podcasts.  In the past I never really got the fascination with a podcast.  You download an mp3 to your iPod (mp3 player) and play it…  Whats the big deal?

Now that I have an iPhone/iPod, I never realized how easy  and convenient it was.  And there are some amazing podcasts floating around in the podcast world with some amazing information.  Amazing information for helping you succeed in your online business and its all for free!!

Some of My Favoriate Podcasts for Internet Business

I’d like to introduce you to some friends that keep me company on my commute to and from work.  These podcast are great for getting ideas and tips for your business.  Each one is inspiring,  motivating, as well as providing great updates on new technologies and how other bloggers and web site internet marketers are running their businesses.

Internet Business Mastery – This is hands down got to be the best podcast being produced for entrepreneurs starting an online business. Published every couple of weeks Jay and Sterling bring fantastic interviews with some of the biggest names in internet business.  They also share some of their own great tips on starting and running a successful business.  If you can only listen to one podcast to help you with your business, this needs to be the one you listen to!

Internet Marketing – This brilliant podcast is produced by Andy White and Kelvin Newman across the pond from the UK and Europe.  Their recent interviews with Seth Goden and Tim Ferris was as they say “brilliant”!  They also have lots of great tips on some of the latest technology available for your blog.

Press This – This is a more technical podcast that comes to us from The Netherlands where Joost de Valk (pronounced Yoast – like the word toast with a Y).  Joost is a fantastic developer of many well known plugins like Socialable and Google Analytics.  His podcast has some great interviews and discussions with other WordPress and plug-in developers, as well as SEO experts.

Late Night Internet Marketing – Mark Mason of MasonWorld.com produces this podcast clearly aimed at the part time marketer and blogger.  Great interviews and insights to blogging and running your business part time.

43 Folders – This is a new podcast I recently started listing to.  I found it through a search for Seth Goden interviews (I’m on a Seth Goden kick lately).  The interview was fantastic and I’m not a subscriber.

Duct Tape Marketing – Another great marketing related podcast that has some awesome interviews with top marketing folks.

And last but not least we can not forget Ed Dale and Lynn Terry’s Internet Marketing This Week podcast.  Both Ed and Lynn are amazing marketers and business owners.  There is a ton of great information on this podcast. You really need to check this one out.  I actually just re-discovered this podcast a little while ago.   I used to listen to this when it first came out and totally forgot about it — Bad Joe! Bad Joe!…. and thanks Lynn and Ed!

Well, that’s about it.  I’ve listened to a lot of other podcast programs but these are my favorites for sure.  These all have provided some great insight and inspiration for me in my business.

Are there any that I’ve missed?  Let me know… I’m always looking for cool stuff to listen while stuck in traffic.

Twitter is really catching on like wildfire. People love it because it’s so simple. You just type in a short little text message and you broadcast to everyone what your up to. There’s no drama of which friend is at the top of your freinds list, no snow ball fights, no one emailing you back, no chat, … none of that. Just a simple one way communication from you to your friends.

Website owners and bloggers are catching on too. They know this is a great way to quickly let everyone know your blog has been updated. And webmasters love promotion. The challenge is to automate it so every time you make a new blog post everyone gets to know about it.

There are several different ways to automate tweeting out your blog feed to twitter. There is TweetLater, Tweetfeed, and TwitterFeed. There’s even Twitter Updater WordPress Plugin to tweet out about your blog post.

Out of all of these, my favorite is TwitterFeed. It has much more control then all of the other. It’s very simple to setup. The hardest part was getting setup with an OpenID (MyVidoop.com is very cool, BTW -but I’ll save that for another post.) You set how you want it to check for new posts, and filters on keywords, you can even prefix your tweets so follks know that this was an automated tweet. However the best thing I like is that its stable. I had been using TweetFeed for a little while, until suddenly I realized that none of my posts were getting tweeted. –sigh– So off I go in search of another way to make my presence in the world known

Setup is extremely easy:

1. Add your blog rss feed – For WordPress users is usually your domain followed by /feed
2. Set the update frequency – you can have TwitterFeed ping your blog every hour or every day.  Keep this one low – mine is set to every 6 hours.
3. Choose to include Title or Title & Description
4. Shorten URL’s – this is handy- it really saves on space
5. Post based on date of GUID
6. Set any prefix if you want
7. Filter keywords – you might not want every post getting tweeted. Filter it out here

Thats it!

Check it out and oh by the way… ITS FREE!!!