Paul Duxbury

General Weekly (ish) Overview

Normally I send out a newsletter to all our subscribers each week but this time I thought that I would bring you our weekly (ish) update through my main blog!

Welcome New Subscribers!

Firstly can I extend a very warm welcome to the 600+ new subscribers who have joined us in the last 10 days! It’s great to have you with us and hopefully you will find an absolute mine of information here and at our various sites.

That was The week That Was!

Well what a week or so it has been! As those of you who have read my post “The Worst Web Hosts Ever” will know we have been having a fraught time with 1and1.co.uk. This has been rumbling on now for nearly three weeks and there are four domains which they still seem to be incapable of transferring to HerosHosting who are my preferred Web Hosts.

I haave been fortunate that Jeffery Ash has excelled himself in terms of personal support in getting things sorted and hopefully in the next few days we will be able to bring this all to a conclusion! Jeffery really is an absolute superstar and what is more he offers my subscribers a very special deal! If you have been thinking of moving to a new host (especially if you are with 1and1.co.uk!) or have been thinking about setting up your own website then I cannot recommend Jeffery highly enough. Take a look at what he has to offer at Heroshosting.

New Domain Names

To get round the problems in the short term we have registered a few new domain names to cover some of our most popular domains so if you are looking for any of the following then click on the links and you will be taken there:

The Amateur Genealogist
Our Family Trees
Rose Gardening Success
Achieve Success Online

We have also taken the opportunity to register a few new domains for some of our inredibly popular Blogs. Two in particular that I know will be of interest at this time of year are:

The Genealogy Blog
The Landscaping Ideas Blog

Fame!

You know, I cannot pick up a Genealogy Magazine or indeed a few other magazines at the moment without finding my name in it! It’s okay it’s all very positive stuff! GenMates (our Genealogy MySpace Alternative) has really got people talking. We now have approaching 600 members since we launched about 6 weeks ago - which is not a bad achievement is it! Members are creating their own Groups and Forums, Blogging and sharing their interests and generally taking advantage of all the great features.

So if you haven’t logged in recently or heaven forbid haven’t joined us yet then you can pop along to GenMates once you have finished reading here!

Our Get the 1911 Census Online Petition is also about to be featured in several magazines! I am sure we shall see the current excellent 580 signatures exceeded very quickly.

Freebies!

If you haven’t already downloaded my Introduction to Scrapbooking eBook which is free of charge then just click on the link to be taken there!

I have always been a great exponent of Vision Planning and the benefits it brings. I have put together an overview of Vision Planning with some helpful tools within it which are essentially what I use - they are also what some companies have paid me handsomely to deliver as a training session

They are here for you to use and to share with your own subscribers and friends and not even an email address required! So just right click on Guide to Planning for 2007 to download your copy aand save it to your own hard drive!

Finally…

Would you like to hear my dulcid tones LOL Well, I am currently putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard more like) and writing the eBook that explains how we have created a successful Internet Business during the past twelve months. To get on the notification list for the launch of “Are Successful Internet Marketers Really from Pluto?” just click on the link.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

Add comment September 16th, 2006

GenMates - Social Networking For Genealogists

The testing is going incredibly well and we are starting to promote the site. The testing will continue for a little while yet as we continue to get excellent feedback and ideas from our Volunteers - for which we are very grateful.

A major Press Release has been issued and over the next few weeks we will hopefully see the benefits of that.

You can read more about GenMates at GenMates Information and join the site at GenMates and it’s completely FREE to personal Members.

Add comment July 28th, 2006

Social Networking for Genealogists

Genealogists are great networkers as the many forums that cater to them demonstrate. With the launch of GenMates they now have the opportunity to take their Genealogy and Family Research to the next Level.

With GenMates they can make new friends around the world, share their research, seek help from other Genealogists but also they can do so much more!

With the launch of GenMates they can:

•Write a Blog and publicise their Genealogy Research with their unique Blog Link;
•Create their Own Groups or Forums to bring people with common interests together. This includes being able to set up forums specifically for those researching the same names;
•Promote Events and obtain Information on Forthcoming Events
•Get Special Discounts from our Professional/Business Members
•Sell Personal Items to other users
•and much, much more……

Paul Duxbury the co-Founder of GenMates commented recently that “Some Genealogists have referred to GenMates as the Genealogy MySpace Alternative because of the fantastic range of services we provide and best of all they are all Free to Ordinary Members!”

Add comment July 25th, 2006

GenMates - The Genealogy MySpace Launching

Well after a few weeks of development and the odd late night or two GenMates went live yesterday! You can read what it is all about at GenMates Information and you can take a look at the site itself at GenMates - The Genealogy MySpace

Our volunteers heard about it last night and are already trying the site out. The site officially launches in less than two weeks time but if you want to get in before the rush and make sure you get the username you want then you can go to www.genmates.com and join up!

We have the Genealogy Magazines already asking for more information on the site!

Add comment July 24th, 2006

Social Bookmarking

Our newly launched Social Bookmarking site at myGenea has been very well received and is also attracting interest from the Genealogy Press here in the UK.

Whilst the focus is on users bookmarking favourite Genealogy links there is also the opportunity to bookmark other sites which you think will be of interest to others.

myGenea is set to become a great site and you will want to get in there early!

Genealogy Bookmarking

Add comment July 4th, 2006