Part 2 of an initial look at Domain Samurai. In this part, the keywords from part 1 are used to find available domains.

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The folks over at Noble Samurai – they make Market Samurai, have just released a new product and the good news is it’s completely free.

Domain Samurai is going to make a lot of people in the site-flipping community very happy. It contains the keyword research module from Market Samurai which is great for initial market analysis and this is married with a new domain module.

This lets you search for the availability of those keywords as valid domains and it does stuff like adding common prefixes and suffixes to the keyword to see if it can find an available domain name.

Here’s a first quick look at Domain Samurai….more to come.

Everywhere you look in the internet marketing world, you will find people talking about how useful webinars are for getting your message across, or training, or whatever else is the latest thing. The very next sentence usually points you to gotowebinar.com for a great way to make this happen.

So, here’s the blow. Gotowebinar just announced a five-fold price increase for running a webinar up to 1000 attendees. Up until now it has been $99 and will go up to $499 from now on.

You will no doubt be told that even $499 is good for the potential that it offers, but it will still smart to know that others are still on the old rate.

Well, after a bit of searching, I can tell you that there is a way out. You have precisely 8 days to get signed in at the old rate and it will stay at that price until you drop out of the program.

Run over to http://www.gotowebinar.com/s/TAF and you can get in and even get a 45 day trial before it starts charging you.

Send me your enormous gratitude up until the end of the month!

Over the last few days, I got directed to these fantastic short videos on using video itself in marketing. They have been made by Andy Jenkins and you’ll recognise his voice from so many of the Stompernet videos….and the high-quility of the videos themselves.

In the most recent one, he gives a really detailed breakdown on getting video right, by just using a presentation as a way to sell. Then he talks about how easy it is to “just” use Keynote or Powerpoint to do this.

Well, that’s a great theory….but let’s face it, Powerpoint is just not up to the job – yet! It will do the slides, sure, but the transitions and animations do not make it a good movie-making helper.

So, in the interests of getting us all up to the same quality of tools before we start, I went looking around.

Microsoft have said that Powerpoint 2010 will be better at it, but I can’t wait. So I eventually found Sliderocket – one of those new-fangled “in the cloud” type of Adobe Air application that will give you a network way to do it all. I have to say it’s looking good. I am going to play with it for a while before making a final analysis but it has to be worth a try if you want to get stuff looking as good as Andy’s…….and I do want you to do that.

Please, no more plain black and white presentations where you just read the bullets. Watch Andy’s videos over at  The Videoboss and just make them look incredible!

This is a quick update on my new toy, the Dell 2309W.

So far in my technical odyssey into internet marketing, I have been using my trusty laptop. I bought this back in February (it’s just a Studio 15 from Dell) and I have since upgraded the hard disk and installed Windows 7 on it – ping me for details if you really care!

The only problem I’ve had with it, is the screen size. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good for almost everything. The trouble is, the only thing it is poor for is internet marketing and browsing….which is kind of what I’m doing. Doh!

The reason: as a result of the widescreen format, it only has an 900 pixel deep screen… and every man and his dog put their buttons somewhere between 900 and 1024 deep on the screen. That tiny amount of scroll is driving me mad.

As a result, I decided to “create an office” and buy myself something that wouldn’t kill my eyes (or give me tiny amounts of RSI all the time). So, I’m typing this up looking at my brand-new Dell 2309W monitor.

Have I turned into a raving Dell 2309W fan? Well, possibly but actually this is a stand-out screen for many reasons. I looked at Samsungs and others, some of them with TV tuners, some with better dynamic contrast. I learned a lot along the way but the thing that made it happen for Dell was the number 2048.

The Dell 2309W has an awesome 2048×1152 resolution and what that means in the real world is that I can have 2 standard 1024 width pages on screen at the same time. If you want to create new material this is a dream come true. The browser sits on one side for research, word sits on the other for typing….perfect.

If you haven’t got a fancy-schmanzy Apple and screen to match and you are looking for a new PC screen, do yourself the favour of at least looking at one of these before you buy. Make sure you get the high-res model with the W, it set me back around £200. Considering my old Iiyama square 19″ was around £1000 a few years back, you could definitely call me a happy bunny. All in all the Dell 2309W gets a “highly recommended” from me.