Sams Teach Yourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes

Steven Holzner

Sams Teach Yourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons you’ll learn all you need to use Google’s free SketchUp 8 to create pro-quality 3D models of practically anything!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly get up and running with SketchUp 8
• Draw basic figures with the Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, and Arc tools
• Create freehand drawings of any shape
• Incorporate text into your models–even 3D text
• Convert 2D models to 3D using Push/Pull, Move, Rotate, and other tools
• Control your view of 3D objects with Orbit, Pan, and Zoom
• Accurately measure lengths and angles
• Create construction guides with Tape Measure, Dimensioning, and the Protractor
• Organize your models into components and groups
• Paint SketchUp objects in realistic colors
• Scale your models simply by dragging your mouse
• Use the innovative Follow-Me tool to quickly create complex 3D models
• Instantly repeat edges and surfaces at offsets from the original
• Draw cross-sections through any surface

Category:  Graphics & Design

Covers: Google SketchUp 8 Free Edition

User Level:  Beginning

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Google Voice is a service that lets you manage all your phone numbers through a single, Internet-connected phone number. Google Voice is free, although you still have to pay for your regular phone services. Users select a free phone number and then use that number to manage all their phones. Sams Teach Yourself Google Voice in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, you learn everything you need to know to quickly and easily use Google Voice. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks… “Did You Know?” tips offer insider advice and shortcuts… “Watch Out!” alerts help you avoid problems. This book will provide you with fast, at a glance tips pointing out helpful shortcuts and solutions, cautions to help avoid common Google Voice pitfalls, and is written in a clear, easy to understand format. You will learn how to use Google Voice’s tons of cool features that go beyond mere voicemail and call forwarding, including: ” Connecting phones using one number, and manage which phone rings when-by time, by caller, and more. ” Find out who’s calling so you can answer or route the call to voicemail. ” Get transcribed voicemail messages delivered to an email inbox. ” Record personalized voicemail greetings for specific callers. ” Record calls and save the recordings online

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Sams Teach Yourself Google AdWords in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Google AdWords to find more customers, sell more of your products and services, and earn higher profits at lower cost!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

Plain English definitions explain new terms

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Identify goals, target markets, and demographics
• Create your AdWords account and publish your first test ads
• Write great ads and continually improve your copy
• Schedule ads for the right times of day, days of the week, holidays, and seasons
• Master AdWords’ tools for managing accounts, bids, keywords, and ads
• Choose, fine-tune, and optimize keywords
• Use AdWords to complement organic search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns
• Use geotargeting and other advanced techniques
• Profit from AdWords’ suggestions–and know when to ignore them
• Utilize AdWords reporting to improve your ads’ profitability
• Control spending, manage cash flow, and reduce costs without impacting results
• Troubleshoot your AdWords campaigns

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Sams Teach Yourself Google Places in 10 Minutes

 Sams Teach Yourself Google Places in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to claim your free Google Places business page, improve it with everything from video to coupons, and attract more new customers, starting today!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Claim your free Google Places online business directory page
• Publish your basic business information in just minutes
• Help visitors experience your business with video, photos, and more
• Keep your page up-to-date, painlessly
• Add detailed directions to your location with Google Maps
• Generate discount coupons that attract traffic
• Encourage rave reviews on Google Places and Yelp–and respond effectively to online criticism
• Easily create powerful in-store cell phone advertising with QR codes
• Improve your Google Search rankings
• Manage online impressions and get detailed feedback through the Dashboard
• Build a low-cost Adwords campaign that integrates with Google Places

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Never before in the history of advertising has it been possible to spend five bucks, write a couple of ads and get instant access to more than 100 million people in 10 minutes. But that’s exactly what Google AdWords does. It’s an awesome concept-but you can lose a bundle if you don’t know how it works.

Learn how to:

• Build an AdWords campaign from scratch
• Identify keywords that entice people to click on your ads
• Get the lowest bid prices on your keywords
• Defeat click fraud and other scams
• Use search engine optimization techniques
• Turn clicks into customers

Plus get FREE e-mail updates on Google’s ever-changing system.

Price: $24.95

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Double Your Web Traffic—Overnight!

Google gets searched more than 250 million times every day—creating an unbelievable opportunity to get your business in front of thousands every minute…IF you know what you’re doing.

Google AdWords experts Perry Marshall and Bryan Todd uncover the fundamentals, techniques, tools, and tricks that Google should teach you, but doesn’t. Learn how to build an aggressive campaign from scratch, increase your search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks, double your website traffic, and increase your sales! No other guide is as comprehensive or current in its coverage of today’s fastest, most powerful advertising medium.

Learn how to:

• Build a powerful, streamlined campaign from scratch
• Develop high quality keyword lists
• Write killer advertising and website copy that gets clicks
• Get your ads in front of the best audience possible
• Keep your ads showing up with high quality scores
• Triple your traffic with site-targeted AdSense and Google image ads
• Earn high rankings in Google’s organic search results
• Slash your bid prices
• Gain more conversions and sales
• Avoid costly mistakes made by all Google advertisers
• Determine what’s working with Google’s conversion tracking
• And more!

Plus get FREE e-mail updates on Google’s ever-changing system!

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Sams Teach Yourself Google Analytics in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use Google Analytics to accurately measure your website’s performance–and improve it!

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly create a Google Analytics account and add Google Analytics to your site
• Define goals and measure how well your site is achieving them
• Track visitors from search engines, pay-per-click advertising, email, and other sources
• Discover the pages your visitors view, how long they stay, and where they exit
• Monitor specific user actions, such as playing embedded video, selecting Flash menu items, or downloading files
• Identify your best and worst content, and fix poorly performing pages
• Improve your site by tracking error pages and broken links
• Measure AdWords traffic, position, and e-commerce performance
• Manage Google Analytics through the Dashboard
• Customize Google Analytics to work more effectively with your site
• Capture more accurate information by filtering out internal traffic
• Choose the right reports and data, understand them, and act on what you learn

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