I know videos are all the rage now, but do we have to have videos for everything?
Yes, I’m having a bit of a moan.
Personally I much prefer written docs over videos as I can skim them, look up bits I don’t understand, and generally jump about the way my mind works rather than the slow […]
The reason I’ve posted this reminder is because when I checked my email yesterday, I’ve had 3 people who are clearly frustrated because it seems I’m not answering their emails.
In fact, I’ve answered all of them, including all 4 of Catherine’s (if you’re reading this), so don’t think I’m ignoring you. Email gets checked twice a week now, with my goal for it to be once a week, but the support desk gets checked several times a day.
The problem is, as I’ve said before, even though I have both domain keys and SPF records in place to authenticate my email (and I also use AuthSMTP on some accounts), ISPs insist on filtering a lot of what they consider to be business email. From their point of view, they supply internet services to home users and therefore will only allow “home usage” email to be delivered.
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I was having a chat with someone the other day on the subject of using a different name to market with other than your own. I know lots of people do it, and we were wondering how far the practice goes.
So it’s survey time.
Hey, if you have the tool to do the job, then why […]
Now I know I might be creating my own competition here, but the way I see it is it’s a big world, and there’s plenty of room for us all. I’ve just had an email from him as I’m on his mailing list, and 4 of the 10 slots have already gone. You can read why there’s only 10 slots on the site.
So if you’ve got this great idea but you’ve been having problems finding a developer (it took me months to find the two guys I have working with me), go take a look at his site.
http://www.prosoftwaredeveloper.com/
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I know this is going to sound a little shocking to some, but for several years now I haven’t read a newspaper or watched the news. My reason for that is I just find it too damn depressing, and it distracts me from living my life. So I cut it out.
If the news is really important, then I’ve always figured that someone would tell me or as happens more often nowadays, they ask my opinion.
When I had a job, that stance served me well as the office would be chattering about whatever the newsworthy item was about, and I’d ask a couple of questions, get some stares and a few dropped jaws because I didn’t know anything about it, and that would be it. I was updated.
Watching people walk away shaking their heads made me smile.
And before you say “yes but you could never hold an informed opinion about anything”, I say so what? The news as it is reported is made up. It’s someone else’s opinion of a second or third hand recollection of something that might or might not have happened the way they think it did.
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Just how hard is it to turn PLR into PLR (private label rights into “producing lotta riches”)?
Well, if you’ve never done it you might be forgiven for thinking that it can be very hard. After all, you have to be a bit of a writer - don’t you?
No, I don’t think so. I think it’s perfectly possible to do it well if you can speak normally. You can speak normally, can’t you? You really *don’t* need to be a good writer.
Here’s the thing: Private Label Rights materials pay off, because they do what most of us are not good at doing. They get us started. It’s a big task to start with a blank page and try to think of things to say. That’s a big task even for professional writers! They have a fancy name for when they can’t do it - “writer’s block”.
The fact is that most people find it easier to look at what’s wrong with something that already exists. Then they can change it, bit by bit. Finally, they have a complete article, or product, ready to sell. Let me give you a little test, to prove it to you.
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20% of your customers will bring you 80% of your business. (eBay know that, and we’ve seen them acting on removing some of the unwanted 80% recently.)
Conversely, 80% of your customers will bring you only 20% of your business.
So where would you spend your time? Working with the 80% or the 20% of your customers?
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The title says it all. First one there gets it for $7.02.
http://www.frankhaywood.com/go/issns/
-Frank Haywood
I feel this is one of the best scripts I’ve released so far, and David (the developer) is I think quietly very pleased with it too. More than he’s letting on. 
Well, we’ve been busy talking about the next product in development, so we’ve not had too much time to linger over this one. And you know what? We wouldn’t have known to even discuss this next product for months if I hadn’t done a survey last week.
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The Instant Survey Script will give your internet business a boost by allowing you to ask your site visitors exactly what it is they’re looking for. They tell you, you supply it, they buy it.
How simple a principle is that? Your market tells you what it wants and then buys it from you when you have it ready.
Phew.
Isn’t that just beautiful?
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