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I’ll email you, that ok? take a bribe?

Rob — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:40:01 +0000

Thanks!

Email subscribers, awesome people! >> Pic’s clickable!

I have myself been getting back into reading feeds more in my Greader since turning off the “community” side of it if with comments and shares being a nuisance rather than a good thing… much better silent, the authors sole “view” and having any “commenting” and discussions going on in buzz.

Just be nice to add any buzz conversation onto this blog directly, if it revolves around the post itself.

More subscribers are always welcome

Have you subscribed to this blog yet? Like those smart people ->

Once you have subbed by email, I’ll send you a free pdf that you may find interesting … if you are already subbed, use the contact form and ADD the email address you subbed with so I can verify, I will send it to you as soon as I see and verify your request.

Who doesn’t like a great freebie?

And email format is just… nice. Which is what I use for the ones I like most, mainly because by email I get it once a day, regardless of how many post were created, it all comes in one nice email.

With the bonus of being… Formatted nicely, at least by feedburner and gmail it is. Just content…

But …

I also lose eyeballs on the sidebar… That’s where the ads are etc. I hear ya! Ironical… Well, this blog looks good on a kindle no doubt … so, go ahead and check the ad out. ->

Back, or were you reading the feed and missed it?

RSS reader or email?

The thing with feed readers is you can consume far more content in the time used, no clicking out of the window from one blog to the next, just read it right there, then read the next blogs fresh post, then the next all in the same window… unless you have short feeds, those of you who do, you miss out on readers.

The odd thing is that not as many people use readers as we think, I am talking about the real friends you have in your everyday life, unless a geek!

They simply don’t read lots of stuff, they don’t need a reader, at all.

Which is why I feel email subscription works best for the everyday friend, many of whom don’t even know what an RSS reader is!

If they only check their email once a day, they will see the subscription and get all the fresh post(s) made since the last email.

Email for the good stuff and reader for the rest

I am starting to read more of the blogs post I have subscribed to by email than I have before and I am starting to think the stats in the reader are going to be interesting in how they show which blogs I always read and it’s only those I sub to by email.

Soon it will be all email subs and the reader used for “everything else” – Gmail is already a big central for me, so why not use it better and having “labels” and filters makes it simple, now gmail have added a “priority inbox” too … which knowing Gmail will get more intuitive over time.

As I’ve mentioned previously, newsletters for me are being read less, while blog feeds for me are on the rise, yet there are a few newsletters I always read, these newsletters I have read for years and they will still show up as important in gmail, so I miss nothing I want to see.

Gmail is becoming the central portal to my online experience more, it’s email. Email works. Email is universally understood.

All habits change, if we change them

Habits are changing for me. On and offline.

Habits, breaking bad ones and creating good ones, hard to break, easy to make.

We all have them… online as much as off, some get up, turn on their pc, check emails, then stats for overnight, then feeds, whatever …

Some do their site work if needed, then read news, then check forums, then twitter … etc

Others fire up facebook … not much else

For me it’s about cutting out the mix of habits that connect, overlap, smoking I have to give up and I often light one up while … reading!

Not good, hence me wanting to change some habits, create new ones, and generally improve things all around, as it’s this collection of habits that make up the experience.

Email subs for me are making an improvement, the reader just fills up with feeds just a mess really, auto filling as and when things are posted … most not so important that I need to dive in and pruning and filtering that lot out will make a massive difference, simple with the stats telling you all you need to know … then email sub to the best, done. I can then read at leisure any/all post within one email and when I am less likely to smoke anyway.

If I judge by that criteria, then if you have, or do sub to this blog by email, I am flattered. As a thanks, I’ll send you that free book.

The ebook, nearly done…

Rob — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:55:00 +0000

I have been a little quiet on the blog lately due to a few other important things I have been busy with… while also having my youngest son over for a few days too, spending time with him is much better fun and way more important than blogging!

I have been writing an ebook, which I am doing mainly for those on facebook, the majority of which are real friends I know offline, the main reason I write it for them as opposed to the general public is purely because I feel that I will get better feedback and I know some of them will actually do something with the ebook.

If I do decide to promote it to the general public I will have the benefit of great feedback from which I can act on, thus improving the ebook itself.

Why not let my real friends benefit first?… That’s what friends are for ;o)

Some of you on facebook have some great potential in regards to using the ebook and taking action on it, I know some of you have great hobbies, expertise, passions and more.

I think it should be finished soon. )

Half a million dollars of the truth

Rob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:40:00 +0000

It’s been a busy week for me sorting things out but something hit my inbox from an online friend who I feel tells it like it is more than most do and this is the real deal!

It underlines that the real magic pill for those seeking success with attempts to make money online is that what you see above!

Simply put nothing else happens until you start using that button above, nothing gets done without it.
It is the action button!

Download and read this for yourself, grasp it fully and you see it ALL boils down to this.

The half a million truth! < (Pdf, right lick and save as.) The "big names" tried to stop them sharing this, and you can see just why. The bottom line is that this information is so obvious and yet so powerful if you did it right it could make a massive difference and yet it is in some ways already happening...but not capitalised on the way it could have been, simply because those who do it don't see the "big picture." I am amazed at this information and just how right it is, so it's saying something when my friend is happy they spent half a million finding it out then sharing it free! Why do that? Because it matters, it's going to change things, and the sharing of this is in itself the truth in action!

Read it, see what it means to you and how it really levels the playing field out for everyone and share your thoughts in the comments below. )

“Make money online”

Rob — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:58:00 +0000

This “make money online” niche is a strange one in many ways and there’s no doubt IM or Internet marketing as it’s really known as has earned a bad name online with all the “pitchfest crap” going on from the so called gurus who cross promote each other with every launch that happens.

This is why I suggest ignoring the so called big names, they are not giving you want you really need to make money online, only their own or some cronies pitch to suck your wallet or purse dry and to get you on their email list for future pitches.

Often whatever it is they sell turns out to be useless, either because of the steep learning curve, or it’s is just a tool which doesn’t deliver….the problem is the promises and hype that goes with it which so often is misleading or plain lies.

Making money online does require a form of marketing, whether to people, or the search engines like google you will have to target something, someone, which one entirely depends on your niche and your money making strategy, affiliate sales, sales of own products, services, or even just using adsense.

There are several key positives and negatives to each strategy you use and it takes the right planning to decide which best fits your skills and more importantly still your audiences needs, be it people or search engines.

The simple truth is there are so many systems and strategies within the IM niche it does get a little confusing, distracting and is often a pain in the arse to get your hear around.

Internet Marking (IM) is basically marketing whatever online, there is no right thing or wrong thing to market unless you start to consider ethics, which is purely subjective to each of us.

I wouldn’t want to see you get “sucked in” like happens to a lot of us, mainly through the simple fact we started to consider “how to make money online” and like a new book reader in a library starting to feel overwhelmed when we looked online for the answers.

IM gets to the point where you go to bed with your brain buzzing, wake up with IM on the brain too…it’s a passion to a point.

Being new, if you are, you have a great starting point to work from as you do not have that “jaded” mindset like some of us had or have, you are like a school leaver choosing a career without the jaded view of what “work” is really like.

It’s the “newbies” who the so called big names target to exploit this freshness of mind, this enthusiasm to learn to earn.

A fresh marketer is not yet jaded by these gurus, don’t let it happen either.

In one sense we are all marketers, whether you agree with that or not is not really the issue as the truth we are all marketers be it online or offline, whether we like it or not…next time you see people chatting each other up in the pub, club etc, you will see it’s the truth.

You market yourself throughout life, when you go for an interview, meeting, whatever, its marketing.

This is something that “gets me” with marketing, I love to learn about it etc, but hate the negative aspect attached to it due to the bad practices of some people who care only about the money and it shows when you see them at forums etc giving out plain misleading advice and in a way spreading a bad mindset relating to “making money online”.

There is NO one way, no right way, wrong way to make money online.

Half the stuff we read is total bullshit really.

If you really want a crash course in marketing online and making money doing it, the one thing I could suggest is to create and sell an ebook, get buyers by promoting it using a free blog!

While there are some people who will ridicule this idea there are others who will agree it IS a great way to learn how to market anything online, and make money.

Why do this, and how to go about it?

Do you want to learn how to make money online?
Do you want to do it without spending money?

Want to have that crash course in Internet Marketing?

Let’s do that then. ;o)

First…

Get your motivation lined up, what I mean by that is decide why you want to make money, is it to pay off the bills you have? Or is it to earn enough to take you on holiday?
Get a new car?

Whatever it is, that motivation will show through your work and everyone likes to see motivated efforts as apposed to just going through the motions.

Decide your topic, niche…if it’s a hobby one great as they do well due to having passionate users.

Do a little researching on the topic, i.e use google and googles blog search functions to see what is already “out there” and what is already working for others.

You want to have a niche that you know has buyers etc, one way is to check the “ads” by google on these search pages as it means advertisers are spending money within the niche.

Now you should have some idea of what you can write about, you will be able to do this so much easier if you are writing about something you have knowledge of, or a passion, or an expert with.

The action steps you need to take to make money online this way are…

A tip here is to create a google account, this will be handy for way more than you think. You can use all of googles aps, i.e docs, blogger, calender, gmail, adsense, etc.

Create the ebook, (pdf) easily done free using google docs, or openoffice, or adobe acrobat if you have that already.
The ebook can be as short or long as you like, just make it worth what you wish to sell it for. )

Now think about the keywords you will use to sell your ebook, and use these keywords where needed, like the title page of the site, blog you will use to promote it.

Ie… your hobby may be… “Harley Davidson’s” so you would use keywords like…

“maintaining harley davidsons”
“repairing harley davidsons”
“rebuilding harley davidsons”

These are keywords other people would use to type into the search engines, just like you did in the research process.

So you need also to set up a page or site to sell it from…use blogger to create a presell blog and make sure you use keywords in the title of the blog as well as the blog url…

I.e “www. harley-davidson-tips.blogspot.com” is an example with related keywords.

Now you just create a few decent tips post (400 word articles) to add to your blog using keywords where you can, in the title, first sentence, and a few times spread throughout the post content.

Add a post everyday over the first few weeks to get that ball rolling.

While doing this, you are writing and creating a pdf ebook with all your best tips, inside knowledge which you will eventually sell via the blog.

You will need to have a payment set up, using paypal is an easy way to get started on this.
Set up a payment button, and get the html code for that to add to your blog.

After creating the pdf ebook, take a few sample tips from this and create a smaller pdf to give away to your blog readers, this smaller pdf has a link to buy your main pdf ebook inside it. )

If you are sticking with no outlay, you can use your email to send the pdf each time someone request it, or have it set up as an auto response as can be done with googles gmail, this is not ideal really as you would end up sending it to anyone who emailed that email address you have set it up on.

Really you would want it to be instantly delivered to them an autopilot after payment
and only after a payment has been made.

Do this by setting up an email autoresponder to send the ebook after payment.
This is anything would be your only outlay, used well you will build two list, one for the free pdf people and the other for those who buy the main book.

Now you have an ebook or two (if doing the smaller givaway too), a blog and it’s just joining the dots now to make it all work.

On the main blog you can add the link to another page where you sell your ebook, simply create a blog page with the details of the book and put the link on the main blog sidebar.

Ie… main blog is www. harley-davidson-tips.blogspot.com

www.harley-davidson-tips-ebook.blogspot.com (the word ebook only highlighted for reference).

On this blog write about what the ebook is, ie a form of sales letter.

Add the ebook blog url to your main blog sidebar.

You can add the pdf to the first email (autoresponder) response to be sent after payment via paypal.

Now it’s promoting the blog and ebook in order to get the first sale.

You could do this by joining forums and commenting on blogs in the related niche, ie, harley fan sites and blogs etc.

Another way is to write a great 500 word article with a link at the bottom pointing back to your main blog url, add this article to a few article directories bearing in mind each one will give you a good backlink so use keywords in the title, and a few through the article itself.

When you make that first sale is anybodies guess, but…

Once you have got this far you know what it really takes to make money online.

“101 Recession busting tips- free book”

Rob — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:27:00 +0000

Just a few days away from Christmas and the new year…guessing you have all your preparation ready for the big day to enjoy with your families. )

I hope it it’s a great Christmas for you and the family.

I also wish you all the best for 2009 which is almost here.

But lets’ be honest here, after the new year starts life creeps back to… normal and a fair old chunk of us face the reality of the recession which is not a great start to the year, but as we all know recessions are cyclical so there is always light at the end of the…

What wont happen is staying put….we have to get through that tunnel!

Well I have good news which is this free book to help anyone with getting through the recession.

Old?
Young?
Got kids?
Double income in the home?
Own business?
Shares?
Good stable job?
Just want to make changes?
Boss looking to shaky for your peace of mind?
About to lose it?
Just uncertain?

Whatever situation you are in whether one or all of the above, these 101 tips have something for all, something foreverybody.

It’s not just all about…

Though money tips are there, saving money, improving your money management, making money, helping kids with money, money alone has it’s own issues, depending on how you see it…

The recession will provide opportunity for those who see it, opportunity to change habits, create better understanding of the cycle for the next time it hits, as it certainly will.

For those who don’t see opportunity, preparing for the end half of the recession is just as important as what you do now as we go into it, if only for the fact you can springboard yourself using built up leverage coming out of the recession, whether through saving a little, or starting a new venture, hobby, habits.

Use the tips, use the recession. ) >> Beat the recession!

P.s No idea if the book will stay free, so grab it while you can. )

“A great FREE traffic tips ebook”

Rob — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:49:00 +0000

When I got an email not to long ago with a free report for traffic tips, in all honesty I thought, “not another free ebook for me to read”!

I will read them of course, you never know where you get a good tips from, incraesed traffic should mean we make more money online if that is an aim.

But this was different, no fluff and filler with it, just short easy to digest tips, often one line is all that’s needed to say it.

You get 247 good tips.

Some I knew, some not, some I would NEVER have though about!

I found at least 5 I can try out easily offline in the next few days, at least 2 tomorrow!

A warning though, this is ONLY FREE until end of Sept!
So while you can you should grab this, it’s made for people like you, me, bloggers, home businesses, etc.

In fact offline could be the place to sell this book if the author does sell it that is. ;o)

I am glad to have grabbed it and think you should too, if you can generate ten new visits to your site, blog, a day, how many is that at Christmas?

99 days till Christmas is it??

Worth grabbing for free is it not?

Click and grab your FREE (LINK REMOVED).

I’ll bet you get at LEAST 5 good tips you can implement immediately and grow your traffic.

From 247 of them you have a huge choice.

NOTE :: Edited to remove link as it is no longer free. Will be sold for $7. If anyone wants to grab this for that $7 let me know in the comments. )

“Social networking mastered”

Rob — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:35:00 +0000

Exciting times for you bloggers who actively use social networking, but only if you understand it and use it the right way.

Web 2.0 was what I had been eagerly waiting for, being deaf you can probably understand why. ;o)

Being a blogger meant it never passed me by, as blogging was part of interactivity (web.2.0) before the phrase web 2.0 was even coined, yet now it is making a big difference to my blogs, as well as me. ;o)

Believe it or not there are still lots of people who don’t know what web 2.0 even means, or have yet to even hear of it.
Web 2.0 = better interactivity. ;o)

Using web 2.0 (social sites, etc) is the best thing you can possibly start doing if you are a blogger or website owner, after all you are already a part of it. ;o)

In my eyes the best way to get traffic to your blog, more so if it’s a new blog is using the power of social networking, bookmarking sites etc.

Maximise what you have before getting more traffic and you get to make the most of the new traffic too, yes?
That’s what I have been doing, and it works for me well, so now I started to think of ways to increase my traffic.

So I had a great surprise when I grabbed this new report, book, pdf, whatever label you give it and this book just reinforced the fact what I am already doing is the right things in the right way, but I can still do better… ;o)

While I already knew a fair bit of what this shares, (being a blogger almost 4 years made sure of that), it gave me new angles to look at what I already do and plan to do.

These new angles I can promise you will make a big difference to what I had planned anyway…great to see your own plans and ideas from another angle…it expands it. ;o)

While some people will look at things from a “will this make me more money” angle, the key to everything online is traffic, and more traffic can mean more money, right? ;o)

To me the traffic increase is what most people need, even if no intention to monetise that traffic is there, people still want more readers, right?

Of course, so I recommend everyone grab this report, read it and master it. ;o)

The biggest thing I can say is I KNOW it works because I have had success with it and I KNOW web.2.0 is what you should learn more about, even if you have no blog yet.
You are online, you use web 2.0!

Grab it, share your thoughts in the comments. ;o)

“Shocking stats”

Rob — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:25:00 +0000

So over the last few weeks I have been getting back into the swing of things nicely and moving swiftly in the right direction, that’s down to a few things.

Blogging by it’s nature has ups and downs with posting, at times it can’t be resolved as with my case.
Losing momentum was a key area for me and I believe it is an important thing with building a blog and giving the readers what they want…content.

During the offline hassle the blogs visitors dipped alot, naturally.
Now a month on, the blog’s traffic has gone right back up to almost 3000 for July. )

Pleasing to say the least.
Averaging 100 a day is not to be sneezed at really.
Not my best month but still a good month and there is a week left yet.

Great to know at least you are happy to read the blog, thanks.

The bad side of the stats which surprised me was the fact the response to my offer in the post below was not as good as hoped, but not as bad as can be.

Well over 300 visitors in 3 days…to that blog post and 11 takers.

I can’t believe it really, a service that will help you if you play your role and be 100% honest to yourself is not taken up, they miss the potential, yet…

If I had offered an ebook that was ok and you learnt things yet it just sat on your hard drive gathering dust it would have been snapped up by more people?!

Especially newbies who suffer lack of focus more than most.

Yet it did nothing to change things, because you read it and did nothing.? Wasted money.

Yet with my offer you would have HAD to take action or you would be wasting the money joining in the first place.

If you took NO action with with mine, fine…you are in the same position as you are AFTER buying the book….wasted money.

Strange this, so it’s leading me to question alot of things.

Any opinions on this?

P.s Warriors…would it help to offer you a free warrior way book after you join?
I am going to revamp it and you as well as others who have bought will also get the upgraded version free. If so… buy the offer as below, use beer function and you will get a copy!

If that is good enough for you, do it, then email me to warriors+deafdad AT gmail.com
(replace AT with @ )

Its only good for this week!

“How to create a successful blog”

Rob — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:18:00 +0000

I am annoyed, I have been at this blogging lark a few years now, almost 4!

I won’t say I am an expert, I know what I know though, and it’s got me this far. ;o)

BUT I could have done so many things so much better and now I would have a much better situation for it.
It’s never to late to change things and that’s a wonderful thing about blogs…you can change and update things.

What if I had done it all the right way right off the bat though!?

I would be earning a full time living from blogging I reckon. ;o)

There are some things I have missed, you may ask how I know now what it is I missed.
I just read something that really opened my eyes and it cost me BUGGER all! ;o)

Bargain…and priceless learning for me.

The funny thing is I have blogged almost twice as long as the author…damn I need to pay more attention! )

That’s not to say I should know more, just that you never know who you will learn things from.

If only I had the blueprint when I started blogging!

Grab it free and read it whether you are new or seasoned at blogging, even better if you have yet to start.
Imagine you implemented all this into your blogs from day 1?

At least I know every new blog I do will have a better chance of success.
Also you may see big and small changes around here. ;o)

For me this fantastic book joined alot of the dots as well as highlighted the small things that would have better influenced the bigger things.

I will be taking more notice of page 13, which will of course set the tone for the rest of the blog!

I also will capitalise more on page 25, which I do already but underestimated it a fair bit. ;o)

If I had done chapter 25 better, then I would be feeling the real effects of pages 26, 27…which would mean 28 would have been explosive!

Grab it read it, and make sure you are NOT on page 48!
Utilise this fantastic blueprint.

I am glad I read this and would go as far as saying this IS the best free resource on blogging you will find.

Click the link above or the box below.

“One step at a time”

Rob — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:21:00 +0000

Will get you ANYWHERE!

No one jumps straight to success…it takes hard work, time, learning, applying, tweaking, testing.

So much more than an ebook can tell you.

Don’t make the common mistake of buying into this or that, then jumping to something else when you feel it “don’t work”, the truth is everything needs work, work at making things work.
Once you get ONE thing working, then move onto the next thing.
ONLY if it helps your work though, don’t jump on it for the sake of jumping on it!

Nothing just happens itself.

Taking action is the key.
If you are really wanting to get moving, start with articles.

This will mean you have REAL content.

The beauty of this article report is you can add the link to your blog, lens, and get your money back and more just for sharing it.
Each article is a funnel for your traffic, have somewhere to lead that traffic though, like a blog, or a squidoo lens.

But…

One step at a time eh!

The thing is once you start taking the steps you are definately nearer to your success.
Once you have a momentum going you can jog to your success.

Till then…learn to walk one step at a time!

YOUR success awaits you!