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Are you thinking of running a business online? A lot of entrepreneurs are now relying on the power of the Internet to market their products or services. Home businesses are gaining more and more popularity these days. Perhaps it’s also time for you to consider an Internet business.

Starting an internet business is probably the smartest thing to do under the current fragile economic climate. I don’t need to tell you about the situation, you probably experienced it in one way or another, perhaps you got laid off from your full time job, perhaps you invested in property, hoping it would pay off but now realising your property has negative equity and perhaps in danger of foreclosure!

Maybe you notice that the price of everything you rely on to live your life, such as food, electricity, gas even public transport keeps going up but your salary, if you still have a job, never goes up enough to compensate.

There are a lot of reasons why you may want to start your own Internet business. But the biggest reason is that you’ll have FREEDOM.

Because when you have your own business, you don’t answer to anyone. You are in control of your time and your life. You will also have financial freedom because you don’t have to rely on some arrogant employer to exploit your efforts and pay you peanuts!


It’s not hard, it just takes a little effort at first, but if you start on the right foot, you can set up an automated Internet business that runs on its own and puts money in your pocket or in your bank account day in day out.

How’s that? You don’t have to go on a long course to learn a new skill, all you have to do is spend a few hours watching some videos and read a few books or articles and you are on your merry way.

I have created a video course that will teach you all you need to know to get started and make money.

Look out for it, it’s coming soon.

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There was a time when Internet Marketing was a luxury exclusive to the tech savvy or geek weirdo.

But today, with the expansion of the World Wide Web, super fast internet connections and clever, user friendly technologies, it has become easier for the average man in the street to get on line be it to simply express their opinions using free publishing platforms like free blogs, selling their stuff on Ebay, or just keeping in touch with friends through social networking site and so on.

I remember just a few short years ago, if you searched for something on the internet, you were lucky if you got a handful of search results. But today, for every keyword you put into the search engines you get millions of results over several pages.

And as for having a business on line, it’s no longer a luxury, it has become a necessity. In 1999, I was promoting a web directory and I was saying to people that if your business is not on line by the year 2000, you are not in business.

Here we are ten years later and it has been proven that any business that has an on line presence is doing far better than the ones that don’t. Why? Because people look for things on the internet, they like to shop on line and if you’re not there, you miss out.

That’s right! The Internet baby has grown up!

Today, the internet gives you the power to start your own business quickly, easily and cheaply. You don’t need expensive premises, you don’t need staff and you don’t need to re- mortgage your house or get in to huge debts with the bank to start off.

All you need is a little know how and a small amount of money and you can start reaping rewards from this ever expanding universal cash machine.

But even today, there are many who still think it takes a lot of skill, knowledge and intelligence to create a website and start an on line business.
Believe it or not, it doesn’t. It’s not rocket science, you don’t need a degree to do this and it’s easy and quick to learn the basics.

I’ve just put together a comprehensive Internet course that will be available very soon that covers everything you need to know to start your very own business on line and start making money like never before.

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Remember two posts ago I was having problem with my recording and I said I was going to call the tech guys because whatever I did, didn’t cure the problem? Well read on….

I woke up with great hopes that I can sort out my recording problem and get on with the job.

It’s amazing how much hope and trust we put on the tech guys! It’s like they can perform miracles and solve any problem pronto!

Not so. I think we fail to recognize that they are only human after all and they are not by any means infallible. A lot of the times, they are not really as well trained as we think.

So anyway, having called the tech guys, I explained what my problem was, I mentioned that I had this thing called “echo canceller” which has now disappeared and I believe that is what’s causing the problem.

“Echo Canceller?” he asked, Yes, you know I had a little dialog opening on top of my mic icon in the task bar, saying “echo canceller is on”. Apparently, he had never heard of such a thing.

And he went on to tell me that if I have things disappearing from my computer, then I must have a virus and when I said I have virus protection he told me that virus protections are not that dependable. So what’s the point of having virus protection then?

Then he suggested that I should reload the factory settings on my laptop. What? These guys don’t seem to understand that after you’ve been using your computer for over a year and having installed hundreds of programs and software on it, reinstalling the factory setting is not an option unless that is the very last resort, following a real virus attack.

Then he tried to convince me that my recording software was corrupt!

So after forty minutes of useless conversation, he wasn’t able to help. Is this a real hell tech or what!

Before calling the tech guys, At that time I still had my echo canceller but it didn’t seem to be working, I searched on goggle for answers. I was directed to a site to get a free echo canceller.

But before you download anything they wanted to scan your computer, so I let them and they came up with some results showing out of date drivers and of course then they took me to the payment page. What! It said free download. Well it wasn’t free, I suppose only the scan was free and it had nothing to do with echo canceller anyway. Then the echo canceller disappeared alltogether. They must have somehow overwritten it with something else and I even lost something else that’s called “sndvol32.exe” which allows you to display your volume control in the taskbar.

I won’t go into details of how I finally managed to recover this file. But I was so frustrated by this time that I didn’t even want these scanning software on my computer especially because every five second it was telling me to download the drivers. So I uninstalled it.

Anyway I after I finished the call with the tech guys, I thought. “what if I just download the sound drivers?” these were all free from the manufacturer’s support site. Then I downloaded an acoustic canceller which I realised afterwards it’s not really much help in recording . I also downloaded a mic driver too.

Took me a while to download, install and run all these new programs and the result? Well, I still don’t have an echo canceller, but at least I can now record. However, the new recording sounds completely different from everything I’ve recorded until now and since I was in the middle of one of the muddles when the work came to a halt, it means that I have to do this muddles again from start.

Oh well, at least I can now get some work done! And I don’t think I need to be so much of a perfectionist either. I’ve heard recordings sounding much worse than mine and they were done by top professionals who make six figure income!

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One of the lessons I teach in  my Internet Marketing course, I am still in the process of completing, is on competition.  In this lesson I recommend that you join your competitor’s mailing list so you can find out how they conduct their business and that’s a good way of learning from them, spotting their weaknesses and making them your strength.

This isn’t just something I preach, I  have been doing this myself for some time now.  As with many of the advice I give  in the course, I speak from personal experience.

But there is a downside to subscribing to many mailing lists.  You get shed loads of emails on daily basis.  Yeah, shed loads is actually an understatement!

Since I am on every one’s list, I get so many  email every day that keeping my mail box under control is almost a full time job!  last week when I went for my knee operation, I didn’t check my mail for about a day and a half.  

Do you want to know how many emails I had in my inbox when I checked?

Eight hundred and twenty five!!!

That’s a lot of emails in one and a half days don’t you think?  So the best way I know  to manage my emails is to put them in folders.

Apart from the deafault folders such as  inbox, junk, deleted and sent folders I have eighty three folders  that I have created for my mail.  If I don’t have time to read an email on the spot, what I normally do is to  move it to a folder and then read it when I do have the  time. 

Also some of the messages are too good to delete so I usually create a new folder and keep them there for future reference. 

But even though I am reasonably organised with my email management, I still think I should one day go in there and do a proper clean up.  I think I will do this soon as a spring cleaning project.  Do some serious deleting  and unsubscribing  because some of the lists I am subscribed to really get on my nerves these days.

I’d say one email a day from one list would be enough, but some of them send out messages every fifteen minutes!  That’s taking the piss!   Good job deleting only requires pushing one button!

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I received some comments about this blog yesterday.  They were not left in the comments box on the blog, but emailed to me in  response to a business correspondence.

I thought they were unfair, untrue, irrelevant and rather brash.  Now those who know me know that I always welcome constructive criticism but I though this was a little malicious. 

And the fact that he went on to say “I hope my feedback helps you progress” was a little patronising.

First of all I didn’t ask for his feedback, secondly my blog didn’t have anything to do with what we were going to work on.  It just so happens that I have the blog address as my email signature and he clicked on it. 

Here are the exact words he wrote copied and pasted from the email:

  - the style does not read well

- there are quite a few syntax errors

- there is very little value from a business perspective

Ok.  Let me address each point.  The first one is about style, well this is a little cryptic to me.  What does he mean by style?  Is it the wordpress theme I am using? The colour scheme, the font or the style of writing?  In most cases, it’s a matter of opinion. 

I’ve actually been complemented on my choice of word press theme and the colour scheme. If it’s the fonts well,  its word press for God’s sakes, whatever font I choose it doesn’t make any difference, it just goes to whatever font is the default. 

If it’s the style of writing, again it’s a matter of opinion.  If you don’t like it, that’s fine with me, I didn’t invite you to read my posts anyway! 

Furthermore, the style I use to post on my blog does not  symbolize my writing skills and isn’t the same  style I would use when writing a business letter or a serious article.   

Blogs are personal logs and not business letters – just in case you didn’t know! 

But as for having syntax errors!  Eeerm! Da!  Not only it’s not true, but also what if it was?  This is a blog not a Thesis in literature!

And as for not offering much value from a business perspective! What is that? Another cryptic pompous comment that not only doesn’t apply here, it doesn’t even make sense.  Again, this is a blog. Not a corporate website.  

So I concluded I didn’t want to work with him anyway, Not if he thinks he has to give me English lessons!

And does he know that you should always start paragraph sentences with capital letters?

Oh well.  It’s his loss really not mine. I decided I didn’t really want to write for him especially once I found out what the subject matter was for his articles and the fact that he actually wanted them written in someone else’s style!

What you think I will sacrifice my identity to make a few pounds? 

That’s not my style! I challenge anyone who tries to belittle me with arrogant comments about my writing. Even in my humble appreciation of constructive criticism and though I am always critical of my own work,  I still think there’s not much wrong with my writing.

 I’m busy creating my own product anyway.

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