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Dale Carnegie said:
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all”.

And guess what! I’ve done it. I’ve accomplished what seemed impossible a week ago!

Remember when I talked about my tech hell which brought my efforts to a halt? Yeah, I got to a point when I was totally stuck. Stuck like super glue! I was just getting to finish my huge project (the internet marketing course I’m creating) when this happened and after rising above all the other problems I had throughout this project, I reached the point when I couldn’t go any further.

But you know what? I may be lot of things but I’m certainly not a quitter!

Well, my perseverance paid off. I’ve just finished all my recordings. All I have to do now is to put the whole thing together and I’ll be ready for launch.

It’s not quite time to pat myself on the back yet but I think I deserve a good night’s sleep at least and I know I will have that tonight because I know tomorrow I will complete this project and I’ve still got a week left of my free software trial. So at least I accomplished that goal.

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When you have an online business you do not have the plus side of selling your product in person. All you have is written words therefore your words are very important; they make or break the sale.

Writing up a compelling sales letter means that you need to get into the minds of your readers and influence their decision. You should know who your customer base is, what age group, gender, etc.

Some sales letters are more than twenty pages long, but still keep the readers attention the entire time. The sales letter needs to fully describe the problem the customer may be having and why your product is the only solution.

Your sales letter should earn your readers trust and explain why your product is absolutely the best. You should also describe your product in detail so that the reader understands completely what is being sold. Some people add a claim that includes a number. For instance, you may want to mention how much money someone made after reading your book that gives away all the secrets to making millions.

The sales letter should make the reader feel that there is a sense of urgency, that they must take action and purchase the product now. There may be a few slots remaining for the service or just so many eBooks left to sell, or there may be a certain time where the product will not be for sale anymore. Testimonials from excited customers whose lives have been changed will also be a great help. Bonuses also entice the customer to purchase your product. I have bought products that I didn’t even need purely because I wanted the bonuses!

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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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The Internet Marketing course I’ve been working on and talking about at length here includes a module on blogging power.  A short article on blog traffic was also  a brain child of this mudue   and it was  featured on EzineArticles.  You can read it here too.

Driving traffic to a blog is similar to driving traffic to a website. You need to have keywords that capture the attention of the search engines. You need to link your blog to the sites that are going to drive the most traffic to your site. You have to constantly look for new ways to drive traffic to your blog.

We are going to discuss a few characteristics of blogs, and how to get blogs. Most blogs are hosted on one of the free blog sites, or you can buy a domain and set up WordPress.

If you are serious about making money through blogging, I suggest setting up your own domain where you can control every aspect of your blog. If you decide to set up a free blog, your best bet is to go with Blogger.com. This site is owned by Google and tends to get indexed quickly.

You want to start writing on your blog regularly. I do not recommend posting to your blog everyday, but you should be posting at least once a week. This will keep it fresh, and Google will recognize that your site has fresh and relevant content.

You can promote your blog through article marketing. I would write articles that are relevant to the contents of your blog, and then link your articles to your blog. This will help you start generating traffic to your site.

You can also promote your blog by posting regularly to forums. When posting to forums, you do not want to sound like you are promoting yourself. I would just post to specific forums regularly to get more people to check out your blog. In the forums, you can update your signature to promote your blog with each post.

Make sure you don’t promote yourself too much in your forums. You don’t want to come across as someone who just wants to sell you information. You want to promote yourself as someone who can help others and is a valuable resource for information.

You could write a whole book about blog traffic, as there are hundreds of ways to get traffic to your blog but these are just some of the ways to get blog traffic.

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Today is the first day of the Persian New Year.  It’s an ancient tradition to celebrate the coming of the spring.  Indeed the weather was very spring like here in London too.  I brought my potted Hyacinth in from the balcony last night and this morning I could smell it throughout the flat.
 
The sweet smell of Hyacinth, the glorious sunshine and the mild weather, made me feel exceptionally light-hearted and cheerful from the time I wok up this morning.
 
I wasn’t going to do any work today but my addiction compelled me to turn on my computer to check my email and then I absent-mindedly started to do some recording.
 
For some strange reason my audio echo canceller had disappeared from my computer and I wasn’t able to record anything.   I ran a diagnostic on everything. 

The hardware was fine, the software was functioning but anything I recorded sounded like I was speaking form the  bottom of a well.  All I could here was the echoes!
 
All my attempts to solve the problem failed miserably but I wasn’t going to allow this letdown wreck my good spirits so by 4 in the afternoon I packed it in and went for a long walk.  This is the first time I have gone out unescorted after my knee operation.  So at least that was a small victory I suppose!
 
Any excuse to stay positive!  Still  this may be a little  drop in the ocean but then again wasn’t it the little drops that made the ocean in the first place ?
 
 

Tomorrow I will have to call someone and get help.  I’m running out of free trial of my recording software and I need to get this done.  I was planning to buy the software anyway but I set a goal for myself to finish the recording during the trial period and I want to do everything humanly possible to achieve that goal.  If that doesn’t happen then I’ll have to move the goalposts!

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