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Garbage in….Garbage out!

The other moring I had just finnished walking the dogs on the beach and was enjoying a mug of steaming hot green tea and a legendary bacon sarnie from the “Oasis” seafront cafe in sunny Scarborough North Yorkshire.

Sitting at the far end on the outside I tied the dogs up and sat down to devour my eagerly awaited food , when I noticed the last person sat here had kindly left me the days newspaper….rag!

After I read the first 8 pages something struck me as been really rather odd ( music from an anlien sci fi  film…..can you hear it ?)

I was in a really good mood….business good, children good, Jane good (as can be expected !) weather good!

There was something about this bloody paper , the only thing I slightly enjoyed was the fact that it was free! The rest of , well at least the small amount I read was full of such bad news ….deaths, violence,earthquakes,interest rates and the economy….the weather!

Meanwhile, back at H.Q later on that evening ….the fire was roaring,children in bed  and a glass full of something “red” the movie had finnished and the news at 10 (uk) was on the TV…..guess what?

Yupp! you guessed it more deaths , violence, just general doom and gloom which finally  brings me to the point of this blog post,

GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT or put it another way it’s like injecting POISON INTO YOUR BRAIN !

January 6, 2011 Posted Under Uncategorized

Making 6 Figures Online-What’s Stopping You?

Making 6 Figures Online – What’s Stopping You?

By now, everyone is aware that there are people out there making money online  – lots and lots of money.  But what you may not know is HOW people are making money.  The answer is one simple word: information.

Every year, billions of dollars are spent on information products.

So many of us grew up in a brick and mortar world.  We just can’t wrap our heads around the idea that it’s possible to earn a good living – a VERY good living – by selling digital products on the Internet.  If we think of going into business for ourselves, we still think in terms of opening a shop, paying rent, stocking the shelves and waiting for the customers to appear.  But the world has changed.  In modern times, customers visit your virtual shop and download your product.

So did you miss the boat?  Is the market already saturated?

It’s a very large pie, and there’s plenty of room.  Why?  Because the market is the entire world – hundreds of millions of people are potential customers.

Now you’ve wrapped your head around the idea that you, too, could make money in the digital world.  So what’s stopping you?  Excuses, excuses, excuses.

Excuse #1 – I HAVEN’T GOT THE TIME

For one thing, you may have a full time job.  Your schedule is completely stuffed, from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to sleep.  Or is it?

Imagine if you were able to FIND time that you didn’t even know you had.  If it’s important to you, you’ll do it.  Start looking at how you spend the hours.

When you have a boring or demeaning job, you may find yourself filling your spare time watching something mindless on TV.  It’s soothing, almost like an anesthetic.  In fact, the more idiotic the show, the more it takes your mind off your unhappiness.  Most people spend a couple of hours each day watching TV.  Could you cut that time in half?

Now — what if you took that hour and put it into something that would really SOLVE your problem?  Instead of needing an escape from reality, you could build a life for yourself that is so exciting that you’d never WANT to escape.

Congratulations!  You just found an hour a day you didn’t know you had.  In one workweek, you’ve located 5 hours you could be putting towards your new career.

That adds up to 20 hours a month.

With 20 hours a month, you could leverage yourself into a new business that eventually replaces the income from your boring job.

Excuse #2 – I HAVEN’T GOT THE MONEY

It used to be that you had to have money to go into business.  In fact, the major cause of business failure in the brick and mortar world was under-capitalization.  What if you knew that you could start selling products for less than 100 dollars, would you still hesitate?

The modern era presents an opportunity like no other.  Because at no time in history would you have been able to start a business and reach hundreds of millions of people in a world wide market with such small start up costs.

Excuse #3 – I HAVEN’T GOT THE KNOWLEDGE

You tell yourself that you’ll never succeed because you don’t have the know-how.  The word eBook may be new to you.  The idea of creating a website may seem impossible. But all you need to jump-start your new career is an Internet connection. Once you have that, you can find the knowledge you need. It’s out there, a whole world just waiting for you.

Step on board, learn the ropes, and soon you’ll be part of a wave of marketers with inside knowledge of how it all works.  That knowledge is in demand.

The biggest mistake small business owners make is creating a product and then trying to find a market for it.  But savvy Internet marketers know that you find out where the demand is, and THEN you create a product that fills that demand.

The demand for knowledge about making money online is huge!  It’s the most popular search term on the Internet today.

NO RISK

And the greatest thing of all is – you don’t have to quit your day job to try it out.  You can put your toe in the water with very little cash outlay, using time that you would have wasted anyway.  You can start small, and before you know it, you’ve got an automated income that’s growing all the time.

Opportunity is knocking, and the only thing stopping you is… YOU!

Hope you find this to be inspiring and remember:

If you change nothing in your life then nothing will change!

From me and mine in Yorkshire, to thee and thine wherever you may be – we wish you all the success in the world!

-Darren Todd

I’m sorry – was I interrupting something important?  Did you need to get back to watching that dumb TV show?

April 9, 2010 Posted Under Uncategorized

Interview Techniques

Interviews are  a fantastic way of creating fresh quality content and are truly unique to you and your guest, so always offer joint ownership and always at a time which is conveint to them so if this means having to leave your bed at 3.30 am and sneak downstairs DO IT you will really finnish with something of true value of which you can use for many years. Where ever possble always email your guest with a copy of the questions a couple of days before and confirm that they are happy with them…..including the spare “just in case” questions.

Send a reminder email  one day before and also 10 minutes before just to make sure there are no technical gremlins lurking anywhere pour yourself a cold drink, always unplug the house phone and doorbell and stick the dog in the garden! Take a deep breath and begin as though you are talking to a long lost friend……. you know lots of enthusiasm  aand you are away  GO ON JUST DO IT! you’ll feel great when you have finnished although let there be a word of warning…..if you are anything like me you will feel slighty exhausted and almost drained once you have finnished……in a nice way of course.

If you have any interviews lined up please feel free to download any of the questionaires and most importantly download the “to do list” it will make your life so much easier. Thanks for reading and we will catch up soon !

March 25, 2010 Posted Under Interview techniques