Just My View

I’m sure we can all recount an interesting experience relating to our Internet Service Providers and I guess may latest experience may be of no surprise.

I recently contacted my ISP to discuss a “Service” issue, now this issue was relatively major and it was having a negative effect in regards to online activities.

My ISP representative listened intently to my explanation of the problem and then politely said: “We are very busy right now Sir, but I will endeavour to get one of our Engineers to review the situation over the next four or five days”

My reaction was to be as expected…I am not sure that it’s ”Service” you are offering here!

I followed with the comment, So it will be alright if I delay my next payment to you by four or five days?

The prompt response from the representative was: “Oh no Sir, If your payment is not received on time we will disable our service until payment is made”

Thanks…So when will you be providing me with some ‘Service” then?

A long pause and then came back the response…I will get an engineer onto the problem right away!

Two hours later all was resolved!!!  

I was doing a little light reading today and I came across this great marketing quote…

“If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying “Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday,” that’s advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that’s promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor’s flower bed, that’s publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that’s public relations. If the town’s citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they’ll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that’s sales.”

Author - Unknown

There is nothing more that annoys me than Spammers!

The introduction of the Can-Spam act was supposed to have teeth and actively penalise those that spammed.

However this act has many flaws not the least of which is the fact that spammers don’t play by the rules nor do they care about the mess they create.

Whilst we have all been hit by the standard email spam they have since moved on to Blog comments spam, Posting spam on forums and more recently they have been using Forum Private Message services to spam members…

It seems to me that any protection we are meant to have clearly does not work and going forward this practise continues to be supported by hosting companies that lack a conscience as they do have the power to stop at least some of this occurring, this of course will not contain those determined spammers who will seek out new hosts and or alternatively run their own servers.

The frustration that I feel I am sure is shared by many…but what can we do?

Is it just me or are you getting overwhelmed by the amount of Private Label Rights email promotions overflowing your inbox everyday as well?

It’s Private Label Rights to articles and eBooks, one off offers and or Membership sites promising boatloads of product each month for a low ongoing fee.

Maybe I’m just on the wrong lists but this has been growing at an alarming rate over the last week or two, it seems that every marketer known to man and many that are not are plugging Private Label Rights at every opportunity…

I wonder what is gonig to be the next big thing?

Traditionally things go in cycles so will it be List Building Techniques or Adding Audio to your website…let’s see!

Well it’s almost finished Spywaredude is back in business.

I am just tidying up a few minor issues and then I will start work on it’s brother, the Spywaredude Blog.

Like most things the basics are relatively easy but it is the refinement that takes the time.

Anyway I would be interested in your comments.

It’s back to work for me, many projects beckon…

I read a great quote this morning about Opportunity and felt that it was very relevant to us all as marketers…

“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” Joseph Sugarman

Maybe it is time to review your position? 

I have spent some time today working to complete a site to be ready for a relaunch in the next day or two.

The site is a totally revamped setup of a blog that was run collectively by Paul Short of Bloglogic fame and myself.

Unfortunately through unforseen circumstances this site disappeared from the cyberworld along with a number of Pauls other sites some months back.

I think I should actually leave doing anymore work on it today as everything I change I seem to have to do twice or more…It’s just not my day!

Anyway I hope the new and improved version will be of interest to you all and I look forward to making a formal announcement soon. 

How many times have you heard and or read that you can run an Online Business and Make Money while you Sleep?

Hundreds of times I’m sure but what they forget to tell you is the amount of work that you have to put into your Online Business before you go to sleep.

Is it just me or are others experiencing the same issues, as your business grows so does the amount of time and effort you have to put into maintaining it.

Now whilst with any job online or offline your income is generally proportional to the amount of hours you work but what I was wondering was why are the hours I get to sleep getting less when I’m sure my income is not growing at the same rate.

Maybe I’m a workaholic, There must be a cure for that somewhere…

So if anyone can provide me with the real secret in regards to working less and earning more then I would be pleased to hear about it, maybe we could do a JV and market it together.

Thinking -That would mean more work!!!

Oh well I’m off to sleep now, hopefully when I check my mail tomorrow I will find adequate reward for today’s efforts!!!

How is it that we in life often miss the obvious?

I have just finished reading a short 25 page report called the “Adsense Article System” which explains in depth how to get regular and steady traffic to your sites that are running Adsense ads as a revenue earner.

This report is complete with a number of “How To” video’s to ensure you understand and know how to implement one of the simplest methods of promotion around to gain additional traffic for your website or blog.

The principal is so simple and obvious but 99% of us would not have given it a second thought so if your are an Adsense user looking to pump up your income a little take a look at the Adsense Article System now. 

Just when you think that no-one is following you great things happen…

Let me explain, I have just returned home after being Interstate for two weeks and during that time I had very little if any access to the Internet so my websites and blogs basically remained stagnant through this period.

Well after battling my way through hundreds of emails…firstly dumping the ever present spam I then came across a number of emails from my readers and subscribers all posting their concern in regards to the lack of my online prescence.

They showed genuine compassion and concern for my circumstances and hoped that I had not fallen ill or was taking leave for some other reason.

In this faceless industry that we deal in it was extremely heartening to receive many messages of concern and it goes to show that by sharing your thoughts and feelings online, can and does touch other people and they over time come to know you because of it. 

So to those that took a moment to send a message I thank you and assure you that all is well…however I do have a lot of work to catch up on!