Progress Report 100718 – Info Product Killer Begins

In my last update, I had cleaned up my marker boards of the current projects short of this site and a project on hold.  Well, it could not have happened at a better time.

This weekend, I squeezed into Info Product Killer‘s (IPK) launch while it was still only $37.  It is now $77 for only a few days, then it will become a monthly subscription site.  Right now, it is a LIFETIME membership.  If you have the money and think you might want to join the membership, now is the time to do it.  There is a 60 day refund policy by clickbank, so you are safe with getting a refund if necessary. » read more

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Progress Report – 100713 Completed Two Website Makeovers

As you see from my previous post today, Failure is NOT an Option, today started with a rough beginning.  This morning and this afternoon I just took my mind off what I need to do and did whatever came to mind.  It turns out that I answered a few posts on the Warrior Forum and posted the Failure is NOT an Option message on here.  The rest of the afternoon, I relaxed and rested until dinnertime.

Website Makeovers

After dinner, I browsed through my list of websites to make sure the script kiddies hadn’t been around and found one that needed a little touch-up.  Actually, there were two on my task list with similar needs.  So I took a few minutes and touched them up.  Now I have two more websites removed from my list!

» read more

Failure is NOT an Option! It IS a Part of Life!

Expect it!  Deal with it!  Get over it!  Get up and get going again!

I woke up with a nasty, negative attitude this morning.  I tried to shake it, but not with any success.  Even listening to five podcasts reruns of the Scott Smith’s Monday edition of The Daily Boost and Zig Ziglar’s Inspiring Words didn’t bring me out of it.  Anyone who knows Scott Smith of MotivationToMove.com knows I was pretty deep.  And, yes, Scott, I did my homework but I didn’t care for what I found, OK? OK!

Just two days ago, I wrote a newsletter post by this same title for my website.  I read it over and over again. It helped, but what really brought me back is the following video.

We all experience failures throughout our lives.  They don’t make us failures.  We just need to get back up one more time.

“If I fail, I try again, and again, and again…”  Nick Vujicic

I hope this video helps you find the strength to get back up when you are down and discouraged.

Buck

Progress Report 100712 – One Step Forward — Two Steps Back

In everything there is a learning curve.  This is so very true of Internet Marketing.  Today I received a reminder of that fact.

Today should have been a very productive day.  In spite of all my interruptions, I managed to mark 4 things from today’s task list towards getting up a website and auto responder newsletter.  I know a lot about Internet Marketing, about setting up websites, editing html, the Internet, etc. Obviously, though, it is not enough.  » read more

RapidResponseBot – Product Review

“The Money is in the List”

It is as true a statement today as it was in the time when Sears catalog sales were at their peak. In virtually every Internet marketing program I have seen, an autoresponder is needed to capture your list and to keep it fed with good material.

I recently found this service, RapidResponseBot. (RRB) I have been checking it out and testing it and found it to be heavily loaded with features. It appears to have every feature included with the better known autoresponder services. There is only one feature that I found that this service does not have, and that is to hide the first name field in the input form. RRB requires a minimum of name and email address together in the input form. However, it has many other fields available including 10 extra customizable fields.

Here are a few of the features that interested me: » read more

Progress Report – 100711 Back at the Helm

Back at the Helm

Needless to say, family matters have taken a bit of a toll on the time I had to work on my business.  However, I was not ignoring it, as you will see in this post.  While I still have a few loose ends to tie down, I am getting back to a regular working schedule on my business.  » read more

Exit Ads Followup

This is a follow up to the earlier article,  Exit Popups Can Get Your Site Blacklisted or Banned.

In the above article, I talked about a couple of sites which accidentally linked to each other through Popup Ads.  The end result was that visitors to either of the sites were trapped in an endless loop with no way to leave, unless, of course, they agreed to purchase a product.  Additionally, due to the popularity of the technology, it was fast becoming commonplace to have to close out of six to ten sites before actually being able to close the browser. » read more

Farewell to My Friend and My Father

Needless to say, the last two months have been an emotional roller-coaster for my family and me.  Just as I was gaining momentum in Internet marketing and my wife was graduating and being licensed for her new role as a Family Nurse Practitioner, my father’s health took a turn for the worst, at least for us, his family.  I now understand the difficulty a family goes through when they are dealing with a situation where a loved one is lingering in that stage between life and death.  Having to make plans for a funeral while trying to arrange living quarters at the same time, never really knowing how long it will be and whether they are honoring the loved one’s wishes.  As tough as it was on me, it was my sister Cyndy who took the brunt of the suffering as she was physically closer and the one to keep the rest of us posted regularly.  I Praise God for her courage, strength, work and availability during this time of great suffering.  I always expected the responsibility to fall on my shoulders, and, except for a change of direction in my life just a few short years ago, it would have been. » read more

In Memory of My Father

Daddy’s Last Day

I just received word this morning that my father will be passing away later today or early tomorrow.  His system has started shutting down and he has do not resuscitate orders with the doctors. » read more