April 4, 2008

( Resources ) - Blacklists, Gmail, and Video Conversation

Here’s 4 must-have tools / resources that you’ll thank me for when you see / use them:

How To Get Off An Email Blacklist

If you’re wrongly and unjustifiably accused of spam or put on a black list, this 4-step process is just what you need to do. Every list owner and publisher needs to keep this page under lock n key. Click above to read all about it.

[ UPDATE ] - another key email blacklist resource page

Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses Using Gmail

Gmail, no joke, has been a god send of productivity to me. And, I’m no easy sell when it comes to switching email clients. I was an hard-nosed, loyal OUTLOOK user for over 10 years. And, it took Heather’s sweet cajoling and luscious logic to even get me to try Gmail.

And, holy smokes, the time I now have to attend to the business of business has increased by at least 15%. No longer am I stuck in the maze of slow features that OUTLOOK bogged me down in. The above link tells you how to consolidate all your emails, regardless of what provider they come from, to one email address.

It doesn’t talk about the coolest part of Gmail, in my opinion: LABELS. But, sometime soon, I’ll post a video tutorial of how I use Gmail’s multiple labeling system to organize my life.

Jing Project: Video Conversation Starts Here

Speaking of video, I’ve been using a web 2.0 app, from TechSmith, called Jing. It’s free, full of amazing features, and I use it, yes, every day to talk to my LWL team members and partners.

It’s an always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video… from your computer to anywhere.

Here’s me using it to show you how I extract .mp3 music files from YouTube music videos.

Until next post,

Your Partner in the Quest For
Living a Life Without Limits,

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April 2, 2008

Why I’m Going Silly For Silver

I love searching for and putting my money in places where it can grow itself.

And, while a bank savings or money market account might seem what the conservative doctor ordered for a guy who doesn’t have a lot of of time to spend “watching my money,” the reality-lamp remembered to shine brightly in my face last week.

A time-tested truth came to the surface:

Wealth compounding, over time, has two mortal enemies – taxes and inflation. And, to get the personal wealth machine really humming, you’ve got to beat them both.

I’ll leave the former up to you and your CPA… yet, in this post, you’re about to get the raw skinny about how I’m kicking the ass of the latter by buying silver (you can too — read on)

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March 27, 2008

( Tool ) - Fund Your Idea Online

This is something we just found out about.

It’s a promising new site that lets you collect money online for just about anything.

I haven’t done much with it (yet) except put up a quick sample funding project related to our business at LWL Worldwide ( see our funding project here ).

So, what’s Fundable.com all about ?

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March 26, 2008

( Resource ) - GROSS, Not GOSS, Brings a Smile…

Back in the day, when I was just learning about the concept of email, much less email marketing (uhmm, maybe 1997), there was a perennial resource of information that I tapped into regularly.

The person who passed it on isn’t somebody you may know or even think of as a top-name Internet marketer, but nonetheless, he’s GREAT at what he does.

( He has my last name, with an added R, so he must be ) :)

I thought Tim fell off the face of the earth, a few years ago, but lo and beyond, I found him…and good thing I did.

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March 22, 2008

( Resource ) - Confessions of a Workaholic

Starting in June 2005, I think I bought — hook, line and sinker — the same visions of grandeur that you might have when it comes to starting and operating an online business:

That it somehow, in a very short time, is a business that will run on its own, even when I’m intentionally trying to work banker’s hours.

While it didn’t take me long to shake myself away from the fantasy that selling products and services 100% online would magically increase my income while screwing around on the beach, or sleeping in a hammock somewhere, I still latched onto a related (and probably more sinister) belief:

That the only way to grow a successful online business is for me to do everything myself.

But, after an initial 12 months of 16-18 hour days, 7 days a week, I realized if I was to continue that, I’d be setting the foundation of my own “working prison.”

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