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Your money isn’t good enough for Apple

OK, I know that a dollar isn’t worth what it used to be.  And I know that we are slowing churning away inexorably to a time when none of us will use any other form of payment that some type of credit/debit/money/RFID chip/Mark of the Beast type card or swipey thing-a-ma-bob.  I understand all of that and fully accept it.  Hell, I hardly even use cash for anything anymore.  I’ve been guilty of whipping out my debit card to buy some bubble gum or a soda.  And nothing ticks me off any more than standing in line behind someone that refuses to accept the inevitable and gets out their checkbook to make that $12 purchase at Wal-Mart.  GET OUT YOUR DEBIT CARD AND SAVE US ALL A LOT OF TIME!

(End of rant, post continues as normal…)

At this point, cash is still cash and can be used to purchase anything in a physical environment, such as a retail store, grocery, mall, or even a cell phone store.  Cash is legal tender and not subject to the whims of some corporate entity that is crying over some problems with their product.

Someone needs to remind Apple of this…

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How soon before you upgrade to Leopard?

It’s a late on a Friday night here in Kentucky as I’m typing this up.  I’m sitting, as usual, in front of my trusty iMac and things have changed very little from any other day.  Why, you ask?  I haven’t done it yet.

I didn’t pre-order.  I didn’t run to the new Apple Store in Louisville to pick up a copy, even though I still have that bright shiny $100 rebate to use, you know, the one that Apple handed to all of us early iPhone adopters to quell our searing hatred after the price drop heard round the world.  Yeah, that $100 rebate.

I haven’t done what I know that most of you other Mac crazies have already done.  I’m sitting here still running OS X 10.4 "Tiger" while you are knee-deep in the 300+ new features in OS X 10.5 "Leopard".

Call me crazy, but I’m gonna wait a little bit. 

I know there won’t be a price drop like the iPhone debacle, but I’m just going to wait a few days, or weeks, to see how things go with the new OS as it is released on a large scale basis.  Reviews can be all rosy and warm, but how well will the upgrades go when there are people like me that have never upgraded an OS on the Mac.  And you know that there are quite a few of us out there now.  More new Macs are being sold to switchers than ever before and the vast majority of those have never done an OS upgrade on a Mac.  I’m not even sure how many have done a Windows OS upgrade.

So, my question is this, how long are you waiting before you upgrade to Leopard?  Have you taken the plunge already?  If so, how is the experience?  Remember, I’m still pretty new to the Mac world, so let me know how things go!

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Why we need to keep Internet access tax free

Good news.  We can all breath a sigh of relief here in the US of A as our illustrious Senate and House have both decided to keep the ban on Internet access taxes for at least the next four years.  While there are still some issues to iron out before the bill is sent to the President, it seems that our government understands the importance of keeping this ban in place.

We get taxed on plenty of things already, Internet access doesn’t need to be one of them.  And I’m not saying that because I’m against any kind of taxes or something crazy like that.  I happen to like having police and fire departments, clean water and all those other great benefits that paying at least some taxes affords us.  I just don’t see the need in taxing someone’s Internet access.

Let me tell you why.

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Why you can’t make big money with Internet Marketing

I’ve taken a lot of internet marketing courses
and read a lot of ebooks. Most of them talk about
the same :

–Sign up for an autoresponder
–Create a squeeze page
–Create a series of emails
–Rinse and repeat

You can make a LOT of money doing this…don’t
get me wrong.

But you can make a lot more if you start
harnessing offline marketing in your business.

You see, online marketing is preached as the
"holy grail" of marketing.

But ask the big information marketing
powerhouses like Agora, Boardroom, and Weiss
where the REAL money is made. They absolutely
clean house offline…humiliating any online
marketer who comes in their path. 

Here’s the deal: Millionaire internet marketer
Russell Brunson has just released a special
offline report: "The IM Myth" where he shatters
the myth that internet marketing is the "be
all-end all" of marketing.

You can check it out here:

The  "IM Myth"

Believe me, this stuff is the real deal. The
marketers who absolutely annihilate their
competition are the ones that incorporate offline
marketing into the mix.

So check out Russell’s report today before you’re
competition discovers it.

Thanks,

Michael

P.S. One of Russell’s tips he reveals is how he
moved his offline list online. This absolutely
blew me away, and is something I’m going to
implement in my own business immediately.
So get it today, right now, while it’s still on
your mind.

The "IM Myth"

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What are your BlogRush numbers?

It’s been a few days since I signed up for the best blog traffic generation tool ever conceived, BlogRush.  While I’m not seeing the kinds of numbers generated by some other, more well known bloggers, I’m still fairly happy with the results I’m seeing so far…at least as far as the number of impressions go.

What I am seeing across the board is a dismal click-through rate.  Mine is currently sitting at 0.0019%.  Which is, to say the very least, beyond pathetic.

But, I’m not the only one in the crowd:

Darren Rowse is only seeing a 0.05% CTR, which is the highest I’ve seen so far.  And while that’s significantly more than my own bottom-of-the-barrel numbers, we’re still not doing very good.

Why is this?

I think I have an idea and it has nothing to do with titles of articles, widget positioning, or any other of the common excuses reasons given by people for BlogRush stats to this point.  I think what we’re seeing here is the fact that the majority of the people being exposed to BlogRush widgets at this point are other bloggers that are also using BlogRush.  We’re only a few days out from the release of the widget and the mad rush to get bloggers signed up for the service, so we’re not getting a lot of exposure to the general public right now.

But, as time progresses with the program, I think we’re all in for at least some moderate levels of traffic brought in by BlogRush.  It’s really far too early on to tell exactly where this is going to go, but I’m certainly going to stick around for the long haul.

If you haven’t signed up for BlogRush yet (have you been in a cave?), head on over and get your widget now, free.

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Discover the Easiest Way to Increase Your Blog’s Traffic, Simplify Your Life, and Attract Targeted Readers for Your Blog - Without Having To Spend a Dime

Yes, I admit it.  I’m a blogger.  I love it.  I live it.  I am pretty much obsessed with it.  It seems I’m always coming up with a new idea for another blog or podcast.  And since podcasts are really, in essence, just audio blogs I think I’m a certified junkie.

Ask any blogger what they want more of and you’ll very likely get one answer that rises above all others - more traffic.

Traffic is the lifeblood of any website.  Whether you’re in business or not, you put up a website, blog, podcast or anything in between because you wanted people to hear what you had to say.  You think your voice is pretty important…and you’re right.

But if nobody is listening to you, are you really saying anything?

Before I get too much further along, let’s just go over some of the ways you can get traffic to your blog.  All of these methods are great, but none of them have the edge like the method I’m going to tell you about in just a minute.

• You can buy traffic
• You can borrow traffic
• You can create traffic
• You can beg and plead for traffic

All these are great, and all of them will work.  But they involve a cost, either monetary or time.  But now the rules have changed.

Enter BlogRush.

With BlogRush, you sign up, get some code, put it on your site and BOOM!  You’re on your way to more traffic. 

For every display of a page with your BlogRush code, you earn a credit to have your blog posts displayed on someone else’s BlogRush widget.  The more traffic you get, the more traffic you can get…Get it?

And, you earn credits for everyone that signs up through your link.  I know it sounds kind of pyramid schemey…but it’s not.  Because you don’t have to pay anything for this traffic.  And the time it takes to do this doesn’t really matter.  In less than 2 minutes, you’ll be up and running, earning credits and banking new readers to your blog.

Are you sick and tired of not having traffic to your blog?  Isn’t your voice important enough to be heard?  Then head on over to BlogRush, sign up and in less than 2 minutes you’ll be on your way.  Guaranteed.

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Next Internet Millionaire Episode 1 Review

Yes I admit, I’m pretty pumped about this Next Internet Millionaire reality show being put out by Joel Comm.  I’m a big fan of reality shows like The Apprentice and Survivor (and of course, American Idol).  So my ears perked up quite a bit when I first heard about this concept several months ago.

I told you all about The Next Internet Millionaire a little over a week ago as we were heading into the home stretch before the premiere.

Episode 1 is up now for your viewing pleasure after a delay of a couple of days due to some computer issues.  Namely, US customs holding Joel and Eric’s two ultra sexy and powerful brand spanking Mac Pros at the dock.  (My thoughts are really that the customs guys are just jealous PC users that just had to get a taste of the good life while they had the chance…)

Overall, I really enjoyed the first show.  The concept is pretty straight-forward and any fan of reality TV should be very familiar with the format of the show.  Contestants work on projects related to Internet marketing and are then judged on their performance.  The winners get some nice goodies, the losers have to come back and face Joel at the CommPlex (I laughed out loud when I heard that) and face elimination.

My favorite "twist" of this show is the elimination.  It’s not your typical reality show elimination, but you’ll have to watch Episode 1 to see exactly what I mean.

Joel has brought in some of the best minds in Internet marketing to this competition and his first guest was none other than the creator of Simpleology, Mark Joyner.  Mark shared with the contestants the concept of the "straight line" and how that applies to your business.  Personally, just this one 5 minute stretch of the show has caused me to reevaluate my own business and think about how much time I really put forth on growing my business and how much time I put forth on growing absolutely nothing!

There are already a couple of the contestants that I like and a couple that I already despise.  So, reality TV at it’s best has made it to the Internet.  Episode 2 will be featuring Armand Morin, one of the most successful Internet businessmen and the creator of Big Seminar so make sure you watch the Next Internet Millionaire site to see the newest episode.

Until then, head on over and catch Episode 1 if you haven’t already.  You’ll be glad you did.

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Wordpress Training Videos

I’ve been using Wordpress exclusively as my blogging platform for the last year.  I did a brief stint with TypePad when I was first getting started, but quickly grew out of that platform.  Not because I don’t think that it’s any good (quite the contrary), I just like having more complete control over my own blog.

Wordpress offers that control.  The amount that you can customize Wordpress with the plugins and other options available (with more being produced every day) is absolutely mind-boggling some times.

In fact, there’s so much out there it’s sometimes hard to figure out which plugins you need and then exactly how to implement them to get the best results from your blog.

With that in mind, I’m working on a series of training videos highlighting some of the best plugins for Wordpress and how you can use them to drive traffic to your site, get better conversions, rank higher in the search engines, and become an overall better blogger.

Now, these videos will not be a highlight of some of the more, let’s say, “fun” plugins but will revolve around the plugins that will do the most for your blog.

Before I get started, I’d like to hear what your thoughts are on this subject?  Is anyone interested in such a program?  Would videos like these help to get your blog to perform better?  Are you ready to start ranking on the front page of Google for your target keywords?

Please post your comments below.  I’d love to hear what you guys think and if you have any suggestions, let me know about those as well.

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