Found a couple things for you to take a look at to start the month off. What better way to get you started than scaring you to death, right?!
Let's do it
1. Spam Poison Spam is everybody's pain in the butt and on your blog or site email it's a nightmare. I stopped allowing comments because some bobble-head decided to put the sites he liked in my comment section. Here's a solution that may work. Since quite a few of the more intelligent spammers (if that's possible) use robots to tap your blog, this little piece of code activates and sucks them right away - kinda like a Hoover vacuum. You'll get to see my notice over the next few days and then you can comment to your little heart's content.
2. Moby Saurus
The name may sound like a kid's toy, but this thesaurus is no toy. If you send business emails or do any kind of writing, you probably know by now the thesaurus in Word is limited in helping you get just the right word you need. I found this solution that comes with a huge database of 2.5 million synonyms that works much better. It's an English thesaurus, really easy to use and you can look up words from within other word processing applications.
3. Go To Webinar
Working with multiple clients, trying to get a team to work together that live at a distance from each other can be a hassle at times. Conference calls can break your budget fast, Internet to the rescue. This works best for solo entrepreneurs who hold smaller meetings at least twice a month. Pricing is reasonable at $99 a month and since they happen online - toll charges are not an issue. Should your business require more than a few meetings a month, you can also opt for the annual subscription.
4. Jump Up
Wish I had this when I got started years ago, it might have changed the direction my business went in. Brought to you by the folks at Intuit (Quickbooks), this resource is one of those rare freebies worth using. For those who are just starting out in a solo venture or 'old hands' who miss brainstorming with other solo business owners, it can save you a lot of frustration. Joining is easy and there were real solo entrepreneurs in the community, none of the hype-me-up-the-wazzu you see so frequently in other online networking sites. To see the kinds of real solo entrepreneur's in the community, I'll be adding a live widget to the blog.
What have I been up to?
Completed a beginner currency trading site that goes live on Friday. The domain will be Currency Dependent (aren't we all?!) and be a great resource for novice forex traders, with course reviews and resources to help get them started.
Also joined Jump Up because I have some spots to fill for the coaching this year. It was one of those goals that I've been procrastinating (procrastinating=sitting on my butt doing jack) about. Coaching is bread-&-butter, without a client - somebody goes hungry!
Finally, I'm also doing PLR (private label rights) articles to sell from a small site. Articles are consumer topics, max 500 words and meant to be for those who use lots of content. Considered doing it as a membership site but that started looking like manual labor - ain't happening! I've decided to put up a one-pager in table format and sell 5 articles per pack for $7 a pack. Small affordable price for great content.
That's it for today and I leave you with this
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
