Okay, things are trucking right along

Heh, I have found lots to be doing with the new biz stuff. I have a portal site for one here, have ads to add to my regular site, and am about ready to transfer my buildupyourbiz.com to Host4Profit. Think I'll save that one till tomorrow.

Let's try an experiment here:



Oh, now, isn't that way cool?? That's one of the ads I'll be adding to eDragon Marketing. Very spiffy, don't you think?

I have decided it's time to get REALLY busy on this stuff, because they've made the requirements for profit-sharing at work so high, it's not likely that we'll get ours this year. I honestly think that's not very nice of them (let's face it, it SUCKS!). So, what good is working for profits for someone that isn't going to share them?? After all, they HAVE done in the past and every year till now. So, they've decided to cut that out?? Well, I don't have to stay around while they cut other benefits--not if I can get some residual income streams going and have funds I can count on coming in regularly. Then, I can tell them to take their job and not only shove it, but STUFF it! ;-)

Mr. Sam would NOT approve of what they're doing, but that's okay. If he were here, lots of things would be different. So, the time has come to get other things going and make sure that I spend some time each day on them to increase their productivity.

Things I plan to do on www.edragonmarketing.com include writing copy MY way. Bleah on those 20" long sales pages. Don't you just hate them? You go to a page about something of interest--a product, say--and have to wade through 97 testimonials about how great it is and all their sales copy about how great it is and then, all the bonuses they're going to give you if you buy it. AND a bunch of their personal history and the reason they began the project, etc., etc., ad infinitum. Well, if you're like me, I don't even WANT to read all that b.s. Tell me a little about the product, give me three short testimonials, a brief list of the bonuses and CUT TO THE CHASE!!! 99% of the time, I get about a fourth of the way down the page and grab the scroll-bar and roll on down. I skip more than 2/3 of the garbage because everyone is saying the same sort of STUFF.

I'm beginning to think that internet copywriting is all about how many times can you say the same thing in different words?? Yeah, yeah, tell me some of the benefits, give me a reason to trust you, give me actual (ACTUAL) testimonials and then tell me how much. Is that so hard??

Well, it may not be professional to them, but I would like to see them put the basics on the top 6" of the page. Then, if someone is in doubt, let them look at the rest of the page where you list more benies and more testimonials. According to Tellman Knudson of List Crusade, it's more than a little likely I'm ADD or ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder). Which I don't doubt. Think it's more ADD than ADHD, although my son was diagnosed ADHD years ago and it does run in families.

Anyway, my pages will be MY pages and not copied off a bunch of others. I mean, c'mon, how many times can you see, "Who else wants to...?" before you KNOW they're all from the same education??? And, heck, some of them don't even make a lot of sense, but they want you to think they do. Dang it, can't think of any examples right off the bat, but seems I read one recently that was like, "Who else wants to read a huge ebook and learn the secrets of the universe?" Nah, that wasn't it. But the fact is, sometimes they're actually making a statement with the "who else wants to" attached on the front, rather than asking a true question. My English grammar education rebels at it.

So, if I say something like, "Wouldn't YOU like to learn...?" don't you think that would be more effective? I'm no pro like these guys (we're talking Shawn Casey and his ilk here), but my first English writing class in college, I tried to write what I thought the professor wanted and it all came back bleeding (marked in RED). So, I finally decided to he** with that and wrote MY way. He asked who I copied it from. I had written a review of a horse show. I talked to him and he said it was the best I had written to date and was good enough to be publishable. Soooo, all those years of writing are going to change the way I do my webpages. I'll write it like I write these blogs--straight out. With a draconic twist. lol I'll let you know when it's changed. Ta, Chris

Hooooo, Buddy, things have...

...ratcheted up a notch or three here! Ewan Chia sent me this spiffy ebook from another person and it just blew my mind and blew my thinking out of the water. You really HAVE to get over to his affiliate sign-up and join! You will be so glad you did if you're trying to get a business going on the internet!

How about not one, not two, not three, but FIVE easy businesses to get into?? AND, the author of the book will set up YOUR site if you follow the directions to get started. For FREE! Is that too cool or what??!!! Can you tell I'm excited? ;-)

I'm solving the rss feed problem for eDragon Marketing. There is a website called CaRP that has the feed programming and for $30 they'll install it on your site/server and make sure it works. Not a bad price to get someone to professionally install the programming I need, I don't think. The actual program I'm having them install is free, so it's all about their time and I will let you know how it all goes.

I certainly hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving that celebrates it. I had to work at the j.o.b. for four hours. Hardly worth going in for, but I was scheduled, so I was there. It was very quiet, overall, but got hectic at the end. lol

Registered a new domain name yesterday. How do you like, www.buildupyourbiz.com? That's going to be the site I have this guy set up for me on Host4Profit. BTW, if you refer people to their hosting, you earn $10/month/person you refer and 3 people can more than make the payments for your own hosting. Not a bad deal. I'll tell you more about that when I get the domain transferred over there and get it all set up.

For right now, if you're looking for a place to start that will get you up and running quickly AND do your webpages AND help you more than most, check out these freebies here. These guys have been around for several years ('98, I think--could be wrong, likely before that, but can't recall what they said) and have all the tools and training you could possibly want, plus assign you to a "sponsor" to help you out. You could promote products (they have a wide variety of types), or, their system, OR, both. I think I'm going to be promoting everything I can! lol They even have BOOKS you can promote similar to the ones they're giving away free, so you can feel at ease that they aren't looking to rip anyone off. They have an extremely strict spam policy which you have to sign to really get rolling, so it's apparent they value THEIR reputation and that means they'll value YOURS, too. There is something really assuring about such care.

Anyway, I'll be telling your more about this stuff as time goes on. I really want it all to work out well and REALLY want to get away from working for someone else. Now, all I have to do is figure out who's going to do my taxes???

Later, Chris

Still looking for help with rss...

If anyone out there can help me get rss feeds posted to my web pages, I'd sure appreciate it. I was looking last night for a program/html to add and found one site that would give you the html code and php code, but when I tried to incorporate the php and renamed the index to .php, all I got was a blank page. Real bummer, that.

So, if you know how to get the code onto the pages, I'd love to hear about it. Need to get tomorrow's issue of Fly Beyond ready to roll. Have also applied to get Dog Potentials as a domain name. That was at Name Cheap. $8.88 for domain registration and they're inexpensive for hosting with lots of perks. Although, I'm rather leery of that sort of thing, as it can mean they're not reliable about up time and stuff. I'll let you know how it all goes, though.

Need to change my rss feeds to this blog, soon as I figure out how to get it here. lol I got it for my Wright Gifts blog on this system, so will have to look at it. Think I'll keep the Fears to Funds one available until it's dead and just add this one, too.

Got a really good eBook from Ewan Chia yesterday. 56 pages of terrific stuff on getting your business going and lots of links. That's where I found that Name Cheap link. You can only get hold of this if you're on his affiliate list. Not a bad thing to do, either. He's been pretty busy with info and it's all good.

Oh, as for the Dog Potentials site, I have a few links you might find of interest. They are dog trainers and I'll be using their links to earn some money. I won't publish them here, as I have some more investigating to do on them, but one of them trains animals for movies and ads and the names she has on her site are rather impressive. I'll add them to the site when I get approval for the domain. Watch this space. Anyway, got an idea for another eBook for the Dog Potentials site to promote. I think I'll title it, A Basic Primer: Conformation. Will that sell, do you think?? If I make it inexpensive enough? Since Dog Potentials is going to be about/for the competitive dog, I think this will be a good thing. I shall have to learn about Rally, but I can attest to agility, flyball, and obedience ring work.

I have some reviewers that will tell me if I screwed up on it. lol Then, I have to decide if I can publish it in .pdf format on Keeping to the Borders or if I have to put it on Lulu.com. With the Lulu store, I could do it in .pdf and bound form, and even, an audio book. Teehee, if it's long enough, I could put it in for my NaNoWriMo project. Maybe I'll even do another blog here for it and call that Da Dog Book? Nah, if I do that, I'd better keep it to Dog Potentials. Don't know when I'll hear if the domain is registered to me. It took 72 hours to get eDragon Marketing set up. Probably need to reload those pages, too. Views are getting low again. I do need to make some changes to them. Put up some info on the recommendations and such. I suspect I'll be spending a while offline today to get all this stuff done. That is not a bad thing, although I have to go to the grocery. Almost out of dog and cat food. lol They would not be pleased to have nothing to eat!

Well, guess that's about it for now. I did find a new pizza last night. Papa John's has it and it's called "Papa's Perfect Pan Pizza." Five toppings, a new sauce and it's huge and square. Really good crust, too. Great for while you're surfing or reading your ebooks. Ta, y'all.

Starting over...sorta

Well, here I am, starting a new blog for eDragon Marketing on Blogger. Since I am losing my Fears to Funds account on that other blogsite (which I won't dignify with a link), I must start over with a new one.

I've decided to create some articles from my former posts and drop them to Ezine Articles. That will be the better choice for links in the long-term, if they get picked up by people. One of my articles has already. It was one about dogs. I have several more of those available, too. lol This has had me in such a quandry, I only got one more item done up for my Keeping to to the Borders store and none for The Wright Gifts.

Tomorrow does not sound like a fun day at the j.o.b. Our District Manager is scheduled to "visit." Gack! He's such a pain in the backside most of the time. Oh, well, what the heck. He's only as bad as I allow myself to perceive him.

Jim Edwards has a new video you might enjoy. It's about "Idea Overload." He explains the difference between "information overload" and "idea overload." It's pretty short, so won't take long to view. Check it out.

Well, this one won't be long, as I have to get to bed reasonably early and I have a book I'm getting deeply into. It's by Ann Rule and she writes about real cases. This one is called, "Every Breath You Take." If you enjoy thriller-type books about real-life cases, this is a good one and she's an excellent author.

Fly Beyond!