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Some Wordpress upgrades are due to serious problems.  THIS one is not.  Don’t upgrade if you don’t need to.  Some are finding the catagories wiped out and they now need to rebuild the tables by hand:

http://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/

They promise you the world with each new guru off but the truth about making money online is kept from you because it takes hard work and commitment - as any business does. The only true path to success is to form or get a plan or blueprint and take the action needed to go from start to finish.

The slightest problem seems to not only blow most people off course but makes them give up altogether! The lack of plan means that there is no drive forward so any problem at all can derail them. So where does it all go so badly wrong?

It’s so hard to keep focussed - You take a decision and decide on a new plan to profit with every good intention to see this one through. Then you hear the message that “you have mail” and the latest guru offer has arrived and you simply must buy it or lose out on a fortune! The old plan is now forgotten and all the work you’ve done on it wasted as you download new pdfs and watch more videos that lead you to a new path. You stay on this new path until the next offer arrives. It’s time to make a change and focus on your future rather then filling the coffers of the next guru.

We train without learning - Many gurus offer online training and seminars that create an instant buzz and the feeling that you too can acheive such results but since the training is focussed on them and their acheivements and not on you and your plans they fade very quickly.

We don’t fully understand and the doubts make us give up - If you’re trying to follow any plan that you don’t fully understand then you’re bound to have doubts. These doubts eat away at your confidence so that the slightest setback is magnified out of all proportion. For example, you see your first sale as a failure because it’s not 100 sales. If only we were given the full true picture that things take time so that we could have more realistic expectations then we may not give up so easily.

We don’t invest the necessary time and effort - In one word that means that we don’t take action! Action is what will drive us forward, step by step to success. Even if you feel frustrated or feel like you’re losing ground you must power through and keep taking action or you are bound to fail again.

Stop! It’s not your fault! Everything you’ve been told about affiliate marketing and making money online is wrong! It’s time to put the cons and scams behind you and take control of your online future.

It’s actually surprisingly simple to find a route map to success.

1. Choose a product to promote - I’m going to recommend one but feel free to choose something else.

2. Read it and then read it again. Take lots of notes to ensure that nothing gets missed.

3. Break down the plan into a detailed task list - This approach means that nothing will be forgotten or missed out.

4. There are many different approaches you can now take. Either start at the top of the list, start with some easy tasks or tackle them in a mixture of the other two. The important thing is that you keep going and get those tasks crossed off.

5. Do a task whenever you have time. This approach will make you very efficient.

6. Just keep going and then have a big push to finish the list.

7. Take the time out to celebrate the first sign up to an autoresponder and that first sale and other landmarks.

So the data has been checked.  The search counts shown on the Google External Tool are DEAD ON ACCURATE!  Ed Dale says so.  So get some keyword research done while the getting is good.   Al that way down to 16 searches per month.

That’s a very SWEET substitute for the loss of Overture/Yahoo counts.

First there was the huge build up and promotion of the release. “World Record to be set!” regarding the number of downloads in one day. Woo - hoo. If the point was for somebody to build a list from people who get excited about such things, then good luck.

I think most of the “First adopters” in the crowd ( the people who buy into anything “new”) would have already tried out Firefox 3.5 - Beta Version. Just my opinion.

Then the biggest promoted feature was the autofill stuff that shows up when you enter text into the address box. It was so bulky and annoying that I loaded an add-on just to change it back.

The I noticed that any unusual tabs with media features would crash the browser. Especially considering that Firefox 2 was becoming VERY stable.

Then the straw that broke the camels back….Firefox 3.0 forgot all of my email access passwords. Worse, it couldn’t remember them again long enough for me to sign back on. Enough is enough. Firefox 3.0 sucks. I really enjoy my nearly instant sign on for my mail so 3.0 is history. Maybe 3.1 will work better.

Get any new or old firefox version that works for you from the very helpful people at:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/4348/

Rumor was floating that the Google External Keyword tool was actually showing numbers instead of the little green bar. Sure enough!

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Just pick your favorite search phrase and get some easy to use data for a change!
you’ll want to check for accuracy against ….well…..whatever you think is accurate.

It looks like things are a bit easier for Keyword research now.

It occurred to me I hadn’t posted my latest research. Michael Fortin had a copywriting tool on his list and it was a doozy… it included rhyming words.

Who cares?

Well, a while back I had this macro software, and I had created a little program that would score words, it could grab words out of a particular page and score each word using my scoring software. When I tabulated the results I discovered that the word “no” had a negative score.  I also notice that the word KNOW also had a very negative score and so my idea was that you should not be using the word “know” in your sales copy either.

Because it sounds the same.   So now I have this copy writing tool that gives me a long list of rhyming words and sure enough, you go to score a list of words that sound like NO and you end up with a bunch of very low scoring words.

So here’s what I discovered:

Actually it’s the SOUND of the word that is having the effect. When a person gets to the call to action, they have a positive action path and a “no” path. If you have used the word “No” a few times in your sales copy, you’ve planted the seeds of self-destruction.

Or “Know”.
Or even “now”.

whoa -6
throw -8
toe -11
tow -11
stow -11
stowe -11
towe -11
mow -14
moe -14
mo -14
tho -15
though -15
pro -20
show -23
doh -34
doe -34
dough -34
noh -37
noe -37

You can see from this rhyming list that even letter sequences aren’t the cause of sales impact. Actually it looks like there is a “Homer Simpson” effect causing sales to drop.

The exception being “flow”, which is one of Clayton’s “water” words.
Thanks to the cool rhyming tool , I’ve been able to test my hypotheses.
Unfortunately, there is no “Yes” equivalent to “Doh!”

Let me correct that….I havn’t found one yet. I need to work with the rhyming tool some more. Maybe rapp’as are on to something.

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