So I got me a brand new laptop last week. Well, more accurately, work got it for me, and I was all excited about it. For one thing, it’s the first time I’ll be using Windows 7 outside of my home media network. I completely skipped vista, and 7 looks promising, so I’m excited.
For another thing, there were some great hardware upgrades.
So I set everything up to my satisfaction at work, bring the laptop home, boot up and ZAP the thing resets, and won’t boot any more.
Apparently, the hard disk fried.
Dammit
Good thing I didn’t throw out the old one just yet.
Anyway, hope to get a replacement in a few days, and we’ll see what happens.
It’s been a while since I had the opportunity to write a bit. I’ve had an enjoyable month full of activity in all honestly, but slumped a bit in my online social activity.
So what have I done?
Well, first of all, I unveiled a really cool new feature to my splash pages, which has an audio welcome that’s customized based on what traffic exchange you’re viewing the page from. It’s really cool! To see it in action, try adding http://www.TheTrafficExchangeBook.com/ to your favorite traffic exchange and see what it looks like when you’re previewing it (try refreshing a few times, too 
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Then, later in the month, I started a limited beta test of my new dedicated server offerings, which you can read more about here, if that’s the kind of thing that interests you.
Finally, I broke 100 downline members at SuccessQUIK, and promised my 100th downline member a free upgrade on me, just for being number 100. Oddly enough, the guy never took me up on the offer.
*shrugs*
Anyway, just wanted to drop a quick line to say that I’m still alive, and up to new and cool stuff to keep my business growing.
I’ve also been loving the thank-you page rotator at TE Toolbox which has kept signups to various programs flowing in even when I take my hand off of the pulse of my traffic-exchange-centered business. Kudos to Tim, Jon and Paul for that!
I’ve been having fun with these new audio greetings that I’ve got up on many of my websites.
Today, I’m going to steal an idea from Google. Google’s got this nifty feature where they tribute special occasions by changing the Google logo on their search page.
Well, I’ve decided to do the same for my audio welcomes. All of my sites will be switching from their normal, random (quirky?) welcomes in celebration of the great Superbowl Sunday 
Tell me what you think!
Today, or yesterday more accurately, I screwed up. I sent out a big campaign to 1,500 subscribers to a page with a broken sign up form.
Ouch.
I found out that it was broken when one of my subscribers told me that he couldn’t manage to sign up (thank goodness the copy was good enough to get that kind of eagerness!).
The interesting bit about this was not only my neglect to check that it works – I actually did check the link, and saw the signup page, but the neglect was that seeing that the signup form submitted, too – but more my surprise that it had taken me so long to catch this mistake. You see, this is a page that I’d been using for months, and based on the fix that I had to make, I’d say it was broken for at least 2 months until now.
But it gets better:
I’ve actually been allowing my extended downline to use this particular signup form (rebranded with their name, picture and referal link of course) and none of THEM caught it for the past few months either!
Moral of the story: If you want to make money, you must check, and double check, and triple check (and then check that you triple checked just for good measure). Otherwise you’re checking money down the toilet!
OK – I’ve been good and wrist slapped now, so it’s time to get back to making that money back!
One of the first mentors I found in the online network marketing world was a guy named Mike Dillard. His book, Magnetic Sponsoring, was the first marketing-related product I ever bought online, and both was and continues to be a paradigm shifter for my way of thinking, and my path to success!
This evening, he blogged a very long quote of my 2nd favorite part of that book, Magnetic Sponsoring.
I’ve been trying fruitlessly to properly paraphrase the concepts he talks about in this post to my downline for years, but nothing compares to the original.
So if you’re at all interested, curious, or envious of my online success and you want it for yourself, go give it a read!
(To be honest, I think it’s part of a pre-launch to a product he’s launching this week, but this blog post is 100% affiliate-link-free.)
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