"We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own."
Ben Sweetland
Teach a Man to Teach, and You’ll Feed Him for a Lifetime
By Paul Lawrence
Wouldn’t you like to make money doing something you love? And what if you could do that job on your own terms, with complete independence and control? Starting your own business giving private lessons is the perfect solution. I know that from experience, since I started mine about nine years ago.
You see, 10 years ago, I was training to be a ballroom dance instructor. Frankly, I’d gotten into ballroom dancing because I thought it’d be a good way to meet girls - but it turned out I had a knack for it. For close to a year, I worked as an apprentice without pay for about 40 hours a week. But the hard work and no pay seemed worthwhile because I enjoyed the teaching, I liked to dance, and I thought the job would eventually pay pretty well. (At that time, the studio got $60 an hour for a private lesson.)
Once I made it out of training, passed my teacher exams, and was deemed ready to be an instructor, I didn’t make nearly as much as I’d hoped. The studio only paid me $15 out of that 60 bucks. To make matters worse, I was only booking a few lessons a week.
It became clear to me that if I was going to make a living as a ballroom dance instructor, I needed to put out my own "shingle." But I had a problem: I didn’t have any capital to open a studio. I took a whack at seeking out some investors but, since I had no experience, I wasn’t able to find any takers.
That’s when I had a brainstorm! Maybe I could go into business without a studio. I suspected there were a lot of people out there who would like to have a teacher come to their home to give private lessons. And for those who didn’t like that idea, surely I could find some commercial space that I could rent by the hour.
Flash-forward one year to me driving home and listening to a Mariah Carey song - something about finally making it. I was really feeling those lyrics, because I’d just completed my first week of self-employment (and I was finally earning enough money to pay my bills).
If I told you it was a piece of cake to build my private-lesson business, that would be a lie. But I did build it - and with virtually no capital. It took a lot of trial and error, but I finally developed a system that worked reliably.
You’re probably not going to get rich just by operating your own private-lesson business. But if you want to be self-employed … if you want to do something you enjoy … if you want a job that gives you independence and pays decently … this type of venture is perfect for you.
Plus, working part-time at your own private-lesson business can be a steppingstone to even greater success. That’s how it worked for me. I was able to earn a modest living in a few hours each week, so I could spend time on other wealth-building activities that eventually greatly exceeded the earning power of my lesson business.
The private-lesson business is certainly not limited to ballroom dancing. You can create a business by teaching anything from martial arts to cooking to embroidery to day trading to yoga… or almost anything else you can think of. For example, my cousin used my system to build a business teaching clients how to speak Japanese. And a good friend used it to build a business teaching adults how to play the piano.
If the private-lesson business sounds like something you’d like to get into, here are the basic steps in my quick-start system:
1. Gauge the market for your business by studying the competition.
My favorite way to do that is by "shopping" them. Seek out their advertisements in your local Yellow Pages, on the Internet, and in local newspapers and shopper’s guides. Then, pretending to be a prospective client, call to find out what kind of services they offer and what they charge.
2. Devise a marketing strategy.
Get started with small, inexpensive classified ads and space ads in local newspapers. Focused mailings to your target market can also work well. And, naturally, you should have a basic website so you can get listed in search engines (like Google) that prospective clients are likely to use. As your business grows, try the Yellow Pages and other more expensive advertising vehicles.
3. Create a strong USP (Unique Selling Proposition) that will give you a competitive edge.
In my case, I had three big advantages. First, I offered the convenience of going to the client’s home for the lesson … which none of my competitors offered. Second, instead of the packages and programs being sold by my competition, I took a "one lesson at a time, pay as you go" approach that made it easy for prospective clients to book a lesson and give me a try. And, finally, without the overhead of a studio, I was able to charge about half what my competition charged. So, my USP was: "Get convenient ballroom lessons in your home at half the price charged anywhere else … without any pressure to buy expensive packages."
4. Test your marketing plan to make sure you can get enough customers.
5. Determine how you’re going to do business by figuring out where you’ll give lessons, how you’ll take payment, what credentials/licenses you’ll need, the kind of accounting system you’ll use, etc.
For quite a few years, I didn’t take credit cards - and it worked okay. But these days it’s so easy to take them with online services that I recommend giving clients that option. As for any licensing requirements, check state and local regulations to find out what (if anything) you need. Many kinds of lesson businesses don’t require a license, but some do. In Florida, there is actually a rule that dance studios have to be registered with the state (and there is an annual fee to do so).
6. Find suitable places where you can rent space by the hour when you need it.
Depending on the kind of lessons you’re giving, it might not work to do it in the client’s home. And even if it does work, as I said before, not every client is going to like the idea. I found several good spots for my ballroom dance business just by calling up studios and asking if they’d like to make some extra money with no work or hassle. If an office environment would work better for your lessons, you could try executive suites, real estate agents, etc.
This quick-start system will help you quickly and easily build a private-lesson business that can provide you with a steady income by doing something you enjoy. My ballroom dance business really changed the direction of my life - and there’s a good chance you can find similar success.
[Ed. Note: Paul Lawrence’s ballroom dance business got him started on the road to success. If you’ve been searching for something that can do the same for you, consider getting into the private-lesson business.]
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
"I do...Now I Don't"--Innovative Business
Here's how to turn heartbreak into gold. It's the story of how a spurned lover created a new online business. From,Mi David E. Williams CNN
(CNN) -- Joshua Opperman thought he'd met the woman he'd marry and spend the rest of his life with. But when they broke up a few years ago, he was left with a broken heart, an expensive ring and an idea that he's turning into a business.
Niagara Falls Getaway
Opperman said he was depressed after the split and even more depressed when he tried to sell the engagement ring he'd spent most of his life savings on.
"I tried to sell the ring back where I bought it and they wanted to give me 32 percent back," he said.
Long Distance Discount Plans
The 29-year-old real estate broker decided to open the online jewelry auction site "I Do ... Now I Don't" after reading an article about other people in the same predicament. He runs the site with his sister Mara and three employees.
"I wanted to make a safe venue for buying and selling diamond engagement rings," Opperman said.
Opperman didn't have any jewelry experience, so he teamed up with a jeweler in New York City's diamond district.
"When someone wins the (auction), the ring is sent to us and the money's sent to us so our in house jeweler can make sure the diamond is real, first of all and you're getting exactly what was offered," he said.
If the ring doesn't match the description, they send it back and refund the buyer's money. If the sale goes through, "I Do ... Now I Don't" keeps 5 percent of the price.
The jewelry ranges in price and quality -- from a pearl and silver ring the seller hopes to get $150 for to a 3 ct. Tacori platinum engagement ring with an $18,000 minimum bid.
Working with the shards of other people's shattered relationships might sound depressing, but Opperman said he's getting a lot of positive feedback.
"I feel good about it because they tell me the stories and then they say 'this is a great idea, I'm glad you came up with this Web site,'" he said.
He said he gets lots of e-mail from potential sellers and plans to add a "tell us your stories" page to his Web site.
One person, who wanted to sell a $1,200 engagement set wrote that "I need to find a way to get rid of them, I have way too many memories with them sitting around the house."
"I just want to say that there is a silver lining in some clouds," wrote a woman who said she was having her "nest egg" appraised.
Amanda Gizzi, a Spokeswoman for the Jewelry Information Center, says it's important to be able to contact the jeweler, especially when buying online.
"Buying jewelry is something that's very visual and when you can't actually see and feel the piece, you need to be able to ask those questions," she said.
She also recommended getting an independent appraisal when buying or selling jewelry.
"It's always good to have something that's independently appraised. You don't want to buy anything that has an appraisal coming from the person who sold it to you or is looking to buy it from you," Gizzi said.
Opperman said they'd only made a handful of sales so far, but things were picking up enough that he may have to quit his real estate job.
He said buyers don't seem to be superstitious about buying break-up diamonds; or at least not superstitious enough to pass up a good deal. Most rings sell for about 50 to 60 percent of their asking price.
"There really hasn't been any questions about whether they're buying a doomed engagement ring," he said. "It might be doomed for somebody and it might be better luck for someone else."
(CNN) -- Joshua Opperman thought he'd met the woman he'd marry and spend the rest of his life with. But when they broke up a few years ago, he was left with a broken heart, an expensive ring and an idea that he's turning into a business.
Niagara Falls Getaway
Opperman said he was depressed after the split and even more depressed when he tried to sell the engagement ring he'd spent most of his life savings on.
"I tried to sell the ring back where I bought it and they wanted to give me 32 percent back," he said.
Long Distance Discount Plans
The 29-year-old real estate broker decided to open the online jewelry auction site "I Do ... Now I Don't" after reading an article about other people in the same predicament. He runs the site with his sister Mara and three employees.
"I wanted to make a safe venue for buying and selling diamond engagement rings," Opperman said.
Opperman didn't have any jewelry experience, so he teamed up with a jeweler in New York City's diamond district.
"When someone wins the (auction), the ring is sent to us and the money's sent to us so our in house jeweler can make sure the diamond is real, first of all and you're getting exactly what was offered," he said.
If the ring doesn't match the description, they send it back and refund the buyer's money. If the sale goes through, "I Do ... Now I Don't" keeps 5 percent of the price.
The jewelry ranges in price and quality -- from a pearl and silver ring the seller hopes to get $150 for to a 3 ct. Tacori platinum engagement ring with an $18,000 minimum bid.
Working with the shards of other people's shattered relationships might sound depressing, but Opperman said he's getting a lot of positive feedback.
"I feel good about it because they tell me the stories and then they say 'this is a great idea, I'm glad you came up with this Web site,'" he said.
He said he gets lots of e-mail from potential sellers and plans to add a "tell us your stories" page to his Web site.
One person, who wanted to sell a $1,200 engagement set wrote that "I need to find a way to get rid of them, I have way too many memories with them sitting around the house."
"I just want to say that there is a silver lining in some clouds," wrote a woman who said she was having her "nest egg" appraised.
Amanda Gizzi, a Spokeswoman for the Jewelry Information Center, says it's important to be able to contact the jeweler, especially when buying online.
"Buying jewelry is something that's very visual and when you can't actually see and feel the piece, you need to be able to ask those questions," she said.
She also recommended getting an independent appraisal when buying or selling jewelry.
"It's always good to have something that's independently appraised. You don't want to buy anything that has an appraisal coming from the person who sold it to you or is looking to buy it from you," Gizzi said.
Opperman said they'd only made a handful of sales so far, but things were picking up enough that he may have to quit his real estate job.
He said buyers don't seem to be superstitious about buying break-up diamonds; or at least not superstitious enough to pass up a good deal. Most rings sell for about 50 to 60 percent of their asking price.
"There really hasn't been any questions about whether they're buying a doomed engagement ring," he said. "It might be doomed for somebody and it might be better luck for someone else."
Friday, February 9, 2007
Michael Robertson's Response To Steve Jobs Call
February 8, 2007
Dear Steve,
First let me say that your iTunes/iPod success is unprecedented and awe inspiring to me. Your impact on digital music is astounding. I read your open letter to the music industry and wanted to respond. It's great seeing the #1 DRM vendor in the world acknowledging that DRM is an issue. I've been talking about this since I founded MP3.com so it's nice to finally have someone with your prominence raising awareness on this topic (read You Own Nothing - the highest rated blog post I've ever written).
Rubbermaid
I want to challenge you to take actions to bolster your words to insure you are genuine and your letter wasn't simply a deflection shield to escape government scrutiny. In your letter you stated that currently "customers are being well served with a continuing stream of innovative products and a wide variety of choices." The incompatible chaos of digital music today is not serving customers or the music industry particularly well. I think you know this too which is why you posted your letter calling for change. I agree with your suggestion that the industry is already selling non-DRM files on CDs so it's not a big leap to selling them online (of course, as you know, non-DRM files are available online from many unlicensed sources so now it's just a question of whether the industry is going to put a price tag and make some money on this behavior). You mentioned that licensing your FairPlay DRM technology is problematic. Microsoft widely licenses its similar DRM technology and it doesn't seem to be any more or less secure than yours, so I'm not sure I agree with you. But instead of focusing on political posturing I want to focus on real solutions that can change the industry.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
New Storage Device Promises To Rival Internal Combustion Engine
A new storage device created by EEStor may replace the electrochemical battery in virtually every application, from fully electric cars and hybrids to laptop computers, with their battery-ultracapacitor hybrids.
EEStor, a Texas company, has been developing an energy storage device that has the potential to rival the supremacy of the internal combustion engine. According to a patent issued in April, the device is made of a ceramic powder with a barium-titanate insulator, coated with aluminum oxide and glass.It works as a combination of energy store and ultracapacitor. It can completely absorb and release a charge at high rates.
EEStor's astonishing ultracapcitor technology could usher in a revolution in car battery technology. According to EEStor's patent documents its EESU not only will outperform the best lithium-ion batteries, but will also be ten times more powerful than present lead-acid batteries. It estimates that it will have half the production costs of current batteries and will not use any toxic chemicals.
If EEStor's new device works as it is discribed, it will store enough electricity in five minutes of charging to drive 500 miles for about $9(or abour 45 cents a gallon for current gas cars).
Whether this new device will withstand the rigors of real life performance in cars will be soon seen as Canadian based ZENN Motor plans to put the EESU into their electric cars later this year.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Meraki: Promising Low Cost Wi Fi Mesh Network
New directions for the internet lie in extending affordable broadband service to everyone’s doorstep. This is the famous last mile problem. Wi Fi looks promising but because Wi-Fi signals do not bend, and you can’t get much of a useful bounce from them there are obvious obstacles. Also Wi-Fi uses unlicensed bands of the radio spectrum and by law it must rely on low-power transmitters.This reduces its ability to penetrate walls.
One of the heavily backed solutions is WiMax.It comes in two aspects: mobile, which has not yet been certified, and fixed, which is theoretically well suited for residential deployment. Unfortunately, it’s not low price. Peter Bell, a research analyst at TeleGeography Research in Washington, said fixed WiMax would not be able to compete against cable and DSL service: “It makes more economic sense in semirural areas that have no broadband coverage.”
Coming on the scene is a new inexpensive alternative from Meraki Networks. This is a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer. It relies on $50 boxes that serve, depending upon population density, more than one household and can be installed easily by anyone.
Meraki , a 15-employee start-up in Mountain View, Calif., has been field-testing Wi-Fi boxes that offer a very inexpensive solution to the “last 10 yards” problem. Rather than starting from outside the house and trying to send signals in, Meraki starts from the inside and sends signals out, to the neighbors.
Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. Meraki's boxes have software that maintains a “mesh network.” This network dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or removed. It also takes into account environmental conditions that affect network performance.
Last January two of Meraki’s co-founders — Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket — were still Ph.D. students at M.I.T., doing research on wireless mesh networks in the course of building Roofnet. Roofnet was an experimental network offering free service to one-third of residents of Cambridge, Mass. Later in the year Biswas gave a presentation about his experience to Google which was testing its first municipal Wi-Fi network in its hometown, Mountain View, Calif., using transmitters attached to street lamps.
After Mr. Biswas’s talk, a Google engineer told him that people using Google’s network said they could get online at home only by holding their laptops against a window. Mr. Biswas said he was not surprised. Using municipal Wi-Fi for residential coverage, he said, was “the equivalent of expecting street lamps to light everyone’s homes.”
Biswas and Bicket saw that their mesh-network gear designed for residential use could speed up the widening of Internet access everywhere. Along with a third co-founder, Hans Robertson, they moved to Silicon Valley and set up Meraki. Google and then Sequoia Capital, one of Google’s original venture capital backers, promptly invested in Meraki. Meraki’s products are still being tested, but word-of-mouth has attracted 15,000 users in 25 countries.
Meraki’s products are not yet for sale, and its networks have not been tested with extensive deployment across a large city. However, the advantages of its grass-roots approach, with miniscule expenditure for both equipment and operations, make it a a player to watch.
Meraki says it does not want to become an Internet service provider itself. Its goal is to equip any interested nontechnical person to become a “micro” service provider for his or her local community. .
This low-cost network model seems to be the way broadband service might reach many more home.
Milton Drepaul
One of the heavily backed solutions is WiMax.It comes in two aspects: mobile, which has not yet been certified, and fixed, which is theoretically well suited for residential deployment. Unfortunately, it’s not low price. Peter Bell, a research analyst at TeleGeography Research in Washington, said fixed WiMax would not be able to compete against cable and DSL service: “It makes more economic sense in semirural areas that have no broadband coverage.”
Coming on the scene is a new inexpensive alternative from Meraki Networks. This is a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer. It relies on $50 boxes that serve, depending upon population density, more than one household and can be installed easily by anyone.
Meraki , a 15-employee start-up in Mountain View, Calif., has been field-testing Wi-Fi boxes that offer a very inexpensive solution to the “last 10 yards” problem. Rather than starting from outside the house and trying to send signals in, Meraki starts from the inside and sends signals out, to the neighbors.
Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. Meraki's boxes have software that maintains a “mesh network.” This network dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or removed. It also takes into account environmental conditions that affect network performance.
Last January two of Meraki’s co-founders — Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket — were still Ph.D. students at M.I.T., doing research on wireless mesh networks in the course of building Roofnet. Roofnet was an experimental network offering free service to one-third of residents of Cambridge, Mass. Later in the year Biswas gave a presentation about his experience to Google which was testing its first municipal Wi-Fi network in its hometown, Mountain View, Calif., using transmitters attached to street lamps.
After Mr. Biswas’s talk, a Google engineer told him that people using Google’s network said they could get online at home only by holding their laptops against a window. Mr. Biswas said he was not surprised. Using municipal Wi-Fi for residential coverage, he said, was “the equivalent of expecting street lamps to light everyone’s homes.”
Biswas and Bicket saw that their mesh-network gear designed for residential use could speed up the widening of Internet access everywhere. Along with a third co-founder, Hans Robertson, they moved to Silicon Valley and set up Meraki. Google and then Sequoia Capital, one of Google’s original venture capital backers, promptly invested in Meraki. Meraki’s products are still being tested, but word-of-mouth has attracted 15,000 users in 25 countries.
Meraki’s products are not yet for sale, and its networks have not been tested with extensive deployment across a large city. However, the advantages of its grass-roots approach, with miniscule expenditure for both equipment and operations, make it a a player to watch.
Meraki says it does not want to become an Internet service provider itself. Its goal is to equip any interested nontechnical person to become a “micro” service provider for his or her local community. .
This low-cost network model seems to be the way broadband service might reach many more home.
Milton Drepaul
New Music Social Interactive Site
New site, www.newbandtv.com, boasts an ever-growing list of exclusive content, behind-the-scenes, music videos, and community aspect of the highly sought-after underground and independent music market. The features and content are at some of the highest quality flash video available anywhere on the web.
Discount Long Distance
Irvine, CA (PRWEB) February 4, 2007 -- Based on the premise that 90% of the world's best music never gets heard, PowerJam Entertainment announced the launch of New Band TV.com (www.newbandtv.com), a music first interactive social website targeting underground bands and fans looking for creative outlets.
This new concept gives signed and unsigned musicians a destination site to share songs and videos on the Web. In addition, fans who sign up are able to interact with robust video that features high quality full screen resolution, digital audio quality and a fully functional social networking environment.
The site incorporates the best of social networking with an emphasis on an expanding music video library, exclusive content consisting of original Webisode and Webumentary programming, interviews, in-studio performances and concert footage.
Fans can set up personal profiles and are encouraged to interact and network with each other. t, New Band TV.com founder, H. Eugene Fouchia says: "I am absolutely tired of the pre-processed Star Making Monopoly of Hollywood and the Major Record Labels. There is so much great talent out there that cannot fit through that tiny corporate portal.
New Band TV.com is about putting stardom and recognition on a level playing field. A place for bands and singers to showcase their talent worldwide! Think of all the bands you've seen over the years in local clubs, never to hear from again. Consolidation of the recording and media industries has constricted the music funnel into tiny boxes of playlists. Not any more. We are democratizing the music scene and bringing it directly to the people, permanently!"
New Band TV.com's team of experienced media executives and young, hip staff considers the company a natural extension of the boom in social networking for the 14-24 year old "Generation You." Intuitive graphics make the site easy to navigate, browse and upload video and pictures. It has already garnered a large library of music videos produced by independent labels, personalized band videos and even launched a pilot show, "NoiseLink," into syndicated television.
Milton Drepaul
Discount Long Distance
Irvine, CA (PRWEB) February 4, 2007 -- Based on the premise that 90% of the world's best music never gets heard, PowerJam Entertainment announced the launch of New Band TV.com (www.newbandtv.com), a music first interactive social website targeting underground bands and fans looking for creative outlets.
This new concept gives signed and unsigned musicians a destination site to share songs and videos on the Web. In addition, fans who sign up are able to interact with robust video that features high quality full screen resolution, digital audio quality and a fully functional social networking environment.
The site incorporates the best of social networking with an emphasis on an expanding music video library, exclusive content consisting of original Webisode and Webumentary programming, interviews, in-studio performances and concert footage.
Fans can set up personal profiles and are encouraged to interact and network with each other. t, New Band TV.com founder, H. Eugene Fouchia says: "I am absolutely tired of the pre-processed Star Making Monopoly of Hollywood and the Major Record Labels. There is so much great talent out there that cannot fit through that tiny corporate portal.
New Band TV.com is about putting stardom and recognition on a level playing field. A place for bands and singers to showcase their talent worldwide! Think of all the bands you've seen over the years in local clubs, never to hear from again. Consolidation of the recording and media industries has constricted the music funnel into tiny boxes of playlists. Not any more. We are democratizing the music scene and bringing it directly to the people, permanently!"
New Band TV.com's team of experienced media executives and young, hip staff considers the company a natural extension of the boom in social networking for the 14-24 year old "Generation You." Intuitive graphics make the site easy to navigate, browse and upload video and pictures. It has already garnered a large library of music videos produced by independent labels, personalized band videos and even launched a pilot show, "NoiseLink," into syndicated television.
Milton Drepaul
Friday, February 2, 2007
Stephen King Writes First Marvel Comic Book
- Stephen King and Marvel Comics will premiere a comic book next week, "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born,". King, an iconic novelist with a huge fan base will be debuting in a form traditionally associated with teenagers of another era.
I will be giving away my age when I recall how my bother and I lovingly received some 'Superman' comics from a school friend. Comics preceded TV for us and added a visual element to our reading. I haven't read one since the late sixties. I have noticed the growing movie stardom of some of Marvel's heroes. So King's entrance into this field arouses great interest. I understand that The Dark Tower's will get Harry Potter like treatment with about 150 retailers across the country having "midnight release" parties, as Tuesday turns to Wednesday, to celebrate the release of the first of a planned seven issues.
STEPHEN KING's "The Dark Tower," is a huge sprawling work about a haunted gunslinger on a quest for a mysterious spire. It has stretched out over 22 years, and seven novels.
"The Dark Tower" seemingly ended like a damp squid in 2004. Some readers felt letdown with the saga's final pages and the blurred fate of its hero, Roland Deschain.
"With the last novel's ending, there really was a sense of 'You must be kidding,' so that certainly adds to the anticipation for the comics," Marvel's Meyers said.
"This is Stephen King's first dip into this pop-culture medium, and there's a lot of excitement. You haven't seen anything like this in comics, so we're getting this 'Harry Potter'-style event.
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King has promised promises plenty of shocks in the "Dark Tower" universe in the series, which will be drawn by fan-favorite comics artist Jae Lee.
The public appetite for King's works appear to be bottomless. He is reported to be working on three novels in various stages of completion (a resuscitated 1970s manuscript called "Blaze," a new work called "Duma Key" and another installment of "The Talisman" with Peter Straub. King also writes a column for Entertainment Weekly and keeps tabs on Hollywood adaptations of his work, like the current Frank Darabont film of "The Mist" and a TV miniseries of "The Talisman."
The End of Harry Potter-Out July 31
The news is out. The final Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,"will be released at midnight July 21 this year.
J.K. Rowling and her British and U.S. publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic Inc. announced this today. Rowling will end the magical saga of the famous boy wizard ten years and a few hundred million book sales after the first Harry Potter book,
The news set off a booking frenzy. Almost instantly, like the waving of a magic wand, "Deathly Hallows" topped the bestseller lists on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.Oprah's book selection, Sidney Poitier's "The Measure of a Man" sank into second place.
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J.K. Rowling and her British and U.S. publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic Inc. announced this today. Rowling will end the magical saga of the famous boy wizard ten years and a few hundred million book sales after the first Harry Potter book,
The news set off a booking frenzy. Almost instantly, like the waving of a magic wand, "Deathly Hallows" topped the bestseller lists on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.Oprah's book selection, Sidney Poitier's "The Measure of a Man" sank into second place.
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Sleep--The New Bottled Water?
An article in the New York Times discribes Yelo a new salon on West 57th Street that sells anxious New Yorkers the promise of a brief but cocooning sleep.
Is it likely that a business in selling sleep could thrive?
Read the Full Article and decide whether selling sleepis a great idea
Is it likely that a business in selling sleep could thrive?
Yelo 's model is seven private chambers that can be rented for 20- to 40-minute naps. Twenty minute naps cost $12.Each hexagonal pod has a beige leather recliner, dimmed lighting, a soporific soundtrack and a blanket of Nepalese cashmere. Clients may also book reflexology treatments, designed to lull the body to sleep, for their hands or feet starting at $65.
"Sleep is the new bottled water. Although it can be had free, it is increasingly being marketed as an upscale amenity. Nationwide, sales of prescription sleeping medications reached about $3 billion in the first nine months of last year, according to IMS Health, a healthcare research firm. That does not include the more than $20 billion spent on nocturnal accouterments like pillowtop mattresses, adjustable beds, hypoallergenic pillows, white-noise machines and monogrammed cashmere pajamas."--according to a quote from the article.Read the Full Article and decide whether selling sleepis a great idea
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Uniden's Cool Cordless Submersible Phone
The 5.8-gigahertz cordless phone is completely sealed and the handset’s cradle recharges it by magnetic induction, so there are no exposed metal parts. You can use it in the pool or shower. One neat feature is that the WX1477 floats!
Other features are:a 100-name phone book, caller ID with a 100-number memory and 20 ring tones that can be assigned to your contacts so you know right away who is calling.
A phone with a base unit is $90. Additional handsets and chargers are $100, and the system can accommodate up to 10 handsets. The phones will be available this month from http://www.unidendirect.com/.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Winner is Nintendo Wii
In this New York Times article it is argued that the Nintendo Wii has hit the top spot with gamers overtaking Sony's Playstation.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30 — Some of the video game industry’s smartest minds thought that couch potatoes wanted richer graphics and more challenging virtual worlds. It turns out that a lot of potatoes simply wanted to get off the couch.
That may be the best explanation for the growing popularity of the Nintendo Wii, the new video game system that has players jumping, punching and swinging, giving them an aerobic workout right in front of their television sets.
The Wii, which uses an innovative wireless controller to translate the players’ motions onto the screen, has upset the order of the video game world. In electronics stores and elsewhere, there are growing signs that the Wii has taken the lead in buzz and sales over another new console, the Sony PlayStation 3, which offers new superlatives in processing power and graphics.
The competitive picture became clearer on Tuesday, when Sony reported disappointing profits that industry analysts attributed largely to the expensive and shaky rollout of the PlayStation 3 and lukewarm demand for the complex machines. By contrast, Nintendo said last week that its own third-quarter sales were up 40 percent from a year earlier, buoyed by Wii sales.
Both consoles were hard to come by during the holiday shopping season. This week, visits to stores in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Austin, Tex., turned up several with PlayStation 3’s in stock, while the Wii was sold out.
The PlayStation, reflecting Sony’s longstanding dominance, seemed destined to be the one that gamers would snap up. But the Wii is winning many converts who are playing games by moving not just their thumbs but the whole complement of limbs.
“You’re up and you’re moving, and it makes you feel more involved,” said Tracy Ciardiello, 28, a stay-at-home mother in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., who bought one of the last Wiis available at a Wal-Mart nearby on Sunday morning. “After an hour, a thing pops on the screen that says, ‘Why not take a rest?’ That just made me laugh.”
The Wii and the PlayStation 3 were both released in November and are competing with the Microsoft Xbox 360, also a more powerful game machine. It is a battle with immense stakes, given that the video game industry generated more than $12 billion in sales last year.
It is too early to declare a winner. Video game industry analysts said one question hanging over the Wii was whether it was a fad, or whether it would end up creating a new generation of more casual game players — or even become a viable alternative to more powerful machines.
But it appears that Nintendo has already created an unexpected three-way contest, while calling into question conventional wisdom that video games are the domain of testosterone-driven gadget freaks who can zone out for hours while conquering computer-generated foes.
“Nintendo came at things sideways — they made stuff that’s silly and fun,” said Jeff Gerstmann, senior editor of GameSpot, a Web site with video game news and reviews. “It has created a new style of gaming.”
Nintendo recently announced that during the holiday quarter, it shipped 3.2 million Wii consoles and sold 17.5 million games. Sony said it shipped 1.84 million PlayStation 3’s in the quarter, and sold 5.2 million copies of game software for the console.
Nintendo might sell more Wiis if it could make and ship more of them. Company officials said they are shipping around a million worldwide every month, half of those to the United States, but retailers say they cannot keep them in stock.
“The last time they were here, we had 40 and they sold out in 15 minutes,” said John Weeks, who works in the electronics department of the Target store at South Bay Center in Boston. The Wii was last in stock there on Sunday and sold out quickly, making the console physically demanding for shoppers as well.
“I heard there were people here at 5 a.m. waiting,” Mr. Weeks said.
Target shoppers in search of a PlayStation 3, however, were in luck. In addition to the handful out on the floor on Tuesday, there were at least 15 PlayStations in back waiting to be sold.
Retailers around the country said that while the PlayStations had been selling well, they were generally remaining on the shelves for a few days or a week.
Helping the Wii is its $249 price, compared with $499 or $599 for the PlayStation 3, depending on the model, and $299 or $399 for the Xbox. The competition seems to be benefiting all three companies by getting consumers interested in a medium that has languished a bit.
Dave Karraker, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, said the Wii did not belong in the same category as the more powerful PlayStation 3. “Wii could be considered an impulse buy more than anything else,” he declared.
Mr. Karraker said Sony was selling out the 100,000 PlayStation 3 units it was shipping into the United States each week, albeit somewhat more slowly than before Christmas. “The frenzy we saw at the holidays has subsided a bit,” he said.
Besides, Mr. Karraker added, Sony thinks the Wii is attracting newcomers, while the PlayStation will be the console of choice for hard-core and committed gamers.
So is the Wii expanding the video game market, or is it stealing customers from Sony and Microsoft?
For Will Brazelton, 23, a student at San Francisco State University, the answer is both. An avid gamer, he said he planned to buy a PlayStation 3 eventually, but he was in a local EB Games store on Monday seeking a Wii. He said the system seemed especially fun. Also, his sister, even though she is not an avid gamer, had agreed to pay half.
Alas, the store had no Wiis, and the manager, Joe Conforti, told Mr. Brazelton that there was not any sure path to getting one.
It is “basically luck,” Mr. Conforti advised. He said the calls were coming in hourly from people interested in a Wii, and that when stock does come in, it lasts only an hour or two.
For some serious gamers, it is not a question of choosing among systems. Robert Davis, 29, a martial-arts instructor who lives in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and owns a PlayStation 3, an Xbox 360 and a Wii, said the Nintendo console was an enjoyable alternative but not a replacement for the more advanced machines. “It’s fun mainly because it’s different, but once that wears off, some people are just couch potatoes,” he said.
Perrin Kaplan, vice president for marketing at Nintendo of America, said the Wii was changing the perception of what kinds of games adults like to play. The console, she said, “has turned it all upside down.”
Ms. Kaplan bristled at Sony’s suggestion that the Wii only appeared to be in higher demand because there had been fewer shipments of it. “That’s absolutely inaccurate,” she said, adding that Nintendo was at least equaling Sony’s shipments.
Still, analysts said the challenges for the Wii included whether Nintendo and third-party developers would produce enough games to keep console owners and prospective buyers happy. GameSpot said developers planned to release some 76 games for the Wii in 2007, compared with 127 for PlayStation 3.
“At the end of the day, Wii is a terrific secondary system for hard-core gamers,” Mr. Gerstmann of Game- Spot said. But he added that many such gamers had not yet embraced PlayStation 3. “They’re waiting for the good games to come out,” he said.
Some gamers echoed that sentiment. “If I get the PlayStation 3, it would be after the price drops and I see what new games come out,” said Alex Chan, 23, a graduate student from Sacramento, who was with some friends at an EB Games store in the CambridgeSide Galleria Mall in Cambridge, Mass. He said he already had a PlayStation 2 and was interested in getting a Wii.
The Ciardiello family, in West Virginia, are converts to Nintendo, having made a transition from the PlayStation 2. Ms. Ciardiello, who has three young children, said her husband did some research about which console to buy. She said he liked the idea of getting started without spending a lot of time reading a manual — and, more fundamentally, being a bit active while they played.
That part, she said, has been borne out. “My husband broke a sweat playing golf on there,” she said.
Bill Gates' Vision of How Technology is Changing Education
Speaking at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum here Wednesday, Gates laid out his vision for just how technology is going to transform learning.
"We need to be humble in making predictions of how technology will affect education," Gates said, because people made big predictions about how TVs, video tapes and software would influence education that haven't come true.
Bill GatesStill, Gates said he believes that the reasons people select great universities or schools--access to professors' lectures, the ability to discuss issues with other students and the need to attend classes to gain a degree--will all be changed by technology.
Lectures will be distributed for free over the Internet, students will hold discussions at a distance in chat rooms, and testing and accreditation will happen online for people anywhere in the world, Gates predicted.
"Technology allows for more specialization and improvement" in education, he said.
The role of the teacher is still fundamental to learning, Gates stressed, but more effort must be put into training teachers in IT, and more tools must be created for them--for instance, software that could help them create a curriculum from online sources.
As part of its educational efforts, Microsoft announced that it is expanding its Innovative Teachers program (which helps local partners modernize schools) into the United Kingdom, as well as into 11 other countries, including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, Germany, Ireland and Sweden.
In the United Kingdom, Microsoft has been working with local authorities in Kent, Knowsley, Lewisham, Sandwell and Sheffield to integrate technology into educational institutions.
Damian Allen, executive director of children's services at Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, said Microsoft created "a clear road map to improve operations, learning, and communication between the classroom and home through the use of technology."
Also at the Government Leaders Forum, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, spoke about the role technology can play in improving education so the country can remain competitive in the face of globalization.
"Liberating technology makes it possible to say every person can and should enjoy the advantage of education," Brown said.
A global economy in which people are more connected than ever before is becoming more of a reality each day, he said, and to prepare, government must promote innovation.
"The answer is not protectionism," he said. "The answer is not turning back the clock...but to invest more in science, technology and creative industries."
Brown also stressed the need to include the whole population in this shift and not to widen the digital divide.
"How can we make technological innovation work for not just some of the people but all of the people?" he asked.
Sylvia Carr of Silicon.com reported from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Replica of Star Wars R2-D2 Available Later This Year
A half-size replica of the Star Wars droid R2-D2 will go on sale in Britain later this year.
It is one of the top 10 toys for 2007 at London’s annual Toy Fair, opening today.
The robot, plays DVDs and CDs, has an iPod dock and uses a scale model of Han Solo’s spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, to house its remote control. It even projects movies in the same way that R2-D2 revealed the hologram of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars (1977) movie.
Peter Jenkinson, of toy consultancy Toyology, commented: "The lines between technology, gadgets and toys are becoming more and more blurred.
"It means that these bits of kit are appealing not just to kids, but to their techy older siblings, even their parents."
It is one of the top 10 toys for 2007 at London’s annual Toy Fair, opening today.
The robot, plays DVDs and CDs, has an iPod dock and uses a scale model of Han Solo’s spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, to house its remote control. It even projects movies in the same way that R2-D2 revealed the hologram of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars (1977) movie.
Peter Jenkinson, of toy consultancy Toyology, commented: "The lines between technology, gadgets and toys are becoming more and more blurred.
"It means that these bits of kit are appealing not just to kids, but to their techy older siblings, even their parents."
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Three Inner Secrets of Internet Success
By Yanik Silver
www.SurefireMarketing.com
===================================
In only a few short months I've achieved the ultimate
Internet "fantasy" of making a lot of money from a simple
(almost primitive) web site that runs itself virtually on
complete autopilot. Starting from scratch I banked over
$51,351.94 my first 6 1/2 months online, just working part-
time out of the corner of my living room.
Now today at age 31, I've gone on to earn over 7-figures.
How did I go from a standing start to banking mega
profits?
To do that, what I think you really need are these inner
secrets to mega internet success. This has nothing to do
with search engines, pay-per-clicks. It doesn't have
anything to do with any of the tactical stuff. It's all a
lot of stuff that goes on in your head.
* Secret #1: Cheerful Expectancy *
One of my biggest mentors is Earl Nightingale. He passed
away several years ago but you need to get everything he
recorded at Nightingale.com. He has a program called "Lead
The Field" and "The Strangest Secret." Just listen to
that thing over and over again. He talks about cheerful
expectancy.
There's a big difference between having expectancy versus
hoping or wishing something is going to occur. When you
have that cheerful expectancy, you know it's going to
occur. And that doesn't just come from being
"Pollyannaish" or having rose-colored glasses.
It comes from having knowledge. And you get that
knowledge from studying in your field whatever it is. It
could be Internet marketing or it could be neurology. That
means reading, studying and buying everything and
absolutely immersing yourself in it.
I learned from Earl Nightingale that if you want to be an
expert, you spend an hour a day reading on whatever
subject that you're interested in, that you want to be an
expert on. So I said, "Well, what would happen if I read
for three hours a day?"
I just started learning as much as I possibly could, and
that knowledge gives you the confidence to know that you
have that positive expectancy. Your expectations determine
your results.
* Secret #2: Do one proactive thing a day *
You don't need to do 100 things a day. Just get that one
proactive thing a day. So each little brick builds a big
wall for you. Trust me it's easy to be overwhelmed with
hundreds of tasks. You're like, "Oh, we need to do e-zine
ads and free-for-alls and pay-per-click search engines,
and I need to do all this other stuff." Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
But just relax and do one task a day.
Your action will create more and more and more action for
you. You simply need to make a commitment to do one
proactive thing a day no matter what. Even if you're dead
tired and worked a 14-hour day - come home and mail one
letter or send out one joint venture proposal. I'm telling
you - just these little tiny proactive things will have an
immense impact.
Most everyone has heard of the '80/20 rule' or the Pareto
Principle. It says that 20% of your actions produce 80% of
your results, and the other way around. 80% of your work
only creates 20% of your results.
So go back and look where your successes came from, and I
know that they're from a tiny little group of actions. So
if you just get that one proactive thing a day (from the
20% group) that is going to propel you further, that's
going to bring you to where you want to be.
Make it a point to focus on those "20% activities". In
Stephen Covey's famous work "7 Habits of Highly Effective
People" he calls these activities "important but not
urgent".
One of my Apprentices, Peter Woodhead, from the UK is a
perfect example of simply doing one proactive thing a day.
A lot of Apprentices bolted out of the gate during our one
year program but Peter was an Internet newbie and he also
had a full time job so he was a bit slower getting
started. However, he took my advice and simply managed to
do one proactive thing every single day. No matter how big
or how small. It could be writing one autoresponder
message or it might have been writing 50 headlines. No
matter the day - Peter was moving ahead. And not
surprisingly his project was completed before many of the
other Apprentices were finished.
* Secret #3: Decision *
This is such a big point. A lot of people have so many
problems with decision. That's because they don't like it
because it cuts off other options. But frankly that's
exactly what you want. You want to cut off other options.
One of our top apprentices, Cindy Kappler, WebAdMagic.com,
had no other option but to succeed because she quit her
job. Now I'm not encouraging you to do that if you still
have a real job but it does prove if you cut off your
options, you're much more motivated. Successful people
make decisions quickly.
There's a magic of attraction when you make your decision.
However, when you're hemming and hawing, you don't
experience this magic. I don't want to get into too much
woo-woo or metaphysical or spiritual stuff.
But there's this magic of attraction. I can't even
explain it. When you set your mind up that you're going
to do this, all of a sudden, at the next dinner party
you're attending you meet somebody that can help you get
to where you want to go. Is that luck or is that
something else?
I don't think it's luck.
It's like once the decision is made your mind is tuned
into the solution and all kinds of 'freaky' coincidences
and occurrences happen.
And that brings me to another important point about
decisions - fail quickly. Don't be afraid of failure. A
lot of people are so afraid of screwing up, or making a
mistake that they are forever frozen. Who the hell cares?
Screw up quickly! I screw up all the time. And you want
to fail quickly.
That's the great part about the Internet. You want to go
out there and find out if your dumb idea is going to work
right away. You can do it in days instead of months.
Sometimes hours and if it doesn't work, you move on. You
say, "Next!"
Look, I know a lot of people who are working on their
products for the last two, three, four years. Get the
damned thing out! You just make it better as you go
along.
InstantSalesLetters.com, our first product was not where it
is now. We've added a ton of stuff to it and made it
better. But I just wanted to see if the thing was going
to sell.
It wasn't complete and utter rubbish, as my British
friends say, but it was enough that it made the point. It
found out if there was a marketplace for it. So find out.
Some people like to go around at dinner parties and so on
and say, "I'm writing a book. I've been writing a book
for five years. I'm an author."
Uh huh...
I can show you 6 different ways to have your book done in
days. It's a cop-out and complete B.S. Bottom line - make
the decision to get the product out there. See what
happens and fail quickly.
Now get out there and do it!
(c) Surefire Marketing, Inc.
==========================================================
Yanik Silver is recognized as the leading expert on
creating automatic, moneymaking websites...and he still
doesn't know how to put up a website.
He is the author, co-author or creator of several best-
selling online marketing books and tools, including his
quickest and easiest way to create a product to sell -
http://www.PublicDomainRiches.com
www.SurefireMarketing.com
===================================
In only a few short months I've achieved the ultimate
Internet "fantasy" of making a lot of money from a simple
(almost primitive) web site that runs itself virtually on
complete autopilot. Starting from scratch I banked over
$51,351.94 my first 6 1/2 months online, just working part-
time out of the corner of my living room.
Now today at age 31, I've gone on to earn over 7-figures.
How did I go from a standing start to banking mega
profits?
To do that, what I think you really need are these inner
secrets to mega internet success. This has nothing to do
with search engines, pay-per-clicks. It doesn't have
anything to do with any of the tactical stuff. It's all a
lot of stuff that goes on in your head.
* Secret #1: Cheerful Expectancy *
One of my biggest mentors is Earl Nightingale. He passed
away several years ago but you need to get everything he
recorded at Nightingale.com. He has a program called "Lead
The Field" and "The Strangest Secret." Just listen to
that thing over and over again. He talks about cheerful
expectancy.
There's a big difference between having expectancy versus
hoping or wishing something is going to occur. When you
have that cheerful expectancy, you know it's going to
occur. And that doesn't just come from being
"Pollyannaish" or having rose-colored glasses.
It comes from having knowledge. And you get that
knowledge from studying in your field whatever it is. It
could be Internet marketing or it could be neurology. That
means reading, studying and buying everything and
absolutely immersing yourself in it.
I learned from Earl Nightingale that if you want to be an
expert, you spend an hour a day reading on whatever
subject that you're interested in, that you want to be an
expert on. So I said, "Well, what would happen if I read
for three hours a day?"
I just started learning as much as I possibly could, and
that knowledge gives you the confidence to know that you
have that positive expectancy. Your expectations determine
your results.
* Secret #2: Do one proactive thing a day *
You don't need to do 100 things a day. Just get that one
proactive thing a day. So each little brick builds a big
wall for you. Trust me it's easy to be overwhelmed with
hundreds of tasks. You're like, "Oh, we need to do e-zine
ads and free-for-alls and pay-per-click search engines,
and I need to do all this other stuff." Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
But just relax and do one task a day.
Your action will create more and more and more action for
you. You simply need to make a commitment to do one
proactive thing a day no matter what. Even if you're dead
tired and worked a 14-hour day - come home and mail one
letter or send out one joint venture proposal. I'm telling
you - just these little tiny proactive things will have an
immense impact.
Most everyone has heard of the '80/20 rule' or the Pareto
Principle. It says that 20% of your actions produce 80% of
your results, and the other way around. 80% of your work
only creates 20% of your results.
So go back and look where your successes came from, and I
know that they're from a tiny little group of actions. So
if you just get that one proactive thing a day (from the
20% group) that is going to propel you further, that's
going to bring you to where you want to be.
Make it a point to focus on those "20% activities". In
Stephen Covey's famous work "7 Habits of Highly Effective
People" he calls these activities "important but not
urgent".
One of my Apprentices, Peter Woodhead, from the UK is a
perfect example of simply doing one proactive thing a day.
A lot of Apprentices bolted out of the gate during our one
year program but Peter was an Internet newbie and he also
had a full time job so he was a bit slower getting
started. However, he took my advice and simply managed to
do one proactive thing every single day. No matter how big
or how small. It could be writing one autoresponder
message or it might have been writing 50 headlines. No
matter the day - Peter was moving ahead. And not
surprisingly his project was completed before many of the
other Apprentices were finished.
* Secret #3: Decision *
This is such a big point. A lot of people have so many
problems with decision. That's because they don't like it
because it cuts off other options. But frankly that's
exactly what you want. You want to cut off other options.
One of our top apprentices, Cindy Kappler, WebAdMagic.com,
had no other option but to succeed because she quit her
job. Now I'm not encouraging you to do that if you still
have a real job but it does prove if you cut off your
options, you're much more motivated. Successful people
make decisions quickly.
There's a magic of attraction when you make your decision.
However, when you're hemming and hawing, you don't
experience this magic. I don't want to get into too much
woo-woo or metaphysical or spiritual stuff.
But there's this magic of attraction. I can't even
explain it. When you set your mind up that you're going
to do this, all of a sudden, at the next dinner party
you're attending you meet somebody that can help you get
to where you want to go. Is that luck or is that
something else?
I don't think it's luck.
It's like once the decision is made your mind is tuned
into the solution and all kinds of 'freaky' coincidences
and occurrences happen.
And that brings me to another important point about
decisions - fail quickly. Don't be afraid of failure. A
lot of people are so afraid of screwing up, or making a
mistake that they are forever frozen. Who the hell cares?
Screw up quickly! I screw up all the time. And you want
to fail quickly.
That's the great part about the Internet. You want to go
out there and find out if your dumb idea is going to work
right away. You can do it in days instead of months.
Sometimes hours and if it doesn't work, you move on. You
say, "Next!"
Look, I know a lot of people who are working on their
products for the last two, three, four years. Get the
damned thing out! You just make it better as you go
along.
InstantSalesLetters.com, our first product was not where it
is now. We've added a ton of stuff to it and made it
better. But I just wanted to see if the thing was going
to sell.
It wasn't complete and utter rubbish, as my British
friends say, but it was enough that it made the point. It
found out if there was a marketplace for it. So find out.
Some people like to go around at dinner parties and so on
and say, "I'm writing a book. I've been writing a book
for five years. I'm an author."
Uh huh...
I can show you 6 different ways to have your book done in
days. It's a cop-out and complete B.S. Bottom line - make
the decision to get the product out there. See what
happens and fail quickly.
Now get out there and do it!
(c) Surefire Marketing, Inc.
==========================================================
Yanik Silver is recognized as the leading expert on
creating automatic, moneymaking websites...and he still
doesn't know how to put up a website.
He is the author, co-author or creator of several best-
selling online marketing books and tools, including his
quickest and easiest way to create a product to sell -
http://www.PublicDomainRiches.com
Awesome Software Package
Could this be the coolest site on the Internet?
Matt Callen is giving away an awesome software package
called HyperVRE. Basically what this software does
is create websites for you that contain the two
hottest things in marketing right now ALL ON THE
SAME PAGES. The best thing is...it is free.
I just downloaded my very own copy and it is awesome,
so I wanted to share it with you. The software is a breeze to
use and there is an endless amount of customizable features.
The owner of HyperVRE told me I could let a few people know
about the site before they start charging for the product, and I
thought you would be interested. :-)
Go ahead and check it out now.
==>
Enjoy this one!
Milton
HyperVRE.com
Matt Callen is giving away an awesome software package
called HyperVRE. Basically what this software does
is create websites for you that contain the two
hottest things in marketing right now ALL ON THE
SAME PAGES. The best thing is...it is free.
I just downloaded my very own copy and it is awesome,
so I wanted to share it with you. The software is a breeze to
use and there is an endless amount of customizable features.
The owner of HyperVRE told me I could let a few people know
about the site before they start charging for the product, and I
thought you would be interested. :-)
Go ahead and check it out now.
==>
Enjoy this one!
Milton
HyperVRE.com
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