Randy’s Ramblings 24th March 2010
HypeFree advice to help us all.

In this Post

* Catch Up
* Useful FireFox Add Ons
* A Warning for WP Bloggers & A Tour (2 Video Links)
* MM News – And My New Free Videos
* Sign Off – & Last Minute items

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* Catch Up

Where to start this week?
Well for a couple of days I was laid up with a nasty tummy bug!
(I won’t go into the details it was horrid!)

OK, that was just couple of days, I did manage to get some work done to…lol

On a more positive note, we’ve had some lovely sunshine, so naturally I’ve been enjoying some beautiful walks feeling the sun on my face.
I’m so glad spring is finally here, or close enough!

As for marketing, I wonder how many would tempted by the latest greatest $2000 product??
Here’s what I wrote in reply to someone mentioning it on my forum at MoreMonthly.com

“What I’ve always found amusing seems obvious to me – but I guess it can’t be to others??????????
Here we have a guy selling a $2k product on how to get the most from your list.
Now bear with me…

He has recently had a massive product called Mass Control.
With Mass Control he had a gazillion affiliates promote it and made millions…..
So presumably he built quite a substantial list from that?????

In which case….. And this is the big question I always come back to
(and not just for Mr. Kern, cos  I do think he’s a cool dude)

WHY….Why would he then need another gazillion affiliates to build him another huge list to sell his next product to???

Surely he could Mass Control them all to Buy List Control without having to pay out a bean in affiliate commissions, and wouldn’t that too prove the product was great?
LOL
Is it just be that thinks these things?…. hehe”

I have to be honest and admit I did not purchase the product and for all I know it could be the best thing since sliced bread.  I’m sure it will be a quality product, but then one would hope so with that ticket price.

Right, Let’s get back to things I can comment on

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* Useful FireFox Add Ons

A little cheating here, I’ve stolen some of this content about the useful Firefox add-ons from a post in the moremonthly forum.

To give credit where it’s due – the thread was started by Morten of NicheBoxes (A site he’s just launched that he’s spent a lot of time making sure provides excellent value to it’s members – so do give him a click)
I’m sure he wont mind me sharing his and some of my most useful addons

So if you use FireFox – do search for some of these and see which might be useful to you

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ColorZilla
- This has eyedropper colorpicker, but there’s more to this little gem. For instance you can get it to analyze the colors used in the regular (html) parts of a given homepage. Plus it’s got a fantastic zoom tool.

FoxyProxy Standard
- If you’re ever using proxy-servers for anything, like checking out landing pages for US-only promotions, (or accessing sites where your own IP has been banned ), this one is a must. It’s got tons of setup possibilities, even allowing you to use different proxies for different sites.

LastPass
- Is a centralized, web-based password repository, and the add-on is more or less a must-have if  you use the service (it’s free!)

MeasureIt
- A very simple, yet amazing add-on – when activated it simply lets you mark up an area on a web-page, giving you the exact dimensions in pixels of this area.

RankChecker
- really great add-on for anyone doing SEO work. It lets you set up a list of sites with corresponding keywords, and then goes out and checks the search engine position for each.

S3 Firefox Organizer (S3Fox)
- FTP-like add-on for uploading to Amazon S3, and working with the files you’ve got in there. There are a few different S3 add-ons, and this one feels the best for Morten.

SEOBook SEO Toolbar
- another SEO tool, this one directed at examining the current page. Gives rankings in the sarch engines, alexa rank, competition data, IP, whois… you name it – very comprehensive.

Alexa Sparky
- One I do love myself, as it shows the alexa page rank of each page your on in the bottom corner of your screen above your staus bar. Great for knowing if you’re on a high traffic site.

Web Developer
- great toolbar menu when you’re working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. Far too many features for me to use them all, but chances are, if you need some information about a page you’re creating, you’ll be able to find it in here

SpellBlound
- Spell Checks as you write so you don’t look silly with any misspellings in your blog posts etc.

Pixlr Grabber
- Allows you to grab images and edit them, Very Useful and best checked out for yourself to see what I mean.

CaptureFox
- which films your screen etc. so you can do a tour or make a how to file. (I think you still need something to change the video from an avi file into something smaller for the web, and in the one I tried I cheated and used camtasia to render it… so a useful tool there would come in handy….. any ideas??)

See below for my ‘test video’

I hope you find some that help

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* A Warning for WP Bloggers & A Tour (2 Video Links)

Two video links to check now:

The first is actually a test I did of the CaptureFox addon – to see if it really was easy to use…lol

So I did a quick tour of the new layout for WizardResponder.
Here’s the link to the video so you can see how CaptureFox worked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSOVid5t3k

Pete actually ignored the video and made a much better one which can be seen by visiting the main
page at WizardResponderPro.com
(well he is the techy one! – But I still think mine was better than nothing!!…hehe)

What did you think? (unscripted and on the fly, I thought mine was OK – do leave a comment!)

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The second video was sent to me by a friend, Andy Lawrence.
It’s a warning for anyone on the WP blog platform. (It also shows how to set one up in less than 10mins)

Make sure you have your settings correct so you get traffic and don’t ban google!!

Watch this to learn more:
http://www.nichemarketernews.com/Wpress_Privacy_Issue/

(or to see how to install a blog)

Hope that helps too
Moving on….

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* MM News – And My New Free Videos

I did manage to get out of bed to at least finish updating MoreMonthly.com with next months downloads – 31 in total!
So just over double the promised number (and there have been some great posts in the private forum this month too!)

BUT NOW -

Now I’m excited,
I can finally reveal a new way of promoting the site that I’m hoping you and my other readers will love!
Heck – you don’t even have to be a member to make yourself some cool extra incomes from this

I partnered up with another techy (Terry, who always comes to the Northallerton Meet Ups) and he has helped put all this together…
I’ve wanted to get this done for months!
Instead of promoting a paid product, You can promote a freebie that I feel is a great benefit.

It’s a FREE six -part video course that you can see (and optin to get) here:
http://www.easycreationmonthly.info/
(Yes I know there are still a few tweaks to sort…lol)

It’s called
Easy Product Creation
And it will show a variety of ways to get YOUR product created without you having to create it yourself!
What’s more, and this is the part you’ll really like, If you check the partner page after you’ve opted in…

You’ll see you can promote it and then earn a commission from all the work I do to try and get people involved in MoreMonthlyPlus

AS WELL AS
As well as a bunch of little extra along the way!

Basically, any product sold from that Autoresponder series will be cookied with YOUR affiliate link to pay you – WHENEVER the sale comes in!
So please – do me a favour, Grab the freebie, and take a look at the process.
(Naturally – don’t buy if you’re already a moremonthly member)

BUT DO register as a partner and send people along to grab the freebie, so I can work on making you some ca$h
(as well as myself)

Thanks
Here’s the link again
http://www.easycreationmonthly.info/

Lesson wise – take a good close look at the process!
It’s done using Tony Shepherds PMMS which you can still get for free from:
http://www.randolfsmith.com/recommends/pmms

Right – best get signed off and posted
And please do register at (you can always chose not to partner with me)

http://www.easycreationmonthly.info/

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* Sign Off

Before I go – here’s a quick mini catch up on a couple of links:

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20 Ways To Make Money Now!
An EXTRA bonus has been added by Jim of his Silent Sales Machine product – but only til Friday
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Squeeze Pages Uncut – MORE than just Squeeze pages!
The girls keep sending some great list building bonuses after you’ve registered for the product… Excellent freebies and totally related to the product!
(A Very Good Buy!)
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BlogFlipz (Too Cheap – Flip one and you have a profit):
Tony and Tony have really outdone themselves with this course – it’s very clear and simple to follow if you want to take a look at site flipping!
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The Bristol LFMpire Workshop
I’m really looking forward to this in May, and can’t wait to meet up with friends old and new at the bar
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Speaking of Meet Ups
The Next Northallerton Meet Up is on 12th April due to the Easter Holiday
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Right – back to catching up on what I missed while I was laid up

****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****

Til next time
To You and Yours,

Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Warm Regards
Randy
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