Today I went back to watch some of the early 30DC videos, as I forgot where to get all the Firefox addons since I had to reinstall Windows.
I also downloaded some stand alone organizer software so that I can cram as much work as possible into every day. Why I didn’t have this before, I don’t know.
It alerts me with a pop up and a sound of my choice, so I can’t forget to do stuff. It’s called Total Organizer and has a forum if I need it.
I’ve got the free version for now, but the pro version is only $20 so no doubt I’ll upgrade eventually, but it will do for now. If you don’t have anything like this already, give it a try because if I can use it, then it’s safe to say anyone can.
And I have found out that my Digg account has been reactivated, so I spent some time digging news stories and videos of interest, that were not to products of any kind. I’ll tread very carefully with Digg from now on. I did some more social bookmarking with other sites for my blogs.
Disappointed to find my main blog’s home page not even in the top 100. Gave up looking in the end. But some of my individual posts are around, although one has been penalised by Indian Pad for breaking irrelevancy rules. I thought the description was quite accurate myself. And two people voted for it, but I don’t know who they are! They don’t seem like Pauline and Asbjorn.
I need to do some serious social posting without overdoing it. I reckon asking some of my non Internet Marketing friends to do a bit of bookmarking won’t do any harm.
Also finally downloaded my printer software. Spent all morning looking for the drivers online, unsuccessfully, then I remembered I had the CDs in a large card envelope with all the manuals and Quick Guides inside, that I’ve kept for the past two years – um, right next to the printer.
I could do with an index similar to that in a library, that tells me where every single thing is in my flat, because I’m clearly incapable of thinking of the most obvious place!
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
90. Minor Setback
I’m horrified that I’ve not been able to do any productive Internet Marketing work for over two weeks. After the clean installation of Windows, my PC is almost back to how it was, but not quite. I still have to download all the Firefox plug-ins again, and I might have to use Open Office, instead of MS Office, as I have a further 24 threats to MS Office, that no-one is able to sort out for me.
I also took two weeks off work for the last part of August and had all that trouble with my PC. It’s not as bad, however, as taking two weeks off work then becoming ill, as has happened to my friends.
I went into the Apple shop in Cardiff last week, to buy those spongey things for my ipod’s earpieces (the only thing I can afford from that shop!) but I came out wanting an iMac. I can dream. The sooner I get back to work, the better.
I had to hire a car and drive four hours to a funeral last week, so I had to cancel two photography jobs, and do them this week. I also didn’t sleep at all the night before. I think it was because I was scared to death of scratching the hire car, and them taking the £200 excess off my Visa card, making me go over my limit.
Sadly, I’m not like most people when it comes to sleep. I can’t just sleep more the next night to catch up. It often takes a good two weeks to get my body clock back to normal. But I’m hoping I’ve done it in one week this time.
Despite the lack of production, I really could not have done any more work than I’ve been doing, so I’ve still earned all four of my stars every day. I am today however, revising my daily routine to include time to review how well I’m sticking to my IM plan. I have been doing it once a week, but I think I need a more rigorous shake-up, as I need to be working faster. It may not work, but it’s worth a try.
The funeral I went to was Mike Blacktopp's. I’m glad Mike is no longer suffering with Motor Neurone Disease. He could no longer speak or move for the last six months of his life. But he was very inspirational. Before his death he managed to raise over two and a half thousand pounds for MND, the Motor Neurone Disease Association. You can watch the official video of Mike’s charity skydive, Here.
I also took two weeks off work for the last part of August and had all that trouble with my PC. It’s not as bad, however, as taking two weeks off work then becoming ill, as has happened to my friends.
I went into the Apple shop in Cardiff last week, to buy those spongey things for my ipod’s earpieces (the only thing I can afford from that shop!) but I came out wanting an iMac. I can dream. The sooner I get back to work, the better.
I had to hire a car and drive four hours to a funeral last week, so I had to cancel two photography jobs, and do them this week. I also didn’t sleep at all the night before. I think it was because I was scared to death of scratching the hire car, and them taking the £200 excess off my Visa card, making me go over my limit.
Sadly, I’m not like most people when it comes to sleep. I can’t just sleep more the next night to catch up. It often takes a good two weeks to get my body clock back to normal. But I’m hoping I’ve done it in one week this time.
Despite the lack of production, I really could not have done any more work than I’ve been doing, so I’ve still earned all four of my stars every day. I am today however, revising my daily routine to include time to review how well I’m sticking to my IM plan. I have been doing it once a week, but I think I need a more rigorous shake-up, as I need to be working faster. It may not work, but it’s worth a try.
The funeral I went to was Mike Blacktopp's. I’m glad Mike is no longer suffering with Motor Neurone Disease. He could no longer speak or move for the last six months of his life. But he was very inspirational. Before his death he managed to raise over two and a half thousand pounds for MND, the Motor Neurone Disease Association. You can watch the official video of Mike’s charity skydive, Here.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
89. Thirty Day Challenge - Day 32!
Ok, that’s it. I’m gonna carry on numbering the days until I complete the 30 Day Challenge. It took Asbjorn 88 days to get his first sale in 2005, but he did it in the end. And so will I!
It will take as long as it takes, but I ain’t giving up. So the title of this post may look ridiculous, but I don’t care.
Spent the morning visiting the local computer shops getting advice, after my PC has become corrupted. I’d love to build myself the meanest, baddest PC possible for as little cost as poss, but that may be slightly too adventurous just yet. I’ll make my first ten bucks through the 30DC first, before I commit to learning how to do that.
For now, I need to totally reformat my existing hard drive. Gaurav at Microsoft has promised to ring me back on Monday to talk me through it. He was prepared to stay on the phone way past his home time, but in India they don’t get paid overtime, so I wasn’t having that!
Reformatting means I’ll probably lose a lot of software, but it’s my own fault, for not backing up the installation files. Only this week did I learn about that. I’ve been deleting those files as soon as I’ve installed the software in many cases. Dipstick!
The good news is that several of my program files will have the installation files included, so I’ve copied all of them onto the external hard drive, in the hope that most of them will work on the new Operating System.
The other good thing is that a lot of my software was free online – no NOT dodgy pirate stuff, I don’t get involved with those, but reputable sites, I can go to again. And all the programs I’ve paid for, I either have the CDs or the emailed receipts, so I should be able to download them again. Never delete your emails with receipts on, people! And if they’re for your business, always print them out, of course.
I even managed to do some 30DC work as well. Not much, but I finally put my tracking link in place of my affiliate link on my two main sites, and they appear to be working beautifully. Seen that tutorial video three times now – twice before I did the task myself, and once simultaneously. Wow, a six syllable word on a Saturday night!
It will take as long as it takes, but I ain’t giving up. So the title of this post may look ridiculous, but I don’t care.
Spent the morning visiting the local computer shops getting advice, after my PC has become corrupted. I’d love to build myself the meanest, baddest PC possible for as little cost as poss, but that may be slightly too adventurous just yet. I’ll make my first ten bucks through the 30DC first, before I commit to learning how to do that.
For now, I need to totally reformat my existing hard drive. Gaurav at Microsoft has promised to ring me back on Monday to talk me through it. He was prepared to stay on the phone way past his home time, but in India they don’t get paid overtime, so I wasn’t having that!
Reformatting means I’ll probably lose a lot of software, but it’s my own fault, for not backing up the installation files. Only this week did I learn about that. I’ve been deleting those files as soon as I’ve installed the software in many cases. Dipstick!
The good news is that several of my program files will have the installation files included, so I’ve copied all of them onto the external hard drive, in the hope that most of them will work on the new Operating System.
The other good thing is that a lot of my software was free online – no NOT dodgy pirate stuff, I don’t get involved with those, but reputable sites, I can go to again. And all the programs I’ve paid for, I either have the CDs or the emailed receipts, so I should be able to download them again. Never delete your emails with receipts on, people! And if they’re for your business, always print them out, of course.
I even managed to do some 30DC work as well. Not much, but I finally put my tracking link in place of my affiliate link on my two main sites, and they appear to be working beautifully. Seen that tutorial video three times now – twice before I did the task myself, and once simultaneously. Wow, a six syllable word on a Saturday night!
Friday, August 31, 2007
88. 30DC put on hold
My hard disc seems to be corrupt, so I can't do a complete copy of it. For several days I have not been able to right click on my temp files to get rid of them, or delete them in any other way. What happens is, Windows Explorer either freezes, or just instantly shuts down.
Now it has got even worse. I cannot delete, copy, rename or do anything else with any other file or folder!
The only way I can copy a file is to left click on it, and click 'copy this file' on the left, then it gives me a box for the destination.
Also, whenver I go into any boxes like System box within Control Panel, the whole PC just freezes.
I've been on the phone to Microsoft for four hours on Wed and six hours on Thurs, and he's phoning me back again today. I've tried two offline complete scans, and four online scans.
He wants to make a new username, transfer everything across, then delete the old username (with corrupt files). I have transferred some files myself and tried to use Windows Explorer in the new user account, but it still won't work.
So I'm not confident that his plan will work. He's been a tech for years and has never come across this problem. My PC won't even let me do a System Restore - at all!
So I just want to get everything I need to put on a new computer, via my external hard drive, but I’m not sure that’s possible. I already looked at iTunes in my new user account, and three years worth of songs are gone. I don't know how to get to keep them. Most were paid for and downloaded, and I don't have them on CD.
I’ll just be spending the morning trying to salvage what files and folders I can before the MS tech rings me back.
To cap it all, I was still only on Day 23 of the 30DC before all this happened. I'm still able to watch some videos, but my system is so unreliable, I can't do much work at all.
Still earning all four stars, every day, as I've been doing ewverything I can. Non of this disaster has come about through laziness!
I guess I tempted fate by saying on Tuesday that I love my life - that'll teach me!
Now it has got even worse. I cannot delete, copy, rename or do anything else with any other file or folder!
The only way I can copy a file is to left click on it, and click 'copy this file' on the left, then it gives me a box for the destination.
Also, whenver I go into any boxes like System box within Control Panel, the whole PC just freezes.
I've been on the phone to Microsoft for four hours on Wed and six hours on Thurs, and he's phoning me back again today. I've tried two offline complete scans, and four online scans.
He wants to make a new username, transfer everything across, then delete the old username (with corrupt files). I have transferred some files myself and tried to use Windows Explorer in the new user account, but it still won't work.
So I'm not confident that his plan will work. He's been a tech for years and has never come across this problem. My PC won't even let me do a System Restore - at all!
So I just want to get everything I need to put on a new computer, via my external hard drive, but I’m not sure that’s possible. I already looked at iTunes in my new user account, and three years worth of songs are gone. I don't know how to get to keep them. Most were paid for and downloaded, and I don't have them on CD.
I’ll just be spending the morning trying to salvage what files and folders I can before the MS tech rings me back.
To cap it all, I was still only on Day 23 of the 30DC before all this happened. I'm still able to watch some videos, but my system is so unreliable, I can't do much work at all.
Still earning all four stars, every day, as I've been doing ewverything I can. Non of this disaster has come about through laziness!
I guess I tempted fate by saying on Tuesday that I love my life - that'll teach me!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
87. Thirty Day Challenge Day 28
Here’s something I only just found out. When looking down the list of StumbleUpon’s list of categories for websites, I noticed that one of them was ‘learning disorder’ – not ‘learning disability’, or ‘learning difficulty’ – so they obviously use a different term for it in the Sates. And I’ve never used ‘learning disorder’ as a tab for this blog. Learning, learning all the time. I love my life.
I was still behind on the 30DC, and manged to add Google Analytics to my main niche blog. It took a while finding the video, then finding a forum post that amended the instruction from a Tumblr blog to the blogger blogs, then I had to sign up with Google Analytics, and then put the code into the special box within my blog. so I had to have all these windows open at the same time, whilst I slowly but surely managed to do what turned out to be a one minute job. It just took slightly longer to learn it that’s all!
Had our weekly team Skype call, but Asbjorn couldn’t make it this week. Got Pauline set up with Google chat. My blog is now number 60 in Google, down form 45 yesterday. Hope it moves up or I’ll never get any traffic.
Spent way too long answering emails, and on the phone to Microsoft again, trying to sort out a malware alert.
I was still behind on the 30DC, and manged to add Google Analytics to my main niche blog. It took a while finding the video, then finding a forum post that amended the instruction from a Tumblr blog to the blogger blogs, then I had to sign up with Google Analytics, and then put the code into the special box within my blog. so I had to have all these windows open at the same time, whilst I slowly but surely managed to do what turned out to be a one minute job. It just took slightly longer to learn it that’s all!
Had our weekly team Skype call, but Asbjorn couldn’t make it this week. Got Pauline set up with Google chat. My blog is now number 60 in Google, down form 45 yesterday. Hope it moves up or I’ll never get any traffic.
Spent way too long answering emails, and on the phone to Microsoft again, trying to sort out a malware alert.
Monday, August 27, 2007
86. Thirty Day Challenge Day 27
Did nothing but bookmarked my sites and my two team mates’ sites. I can’t believe how long it took, and I only stumbled them, put them all through Onlywire, and Netscaped a few of them, but it made a difference. Pauline reported that she had got indexed in only two hours! She’s number 17 in Google for her phrase.
So I checked my phrase, and my blogger blog is number 45 in Google for my phrase, so I sent an email asking for more love!
Wrote more short articles to blog about, but I’m so far behind. I didn’t even have time to look at today’s stuff. I plan to get up very early tomorrow.
So I checked my phrase, and my blogger blog is number 45 in Google for my phrase, so I sent an email asking for more love!
Wrote more short articles to blog about, but I’m so far behind. I didn’t even have time to look at today’s stuff. I plan to get up very early tomorrow.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
85. Thirty Day Challenge Day 26
Feeling a bit foolish, as I went and asked about cloaking links on the forum, and if I wasn’t behind on the 30DC I’d know that using the tracking tool in the dasboard would do that exact job. I did watch the corresponding video, but as I hadn’t done the task myself, I forgot about it. Duh. I’m not safe to be let loose on the forums!
Spent all day getting wise about the various bookmarking sites listed in Social Poster. It’d be silly to just go and vote for your own sites on all these sites without undestanding what they specialise in. For example, Sk-rt.com is just for women’s topics, PlugIM is just for internet marketing topics, and Kick.ie is just about Irish sites, so it’d be pointless voting for my niche sites in the last two at least.
And another site was clearly owned by an internet marketer who had a very bad attitude, and sounds to me as though it was a male with a female name! So it paid off to spend some time doing this research.
Added more posts to both my blogs and social bookmarked them. Hopefully I can catch up tomorrow and sort those affiliate links out. I’m still not giving up on the possibility of winning the 30 day Challenge.
Spent all day getting wise about the various bookmarking sites listed in Social Poster. It’d be silly to just go and vote for your own sites on all these sites without undestanding what they specialise in. For example, Sk-rt.com is just for women’s topics, PlugIM is just for internet marketing topics, and Kick.ie is just about Irish sites, so it’d be pointless voting for my niche sites in the last two at least.
And another site was clearly owned by an internet marketer who had a very bad attitude, and sounds to me as though it was a male with a female name! So it paid off to spend some time doing this research.
Added more posts to both my blogs and social bookmarked them. Hopefully I can catch up tomorrow and sort those affiliate links out. I’m still not giving up on the possibility of winning the 30 day Challenge.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
84. Thirty Day Challenge Days 23, 24 and 25
I’ve had terrible trouble the last few days. Firstly I have a migraine for two days, then yesterday I just had to do something about my PC running so painfully slow. It was literally taking over 2 minutes for links to open, and I was typing whole sentences before the first word even appeared on screen. So editing stuff was a nightmare.
It only happened online, not in a Word doc or anything. So I tried all sorts to speed it up. I can no longer watch videos in iTunes whilst I’ve got any browser open. They just keep stopping and starting. So this defeats the object of watching a video, and pausing it whilst I carry out the instruction.
I’ve already uninstalled lots of programs I no longer use, but I think I’m going to have to just add more RAM. I hope that will sort it out. Couldn’t do any work last night as I was doing a diskcleanup, and defrag all night.
Today I watched all last weeks videos again, and played the podcasts again. I went back and looked at last week’s video on Social Poster, as I’ve fallen badly behind. I’m pleased that I got through half the list of bookmarking sites to sign up with, but as I was curious to see what all the unfamiliar ones did that differed from the others, I got a bit sidetracked. A lot of sites are quite new and even the ‘most popular’ sites listed only have 1 vote – I noticed quite a few familiar names and phrases that looked like the work of fellow chellangers!
I also got hung up on trying to find out how to cloak affiliate links. I’m convinced a certain blog type site other than Tumblr is deleting pages with affiliate links in (judging from the sites I’ve viewed today) but one obvious 30DC page is surviving and has a cloaked link. I’ll have to contact them and find out how they got it.
I was going to buy Jim Edwards’ Affiliate Link Cloaker, but it says it only works for your own domain, not hosted blogs.
It only happened online, not in a Word doc or anything. So I tried all sorts to speed it up. I can no longer watch videos in iTunes whilst I’ve got any browser open. They just keep stopping and starting. So this defeats the object of watching a video, and pausing it whilst I carry out the instruction.
I’ve already uninstalled lots of programs I no longer use, but I think I’m going to have to just add more RAM. I hope that will sort it out. Couldn’t do any work last night as I was doing a diskcleanup, and defrag all night.
Today I watched all last weeks videos again, and played the podcasts again. I went back and looked at last week’s video on Social Poster, as I’ve fallen badly behind. I’m pleased that I got through half the list of bookmarking sites to sign up with, but as I was curious to see what all the unfamiliar ones did that differed from the others, I got a bit sidetracked. A lot of sites are quite new and even the ‘most popular’ sites listed only have 1 vote – I noticed quite a few familiar names and phrases that looked like the work of fellow chellangers!
I also got hung up on trying to find out how to cloak affiliate links. I’m convinced a certain blog type site other than Tumblr is deleting pages with affiliate links in (judging from the sites I’ve viewed today) but one obvious 30DC page is surviving and has a cloaked link. I’ll have to contact them and find out how they got it.
I was going to buy Jim Edwards’ Affiliate Link Cloaker, but it says it only works for your own domain, not hosted blogs.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
83. TDC Days 20 and 21
Watched yesterday’s 30DC videos and I’m so glad I didn’t bookmark any of my pages, apart from one stumble, because so many people didn’t realise, and they overdid it. That was what drew attention to the owner of Tumblr. He was notified by Digg and other sites that people were abusing the system.
I’ll just keep writing content! I’ve put pages up on various blog platforms. We’ll just have to see if they’re as sensitive as Tumblr.
The really cool thing is that Google indexed one of my pages before it was deleted, and I hadn’t social bookmarked it at all! So all the other things we are being told to do with the post optimization is really working. I wanted to set up Google analytics, but I was too busy setting up the blogs in the first place!
The other cool thing is that I’ve found other platforms that Ed didn’t mention, and I would never have thought of even looking for them, if this hadn’t happened with Tumblr. There are hundreds of other opportunities. I spent ages writing content for one, then found out that the title of the blog wasn’t in the url! Your username is in the url. That’s no good!
So I deleted it all, but I didn’t have to rewrite it all when I took the content elsewhere, so that was good. Every mistake is a lesson learned.
I’m off work for two weeks so I was up all night last night on the computer, til I realised I wss supposed to be somewhere at 11.30am.
Stupid to stay up all night, but I was on a roll!
Today I added more content to my Hubpages and had my Skype call with Asbjorn and Pauline. Asbjorn couldn’t talk, but us girls talked whilst Asbjorn just typed. It worked quite well!
I’ll just keep writing content! I’ve put pages up on various blog platforms. We’ll just have to see if they’re as sensitive as Tumblr.
The really cool thing is that Google indexed one of my pages before it was deleted, and I hadn’t social bookmarked it at all! So all the other things we are being told to do with the post optimization is really working. I wanted to set up Google analytics, but I was too busy setting up the blogs in the first place!
The other cool thing is that I’ve found other platforms that Ed didn’t mention, and I would never have thought of even looking for them, if this hadn’t happened with Tumblr. There are hundreds of other opportunities. I spent ages writing content for one, then found out that the title of the blog wasn’t in the url! Your username is in the url. That’s no good!
So I deleted it all, but I didn’t have to rewrite it all when I took the content elsewhere, so that was good. Every mistake is a lesson learned.
I’m off work for two weeks so I was up all night last night on the computer, til I realised I wss supposed to be somewhere at 11.30am.
Stupid to stay up all night, but I was on a roll!
Today I added more content to my Hubpages and had my Skype call with Asbjorn and Pauline. Asbjorn couldn’t talk, but us girls talked whilst Asbjorn just typed. It worked quite well!
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