Practical Marketing Info For Coaches

Are You Getting Too Much Junk Email From Your Web Site?

2006-05-07T15:14:00.000+02:00

There is a way to provide your email addresses to legitimate visitors of your web site without ending up on more junk email lists.
Your spam problem comes from spam crawler robots. They crawl your web site for only one purpose -- to add your email addresses their spam lists.
Good news: you can make your email addresses invisible to spam crawlers with the free online script EScrambler that you can get here.
NB: EScrambler does not stop search engine robots from indexing your site. It only hides your email addresses from robots.

Beyond Ebooks : 10 Powerful Alternative Infoproduct Formats

2006-04-30T14:24:00.000+02:00

There are literally hundreds of new information-based eBooks being released every day.

Is the market saturated? Do you stand a chance? How do you make your product stand out from the crowd?

No doubt, there is still very good money to be made with eBooks. But, it is getting more difficult to stand out from the crowd.

You have a topic, you have the knowledge, you know that people will want to buy what you have for them, so how do you get to them?

The answer, alter your format. There are many different information products you can use to package your knowledge. Even better...

Many of these can be far more profitable than the oft- used eBook.

Read it all here.

Do A Colour Contrast Check Before Choosing Colours For Your Site

2006-04-13T15:31:00.000+02:00

The Colour Contrast Check Tool allows you to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen.

The Right Time To Do Things For Free

2006-03-29T20:56:00.000+02:00

“Once you are completely comfortable with charging, then – and only then – will you allow yourself to do things for free. That way if you perform a kindness for another, you will know that you are doing it because you want to, not because you have been manipulated into it or are maneuvering in the hopes of winning their affection.”
-- Stuart Wilde

How To Bring In Your First $100,000 With Infoproducts

2006-03-16T19:05:00.000+01:00

Can you really earn a living writing infoproducts and selling these ebooks, special reports, courses and other infoproducts online?

Rather than just try to convince you of that fact, I figured it's better to go one step further and show you exactly how it's done.

Writing infoproducts such as ebooks or reports, building courses or membership sites are often the launch pad for becoming an information entrepreneur spinning off multiple streams of online income.

Your number may not be $100,000, it may be lower or higher, the fact is there is a way to continue to turn your knowledge into more profits quickly - writing infoproducts that are in high demand.

Read it all here.

Myth: Do We Use Only 10% Of Our Brains?

2006-02-28T13:15:00.000+01:00

There is no scientific evidence to suggest that we use only 10% of our brains.
In other words, the statement, "We use only 10% of our brains" is false; it's a myth. We use all of our brain.
To learn more about that myth, where did the 10% myth begin, why does the myth continue, what does it mean to use only 10% of your brain, go to this site.
So next time you hear someone say that they only use 10% of their brain, you can set them straight. Tell them, "NOT TRUE; We use 100% of our brains."

How To Create Your Own Hot Selling Information Products Without Writing A Word

2006-01-31T12:44:00.000+01:00

Have you been considering developing your own hot selling information product for sale on the internet or offline?

I bet you are being held back by one of the following obstacles:
1. Don't know what subject or topics will sell?
2. I don't have weeks to spend developing products.
3. I can't write, I'm not an expert and why would anyone buy what I produce anyway?
4. I just don't have the time - I would rather sell someone else's product, even if that means I only get a percentage of the total sale.

Here's a simple solution to all of these problems. It's a technique that many information product marketers have used to build their part-time businesses to achieve full-time profits. The technique is called Compilations.

Read it all here.

Why Most People Never Reach Their Goals

2005-12-07T09:12:00.000+01:00

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
- Denis Watley

Education-Based Marketing: How to Make Business Come to You

2005-11-25T12:29:00.000+01:00

There is a misconception in service businesses that your marketing's most important function is to promote what you do, or in other words, your services. But the fact is, the most important function of your marketing should be to establish that you are knowledgeable, capable and can be trusted.

Most people don't do business with people they don't trust, especially when it comes to buying services. When they buy your services they are, in fact, buying the talents, skills, and personalities of YOU or your team of professionals.

Even if you have the lowest prices, if your prospect doesn’t trust you, it will be difficult to close the sale. This is the basis for Education-Based Marketing.

Education-Based Marketing is a powerful marketing strategy that establishes trust and credibility using educational messages. It is the direct opposite of traditional marketing, which uses selling-based messages.

People are tired of hearing worn-out, old sales pitches. Barriers shoot up the moment you begin delivering a sales pitch. In contrast, people sit up and listen when you share important facts and expert information that help them make a good buying decision.

Read it all here.

Entrepreneurs' Top Concerns

2005-11-23T22:38:00.000+01:00

According to Joe Connolly, small-business owners say their biggest concerns right now are the following:

Technology management, for nontechnical people.

Time management.

Converting leads to sales over a Web site because there is no face-to-face contact.

Convincing clients that even though you're a small business, that doesn't mean you provide a lesser product.

Competing without a large marketing budget.

"Getting myself pumped up is a problem," says one small-business owner. "It's great running my own business, but sometimes you want to hear a motivational speech to lift the shoulders."

"The challenge is finding new sales channels and then understanding customers' needs more quickly to shorten the sales cycle," another small-business owner says. The trick is "trying to guess what the next trend will be because, frankly, that's where the greatest profit margin will be," he says.

Action Point: How can you incorporate your answers to these concerns in your marketing material?

Have You Heard The Story Of The Three Frogs?

2005-11-21T12:10:00.000+01:00

There were three frogs and they were floating on a leaf in the middle of a river and one of them decides to jump.
How many frogs are left on the leaf?
Anybody know?
Two?
No.
Three.
Exactly, because deciding to jump and jumping are two totally different things.

So don't procrastinate being free another minute. JUST DO IT!

Is Money Your Hope For Independence?

2005-11-18T10:26:00.000+01:00

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
- Henry Ford

The Secret to Building the Successful Coaching and Consulting Business That You've Always Dreamed About

2005-11-16T15:59:00.000+01:00

A few years ago I was visiting with a marketing executive friend of mine. I was excitedly telling him all about the new marketing course that I had just developed and how awesome it was. He patiently sat and listened to me.

He could see that I was really enthused about what I had just created. After I had finished my boasting and gloating he got up, and as he started to walk away he said, “That’s great David, now the real trick will be getting people to buy it.”

What is the Principle Objective of Your Coaching or Consulting Business?

My first reaction to his comment was, “What do you mean. Of course people are going to buy it. It’s the best work I’ve done to date.” But as I pondered for a moment about his comment I realized that I had fallen into the age-old deadly mistake that most service entrepreneurs fall prey to... ...forgetting the principle objective of my business.

My marketing friend subtly reminded me that my principal occupation is NOT marketing consulting; it’s the MARKETING of consulting services...

Read it all here.

Free Tool To Convert Text Documents To Html Format

2005-11-14T10:29:00.000+01:00

Text2Web Pro is a freeware tool to convert text documents to html format.
It incorporates integrated clipboard support which provides an almost seamless operation for web authors who want to include snippets of text (formatted or unformatted) into their web pages.
Among the Features:
- operate in command-line, batch or interactive mode.
- HTML formatting handles line and column sensitive text (e.g. lists and tables).
- place html code inside a table for display with margins.
- generate true HTML lists and tables.
- select font parameters.
- generate free-standing web page or convert text snippets for insertion into an existing HTML document.
- specify background color/image and link/text colors.
- generate Javascript Link Selection Boxes from comma-separated lists.
You can get it at http://www.virdi-software.com/

Great Web Hosting Companies

2005-11-11T15:12:00.000+01:00

If you need web hosting, a great support should be your principal factor of a webhost choice.

So for my sites and those of my clients, I use and recommend

- for basic sites (from $4.45 a month)
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- if you need pre-integrated scripts to sell products easily (for $24.95 a month)
http://www.xaoo.com/adt/go.php?c=3sh

How To Write Your Own E-Book In Just 5 Days

2005-11-09T12:01:00.000+01:00

Selling information products is the most profitable venture on the internet... this is a known fact.

However, there are some problems that web marketers must face in order to create a truly valuable e-book. Not everyone has these problems, but many people do (I certainly did when starting out).

Without a doubt, the biggest, meanest and most vile of these problems is not knowing how to write.

Writing, for some of us can be as hard as trying to swim upstream in chocolate pudding; but I learned that by following some simple steps, you can create wonderful information products in a snap.

Here are a few tips I've learned that have helped me create books, reports, salesletters, etc.

Procrastination Does Not Make Perfect

2005-11-07T12:16:00.000+01:00

Are you a perfectionist? Perfectionists are often great procrastinators. Having stalled until the last minutes, they tear into a project with dust flying and complaints about insufficient time. Perfectionist-procrastinators are masters of the excuse that short notice kept them from doing the quality job they could have done. are often great procrastinators. Having stalled until the last minutes, they tear into a project with dust flying and complaints about insufficient time. Perfectionist-procrastinators are masters of the excuse that short notice kept them from doing the quality job they could have done.

Good news : you can get rid of this nasty habitude!
How ? Just read this great article: Procrastination Does Not Make Perfect

Two Great Business Related Blogs

2005-11-04T09:19:00.000+01:00

If you want to get access to tons of ideas that can inspire you applying them for your clients, be sure to check these two blogs:
Inc. Magazine blog : http://blog.inc.com/
Fast Company Magazine blog : http://blog.fastcompany.com/

Great New Post It Notes Like Pop-up Generator Tool (And Which Get Past The Blockers)

2005-11-03T09:58:00.000+01:00

I've enjoyed good cashflow from using pop-ups over the years.

Nowdays, unfortunately, pop-ups are blocked, even the legitimate ones that provide good information.

Now there's new pop-up technology that gets past the blockers. And it does it in the most elegant way I've seen.

You can now have Post It Notes, Postcards, Stationery, and others to get prospect's attention, all generated easily for your site with an automatic tool.

See it in action here.

Do You Deliberately Plan On Being Less Than You Are Capable Of Being?

2005-11-02T13:51:00.000+01:00

"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
- Abraham Maslow

Do You Have Operations Manuals?

2005-11-01T10:32:00.000+01:00

A commonly-recommended book about business is The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. In that book, Gerber recommends creating "operations manuals" for every "job" you need to do in your business.

To understand the concept, think of a fast-food restaurant franchise. They have an "operations manual" for every important task. How long to fry the french fries. How long to reheat a hot apple pie. Even a specific procedure on cleaning up. By having a standard procedure - clearly written out in the operations manual - any teenage kid can come in, follow the instructions, and do just as good a job as anyone else. It helps to keep a high standard of quality, which won't go down even if people come and go.

To understand how operations manuals can make your business more efficient, read this great article here.

How To Recover Text From A Corrupted Word Processor File

2005-10-31T10:44:00.000+01:00

TextExtract is a free small but powerful program that scans one or more files for text strings, extracts them and saves them into a separate file. Useful if, say, you have a corrupted word processor file, or if you just want to see what text, if any, is inside a file.
Grab it here.

Advice About Better Writing

2005-10-28T09:07:00.000+02:00

A lot of people ask for advice about writing. How important is it to write well, and how can one write better?
Paul Graham gives you a lot of tips here.

A Beginners Guide to Web Hosting And Other Web Hosting Tips

2005-10-27T13:39:00.000+02:00

What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your web browser is essentially just a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto your web browser. In general, a web site is made up of many web pages. And a web page is basically composed of texts and graphic images. All these web pages need to be stored on the web servers so that online users can visit your website.

Therefore, if you plan to own a new website, you will need to host your website on a web server. When your website goes live on the web server, online users can then browse your website on the Internet. Company that provides the web servers to host your website is called web hosting providers.

A well-established web hosting provider sometimes hosts up to thousands of websites. For example, iPowerWeb is a popular web hosting company that hosts more than 300,000 websites. For that reason, a web hosting company need many web servers (essentially, these are computers) to ?store? the website. And all these web servers are connected to the Internet through high speed Internet connection and housed in a physical building called ?data center?. In order to guarantee all the web servers are safe, secure and fully operational all time, a data center is a physically secure 24/7 environment with fire protection, HVAC temperature control, virus detections, computer data backup, redundant power backup and complete disaster recovery capabilities.

What are the different types of web hosting? There are different kinds of web hosting companies out there with different characteristics. The main types of web hosts can be organized into the following categories:

To continue, go to A Beginners Guide to Web Hosting article.

NB: A lot of other great web hosting services articles are available at http://web-hosting.info-and-tips.com

Free Secure Remote Access To Your Home PC

2005-10-26T10:23:00.000+02:00

Orb is a free service that allows you to access your digital media from any wireless device such as a cell phone, PDA or notebook computer with Internet access. With the Orb software, you can securely connect to your home PC and use its’ simple web interface to stream TV, photos, video, music and more, directly to you anywhere, anytime. Think about the possibilities:

Enjoy your home TV channels, streamed to you anywhere in the world
Schedule and record live TV so you’ll never miss a favorite show
View your home movies through streaming – no need to wait for a download
Listen to your MP3 collection or tune into your favorite Internet radio stations without having to carry an extra music player
Store, retrieve and share your photos whether they are on a home PC, web server or outside photo service
Get quick access to local Weather, Headlines, or News reports.

Worth take a look here.

FREE "Power Up Your Email" e-mail Marketing Course

2005-10-25T19:42:00.000+02:00

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Free 64-Page Social Proof Report

2005-10-24T17:04:00.000+02:00

Jeff Walker recently organized a free no-pitch teleseminar for people interested in selling using "social proof".

Social proof, he says, is one of the most important psychological triggers. "We look for what other people are doing and we tend to follow along with them."

"Social Proof" transcript of the teleseminar really is a no-pitch report, worth studying for fresh ideas, whether you're an affiliate or a merchant.

You can get the 64-page Social Proof transcript here:
http://productlaunchformula.com/relaunch/report.html

If you prefer mp3s, download the mp3 recordings here:
http://productlaunchformula.com/relaunch/call.html

Self-Esteem Boost

2005-10-21T11:10:00.000+02:00

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
– Sam Walton

Free 7-Minute Video On Generating Traffic With Blogs

2005-10-20T11:07:00.000+02:00

Confused by blogging? Unsure of how it can help you generate traffic AND increase your sales?

Well, the technique you can use is all clearly demonstrated in this free 7-minute video.

Watch It Now Right Here

Free Web Based ftp Client

2005-10-19T10:53:00.000+02:00

Do you want to upload files on your site with your web browser but your host doesn't allows it?

Well net2ftp is a free web-based FTP client to install on your own web server.

Web-based means that net2ftp runs on a web server, and that you use a browser (for example Internet Explorer or Mozilla). FTP is the communication method to access files on a remote computer. You need it to access your files on the account given by your provider to host your homepage. FTP is different from HTTP in that it was made specially to transfer (big) files. If a transfer is interrupted, with FTP you can resume it where it broke off, whereas with HTTP you can not.

Get this great program here.

Finding Your First Client As a Solo Consultant

2005-10-18T12:16:00.000+02:00

Here are 10 suggestions panelists at a recent WCBS Small-Business Breakfast meeting offered to an independent consultant looking for clients:

1. Be very specific about your area of expertise.
2. Highlight what's different, and better, about your experience.
3. Make a former employer a new consulting client. It already hired you once.
4. Network with people who might become your clients or who will lead you to their contacts, who might become your clients.
5. Don't just network. Be sure you ask for business.
6. You may have to do some volunteer work at first. You have to assure people they will not be sorry for hiring you.
7. Get testimonials that tell stories about your credibility.
8. Hire a business coach.
9. Stick to a budget.
10. Write short proposals.

Read the full article here.

3 Methods For Testing Product Ideas

2005-10-17T14:02:00.000+02:00

Jeff Smith has a very nice 7 minute video that's well worth checking out.
Jeff's video is called "3 Methods For Testing Your Product Idea" and you can check it out for free here.

September Posts

2005-09-30T15:02:00.000+02:00

Looking for September posts?
They have been removed to my special membership site (free for my clients).
So don't forget to read (and act upon) current posts because they will not be available for free forever!

August Posts

2005-08-31T15:02:00.000+02:00

Looking for August posts?
They have been removed to my special membership site (free for my clients).
So don't forget to read (and act upon) current posts because they will not be available for free forever!

How To Convert A PowerPoint Presentation To Video

2005-07-29T09:44:00.000+02:00

Converting PowerPoint presentations to video file formats such as: .AVI, .MOV, .WMV, could be very helpful whenever you need to show your presentations without PowerPoint, or via a TV screen.

Learn how to do it easily at http://www.masterviews.com/2005/07/20/how_to_convert_a_powerpoint.htm

Leadership Definition

2005-07-28T13:50:00.000+02:00

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve."
- Tom Landry

6 Easy Steps to Separating Your Personal Life from your Business

2005-07-27T16:00:00.000+02:00

If you work from home, chances are you already know that you’re really pulling “double duty”. You probably work on your business while doing the laundry, corralling the kids, or fixing dinner... and let’s not forget all the phone calls from family and friends expecting you to run errands or just "go out" for an afternoon of fun.

One of the hardest parts of running a home business is separating your work from your family and social life. Here are six proven ways to keep your home life running smoothly while keeping your business on track.

Free Tool To Check Search Engine Indexation Of Your Sites

2005-07-26T15:56:00.000+02:00

Using the free Link Popularity Check script at Uptimebot.com, you can get detailed statistics of indexed pages and backward links for one domain in the most popular directories and search engines.

Use it at http://www.uptimebot.com/sql/one.php

Seven Steps For Killer Sample Sessions

2005-07-25T13:45:00.000+02:00

Your ability to deliver a great sample session is a critical factor in building a successful coaching practice. Since most prospects have never worked with a coach, a sample session is often your only way of introducing them to the process and moving them to a place where they will agree to work with you as their coach.

For a moment, put yourself in the position of your potential client. They may be nervous. They may not know what the benefits of coaching will be. They may not know you. They may be worried about costs. These are all concerns that need to be addressed and overcome for anyone to decide to proceed with coaching. The sample session is your principal opportunity to address these legitimate concerns and offset them with something of greater value.

After years of experimentation, here is rough recipe outlining some of the key components that will help you deliver killer sample sessions. And as a cautionary note, remember coaching is most powerful when it is fluid, natural and unscripted. So don't try to impose these steps in a mechanical way. Rather think of them as principles and simply try to weave them into the conversation where appropriate and the opportunity presents itself.

Read it all at http://www.acoach4u.com/CoachingNotes_June03.htm

Button Maker v1.0 Freeware

2005-07-22T13:45:00.000+02:00

Button Maker is an extremely easy to use piece of software with immediate results. If you are a Web Designer and need to create a few Buttons, Bullets, Banners etc. then this is an invaluable tool for you!

This Freeware package contains the Button Maker v1.0 Standard program and 40 Button Templates (including Fonts) and an Example Script File (for multiple generation). I recommend you download from the 300+ additional Button Templates and 1000+ Fonts from the Freeware Resource Center to get the most out of this software!

Get it at http://www.inet2inet.com/InetSoftware/Button-Maker/ButtonMakerInfo.asp

Improve Windows Security

2005-07-21T13:38:00.000+02:00

Xpy is a small (60ko) free tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation. Besides disabling Windows and some of its components to communicate with Microsoft servers, xpy improves privacy settings and your system's security.

Xpy :
• Disables Windows "calling home"
• Disables questionable services
• Disarms Internet Explorer
• Disarms Windows Media Player
• Removes Windows Messenger
• Improves privacy and security
• Improves performance

Get it here.

Free System Optimization Tool

2005-07-20T21:36:00.000+02:00

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free. :)
Get it here.

Proactive vs. Reactive Approach to Life

2005-07-19T14:36:00.000+02:00

In his last book, Robert Ringer writes that there are two kinds of action: "One is proaction, which puts you on the offensive and, all other things being equal, gives you a great deal of control over events. The other is reaction, which puts you on the defensive and relegates you to an inherent position of weakness."

Full book reviews of Action! : Nothing Happens Until Something Moves by Robert Ringer are available here.

The 21.5 Best Places To Network (And The Secrets To Being Successful At It)

2005-07-18T10:40:00.000+02:00

How important is networking?
If you're trying to be successful, it's the difference between mediocre and big.
Networking is life skills and social skills combined with sales skills. It's business leisure conducted before and after work -- as opposed to business frantic, which is conducted from 9 to 5 (the exception being lunch).
Jeffrey Gitomer gives tou all his networking secrets in this great article.

Does Your Business Card Stand Out?

2005-07-15T21:02:00.000+02:00

Recently Scott Ginsberg took 66 business cards he has collected over the years and spread them out on the table. He closed his eyes for 30 seconds, opened them and took note of which cards stood out the most. And here's what Scott noticed.

Marketing With T-shirt Printing

2005-07-14T14:03:00.000+02:00

T-shirt printing season is rapidely approaching.
To learn all you need to know about t-shirt printing, read this article at http://www.geekbooks.com/blog/archives/000135.html

Marketing With Poster Printing

2005-07-13T11:02:00.000+02:00

There's nothing quite like a big flashy printed poster to get out the word.
Whether they're covering a construction fence in Manhattan or plastered all over your small town, color posters are a time-honored marketing device. But over time, the methods used to print posters has changed dramatically--from the traditional serigraphic spot color methods to today's state-of-the-art seven-color digital on-demand presses.
Learn it all at http://www.geekbooks.com/poster_printing_2005.htm

Info-Overload: How Do You Keep Up With All That Reading?

2005-07-12T09:50:00.000+02:00

Most of us are awash in information – avalanches of email, letters, journals, books, articles, reports, web sites, paperwork that come our way each week. Knowing that, in order to be effective, we need to sort through the mountain of information and extract the most important nuggets, how do we approach the climb?

Learn it out at http://entrepreneurs.about.com/library/weekly/uc021303a.htm

Juggling Multiple Streams of Income

2005-07-11T16:22:00.000+02:00

How can someone find the right balance in the paradox between finding and maintaining focus vs. generating multiple income streams? This article gives you some hints:
Juggling Multiple Streams of Income: How to Maintain Focus While Growing Multiple Businesses

How Strong Are Your Foundations?

2005-07-08T13:40:00.000+02:00

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Follow-Up Marketing: How to Win More Sales with Less Effort

2005-07-07T21:37:00.000+02:00

A study done by the Association of Sales Executives revealed that 81% of all sales happens on or after the fifth contact. If you’re a small business owner and you’re only doing one or two follow-ups imagine all the business you’re losing.

Not following up with your prospects and customers is the same as filling up your bathtub without first putting the stopper in the drain!

But don’t be disheartened if you’re among the 90% of business owners I talk to that don’t do any follow up. The good news is you have ample room for profitable improvement.

Consistent follow-up creates a predictable and profitable stream of prospects and customers that buy. Small businesses that capture leads and follow-up with them enjoy higher conversion rates and a higher percentage of referrals than those that don’t.

Read it all here.

Free Quick Way To Turn Text Into A Pdf File

2005-07-06T08:24:00.000+02:00

Elfima Notepad is a free text editor to create PDF, HTML, XML, and SVG documents.
With Elfima Notepad you can also reimport and modify your (Elfima Notepad) PDF documents.
Get it at http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php

Free Web Page Content Monitoring

2005-07-05T14:33:00.000+02:00

WatchThatPage is a free service that lets you know when the content of a web page you have designated has changed. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. Yes, you get in the email what details exactly has changed! No need to visit the watched page!

WatchThatPage gives you several options for how you want to monitor the Internet. You can get all the new content collected in one email, or separated into several emails, i.e. to sort the information on different topics or importance. You can receive all changes, or just changes that match keywords you specify. You can get daily updates, or customize the updates to the weekdays of your choice.

With WatchThatPage you can specify when to check for changes, so you are sure to get fresh changes i.e. when you get to work in the morning. You can also get several updates every day.

Go use it at http://www.watchthatpage.com/

TakeColor. Get the color of any pixel!

2005-07-04T15:39:00.000+02:00

While surfing, you sometimes stumble over great colors that you would like to use in your projects. But identifying the type of color can be very difficult. So, TakeColor is a freeware that gets the color of any pixel you point with your mouse. The color can be shown in one of three formats you need: HTML, RGB and HEX.

TakeColor offers you
• 7x zoom of any screen area.
• History of the last 5 chosen colors.
• Stay on top.
• Hot Keys combination for getting a color (changeable).
• Copy the code or a selected part of this code to the clipboard just by button click.

Get it at http://www.flaxie.com/download/takecolor/

Are You Already On The Dance Floor?

2005-07-01T09:30:00.000+02:00

“Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.”
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

How to Turn Prospects Into Paying Customers

2005-06-30T21:15:00.000+02:00

Making a sale is the crowning moment in any business. Nothing happens in business until the cash register rings.

Ask any business owner and they’ll tell you that sales don’t just magically happen. It takes a combination of several elements to take place at the right time, in the right way to make someone eventually whip out their money and buy your product or service.

Each of the following elements play an important factor in making a sale…

Read it all here.

Free Clickbank Download Protection Script

2005-06-29T13:49:00.000+02:00

Merchants who use Clickbank payment processing system will greatly benefit from using Sales Guard CB. This free program facilitates automatic and password-protected download of online products after payment through Clickbank was processed. You get:

Automatic expiration of password in predetermined by program administrator time prevents sharing of download information and stealing.
Complete automated and manual interfaces allow administrator to manage all customers and collect information about them if needed.
A powerful multigroup mailing list generation feature allows owner of the program to perform follow up marketing.

Sales Guard CB enables owners of multiple domains use just one of them to issue all purchased through Clickbank products, while keeping each product on its own domain.
Get it at http://www.software-programs.net/products/sgcb_demo/sales_guard_cb.html

Post-It Like Notes On Your Desktop

2005-06-28T13:34:00.000+02:00

ATnotes is a freeware program which creates Post-it like notes on the Windows desktop. You can set single or repeated alarms for each note with visual and audio alarm signal. They can be placed anywhere on your desktop, as well as resized. You can even send notes to other computers in a local network.
You can choose any font, background color, text color and border color for your notes. Notes can also be hidden until manually activated or until a specified date/time. You can also get an overview of all current notes in the note list and search for notes containing specified text.
A must have to get at http://atnotes.fr.st/

Turning Your Computer Into A Basic Web Server

2005-06-27T15:32:00.000+02:00

Ever wanted to set up a webserver so that you could have your clients check out a new page you're working on? Or maybe you'd just like to play around with HTML, and need to have a local webserver to get a good feel... Whichever the case, you've probably discovered that most of the webservers out there are, how should I put this, interface challenged. Sure, you can run Apache on your machine, but only after a couple hours hacking on cryptic text files; but now there's a better option...

AnalogX SimpleServer:WWW is a free simple to use yet powerful server! This webserver is SO easy to use, about the only thing you need to know how to do is drag and drop files; then just click on the 'Start' button, and you're webserver is up and running, serving your pages to the world!

Get this great freeware at http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm

What Are The Cheapest Way To Advertise?

2005-06-24T16:15:00.000+02:00

By far the cheapest way to advertise is on t-shirts, ball caps, calendars and coffee mugs.

T-shirts and ball caps last about 6 months
Calendars last one year
Coffee mugs last about 5, 10, 15 years and are looked at thousands of times.

Compare this to the the 3 classified ads, newspaper, magazine, and internet ezine. You are lucky if your ad is looked at more then two times!

The Best Things in Life Are Free

2005-06-23T17:58:00.000+02:00

In this excerpt from his new book, Free Prize Inside! , Seth Godin shows how anyone can champion new ideas:

"If your goal is growth, the only way to achieve it is to market a product or service worth talking about--a purple cow (as I called them in my last book). With all the clutter out there, you're either remarkable or invisible.

As this idea has spread, people keep coming back to me, saying (okay, whining) three things:

   1. Our stuff is boring and we can't change it.
   2. I want to make a purple cow, but my boss won't let me.
   3. I don't have any great ideas for making something remarkable."

Read it all here.

Moving Files and Settings to a New PC

2005-06-22T14:51:00.000+02:00

So you just bought a great new PC?

Problem: your e-mail messages, your address book, and all your important files are stuck on that old computer. How do you move everything to your new PC, quickly and reliably?

Good news: Windows XP offers a powerful tool designed to automate this task for you. The Files and Settings Transfer Wizard looks easy enough to use, but its quirks can be frustrating. In this column, Microsoft show you three ways to work around those idiosyncrasies so that the migration process goes more smoothly.

Appreciating What's Right About Today

2005-06-21T13:36:00.000+02:00

Think about what’s right with life. Think about the good and valuable things that you sometimes forget to even notice.

Think about the positive possibilities that are real and present in this very moment. Think about all the worthwhile things you can do with this day that is yours right now.

Think of how you can take action and cause good things to happen. Think of how you can set an ambitious goal and work with persistence to reach it.

Think of all the good people who quietly and reliably work to make this world a better place. Think of how great you feel when you give of yourself to others.

Think of the opportunities you have to live a life that is filled with richness. Think of how fortunate you are to be able to experience and appreciate the beauty in this world.

Think about what’s right, what’s good, what’s valuable and fulfilling. For the more you focus your thoughts on the good things, the more abundant they will become.

- Ralph Marston

The Six Thinking Hats Technique

2005-06-20T11:07:00.000+02:00

The Six Thinking Hats technique of Edward de Bono is a model that can be used for exploring different perspectives towards a complex situation or challenge. Seeing things in various ways is often a good idea in strategy formation or complex decision-making processes.

The main benefits of Six Thinking Hats method are
   1. Allow to say things without risk
   2. Create awareness that there are multiple perspectives on the issue at hand
   3. Convenient mechanism for 'switching gears'
   4. Rules for the game of thinking
   5. Focus thinking
   6. Lead to more creative thinking
   7. Improve communication
   8. Improve decision making

You can find a full explanation of The Six Thinking Hats here.

Scientific Analysis of Website Design Layout

2005-06-17T15:57:00.000+02:00

News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? ... What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? ... When is multimedia appropriate? ... Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience?

Eyetrack III team observed 46 people for one hour as their eyes followed mock news websites and real multimedia content. In this article they provide an overview of what they observed.

7 Surprising Keys to Happiness

2005-06-16T15:11:00.000+02:00

Have you ever had one of those days where you just wish you were in a better mood? Perhaps you tried to shift your state of mind to something better but struggled to achieve it.

Sometimes we get stuck in our own ’stinking thinking’ and forget how easy it is to feel happier, so here are seven simple ways to lift your mood that many people have found useful and some of them may surprise you!

Best, Free Back-Up Utilities

2005-06-15T14:38:00.000+02:00

Here are PC World’s favorite, free back-up programs. Now there's no excuse for not creating a safe copy of your data.

6 Proven Methods for Getting a Flood of Referrals Without Asking

2005-06-14T18:54:00.000+02:00

Yes, I admit it - I hate asking for referrals - don’t you? Be honest. Doesn’t your heart start to pump faster and hands start to sweat even thinking about asking a customer for a referral?

If you’re like me, you hate to impose on others. Asking for names of friends or family members almost makes you feel as though you’re selling a multi-level marketing opportunity.

Not to worry. There are many ways to get a continual stream of qualified referrals without having to go through the painful process of asking for referrals face-to-face.

The secret to getting referrals without asking for them is to develop referral systems that do the asking for you. Here are six innovative systems for getting referrals without asking.

I'm Going To Read Your Mind!

2005-06-13T14:52:00.000+02:00

I'll bet that right now you have a big project, paper, presentation, etc., that you haven't started yet, and it's renting a great deal of space in your mind.

Am I right?

Well, how do you get started on this project, paper, etc.?

ANSWER: You get started by getting started!

It's that simple. All the psychological motivation in the world WILL NOT motivate you as much as that first physical step. You remember that ancient Greek proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." The only thing that's keeping you from taking that first step is procrastination.

I like this definition of procrastination: Getting ready to get ready.

Stop getting ready and start getting going!

Your actions will change your attitude.
Your motions will change your emotions.
Your movement will change your mood.

Absolutely positively guaranteed.

Writing Your Best-Selling Non-Fiction Book Title

2005-06-10T22:36:00.000+02:00

Are you struggling to sell just a few copies of your book, ebook, report or other information-based product each month?

Are you stumped by the lack of response you are getting?

You are positive people want your information, yet no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to tap into the flood of demand with your infoproduct.

Happily, there is one simple, quick change you can make to your product that can make a massive difference to your results -- improve your book title.

Your book title is often the ONLY advertisement that stands between your bank account and your prospects wallet.

Why is that?

Your book title finds it's way to directories, onto bookshelves (in the case of a printed book), website titles, website links, email and forum signatures, business cards, topics of seminars, press releases, joint venture partner proposals and campaigns, interviews, and much, much more....

Here are 3 highly successful techniques for turning your mediocre book titles into sizzling, red-hot, money-making titles...

Find Security In The Adventurous And Exciting

2005-06-09T16:12:00.000+02:00

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
-Alan Cohen

Free Accounting Software

2005-06-08T14:38:00.000+02:00

Do you need an accounting software?

TurboCASH is an open source accounting package that is free for everyone to download and distribute under the terms of the General Public Licence (GPL).

Chart of accounts are also available for free download for the UK and USA. More countries are being added continually.

You can get it at http://www.turbocash.co.za/

FREE 22-Part Audio Seminar for Business Coaches and Life Coaches

2005-06-07T09:13:00.000+02:00

Why do some coaches have all the clients they can handle while others seem to struggle? Is it because they are smarter than other coaches or is it because they simply work harder? Perhaps neither.

But what I have discovered is that there are certain traits and characteristics that separate the Top 1% of all coaches from everyone else. After years of working with coaches and consultants, and being one myself, I've observed what the winners do that the mediocre and other coaches don't do.

I've been able to distill all those traits down into 22 specific things that create superstar coaches. These superstar coaches are in the Top 1% of all wage earners, are able to pick and choose who they want to coach, and have all the clients they can handle.

Here are just a few things you'll learn in this audio seminar:

The single biggest mistake, bar none, that 90% of all coaches make.
6 ways to create lucrative passive revenue streams.
The most powerful lead generation tool that hardly any coaches use.
How to double your coaching fees using this one little known tactic.
A secret to easily becoming the thought leader in your chosen niche.
A simple strategy that top coaches use to close 3 out of 4 coaching deals.
How superstar coaches stand out and get noticed from all other coaches.

You can sign for this FREE Seminar here.

PC Inspector File Recovery (freeware)

2005-06-06T11:01:00.000+02:00

Lost a file? Lost a partition? Then you need this recovery utility!

Everybody loses files at some point. Windows has its Recycle Bin, but once it’s gone from there it leaves you on your own. A good recovery utility can delve into your hard drive and extract what was once seemingly irretrievably lost.

PC Inspector File Recovery supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It can find partitions on non-NTFS drives even if the FAT has been lost or damaged. It’ll recover files with the time and date stamp intact. It’ll even manage to recover files with missing headers or on network drives. You will, of course, need a working drive and Windows system to use it and you can’t recover files on the same drive you run it from.

Get it at
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Great Free Niche Research Tool

2005-06-03T09:09:00.000+02:00

Here's a great free niche research tool:
http://www.geeyo.com/docs/market_research.html

Just enter one keyword and it will analyze current Market Demand and Supply for you, and will give you a detailed report!

How To Make Your Web pages Load Up To 46% Faster

2005-06-02T14:01:00.000+02:00

Jason Lewis has put together a free report on how to speed up your web pages.

If you can speed up your web pages by 10, 20 or 30% this is sure to have a positive knock on effect with your sales conversion rate. With one web page, Jason managed to reduce the file size of the page by 46%.

This has nothing to do with the images on your page, or splitting up your page with tables.

This is a totally free technique.

If you use FrontPage, Dreamweaver or just about any website building software, you definitely need to know about this!

Jason has detailed everything in a PDF ebook that you can download free here.

Content Theft and Copyright Issues

2005-06-01T15:34:00.000+02:00

"Borrowing" seems to be rampant on the Internet these days. Text, images, even entire site designs are copied from their owner and reproduced on another site. To many it seems innocent enough, after all they haven't removed anything from the original creator of the work, just duplicated it.

It IS theft. People who copy web text and reuse it on their own sites are in violation of copyright law.

A copyright protects published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works, provided the work is created in a tangible or material form.

Copyright laws grant the creator the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute, and display the work publicly. Exclusive rights means only the creator of such work has the right to reproduce it, not anybody who has the ability to cut and paste.

Copyright violation is infuriating- someone takes your hard work and in 5 seconds, they are pretending they did that work. It can even impact your search engine rankings. How to deal with it? Here are 2 articles dealing with the topic.

The first article describes a creative way to turn those infringers into a link-building opportunity and the other article comes up with some suggestions on how to find and deal with those copyright infringers.

10 Tips For Profitable Cross- And Up-Selling

2005-05-31T22:02:00.000+02:00

The easiest way to increase sales dramatically is to sell more to someone who is already buying. How many times have you gone to a store or made a call with a specific purchasing mission in mind, but ended up spending more, for whatever reason?

How many more french fries does McDonald's sell every day by simply asking, "Would you like fries with your burger?"

It's simple: if you're not now taking advantage of opportunities that show up every day, you are MISSING potential sales.

Here are some tips for profitable cross-selling and up-selling.

Freeware To Print Documents Right From Your Pc To Any Kinko's Office

2005-05-30T13:37:00.000+02:00

Fedex just released a new free software called File, Print FedEx Kinko's.

It allows you to print documents right from your PC to any FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Center in the U.S with various printing and binding options.
You can pick up your document at any U.S. location or have it shipped via FedEx for added convenience.

Check it out at http://fedex.kinkos.com/fpfk/index.php

ICF 2003 Survey of Coaches

2005-05-28T14:37:00.000+02:00

At the end of 2003, The Research & Development Committee of the International Coach Federation was asked to conduct a survey of coaches and provide the definitive global report on the state of the coaching profession.

Are You A Real Entrepreneur?

2005-05-26T15:40:00.000+02:00

Every entrepreneur should be able to successfully answer the following 10 questions, both in writing and verbal pitches:

What exactly do you do?
What have you done to date?
How do you make money?
Who are your customers?
How do you sell your product?
Who is on your management team?
Who is your competition?
What makes your company different or your position protected?
How big is the market?
What do you want?"

Royalty Free Photos

2005-05-25T14:45:00.000+02:00

The Open Photo Project gives you thousand photos freely available for use without lawyers jumping on you: free use of Open Photo Project images is permitted (and encouraged!) to those willing to comply with the terms of its license.
Essentially, what the license says is that you may use these photographs in the course of your work (commerical or non-commercial) provided that you provide proper attribution with your derivative(s): photo © openphoto.net

The Five Step Formula For Getting Prospects to Call You

2005-05-24T22:38:00.000+02:00

Are you tired of prospecting for new business?

Are you sick of networking, begging for referrals, or spending a small fortune on advertisements that produce little results?

Wouldn't it be nice if you could just sit down at your desk and have the phone ring knowing that new business is on the other end of the line?

Who wouldn't, right...?

The Secret Formula for Getting People to Call You

No matter what product or service you sell, there is a formula for getting people to call you (instead of the other way around.)

Let me take a moment and explain each step in this formula and give you a few examples of how it works...

Pdf 995: Create Pdf Documents Easily For Free

2005-05-23T13:38:00.000+02:00

The pdf995 suite of products - Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 - is a free complete solution for your document publishing needs.

Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer. Pdf995 supports network file saving, fast user switching on XP, Citrix/Terminal Server, custom page sizes and large format printing. Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter.

PdfEdit995 offers a wealth of additional functionality, such as: combining documents into a single PDF; automatic link insertion; hierarchical bookmark insertion; PDF conversion to formatted HTML or DOC (text only); integration with Word toolbar with automatic table of contents and link generation; autoattach to email; stationery and stamping.

Signature995 offers state-of-the-art security and encryption to protect your documents and add digital signatures.

Get this free suite at http://www.pdf995.com/

Charge More & Get It

2005-05-20T22:58:00.000+02:00

What blocks higher earnings?
Learn how to counter self-sabotaging beliefs like 'My clients can't afford higher rates.' by downloading Marcia Yudkin's six-page special report that dissects and rejects rationales that block your way to higher earnings. It's in PDF format and free at http://www.marketingformore.com/survey.htm

How Free Giveaways Can Help You Get You All the Clients You Want

2005-05-19T20:20:00.000+02:00

Ofering free giveaways to prospects and clients is a powerful business building strategy that can result in a flood of new and repeat coaching and consulting customers.

It may seem counterintuitive to give away your services to build your business; however, people can’t resist the lure of receiving something for free. The word free, as worn out as it may seem, is still the most powerful word in marketing and has a hypnotic effect on people.

Learn why free giveaways work here.

April Posts

2005-04-30T12:17:00.000+02:00

Looking for April posts?
They have been removed to my special membership site (free for my clients).
So don't forget to read (and act upon) current posts because they will not be available for free forever!

March Posts

2005-03-31T15:24:00.000+02:00

Looking for March posts?
They have been removed to my special membership site (free for my clients).
So don't forget to read (and act upon) current posts because they will not be available for free forever!

February Posts

2005-02-28T23:42:00.000+01:00

Looking for February posts?
They have been removed to my special membership site (free for my clients).
So don't forget to read (and act upon) current posts because they will not be available for free forever!

January Posts

2005-01-31T09:45:00.000+01:00

Looking for January posts?
They have been removed to my special membership site (free for my clients).
So don't forget to read (and act upon) current posts because they will not be available for free forever!

Why Did I Launch This Blog?

2005-01-01T10:25:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome, dear reader!
I've been building websites since 1993 both for myself and coaches.
Everyday, while surfing the net or thanks to friends, I discover new valuable free or low cost ressources and tips on how to boost your coaching business.
This blog is my way to give back info to the world.
Enjoy!