Mid Life Marketer's Kick Start http://cosmicray.myccblog.com The adventures of an ex-teacher in the new marketing universe! Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:03:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 en Don’t Forget to Keep up to Date With Your Domain Name Register Accounts http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/30/dont-forget-to-keep-up-to-date-with-your-domain-name-register-accounts/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/30/dont-forget-to-keep-up-to-date-with-your-domain-name-register-accounts/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:01:42 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/30/dont-forget-to-keep-up-to-date-with-your-domain-name-register-accounts/ Keeping up to date with domain name accounts, or anything else, is a particular problem for me. This came home to roost and bit me firmly in the bum domain at the weekend, as I started to edit one of my websites. Suddenly - no website! My domain name had expired … my subscription to the Domain Name Register for that particular website was past and I hadn’t received notification from the domain name register. Suddenly the penny dropped. When I signed up for that domain, the domain name register had been accessed using an email address that I deactivated several months ago! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

There are lots of little details in running your online business … and keeping up to date with your domain name registrations is one of the more vital ones. One of the hazards of being sucked into too many separate schemes in your early, inexperienced days is that the information overload will lead to you losing sight of many important details: such as, the expiry date of your domain name(s).

Keep your eye on the calendar folks! You don’t want your prized website to be hoovered up by one of the predatory domain name buyers and have it held to ransom.

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/30/dont-forget-to-keep-up-to-date-with-your-domain-name-register-accounts/feed/ The Northern View has Access to a Stack of Web Design Graphics http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/08/the-northern-view-has-access-to-a-stack-of-web-design-graphics/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/08/the-northern-view-has-access-to-a-stack-of-web-design-graphics/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:59:58 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/08/the-northern-view-has-access-to-a-stack-of-web-design-graphics/ Just noticed that The Northern View is making noises about free graphics on offer at Russel Brunson’s ImGettingOldFast Giveaway get the beta at http://www.thenorthernview.biz

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/08/the-northern-view-has-access-to-a-stack-of-web-design-graphics/feed/ There’s Graphics Gold in Them Thar Giveaways!! http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/06/theres-graphics-gold-in-them-thar-giveaways/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/06/theres-graphics-gold-in-them-thar-giveaways/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:47:36 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/06/theres-graphics-gold-in-them-thar-giveaways/ I found a note about a good giveaway where you can get plenty of good graphical elements at: http://www.thenorthernview.biz/

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/03/06/theres-graphics-gold-in-them-thar-giveaways/feed/ The Beauty of VFX and Motion Tracking http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/21/the-beauty-of-vfx-and-motion-tracking/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/21/the-beauty-of-vfx-and-motion-tracking/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:35:34 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/21/the-beauty-of-vfx-and-motion-tracking/ I found a rather curious example of the use of VFX techniques and Motion Tracking on the Stanwix dot Info website. A local business, Digisol UK is branching out into this field and had put up a real cracker of an ad in Picadilly Circus for them. Must know some big wheels down there because I’m sure he hasn’t got the cash to get an ad like this up normally!!

There is huge scope to further your business’ through the measured use of computer graphics such as these, but boy I reckon the learning curve is steep.

If you like graphical content for your website another option is to get some of my free header images. These are a series of scenes from inspirational days round the hills of the Lake District. This little collection is titled Atmospheres and you are very welcome to have them. They are cropped into a series of different proportions to suit a variety of banner formats.
Climbing up into a cleaner sunnier world- away from the murk that went before!
All the very best,
Ray

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/21/the-beauty-of-vfx-and-motion-tracking/feed/ Back Again After a Long Break http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/11/back-again-after-a-long-break/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/11/back-again-after-a-long-break/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:33:10 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/11/back-again-after-a-long-break/ I haven’t been blogging for ages because I have been up to my eyeballs getting the Stanwix website running properly and learning how to set up sales pages properly.

If you want to see how we’ve got on, take a look at Stanwix Community Online. We’ve even seen people starting to add to the forum discussions. It’s low key at the moment, but everything starts from small seeds.

I’ve been getting into the business of learning how to produce a proper sales page. I’m clearly still a rank beginner, but have a look at the Atmospheres Headers

You could even buy some of my original photos where the header image comes from, or subscribe to my newsletter about the basics of online marketing- without the hard sell. There are a couple of suggestions about useful services and a few freebies that you might find useful.

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/02/11/back-again-after-a-long-break/feed/ How Times Change http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/01/14/how-times-change/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/01/14/how-times-change/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:27:10 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/01/14/how-times-change/ A few weeks ago I was raving about Prosperizer. I had a bit of mileage with Paul Ward one of the founders and I thought he seemed a genuine guy. Try as I might though, I couldn’t get any new sign ups. Even my one and only new , genuinely 100% MY customer bailed out. Was this because my lack of belief in the system showed through? I had initially felt a little uncomfortable when Simon and Paul and the team went off on a series of activities that included gambling, horse racing and football results. But I managed to rationalise this with… “well I got into this game through t he eLottery system so it’s no different.

I should just grow up and learn to recognise my internal alarm bells.

Am I saying that Prosperizer is a scam? NO! Definitely not. The team have put together a series of propositions which they clearly believe will make you and (OF COURSE) them a shed load of money. Good luck to them and to anybody who has joined. I HONESTLY WISH YOU LUCK. I’ve even made a profit on the horse racing tips. The problem is I’m just not comfortable with inviting people into gambling. That’s the simple long and short of it. So, reluctantly, as Paul Ward gave me loads of help when I was starting out, I’m pulling out. It makes my toes curl when I wave goodbye to all the money I have invested in being a VIP member of their project. I really can’t afford to abandon an investment - I’m no 7 figure guru yet!

What happens now? Well I suppose it’s back to basics. I’m actually sitting down and listening PROPERLY to all the educational material I have acquired over the last year or so. Suddenly it is beginning to make sense and I can see the parallels with the real world shops and businesses and the way they do business. I can see how to structure a career in this peculiar world of digital marketing.

I nearly went under over Christmas, the kids had to make do with pretty much second best. And you know: they didn’t complain! The only hint of a moan was when my daughter said, “Dad, why don’t you just get a part time job?” I couldn’t tell her that I was afraid to: because if I went back to work, I would lose the focus on trying to get my virtual tour work, my community website and my internet marketing career off the ground. ( Part time job? I’m doing 3 bloopy jobs already!!!!). It wasn’t quite what I’d planned when I set out. The other side of the coin is that they are MY jobs, my projects and at last; at this late stage of life, they will be the things I can measure my commitment by. I spent too many years playing safe and secure!

I have enrolled on a new marketing course. I allowed myself to be talked into enrolling at a high level. Mug? No! I knew that my learning style will not be effective if I try to do this life change alone. I need 1 to 1 training. I need to practise - cock up - and practise again! And then talk to someone about it. and get their perspective quickly. Then do it all over again with the next concept. It’s a painfully slow way to learn. But that’s what I need to do; there ain’t no quick fixes for me. As much as we can do whatever we aspire to, our pathway options are going to be very, very varied!

So, I have entered a very scary world. I have staked all of my remaining cash reserves (and I can’t hit them for at LEAST 4 weeks) on a course with the (apparent) best in the biz. I have put a serious amount of cash (sorry - debt) in place to finally learn the real secrets of how to access this online business lifestyle, because at the end of the day, that’s what I want to do! If it goes tits up now I have a real problem feeding my kids. That’s one hell of an incentive when you have 2 children who have dealt with their parent’s separation with the immortal quote, “Well most half of my friends have got split up parents, their OK, so it won’t kill us!”. Sometimes your tiddlers can be quite humbling. They’re not stupidly naive either. They keep my wife and I civilised despite the fact that for different reasons they both have either myself or my ex reaching for the baseball bat to administer a good fatal beating!!

Sorry, I digress! The course is high level and I think, for my little brain, pretty intense. In the short term I need to populate my Paypal account with a few more plus signs. As I said earlier, sometimes you have to go back to basics and one of those basics is getting a list of subscribers and GROWING it. If you haven’t already been inundated with emails about this event, a good one to get aboard is.

The Hottest Giveaway of 2009. I know - sounds like bull cack!

However, if you have even a modest list and you can stump up a USEFUL free gift and you are prepared to promote this to your list come Monday 19th January, then it will GROW your list. These aren’t laser targeted subscribers and buyers you’re pulling, these are the freebie seekers who are dabbling. BUT there will be a significant number who will become your customers if you work them the right way. Who knows what untapped niches you may discover with these supposedly un-targetted people? I’m just learning about a system for finding out what they need. Hopefully, I will get something up here about it in due course when I have finally understood it.

So come and join me in this giveaway event at
http://hottesteventof09.com/event1/go/237/jv

Contributor Invite Code : HGfxXvw

I may not live long enough to be eternally grateful, but join through me and at least you know you’ve joined through someone who is living in the real world. (I think therefore I AM - in the real world -to completely murder a classic phrase).

All the very best from the only true non-guru.
Ray

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2009/01/14/how-times-change/feed/ Leaping into Lead Building http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/11/18/leaping-into-lead-building/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/11/18/leaping-into-lead-building/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:28:08 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/11/18/leaping-into-lead-building/ It’s really strange how so many of us Internet Marketers buy into all sorts of tools and services that we never get round to using properly.

I subscribed to Leadsleap when it first appeared on the scene earlier this year. Because of the number of different schemes I have used to promote PROSPERIZER, my primary online business, I kind of forgot about Leadsleap. In my absent mindedness, LeadsLeap continued to grow and its active members have been generating very focussed leads and increased turnover. The turning point for me, was when I started looking at the relative costs of the Pro membership compared with the classic PPC system on Google. For that reason alone, if you are working in the “Making Money Online” niche you have a highly targeted audience for your ads in this enormous market. As a pro you are able to have your PPC style advert displayed on LeadsLeaps viral blog for what amounts to something approaching just 6 cents a click. And remember, the readers are your target audience! Well worth a try.

The blog posts themselves are a classic series of tips, how tos and explanations of the basic nitty-gritty knowledge we need and the “arcania” of this marketing world. The information is not in itself highly original or innovative, BUT it is presented in a very simple clear cut manner that beginners can learn from and which clarifies the concepts for us overloaded and confused post-beginners.

These posts are produced by Kenneth Koh who is a bit of a rising star. This is one system where your inbox is NOT buried under the deluge of marketing emails, so many systems produce. Herein lies one of its magical elements. I have included an extract from the latest post below, to give you a flavour of the material. Here Kenneth is trying to encourage you to look behind the “Hoo Hah” publicity that many gurus present about themselves. It’s all too easy to be sucked in by the publicity if you don’t choose a product line that fits your psyche. The full post can be found on the LeadsLeap blog itself!

Here’s what Kenneth has to say about gurus:

How To Come Out With Innovative Ideas That Sell

I’m quite sure that you have constantly been bombarded with offers from different internet marketing gurus asking you to buy their products or other guru’s products.

The problem is, every product looks good. Even if you have money to buy all of them, you wouldn’t have the time to study them!

The secret, my friend, is to be selective in which guru you listen to.

Let me share with you a little experience of mine:

Some time ago, someone called me on my mobile phone asking if I was interested in making an extra $50,000
Well, I bothered to answer that call because she was calling from an internet marketing guru’s office. She went on to sell me a coaching program from another guru, whom I have not heard before, in a tactful and professional way and frankly, I was impressed.

Before deciding on whether to buy the coaching program, the first thing I did was to Google for the name of this guru and find out how he makes money.

Based on my research, this guru is a national speaker in the self-help industry. He has written many books and been featured in the national TVs. (I don’t know him because I live in Singapore, not US.)

If you remove all the bells and whistles, this guru basically makes money conducting seminars and coaching programs teaching people how to be successful.

I have no intention to become a speaker, nor am I interested to start any coaching program. So whatever experience that this guru is irrelevant to me.

What I’m try to tell you is don’t blindly listen to a guru simply because he is famous. Look behind the scene and find out what he does for living.

If what the guru does is what you envision to do, by all means, listen to everything he says. Or else, that guru is NOT your guru.

Get what I mean?

Let me give you another example. continued on the LeadsLeap blog.

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Prosperizer is beginning to take off BIG STYLE. This is mainly due to the efforts of our dedicated back room team of Simon Tofield, Paul Ward and a cast of dozens. Last week, on the back of the success of the Winners of Wealth; system they launched a whole range of new products which I detail below. The simplest way is just to include Paul’s over excited newsletter (typos and all!!) I’ve just tidied up the links so you can see our information more easily. I’ve been a bit remiss in my own marketing and educational efforts this week as I have been full on, developing a virtual tour for some friends and their hotel. I’ve nearly cracked it!!
Here’s Paul’s email:

Hi Ray

We’ve been absoultely manic over the past few weeks, we’ve
had hundreds of new members join our club, the launch last
week of the WOW Products went down a storm, and we’re all
burining the midnight oil, getting the next range of new
products and websites ready for our members…

…so, just in case you’ve missed some emails, here’s a quick
sumummary of all our latest offers, so you can have a look
and if you like what you see, there’s buttons and forms on
each page to signup.

NOTE. For Winners Of Wealth and Prosperizer you only need to
signup to one or the other, because all the products and
services are available ! PLUS We now have offline payment
options to join our club !

Winners Of Wealth (WOW Tips) - Paper Trade 1 Month for £9.95

Prosperiser (Secret Files) - Money Making Fies for £9.95 (I think he means the “Money Making FILES!)

WOW Products
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Credit Crunch Buster
http://products.winnersofwealth.com/creditbuster/

Racing 4 Cash
http://products.winnersofwealth.com/racing4cash/

Coming Soon….
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WOW Paradise - Win & Make Money..

Members Links
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Tips & Files
http://www.winnersofwealth.com/members
http://www.winnersofwealth.com/members

Members Forum
http://www.prosperizerforum.com
http://www.winnersofwealthforum.com

Regards

The WOW team
Prosperizer

Now do you think he was in a rush!! I have a good idea how hard these guys have been working for us

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/10/17/a-busy-busy-week-for-prosperizer/feed/ WOW - the W.O.W. Results keep rolling in. An early days review of Prosperizer’s racing Tips Service http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/10/07/wow-the-wow-results-keep-rolling-in-an-early-days-review-of-prosperizers-racing-tips-service/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/10/07/wow-the-wow-results-keep-rolling-in-an-early-days-review-of-prosperizers-racing-tips-service/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:56 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/10/07/wow-the-wow-results-keep-rolling-in-an-early-days-review-of-prosperizers-racing-tips-service/ I’m not really a gambling man, BUT the tips that come up every day from Prosperizer’s Winners of Wealth Tipster service, seem to be as close to reliable as you can get. This review is only based on a modest week’s activity. I have placed 3 bets and tried to learn a little bit about how this black hat world of horse racing works. Strangely, the 3 tips I followed all won. No spectacular wins, just good solid steady increase in my bank.

So based on my first week’s experience, Winners of Wealth seems to have a pretty sound background. Do I now have to own up to the gambler’s disease of thinking the winning streak is unstoppable? Certainly not! Horse racing is a chancy business and very FEW people make big bucks on their flutters. However, this first week has caught my interest and I will be trying out the service until my initial payin to the bank is frittered away … or not, as the case may be. WOW seems to be on track to providing seriously researched horse racing advice, which is capable of growing your initial stake money. Join the club and you can also earn commissions from anyone you introduce to the system. Good luck; but don’t forget the health warning that has to go with any gambling activity. Always gamble responsibly!

Interested in tips for the gee gees? Take a look at the introductory information for Winners of Wealth

]]> http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/10/07/wow-the-wow-results-keep-rolling-in-an-early-days-review-of-prosperizers-racing-tips-service/feed/ Winners of Wealth is on a Winning Streak http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/09/30/winners-of-wealth-is-on-a-winning-streak/ http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/09/30/winners-of-wealth-is-on-a-winning-streak/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:51:16 +0000 cosmicray http://cosmicray.myccblog.com/2008/09/30/winners-of-wealth-is-on-a-winning-streak/ wowhead.jpg

Here’s how to Have A Great Day Folks!

The latest news from The WOW Team and on the forum is astounding!

£269 (GBP) in 3 weeks, with only about 5 minutes work per day…
Winners of Wealth Tour

I was looking on the Winners of Wealth community forum yesterday and read yet another post by a very excited WOW member.

Martin, started using the WOW advice on Tuesday 9th September 2008. He started with £30 and up to yesterday when he made the post he had made a clear tax free profit of £269!

That’s in just 3 weeks, working only 5 minutes a day!

If you’re already a WOW member we hope you are also enjoying the experience.

Todays WOW advice is now online in the members area !

If you’re not a member you can access all the WOW advice for a whole month for just £9.95 using the following link…

Winners of Wealth

He he Folks, WOW IS Growing Like Wildfire, and VIP’s can get paid every Monday !!!

Get in soon because it’s not just the experienced guys that are finding success, newbies are absolutely running with this!

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