Teach Your Computer to Handle the Grunt Work

If there’s one thing I hate it’s monkey work — that stuff that has to be done, but takes all the smarts of a monkey. If you’re on a Mac take a look at Automator — it’s software that comes on every Mac and is overlooked by 99% of everybody. But it can be your best friend. Automate your workflow … Read More

Use the iPhone for Real Work?

If you have an iPhone but think of it more like a gadget than a real work tool, take three minutes and listen to what I discovered — a way to make the iPhone stand right alongside my laptop.

Zombies Ate My Poodle

I’m gearing up for National Novel Writing Month where I’ll be writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. You can find more about the “contest” here: http://nanowrimo.org My book is called “Zombies Ate My Poodle” and it’s aimed at the 10-12 year old crowd. If you have kids that age who’d like to be “beta readers” sign them up … Read More

How Joel Comm is a Freakin’ Genius

Not too long ago I unsubscribed from a ton of lists in order to try and get a handle on my email. Every morning I’d wake up to several hundred emails to wade through and I just got tired of it. Now instead of taking an hour to get through the overnights, I can do it in about 10-15 minutes. … Read More

Article Architect 3.0

Work on the next major update to Article Architect is coming along very nicely. I’ve incorporated quite a few features that have been suggested by users, including two very BIG features. In fact, one of those has been the most requested feature since I launched the first version of AA back in 2007, but for one reason or another I … Read More

The Number Effect – What It Means To You

Trey Smith is advertising a product called The Number Effect. I don’t know what it is (didn’t finish watching the video) but I was astonished at this bit of data… …he threw traffic at 12,000 Clickbank products and made money on 54 of them. Which means he lost money (or made no money) on 11,946 of them. That says to … Read More

For Technical Marketing Folks

Most of the software I create has been done with a product called REAL Studio (using a language called REALbasic). The reason I chose that product is because it allows me to write code one time and then generate both Mac and Windows applications. See REAL Studio here… I’m a Mac guy, but it’s a Windows world (so far) so … Read More

Not About Marketing

While this post isn’t about internet marketing, I think it deserves a place here because I’ve talked about how my family lives on the road — and in a post made recently I ended with: “I don’t see any reason to ‘settle down’ at this point — there are too many things to see, places to visit and people to … Read More

The Solution to Information Overload – Part 2 of 5

This series is designed to help you make sense of everything that’s thrown at you when you decide to start doing internet marketing. If you look at all of the options available, you’re likely to be paralyzed by information overload and nothing gets done. But by breaking down just the necessary pieces into bite-sized chunks, you should be able to … Read More

The Solution to Information Overload – Part 1 of 5

The idea of an online business is great — no inventory to deal with, no storefront with utility bills and maintenance, and it can be started with no employees and on a shoestring budget. But the biggest problem most people run into when they decide to get into internet marketing, is figuring out what their next step should be. Because … Read More