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Back Your Sh#t Up

paulwbrowning — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:42:49 +0000

Is your data important to you?

I’m talking about:

Work documents
Project files
Financial details
Family photos

You know the stuff. I bet you would be devastated to lose it. I bet you don’t back it up either.

Only today I received a note from a freelancer I use saying that she had lost a document she had just finished for me. It took her a week and it looks like she is going to have to start again from scratch, without being paid for the second time round.

STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.

You can back your stuff up in two ways.

Firstly – stick any important stuff on a USB drive or even a USB stick and save stuff on there every day or whenever you make a change.

Secondly – save it to an online storage service such as box.net.

Most operating systems even come with their own backup automation software or you can download it. I know it’s a boring subject but it only takes a few minutes to get this all sorted out and can save a lot of heartache.

Paul Browning

How to Create an Online Course – FREE

paulwbrowning — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:09:03 +0000

Making money online is great fun, but there are a few problems such as:

Creating a website to promote it
Delivering the content
Collecting payments securely
Sorting out refunds
Marketing your course
Collecting reviews and testimonials

Well a new generation of websites solve these problems for you. One such site is Udemy.com. Udemy allows you to upload videos, presentations, audio guides, PDFs and many other file types and either give them away for free publicity or sell them.

If you really want to generate an online income but don’t want the hassles that go with it then Udemy.com could work really well for you. I’ve uploaded several of my own courses there. Stuff I either recorded a while back and never got round to marketing or stuff which I never got round to promoting myself.

Best of all, they show you how to create a course and promote it yourself. You get to keep most of the profits as well. How cool is that!!

Here is the free course showing you how to do it.

Your FREE Web Marketing Plan

How to get from where you are to where you want to be. Including:

How to come up with ideas
The best products to create
How to set up your website
How to take payments
Automating the process
E-books or videos?
What to charge
and much more...

Get Paid to Read Books

paulwbrowning — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:08:34 +0000

I occasionally have blinding flashes of inspiration.

I literally had one just now. I was looking at my inbox which is full of messages informing me about products I’ve just sold. Many more are coming in since I started to sell my products via Udemy.com. Here’s the thing though. I then realised how all of this came about in the first place. It was mainly due to the books I’ve read.

I’ve read many thousands of books. Many on business, spirituality, personal development and so on. The ones related to business I’ve read and taken action on to grow my on and offline businesses. I actually wondered what dollar value I could put on each book. If I’ve read say 500 business books which at the moment have created a $30,000 per month online income then it works out that each book has paid me $60 per month or $720 per year.

So how many books would you read if they paid you that sort of money?

Your FREE Web Marketing Plan

How to get from where you are to where you want to be. Including:

How to come up with ideas
The best products to create
How to set up your website
How to take payments
Automating the process
E-books or videos?
What to charge
and much more...

Think BEFORE You Post

paulwbrowning — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:16:34 +0000

The bigger a company becomes the more scope there is for somebody to make a mistake or piss customers off. This is why it is vital to build an E-myth style business and have systems and checks for everything.

An IT support company I used to work for had a process for sending e-mails to senior mangers about network faults. Each e-mail had to follow a certain format AND be checked by another member of staff in case there was errors. If this isn’t done then silly mistakes happen.

Take this message I received from Nielsen, one of the biggest book data companies in the world. They are promoting a brand new book publicity service.

All I need to is click on the button to take them up on their special offer.

The only problem is that when you click on the button it opens your e-mail program so you can e-mail them for a quote!

E-mail them what? I don’t even know what to ask them. Now somebody has to e-mail me back, then I e-mail them. As we know, employees are paid to look busy but as business owners time is money.

Why not link to a simple form where we can put in how many books we have, how many we want to promote and telling us a bit more about the benefits?

Your FREE Web Marketing Plan

How to get from where you are to where you want to be. Including:

How to come up with ideas
The best products to create
How to set up your website
How to take payments
Automating the process
E-books or videos?
What to charge
and much more...

Why You Need to Ask More Than Once

paulwbrowning — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:51:33 +0000

Have you ever received an e-mail offering something you really want? And have you ever meant to buy it later but simply forgot? I know I have.

Here’s the thing though. Many business owners don’t want to be seen to be a pest so they only send one sales message and then presume people who didn’t buy didn’t want to. This isn’t the case at all. People who don’t want to buy won’t be on your list. You should be sending roughly one sales message to every three or four informational messages. People will soon unsubscribe if they don’t like what you are doing.

Here is an example from one of my sites. Every time I hope the cart for a few days and announce it only a few join. By the second and third message many more join.

Enough said?

Your FREE Web Marketing Plan

How to get from where you are to where you want to be. Including:

How to come up with ideas
The best products to create
How to set up your website
How to take payments
Automating the process
E-books or videos?
What to charge
and much more...

Avoiding Goal Overwhelm

paulwbrowning — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:52:21 +0000

Don’t yawn (yet) but do you set goals?

If you do, do you write them down?
Do you write a plan to achieve them?
Do you set milestones and ‘next actions’?
Do you have daily steps to take towards them?

I do all of this but if finally struck me today that I was missing one very important step. This step is the magic ingredient. It actually comes from a superb book from Brian Tracey called ‘Eat that Frog.’ From this book, I learned to work on the hardest or most unpleasant goal first. The secondmost second and so on and so forth.

Write your goals out in order with #1 being the most important one. The one which, when achieved will change everything. For me it is a weight goal. I’ve been playing with it for over a year now and it is really bugging me. I’m fitting in my training around everything else. Just for a short while I’m really going to change things up and make my training goal my number 1 priority.

Sure, I still have other important goals as well as a business to run and family to see but when it is time to prioritise my day, my training and nutrition will come first. It will only really be an hour per day. I just know that once I’m on track it will become effortless. Just like writing for four hours plus per day has become.

Here is my new goal order.

Training and nutrition to hit 175lbs
Finish my Udemy Camtasia training product
Rlease and promote my next three books on Kindle
Write the next two books on my list
Grow this site

Welcome

paulwbrowning — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:18:54 +0000

If you want to know how to build a successful web based business but dont’ know where to start you are in the right place. I’m not a big name guru but I’ve made a living working on the web since 2002 and my onlines sales are around $30,000 per month. Let me know if I can help you in any way. It does take hard work but it isn’t as hard as most people make out.

First Time Here?

Procrasination Kills

paulwbrowning — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:35:14 +0000

If I had a dollar for every person I’ve met who wants to make money on the web. So what goes wrong?

Here is my take on the disconnect between wanting to have the income and doing nothing about it.

Person sees what is going on on the web. Sees people making money and the stories of rags to riches. If they are in business they see competitors coming up with products or using social media to garner a large following and then they say to themselves, ‘If they can do it, so can I.’

But then what? Maybe read a few e-books on internet marketing. Maybe visit a few websites giving advice. Maybe even sign up to some web guru mastermind groups teaching how to stamp on the search engines or gain thousands of views on YouTube. How about setting your business on auto-pilot so you can sit on the beach and sip cocktails.

This is where we can be hit by the paralysis by analysis issue where you know a bunch of stuff but don’t know how to put it into use. Then comes the opinion overload where one guy says that product X is the next big thing but the other guys says that is so yesterday. Confused!

The issue isn’t that it can be done because that much is obvious. The issue is what the heck do you sell and to who? There are too many website and product creation tools out there to name (okay I’ll name them – WordPress with design templates from WooThemes for e.g. and Camtasia to create videos).

If I had to sum up the issue I would use the word one of my toddler twins keeps saying when she can’t get her arm in her sleeve – STUCK!

Get Unstuck

Easy. Just create a site with WordPress, add a free template from WooThemes if you don’t want to spend any money and write a short e-book or film a few short training videos. Choose a subject you know about and choose a title which will solve a problem for people who would be interested in reading it.

Maybe you will sell some copies and maybe you won’t but at least you took some action. Many of my great website multi-million dollar ideas failed miserably. I bought a lot of e-books with resales rights, one of them was on how to make cocktails and one on how to make soup at home. But even those both sold a handful of copies.

So, to make a long point short.

Get the website up
Post an e-book or some short vidoes on it

Learn lessons and then do it again and again.

Paul Browning

When Dreams Come True

paulwbrowning — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:25:26 +0000

My dream for a few years now has been to emigrate to Australia. I’ve been here twice so far and each time, for the first time on my holidays, I’ve been very sad to leave for home.
By the time I usually get to the end of a holiday I’m missing home and ready to go back. Not so for Australia.
So I set the goal, dreamed the dream, did the work and achieved what I’ve really wanted. But here are two thoughts on what happens when dreams come true.

First – when your dream is actually fulfilled something strange happens. You can often feel what can only be described as grief. Olympic athletes exerience this when they train from childhood and then win the medal. Everything they have lived for has suddenly gone. It went because it was always in the future and is now here. Nothing left to strive for.
Second – life goes on. Unless you dream was a lottery win, you still have to get up and get ready for work or ready to work. Dress and feed children, exercise, go shopping and in fact live your life as usual. I only say this because I’ve done so many things and striven for so much and each time I fool myself that I will somehow feel different or that life will be different.
It is of course or more to the point, in achieving the thing, you become a better person but your life remains your life.

Have fun and enjoy the journey!

What is Procrastination Costing You?

paulwbrowning — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:14:15 +0000

I used to attend a lot of personal development seminars.

Tony Robbins and other gurus as well as internet marketing stuff and goal setting as well as business improvement. I kept in touch with a few people I met them. As time passed I began to notice something interesting happen.I could divide the delegates attending into two broad categories. Those who took action and those who did not.

We all had the same information and some of us starting putting into practise what we had learned. Others said that they needed to do more planning or attend a few more seminars. As time went on, those of us who took the action made more money and build successful businesses. Sure, we made a few mistakes along the way but that was part of the process.

Those who didn’t do much didn’t get much. This all came back to me the other day when I was reading a book by Larry Winget. He wrote ‘If you want to live a better life then start making better choices.’

Paul Browning