• So Much to Do! – How Can You Get Organised? | Time Management Solution Recommended by ‘BBC Click’

    Posted on October 13th, 2009 Tony No comments

    nozbe screen dumpThere are two ways of failing to make money from  e marketing :

    Doing the right thing at the wrong time

    Doing the wrong thing at the right time.

    So how can you get stuff done on time when  it sometimes seems sooooo complicated, how do you remember what to do and when?

    ‘Click’ the BBC Flagship Technology Program roots out really interesting application and presenter Kate Russell found this one – Nozbe –  to help get you organised.

    Now this might come as a surprise to some but I am not the most organised person in the world (Not a surprise to my wife Bee of course or my Mum – they know!).  More organised means more sales and more sales equals more profit so naturally I wanted to know more about anything which helps me smooth out my working methods.

    I downloaded it – no problem there and there are good videos to get you up and off the mark straight away.

    I am starting a new e marketing project today and I am going to track it on Nozbe so I spent a half hour finding my way around. Basically it is a productivity application acting as a virtual secretary or personal assistant prompting and reminding you what to do and when. That’s just what I need to keep me focused.

    You can quickly and easily make lists of tasks, and group all the information you need – like phone numbers, notes and even pictures – all neatly stored together.

    I say a business plan is something you wake up every morning and change but no problem Nozbe makes that easy, once you have a project set up it is easy add new actions to it whenever the spirit takes you. So this plan keeps the creative juices running and all your projects easily accessible in your inbox.

    Great news! There is a Free version available for us lonely e marketers which enables us to have full capability for, up to five projects, five sections and 1MB storage but you will soon outgrow that and premium subscriptions offer more  .

    One thing to wish for – at the moment you cannot make your own custom sections so you will be shoehorning everything into a few pre-defined actions but everything internet changes day by day and they say there are plans to change this – which will be a great move forward.

    The BBC says. ‘There should be more stuff like this in the world’ Internet Marketing Virgin agrees.

    Interested? Get it here

  • New to Internet Marketing? | How to Get Started In Internet Marketing

    Posted on August 10th, 2009 Tony No comments

    Are you tempted to start an on line business but just don’t how to get going? Start here!

    Today was a special day in Wales (UK) – the sun was shining!  Last Spring the UK weather Guru’s forecast a Bar-B-Q summer and it has seemed to rain every day since but today the sun shone in the garden of our friends Mike and Karen. Mike owns a Kitchen Planning business my home town of Cowbridge and my wife Bee and I were invited to a feast of burgers and sausage, chicken and ribs, salad, baked potatoes, Tiramisu, cream and Coconut Ice cream. Life should always be this good.

    Wales is very beautiful, very green and very wet, nearby is the place  Tom Jones was born and it is our classic wet weather which gives the lush scenery Tom sings about in his song “The Green Green Grass of Home”

    Today though a dozen or so of Mike and Karen’s friends enjoyed idyllic weather and I met Roland, a Mortgage Advisor. The conversation turned to ‘What do you do’ and I told Roland how my blog ‘Internet Marketing Virgin’ helps people who are new to Internet Marketing by giving straight forward ‘non-techie’ advice. Roland is on the upper side of 50 and like many of us golden oldies would love to build a late life career which would give him flexibility to work when and where he likes and go on giving him some residual income when he gives up work altogether.

     ‘I want to figure out how to make money online’ Roland said ‘So tell me, just how do I get started?’

    That’s what we do here, this section of ‘Internet Marketing Virgin’ will explain

    • What internet marketing is and is not
    • How to decide if this is a suitable business for you
    • The tools and training you will need to get started
    • Making a business plan for your e commerce business
    • Researching to see how to make money online
    • Building a blog or a website (if you need one at all!)
    • Creating content for your website that will draw people
    • Getting traffic to your website
    • How social networks can help you
    • Using e-mail to keep your existing customers
    • Earning money from your online business

    Subscribe now and week by week day by day your knowledge will expand – it needn’t be a struggle