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

There 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

How do you cancel a contract or a domain on 1&1?

I have all my domains on automatic renewal – it really helps to make sure that you keep hold of them.

Ttoday I was reminded that my domain stopsmokingcentre.biz. is due for renewal. That was a domain I purchased  stop smoking business but my on line site www.stopsmokingsuccess.com 1&1 helpfully e mailed me a month before the renewal date.  It seemed like a good idea at the time I set it up but two years later I want to cancel it because I just haven’t used it and I know I never will. So I am going to cancel it but how do you cancel a contract or a domain on 1&1? Well they certainly don’t make it easy thats for sure!

I get on well with 1&1 and have 26 or so domains registered with them. Of course I could keep it, it doesn’t cost a lot – or I could sell it, f it were a red hot domain name I would, but I don’t own the .com and the english spelling of centre probably means it it isn’t worth hanging on to.

So how do you do it? – the instruction is well hidden away in the Help (FAQ) and Contract section for which there is a link on the banner and the Account tab so if you want to follow a paper chase start there (or you could go to the short cuts  below – it will save time.

Click FAQ on left side panel

Then click on the Launch FAQ’s button

Then search for ‘delete a domain name’

A bit of research will take you here http://faq.1and1.com/domains/other_issues_regarding_domains/10.html

And here is the short cut!!!!

For 1and1.com go straight tohttps://cancel.1and1.com or for 1and1.co.uk use this different link https://contract.oneandone.co.uk

Enter your account number and password

Click on change contract

Select if you want to delete the entire contract or an individual domain

Select cancellation option as expire

Select Execute on either ‘end of contract’ or ‘as soon as possible’  ‘OK’

Note your Auth code if you are moving the domain elsewhere ‘OK’

Check details and Press ‘Finish’

BUT IT DOESN’T END THERE!

You will get two emails from 1&1, one saying sorry you are leaving and another with a website link to activate the cancellation. YOU MUST RESPOND TO THE SECOND ONE.

Your cancellation will not be completed until you have confirmed the cancellation request by following the special link emailed to you. If you do not activate your cancellation request within the next 7 days, your cancellation request will be discarded and your contract will remain active.

Of course I would be very upset if it was too easy to cancel my domains – my competitors might decide to ‘help’ me by cancelling them for me! So thank you 1&1 for my timely reminder, I have had excellent service from them and the telephone helpdesk is quick patient and efficient. I can recommend them Have a look for yourself here

For helpful advice to make your internet experience simpler to understand visit www.internetmarketingvirgin.com

How can I make my computer run faster? | 4 minutes to speed up your computer.

Has it happened to you? Day by day your computer runs slower and slower until it is so frustratingly slow you can hardly bother to log on?
I used to wait until my wife’s son Barnaby visited and gaze in wonder as he weaved his magic and made my P.C or Web Book. useable again. That was until I thought ‘How hard can it be?’ and I asked “Barny, how can I make my computer run faster myself without ruining every weekend you spend with us?”

I was right, it isn’t difficult at all, so if your systems are slow and sluggish, if they freeze up here are a few tips.

MS Config – 4 minutes invested – hours and hours saved.

Tucked away, where only techies look, there’s a simple but powerful tool, called msconfig, It is free, Microsoft builds this directly into Windows. In this article I’ll show you how to activate and use msconfig to speed your systems and make them a pleasure to use again..

Do you have any idea how many programs are running on your systems without your knowledge?
I was shocked when I opened msconfig about two dozen programs were being opened every time I switched on. or if they weren’t switched on they were ‘live’ waiting to be used. Some of them I would never use at all, some just once in a blue moon.
By shutting down many of these unnecessary programs, my computer is now running much much faster and with far fewer hangs.

It doesn’t take long, it isn’t difficult, and there is little or no risk of mucking things up*When you do need them most take no more than a second or two to load manually.

Don’t the program writers love to make things sound complex
msconfig is really just a simple checklist of the programs loaded onto your system when the computer starts up. It lets you select and de-select those programs you’d like to run at start up and you don’t need many!

You may wonder, if you don’t actually need them all the time why are they loaded at startup in the first place? The answer is ‘helpful’ software suppliers have placed them there when you downloaded their programs so they are instantly available for you to use but many if not most simply do not need to run at start up.

A typical example is real-time player, which gets placed in start-up by default when it’s first installed. By de-selecting real-time player in msconfig, you will return huge valuable resources to your computer and speed up your start up plus, real-time player will start only when you need it, not before!

This is what you do to start your declutter

1. Click the Windows Start button in the lower left corner.

2. Click Run.

3. Type “msconfig” (without the quotes) in the box as shown below.

4. Click OK or hit the Enter key.

msconfig startup screen

This box shows all the programs available to start up when the computer starts. Those checked with a tick actually do start as you open up the computer.

Uncheck the boxes of programs you do not want at start up (most of them!)
Leave antivirus, Antispyware, firewall and pop up blocker to run everything else can easily be opened just when you need it.

Click on apply stage 1 done

Now click on the ‘services’ tab and you will see the screen below.

msconfig services screen

Click the box to select hide all Microsoft service.

Then go through the list and deselect any that you do not use or use rarely use , relax, they can be reselected at any time in the future

After you finish making changes in msconfig, click Apply then OK. then Yes to restart your computer.

After you reboot, you may see a popup Window letting you know that you have made changes with msconfig. There will be a check box that you may select to prevent this popup from displaying in the future. I suggest you check this box, and then just close the Window.

That’s it! Now just enjoy the results of your new found knowledge and marvel at just how quick you system is for just this small housekeeping chore

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