Thursday, July 29, 2010: A Brand New Day

Free Appointment Book Software–Appointment Genie

NEW!  We have rewritten our free appointment book software and are re-releasing it, still free.  I will be publishing the YouTube video instructions so you can see how it works before you download.  This is a very easy, very intuitive program that practically runs itself.

Our appointment book software includes the following features:

  • inclusion of an image/photo
  • event type
  • event subject
  • event location
  • start and end time
  • note boxes for related key people and organizations
  • parallel event scheduling
  • unlimited entries

 

Introduction

 

Scheduling Appointments, Entering Data,
And How to Manipulate Your Information

 

Please be aware that this software works only with PCs.  This will work on Windows, Vista, and XP and requires installation of the current .NET, which is a free download from Microsoft.  If you are running Vista or XP, this should already be integrated into the operating system.  The download is about 36 MB.  Because the video shows you in detail  all aspects of the software, all sales are final.  However, if for some reason the software does not work or there should be some conflict with your currect system, I will refund your purchase immediately.  Your download will include our support email address and a toll free number to call in case of difficulties.

 

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Contact & Address Genie Software

Available Now!  Our Contact and Address Genie is a super simple software application that you can start using almost immediately after installation.  Our application is "almost free," and you can have it right now for pocket change.   Needless to say, I am very excited about this tool which, by the way, is as aesthetically pleasing as it is efficient.

Here is our YouTube video explaining how it works.  This will give an inside look into the software.  I’ll include more details later.  If you like it, I’ve included a payment link at the bottom.

 

 For a full screen view, click the button next to "HQ" above. Press escape to return to this page.

Please be aware that this software works only with PCs.  This will work on Windows, Vista, and XP and requires installation of the current .NET, which is a free download from Microsoft.  If you are running Vista or XP, this should already be integrated into the operating system.  The download is about 36 MB.  Because the video shows you in detail  all aspects of the software, all sales are final.  However, if for some reason the software does not work or there should be some conflict with your currect system, I will refund your purchase immediately.  Your download will include our support email address and a toll free number to call in case of difficulties.

After payment, you will be immediately transferred to a secure download page for immediate download of the product.  You will also receive an email giving you the download link.  In the event that you are not immediately transferred to the download area, you will be presented with a button to click that will take you to the secure download area.

 

Only $2.99

 

Affiliate Marketing–Home Business Strategy

Affiliate marketing is essentially the marketing, or selling, of other peoples' products and collecting a commission per product sold.  I don't want to over simplify this because affiliate marketing, as with any business model, requires skill to be consistently successful.  However, one of the reasons this is attractive as a home business is that it can be incredibly inexpensive to put into action.  Having start-up funds is beneficial, make no mistake.  At bottom, though, you need only your imagination and products to sell.  You really can get started on a shoestring.  And some manage to start with nothing.  What you do need, however, is a plan, and by plan, I mean a business plan.  More about that later; right now I want to talk about affiliate marketing.

As mentioned above, with affiliate marketing you are selling other peoples' products in exchange for a commission.  If you ask, "What sort of products?"  Almost every product available can be and is sold as an affiliate product.  Every product that you find in your grocery store from pasta, cheese, wine, and steaks, every product found in Walmart, Target, Best Buy , Home Depot, Lowes, can be sold as an affiliate product.  Browse through Amazon or eBay.  Every product you see is sold by affiliates of those two sites.  Take a hike through a Walgreen's or CVS.  Everything there can and is sold by affiliate marketers.  Digital products, or information products also sell very well as affiliate products.  Examples of information products would be e-books, downloadable videos, and audio recordings.  Software is another sort of digital product in which there is a thriving affiliate business.

You can see that this is a huge area.  For this reason, it is important to have some idea of a business plan in order to focus the direction of your marketing.  I would mention again that you do a little research into business planning so that you have a notion of how to implement this as a business as opposed to a gimmick or some random activity.

It is not necessary to rely on the Internet to do affiliate marketing.  You can do this effectively with offline advertising, but the Internet is gnerally so easily available and has so much easy access to traffic–that is, potential customers–that it would be a shame not to use it or be able to use it.  Even if you have no computer or Internet access yourself, most libraries do have such access and can serve as a jumping off point.  We're talking about really bootstrapping it, here.  Naturally, if you have your own computer and access to a broadband connection, so much the better.

The Internet is helpful not only in providing access to buyers, but in giving you access to affiliate programs.  To save you time, three of the biggest affiliate programs are run by Commission Junction, Pepperjam Network, and Linkshare.  There are hundreds of affilate products between those three companies.  Share a Sale is another affiliate resource.  Your job, then, is to research your products and create a portal by which means buyers can be directed to the sales page(s) of the company actually selling the products.

By portal, I mean the way in which you direct potential buyers to the seller.  This could be done by email, with links in the body of the mail.  I'm not talking about spam email, but email directed to people willing to receive your mail.  Normally this is done by developing a list of interested, potential customers who have given you permission to send them email in exchange for receiving a newsletter or in exchange for some product you may have offered.  Another sort of "portal" might be online classifieds that direct visitors either to your site or to the vendor's sales page.  Newspaper ads directing potential buyers to a website could also be considered a sort of porta.  Normally, in Internet marketing, a portal refers to a site that you have set up for the purpose of directing buyers to the vendor website. 

I know of one very successful business woman who does this by setting up Wordpress blogs devoted to a particular niche area, such as health care, education, or weight loss.  She populates the blogs with relevant posts, develops traffic of interested readers and potential buyers, and with sufficient traffic the blogs start earning income.  This is one example of a particular sort of portal, which works very well for this person's business model.  How you choose to direct buyers to a vendor site will have a lot to do with your own business model.

I'm not going to try and fool you into thinking you that you will make money with no effort.  Affiliate marketing requires skill to make money consistently, and you have to work it as a business to make a viable means of self-support. 

I've provided a low cost affiliate marketing course to show you the basics and to help you see how to focus your efforts.  The course includes 12 videos plus a 40 page report that expands upon the points in the videos and elaborates on how to build traffic to your sites.

One of the basic affilate marketing strategies relies on the following steps:

  • product research (as described above)
  • keyword research to develop ideas for site content
  • building a portal site
  • building auxiliary sites via squidoo, hubpages, blogspot, and so forth
  • article publishing
  • link development
  • RSS feeds
  • selected social bookmarking
  • selected social news sites
  • press releases 

The particular business plan I'm discussing here really relies on setting up a website (either free or your own domain) and then supporting it through a variety of methods.  Some of the standard techniques used to bring traffic and search engine recognition include the following (paraphrasing the above):  publishing 10 or 20 articles, building a number auxiliary sites, and announcing your content via social bookmarking.  This is an almost entierly Internet based approach in which you attempt to create a sort of funnel directing buyers to a vendor site.  You can supplement this by using offline promotion, such newspaper classifieds and even radio announcements.  How you choose to promote your portals will depend on your business model.

Personally, I really like the affiliate model simply because it is so easy to set up and for the vast, practically unlimited number of products.  It is also a model in which you can start making money within 30 days.  I don't want to mislead you into thinking that you'll be able to replace a day job or create a free standing second income in 30 days, but it is definitely possible, with a few hours of work a day, to see your first sales within 30 days.  I give affiliate marketing a big thumbs up as an income maker as it is relatively easy to get started and requires very little initial set-up other than access to an Internet connection.

NEW Software: Micro Office Tools Suite

If you are coming from YouTube, welcome.  If you have found us by chance or through Google search, this may be your lucky day.

If you seeking a truly simple, easy to use set of basic office tools, I may have the program for you.  Micro Office Tools Suite consists of a file saver application, word processor, and image editor.  If you need a simple, intuitive set of tools that you can use literally within minutes of installation, this program is for you.  It isn’t pretty, but it is s-i-m-p-l-e and intuitive to use!  And, newly updated v.2.02!

You can tell I’m enthusiastic about this.  The program ships with a set of video instructions.  The video instructions, are also published on YouTube, and you can view them below.  The updated v.2.02 package includes 5 to-the-point flash videos to help you get started.  The software is so intuitive, you may not even need them. 

 


File Saver Application

 


Photo Editor Application

 


Word Processing Application

 


Advanced File Editing

 


Color Selection Wizard

 

The videos pretty much tell everything you need to know.  However, here is a rundown of the basic features:

The Easy File Saver 

  • This is the heart of the program–Save files within the wordprocessing program, the image editor and import them into the file saver!
  • Import and save documents by categories you determine.  Save text, MS Word, PDF and any other document format in use.

  • Save image files such as jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bitmap, tiff.  You determine your own categories.

  • Search function for your categories and files.

The Super Simple Word Processor

  • File, Edit, view, insert, format, table menu options
  • Options to export documents as CSS or PDF
  • PDF export allows you to create a password for your PDF document
  • Save documents as plain text, unicode text, microsoft word, microsoft word 97-2003, rich text format, and hypertext (.html)
  • Create simple web pages and sales pages by drafting them in word and then saving as .htm.
  • flexible formatting options for font, text color, text color background, document background color,  styles, headings and footers, indentation and bullets, table insertion, images, tabs, text frames, hyperlinking, and more
  • Save your documents to your hard drive and import them into the file saver applicaton

The Incredibly Easy to Use Photo Editor

This image editing software includes tools to manipulate the following values:

  • Tuning

  • Hue

  • Color

  • Rotate and Flip

  • Scale

  • Perspective

  • Round corners

  • Reflection

  • Polaroid film effect

  • Mail stamp effect

  • Film strip effect

  • Drop shadow effects

  • Save images as png, jpg, gif, bmp

  • Save your images to your hard drive and import into the file saver application.

  • Save a draft of your edited image within the editor itself.

  • Load images from your hard drive and save the edited version back into your files.

 Color Selection Wizard

  • Easy to use color selection tool.
  • Use predefined colors, or creat your own custom colors
  • Save your color selections within the color chooser application

 

Please understand this is a large package.   The download is about 141 MB

 

Price is $7.95

Immediate money back guarantee if the product for some reason doesn’t work on your system, otherwise, all sales are final.  For PCs only, and may require .NET, which is a free download from microsoft.com.  If you are running XP Home/Professional or Vista, .NET should already be installed on your PC.

After payment, you will be immediately transferred to a secure download page for immediate download of the product.  You will also receive an email giving you the download link.  In the event that you are not immediately transferred to the download area, you will be presented with a button to click that will take you to the secure download area.

 

Only $7.95