Archive for January, 2009
Making YouTube Videos Interactive And Increasing Clickthroughs
Do you want to make your YouTube videos to get more clickthroughs and to be more effective for you?
If you haven’t noticed that YouTube Videos can now be posted with clickable links, check out this video for a fun example of what can be done with it. It’s called “Interactive Hot Tub Girl”.
The same concept [...]
Business Building / Physical Exercise Analogy
It’s 10:30am and I just got back from the gym. I usually go in the afternoon, but sometimes when I need to clear my head I’ll go earlier and then work afterwards.
I use heavy weights and only rest for 30 seconds in between sets. Because of this, most people who were at the gym [...]
Keeping Productive Work And Research/Planning Separate
It’s easy to “feel” like you’re working online when you’re really not. If you’ve got an online business, you could argue that everything you do online is work-related:
Read/Posting to related discussion forums
Reading related blog updates
Researching niches
Browsing your competitors’ websites and offers
…And the list goes on.
The problem is, you can do those things all day long [...]
Leather Pants In Arizona, What Else Can A Guy Do?
I watched American Idol last night, and having been a professional musician for over 15 years, some contestants’ ideas about the process and how they evaluate themselves is truly bizarre.
There was a “rocker”-looking guy with lots of tattoos wearing a head band who worked an office job.
He never took singing lessons
He never learned how to [...]
If You Refuse To Sell Products You’ll Go Bankrupt
This was odd…
Yesterday I went into a department store and asked to see a piece of jewelry (which cost about $1,000).
The woman behind the counter told me that nothing was on sale that day.
I said, “You mean there are no discounts on anything?”
She said no, that she was unable to sell me anything that day!
She [...]
Happy New Year: Time Management Tips
This is my first “real” day doing some work in this new year, and it’s already late enough that some people have probably already given up on their New Years resolutions!
The reason why New Years resolutions tend to fail is that they’re artificially created excuses to let you NOT make changes in the months leading [...]