Frank Haywood

Jul

2008

Bits And Bobs On A Quiet Sunday Afternoon

On Tuesday at 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST), I’ll be running a nickel sale for my new product, The Instant Survey Script.

If you want to bypass that nickel sale, then there’s good news if you take advantage of Adrian Ling’s summer sale. If you buy the 5 scripts I mentioned in yesterday’s post using my link, and then raise a ticket on the support desk, I’ll give you The Instant Survey Script for free tomorrow, a full day ahead of everybody else.

Of course if you’re one of the people who’ve already bought via my link, you qualify too, just raise a support ticket in the Instant Survey Script department of the help desk.

This offer expires at 3.00pm GMT Monday.

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I’ve just got back from a nice little run out to Henley In Arden (on the way to Stratford) with the family and we went for an ice cream where we normally do. Inside the shop all I wanted was a single cone, and I asked for a scoop of banana fudge and a scoop of caramel instead of two scoops of one flavour. I’ve been served that in the past when I asked for it.

“That’s not allowed” came the answer from a 17 year old behind the counter. Not the girl who was serving us I have to add.

My wife tried to argue with her, but I said “Leave her alone, if it’s ‘not allowed’, there’s nothing she can do about it. She’s just an employee, and she’s ‘not allowed’ to make decisions.”

Cruel I know, and to make it worse I had a big grin on my face, but I have to say I got an immense feeling of satisfaction from saying it.

Oh well, one step closer to being a cranky old git I suppose. Victor Meldrew move over.

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I’m going to start releasing some free PC (Windows) tools shortly for those people on my blog notify list. They’ll be in password protected posts and you’ll get the passwords (once) in the notify email I send out. After that, they’ll be either $5 or $10. I think that’s a fair price.

I’m also going to start releasing my “Install A Blog” videos for free, one or two per day. After working through all of them, you’ll be able to install your own WordPress blog if you don’t already know how to do it, and I’ll also cover which WordPress plugins I use and why.

I’ll only be making them available until the entire set is complete. Then they’ll join my increasing line up of products, probably for $27.

If you don’t have a blog, well, why not? Just for doing a bit of writing, you can build a mailing list. It seems that every time I make a blog post, I get new subscribers join my list. It’s not hard to do at all, and it’s an ideal way to kick start your internet business.

So if that tickles your fancy, watch out for those. Again all those posts will be individually password protected as an incentive for people to join my mailing list.

It’s easy isn’t it this marketing lark? 😉

-Frank Haywood

Jul

2008

Summer Sale – 5 Scripts For The Price Of One

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but apart from creating and releasing tools for your internet business, from time to time I also buy them from other people.

Often it’s to check out the competition, or to get new product ideas. Sometimes it’s because I just drool over something that I really want and so I have to get it.

Fast shiny cars? Naah, never been interested.

Clever useful scripts? Where!?

Whatever turns you on I suppose.

Anyway, I’ve been intending to buy an item of software called Easy Click Mate (ECM) for quite a while now, but I’ve been too busy to give it the attention it deserves. Essentially what it does is allow you to run an affiliate scheme and also sell multiple products through a single ClickBank account.

So instead of having to pay $49.95 for a new CB account for every product, you just buy one, and put all your products through ECM. And instead of having your affiliates create links that point to ClickBank, they can create links that point to YOUR site instead.

ECM is normally $67 on its own and well worth it. But for 4 days only (and we’re now in day 2), Adrian Ling is selling ECM with 4 of his other products for a total of $49.97…

That works out at just under $10 each. Sounds good to me.

Okay so what else do you get apart from Easy Click Mate? And what are the normal prices?

– Easy Click Mate – $67
– Easy Click Guard – Digital download protection (yeah I know) – $67
– Easy 404 – Web page 404 redirector and alerter – $47
– Affiliate Shield – Link cloaker (yeah I know) and dead link detector – $47
– Power RSS – RSS aggregator, randomiser and displayer for your web site – $97

The latter two will be released in 30 days and 61 days time respectively.

I’m sure you’ll agree this is a pretty amazing line up for the price. I make that a total of $325 at the normal price, but for the next couple of days or so you can get it at under $50.

Well… You might get it at under $50. He’s only made 300 copies available. When I bought yesterday afternoon, I was something like #40. I checked again last night, and there were 211 copies available. I just checked again and there are 154 left. (Update Sunday lunchtime – 121 copies left.)

They’re going quickly.

So if this interests you like it grabbed my attention, go get it before the offer runs out.

http://www.frankhaywood.com/go/ebtss/

-Frank Haywood

Jul

2008

A Quick And Easy Survey

Would you like to do a quick survey?

No?

Not even if it’s been put together with my new survey software?Â 😉

Yep, this is a demo of my new script that you can use to bang out surveys in no time flat.Â Unlike some scripts I’ve used which are horribly complicated, the Instant Survey Script is designed to be easy to use.

You can also actually embed surveys created with the Instant Survey Script inside other pages like this one.

But not today as I want you to see what a survey looks like on a page all on its own.

So with that thought follow the link below to fill in a very short survey of just 4 questions, and after you’ve completed it, you can immediately see the survey results.Â Just bookmark the results page to see them as they’re updated.

http://www.frankhaywood.com/iss/index.php?survey=1685fe

-Frank Haywood

Jul

2008

If You Had A System…

…that allowed you to make say $500 / day, and you could repeat it in different niches… would you sell that system to anyone?

Wouldn’t you be better off hiring 1,000 people at $200 / day and scaling your internet business up? Knowing that you were going to make $300 / day in profit for every niche?

So why sell your system unless it doesn’t work?

Just think about that before you get involved in the next big launch and jump in with both feet…

-Frank Haywood

Jul

2008

Product Launch Spam

I’ve just had Michael Pryor or someone acting on his behalf spam my blog about a product launch on Tuesday. But it looks like he may well have been spamming lots of other blogs too, as Akismet caught it. So he must now be in the Akismet blog spam database.

Not wanting to give him any publicity, he (or someone else) is spamming his product launch of Google n*em-es*is.net (URL obsfuscated).

His sign up form goes to another of his sites which may mean he can’t get an autoresponder service to take him. When you sign up, you get an email from Bob Smith, so it doesn’t seem he wants people to know his real name. But if you do a WHOIS at GoDaddy you can see it for yourself.

It gets sillier as because his domain is hosted with GoDaddy, who are rumoured to suspend domains on a single complaint of spam, it could mean that domain will be closed down if someone actually *does* go and complain to GoDaddy (hopefully his web site isn’t hosted with them too, for his sake).

I’m not going to do that as I’m not that kind of a person. In fact I’m not going to complain at all other than this blog post.

Everybody should get a chance to fix their mistakes and apologise.

The moral of this story?

DON’T SPAM.

-Frank Haywood

It’s particularly ironic that on his sign up form it says:-
“We hate spam as much as you do.”