Frank Haywood

12
May
2008

At Last! The Nickel Script Gets A Nickel Sale

Later this week, I’ll finally be launching the nickel sale for the nickel script itself.

I’ve added a few little tweaks to it since I used it last that I think you’re going to like. There’s one feature in particular that I know you’ll like a lot, and you can count on me to extend it with later versions.

In case you’re a new reader and you don’t know what a nickel sale is, I’ll explain.

The sale price of an item starts with a relatively low price, and with each sale it increases by a set amount, usually 5 cents, hence the term nickel sale. The sooner the item is bought, then the lower the price.

It’s an extremely powerful way of kicking up a lot of interest in a product, and pulling in a chunk of cash very quickly. As the starting price is usually low (much lower than the actual final release price of a product), a very nice bargain can be had when the item is bought in a nickel sale.

I’m still toying with the starting price and the final price after the sale is over, but I’ll announce more detail in the next day or so.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business
10
May
2008

No Email, Not Missing It

Here’s a funny thing.

This week, feeling I’d lost my drive (it happens from time to time) I decided to try a little experiment.  No email.  Okay, not quite no email, I think I checked it Thursday, but even then, not all my email accounts, just a couple.

But I haven’t checked any of my email now for about 48 hours.  The effect on me is I feel more relaxed, and I also feel as if I’ve become more productive and focussed, and I’ve even spent a little more time with the family.

Hmm…

What would happen if I only checked my email once or twice a week?  Say Mondays and Thursdays?  As long as everyone knew that was the only time I’d be checking my email, I guess it wouldn’t be a big deal for people.

Thinking back to about a decade ago, the only way we communicated with other people was either by phone, or by writing to them.  There wasn’t any email (effectively) outside business, and did it matter?

Don’t get me wrong, email is a wonderful thing, but it really does take up far too much of my time that I could be spending on product creation and other “doing” things.

Okay then.

I’m going to try to only check email 3 times a week.  Let’s start with Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and see how that works out.  If I can manage that okay for a couple of weeks, I’ll trim it down to Mondays and Fridays.  If that goes well for another couple of weeks, I’ll only check it out on one of those two remaining days.

On each day I check email, I’m going to allow myself fifteen minutes reading time and sixty minutes reply time.  I’ll use Cool Timer to check my time usage.

I’ll report back as to how I get on and how it affects my internet business (positively or negatively) right here on my blog.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business
10
May
2008

Check This Out

I love a freebie don’t you?

Jan Evensen has released a nice little ebook called “The Really Easy Web Building Guide” which gives you all the information you need to set up a web site and get your internet business started.

He really has made it easy.

Check it out:-

http://www.a1soft.net/webbuildingguide/

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in Check This Out, internet business
08
May
2008

Bringing The Seminar Home

I attribute a good part of my success to attending seminars, and it was at one of these that I met Brad Lindsay.  Brad loves going to seminars, and he uses them to find out what’s going on out there and what’s possible.

And of course he also learns some really cool things too, and this has a direct effect on how much money he earns.

He realised that for many reasons a lot of people don’t go to seminars, and after asking a few questions it boils down to money.  Most people feel it’s a little bit expensive to pay $2,000+ for the seminar, and on top of that the flights and hotel bills.

So what Brad has done is bring the seminar to you at a fraction of the price.

What I have in front of me is this HUGE, and I mean HUGE set of 18 DVDs and 18 CDs which arrived on my doorstep with a thunk!

Look, I could go on and on about it, but the best thing to do is to check out what Brad has to say himself.

BEFORE you do that, there’s one IMPORTANT thing you should know.

The price for this set is already very good, what you’ll be getting is an incredible collection.

But TODAY is Brad’s birthday and he’s knocked a chunk of money off the full set.  This is a ONE DAY ONLY deal.

Really REALLY go take a serious look at this, it’s something I want you to have, and I think you owe it to yourself to give your internet business your best shot.

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

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business
06
May
2008

More Twitterings

I’ve done a little more work with Twitter, you can now see my latest witterings in the side bar of this blog.

And because I’ve done that, I’ve also at long last realised why I like it so much.

It’s a teeny tiny little blog, and I like blogs and blogging, I think they’re a good idea.

As an aside, I just ran a little test, and purely by spending around 3 hours on Saturday finding and commenting on other people’s blogs (which I enjoyed doing), I added 24 new subscribers to my mailing list – 17 on Saturday and 7 on Sunday.

If you’re not doing this already, why the blimming heck not?  It’s easy.  People regularly say they can’t build a mailing list, but I find it’s a fairly straight forward thing to do.

My experience with Twitter (while I’ve been using an anonymous test account the last few weeks) is that it will work for me in much the same way as blogging and blog commenting.

If you make an interesting post, then you’ll certainly get people signing up to find out what else you have to say.  And the great thing is, the effect is cumulative.

Just like your internet business…

The more you work on it, the better it all gets.  Amazing isn’t it?

People will be finding my ever increasing blog posts for years to come while doing searches.  Every time someone lands on my site, they get the chance to sign up.  Lots do.

This is because just by the mere act of writing, I’m creating sets of key words, either purposely or accidentally that people will be searching for.

Twitter works in much the same way.  Just by using it (which takes seconds), things get better.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business