If you’re like me, you’ll value your time pretty highly.
And that presents a real problem when trying to learn something new.

You’ll need training to go into enough detail so you can understand it.
But you really don’t want it to go at such a snails pace that you switch off before it gets anywhere near explaining the bits you are really interested in.

For example, every week I am inundated with emails offering free webinars to learn how to make money online more easily, more quickly and with no risk.
Unfortunately they almost all overlook your most valuable resource – your time.

Usually I’ll sign up for two or three that promise to teach me something useful.
From maybe 6 hours of webinars, I’ll typically spend less than an hour learning the things I find useful.
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Over the years I have listened to guru’s explaining the ways they make money online.
And I find most of them suggest methods that I am really not comfortable following.
For example, the first training course I spent $2000 on was from Ryan Deiss teaching how to make membership sites. Apart from recommending ‘forced membership opt-in’ Ryan also taught where to find free ‘filler content’ to use on your site to pad out the one or two high value unique products each month.

This may be a great easy way to avoid hard work.
But also a sure fire way to waste members time discovering real value in the content.

One of my favourite guru’s is Jason Fladlein.
Jason understands that something short, sharp and to the point has much higher value alternatives that are long and drawn out – whether webinars, ebooks, audios or videos.

Why do training webinars typically last 2 hours or more?
Most people’s attention span is limited to under an hour.
Sure the last 30 minutes is usually devoted to selling some product or service.
But can anyone keep providing high quality content for the rest of the time?
I don’t think so because it actually takes more time and effort to distil the essence of an idea to produce something brief and succinct yet keeping all essentials details.

The browser I use most of the time is Firefox.
Over the years I’ve tried and tested lots of different “addons” – or plug-ins.
Addons are great when you use them but most slow Firefox down – so I only enable the ones I need to use.

Although I still have SEO Quake installed, I rarely spend time on SEO so keep it installed but disabled.
ReloadEvery is quite useful to help get Youtube videos jump started by getting the number of view for new videos up to a hundred or two.

A few months ago my copy of Thunderbird crashed – and I had no idea the damage this could cause.
Unfortunately I have gradually moved years on email archives into folders on my laptop – all stored by Thunderbird. What I didn’t understand was that when things go wrong it’s a real pain to restore everything.
Meanwhile I’m still accessing a few AOL email accounts directly from AOL – and that has to be one of the worst spammy websites around. Full of ads, videos and links.
But unless you use Outlook or Thunderbird, it’s the easiest way to access AOL emails.

I also discovered Microsoft have managed to prevent Outlook 2002 from working on Windows 7. Some module is no longer compatible and Microsoft have no plans to produce a fix. Probably no coincidence that this is the last version that doesn’t need Microsoft Activation each time it’s installed on a different PC.

The Adobe Flash video  addon is great when it works, but a real pain when it crashes – which is far too often. And this happens even more regularly with sites such as AOL
Things got so bad that I found myself enabling and disabling the Flash plugin many times every day.

Until I discovered FlashBlock – my favourite Firefox addon by far.

Now NO video can play in my browser unless I decide to let it!
It really has put me back in control of websites, pop-ups and pop-unders.

No longer can they start auto-playing videos – or locking up my browser for minutes at a time when Adobe Flash crashes.

If you don’t use FlashBlock – I can recommend giving it a try.
Great value at a price we all like = free.

By the way, it’s been another beautiful sunny day by the sea again today.
Even though it’s a work day there have been thousands of small sailing boats out enjoying the good weather while lasts.

Schools out, the sun is shining and hundreds of sailing boats arrived yesterday to enjoy the south coast.
So I ventured out of my front garden onto the beach to take quite a few pictures.
Those with lots of sailing boats look like dots – so I’ve chosen a picture with only a few boats to show you.

Hayling Island sailing

It was a good excuse for me to chill out with my telephone line and internet out of action – waiting for the BT engineer to arrive.
5 days after the fault developed, I’ve now got it fixed and can get back online.

Meanwhile I’ve been busy with not one, two or three – but 10 great new software products for internet marketers.
Why 10 products?
Well playing with my video camera, I discovered a recording from over a year ago featuring the good and the great Chris Farrell – not only a successful internet marketer now able to afford to live in Hollywood – but also a great guy willing to help others learn from his success.

I have a 25 minute video from Chris’s talk which I found very useful.
If enough people are interested, I could upload this to youtube?
Please just leave a comment.

I was lucky enough to meet Chris during an Open Wednesday session. A session that attracted almost 50 people – about 5 times more than normal.
Two of the characteristics Chris attributed to his success are his tenacity and understanding that ‘all skills are learnable’.
Chris went on to explain not only the importance of listbuilding but the need to prepare a plan for about 10 follow up messages to keep a list interested and involved.
Hence my latest plan to increase the number of software products I have prepared to around 10 – to give me a head start and a few months breathing space to add new products to my pipe-line.

Sorry to any readers waiting for my Header Magic, Clik-n-Snap, Transparency Magic, Hop Protector, Productivity Monitor and updated Ad-Blender software to arrive.
I use most of these every day and find them invaluable and want to make them available to lots of other people as soon as possible – but really need to do this in a controlled way fitting in with a proper business plan.

My plan is still to follow John Thornhills guidance and initially release them as Warrior Special Offers through JVZoo
But I also want to reach a critical mass of users so that I can benefit longer term from inbuilt advertising.

Apart from enjoying the sun and trying to keep fit with my daily swim in the sea, I’m still reading Mark Anastsi’s Laptop Millionaire  book – using a shotgun approach and picking out bits that appeal the most.
Today I read about Media Buying and guru’s such as Scott Rewick – able to make $100k a DAY, but using lots of capital to achieve this.
Mark explains how one student started spending $100 a pop buying media advertising initial getting no return but within a couple of weeks tweaking things to start making $60 profit from each $100 spent.

One day I still hope to learn how to turn $1 into $2 reliably enough to scale it up to these sorts of levels.
Meanwhile, back on earth, Mark did suggest using Media Buying to send traffic to my own website.
What a great idea – and how this fits in with my plan to have 10 great products I own for visitors to buy!

So that’s my latest cunning plan.
Line up 10 of my own relatively low cost products.
Launch them on warrior.
Then start paying to drive traffic to my website and offers.