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Error Opening Zip File

    TIP FOR THE DAY Just because you can make a big zip file doesn’t mean you should. If you’re delivering product then it’s worth knowing that the larger the zip file, the greater the chance of frustration for your customers. You see there’s a good chance that after they use their bandwidth to download your item, then attempt to open it with a tool like 7zip, win zip or stuffit, they will end up with a file corrupted warning or a “can’t open file” message. More than likely they’ll try to download your file agin, perhaps using a different browser,… Read More »Error Opening Zip File

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    How To Handle Refunders

      Just read a thread talking about a guy who launched a product. He got a sale and within 30 minutes the buyer asked for a refund. I’m sure he made more sales but this topic is about refunds. One of his threadsters (think I just invented a word!) called the refunders “scum”. Calling refunders scum is a bit rich in my book. Sure it’s frustrating. You inwardly celebrate a sale and almost while you’re still punching the air, the refund request lands like a ships’ anchor on your joy. I’d guess that most refunds of easily consumed products like PDF’s… Read More »How To Handle Refunders

      * Tech Tip For The Day **

        Can People Easily Access Your Files? WordPress Users: Do this now – enter your website address in your browser with /wp-content/uploads at the end. If you can see anything like what you see in this image … … so can everyone else. And they can tap into anything in those links. This is a real danger if you use the upload feature to load in pdf files etc. By adding an empty index.php page in your uploads folder then you can block some unauthorized access! You can add an index.php to your download folder as well. What this does is… Read More »* Tech Tip For The Day **

        Meet Your Committments Head On

          In your enthusiasm you often say “yes” to things. That’s a good thing. If you commit to something, do the thing. That means planning ahead and being ready ahead of time when you can. Not ‘getting ready’, but actually ready. Allow for things to go wrong, things to come up, priorities to shift. Build that comfort factor into your plans. When you commit and don’t deliver you not only disappoint yourself you also disappoint those relying on you, mand your fans. And at the end of the day, there are no excuses. You either do. Or not do. If you… Read More »Meet Your Committments Head On

          Product Creation Plan

            There are any number of businesses to be in online, whether that is stand alone or supporting your offline business. If your thing is creating informational or educational products for people then the trick is to have a definitive overarching plan. And we know any plan can be flexible so long as we’re heading to the end goal. What I have been guilty of doing is relying on inspiration. Something will trigger in my neo-cortex and I’ll immediately get to work on realising that thought into a product. Or, I’ll grab a notepad or PDF or mindmap of the trigger… Read More »Product Creation Plan

            Do You Profit From Repeatable Systems?

              Eons ago, when the Earth was young, I had thoughts of becoming a Trainer. Sage advice was passed to me. “You can’t make money in Training: you never get paid for your development time”. That sounded wise and I believed it. Having had my own successful Training Consultancy now for ten years, I can recognise the naivety in that advice. You can make plenty of profit from training by developing once and selling multiple times. The same model works for marketing online. Start, do it once, then do it again and again. Create or source a product. Build an option… Read More »Do You Profit From Repeatable Systems?