Revamping my sites
I’ve decided to update the look (and functionality) of most of my sites for 2009.
So what you’re looking at right now is just a work in progress, and might change a few times over the next week.
I’m moving everything, except a number of my mini sites, to Wordpress, and intend using the same theme on all of them. It’s a management thing. I’ve got a lot of niche sites, and looking after them takes too many man hours. If all sites are set up the same - same theme, plugins, modifications, etc, it should make things easier.
That’s what I’m hoping anyway 
I’m a bit concerned about this philwiley.com site though.
Do you think I should keep the ‘me with the gurus’ images somwhere?
For the personal touch?
Let me know with a comment.
Here’s the old look
The Phil Wiley site is also going to have a lot more personal stuff … photo’s, what I’m reading, what I’m doing, what I’m thinking (etc)…kind of like a Facebook page I guess, and most of the marketing, making money, material will end up back where it used to be, on my old ozemedia.com site.
Some of my other sites I’m in the middle of redoing are travelfoodandwine.com (anyone fancy writing for that one? Get in touch via the contact form if you do) a dating site at ionlywannabewithyou.com, and about-digital.com. See…same look on all of them
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Yanik’s Big Package :)
Probably because of the remote area I live in, my postal mail service is about as bad as my internet connection, which is to say it oftens sucks. And parcels, especially, arrive late or never, and Christmas cards arrive at Easter or the following Christmas.
This means I’m very late to the party to suggest that you quickly send off for Yanik Silver’s new Maverick Business package, which is free, except for the postage costs of just $7.95 if you’re in the USA or Canada (ships worldwide for a bit more)
I’m late to the party because it’s already been written about by half the internet marketers in the world
Yanik emailed me to say he’d sent me the package and asked me to let you know about it. And while I trust that everything Yanik does is top notch and great value, I just couldn’t go against my principles of not promoting something I haven’t personally read or watched or used.
So while other’s reviewed it I held back.
But I got the parcel late yesterday (though I’d already seen a pdf of the newsletter) and I’ve read the very inspirational, and helpful, book (excellent, will probably end up as a big time bestseller on the business shelves of the major book chains) , and I devoured the printed newsletter. I haven’t had time to watch the DVD yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
I especially liked the interview, in the newsletter, with Mike Geary who makes millions from one book on Clickbank, selling between 400 and 700 copies A DAY. In the very detailed interview, Mike talks about ‘how’ he works to increase sales, by
boosting the sales page conversion rate, having one sales letter for men and a different one for women, how he helps affiliates, etc. (I really hope that Yanik gets him along to the next Underground seminar in Washington in March)
Mike’s sales page is at www.truthaboutabs.com/ but more impressive is all the affiliate help page and the pages leading of it. For instance, look at the alternate landing pages provided.
In my opinion you (one) can learn a lot about boosting sales of your own product just by studying this site. But you’re not going to learn as much as reading the interview Yanik did with Mike
So I loved the newsletter, and the book is one you’ll want to keep re-reading.
Ok, click this link and get it
BTW, as you might expect, there is a continuity program involved, because Yanik has put this quality package together to get people to subscribe to the monthly printed newsletter. But if, after reading it, you decide not to continue with the subscription you can easily cancel.
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wordpress plugin help needed
All I’ve managed to get done since I got back from my trip to England, is set up and hosted a Wordpress blog for Lindy, a neighbour and good friend, who has a horrible degenerative disease called Spinocerebellar Ataxia. The blog is at http://spinocerebellarataxia.org/
And I’m a bit stuck with something on it, so I may as well ask for help.
See the “Most Popular Posts” top middle of the site? A plugin was supposed to come with the theme, but didn’t, and I can’t find it. The source code shows
<div id=”mostpop-Post”>
<h2>Most Popular Posts </h2>
<ul>
<li><a href=”#”></a></li>
Anyone know which plugin this is?
And BTW, if you have a non spammy health site, Lindy would love a link from you
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life and death and work
Way back on the 14th July I wrote a blog post saying, and I quote, "I’m going to start passing on more of more knowledge, and more frequently. So I hope you don’t get sick of too many newsletters from me"
Ha :) Well what a joke that turned out to be.
I meant it at the time, but then life got in the way and I ended up travelling for over 3 months. My daughter, Kate, got married in Australia in early September, so I always knew I’d be having a week off for that. But then, unexpectedly, my parents decided to fly out from England to the wedding six weeks early, so that I could show them parts of Australia they’d never experienced.
So I packed a suitcase, grabbed my wallet, and drove 8 hours to Brisbane airport to pick them up…then off we went. Five weeks of the best the east coast of Australia has to offer, then a long drive into Queensland’s dust bowl interior to show them what it used to be like before the coastal areas turned into a cross between Florida and California.
The wedding, which I’d not been looking forward to because all I could think about was the cost, and having to make a speech and dancing (which I hate) turned out to be great. Then we all went away for a few weeks to the lovely Qld beach resort of Noosa.
After that my parents flew back to England, followed a few days later by Kate and her new husband Ed, and I settled down to start work again.
But suddenly things took a turn for the worse.
Just days after they’d all gone we got a phone call from England saying that a very sick relative wasn’t expected to survive until the weekend, so I quickly bought plane tickets and within 4 hours we were heading overseas. And stayed away a month. A fairly horrible month.
Anyway, now I’m back.
With nothing much else to do, because I’ve spent most of my time sitting in a house with grieving relatives, I’ve thought about business and work and money quite a bit while I’ve been away. And really I want to carry on pretty much as I live now. Loving life, enjoying life and the freedom I have.
I’ve said this before many times: for me this internet business is all about living a more laid-back lifestyle, earning just enough to keep staying in the worlds top hotels and flying up front at the pointy end of planes, goofing off for a while on tropical islands lying in the shade of palm trees and swimming in seas so full of brightly coloured fish that they wisp against your body as they swim around you.
But that might not be what you want. Many people come online wanting to make millions, and then more millions (and some like the guy featured in the first issue of Yanik Silver’s new printed newsletter do, making $3 mill a year from one ebook on Clickbank) so if your only aim in life is to make millions, live in a big house and drive flashy sports cars then you need to work and work and work till your eyeballs pop from staring at a screen too long.
You’ve got to decide what you want out of all this Internet stuff. Because what you want decides the way you’re going to get there, the steps and actions you need to take.
Me, I’m going to keep on just the way I do now. And that means NOT sending out email sales pitches every few days. Not trying to get money out of you at every possible opportunity.
But I have been rethinking my whole, almost private, and perhaps selfish (because I don’t really share it with you) approach to earning money online, and I’m going to make some changes. But not ones that affect my lifestyle too much
You’ll see soon
