Letter from Phil…362  -  Feb 14th 2008

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Sitting down to write to you, I’ve just realized it’s Valentines Day.
So I hope you’re spending it with someone you love

Je suis desja d’amour tanné
Ma tres doulce Valentiné.

(Charles d’Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1–2)

Those words are the beginning of the earliest surviving valentine, which is a fifteenth-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his
"valentined" wife.

At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

So if you want to be romantic, and surely you do, pen those beautiful words onto a nice card and hand it over with a dozen red roses

And if you want to know what it means in English here’s the translation by my brilliant, Harvard educated, neighbor, Dr Susan Yates a specialist
in historical French literature.

"I’m driven mad by love
my sweet valentine"

At least I think it was a translation. She might just have been whispering sweet nothings to me

(BTW Orleans, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, is a lovely little town in the Loire Valley in France, with a wonderfully bright and musical carousel in the square, and trams running down the main street. I was there for a few days a couple of years ago, and loved the whole area. If you’re ever in France it’s well worth a visit).

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It’s been disasterville here since I got back from my Europe and Thailand trip two weeks ago.

No phone, no internet, both my desktop computers are dead (they’d been unplugged the whole time I’d been away so it wasn’t an electricity surge), non stop rain, and wind so strong that trees are being uprooted everywhere.

At times the mountain road has been impassable because of landslides, and fallen trees, and where it’s normally dry there are waterfalls everywhere.

The whole area has been declared a disaster area, but the big disaster for me has been no internet.

Once I’d got the phone working, which took four days, I called my wireless internet provider.

"It must be the antenna because it’s not receiving our signal," they said. "And we’re busy so it’s going to take two or three weeks before we can
come and look at it."

No good to me of course. So I had to sign up with a new provider - and my very last option- because I’m tried everything else (DSL doesn’t work here).

So I’m now on the $115 a month Next G network, which uses the cell phone system, and has a tiny 3 gig monthly upload/download limit, and a whopping $150 a gig excess.

Sometimes it’s not heaven living in paradise.

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When I finally got my email flowing in, there were a couple from Dave Tropeano asking me if I’d like to review his new course on Long Tail marketing.

Seeing that much of my profit comes from exploiting long tail keywords phrases I couldn’t wait to see it, but unfortunately when I got to the download area I found that the course was mostly video based - and with my very strict 3 gig a month limit I was reluctant to download everything.

So I got the first video, which I think was around 18 megs, and then contacted my trusty reviewer Megan and asked her to watch them for me and get a report to me as soon as she could.

But I needn’t have bothered asking her.

After reading the supplied pdf’s and then watching that first video I decided that I had to learn from the rest, so I took a few deep breaths and then used up several days of my download limit in one hit.

Was it worth it?

Well I’ve got to say that I loved it.

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And what did reviewer Megan think of it, from a complete newbie point of view?

"The videos are really well put together, dead clear on the screen.

He explains everything really really well and goes into a lot of detail and as he’s doing so, points out everything on the screen to make it easy to follow. Thing is though, he talks fast so if this is all new to you, you get lost really easily - ‘cos of the speed thing.

Also, it is not suitable for an absolute beginner. Like I said, I hadn’t read the accompanying book before watching some of the videos, but even so, a degree of knowledge is assumed.

Like - don’t laugh - that you’ve got your own FTP thingymajigger and that you know how to use it!!

He also uses a lot of words and phrases that I guess you’d know and understand, but they just went over my head. I’ve never even looked at buying Pay Per Click ads before.

However, he seems really really thorough, and although I haven’t watched every video, it looks like he’s broken his whole system/method down into these individually themed tutorials. It’s really detailed and step-by-step guidance.

He’s also provided lots of template type things, eg landing pages, and shows you how to customize them eg highlights the bits of code you’d need to replace, and tells you where to go get your own from and then what to do with it.

Basically, I think the videos would be a huge help to anyone already doing what he does but haven’t quite got it together yet."

Here’s the link to the Long Tail Cash course again. If you do any affiliate marketing you’d be daft not to get it.

Ok, that’s it for today.

phil