Letter from Phil issue 392 – Blood and Boobs

Because I’m itching to get back into full productivity, and get more done in less time, I bought this book “Blogwise: How to do more with less”, released a just a few days ago.

It’s a look inside the heads of nine successful bloggers including Leo Babauta of Zen Habits fame, Brian Clark from Copyblogger, Darren Rowse from Problogger, and Gretchen Rubin the author of The Happiness Project and a Psychology Today magazine expert.

Blogwise is inspiring and had me scribbling lots of notes in the margins of the copy I printed out. And I should imagine it’s going to do the same for you too.

The added bonus is good. It’s a pdf covering 21 common productivity problems bloggers face, with some quick answers from the interviewed bloggers to get you on the right track.

Well it’s obviously worked for me because here’s the second Letter from Phil in a week instead of the one a year I’ve managed for the past couple of years.

It will probably boost the amount of work that you can do in a week too. Recommended. Continue reading

Letter from Phil issue 391 – The Comeback Kid

Ok, I’m coming alive again.

# Getting back in action.

# Feeling the urge to create.

# Feeling the desire to help you with your online business challenges.

I’d write “getting back in the saddle” but that seems to have sexual connotations, so I’d better not breathe a word on that subject here.

Most of all I want to have some fun, and making money out of nothing IS fun. So I’d like to take you along for the ride. Definitely no sexual connotations there, and if you think there is you’ve got a dirtier mind than me.

Note: This section is all about me, rather than about YOU.

Normally when you’re writing stuff get the word ‘you’ in it lots of times. People (you) connect with it much better.

But bear with me. I’m just explaining where things are at, and what I’ll be doing this year to help you achieve your dreams.

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Curationsoft review


For Christmas I bought my daughter Kate a great piece of low-cost software called CurationSoft, to help her fill her niche sites with fresh content, and to get more traffic to them so that she makes more money.

Note: updated traffic stats near the bottom of this review.

 

 

 

 

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My smallest ever affiliate commission and my biggest

Just made my smallest affiliate commission in 13 plus years of online marketing :)

Though at least it gave me a laugh :) and I didn’t have to do anything new to earn it because it was from a 2-tier program for Profits Theme, which I promoted in my newsletter a couple of weeks ago in issue 390

And while I’m at it here’s my biggest ever nonexistent affiliate commission
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Feeling sad today

kate wileyMy lovely daughter Kate has just left Australia to live permanently in England. Moving from Melbourne which is rated as the 2nd most livable city in the world (after Vancouver) to live near London, rated 53rd in the world.

And it’s partly my fault she’s gone because I gave her the wanderlust ( and a love of England and old country houses ) when she was 10, by taking her on her first overseas trip to visit my old family home, The Deer Park, in Yorkshire. Read more