Grammarly and I regularly argue about what changes are required, but if I weren’t brought up by an English teacher I probably wouldn’t argue quite so much with an AI.
Grammarly and I regularly argue about what changes are required, but if I weren’t brought up by an English teacher I probably wouldn’t argue quite so much with an AI.
Spell and grammar checkers, like Grammarly, are not infallible.
But you must know how and when to use which word because the checkers have no idea.
I get frustrated when I find correctly spelled words in an narrative that are the wrong word.
Today, for example, the book I’m reading uses the word ‘underweight’ where what they mean to say is ‘underway’.
They have even used it as two words, ‘under weight’, where they’d previously used it as a single word.
Now that’s three different meanings with only one being correct for telling me that the journey has started.
Since I’ll be running this email through Grammarly it will be interesting to see what changes are suggested.
Anyway, the bottom line is that you should write the way you speak, but with the caveat that you should also learn how to use the correct word for the message you’re putting across.
Conversely, being too pedantic can make everything as boring as bat droppings.
That’s pretty much where most of my content ends up.
I can’t help it, my Dad was pedantic and my Mum was an English teacher.
P.S. Have you seen those YouTube videos talking about making money watching ads?
Did you know that it is possible, but not the way they talk about.
The way to do it is to watch the ads on TikTok that get a lot of views.
Identify the product they’re promoting.
Find a source that will pay you for the same or similar product.
Make your own video promoting the product, and link to a bridge page that gives a suitable free product for their email, but send them to the product page regardless.
Using the information here, https://go.wm-tips.com/diamond, will help you create the script for your video, the lead magnet, and the landing page in minutes.
P.S. I went looking for some of those foam pads that go on headphones and found an interesting thing.
I couldn’t buy a single or a pair, I only needed one, but they come in packs of five, ten, or more.
They only cost around $2 online, but I couldn’t find any locally.
So, I bought a good set of Bone-Conducting headphones.
I have bought others online that have proved to be quite useless, but these are the same as the one’s I bought my wife for her birthday that she uses daily.
Don’t waste time fluffing around with the el cheapos, get a decent set and enjoy them.
It does take a little getting used to because there are no tabs across the top, nor can you put them there.
Everything works from the side bar.
All tabs get archived after a set period, you can set that, so if you want a tab to remain accessible you can set them as pinned.
When they’re pinned they remain visible in the side bar to be opened with a click.
Archived tabs do not remain in the side bar so you have to remember to type in the URL again to get them back.
Unlike other browsers you can’t have multiple windows open at the same time which reduces the load on your computer, but you can access any window, called spaces, anytime you like.
As I pointed out last email, plugins are unique to each space so they are not always on in any space you don’t need them.
I was a little reluctant about this one, but now I think it’s brilliant.
Again, this reduces the load on your computer.
It’s too early to tell yet but I’m hoping that this streamlined approach will help me become more productive by reducing the distractions when switching windows.
P.S. The other thing I talked about was getting human traffic to your landing pages.
We all know that no traffic = no sales or subscribers = no money.
There are many people who will say that getting traffic is easy, just buy it.
While that is true so much of the traffic you can afford to buy is not human and therefore you’re more likely to make sales by giving the money to a homeless person.
Yeah, you’re not going to retire like that, but at least they’re human.
Here in Australia our illustrious leaders have decided that to protect kids from the evil that is online they’ll legislate to stop kids getting Social Media accounts until they’re 16.
Here in Australia our illustrious leaders have decided that to protect kids from the evil that is online they’ll legislate to stop kids getting Social Media accounts until they’re 16.
I have no idea how they think they’ll do this, and I can immediately think of ways that any slightly tech savvy kid will get around this.
That means their friends will also circumvent any possible legislation.
The biggest problem with ignorance is that it knows no bounds.
About 20 years ago the same party decided that they would legislate to block all porn sites for Australia.
No I don’t have any vested or prurient interest in this, but I did send an email to the relevant minister to demonstrate how you could write the word porn in 40 different ways that humans could read and understand which I thought proved that blocking these sites was nigh on impossible.
I doubt my email made any difference, but they did back down on that.
I won’t bother to send an email for this because I figure there will be more than enough people telling them it can’t be done.
Still, politicians are often dumb enough that they’ll waste our money trying to put a Genie back into a bottle.
The end result of most legislation is that people who are likely to be affected either change their behaviour or find ways to end-run the intent of the legislation.
To be honest I doubt there are more than ten people in a hundred who understand how the Internet works.
Possibly the same number of drivers who know how a car engine works.
And only the people who are charged with fixing things need to know.
Most of us only need to know how to use these things.
Most things we use daily fit into the category of only knowing how to use them not how they work.
I had numerous suggestions which I tried or had already tried so thank you all for responding.
I had even resorted to trying Edge, which is OK, but not great as I could only set up one profile without logging into the Microsoft space.
But, the browser I’m using now allows multiple profiles.
Thanks Chris.
I still have to log into their platform, but it’s not one of the big tech companies and they only need that for synchronisation.
What do profiles do for you?
Setting up profiles allows you to have everything in each profile seperate from every other profile.
You could call them containers or workspaces etc.
There is a bit of a PITA in this system in that you have to set up any plugins you want in each profile because they are isolated, but the upside is you only need the plugins that that profile needs.
Tabs are called spaces and are also unique for each profile.
Bookmarks are called favourites and are unique to each profile.
All this means is that all your working tools are kept away from your play profiles.
It’s much harder for a hacker to infiltrate your web browser and get all your links.
The other nice thing is that all the tabs you have open get archived in a period that you set which reduces the load on your computer.
Unarchiving is as easy as clicking the tab link in the sidebar.
There are no tabs across the top of the screen, everything is in the menu or sidebar.
All of this to say I think I’m a bit of a fan right now and I will only need two browsers open at a time.
This one and the DuckDuckGo web browser for YouTube videos.
This new one is called Arc and you can find it here
We can all benefit from creating content that we can give away as a bonus or sell as a tripwire product.
We all want proven buyers on our email list so we can sell them other helpful things.
That’s where bonuses and tripwire products come into their own.
People who buy another vendor’s product and then need to collect their bonus from you obviously need to hand over an email address to get it.
People who purchase a tripwire product must also provide an email address.
Now, what price for your tripwire product?
Well, if you can produce one in minutes, then the price could be as low as $1 because it’s not about the front-end product; it’s about what they’ll buy via emails over the next weeks, months, or years.
The low price is to make the purchase a no-brainer.
When you deliver more than they expect, they’ll be more receptive to your subsequent offers.
OK, considering yesterday’s email, you already have a way to easily create this type of product.
Today, I have another one for you that uses AI to crank out a unique and valuable quality product in seconds.
It means that to get paid, someone has to want to pay you.
If you’re getting paid for advertising on your blog, such as Adsense, the advertiser is paying via a revenue share with the ad company.
If you’re getting paid as an affiliate, the vendor pays you via revenue share.
If you’re getting paid for your products, then the product must fill the buyer’s need.
OK, I know that makes me Mr. Obvious, but what you might be missing is that everything surrounding the money link must be congruent in all of these situations.
It must make sense for the buyer to accept the transaction because they’re getting value for their money.
That could be the content itself or the pre-selling you’re doing for the product.
Remember that the potential buyer is weighing up the value they get vs the cost.
Throwing a bunch of overpriced bonuses does not usually add value.
That ‘thud’ factor doesn’t sway me any more.
In fact, it’s likely to put me off at lightning speed.
I admit it did in the early years, but I might have got a little smarter.
I need to determine that the product is worth the cost without the bonuses to be persuaded to buy.
I also get really annoyed and ask for a refund if the front-end product doesn’t match the offer on the sales page.
One-time offers are fine if I don’t need to buy them to get the functionality promised on the sales page.
