Since the weather was turning nasty in the region we were in, the decision was made last night to travel all the way home today – 396 km. The trip was easy, although we did get caught out at the Fruit Fly quarantine station. Because we were travelling from Victoria into the South Australian fruit-growing region, specific fruits and vegetables are prohibited from crossing the border. The biosecurity risk of carrying fruit fly into the region would seriously impact their markets. There are plenty of signs and a dumping station before you get to the checkpoint, but we forgot about the remains of a small punnet of cherry tomatoes in the refrigerator. There may be a fine imposed on us for that. It will depend on the assessors when they read the report. Bugga. The fine could be up to $300. That would make those tomatoes some of the most expensive we’ve ever had, and they were confiscated. Some mistakes cost more than others. It’s still nice to be home again. Regards, P.S. A more expensive mistake I made was not starting an email list when I first came online. Then people would throw their email addresses at you for anything you offered them. Not so much now though. The prominent email marketers you see and read about started back then and have email lists numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands and make big bucks with their email campaigns. While it’s still possible to build a list like that now, it will take a concerted effort and some serious money to get there. Fortunately a list of that size isn’t required to make a good living today. All you need is an engaged list of 1,000 people to do very nicely thank you. If you were to buy the traffic to build that list, it would cost approximately $600 – $1,200 based on a 25% – 50% sign-up rate. A cheap investment considering that you could return that investment 100-fold over the first year and then the same for the following years, provided you keep emailing. There will be unsubscribes, so you need to keep adding new subscribers, which becomes a minor daily or weekly task. It starts with an autoresponder. Get a free one here. https://go.wm-tips.com/systeme. |