How valuable is your work and the time it takes?

Barry Wells — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:21:53 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

A quick catch up for my regular readers:

As you can see I’m back; the operation went well and the op’ site seems to be healing as it should be, fingers crossed it will continue to do so and I can crack on with my work load.

My mum is still suffering the affects of her burst aneurysm but seems to be out of danger.

Onto the blog post:

How valuable is your work and the time it takes?

While I was laid up I had to use my laptop to work and then I was very limited to what I could and couldn’t do. As I was laid on my side it was impossible to type so all I could do was copy and paste.

I opened up Turbo Lister and started to add a few sales pages to my listings. At times adding them to my website so that the images were in place.

I had just uploaded one to my eBook website when a few minutes later Outlook Express asked me for the password to one of my email accounts: Which was very strange as they should be automated. I entered the password and a box popped up asking for it again.

I stopped what I was doing and thought I’d look into the issue. So the first thing I did was check my eBook website (http://e-books2u.org.uk). I couldn’t access the site, so I checked all of sub-domains on that host and they all gave me the same result, nothing!!

3 websites were down
4 email addresses were down
Countless sales pages were down
My Digital Dispatch was down
All of my eBay listings had missing images

My first port of call was obviously my hosting company’s website, guess what….. Yeah you guessed it, that was also gone. Panic started to set in so I emailed the hosting company (using a different email address, on a different web hosting service), and guess what………..It was returned as undeliverable, with a permanent fault.

Now I was really panicking. I should also point out that I had been with this hosting company for a few years and never had any problems, they automatically backed my site up every 24 hours and were just an email away if I ever needed to get in touch with them. However over the last couple of years they hadn’t sent me any invoices. I did email them and point this out, (I hate bills building up), and was told “I’m running behind, enjoy the free hosting”. Yippee, I thought (at the time).

Now that I had lost all of my eBook websites, eBooks, Thank You pages, email addresses, My Digital Delivery and everything else, the list goes on and on. I was thinking all sorts of nightmare scenarios.

The company hadn’t billed me, could they have been affected by the recession?
Wouldn’t they have emailed me if they were closing down?
How can I contact them for my back up file, (so as to move to another host)?

Panic was firmly setting in so I went onto an eBook forum (that I’m a member of and where I had come across the hosting company in the first place). I tried to send them a Private Message, and it stayed in my out-box.

I asked my daughter to check the same sites and email accounts on my PC, and got the same results, none.

So I posted a request for help on the main forum, asking if anybody else was having the same trouble.

I laid in bed that night worrying that if I couldn’t get hold of the hosting company how could I get hold of my back up file? And if I couldn’t get that………

……nearly all the work I had put in over the last few years would have to be re-done. I keep a copy of all websites so they would be easy enough to upload again, but I would have to replace My DD and over 300 listings on it, 4 email accounts (to set up PDQ), ebooks, sales pages, images, recommendations the list went on and on, over and over all night long.

In the morning I asked my daughter to check again on the PC; it was all still down!!

I went back to the eBook forum; the private message was still in my out-box so with I big sigh I looked at the request for help that I had posted, knowing that I was stuffed…..but I had a reply from a fellow member saying that my site was still live as he had checked it for me.

I replied saying that I still couldn’t access it my end and couldn’t understand why, if it was still live my email accounts were failing as well. To which I was told that it was must something technical and was advised to turn my complete system off, including modem, from the mains power supply.

10 minutes later I turned it all back on and it was all live again, the fault had been something in my modem, which was reset by being off for 10 minutes.

Phew what a relief, but what a lesson learnt. Never rely solely on someone else for the security of my work and back up regardless of what you’re told. Always keep a copy of your complete websites.

The Extra Expenses:

I asked my wife to buy an external hard drive, £75.00

I made back ups of My DD and the complete website, FREE

I asked D9 Hosting Services to transfer the complete website over to my hosting account with them, FREE

The feeling of relief, Priceless

I should point out that the hosting company had done nothing wrong and that the fault was something in my modem. However, I realised through this that I only had one existing point of contact for the hosting company as they had changed their email address and no longer check their messages on the forum, so getting hold of them was an issue.

So for peace of mind I transferred the site to D9 Hosting, where I have numerous contact points and hope to live happily ever after.

My advice to you is take a little time and back up your ALL of your work and websites. It may take half a day to complete, but how long would it take to replace it all?

Until next time, take care

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Barry Wells — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:08:05 +0000

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Part 7 The Newbies Guide: Creating Payment Buttons On PayPal

Barry Wells — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:00:19 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

Welcome to part 7 of ‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I will take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

As YouTube will only allow a maximum of ten minutes per video I am showing you one task at a time, so this may seem a little slow but please bear in mind that this series is aimed at helping people that have never done any of this type of work before.

This Seventh video shows you how to edit your HTML pages and add payment buttons, via PayPal, so that upon completion of payments your customer is taken directly to the thank you page where they can download the product.

Please watch the video and feel free to leave your comments. When you have watched the video please continue reading this post, as I will provide you with links to the websites mentioned during the video.

Website talked of during the video:

PayPal:

Part 8 of the series will be created and uploaded when I return from hospital.

Don’t forget, I’m here to help YOU, if you have any concerns or questions leave a comment and i’ll get back to you personaly. Please bear in mind that I’m in hospital and will be there for at least another week. Upon my return I WILL reply to everyone.

Until next time, take care

Part 6 of The Newbies Guide: Creating An Auto Reply Message On Outlook Express

Barry Wells — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:00:50 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

Welcome to part 6 of ‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I will take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

This Sixth video shows you how to set up an auto reply message on Outlook Express. So that when a customer makes a purchase and PayPal send you an email to confirm payment, Outlook Exress will recognise the title of the product purchased and automatically send an email with the corresponding download details.

I supplied you with email templates in my last blog post, hopefully you’ve been able to complete that section now. If not I will place the link at the bottom.

Now Test:
Once you have created all of your auto reply messages on Outlook Express pop over to your existing email account, (NOT THE NEW ONE WE MADE) and send yourself an email (to the new account on Outlook Express) containing the titles of each product, one at a time, to see that you do receive the auto reply and everything is working as it should be.

Please Note: If your existing email account was already on Outlook Express you will need to create another email account on hotmail or googlemail and send yourself an email as detailed above.

To download the email templates click HERE

Part 7 of the series will be uploaded next week.

Don’t forget, I’m here to help YOU, if you have any concerns or questions leave a comment and i’ll get back to you personaly. Please bear in mind that I’m in hospital and will be there for at least two weeks. Upon my return I WILL reply to everyone.

Until next time, take care

Part 5 of The Newbies Guide: My Digital Dispatch and Outlook Express

Barry Wells — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:00:31 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

Welcome to part 5 of ‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I will take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

This Fifth video gives you an insight to My Digital Dispatch and how easy it is to load the inventory and items for sale. You would need to purchase the software to be able to use it. This is the software that I use (and if you’ve ever made a purchase from me, you will know just how quickly the software delivers my digital products) and I highly recommend it. There’s nothing better than starting work and seeing that all of your digital sales have ALREADY been delivered.

Here’s a tip for you; go and have a look at the sales page, and if you don’t want to purchase it close the page, IF you DO want to purchase it CLOSE the page. Sound crazy? No, when you go to close the page you’ll be offered a $30.00 discount, don’t tell them I told you ha ha.

If you are thinking of using Outlook Express to automatically deliver your digital goods, then you need to be aware that your PC has to be on and Outlook Express open, for it do so. I will show you how to set up an auto reply message in Outlook Express on the next video, but for now I’ve created a folder for you to download, (link below the video). In the folder there are a couple of email templates, a READ ME file and a copy of the info store record. I’ll show you what to do with them when you watch the video.

Remember: You only need to do this IF you intend on using Outlook Express to automatically reply to your customers.

Website talked of during the video:

My Digital Dispatch:

To download the email templates click HERE

Part 6 of the series will be uploaded next Monday.

Don’t forget, I’m here to help YOU, if you have any concerns or quieries leave a comment and i’ll get back to you personaly. Please bear in mind that I’m going into hospital tomorrow and will be there for at least two weeks. Upon my return I WILL reply to everyone.

Until next time, take care

PS: Happy 1st birthday to my blog for tomorrow.

Part 4 of The Newbies Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website

Barry Wells — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:00:26 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

Welcome to part 4 of ‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I will take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

This Fourth video deals with creating a pop3 email account and downloading it to Outlook Express. You will only need to do this if you intend to use Outlook Express for your auto reply. So that when a customer makes a purchase and paypal send you an email notification Outlook Express with automatically reply with an email containing a link to your ‘thank you’ page.

In the video I show you how to create the email address on d9 hosting, however most hosting companies will use the same or similar control panels so you should be able to follow the video in most cases.

If you did manage to get some free web space from your ISP you may need to search the internet for a pop3 email account, if you haven’t already got one. During the video I show you how to search Google for one, but you would need to check with the supplier how to download and configure it with Outlook Express.

Remember: You only need to do this IF you intend on using Outlook Express to automatically reply to your customers.

There are alternative ways of Instantly sending emails to your customers, which I will show you in the next video, however the software is NOT free of charge, as Outlook Express is.

Please watch the video and feel free to leave your comments. When you have watched the video please continue reading this post, below the video, as I will provide you with links to the websites mentioned during the video.

Websites talked of during the video:

Google and D9 Hosting:

Part 5 of the series will be uploaded ASAP.

Until next time, take care

Part 3 of The Newbies Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website

Barry Wells — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:44:21 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

Welcome to part 3 of ‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I will take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

This Third video deals with Domain Names and Hosting. I have recommended the two companies that I use for these services, but please feel free to look around for alternatives of your choice. Also; it may be worth your while getting in touch with your Internet Service Provider and asking about free web space as most of them do offer it. However if you’re with Orange, I know that they only offer a basic template for you to fill in, which is no good for what we are doing here.

If you do manage to get some free web space from your ISP your web address is likely to look something like:

http://yourchosenname.website.orange.co.uk/

Which i hope you’ll agree doesn’t look very professional. However you can purchase a domain name and have it forwarded to your free website, so that the web address you use is far more professional looking, for example:

http://yourdomainname.co.uk

Websites talked of during the video:

1 and 1 and D9 Hosting:

Part 4 of the series will be uploaded ASAP.

Until next time, take care

Part 2 of The Newbies Guide to Editing and Uploading a Website

Barry Wells — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:25:58 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

Welcome to part 2 of ‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I intend to take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

As YouTube will only allow a maximum of ten minutes per video I am showing you one task at a time, so this may seem a little slow but please bear in mind that this series is aimed at helping people that have never done any of this type of work before.

This second video deals with downloading HTML editing software, (in case you don’t already have some on your PC), and editing some of the pages within the package. I also show you how to hyperlink your email address.

During the video I forgot to mention that we will be dealing with payment buttons in a later video, so please do not attempt to add them just yet. Some websites may need payment buttons on a multitude of pages. In this example however they are all on one page, the ordernow.htm page, but like I said that will be covered in a later video.

You have a choice of two HTML editing programmes:

PageBreeze and Kompozer:

Both of which are FREE

Part 3 of the series will be uploaded tomorrow so can you please start thinking of a domain name for your website.

Please Note: Please don’t rush these tasks to keep up with the videos being uploaded. Once they’re uploaded they will be there forever, I’m just trying to get as many online as possible as I have to go into hospital next week for at least 2 weeks. So I am trying to get enough online to see you through that period.

Rushing leads to mistakes.

Until next time, take care

Part 1 of The Newbies Guide to Editing and Uploading a Website

Barry Wells — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:07:04 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog.

In my last blog post I told you about my aims for 2010; to create more products in a brand new niche and to create a video series to show newbie’s exactly what they need to do when they purchase their first website.

I have since had a date through for my operation, 02/02/10, which is my wife’s birthday and the first birthday of this blog. I have been told that I will have to stay in hospital for at least 2 weeks, if all goes well. Which means I may be in hospital for longer if the operation does NOT go well, grrr.

As a result of this I have decided that the brand new niche idea will have to wait until I’m discharged from hospital as I don’t want to be stopping and starting with my research. I think it would be better to complete the challenge in one flow.

So, what about the video series that I’ve spoke of…..

Let me introduce you to:
‘The Newbie’s Guide To Editing and Uploading Their 1st Website’ in which I intend to take you from the point of purchase to the point of uploading the completed website.

This first video deals with downloading and unzipping the package.

Please watch the video and feel free to leave your comments. When you have watched the video please continue reading this post, which will be below the video, as I will provide you with links to the websites mentioned during the video.

This video series will cover all tasks that you need to complete on any website of this nature, i.e. Downloadable Information Products. In this example I will be using The eBay Info Store.

If you wish to purchase the eBay Info Store please visit:
http://barry-wells.com/info_store

To download the trial version of Winzip visit http://winzip.com please remember to enter ‘free trial’ in the search box and click ‘Go’.

Part 2 of the series will be uploaded tomorrow so that you can start working on your website.

Until then, take care

Did you achieve all that you set out to in 2009

Barry Wells — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:37:41 +0000

Hello everyone and thank you for visiting my blog.

I had hoped to get this blog post written the day before Christmas eve but my mum’s health took a turn for the worse.
My regulars readers will know that my mum has been very unwell for the last few months. The hospital had discharged her to a residential home for an interim placement for a few weeks to see if her condition improved, which it did. Then on December 23rd she started having a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA, Mini-Stroke). The doctor was called and treated her for the condition, but the following day (Christmas eve) she had another TIA so the Paramedics were called in. My mum was readmitted to hospital, where she had a further 7 TIA’s over the Christmas period. She has now been discharged again and has returned to the residential home, for the time being, I hope.

On to the Blog post:

Did you achieve all that you set out to in 2009?
If you did then “Congratulations” are in order and you should give yourself a huge pat on the back.

If you didn’t achieve your goals, what stopped you from doing so?

Information overload? I suffered with it myself for quiet some time at first. If you are then I recommend that you start slowly. Concentrate on one goal at a time, make a check list of what you really need to do and keep it beside your PC. When you have achieved each task tick it off of your list and then have a break. Eventually you will complete the check list and can then move forward and make another for the next step you wish to take. This is exactly what I have done this year and it has worked very well for me.

Time management? We all have busy lives with work and family commitments to consider. Make a plan of your spare time, do you sit and watch the TV every night? If so then plan for 30 minutes or an hour every day, if you can put in more time all the better. Maybe you could achieve one task from your checklist and then go and relax in front of the TV with a smile on your face.

Were you unsure of what direction to take? If so then get yourself a mentor. It’s what I did last year and I recommend it to everyone. I joined John Thornhills Internet Marketing Masterclass and now know exactly what direction I’m taking and how to achieve my goals, (small step by small step). There are lots of people out there that will offer to mentor you, AT A PRICE, but it doesn’t need to be expensive. Just look at this offer from John: Mentorship Monthly read the whole page and see what other top marketers are saying about it. If you’d like to sign up to Mentorship Monthly, close the page and you’ll be offered a discount price but don’t tell John I told you (wink wink). Before I had a mentor I was going in circles and now feel that I was playing at it, without focus, direction or a plan.

Now I know I’m heading in the right direction and to be totally honest with you I didn’t achieve my all of my goals last year, but, bearing in mind that I spent 3 months on bed rest after an operation and then 3 months at my mums side during her stay in hospital and the residential home, my year was cut in half so I’m really very pleased with what i did achieve.

I created this blog, which I had thought of for a long time but always held myself back through fear of not doing it right.

I created my very first ClickBank Product, along with my very first Salespage, affiliates page and a mini course to go with it. I have also created a discount page just for you, my readers, which you can find at: http://www.easethesqueezewithauctions.com/discount/

I created my very first (and second) Brandable eBooks, which you can have free of charge if you sign up to my newsletter. You can use the boxes below this post to sign up.

I started to write articles to help drive traffic to my websites.

I set up my twitter account and now have 4495 followers.

I have also created a number of videos for YouTube and this blog, and plan to make many more this year.

In fact my aim for 2010 is to create more products in a brand new niche and a series of videos that will take you by the hand and show you exactly what needs to be done once you’ve bought your first website. From downloading it from someone else’s website to uploading it to your very own, with all the techie bits in between.

I also have to go back into hospital for an operation to correct the last one that refuses to heal and have been told that I’ll be in hospital for at least 2 weeks, if everything goes well. I will also continue assisting my mum for as long as it takes.

I wish you and your loved ones all the very best for 2010

Until next time, take care