Isn't it odd that whenever a new big product comes out, all the tossers who send spam suddenly decide they want to promote it. The latest is Adobe's "Creative Suite 3 Premium" and prior to that it was "Windows Vista...ready to download". I find it hard to believe that all the spotty little jerks who jam up everyone's inbox suddenly decide these are the things to try and flog today. Hmmm...you decide.
Live Video Chat is fast becoming the preferred method to communicate with friends and family. Apart from being far cheaper than a phone call, it's great to see the other person you are chatting with.
To get on this fast moving bandwagon, you firstly need some good software to video chat with. Secondly, to live video chat you need someone to talk to. If like me, you have few friends, then try one of the many internet friend finding sites.
Once you done the above, then you may find that your increasing circle of friends, may also increase the number of rubbish emails you get in your inbox. Not because they give out your email address, but it is a sad fact that once you publicise your address in any way, this is invariably picked up by those that wish to send you emails advertising their products or services. These are usually ones that we would never be interested in, in the first place, hence their devious methods to get your interest. To protect yourself from this junk, you need to arm your computer with some good spy ware protection like SpyBot and also good anti-virus software e.g. AVG. Both are free and excellent.
Happy video chatting......Grey
I have been asked by several people if I can add a countdown facility to my stopwatch program. I am pleased to say I have now managed to integrate a countdown option into the program and I hope to release the new version in the not too distant future.
Being British is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain do people order a double cheeseburger, large fries and a DIET coke.
Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.
Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk away in the garage.
Only in Britain are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.
Here's the rub. I'm a software author, not a marketing or advertising guy and clearly I haven't got a clue how to sign up members for my website.
I receive over 2,000 unique visitors to my software website every day. I have hundreds and hundreds of genuine testimonials from ordinary folks who reckon that my programs are really great. However, I am lucky if just one person a day signs up to be a lifetime member. Notice Lifetime, not monthly or yearly membership. I've tried the last two plus every idea I can possibly think of and the only one that gets any kind of result is Lifetime membership. So you can see that my conversion rate is a little on the poor side!! i.e. 1:2000. Or should I expect this, I don't know.
My offer is to any bright person who comes up with a sensible idea as to how I can market my membership plans. If I haven't tried an idea before and I like the sound of it, I will try out one per week, taken in order of the comments made here (if I get any...ha, ha). If that idea doubles my normal membership intake for the week, then $100 buckeroos is yours. Double, sounds a bit daunting but I would have thought I should be signing up more members than one a day, so surely 2 a day is not beyond the realms of possibility. Or am I living in dreamland and one a day is pretty good. Let me know.
How can you trust me to pay you $100 if your idea works? Well, you'll just have to. I'm an Englishman and the sort of guy that goes back into a shop if he realises he's been given too much change... you know the sort....stupid... yes that's me! Gullible, soft hearted are other labels that have been attributed to me, well the nicer ones anyway.
All you have to do is take a look at my website, www.greyolltwit.com , and tell me what I could do to sign up more members. Is my sign up too confusing, should I have all my plans on one page etc., I don't know...you tell me....pleeeeaaase.
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