Ouch!

Got my son an iPhone for his birthday,

and recently got my daughter an iPod for hers.

Was really chuffed when the family clubbed together and bought me an IPad for fathers day.

Got my wife an iRon for her birthday, it was around then that I received the divorce papers.

Don’t waste your precious time.

This is my 100 Blog Comments Challenge Post

We are all anxious to get our products on Clickbank and hopefully see some reward for our efforts, but have we done the research to see if we have chosen a profitable niche?

When Did You Last Post?

I find it intriguing looking at other Masterclass student’s blogs and wondering why some have not posted recently. On investigation, of the people who started the course in January 2010 many have not posted for 3-4 months. Others have not posted for a month or more and only a small minority have posted regularly. Some of these people were prolific posters in the first few weeks of setting up their blogs.

The reason I mention this is a while ago I read  Mandy Allen’s excellent post ‘Bloggers Guide’ (Course Discussion 24.07.09) on the Masterclass Forum. Mandy conducted a survey on last years students and the results compare very similarly to this years students.

The Rise and Rise Of  The Tesco Menace

I have never shopped in Tesco, nor will I ever do so. Their attitude to suppliers, especially farmers, who they refuse to pay a fair price for products, their take it or leave it stance to workers in the UK and abroad and their general ‘we will open stores no matter what the effect on local communities’ policy really pisses me off.

A man watching a football game on TV kept switching channels to an adult movie featuring a lusty couple.

“I don’t know whether to watch them or the game,” he said to his wife.

“For heavens sake, watch them,”  his wife said.

“You already know how to play football.”

Every year for the past 10 years, 5 friends and myself have taken on a least one long distance walk or National Trail. In this time we have completed The Coast to Coast, The West Highland Way, The Southern Upland Way (Scotland’s Coast to Coast), The Rob Roy Way, Offa’s Dyke, The Arran Coastal Way and two thirds of the Pennine Way.

During the first week of the Southern Upland Way in 2004, we met up with Frank, a Canadian guy who is a retired teacher and although born in Scotland emigrated to Canada with his family at an early age. The following year he flew over and joined us on week two of the walk and has continued to join us every year since.

I think the Aussies could teach our mob a thing or two about political spin, how about this!

Judy Rudd an amateur genealogy researcher in Southern Queensland was doing some work on her family tree. She discovered that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s great-great uncle, Remus Rudd was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Melbourne in 1889. Both Judy and Kevin Rudd share this common ancestor.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows at Melbourne Gaol.

So recently Judy emailed Prime Minister Rudd for information about their great-great uncle, Remus Rudd.

I have been pondering for a long time now in which direction to take in Internet Marketing. It has never been my intention to sell ‘how to make money on the internet’ types of product, highly profitable and autopilot friendly though they may be.

Despite having already written an ebook before enrolling on the John Thornhill Masterclass, it was on a subject that I couldn’t get excited about but one I nevertheless still intend to list on the Clickbank marketplace. When John asked us to list our interests, passions and hobbies for the product creation stage of MC I had forgotten an interest that I was really enthusiastic about during my diving days – wreck research.

One of my favourite pastimes is listening to jazz, a genre that doesn’t appeal to most people as their experience of it is limited to blaring trumpets and trombones.

Paul Desmond was noted for his ability to play melodies in a gentle pure tone that in his own words “sound like a dry martini”. He was famous as the alto sax player in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and his most famous creation was the best selling jazz record of all time ‘Take Five’. It was the first instrumental number to sell a million copies. With his suit and tie, receding hairline and horn rimmed glasses Desmond looked more like a bank manager than a late night jazz man. He had a sophisticated wit, was widely read and was probably the most literate jazz musician ever. He was a heavy smoker who liked his scotch and was very popular with the ladies.

Recently there have been a number of posts by various people on aspects of customer service – here is another.

An elderly lady actually wrote this letter to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the Times newspaper.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations 3 ‘nanoseconds’ must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my pension, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only 38 years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also debiting my account for £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.