John Dilbeck Musings

A few days ago, I was looking at the Top 100 sellers at SFI Marketing Group and wondering what they were doing to build their businesses and earn more money than most of the rest of us.

So, I started researching and learned some valuable lessons. Some of the top 10 affiliates have created systems to promote the products and opportunities, and they’re willing to help others by plugging them into the system.

Jeff Mulligan created the CBmall, a system that promotes the top selling items at Click Bank and several other affiliate programs, including SFI. Some of the best selling ebooks are available through CBmall, and it even has a search engine to make it easier to find what you’re looking for throughout Click Bank.

In fact, Jeff says there are at least 15 Powerful Ways CBmall Makes You Money and, by clicking on the preceding link, you can sign up for his free ecourse — with no obligation — and learn about what he’s done to make the system easy to use for buyers and powerful for marketers.

The price is right, and Jeff has responded promptly to a couple of service questions. My site was up and running in less than 24 hours.

I recommend this site for persons looking for some of the best ebooks. I also recommend it for affiliate marketers who want to plug into a system that helps you build your business and increase your income.

Highly recommended website.

How to perk up your morning cup of coffee

[The Today Show recently featured a segment on great tasting coffees. One of the suggested coffees is PurJava liquid concentrate coffee…]

“PurJava was developed to offer coffee with a great coffee taste without the bitterness and acidity of regular brewed coffee. PurJava concentrate is produced in Nebraska using a cold-water process; water is filtered and then purified and then added to a coffee concentrate. The final step is pasteurization, producing a smooth coffee with less than half the caffeine of regular brewed coffee.” [MSNBC]

Want to try some yourself? Click here to purchase PurJava liquid concentrate coffee.

For convenience and good taste, PurJava is ideal for the person on the go or for anyone who wants just one or two cups of great coffee instead of brewing an entire pot.

Templates for your business.

You’ve been told many times about the importance of having a written business plan, but how do you get started?

SCORE offers several templates for creating your plan. There are templates for new and for existing businesses as well as several templates for providing further information. All are available as free downloads in .pdf format.

They are also available in MS Word or MS Excel format, depending upon the type of template.

Peter Cohen writes about: Forbes profiles ‘Apple’s Supercomputing Scientists’.

“Virginia Tech’s new G5-based supercomputing center isn’t the only place that Macs are being used for scientific research, writes Matthew Herper. Herper’s new Forbes.com article, Apple’s Supercomputing Scientists, profiles some of the other uses for Macs in the scientific world.”

[MacCentral]

About two weeks ago, while working on one of my websites hosted by Site Build It!, I wanted to create a weblog for maintaining current information about telecommunications. While it is possible to create a weblog, of sorts, using Site Build It, it wasn’t what I’d become accustomed to using Radio Userland or News Pro.

I decided it was time to investigate the state of the art concerning RSS and syndication, and that led me to the newest version of Radio Userland and the replacement for News Pro, Coranto. Both are heavily invested in RSS and XML and it was time to do some updating and building of new infrastructure before I could make progress on my original goal.

Now, I’ve installed Coranto on JohnDilbeck.com and DilbeckConsulting.com. I created a new weblog at blogger.com. I’ve updated some of the settings at johndilbeck.editthispage.com. I downloaded, installed, tested, and purchased a license for Radio Userland version 8. Now, I’m ready.

At this point, I create my weblogs (also called blogs) using Radio Userland, which automatically uploads to I Succeed By Helping You Succeed and to John Dilbeck And Friends. (Links updated in September, 2006, to point to current sites.)

Then, it’s a fairly quick procedure to copy the entries from my original Ramblings site to it’s new host at http://JohnDilbeck.com/news/ where it’s powered by Coranto, and to my blogger.com blog at (link deleted). I’m running most of the entries concurrently on all of the weblogs, and I don’t know if I’ll continue doing that or if each will take a direction of its own in the future.

Either way, the background work is completed. I have to add a few more pages to several sites where I’ll use syndication via javascript to show portions of the blogs on pages that will be automatically updated with no extra effort on my part once they’re in place.

In a couple of months, I’ll know how this is working and how well it suits my original desires.

Now, it’s time to turn my attention back to marketing and selling.

All day Friday, Mom was complaining of pain in her abdomen. After several calls to one of her doctors, she was advised to go to the emergency room, so about 4:00 pm we headed off to the hospital where she was diagnosed with gall bladder trouble. It’s been a rough couple of weeks for her, and this brings a new level of uncertainty to what’s going to happen next week. She has an appointment with her surgeon on Monday for follow-up on the surgery from a couple of weeks ago and I’m sure he’ll examine her for the gall bladder trouble at that point.

Last week, we were sure it was going to be her last week of radiation, but her doctor examined her nose and wanted to wait a few days before continuing treatment. So, we’re scheduled to resume the last 5 radiation treatments starting on Monday.

While we were at the hospital, however, there was good news, too. We were checking Mom in to the ER when someone slapped me on the shoulder and I turned to see my friend, Bill Grove, standing there. He inquired about Mom and then told me his good news.

His wife had delivered their twin daughters earlier in the day. Congratulations!

During the confusion, I didn’t get their names, but Bill said Mom and girls were doing well.

Yesterday, for the first time in a couple of months, I attended the monthly Heritage Tourism Roundtable meeting in Andrews, NC. This meeting is held the first Tuesday of each month from 10:00 am until approximately 2:00 pm at the St. Andrews Lutheran Church.

I enjoyed seeing friends and catching up on what’s happening in the four western-most counties of North Carolina and on the progress we’re making for promoting heritage tourism in our area.

One of the guests at the meeting was Ben Utley, a lifelong educator who is now residing in western North Carolina.

He announced the upcoming debut of NCMtnMade.com, “A Heritage Database of authentic music, authors, storytellers, and handmade arts/crafts of Western North Carolina.”

If you’d like to be informed of what’s happening at this site, there is a preview page up and running and you can subscribe to their mailing list to be informed when it goes live.

Ben has some great ideas about promoting our heritage of fine art, crafts, toys, music and food, and I’d like to send my best wishes for success with this project.

Search By Number.

Gary Price points out that in their quest to become the command line of the Internet, Google has added several new features: you can now enter UPS (1Z1234567891234567) and FedEx (fedex 999999999999), patent (patent 5123123), airplane (n199ua), and FCC equipment (fcc B4Z-34009-PIR) ID/tracking numbers.

See Search By Number for formats to use and other links.

Mac Founders Push for New Ideas. The crew that put together the first Mac is celebrating its 20th birthday, but some are disappointed over the apparent lack of innovation in personal computers.

By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]

January 07, 2004

5:49 AM

New Report: Macs and Cell Phones. Readers offer a ton of tips about integrating Macs with cell phones, which isn’t always an easy thing to do. [MacInTouch]