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One of the best things about laptops is their portability. They have become powerful enough that it is no longer necessary for most of us to need a separate desktop. However one of the biggest limitations, especially for anyone doing graphics, design, photography or application multitasking on their computer is the small screen size.
Most laptops allow you to connect one external monitor to the vga (blue input) or dvi (white input) in the back of the computer. This allows you to extend your laptop screen to two screens, which causes both the built-in monitor of the laptop and external monitor to act like one giant screen. Once you go from one monitor to an extended desktop of multiple monitors… it is impossible to go back to one. Your productivity will increase dramatically.
Even with most desktops, one extra monitor is the limit even if you have multiple monitor inputs (vga/dvi/hdmi) because the video graphics card in your computer can’t handle more. The video graphic cards that allow multiple monitors (3-4) are much more expensive as well.
One of my business partners went this route and while it works great – he had to spend thousands of extra dollars for the setup. (Pictured above) After purchasing a new laptop recently, I stumbled upon a workaround to not only add multiple monitors to my laptop… it is allows you to add up to 6 external monitors to your laptop or even desktop. Since I already had the monitors, my total cost was only $60 to have a 3 screen computer setup (top article photo).
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Rich Gorman has had over 10 years of experience in building out direct response continuity programs on the net. For the first time ever, Rich outlines how Gorman Economics LLC does has revealed how to develop a highly profitable yet sustainable continuity offer.
- Merchant Processing/Customer Support – The backbone of any trial offer is the merchant processing/customer support. Any fool can go out and make millions of dollars on a free trial offer, but it takes a wise man to keep it. The only solution we know of on the market today that provides advertisers with unlimited processing on Visa/MC/Amex/Discover with a turn key call center and online customer support is Vantage Payments. If you have a health offer and are looking for instant approval on an account that will convert traffic, then contact Vantage payments at HC@vantagepayments.com.
- Design – On direct response trial offer campaigns you have 3 seconds to catch the attention of the consumer. If you fail at this, you fail at the campaign. From past experiences, it is futile to attempt to design a landing page unless you have years of experience in direct response. The best design firm in the world of direct response is SEObrand.net: HC@seobrand.net
- Legal – Prior to launching any campaign, make sure that Venable LLP has reviewed every aspect of your landing page. For FDA claims contact Todd Harrison. For a full FTC advertising review, contact Tom Cohn. Please see Venable.com.
- Traffic – Affiliate Marketing is a great way to push traffic to your offer. The most important thing to remember is that with any campaign, never take it live throughout the entire network. The best way to get quality traffic to an offer is to run it on “request approval” or “private” with a trusted network. The top networks I recommend are Ads4Dough, CX Digital, Health Converter, and Media Whiz.
- Fulfillment/Product – Make sure your product arrives on time every time. Nova Care is second to none on fulfillment and product development. They are the go to firm for every major player in the industry. PrivateLabelNutra.com is another valuable resource.
If you utilize those 5 directions, you’re likelihood of creating a successful direct response campaign is very high.
Seth Godwin recently wrote an awesome article on the defenders of the status quo. This is worth reading and reminds us of the recent resistance to the changes in the health and beauty vertical:
Defenders of the status quo at newspapers, book publishers and the magazine industry are in a panic. Some are even misguidedly asking for government regulation or a bailout.
All three industries are doomed (if doomed means that they will be unrecognizable in ten–probably three–years). And yet…
And yet there’s no shortage of writing, or things to read. No shortage of news, either. And there doesn’t appear to be one on the horizon. In fact, there’s more news, more images and more writing available to more people more often than ever before in history.
No, just about all of the whining is about protecting paper, the stuff the ideas are printed on, not the ideas themselves.
It’s paper that makes the economics of the newspaper industry work (or not work). It’s paper that creates cost and slows things down and generates scarcity. And scarcity is what they sell.
It’s paper that makes the book industry what it is. As soon as you remove paper from the equation, the costs change, the timing changes, the barriers to entry change, the risk changes. And defenders of the status quo don’t like change.
Is there not enough paper in your life? Why are we wringing our hands about the demise of paper as the economic gating factor for ideas? In fact, some of the trees I know are delighted that we’ve found a better, faster, cheaper way to spread ideas.
If the demise of paper means that good people doing good work in important industries will have to find faster and better ways to do their jobs, I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Staying ahead of the curve is the key to making it big in affiliate marketing. To do so, you need to understand the zeitgest of the times. What are the trends? What campaigns are working and why?
Here are the top 5 marketing blogs in the world. Take 30 minutes out of your day to read posts from the top internet marketers in the world:
1. Jon Volk
2. Seth Godwin
2. Jeremy Shoemaker
4. Zac Johnson
5. John Chow
WARNING: Read these blogs daily and ACTUALLY APPLY the information will result in an increase of cash flow to your business.
Here’s a tool that I myself have found incredibly valuable. KeePass Password Safe is a very user-friendly UI to store your passwords LOCALLY. That means that instead of shuffling around papers that always get lost in an office, KeePass stores your passwords on your hard disk (read: great, but back it up, for the love of all that’s holy!). It is all encrypted in the local database, using AES and TwoFish encryption methods, which are both industry recognized as very sound security features. What’s more is that when you put all of your information into the entry fields, group, title, username, password, all notes, etc; then EVERYTHING is encrypted, not just the passwords. And it is safeguarded by a master password.
Where do all of these passwords go? Let me reassure you, it is Open Source, so not only is it free, but someone would have caught on by now if the source code pointed to a remote database where someone else can take advantage of your passwords.
Finally, if you’re worried about whether a keylogger is hiding on your computer, fret no more. You don’t have to press any keys to copy/paste usernames and passwords into a form.
This is a great piece of software that I’ve found to be an incredible boon to me while I work online. It will keep you more organized, keep your information safer, and it can greatly increase your productivity.
So, Go Get Em.