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We need to read in entire lines at a time like this.
We need to read in entire lines at a time like this.
If you don’t already have a domain, you can register your chosen domain at the same time as you sign up for web hosting.
The hosting company that I recommend you sign up to is called SiteGround.
If you visit www.sitehost.online you’ll get through to their WordPress page, which is where you need to start.
Figure 1.1
What’s so special about SiteGround?
Trust me, I’ve been around and I can tell you that there are plenty of web hosts that are nothing short of garbage and I don’t want you to get caught out by choosing the wrong one.
As you are starting out, I recommend that you go for the shared hosting SiteGround ‘StartUp’ plan.
This allows you to host one website and it is the cheapest option. You should be able to get this for under $5.00 USD (or equivalent) a month and there are often special offers making it lower than this.
I loved helping people, still do. BUT, I love helping people who help themselves.
If you take the first step I’ll be right at your side for the next 1, 2, 1000.
But people who complain about their problems without actually doing anything about them, I have no time for.
So I saw traditional therapy as hindering rather than helping people. I met a guy called Dr Anthony Grant and loved what he was doing with Coaching Psychology.
I made it my mission to learn everything about it.
I got good very quickly (that neurosis again) and started coaching some amazing people to do even more, from lawyers and bankers to actors and diplomats… I earnt a great reputation and started getting interest from people who wanted to learn from me.
Our first “become a life coach” seminar was 10 of my clients, within 18 months we had a business that was making $8 million a year and we’d franchised it all over Australia.
12 months later we’d sold master franchise rights in Australia, Singapore, Ireland, South Africa and the UK.
Sensing the opportunity we moved to England to look after things ourselves.
Lets just say that England proved difficult to adjust to, because a year later we were back here in Oz, we’d sold the franchise rights to the UK and I’d started a company called Aussiepreneur.
To add a Solid Fill Layer, we click the Fill Layer Icon at the bottom of the Layers Panel. Next we click on Solid Color at the top of the pop-up menu. When the Color Picker Panel appears select Black. This is usually a good starting place and easily changed later on.
Our final step in this project is to sharpen the image. An easy way to do that is to use a High Pass Filter.
First, we have to create a new layer for the filter. We can do this by right clicking on the Flower Layer in the layers panel and then choosing Duplicate Layer near the top of the pop-up menu.
So, with the new layer highlighted, select
Filter > Other > High Pass
This will change the appearance of the flower to a gray color and an adjustment window will pop-up, as shown on the left side of Figure 74. A good rule of thumb is to start with the slider all the way to the left and then slowly move it to the right until you can just barely see the details in the sample window of the adjustment panel. You may want to experiment with more pronounced details to see the difference.
In the remainder of this tutorial I’m going to take you through the creation of a WordPress website using my domain www.sarahmcharry.com as an example. I’ll start right at the beginning and you’ll watch the website unfold, lesson by lesson. If you work alongside me, you can build your own website (or blog) at the same pace.
Lesson 2 is for those who don’t have WordPress preinstalled on their domain. I’ll explain how to install WordPress with some of the common scripts that should let you do this with a few clicks of the mouse. If you’ve already got WordPress installed you can skip Lesson 2 and go on to Lesson 3.
Yes, but you must change your domain’s Domain Name Servers (DNS) to indicate where your website will be hosted.
This is necessary so that the domain name system (which drives the Internet) can translate your domain name into a specific IP (Internet Protocol) address that identifies the server that hosts your website. I admit that that sounds a bit technical but it’s really quite simple.
“But, what if I run out of topics to vlog about?”
If you’re experiencing self-doubt or hesitation, rest assured that we all experience this when jumping into a new project. However, if you are legitimately terrified that you won’t be able to come up with ideas for your vlogs, let’s stop and think and go back to chapter 4. That’s the chapter about defining your concept and asking yourself questions to ensure you’re picking the right niche for your vlog.
The truth is if you pick a subject you are truly passionate about, you’ll never run out of things to vlog about. Think of someone in your life who is obsessed with a specific sport. Do they ever stop talking about it and their favorite team, the games coming up, the new recruit, etc.? That’s your goal. Find something that you love to talk about with your friends, a topic that comes up all the time, and vlog about that.
Generating Ideas
Let’s get to how you can actually come up with some topics for that vlog of yours.
I have a friend who we will call Mely. She makes vlogs about food and recipes. We were talking about our vlogs, and she told me she needs to have her brainstorming session of the week in order to come up with a topic. I thought she was working on some sort of unique project and had to meet with her team to brainstorm. Nope. Mely has brainstorming sessions every week by herself. She sits down and comes up with ideas for her next vlog.
Elements Blockchain Platform
HydraChain
Compatibility with the Ethereum Protocol
Instant finality
Native contracts
Open Source
Customizability
Microsoft Azure and Blockchain Technology: The Beneficial Alliance
Bletchley: The Fabric for Modular Blockchain
Project Bletchley and Cryptlets
Types of Cryptlets
Building in Azure Ecosystem
Azure vs. Chain Core
Installing Chain’s Distributed Ledger
Creating a Private Network
Using Azure’s Financial Services
How to Use Blockchain Tools on Azure
Chapter 18: Blockchain Technology and Financial Services
Future Banking Trends
Chapter 19: Blockchain and Global Financial Products
Payment without Borders
Faster and Better Trade
Cost
Speed of Execution
Value Innovation
Risk Management
Open Source
Potential Changes to Financial Services
Google Translate for Business
The World Wide Ledger
Blockchain and Credit Scores
Role of Blockchain IPO
Chapter 20: Blockchain and Job Opportunities
Overcoming the Banking Challenge
Chapter 21: The Roadmap to Financial Freedom with Blockchain
The Tools
Personal Identity
Remittances as a Case Study
Challenges of Blockchain-based Money Transfer
Chapter 22: Blockchain and Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 23: E-government: Estonia as a Case Study
e-identity
e-Health
e-Voting
e-Residency
e-Business
Chapter 24: Blockchain and Freedom of Speech
Chapter 25: Challenges of Blockchain Implementation
Unfamiliar Technology
Regulations
Illiquidity
Huge Energy Consumption
High Latency
Opposition from Governments
Cybersecurity Concerns
Behavioral Changes
The reason I’ve added “other people’s” in brackets is because if you have an email list of your own I want you to hold it in reserve for when you start your $0.99 promotion. That’s because, of all the lists you email, your own list is likely to be the most responsive. It makes sense, therefore, to ask for their help when it matters most – i.e., when you want to get your book rocketing up the paid bestseller lists.
If you can get people to email their lists at the start of your $0.99 promotion, rather than when your book is free, then do so. The reason I am bringing up other people’s email lists here is that getting people to promote your book when it is free is an easier sell.
The “usual rules” apply when trying to leverage other people’s lists: Just as with Facebook and Twitter reach out to people with audiences who are likely to be interested in your book. Again, if what you’re asking them to promote is both good quality content and free you are more likely to get a “yes”.
Broadly speaking the cost will depend on the size of the list and can be anywhere from a few dollars to several hundred dollars. However, before agreeing on a fee try to gauge how responsive the list is. A highly responsive list of 10,000 may be better than an unresponsive list of 100,000. If the list owner is unwilling to give you any information about the responsiveness of their list then consider looking elsewhere.
Value Deliver otoCalendar
You MUST only use your calendar to record actions that must be done by a certain date. If you only think you would like to have things done by a certain date, leave them off your calendar. This way, your calendar is only filled with items that MUST be done and this makes it much easier to keep track of your MUSTS and ENSURES that these tasks are completed on the dates they must be completed by instead of having your calendar inundated with should and could (which is what your next action list is for!).
If your calendar gets cluttered with events or tasks that may or may not need to be done, it makes it tremendously difficult to distinguish your MUSTS from your COULDS or SHOULDS and your MUSTS can get lost in the crowd easily which results in a higher likelihood of them not getting done.
Your Next Actions lists, along with your calendar are at the heart of daily action management organization and orientation. Your calendar will determine the core of your day as you complete your musts and once they’ve been completed your next action lists will be worked on.
Reference List
Many things that come your way will require no action, however it will hold intrinsic value in the information that it provides. These items are things you’ll want to keep on hand and be able to retrieve as needed.
TRAFFICZION OTO, TRAFFICZION OVERVIEW, trafficzion discountPaid traffic is not always a good investment. It often requires some experimentation, and thus mistakes, to be run profitably. You need to have a few things in place to make the most of your investment in paid traffic.
Below are some of the minimum requirements I would recommend having in place before you begin a lightweight campaign like the ones outlined in this chapter. As the amount of money you use in your paid traffic goes up, so should the sophistication of your tracking and automation.
Something to sell
You should have a product that you can sell to justify investing in paid traffic. Often it’s best to have products that address several price points from a $5-10 impulse buy, to a high-end sale.
Analytics to track success
You need to be able to track and measure the success of your paid traffic campaigns. Without analytics you’ll just be throwing your money out the window.
A basic email sequence
Before using purchase paid traffic, you should have a basic email sequence set up; any time you get a new email address from traffic, that customer should receive some information. Your email sequence should tell your new visitor what to expect, information about you, and some next steps (registering for a webinar, checking out more content, making a small purchase).
stockify 1.0 overview General general Stockify 1.0 otoAccording to Paul Graham of Y Combinator, to grow an early stage web business, you should spend all of your waking hours on the following three activities:
Build the product.
Talk to users.
Exercise.
We agree. We spend a good fraction of our time talking with our clients’ users. It’s priceless, but it’s also time-consuming.
So we also talk to people who spend their whole lives speaking with users. For example, salespeople, consultants, and customer-support staff. We call these people “Voice-of-Customer Aggregators” (or “VOC aggregators”). VOC aggregators already understand the users. And they don’t just know facts like “The average user is forty years old with 2.4 children”; they know the users intuitively, much like you know your own family. In fact, they can often second-guess how the users would react to a particular idea. Plus, because they speak with so many users, they know the relative importance of each issue. When you talk to a VOC aggregator, you harness the wisdom of thousands of hours of conversations with users.
Of course, you still need to talk to users. But you can accelerate your understanding by identifying your market’s VOC aggregators and then talking to them.
With this in mind, here’s the updated formula:
Build the product.
Talk to users—and to people who talk to users.
Exercise.
Here’s what you can do:
Identify your own industry’s VOC aggregators. They may be resellers, consultants, telesales people, customer-support people. They may work for your company or for other companies in the same supply chain. They may work for online companies, mail-order companies, or bricks-and-mortar companies. So, for example, when we work for manufacturers of consumer electronics, we spend a lot of time speaking with the staff of bricks-and-mortar electronics stores.
Talk to them. Ask them how they would sell your product. Their approach is likely to mirror the logic of how their customers buy.
Implement as much of their feedback as you can. Add the rest to your product road map and marketing road map.
While we were working with Sony, we visited a store that sold its devices. The shop assistant was great at selling the product.
She sold several of the devices each week, and she knew the answers to all the questions that visitors asked. We asked her for her views on the product’s website, which she knew well because she had studied it when searching for answers to her visitors’ questions. She described twenty-two facts that her visitors needed to know but that weren’t mentioned on the company’s website. We incorporated these facts into the webpage, making it much more persuasive.
For many products, the salespeople hold decision trees in their heads. What they say depends on how visitors answered the previous questions. In such cases, you should map out the decision trees, consolidate them, and then turn them into conversion flows. We did exactly this for a blue-chip financial services company. After speaking with its call center team, we made changes that resulted in a 214% increase in orders.
● How to shoot a 3-pointer
● Dribbling drills
● Nutrition for athletes
● Improve vertical jump
● Basketball shoes
● Gender
● Age
● Approximate income
● Hobbies and interests
● Things that they struggle with
● What they want to accomplish (personally and professionally)