Bootstrapper Notes

Pimping out my Blog

Yes, I have crossed over to the dark side and pimped out my blog.  Don't worry, I am not going to do a ton of these, and I promise to continue to post more often with very relevant content and tips.

But you see, I really want a the Sigma 70-200 lense for my Canon Rebel XT Digital SLR.

But I need to generate this income in alternative ways, using the current sites that I have available.  So this pay-per-post stuff is one way I am going to do it.

Using IDrive-E for External Backups

I use a thumb drive daily to transport my internet marketing business files around with me.  I usually work on building my internet business over the lunch hour at work, so this works well for me.

My thumb drive right now has around 600 meg of information on it - it is basically the life blood of my business.  It has my sites, articles, ebooks, etc - if I lost it I would be very very very sad!

Every so often I do back it up to an external USB hard drive, but no often enough, and the hard drive is not available from any location I might be working from.

So I have been looking for a way to backup this drive to a service that offers Online Backup.  Recently I was invited to review IDrive-E.  Here is their description:

a leading online backup service provider offers encrypted online backups for free (up to 2GB) and Unlimited storage (for $4.95/month). It is easy to use, fast and secure.

So I headed over and within a couple of minutes signed up for a free account which offers 2 gb of storage for FREE.  There are also options that allow you to have unlimited storage.

I did read up and feel very comfortable with their encryption.  Once you have signed up you will need to download the application to do the restores and backups.

So I loaded up the application and started a backup for 581 meg of data for a complete backup of my thumbdrive.

I have not tried the file and drive sharing - because I am doing this on my work computer but I will probably try this from home.

I must tell you that now I can sleep much more comfortably at night knowing I have a backup of this data.  I am going to set up a scheduled backup for this drive, so that once a week it will automatically backup the changed files on the drive.

disclaimer: I was paid for this review.  However, I do really like the service and will continue to use it.  I encourage you to try out this service as well.

Several Irons In The Internet Marketing Fire!

No I am Not Dead!

I have been really busy working on about several things at one time:

• Hired a 25 page report written on a product that I sell in my Network Marketing company.
• I am writing a 25 or 30 page report on how to use the internet to generate MLM leads.
• Started a MLM blog and auto responder for generating MLM leads online.
• Modifying a PLR ebook for a follow up product to one my first infoproduct sites.
• Researching Podcasting for a future project.

So as you can see, I have plenty of irons in the fire right now - it should be a good summer!!

In case your wondering, yes I am using this post for a bit of link bait :)

Been busy building my lists and outsourcing...

It has been a while!  I have been hard at work learning new things and building my lists.

I tuned into a conference call a few weeks ago, and came away with a few new ideas, that I immediately put to work.  I am not ready to share the tactics yet, but I may eventually in the form of an info product.  The good news is that with just one tactic I added 56 subscribers, that are business builders, to my list in just 7 days - and I have already made money from the list ($3.00).

Joining my friend Jon - I have also had a couple of  projects outsourced that I needed done that will further allow me to expand my list building empire.