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Arthur Ashe

February 14, 2010

Inspiration from (friendly) spam I received in my email….
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983…
From the world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why did God have to select you for such [...]

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I’m A Hunter

February 3, 2010

Oh, I’m very much a Hunter!
But being a Gemini, I do have a kind of split-personality. So, occasionally I chill out and become a “Farmer”. Not for too long though

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Twitter: @Replies Rock, DMs Over-rated

February 2, 2010

What’s the the most powerful feature of Twitter?
It’s definitely the ability to send an “@” reply to anyone on twitter – without their permission.
Now “great tools come with great responsibility” (yup, just made it up
Spam people on twitter, and you will get blocked, labeled a spammer, folks will hate on you, and word [...]

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Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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Turning Lemons Into Lemonade

November 14, 2009

Do you sometimes bitch and complain and whine about your life?
If only your parents had given you the right education…
If only you were given your due recognition at work…
If only your family loved you…
If only you had more customers…
If only you had more people promoting your product…
If only you had a super-affiliate sending out emails [...]

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DigitalAccessPass.com’s 1st Birthday

October 12, 2009

1 year ago, I launched a membership plugin for WordPress, called DigitalAccessPass (DAP).
It had some ground-breaking features – many firsts for its niche. Like “Content Dripping”, for example (I even coined a new word: ContentResponder .
Yesterday (October 11, 2009), DAP celebrated it’s 1st birthday!
Just some proof that with a lot of focus, hard work, [...]

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What Would – - – - – Do?

September 21, 2009

I believe it is critically important to have role models, teachers, mentors, gurus, leaders, spiritual guides – from whom we can draw courage, inspiration, enlightenment, guidance – in times of need at various stages of our life.
So here’s a short list of my role models, who have all tremendously inspired me, taught me, and given [...]

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The Power Of A Brand (Revisited)

September 9, 2009

Did you know that the incredibly famous Nike “Swoosh” logo was created by a graphic design student desperate to pay for a dress for an upcoming party, for a stunning total of $35 (at $2/hour)?
I watched a Nike documentary recently, where they interviewed  Philip Knight (one of Nike’s Founders), “His Airness” Michael Jordan, and the [...]

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“Simple” and “Easy”

June 4, 2009

The difference is pretty simple, actually
Quit Smoking
Simple: We all know the health benefits of not smoking. Quit smoking, live longer.
But Not Easy: The actual act of quitting is really hard.
Losing Weight
Simple: Do it and you will look good, feel good, and have more energy
But Not Easy: Working out frequently, cutting down on your [...]

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Saving Money vs. Making Money

May 12, 2009

I have a friend whose main purpose in life is to find deals and bargains and cut costs.
He once spent several weeks filling out an insane number of really long forms and processing rebate information, for a mail-in rebate promotion for a laptop. And he purchased that crappy, low-end laptop because that was the only [...]

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Change

May 4, 2009

Yup, sometimes it is easier “done” than “said”.
Just go do it…
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/can-you-change-everything.html

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Welcome to Techiiies.TV

April 19, 2009

I started Techiiies.tv as a fun project, and I’m pretty confident that YouTube would run out of storage space before I run out of ideas for creating techiiie videos.
Oh, and by the way, if you’re wondering about the weird spelling of Techiiies, it was of course because the name “Techies” (with the single “i”) wasn’t [...]

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Case Of The Disappearing Blog?

March 21, 2009

You probably know about my book, “No Business Like E-Business”, that sells on Amazon.
I have also developed this really powerful Membership Software, whose primary “Claim to Fame” is that it can “drip” content little by little on a list, much like an email autoresponder drips emails.
So, I had this rather brilliant idea and [...]

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What Happens When You Get Too Good At Marketing

March 20, 2009

WARNING: SHOCKING LANGUAGE FROM CUSTOMER BELOW
Ok, so maybe the title was a little dramatic, but still, I didn’t know I was *this* awesome at marketing
Over the weekend, when I thought of giving away my best-selling book on Amazon for free on the book’s blog, I never imagined that my copy writing style [...]

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‘Curiosity’ starring Seth Godin

March 16, 2009

This is turning into a “Seth Godin Week” at RavisRants.com.
But if you’re like me, you can’t get enough of what Seth has to say. So enjoy…
‘curiosity’ from Nic Askew on Vimeo.

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Seth Godin’s take on Social Networking

March 16, 2009

What does Seth think about the Facebooks and Twitters?

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Special Invitation: FaceBook Group

March 11, 2009

The first web page I ever designed was in 1995, for a buddy who wanted to impress his girlfriend on her birthday.
So, I ended up publishing a (what was then popular) “Java Applet” thingamajig, on a free site called Geocities (Y! bought it later). It created this rotating cube that had a different picture of [...]

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My Book on Amazon

March 3, 2009

Amazon currently has 17,338,442 books available for sale.
Of those 17 million, my book is currently ranked at 20,969. Which means my book is ranked at 0.1% of all books on Amazon.
0.1% means high up among the top 1% of all books.
These numbers mean not much more than a pat on the back. And maybe some [...]

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Frames Rock!

March 1, 2009

No, I did not just time-travel back to 1995.
Frames have always been considered a bad idea…
Bad for SEO.
Bad if you’re using JavaScript.
Bad if want to use DHTML.
Bad for bookmarking.
Bad for passing around links.
But here’s probably one of the few (or only?) remaining uses for frames (this is where frames absolutely ROCK!)
Check out how I’m using [...]

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Digital Access Pass v2.0 is here!

February 23, 2009

DAP v2.0 is out now. Very excited. Stuffed with really cool features.
We now have a new WordPress plugin with a pretty slick name (at least I think so , called “LiveLinks“.
It makes your blog appear “alive” – as in, show different content to different folks (members, non-members, those who just joined, those who [...]

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