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12,412 miles

4/6/2017 By Ravi Jayagopal

It's not even the awesome 78 deg. weather. It is the 12,412 miles... in 7 years!

It’s not even the awesome 78 deg. weather.

It is the 12,412 miles… in 7 years!

< 5 miles per day, basically picking up the kids after school… with the top down!

#lifestyleentrepreneur #workfromhome #livingthedream #unemployable #sandiegosunshine #digitalaccesspass #blessed

Filed Under: E-Business, God, Inspirational, Instagram, Life, Remarkable

World’s First Online Auction For Podcast Sponsorship

9/20/2015 By Ravi Jayagopal

A Post of FIRSTs

My podcast auction ended last night (September 19th at the stroke of midnight).

Congrats to Dan Hollings? from AmazoWorks.com on becoming the FIRST-EVER winner of the FIRST-EVER online auction selling the FIRST-EVER ad spot on the FIRST-EVER podcast by a FIRST-TIME-EVER podcaster (me)!

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AmazoWorks is a tool resource for Amazon Sellers that provides discounts on all the popular Amazon Seller tools plus trainings and resources (and itโ€™s free to join) – and it runs on DAP!

Check out my upcoming new podcast at SubscribeMe.fm .

Here’s a screen-shot of my eBay auction page where I auctioned off the ad spot:

eBay Screenshot of Auction

Filed Under: Advertising, Business, Cool Stuff, Digital Access Pass (DAP), Free, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Purple Cow, Ravi's Rants, Remarkable, SubscribeMe.fm

Create Wicked Cool Marketing Graphics

4/13/2014 By Ravi Jayagopal

If you read my earlier post, you already know how awesome I am at creating graphics (not!) ๐Ÿ™‚

Here’s a software box image I created many years ago (around 2001) for my then-active web site, WebmasterInABox.net – later renamed to MyWebmasterInABox.com, because Google banned the original domain when the site got hacked and was injected with malware for a period of time back in 2005 or so. And since I had not been actively maintaining the web site at that time (thanks to my J.O.B), I never even realized that my site had dropped out of the rankings until after a few months, when I noticed a big dip in sales.

Anyway, here’s the terrible CD box cover image that I created myself back in 2001.

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Fast-forward many years later, I wanted a more professional image for DAP. So I paid someone about $200 for this software box image.

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Then again in 2011, when we were getting ready to launch WickedCoolPlugins.com, since we were planning on launching multiple plugins, I figured $200 – or even $100 – per image was going to be wasteful and expensive. By this time, of course, there were many marketplaces where you could hire designers – like dribbble, odesk and even fiverr.

Still, I managed to overcome good sense, and tried creating this myself during that launch. Took me only about 5 hours!

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And then I found the holy grail of “Graphics Tool For Noobs“.

The one below took me less than 10 minutes.

Drag, drop, done.

STU-Cover

Box Shot King: Easily the best option even if you are a Photoshop guru, better than using Photoshop macros.

Filed Under: Business Tools, Digital Access Pass (DAP), How-To, Internet Marketing, Online, Paid Software, Personal Tools, Ravi Recommends, Remarkable, Tools, Webmaster Tagged With: Images

How To Over-deliver

11/25/2013 By Ravi Jayagopal

Imagine the little girl in the beginning, dropping just a few coins in your hat, as one of your customers.

And the musicians as your team.

Now imagine how thrilled your customer would be if your team could over-deliver like in this video.

Think you would get a standing ovation (great ratings and testimonials) and everyone flocking towards you (viral marketing, social proof) and have happy customers (repeat business)?

“But.. it was all planned”, you say? Well, who’s stopping you from executing a well-planned service like this?

Who said it has to be on-the-fly?

Who said it’s not OK to generate a “planned WOW!”?

Filed Under: Business, Customer Service, Customers, Inspirational, Marketing, Ravi's Rants, Remarkable, Video, YouTube

Carbonite vs Dropbox vs Amazon Cloud Drive vs Google Drive

10/15/2013 By Ravi Jayagopal

Backup Restore Buttons Showing Data Archive Or RecoverySo many awesome file backup services available today.

So, which one is the best to back up files on your computer?

For the sheer reason that you can back up files from all over your computer, in all kinds of directories, all from right where they are – disorganized and un-categorized and lumped up on your desktop like a sick cat threw up – and not have to worry about putting them all onto one single folder each time just so it can be backed up (like you have to do with Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive or Google Drive or Microsoft Sky Drive), my vote goes for Carbonite.

Plus, Carbonite offers you unlimited backups for one flat fee – so you don’t have to pay per GB backed-up like with the other services. And they also have a business plan to back up upto 3 computers (which is what I have myself for my computers at home).

And there too, you get unlimited backups without any limits.

So my most recommended backup service for your precious pictures, videos, documents, software, and any other junk you have collected over the years…

Winner: Carbonite

 

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About Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal is a full-time entrepreneur living in sunny San Diego, CA . He is the Co-Founder & Co-Developer of DigitalAccessPass.com (DAP), the premier Membership Plugin & Content Delivery Platform for WordPress. Check out his Podcast about Membership Sites & Online Courses, at SubscribeMe.fm. Ravi is also the creator of CoolCastPlayer.com, a pretty and powerful podcast player plugin for WordPress. And creator of S3MediaVault.com, S3 Video Player for Amazon S3. Ravi first started selling online in 1997. Check out his book "Subscribe Me: Making, Marketing & Monetizing Online Digital Content with Membership Sites, Online Courses and Subscriptions"


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