Donna’s Reviews

Yes, I love my ‘pal’ Dragon… and now – at least for a month, they’re giving you a discount.  Yippee!  The only drawback I have with the product is that it won’t accurately record when I’m running fans in my office (it doesn’t seem to like the extra noise even with them on low) and I can’t stand working in a still environment, I enjoy moving the air around – the computer puts out too much heat for me.

Here’s the deal (and you’re getting an upgrade from the version I have and love) too:
10% off Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 9
This awesome 10% off Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 9 Special Offer Expires 06/30/08 (but now they have a new offer for the next version…

Update Aug 25th – yep, now they have a NEW promo… now for V.10 so check that out if you want the BEST version of this awesome tool yet.  People with carpal tunnel syndrome will LOVE it… you even tell it to go to a website, or whatever, and it obeys you.

And it only lasts until Sept 30th – so if you ever were contemplating getting this kickbutt software, now would be the time.  Think about dictating your next ebook instead of typing it all out… let those arms rest!

Ok, back to work for me… enjoy the discount if you get it in time!

Donna

Before you get as excited as I was BEFORE installing and testing, please read my negative commentary below, first! I didn’t realize there were any negatives other than the rather ugly design until after I tested the script… so even if you get something for a pittance and share it with delight before you install it – it may not be as good as it sounded at the outset!  *sigh*

YouTube MiniSite Script - now $17 (not sure how long Brett will leave it at that price though… I grabbed it last night for a special price that’s now changed.)

You can also monetize the script with your Google AdSense AND anything else you want.  Choose the videos you show by adding keywords (and let YouTube pay for the bandwidth) how cool is that?

Ok… here’s a BIG NEGATIVE (for me, anyway) that I discovered regarding this particular script… I installed it, and set up spiritually related keywords… and discovered by accident that there are some VERY nasty coattail riders in the keyword usage department (spell that lying cheaters).  There are some ‘adult’ content video makers who MIS-use keywords related to “The Secret” (the wonderful movie & book about getting more prosperity and anything you want attracted to your life), and even with keywords related to spirituality and the law of attraction itself.

Obviously, these abundance and spiritual keywords are totally unrelated to THEIR nasty content but they don’t give a care, because they know these are very profitable keywords and they use them, right along with their related adult-content keywords.  So…. for me that was a huge negative regarding an otherwise pretty slick script for the price.

The script pulls in *everything* related to the keywords that you set… regardless of whether or not they are really related (how would a script know that a pornish liar used spiritual keywords to better promote his/her smut?) so I did ask a top programmer if he can fix this – because if he cannot, even $1 is too much to pay if you don’t want ANY unrelated stuff on your special You Tube video page!

I’ll let you know if Will can fix this script to reject certain content, and if not…. then I rescind my invitation to order it for those who definitely DO care what kinds of videos show up on their video site.  I for one, am a family-oriented websites only type of person and I’m sure I’m not alone there !  But… if you aren’t really bothered by a few stray unsavory videos showing up on your site… then it’s a pretty good deal.

Donna

The most important thing you can ever do for your business is create a residual (or recurring) income. By doing this you’re making a commitment to yourself to be willing to put some work into your project in exchange for your income, and then commit to putting in just a little bit of continual work to keep it going.

I think that we’re all more than willing willing to work just a little bit more in order to keep our income at the kind of levels that most people can only dream about.

This is precisely what having an Internet business is based on… a bit of ‘sweat equity’ in the beginning to sit back and reap our rewards over and over again.

The goal is working less to make more, so you have time to enjoy life, and not have to keeping working a J.O.B (just over broke) that you probably don’t enjoy or that doesn’t pay you what you deserve. If you’re in a hurry just jump on over and learn everything you need to know about making residual income month after month!

The most important question is to ask yourself what are the first things you need to do to create your recurring income stream?

1. You want to begin by taking a look at your options:

There are several ways to create a residual income. For example, some of the things you can do are:

* Create a membership site

* Promote a membership site as an affiliate

* Start a service that you can provide to others (such as coaching)

* And there are many more ways – these are just the most popular ones that I know can work.

2. Then choose on option and create a plan to implement it:

For instance if I wanted to promote a membership site in a niche that I enjoy. I’d search for a membership site I could promote, plan out how to promote it, and then plan how to get targeted traffic to that site.

I’d get it all set up, get traffic to it, and work on it until I got it to the income level I wanted, and then just work a little here and there to keep the income level steady (and hopefully rising).

The key here is to pick ONE thing and focus on it! Most of us try to get into way too many niches, spreading ourselves so thin that we can’t even think straight… that’s why we fail. So focus on ONE thing until you get it in profit… then

3. Keep repeating one success at a time until you have an empire…

Once you get on stream of recurring income coming in, you’ll need to start on your next one. There’s nothing worse than ‘putting all your eggs in once basket’ and watching your entire income being taken away from you because you chose the wrong niche.

So make sure that you’re setting up multiple streams of recurring income. Don’t be afraid to try private label rights options (PLR) and use them to create your own product from. It’s ok to use someone else’s content – expand it – add more to it – and create something brand new out of it without having to start from scratch!

That’s really all there is to it – other than knowing how to get started without ‘reinventing the wheel’ in the process. That’s where Liz’s product will make a HUGE difference in your learning curve and the speed at which you accomplish your goals.

If you need help getting started, there is a great course out called Monthly Money Sites that can help immensely.

This is a step-by-step course that takes you through 6 different lessons on creating a residual-income that pays you even when you’re not working!This is the real deal, and you’ll be shown by a recurring income expert exactly how to create multiple streams of residual income quickly and easily…

Now it’s time for you to take action. Creating multiple streams of recurring income will be the best thing you could ever do for your business, and will also allow you to work less, make more, and spend more time doing the things you love.

Get started today on that dream lifestyle! Go here to learn all about it from an expert in the biz: http://wecommend.com/go2/C2R4v

Wishing you complete success,

Donna :)

It’s totally unreal to me why he sells products so cheaply during “crazy week” but he does.  I took FULL advantage today and got myself a Video Branding Product that will allow me to do more than the expensive competitor that does less (think Affiliate Video Brander) for a measly $12… update May 25 – sure enough, he kept his word and the price is still really good – at $27 (don’t wait until he raises it AGAIN!)   Grab Video Monetizer Here.

I’m not going to make this post super long… it’s really a no-brainer even if you’re broke (you won’t be for long using this outstanding little tool… yes I’ve tried it and it works like a charm) see my video made with this product here: http://recommendedbyme.com/video_blog/

So, don’t wait - this price only lasts until April 30th and then it will be GONE forever (and I’ve dealt with Dirk for awhile now and he is also a ‘man of his word’ about these issues… which is good).  (As you can see when you visit the site, the price I paid IS gone… but it’s still a really good deal, and very easy to use!)

Grab Video Monetizer and start making some real affiliate cash!

Donna

Edmund Loh, the marketer I bought from yesterday,  is releasing the Private Label Rights to his latest collection of BRAND NEW, smoking HOT products.  Not just 10 or 20 but 48 of them!

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Edmund is offering over 48 brand NEW, High Quality products that you can get the FULL Private Label Rights to… along with several unique and tremendously useful bonuses, too… this is a package you gotta SEE to BELIEVE!

With these products, here’s just a ‘short list’ of some of the things you can do with them:

*** Put your name on them as the author,

*** Edit the contents, graphics, covers, titles, and put in your affiliate links,

*** Set up mini sites and sell them individually and pocket 100% of the sales,

*** Chop up the product contents into multiple articles and short reports for your viral marketing campaigns,

*** Offer the (Master) Resell Rights and sell at a higher price,

*** Re-brand or offer Re-branding Rights to the products,

*** Resell the Private Label Rights (as applicable to products with PLR & Master Rights – see terms),

*** And so much more!

Visit here to see it ALL today =>  Get 48 New PLR Products + Articles + Gigantic Bonuses & MORE!

Here’s to expanding YOUR Online Empire – by 48 times the size! :-)  And to making a TON of profit with this package that I definitely *do* recommend.
Wishing you the utmost success!

Donna Maher

P.S. You will also discover more than a thousand dollars worth of Superb Extra Bonus Deals that can enable you to profit even more from these products almost immediately.

Click here now & improve YOUR bottom line: Ginormous PLR Package From Ed Loh

It’s still free because it’s still in beta… but not for long.  Odd name, not yet sure what Qassia means… but I joined and I hope you’ll go and join Qassia too.

Why would you want to join?  Free promotion!!  More traffic!! and…

Quality backlinks (without the dreaded no-follow attached) to your websites – you know what that means, more traffic and you didn’t pay a dime to get it… and they don’t require reciprocity (that’s refreshing!).

Establish your know-how: You can publish original or other useful content there and add links to those, too!  They call these articles “intel” not to be confused with the computer guys, but significant intelligence… sharing intel from your own or someone else’s brain… as long as it’s not any of the nasty site stuff… you know?  Clean, intelligent, family rated information worthy of being shared.

Qassia Credits: You earn them by reading other people’s “intel” and rating it, you earn by adding your own sites, you earn by adding intel.  It’s just plain COOL!

They have so much for you there, it’s just nuts not to join!  I already like it better than MySpace or Facebook… because it’s different from them, not full of flashing adverts and ‘in-your-face’ marketing tactics which MySpace reeks of. 

You’re getting in on the ground floor of a great opportunity for exposure for you AND your business.  Go!  Join Qassia!  You’ll thank me later!

Have fun & prosper,

Donna

And Robert Plank is just a doggone nice guy.  Anything that Robert creates is top quality, I know, because my hard drive is full of his products and creations that I’ve bought.  He is an easy-to-follow teacher who doesn’t talk gibberish you can’t understand but rather renders his tutorials in easy English that nearly anyone can understand.

He takes his time, he gives you understandable examples… he’s just amazing, IMHO.  Anyway, today I got my hands on his newest ebook Head First PHP and here’s a bit more about it:

Now You Can Learn How To Install And Create Your Own PHP Scripts, Enhance Your Web Pages, Design Interactive Communities All By Mastering The Power of PHP Programming!

If you have always wondered how PHP programmers are making a fortune creating useful and profitable scripts, or you just want to save a ton of time and money by learning how to install scripts on your server, Head First PHP is a comprehensive tutorial guide that will take you through the basics of PHP programming.

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages used by coders and web developers, and fortunately, it’s also one of the easiest to master.

Better yet, if you want to take control of your website in a whole new way, PHP can make it exceptionally easy to manage your entire website, update templates on the fly, and add polls, surveys and other useful tools that will help you get more out of every single area of your website.

How?  Just go see for yourself – hurry, it’s a dimesale (at least it is today as of this writing!) and goes up ten cents with every sale.  Grab PHP For Beginners today!!

I’m glad I got my copy – I’ve always wanted to learn how to program with PHP! (Now I have to get busy studying!)

Donna

This review covers a really cool membership site script which I purchased.  It actually does what the sales page says it will do.  It has some nice extra features and would serve you very well setting up a member site without breaking the bank.

The script is called Viral Mini Sites Script - love the fact that you can use it on unlimited domains (many scripts make you buy multiple licenses if you want to use their scripts on more than one domain, which stinks for the consumer but is great for the vendor’s wallet).  Thankfully, this one is NOT one of those… you buy it once, you get all the upgrades, and you can customize it to your heart’s content.

You also get PDFs with great ideas from the software creator himself on how to put this script to work for you – great ideas I would never have thought of all of them on my own.  You just have to read the page to see everything it can do and if it’s the one you want, I’d hustle… it will go up in price to the full $147 (still worth every buck) once the limitation is reached on the $97 price currently in effect (Feb 2008) and I don’t expect it to last long.

I created a header & footer graphic for my site, opened up my free HTML editor (NVU) and copied and pasted the HTML from the admin area and started ‘playing’ around.  I came up with a nice “look” for my site in a very short time.  For those not artsy, I’m going to include some header & footer graphics as my personal bonus if you order this script using my link instead of someone else’s. 

It’s NOT finished by a long shot… but if you wanna peek at what I’ve gotten done so far just click & visit – it opens a new window so you won’t lose your place: My VMS site beginnings.

You can see it’s still very basic, and I added a help desk graphic & link at the bottom so that people can *always* get in touch with me if they need me.  That’s just part of what I’m doing to customize… it all takes time and I’ve got one of those over-full platters just like you and everyone else I know of these days.  But we persevere!

I’ll keep you updated on my site’s progress here… man, I wish I had a clone of me to put to work for myself!

More later,

Donna

That’s the whole purpose of this site… we will review and commend ONLY the highest-rated, best-performing products and services that we discover.  Review sites are a huge timesaver for you if they’re honest.  In my world, whether business or personal it’s the only way to be… totally honest (and boy does it get your feet in your mouth sometimes). 

The products and services that we review here, are things we’ve either used ourselves or we know someone who literally raved about them, or else they don’t get listed here… at least not in the ‘We Commend’ section!  (We will have a We Diss section as the site grows – that’s where the ‘poopy’ products will be listed and why)

This is an exclusive list, totally hand-picked software, ebooks, information products, videos, audio training products.  No junk, no bovine scatology, no fluff and no hype.  If we don’t like something, we’ll post that on the site too, and we’ll tell you exactly why.

And, if we do like something but it’s not quite *perfect* we’ll tell you what it is we don’t like about it, along with what we love about it… because ultimately the choice is up to you, whether or not you want or need it for your particular business or even for your life.  It’s just nice to hear what someone has to say about it in an unvarnished and up-front way.

And yes, since I am a retired RN, there will be health products on this site now and then, because how can you effectively market and work on your business if you feel like ‘warmed over pooh’?  Not very well… so it is apropos to marketing or any other profession to stay as healthy as possible every day of our lives.  It’s our most precious gift.

So sit back and relax and watch this site grow… of course it’s *not* going to be at lightning speed because I have several other ‘irons in the fire’ as the old saying goes, but I’ll do my level best to get it going ASAP.  Just to hold me accountable, this blog was installed 2-15-08 – that way if nothing gets posted by the end of a week… comment, nag me, let me know… please!

Much care and success to you,

Donna Maher