Monday, 12 November 2012

ProfitHacks Full Livestream Transciption ... or just the points that you REALLY need to know.

So like you, I met with a lot of obstacles watching the livestream. I will describe the problems later. 

Focus on: Value Creation and Outsourcing. 

The tasks that Pete set for the 6 hours in $400:

1. Forum Posting
Getting a VA to send you daily updates on the forums you want to be active in or add value to. (Or you can use google alerts.--thats by me.) Then record your audio response, have your team reply to forum thread and syndicate the responses. Do not go thru the forums, do not post yourself, do not spellcheck yourself. 

2. Podcasting
This is a valuable piece of content- can be used for audio, video and transcribe. Use Skype call recorder when doing interviews. Goes to the itunes and internet radio, create slides, videos, transcript (scribd),  
 
3. Create new info product
mindmap a plan, record an audio interview, use audio as content for leverage that output into different modalities. 

4. Responding to emails
Record your responses. Using TextExpander on Mac to churn out a longer email while typing a shortcuts. And attach your audio file. Theres also apps on iphone, eg Say it mail it. 

My take: fast for you, but its a longer time to load for your receivers. And does gmail have a Lab app for this? i personally prefer a transcribing app for my audio reply. 

5. Product marketing for new product

6. Client Q&A session
Ask for questions all at once. Then do an Q&A session that is preplanned ahead of time. Or do an audio recording of it. Use the responses and do Task 1,2,3. 

7. Two blog posts - outsource

8. Two guest posts to other blogs - outsource

9. Article for magazine - outsource

10. Two Youtube videos - outsource

11. Press releases - outsource

Pete also said:
- Focus on value adding VS mechanics - do not do the latter.
- Comparing himself to Tim Ferriss, who goes out to "beg" for networks, whereas he demonstrates himself as a market leader and have people come to him instead.
- We are scaring ourselves by creating the product and then creating the shop to sell the product, when we can leverage other people's stores to sell our product. Eg. amazon, magcast, clickbank.

Somebody thank me for using more than 4 hours of my time in exchange for 4 minutes of your time.
- Hiring and outsourcing: hire one person, if he has been submitting regularly and on time, then promote him after that to do the other stuff. 
 
Anybody caught anything else? Please share it in the comments below.
 
---Obstacles--
1. im on the other side of the world, so 3pm EST means 3am for me on a weekday!! I did my best... set multiple alarms and the results was.. I did not wake up. So I thanked God when their emails said they were going to send a video on the missed livestream, which was partially what I kinda expected anyway from these online programs.
2.  After I received the video, I had problems loading or even streaming the video.
 
3. The guy in black keeps repeating himself!!! And is really long-winded....

With Thanks, Andrea
8am-5pm, Mon-Fri, 8pm-9pm (emergency only)

+8 GMT, Singapore timezone. 

ProfitHacks Full Livestream Transciption ... or just the points that you REALLY need to know.

So like you, I met with a lot of obstacles watching the livestream. I will describe the problems later. 

Focus on: Value Creation and Outsourcing. 

The tasks that Pete set for the 6 hours in $400:

1. Forum Posting
Getting a VA to send you daily updates on the forums you want to be active in or add value to. (Or you can use google alerts.--thats by me.) Then record your audio response, have your team reply to forum thread and syndicate the responses. Do not go thru the forums, do not post yourself, do not spellcheck yourself. 

2. Podcasting
This is a valuable piece of content- can be used for audio, video and transcribe. Use Skype call recorder when doing interviews. Goes to the itunes and internet radio, create slides, videos, transcript (scribd),  
 
3. Create new info product
mindmap a plan, record an audio interview, use audio as content for leverage that output into different modalities. 

4. Responding to emails
Record your responses. Using TextExpander on Mac to churn out a longer email while typing a shortcuts. And attach your audio file. Theres also apps on iphone, eg Say it mail it. 

My take: fast for you, but its a longer time to load for your receivers. And does gmail have a Lab app for this? i personally prefer a transcribing app for my audio reply. 

5. Product marketing for new product

6. Client Q&A session
Ask for questions all at once. Then do an Q&A session that is preplanned ahead of time. Or do an audio recording of it. Use the responses and do Task 1,2,3. 

7. Two blog posts - outsource

8. Two guest posts to other blogs - outsource

9. Article for magazine - outsource

10. Two Youtube videos - outsource

11. Press releases - outsource

Pete also said:
- Focus on value adding VS mechanics - do not do the latter.
- Comparing himself to Tim Ferriss, who goes out to "beg" for networks, whereas he demonstrates himself as a market leader and have people come to him instead.
- We are scaring ourselves by creating the product and then creating the shop to sell the product, when we can leverage other people's stores to sell our product. Eg. amazon, magcast, clickbank.

Somebody thank me for using more than 4 hours of my time in exchange for 4 minutes of your time.
- Hiring and outsourcing: hire one person, if he has been submitting regularly and on time, then promote him after that to do the other stuff. 
 
Anybody caught anything else? Please share it in the comments below.
 
---Obstacles--
1. im on the other side of the world, so 3pm EST means 3am for me on a weekday!! I did my best... set multiple alarms and the results was.. I did not wake up. So I thanked God when their emails said they were going to send a video on the missed livestream, which was partially what I kinda expected anyway from these online programs.
2.  After I received the video, I had problems loading or even streaming the video.
 
3. The guy in black keeps repeating himself!!! And is really long-winded....

With Thanks, Andrea
8am-5pm, Mon-Fri, 8pm-9pm (emergency only)

+8 GMT, Singapore timezone. 

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

How to trick yourself to get what you need done and out the door as fast as humanly possible!

How to trick yourself to get what you need done and out the door as fast as humanly possible!
>> Create a deadline. Even if its a false deadline. 
From Yanik Silver. 

Put a date on the calendar for that event to happen, even if you do not know exactly how is it going to be done. 

For example, create Part one of the info products, open a series of webinars, seminars, then start selling it. Then once you get sales, then you would have to go on and create the others. 

Indigogo.com allows you to put out perks. Eg. first 10 people to sign up get a free part 1. Measures the level of interest. And the $ that came in keeps you on your toes. 

Kickstarter.com needs a funding goal. 

Get the word out. Hit the forums. 

How to trick yourself to get what you need done and out the door as fast as humanly possible!

How to trick yourself to get what you need done and out the door as fast as humanly possible!
>> Create a deadline. Even if its a false deadline. 
From Yanik Silver. 

Put a date on the calendar for that event to happen, even if you do not know exactly how is it going to be done. 

For example, create Part one of the info products, open a series of webinars, seminars, then start selling it. Then once you get sales, then you would have to go on and create the others. 

Indigogo.com allows you to put out perks. Eg. first 10 people to sign up get a free part 1. Measures the level of interest. And the $ that came in keeps you on your toes. 

Kickstarter.com needs a funding goal. 

Get the word out. Hit the forums. 

Monday, 8 October 2012

Reactions to Amy Cheong's racist rant questioned

Overreacting with the police ... "Both former Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong and media academic Ang Peng Hwa said Ms Cheong's comments were a racist rant, not a call for action, and were not calculated to cause enmity between races here. Mr Siew added that while this did not excuse the remarks, the police report was unnecessary."

"Professor Ang said that these days, Singaporeans automatically head to the police in such situations. "I don't feel the report is justified, but it is based on precedent, in a way," he said."


Reactions to Amy Cheong's racist rant questioned

Although most commentators and experts agree that Ms Amy Cheong deserved to be fired, many have questioned the huge response to her remarks - from the online vitriol to the police report lodged against her.

Check this out from ST

Reactions to Amy Cheong's racist rant questioned

Overreacting with the police ... "Both former Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong and media academic Ang Peng Hwa said Ms Cheong's comments were a racist rant, not a call for action, and were not calculated to cause enmity between races here. Mr Siew added that while this did not excuse the remarks, the police report was unnecessary."

"Professor Ang said that these days, Singaporeans automatically head to the police in such situations. "I don't feel the report is justified, but it is based on precedent, in a way," he said."


Reactions to Amy Cheong's racist rant questioned

Although most commentators and experts agree that Ms Amy Cheong deserved to be fired, many have questioned the huge response to her remarks - from the online vitriol to the police report lodged against her.

Check this out from ST

Monday, 1 October 2012

What is blog curation?

Blog curation is simply:
+ Taking a paragraph quotation of an interesting article
+ Adding your own thoughs.
+ A link back to the source

Blog curation is different from autoblogging whereby:
- Content is automatically posted from source, there is no reviewing
- Content taken wholesale or changed with word spinning (spinning is not a favorable method of Google either)

With Thanks, Andrea
8am-5pm, Mon-Fri, 8pm-9pm (emergency only)
+8 GMT, Singapore timezone.