End of Week Roundup: Good Stuff From Around the Web

Here's a quick recap of some of the stuff I found on web this week…that you shouldn't have missed.  Enjoy!

Richard Lee:
Richard Lee wrote a great post on getting over the fear of creating your first product for your Internet business.  Plus he gives some awesome strategies for relaunching a product later on if you decide to update it or improve it.  But the main point is that you can't improve something until you have SOMETHING to improve.  Or to quote a title from one of my favorite authors - Nothing Happens Until Something Moves (title of a book by Robert Ringer).  There were so many things in this post that struck a cord with me that I can't fit it all in here…keep an eye out for an upcoming post.

James Brausch:
James Brausch has a post covering a really cool mail management service that allows you to get postal mail via email.  This is something I've been meaning to try for awhile and just never got around to it.  Imagine never having to worry about dealing with junk mail again and putting the rest of your mail handling on autopilot.  This is core 4-Hour Work Week kinda stuff.  Just one more thing to outsource and one less thing to eat up time.  Check out James Brausch's post for more info, including a great idea for securely archiving important documents so you can get access to them anywhere in the world.  Wish I had known about this when I was in the military, moving around so often.  Thanks James!

Terry Dean:
Terry Dean offered up an MP3 recording of a conference call he did on how to choose profitable markets online.  The call was with one of his coaching clients on - a guy who's in something like 17 different online markets!  Okay, two caveats.  First, the MP3 isn't free but it'll only set you back 7 bucks, including transcript…insanely cheap for the value provided on the call (and no, I'm not an affiliate or anything like that).  Two, don't let the 17 markets thing scare you away or excite you, because neither one of these guys really recommend spreading yourself that thin.  In fact, that's one of the things they discuss on the call, though by doing so, his coaching client has been able to hone the process of finding, researching and entering profitable markets.  I listened to the call and thought it was extremely useful.  I have to admit, I wonder how long it would take to get good enough data to get the "green light" but you could easily setup a handful of tests in different markets as they describe during the call (probably in less than a day), then go with what ends up working out best.  Also, better to take your time and spend a little money in testing rather than go full throttle into a market and end up thousands of dollars in the hole…already almost played that game once myself and it's NO FUN!

Holiday Wishlists:
And finally, just in time for the holidays, a good friend of mine clued me in to a great little freebie online service (that I really wish I had thought of) that allows you to build your own wishlists for gifts and such.  Think of it sort of like what you can do on amazon.com but a service that works internet-wide.  You just sign up for an account, save a bookmark, then find stuff online you'd like to add to your list.  Click the bookmark you saved and it opens a quick little form where you can save an image of the thing, the description and the price.  You can share your list with others and they can choose items from there without you knowing who's getting you what.  I think it also keeps multiple people from getting you the same gift.  Anyway, seems appropriate since we're rolling into the holidays.

Here's the link:  www.wishlist.com

On to the weekend…

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