Computers – we all use them every day but do you know what goes on ‘under the hood’? I’m not exactly the most technically minded person, as my regular readers will know, but there are certain things you do need to understand.
Here are the basics for keeping your PC running smoothly.
Anti-virus Protection
This is ESSENTIAL! The second you connect to the Internet your computer is vulnerable to attack from people with nothing better to do than trash your computer, steal your bank and credit card details and spam everyone in your email address book.
Your PC may already have come with something like Norton installed – make sure it is turned on and updating regularly (at least once a day).
My preferred security system is AVG – you can download a free trial version but I urge you to get the paid version ASAP. Kaspersky is another security system with a strong track record.
Your Internet browser
If you have a PC then you are probably using Internet Explorer to access the Internet. As this is the default browser for most PC users it is the one that is also susceptible to the most Internet nasties.
Firefox Internet browser
Protect yourself by using the more secure FIREFOX. It is free to download and use. Installing Firefox will not take your IE browser away – click on whichever you prefer to get online. Click the button below to install Firefox.
No Script
Once you have FIREFOX installed, download the addon No-Script. This nifty little piece of software blocks many of life’s annoyances, like videos that crash your computer or endless ‘Are you sure’ boxes when you try and leave a site.
Once you have NoScript installed you will need to spend a little time telling it what’s OK.
When you open a site you will see a little beige bar running along the bottom of the screen. Click on the Options button, just above the NoScript logo at the bottom right and you can choose which sites to allow. You will need to allow the site you are viewing (the bit that allows you to get paid is a script).
Sometimes you will need to allow more than one script per site – if things aren’t working the way they should then select ‘temporarily allow all this page’. If NoScript is causing the problem then this will solve it.
Once you know which scripts are essential you can choose to allow them permanently or you may prefer to temporarily allow the script each time you log into the site.
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Flock
As with all tools, you do need to understand how to use it effectively. The very things that make NoScript a great add-on also makes it a royal pain in the behind so a simple and practical solution that I use is to have Firefox installed with NoScript for surfing and Flock (great for social networking) for general surfing, blogging and dealing with emails.
Spyware remover
Spyware is little bits and bobs of code left on your computer that records which sites we visit and what we do online so that advertisers can better target us for their products.
Although generally harmless, they do slow your computer down. You can quickly and easily get rid of them with a program like Ad-aware – free to download. Run it once a week or so to keep things clean.
Keep your computer running smoothly
If you think you can guess what the ‘c’ stands for, you are right!
Download this nifty bit of free software and set it to run at start up – this will take care of much of your PC house-keeping for you automatically.
Disk cleaner
This tool is built into Windows. Your PC tries to be helpful by remembering all sorts of stuff. The result is it gets bogged down so get into the good habit of running disk cleaner every day before you shut down your computer.
If you’ve never used disk cleaner this is how
- Click on your start button, then on Control Panel
- Click on Performance and Maintenance
- Click on the third option down Free up space on your hard disk
- A pop-up box with a progress bar will appear.You can carry on with other things while it is working although your computer might be a little slower than usual. Great time to put the kettle on!
- Once it has finished deciding what it needs to do a different box will appear, listing what could do with a clean. Click OK and yes when it asks you if you are sure.
- Once its has finished it will close the disk cleanup tool down – you don’t need to do anything else.
- If you click your Start button again you will see Disk Cleaner listed – right click on it and select ‘pin to start menu‘. This makes it a bit quicker to find next time
Disk defrag
This is another Windows tool you need to be familiar with.
You know the sort of tidy-up you do when you see the mother-in-law walking down the path? This is exactly what your computer does when you install something – it stuffs little bits wherever it finds a bit of space. Obviously, it then has to hunt for all the pieces to run the programs and this is where the disk defrag tool comes in.
Defragmenting programs means they are all put away neatly on your hard drive so the programs run faster.
Steps 1 and 2 as above but this time click on Rearrange items on your hard disk to make programs run faster.
Click on the little box picture that says HDD next to it (under volume) then click on the Analyze button near the bottom. You will see coloured lines start to appear in the bit under ‘estimated disk usage before defragmentation‘. Green is ‘good’, red is ‘bad’.
Once it has run the analysis a pop-up box will appear. It may say ‘you do not need to defragment this volume’ but if you see any red lines then go ahead and click Defragment anyway.
Once it has finished it will ask you if you’d like to view the report – this would mean absolutely nothing to me so I’d have to admit I never bother!
Running the defrag tool once a week should be often enough.
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The Internet was primarily designed to share information. Whatever you need to know, you are certain to find helpful information on any topic you are interested in.
This is perfect if you are looking to build your own home business – Google is quite happy to offer you literally millions of sites, full of information on home business promotion.
This obviously makes the Internet a fantastic tool but how can you avoid getting confused from too much information? Here are my top tips.
- Focus! There is so much information that it can leave you completely overwhelmed. To try and make sense of all the home business advice and tips on offer to you always try and research a particular topic first. For example, a search for “low cost website visitors” will return a more manageable list of suggestions than “website traffic”
- Think! With so much information from so many different people, there will be contradictions. This does not necessarily mean that some information is right and some is wrong – some information may be out of date, or work well in a specific circumstance (not necessarily the same as yours). If in doubt, apply common sense – if it wouldn’t work in the ‘real’ world then chances are it is just as bogus online. If a piece of information does seem to make sense then narrow your search down for related information to support each theory.
- Interview! Where is this information coming from? If you can find evidence that the source of the information is successful and respected in that field then it may well be worth taking note of what they have to say. No point re-inventing the wheel!
- Apply! No amount of information will do you any good if you don’t actually apply it. Narrow down one way to apply the information and then do it. A little concentrated effort in one direction will soon tell you whether this information will work for you. If it does, research how to do it even better. If it doesn’t, find out why!
- Build! Once you have one strategy working well for you, go find another to try along-side
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Does your mind go blank as soon as you click ‘new post’? Here are 6 tips for beating writers block.
Tip 1 – Pick a subject you enjoy
Choosing the wrong subject is the fastest way to guarantee failure. It is hard enough to schedule enough time to spend on our home businesses as it is, without picking a subject we find about as enjoyable as root-canal work!
My husband is a huge fan of football (that’s real football, not the variety of tank warfare the Americans play, lol).
I ‘could’ produce a website about his favourite team – Manchester United. They are a hugely popular team world-wide (demand), there is plenty of branded merchandise (opportunity to earn money), they seem to play quite a lot (source of fresh material) and my husband would be happy to fill in any gaps in my knowledge (expert advice to fall back on).
To say my eyes glaze over when he starts rambling on about football is a massive understatement. That’s pretty much the same reaction as I get from him when I try to interest him in my home business, come to think of it!
As a wife and mother I have to be able to fit my business round my family commitments and for me that means a 4am start. What are the chances of me getting up that early, day after day, to write about football? I’m pretty disciplined yet I would imagine a week at most!
Pick a subject you are enthusiastic about – it’s far easier to come up with words about a subject you enjoy!
Tip 2 – Don’t wait for inspiration
The process of writing is what triggers creativity so it’s no good waiting for inspiration. Just start writing and see what happens. One idea will lead to another and soon you’ll start making connections that inspire yet more ideas. Before you know it you’ll be amazed at what you start to produce.
As you write and the ideas start to flow you will get a great perspective on what your reader wants from you. You will naturally write about the topics that are most relevant and you consider most important. Your target reader is likely to agree with you!
Keyword lists can be a great starting point but they are also very limiting. People don’t think in a linear way, we are masters at linking seemingly irrelevant topics. To return to the subject of football (very briefly, I promise) a typical keyword list might include obvious topics such as ‘players’, ‘results’, ‘fixtures’. If you did a Google search you might also look for ’satellite TV’ (to watch more matches), ’sports-wear’ (‘cos you’ve got to have this year’s football shirts, apparently) maybe even ‘flights to Russia’ (or wherever that crucial final is).
Tip 3 – Don’t sweat the small stuff
When you start writing, don’t think about spelling, grammar, keywords, optimisation, formatting, headings etc – just write as if you are having a conversation with your readers down the pub. Nothing kills creativity faster than stopping to nit-pick how you are writing. There is plenty of time to tidy it up once you’ve got it all written down.
My favourite tool when writing blog posts is Notepad (if you haven’t tracked it down yet it’ll be lurking in the Window’s program list under Accessories). Once you have all your words down then you can paste it into Blogger or WordPress, without anything too odd happening to the formatting, then turn the spell-checker loose on it and tidy it all up.
Tip 4 – Set a deadline
If there’s one thing I hate even more than football it’s ironing. Thinking ‘I should tackle the ironing mountain – it’s starting to take over the whole kitchen’ rarely moves me to action. Change that to ‘I’ve got to iron the kids school uniform – there’s none left and they leave in an hour’ and that ironing board is whipped out pronto. Set specific goals in your writing and stick to it! Define what and by when and you will start to develop good self-discipline in your work.
You’ll also appreciate the value of every hour and every minute in the day – good time-management skills are essential to the home business owner.
Focus like a laser beam and try to complete your writing project ahead of schedule. Manana (tomorrow) generally translates into never!
Tip 5 – Make it comfortable to write
If you are perched on the edge of a stool in the kitchen then it’s far harder to write. Trying to write when the TV is blaring and the kids are pestering you every five seconds is never going to be easy. Try and find a place that is physically comfortable to write in and a time when you can focus without interruption.
I may be a little old-fashioned but I much prefer to write on a desktop PC at my desk. If I’m only checking emails or browsing forums then the lap-top in bed is fine. Especially if it’s while the football is on!
Successful writing is all about letting the ideas flow. If you use the ‘hunt and peck’ style of typing then writing is likely to be slow and painfully awkward – hardly conducive to creativity! There is nothing to stop you writing the old fashioned way with paper and pen to produce your basic content.
There’s no need to be an expert typist but life will be far easier if you master at least the basic skills. Spending a little time learning how to type ‘properly’ will pay dividends.
Tip 6 – Stop making excuses
It’s always easy to come up with excuses! If your excuses to not do something are stronger than your reasons to knuckle down and do it then guess what, you don’t do it.
“I don’t have enough time to write”
Does this mean you really don’t have enough time or you don’t want to spend the time you have on writing? If you don’t have the motivation to do something then you’ll never find the time to do it.
Do you really not have enough time to run your business anyway or do you need to use your time more efficiently? If you are sitting in front of the TV for hours every night then you could use that time more productively. You could always tape your favourite show to watch as a reward for completing a task….
Where does your time go? Spending a lot of time doing something because you find it easy does not necessarily mean that you are working efficiently. Spending time in forums and checking email is important but do the results justify the time you spend on them? More crucially, does the time you spend on them develop your business more than the things you aren’t doing potentially could?
Is it true that you really can’t squeeze 15 mins, two or three times a week to spend writing? That’s plenty of time to make two or three blog posts a week (yes, really!). Even if you do have time to write something that rivals ‘War and Peace’ in length, do your website visitors have time to read it? Probably not so little and often is the way to go.
Thinking that writing is a good idea just because you read that it is a good idea doesn’t mean you are committed to doing it. Be crystal clear about what you are hoping to achieve by writing. Examine the alternatives carefully.
1) You could just copy/paste other peoples work onto your site. If you use other people’s work then you must give them credit. Even if your reader’s don’t know that you have stolen someone else’s words, Google certainly will.
2) You could hire a ghost-writer – Elance.com is a good place to go if you choose this route. This is clearly preferable to option 1 above but is far from ideal. Writing your own material tells your reader far more than your words say – it gives them an insight into who you are by the words you use and the style you write in.
In the often faceless world of the Internet marketing this is of key importance. People do business with people first, then look at the product. Whether you are primarily an affiliate or network marketer, other people are offering something very similar, if not identical, to you. How can you make yourself stand out from the crowd? By offering something unique – YOU!
Commit to spending 10 mins a day writing, every day, for the next two weeks. You don’t have to publish what you write, just spend time writing something. This will build the habit of writing regularly into your schedule. Who knows, you might even find you can spend a little more time writing and you may even start to enjoy it…..
“I’m no good at writing”
You may well be correct and you are no good at writing…….yet! Even if you are born with a talent for something you still need to work on it. We are all born with the talent to walk yet our early efforts were hardly accomplished, were they?
Be realistic about what you need to achieve. I’m not expecting Gordon Ramsey to come begging me for cooking tips yet my family are well nourished. Imagine I put off feeding them until I had perfected a recipe…..
You are not writing a text-book. You are not writing a scientific paper that will be critiqued by your peers. You are writing stuff that normal, everyday folk will find interesting and/or entertaining.
Write the same way you talk. Don’t use language or words that you wouldn’t normally do. Write the same conversation you would have if you met your reader in person. That’s what people, and especially blog readers, are looking for. There’s plenty of information online already that’s dull as ditch-water so lighten up a little.
Don’t try too hard. We’ve all met people a little like this at parties and what do we do? Don’t you think your readers will do the same thing? They don’t even need to worry about offending you as they can slip away completely un-noticed. Who wants to listen to an endless lecture on a subject, no matter how technically perfect? Nobody!
There are certainly things you can do to improve your writing such as good grammar and spell-checking. Good formatting of your content makes your writing easier to read and basic SEO skills will improve your search engine rankings but all of these technical things are far less important than you may think.
You may think you are no good at writing but you are wrong! It ain’t broke so don’t try and fix it – you can smooth off the rough edges later.
Beating writers block: summary
The most important tip for beating writer’s block is to start writing! Just get something down, make a habit of doing it regularly and before you know it, you’ll be churning out words at a speed to make a newspaper hack jealous!
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If you are an Internet marketer then you are going to receive a lot of email! Spend a few minutes setting up the Google-mail tools to keep your email under control.
Inbox/Spam
It is fairly obvious what these are for. Google will put your emails into one of these two folders, based on the track record of the sender and the settings you have in place.
What is spam?
Spam (also known as UCE – unsolicited commercial email or UBE – unsolicited bulk email) is NOT the messages you have no interest in! If you have opted into a subscriber list or joined a program then you have agreed to receive emails from them. If a message arrives in your spam folder and it’s email you have agreed to receive, please do take a second to click the ‘not spam’ button.
If someone contacts you out of the blue trying to flog you something then don’t hesitate to ‘report spam’. If you aren’t sure whether you agreed to receive emails from that person or not then take a quick look at the end of the message – if it says something along the lines of ‘you are receiving this message because you contacted us’ then it probably is spam (some people seem to think that if they sign up to your auto responder they can send you junk) or ‘if you have received this message in error please click here to unsubscribe/ send an email with the subject line ‘unsubscribe me’ then this is probably a spam message.
Some spammers even have the bare-faced cheek to tell you that reporting messages as spam when they are not is illegal (which it is in some parts of the world) yet seem to have forgotten that it is just as illegal to send spam!
Legitimate email senders will tell you when you signed up, from where and offer a ‘one click’ unsubscribe link.
Important! For your own protection read the CAN-SPAM Act – each email in violation of the CAN-SPAM act is subject to penalties up to $16,000!
Set Up Filters and Labels
Understand how to use the in-built filters and your emails will be much easier to manage. You can choose to set up filters and labels by program, program type or any way you want to.
1. From the ‘More actions’ button, select ‘Filter messages like these’ from the drop down list
2. You will see the email address of the sender already filled in – you can leave this as it is and/or add other key words to sort out your incoming mail. Once you are happy, click ‘next step’.
3. All that’s left to do now is select the actions you want to take. I suggest you click the ’skip the in box’ and ‘apply the label’ buttons (click the ‘choose label’ drop down, ‘New label’ and call it whatever makes sense to you and select ‘never send it to spam’.
4. You will see a list of emails from your in box that your new filter would select – click the ‘also apply label to xx conversations below’ and then click the ‘Create Filter’ button.
You will now see the filters you have created listed on the right hand menu. Google will display the ones you use most often with ‘more’ underneath – drag and drop your choices to edit the list. When you get an email into one of your filters you will see the filter title in bold and the number of new emails in brackets.
Googletalk
Googletalk is a chat program you can quickly install – not only does it give you an instant messenger, you will get little snippets of incoming emails appear at the bottom of your screen while you are working. This means that you can keep an eye on your incoming messages and react quickly if it’s a request for help or notification of a time-sensitive offer without having to log into Googlemail umpteen times a day.
I tend to use Googlemail alongside Skype – these two messengers make you easily reachable to most of the people you would want contacting you, without the security issues surrounding some other instant messenger systems.
Other Gmail features
Set up indicators of whether the email was only sent to you, change the background, set it to UK, rather than US English, set it up a vacation mode…. there are many features you can play around with. If you run into a problem then Gmail Help is a good place to start.
If you really want to get organised then read use Google to clean up your life!
Unsubscribe
If you are drowning in email you never have time to read then it may be time to start weeding. I hate unsubscribing from anything because I get upset when someone ‘un-subs’ me but it is very easy to end up subscribed to far too many email newsletters.
It is an acceptable and effective practice to offer a report or ebook in return for an email address but if you have no interest in the follow-up emails then unsubscribe. You can always change your mind and sign up again later on. The more subscribers a marketer has on their email list, the more expensive their auto responder bill so you could argue you’re doing them a favour!
Email in-boxes can be one of the biggest time-traps for Internet marketers – get your email under control today!
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Internet marketers are certainly a chatty bunch and one of our preferred tools for communication is email. Your choice of email address is therefore crucial. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot by making a bad choice of email provider – read on!
Email filters
How many emails do you get each day? 10? 100? 1000? 10,000? (yes, really!) The answer is probably more than you will ever know as the first enemy of the email marketer can be the email service providers themselves.
Every email provider has a series of filters in place that sort through all the emails you are sent and decides which messages you will actually ever know about. This may sound like a good idea but it can really cause problems for you. There will be messages you have asked for that they will block and yet the bogus and spam emails still seem to get through.
Perhaps you may well think that anything that thins down the number of emails arriving each day sounds like a good idea but don’t forget that the same applies to the emails you send: Someone contacts you asking for more information about whatever you are offering but is left assuming that you couldn’t be bothered to reply as your carefully worded reply never reaches them.
Top of the ‘oh-no’ list of email providers is Yahoo and AOL (which is why most programs won’t even let you use email addresses from these companies to join) but there are filters you have no control over on every email account, even the ones on your own domain. You can improve the odds of emails you want reaching you by ‘white-listing’ the sender (adding the sender as a ‘contact’ usually works) but even this won’t guarantee you get the messages you want.
Email capacity
The other factor to be aware of is the volume of emails you are allowed to receive – once your mailbox is full then emails will be ‘bounced’. Not only will you miss out on information that could have been useful, this will also result in your affiliate memberships being canceled.
The reason for this is simple – if someone sends an email to an email address that refuses to accept it they will be flagged as a potential spammer, even if it’s a ’soft bounce’ from an overfull inbox. Think how many affiliates a popular program has and you can see why this could cause a problem.
Best email for marketers
The best solution for Internet marketers is GMail/Googlemail – they let more of your email through than most, have a huge capacity and a number of built-in tools to make your life easier. Best of all, it’s free!
For Internet marketing you will need (at least two) email accounts – one will be your ‘contact’ address, the other your ‘list’ address. For your contact email address see if your name is available and perhaps use your user name for your list address. Your contact email address is your primary email address and the one you will use to join affiliate and network marketing programs. The list address will be invaluable when you start using marketing resources such as safe lists.
The free tools available to you through a Google Webmaster account are something we will be using regularly so open a Google account today!
Tomorrow, I’ll walk you through some of the tools to make managing your email easier.
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There are many people today who are using online marketing to their fullest advantage.
With a few savvy Internet marketing techniques, they make a good living from the comfort of home.
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“What’s in it for me?” This question, often abbreviated to WIIFM, is a crucial question to consider when writing your blog content.
Not what’s in it for us, the blogger, but what’s in it for our readers?
Give people what they want, the way they want it and you can get (almost) everything else wrong and still be a success.
If you’re blogging for business then it’s very easy to concentrate on features, rather than benefits. Features may well be tools that help us close a sale but they don’t answer the crucial ‘What’s in it for me?‘ question.
If I’ve got a headache then I want it to stop. I don’t particularly care that your headache remedy comes in eco friendly packaging and you operate a fair-trade policy. Sorry, but I don’t – I’m in pain, so cut me some slack here.
I don’t care that your product contains 37 natural products derived from ancient Amazonian folk-medicine, one of which can only be harvested from a yellow-spotted beetle during a full moon.
Your product makes my headache go away? Great! Now that’s the benefit I want. The rest of that stuff is just features.
The 60 million dollar question is “So What?“. Your product contains 37 natural ingredients? So what? One of these ingredients is really difficult to get hold of? So what? Your product will cure my headache, and do it faster than anything else on the market? Gimme, gimme, gimme……NOW! (Please notice, I didn’t even consider asking the price.)
Using a washing-up liquid that cleans the dishes without destroying all the wildlife in a 50 mile radius makes me feel better than one that is an eco nightmare. Me feeling better is a benefit.
How, exactly, your washing-up liquid cleans dishes without poisoning the waterways are features, not benefits. If your washing up liquid cleans dishes and makes me feel good then I will probably pay more for it – the benefit of feeling better is worth the extra pennies to me.
In other words, if you can touch it, it’s a feature. If you feel it, it’s a benefit.
If you are blogging for fun, then good for you but this doesn’t let you off the WIIFM hook. Presumably you would like people to read your blog. ‘People’ does not include your long-suffering partner or your Mum, I mean people you can’t emotionally bribe to read what you have written.
Even though you may not think you are selling a product, you are – YOU! If you’d like people to spend some of their precious time reading your blog content always think about what’s in it for your reader.
What does your reader want from your blog content? Are they looking for a quick ‘tea-break’ from life? Are they expecting a humorous anecdote? Have you offered to answer the eternal ‘what the *^%! do I cook for the kids dinner’ question?
Make no mistake, every blog writer faces huge competition so have something to say, say it in an interesting way but above all, make sure your readers know exactly ‘what’s in it for me’!
We all do it. We make list of New Year’s resolutions – lose weight, stop smoking, get fit, earn a gazillion dollars and retire to a sandy beach….
So, how’s it going?
We’re a little over a week into the New Year and how many of those resolutions are holding up?
My kids are still off school because of the snow so surely nobody can blame me for seeking solice in the biscuit barrel and as for not smoking, well, maybe next week!
I came across a site that I must admit I haven’t had time to explore fully but could be perfect for this time of year: Self Improvement Gifts 4.
Advertised as ‘the ultimate personal development giveaway’ it offers a selection of ebooks and downloads and a quick skim of the member’s area offered downloads on organisation and relaxation as well as a couple on business topics, such as lead generation and clickbank cash. If you’ve no idea what to do with that digital camera you got for Christmas there’s an ebook to help you with that to.
Being a cheap-skate I skipped all the offers and logged in as free member so why don’t you check it out too? This is a time-limited offer so put it off!
Please remember – downloading the ebooks and not reading them won’t help you any more than that exercise bike sitting in your garage is getting you fitter!
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Congratulations! We’ve all survived the silly season, sorry, festive season reasonably intact!
How did you do? Usual stock of socks, ’smellies’, candles and chocolates? Me too!
How many of your family are you still talking to?
Well, Santa didn’t bring me a pony again this year. That’s forty plus years of being good(ish) but still no pitter-patter of tiny hooves this year. I know the Christmas post can be a nightmare but surely he must have got the letter by now!
Of course, we all know that Santa isn’t real but there is something really appealing about some stranger granting wishes, isn’t there? A bit like our Internet businesses really. We all go on hoping, year after year, that this time we will make a gazillion pounds, retire to a sandy beach, earn enough to quit the day job, find the perfect program, etc
So how is it going? I would have to say that 2009 was a very profitable year……
…..for the owners of all the programs I joined, ebooks and courses I bought and advertising that nobody but me ever looked at, lol. Yep, even after all these years, when I really should know better, I still fall for the odd fairy-tale too!
Seriously, things weren’t all bad. A couple of programs are producing a nice steady income for me. These proved invaluable when my own programs were wiped out by a hacker. It’s always good to have a backup plan in case the wheels come off!
I sincerely hope that 2009 has been kind to you.What’s working for you? Post it in the comments (links welcome) and share the joy!
‘Tis the time for resolutions, for looking back and planning ahead and I’ll be doing the same on this blog over the next few weeks: reviewing the progams that are working and quietly resigning from the lemons.
There are a couple of new programs I’m testing, including a new one of my own 
so I’ll let you know when the results are in!
Until then
keep hoping and
DON’T PANIC!
Jacquie Barton