How are you all -been a long while since I last blogged and no.. I haven’t been skiving or bunking off at all. So what exactly have I been doing for the past week – well first remember my post about getting my new pc?
Well guess, what I have one, in fact one that I have built and customised fully myself – it’s nothing special – it;s certainly not the whiz bang, ultimate supremacy in performance with fancy Intel Quad Cores, flashy ATI extreme graphics savages.
Instead I opted for a cheap upgrade at first – thinking of using some of my old PC components – eventually I end up building a new one for scratch i.e. new case, new processor, new memory, new hard drive etc…
For some, building a PC is like asking them to sort out a cable mess or to sweep the carpet with a toothbrush, for some it like eating breakfast each day.
I like to say I am in the latter half, although perfection got the better of me – why? I spent 3 hours waiting and queuing up to buy components, then travelled back home and built it that same evening. Only to find out later, I forgot something and that it was too noisy.
What did I do next? I went back next day and got myself a new processor fan, and went over crazy with sound deadening materials.
That’s right, sound proofing a pc – lol – I’ve used soundproofing material specifically made for PC and I’ve also gone and used sound proofing material for cars. It took me about an hour to sound proof as much as I could, applying the material to everywhere I could think of that would vibrate noise, cause rattle, horrible droning noise etc… and obbiously is safe to do so.
Basically, my pc is quiet, to some, some would say silent, but for me, it certainly was a lot better than when I first built it but it’s not super quiet or silent – that I guess would be something I hope to achieve one day.
So, why am I obsessive about quietness, silence and all this soundproofing malarky?
Well, it all started with my car but then hey what has the above got to do with the Secret Underground Project?
You see, it’s simple, I now have a machine which I like, I can work with and most importantly, it’s a machine built just for business and so it means I can now use it as the backbone for the Secret Underground project and oh yeah, the case is also black too so kinda fits the mysterious theme too lol.
Anyway what is the Secret Underground project Concept? It’s basically my secret plan for 2009 and how it will make me money whilst not having to be too publicly too. It’s all part of a strategy to become the…..
So part 2 of my Masterplan, well, you see I’ve been plotting planning away for the whole of last night and early hours in the morning as well as a few hours earlier on my latest masterplan aka referred modestly as the 2009 plan.
Now what is my masterplan for 2009??? Well let’s just say “Misdirection”
Or to quote from Swordfish and John Travolta’s Line
“What the eyes sees, the brain believes”
and it’s so true especially with the AJ Course I’ve been on.
You see, my eyes are seeing what Alex Jeffreys is telling me about how to set up an online business, and so my conscious mode of my brain believes this, however the obnoixus side of my unconscious brain mode is telling me this is all a facade.
Why? I joing the course to learn how to make money, to learn how to set up an successful online business, to learn how to intiate and run a succesful business, and CERTAINLY NOT to be also sold products to and get bombarded with Giveaways, offers, and ebooks which were prepared a decade ago which, not only is so outdate, that a new rewrite is on the cards and begging to be given a new lease of life.
Oh and did I mentioned that because of the pace this course has been going at, a lot of basework, skills and important steps have been missed out. I’m not going to point them out blaringly obvious but some topics include:
How to find a niche products
How to actually do follow up messages,
How to know what are the best products to promote,
How to spot out trends,
How to utilise blog to full extent in related to promoted product and finally,
How to contact established JV’s and to develop your buisness and yourself
How to get people on board with you and literally agree with everything you say, even if your wearing yellow trousers and you’re telling them it’s black.
Anyway, did you know that the squeeze page given is bad, bad, bad. I mean the top IM Gurus are using videos and putting a aweber form below it to promote their products.
Oh and before I forget, Did Alex ever mentioned anything about laws, business requirements to setting up our own online business for example, somebody disagrees or complains about the guide your selling or about your information – what do you do then?
Do you a) put a disclaimer in your ebook to tell the buyer /reader that all information contain should be read with due caution and that to seek professional advice if you are unsure about anything before venturing out or B) Just get out there, try and be careful, despite your branding yourself and putting your name out there. Plus your risking your own name and face if everything falls apart or goes pants up – just like self-employed entrepreneurs.
Yes, taking risk is thrilling and that is one of the reasons out or many I’m sure, why people venture out and become their own boss, the other is they just hate 9-5 day jobs and feel that it’s better to be in control of your own life or alternatively have health or family commitments and problems which are of operandi higher priority.
What I’m trying to say is this, don’t let your eyes misdirect you and making your brain believe that this is the one hit wonder, for some this might be the one for them especially if they are the selected one for the groomed to be success route, but as you will know, it’s part of manipulation.
But then again, are you going to be one of those who has been leashed by the mentor, put blinkers on, a bit gag and been lead on a nose hook into a bull ring with a red flag and a rampage of thundering bulls ready ot grab more money of you?
Or have you or will you be of those who either escaped or never entered and have hidden in the background and are watching the rest of those who have been led into the bull ring i.e. the audience around the bull ring and enjoy taking the ridcule mock out of those led into the in the bullring blindedly and utter after the fight has finished “Oh, well just another coaching course – back to daily life again!”
So before I digressed again, what was my masterplan, well let’s just say you’ll find out sooner or later and by that time, if you are one of those who are gladly and love to be led into the bull ring with blinkers, and a bit gag…. well Best of Luck, if not, then Good Luck to you as well
Best Regards
PS: Misdirection, it’s like a love hate relationship or is it?
Welcome to the latest video – it’s basically a dance video spoof I made from the various collection of http://www.xtranormal.com animation videos clips I have made on there.
Right here it is:
Ladies and Gentleman, I like to present you “The Alex Jeffreys Dance!!!” *If possible – view it in HQ mode on Youtube*
Here, I hope you all enjoyed viewing it and so do you want to know how I came about this idea or how I created it. Then please read on.
You see, at first, it was certainly unexpected as I was reviewing the previous introduction video again and was thinking what to talk about in the next video, when a bright idea came when the credits were rolling.
How about a dance spoof video since I had made so many different test version. And so I set about making them.
So how did I first start, well previously I signed up for an account at
Xtranormal.com – and it’s basically an online based cartoon generating maker – think animoto and your part way there except the cartoons are already pre-made for you.
All you have to do is select a pre-mdae scene, choose whether you want 1 or two character in you movie, select your actor/actress out of the 30 odd characters availiable ( they all have different styles fo hair, clothes, make up, occupation etc…) Once done, you start typing what you want your characters to say, inserts any actions, expressions etc.. you want.
Oh and did I mention there is an auto camera angle perspective wizard which automatically adjust your camera angles on your character It’s certainly useful for those who don’t want to fiddle about, for me though, it takes aways some of the action, hence I prefer to manuallly set the different camera angles.
Once done, I sent them through the online based cartoon video based generating “they call it rehearsal” engine, (technical term should be rendering/processing) and then voila, video is done and I uploaded them to youtube.
I repeated these steps numerous time to get videos of the different characters.
Now after I had got all my videos rendered and processed, what I did instead was downloaded my new videos using the wonderful Firefox plugin Video DownloadHelper , once done, I sent them through a free program called WinFF which is wonderful tool for converting different video types.
Now, here’s the “what some would call hard but I can fun” part, and that is editing. It took me just over 10 hours, several Windows Movie Maker crashes and a 2 PC restarts to get the video sorted. I blame myself for not updating with Technology as I’m running an 4 year old machine, a 2.8Ghz P4 with HT disabled. Reason being my pc doesn’t like HT enabled, and fans go on full blast tornado mode which sorta deafens my ears.
Anyway, so I imported all the clips into Windows Movie Maker – this took like 3 hours to import and so I took this time to grab something to eat, watched a bit of TV which the first thing I saw was Channel 4 New with Barack Obama giving his Speech and coverage of the whitehouse parade etc.. with John Snow interviewing and promoting his blog as well – lol.
Anyway after 3 hours, I came back and started to edit the movie by arranging the clips in order, followed by snipping ,trimming, adjusting volume, syncing music etc.. to it – it didn’t take long – just an hour in total and then trouble struck!!!
My PC decided not to play any .WAV files, apparently a codec problem with Windows Media Player – bummer – I reallly didn’t know what happened as yesterday i.e. day before making dance video, it was playing all fine – I think it might be the new update patch – anyway, so I saved it and hopped on to my little brother machine, a vista based, quad core powerhouse and imported to Windows Movie Maker and hit hte publish movie button- It was great, it worked however I couldn’t view the finished product. Bummer!!!
So I had to copy the video onto a memory stick and imported it back onto my XP machine and wahey it worked and I viewed it numerous times and went back to Windows Movie maker to fine tune things – and so back and forth for an hour or so before I finally thought- that’s enough today, upload it to Youtube tommorow.
And so that brings it earlier today – da da!!! Launch day- touch wood, Youtube was working cool, video got uploaded about 30 minutes due to large file size and now let’s just see if it might be the next big hit – lol.
Right, like I said earlier on, I hope you have enjoy watching and I love to hear your comments and feedback about it… hehe
Now if you would like to make you own cartoon base video – check out :
www.xtranormal.com
(I suggest that you visit the site during out of day hours/work hours as the site is very busy and sometimes you could be staring at the blank video making wizard screen for more than 30 minutes.
The music was bought from an Royalty Free Music company called Dance Midi Samples which can be found at http://www.dancemidisamples.com/
Only issue, is you need some form of music program to arrange the midi/wav files to create a track. I used Fruity Loops.
Right, I best leave you all to it now and sorry about the long post but I thought it would best if I shared with you my experience and knowledge on how I created it.
Oh and yes although the video took a lot of hard work, time and effort to get it done, overall it was great fun making it and so I too have hope to inspire you to have perserverance even when things don’t go according to plan, as the end result will be worth it!!!
Yesterday had been a one of them days when everything didn’t seem or go according to plan. You see, as I told you all previously,
I was hoping to get my video all done by the weekend, or latest yesterday i.e. 1 hour ago.
However as always, things never go quite to plan and it all began in the morning when I tried to do my video processing.
First, my pc decided to play up and not connect to my internet wifi box, next, it decided that it would not load any Adobe Flash 10 plugins/web elements and finally, the ADSL modem cable which run down the stairs got snagged and torned.
Yep, it wasn’t the best of all start, so anyway, I quickly sorted out these problems, only to find out that where I had stored my video, the file I had saved, didn’t save properly and all the work done previously had dissapeared, and so it was back to square one.
But then talk about failing forwards, I originally planned that I would do a video of myself talking howeve, my voice was just terrible, I sounded like a high pitch freak and there I have been thinking I had a mature voice all them years.
Anyway, the video certainly fulfills the mentioning of Alex ’s Blog and also my own blog, plus I think it also fulfills Maria Andro’s brief of making a video about ourselves. So okay, turns out I have ot use a computer voice instead of my own voice, as it
How are you all and I have a special annoucement for you all *drum roll please* da da!!
I present you Newbies Guide to membership site!
It’s a PLR ebook which I bought recently, but I have extensively rewritten the majority of it to make sure it was more fittingly to the current world with a few examples from what I have noticed from our current AJ Course too.
The guide itself discusses why membership sites are the latest thing to make money online, why you should be doing and hints and ideas on how you too could start your own membership site and make a continous steady stream of income.
It is certainly something that will hopefully become useful and something you may want to consider doing
Firstly I like to apologise about the few hours that the site was down for mainataince however, I was busy putting up the intro you saw and there was a bit of delay issue with the hosting in redirecting the webpages. Please let me know what you think about – I would love to know as to where I should keep it or not keep it. Thanks in advance.
Now, I am currently working on a new eBook as all will know and it’s going to be quite different compared to Lights Camera Action.
Yes, thats right, I’m been researching, analysing and currently working on something that I recently bought as a PLR eBook and I have turned it around completely something that I hope whoever reads this, will gained a great insight to something that is worthwhile setting up in the future. The reason being that it’s to do with ideas on setting up your own membership sites and making money from it.
Now, I’m not someone who regularly like to hype things up – remember my Lights Camera Ebook, I launched it the same day as Alex’s long awaited “Social Media Money” Webinar and nobody knew about it – and I think it was all the same week as Garry’s Newsletter as well.
It’s going to be a paid eBook retailing at $27 and because I’ve uploaded it to clickbank as well and I’ll be putting an affiliate page on the site as well for those who may be interested in promoting it which ofcourse it’s voluntary.
Here’s the best part though, becasue for every customer your direct/refer to my site who makes a sale, I will give you 50% commission.
Oh and did I mention, if you don’t want to, you don’t have to host anything either unless you decide to make your own squeeze page and direct customers to my site. You could just simply put a link on your blog or send it out to your mailing list with the linking code.
Okay thats all from me now, Sorry I’ve been shouting everyone, but as you can see I am absolutely, totally, ecstatic about this, infact I doubt I might even sleep for the next couple of days.
All the best
Nigel
PS: please check back soon as I will clickbank referall link up!!! Thanks!!!
So how are you all and how was module 5 or was it module 6, I really don’t know let’s call it module 5.5. instead to keep things simple. Which brings me on to what Alex was telling us – K.I.S.S.
That’s not snogging btw, it’s about keeping things simple or as Alex put it
“Keep It Simple Stupid“
Yes okay, I not saying that your stupid, I know I am, because I seem to forever complicating things when there’s always probably a simple solution outthere but then maybe I should adopt the creative graphics side of my brain into this as well as I love minimalist designs such as the Bauhaus, Le Corrbieser, Ludwig Mies Van De Rohe and also anything Swedish, yes that includes Ikea and Volvo but hey, thats another story for another day.
So apart keeping things simple, Alex was giving us a psychological philosophical lecture as well and that was about being
“HyperAware”
I like to think it as being the subconcious of the obnoxious shadow in the conscious state of mind, when the brain is functioning in defunct “Life” mode.
To explain that a bit further, it’s basically a state of mind where you are beyond awareness. It’s like doing something your unaware of but to others seem like you know what you are doing and no it isn’t related to day dreaming and doing things auto-pilot either.
It’s like today, when I was shopping around for a video webcam in PC World (still haven’t got one yet) and whilst I was looking at the display of various webcams, my mind suddenly clicked and told me – somebody is behind me, and I turned back, thinking in my conscious mind that I must be imaging things, but I wasn’t. There it was, a female assistant with a wireless network card was behind me looking at where to replace the object that was left lying around the store.
The thing that freaked me out that – she wasn’t making a noise, she didn’t have perfume nor was she heavy footed either, she stopped for a moment and that was when my brain just clicked – I mean how????
How are you all and WOW!!! what a module it has been and I feel so lucky to be one of the privileged ones to have made the call last night, and to have shared the wisdom from what I would say, are two of most inspirational gurus, humans beings, whatever you would like to call this guy and gal, I have ever met and heard. If these two gurus were wrapped into one then their name would be
How are you all, as some may know, I’m currently working on my next eBook which is derived from a PLR eBook. It’s currently being massacred and pulverised by me, lol.
How? Well with PLR eBook, as you may already know, you can buy them at a very low cost and modify them in any way you wish, providing that the author who originally wrote it, grants you
