Many people justify their iPhone purchase by saying it will be used for serious stuff like keeping in touch, accessing email, and getting stock quotes.  Stuff to help their business, career or finance.

But the iPhone is much more useful than that!  Try setting up an iPhone for your favorite hobby and you will be very pleasantly surprised.

Here are some of the fun things I use it for.

1. iPhone Hiking on the beach

I love walking on the ocean beach near where I live. At low tide, I can find tidal pools with star fish, anemones and other sea creatures. My iPhone makes it a snap to find out when the low tides are with the Day Tides application and the weather app tells me how to dress for my hike.

2. iPhone Cooking

Like to cook? the iPhone Big Oven app has 160,000 recipes you can search along with ratings from other users.

3. iPhone For eBooks

I am a diehard science fiction and fantasy reader. Stanza has 1,000s of great free ebooks you can download to the iPhone along with the ability to buy current books. And when I am browsing offline book stores, I keep a copy of my book library list on my iPhone in pdf format so I can find books I am missing from my collection.

4. iPhone Astronomy

I recently got bitten by the stargazing bug. The iPhone has a wealth of helpful aps and resources for astronomy, including:

I was very pleasantly surprised that the iPhone made my hobbies and recreation much richer – not just my business life!

When I launched my first product on the web, it made money my first month and I built it up to a 6 figure income in one year.  I’d like to say it was because I am a genius but I am definitely NOT. 

So how I grow it this big this fast?  Just one method – AD SWAPS.

Ad swaps are simply swapping advertising with other marketers who reach a similar audience.  I promote their products to my subscriber list and they recommend my products to their list.  If I swap with 10 other marketers with 10,000 on their list, then my product can reach 100,000 people for free.

But where do you find other marketers to ad swap with?  This has been one of my struggles and my web empire would be much larger now if I was to reach more marketers to swap with.

Recently I was invited to jvME,  a joint venture social network for people wanting to joint venture and ad swap with others.  Think of it as Facebook for Internet marketers.  I am always interested in finding ways to connect with other Internet markers so I signed up and set up a profile.

The system is easy to use, and like Facebook, you can establish friendships, upload photos and join groups.  The membership is small yet, but the powerful thing is that nearly every member is an Internet marketer with either an email or Twitter subscriber list you can do ad swaps with!

Remember, you may not be able to swap with the biggest Internet marketers right away.  If your list is only 1,000, you should start by swapping with other beginners with small lists.  As your list grows, you will be able to swap with larger and larger Internet marketers.

In my first week, I was able to reach an extra 40,000 people from ad swaps I arranged with other list members.

A great service, and it’s free.  Pro members can even run their own groups within the site.

If you are interested in ad swapping at all, this is a must have membership.  You can sign up for free at this link.

Garland Coulson, “The EBusiness Tutor”

Gmail is a fantastic way to do email.  I switched totally to it some months ago and it is a critical tool for me as an Internet marketer.

I love being able to check my email from anywhere and the spam control is excellent.

But Gmail isn’t perfect.

Previously while using Thunderbird and Outlook Express, I used to like keeping my emails in nested folders.   So if I had a partner named Bob Smith, I would create a folder for Partners and then within my Partner Folder to have another folder for Bob Smith.  This made it very easy to find all the emails I exchanged with Bob.

Gmail works with labels instead.  I like the label system, but I now have over 185 labels.  So it is hard to find Bob’s emails when I need them because Gmail doesn’t let you nest your labels by putting them into categories.

Then I came across a product called Better Gmail.

Better Gmail is a free add on for FireFox that provides a bunch of very useful add on tools for Gmail including nested labels, unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons, and more.

I installed the add ons and now I can easily created nested labels by using this format for naming or renaming Category/Label.  So, for the example above, I would rename my Bob Smith label to Partners/Bob Smith and the add on will show the label as Partners with a plus sign next to it.  When I click on the plus sign, the Partner category label opens up and shows me all the partner labels underneath.

One tip – make sure you change your settings in Gmail to show ALL your labels.  Better Gmail needs all the labels showing to properly move them into their categories.

Better Gmail makes it much easier to organize my hundreds of labels and really increases the usability of Gmail for me.  I highly recommend it.

I am not affiliated with Better Gmail – it just works great for me!  And t has over 3.3 million downloads so many others agree.

Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor”

Every two weeks, ClickBank drops 100s of dollars into my bank account for only about 15 minutes of work per week.

The ClickBank Code

So Clickbank is an amazing source of money for me. But I am not THE ClickBank master so I went looking for help so I could increase my ClickBank revenues.

I stumbled across The ClickBank Code from Michael Jones and I was blown away!

He makes MY success with ClickBank look like peanuts.

The ClickBank Code not only has extensive videos on how to make huge amounts of money using ClickBank, it also includes a ClickBank Evaluator Tool that helps you find the hidden highest profit ClickBank products.

This is a fantastic product and I will definitely be applying the lessons I learned from the ClickBank Code.

I rate this a “must have” product and I strongly recommend you visit the site and watch the free introductory videos to learn more.

To your success,
Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor

P.S. Grab your copy of the ClickBank Code and send a copy of your payment receipt along with your Free Traffic Bar member ID to affiliateincome@freetrafficbar.com and I’ll give you 100,000 Free Traffic Bar ads – a value of $129!

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I recently came across a book called “The 4 Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferris. The tagline on the book is “Escape 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich.”

Since I am already a believer in working from home and entrepreneurship, I picked up this book, hoping for tips on how to reduce my working time while increasing my income.

This book is totally subversive!  If you are a boss and you see your employees reading this, watch out!

Here is what I loved about this book:

• It offered ways to achieve a 4 hour work week for BOTH entrepreneurs and people who keep their jobs, unlike other techniques that require you to quit your job.

• It is a whole new way of thinking about money and life – this book totally transformed my thinking to a new level.

• It is easy to read with lots of examples and some great stories.

Here are key points from the book:

• Waiting until you retire to have the life you want is insane – this book shows you how to take “mini-retirements” every year as a way of sampling your retirement.  My mother died at age 54, so I have always felt that waiting for retirement is crazy.

• How to disconnect your income from a particular geographic location.  Something I have worked at over the last few years to allow me to travel.

• How to eliminate 80% of your work while keeping your income and results.  A lesson I am getting better at myself.

• How to travel the world without quitting your job.

• “New Rich” concept – A millionaire working 80 hours per week isn’t really rich – just stressed.  Someone earning $5,000 to $10,000 per month working 4 hours a week is richer in time and is able to generate life enriching experiences.  I am really connecting to this concept.  I have never felt the need for insane amounts of money – just enough to live the way I want, travel and experience life without being tied to a job or business

• Entrepreneurs must learn to become business “owners” instead of “managers.”

I highly recommend this book and think EVERYONE should have a copy.  I have made it required reading for my coaching students.

It is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, to give you an idea of how popular it is.

Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor”

We recently started selling my wife’s Native American Flute music CD, “Wild Threads” on CD Baby.

After about a week, I noticed an interesting trend.

While CD Baby offers both physical CD and MP3 downloads of the album, 70% of people who purchase the album are choosing to download it rather than to have the physical CD shipped to them.

This is cool for a number of reasons:

1. It means we have to produce less physical CDs, lowering our production costs
2. CD Baby pays us more on downloaded albums than physical CDs, so our profits are higher.

CD Baby is an excellent way for musicians to get their music out to their audience.  We make much more per sale than a musician usually gets after the record label takes its share and we control all the rights to our music.  CD Baby also gets our music on iTunes, Amazon and other online music retailers.

An excellent resource for  aspiring songwriters and musicians.

Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor”

Here is a video I did showing my top converting traffic sources over the last 6 months.  Included in the video is a coupon for 10,000 Free Traffic Bar credits.

 

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My affiliates are a huge part of my success and I LOVE to pay them commissions. But of course, some of my affiliates earn more than others…

I noticed that one of my affiliates, Janet Legere, was almost always my #1 affiliate each month. While I was happy Janet was doing so well promoting me, I wanted to know how she did so well selling my products so that I could help my other affiliates do the same.
So, I chatted with her about what she was doing.  It was so simple it was brilliant!

First off, she wasn’t just earning money from MY products, she had set up a simple system that gave her MULTIPLE streams of income. And Janet set up her system so that others can join and use it so they don’t have to set up their own.
Her system is called Earth Friendly Biz and you can check it out for free here.
P.S.  She also has a coupon in her system for 10,000 Free Traffic Bar credits

Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor”