I’ve always known it to be true, but I need some proof to convince my wife and friends or anyone else that challenges me on it.

What proof I hear you asking… well if I can get this post to #1 in Google for The Coolest Guy In Australia, then doesn’t that make it so! Yes!

Since I’m boasting, I may as well claim that I’m The Coolest Guy In Queensland and even The Coolest Guy In Brisbane.

While you are here you may as leave me a comment and tell me how cool I am, or perhaps why you should be crowned as The Coolest Guy In Australia instead of me.

Additional info (proof):

See I told you I was The Coolest Guy In Australia.

DAY 1

DAY 27

The Coolest Guy In Australia : Day 27

Update: 4/12/2022 – DAY 4716

still one of The Coolest Guys In Australia after over 10 years

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Just got back World Internet Summit on the Gold Coast. It was a blast. I think I’ll do up a video on it and post that to my Web Smart Central blog along with some photos.

If you didn’t already noticed I’ve ported all my smart software products over to Web Smart Central as the main support site, so this blog will now just be for my personal adventures.

Which segways me into this …

I went out to lunch with some other internet marketers each day of the World Internet Summit. Yum Cha was the choice for the Sunday, so always one to push myself onto new things. How about fried chickens feet.! Check out this video.

The skilled camera man on his Flip video camera is Frank Fazio

So there you go. Tada.

I’ll let you in a secret, I couldn’t finish it. I had a bit more of it after the camera stopped but just didn’t really like it.

What strange and wonderful foods have you tried? Did you like it or not? Leave a comment below and let me and everyone else know how adventurous you are.

Talk soon

Aaron

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Lots of changes afoot with my business at the moment. I’m ramping up to roll out 3 more products in the coming 3 months. I’ve been busy working away in the background. I’ve employed a full time web developer just to keep up and get things out the door.

For now I’ll keep it short and let you know that there is new version of Script Smart. Version 3 is live but the website sales letter is still to be updated. The download page let’s you get access to it. This has been rebuilt from the ground up using a new software environment called Adobe AIR which allows Script Smart to now run on Windows and MAC and Linux. How awesome is that!

Ed Dale of 30DayChallenge fame, mentioned offhand that 50% of internet marketers were using MACs now. I know Ed Dale likes his statistics but I think we’d need a bit of proof on that one. I should twitter him.

I’ve released the new version 3 of Script Smart to all the current full license owners and the response has been great.

While I’m talking about version 3 products, that will segway me into another version 3 product. Paul Kleinmeulman’s just released Automatic Niche Profits 3.0

I met Paul back in 2006 at my first World Internet Summit and he coached me through my first version of Script Smart and getting it to market. I also have a joint product with Paul called Affiliate Page Pro. In fact Paul’s affiliate page for Automatic Niche Profits was generated with Affiliate Page Pro.

Paul’s claim to fame has always been his top notch PLR (private label rights) membership. So he’s breaking ground yet again and has come up with a points system to allow you full control over your membership and what you get from it.

I personally don’t use PLR, my online business model is software, and instructional training videos to go along with web applications. But I know that the fastest way to get started on the internet is to use PLR and if I was going to do that I’d go with Paul’s Automatic Niche Profits.

If you do buy ANP3.0 please drop me a comment on this post and let me know good or bad what you think of it. That’s the power of web 2.0, user feedback.

Talk soon
Aaron

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If you do any online advertising using banners or text links or adsense then you will know how powerful this tracking using heatmaps can be.

Here is the link to the awsome service that is crazyegg.com

[UPDATE] – I’ve just learned that CrazyEgg is not FREE as it was last week (great timing that they should drop their free limited accounts). Never fear, I’m investigating alternatives. The principle that I cover is the main thing here.

Let me know your thoughts and if you have used a heatmap tracking service before what benefits you got from it.

Aaron

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Me with Frank Bauer at lunch

Me with Mike Stewart

Me with Armand Morin

Me with Brett McFall

Me with Shaune Clarke

Me with Alan Forrest Smith

Me with Sean Roach

Me with Ewen Chia

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Alan Forrest Smith has gathered a lot of his internet marketing buddies and is fund raising for great cause.

No affiliates, no list building, just a good old fashioned fund raising for charity.

I slapped my $50 on the table straight away and not just for the special bonuses that are on offer.

http://worldinternetchallenge.com

It’s for this weekend only so move fast.

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Basically it’s a gathering of young graphic designers and artists etc to meet, network, and show their creative work in public. Their works can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor.

The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for keeping individuals presentations to fixed time frame. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

It started in 2003 and is now in over 80 cities around the world.

This is great stuff. Identifying a problem or several problems (in this case, no forum for gaining recognition of artwork or designs to industry leaders, and stopping presentations from dragging on and on) and giving a simple solution. It’s no wonder it’s taken off around the world.

Aaron

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This weekend I’m at the Internet Mastery Secrets Conference in Brisbane (my home town).

I got a lot out of World Internet Summit, and I met some great people, that through my video roundup of the event have remembered me when I met them again at this event.

I am also getting a heap of gold nuggets out of Internet Mastery Secrets.

This is because I have 2 software products I currently market online now.

Script Smart – my automated (you don’t need to be a programmer) website script generator toolbox for making your sales letter promotions more profitable simply by using offline techniques that have been in use for 50+ years, brought online.

and

Affiliate Page Pro – my automated (don’t need a programmer) affiliate tools page generator for online product owners that don’t own membership software like Butterfly Marketing and want to boost their profits by providing their affiliates all the necessary promotional tools, and also get them onto your email list to keep in contact with them.

I am going to go over all my notes and there is going to be a heap of changes to both my products and my hosting business.

I can’t wait to show you what I’m going to roll out, and it’s very exciting, since I’m taking what I’ve done to the next level. But I would never be able to do this, if I didn’t put the action in place after I left the World Internet Summit.

I plan on attending at least 1 conference every year to keep me motivated and pick up more tips, it’s truly an amazing feeling.

Aaron

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I hear you say WHY would he do that?

Let me start by saying that with 3 kids, the pressure to keep money flowing in is high, and working from home dealing with small business is not easy and has a lot of hurdles to jump through.

I still work for myself and love it that way, but had to start to move away from dealing with small business. Small business means small jobs which means lots more of them just to bring in a decent income. Chasing the occassional client for money is also not my favourite past time.

Instead I’ve turned my attention to taking on bigger corporate clients with bigger projects that last longer, and they have no problem paying me for the work that I do for them.

While I’m still trading my time for money I want to be earning as much as possible. The big trade off to this is that bigger corporate clients require me to work at their office, not mine.

My internet marketing business is still slowly bubbling along, but it’s taking a bit of a back seat, with me only spending about 1 hour per day on it including weekends. Not enough at all, but it’s better than doing nothing on it.

I anticipate that I’ll only be doing this 9-5 contracting until end of next year. This gives me my buffer of income my life requires while my internet marketing business is growing. There I’ve just publically set myself a goal. This goal has now set me in motion to carry it out.

I will be using this blog as I have been to record my journey, so that I can stay focused and look back in years to come at my achievements.

Aaron

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Aaron

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One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well.

The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway. It just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him.

They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.

With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer’s neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

NOW …………

The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.

MORAL FROM TODAY’S LESSON:

When you do something wrong, and try to cover your ass (pun intended), it always comes back to bite you.

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