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Entries from January 29th, 2009

Hosting: I’m Impressed With Hostgator

January 29th, 2009 No Comments

I needed to order some new hosting the other day for a project that will eat a fair amount of bandwidth - more bandwidth than my dedicated host will allow without big overage bills.
I was looking for cheap shared hosting that offered:

Unlimited domains
Unlimited disk space
Unlimited bandwidth
A decent control panel
Decent performance

… and all for less than $10 a [...]

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Can You Guess What This Script Does?

January 28th, 2009 No Comments

Dave Wooding has a fun post here:
http://www.davewooding.com/black-is-back/
What do you think his script does? I’ve had a couple of stabs but I don’t think I have it licked yet.
Do you know?
..btw - on a related note - did you just assume that it was impossible to personalize your sales letter so it said “Dear {name}” instead of [...]

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Keep Your Sales Letter Up to Date

January 28th, 2009 No Comments

I just followed a link to the Design Dashboard by Marlon Sanders.
It looks pretty cool and of course the sales letter is pure quality as you’d expect.
One thing stopped me in my tracks though, and made me wonder how many sales Marlon is losing by missing a very simple trick.
A line in the sales letter [...]

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Google Annihilation Review

January 19th, 2009 1 Comment

Rob Benwell’s Google Annihilation product is due to launch today at last. I thought I’d review what I know so far about Google Annhilation:
This one has been long-awaited for a few reasons:

Rob has a track record of quality products - Blogging to the Bank did 5000+ units at v. low refund rates.
Google Anilihation will be a [...]

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Quality PHP Web Development Consultancy

January 6th, 2009 1 Comment

New Year = new direction…
After many years of almost seamless employment, I’m now available for freelance / consultancy work again.
I offer nearly 10 years professional PHP  / MySQL development experience and, crucially, the ability to speak about highly technical matters to highly non-technical people - in a language they understand.
My commercial awareness sets me apart from the vast [...]

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