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I have found a great little free Blogger backup tool to back up Blogger blogs easily and fast.

Google’s Blogger blogs are great for getting information online fast, and you can add Adsense and Amazon affiliate links automatically. So most of us have a few, and some people have whole empires of them.

But the big downside with Blogger is that Google can knock out your empire on a whim. Even if you set up batches of blogs under several different Google account names (which you should), in the worst case scenario they can match them all up through your Adsense account or Amazon Associate details. Then what?

Well, then you start over … and it helps mightily if you have your blogs backed up. And it is now very easy, and free.

There are two things you need to do. First, go into the blog and download your template, if you made any changes to it. This option is on the Layout – Edit HTML tab.

Second, grab yourself this free Blogger backup tool to back up your posts:

Free Blogger Backup Tool

It’s open source software so it’s free. You do have to enter your Google account details in the settings. It says it does not save your password – if you know anything about coding you can look at the code to check that.

Two important points:

1. After you enter your Google account details, don’t forget to
SAVE THE SETTINGS. You have to click on File to see the Save Settings option.

2. I found that the actual back up process did not work until I saved my settings, closed the tool and opened it again. After that it is very quick.

You can enter several different Google accounts and it will automatically retrieve all the Blogger blogs associated with those accounts. So you don’t have to enter individual blogs at all.

Great for people with Blogger empires and useful for those of us who just have a few blogs to backup with the free Blogger backup tool.

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This post is reporting scams that I have heard about. Martin Avis recently wrote in his Kickstart newsletter about a scam that affects domain owners. I thought I should pass on the warning and add my own experience.

What happens is that just before your domain is due for renewal, you receive a letter in the mail asking you to send anything up to $100 to renew it. Remember, anybody can get hold of your address from Whois, unless you have private registration which usually costs extra.

I assume that these people then instruct you how to change from your current registrar to theirs, and you are locked in for renewals forever, unless you manage to extract your domain for another transfer.

There’s plenty of fine print to make it legal, and many people with just one website are probably taken in by this.

And this is not the only legal business scam …

I had a similar thing after registering a trademark for one of my sites. (Maybe I’m paranoid, but I wanted to make sure that nobody could set up with the same business name, and then come along and demand my domains on the grounds that they held the trademark.)

Anyway, as soon as my registration application went public, I received a very official-looking letter asking for something like $500 (‘reduced rate’ of course) to ‘record’ my new trademark in another country. The company name was similar to the name of the government trademark office – but not quite the same. And in the fine print, they explained that I would be paying for my trademark to appear in a published directory. In other words, it was not for official trademark registration at all.

$500 to appear in a directory that nobody is going to read …
I don’t think so!

Savvy internet marketers will not be taken in by these scams but they could catch a lot of people setting up their first business. And I’m sure there are many other tricks like this that threaten innocent website and small business owners.

Always read the fine print …

Oh and by the way, my latest PLR article pack is on Law and it is selling fast.

This is an extremely lucrative niche … see all the details here:

Law PLR Articles – click here

Only 50 copies are available so I apologize if they are all gone when you click.

And here are some links for reporting scams:
reporting scams in the USA
reporting scams in the UK
reporting scams in Australia

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I came across a blog about minimalism recently. You might be interested … for a start, it must be the cleanest WordPress theme the world has ever seen.

Also, this particular post has some good advice that could help you to focus on the essential in your internet business:

http://mnmlist.com/less

If you like the minimalism blog, you might also like my own blog post from last year on how to de-clutter your inbox:

How To Have An Empty Inbox

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I have to tell you about this thing I got into on Saturday where you can get followers on Twitter automatically!

It actually gets you automated traffic on autopilot (I know, I know … but it really does) especially if you have a WordPress blog that you post to regularly. Plus it is targeted for your specific niche. I didn’t think it was possible to automatically get followers on Twitter that were targeted, but somehow these guys have done it:

Get Followers On Twitter Here

When I saw it I was not very excited, but I joined because I was thinking, well if it works it will probably cover its costs within the month … so nothing to lose really, I’ll give it a try.

Signed up, set it up which took about 30 seconds, checked after a couple of hours and I had 75 followers on Twitter.

By Monday, after 2 days, I had nearly 300.

But so what? I hear you ask. Who cares about Twitter followers? What we want is SALES!

So I checked my Clickbank account too and in 2 days (Sunday and Monday) I had clocked up 2 sales from that source.

’2 sales, big deal,’ you may say …

… but they were in the Forex niche where sales pay from $50 to $100 commission. Those two sales made me a total of $134.26.

So with me hoping for it to cover its costs in a month, this Twitter tool has gone out and more than paid for itself in TWO DAYS!

Get More Twitter Followers Here

But read on because there are some things you need to know.

First, you can only hook it up to one Twitter account in one niche (for now). So choose your niche well.

You want a niche where people are buying, and even better, where you know that they will buy from you (or the site that you are sending them to). E.g. you have made one or two sales already, so you can guess that if you had more traffic you would automatically make more sales.

Second, Twitter traffic comes when you tweet. If you have a WordPress blog, you can get a plugin that will automatically tweet all your blog posts. They tell you how to do this when you get inside.

This is the full autopilot mode for blogs that have regular posted content (like Forex PLR members’ blogs if they post my articles every day).

It’s perfect for me because I don’t have to sit there tweeting.

In fact I never have to log in to Twitter at all, unless I want to gloat over all my lovely targeted followers

If you don’t have a blog, you can still get the benefit but you might have to do a little tweeting. Still, it’s easier than writing articles, right?

So you will want:

1. A niche where people are buying stuff – I think it would work for any make money type of niche including MLM and probably tons of others too

2. EITHER a WP blog that has content posted to it regularly,

3. OR if you don’t have a blog, a few minutes once or twice a day to post a tweet directing people to your offer/landing page/squeeze page/an affiliate offer/wherever you want the traffic to go.

I had a lot more to say about how to make money with this, but this post is plenty long enough.

Places are limited so go get it, and if you get stuck figuring out how to make money from the thousands of targeted Twitter followers that you are going to have, shoot me an email and I’ll try to help.

(That’s actually quite a special bonus offer by the way …)

Get it here:

Get Followers On Twitter Here

P.S. Yes you have to watch the video but it IS worth it

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I had a wonderful Christmas with family, but returned to a dead computer. Nothing happened when I switched on … eek!

Luckily (well really it’s not luck, it’s learned from bitter experience) I have an old computer that works well enough for emergencies plus computer backup software that backs up to two external hard drives. So I was able to go on working until I found somebody to fix it for me after their Christmas break.

Why am I telling you this story? Well, I hope it will help you to think about what you would do if that happened to you.

Irrecoverable loss is very common …

Two years ago my old computer had a motherboard failure. At the same time, for related reasons, Windows failed and data was wiped. I found that the computer backup software that I was using at the time had not been working properly. I had an old copy of ‘My Documents’ but I lost all emails, many programs that I had paid good money for, and a lot more.

And it’s not just me. You would not believe the number of people who email me saying they need a new download link for something they bought because their hard drive failed and they had no backup.

I hate to be negative, but I firmly believe that it’s not a question of *if* you have a major problem with your computer … it’s *when*.

So do yourself a favor, ask yourself what you will do if you switch on your computer tomorrow and nothing happens. Blank screen.

- Who will you call?
- What if it can’t be fixed?
- Do you have backups?
- How recent are they?
- What could you do to make the whole thing easier on yourself?

If you are well prepared, a computer failure is no big deal. If you are not, and you are trying to run a business, it’s a nightmare!

In case you are wondering what I do, this is the computer backup software that I use (these are not affiliate links):

www.acronis.com – daily backup to external hard drive (full system restore) and once a month I back up to a second external hard drive in case the first one fails.
plus:
www.carbonite.com – online backup in case of fire, flood etc (my documents only)

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