Nearly four years ago I was introduced to the idea of ‘interviewing experts’ by the legendary Australian copywriter, Brett McFall, either as a way of creating products to sell or just to create content to add value to existing products and services.
Not only was I introduced to the idea, but I was lucky enough to be taught HOW to interview experts … from sourcing and contacting experts, what questions to ask and how to ask them, to how to record the interview and then edit it professionally and turn it into a product.
These skills and knowledge have been incredibly valuable to me – and my business – over the last four years, and I know many who have listened to some of these interviews have also found them valuable. 
Andy Sacker also learnt these skills and has gone on to earn thousands of dollars from the sales of his interviews. What’s more, he’s just published his first book – How To Make Money Interviewing Experts.
This isn’t an eBook – it’s a physical, paperback book, full of step-by-step instructions on how to follow in Andy’s footsteps and interview experts for yourself.
Whether you’re looking for an extra stream of income, a way to help spread the knowledge about your chosen industry, or a good method of providing more content for your clients (and potential clients), I encourage you to consider this media.
You can purchase a copy of Andy’s book here.
If you are a regular visitor to this site then you probably already know that I love the Thesis WordPress theme (the one I use for this site). It’s not the only theme I use, but it’s one of my all-time favorites, mainly because it’s so functional and extremely easy to customize, even if you aren’t particularly familiar with CSS.
Recently I came across a post on the Smashing Geeks site where they list a range of resources, tutorials and skins for Thesis.
So if you, too, like the Thesis theme, make sure you have a look at this post and perhaps bookmark it in your favorites.
NB: Compensated affiliate for Thesis theme.
In September 2009 the Australian government established the Small Business Support Line to offer guidance to small business owners, or those considering setting up a small business.
Since then the service has reportedly received more than 10,000 calls!
With access to a range of State and Commonwealth departments and services across the country, the Small Business Support Line staff are available to advise on all manner of small business questions, including:
- how to set up a business
- cash flow management
- funding
- grants
- licensing
- workplace health and safety
- employing staff
- marketing
- and much more
If you operate a small business in Australia or are thinking about starting your own business you can contact the Australian Small Business Support Line on 1800 777 275.
If you’re running a small business and meeting with clients or associates frequently, you probably make appointments almost daily.
Some people, particularly in larger organisations, may be fortunate enough to have an assistant who is assigned the task of ensuring that no double-bookings occur and no appointments are missed. This method is somewhat time consuming and inefficient when it comes to canceling and rescheduling appointments, and even more so if you’re responsible for managing your own appointments along with so many other duties.
This is where an online program can be so handy.
Once you setup this software or your online account, you’ll find many appointment-setting programs also give you the options of selecting email (and possibly phone call) reminders.
Online appointment setting programs generally work in a similar way.
You can log into your online calendar and select the times when you’re available for appointments. You then send a link to those clients and associates whom you’d like to make an appointment time with. These people can then easily visit the website by clicking on your link, then click on the appointment button. A calendar appears, showing your available dates and times, and your customer or colleague can choose one of your available appointment times that best suits them.
That’s it! Your appointment is there … booked and saved.
Online appointment-scheduling programs have certain benefits and advantages such as freeing up staff (or yourself) for more important tasks.
Just think about it … what more productive tasks could you do in the time you would generally spend scheduling (and re-scheduling) appointments?
Here are 4 of the best online appointment-setting programs I’ve found:
- Tungle
- Web-Appointments
- GenBook
- Appointment Plus
Forgetting appointments or poor scheduling techniques could put your organisation and business at a clear disadvantage. So have a look at these online appointment-setting programs to simplify the way you manage your appointments.
Last year I came across a HTML editor that’s really easy to use either for creating web pages from scratch or editing existing HTML pages, such as website templates.
I’ve been ‘playing’ with PageBreeze for a while and have been quite impressed by how easy it is to use. You can create and edit pages in the HTML or ‘normal’ (WYSIWYG) view, preview how it will look when published to the internet, easily add page title, description and keyword details and publish with FTP.
It also has a form editor which makes it easy to create forms if necessary.
Best of all … there’s a free version or a more advanced ‘cheap as chips’ version.
The basic Pagebreeze software is free for personal, not-for-profit and educational use. Or the more advanced version for business (or ‘for-profit’) use is only a one-off payment $29.95.
Free HTML Editor
If you don’t really need web development software with all the bells and whistles, it’s worth giving PageBreeze a try.
