wordpress.com can be exported to a Wordpress self posted site. So what I do is I blog to wordpress.com from dial2do and then.
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Monthly Archive for May, 2009
So. Wordpress self posted blogs you can’t use dial2do directly. First I tried to get around that by blogging by email through dial2do. But that wasn’t ideal so.
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Blogging with dial2do on a Wordpress self posted blog. Wordpress is the blogger software that I use. But you can only use it with dial2do as you blog to wordpress.com.
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これから日本語でもブログる!
“下手な日本語で“というブログタイトルを決めた。
ただ、書くのは日本語でではなく、管理者インターフェースも日本語で使っています。
よろしく、読んでください。
I’ve started blogging in Japanese.
I’m not only writing the posts in Japanese but the admin userface is in Japanese too!
If you can, be sure to read my new blog 
wordpress install in Japanese
管理者インターフェース – admin interface
I recently wrote an email to my best friend about some of the projects that I am working on. Thought I would share it here too.
I have not shared my recent projects with [you]. Self-gratificating rant to follow:
Of course I still work a bit on Nipponster.com and created a new look for it. The toolbar I created for it has grown a bit in popularity (although it needs MUCH improvement). It has had over 1100 downloads and on average about 200 active users. And I’ve made $30 in ad revenue from it. Yay
Hopefully I will be able to make it more profitable soon.But largely I am working on solutions for small businesses.
I am trying to build up my business consultancy. But there are so many details to iron out. I want the system to handle most of the load, so I am building systems to increase my production capacity.I have four sites that I’ve setup that will complement one another as I go forward.
I have had a website development business with revenue since last year. That’s at EagleLandGrace.com The revenue was from website projects for local businesses and the businesses that they have referred to me.
I am starting a website for my career (/promoting my ideas) at TaiyoJohnson.com. I need to rethink a few things on it. I started it just this year. I plan to put together a training package about my method of self organisation; might call it something like “the unified life theory.”
Then there is TenaciousFrog.com which is the marketing arm of eaglelandgrace.com. I’m planning to use it to educate small businesses (starting with my current clients) about new marketing.
BackSaaS.com is nothing but a thought in my mind at the moment, but itwill educate small businesses about how to use “Software As A Service” (SaaS) web applications to create business backends. I use SaaS to organise/run the business I am setting up and it will allow me to run it from anywhere in the world where I have a computer (anyone’s computer) and internet connect. Currently I do most of my work at the local library; I could do it from Timbuktu if I had a PC/internet. I have SaaS accounts for sending invoices online (freshbooks.com), genbook.com for managing appointments and letting customers book their appointments online, paypal for credit card processing, outright.com for bookkeeping, faxaway.com for super cheap faxing via email, Google Apps for corporate email and word/excel/ppt documents and calendar, Google Voice for turning my cellphone into a business and personal phone seamlessly (plus free long distance).
So, to answer your question… Google Voice is an awesome service that used to be called GrandCentral (before Google bought it). Since I was an early GrandCentral user I have an account but currently they are not give any accounts out.
Sign up for their waiting list though because they plan to offer more accounts and it is worth it. It gives you a phone number for life that you can forward to whatever phone(s) you would like. You can always change which phones your grandcentral # will ring so even if you change cellphones you have the same number.
Two bloggers (steve pavlina & personalmba) whom I highly respect have written recently on how to succeed when everyone else is losing their heads and their focus.
Below I have created a mashup of their points and thrown in one about “passion” from a favourite business thinker of mine, Jim Collins (Built To Last | Good to Great)
1) Find your passion (Good to Great)
2) Get Excited (personalmba)
3) Create useful things of value (stevepavlina | personalmba)
4) Deliver that value (stevepavlina)
5) Repeat
Over the last three years I have been a voracious business book reader. The above principles present themselves time and again in business reading. I could give a near endless list of books that support the importance of one or more of these principles. I’m not, but I do want to point out something about passion and excitement.
Passion and excitement are so critical to success in anything we do. And that is precisely why so many of us DO NOT succeed.
In How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling (In my opinion one of the greatest books on life and business ever written. Am I the only one?), Frank Bettger spends the whole of one of the first chapters talking about how developing enthusiasm tripled his income.
But that is not the most important discovery he makes about enthusiasm. No, the most important discovery that he makes about enthusiasm is that generally we do not show enthusiasm because of fear.
Yes, fear (and not a recession or lack of money/knowledge/skill) is the great obstacle to our success. It is the reason we panic and look for quick money fixes when we have problems (like recessions). (listen to this next point because it is paramount) Most people live their entire lives in panic mode! They freak out and look for quick money fixes (i.e. jobs). Their lives are a series of stimuli –>freak out –>quick money fix, as they hop from one unsatisfying thing to the next.
Really they are avoiding the biggest fear of all, death. “I exist. Who do I want to be? And before I die what do I want to do?”
The answer to this question is where passion comes from! It is how we find our passion. And from running with that passion we create excitement.
But we are too afraid to ask these big questions. And that fear, and not a recession (or other external forces) is the real enemy.
- Taiyo Johnson
p.s.
I am currently researching fear and overcoming my own fears. A great help so far has been Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers. Overcoming fear and activities to help one overcome fears will be a major component of the unified system of life management.
Also, on finding one’s passions, the book First Things First by Stephen Covey is a must. So many people live by the clock, trying to cram as many activities into 24 hours as possible. Unfortunately, many of those activities are not the most important ones. The most important (first) things are not put first because we have not identified them.
Things I need to do. It’s late but I’m gonna get the coast done this is suppose to be about the keys to success. Number 1 find your passion number 2 get excited number 3 create.
I sent this email using my voice. Listen to it here: http://dial2do.com/1qtlzec
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I wanna use Google Voice to make blog post instead of dial2do. I think I figured dial2do for some things. But if I can get Google Voice with 2 minute text to work that would be great.
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Google Voice Beta Tester. I’m a beta tester for Google Voice since I had grand central before the switch. And so far it is really great. And it’s fun to be convince side than everybody else (?)they had it.
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Google Voice. Google Voice a rad way to talk (menu?) remember and directions to (?) and I can forwarded it anytime that I’d like. I was a Grand Central subscriber (?).
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