So my current pet hate for the internet at the moment is this.
You know that little red cross at the top corner of a web page? The one that shuts it down? When i click on it thats precisely what I want to happen, I want the website to go away!
I do not want a spam box to pop up and harass me with messages. I most certainly do not want a message saying wait A live agent wants to talk to you about last minute savings or some such. Then a box pops up saying agent is typing and there is a premade message there.
These sites really annoy me. If I was interested in talking to anyone on the site I wouldn't be pressing the little red button no would I?
This is a nasty gimmick in that it plays on our social conditioning, that we musnt just walk away in the middle of a conversation. I have done though, but if this is the latest thing that internet marketers seem to think works we may be seeing more of them in every corner.
Well be warned Ken Fryer does not like it and any sites employing such gimmicks will immediately be blacklisted and will not be recommended by me.
Sunday, 27 May 2007
Saturday, 12 May 2007
The blog that shook the world
Hello.
And I'd like to extend a special welcome to those who are looking for free vegetable salad recipes and found this page by accident. If your here you need to CHANGE your search engine. OK you can go now.
My names Ken Fryer and I like most people am interested in Success.
Not a hyped up american sort of success, success is defined as having favorable outcomes and getting things to go your way pretty much most of the time.
On my journey through life, I encountered a couple of sayings like born loser and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
I wasn't too happy with these as the implications were, with my starting position that I was going to be staying exactly where I was.
What gave me some small comfort was that gravity would kill those smug self satisfied money grubbing people the same as it would a born loser if they fell off the top of a ten story building.
I naturally studied scientific principles then and soon heard the phrase, science of success.
Is there really a science to success? The word science really implies that the ideas involved will be as reliable and unchanging as letting go of a ball and watching it bounce.
I couldn't help but notice that a lot of 'successful' people earned a lot of their major income from selling their secrets to success.
Well then if theres definitely a science to success, I'll buy the necessary books follow the recipe and achieve X number of goals by such and such a date.
Eight years later...
I'm not quite where I want to be. What did I find during my research? Pulp, garbage, fluff and airy fairy philosophies.
Now I'll be fair some of these things actually work for people who wrote them and they may work if you already have a pretty large income bracket and an obsessive interest in real estate (the very words make me cringe) But what about average joe? And people who have interest in other things?
Success as I defined it is a more or less universal term. It means being able to cook meals you can eat or being good at your particular martial arts and winning at both board games and sports.
And the counterpoint to that is things that are reliable. We don't want to cook with a faulty stove and that bedside lamp had better have a 100 hour lifespan or else!
In short we all want things that work.
During my life I've become absolutely obsessed with finding things that work, and you would to. We've all been there, taken karate lessons for years and then had the crap beaten out of us by a little gimp in the playground because those maneovres dont work so well off the mat.
So many guaranteed methods that will achieve XYZ and then so many spectacular flops, years of this.
I wanted my principles to be pretty simple as well. If it worked but required large investments of money or if it worked but required of skilled formula juggling, sorry on to the next project, trying to help the average joe remember.
And thats why I founded actualsuccess.org a testing ground for stuff that really works. We all want it, a quick reverse keyword search revealed I am not alone. So many people are searching for things that actually work. Which tells me if they're searching for it, they must have encountered a lot of stuff that doesn't. Which says we do need a testbed and review site to help people save time and money.
Now actualsuccess.org may look like a site that is selling internet marketing products. Thats because it is. Thats because my ongoing research costs money and I have a strong focus on making lots of it at the moment and the internet is probably the easiest way. As for reliable, well lets say I wish I had found a site that had done the testing for me when I started venturing into this area.
More updates soon!
And I'd like to extend a special welcome to those who are looking for free vegetable salad recipes and found this page by accident. If your here you need to CHANGE your search engine. OK you can go now.
My names Ken Fryer and I like most people am interested in Success.
Not a hyped up american sort of success, success is defined as having favorable outcomes and getting things to go your way pretty much most of the time.
On my journey through life, I encountered a couple of sayings like born loser and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
I wasn't too happy with these as the implications were, with my starting position that I was going to be staying exactly where I was.
What gave me some small comfort was that gravity would kill those smug self satisfied money grubbing people the same as it would a born loser if they fell off the top of a ten story building.
I naturally studied scientific principles then and soon heard the phrase, science of success.
Is there really a science to success? The word science really implies that the ideas involved will be as reliable and unchanging as letting go of a ball and watching it bounce.
I couldn't help but notice that a lot of 'successful' people earned a lot of their major income from selling their secrets to success.
Well then if theres definitely a science to success, I'll buy the necessary books follow the recipe and achieve X number of goals by such and such a date.
Eight years later...
I'm not quite where I want to be. What did I find during my research? Pulp, garbage, fluff and airy fairy philosophies.
Now I'll be fair some of these things actually work for people who wrote them and they may work if you already have a pretty large income bracket and an obsessive interest in real estate (the very words make me cringe) But what about average joe? And people who have interest in other things?
Success as I defined it is a more or less universal term. It means being able to cook meals you can eat or being good at your particular martial arts and winning at both board games and sports.
And the counterpoint to that is things that are reliable. We don't want to cook with a faulty stove and that bedside lamp had better have a 100 hour lifespan or else!
In short we all want things that work.
During my life I've become absolutely obsessed with finding things that work, and you would to. We've all been there, taken karate lessons for years and then had the crap beaten out of us by a little gimp in the playground because those maneovres dont work so well off the mat.
So many guaranteed methods that will achieve XYZ and then so many spectacular flops, years of this.
I wanted my principles to be pretty simple as well. If it worked but required large investments of money or if it worked but required of skilled formula juggling, sorry on to the next project, trying to help the average joe remember.
And thats why I founded actualsuccess.org a testing ground for stuff that really works. We all want it, a quick reverse keyword search revealed I am not alone. So many people are searching for things that actually work. Which tells me if they're searching for it, they must have encountered a lot of stuff that doesn't. Which says we do need a testbed and review site to help people save time and money.
Now actualsuccess.org may look like a site that is selling internet marketing products. Thats because it is. Thats because my ongoing research costs money and I have a strong focus on making lots of it at the moment and the internet is probably the easiest way. As for reliable, well lets say I wish I had found a site that had done the testing for me when I started venturing into this area.
More updates soon!
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