Life Tips #3: Selecting the Condo Parking Lot / Slot

 Life Tips #3: Selecting the Condo Parking Lot / Slot
by Jomar Hilario

1. Speaking of parking, the building plans may change with the actual, where you expected 2 parking slots, there may now be 3.

2. Because of Ondoy, you may want to select a slot on the 2nd floor.

3. You may also want to consider looking for a parking slot that's SOLO - no other cars around you.  Just do watch out for large columns around your slot w/c may prevent you from parking there!

4. Why? If the gorgeous girl/guy who owns the slot beside you parks silly sideways - then you might not have  enough space in your own slot to get out of your car AFTER you park it.

5. So find a slot where you're surrounded small floor level divisions on both sides and not an empty slot for another car.

6. To protect your car's paint, find a slot INSIDE the building and not one exposed to rain and sun.

7. Get a parking barrier -- that's a stick of metal and cement that's padlocked to the parking slot floor --that prevents people who don't own the slot from using it. 

8. What people do that?

9. Yes, please they do. People seem to to transform themselves into "thieves" when no one is looking - when it comes to parking slots. Don't know why.

10. Jomar, I've no car yet, should I get a parking slot?

11. Yes, get a slot ASAP and when the building is up - RENT IT OUT until you need it.  This is the easiest passive income you can get-or else it pays for itself.

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/willvision/

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What Nine Inch Nails and Industrial Music can teach you about promoting online

Before reading this I suggest you watch this video I made FIRST. Note : I do not listen to NIN. I listen to MORTAL.





Note the the language used here is for how a band can promote online. Specially if they're not popular. Substitute the word "BAND" with you or your product. The strategy is the same.


No time? Read this summary by James Lewin

In the article, Reznor shared these tips for how to use the Internet, new media and social media sites:

1. 
   

   Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace – it’s dying and reads as cheap / generic.

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   Remove all Flash from your website.

3. 
   

   Remove all stupid intros and load-times.

4. 
   

   MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don’t autoplay).

5. 
   

   Constantly update your site with content – pictures, blogs, whatever.

6. 
   

   Give people a reason to return to your site all the time.

7. 
   

   Put up a bulletin board and start a community.

8. 
   

   Engage your fans (with caution!)

9. 
   

   Make cheap videos.

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    Film yourself talking.

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    Play shows.

12. 
    

    Make interesting things.

13. 
    

    Get a Twitter account.

14. 
    

    Be interesting.

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    Be real.

16. 
    

    Submit your music to blogs that may be interested.

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    NEVER CHASE TRENDS.

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    Utilize the multitude of tools available to you for very little cost of any – Flickr / YouTube / Vimeo / SoundCloud / Twitter etc.

You have time? Read Trent's entire post below from the From NIN Forums. Copywrite entirely Trent's, below:

I posted a message on Twitter yesterday stating I thought The Beastie Boys and TopSpin Media "got it right" regarding how to sell music in this day and age. Here's a link to their store:

[illcommunication.beastieboys.com]

Shortly thereafter, I got some responses from people stating the usual "yeah, if you're an established artist - what if you're just trying to get heard?" argument. In an interview I did recently this topic came up and I'll reiterate what I said here.

If you are an unknown / lesser-known artist trying to get noticed / established:

* Establish your goals. What are you trying to do / accomplish? If you are looking for mainstream super-success (think Lady GaGa, Coldplay, U2, Justin Timberlake) - your best bet in my opinion is to look at major labels and prepare to share all revenue streams / creative control / music ownership. To reach that kind of critical mass these days your need old-school marketing muscle and that only comes from major labels. Good luck with that one.

If you're forging your own path, read on.

* Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth is the only true marketing that matters.

To clarify:

Parter with a TopSpin or similar or build your own website, but what you NEED to do is this - give your music away as high-quality DRM-free MP3s. Collect people's email info in exchange (which means having the infrastructure to do so) and start building your database of potential customers. Then, offer a variety of premium packages for sale and make them limited editions / scarce goods. Base the price and amount available on what you think you can sell. Make the packages special - make them by hand, sign them, make them unique, make them something YOU would want to have as a fan. Make a premium download available that includes high-resolution versions (for sale at a reasonable price) and include the download as something immediately available with any physical purchase. Sell T-shirts. Sell buttons, posters... whatever.

Don't have a TopSpin as a partner? Use Amazon for your transactions and fulfillment. [www.amazon.com]

Use TuneCore to get your music everywhere. [www.tunecore.com]

Have a realistic idea of what you can expect to make from these and budget your recording appropriately.

The point is this: music IS free whether you want to believe that or not. Every piece of music you can think of is available free right now a click away. This is a fact - it sucks as the musician BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT IS (for now). So... have the public get what they want FROM YOU instead of a torrent site and garner good will in the process (plus build your database).

The Beastie Boys' site offers everything you could possibly want in the formats you would want it in - available right from them, right now. The prices they are charging are more than you should be charging - they are established and you are not. Think this through.

The database you are amassing should not be abused, but used to inform people that are interested in what you do when you have something going on - like a few shows, or a tour, or a new record, or a webcast, etc.

Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace - it's dying and reads as cheap / generic. Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don't autoplay). Constantly update your site with content - pictures, blogs, whatever. Give people a reason to return to your site all the time. Put up a bulletin board and start a community. Engage your fans (with caution!) Make cheap videos. Film yourself talking. Play shows. Make interesting things. Get a Twitter account. Be interesting. Be real. Submit your music to blogs that may be interested. NEVER CHASE TRENDS. Utilize the multitude of tools available to you for very little cost of any - Flickr / YouTube / Vimeo / SoundCloud / Twitter etc.

If you don't know anything about new media or how people communicate these days, none of this will work. The role of an independent musician these days requires a mastery of first hand use of these tools. If you don't get it - find someone who does to do this for you. If you are waiting around for the phone to ring or that A & R guy to show up at your gig - good luck, you're going to be waiting a while.

Hope this helps, and I'll scour responses for intelligent comments I can respond to.

TR

TopSpin Media info:

[topspinmedia.com]

(disclaimer)

This was written on a bumpy Euro-bus ride across the wilderness - may ramble a bit but I think the point gets across.

TR

UPDATE 1:

Thanks for the insightful comments already - when I get a moment (and a reliable internet connection) I'll respond to some of your very valid points. Please keep in mind - these were just some thoughts I quickly wrote down and posted and not meant to be a complete guide by any means. I've neglected to get into publishing and some other things. I'll update pretty soon.

UPDATE 2:

Here's a message from Ian Rogers of TopSpin

[forum.nin.com]

UPDATE 3:

Here's a few responses - more to come when I get time.

Bandcamp

[bandcamp.com]

This looks excellent to me. I have not used it but it appears to be great. This would cover your digital distribution of files and the collecting / amassing of your database. Looks like you'd still need someplace to handle fulfillment of merchandise / physical goods (like the Amazon link above).

Pay-what-you-want model

This is where you offer tracks or albums for a user-determined price. I hate this concept, and here's why.

Some have argued that giving music away free devalues music. I disagree. Asking people what they think music is worth devalues music. Don't believe me? Write and record something you really believe is great and release it to the public as a "pay-what-you-think-it's-worth" model and then let's talk. Read a BB entry from a "fan" rationalizing why your whole album is worth 50 cents because he only likes 5 songs on it. Trust me on this one - you will be disappointed, disheartened and find yourself resenting a faction of your audience. This is your art! This is your life! It has a value and you the artist are not putting that power in the hands of the audience - doing so creates a dangerous perception issue. If the FEE you are charging is zero, you are not empowering the fan to say this is only worth an insultingly low monetary value. Don't be misled by Radiohead's In Rainbows stunt. That works one time for one band once - and you are not Radiohead.

Why put something on iTunes for a price fans can get it from your site for free? Won't it piss people off?

Do it and don't worry about it. Lots of people apparently shop at iTunes exclusively and that's where they get their music. They are generally not the people that would be mad to discover they could have gotten the same record (at a better bit-rate) for free elsewhere. We put The Slip up at nin.com for free at all fidelities and STILL sold a fairly large amount of copies at iTunes for $9.99. At the time iTunes did not allow variable pricing (I don't know what the deal is now).

My Flash comments

I don't hate Flash, just go easy on it and avoid anything that takes time to load - ESPECIALLY your front page.

Managers / booking agents / small labels

Any or all of these may be good for you - or not. Here's a truth: nobody knows what to do right now, me included. The music business model is broken right now. That means every single job position in the music industry has to re-educate itself and learn / discover / adapt a new way. Change can be painful and hard and scary. If any of these entities we're discussing are interested in you, ask them about their strategies IN DETAIL. None of them know for sure what to do. Some of them have an idea of how to negotiate these waters. Most of them don't. If you are young and use the internet, you know more about your audience than they do - for sure. This is a revolution and you can be a part of it. The old guard is dying, if you have good ideas - try them.

Bottom line - before getting involved with anyone else, ask yourself what it is they can clearly bring to your table and is it worth their cut. Do they know what they're talking about, and does their strategies match yours?

I have not gotten into the basics which I believe are self-evident: believe in what you do, do the best work you can, work hard, practice, practice more, find your voice, hone in on it, take chances, play live (if applicable), practice more, keep believing in yourself and prepare for the long haul.

End of LONG QUOTE.

Note : I do not listen to NIN. I listen to MORTAL.

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What you need to know about Links and Online Popularity:A 100 page graphical guide into Links, Facebook, Blog Commenting and Gmail.

What you need to know about Links and Online Popularity: A 100 page graphical guide into Links, Facebook, Blog Commenting and Gmail. 
What you need to know about Links and how to create them for popularity by Jomar Hilario

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Manila Internet Marketing Workshop. July 24-25,2009

July 3-4 and June 26-27,2009 workshops are now fully booked. We opened this new one on July 24-25,2009 for you, so avail of it now!

How does 14-16 hours of full HANDS ON TRAINING on how to create semi-passive income on the internet - sound to you?

In the Visayas/Mindanao? There's an Internet Marketing Seminar this July 15-17,2009. Click here for full details.

If you're not in Cebu/CDO/Davao or Manila, try the ONLINE WORKSHOP to hlep you create that freedom-giving internet income:

Learn how to...
-Setup a business that can replace your day job
-Setup a business that you can sell someday. like real estate
-Setup a 2nd source of income w/o leaving your day job!
-Deal with Virtual Assistants for the first time-effectively!
-No retirement pay? No problem! Online businesses can be
your retirement income!
-Learn how the internet experts are doing it-even if
you're not that good yourself!
-Setup and use autoresponders
-Sell online w/o knowing how to sell personally
-Set things up automatically so it makes money while you
slumber
-Find and create products that can make income for you.

For Businesses:
-Learn the techniques Pinoy & International Internet
Marketers have used for years!
-Promote your business -online -ahead of your competitors!
-Follow SEO practices from the beginning --even w/o
realizing it!
-Find out where the LATEST keywords can come from
(nope, it's not overture)
-Discover more about your clients w/o asking them.
-Saturate the internet w/o doing the heavy lifting yourself.

Bo Sanchez presents Jomar Hilario in the ...
The Truly Rich Internet Marketing Hands On Workshop
*with 20,000 pesos worth of bonus products that you can use/sell/giveaway

Email manilaworkshop@gmail.com to get your SLOT reserved! Call up Beckie at Tel. (02) 7229562 (Tuesdays-Fridays 9:00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.)

Venue: GENEX, Farmer's Plaza Mall, Cubao, beside the Cubao MRT (Walk in is discouraged due to the large amount of pre-event activities that are done).

Date: July 24-25,2009, Friday-Sat,

(Friday: 10:30am-5:30pm, Sat: 10:30am-5:30pm)

See what you can benefit from attending this workshop:

BENEFIT 1: Create a way to make money semi-passively on the internet. Blogging with Adsense with Automatic Writing (note: no writing talent required, minimum time spent per month)

How to....
+- Find popular niches in small markets in seconds!

+- Know what other things your market is interested in
aside from your niche.

+- Name your blog so it appears top in search engines

+- Update your blog regularly, even when you're on
vacation or busy doing other things.

+- Keep your blog relevant/current even if you have
no writing talent.

+- Develop your blog's popularity - both quickly and
slowly you can do both - at the same time!

+- Maximize your blog format for high adsense
earnings.

+- Track which niche is making money for you.

+- "Decorate" your blog with items that increase it's
earning potential.

+- Do "link love" for maximum popularity (for your blog).

+- Do all the above in the shortest number of steps
possible.

+- Make blogs that give only a high amount of income
and ignore those niches that pay comparatively little.

+- Make use of other people's blogs to make yours more
popular.

+- Never run out of topics for your blogs.

+- Take charge of your income in blogging - concentrate on
the money earners.

+- Do all of the above ETHICALLY and LEGALLY

What to past participants say?

Vince Golangco

JamilCarr

BENEFIT 2: Build an online business complete with customers, products and credit card acceptance!

Create an online store, an online newsletter and a client capture website!

How to....
+- Start an online store with one product only and build up to
many

+- Set up a site or email that instantly accepts credit cards -
from the Philippines!

+- Capture client's emails in any site/email you create.

+- Create an automated online newsletter

+- Find stuff to put into your newsletter when you have no
writing talent.

+- Create free offers.

+- Use the very system that the Internet Marketing "Bigboys" are using to create their wealth!

+- Close a sale on the internet

+- Use BENEFIT 1 in creating your product - if you don't have
one.

+- Super charge your existing business so you're on top of your client's needs.

+- Fill up your store/venue when you have an event/promo
sale

+- Get ahead in your business using time tested practices
marketing experts use in your own niche!

Jan Hilado

BENEFIT 3: Let everybody in your market know all about you.
Internet Promotion, where to do it, do's and don'ts , do it.

How to....
+- Promote in forums, blogs, social networks, event
calendars, etc.

+- Have the correct mindset so you succeed in promotion

+- Synergize your offline and online promotions for
maximum success utilize offline marketing techniques in
your online promotions

+- Be a business owner- when it comes to promoting your
business or service.

BENEFIT 4: Virtual Assistants: Free up your time in the process. There's so much to do, so little time, What do I do?

How to....
+- Avoid doing all this heavy lifting and get your life back
while earning on the side.

+- Find, qualify and deal with virtual assistants (VA) that do
all the work for you

+- How to create digital products just by dealing with these VAs.

Irene Chua

Experience Bonus 1:
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You'll learn all the above without the technical terms and complicated concepts that sometimes cloud understanding. All you'll learn is practical, doable and instantly usable.

Take Home Bonus:
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You take home ALL HANDOUTS and PRESENTATIONS so you can apply what you have learned on your own. All presentations are STEP-BY-STEP and even a grandmother can follow them. P.S. Bring a large capacity USB Thumb Drive for the BONUSES. (400MB)

Requirement:
Must be able to create a new email account. This is no joke. If you have no experience in creating an account - you might have a hard time following - and I suggest you bring along someone who is- to guide you! This requirement involves being able to surf, click, right click, drag, high-light, copy and paste. If you're chuckling because you know these things already - or you're sad because you don't --know that we will be spending time -during the event in training you in these basics.

Goal:
Create a working website that you can use to sell anything.

Promise:
This level of detail has not been available to others at this price before-till now. The value of this workshop is in excess of P 200,000 - if you attend it in the US.

Testimonials:
"Yahoo! I already earned my first $100, after 2 months!" - Dandy, Cebu

"What I liked about the workshop is that the instructions were easy to understand. Anyone with a little bit of basic computer skills will be able to comprehend." Vincent

"(I like the section on) Blogging & adsense...because I don't need to be a good writer to earn semi-passive income."
Ching

"What I like most in the workshop is the opportunity to market globally whatever you want to sell. I want to earn as well ." Mike

"Sulit na Sulit!" Judith

Details:
This is not a TALKING SEMINAR, but a DOING WORKSHOP. You leave the event with a website you can use to sell any product.

Email manilaworkshop@gmail.com to get your SLOT reserved!

Venue: GENEX, Farmer's Plaza Mall, Cubao, beside the Cubao MRT

Date: July 24-25,2009, Friday-Sat,

(Friday: 10:30am-5:30pm, Sat: 10:30am-5:30pm

You only have a few days to decide-there are limited seats! A workshop of THIS level of detail is NOT OFFERED ANYWHERE in the Philippines.

Email Beaconlightevents+blog@gmail.com to reserve your slot before the the limited # of seats run out. It's July 24-25,2009. Yes, it's so good you will say that a day's absence from work will be MORE THAN WORTH IT.

Super Double Guarantee: If you're not able to recover double the fee (P 9750 per person, the special Couples or Business Partners Price is P8750 only per person) to this workshop using what you learned - after one year, we'll refund you plus 1,000 pesos for your trouble!

To avail of this workshop in the US - will cost you P 85,000 - P200,000 - and that's just attendance to a seminar. This workshop is a bargain at P 9750.-!

Email Beaconlightevents+blog@gmail.com to get details on how to reserve your seat now.

Bo Sanchez presents Jomar Hilario

About the Trainor:
Goal: To Make You Truly Rich
Core gift: Teaching and Training
Passion: Sharing his (Technical) knowledge in the simplest way.
Core skills: Presentation, Internet Technology, Marketing

Recent Achievement: Filled up a 10,000 seat venue in 30 days via online marketing. Yes, how this is done will also be shared in the Internet Marketing Workshop.

P.S1. Each person most likely knows someone else who is passionate about earning online. Please do not close this email until you've sent this opportunity to that person. He or she will be thanking you -richly - very very soon.

Oh yes the P 20,000 worth of bonuses is included in his package. This contains Ebooks that you can sell or give away to attract your customers, specially if you don't have a product. There are also programs you can use in your business as well as Informational Ebooks about Internet Marketing.

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Rainy days are great time to stay at home, are you at home?

Its raining erratically in Manila. Hard rain then sunny then hard rain again. But it's not a storm it's just a so-called

LPA or Low Pressure Area -- the beginnings of a storm. That means if you have work, you have go brave everything and be at work.

What a wonderful time to stay indoors and do internet marketing - if you had the foresight to do Internet Marketing long ago and are now reaping the benefits of staying indoors when you should be indoors.

Don't get me wrong though, I love rainy days, even if there's an excuse to go out and watch the rain, I'd gladly watch it from my home terrace or window rather than from a vehicle going to work or back-trying not to get my socks wet. It's weather like this that makes me glad I don't have to go out - because I don't need to - because I have semi-passive income. I do work hard, but not everyday and not 8 hours a day. It's all up to me.

That's why I share what I know in the Hands On Internet Marketing Workshop, have time freedom is such a gift, everybody should have it! Well, at least those who have thought it over and decided to go for it. To help you decide for it, why not hear what other people say in these four videos of actual attendees:

Vince Golangco

JamilCarr

Irene Chua

Jan Hilado

Now, Be Remarkable and Signup for the Cebu or Manila's workshops while there are still a few slots left or join the Online Workshop!

If you're reserving that little money you have in the bank for an "investment" for the future, check out this picture I took this week of how much interest your money will gain in the bank: It's very EYE OPENING.

The workshop fee is very little compared to the minimum potential earnings you can get -- $100 every three months -if you're busy doing other things. Ask yourself what kind of investment/business can give you that kind of return in such a short time.

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Robert Kiyosalki (rich dad, poor dad) gives out his new book: Conspiracy of the Rich and Crowdsources it too!

ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT why the economy in the US and world is collapsing? Robert Kiyosaki (best selling author that everyone on the planet has read) is offering a solution -- to clear your head. In an online book that's free for reading called the THE 8 NEW RULES OF MONEY.

As of now, the INTRO and FIRST CHAPTER is up for you to read at CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH. When you signup, just mention in the forum that JOMARHILARIO invited you.

Yes, it's a new book and an online book and ITS FREE. But you get to write or discuss it with him as he writes it. This is called CROWDSOURCING. So whatever you say may or may not impact the coming chapters.

Source

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