The most hyped mobile phone in history went on sale in Australia today.
I’d hate to be a phone manufacturer that was competing with it.
You can buy it from Telstra, Optus, or Vodaphone.

If you got it from Telstra, you’d be able to take full advantage of the speed of their Next G network for checking your email, watching movies or YouTube, or visiting websites.
You’d also be paying through the nose if you actually wanted to do these things.

Because Telstra’s iPhone plan only gives you 5 (thats FIVE) megabytes of data per month. (And each extra megabyte will cost you $2)

Which is totally bloody useless for anyone using the internet.

Of course, a range of data plans are available. For an extra $59 per month, you get another 200 megabytes of data. Still not a lot. Add this to around $60 for the phone plan, and it’s a very expensive status symbol

Vodafone offers the phone on a $69 per month plan, which gives you $310 worth of calls and text, plus 250 megabytes of data. (You also have to pay $189 up front for the phone)

Optus is probably the best deal, with $79  per month for a plan that gives you $550 worth of talk and text, and 700 megabytes of data.

It’s important to remember to check out the contracts associated with these deals to make sure that you know EXACTLY what you are signing up for.

Tags: iphone, broadband, browser, bandwidth,

Do you want to learn about all the new methods of using the internet?
Then I strongly suggest that you go over to www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com and sign up for this free training course.

This is the third (or is it the fourth?) year that Ed Dale and Dan Raine have run this free internet tutorial - and I recommend that you sign up if possible. Continue Reading…

I had a surprise in my email last week.
Jason Carter thought that my header graphic could do with some improving, and made up a new one for me.
Well, it’s better than the old one, and you can see it above.

Thanks Jason,
Eric G.

(P.S. You can check out more of Jason’s work at www.pod.com.au )

Artists and Photographers trying to sell their work on the internet generally give up because of the difficulties involved with setting up online galleries, payment systems, creating prints, collecting money, packaging and posting, etc.

It just gets too hard.

Melbourne based Red Bubble solves all those problems, and also provides an active artists community, as well as an online gallery where the general public people can find and purchase your work.

Here’s how it works. Continue Reading…

I subscribe to lots of newsletters, and just skim through most of them.
However, I always read through these 3 newsletters as soon as I receive them.
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It’s really easy now for small businesses to sell their products on the internet.
Especially if you haven’t got hundreds of products, or a high volume of transactions.
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If you’re bogged down with all the hassles involved in setting up a traditional website, give WordPress a try.
This website was completely set up in less that 2 hours - And I’m not a Wordpress expert.

Wordpress is an application that is used by countless people all over the world to quickly build reliable, easy to update websites.

Starting from scratch, someone with a bit of technical knowledge could have you up and running in less than an hour.

WordPress was developed for blogging, but can also be used to quickly and easily build a normal website.
After it has been set up, you can maintain your site very easily from any computer that is connected to the internet. Continue Reading…

I’d like to know about your main goal in using the internet.
Or the biggest stumbling block that prevents you from accomplishing something you want to do.

This will help me fine tune the results from the survey, and produce blog posts that are interesting for you.

Thanks,
Eric G.

P.S. To make a comment, just click on the “Comments” link

Is Your Site Listed on Google?
Go to the main google search page at www.google.com

In the search box, type in site:yourdomainname.com
For example, to find out about this website, I’d type in site:www.taseric.com

Google will return a list of all the pages that it has indexed on your site.
At the top right, it also tells you how many pages on your site are indexed.
Have a look at this list.

Are the titles of the page meaningful? If not, you need to work on the Title tags for each page. Try to make them different, and relevant to the content of each page.
The title tag is one of the most important things on your page. And should contain keywords relevant to that page.
cheers,
Eric G.

P.S. Google also indexes PDF files that are on your website. If you didn’t know that, check to make sure that you don’t have any unprotected confidential documents on your website.

Who is visiting your website, and how did they get there?
Many people ask me about putting “Hit counters” on their site.
These things are a relic of the early days of the internet, and provide no meaningful information to you.

If you are hosted on WebAngel (or most other web hosts), your hosting control panel will contain a stats package named “AWSTATS”.

Follow this link, and you’ll discover all sorts of things about the visitors to your website.
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A couple of people have said that they visited this blog, but didn’t know what to do next.

OK, here’s a quick run down.
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LO,
Pretty well anything can be promoted successfully on the internet if you are creative about it.

Even if it’s unsexy and boring.

Exhibit 1: Blendtec
Consider the problem faced by Tom Dickson, founder of Blendtec.
He makes home blenders. Hardly an exciting item.
Here’s what he did to promote blender sales for his ailing company.
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