Worth checking out a new restaurant in Whitley Bay called Unico, they’ve opened up where the old Cartridge World used to be (opposite BM Bargains). Good food and it’s currently bring your own bottle with no corkage – good times!

So, let’s get too it. How do you get stock photos for free without having to buy credits and without having a watermark on them?

Using TinEye.com the reverse image search-engine you can pick a photo from a stock photo website, right click on it and choose “copy image url”.

I love this search engine that I found at reddit.com – it’s one of those tools that’s mostly used for finding porn (or so I hear…)

Then paste that URL in to TinEye.com and it’ll search over one billion images for the stock photo you want. If it’s a popular image it’ll find it, and usually without a watermark.

Here’s the infamous business man example – 127 found!

Download, crop and re-use.

Disclaimer: This is naughty and I wouldn’t do it. You’re using the image without a license.

Today’s are 12/13 year old domains for $9. These are in a ‘buy it now’ auction. You couldn’t of registered a domain 12 years ago and still have it today for $9. That’s a normal yearly renewal fee.

http://savednames.com/2010/11/antique-domains-12-years-old-at-godaddy/

Take note. Honest reviews rarely exist of Internet Marketing products because of the incentive of money. Affiliate commissions are earned when you send someone to the sales page and they buy. So it’s in the reviewers short term interest to talk good of the product.

The longer you do Internet Marketing the more immune you become the hype behind the “next big thing” that all the gurus are pushing in their emails.

Russell Brunson is today pushing Gsneak.com which comes with the most nauseating sales video I’ve seen in the last few months. Along with Auto Traffic Avalanche they seem to be using professional actors for the sales video. Nothing wrong with that but it’s the claims that are made, or at least the way they are made that rubs me up the wrong way.

Let’s look at some of the claims:

“Rumour has it one of the major search engines have been compromised with a new piece of underground software. That’s so radical it literally sneaks thousands of free visitors from right under their noses!”
First things first. There aren’t any rumours and Google hasn’t been compromised. You are not ‘sneaking’ visitors away. You’re creating websites that rank and earn their visitors just like everyone else.

“I’ll warn you now. The big boys will never want you to know about this sneaky software”.
Err the big boys are selling you this software. The one’s that aren’t – don’t give a shit.

“A tool that rakes in $408 and 8 cents”
Just when you need $409 and 12 cents. A tool comes a long that just doesn’t quite cut the mustard. The “technique” here is being specific. It’s more believable to say $408 dollars than to round to $400. The 8 cents bit? Taking a little to far.

“The more bizzare niches like …. single parenting and fly fishing”.
Yup, those single mothers are just a weird quirk of nature. And fly fishing?! Don’t get me started. Look… if you are new to Internet Marketing and are targeting a niche, start more “bizzare”.. let’s call it “sub-niched” than these.

“Unless you have the budget of a fortune 500 company, buying traffic is a suckers game”.
You can buy traffic on adwords from 5-10 cents per click. On facebook for around 15-20 cents per click. Pay per view traffic? Less than a penny per visitor. So I need to be a fortune 500 company with a budget of about … $50 to get started.

“Paying for traffic is one of the dumbest things you can do”
Tell this to your affiliates who are being traffic to promote Gsneak.

This was just the first 3 minutes of the video and there are another 17 minutes to go.  So to wrap up real quick; Gsneak is auto-blogging software.

Along the lines of  - choose a niche, pick some content sources (wiki, youtube, search results), pick a theme, hit GO and BAM you have a low quality site made in minutes.

But a site does not equal revenue.

If your site doesn’t rank you won’t make any money. So you need quality links (because your content is crap). That takes time and costs money too. It’s possible to make money auto-blogging though, back in ’06 I knew quite a few guys doing tens of thousands per month this way. The guys at Syndk8 (black hat forum) have gave out some great info and tools over the years for this kind of thing.

But let’s face it, you’re a little late to the game now. Why do you think there are products being released about it?

So now I can info product binge even more effeciently. In the last two days I’ve read 2 ebooks, covering over 150 pages. One was shit. One was eye opening.

Luckily, Double Your Productivity for Life was the latter.

Jason’s large ego leaks into his writing enough that I nearly discounted his ideas but I’ve came away from reading his book impressed.

Here are the three things I’ll be applying immediately:

1. Creating a daily ‘Must get done list’ instead of a ‘to-do’ list.
   A must get done is not just semantical word play. It’s a list of things that must get done and are tied to timed deadlines. This list comes before the ‘Things I’d like to do today’ list.
2. The understanding of Parkinson’s Law which is the idea that any job will take up ALL of the time allocated to it. Set yourself a to-do with no hard deadline and it’ll fill the whole day. I bet we’ve all seen this one in action?
   
   
3. Have Profit and non-profit hours. During profit hours you take massive action with no pondering allowed. You burn through your must do list in a state of flow. During non-profit hours you can ponder and plan tomorrows profit hours.

Does Double Your Productivity for Life really work? Well it’s 2am and I’m posting to my blog. That’s either insomnia or productivity.

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It’s a trend I’ve noticed because over the last few months the girlfriend and I have used about 5 different garages. We drop off the car, don’t hear anything back and then need to give them a call. Which means opening Google and doing a quick search – nothing comes back.

It seems most mechanics are more interested in engines than email. Probably for the best but it makes finding their phone number a task.

The latest culprit is SMC Garage in Shiremoor, Newcastle. So I’ve included their phone number, address and a map at the top of this post to make everyones life a little easier in finding out how to contact this excellent garage.

A little back story -

My girlfriends car is a Ford Ka with a ghost in the machine. Over the last year things have just been going wrong consistently. First it was the alternator – we took it to a recommended garage, they refurbished the alternator and we were off on our way (£150 later). A few days later we break down. Same problem. They fix it and we go on our merry way. A few days later we break down. A new alternator was then fitted at extra cost.

During all of that (about 3 weeks) the communication was dire and we were treated like a nuisance, not a customer.

The wheel bearing was next to go and this was sorted at a different garage (my regular) where we get a hopefully honest appraisal but it’s not cheap (and an extra problem or two is always found that needs fixed).

A couple of months later the car won’t go over 4000 revs and the engine light comes on intermediately.

We take it to a different ‘recommended’ garage and the diagnosis is a faulty o2 sensor. Along with two new tyres and a wishbone for the suspension. £550 bill (this car is getting expensive). But this doesn’t fix the problem! We’re still hitting the 4000 rev mark and can’t get over it. The garage’s explanation “it’ll take a couple of hundred miles to work it’s way out”.

We then take it to SMC Garage – Rob has a look over it and at first thinks it’s the ECU (electronic control unit, in essence the computer brain on the car) and if that’s the case it’ll need to go to Ford. He spends about 30 minutes testing everything (we’d just turned up, nothing booked).

After 30 minutes we’re ready to take the ECU diagnosis and give up – Rob isn’t. He takes it inside and tests more ideas. He comes back with diagnosis. The o2 sensor was faulty and the exhaust manifold has probably been disintegrating as a result. This would be causing the car to get slower and slower and less fuel efficient over time.

He was right.

We leave it with him and a few days later it’s all sorted. An expensive bill awaits but an elusive problem fixed that another garage completely missed.

So I decide to take my car in with a list of ‘symptoms’ for them to check over. I drop it off Friday night and pick it up saturday morning.

Out of the list of 4 symptoms they’ve fixed one (plugging the radio back in) and told me the other’s – although a building problem – are too premature to justify fixing and to just bring it back if it gets worse. The exhaust sounding louder than it should is not the result of a hole but the result of a non-manufacturer one being fitted.

I whip out my debit card to pay my bill for their time and I get waved away by Lee. My mind at rest, my radio fixed and bank balance untouched. I like this place.

I’m clearing out some old domain and sites and will be giving Flippa a go. First site up was Investing.cc – a CC tld, one word dictionary domain name. Sold for $200. I’d rather see these .cc domains go for more but their value is hard to gauge.

I’ve put up Jewels.cc and will see how that one goes, if it’s a success I’ve got payday, compensation, garages, psychotherapy and childcare.cc to develop and flip(pa).