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		<title>Want To Watch Me Make Money Online Without Spending Much Time?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to make more money, without spending much time online? Comment here if you do. I&#8217;m considering making this my focus for this year. See, I have a constraint which is living where there&#8217;s no Internet access, so &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2012/01/want-to-watch-me-make-money-online-without-spending-much-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Do you want to make more money, without spending much time online? Comment here if you do. I&#8217;m considering making this my focus for this year.</p>
<p>See, I have a constraint which is living where there&#8217;s no Internet access, so I&#8217;m only online a few hours a week. Instead of using this as an excuse for not being massively successful, I&#8217;m going to view it as a challenge&#8230; and one that benefits you.</p>
<p>Many people want to make more money and they&#8217;re also busy. I know a lot of my Yogi friends want to spend as much of their time in nature as possible. But they could use some more money.</p>
<p>What if there was a way to make more money than you need, without spending much time online? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to show you&#8230; if you&#8217;re interested. Comment here now. Let me know your thoughts on this.</p>
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		<title>How to Replace Links in Tweets or Add Links to Tweets With Perl</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of 2009, I began sharing my dad&#8217;s stories online, beginning with the collection called The Road South. I put them on Scribd, a social document sharing and reading site. After a little practice, by tweeting about the &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2012/01/how-to-replace-links-in-tweets-or-add-links-to-tweets-with-perl/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Near the end of 2009, I began sharing <a href="http://dickstravels.com/">my dad&#8217;s stories</a> online, beginning with the collection called <a href="http://dickstravels.com/the-road-south.htm">The Road South</a>. I put them on <a href="http://www.scribd.com/dickbird">Scribd</a>, a social document sharing and reading site. After a little practice, by tweeting about the stories, playing on curiosity and using hashtags liberally, I was able to get 1,000 clicks for free in one day. A while later, I removed the stories from Scribd (don&#8217;t ask me why), and I&#8217;ve only just recently put them back up (and more are coming). This means the links (and shortened bit.ly links) to those old Scribd documents are broken links. But I wanted to reuse the old tweets, perhaps with some edits. And with the help of the tool Timely.is (which schedules tweets when they&#8217;ll get the most visibility or engagement), it&#8217;ll be a cinch to get 1,000s of clicks (and reads and <a href="http://dickstravels.com/off-the-cuff.htm">listens</a>) to my dad&#8217;s stories once again.</p>
<p>I must clarify: there were many tweets per story. These coincided with the many reasons to read a particular story, or the many subjects of curiosity which would attract people&#8217;s attention and make them want to read, or the many <a href="http://dickstravels.com/off-the-cuff/how-to-make-ugly-events-into-funny-stories.htm">funny</a> or provocative things that were written or said by characters.</p>
<p>[I'll draw a parallel here... Each service or product you sell should have many tweets prepared for it. There should be tweets for all the benefits, perhaps for all the features, and surely for the points of curiosity as well. When these tweets are tweeted (and they may be repeated) they will work both together and on their own to get clicks to your website, specifically to the individual product page. Some people will see several of your tweets about a thing and then click a link, while others may click the first time they see a tweet about it. It's more common, though, that they would act after some repetition.]</p>
<p>To make it quick and easy to replace the old links in the old tweets with new links, I wrote a little Perl program and I want to share it with you so you can save time too.<span id="more-1103"></span></p>
<p>The program reads an input file and produces and output file. The way it works is this&#8230; To tell it what the new link is, simply put the new shortened bit.ly link on its own line with no spaces before or after. The whole line is the link. That&#8217;s taken as a command to replace any links it sees afterwards (until the replacement link is changed to something else by the same method) with that link, whether those links are shortened or full length and regardless of how many links there are on a single line. The input file is just that, new shortened bit.ly links on their own lines followed by a series of tweets, one on each line. It can have empty lines, titles, headings and whatever else you want, that won&#8217;t be changed, will simply be copied into the output file.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the Perl program and sample input and output data to illustrate and make this clearer and easier to use yourself.</p>
<p>But before I show it to you, I&#8217;ve got to say this&#8230; Recently, I&#8217;ve been recording my dad, <a href="http://dickstravels.com">Dick Bird</a>, telling his stories (new ones, not the 80 he&#8217;d already written) and we&#8217;re putting them together in a new collection called <a href="http://dickstravels.com/off-the-cuff.htm">Off the Cuff</a>. (You can listen to them on his new site, <a href="http://dickstravels.com">DicksTravels.com</a>) We&#8217;ve been writing tweets for these new stories (we haven&#8217;t tweeted them yet) and I figured the program should be updated to automatically append these tweets with the <a href="https://bitly.com/u/dickstravels" target="_blank">shortened bit.ly links to the individual stories</a>. So the second program listing (and associated data) is for that purpose. It not only replaces links as the first does, it also appends links to all lines without links in them.</p>
<p>Okay, here goes&#8230; (And two notes: the data files, you won&#8217;t see the whole lines here, but they&#8217;re there and you can copy-paste each whole code block to a file (I&#8217;ve given the filenames), secondly: sorry about the lack of indentation in the code, WordPress removed it and this is the first time I shared some perl on my blog. Let me know (COMMENT)  if you can do it better.)</p>
<p><strong>replace-links-in-tweets.pl</strong></p>
<pre># usage example:
# perl replace-links-in-tweets.pl dickstravels-oldTRStweets

# lineage:
# from dickstravels-make-new-pages.pl

# description:
# Takes bit.ly links on their own line (no spaces after it allowed!) as the current replacement
# Replaces any links on subsequent lines with the current replacement,
# regardless of how many links there are or how long or short they are

# written by Bevan Bird... Find me at http://bevanbird.com

use English;

# get input from command line
my $inputfile = $ARGV[0];
my $outputfile = $inputfile;
$inputfile .= ".txt";
$outputfile .= "-replaced.txt";

open(INPUT, "&lt;", $inputfile) or die $!;
open(OUTPUT, "&gt;", $outputfile) or die $!;

my $replacement_link;

while(&lt;INPUT&gt;) {
chomp;
if ($_ =~ /^http:\/\/bit\.ly\/[^\s]+$/){
$replacement_link = $_;
}else{
$_ =~ s/(http:\/\/[^\s]+)/$replacement_link/g;
}
print OUTPUT $_ . "\n";
}

close(INPUT) or die $!;
close(OUTPUT) or die $!;</pre>
<p><strong>dickstravels-oldTRStweets.txt</strong></p>
<pre>http://bit.ly/se76SD
The Road South #ebook blends black #humour, #travel, #sex, #fantasy, social issues, &amp; extreme kayaking. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/6dK2FP
Check out The Road South short story collection and listen to them too! &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/6dK2FP
Road South #ebook &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/6dK2FP #fiction #travel #humour #kayak #safari #nude #revolution
Road South #ebook &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/6dK2FP #fiction #culture #diving #fantasy #farming #humour

http://bit.ly/tPdGdz

Sexy Women, Men of Steel http://bit.ly/7lLVZD #story #fiction #travel #tropics #babe #reading

http://bit.ly/thZqF8

Papa Chango http://bit.ly/8eHZiZ #story #fiction #strange #adventure #action #tropics #babes #surgery

http://bit.ly/vBkKfF

Totally Unreal http://bit.ly/8iyzEb #story #fiction #fire #cyber #punk #conformist #VR #tech #future

http://bit.ly/ufymzE

Sexy Women, Men of Steel

http://bit.ly/tPdGdz

Sexy Women, Men of Steel &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/7lLVZD #fiction #travel via @DicksTravels
Short story "Sexy Women, Men of Steel" http://bit.ly/7lLVZD #prose #fiction #travel #culture
So beautifully written, it borders on poetry, rather than prose. Not a word is wasted. ~ @Literatrix http://bit.ly/7lLVZD
Sexy Women, Men of Steel &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/7lLVZD #story #fiction #travel #babe

It’s got to be her milk that makes them wild. A suckle would perk me up too when I’m feeling droopy. http://bit.ly/7lLVZD
One night she breaks. In the darkened kitchen I find her crying. The other kids are asleep. http://bit.ly/7lLVZD
Growing up to be sexy ladies. Fire in their eyes to scorch men of steel. http://bit.ly/7lLVZD
He’s putting a match to the fuse and opening the window, hurling a home-made bomb at the hostile rain. http://bit.ly/7lLVZD
"So ashamed they can’t ogle her tits." Sexy Women, Men of Steel &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/7lLVZD #story #travel
"Mujeres sensitivas, hombres fuertes y de acero... sensitive women, strong men of steel" (los Angeles del Puerto) http://bit.ly/7lLVZD
Lighten Up, Papa Chango

http://bit.ly/thZqF8

Voluptuous Beach Girls http://bit.ly/8eHZiZ #story #fiction #strange #adventure #action #tropics #babes #surgery
Lighten Up, Papa Chango http://bit.ly/8eHZiZ #story #fiction #strange #adventure #action #tropics #sexy #babes #surgery
In Zipolite, Oaxaca, el Zopilote del Norte kayak-surfs at the beach and observes the local culture. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/7CuPWX
One of my favourite stories is "Lighten Up, Papa Chango", you can read it here: http://bit.ly/8eHZiZ

...</pre>
<p><strong>dickstravels-oldTRStweets-replaced.txt</strong></p>
<pre>http://bit.ly/se76SD
The Road South #ebook blends black #humour, #travel, #sex, #fantasy, social issues, &amp; extreme kayaking. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/se76SD
Check out The Road South short story collection and listen to them too! &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/se76SD
Road South #ebook &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/se76SD #fiction #travel #humour #kayak #safari #nude #revolution
Road South #ebook &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/se76SD #fiction #culture #diving #fantasy #farming #humour

http://bit.ly/tPdGdz

Sexy Women, Men of Steel http://bit.ly/tPdGdz #story #fiction #travel #tropics #babe #reading

http://bit.ly/thZqF8

Papa Chango http://bit.ly/thZqF8 #story #fiction #strange #adventure #action #tropics #babes #surgery

http://bit.ly/vBkKfF

Totally Unreal http://bit.ly/vBkKfF #story #fiction #fire #cyber #punk #conformist #VR #tech #future

http://bit.ly/ufymzE

Sexy Women, Men of Steel

http://bit.ly/tPdGdz

Sexy Women, Men of Steel &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/tPdGdz #fiction #travel via @DicksTravels
Short story "Sexy Women, Men of Steel" http://bit.ly/tPdGdz #prose #fiction #travel #culture
So beautifully written, it borders on poetry, rather than prose. Not a word is wasted. ~ @Literatrix http://bit.ly/tPdGdz
Sexy Women, Men of Steel &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/tPdGdz #story #fiction #travel #babe

It’s got to be her milk that makes them wild. A suckle would perk me up too when I’m feeling droopy. http://bit.ly/tPdGdz
One night she breaks. In the darkened kitchen I find her crying. The other kids are asleep. http://bit.ly/tPdGdz
Growing up to be sexy ladies. Fire in their eyes to scorch men of steel. http://bit.ly/tPdGdz
He’s putting a match to the fuse and opening the window, hurling a home-made bomb at the hostile rain. http://bit.ly/tPdGdz
"So ashamed they can’t ogle her tits." Sexy Women, Men of Steel &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/tPdGdz #story #travel
"Mujeres sensitivas, hombres fuertes y de acero... sensitive women, strong men of steel" (los Angeles del Puerto) http://bit.ly/tPdGdz
Lighten Up, Papa Chango

http://bit.ly/thZqF8

Voluptuous Beach Girls http://bit.ly/thZqF8 #story #fiction #strange #adventure #action #tropics #babes #surgery
Lighten Up, Papa Chango http://bit.ly/thZqF8 #story #fiction #strange #adventure #action #tropics #sexy #babes #surgery
In Zipolite, Oaxaca, el Zopilote del Norte kayak-surfs at the beach and observes the local culture. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
One of my favourite stories is "Lighten Up, Papa Chango", you can read it here: http://bit.ly/thZqF8

...</pre>
<p><strong>link-tweets.pl</strong></p>
<pre># usage example:
# perl link-tweets.pl "C:\Users\Bevan\Documents\My Work\Dick's Travels\dickstravels-tweets-by-titles-with-links"

# lineage:
# from replace-links-in-tweets.pl

# description:
# Takes bit.ly links on their own line (no spaces after it allowed!) as the current appendix
# For subsequent lines...
# if they have link(s), the link(s) is replaced with the current replacement...
# regardless of how many links there are or how long or short they are!
# if they do not have a link,
# if there are hashtag(s)
# a link is inserted as signified by {L}
# otherwise,
# a link is appended
# and then if the resulting line is too long for a tweet, it is marked with its length

# written by Bevan Bird... Find me at http://bevanbird.com

use English;

# get input from command line
my $inputfile = $ARGV[0];
my $outputfile = $inputfile;
$inputfile .= ".txt";
$outputfile .= "-linked.txt";

open(INPUT, "&lt;", $inputfile) or die $!;
open(OUTPUT, "&gt;", $outputfile) or die $!;

my $replacement_link;

while(&lt;INPUT&gt;) {
chomp;
#print "$_\n";
if ($_ =~ /^http:\/\/bit\.ly\/[^\s]+$/){
$replacement_link = $_;
#print "$replacement_link\n";
}else{
$_ =~ s/(http:\/\/[^\s]+)/$replacement_link/g;
if (!($_ =~ /http:\/\/bit\.ly\/[^\s]+/) &amp;&amp; length($_)){

$l = length($replacement_link) + length($_) + 1;
if ($_ =~ /\#/){
$l -= 4;
$replacer = include_link_left_delimter($l) . $replacement_link;
$_ =~ s/{L}/$replacer/;
}else{
$replacer = " " . include_link_left_delimter($l) . $replacement_link;
$_ .= $replacer;
}
$l = length($_);
}
if ($l&gt;140){ #too long for a tweet
$_ = "************************************ TOO LONG ("
. $l . " characters here... ) ***************************** " . $_;
}
}
print OUTPUT $_ . "\n";
}

close(INPUT) or die $!;
close(OUTPUT) or die $!;

sub include_link_left_delimter
{
my $l = shift;
if ($l&gt;140){ #too long for a tweet
return "&gt;&gt; ";
}elsif ($l&lt;138){
return "&gt;&gt; ";
}elsif ($l&lt;139){
return "&gt; ";
}else{
return "";
}
}
</pre>
<p><strong>dickstravels-OTC-tweets.txt</strong></p>
<pre>http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg

If you think I'm going to sleep on the beach now, you're mistaken.
She’s a bit nervous already, the thought of being bait for an ambush / massacre won't do anything for her tranquility.
Having these two garrulous, gastrically-stricken policemen guffawing in her bar wasn't doing her trade any good.
That wasn't my fault, it was a government customs-man who did the typing.
People found their bank accounts wiped out overnight by a stroke of a pen.
I opened the hood and a flock of rats jumped out!
We had our hammocks slung from hooks in the walls and had a comfortable night's sleep.
Finally we got our traveller's cheques in Merida.
Following the route I'd taken in '74... Chichen Itza, Valladolid, Cancun and Tulum, my favourite beach.
We devoted our days to sunbathing and swimming and diving in the sea and the coral reef and spearing fish.
Getting coconuts down from the palms and with my machete opening them and drinking the juice. Having a lovely time.
We were getting ready for bed and saw a search light come through the trees... We froze.
I said, "Don't worry, the Army's on our side."
Too bad, we really need to buy a car... they looked hungrily at the Fiat.
A little bullshit goes a long way in Mexico.
Usually you get double the value of a car in Mexico... and the Army... they've probably got lots of money.
He and a corporal got in the car and they drove off at furious speed crashing through the bush, falling into potholes.
With the night vision binoculars I could see the outline of a yatch and three people on deck dropping the sails.

http://bit.ly/thZqF8

Sita and Will are frolicking naked in the foam.
Two sunburnt gringas in remnants of dresses lean over the hull of an upturned boat.
‘Don’t want to get the fishermen too excited,’ Sita grins. ‘They’re crazy enough already.’
Two sunburnt gringas... The wind playfully tosses their dresses up over their backsides.
Will’s eyes glaze with lust as he noses the car down the loose gravel path to the landing-stage.
They gesture at the beached fishing boats. ‘They came in empty. No more today.’
‘Don’t stop!’ he yells as I hesitate over the clutch pedal, then think better of it.
I slam on the pedals to hold it balanced over nothing for a few agonizing seconds...
‘A bowline on the bumper and a turn around that tree!’ My voice is a chango-monkey screech.
‘Hey, lighten up old man,’ says Sita severely. ‘You look like a bomb about to explode.’
My dread of crashing into concrete is replaced by terror of a gap in the boards...
I'm feeling fragile in the flesh and leery of wrecked cars and machinery in general.
A mureña - moray (wolf) eel? Why don’t you kill it before it bites you?’
‘You jabbed it in the face?’ he exclaims in wonder. ‘And it let you go?’</pre>
<p><strong>dickstravels-OTC-tweets-linked.txt</strong></p>
<pre>http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg

If you think I'm going to sleep on the beach now, you're mistaken. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
She’s a bit nervous already, the thought of being bait for an ambush / massacre won't do anything for her tranquility. http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
Having these two garrulous, gastrically-stricken policemen guffawing in her bar wasn't doing her trade any good. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
That wasn't my fault, it was a government customs-man who did the typing. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
People found their bank accounts wiped out overnight by a stroke of a pen. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
I opened the hood and a flock of rats jumped out! &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
We had our hammocks slung from hooks in the walls and had a comfortable night's sleep. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
Finally we got our traveller's cheques in Merida. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
Following the route I'd taken in '74... Chichen Itza, Valladolid, Cancun and Tulum, my favourite beach. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
We devoted our days to sunbathing and swimming and diving in the sea and the coral reef and spearing fish. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
Getting coconuts down from the palms and with my machete opening them and drinking the juice. Having a lovely time. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
We were getting ready for bed and saw a search light come through the trees... We froze. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
I said, "Don't worry, the Army's on our side." &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
Too bad, we really need to buy a car... they looked hungrily at the Fiat. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
A little bullshit goes a long way in Mexico. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
Usually you get double the value of a car in Mexico... and the Army... they've probably got lots of money. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
He and a corporal got in the car and they drove off at furious speed crashing through the bush, falling into potholes. http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg
With the night vision binoculars I could see the outline of a yatch and three people on deck dropping the sails. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/t6u0Zg

http://bit.ly/thZqF8

Sita and Will are frolicking naked in the foam. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
Two sunburnt gringas in remnants of dresses lean over the hull of an upturned boat. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
‘Don’t want to get the fishermen too excited,’ Sita grins. ‘They’re crazy enough already.’ &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
Two sunburnt gringas... The wind playfully tosses their dresses up over their backsides. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
Will’s eyes glaze with lust as he noses the car down the loose gravel path to the landing-stage. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
They gesture at the beached fishing boats. ‘They came in empty. No more today.’ &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
‘Don’t stop!’ he yells as I hesitate over the clutch pedal, then think better of it. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
I slam on the pedals to hold it balanced over nothing for a few agonizing seconds... &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
‘A bowline on the bumper and a turn around that tree!’ My voice is a chango-monkey screech. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
‘Hey, lighten up old man,’ says Sita severely. ‘You look like a bomb about to explode.’ &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
My dread of crashing into concrete is replaced by terror of a gap in the boards... &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
I'm feeling fragile in the flesh and leery of wrecked cars and machinery in general. &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
A mureña - moray (wolf) eel? Why don’t you kill it before it bites you?’ &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8
‘You jabbed it in the face?’ he exclaims in wonder. ‘And it let you go?’ &gt;&gt; http://bit.ly/thZqF8</pre>
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		<title>Sex Appeal Loves Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Connectors! Today I&#8217;ve got something very special for you. I spent the last two weeks writing a super sexy web traffic report about BodyRock.Tv, it&#8217;s full of sexy ads, and I explain about how to get far more traffic &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2011/12/sex-appeal-loves-traffic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Hey Connectors!</p>
<p>Today I&#8217;ve got something very special for you. I spent the last two weeks writing a super sexy web traffic report about BodyRock.Tv, it&#8217;s full of sexy ads, and I explain about how to get far more traffic by leveraging the sex appeal you already have. (You&#8217;ll see a close up of the lovely lady at the left on page 106.)</p>
<p><a title="BodyRock.Tv" href="http://www.bodyrock.tv/" target="_blank">BodyRock.Tv</a> is the free fitness blog for high intensity home workouts and a healthy lifestyle. It&#8217;s run by Zuzana and Freddy Light, a super fit husband and wife team. The workouts are short and intense. Zuzana says they get your metabolism up so you&#8217;ll be burning more calories throughout the day. She doesn&#8217;t like to spend hours working out every day, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re like her in that you&#8217;ve got far more fun things to do than workout all day.</p>
<p>Zuzana was recently featured in Shape Magazine&#8217;s<a title="The 10 Best Workout Videos on Youtube" href="http://www.shape.com/fitness/workouts/10-best-workout-videos-youtube" target="_blank"> The 10 Best Workout Videos on Youtube</a>. Their blog has a Google <a title="Google's Page Rank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank" target="_blank">page rank</a> of 6, and is within the top 10,000 websites in the world, according to Alexa. They&#8217;ve got over 400,000 Youtube subscribers and they&#8217;ll very soon have more than 200,000 <a title="BodyRock.Tv on Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/BodyRock.Tv" target="_blank">Facebook</a> fans. One of Zuzana&#8217;s videos has been viewed more than 17,000,000 times in the last year! Today, Zuzana got 3,410 clicks to the new <a title="BodyRock.Tv on Google+" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117200344058138851182/" target="_blank">Google+ page</a> in three hours with <a href="http://www.facebook.com/BodyRock.Tv/posts/288765717827358" target="_blank">a Facebook update</a> (<a href="http://bit.ly/BRTVGplus+" target="_blank">over 4,162 now</a>, after 5 hours), you&#8217;ll see how she did it on page 50. This past June, I saw the following happen twice: Zuzana shared a link to a blog post on Facebook and got more than 3,000 clicks, measured with bit.ly &#8211; see pages 43 and 48 to see how she did it. I&#8217;ll even tell you what she can do to increase her traffic on page 58.</p>
<p>Have you read the book <a title="Scientific Advertising" href="http://www.scientificadvertising.com/" target="_blank">Scientific Advertising</a>? If not, you really should! Jump to page 71 and I&#8217;ll give you the gist of it.</p>
<p>Want to know which adult oriented live video chat community is the top website of its kind? Flip to page 59. There, I&#8217;ll also tell you what the top 100 websites on the Internet do.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll also show you an invite-only ad network you should check out if you&#8217;ve got sexy ads, on page 117.</p>
<p>Over 100 sexy photos await your perusal, including 46 of the sexiest, most creative print advertisements ever. You&#8217;ll love the Russian girls with their tech toys.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Bevan</p>
<p>P.S. Give it a minute to load &#8211; it&#8217;s a huge file full of photos!</p>
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		<title>Intentional Manifestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, shortly after learning about the law of attraction (I’d always known it existed, just not that it had a name), experiencing its power for myself and writing my own inspiring true life story (which is no &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2011/12/intentional-manifestation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>About a year ago, shortly after learning about the law of attraction (I’d always known it existed, just not that it had a name), experiencing its power for myself and writing my own inspiring true life story (which is no longer true for me since my perspective changed), I began compiling a book of impressive and <a title="Intentional Manifestation" href="http://bevanbird.com/intentional-manifestation.pdf" target="_blank">inspiring true stories</a> of how people have intentionally used the law of attraction and manifested a miracle in their own life. My vision is for <a title="Intentional Manifestation" href="http://bevanbird.com/intentional-manifestation.pdf" target="_blank">this work</a> to be a concentrated vortex of inspired thought, action, and manifestation, which will inspire and empower readers around the world to more confidently manifest their desires.</p>
<p><a title="Intentional Manifestation" href="http://bevanbird.com/intentional-manifestation.pdf" target="_blank">Check out the stories here</a> and please let me know what you think in a comment below.</p>
<p>Do you use the law of attraction intentionally? It’s the most powerful universal law. It applies whether you believe in it or not. It is this: Like attracts like. Thoughts are just as real as “reality” and they precede its physical manifestation. The universe delivers more by essence than by form. What you focus upon expands. You attract that which you represent vibrationally&#8230; and with that knowledge, you focus on things that are going right for you, you feel joy and gratitude, you follow your highest excitement, you love what is: the moment, the now, and you imagine how it would feel if you had already achieved your dreams, thereby rapidly drawing them into your physical reality.</p>
<p>If you have an impressive story of your own, please consider sharing it. For “Nothing in the Six Directions enriches our Life as does sharing, and nothing speeds healing and advancement like generous and joyous sharing. It opens hearts. Divine Beauty then comes forth where all seemed to have been drab.” (Hanspeter Höpperger)</p>
<p>How to contribute a true story from your own life: (1) Pick a time when you manifested something by using the law of attraction intentionally&#8230; it may have seemed miraculous or at least really cool, or possibly spooky at the time. (2) Describe what you did beforehand and your experience of the actual manifestation. (3) E-mail me. Tell me the most amazing story you can come up with. Make me say “Wow!” and you are in! And if you know someone who might like to share, please pass this on to them. I Thank You.</p>
<p>Recently someone asked me, on Twitter, what this was all about and I told her:<br />
“Basically, if you want something and it happens and it’s really cool, you can be a contributing author!”</p>
<p>A Billion Blessings of Love, Light, Peace, and Joy to you!</p>
<p>Bevan</p>
<p>P.S. Here are some great quotes you might like&#8230;</p>
<p>The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. ~ Leonard Nimoy</p>
<p>That is happiness &#8211; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ Willa Cather</p>
<p>The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ~ William James</p>
<p>Properly exploited, one good idea that occurs to you while walking on the beach is worth more than ten lifetimes of hard work. ~ Gary Halbert</p>
<p>Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth. ~ Archimedes</p>
<p>There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda</p>
<p>There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only the infinite passion of life. ~ Federico Fellini</p>
<p>Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~ Swami Sivananda</p>
<p>If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~ Confucius</p>
<p>Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. ~ Christian D. Larson</p>
<p>Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. ~ Alan Cohen</p>
<p>It is your state of being that attracts unto you. ~ Abraham-Hicks</p>
<p>You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. ~ Brian Tracy</p>
<p>I’ll see it when I believe it. ~ Wayne Dyer</p>
<p>All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of your own accord. ~ Earl Nightingale</p>
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		<title>True Engagement Gets Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Alexa, Where&#8217;s The Traffic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Success Tips For The Modern Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t agree with the image, by the way. I&#8217;ve been reading Erich von Däniken&#8217;s Gods from Outer Space, which says that unknown intelligences from beyond the stars came to earth in the past at various times and modified us genetically, &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2011/11/success-tips-for-the-modern-age/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1073" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://bevanbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/evolution11.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1073" title="Our Evolution. LOL!" src="http://bevanbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/evolution11-300x109.jpg" alt="Our Evolution. LOL!" width="300" height="109" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Our Evolution. LOL!</p></div>
<p>I don&#8217;t agree with the image, by the way. I&#8217;ve been reading Erich von Däniken&#8217;s <em>Gods from Outer Space, </em>which says that unknown intelligences from beyond the stars came to earth in the past at various times and modified us genetically, which explains our very rapid mental development.</p>
<p>So anyway&#8230; Here&#8217;s my message for today&#8230;</p>
<p><object width="100%" height="81" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F28032896" /><embed width="100%" height="81" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F28032896" allowscriptaccess="always" /> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdify/success-tips-for-the-modern">Success Tips For The Modern Age</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdify">Bevan Bird</a></span></p>
<p>And while I was recording that, something really funny happened&#8230;</p>
<p><object width="100%" height="81" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F28033173" /><embed width="100%" height="81" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F28033173" allowscriptaccess="always" /> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdify/boiled-sandwich">Boiled Sandwich</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdify">Bevan Bird</a></span></p>
<p>Have a wonderful day!</p>
<p>Bevan</p>
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		<title>You Are Worth Far More Than You Think!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your value is much greater than you&#8217;ve ever imagined! My message today is about your self-worth and I&#8217;m sharing an exercise to determine your unique value set. You&#8217;re going to love it! Self Worth &#8211; You Are Worth Far More &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2011/11/you-are-worth-far-more-than-you-think/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Your value is much greater than you&#8217;ve ever imagined!</p>
<p>My message today is about <strong>your self-worth</strong> and I&#8217;m sharing an exercise to determine your unique value set. You&#8217;re going to love it!</p>
<p><object height="81" width="100%"><param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F27796314"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F27796314" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed></object>  <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdify/self-worth">Self Worth &#8211; You Are Worth Far More Than You Think!</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdify">Bevan Bird</a></span> </p>
<p><a href="http://bevanbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/self-worth.mp3">You Are Worthy Of Greatness</a> (Download it to listen. Right click and Save As…)</p>
<p>Here are some great quotations that relate to what I&#8217;m talking about today&#8230;</p>
<p>It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ Malcolm Forbes</p>
<p>Our value as people is rooted in our rarity not on our learned ability to copy other people. ~ Jesse D Jones</p>
<p>What counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal. ~ Goethe</p>
<p>You get more joy giving joy to others &#8211; put a good deal of thought into the happiness you can give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt</p>
<p>If you have integrity, loyalty and honesty, you are an incredibly wealthy and a rare diamond in a land of stones. ~ Ariaa Jaeger</p>
<p>Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~ Swami Sivananda</p>
<p>Authentic connections make us feel calm, centered, energized and happy. They never leave us feeling insecure, frustrated, or questioning, because such genuine connections begin with the clarity that comes from knowing ourselves. ~ Mary Dunlop</p>
<p>If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~ Confucius</p>
<p>Make everyone whose life you touch feel worthy. Give everyone a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world. ~ Neale Donald Walsch</p>
<p>And&#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/part-two.mp3">If you decided to do the unique value exercise, click here!</a> &lt;- &#8220;leave a comment if you&#8217;re a leader!&#8221;</p>
<p>Until next time, stay Awesome!</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Bevan</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are my Favourite 9 Inspiring Quotes Today&#8230; Enjoy! We live at the edge of the Miraculous. ~ Henry Miller Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2011/11/my-favourite-9-inspiring-quotes-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>These are my Favourite 9 Inspiring Quotes Today&#8230; Enjoy!</p>
<p><em>We live at the edge of the Miraculous. ~ Henry Miller</em></p>
<p><em>Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso</em></p>
<p><em>Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! ~ Goethe</em></p>
<p><em>All glory comes from daring to begin. ~ Eugene F. Ware</em></p>
<p><em>The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch</em></p>
<p><em>Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ~ G. K. Chesterton</em></p>
<p><em>At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~ Jean Houston</em></p>
<p><em>Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – and you answer. ~ Star Richés</em></p>
<p><em>I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no. ~ Richard Branson</em></p>
<p>These quotes come from “<a href="http://thebestsocialmediacourse.com/">Inspire Your World! &#8211; Unleash These Incredibly Powerful Freeing Quotes Now!</a>” an e-book available for free at <a href="http://thebestsocialmediacourse.com/">TheBestSocialMediaCourse.com</a></p>
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		<title>Introducing Dick Bird, Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey my friends, how&#8217;s it going? I&#8217;m enjoying Fall on the bank of the Similkameen and building my online empire, one affiliate at a time. I hope you&#8217;re doing well too! On Sunday, I recorded a conversation I had with &#8230; <a href="http://bevanbird.com/2011/11/introducing-dick-bird-author/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Hey my friends, how&#8217;s it going? <img src='http://bevanbird.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I&#8217;m enjoying Fall on the bank of the Similkameen and building my online empire, one affiliate at a time. I hope you&#8217;re doing well too!</p>
<p>On Sunday, I recorded a conversation I had with my dad, Dick Bird. It was his 77<sup>th</sup> birthday. I want to introduce him to you and allow him to share some of his stories with you. He tells us about how he started his farm.</p>
<p>Be warned, this material contains some explicit language (he drops the f-bomb a couple of times) and is rated R.</p>
<p><a href="http://bevanbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/introduce_dick_bird.mp3">I Introduce Author Dick Bird</a> (Right click and Save As&#8230; if you want to download and listen later or on the go!)</p>
<p>On Monday, I asked him to tell us one of his favourite stories, and that story was Mad Cow, from his Concrete Dreams collection. It’s a (dream) experience my dad had with an escaped potential mad cow in Twickenham. This is also rated R for sexual content. It&#8217;s pretty funny. <img src='http://bevanbird.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://bevanbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/dick_bird_tells_us_mad_cow.mp3">Dick Bird Tells Us Mad Cow (modified)</a> (Right click and Save As&#8230; if you want to download and listen later or on the go!)</p>
<p><a title="Dick Bird's Mad Cow on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/72200873/Mad-Cow" target="_blank">Read the full story of Mad Cow here</a> on Scribd.</p>
<p>We recorded other stories recently and will be uploading them soon.</p>
<p>Have an awesome week!</p>
<p>Bevan Bird</p>
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