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You’re a pretty savvy Internet marketer. You’ve created some very nice large files for your business. Some of them might be video or audio files. Some are large groups of info products. They’re all taking up a lot of space on your hard drive.

Do you know what will happen if your computer decides to crash on you? Your hard drive, where you have all of that valuable work stored, might lose every bit of information contained on it.

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It’s been awhile since I blogged about or wrote about which shopping cart solution I use so I thought I’d give an update since I get asked this question a lot. I use Download Guard by Sam Stephens. This baby can do it all – and it secures your products from rampant theft.

On the Download Guard site, Sam teaches you many ways to use DLG. It can secure your products, help you manage your membership areas, allow you to offer coupons for your customers, show you your conversion rate, and put customers onto your list – automatically sending them the verification email from your autoresponder system.

But let’s forget the bells and whistles and talk about what matters – ease of use, affordability, and customer service.

Sam Stephens has been superb as a rescuer whenever I didn’t understand something. I can be a real true tech idiot and he calmly helps me through an issue when I ask him.

Affordability-wise, DLG was well worth the price! Some people mistakenly believe you can only use it on two sites, and that’s not true.

Ease of use is on a perfect level for newbies. A friend of mine recently got it and was selling reports shortly thereafter. He said it was easy, too – so I’m not alone.

I have to use it all the time for my PLR Mini Mart site because I continue adding new products and it’s never given me any problems.

One thing I can’t wait for: Sam announced that he’s also implementing an affiliate management program into DLG – which means FINALLY I will be able to allow affiliates promote my Mini Mart and get paid for their referrals!

If you go to his site, make sure you visit the FAQ page where Sam has provided wonderful tutorials in a step-by-step format. This tool just can’t be beat, period! I’ll be a lifelong user of Download Guard and I feel very confident recommending it to everyone else, too!

tiff

Hi everyone!

I’m actually writing this blog post using a new software that I bought yesterday. It’s called Dragon Naturally Speaking, and I bought the mobile version 9. I could go on all day about how wonderful the software is and it was well worth the $249 I spent on it – and yes, I’m mad that it sells for only $183 on Amazon with free shipping, too.

All I have to do is wear a headset and talk into it and it types exactly what I’m saying. Do you realize how much increased productivity, we can all happen if everyone had the software?

I realize this is on the pricey side for many of us, but I believe it will increase my own content output by at least 400%. The best thing about it is I never have any down time since I bought the mobile version.

While you’re speaking, if you need to quit for a minute you just tell Dragon Naturally Speaking to go to sleep. Then when you’re ready to talk again you tell it to wake up.

I have more training to do, but it seems to work very fast and recognizing even my silly Southern twang.

I am recommending this software to everyone I know, not just because it helps with productivity, but it will also help many of you in being able to write a conversational style. I won’t go into how it will save my wrist, because I type so fast and furious and bang out up to 40 pages a day and content.

Someone asked me about the negative reviews they saw on Amazon for this product.  I’m not sure why people are having a hard time with it but I certainly love it.  I know most of the marketers that I know who use it also love it.

All I can think is that 183 people have purchased this particular version, and only about 10 reviews have come in about half of those negative and one by the same guy who posted twice.  I know I usually don’t leave a review unless it’s negative, because if something works, I usually don’t take the time to log in and sing praises about it.

I think I’ll login at Amazon today and give my own review.

Tiff