In the past couple of weeks I have been tempeted to buy an e-book. TWICE! Both times I talked myself out of it and one of them seems to have been about an ethically questionable method of making money. Of course I didn't know it was ethically questionable until others started making comments, etc. I've decided to come up with two new rules for myself. This will hopefully make all of my purchases worthwhile, instead of buying emotionally. The first new rule is that if I want to buy an e-book for the project, I must make the money first. Yes, I have $420 in the project right now, but I need to make the money from the moment want to buy the e-book. That way even if it is a dud, it does not deplete my seed money and will give me more time to think about it. It also motivates me to make more money if I really want it. The second rule is that I cannot purchase anything until I have at least seen a few reviews about it. Why should I be the guinney pig? Let others try it out and tell me if I should spend my hard earned double money? I don't have very deep pockets just yet.

On a side note, I get posession of my new house today. I lose my old one in four days so if I can just avoid snow for 4 days that will save me from shoveling two driveways!

Later,
Flip

The Importance of Testing ALL possibilities

Wow! I'm not sure how many of you noticed, but the pictures on my Financial Tracker Salespage were not appearing, despite the fact that they appeared when I originally revamped it. Luckily I noticed it when I checked it at work. After some investigation that night, I realised that it was fine on Firefox, but not ok on Internet Explorer. It turns out I was missing a ">" on the lines for the pictures. Apparently Firefox was smart enough to know what I meant, but not IE. Because I tested it on Firefox only, I was miss-displaying my sales page to 90% of my potential customers. (I got those numbers from tracking numbers - seems most people have IE.) That is HUGE! If I never noticed that, then I would have never been able to figure out why my sales were so low. Not that I have sold anything since then anyways, but that surely was a big hurdle in my way. So make sure you test on every browser you can and perhaps on multiple versions if possible just in case.

Flip