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Re: FX's WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Reveals Release Date and Hilarious First Trailer - Nerdist

AllisonR — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:58:47 -0000

geoblocked..great

Re: Illawarra disability enterprises face anxious wait on wage reform

AllisonR — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:55:16 -0000

These facilities are remnants of the workhouse and are perpetuating an environment of learned reliance, and keep people with disability in a cycle of basic slavery. The sooner they are abolished, the better. Real people, real jobs, real wages

Re: The awkward thing an investor said to Shoes of Prey co-founder Jodie Fox

AllisonR — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:16:01 -0000

Thanks for the mansplain. Now tell me that because she's a woman she should enjoy the attention.

Re: Farm crims in the crosshairs

AllisonR — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:08:38 -0000

So people shooting illegally on my land, possibly putting my life in danger, is the same as fishing on the coast? This government has completely lost the plot.

Re: New faces join Zoo2Zoo after plenty of training

AllisonR — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:46:01 -0000

I hope they delayed their departure until the fire situation is less unstable

Re: Getting Naked with Noah Kagan: How He Started AppSumo for $50 and Got Over 500,000 Subscribers

AllisonR — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:02:38 -0000

Great interview - really loved how Noah embraces that every individual has their own lifestyle goals (not just the mega consumer ones rammed down everyone's throats by some internet knobs). Brilliant insights and I think I am doing the 86% failure rate all in one year..so next year will be 14% success!

Re: On Art And Videogames | Geeky Gadgets

AllisonR — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:15:43 -0000

I loved the look in Oblivion.... breathtakingly gorgeous if you had a high end machine

Re: letterly

AllisonR — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:04:30 -0000

I am incredibly happy doping the thing I love.. every single day. I would offer the advice to that living beyond your means will sour anything you love (love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door), including doing the best job in the world. Reduce your costs and debts and really get the benefit...ahh but people will be people and do all sorts of silly things like buying giant TVs on 100 days interest free.

I agree with you about Android Dan. My figures on the app I am doing shows that the market is there and it's growing. And why do one without the other anyway if your customers are one or the other?

Good for you on giving up smoking...did it myself about 6 years ago and not looked back.

Re: Inauguration of Feline Friday!

AllisonR — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:18:37 -0000

Wow Spade has some musical talent there! They are both very beautiful :)

Re: Continued Thoughts On Comments

AllisonR — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:36:59 -0000

I lay in bed this morning thinking about these posts. I have an opinion and was going to keep it to myself. It looks like you are heading somewhere and I am not sure if the contemplation posts are the softening up before announcing that you are closing comments off. Or the winding up before jack-in-the-box jumps out and yells “Surprise! Just tricking.” Where ever you are going is your thing, but I feel strongly enough to write an essay back.

So here’s my 2c about why I wouldn’t turn off comments if I was Ed Dale.

Firstly the whole lizard brain thing. Don’t get me wrong, the lizard brain does exist and will take over everything you do…. For a whole 9 seconds after you encounter something. It does the triggering of chemicals to get your arse out of there because you are in danger, it tells you she looks good enough to jump, it also says stuff that Tim Tam in your mouth because you may need the energy one day when you are stuck out in the desert (my lizard brain is always telling me something like that).

Everything after those 9 seconds is a pattern/habit (until you encounter something new to trip ole crocodile features again). Which means it can be broken, changed, fought and defeated. Yes I see it in combative terms, where others may see it as “the universe offering an opportunity to improve you”. I see it as a flaw to be stamped out, something to be triumphed over, and when defeated, to celebrate its death by carrying its head around (inside my head of course) going “ner ner you wanted me to be scared/anxious/stupid but I beat you and I am going to keep on beating you”.

My guy is an ex-soldier and despite my pacifist nature (unless it comes to habit-breaking) I do have to admire what constant drilling can accomplish. It can change that 10th second (as I call it) from running away in flat terror, to performing complex tasks. The same as the pomodoro method, but you know all about that.

Yes there are arseholes that comment on your blog. Should you run away from them by stopping them from being able to be arseholes? I say no, you are missing out working on something that will definitely help in the long run (especially when one of your daughter’s boyfriends calls you an “old man”… even at 68 my dad hadn’t worked on reacted well to something like that). A weak argument, but a true life example 

The shit-talking commenters are always going to be there, I cite YouTube commenters as evidence.

On the other side of the fence are us peeps that read your stuff. Sure it drives us (read ME) crazy that part of your brand is crap spelling, but we look past that to the things you are saying (I bet it amazes you that people even care, or hell even write hundreds of word essays in response to some musing cut-n-pastes). What sets YOU apart from many of your peers is your accessibility. Perception is everything (as they say) and cutting off one of the ways of communicating with you, even if your readers never leave a comment, will be seen as a door closing.

Yes you cleared up Facebook, but that was only right and good. Facebook is a family and friends thing, and no one is going to complain too much because you want to see what your relos are doing over what some low-life pushing twat trying to be the next guru is trying to scream at you.

Your blog however, is you talking with us. I am sure some smarty-pants is going to bring up Seth Godin and his lack of comments and I will say in reply, that’s him, that’s not you. He talks at, not with. He offers snippets, like throwing crumbs to the ducks, and the noise and squabbling over what he says is done elsewhere. I know he reads it though, because he pops up in other people’s blog comments now and then. Which is kinda cool, like Steve answering emails from his iPad. He isn’t really “engaging in the conversation” …or put more bluntly, he isn’t coming down to “our” level and hanging out with “us”. He just gives ideas, like those messages on the bottom of daily desk calendars.

Closing the door after it has been open is a change that people who haven’t worked on their 10th second will find hard to cope with. Closing one door might mean you are closing ALL doors to speak to you. That is just unacceptable change, the robe of the Messiah must be within grasp at all times or the disciples will wonder whether the Messiah is worthy of following. One notable “guru” has lost fan base because he is perceived as turning into the new Howard Hughes when it comes to accessibility.

Yet in the end, whatever you do probably won’t make too much difference. If you do close off comments then we will do the whining and moaning and you will probably have some blissful silence (if you can avert your eyes form all the places we hang out and chat).

Re: Changes At Premiumcast.com

AllisonR — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:50:19 -0000

nanacast sounds so ...old.

Re: Faces Of The Challenge…

AllisonR — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:20:19 -0000

Looking masculine as ever there Pete

Re: Coming Home, Ed Dale Seminar / Conference and List Control Conference in San Diego

AllisonR — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:21:07 -0000

Being Australian I was at the Melbourne iteration of Coming Home so I am speaking from what i have experienced and that does put me at the advantage. While a fan of Ed's I didn't respond to encourage you to go, just to query an opinion that was foreign to me, and to right what I saw as a wrong (again coming from prior experience of the event).

You mention Ed and Frank's last seminars and I am wondering which one you are referring to. Underachievers was in 2006 (ancient history in the world of IM) and then anything after that (and I could be terribly wrong) would either be Ed's or Franks, with each other guest starring. addendum: just read through Ed's sales letter and yep, it's 4 years since Ed was at his own conference so anything you have seen since would have been someone else's conference platform ( http://www.tubbynerd.com/Co....

Still an opinion is an opinion and I am always interested in how marketers are affected by other's marketing.

Re: Coming Home, Ed Dale Seminar / Conference and List Control Conference in San Diego

AllisonR — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:21:11 -0000

Well that's an interesting point of view you have there. I have to say I am a little perplexed by it though. You say money is not an issue, but you want to be shown appreciation by being offered a discount.

You say you buy every course Ed does (of which most are free through Immediate Edge anyway...which means you are getting a massive amount of content for the cost of your IE membership) and that you want more free stuff (which is what a discount really is, part of the offering is free.

You don't seem to care that Ed is flying halfway round the world to ensure his American customers get to see him personally,(compared to Frank driving down the road from La Jolla). Or that what Ed offers is a all practical and no sales conference. Something that is rare to non-existent these days. So the conference will be a real boon to the attendees, not a pitch fest disguised as content. That sort of conference is what I appreciate as a customer, and I certainly don't feel that I am being taken advantage of which is blatantly obvious at most conferences.

What all this says to me is that the cash is the most important to you. The content is secondary. From my point of view Frank has been clever with his marketing (will there be selling from the stage by his "buddies"? will he be getting a cut? will he be making cash on top of the course money?). That isn't appreciation in my books, that's squeezing the last drops from the orange.

Ed appreciates his customers just fine by being accessible, responsive, practical and engaged. Try contacting Frank without a big fat open check book. I think maybe what you have been trying to say has missed the point. If you are trying to point out that your customers benefit by being given discounts then that's cool. But to say that Ed doesn't show his appreciation because he does give a discount, well that's not cool . And if this was link bait well that isn't cool either.

Re: Untitled

AllisonR — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:10:22 -0000

Bahh. Only savants are perfect when they start, you know that :)

9,999 hours to go to be as good as you want to be

Re: I Just Published My First Magazine In 21 Years.

AllisonR — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:34:46 -0000

Good move and nice looking platform.

Re: David Carradine’s Official Cause of Death was Asphyxiation

AllisonR — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:26:21 -0000

I am assuming your spelling of Bangkok was your little joke? :)

Re: If Your Shy, Cherish Privacy, Support Manchester United or Heaven Forbid own a PC - is the Thirty Day Challenge For You? #30dc

AllisonR — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:42:38 -0000

A leader is someone that clears the path to allow the success of others. That is why I call a leader a

Successorizer

A leader values the success of others more than they value their own. They find the motivation point of the individual and they press that button often and hard (but the person might not even recognise that is happening). The leader listens with a sympathetic ear but guides with a strong hand in the middle of your back.

Re: Robert Scoble leaves Fast Company

AllisonR — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:33:48 -0000

Let's see how far the influence gets Scoble . An interesting exercise in the true value of social media is how you can leverage it to what YOU want to do.

*sits back and observes*

Re: My Awful Spelling…

AllisonR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:42:45 -0000

Can't believe I missed that one :)

John "Wright"... I didn't miss that...

Re: My Awful Spelling…

AllisonR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:37:06 -0000

*cries* It's been a long week.
I did like the guy's hustle , but as you don't see the need for it, it's not going to fly...

Re: My Awful Spelling…

AllisonR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:14:08 -0000

Ed I know you are a crap speller, I don't mind that. I do wonder, though, why you are allergic to a spell checker. It doesn't get in the way of creativity. It's like the garbos after a big party, you have all the fun and it helps clean up...5 minutes tops and you just need to click on words, you don't even need to remember that in some cases, auto-correct will do it for you.

Sure it makes you stand out, but I think you have more than poor spelling to offer us. Your message can be lost when people's minds short circuit in protest at the assault on the English language, and crawl off to whimper at the back of the skull.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk Using Adwords Ads to Buy Twitter Followers?

AllisonR — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:16:26 -0000

Erm did you actually follow the link...seen plenty of adwords that say one thing and go elsewhere

Re: It’s Not You It’s Me - My Goodbye To Facebook Friends

AllisonR — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:44:12 -0000

A month ago I manually removed every "friend" from my account that I could not say that I had met in real life. or that I plan to meet. This totaled many hundreds and took about an hour of clicking confirmations that I really did want to unfriend this person. I didn't say anything to anyone at the time, I just dropped them.

Guess what?

Not one person said anything....great "friends" hey?

Since then an amazing thing happened, a "real" old schoolfriend friended me, which has led to me finding some pictures of 15 year old me that I have either never seen before, or had forgotten entirely. Amazing stuff. Also a reminder about a pash at a school dance (but that is a story for another day). The pleasure I get from using Facebook the way it was intended, far outweighs any business benefit I was receiving the other way.

Enjoy the feeling Ed when every bit of information you see on your wall is something you really WANT to see!

Re: Happy New Year Everyone

AllisonR — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:42:27 -0000

Love the self portrait!

And Happy New Year to you and the family. 2009 is going to be a monster of a year