Comments on: Feedback

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:07:26 +0000

Hey Yaro… I was wondering if you could share with us how you prepare a podcast or interview? e.g. Do you make it up as you go, or do you completely prepare the whole podcast or just write some notes or…? And what software are you using (using what configs), headphones etc?

It’s just that myself and a friend will start doing some podcasts soon as another project.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:29:28 +0000

Thanks for the link John. I don’t think it’s worth a post now but you never know what will happen in the future.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:27:59 +0000

Hi Nathan,

I actually tried the forums thing a few months back but shut it down. It was going to take too much attention to get going. I still don’t think I have the audience to get a new forum off the ground. Perhaps in another 6 months or so we can try again, however I’m not certain I would launch it as part of this blog, more likely stand alone forum…but we’ll see anyway.

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:56:34 +0000

http://www.unemployedloser.com

Just thought this site might fit into one of your blog entries. Its a pathetic idea but clever.

By: Nathan Waters

Nathan Waters — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:47:48 +0000

hi Yaro, me again. Was just wondering if you were planning on adding an actual forum like phpBB or myBB? I’d really like to see one on this site so myself and others could ask questions about entrepreneurship etc and have them answered by yourself and your readers.

Good idea?

By: Peer

Peer — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:26:57 +0000

Hi Yaro,
here is Peer from germany. I listen to your podcast every time. Very nice and also some good insights how business is working down under.

Keep up the good work. It’s to long since the last podcast

Peer

By: Marketing Results

Marketing Results — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 02:05:34 +0000

Yeah Ben, we let you win something once in a while just to keep things interesting

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:14:36 +0000

Would have liked to have posted in the forum, but I feel this is the next best place to say a little WAHOO and teehee about the recent Ashes cricket match! ENGLAND!

By: Nathan Waters

Nathan Waters — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:58:43 +0000

Here’s an additional idea for future blog posts or podcasts…. apart from the email I sent you about reseller hosting accounts – i.e. would it be a good idea to startup a hosting reseller account and use it to host your sites cheaply? (of course with a little hosting sales to keep everyone happy).

The other thing I’d like to see some hints/tips on is dealing with people when you’ve started a business at a young age. I have been running a home-based computer business since I was around 16-17 (fully registered, as well as GST) and I found for quite a while that a few people (e.g. at the bank, when enquiring about business accounts) would not take me seriously and I felt as though they were treating me as a kid which was rather frustrating. At that stage I also lacked a strong knowledge of business lingo, especially regarding the many financal aspects of business, which didn’t help my situation.

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:10:35 +0000

Right, yes. I take your point – personally, I prefer it to open in new windows, unless it means I’m leaving the site – which, in EJ’s case, I wouldn’t want to do until I’ve finished reading.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:18:42 +0000

Thanks for the feedbck Ben. I already do some new window links on the main articles I link to however I don’t do it for every link because I think that might get too excessive and annoying. I’ve found it annoying when every link on a site does that however it’s hard to say what the majority prefer.

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:32:40 +0000

I feel the following suggestion would be beneficial to both you and your visitors Yaro. Could you make your links open in an external window, so that readers remain on your website, whilst still able to read from sites which are included in your articles? By doing this, visitors don’t have to wait until they’ve finished reading or right click and select open in new window. It also means visirors stay on your website longer – not going to other websites and leaving yours behind.

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:24:30 +0000

Not sure this is the right place to post this, but here goes. I thought you might like to know about a potentially internet-crazy move by Google – the scary, big search engine GIANT. Now they’re moving into the VoIP market with Google Talk! For more info. see: http://www.google.com/talk/index.html

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:06:46 +0000

Hmm…Jason I don’t think I have enough experience with the textbook market to comment on that one.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:33:38 +0000

what about a post about textbook prices and the opportunity for someone to profit from provided cheaper textbooks…maybe someone who would be willing to not publish them in that expensive glossy pages.

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:21:21 +0000

Okey dokey – and a merchant account is normally taken from a bank e.g. HSBC. Thanks.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:26:34 +0000

Ben, yes that does sound like a merchant account. Paypal now offers that too. If it’s seamless and the whole payment processes never leaves the site then most likely there is a merchant account with a payment gateway all working behind the scenes.

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:04:36 +0000

I really enjoyed the payment system podcasts Yaro, but I have a question. You know when companies have a payment system in place, I never really see Paypal or the like written all over the place when you confirm your order – it’s just a simple shopping basket, with payments made over a secure connection. How do you set one of these up then – is this what’s known as a ‘merchant account’? I feel it looks more professional for your company to have a plain, simple, non-branded payment page, but I’m not entirely sure how you get this? I’d appreciate your views on this – Ben

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:26:58 +0000

Fantastic! I can’t wait to have a dig.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:13:54 +0000

Hi Simon – Thanks for the tip. I had a look at your site and yes that archiving system looks good. I’ll get it installed for Entrepreneur’s Journey.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:38:50 +0000

Hi Yaro,

As you know I do read your blog fairly regularly (pretty much daily actually, although time constraints mean I often skim read articles that don’t absolutely fascinate me).

I’d be very pleased if you could implement a better system for digging through your archives. I find it difficult to find older posts that aren’t on the front page any more. You have a lot of valuable content there and I’d love to be able to use it as a browseable (not just searchable) online library.

I highly recommend the Extended Live Archives plug-in for WordPress. You can see it implemented on my site.

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:40:11 +0000

Cool: I look forward to hearing of your experiences.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:39:33 +0000

Hello Benjamin,

Thank you for your feedback and suggestion about payment providers. I can only talk about my experiences with them but I’ll be able to give you some advice and the reasons behind my choices in an upcoming podcast.
Cheers,
Yaro

By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:05:57 +0000

I stumbled upon this website yesterday and am really impressed with the content so far – keep it up! As for monetisation, I think it’s fine that you’re using AdSense – after all, although I suspect you enjoy maintating this website, I believe you should get a little back from what you’re doing – you’re advice is very well put. As for suggestions, I would love to see/hear an article/podcast on the best ways to accept money over the net. Now there are a lot: Paypal, Nochex, Fastpay etc. – but which is the best one? I’m from England too, so it would be good if you could refer to organisations both geographically specific and global. Thanks.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:08:48 +0000

Hi Yaro,
Just thought I’d drop you a quick note to say how much I appreciate your website, I specifically enjoy the podcasts.

In fact after listening to your podcast about Skype it reminded me to take another look at the software.

Its great to see some great Aussie content in the realm of Entrepreneurship.

Keep up the great work.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:21:40 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I rarely actually visit this site…I read your posts from my feedreader (www.feedreader.com) its a great free open-source program I can run on my desktop — this RSS stuff is hot..and will change the way information is received and sent…do we really need webpages as we know it?

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:49:03 +0000

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your suggestions and I see the angle you are talking about regarding offline business going online.

Regarding AdSense, I’ll write an explanation later but basically I’m testing. I do not anticipate much from AdSense but since I mention it a lot in this blog I thought I really needed to refresh my familiarity with the system. Plus in the long run I would like to make *some* income from this blog and this experience will help me to assess whether AdSense will remain part of the monetisation process.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:47:13 +0000

ummm…no Google AdSense….it makes the blog ugly. Back to the point…

I would like to see more posts on trends…odd business ideas or services…or what about people who want to bring their offline business online and have real durable products, how can they take advantage of the web.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:30:47 +0000

Thanks for your comments so far. I see some good ideas there, especially from Ben’s list, thank you.

Keep up the suggestions.

Yaro

By: Edward

Edward — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:00:35 +0000

I really liked the interview you did with Will (I really think interviews make the best use of podcasts) so I’d like to see more of those. But yeah, generally the blog is excellent!