Just a word of warning, if you think this is going to be a lot of cheer-leading and pumping you up, then you are sadly mistaken. Most people cast their time management strategies in the light of a seductive seventies style dirty movie, i am going to blare the light from a stark surgical lamp at how i get work done.
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Maybe yesterday’s post was a bit too “mindset” and not enough actionable steps. Understandable. Today i will post a couple of places to get some High PR, High Trust Rank, DoFollow links for your campaign.
This week I read for the first time “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferris, “Sex Money Kiss” by Gene Simmons and Watched the True Story “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” [Warning Youtube Video Auto Plays Sound]* by Sacha Gervasi.
According to these three works:
• You only have to work a few hours a week to become rich and independent. (4HWW)
• Only if you work really long and hard will you become successful. (SMK)
• Even if you are very talented, inspire other talented people (who themselves become rich) and keep working hard for thirty YEARS you may still not get rich. (A!TSOA)
We are going to address how to how to (ab)use Apache’s `ab` function to run concurrent tasks in PHP. This will greatly speed up your scraping, proxy checking, “stats geo-location,” etc… type tasks.
Its not uncommon to have a list of ‘todo’ items for your PHP script to process where each todo item could be run concurrently and independently.
For example, lets say your PHP script goes to your favorite search engine and searches for some keyword. One hundred results are returned and you want to download each of those results pages.
It would not benefit you to get each one of the resulting pages independently, it would be faster to get, say, twenty five pages at a time.
Trading Books and Stamps for Sophisticated, High-Yield Customers.
Lets discuss some ancient methods for customer aquistion which too many internet marketers seem to ignore (don’t worry they don’t require you to get up from your desk).
The basic idea behind these methods can be shown via an old school example (which actually does require fresh air, but i think its the idea that gets you thinking more than the other two which i show. Those you can implement and profit from right away).
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