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I received an email from Andy Jenkins a little while ago (why do I stay up so late reading my emails? (   ) and I just had to read the blog post. It’s something I fully believe everybody should be doing; not necessarily in internet marketing and consulting for small businesses, but that everybody should have a second stream of income to supplement their day job and make their lives better. So I read the article and had to post a reply, which I felt was sooo good I had to share it with you guys. Here it is…..

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Hey Andy,

I like your style of writing: upfront, to the point, in your face, funny and so on. I didn’t want to say you’re an inspiration to us all because it always looks soooo cheesy and to me it borders on adulation by the masses… but this time I have to hand it to you… your message was pretty darned good and you’re so right. It did the job with me and got me to thinking about actually doing something along these lines.

You see, I work full time at the moment and I’ve got a bit of a thing about being a full time employee and then holding myself out to be a “consultant” to business people and entrepreneurs that have had the guts to break out of the J.O.B. mould and work on their own business. I haven’t done this yet (although I want to) as I’m not prepared to risk my families security for the sake of my dreams and ambitions. Why should they suffer IF it were to go horribly wrong? Those in the “guru business IM world” that espouse the ideology of “burning your boats and making it work”, i.e. give up your day job so that if you don’t succeed, you won’t be able to eat or keep a roof over your head or pay the bills etc which literally FORCES you to succeed, are plain wrong. Might work with some people, but not for most. Does that make us bad or poor entrepreneurs or business people. NO! We’re sensible. BUT, as you write so clearly, consult alongside your day job UNTIL the consulting work is more than the day job, THEN give up the day job (if you want to that is!).

So please keep writing posts about this topic and give your readers practical hints and tips on the best way to do it or the best resources from which to learn how to break into this market. Remember here in the UK we are in a deep recession so there is a barrier from the start in terms of winning over small businesses and hiring us for such work.

I would be very interested in knowing how to charge for such work. What’s it worth? How do you strike a deal that’s win-win for both me as a consultant and the business as the client?

Please continue Andy……

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The URL you should follow if you want to read more about Andy’s original post and follow the comments is below:

http://www.andyjenkinsblog.com/2009/10/22/rant-consulting-is-a-bad-business/#comment-1667

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XSitePro website design software is one of the market leaders of website design software  available in the market today.

If you make money by building websites or by selling digital products or real goods and services online, and need an easy to use, feature packed software package which means you don’t hand control over to webdesigners that haven’t got a clue about marketing via the internet, then this is the perfect product for you.

I bought the first version of XSitePro on the back of a recommendation by a top internet guru and frankly, I’m glad I did. It is a great piece of software and very powerful too. It has been devised so that everybody involved in creating static websites can do so reasonably quickly and easily, and when they brought out the second version things just took off into space. The software has been literally packed to the brim with extra features and tools that in truth have been designed with the internet marketing crowd in mind.

So much has been put into the software that if I could say I have any negatives about it it would be the size of the manuals! You can buy hardcopies or you can print over 1,000 pages of manual which gives you in-depth explanations of the product as well as various tutorials showing you how, step by step, you can get your first great looking website up and running very quickly. If, like me, you prefer not to print the manual you will find you’re looking at the screen a  lot as you’re going through it all. On the plus side the manual is littered with hyperlinks to make the process of finding the information that you need in a hurry so much quicker.

One of the coolest features about the software is the ability to publish content in advance but on a timed basis so that you can prepare it one day for the week or month ahead, set the date it should be published and then forget it! It’s a feature the XSitePro creators call “Page Scheduling” and it will help everybody that posts regular content to their sites and would rather prepare stuff in advance rather than log on to the PC every day and post and upload content to keep their sites fresh. It’s basically your website on auto-pilot!

I invite you to go take a look and read more about it for yourself. What I’ve mentioned about the product doesn’t really touch the surface at all. To find out more about  XSitePro website design software just click here.