My friend Rob at DrivePop is a kind sponsor of this newsletter and his company is having a cloud storage fathers day sale.

Because losing your files is way more common than you’d think, you should probably have a backup solution. Better yet, a cloud based backup solution.

One like DrivePop.

Here’s the link. – http://www.drivepop.com/fathers-day-commentluv

Some interesting stats:

6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. Given the number of PCs used in US businesses in 1998, that translates to approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes. At a conservative estimate, data loss cost US businesses $11.8 billion in 1998. (The Cost Of Lost Data, David M. Smith)
30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)
31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.
34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
American business lost more than $7.6 billion as a result of viruses during first six months of 1999. (Research by Computer Economics)
Companies that aren’t able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
Here’s the link. – http://www.drivepop.com/fathers-day-commentluv

Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Online Backup) – Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of $7,500 and success is not guaranteed.

Ever lost your phone, camera or tablet? That counts. Your stuff could have been saved with a backup. One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.

You see a copy in the cloud is digital insurance – no one likes paying for it but when you need it, you sure are glad you have it.

Anyway, DrivePop is offering lifetime Cloud Storage plans for Fathers Day

You can protect:

1 PC
5 PC’s or
Unlimited PC’s
He has this deal going for 2 days so you should probably get a copy for you or your business now

Here’s the link. – http://www.drivepop.com/fathers-day-commentluv

Happy Fathers day in advance!!

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Transcript: Newsletter #55 

Hello and welcome to another newsletter.

Oh I’ve got a few things to tell you today. The first thing is who won the subject that I asked about you remember with the email, I said what would you like to be taught when you were a beginner blogger and I will get the right to who is getting paid thousands of dollars to write stuff about that.

And I said whoever gives me the best suggestion gets $100. I made the thing right then and there on the video, but these subjects have been sent over to the writer and I’ve got a winner of the suggestions and I will show you those suggestions in a couple of videos time when I explain who won and how they won and what they are going to win.

And the other thing I want to say is for my birthday on the 12^th of June I am going to have an extravaganza that is not too extravagant because you know I am sick!

So what we are going to have is we are going to have some way of helping me get a new video editing suite, and I really need one because the old one is just too old now.

Its old hardware, old software and I want to get a new one. And so, what I can do is I am going to use this as a litmus test to see where Commentluv is going to go.

And also If I get a new video editing suite oh it would be so sweet to get a suite and be able to make loads more of extra tutorial videos  just for Commentluv members and all the other things that I’ve got planned for Commentluv after this mini little launch.

So this is what you do, on the 12^th of June keep an ear out because I am sending the email out and making  a video on Facebook on twitter and stuff like that and I will be giving you a chance to get Commentluv premium for more than 50% off.

And, it’s using a special coupon code which I will tell you now: helpandy. All one word, all lower case letters, and use that as your coupon code and you will get more than 50% Commentluv premium and all the extras and stuff that I’ve got in line for Commentluv premium updates.

Okay then, so keep an eye out, keep an ear out, keep an, –oh I don’t think there is anything else to keep… keep a figure tip out if you are reading braille. So keep everything out if it’s not too cold and I will get back to you nearer the time and just let you know how you are going to get extra 50% off, –more than 50% off Commentluv Premium, it’s totally worth it.

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And this weeks winner is Michellei from ourthreepeas, who recently wrote about Apple Strudel Muffins.

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Transcript: Newsletter #54 

Hello and welcome to another newsletter.

Well actually this newsletter wasn’t supposed to be happening because  I was supposed to have a week off, but you know I do what I normally do when I’ve got time off and I start fiddling, tweaking, and tweaking stuff and, as a result of fiddling and tweaking, and tweaking stuff my video editing Suite had been declared shit and unfit for purpose.

It took ages to edit these videos. I was playing about with the staff I was making it good, and it looked good. I’ve got a voice over, music and stuff like that. Then someone pointed out to me that it had a typo in it, it said “the the”, and I just hadn’t seen it before. Al l that time I spent looking into the video and I didn’t even see that typo. So I had to redo it all again, and another 18 hours of rendering and another editing and oh blahahahah.

So I’ve come to the conclusion that absolutely positively something must be done about my video editing suite. I need to get a new one; new software, new hardware. It used to be good but that was years and years and yonks ago.So I want to get a new one. And also this month it’s my birthday, which is brilliant by the way because now I get to be older!

So as traditional on my birthday I do something good for the customers and for non-customers and stuff like that and so, I am going to combine my absolute desire and need for a video suite that actually works with my birthday, and I am going to do some sort of extravaganza, but it’s not going to be too extravagant because you know I am sick. So you’ve got an opportunity now within the next couple of weeks to get something really special and really good. I’ve got to work on that this week and I will let you know by email and by osmoses you will find out what’s going on.

And if you are a Commentluv Premium user then I would love it if you would send me an email and get in touch with me and connect with me because there may be some way that you can help me get my video editing suite and it won’t cost you anything more than just time. I mean talk about articles or videos or even just promising to do a tweet on a particular time. I would really love it if you’d get in contact with me. Of course I won’t reply straight away, but I will reply I promise. I promise, I promise, I promise. Oh god what have I set myself up for now?

But, definitely I need a new video editing suite. It’s so horrible to have to wait hours and hours and hours for something to render and think it’s done and then it’s not; and then having to do it all over again. Such a pain in the ass. I really want a video editing suite and then I could do really cool tutorials for like really good stuff that I can show you and then you can say ‘oh I am really glad you got the video editing suite’ or something like that.

So watch out in the next couple of weeks I am going to be emailing and Facebooking and videoing too, and I will be telling you about my new video editing suite. And, there is something special that I am going to do for my birthday for everyone.

Actually I think it will be good because every time I’ve done it before people say ‘oh that’s brilliant’. And it will be brilliant again, mark my words. Just keep an eye out. And if you’ve got a Commentluv premium membership already please, please, please get in contact with me and I will let you know what some of the stuff that we can do over the next couple of weeks that might be mutually beneficial.

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Contest Winner

And this weeks winner is Emelina Spinelli from dscienceinc. who recently wrote about Top 17 Time management tips for Entrepreneurs

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Transcript: Newsletter #53 

Hey and welcome to another newsletter and it’s going to be a short one this week and I am not out and about walking and talking because you know I’ve got busy things. I’ve got stuff to do; I have an afternoon nap later and stuff like that. But let me just tell you, this week, next week I won’t be appearing in your inbox because my friend from London is coming up and we are going to spend a week doing some silly stuff, mostly playing Xbox. But, Tom sent me an email asking me about, well he’s not the only one loads of people of other people have sent me email saying about how do I make that walk and talk video?

How do I get it to look like its being filmed on an expensive steady cam. You’ve seen the ones where they make proper movies from and it stops all the jiggity jiggity. And other people have asked me do you have a pauperize following you? And I was like ‘No’, but I would like to be a famous enough to have a pauperize, and other people think I’ve got a crew or someone is following me or walking backwards with a camera. And how do I make it look so smooth and stuff like that.

And basically I’ve got a stick that I straighten out on a telescopic mono pod and a camera on the end. And my mate what he is going to be able to do when he comes up is he is going to be able to film me while I am filming myself because I can’t do both at the same time, and from that I will be able to do a little tutorial video for exactly how I do the walk and talk, and how to make it smooth and how to use the extra features of YouTube so it looks professionally smoothed out.

It’s really quite cleaver and it’s quite easy and it’s really quite quick. So within a few weeks I will be able to really start and you will be able to watch that and make your own walk and talk video. I would love to be able to see some of your stuff.

Next we’ve got the promo video and I am not asking for more feedback because I have spent so much time on this promo video now. I listened to the first lot of feedback and I am putting it all together in my editing app and I am putting sound tracks to it, I’ve got a Morgan Freeman voice over and I’ve got loads of little screen shots, screen saves, and screen grabs that I am going to put in there as well. So hopefully that will explain what the plug-in sort of does.

And after that, I have got to send all of those suggestions from you about what you would like to be taught when you were a new blogger or what advice would you give, and I will be sending that to the writer, and the writer will be dealing with that and we will be having a little chin wag and stuff and feedback. And that will be given back to me sometime next month sometime.

So you know things are moving on and it’s going really nice, but I think I might need another nap or 2 before that’s all done, but definitely I want to say thanks very much for watching these videos and giving me the comments and all the feedback and all the support I got on the Facebook page, on twitter, on the blog, on the board tickets, on the email. All of that stuff, I do read every single one of your suggestions and your comments and your emails and I love to hear from people.

I read every single email. I can’t always rely, and I can’t always get feedback immediately to you, but I definitely really love to get all these emails and the support, and all the questions as well because now I get to answer you. And things like Tom asking for you know how I make the videos and the other people that have asked and now I get to show you. So that’s coming in a few weeks the videos coming and I might be able to give you a secret preview of the promo video in a couple weeks after I have had my week off.

And I’ve got to see what else is coming up. Oh I’ve got to award the prize to the best suggestion for the best subject. I will do that in a few weeks as well because there are some really good suggestions, and I am loving that. That means I don’t have to think of them either. Brilliant, all of this stuff has just been done for me. I’ve only have got to pay thousands of dollars to get it made. Thanks very much for that and I will see you in a couple of weeks.

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Transcript: Newsletter #52 Personal Assistant and Sales Video

Hey and welcome to another newsletter. I am not out and about walking along the canals today because the weather is not so great and also my leg is not so great too, but I am sitting next to the cabbage. Next to them growing. I am really proud of them they are looking lovely. I will give you a tour of them one day.

Now I’ve got 4 things to mention in this video.

I’ve got personal assistant,

I’ve got more subjects for the ten email series from an expert.

I’ve got that changes to the sales video that I have done, and the contest.

So first thing the personal assistant. Now I’ve heard and I’ve read all before from other entrepreneurs or business owners or successful people like that and they say ‘what is the biggest thing you regret?’ And quite a few times I’ve seen people say that you know ‘I regret not getting someone to do it for me, I tried to do everything myself, I was a control freak’, and that was the main stopper to their growth and they found that when they started employing people to do the things that they could do repetitive task then they were able to do more stuff generate an income or give ideas and you know more use of their time.

Now I can see their point because I am starting to bring on people that are paid to do a certain number of things for me, and I can see their point about that being a stopper to them growing their business because you know, if they spent all day trying to edit a video that could be done by someone for $10 an hour than they are not doing stuff that is earning them big money. So really I could see their point about that, but also on the other side of the coin I can see that advantage of doing everything yourself. I am quite technically capable.

You could say I am a proper geek, nerd guy! And so, doing all of these different things for the business it was never a problem for me and in fact in the beginning I didn’t even know it was going to be a business. And so, I had no choice but to do, if I wanted it done I did it myself, and I have become used to that. And that advantage to that is that when you get a bit of news that can affect your business like “by the way here you’ve got a chronic condition”.Then I am free to put the business not on hold, but put it on go slow for a little while because I don’t have any obligational requirement to make sure the people that I am employing have enough work to do so I don’t have to sack them.

Which is kind of how my Bricks and Mortar Business with my Mrs. and the Chinese take away. We’re to have a certain element and level of business to be able to pay the staff that make the business happen, and if we don’t have enough business to pay that staff we’ve got to find that money from somewhere. So there is an added bit of pressure, and pressure is not what I need when I’ve got this condition because it does funny things to me I’ll tell you!.

But that being said I am bringing on someone as a personal assistant and they will be able to do the things that I’ve broken down into steps that they can follow: A, B, C, D. You know process a video. This video will be his baptism of fire so to speak and so he is going to process this video and do all the other things that happen when a newsletter video comes on. That’s like edit the video, turn it into a blog post, and send out the newsletter that kind of thing. So good luck Adnan that is going to be your job today.

Okay the second thing I want to bring up is Sales video.  I don’t know if I said that secondly in the beginning but the sales video. I am being quite disabled this week, but I have done a lot for some source of music for the video so it goes corporate then sad, then corporate, and then happy, and then corporate. That kind of thing, which is a difficult thing to do actually when you are browsing through these music files you think ‘oh that will work, or that would work’ and so on. Oh it’s a bloody nightmare.

Next we’ve got the suggestions for you know emails from an expert and so I want more suggestions  because I’ve got  another week now to accumulate all suggestions and choose the best ones and send them off to the writer, and the writer will get them done and we will have a little feedback and chin wags about it. And then I will be able to put it into the system for new members. And so, if you’ve got a suggestion it’s basically now you are an experience blogger (if you are) what advice would you give to yourself in the past?, what would you say to yourself just to make blogging a little bit easier on you or less time consuming or less worrying and stuff like that.

Or what would you like to have been told by an expert when you first started blogging. What would have made your blogging life easier? So send me an email, send me a support ticket, send me a response on the YouTube video, and send me a comment on the blog post. I will choose all the best ones. I will get 10 of them, send them off to the writer, and the person with best suggestion wins $100, which I shall pay next month sometimes and let everybody know what they won and what they said and what they suggested and all that kind of stuff.

Talk of wining, the contest is going really well so the last one been claimed, the one before that has been claimed. So check the blog post on Comluv.com for this newsletter and then you can see who won the premium license and this is a life time license as well so they always get constant updates as well as when I have released them as well instead of having to pay a recurring fee. The way that you can enter this contest is just use Commentluv, not even Commentluv premium, just use Commentluv and get some comments. More than one comment on your blog to get some Commentluv and I will get to know about that when the stats get updated every couple of weeks and then I will choose people that are using the latest version that got a comment and I will award them a life time premium license. Now if that one person is a premium member then they get a license to give away on their blog for anyone else, it is transferable.

All right, come to the blog and see who won. Send me suggestions for what you would like to be advised about blogging when you first started blogging and cross your fingers for Adnan who is going to be processing this video and transcribing it, and turning it into a blog post and newsletter. Hopefully I have done all the videos and the updates and put down the steps and set the column in the boards in the cards in trello that I can follow the which aspect he is doing and can follow along like that.

If you are interested there is this thing called trello and I just mentioned it before. It’s a free project management system and it is really good for what I want to do and it’s free, but if someone joins through my link then I get a free month of gold so it’d be really nice if you look at the link below and you click through the trello join that and I will get notified that you are then and maybe I will give you something nice as well. All right, so I will see you next week.

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Contest Winner

And this weeks winner is Sky Nealon from Empowering Life and Success through Online Marketing who recently wrote about “Visualising Ideas“

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transcript: BOL newsletter #51

And today, welcome to a windy newsletter. God bimmie it’s just got a bit windy now, god blimmie governor.

Anyway, I have some points to make. I have a fail, then from that fail a nearer success I don’t know yet, and then something else that you could help me out with. So listen out to the end because I will be asking you to help me with something. And also a little hint, a little allusion to something that I’ve got going on with Commentluv premium or especially with new people that are coming into Commentluv premium.

First thing is a bit of a fail. Remember the last week I was talking about making a video and then doing some sort of voice impression or something like Morgan Freeman to narrate a story or something like that.

And then well I did do something about like that, and I’ve got a guy, got a voice over artiste to have a look at some lines of script and stuff and he was going to say these lines and then I was going to match him up to the video and it is going to look brilliant. Well, in my mind’s eye anyway. But I didn’t because it sounded too robotic.

It sounded exactly like Morgan Freeman, because it was all separate sentences. You know. Just say one sentence than pause, then say another sentence then pause. Now originally I thought it was a good idea to match the video up to the words or match the words to the video; to the timing of the video. But, the best videos are ever made I’ve done the opposite. I’ve got the audio sorted, and then got the video to match fully with the audio and that worked sweet.

I don’t know what I was thinking about doing this. But anyway, I spent money on it and the guy did it, he did a good job. He did as exactly what I asked him to do, but it didn’t turn out very nice. You know too robotic.
(robotic voice) Say hello to Mary. Mary is very sad. Mary is…

You know I can’t do it like that. So something good came out of it though because I actually sat down and I wrote a proper story. You know a script and it brought up 3 main pain points of people that are starting to blog or just getting established on a blog. And then the solution for to those things, and then I’ve left the demo part of it to speak for itself. You know because then I could put up flashpoints to point out particular things and those could change. You see because If I’ve got some guy narrating the whole thing, all the features, and the benefits and stuff, in the future when there’s more features, more benefits then I’ll have to pay the guy to repeat what he did, but with the new benefits and the new features. If you know what I mean, so now I’ve got a more generic script that I can use and sorted mate.

Okay now the bit that you can help me with is also is integrated with what plans I got and what I have done is I got in contact with an expert. Because you know when the new bloggers they install Commentluv. Well. Not all new blogger, not all people that installed it, but a large majority of people; they want to know how can they now help. Not just install it and expect comments and traffic come flooding in. In the same way, you just can’t buy a diet book and then just lose weight because your buying a diet book. You actually putting on weight, the weight of the book. So you’ve got to take action, but what action do you take?

Do you listen to the people in the “Warrior Forum”? Do you listen to the people that say ‘they are blog experts’ and stuff? So I am paying thousands of dollars to a blogging expert; who is just bloody brilliant by the way. And they are going to write a series of 10 emails that will welcome in someone that has just bought the plugin and show them the first steps.

They are like mini courses if you will and written by a proper good expert. I don’t want to release the details yet because it isn’t fully committed, not all the parties have fully signed off on it. But you gonna love it! It is really brilliant. Well actually, I have to do some Shenanigans there so for existing members can get access to it, but this is a real added value thing that I’m adding to it.

I wanted to do this ages and ages ago, and then I couldn’t because sales weren’t up cause I was sick, and I was like “Poor me”. And I couldn’t make loads of sales and do promotions and stuff. Then I put the idea on the back shelf. But now that I am gearing up for another kind of mini launch and re-launch type of affair where I am able to work on few hours a day during the week you know, regardless of my condition because of the good medication that I am on.

And while I am here, I thought I would reinvent that idea and I will ask that person, “Are they willing to do it?” and they said, “Yes”, but I got to get 10 subjects to them before the end of May. So that there is enough time to write before. Apparently, babies are coming.

Hoo.. How exciting. But anyway, give me 10 subjects not even 10, give 1 subject. What 1 thing would you have liked to have known how to do or know what to do or where to start or things like that.

What 1 thing would you have liked someone that was an expert in blogging to tell you when you started blogging?

Just give me 1 subject. Whoever gives me the best subject would win a hundred dollars. I am going to commit to that, on camera. Okay. So whoever gives me the best subject, send an email, send a comment, post a comment on the youtube video, on the Facebook page, on the blog. Send me an email to get support; anything. Send me an idea of what you would like to be told when you was a beginner blogger. If you had the chance to get something told you by an expert.

What would have saved you time? What advice you would give now that you’ve been blogging for a while? What would you give to a new blogger? Something like that.

So whoever’s got the most creative or the most interesting or the most loody dah comment, okay, I would give them a hundred dollars. That’s all you have to do. Come up with what you would have liked to be told or when you are a beginning blogger. What would have helped you? So that’s the thing for today.

Send me the idea and also watch out for the video because I’ve got a feeling that the voice over guy got the story now. He is going to record it the next couple of days. I got a feeling that it is going to be brilliant. Hmm…But I felt like this before.

Anyway, it is going to be brilliant!

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Contest Winner

And this weeks winner is this person from Postage Journal who recently wrote about “Postage Stamps for Children”

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[Transcript]

transcript: BOL newsletter #50

Hello and welcome to another newsletter. As you can tell by me walking about, and not lying in bed going oh gah blah, I am feeling a little bit better and I have still got heavy legs but what the hell, I have been carrying my legs for all my life and I’m pretty used to that.

Oh, blimmey what a hard thing is to edit that video!

What was I doing listening to all the awesome feedback?, I could have just whack it up there and hope for the best, but instead, I listened to you people and a lot of people mentioned about those squiggly letters moving up and down which I’ll have to look at it again I thought – at first I thought it was oh it’s magic and then now I think, oh yeah, I see your point.
I have calm them down a bit, I said,

Calm your tits, come down,

and they did after bashing the computer for about hours. Blimmey that was hard work. Then I got someone else who said—,

Oh have a look at this picture!

This is my chicken cacciatore.

Chicken Cacciatore from http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/656122

Have a look. See look how bright it is. It is lovely. It’s got red peppers, but I used the chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts because that’s all I had.
That’s got nothing to do with anything, plug-ins all business, but I want to show someone because my Mrs. works in the kitchen cooking stuff and she was like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ So she’s not impressed by cooking things, I am and hopefully you too. I’ve put the recipe of it there, below the video somewhere so you can find out how to make that too because it is a really nice recipe and lots of other people said this is really tasty too.

Next I’ve got to tell you something else as well.

Oh yeah, well done for all the contest winners. Someone got in contact with me and got a license and then there is the other person this week as well, you’ll find out on my blog on the post where this newsletter appears.

And then I’ve got another I can talk to you about as well, I was going to say I’ve told you about video that I’m doing that– Oh yeah, I’m going to do some live actions stuff or maybe some narrative stuff by – maybe get Morgan Freeman to do it or someone who sounds like him because again, that was another feedback where someone said that the demo area or part of it was a bit short and so you couldn’t really get an idea of what the plug-in does from the video;

and after getting some emails from people saying, ‘What does your plug-in do for people that can’t read web pages?’ I thought, I’ve got a – it’s not that it’s my fault, but still I’ve got enough responsibility to explain what it is on video, and for that I am going to have to extend those demo pieces. I can’t really do it in the videos. We are going to have to do some shenanigans to do that as well.

I will make the videos this week to put into the placement there and I will get them narrated or live action or me pointing at things saying, ‘Look,’ maybe not and then that will be done. That’s only like six weeks behind schedule, but as I said I don’t do schedules so, I’m on schedule, huh how about that?.

I don’t do schedules so how can I be on it? That is existential for you, isn’t it?
Anyway, I hope to see you next week where I still will be ambulatory and hopefully my legs will be less heavy than they are today. So what can I say?

Yeah, I can say goodbye. Cheerio see you all next week.!

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And this weeks winner is Crissa  from Craving Chocolate and Lazy Days who recently wrote about “TwigTale Sale”

well done Crissa,maybe someone will leave a comment on your blog to say well done (hint hint!) and get a backlink for the trouble

(it will be up to you to claim your prize of a lifetime license to Commentluv Premium, you have until next weeks newsletter comes out)

[Transcript]

BOL Newsletter # 49- I’ve been sick!

Welcome to another newsletter, well it’s kind of not a newsletter it’s kind of just an update.

I have not been able to do any work this week because I have been utterly pooped and it has been really horrible.

The past seven days have been OU AH EE AH, but you know I’m kind of doped up to the eyeballs on medications, but forgive me.

Hopefully I will exist when the medication goes away and that the pain doesn’t exist!

Already because of the fact that I am on video telling you this tells you that yes I am getting better because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to make it at all.

So that’s good news, but unfortunately I might be a week behind schedule, but you know I take comfort in the fact that I don’t have schedules anymore so I can’t be a week behind.

Result! I think, but anyways I promise I will get back to you next week and you will find out about the chicken and mushroom thing that I am cooking tonight has no relation to anything, but I bought the stuff to make it, I’ll show you a picture next week.

And, if you’ve applied for the social media management position by sending me an email with why I need one with what you will do for me and why I should employ you and how much it will cost then I am still reading those and looking through them.

I don’t need to be to up right to read email so keep them coming and I will get back to you next week, all right

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And this weeks winner is Jeannie from Nomadic Chick who recently wrote about “A last look at China”

well done Jeannie,maybe someone will leave a comment on your blog to say well done (hint hint!) and get a backlink for the trouble

(it will be up to you to claim your prize of a lifetime license to Commentluv Premium, you have until next weeks newsletter comes out)

Hello and welcome to another news letter!

Now I was supposed to be telling you the sales video that I edited and extended the demonstration videos for.

But I had a bit of trouble this week with my faculties and had some pain so that I can’t think properly and stuff. Rah! Whatever. That’s not what this video’s about.

This video is about Google Plus. Its about Social Media Management so pay attention if you’re a Social Media Manager or you want to be and something else as well. (Pause) (Laugh) See, I told you I have trouble thinking. What is it?

Oh! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Declared entity  XML error kind of thing.

So, first thing’s first.

Google sent me an email saying I can have the Plus commentluv link or url. Which is pretty sweet really. So if you want to connect on commenluv on google Plus, just go to google.com plus commentluv. Sweet!

And while we’re talking about Social Media like Google Plus, Umm…I don’t know if I need a Social Media Manager or not. You know uhh…definitely I haven’t got the time to do it myself but I don’t need all bells and whistles thing. And I don’t need certainly that costs like $99 a month kind of thing.

So if you’re a Social Media Manager or you want to be, let me know. Send me an email with why I need one and what benefit will it do for me. Why I should give the job to you and how much it costs

And if all is tickidee-boo then definitely I might be in the market for employing a Social Media Manger.

And then the third thing as well. What did I have trouble with before? Oh yeah! The Declared entity in XML error.

The Declared entity at column 39 line 1 or something like that. 

Now if you have something like these type of errors happening when you comment on a commentluv blog, and you start to type your comment and you see that message there, the next video or the video that just coming in a bit; that will show you exactly how to fix that problem.

Anyway, apart from using commenluv premium which fixes it automatically. Which is kind of really definitely worth a premium price. But if you want to use the Free version or the place your commenting on is using a lesser version than the most latest one; then for sure watch the next video because that’ll show you how you can find out what’s causing that and how to fix it.

And it’s pretty useful anyway because it’s not just for commentluv, it’s for other things too.

And then…of course something else to say, I can’t remember, what’s it gonna be? Oh yeah! Yeah! I made another video back when I had my faculties and that video explains how to find what is causing the white screen of death on your site.

That’s if you got access to the admin area and then the front page and stuff, that’s getting white screen of death. So I tell you how you can get or how you can find out whether it’s your theme or it’s your plug-in and if it’s a plug-in, how to quickly drill down and find out which plug-in is causing the error.

So, the next video that you’ll just about to see is just a couple minutes long and that’s gonna let you know what to do with the XML error. And the other video, I’ll put a link to that in the comments because that’s a bit longer and I don’t want to force you to watch that one up. Okay?

So, I’ll see you next week. And remember, if you’re a Social Media Manager or you want to be let me know by email “Why I should have a  Social Media Manager?”, “ What you can do for me?” and “How much it’s gonna cost?”

Tutorial

Hi its’ Andy Bailey from CommentLuv.com and in this video I am going to show you how you can very quickly find and fix the problem if you get an XML invalid entity error when you’re commenting on a commentluv blog

Okay so here we are. This is my other personal blog, but let’s says I’m making a comment on this blog here.

Now this is using an older version of the free version of CommentLuv.

I’ll put in fiddyp.co.uk and I’ll just show you here without having to write the comment and you can see that it’s take a while because it’s trying some different things to find the feed.

But it says, this XML document is invalid.

Now when you usually see something like this.

If you hover over the area there where it says “Hover your mouse” you can see there’s some white space before the start of the XML.

And what’s happening is CommentLuv is trying to read the XML file that CommentLuv produces, but because there’s some space at the start it doesn’t know what to do with it.

Now I’ve written some stuff into the plug in that can mostly take care of that, but not all plug versions do this, and sometimes other files get included before CommentLuv can load and then it’s those files that are adding this extra bit of white space, and that’s what causes the error.

So this is how you fix it very quickly. So I’m Andy. I’m going to log in. So we are going to go to appearance, and editor. One of the main reasons that the XML error happens is because there are extra space in the functions file of you theme.

So if you look at your theme editor and we go to theme functions, and then we scroll to the bottom, and exactly there you can see.

If you can put your cursor after the closing PHP tag then that is what inserting extra space. So what we can do is delete all of that, but before we do all of that let me show you that if you have CommentLuv Premium it does some extra little fancy bits to try to mitigate that problem.

When it gets the data back it tries to ignore any blank space, but like I said other plug-ins load before CommentLuv Premium does sometimes so even then, it causes an issue. So if we scroll down to the comments on… who’s this here… Sarupa Shah.

Okay so let’s have a look here see how it reacts with the same URL on CommentLuv Premiums site.

Now again I am not writing a comment on here I am just seeing how it reacts to my URL, and again you can see it’s taking an extra-long time and that is because it is trying other different things when it gets and error.

As you can see CommentLuv Premium is able to bring back that last post.

So if you are having a problem the first thing you should do if you are using the free version of CommentLuv then go to your functions file and then just remove everything after the last tag.

So you’ve got the question mark and the closing bracket. That closes PHP.

But because your theme gets loaded in the middle of everything else that Word Press loads you don’t need to do this closing tag. In fact it’s a good idea to remove it anyway.

And so there you go. Make sure the last character is one of the PHP characters or there are no spaces after the closing tag.

So let’s update the files. Now it’s not really a good idea to update a file while it’s live on your site, but I am just doing it here just to make it go a bit quicker.

What you would do, ideally is that you would download the file. Check it in a proper editor, not Microsoft Word and not Notepad, but something like Notepad ++ or some other type of editor like that, and then you would check it there.

But, if you haven’t got one of those editors this is the quick and dirty way to do it.

So let’s just check now. Let’s see what happens when I try again. let me click in here again.

And we can see straight away everything is working perfectly fine again.

So that little bit of extra space that was after the closing tag that was the cause of it.

So if you ever see an XML error entity starts at line 39 columns something like that this is usually the case.

If it’s not in your functions file then it will be in one of your plug-ins that you’ve recently added. So if you added a plug in or updated it recently check those plug-ins to make sure that the closing PHP tag does not have any extra space on it.

And you’re better off actually just deleting the closing tag.

There you go!

How to find which plugin is causing the white screen of death video

what do you think? useful?

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