Recently in the free Business Opportunity Email Newsletter I mentioned that I don’t tend to type when it is not necessary. Instead I use speak recognition software, specifically Dragon Naturally Speaking.

It’s a great piece of software which allows you to speak whilst it dictates the words into loads of different applications including Word and Notepad. All you have to do is “train” the software to recognise your voice and then it will learn your particular accent.

Any mistakes can be corrected easily and the software will attempt to learn from its errors.

I wrote:

“I tend to use Dragon Naturally Speaking to dictate articles on my PC. It takes a few hours to “train” the software to recognise your voice but it can really help you if you want to write a lot of text.

You can usually find the software on eBay for £20 or so – all you will need on top of the program is a microphone to connect to your PC.

It’s well worth the investment!”

Shortly afterwards I was asked the following question by a subscriber:

“Hi Ben,

Could you tell me which version of Dragon Naturally Speaking you use.

I have looked on ebay and the latest version 9 seems to command quite high prices. I am not bothered about having the latest version if I know which one of the earlier versions you find satisfactory

Thanks much

Steve”

Well, I had to go and check but the version I use is Dragon Naturally Speaking version 8.

If memory serves me correctly, I bought the software about 1 year ago for £20 or so.

It’s very good although not completely perfect, you do have to go through it afterwards and correct a few mistakes. Beats typing though!

You can usually find it on eBay:

Dragon Naturally Speaking Software Listings on eBay

Or, more expensively, on Amazon:

Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 8 on Amazon

Well, I’ve just unsubscribed from 5 internet marketing related email newsletters for one reason – they all sent me emails about Michael Cheney’s new traffic related course – and all 5 emails came within about 30 minutes this afternoon.

I was under the impression that John Reese was the undisputed king of website traffic generation but I guess that Cheney is now “the man”. And all this time I thought Michael Cheney was the AdSense king… or was that the list-building king?

OK, OK, so I’m being pedantic but it gets a little annoying when everyone with an email list that is even remotely related to internet marketing starts sending out bulk emails to promote the latest Clickbank product.

So, bye-bye to several of you but thanks for the content (if there ever was any!)

One newsletter that I haven’t unsubscribed from is Danny’s Scam Review by Mark Warren, or as he prefers to be known, “Danny”.

Mark jumps on this kind of stuff immediately, he’s like an announcement service for new over-hyped Clickbank products 🙂

It’s always interesting to see what kind of made-up BS he can think to put in his email pitches, how can one person dream up such shameless lies? He must have a team…

Someone asked me for a review of the Dave Allen membership site called “Earn Your Living Online” recently.

http://www.EarnYourLivingOnline.co.uk

Straight off the bat I will completely upfront and say that Dave is a friend of mine and is also a member of the mastermind group which I belong to so this may be a little biased!

I will, at some point, write a review of this particular opportunity (it’ll get added to the list) but it may take some time.

In the meantime, here’s a little more about what you get for the low entry price:

The site has a whole load of information split into 7 different “lessons”.

Each lesson contains lots of downloadable content which is accessed via the online training centre.

You get a load of reading material and also related audio interviews and videos, all of which show you how to accomplish each part of the “Leadership Marketing System”.

The whole point of the site is to give you the information you need to get up and running with a profitable internet business.

I’d suggest that each lesson would probably take a week or so to go through if you set aside an hour a day to work on it. Obviously, it may take a little longer or a little less time depending on how dedicated to the cause you are.

If you want to have a look in more detail about what it is you get, check out the site:

http://www.EarnYourLivingOnline.co.uk

As I mentioned, I know Dave personally so if you have any questions about the course then please let me know and I will pass them on.