Have a look at this.

A friend of mine and fellow marketer, is putting together an “opportunity listing site” and wants to get some feedback on the general concept, before he dives into the deep end on developing it.

I think it’s a pretty cool idea… I know quite often I’ve considered renting a mailing list, or otherwise wanting to gain exposure for something, but I’m not crazy about networks & brokers as they never know the whole story on the real sources of the data, etc.  I want to talk DIRECTLY to list owners, site owners, etc.  The REAL movers & shakers!

Opptly would give me the ability to do exactly that.  I personally think it’s a great idea and would certainly use it… what do you think?

JVC

Just throwing this out in case it’ll help someone else. A friend of mine has am awesome team of 6 working on his internet marketing business, but he’s got some down time between projects and is looking to keep them busy.

I took him up on the offer and kept one person busy for a few days, but that was about all I really had in terms of overflow work. So to help them out, I’m putting the offer out there to you as well.

If you’ve got any sort of online work that needs doing, but especially higher-end technical stuff like custom WordPress plugin development, or troubleshooting & fixing PHP on your sit(s), or solving server issues, etc… drop me a comment below with a way to reach you and I’ll put my friend in touch with you directly.

His team are all between $10 and $15/hour and in my opinion, are extremely high quality workers. I’ve been amazed at how fast they’ve completed pretty complex tasks that I expected to take many times longer than they did. If you’ve got the work for them in the next 2 weeks or so, I strongly suggest you grab them while you can.

The team is based in Pakistan and communicates via Skype during their working hours (approximately 11pm to 7am Eastern). Their written English is quite good and I’ve had no communication problems at all, even when sending them Jing videos to explain what I need.

Again, leave a comment below if this would be useful to you and I’ll put you in touch directly.

Jonathan

This is a bit of a difficult post for me to write, and is a far cry from the sorts of things I usually talk about.

You may have noticed the banner at the home page of my blog, referring to my friend Raj who passed away quite suddenly almost a year ago.  Raj was a very important figure in my life, as he showed up and influenced me at just the right time.  Without his pushing and encouraging, I’m not sure I would have reached the level of success that I have with regards to my business efforts.

Raj was a big believer in charity, and donated more in a few short years, than probably most people ever will in their entire lives.  To that end, his family has chosen to keep his charitable efforts going in order to reach (and ultimately surpass) Raj’s visions.

He actually got me to sign up for one of his favorite charities – www.kiva.org – and even sent me $100 to jump start my micro-lending.  He was so serious about it that he all but forced me to donate.

That initial $100 has now been lent out, returned, and lent out again numerous times, and will continue to benefit aspiring entrepreneurs in “third world” countries for many years to come.

Way to go, Raj.

His other charity was devoted to bringing clean wells to numerous countries that have a serious need.

In honor of Raj and his family’s efforts, I ask you to have a look at the blog set up in his name, and consider donating to one of his chosen charities.

The world will be better for it, just as it is better for Raj’s having been here.