Today is end of the month. And there is another delay to the release of my website. There was an overall internet interruption in India and it affected my programmer's local server. I post a message to him asking why I was not seeing any difference on my site since two days ago. In his message, the programmer provided a link to the news. Well, the excuse is valid again.
With all these hold in my website what would you call it? Stroke of fate, mis-chance, ill-luck. What else can you add?
1.31.2008
1.30.2008
New Name for Holly Mann Blog
Holly Mann Blog is now HOLLYMANNIA. It sounds fit to the blog. I also added a little color to make the page looks better, if not appealing. What do you think?
Last week, I posted that I'm planning to do a makeover to the Holly Mann Blog. So this is it. Hollymannia. I looked up the meaning of mania and it meant thing, craze, enthusiasm, passion. Well, I don't have those for Holly Mann the person but for internet marketing which is what the eBook she wrote called Honest Riches is all about.
My website will soon be completed and there will be a time when posting in this site will be down to one a week. I will devote more time to my website, the real one. In the meantime, I will still write to Hollymannia for as much as I can.
Last week, I posted that I'm planning to do a makeover to the Holly Mann Blog. So this is it. Hollymannia. I looked up the meaning of mania and it meant thing, craze, enthusiasm, passion. Well, I don't have those for Holly Mann the person but for internet marketing which is what the eBook she wrote called Honest Riches is all about.
My website will soon be completed and there will be a time when posting in this site will be down to one a week. I will devote more time to my website, the real one. In the meantime, I will still write to Hollymannia for as much as I can.
1.29.2008
Aim and Fire
I communicated with the programmer at Scriptlance today. And for the first time, he asked me specific questions about what I want for the site, like color and placement. It's taking shape now. Not really the way I would imagine it would look but it's okay. I think of it as letting an artist draw what I want. Whatever comes up is his own but my concepts. I hope the website will look better than what it is right now.
It's my first time ever to commission someone to do my website. I'm very hands on. I do everything. But Holly Mann, author of the eBook, Honest Riches said I can benefit from outsourcing my internet projects. Especially if it is too much to handle. I chose to go to Scriplance following Holly Mann's recommendation. My experience is not really that wonderful. I had problems with the programmer. I believe this is a case-to-case scenario. Like for some people, their Scriptlance experience would be splendid. Not for me. But I do think I selected a good programmer. It's out of my control if he was having issues with his family. That got in the way in delivering my website soon enough. Actually 26 days compared to 3 days is a lot of day-difference. (On his bid he put 3 days to accomplish the website.) But what can I do? I already escrowed the payment. I just have to keep my fingers crossed that at the end of these all, the website will be good.
Each morning as I wake up I hope there is a development that took place to my site. It's the first site I visit when I turn on the PC. It's always a disappointment. In a larger scale, I'm still thinking if internet marketing is right for me. I know I work hard on it but things just arent right. Things tend to go wrong and it is beyond my reach. I kind of envy successful online entrepreneurs. Top on my list is Holly Mann who authored the eBook Honest Riches. She really made it. Should I follow the steps in her eBook or not? I don't know. Whether I did, there blunders and then discouragement follows.
There was a song I listened to on a cable music channel that says be fearless. It's a teenage song and I think it applies to me right now. I mean I need to be fearless and just do what it takes. Even if it took all my time and finances. Even if it took all my enthusiasm. For me, doing this whole internet marketing is like a shooting game. I aim without seeing the target; and I fire without knowing if I have the right gun. Now, that statement is a Holly Mann Blog original. Remember that you first read it here.
It's my first time ever to commission someone to do my website. I'm very hands on. I do everything. But Holly Mann, author of the eBook, Honest Riches said I can benefit from outsourcing my internet projects. Especially if it is too much to handle. I chose to go to Scriplance following Holly Mann's recommendation. My experience is not really that wonderful. I had problems with the programmer. I believe this is a case-to-case scenario. Like for some people, their Scriptlance experience would be splendid. Not for me. But I do think I selected a good programmer. It's out of my control if he was having issues with his family. That got in the way in delivering my website soon enough. Actually 26 days compared to 3 days is a lot of day-difference. (On his bid he put 3 days to accomplish the website.) But what can I do? I already escrowed the payment. I just have to keep my fingers crossed that at the end of these all, the website will be good.
Each morning as I wake up I hope there is a development that took place to my site. It's the first site I visit when I turn on the PC. It's always a disappointment. In a larger scale, I'm still thinking if internet marketing is right for me. I know I work hard on it but things just arent right. Things tend to go wrong and it is beyond my reach. I kind of envy successful online entrepreneurs. Top on my list is Holly Mann who authored the eBook Honest Riches. She really made it. Should I follow the steps in her eBook or not? I don't know. Whether I did, there blunders and then discouragement follows.
There was a song I listened to on a cable music channel that says be fearless. It's a teenage song and I think it applies to me right now. I mean I need to be fearless and just do what it takes. Even if it took all my time and finances. Even if it took all my enthusiasm. For me, doing this whole internet marketing is like a shooting game. I aim without seeing the target; and I fire without knowing if I have the right gun. Now, that statement is a Holly Mann Blog original. Remember that you first read it here.
1.28.2008
I SOL at Scriptlance
I think I really did had a bad luck at Scriptlance. No website until now. The programmer is not communicating with me. The last time he did was on Friday, January 25th, exactly 21 days after I chose his bid ($130 for 3 days), he said he was having family problems and could not work on the website. How would I react to that? Add pain to his injury by getting angry?
I lost three weeks already since I chose the bid. No website coming up this January and it's hurting my internet marketing stint. It really does since I put a lot of conceptualization and planning into it. This month should go to the application of the project. Now, it will take another month because I have to develop the content yet before finally launching the website.
Holly Mann, the author of the eBook Honest Riches highly recommends Scriptlance but my experience is negative so far. Maybe my case is just isolated. I still hope things will pick up. There really are a lot of bumps down the road.
Again in fairness to the programmer, he did promise me that he would really do a good job once everything is done. He said he would reciprocate the trust I gave him in doing this project and that he is the right person to do this job.
Only God knows at this time.
I lost three weeks already since I chose the bid. No website coming up this January and it's hurting my internet marketing stint. It really does since I put a lot of conceptualization and planning into it. This month should go to the application of the project. Now, it will take another month because I have to develop the content yet before finally launching the website.
Holly Mann, the author of the eBook Honest Riches highly recommends Scriptlance but my experience is negative so far. Maybe my case is just isolated. I still hope things will pick up. There really are a lot of bumps down the road.
Again in fairness to the programmer, he did promise me that he would really do a good job once everything is done. He said he would reciprocate the trust I gave him in doing this project and that he is the right person to do this job.
Only God knows at this time.
1.25.2008
Things Are Looking Up
I just checked with the programmer at Scriptlance. He's not dead. Actually, he re-laid out my website dessign. Things are looking up. Though the design does not look fit to my taste and high enough to my standard, I'm just glad that there are developments going on. In fairness to this programmer, I think he is pretty good and beside his name at the Scriptlance website is a ribbon that says he is a Certified Programmer. Plus, he got ten stars underneath his name. That means all the reviews are great.
I outsource the design of my website through Scriptlance because Holly Mann recommends it in her eBook, Honest Riches. It works like eBay where the projects are for auction. I think it is an Indian based website as most programmers are from India but I'm not really sure. Sure, there are programmers from other partsof the country, too like Germany, Canada, Europe, and United States but most are from India.
I got about 18 bids for my project. Now, the choosing of the winning bid does not depend on the lowest bid. This is because the programmer's type of service at the price named may be inferior to others. Just like me, I did not choose the lowest bid but I chose the one which kind of offered the specifications I wanted and understood where I wanted to go.
At Scriptlance, people rendering service are called programmers while people who post projects are called buyers. Scriptlance collects $5 from both once the winning bid is chosen. Just like eBay, at the completion of the transaction, the programmer and buyer gets to rate and review each other. Since neither of you wants a negative feedback or score, you may as well leave a favorable or neutral feedback.
I would say Scriptlance is great because it gives you choices and you can name your price. But be careful in your selection of bid. You don't want the quality of the project be compromised. I guess in everything, one should look for value. I don't believe in the concept of getting what you pay for. A cheaper price doesn't necessarily mean you are getting poor quality. You just have to know what you are paying for. So research is always important. Knowledge is power and it is very accessible because of the internet. Use what is available and be wise.
I outsource the design of my website through Scriptlance because Holly Mann recommends it in her eBook, Honest Riches. It works like eBay where the projects are for auction. I think it is an Indian based website as most programmers are from India but I'm not really sure. Sure, there are programmers from other partsof the country, too like Germany, Canada, Europe, and United States but most are from India.
I got about 18 bids for my project. Now, the choosing of the winning bid does not depend on the lowest bid. This is because the programmer's type of service at the price named may be inferior to others. Just like me, I did not choose the lowest bid but I chose the one which kind of offered the specifications I wanted and understood where I wanted to go.
At Scriptlance, people rendering service are called programmers while people who post projects are called buyers. Scriptlance collects $5 from both once the winning bid is chosen. Just like eBay, at the completion of the transaction, the programmer and buyer gets to rate and review each other. Since neither of you wants a negative feedback or score, you may as well leave a favorable or neutral feedback.
I would say Scriptlance is great because it gives you choices and you can name your price. But be careful in your selection of bid. You don't want the quality of the project be compromised. I guess in everything, one should look for value. I don't believe in the concept of getting what you pay for. A cheaper price doesn't necessarily mean you are getting poor quality. You just have to know what you are paying for. So research is always important. Knowledge is power and it is very accessible because of the internet. Use what is available and be wise.
1.24.2008
Holly Mann Blog Makeover
I've been viewing my blog, the Holly Mann Blog and I thought it really needs a makeover. Aside from a new title, it needs pictures and graphics. As I look at it, it is beginning to look boring to me.
In the coming week, I will try to change the make and feel of the Holly Mann Blog.
Now about my website: I wonder if the programmer at Scriptlance is already dead. He has not been responding to my email for the past two days. I have chosen the winning bid on the 4th of January hoping I can start the website at the beginning of the year. I'm beginning to think I made the wrong choice. Well, should I have not realized that a while back?
But I can't complain right now. I just have to look forward to better days. Patience, which I don't naturally possess, should matter now-- now that I'm so close to achieving my website. Actually, the hardest part for me is to reach deep in my pocket to finance all these. It was hard to let go of hard earned and hard saved money for somethinng uncertain. Having a profitable website is an untravelled territory for me. Gaining the courage to just go that way is quite an achievement on my part.
I'll give the Scriptlance programmer a chance and I will give myself space and another day.
In the coming week, I will try to change the make and feel of the Holly Mann Blog.
Now about my website: I wonder if the programmer at Scriptlance is already dead. He has not been responding to my email for the past two days. I have chosen the winning bid on the 4th of January hoping I can start the website at the beginning of the year. I'm beginning to think I made the wrong choice. Well, should I have not realized that a while back?
But I can't complain right now. I just have to look forward to better days. Patience, which I don't naturally possess, should matter now-- now that I'm so close to achieving my website. Actually, the hardest part for me is to reach deep in my pocket to finance all these. It was hard to let go of hard earned and hard saved money for somethinng uncertain. Having a profitable website is an untravelled territory for me. Gaining the courage to just go that way is quite an achievement on my part.
I'll give the Scriptlance programmer a chance and I will give myself space and another day.
1.23.2008
Renaming Holly Mann Blog
Recently, I have been thinking of changing the title of Holly Mann Blog to something more specific, applicable, and catchy. I know as I go along, this is not just going to be a blog about Holly Mann or Honest Riches. But then I also know that my life after buying Holly Mann's eBook, Honest Riches is what this blog is all about. Somehow, it connects but in a very general way. So in trying to end this dilemma, I came up with some titles and here they are:
Wow, it's like thinking a title to a movie or a reality show. It's mind boggling. I welcome suggestions within or outside the list of titles above.
Here's an update on my website: the Scriptlance programmer is not replying to the message I posted to the message board. India time, I guess.
The Holly Mann Chronicles
Blogging Holly Mann
Holly Mann Babbles
HollyMannology
HollyMannia
HollyManngraphy
Wow, it's like thinking a title to a movie or a reality show. It's mind boggling. I welcome suggestions within or outside the list of titles above.
Here's an update on my website: the Scriptlance programmer is not replying to the message I posted to the message board. India time, I guess.
1.22.2008
Today Is The First Day
It's time to go to work and get going. It was the weekend two days ago (I don't work weekends) and somehow I didn't feel like working when I woke up yesterday. Much to my surprise, Holly Mann posted a comment to this blog. Funny because at the course of this blog, I had tried to reach her to get a dwonload of the new version of Honest Riches and again to inquire about her free website offer through BlueHost. All those took time and lasted for at least a couple of weeks before she or her assistant contacted me. Now, because of this blog, she found me and she came to me. This attests to the power of blogging. I really can use Holly Mann's help but right now, my internet marketing career is in midair because my programmer/website designer at Scriptlance has been making qualified excuses ever since.
Here's what: the bid was $130 for 3 days. This is now the third week. Though I don't blame him (he is a sweet person just like Holly Mann), I am really unhappy with the lost time. But the excuses were all valid:
On my side of the world, I could not think of anything that's keeping me from work except for my one-year old and the Australian Open that started last week.
But as I said, it is time to get going, time to focus, time to concentrate. Today I re-start. Today is the first day of the rest of my internet marketing career.
Here's what: the bid was $130 for 3 days. This is now the third week. Though I don't blame him (he is a sweet person just like Holly Mann), I am really unhappy with the lost time. But the excuses were all valid:
My web hosting account from Bluehost cannot accommodate the big chunk of space the program requires.
There was a regional festival in India and he needs to be home all day.
He was totally crammed due to overload of jobs which the local server could not accommodate.
His father was hospitalized and injured.
On my side of the world, I could not think of anything that's keeping me from work except for my one-year old and the Australian Open that started last week.
But as I said, it is time to get going, time to focus, time to concentrate. Today I re-start. Today is the first day of the rest of my internet marketing career.
1.21.2008
Holly Mann, Hope Your Read This
First of all, I would like to thank you for taking the time to leave a comment in my blog. I'm glad you did not have any negative reaction to the blog, even if some posts are downright blunt.
Yes, the concept of this blog is to make an honest account of my internet marketing effort. From start to finish-- hopefully until I already got to where I set to go. I want to make money online and I have been working hard and working smart just to make it. Getting rich is very far from the picture yet. And right now, I cannot claim that I would because of all the bumps and the delays on the road. Somehow, when I get to where I want to go, I can look back through this blog and see how it all began.
Holly Mann, I consider you as my mentor. Your eBook, Honest Riches is the first investment I made online. Honest Riches taught me how the internet cash flow works in holistic way. Now, I understand a lot of things because of Honest Riches. Now, I know how to make money online. But it is always easier said than done. The road gets rougher and tougher as it goes.
As to the programmer at Scriptlance, I already escrowed the payment and just have to wait at what the project comes out to. I will be glad to share with you what the website is all about though I can't post it here. Not yet until it's done. Actually, I got the idea to do this website when I read from Honest Riches 2 that I could do any website that I could think of, no matter how big it is. That's why I pursued to have this ambitious website even if I have no inclination to do it.
You asked me if I was a writer and although I like to think that I am, I guess blogging, as it applies to everyone, has an explicable way of bringing out the writers in us. In my case, I write like this because I am not a born English speaker. Since I am writing in a foreign language, or a borrowed language, I have to write with care and respect to the language itself. But thanks for noticing. That is a very good compliment.
I will continue to write the Holly Mann Blog until I can honestly say that I am rich. Hopefully that's just down the road soon.
Yes, the concept of this blog is to make an honest account of my internet marketing effort. From start to finish-- hopefully until I already got to where I set to go. I want to make money online and I have been working hard and working smart just to make it. Getting rich is very far from the picture yet. And right now, I cannot claim that I would because of all the bumps and the delays on the road. Somehow, when I get to where I want to go, I can look back through this blog and see how it all began.
Holly Mann, I consider you as my mentor. Your eBook, Honest Riches is the first investment I made online. Honest Riches taught me how the internet cash flow works in holistic way. Now, I understand a lot of things because of Honest Riches. Now, I know how to make money online. But it is always easier said than done. The road gets rougher and tougher as it goes.
As to the programmer at Scriptlance, I already escrowed the payment and just have to wait at what the project comes out to. I will be glad to share with you what the website is all about though I can't post it here. Not yet until it's done. Actually, I got the idea to do this website when I read from Honest Riches 2 that I could do any website that I could think of, no matter how big it is. That's why I pursued to have this ambitious website even if I have no inclination to do it.
You asked me if I was a writer and although I like to think that I am, I guess blogging, as it applies to everyone, has an explicable way of bringing out the writers in us. In my case, I write like this because I am not a born English speaker. Since I am writing in a foreign language, or a borrowed language, I have to write with care and respect to the language itself. But thanks for noticing. That is a very good compliment.
I will continue to write the Holly Mann Blog until I can honestly say that I am rich. Hopefully that's just down the road soon.
1.18.2008
Drawing Inspiration from Holly Mann
It's another day of internet marketing. So far, things are looking up. I am steadily getting where I want to go. It is really hard sometimes when I don't see the end of where I'm going but today, I get a new surge of strength. I know I have to get strength somewhere because I have made up my mind not to give up.
Holly Mann, author of the eBook Honest Riches is a very strong woman. She made that impression to me when I read on one of her websites how she started her website out of a measly apartment in Thailand, out of an assembled computer, out of an erratic dial-up internet connection, out of having a sickly baby, out of her own. Yes, out of harsh conditions, she did it. From flat out broke to S12,000 in the fourth month. Who would not go for that suceess rags-to-riches kind of story?
Everyone of us become admirers of Holly Mann just reading her accounts of how she started her online marketing business. Now, she is a rich woman. But prior to that, I would say she is a wise woman. Or smart as people would call it.
I'm drawing my inspiration from Holly Mann. I know we all can learn from her. If not from internet marketing that made her rich, then from the strength, perseverance, and determination that made her the Honest Holly that she is.
Holly Mann, author of the eBook Honest Riches is a very strong woman. She made that impression to me when I read on one of her websites how she started her website out of a measly apartment in Thailand, out of an assembled computer, out of an erratic dial-up internet connection, out of having a sickly baby, out of her own. Yes, out of harsh conditions, she did it. From flat out broke to S12,000 in the fourth month. Who would not go for that suceess rags-to-riches kind of story?
Everyone of us become admirers of Holly Mann just reading her accounts of how she started her online marketing business. Now, she is a rich woman. But prior to that, I would say she is a wise woman. Or smart as people would call it.
I'm drawing my inspiration from Holly Mann. I know we all can learn from her. If not from internet marketing that made her rich, then from the strength, perseverance, and determination that made her the Honest Holly that she is.
1.17.2008
Update on Holly Mann Steps to Getting Wealthy
These past weeks I have been very busy with the planning of my website. This has been my concentration after reading Honest Riches 2, the eBook by Holly Mann. There were methods that I want to try out in the eBook but there were just so many of them. I cannot more than one at a time. I'm kind of single-minded person. Well, I can multi-task but if I put my mind into something, it's just hard to keep my mind at it if I start another project. One good thing about Holly Mann is her ability to do a lot all at once. This is a talent. For me, if I divert into something else, I seem to be not interested on the other. I guess I need to put a structure in my internet marketing. That is knowing what is important. I think it is okay to do a couple of things or more, I just need to know what my goal is. Eventually, all these internet marketing's goal is financial freedom. Every effort I put into it is towards making money in the end.
That makes me think again of my defunt website: Wealthy Freelancer. I really like that first website of mine. I know that one day, once all this marketing endeavors fall into place, once I get a grip on what I'm doing, I'm going to re-open Wealthy Freelancer again. I really conceptualized it so much and kind of fell in love with the concept. But it is more than I could chew at that time. I was pregnant and it was a difficult pregnancy. Then, I stopped everything all throughout my baby's tenth month. Now that pregnancy is out of the way, I'm full geared into making my internet marketing work.
Reading Honest Riches 2 puts me back into this arena-- if I can call it that way. I have never been more excited.
By the way, my programmer at Scriptlance posted me a message asking me to give him another day. The project was supposedly finished in three days but this is now the end of the second week. My advise if you are planning on getting the services of programmers at Scriptlance: ask questions and read the reviews. After my website is done, I'm posting a comprehensive product review of Scriptlance right here. You may want to read it because it would be a true-to-life story... yes, just like this one.
Thank you for reading my blog.
That makes me think again of my defunt website: Wealthy Freelancer. I really like that first website of mine. I know that one day, once all this marketing endeavors fall into place, once I get a grip on what I'm doing, I'm going to re-open Wealthy Freelancer again. I really conceptualized it so much and kind of fell in love with the concept. But it is more than I could chew at that time. I was pregnant and it was a difficult pregnancy. Then, I stopped everything all throughout my baby's tenth month. Now that pregnancy is out of the way, I'm full geared into making my internet marketing work.
Reading Honest Riches 2 puts me back into this arena-- if I can call it that way. I have never been more excited.
By the way, my programmer at Scriptlance posted me a message asking me to give him another day. The project was supposedly finished in three days but this is now the end of the second week. My advise if you are planning on getting the services of programmers at Scriptlance: ask questions and read the reviews. After my website is done, I'm posting a comprehensive product review of Scriptlance right here. You may want to read it because it would be a true-to-life story... yes, just like this one.
Thank you for reading my blog.
1.16.2008
Sore About My Website
It takes time to really make money over the internet. I spent lots of hours doing so. And offline, I still spent hours thinking so. Why can't break the code? Somehow, this struggle is generating a lot of soreness. And it's prompting me to just go turn off everything and head to the beach. But since I am not a beach type of person, maybe I'll just go to the mountains. But sorry me, there are no mountains in Florida.
Well, this is the 18th month since I bought Holly Mann's eBook, Honest Riches. And what a journey it has been. No money yet coming in but God knows I am doing everything I can. I spent more money as I started this blog in December 2007. Now, it's another year. It's supposed to get brighter, right? But all that's left for me each day is hope. Be optimistic, life will turn around, your endeavors will pick up, tomorrow is a new day. Wow. I learned to be my own's life coach now.
So here I am with this down moment. I had to think like this because my website is not even yet done. The programmer at Scriptlance is not online and when I checked the URL itself, it gave me these:
Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 15-Jan-2008 19:49 -
_private/ 15-Jan-2008 19:36 -
cgi-bin/ 15-Jan-2008 19:36 -
images/ 15-Jan-2008 19:36 -
postinfo.html 15-Jan-2008 19:36 2k
Well, what the hell are those? Maybe they all have something to do as a backbone of a website. So this wonderful website of mine, the one I have thought of online and offline, is just this when I type the URL in the browser.
Oh, I'm really out of here.
Well, this is the 18th month since I bought Holly Mann's eBook, Honest Riches. And what a journey it has been. No money yet coming in but God knows I am doing everything I can. I spent more money as I started this blog in December 2007. Now, it's another year. It's supposed to get brighter, right? But all that's left for me each day is hope. Be optimistic, life will turn around, your endeavors will pick up, tomorrow is a new day. Wow. I learned to be my own's life coach now.
So here I am with this down moment. I had to think like this because my website is not even yet done. The programmer at Scriptlance is not online and when I checked the URL itself, it gave me these:
Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 15-Jan-2008 19:49 -
_private/ 15-Jan-2008 19:36 -
cgi-bin/ 15-Jan-2008 19:36 -
images/ 15-Jan-2008 19:36 -
postinfo.html 15-Jan-2008 19:36 2k
Well, what the hell are those? Maybe they all have something to do as a backbone of a website. So this wonderful website of mine, the one I have thought of online and offline, is just this when I type the URL in the browser.
Oh, I'm really out of here.
1.14.2008
No, I'm not against Holly Mann
I got an email (through the comment) from Jelena S. who asked me if this blog is against Holly Mann or is it to build up Holly Mann. My answer: Neither.
No this blog is a not against Holly Mann. I would say this is a neutral blog. And people are free to comment or think what it is. It is not to build up Holly Mann either. I just happened to have been an end-user of Holly Mann's eBook, Honest Riches. This blog is a journal of the events of my life after I bought Honest Riches. This is a factual blog-- based on true events. No lies; no hype.
The truth of the matter is I admire Holly Mann. She is truly a nice person as evidenced by two of the emails I got from her. I really want to tell just good things about her eBook, Honest Riches, but I can't. It should be based on the real thing, the real results. And my results are from mediocre to futile.
I want to make Honest Richesto work for me and this blog is my motivation. It has been, that's why I'm not giving up. Jelena, I hope this answers your question.
No this blog is a not against Holly Mann. I would say this is a neutral blog. And people are free to comment or think what it is. It is not to build up Holly Mann either. I just happened to have been an end-user of Holly Mann's eBook, Honest Riches. This blog is a journal of the events of my life after I bought Honest Riches. This is a factual blog-- based on true events. No lies; no hype.
The truth of the matter is I admire Holly Mann. She is truly a nice person as evidenced by two of the emails I got from her. I really want to tell just good things about her eBook, Honest Riches, but I can't. It should be based on the real thing, the real results. And my results are from mediocre to futile.
I want to make Honest Richesto work for me and this blog is my motivation. It has been, that's why I'm not giving up. Jelena, I hope this answers your question.
1.11.2008
Hosting Blues No More
I already cancelled my BlueHost account. Bluehost is the recommended hosting by Holly Mann on her eBook, Honest Riches. It's the only reason I signed up with it without really thinking about megabyte or gigabyte space. Being a non-technical person that I always am (although I like to think that I am), I ignore these terms and often don't take them into a consideration. Well, a site is a site for what it is. I didn't know that there are mechanics going on behind it.
I can't cancel Bluehost online because there was just no option. I have to create a ticket, which I did. I did not cancel right away, I just posted a message to the technical support that there was an error. Later, I called to talk to the phone reps to cancel.
Cancellation went very smooth. The lady on the other end just asked me why I was cancelling, after that she said I got a full refund and an email confirmation has been sent to the email address on my file.
The only thing is, it did not arrive on my inbox. Have to wait 3-5 days to see if I my credit card gets refunded. Even my domain name has been released. I just checked and it is now available. I have to register again with another company. My site needs at least 2GB in order to run. Hopefully, it will work out this time.
So now I conclude this is another failed Holly Mann/Honest Riches step that I took.
I can't cancel Bluehost online because there was just no option. I have to create a ticket, which I did. I did not cancel right away, I just posted a message to the technical support that there was an error. Later, I called to talk to the phone reps to cancel.
Cancellation went very smooth. The lady on the other end just asked me why I was cancelling, after that she said I got a full refund and an email confirmation has been sent to the email address on my file.
The only thing is, it did not arrive on my inbox. Have to wait 3-5 days to see if I my credit card gets refunded. Even my domain name has been released. I just checked and it is now available. I have to register again with another company. My site needs at least 2GB in order to run. Hopefully, it will work out this time.
So now I conclude this is another failed Holly Mann/Honest Riches step that I took.
1.10.2008
Hosting Blues
First of all, I just want to thank all of you for reading this blog about Holly Mann. Each day, I'm encouraged to write because of the flow of blog visitors. I'm glad that you are interested in reading the chronicles of my life after buying Holly Mann's eBook, Honest Riches.
Right now, my hosting with BlueHost is failing up. Now, I understand that not all web hosting is not created equal. True, they have an affordable webshoting and it is recommended by Holly Mann. But for the site I wanted, I needed a bigger, much bigger memory. Bluehost, unfortunately, cannot handle the system that I want in my website.
My programmer at Scriptlance told me to get another host which I would most likely do. I want to contact Bluehost first if they can allow to give me more space. If not, I really have to cancel. Good thing is that, it has a refund. I didn't even know or didn't care before I signed up. That's because I trusted Holly Mann, because Bluehost is her recommended site. She said a lot of good things about Bluehost that I would never ever thought something like this will come up.
I do have a very ambitious website. I don't know what I was thinking but it would cost me $40 a month just to host it. I didn't realize that. The bid for the template and the program was as high as $2000. Luckily, I found a programmer who already has a template and a program like this so it would not cost me much to get the website. But the hosting is another story.
Well, don't get me wrong. I think Bluehost is a superb web hosting. And for it's type of service, it's the best in its league. And there's nothing wrong whatsoever. Just a case of mismatch between a host and a site, if you understand what I mean.
Well, for now, I'm waiting for the reply of Bluehost to my ticket. Hopefully, they'll just cut the chase and refund my $95.00.
Right now, my hosting with BlueHost is failing up. Now, I understand that not all web hosting is not created equal. True, they have an affordable webshoting and it is recommended by Holly Mann. But for the site I wanted, I needed a bigger, much bigger memory. Bluehost, unfortunately, cannot handle the system that I want in my website.
My programmer at Scriptlance told me to get another host which I would most likely do. I want to contact Bluehost first if they can allow to give me more space. If not, I really have to cancel. Good thing is that, it has a refund. I didn't even know or didn't care before I signed up. That's because I trusted Holly Mann, because Bluehost is her recommended site. She said a lot of good things about Bluehost that I would never ever thought something like this will come up.
I do have a very ambitious website. I don't know what I was thinking but it would cost me $40 a month just to host it. I didn't realize that. The bid for the template and the program was as high as $2000. Luckily, I found a programmer who already has a template and a program like this so it would not cost me much to get the website. But the hosting is another story.
Well, don't get me wrong. I think Bluehost is a superb web hosting. And for it's type of service, it's the best in its league. And there's nothing wrong whatsoever. Just a case of mismatch between a host and a site, if you understand what I mean.
Well, for now, I'm waiting for the reply of Bluehost to my ticket. Hopefully, they'll just cut the chase and refund my $95.00.
1.09.2008
It's Happening
Yup! My website is taking place now. I followed what Holly Mann recommended in her eBook, Honest Riches. I signed up for web hosting from BlueHost. Then I oursource the website design from Scriptlance. I'm on my way now to my first website of the year. I hope I did it right this time.
1.08.2008
Holly Mann's Website Templates: Impressive!
I'm very impressed with Holly Mann's website templates that she offers for free. Honestly! You can check it out at Cheekyo.com. If you have not heard of Holly Mann yet, here's a brief introduction:
Holly Mann is in her mid-20s who is an internet marketer. She wrote Honest Riches in 2006 (at least that's when I bought her book). Her Honest Riches eBook is an offshoot of Rich Jerk's eBook. In Honest Riches, Holly Mann wrote breakthrough money making secrets online.
Purchasing Holly Mann's eBook opened my eyes to the whole money-making schemes in the internet. And thus, this blog is all about what I did after buying her eBook.
Honest Riches has transformed from 43 pages to 95 pages covering business startup and writing your own eBook. Read it and you will be the one who would say: it's worth the money.
Holly Mann is in her mid-20s who is an internet marketer. She wrote Honest Riches in 2006 (at least that's when I bought her book). Her Honest Riches eBook is an offshoot of Rich Jerk's eBook. In Honest Riches, Holly Mann wrote breakthrough money making secrets online.
Purchasing Holly Mann's eBook opened my eyes to the whole money-making schemes in the internet. And thus, this blog is all about what I did after buying her eBook.
Honest Riches has transformed from 43 pages to 95 pages covering business startup and writing your own eBook. Read it and you will be the one who would say: it's worth the money.
1.07.2008
Holly Mann's Email
At last, I received an email from Holly Mann. Remember when I posted here that I contacted her for help with my website setup? She finally responded. But the email came late again. Just like before. I already commissioned someone from Scriptlance to do the website for me. Oh, Holly Mann.
Holly Mann offers a free website as long as you use Bluehost, her recommended web hosting. I did sign up for Bluehost and I got the website but a programmer from Scriptlance is now doing it. and believe me, it is not cheap.
Let's see what happens.
Holly Mann offers a free website as long as you use Bluehost, her recommended web hosting. I did sign up for Bluehost and I got the website but a programmer from Scriptlance is now doing it. and believe me, it is not cheap.
Let's see what happens.
1.02.2008
First Post of the Year for Holly Mann Blog
This is my first post for Holly Mann/Honest Riches blog for the year 2008. Holidays are over and back to work. There’s a lot of job left from last year but little by little, they will all be done.
As I said in my last post, I'm building my own website through Scriptlance. Things are slow. I have 18 bids and some are very high that I’m having second thoughts about pursuing the website project. But I know deep within me that I have to. This is my big project for the year and it really should start by January.
On Holly Mann’s website, I post a personal message to her that I want to create a website through her. But as expected, she has not come back to me yet (or her assistant). I need to know if she can build me this special website through her free wesbite offer. I don’t know if she would respond right up if I already signed for hosting with her preferred host. Maybe she would. Holly Mann said it would just take 48 hours to have the website up and running once she receives the log in and password. Whether it’s true, I have to find it out for myself.
As I said in my last post, I'm building my own website through Scriptlance. Things are slow. I have 18 bids and some are very high that I’m having second thoughts about pursuing the website project. But I know deep within me that I have to. This is my big project for the year and it really should start by January.
On Holly Mann’s website, I post a personal message to her that I want to create a website through her. But as expected, she has not come back to me yet (or her assistant). I need to know if she can build me this special website through her free wesbite offer. I don’t know if she would respond right up if I already signed for hosting with her preferred host. Maybe she would. Holly Mann said it would just take 48 hours to have the website up and running once she receives the log in and password. Whether it’s true, I have to find it out for myself.