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The Linux Foundation says it will hold its first End-User Summit on October 13-14. The event will be held at the Desmond Tutu Center, which despite its name is an Aramark joint, recently opened a mile southeast of the Javits Center on the West Side. The target is businesses which are heavy users of Linux and open source in their enterprise ... [Link]
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Open source is a global movement in a world without a global law. While a U.S. court has ruled open source licenses are copyright, assuring that in other courts remains a challenge. The challenge only grows when projects extend across borders, with multiple contributors in 10,000 different places. . So the acceptance of something called the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) by ... [Link]
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What we now call the open source movement started as a reaction to the perceived extremism of folks like Richard Stallman with their demand that everything be free. The liberation of content, and the defiance of the copyright industries, remains a fault line between the open source business world and what you might call open source extremism. Such extremism lives on ... [Link]
Today ZDNet has yet-another story about microblogging going open source. Andrew Mager has the story of Laconi.ca, which lets you “build your own Twitter” with support for the Open Microblogging protocol. Laconi.ca is not alone. Social bookmarketing site Ma.gnolia is also going open source. It has become a common sight. A market develops. A leader emerges. Then the laggards say “we’re ... [Link]
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Neither. The correct answer is channel. (One third party support company named itself for this, the covalent bonds in chemistry.) Dave Rosenberg of Mulesource is flummoxed about third party support, worried that it’s taking money out of what should be developers’ pockets. Actually, Dave, it’s creating a channel. It’s customers who are reluctant to support third party open source support. I ... [Link]
Ok, Here’s a fun experiment for those of you interested in the value of Glyphius and what it can do for your click through response rates.
Comment to this post with your headline. I will score it using Glyphius 2007 , reword it, and post the result at no charge. Use the result on your website and see what happens. Using good copy writing tools can only help.
Should be an interesting and profitable experience [for you].
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16 responses so far ↓
1 John // Jun 14, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Discover how to generate cash from home
without selling or buying anything…
2 Roger Willcocks // Jun 14, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Would You Like to Make $1000 A Month Selling Your Own Software?
3 Jorge Mojica // Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Hey, I’m blind, so I’m afraid I can’t comment on the pics you posted, but I’d love to give you a headline. How to use hypnosis, For people who are almost (but not quite) satisfied with their lives and can’t figure out how to get more of what they want:
4 Adam Harley // Jun 14, 2008 at 9:49 pm
“Now You Can Finally Learn How to Double or Even Triple Your Reading Speed Easily, While Improving Your Comprehension…
…Unleash Yourself From Habits That Make You Read At a Reluctant Crawl”
There it is. Looking forward to what glyphius recommends.
Thanks!
5 ken // Jun 16, 2008 at 8:33 am
Ok. I’m going to work on these one at a time, beginning with Roger’s headline.
I f you follow the link above, it appears that Roger sells instructional videos for Software Developers to help them develop and market their own software products.
He is thinking of using the following headline:
Would You Like to Make $1000 A Month Selling Your Own Software? - Score: 127 using Glyphius with negative words:
month: -32
your: -27
own: -21
Here are a few iterations, making changes to the line above:
Would You Like to Make $1000 A Month Selling Software? - Score: 169
Would You Like to Make $1000 Selling Personal Software? - Score: 209
Would You Like Making $1000 Selling Software? - Score: 225
Would You Like Making $1000 Selling Personal Software? - Score: 233
Would You Like Making $250 Weekly Selling Personal Software? - Score: 240
After looking at the web page, I am thinking why not try something like this instead??
Design & Market Software - Make $250 Weekly Realistically! - Score: 355
Hope this works for you Roger.
Ken
6 Roger Willcocks // Jun 17, 2008 at 3:23 am
Thanks. I’ve added them into my testing rotation.
7 ken // Jun 17, 2008 at 5:56 am
I’m looking forward to hearing the results of your testing.
8 ken // Jun 17, 2008 at 2:07 pm
This is for Jorge Mojica // Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Hey, I’m blind, so I’m afraid I can’t comment on Hypnosis Therapy, For people who are almost (but not quite) satisfied with their lives and can’t figure out how to get more of what they want: - - Score: 103
Better, but still room for improvement.
My last pass was:
Personal Hypnosis Consulting! For people that are nearly satisfied but would like more ! - Score: 237
This reads a little better and scores slightly lower:
Personal Hypnosis Consulting, For people that are nearly satisfied but would like to realize more ! - Score: 235
I have to admit I’m not totally satisfied with it yet. If there are other Glyphius users out there that would like to give it a try, let me know.
9 Mark - Home Parvo Treatment // Jun 17, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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10 ken // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:02 am
This one is for John who has the site, http://www.411cashbox.com . Just a note for John . . . you have a ton of places on your page where Glyphius could be used to increase click through rates.
Your request . . .
Discover how to generate cash from home without selling or buying anything… - Score: 143
This isn’t too bad as is. I would have a link right there to where you want people to go if they want to go immediately.
Here’s what I would up with after a few minutes. . .
Discover how to construct a positive cashflow from home instead of selling or buying merchandise… - Score: 430
Good Luck!
11 ken // Jun 20, 2008 at 8:38 am
Here is the quote from Adam Harley who sells a speed reading paper on his site.
The headline is long, so I’ll take it in two pieces.
Now You Can Finally Learn How to Double or Even Triple Your Reading Speed Easily, While Improving Your Comprehension… - Score: 0
Negative words are:
now: -70
you: -6
learn: -14
how: -14
to: -11
double: -34
even: -41
your: -27
easily,: -8
while: -10
your: -27
To this . . .
You Can Finally Learn How to Multiply Reading Speeds Quickly, at the Same Time Improving Comprehension… - Score: 203
Second half . . . .
…Unleash Yourself From Habits That Make You Read At a Reluctant Crawl” - Score: 21
Negative words….
…unleash: -9
yourself: -38
you: -6
at: -11
…Break Existing Habits That Make You Read At a Forced Crawl” - Score: 173
Hopefully this will work better for you.
12 John // Jun 20, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hi Ken, Thanks for the edit. I had been using this site for my free headline analysis: http://www.aminstitute.com/headline
I know your software uses different parameters to evaluate headline. It is on my future purchases list. Thanks again.
13 ken // Jun 20, 2008 at 1:29 pm
John,
I’m always open to trying new tools to help get better conversion results. I ran both through the EMV tool with similar results.
Interesting. What have you been finding for a conversion rate correlation when using that tool?
14 Janae // Jun 22, 2008 at 4:45 pm
After reading several about this product, I must say that my interest is really peeked.
15 ken // Jun 23, 2008 at 7:58 am
Janae,
I’m glad you’re enjoying these comments.
I always enjoy and find interesting, the different approaches that people take when marketing their products.
Ken
16 ken // Jun 23, 2008 at 8:38 am
This is for Mark - Home Parvo Treatment // Jun 17, 2008 at 10:22 pm
This is a little more difficult because some of the negative words are product words. . . .
Buy Parvaid, Vibactra Plus & Life Cell Support For Safe, Cost-Effective Home Parvo Treatment - Score: 55
Negative Words . . .
parvaid,: -40
plus: -64
life: -14
safe,: -2
treatment: -23
After a couple of iterations, I get to this…
Buy Parvaid, Vibactra Plus & Life Cell Support For Safe, Cost-Effective Home Parvo Medication - Score: 139
Here are a couple of others I came up with . . .
Buy Home Parvo Medication! Act Today! Save hundreds of dollars! - Score: 236
Buy Home Parvo Medication that can save lives and hundreds of dollars! - Score: 237
Good Luck!
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