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Once you get your new custom IPSW created…

(Note: Uncheck youtube activator AND reactivate iPhone…itunes will ask you if you want to restore a second time from your itunes backup)
then you have to put your iPhone into DFU mode….look below…

Click on shift then click the restore button…It will open up looking for your custom IPSW…

Let it restore…then click restore from backup…wahlah

(Drumroll Please) I JUST HACKED MY IPHONE 3G WITH 2.0 ON IT!!!!!

Now Just Sync your music n multimedia back on your phone…

Everyone and their grandmother has a system to make you rich…or how about this one…

I can show you how to make a killing selling other peoples product. or
Learn how to make money in your spare time.

Problem is…either the material you get plain old sucks or it is the person buying the system…

I think on a logical level…so if your system does not go 1,2,3 I get lost real quick.

Second thing is they make it sound oh so easy to do, yet they are making money off of you with material that is probably not theirs to begin with.

From concept to going live is no easy task…very time consuming and if you are not in it for the long haul, you might lose interest real quick.

So in buying any online business system, realize they know what your thinking as your on the site.

Lets go into the “Psychology” aspect for just a minute.

When you fist goto a sales page, it looks like you’ve just arrived in vegas. Flashy graphics, testimonials from fictitious buyers…IT’S ALL A HOAX TO MAKE YOU BUY FROM THEM.

All they want from you is your money, point blank.

You email support, guess what, if you are expecting an email back, FORGET IT! You would have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting an email back. So don’t count on support.

Also, if they have an email list form for a newsletter, that is so they can sell your information, making them even more money from your efforts. DON’T GIVE IN.

There are TONS of places to go for free information and chances are, they got it from the same places you did.

There is something called the “public domain”. All free information. Search for it up top, you’ll be amazed at what you can find.

Going into business is more of a relationship building and maintaining science. Sometimes it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

That being said, I’ve got a few phone calls to make.

Next week, I’ll get into the 123’s of getting your business from concept to live, then from getting live to staying afloat through the rough waters.

Have a great weekend everyone!

I love this because I can implement whatever there is to implement right here…

Like when you go search for something on my site, you search without leaving the main page.

Go ahead try it…

Or click on any picture, same thing happens, you see the full picture without having to leave me….who ever thought of this effect, genius!

This effect is good for sales sites, When I first saw this sifting through sites on stumbleupon, (btw you guys rock) I thought to myself, what if I can use this for other sites or games, even chat.  Brilliant idea!

And there is tons more out there, go sign up for an account at stumble upon, you will love it.

KK, enough plugging for other sites.

One site I am currently starting up on my own is helpmegetstarted.com.  When starting something up, so many things to consider:

What the hell am I going to put on the site, what is the vision.

transforming the vision into an actual working model…

So what are the things to learn in making any type of site…

1. Am I going to do it myself, or can I hire someone??? (outsourcing)

2. If I am going to do this myself, where do I start??? What do I have to learn to get the ball rolling????

3. If I am going to hire someone, where do I go to find someone reputable, someonoe that can do the job without headache????  How much is this going to cost me????

Once that part of the plan is figured out, lets move on to the real nitty gritty, what do you want your site to represent????  A product, A service??? Subscription based or per sale????

So you’ve figured out how you want to sell…now what words am I going to write to get people to buy my product or service??? This is called Copywriting, any good copywriter can sell anything he or she wants online, persuasion is an art….as is knowing what words to place in the right paragraphs to persuade your visitors to buy your product.

Many people hire out copywriters, a lot of people don’t know how or don’t have the patience.

Time is money.

Ok, so now you have your sales letters written and now you want to develop your goldmine.

Again, many people hire out website developers, let me tell you, many developers have a good
sales page to get you in, then the product you receive is crap. In the meantime, they have your money and don’t have the passion it takes to care enough about your project, so your SOL!

For me, i am not the best developer at all, there are alot of things that because i dont have the patience to learn all the code, let alone write and dig through code all day to fix whatever is not working right.

One thing I am good at is making people think and develop a plan, creating the vision when others don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Brainstorming is my forte.  And yes, I have tons of ideas and visions that don’t materialize because as I am thinking of one idea, another one pops up.  Hard for me to keep the focus on just one idea, there are too many!

This is why I made up my “Ideas” page.  I’ve got so many Ideas that are always inside my mind, I have to have someplace I can go to write them out.  If you want to take the idea and run with it, please do so, then when you make your first million, send me a thank you card via email.

Enough about me, moving on….

So you have your site developed and all ready for the world to see….now what????

This is where everything gets tricky, if you hired a good developer, they would have SEO, or Search Engine Optimization already built in, which is a very good start.  Let’s say they did not.  Then what????

There is tons to learn about SEO that unless you really studied for a good 6 months or a year to figure out how to get on the top 5 in your catergory, which is based off of keywords.

Keywords are your best friends. But that’s not all you have to do to make it to the top.

There are 8 proven ways to get a lot of traffic, some free some not.  Make sure you have enough on your credit card, it is not cheap.  Though you don’t need to be a google right right off the bat, you only need enough traffic to be seen.  Once people see that your product or service will be mighty useful to them, they will bite, sometimes in spurts, sometimes not, be patient.

You finally get some traffic and for some reason, your product is not selling, whoops back to the drawing board, only this time, instead of moving the words around along with your graphics.  Think about creating another site based on the product or service you just created.

This is what we call a “Sales Network” A network is made up of more than one site selling either the same type of products or services or different ones.

If your not selling on one site, but the other one is, add a link to the site that is getting the sales to ensure that you get more visability to close the sale.

I will be writing more about how to get your business started at helpmegetstarted.com.

When I do my comedy routine’s, I think of this guy. How can ya say it, raunchy, crude and you know it’s going to be good. I remember watching this guy with my family back in the day. We all couldn’t stop laughin.

One of my true comedic inspirations, by far!

Later dude!

So no picture of the 3g iPhone cause I think imo that oooooh wow, so it has a plastic back cover…bfd guys, it is cheaper to put on than the other one….

So with this new 3g iPhone’s hoopla, I just don’t see alot of ground breaking features that is gonna want me to buy one just yet. Reason I say this is:

Ok, so the purpose of 3g is what…..thats right “faster internet” using something better than edge, which is crap btw, but it was the breakthru in a true mobile high speed internet. So good job.

I remember when I was working with Verizon and I got a call to goto one of the MTSO “Met-So” stations, which are where everyones calls are switched, if you wanna know more about how a MTSO station works, learn everything you can about “T1 infrastructure n theories”.

This is back in 2001, right before the WTC attacks, the guy asked me, you ever hear of 3g???? Well it was developed here, upstairs. One guy had the idea , brainstormed with another guy and wahlah. I looked at the wiki for “3g” and a company out of Japan takes the credit, then of course, both of these guys worked for different wireless companies also. At a MTSO station, all of the wireless companies are there, they all use the same stations to switch your calls.

Back to 3g iPhone, so it has faster internet, what else????

One thing i read about is the iPhone has a GPS chip in it, though it is not activated. That is the only reason I bought the old one, then when I was blown away there was no real GPS I hacked the phone to learn about different ways GPS works.

Moving on, Tom Tom has a cool app that is for the iPhone, and it should be released if Apple decides to unlock the gps chip, which I think it should, but there might be some obstacles in doing so. I mean google maps is great, but we want to know our location up to 5 feet of us, not 50 miles.

The Camera: I finally found an application that makes the still camera a video camera. I finally can make goofy videos, the only problem now is storage space on my iPhone. Theres NOT ENOUGH, even with 16 GB of space…ITS NOT ENOUGH!!!!!! Give me a 100 GB iPhone anyday, prob is we’ll have to wait a few years for that im afraid.

The Apps Store: I love the idea of the developers getting their own store, making everything mainstream, but I loved revamping my iPhone for days on end to finally getting it to where I wanted it. Finally someone recognizes the lil guy. IMO, Everything should be open source, then you ask how is the developer to make any money…..hmmmmm through partnerships from his hard work.

All in all, if you have never owned an iPhone, get one. You will thank me in the long run. I like the price reduction with these new media surrounding it, apple is to make money from the new applications from the new app store, another stream of income for them and for their new partners, the third party developers, who without them, iphone would be nothin but crap.

I love the iPhone so much, that my site is iPhone compatible. Accessible on any iPhone.

I couldn’t do that without the help of wordpress and all of the third party plugin developers and apple for making such a great gadget. Right on guys!!!!

Welcome to my personal blog. My name is Drew Jones, and yes, your on the right site. For those of you that don’t know who I am, I am a lovah of gadgets. Gadget geek I am. Love to tinker with things till they don’t work anymore. Integrity testing at its best! ahaahaha

My latest craze has been making this site compatible with the iPhone, since i have one. I will also make this site compatible with any mobile device imaginable. Add in an IM client and i could be halfway across the world and still chat with you from here. Making it totally user friendly. Sites that are not user friendly are not my friend in my book.

As time goes on I might be adding galleries and videos up from different parts of the world that I travel to. Adding my iPhone opinions on the latest and greatest apps, oh by the way, i found this awesome app that makes the iPhone camera into a video camera. Right on!!!!!!

People have been requesting me to write some iPhone web apps cause of the simple yet creative ideas that spring through my head from time to time.

I still think roaming fees should be eliminated and have a worldwide cell phone company with no roaming fees with the the normal pricing locally as you travel internationally. Im sure some alliance can be setup between the cell phone carriers as well as the countries those carriers are in. A total worldwide partnership to make worldwide communication affordable once again.