If you live in sunny Florida, like I do, then you can feel that spring is in the air. Hi 60's at night and low 80's during the day will give you a bad case of spring fever.

It stays green down here year round so you don't notice the seasonal changes as much. I like to sit on my porch and drink coffee in the morning and here lately it has become noisy.

Not a bad kind of noise, just lots of birds chirping their celebration of the arrival of spring. But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I want to talk about "tweeting", as in the kind of bird noise you here on Twitter.

I joined Twitter back in it's infancy, mainly to secure my username "jtmartin". I didn't really participate much until recently. I have seen the awesome potential and as such, have started to do some research and look at the multitude of software and applications that are available to increase your followers and automate your Twitter account.

I ran accross one the other day and gave it a try. I was really surprised by the results so I thought I would pass it along to you. All you have to do is follow the link and enter your Twitter info.

Then promote the link they give you, but remember to put your Twitter ID in the last part of the URL. You will still see results even if you don't promote, but like all things, the more you put into it, the better results you will see.

Hi,

I thought it was about time that I did a book review here. As you may know, TGM (that being me as in “The Gazz Man” - sick of typing that out all the time when I am being importunate or quarrelsome - hmm, I may just do a Prince-thing and refer to myself as the “acronym” - silly stuff over.) has a HUGE library of motivational and associated books.

One of the very finest IMHO is Maxwell Maltz’s BRILLIANT book called Psycho Cybernetics. Do NOT let this curious title put you off. This book is packed with information about success, self-image, rational thinking and a host of other information about why we are like we are.

I read this book the first time on 27 October 1991. Now, you may be wondering how I know that. And even if you’re not, I’m gonna tell you anyway. Well, I sign and date every book I read and give it a score out of ten on the last page. And this book is a rare 10/10 on TGM’s Richter Scale. I have read it several times since too. And I am just about due to do that again.

Have I impressed upon you how highly I rate this book? I hope so. (FYI the ISBN is 0-671-70075-8 and my copy was published by Pocket Books). Any decent bookshop will have a copy but you can probably pick up a second hand copy for five bucks. Stupidly, many people get rid of it - probably from deceased estates. They really don’t know what they are doing. If they knew what it was about they would devour every page because every page is literally loaded with wonderful information.

At last I have got around to giving this Alex Jeffreys Community Blog a bit of a facelift. Hope you like it. 

I see our mentor Alex Jeffreys has gone underground planning his next support call for us and also his future launches no doubt. I am keen to learn more from Alex and will be eagerly waiting for is return. In the meantime I have been trying out a few products.

I love Blogging to the Bank, it tells you everything you ever wanted to know about blogging (and more!), plus how to monetize your Blog as well. It is a great resource and in its third edition now so it has stood the test of time as well. Plus it is priced at a very reasonable price level as well. Great Value for money.

Well I’m off to complete writing my first Alex Jeffreys inspired product now. I’ll tell you more of that later. In the meantime, have a browse around and look at the great informational posts that are available for free on this Alex Jeffreys Coaching Students Blog.

It's almost 2am but I have finally finished updating my JV giveaway directory. I had to redo 2 weeks worth of work plus add all of the new ones that have popped up in the last few days. I still can't believe how many giveaways are taking place in the next few weeks.

I haven't even set a date for mine yet. I was going to try and pick a date when there wouldn't be a lot of other competing giveaways but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. I will just have to come up with a way to make mine stand out.

The impact of Jason James Giveaway Riches is evident. He did a fantastic job explaining the ins and outs of running your own JV Giveaway. I know that I am using it as my guide and the fact that so many giveaways are springing up just after his launch is a testimonial to how good the product is.

Not only has he created a easy to follow step by step guide but he has obviously motivated a lot of people to take action. My hat goes off to him for creating an awesome product. I can't wait to get my giveaway off the ground.

My partners and I have been working hard although I have been working on getting other things straightened out. I am glad that I joined up with Garry Parkes, Gary Simpson, and Carl Barton. It would be really tough for me to go it alone this first time around.

For those of you who don't know, I have been experiencing mega problems with my computer and now my web hosting. The computer is back to normal and I have all my software reinstalled with a minimal loss of a few files but no big deal.

I lost 2 weeks of work and content with the web hosting fiasco and my data bases got all screwed up. The support guy said he was going to try and recover my info off the old hard drive. I guess that means they had a server crash. They never really said what happened.

After 2 days of waiting I assumed all was lost. I have been concentrating on getting my Giveaway directory back up to speed because, as you know, the Giveaways have been popping up right and left and I have been working my butt off keeping my site up to date.

So today I fire up the computer and my blog comes up with my lost posts and the sign up form for my new ebook back in place. Surprise! Surprise! (any Gomer Pyle fans in the house) I checked my safelist and my other blogs and they are back to normal as well.

The funny thing is that now the blog post I made the other day is gone. So, I need to redo that post or at least touch on the main thing that I wanted to say. It was mostly a rant about my screwed up hosting but I am over it now and am just glad things are back to normal.

It looks like the boys at VIP Hosting are not going to be able to restore my account back to it's status of a few days ago. I kind of suspected this and have already started working to get things back the way they were.

I gave my JV Giveaways page priority because there are so many of them goin on right now. I was up til midnight yesterday and almost have it caught up. That is, aside from the 2 or 3 new ones that just popped up today. The directory will be back to normal and up to date this evening.

I still don't have any faith in my email accounts. I use Outlook to view my mail and ever since the disaster, it has been acting funny and all of my emails are not uploading. Until further notice, if you need to get in touch use jt@oventures.net

This is on my other hosting account and you can be sure that I will get it. Man, I feel like I am being tested. First my computer and now the web hosting. What a couple weeks!

Once again, anyone who sent me their details to be set up in the JV Giveaways, make sure you re-send them to the email address above. I also want to apologize for everyone who is waiting on me. I have not forgotten about you, I am just working to straighten out this mess first.