“With a crippled economy forcing millions of cash-strapped Americans to entertain themselves at home, it’s not surprising that one particular product is seeing a sales increase — condoms.

While car purchases plummeted and designer clothes mostly stayed on the racks, sales of condoms in the U.S. rose 5% in the fourth quarter of 2008, and 6% in January vs. the same time periods the previous year, The Nielsen Co. reports

The sales bump squares solidly with one of the nation’s most common trends during any recession: nesting. At the same time, condoms make for a relatively inexpensive form of birth control at a time many cash-strapped families are hesitant to grow.

“If people don’t have the money to go out to a fancy dinner or are looking to cut back, Trojan gives them some real affordable ways to stay in and make some great memories together,” says Jim Daniels, vice president of marketing for Trojan, the nation’s No. 1 condom maker.

Contraception may also be more popular during a time when families are stretching dollars and want to avoid having more mouths to feed. “Obviously people in general want to avoid … unintended pregnancies,” Daniels says. “But in a down economy those costs are even more burdensome to bear.”

Check it out here: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2009-02-11-cash-strapped-condoms_N.htm

That’s an interesting and usefull tutorial he share for free before his main product launch. Be sure to not miss this free material!

Here is the link: http://freecasestudy.marketingbully.com/

P.S. In the meanwhile I am planning to blog much more regularly and with full responsiveness. Actually I do the experiment on multi blogging spending about 2 hours a day (but each day) and will see how it will go.

I’ll keep you posted. Stay tuned!

Something crazy going on this weekend and particularly today on Sunday. GoDaddy bugs email smtp, my bank’s accounting web site is down, adbrite works horrible and all sites I use during the day really suck or buggy. I hope everything will turned out fine tomorrow and I can finish things then… damn!

 
Aphex Twin with his live performances rules!
listen to him as a background during the day
 

My project’s skeleton was finished. It is up and running now.

And I am planning on further steps to introduce some community features and more additional things to interface. This could take me a week or two more and then I can start promoting it. Most probably I will be doing adwords/ysm ads buying and testing how it will go and what should be changed/updated/added.

Wish me luck, I am getting back to work now.

Currently reading Zen of CSS Design book. Classic and amazing! Exactly what I need right now. It’s for those who already familiar with CSS. It tells you by examples how to design and layout your web sites according standards and best practices. Big amount of valuable and topic focused information and tips. Recomend it for everyone who does work with website development.

So next news from me is that I am a coffee drinker again. After more than a month coffee abstension I decided that I can leave without it but why? Actually I just found some cans of vanilla flavoured coffee in  a shop here and couldn’t resist

I’m creating a block with recomended books in a sidebar. There will be only books I really can recommend to read (internet marketing, business, self discipline and on other different business related topics) and which gave me something valuable after reading them. If you buy one of them using those links I will get a small compensation so it is win-win for both sides. In case you don’t want to use those affiliate links – you can just copy/type their names in google and it will give you links to them on Amazon or somewhere else in seconds.

Ok, need to get back to work…

See you soon… and keep tuned!

Choose Drupal as CMS because had an experience of developing modules for it and also did some drupal-related projects. Very good system, especially if you have some programming background. Pro Drupal Development is a very good book for drupal starters – shows big picture of how everything works from inside.

Currently working on first web-site related to casual new and old arcade games. Both online and downloadable. Should finish. Will get live with it very soon. Probably in a week.

Catch a cold here for some reason. Need to get back to my boxing trainings, seems like my body reacts on not enough punches in my head

Stay tuned, soon will be much more interesting stuff.

Hey there! I am still alive Working on different stuff here, should come up with more public projects very soon.
Listened recently through several amazing courses from Eben Pegan and even Gene Simmons “Sex Money Kiss” audio book.

Lots of inspiration and mind sets!

Gene Simmons suggests working hard and a lot (just like Dan Pena suggests either and get as much cash as possible. He claims that cash is overly important, and I am agree with him here. This guy is cool and smart.

“Be cheap, like me! This is cash, baby! “

Also learning deeper Drupal/PHP stuff.

Trance music, green tea and frosty mind….. keeps me going forward fast!

Currently reading excellent manual on typos and misspellings and how leverage them to get more traffic and overcome competitors. Got several ideas though only 1/3 of the book has been read by now.

Many moon left since I was writing a book. And many thoughts about this is not really what I should do. I need to learn marking stuff. Book writing is not what I want and PLR stuff can help you avoid tackling with writing. Marketing on the web is much more valuable skill. To sell is more important than to make. Also copywriting skills should be sharpening more and more… and I’m on the track.

Some personal stuff. I am moving to new rented flat here with my family. It is in a new house but without furniture. But I’ve already bought a fridge and mattress. All other things are coming soon. Hope to get there good internet connection via home network. Will post some images soon when get to my camera

Stay frosty,
BrainDancer.

P.S. “stay frosty” has been borrowed from John Carlton by the way. This is just to give a credential to The Copywriter!

I’ve got up and running new niche website with adsense/amazon associates and ebook product. Now I need to polish it and promote with SEO and other stuff.

Continue reading books/courses on different money making fields. Have enough PLR and MRR materials to promote and sell. When I sharp my selling/promoting and SEO skills enough all this stuff could keep me busy enough time.

Thinking a lot about MacBook Pro. I want it so bad. But don’t know if it worth to spend money right now to get it. I can lend some money from bank – but this is not optimal and good for me. Still hesitating…  maybe I need IBM Think Pad instead?