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Crystal - email swipe file repository
- webpage salesletter swipe file repository
- OTO salesletter swipe file repository
I don't think they quite fit into the model of Repositories, but the "Swipefile" idea is good. I'll add a "Copywriting Swipe File" subject underneath "Copywriting".
...what about a process map repository for quick reference,
Where would people find process maps? They are a good idea, but I don't think they are commonly used. If you are creating your own for specific project, then there is already a Process topic for specific projects on the right-hand side of the map under the Project Information heading.
and one that's close to my heart - a spreadsheet 'dashboard' repository, although that could be a subcategory of tools, I admit.
Yes - I think it's too specialised to warrant its own topic.
DarrellWhat about an "Applications" repository for those bits of software that defy easy classification? For instance, where would you put Dr. Andy Williams' "Creating Fat Content"? I use it every day - but should I file it under "Traffic Generation" or "Affiliate Marketing" - as I use it for both?
I checked out "Creating fat Content". It's a course plus tool. It's about ... creating content, right? So the topic to file it under is... Content-Creating & Finding !
This is an interesting case that relates to the question I just asked above. If you put all your scripts (or tools) in one place, then in the case of Creating Fat Content, you'd be splitting off the tool from the course.
I love your software, but my biggest problem is what one might call its degree of "graininess" (i.e. as in fine-grained).
For instance, I recently bought Long Tail Cash - a great product. I filed it under Affiliate Marketing, but I could just as easily have put it under "Traffic" in the "Marketing Disciplines", or under SEO, or under WP sites.
Darrell
You need to think about what a product DOES, not what you use it for. You can use something for very many reasons, and so you'd find it hard to know where to file it. But if you think about what it DOES, very often there is much less ambiguity.
Long Tail Cash, for example is a strategy about keyword research - so file it under Keyword Research.
SteveTools - I tend to break tools (I use "utils" but same thing) into 2 classes:
desktop apps
web server-based
If you think of them that way, then you have an ambiguity with "scripts" and perhaps even "templates" (which are for servers, right?)
I've been equating "Tools" with your "desktop apps" and "scripts" with "web server-based".
A possible solution: If you are going to nest major categories (see below), make a top level of simply "software", nest 2 main cats underneath, desktop and server, and then here's what you might have in server, for eg.:
CMS Stuff
Themes and Templates
Security
Backoffice Tools (eg. Fantasos)
Email Tools (server spam fighters, proxies, etc)
Server-based GODsends (autoposters, proxy hunters, link spammers)
This would start to cross over with the current Subject categories:
CMS Stuff: (I should add a "Content Management Systems" subject!)
Security: this is already a subject
Backoffice Tools: covered by Administration & Organization
Email Tools: there is already a Spam subject, and I should add an "Email Management" subject
Server-based GODsends: yeeeees. Not sure how to handle that
Another thought - what about nesting of categories?
Eg. if you made a VERY BROAD top-level cat such as Publishing
you then would have, underneath it:
Articles
AR Series
Special Reports
Ebooks
(and arguably audio and video?)
That's moving too far from the current structure.
This has the potential to "drive the ship" as it were, when it comes to how admins are deploying tools like the TDM (turbo download manager) and the Memberspeed Product Manager plugin.
I understand what you're saying, Steve. I need to think more about the perspective of the online content repositories. I think your earlier suggestions come from that view.
Thanks.
RogerSince I started my project to build a real Internet Marketing Public Library, I was asking to myself the very same questions as I have to create sections in the library. I was puzzled (and I still am)as which labels should better to reflect the sections!
Better now! I liked this: subject or type!
I wrote this recently to a very well known content supplier about the way he was suggesting people organize his monthly download information...
The most useful way for people to access content is by Subject. You don't go looking for "A video", you go looking for information ABOUT something (the Subject), and you probably don't care that much what form it takes (the Type).
The trouble is, just about everyone organizes their content by Type - because it's MUCH easier to do that. Creating a comprehensive organizational system based on Subject is VERY hard. To my knowledge, no-one else has done that. But that is what is in the IM Index Mind Map. I don't know if you've bought that tool, Roger, but I think you should!
BTW - your site looks good. What CMS have you used to build it (assuming there is a CMS behind it)?
Thanks all for you input.
Keep it coming!
Regards
Alex
