Being able to take notes while on the go has been the dream of many a blind person since the invention of the audio cassette recorder. As we all know, audio cassettes were cumbersome, and at times, quite awkward. You see, the main problem with audio cassettes for notetaking is that you have to constantly change the tape, rewind and fast forward through the tape to find bits of information, and if that's not bad enough, then you run into problems when your machine decides to have your cassette for dinner!

Of course, back in the day, cassettes were all that blind and visually impaired people had to take notes with, other than the Braille Writer. Fastforward to today, and now we have some very exciting options for notetaking. We have laptop machines, desktops, digital voice recorders, and yes; actual notetakers. We're going to focus on the notetakers because these are very exciting devices that assist blind and visually impaired people to manage information while on the go.

When you hear the word notetaker throughout this post, think PDA. If you're a sighted individual reading this, then you know all too well what a PDA is, and how they work. With a standard PDA device, you can write documents, browse the web, send e-mail, manage contacts, and with today's PDAs or smart phones, make telephone calls.

Of course, PDAs for the blind and visually impaired are a bit different, but the same in many ways. For starters, PDAs for the blind and visually impaired are a bit larger than the ones you purchase in an electronics store. The reason being is that these devices come with either a full sized Braille writer keyboard, or a standard querty style keyboard that is used on all computers.

Also, PDAs for the blind and visually impaired come with speech and Braille displays making it that much easier for the blind and visually impaired to access information.

Notetakers come in all sorts of combinations and flavors. They also range in price too. However, what you need to remember is that notetakers for the blind and visually impaired are more expensive than the ones that you purchase in the electronics store. The reason being is that these specialized notetakers utalize special software and hardware to make these devices accessible to the blind and visually impaired.

Many of these notetaking devices come with Braille keyboards, or querty keyboards. These devices allow for blind and visually impaired people to access technologies that their sighted peers do on a daily basis.

Notetakers have come a long way since their inception. The very first notetaking devices had very robotic-sounding speech,and very little memory storage, and most of them used a standard 3 and a half inch floppy disk drive that held information. for the day, those storage drives held a lot of information, a staggering 1.44 MB, which by today's standards is nothing! However, back then, 1.44 MB was a lot of storage space. Today, we have multi-gigabyte storage devices, and even terabyte storage devices that are portable and will work with most notetaking hardware provided today.

Notetakers have truly revolutionized the way that the blind and visually impaired handle their information. Everything from handling grocery lists, to club memberships can all be handled with today's notetakers. Even surfing the web is now possible, and if that's not enough, then what about streaming media?

You can download files with these devices, play audios, write documents, plan vacations, doctor's appointments and much much more.

Below is a site that will give you some idea as to what these devices are like and what they have to offer.

Check Out Some Notetakers

If you are blind, or visually impaired yourself, or you know somebody who is, then the link above should give you some great information on these devices. However, like I said, these devices are a bit more expensive than their off the shelf counterparts.

My favorite is the Voice Note mPower, which is listed on the web site above. I honestly feel that if you're going to purchase a notetaker, then the Voice Note mPower should be the one to get. It is actually part of the Braille Note family of products being offered by Humanware, a leader in assistive technology devices and software.

The very first notetaker that I have had the joy of learning was the Type 'n Speak produced by Blazie Engineering. It has a querty style keyboard, and speech output. However, the speech output was truly undesirable. It was extremely robotic, and barely understandable.

However, the Type 'n Speak did have some really interesting features that normally come with notetakers. You could create documents with it, manage appointments, do calculations and much more.

However, it lacked Internet connectivity, and it used those 1.44 MB floppy disks in a drive that costs about $300 to purchase. It was truly an interesting learning experience because it was my first exposure to electronic notetakers.

It is good to see that notetakers come in many configurations and styles to fit just about anyone's needs. If you're a strict Braille user, then you will want to purchase a notetaker that has a Braille style keyboard, whereas if you love to type on the PC, then you will want one with a standard querty style keyboard instead. You can get notetakers with, or without refreshable Braille displays.

However, with the refreshable Braille displays; you're going to pay a whole lot more for the notetaker. Just make sure that you choose the notetaker that best suits your individual needs. Make sure that you get everything that you want and need from the device prior to ordering. The last thing that you want to have happen, is to order the wrong product, and regret it later.

Notetakers are great tools for the blind and visually impaired because just like their off the shelf counterparts,; PDAs, the blind and visually impaired can do much of the same things that their sighted peers do on a daily basis.

Is it really necessary to learn Braille?  That is a question that has arisen in many conversations with those who are blind, or visually impaired.  You have your hard core Braille users who will not use anything else, then you have those who switch from technology to Braille, and from Braille to technology in a heartbeat.

Braille, just like reading print is a fundamental part of the entire learning process.  It is a form of communication that when all else fales, you can definitely rely upon it.  You see, the majority of blind and visually impaired people in the United States are all too familiar with the use of technology both in their working environments and schooling environments.

There has been a massive push towards using technology over using traditional Braille.  Now this isn't to say that you can't have the best of both worlds.  That is; you can get the feel of real Braille through the use of refreshable Braille display technology.

Imagine for a moment sitting in front of you is not a traditional Braille book, but rather, a tablet sized device that is the exact same dementions as a Braille book, but without all of the bulkyness, and number of volumes that it takes to produce a single copy of a printed book in Braille.

Your tablet device would have a refreshable Braille display that covers the entire surface of the device, not just a line or two like you find in most traditional Braille displays today.  So in essence, you could actually read digitized Braille exactly the same way that you would sit and read a traditional Braille book.  That is; your hands will feel all of the Braille that is on the page, thus giving you the look and feel of a real Braille book, but without all of the bulkyness that normally comes with more traditional Braille books.

Being able to actually, and physically search for information on the page with your fingers is the holy grale of blind readers.  However, technology hasn't allowed for this to happen with traditional Braille display technologies.

The below summary is an update on a new piece of technology that may make full page Braille displays actually possible.

Full page Braille displays possible with artificial muscles?
{SUMMARY}

Researchers
are reported
to have developed the technology for an active, full page Braille display. Most of the commonly available Braille displays use a single line of 40, 65 or
80 Braille cells (3×2 patterns of dots) that work by mechanically raising a pin through a hole to represent each dot. Blind readers scan the text by swiping
their fingers across the row of cells, sensing the individual patterns as the letters that form words, and then refreshing the row as each line has been
read. These machines are expensive and have little direct relationship with modern computer displays, although they function well for services similar
to instant messaging.

Electromechanical systems for full page Braille displays (40 cells by 25 lines) would be very expensive, as the technology must be extremely robust and
reliable. The new system uses electroactive polymers (EAPs) to create the dots. These polymers deform when a voltage is applied across them, leading some
to refer to them as 'artificial muscles'. In the Braille application, a sheet made from a dielectric elastomer is printed on both sides with a pattern
of electrodes; when a voltage is applied between a selected pair of electrodes, the EAP sheet deforms, causing a bump to be raised, which is then released
when the voltage is removed. Due to basing production on sheet technology, rather than individual mechanical actuators, the new display has potential to
be much cheaper, as well as being able to represent more graphical information by using the whole page. Systems based on EAPs could also be used to underpin
haptic (tactile) feedback mechanisms for other applications.

End of summary

By using electroactive polymers, it may be possible to actually develop a full sized tablet device that has a few buttons for page navigation.  This new Braille tablet would consist of a 25 line full page display, with a few buttons at the bottom of the unit for navigational purposes.

The buttons would be home, end, skip one page back, skip one page forward, skip 3 pages back, skip three pages forward; just to name a few.

The user would brush his, or her  hands across the entire surface of the page much like they did with a more traditional Braille book.  The device would use SD cards for the file storage, or have the ability to utilize the services of external hard drives and flash drives in which to read from

The device would have some sort of file navigation system so that the users could switch from one file to another stored on the SD card, or USB device.  However, the main feature being that there is a complete full page  Braille display at their fingertips in which they can have full access to at any time.

What this means for the reader is that they can carry with them, entire books stored on removable media, and have normal access to them as if they were traditional printed Braille books, but without all of the bulkyness that normally accompanies traditionally printed Braille books.

A tablet type device could revolutionize Braille reading, and even re kindle the interest in learning Braille all over again, thus, bringing Braille back to the forefront of reading for the blind.  So yes, the blind can have their braille along with their technology too!

A full page refreshable Braille display tablet would definitely be the holy grale for the blind because it would mean that they could read normally, instead of reading in an awkward mannor such as currently being done with traditional current Braille displays.  However, here's another reason for developing a full page refreshable Braille display, and it has to do with full sentence, paragraph and page structuring in Braille.  As many of you already know, Braille does not look the same way as print does on a page. This would give blind professionals ans students a real advantage over traditional electronic Braille reading because for the very first time, electronics can accurately immulate the printed world in Braille.

However, here's yet another really great reason to promote such a device, and it has to do with the fact that plain text information written by someone who doesn't know Braille at all could be read in grade 1, or grade 2 Braille by the individual using the Braille reading tablet device.  The translation from plain text into grade 1, or grade 2 Braille would be instantanious, thus reducing the need for expensive Braille embossers that produce traditional Braille books.

This could be a huge boost for textbook producers because they would not have to rely upon other third party companies and organizations to translate their works into Braille for the blind.  Not only that, but because the device could handle plain, ordinary text means that for the first time, any material, whether it is currently in Braille or not can now be instantly translated into Braille on the tablet device.  Talk about cost savings here!

Well, we'll just have to wait and see what Braille display technology brings us, so don't give up on it.

BOSS member Brian Schnabel has a new guide dog named Hesper.

Brian returned from Seeing Eye on April 16 and says that his business plan is going to the dogs! However, since his new business partner is a dog this is not a bad thing!

Hesper, Brian's new guide dog is a Lab/Golden cross. Apparently Hesper has a totally different way of expressing herself from those dignified German Shepherds he's worked with for a little over eighteen years.

Imagine working with a partner who likes bird watching and people watching!

But Brian and Hesper definately are getting closer to becoming a seamlessly functioning team.

Here at BOSS we missed Brian while he was gone and are very excited to have him back. Brian is a web developer… be sure to check out his website Sussex County Blind Works.

On April 30, the National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
(NLS), a division of the Library of Congress in the United States, entered
the first phase of its transition to a digital playback system, as well as
releasing an upgraded version of its pilot download website. Beginning with
the testing of 5,000 digital players by NLS patrons in their homes, NLS is
preparing to launch full-scale production and distribution of 26,000
machines per month this year, ensuring continued access to reading materials
for more than 500,000 registered users.

New to the NLS program is a state of the art online component, called the
Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site. This new site for blind and
physically handicapped patrons of NLS now provides better than ever access
to digital audiobooks and magazines. The BARD digital books and magazines
are in the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 2002 format, the specification for navigable
digital talking books. Readers may press buttons on the NLS digital
talking-book player and compatible players to jump from chapter to chapter,
section to section or page to page. This ability to quickly navigate the
book structure, combined with the high-quality human recording, make the new
digital NLS download books one of the most significant advancements in the
provision of talking books for blind and low vision people.

"The high quality navigable digital books from the new NLS BARD service
represent a major advancement in access to books, magazines, and electronic
braille for Americans who are unable to read print due to blindness, low
vision, or physical disability", says Gilles Pepin, CEO of HumanWare. "With
BARD, NLS brings its library into the home of its patrons. Not only do NLS
patrons now have access to thousands of digital books but they can find
their book of interest and download it in minutes independently and from the
comfort of their home computer."

HumanWare manufactures the popular Victor Reader Stream, a DAISY NISO
compatible digital talking-book player designed in collaboration with the
National Federation of the Blind (NFB), which several thousand NLS patrons
already use to play the new digital NISO books. The NLS digital books on the
BARD site are protected by encryption and compatible digital book players
must be authorized by NLS for eligible patrons to play the books.

The ability to press buttons on the Victor Reader Stream to easily jump
between chapters, pages, or magazine articles, like the NLS digital
talking-book player, provides a rich audiobook reading experience never
before experienced by audiocassette readers. For reference books such as
cookery books the user can even enter a page number from the table of
contents on the Stream telephone-style number pad and the playback will move
immediately to that page. With the NLS player, Victor Reader Stream, and the
NLS BARD books, users now have immediate access to thousands of books and
can navigate them just like they would navigate the equivalent print book's
structure.

The new BARD download audiobook and magazine service is available free of
charge to eligible blind and physically handicapped individuals in the U.S.
and to citizens living abroad, who have access to a computer and high-speed
Internet connection, and who have a free NLS digital talking-book player or
own an authorized compatible digital talking-book player such as HumanWare's
Victor Reader Stream. To learn more about the new BARD service visit
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/

About HumanWare

HumanWare is the global leader in assistive technologies for vision,
including products for the blind and visually impaired. HumanWare's products
include BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for blind people in
education, in business and in their personal lives; the Victor Reader
product line, the world's leading digital talking book players; and
myReader2, the new version of HumanWare's unique "auto-reader" for people
with low vision. For more information visit
www.humanware.com

Random House Has Denied 15 Million
Print-Disabled Americans Access to its Books

New York City (May 20, 2009): The Reading Rights Coalition, representing more than 15 million print-disabled Americans, has denounced publishing giant Random
House, which has turned off text-to-speech on all of its e-books available for Amazon s Kindle 2 reading service.

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: When Random House turned off the text-to-speech function on all of its e-books
for the Kindle 2, it turned off access to this service for more than 15 million print-disabled Americans.  The blind and other print-disabled readers have
the right to purchase e-books using this service with text-to-speech enabled.  Blocking text-to-speech prohibits access for print-disabled readers and
is both reprehensible and discriminatory.  We urge President Obama, whose e-books are now being blocked from over 15 million Americans, to either demand
that access be restored or to move to a publisher who does not engage in discrimination.

Dr. Cynthia Stuen, Senior Vice President of Policy and Evaluation for Lighthouse International, said: "Having the technology available to give people with
impaired vision and other print disabilities equal and timely access to the printed word should be celebrated and encouraged in a civil and just society
for all."

Andrew Imparato, President and Chief Executive Officer for the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), said: Random House is callously
disregarding the right of American consumers with disabilities to get access to the same content at the same price at the same time as everyone else.
Random House s decision to turn off the feature that makes this content accessible to millions of print-disabled Americans is a bad business decision with
real human consequences and it must be corrected immediately.

Mitch Pomerantz, President of the American Council of the Blind, said: "The recent action by Random House disabling text-to-speech on e-books is the latest
and most egregious discriminatory action against the nation's 15 million print-disabled individuals.  Random House either doesn't care or doesn't understand
the impact this will have on those who would otherwise have equal access to books and other printed materials in the same manner as our non-disabled peers.
 We must work collaboratively to do everything possible to assure such access for this growing constituency."

James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), said: KEI is disappointed that Random House is turning off text-to-speech on its Kindle 2
e-books. In a world where access to knowledge is central to everything, Random House certainly understands this action will isolate and marginalize many
persons with reading disabilities.

K. Eric Larson, Executive Director and CEO of National Spinal Cord Injury Association, said: "All Americans have the right to equal access and many people
living with paralysis use text-to-speech capabilities in order to gain that access.  Our members are also consumers and turning off text-to-speech means
that some will not buy books they would otherwise purchase."

John R. Sheehan, Chairman of the Xavier Society for the Blind, said: The Xavier Society for the Blind is committed to the notion that ALL books should be
accessible to all people. When a book about Mother Teresa is among those whose text-to-speech functions have been disabled, we fear that we are seeing
the beginning of a blanket cut-off of a function that should be open and available to all, especially (but not exclusively) to those with visual impairments
or other problems that limit access to printed materials.

When Amazon released the Kindle 2 e-book reading service on February 9, 2009, the company announced that the device would be able to read e-books aloud
using text-to-speech technology.  Under pressure from the Authors Guild, Amazon has announced that it will give publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech
function on any or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2 service.  Random House is the first publisher to turn off text-to-speech on all of its
e-books and thus deny the rights of print-disabled people across America.

The Reading Rights coalition includes the blind, people with dyslexia, people with learning or processing issues, seniors losing vision, people with spinal
cord injuries, people recovering from strokes, and many others for whom the addition of text-to-speech on the Kindle 2 promises for the first time easy,
mainstream access to over 270,000 books.

For more information about the Reading Rights Coalition, please visit
www.readingrights.org.
To sign our petition, go to
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read.
If you are an author who supports our cause, please send your contact information to
readingrights@nfb.org.

I have just located what I think is a pretty compelling article on what is needed to help the  blind and visually impaired to become truly free in today's society.

As most of us know, when it comes to blind or visually impaired people, it seams that they are  treated like second class citizens in many situations.  While the blind community as a whole is  not as large as other minorities, it still deserves attention, but in the right way.

For so long now, the blind have been treated as second class citizens, given lower paying jobs,  or in many situations; no jobs at all.  It is not that the blind lack in the proper job training  and independent living skills.  The problem lies within the private job sector where there are a  lot of people who are still ignorant as to what the blind are capable of today.

However, even in the face of knowing what the capabilities are of the blind, some employers are  still reluctant to hire blind people, even if they have all the needed skills and meet all the  criteria that the job requires.

The Problem could lie in personal opinions of the employer and the company, or it can be  something as simple as their misunderstanding of the capabilities of blind people today.

Job discrimination is going on, even in the twenty-first century.  At least 70 to 80% of all  blind persons are without employment, not because they don't want to work, but because of the  system and how it operates.

You would think that job discrimination would go on in places like third world nations, but not  in the United States.  Well it does go on here, and that's a fact whether we like to hear it or  not.

So the ability for the blind to live what most call the american dream is pretty much out of  reach, and for the most part; unatainable, unless those individuals are employed and are able to  support themselves without having to rely upon government money.

However, the problem lies in the fact that so many blind and visually impaired relie upon a  system that basically gives them scraps to live on that only allow for them to barely make it  from month to month.

Let's face it, $600 is not enough to really live on these days.  Sure, it is just enough to  scrape by, but that's what most blind and visually impaired people are doing these days, just  scraping by off of a system that is broken and inefficient.

One of the other reasons why so many blind and visually impaired people aren't working actually  has to do with them themselves and their relationship with this broken down system that they  draw their monthly income from.

Because so many blind and visually impaired people are recieving income such as SSI, many of  them just get used to the system,  and continue to rely on that system for their life support, thus loosing the  desire to work or to even get off the system altogether.

A matter of fact, there are individuals today who are so attached to the system that they are  afraid to get off of it in fear of loosing what little independence they may have.  However, do  you call living off of government income true independence?

It seams easier for a nation to just simply hand out monthly incomes to the blind, rather than  properly train them to live independent lives.  That is why many state agencies for the blind  send the blind and visually impaired to vocational rehabilitation centers for such training.

However, in spite of that training, the blind still are being treated like second class  citizens, and many of them aren't even employed with the newly found skills that they now  possess from these training facilities.

So is there an alternative solution?  Yes there is and it is called the Blind Online Success  System, and you can check it out here below.

http://www.blindonlinesuccesssystem.com/info

Ok, now onto the article that I was talkingabout earlier.  The link below will take you directly  to the article.

This is one powerful article that you must read, and then after you read it come back here to  learn more about the Blind Online Success System and what it has to offer.

<a  href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Freedom+for+the+blind:+the+secret+is+empowerment-a0126791482 ">Freedom for the blind: the secret is empowerment.</a>

Ok, so what did you think of that article?  Do you agree with it?  Don't you think that the  blind deserve more in the way of equality and independence?  Well that's what the Blind Online  Success System attempts to deliver through its in depth traning and mentorship.

We don't just give them a fish and feed them for a day, we teach them to fish and feed them for  a lifetime.  The Blind Online Success System is designed in such a way that we properly educate  the blind and visually impaired to properly run and manage their own online businesses by giving  them a chance to obtain new skills and mentorship that can only be given through a program such  as this.

Those who are already a part of this program say that this type of thing has been a long time coming.  They also wonder why anyone else hadden't thought of it before.  Well I don't know why they didn't think of it before, but at least we did, and now we have such a program available today.

Our goal is to help to provide a more independent lifestyle for the blind by training them to run and manage their own online businesses.  We pride ourselves on the fact that we're the only program of this tipe in the entire world.  Sure there might be some copy cats along the way that try to immulate what we're doing, but we have already cornered this market, and therefore, we hold the highest position.

Those that have joined us have already experienced a wealth of training and information that they say is the best that they have ever recieved from anywhere.  Our members are happy to be a part of this winning team, and we are looking forward to new members as well.

Online skills are a must in today's society, and we can give you such skills through our comprehensive training.  We are thorough and complete when it comes to training people how to effectively run and manage an online business.  Our goal through this program is to create more independent blind and visually impaired individuals by allowing them to make their own choices and make their own incomes through their own business online.

Having your own business means that you do not have to worry about descrimination issues, transportation issues and a whole host of other negative issues that society can dish out.  We want to focus upon making sure that those in our program can not only develop new skills and use them, but we want them to use these newly found skills to their advantage.  As an alternative to traditional employment training, the Blind Online Success System is rising to the challenge of providing quality mentorship and training.

These skills that are taught through our program can be transferred to traditional employment if need be.  Not only that, but if an indivdiual is already in our program, and is currently working in more traditional employment, the skills that they recieve from us can instantly be used in their place of work as well, thus improving upon their productivity and so on.

We already have individuals in our program who are currrently working in more traditional employment settings and they are using the skills that they learn from us to greatly improve their status at their place of employment.

As an upcoming organization, the Blind Online Success System has already proven that people can do the work.  It just takes action and that's what at least 8 to 9% of our members are doing.  They're all taking action and doing what is required of them to begin their journey down the road of success.

Ok, I usually don't do any selling here on the BOSS blog, but I have run across a pretty unique product that I think outdoes the Victor Reader Stream.  Not only that, but this is one of those few off the shelf products that also supports the blind and visually impaired.  Off the shelf meaning that it can be purchased from a regular consumer retail outlet, and not from a specialized company that specializes in products for the blind.  Could this mean that regular retail outlets and manufacturers are starting to come around to the blind and visually impaired?

Who knows, maybe more and more manufacturers will be developing off the shelf products that also cater to the blind and visually impaired.  One such product that automatically comes to mind is the Olympus digital recorder line, and I am speaking of the Olympus DS-30, DS-40, and the DS-50 series of recorders that have built-in speech capabilities.  Olympus is the only other main stream manufacturer that builds products that are blind friendly thta I personally know of at this time.  There may be others, and if there are, please let me know of this so that I can take note of them here in the blog.

If you have a Victor Reader stream, you may want to check this out.  This recorder does something that the Victor Reader Stream cann't do,  and that's record in CD quality stereo.  The company that supports this product is called Sound Professionals, and I have personally purchased products from them in the past, and their products are outstanding.

The purchase that I had made was for a pair of binaural microphones to use on my Olympus DS-30  digital voice recorder.

This recorder is called the, PLEXTALK, and it has a whole host of features that you just need to check out by clicking on the link here below.

http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/item/PT-PLEXTALK-POCKET-PTP1

Well it has finally happened. Warren Yarnall has started promoting my product to his list.  Now the thing that I need to wait for is some sales to come in, but I don't know when that will be.  I also don't know how many people are on his list, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens with this promotion.

You see, that's all that it takes.  I committed to action, and now I have to wait for the results to come in.  If you don't take any action, then nothing will happen, and you will only have yourself to blame.

The techniques and strategies that I used to get this product out there are the strategies that I myself had learned from Jeff and Lori as their first apprentice.  I can't stress enough how valuable a mentor, or couple of mentors really are to your success online.  They can help you to go a very very long way in this business.

Let me give you an example.  When I first started with Jeff and Lori, I had always wondered how on earth people connected their web sites with PayPal.  That was a skill that I had desired so much so that I could taste it, and I wanted to learn it.

Well one day, Lori taught me exactly how, and now I am making money online because of that skill.  I have already made some money previously from the first launch of my e-book, but now I may be making even more money possibly because I just repeated what I had done in the first place.

You see, if you join the BOSS program and you're blind, or visually impaired, you too can learn these valuable skills.  We teach you all kinds of great marketing skills that will help you with your new business.

Our members are learning all sorts of great skills that will help them to become even more successful as they go along.  You see, we pay close attention to everyone in this program, and we make sure that they fully understand everything that we teach them.  That's what we're all about.

You know, just the simple skill of learning how to set up PayPal with your site is one of those skills that if you don't have it; well, you don't have a business, plain and simple.  That is why I firmly believe in the program, not just because I am co-founder of it, but because I know that it really works.  There's no need for me to mislead you hear.  That wouldn't do me any good if I were to do that.

I really want you to seriously think about joining if you're blind, or visually impaired because we can teach you so much about marketing online, Plus we have a really great group and things are happening.

We can teach you how to connect your site with PayPal if you like, or learn many other necessary marketing skills that you have wanted to learn, but never could before.

We're a pretty fun bunch, and I have to say; we're also quite accessible too.  We don't hide behind anything.  We're out in the open ready for you whenever you may need us.  That's the way that we operate.  So if you want, click on the link here below and you will be taken to our information page where you can learn more and sign up for membership.

http://www.blindonlinesuccesssystem.com/info

I am really looking forward to meeting you soon

Donald Brown
Co-Founder

This is a historical moment for me today.  Why you ask?  Well as of today, Sunday April 19, 2009, a well-known Internet marketer by the name of Warren Yarnall has decided to promote my e-book entitled, Proven Tips Tools and Tactics To Have Your Own Info Product to his list.

Now I don't know about you, but this is very exciting to me because for the first time, another Internet marketer other than Jeff and Lori are promoting a product that I created and worked hard on.

Don't get me wrong, Jeff and Lori are excellent coaches and mentors.  It is just that they have taught me well, and they continue to do so through the BOSS program.  Because of what they had taught me, I am able to get something marketed and sold online.

Now this isn't the first time that this book was sold because when it was first published, I made $114 in sales, and that's when I was selling it for only $7.  So why am I telling you this?

Well first off, the reason why I am telling you is because you can accomplish this too with your own products.  You see, it really isn't all that hard to do, but the main thing is; is that you must be persistant, and take immediate action.  That's the key to success online.

If you're a BOSS member, then this should be something that you should have a look at.  No, not the product, but look at the fact that we can make money online.  I have already done it, and so can you.

Now if you're not a BOSS member and you are reading this, let me tell you that what I am saying here is not hype, or misleading in any way whatsoever.  I am telling you the complete, honest truth.  No, I am not going to show you screenshots of my earnings because that really isn't the ethical thing to do in this business.  I don't feel that I should flash in your face; screenshots of money made just to brag and show off because that's just not professional.

Making money online is a real challenge, but I can honestly tell you that it really isn't as hard as you think that it is.  Sure it is hard work, and you have to do something in order to get something from it, but that's the key.  You must do something first before you can expect anything back in return.

Jeff and Lori have taught me well, and they continue to do so.  I myself, along with them offer you this program so that you too can learn the techniques and strategies that I use to make money online.

Several of our other members have made money from their own businesses, and this is only the beginning.  We've barely begun this journey because come july 2009, the BOSS program will be 2 years old.

Let me share something with you here that is a bit statistical.  About 1% of people who join any Internet marketing group take action on what they're given, or taught.  That's a really low number, but let me share with you about the BOSS program's percentage rates.  They're at 8%, which is extremely high and unheard of in the IM world.  No, this is not an exaduration, or something that is made up.  It is the honest truth.

At the time of this writing, we have about 67 members, and 8% of them are taking action.  Notice that I didn't say that 8% were making money with their own businesses.  Just 8% are doing what they need to do to get onto the right path to success.

That means that within the other Internet marketing groups there's something seriously wrong, and no, it doesn't have to do with what's being taught, but rather; it has to do with the people who attend these live conferences.  You see many people who attend these things will buy up everything that is in the back of the room, take it home and let it sit, and never ever do anything with it.  However, that's not the case with the BOSS program.

That's because many of our people are taking action and using what they're being taught.  They're not just sitting on their rears twittling their thumbs wishing and hoping to make money online. They're doing something about it.  They're taking affirmative action; which is what everyone else in these other marketing groups should be doing if they really want a business online.

Just the simple act of taking action is enough to start building momentum.  The more momentum you have behind you, the more successful you become but that all starts with good coaches and teachers in this market.

You need the best in order to get the best, and that's what the BOSS program offfers.  It simply offers any blind or visually impaired person who joins the best that Internet marketing can give with nothing held back.

As co-founder of the BOSS program, I can honestly attest to the fact that we take pride and care in what we do.  I have helped many people in our program, and I continue to do so even as I write this.  The biggest challenge in marketing online is simply taking action.  That is perhaps one of the most crutial steps that anyone can take towards their success because without action; there is no success whatsoever.

This business doesn't appear out of thin air like many people think and believe.  It takes guts, determination, work, and affirmative action to get the ball rolling in the right direction.

Sure you're going to have setbacks along the way, but don't we all?  There are going to be times when you might think that you will just throw in the towl, but that's where we will come in.

We will be there for you, and we will keep you from throwing in that perverbial towel.  Our whole focus is upon seeing you succeed with your own business on the Internet and that's what we're bound and determined to do.

So, if you're blind or visually impaired, and you think that this might be for you, then click the link below to register.  We'd love to have you.

http://www.blindonlinesuccesssystem.com/info

Remember, making money online really isn't all that hard to do.  It just takes determination and a whole lot of work, but you have to be willing to take up the challenge and meet it with expectations of success.

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