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Pulling Back The Curtain
Kristi Daniels
Do you remember the scene in the Wizard of Oz where they pull back the curtain to reveal the puppet master?
Every Web 1.0 or 2.0 system had a "behind the scenes" or a "backend system" so people naturally assume that the Internet Business Box has secret area where the owner goes to do administrative stuff.
That is one of the amazing things about the Internet Business Box 3.0 system. There is no secret administrative area because there is no administration to do.
Think about that for a minute. It's very important.
THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATION TO DO!
Everything is right out in the open. What you see is what you get.
Have you ever used Wordpress (a popular blogging platform)?
If you have, you know that you can type the name of your blog url followed by a slash and something like wp-admin to get to a login screen where you can enter your secret admin password and get "behind the scenes" where you can create categories, post new blog entries, moderate comments, add links to your blog roll, etc.
That simply does NOT exist with the Internet Business Box 3.0. How is that possible?
Most of those functions are completely automated. They are tasks that are better left to a computer. Why should you have to add someone to your blog roll?
Think about how you even found them. Maybe you saw that they linked to you in the secret "backend admin area" of Wordpress. That means that Wordpress knew about them. Why didn't Wordpress just automatically add them to your blogroll?
To be fair, there probably is some obscure plugin somewhere that does that.
That brings us to the next thing you waste time with in the "backend" of Wordpress. You waste a lot of time "moderating" comments. Why?
Supposedly there is built in spam detection, but it just doesn't work 100% of the time. Spam slips by and legitimate comments go in the spam folder.
That is because they aren't measuring your profit. If they were, they could figure out if each comment is making you more or less money. That is the criteria that matters. That is what the IBB does. The IBB calculates whether the comment will make you more money or not. If it does, then it stays. If it doesn't, it goes.
You don't have to waste time moderating comments. The IBB does it for you... automatically. You don't have to waste time adding people who are nice to you to your blog roll. The IBB does it automatically. It also removes them automatically if their site goes down or they stop being nice to you (as measured by your increase or decrease in profitability depending on whether their link is in your blog roll or not).
That is 90% of the time you spend in the "back end." You are wasting time handling all of the tasks that the blog platform software should have handled for you. The IBB does handle them for you.
The other 10% of the time is spent posting new blog posts. Of course you don't HAVE to go into the back end to do that task. You could set up a secret email address and post via email.
How do we handle that task? It has simply been moved from the "backend" to the front end. I am typing this blog post in a form that is part of one of the default posts that comes with every IBB powered blog.
That post can be set up to be accessible only to the blog owner. Or you can leave it open to the public and allow others to post "guest blog posts" as you wish. In either case, it is right out in the open. There is no "back end."
Some of you may be wondering how we handle the new "private" blog posts where you have to be a customer of the membership program to read the posts.
There must be a "back end" where the administrator sets that up; right?
Wrong.
It is right out in the open. In fact, you set that up using the same form you use to post any blog entry.
There are two kinds of "special" blog entries that you can enter. One of them creates an "order" page for a new product and assigns it a SKU (a product id number).
To create a blog entry like that, you just enter:
Order:9999
Where the author's name usually goes (since you don't really want an author name on a sales page).
You replace the 9999 with the product id number you want to assign to the new product. The title of the blog entry will become the name of the new product.
So, we have a product called "This Site For Sale" with a product ID of 1001.
Creating the sales page or the order page for that product was very simple. I just went to the normal post page and entered "This Site For Sale" for the blog headline.
Then I entered:
Order:1001
Where the author name goes.
Then I just described the product and included the PayPal order button at the end of the blog post.
That created a sales page. That is important for the other type of special blog entry. The other type is the restricted access type. If a person doesn't have access rights to the other type of blog entry, then it will automatically redirect them to the order page that will get them access to the restricted access page.
Creating a restricted access post is just as easy as creating an order page.
You just enter the following for the author name:
Access:9999
Replace the 9999 with a product ID for a previously created order page. It is that easy. You can create multiple restricted access pages for any order page. All of them will check to make sure the reader is a customer of the product listed after the "Access:" and if not... redirect that reader to the order page for that product.
So you see... everything is right out here in the open. In fact, I can even give you the URL to the post page even though I no longer accept guest bloggers. Here is that URL:
InternetBusinessBox.com/blog/post/
That is where I go whenever I want to enter a new blog post. It is a blog post that has a form for entering another blog post. Pretty cool; huh?
But since it is now restricted access itself, it will redirect you to the "This Site For Sale" page. If you want to access the "Post" page, you must first buy this site. Then as the new owner, you will be have access to the post page.
There is no "back end" or secret password protected area. Everything is right out here in the open with Web 3.0.
Now you know the rest of the story.
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