Looking for deals shouldn't be your first step - but it should be there early on.

BizE-zine: It is still early days yet, but can you point to one big mistake you wish you could put right?

BP: My biggest mistake was not doing something earlier. I spun my wheels for four years before I finally put my book together. Those are four years I can't get back - who knows what I could be doing today.

All my other mistakes are pretty minor in comparison.

BizE-zine: What kind of software does 'King of Software Secrets' use himself?

BP: I use a couple of applications day-to-day that I wrote myself, including my autoresponder. Obviously, not everyone can do this, or would even want to - but it is important to find tools that let you spend your maximum amount of time focusing on doing things that will make you money.

If you are wasting time doing something that isn't making you money, find a way to automate it. For instance, if you are responding to similar questions through you email, set up a FAQs page or use a macro program like RemoteKeys to get these questions answered more quickly or better yet, without your intervention.

In my writing, I use Word. Then Adobe Acrobat to seal it up. I wish more people would stick to using Acrobat, rather than some of ebook packages available. Acrobat increases level of portability and makes it easy to print out.

BizE-zine: Having tasted such a spectacular success, I'm sure you don't plan to sit back and do nothing. What are your plans for future?

BP: I have several ideas. Early on, I'd like to continue to build on success of my 'Secrets - Exposed!' brand.

I keep liberal notes in dozens of notebooks - and try to revisit these often to keep my mind fresh and looking for new opportunities. Even this morning, I was contacting a publisher and pitching a software idea to him. This project may not see sunlight for months - but it is planting seeds for future.

BizE-zine: Many people would love to produce their own ebook, but don't know how to go about it. What would you say to them?

BP: Do a little each day. Such a simple suggestion, but if it's followed each day book will "magically" complete itself. Write a paragraph, a section or a chapter, but keep cracking at it every single day.

Have a good outline you can follow. Instead of trying to decide what content you need to fill it out, you can simply follow outline you have already in front on you.

And bring passion to your work every time you sit down. Infuse it 100% with your personality and enthusiasm.

BizE-zine: What advice would you give to someone who wants to make it online?

BP: Become educated, create a plan, and do something.

It might mean breaking into your weekends or evenings, but resulting success can last you a lifetime.

Have a burning desire to succeed. Find someone that can mentor you - or a friend that has a similar desire to succeed. You definitely want a cheering section of your crowd. Be thankful and be giving. And don't forget importance of your family.

BizE-zine: And a final word?

BP: I started with zero like most people - I didn't have tons of contacts in industry, I didn't have experience writing a book or a sales letter or running an affiliate program.

But I didn't let those fears stop me. I took action I knew I needed to take. And I learned from my mistakes and I keep learning more today. But had I been too scared to get started, I'd still be sitting here thinking about what to do today.

Get out there - get started - and do something everyday! See you at top!

I was happy with IE4, and I found IE5 to be just about perfect (although some tweaking of security was necessary to prevent serious bug infestations). Because of that, I delayed upgrading to IE6 until a few days ago - I was more than a little afraid of new version due to many negative reports about smart tags and a few other features.

As it turns out, IE6 is a fine browser, perhaps best yet (although I have not yet played with new version of Netscape). The browsing experience is very smooth, it's fast and efficient, and it seems to have just about everything you would expect.

One of features that I really like is new privacy options. While this does not by any means terminate privacy concerns with this browser, it is a good step in right direction. Whereas before, in all browsers, you can only treat all cookies same (accept them, prompt for them or block them), IE6 allows you to control cookies on a site-by-site basis. Even better, you can separately choose to turn off third-party cookies, and you can even treat session cookies as a separate case. I like it. Now if they would just add something similar to get rid of those annoying pop-up windows ...

On downside - IE6 is huge. The browser takes a tremendous amount of resources: memory, disk and CPU. IE6 also significantly modifies your system (unlike Netscape or Opera), which can be alarming. And, of course, you can expect usual two-to-a dozen emergency patches a month due to security holes. Some things simply do not change ...

As should be obvious, I like this browser. It does what I expect from a browser - it lets me browse and gets out of my way. It's fast, it's smooth and it works well. That's all that I want.