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Running applications within Azure or over an ExpressRoute connection. After a theme song, I'm going to talk all about it.

Hi, this is Marcel Martens of The Cloud Secrets Podcast. Welcome back. Today we're going to test... Well if you listen to a few podcasts ago, I was talking about the disk speed within WVD. It was a bit disappointing and we were trying to figure it out, why that was happening. We came to the conclusion that the bigger the disc you take, the more IOPS you get. So we expanded the disc to one terabyte and choose Premium SSD, and with that we got all the IOPS that we need. But the application was still starting... I don't know, it took like 40 to 50 seconds before we get the login screen of that particular application. And we did all kinds of network traces and used Wireshark to see what was going on.

But what we saw was that, in the end, it only the last two seconds of the startup phase, only in those two seconds the application was using network traffic to our data center. So from WVD within Azure to our own data center where all the application servers of this particular customer are hosted and... Well, that's a bit odd because when whatever application needs 40 seconds or 50 seconds to start, in my opinion, that's absurd, these days. I should get a login screen or whatever in a few seconds, maybe 10 seconds, but that's it. And when we take a look at the startup time within Citrix, the current solution the customer's using, there it takes like four seconds to pop up with the login screen. So we're trying to figure out what the difference is, and for that, we've run out of options because we did all these traces, and increased speed, and increased IOPS, and fine tuned everything there is to tune.

But the last thing is that maybe it's due to latency, and while we got a really slow latency... It's a couple of hundred kilometers to the Azure Western Europe location, and our latency from our data center to the actual WVD desktop is around seven to nine milliseconds. And of course within Citrix, between the application and the application server, the latency is less than one millisecond, of course, because they're running next to each other.

So last week we set up the Disaster Recovery Synchronization Tools. I don't know what you call them within Azure. And I believe my colleague yesterday finished up the migration, or the synchronization, of the current application server. And then today we're going to switch servers, so we're going to make the server on the Azure side their primary server, shut down the server within our data center, and then we can test what the application startup time is within WVD connecting to that Azure Application Server or VM.

And my guess is, or my hope actually, is that it starts up within four or five seconds as well because then we've got a business case and we can migrate all their application servers, or all their servers, all their VMs, towards Azure and start building the total WVD solution, including all their application servers.

So that's a rather technical one, again. And I'm going to follow up with this one. Maybe at the end of today or maybe on Monday, it's Friday by the way now, but by the time you hear this, it's going to take a few weeks because I create them in advance and I'm pretty curious... I really hope this fixes the startup time issues because otherwise the proof of concept of WVD in this particular case is a dead one, because it's not going to work. And they're not going to wait 40 seconds or 50 seconds for an application to start. And other applications as well.

Especially with their sales... Well, their ERP system. They use Ax, Dynamics of Microsoft. And well, when you hit an order form or enter an order and want to enter the next one, you've got a few seconds delay and that's not acceptable.

We're going to test with this application. If this run starts out fine, and then starts up within the excepted time frames, then we're going to make a business case to move all their applications toward Azure. And then we can finally migrate them from the Citrix Solutions to WVD.

So I'll keep you posted. Thanks for listening. And if you like this, by the way, please rate and subscribe. You do me a huge favor, not only for me, but also for all the IT professionals to be able to find this podcast because it's little known as at this time. So please share, like, rate, subscribe, do whatever you want with it. Shout about it, and I'll see you guys next time. Thank you very much. Bye. Bye. Marcel Martens

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Running applications within Azure or over an ExpressRoute connection. After a theme song, I'm going to talk all about it.

Hi, this is Marcel Martens of The Cloud Secrets Podcast. Welcome back. Today we're going to test... Well if you listen to a few podcasts ago, I was talking about the disk speed within WVD. It was a bit disappointing and we were trying to figure it out, why that was happening. We came to the conclusion that the bigger the disc you take, the more IOPS you get. So we expanded the disc to one terabyte and choose Premium SSD, and with that we got all the IOPS that we need. But the application was still starting... I don't know, it took like 40 to 50 seconds before we get the login screen of that particular application. And we did all kinds of network traces and used Wireshark to see what was going on.

But what we saw was that, in the end, it only the last two seconds of the startup phase, only in those two seconds the application was using network traffic to our data center. So from WVD within Azure to our own data center where all the application servers of this particular customer are hosted and... Well, that's a bit odd because when whatever application needs 40 seconds or 50 seconds to start, in my opinion, that's absurd, these days. I should get a login screen or whatever in a few seconds, maybe 10 seconds, but that's it. And when we take a look at the startup time within Citrix, the current solution the customer's using, there it takes like four seconds to pop up with the login screen. So we're trying to figure out what the difference is, and for that, we've run out of options because we did all these traces, and increased speed, and increased IOPS, and fine tuned everything there is to tune.

But the last thing is that maybe it's due to latency, and while we got a really slow latency... It's a couple of hundred kilometers to the Azure Western Europe location, and our latency from our data center to the actual WVD desktop is around seven to nine milliseconds. And of course within Citrix, between the application and the application server, the latency is less than one millisecond, of course, because they're running next to each other.

So last week we set up the Disaster Recovery Synchronization Tools. I don't know what you call them within Azure. And I believe my colleague yesterday finished up the migration, or the synchronization, of the current application server. And then today we're going to switch servers, so we're going to make the server on the Azure side their primary server, shut down the server within our data center, and then we can test what the application startup time is within WVD connecting to that Azure Application Server or VM.

And my guess is, or my hope actually, is that it starts up within four or five seconds as well because then we've got a business case and we can migrate all their application servers, or all their servers, all their VMs, towards Azure and start building the total WVD solution, including all their application servers.

So that's a rather technical one, again. And I'm going to follow up with this one. Maybe at the end of today or maybe on Monday, it's Friday by the way now, but by the time you hear this, it's going to take a few weeks because I create them in advance and I'm pretty curious... I really hope this fixes the startup time issues because otherwise the proof of concept of WVD in this particular case is a dead one, because it's not going to work. And they're not going to wait 40 seconds or 50 seconds for an application to start. And other applications as well.

Especially with their sales... Well, their ERP system. They use Ax, Dynamics of Microsoft. And well, when you hit an order form or enter an order and want to enter the next one, you've got a few seconds delay and that's not acceptable.

We're going to test with this application. If this run starts out fine, and then starts up within the excepted time frames, then we're going to make a business case to move all their applications toward Azure. And then we can finally migrate them from the Citrix Solutions to WVD.

So I'll keep you posted. Thanks for listening. And if you like this, by the way, please rate and subscribe. You do me a huge favor, not only for me, but also for all the IT professionals to be able to find this podcast because it's little known as at this time. So please share, like, rate, subscribe, do whatever you want with it. Shout about it, and I'll see you guys next time. Thank you very much. Bye. Bye. Marcel Martens

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Three Ways To Clear Out Your Schedule By 80% Part Two. Hey, welcome back. Nice to have here. Cloud Secrets Podcast, Marcel Martens again, and today I'm going to talk about part two of how I free up my schedule for at least 80%, and the second option is by automating your tasks or things. Because when you automate it, you need to make sure that it happens on a consistent basis in the same way that you or one of your people would do. And to give you an example, we provide backup online as a service. And for that we charge the customer the quota that we reserve for them. We've got monitoring on it, and when it triggers that the customer's using 90% or more, the system will generate an email and send it to our support desk so they can increase the quota so that the customer can keep backing up all their data. Afterwards, when they update the quota they need to adjust the contract so billing gets accordingly to increase the numbers of size that they use, or well, can use, and change the contract to the amount of size that they use so billings get done correctly. Afterwards they need to close the ticket and inform the customer that that quota has been increased and that they don't need to worry, and we will make sure they can keep backing up all their data. But normally these, this task takes like five to 10 minutes for a person to carry out. And it's a lot of folds. Well, if somebody gets a call in between, they get disrupted and they forget to increase the contract. So we leave money on the table. By automating this task or this sequence of tasks, we not only can eliminate it from some person, I don't know, we've got like 40 to 60 times a week now that we need to increase quotas times a five minute average. Go count. It's going to free up a lot of time that we can spend on other projects, on other tasks, and instead of hiring more staff. So that's why I gave the order to automate that particular task for example, and that's what I do with every task that comes on my desk. And I asked my question, can I delegate it or can I automate it? And in part three I'm going to talk about another one. It's going to be a three part series. By automating a lot of those tasks, you can free up an enormous amount of time. Also, it's done 24/7 because it's going automatically so you never are limited down to business hours or whatever. It's on a consistent basis every single moment of the day, which is a huge advantage because in this case, when the back up exceeds the 90% it's going to be updated with more space within, I don't know, a few minutes and we can make sure that the customer can perform their job instead of canceling it when he's out of quota or out of size or you know what I mean? So ask yourself the following question, how many tasks or things at my plate can I delegate in a correct way? And let's recap the delegation. You just don't want to delegate the task to somebody else, which you also want to make sure that they perform the task on a consistent basis with the same output that you would provide so within the same time, within the same amount of time spent and within the deadline or if you got a deadline. Right. You know what I mean? So count the number of tasks that you can delegate that way. And the second question you need to ask yourselves is, how many tasks can I automate? Because when you've got a task, a repetitive task that at least, I don't know, maybe 10 times a week occurs and it takes you five minutes, you could free up almost an hour by automating it. So when you spend like $1,000 to automate it, it's going to earn itself back in no time because you can, you can have more time to help more customers, get more offers out of the door, sign up more contracts, or onboard new customers take the advantage where it is. So that's it for part two. Next week I'm going to record part three and I love to see you then. Thank you very much, bye bye. Marcel Martens.…
 
How to keep all balls in the air, during the holiday season. After our theme song, I've got to share my thoughts and experiences. Hey, welcome back to the Cloud Secrets podcast, I am Marcel Martens and, well, we decided to start building our new office early next year, so wonderful decision especially during holiday season. Oh man, I don't know if I could keep all balls in the air, there are so much things to do and so little time. And that's what I would like to share with you. The way that I keep all balls literally in the air or make sure everything runs as smooth as possible. Basically it all comes down to priorities. If you make an overview for, I like to do it by week and by day, the top three things I like or need to do today. Usually I write down seven or eight things but I always make sure I get the top three things done before I finish my day and same goes for week, I'll make a weekly overview as you know, I've got only three days a week at the office, the other two days I'll take care of the kids, and, if you want to know why, go a few podcasts back where I'll tell more about that. I don't feel like repeating myself here today, but the more balls you need to keep in the air, the higher the probability is that one is going to drop one or more or many. So keep track of things. Delegate where you can, even if you think you need to do it yourself, just delegate it. And I was reading a lovely book, The One Minute Manager, which gave me some great insights on how to tap into the potential of your employees, or your colleagues is the way I call them, not only to let them feel good about their selves and feeling happy or in common, feel good. Because when they feel good, they perform better and when they perform better, things go easier, smoother and you get things done. So today I'm going to move to our temporary office. We've bought some 20-foot containers that we've stuck together and that's our office for the next year. So today I'm going to move with the some colleagues and then we're going to start working in our temporary office so we can start building early next year when all the permits are... when we receive all the permits and I'll keep you guys posted. But most importantly, first things first, for me it's always family that's on the first place. Make sure everything is done and in order and arranged and accounted for. Secondly comes my business and everything else comes afterwards. That's the way I manage things and do things and I'll put up a link to the book, for The One Minute Manager . It gave me great insight to manage in as little time as possible while keeping up qualities and quantities for the work that people, for the tasks, for our employees, you know. So thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy this. If you do, please rate and subscribe. By the way, I would love to hear some feedback as well. I'll see you guys next time. Enjoy the holiday season. Bye bye. Marcel Martens.…
 
How to fill up your webinar without paying too much for advertising. First we'll go through the theme show and then I'm going to talk all about it. Hi welcome back, Marcel Martens Cloud Secrets podcast. I Hope you're doing well today. I am. Today I've been working on, well the next series of ads to fill up my webinars for one of my companies. And the secret that I want to share here is that if you target the right way, using, in my case Facebook advertising, you're going to save a lot of money and not only save a lot of money, also can fill up your webinar or online training or workshop or whatever you're doing and actually make money at the end of the webinar instead of generating a list of email addresses that you can send tons of emails afterwards. But never produce any sale. So for this one, I particularly use the webinar funnel, go to click funnels, go look up Russell Brunson and start digging there because that's the way it works and it works every single time. So today I've been messing around if I may say so with ads for quite some time to make it successful and make it run. So today I thought I'd started doing some interviewing to get in the customer's hands to see what he thinks, how he feels about our always save in business suite because let me, let me go over that conversation that I had with one of our recent customers that we migrated to the always safe business suite. When you take a look at what he was, or they, cause it's a company, but they were using hosted email services with our hosted exchange solutions. Could be anyone for that matter. It doesn't matter. And he had a local solution for his files and he always already was using our backup services and our protection services, in this case ESET, but it was still using local file solution, as a storage solution. So he couldn't access his files or data anywhere other then his office or his show room cause he sells kitchens. And I believe we migrated him three weeks ago and today I gave him a call and asked if he got some a few minutes to help me out. I got some questions for running my ads so I can target the right people, I can target the right interests and talk about their problems because people in this case that I would like to target is cold audience. You've got three types of audience, cold, warm and hot. Let me start with the hot ones. The hot ones are the ones, the ones that know you and know they've got a problem and that you've got a solution for them. So it's the low hanging fruits. If you just contact them or meet them at a, I don't know, at a birthday party or whatever, or with family and friends and they know you and they know what to do, if they present a problem in any conversation you well, you can immediately address that with the solution because you already got the credits and you know who you are. With warm traffic, it's people that don't know you, but know they have a problem, so there you... now I;m mixing things up. Let me skip that all for a minute then for my ads because that's where we're going to talk about. I'm going to run them to cold traffic. People who don't know me and probably people who don't know they have a specific problem yet, so by that I start conversation with the problem and the problem, that was what I was trying to figure out in the phone call I had with my customer. Okay, what problems solved our suite for you that you weren't able to do before you used this particular suite and the answer was pretty fast and pretty easy. He said, I'm 100%, I've got 100% access to everything, so I will always get access to all my emails, all my files, all my offers, all my running projects, all, everything. I said, okay, that's cool. Sounds logical because that's what we sell. But by doing or by having that, what's the real difference for you? Okay it's nice that you can access your files on your phone when you're sitting beside your wife, it's evening and the customer sends an email and you would just check it on your phone and don't need to go to the office or start your laptop or whatever. But what does it make? What's in it for the customer and for you? He thought for a minute. And then his answer was, I've got better oversight of all things that are running at the time. And secondly, I can improve quality because I can address things straight away instead of waiting for the next day or whatever. So quality goes up and I've got a better grip of running projects. I said okay, that's cool. Sounds nice. And it makes customers more happy? Yes, it does. Okay. So what does that mean for you and your business? Well, if we can improve quality, we can improve customer experience, we can improve customer, we can improve the quality of service, we can improve basically everything because we go next level with customer service instead of them having to wait till the next day. So I got quicker response rates less faults, or less struggles within any project because I don't know with you but I, I've moved like five times now and I bought several kitchens, but every time I buy a kitchen they never deliver, or finish it on the day they come to place my kitchen. Now to me that's fricking annoying and I hate it when, especially when you're buying something expensive as, as a kitchen, you expect some kind of professionals that just put their money where their mouth is and finish the things they promise. I don't know why and I don't know how and I don't care. But to me it's very frustrating that they can't deliver it in one day or one single project. Always have half the support or some panels need to be replaced because they got damaged during transport or whatever. And he said, Oh, we've got the one who's putting the kitchens in the homes and putting it all together and putting all the equipment you know, those guys are making a real difference. You've got, he's got this professional working crew that finishes up the kitchen and in one day or one run or whatever you call it, but so the customer, his customer, my customer's customer doesn't end up having after sales or support calls if you want to call them. I don't know in the kitchen business, but relating to our business, I'll keep it in support because he wants to spend time on his next customer and his next project. So if you can increase the quality upfront, you can increase the sales the day afterwards because he doesn't have to get involved and finish up business that he could take care of earlier. So in the end I said, okay, that sounds all great, but so what does this mean for you and your company. It increased the sales? I say yes, that's what I wanted to hear. And by increasing sales, it means making more money in less time by getting more efficient. So this was a quite wonderful interview because we got to the essence of the thing that we, the possibility that we give by implementing our suite. And by doing so, you can sell more, you can sell better, he has less troubles, he has less support tickets or service that he needs to look after. He's got a happy customer who are not only customers, but starting to be raving fans and well, that's the best type of advertisement you can have in my opinion. If just people talk about you and your business in a way that well actually sells. And finally he's making more money, spending less time, which is absolutely fabulous to me. And coming back to my core value, my intention to leave everybody in a better state than when I first met them, that perfectly aligns with this. I get joy and happiness and feel warm about that I've been able to help him and his business doing more with less. And that's well that's all there is to it for me. So that's what I'm going to put in my ads. I'm going to go for it. Our method, our suite improves quality, improves oversight, improves service, improves sales, improves your bottom line results and that's where I'll, I'll leave it for today. I'm going to share the results of the ads with you and I'll keep you guys posted. If you like this, by the way, I hope you would take the time to rate and subscribe so you don't miss out. And if you've got any questions, just drop comments below on this post, or go to cloud-secrets.com, look for the episode and there you can post a comment. I always reply to comments, I love feedback, positive feedback by far and well I hope you can leverage this to your own good because it's so powerful, but you've got to ask the right questions and keep asking until, I always call it the onion. And you got to peel off layer by layer, by layer, by layer. So first he talks about quality, then he talks about oversight. Then he talks about making more sales and in the end, making more money. So now you've got to peel off all these layers to get to the core. And that's when you, you can feel it in your gut that, that when you arrive at the core, and that's the message that you're going to use in the advertisement, because that's what's going to trigger your new customers. So pretty, pretty wild episode. Thanks for being here and we'll see you guys next time thank you very much. Bye. Marcel Martens…
 
Unexpected delays explained within Azure. After theme song I'm going to talk all about it. Hey, what's up? Marcel Martens here of the Cloud Secrets Podcast. Welcome back, glad you're here, hope you're doing fine. I just brought my kids to school and daycare so I'm off to the office now, but I want to share a story with you that was particularly difficult to locate and it's taken us several weeks, if you follow me, I did some WVD Podcasts or episodes about... Well, issues that we're having and our first impression, et cetera. But the thing that eventually... Well there were three core issues. One was unexpected delays. We couldn't explain them, we saw routing issues within the network of Microsoft. So we're in the same region as the data center of Azure is. So we should have like low latency, I expect within 10 to 50 milliseconds. But when you follow the trace, you see that there's a major... well, bump and that's between two hops. There's a 100 plus millisecond delay and that's what's causing... Yeah, what should we call them. The user can notice that there is a delay because the response times or responses on the screen aren't as fast as they expect to be. So we ended up opening a ticket with Microsoft and of course there was nothing wrong with their network as you might expect. Ohhh boy. It took some persuasion and persistence to get up higher in the chain and finally we arrived or spoke with an engineer at a level that makes sense and who bites his teeth in into this issue. And he started digging and digging and digging and finally ended up that our IP space that we own, we bought several years ago, we bought our own IP space at Ripe and our IP block, as you can call it, a couple of thousand addresses that we use for public services for our customers and services of our own. For this particular customer on their domain controllers we were forwarding the DNS to the Google DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for the secondary and while Google of course also forwards it's DNS to DNS root servers, they ended up forwarding it to the, no, let me tell it correctly. When Google asks some other DNS server for the address, it also uses a source address and based on that source address, Microsoft routes you to a specific zone or region and they were giving me American IP address as a source. So we ended up being routed across the globe before we reached our virtual desktop. That gave a delay, an extra delay of over 100 milliseconds, which was... pretty much a showstopper because the customer was experiencing these kinds of lags and interruptions or delays within, when they scroll through a web browser or whatever. Or typing in orders in their order system. And since we were doing a proof of concept for this particular customer, we need it to run as smooth as possible and at least with the same response time and performance as the current solution they're using. Besides that issue, we also had delays within the application that run over the express route and today's testing day and we're going to try if those are sold as well. If they are screen delay related or that they are latency related due to the Azure express route. And the third one was a different application based on the Omnis (Tiger Logic) engine that was really starting, four or five times slower than any current desktop situation within Citrix. My opinion is that it has to do with the OS difference and now with the old solution they are using is based on 2008 R2 and the new solution is based on Windows 10. So there's a big difference in operating system. And we finally managed to contact the developers and we're going to try to upgrade the software to the later version, which officially supports Windows 10. But the application on its own is pretty slow because I thought it was a client, a three tier application. So we've got a database server, we've got an application server, you've got the application running on the desktop, but they switch over to a different method so that most of this software and calculations are starting up or are loaded during startup of the application. So that takes a longer time, doesn't sound really clear and convincing to me. So I gave them feedback and they're also testing to get these two applications run the same as in the current situation and when they do, then we got a successful proof of concept and we can move forward to migrate all applications towards WVD. So a rather technical on this one, big takeaway was that Microsoft was routing traffic through the wrong region and that ended up getting higher delays or higher latency. Now Microsoft is changing our I block, our IP space is getting assigned to the region that we're in. So we always get the shortest path to the services and servers within Azure. I hope you like this. If you do, by the way, please rate and subscribed because I like to increase my number of followers or and not my followers, there's no meaning or purpose on its own, but I like to help more IT professionals like yourself or business owners. So if you rate, subscribe, and share this, I get a broader reach and I can help more people. So thanks in advance and I'll see you guys next time. Thank you very much. Bye-bye, Marcel Martens.…
 
How I write book chapters. First to go through theme song, and then I'm going to tell you my dirty little secret on how I write my chapters for my book. Hi guys. What's up? Marcel Martens here, Cloud Secrets podcast. Welcome back and today I'm going to share a little secret with you about how I write my chapters for my Cloud Secrets book. As I shared before, I'm creating a little book for the secret formula that I use. If you just started to join or listen in, my secret formula is the formula that gave me basically everything that I needed and wanted back in those days. It was 2017. We were struggling to get by. I was living on my parents' pockets again as a 30 year olds male having a wife and three kids. I made some bad investments in hardware that didn't work, lost a lot of money there. And also we hired, well difficult and wrong employees. That obviously we didn't know when we were hiring them, but we were paying them way too much money. So we ended up didn't getting paid ourselves and you can only last for that long. So I had to go to my mom's and dad and well put my heart on the table and ask them if they could help me out. Give me monthly, I don't know, a lot money to pay my mortgage, my bills. So. And luckily they did. And that's also when, in that desperate times, that me and my wife figured out that formula that we using still today. And that has made it possible for me to be able to be debt free within a half year, in six months. So and besides that, living the life of my dreams and having a three day work week. So again I can enjoy holidays, all time. We go four times year, so. We love it, we like it and we keep doing it as long as it works, so. And that's what I'm writing my book about, my secret formula, the Cloud Secrets formula. And just to share a quick secret here, I don't write books, I'm an IT professional, an IT guy. I'm basically a nerd, so I'm not a linguistic, whatever, that is just to going to sit down on his desk and write a book. So I bet you could figure, right. But to be able to share all this with you. To... Well, I've got a whole mission and my mission is to get every business safe online or safe in business. By doing so we've developed, or by wanting that, I've developed the OSA home business suite and my reach only goes that far. So I would like to teach you that method. So not only can you run a profitable cloud service business and do the things you want to do, you also end up with well, raving fans instead of complaining customers. Because this one works every single time without any failure. And that's what I'm writing a book about. And instead of just sitting by my desk and started typing or started writing, I record them on my iPhone. That's all I use. No fancy and expensive equipment. 80% of all things I record, I'll use my iPhone and then I'll upload the transcription. Well, first to my notebook. Where I use Adobe Audition to, well clean up the audio file. Just maybe nice to share. Back in the day, I don't know when I was 12 till 16 or so, I thought myself as a DJ. And as you probably also know I'm from the Netherlands, the Dutch guy, Amsterdam and here in the Netherlands, well DJs are almost number one export product that we have in the Netherlands because we grow a lot of successful DJs, especially in dance and the techno scene. But now I'm dwelling of... And that days I was wanting to become one of those as well. It didn't work out. And I thought IT would be better for me, but I've got some small audio skills, I know, what things mean. So that's why I do the optimization of the audio files myself when I got the time and then I'm going to send them to Rev.com . Rev.com transcribes your audio for a buck a minute. So just $1 a minute and somebody is, I don't know, typing it all out for you. So you can literally just talk to your phone, talk about the content of your book and then you send it off to Rev. So if you are speaking for 15 minutes, it's just going to cost you 15 bucks and then you get the transcription. And all you've got to do is read over it, fix some minor errors and you're done. So that's my dirty little secret about how I write my book chapters. And I do them chapter by chapter. Otherwise it would be too much at once. Afterwards I can add the text to the book. I've got someone for me doing it. Also a lot of freelance, like all those lancers, you got Upwork, you got freelance.com all these kinds of lance sites where you can hire people to do things for you. They're not particularly expensive, in my opinion. So you can focus on the things you want to do or where you're good at and let other people take care of the things you don't like or you don't got time for it. So that's my dirty little secret about how I write book chapters. I say, if I say, "Take advantage of it. Use it to your own good." And I'll see you guys next time. By the way, if you like this, please rate and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio, YouTube, or on the blog. I don't care if you like to read, listen, watch. Pick your option and give some feedback. I love feedback. And otherwise, if you want me to share my experience or opinion on something, or talk about something, leave a comment down below the post on cloud-secrets.com. I always respond and I'll take it into consideration about making an episode about it. So thank you very much and talk to you guys next time. Bye bye, Marcel Martens.…
 
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