Memahami Cara Kerja Intuisi

Pengertian

Istilah intuisi memiliki banyak pengertian. Ada yang mengartikannya sebagai kapasitas batin yang membuat kita mengetahui sesuatu ketika pikiran kita tidak mengetahuinya. Intuisi adalah kemampuan untuk mengetahui sesuatu tanpa melalui proses reasoning atau conscious analyzing hingga kita bisa menjawab "what to do". Intuisi dalam pengertian seperti di atas, kata banyak orang malah sebenarnya semakin kita butuhkan di era informasi dan globalisasi ini. Lho, kok gitu? Bukannya teknologi sudah semakin mampu membuat kita mengetahui sesuatu yang otak kita tidak mengetahuinya, seperti SMS, internet, dan seterusnya dan seterusnya?
Di atas kertas putih, memang logika seperti itu bisa diterima. Tapi, kenyataan punya logika yang berbeda. Di era dimana informasi menjadi semakin berlimpah seperti sekarang ini, justru terkadang malah membuat kita semakin kurang informatif karena saking banyaknya informasi. Di samping itu, perubahan realitas yang dipicu oleh kemajuan teknologi, juga menuntut orang-orang tertentu harus mengambil keputusan cepat dan tepat. Untuk memutuskan sesuatu yang dasarnya informasi akurat secara internal dan eksternal, maka peranan intuisi menjadi semakin besar. Apa gunanya kita mengetahui banyak berita tentang dunia ini melalui tivi, hape, radio, internet, dan lain-lain, tetapi kita tidak mengetahui informasi yang tepat, yang membuat kita tahu apa yang mesti kita lakukan?
Seperti itulah kira-kira argumen yang kerap muncul. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) mungkin punya argumen tersendiri saat mengatakan: "The only real valuable thing is intuition." Padahal, track record-nya adalah ilmuwan, yang kalau menurut lazimnya, harus berbicara mengenai pentingnya reasoning, analyzing, knowing by fact, dan seterusnya. Ada lagi yang mengartikannya sebagai cara belajar, lebih tepatnya adalah bagaimana seseorang mendapatkan informasi dan mengambil keputusan. Cara belajar yang intuitive, menurut Jean M. Kummerow, dkk (Work Types: 1997), berbeda dengan cara belajar yang sensitif (sensing: meraba materi). Bentuk cara belajar intuitive itu antara lain: abstrak, imajinatif, koleksi ide-ide, teoritis, dan original (personal uniqueness).
Intuisi juga diartikan sebagai Alam Bawah Sadar (The Unconscious Mind) atau sesuatu yang kita lakukan tanpa proses berpikir secara sadar atau sudah menjadi kebiasaan. Ini seperti layaknya seorang sopir kendaraan yang mengetahui sesuatu tentang kendaraannya di jalan secara otomatik tanpa proses menemukan fakta logis lebih dahulu, misalnya mengukur besar-kecilnya atau harus ke kanan atau kiri.

Mendukunisasi Intuisi

Ada lagi istilah lain untuk menjelaskan apa itu intuisi. Istilah itu adalah kecerdasan hati (heart intelligence). Hati kita lebih sering dapat mengetahui sesuatu secara lebih cepat ketimbang nalar. Karena itu, orang-orang tua sering menasehati "ikuti kata hatimu" saat kita tidak tahu apa yang harus kita lakukan. Dari sekian pengertian intuisi yang kelihatannya berbeda itu, ternyata dapat memberikan penjelasan yang sangat logis mengenai cara kerjanya. Intuisi adalah kapasitas atau kecerdasan yang diberikan Tuhan kepada kita, yang fungsinya adalah memberi tahu tentang "What to do" dan "What not to do"saat kita tidak punya bekal pengetahuan atau dalam kondisi tidak sempat mencari pengetahuan.

Seperti kita alami sehari-hari, dalam hidup ini sudah biasa kalau kita harus memberi response atau  jawaban terhadap persoalan, padahal kita tidak tahu atau belum sempat bertanya. Namanya juga perang, tentu harus ada pukulan yang tak bisa kita prediksi. Mungkin atas dasar itulah Tuhan membekali kita dengan intuisi. Kan tidak lucu kalau kita selalu harus buka buku dulu setiap perlu mengambil keputusan dengan cepat? Nah, supaya kecerdasan intuisi itu lebih sanggup memberikan akurasi yang bagus, tentu perlu dilatih. Sayangnya, tidak ada sekolah atau kursus untuk ini sehingga harus dari inisiatif sendiri. Salah satu caranya adalah dengan menjalankan intuitive learning, seperti yang disarankan di muka. Latihan akan membuat kita dapat mengambil keputusan secara unconsciuous (tidak usah dipikir dulu).
Seperti yang sudah kita bahas di sini, ketika kita sudah sanggup melakukan sesuatu dengan cepat (tanpa perlu berpikir keras, panjang dan lama) dan tingkat akurasi yang tinggi (The unconsciously skilled), maka tingkat keahlian kita sudah tinggi levelnya. Stephen R. Covey, menyebutnya sebagai habit. Untuk melatih habit, maka syaratnya harus tiga, yaitu: a) mengasah ketrampilan, b) menambah pengetahuan, dan c) memiliki keinginan yang kuat. (Stephen R. Covey, 7 Habits of Highly of Effective People: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1993).
Nah, sebagai kapasitas atau kecerdasan yang menunggu sentuhan, maka akan lebih beruntung jika kita tidak selalu mendukunisasi intuisi. Dukunisasi dalam arti menghilangkan pemahaman yang berbasis akal sehat mengenai intuisi. Kita lebih sibuk memburu "orang pintar" yang dapat memberi jawaban instan tanpa latihan. Atau lebih sibuk kirim SMS ketimbang melatih proses. Memang, ada banyak jalan yang diturunkan Tuhan untuk mengetahui sesuatu, tanpa melalui proses reasoning, selain intuisi, dari mulai wangsit, bisikan jin, ilham, insting yang unik, dan seterusnya. Tetapi, secara fakta, tidak ada yang validitas, akurasi, dan kemanfaatannya melebihi proses yang berbasiskan akal sehat jika kepentingannya untuk mengetahui "what to do" atau "what not to do". Bisa saja kita dapat informasi dari "orang pintar" bahwa bisnis kita itu harus mengandung air atau kayu. Tapi kalau latihannya tidak jalan untuk mengasah intuisi yang berbasiskan akal sehat, hampir dipastikan kinerjanya sangat rendah. Bisa-bisa kalah oleh ketakutan, suara egoisme, ambisi, atau kalah oleh khayalan.

Mengelola Keleluasaan Dan Keterbatasan 

Tuhan memang menurunkan sekian keunikan kepada kita. Di samping memberi keleluasaan yang tak terbatas, kita pun dikasih keterbatasan. Agar kita bisa bergerak cepat saat tidak tahu harus kemana, Tuhan memberi kita intuisi. Tapi intuisi pun tak bisa menghilangkan keterbatasan, lebih-lebih menjadikan kita manusia yang tak pernah salah. Ini mustahil.
Selain terkait dengan proses mengasah kecerdasan, dimana setiap orang punya bentuk keterbatasan yang berbeda-beda, akurasi dan validitas intuisi juga terkait dengan jam terbang, spesialisasi atau wilayah perjuangan hidup. Penulis punya intuisi yang lebih tajam untuk hal-hal yang terkait dengan tulisan, begitu juga dengan teknisi IT yang sudah bisa mengetahui sebelum tahu. Sama juga dengan pengusaha, politikus, dan lain-lain. Memang harus diakui, ada sebagian orang yang dikasih intuisi hanya spesifik, sesuai bidangnya, dan ada yang dikasih ketajaman intuisi secara generik, dalam arti mampu melampaui bidangnya. Misalnya seorang guru yang bisa melihat muridnya secara intuitif. Itu sepertinya sudah merupakan hak veto Tuhan untuk membedakan dan menyamakan manusia.
Keterbatasan lainnya adalah mengetahui suara intuisi yang pas untuk keadaan yang pas. Ini juga tidak seratus persen dapat kita jamah. Adakalanya intuisi itu tampil dalam bentuk blitz (cahaya) yang sudah langsung tergambar di otak dari hati, innatefeeling (perasaan yang mengarahkan kita), kecondongan keyakinan, terulangnya kejadian yang kebetulan-tapi-tidak-kebetulan, dan lain-lain. 
Intinya, selain dikasih kapasitas untuk mengambil keputusan berdasarakan tool yang nyata, seperti pengetahauan, reasoning, dan seterusnya, Tuhan pun mengasih kita tool yang tidak nyata. Mulai dari intuisi, hidayah, ilham, feeling, insting, mimpi, dan seterusnya. Bedanya pada kualitas kinerja. Supaya kinerjanya bagus, harus dilatih. Supaya latihannya jalan, memang harus ada connectedness.

Sangkan Paraning Dumadi

Di tradisi spiritual kita ada istilah Sangkan Paraning Dumadi atau anjuran untuk mengetahui darimana dan mau kemana kita ini. Secara makro, pasti kita sudah tahu bahwa istilah itu mengajarkan kita untuk mengetahui Tuhan. Kita berasal dari Tuhan dan akan kembali ke Tuhan juga. Yang kerap kita lupakan adalah menggeret penerapannya ke ruang lingkup yang paling mikro, yaitu mengetahui diri kita. Padahal, pengetahuan diri merupakan kunci untuk mengetahui Tuhan. Walaupun kita sudah diajari mengenal Tuhan, tapi kalau belum mengenal diri, bisa-bisa pengetahuan kita tentang Tuhan baru di tingkat normatifnya, yang baru bagus untuk menjawab ujian sekolah, tapi kerap gagal untuk menjawab ujian kehidupan.

Cara yang diajarkan untuk mengenal diri, dari sejak turunnya para Nabi sampai ke temuan spiritual modern, adalah membangun komunikasi dengan diri agar tercipta connectedness (keterhubungan) antara kita dengan diri kita, dari yang sifatnya paling global sampai ke yang paling detail, dari yang paling makro sampai ke yang paling mikro. Ini misalnya saja mengenal dimana wilayah / bidang kita, mengenal kelebihan dan keunikan kita, mengenal visi dan nilai yang kita perjuangkan, atau mengenal Sangkan Paraning Dumadi kita sebagai hamba Tuhan yang harus tunduk dan sebagai khalifah Tuhan yang harus kreatif dengan kebebasan. 
Intensitas dan kualitas komunikasi (connectedness) kita dengan diri sangat terkait dengan kinerja intuisi, entah yang spesifik atau yang generik, jika dikaitkan dengan bagaimana keputusan akan kita ambil, "what to do"dan "what not to do". Untuk sebagai monitor, kita bisa mengecek bagaimana proses pengambilan keputusan itu melalui pertanyaan di bawah ini:
1.       Apakah kita sudah sering mengambil keputusan secara spontan lalu bekerja untuk menjalankan keputusan itu dan hasilnya lebih sering OK-nya?
2.        Apakah kita terbiasa mengambil keputusan melalui proses “pikir-pikir” dulu, menimbang salah-benarnya, lamban bertindak, dan hasilnya terkadang OK dan terkadang TIDAK OK?
3.       Apakah kita terbiasa mengambil keputusan melalui penolakan dulu, lari ke argumen moral dan retorika norma, tidak bersikap, tidak bertindak, dan hasilnya tidak mengubah apa-apa? 

Jika yang sering kita lakukan nomor (1), maka intuisi kita sudah bekerja lebih bagus karena connectedness kita sudah lebih intens. Kita sudah tahu lebih cepat what to do dan what not to do. Tapi kalau yang nomor (2), intensitas komunikasi kita masih lebih sering pada teori atau logika umum yang kita hafal sehingga kita butuh waktu atau butuh buka buku dulu. Sedangkan untuk nomor (3), bisa ada dua kemungkinan. Mungkin kita lebih intens dengan nafsu egoisme kita sehingga sering menolak apa yang terjadi (bukan menyikapi atau work on terhadap apa yang terjadi) atau mungkin lebih intens dengan khayalan kita sehingga lebih sering mengidealisasikan kenyataan, bukan menghadapi kenyataan.

Latihan Bersikap


Setiap hari, Tuhan melatih kita untuk menggunakan berbagai kapasitas, misalnya dengan memberi kejutan buruk, memberi pengalaman, atau pilihan dan puzzle. Terkadang, lebih sering kita menolak secara batin atau membiarkannya begitu saja. Padahal, kalau kita sikapi secara cepat, ini bisa melatih ketajaman intuitif, entah yang spesifik atau yang jenerarl. Bahwa untuk awal-awal ada banyak kesalahan, namanya juga belajar. Semoga bermanfaat.

referensi:

Stephen R. Covey, 7 Habits of Highly of Effective People: Simon & Schuster, Inc.,1993
Dari pelbagai buku literatur psikologi.
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Sebatas Pena

Ku goreskan pena saat hati berkata…Mencurahkan perasaan yang lama tertanam…
Mendalami kata hati selama dirasakan…
Batin bertanya, jiwapun gundah dan gelisah…

Hanya kiasan-kiasan menghibur batin…
Tidak tau benar tidak tau salah…
Yang terasa hanyalah sandiwara…
Atau entah, apa...???

Setitik embun harapan kehidupan…
Terangi jiwa yang di landa kegalauan…
Jangan biarkan hati teriris dan menanggis…
Tanamkanlah cinta harapan di hat
i, ujung ketulusan tombak kehidupan…

Resah dan gelisah menunggu sang waktu…
Ingin bahagia di kala hati merana…
Mendamba cinta nan jauh disana…
Hanya pena kemesraan mengobati kerinduan…

Malam...Andai nanti malam itu membuat
ku sakit..Kutanyalah pada unggas mengapa malam itu menyakitkan?
Malam...Andai nanti malam itu membuatmu mengeluh...

Fikirkan,mengapa kau mengeluh sedangkan hari-hari mu baru bermula..
Malam...andai nanti malam itu telah lari jauh dariku..
Katakan pada diriku itu yg terakhir...
Dan,batin pun tertanya dan jiwa pun gulana..dimana kan ku hiasi lakaran penaku??
?

Batin pun tertanya dan jiwa pun gulana..
Dimana kan ku imbuhi akan harga cintaku??
?
K
arena...
Hanya layak untuk mekar untuk diriku y
ang kepayahan..


Djisamsoe, (09:10)03 03 2011
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iMacro in action with APIs

Hello there, I know it’s been a long time since I am posting something new out here. Anyways, I am here and let’s start with something cool.

Today, I am going to open a whole new domain of possibilities where you can actually use your iMacro code for doing cool this; things that cool developer dudes (nerds) do often and charge a huge amount of money for that. ,, wait,, what’s coming ahead? Is it like some computer language tutorial or some cheap selling campaign? Well, not exactly, today’s section focuses upon utilization of iMacro scripting (simple scripting) for doing complicated activities without understanding or actually going through lengthy processes .

I am sure you must have heard of API, it’s a common term these days; it’s a fancy name given to a technique used for data/information transformation from one website to another. Let’s say you want to talk to your twitter account from your website, what will you do for it? Twitter allows standalone interface where you can login, see and send tweets and much more but what if you want to add this functionality in to your website so that whenever there is a news update from your company, it should get updated at your twitter account. Now, this is the place where API comes in to action; twitter, just like thousands of other website allows this functionality using its public API where you get free access to their API by registering and blah blah blah, oh crap, there are a bunch of tutorials out there, go and Google it yourself. As I said earlier and as you already know from my previous posts that I only share solutions that a common men can do (of course basic understandings of iMacro is must :P) so lets see how it is done.

There is a website called ‘www.apigee.com’, it’s a platform where you can actually access thousands of APIs of different websites including all of your favorite social media platforms. Today, we are going to see how easy it is to send periodic tweets using iMacro combined with apigee functionality; you will have to register a free account first and once you login, you will land at their home page with list of API’s that they have in their inventory, you can add more however let’s just stick with already listed ones. Now go through the lists and click ‘twitter’:

 An API allows interaction with the parent website and each API has different functions, as in our case, it allows getting data like tweet counts, friend lists, changing data from timeline, re-tweeting, posting a new tweet and many more functions, you must be seeing all these details if you’ve been following me.

Since you’ve got basic idea, let’s go for the real part where you actually link an API. There is a menu called ‘Console’ at the top, click it and click Authentication select box and select ‘OAuth 1’, it will show a popup, asking you to login your twitter account and allow it’s access to API, just hit ok/yes/authorize button (you know). Here I have allowed access to mine:


Now click “Select an API method” and select ‘Update.json’:



Now type the actual tweet text and click “Send” button:


And that’s it, go check your twitter account, you have actually posted a tweet using Twitter API :P

Keep in mind that twitter has limit of 160 characters, you can’t post a long tweet.

There are thousands of other APIs, some are listed at apigee and rest are more like personal however you can still utilize them using apigee if you have access to them. Here is the code for sending bulk tweets using iMacro:

VERSION BUILD=8920312 RECORDER=FX
'
'    Instructions:
'    Create a file in datasource folder, named Tweetsfile.csv; first row contains header and there is only 1 column
'
CmdLine !DataSource Tweetsfile.CSV
Set !DataSource_Columns 1
Set !Loop 2
Set !DataSource_Line {{!Loop}}

TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ID:request_params ATTR=ID:apigee_console_0_status CONTENT={{!Col1}}
TAG POS=1 TYPE=BUTTON FORM=ID:console_request ATTR=ID:send_button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:control_request_params
Wait Seconds=3

And more scheduling auto-tweets, checkout my previous post about scheduling iMacro scripts!
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Tumblr - how hard it can be for automation

Let me assure that as you are here, you must be aware of Tumblr.com right?

Tumblr
Tumblr Micro-Blog
OK, for those who are new to Tumblr, let me just go through little details about it and then we come to main point of this article. Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website at same time; it was founded by Mr. David Karp and later purchased by Yahoo Inc. (David would be happy to see his product purchased by Yahoo!) - Tumblr allow it's users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog and likewise it's a social cum blog platform, it possess basic features provided in both platform including LIKES & Re-blogging.

People are crazy with social media platforms, always looking for new methods and trick to automate everything around and social media platforms are already aware of this scenario and they aren't much bothered as eventually it's increasing their audience however not all the platforms have same mentality, Tumblr being one of them. Mr. David was happy with these spammers or aggressive users however Yahoo doesn't seem to give them free hand, just like their Email platform (Oh! I don't like fancy html codes by Yahoo, making it harder to go around and automate things). Since the takeover, they have been putting more and more complex backend code for making it a smart micro-blogging solution with least spammers (I am not a spammer, I do it for fun only :P ); with advanced jSon/jQuery and other fancy work, they have added a WYSIWYG Editor called "ACE Editor" which is a good feature for users since it has a lot of features just like MS-Word however if you are looking to automate posting using iMacro, this is a huge problem since iMacro doesn't recognize this editor and doesn't record most of the time that it would record normally. Working with ACE Editor require some backend knowledge about it and how it works, there are way around or tricks to add/remove text from the sessions that it created while active however Tumblr make it difficult to operate this widget while at their platform - I spent two days in finding a standard function that ACE Editor would normally call for getting/setting data and eventually ended with bunch of complex functions and triggers, this and that!

For those, who are planning to reverse code Tumblr code and get to ACE Editor and do modification through Java Scripting, I got an advice "Don't do it", it isn't worth trying if you haven't done this before.

Crux of above articles: Tumblr is difficult to code with iMacro until and unless you are too smart. I made a script recently, it take URLs from CSV file, open these URLs, click RE-BLOG button, clear all texts from comment/schedule sections and fill them both with new data from CSV before hitting Schedule button.
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Facebook Group Poster Script

I admit, I have been bombarded with more than 58 requests asking the same question and I can’t respond individuals so here is the script that all of you were looking for. This is a generic script, you can use it at any Facebook group however just make sure you are using English pages or you will have to do little modifications since script searches for particular terms for locating text areas and buttons:

'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'
'    FB Group Poster
'
'    This script will post text along with images at Facebook groups.
'
'
Set !Timeout_Step 3
Set !Extract_Test_Popup NO

Tag Pos=1 Type=TextArea Attr=Title:Write<sp>something... Extract=Htm
Set !Var1 Eval("var a = '{{!extract}}'.match(/id=.(.+).>Write\s/); a[1];")

Set !ReplaySpeed Medium

' Add text below
EVENT TYPE=CLICK SELECTOR="#{{!Var1}}" BUTTON=0
EVENTS TYPE=KEYPRESS SELECTOR="#{{!Var1}}" CHARS="This is first line!\n\nLine2\n\nLine3"

Set !Extract Null

Tag Pos=1 Type=A Attr=data-endpoint:/ajax/composerx/attachment/media/chooser/
Tag Pos=1 Type=Input:File Attr=aria-label:*Photos/Video Extract=Htm
Set !Var2 Eval("var a = '{{!extract}}'.match(/id=.(.+).\sclass=/); a[1];")
Set !Extract Null

' Change path of picture from here or link it through CSV file
Tag Pos=1 Type=Input:File Attr=ID:{{!Var2}} Content=C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample<SP>Pictures\Chrysanthemum.jpg

Set !Timeout_Step 1
Tag Pos=1 Type=Div Attr=Class:_1dsp Content=Event:MouseOver
Tag Pos=R-1 Type=Form Attr=* Extract=Htm

Set !Var3 Eval("var a = '{{!extract}}'.match(/id=.(.+).><input\sname=/); a[1];")
Set !Extract Null

Tag Pos=1 Type=Form Attr=ID:{{!Var3}} Content=Event:MouseOver
Tag Pos=R1 Type=Form Attr=* Extract=Htm

Set !Var4 Eval("var a = '{{!extract}}'.match(/id=.(.+).\sonsubmit/); a[1];")
Set !Extract Null

Wait Seconds=40

Tag Pos=1 Type=Button Form=ID:{{!Var4}} Attr=Txt:Post


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This script will put a simple text and add an image from my document; the good thing is that, you can link this with a csv file using 'Set !Datasource file_name.csv' and post multiple messages with images.
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New method of getting FREELANCE Projects

Hi everyone and thanks you for keep returning in search of new articles. This time, I have received more than 16 emails from individual FREELANCERS for quick solutions in getting on-line projects.

For which audience this article is useful?

Well, it’s informative in all aspects and can help everyone in releasing that they could also have done something like this before. Anyhow, this article will help all FREELANCERS out there, who are seeking part-time freelance or home based jobs; yes, I know there are lots of portals for getting jobs such as Freelancer.com, Elance and oDesk.com however everyone knows about them and it makes them highly saturated platforms, where you are not alone to do particular task, there are always replacement and hence payout rate is lower that few workers won’t prefer working at.

Wait! Wait!, I don’t mean you shouldn’t visit those portals, I only mean that there are lots of people over there already and often it’s difficult to get a project so why not use alternatives (or should I say, UNIQUE ALTERNATIVES) for getting freelance projects!

Ok, so it started back when I looked all over for freelance projects for more than two months and couldn’t get even one as I didn’t had any of their exam passing certificate and was limited only to 8 bids at a time, they allows adding few skills and blah blah… though I manage to contact few employers however none of them wanted me to work as they thought I was asking high amount and there were people ready to work at even 1/3 of what I was looking for. I promise, I wasn’t unfair and was asking only for market standard rates but there are always people from Middle East regions like India and Bangladesh who are ready to work at almost free.

Anyhow, let’s just NOT talk about those portals; so I started searching for new places where I can get few freelance projects and I came across Craiglist.com – most of the people out here may already know about Craiglist however only a fraction have actually utilized it as I have done it. Craiglist is one of the pioneer CLASSIFIED POSTING (C2C) platform and it has thousands of posting from all countries on daily basis, these posts contain selling requests, purchasing requests, job offers, services, advertisements and other sort of stuff. They have separated their lists into [ Countries -> Category ] and you can visit any country’s section and start searching in individual categories; think of having more than 200 countries listed in a website and everyone has 5 categories and every category has thousands of records, updated on daily basis. AH! Too much data (Clue! This can be used for SEO purpose as well, however I ain’t changing my directions).

This was the point that actually attracted me; see, if there is a lot of data, there might be good jobs as well so I make a script that would go through all countries, select particular category/term and acquire all lists in to a single sheet and once it’s done, further filtration is possible using Excel. I had 79k data for the first time, took around 1.2 hours and after adding filter “Contain data – Content writer” it showed only 133 records, after adding further filters I got only 28 records and manually checked them and contacted only those which looked useful to me. Fortunately, I received response from two of the employers who were searching to outsource content writing and I got one small contract that very same day when I created the script – worked for me, it can work for you as well at-least it motivational for me!

By now, I have extracted hundreds of thousands of records since I am doing it from a week and believe me, thousands of records are posted daily at Craiglist, and this list will never end as well as chances of getting FREELANCE projects.



Script is ready and it costs only 50$, if anyone out there needs it – contact me directly otherwise make your own script, it’s easy with iMacro Scripting.
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BlogSpot - Explored by iMacro method

BlogSpot has always been favorite choice of bloggers; new or experienced, all bloggers somehow create their blogs through BlogSpot. Its usage and features are obvious however let me just go through some facts for new comers.

It's a free blogging solution with lots of features, you add gadgets like LABEL, Video, Images, external links, Scripts and with easily available customized themes, make it look like a fully operating complex website without having to know any computer language; since its product of Google, all of the blogs are crawled quickly and even with few articles, you can receive some traffic on daily basis – I remember making a blog two months ago with just 5 articles, since then more than 60 people have seen my blog!

This article is all about how to make a speedy blog and start earning through ads or Google adsense!

Making a blog is piece of cake however you need to pick a themes, an idea or lets just say, let be a category of interest that you find yourself able to write or can arrange content related with it. For me, I was in little rush so I started searching for any kind of content that can easily be utilized without further modification, while search I came against a list of buyers with their buying requirements so I created a blog named ‘B2B GlobalImporters” and started posting these articles using iMacro script however soon after posting few posts I came across CAPTCHA (Oh I just hate re-CAPTCHA), anyways, that wasn't useful so I started searching for alternatives and fortunately, I came across with even more simpler approach for bulk posting and it was bit strange for me to know that a huge amount of bloggers weren't aware of this thing – BlogSpot allow adding POSTS through EMAIL, there is an option under setting where you set a secret email id (something like youremail.secretword@blogspot.com) and whenever you send email to that particular ID, all email were treated like BLOG POSTS, there is daily limit of 30 however it was worthy.

Aggressive posting creates negative impact, make your users feel like that some auto-posting scripts are working behind it and search engines even don’t like it much. Anyhow, here is what I did:
  • Compiled the list in a proper format
  • Started sending 30 emails daily using MAIL MERGE technique (Google it if this term is new for you)
  • Created an script which would read posts from DRAFTS folder, separate labels along with other fields and do little modification and post it – 5 to 10 article daily posting was just enough for me!
    • Script was required to post labels because email post only allows subject and body of the post, for rest of the supporting fields you will have to post them manually or by using scripts. My email post included data in XML type format like:
      • <subject>Subject line</subject>
      • <body>this is body of the post</body>
      • <label>this field will be used as label</label>
Here are few snaps showing working of iMacro Script:

Content forwarded through MAIL MERGER:


Content after modification and posting through iMacro Script:


Script is available for free however it may not be useful in your case since you don’t have same data as I do and I've designed it to post data in a HTML format which you might not like; IDEA is there, it’s worthy and can get you extra dollars in future, you can start your own blog after reading my article – if you need my assistance in accomplishing any similar project, I be there for you just for 10$.

Comment for any questions that you have in your mind!
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