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Back in the Land of the Living

2008-11-28T10:05:00.003Z

This is our first post in well over 2 years!.We got bogged down in other things along the way including spending the vast majority of our time on our main niche website at www.astraldrivingschool.ie.

Things are changing now and in the intervening time we have learnt quite a bit on the thorny subject of Marketing on the Web.

We are launching our new Wordpress Blog for Marketers at www.robinpiggott.ie

In addition we have been successfully testing Google Adwords and list building at our main Driving School site. we will transfer all of the content onto the new wordpress blog in due course.
In the meantime have a good one and watch out for lots of new content and plenty of advice as we share our experiences of our Web Journey.

Tried and Tested ?......You Bet. An innovation in Business Cards!

2006-03-06T03:40:00.000Z

Here is a very informative article on the use of CD Business cards which definitely produce a better return than the traditional Business Card. Ever had someone to whom you have just given a business card have them screw it up while still talking to you?
Not a pleasant experience and sometimes it's not malicious but just force of habit.
You certainly won't get your CD Business card screwed up ...it will provide a great opportunity for you to follow up with the prospect and get some useful info on what they thought of the card and also what they thought about your presentation.

Here is the Article by A.Carr

Marketing your Business using CD Business Cards
by A Carr

CD Business Cards have become of the most widely heralded marketing tools used today. Why? Because quite simply they work. The information delivered on such a small disc and the overall impact is unmatched. (Plus they're really cool to hand out.)

Over the last few years some very interesting changes have taken place in this e-card market. With the introduction of CD business cards, CD-R business cards and shaped CDs, companies from industry and manufacturing to service and retail have put together some incredible multimedia presentations. In basic terms, CD-ROM Business Cards are mini CDs that can be programmed to deliver multimedia presentations, product catalogs, video infomercials, Web sites, links, resumes and much more. They are a fabulous way to bring new visitors to your business or Web site. If used properly they can deliver a much higher ROI (return on investment) than conventional marketing. We have found the following has proven successful for a number of our clients.

Keep it simple: The CD Business Card has the power to deliver a high-impact, full-blown media presentation with sights, sounds, bells and whistles. In my experience it is best not to overdo it. Grab the customer's attention with a brief introduction, get your point across and provide a URL link and contact info. Don't get involved in a presentation that takes 15 minutes to view, unless you know they want to view it. Make sure the card is self-executing, so all the viewer has to do is insert the CD into their ROM drive sit back and view the presentation.

Contests: Although CD cards are intriguing enough by themselves, you can ensure the prospective client will view its contents by using the card to run a contest. Simply code the discs with a series of numbers and encourage the viewer to visit your Web site or location to check for the winning number.

Direct mail: If you plan on using the CD card as a direct mail piece, personalize each CD label or presentation by using the prospect's name or company name. This may prove more time consuming, but the end result will be well worth the effort.

Track results: Make sure to code the URL links and e-mail address on all your CD cards so you can track the results. The simplest way to do this is to add a tag to your e-mail or URL - mailto:info@cardiscs.com?subject=CD or [WEB SITE].

Use CD-Rs: Test the waters before making a large investment by using CD-R business cards. The great thing about using recordable CD biz cards is you don't have to make thousands at a time; you can burn 25 to 50 on your own burner, test and retest the results until you find a presentation that delivers the desired result.

Consider the shape of the discs: CD business cards come in two shapes, 1) the standard rink shape straight top and bottom curved sides (it resembles a hockey rink.) 2) the rectangle shape all four sides have straight edges (it resembles a credit card.) Based on my experience some customers are hesitant to put a rectangle shaped disc in their ROM drive, even though they are safe, have been tested and used for a few years without incident. I usually use the rink shaped discs so I don't risk eliminating potential viewers.

Andy Carr is the president of Citiscape Shapes. A supplier of CD business cards for the last 8 years. Their Website CD BUSINESS Cards by CARDISCS.COM has been featured in Newsweek and on ZDnet TV

Article Source: Articles411.com Directory

Video Secrets Course ...No Longer a Secret!

2006-03-01T16:49:00.000Z

Website Video Secrets: A Video Odyssey

This is Jim Edwards New Video Secrets Course ! You should take a look!

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JIM EDWARDS Comes to A Town Near You...be There!

2006-02-26T21:03:00.000Z

Guru Daq Top Mover Jim Edwards (yes he of E Book Fame!) has just announced his very first U.K. E.Book Seminar which will be held at the Heathrow Sheraton Hotel on the weekend of 22nd and 23rd April 2006.

This is Jims’ first European Seminar/Workshop and will obviously sell out very quickly. Most of you who have been online for a little while will know the successes that Jim has achieved after coming back from Bankruptcy and a Trailer Park! His monumental achievements show us all that no matter how low you sink there is always a path to get you out of oblivion providing you have the guts and determination to do so.

Having some supportive infrastructure is always a great benefit in creating success at any level…Jim had none of this during the early days of the Internet Marketing revolution in the late 1990’s so his success is all the more remarkable which is why he has built up such a loyal following, myself included.

Jim was one of the few people who replied personally to an e-mail from me nearly two years ago when I was first discovering how the whole Internet thingy worked .This impressed me no end and after purchasing several of his own and co produced products it was obvious that Jim was not only here to stay but was going to make an enormous impact in the Internet Marketing field.

Jim’s first UK seminar will be concerned with passing on all the nuts and bolts of how to create and Market your own E. Books and make a successful and profitable income.

I shall be there and I urge you to get cracking and subscribe for the event before it sells out which it inevitably will and in double quick time. Here will be an opportunity to learn from the Master and his special guest Phil Gosling over two action packed days .If you are on Jim’s mailing list you will possibly have heard already about the workshop if you are in Europe but if not I suggest that you visit one of his sites and get on the list pronto. Below is the link to one of his sites” Turn Words intoTraffic that I promote as an affiliate…so what’s keeping you?

Turn Words into Traffic An absolute masterpiece co written with Dallas Edwards, Jim's Mentor!

P.S. you could also take a look at my post about the Guru Daq Index from 08 02 06 which features Jim Edwards.

Have a great week and start getting ready for your first e.Book!

Marketing Yourself On AIR.

2006-02-24T07:51:00.000Z

We have been invited to take part in another Radio Broadcast this morning on Ocean Fm along with an Irish Senator .to discuss the Driving malaise that is threatening to engulf the whole system of learner Drivers , Driving Tests, and Serious and Fatal accidents.

As we have said before there are many reasons for the lengthy delays in getting an Irish Driving Test appointment.

They are as Follows.

(1) Demographics. ..huge numbers of young people now in the age bracket at which they will be able to Drive (650,000)
(2) Drivers not preparing adequately or at all for their Test…meaning that they do not pass first time and go back to the end of the queue
(3) Changes in the Legislation regarding Provisional Licenses …meaning you now can no longer spend 25 years on a Provisional license!
(4) Shortage of Driving Examiners …the number of Examiners has not been increased for years and we now have a huge increase in the population.
(5) Immigration…Vast numbers of new Immigrants from the New EU accession States and further a field.
(6) Full employment ... means that more people have to travel to work outside of the Metropolis by their own Transport since there is no alternative.
(7) Some candidates don’t turn up at all which means that those who are desperately waiting for a Test date cannot be facilitated with cancellation appointments

Just a brief look at some of the main reasons for Driving Test Mayhem.

Ocean Fm 102.5….. http://www.oceanfm.ie

Log onto their site and hear the station live on the Internet

Talk to you again very Soon... Drive Safely.

What's the Best Way to Increase Traffic to Your Website"

2006-02-23T14:49:00.000Z

An Article By Charlie Cook

You built a web site to create a surge of inquiries and new business, but hardly anyone even drifts by, much less stays to learn about your company. Given the time and money you\'ve spent, you\'re frustrated that your web site hasn\'t turned into a profit center overnight, and you\'re inclined to dismiss its revenue-generating potential.

Don't! There are three excellent ways to bring people to your web site.

1. The Best Way to Attract Visitors
Unquestionably the best way to channel a flood of visitors to your web site is to get it listed at the top of every search engine. If prospects can find your web site in the first ten spots on Google, Yahoo and MSN, you\'ll get plenty of visitors. Even a listing within the top twenty will bring in a steady stream.

You know that search engine position depends on keywords and the way they are used on your site. Search engines look at the frequency of use on your page and number of links to relevant pages.

If you've ever worked with the site code yourself to try to get to a top position in the search engines, you know that it is not obvious how to succeed at this. The experts (and many who claim to be search engine specialists are not
expert) charge $12,000 to $30,000 and up annually, per site, to achieve and maintain top search engine positions.

Thanks to top placements for several keywords, my site attracts over 35,000 unique visitors each month. You or someone in your firm can achieve this, too.

Don't have the time to do your own search engine positioning or a budget of $12 to 30 thousand dollars for the task?
Write me and I'll refer you to a reputable firm that can help you.

2. The 2nd Best Way to Attract Web Site Visitors
Top search engine positions make a big difference, but if you don\'t want to invest the time or money to put your site at the top of the search engines, there is a virtually no-cost technique you can use to bring in qualified prospects.

Thousands of online ezines and newsletters are hungry for content, and your prospects are always looking for ideas that will improve their businesses or their lives. Write short articles with ideas and information that your target market can use, send it to the ezines, and links from those back to your site will bring hundreds or thousands of prospects right to your \'door\'.

One article I sent out last December, \'What Santa Knows About Marketing\' was picked up by over a thousand ezines, newsletters and web sites, and is still listed ten months later.

3. The 3rd Best Way to Attract Web Site Visitors
I love Google Ads and you should, too. They are simple to set up, you pay only when people click on your ads, and you can set daily budget limits. They look like the easiest way to attract qualified leads to your web site. Why aren\'t they the number one way to attract web site visitors? Because making Google Ads profitable is more complex than it first appears.

Have you tried Google Ads? What were your results?

Lots of companies use Google Ads, but few can justify the cost based on the sales generated. It turns out that to make your Google Ads pay for themselves, you need to pay careful attention to keyword selection, the wording of your ad, and the layout, wording, and links on the page that people are sent to from the ad.

Given the challenge and the cost associated with search engine positioning, and depending on your particular product or service, Google Ads may be the best way to attract visitors. Use the approach outlined above to put them to work for your business.

About This Author:

The author, Charlie Cook, helps service professionals, small business owners and marketing professionals attract more clients and be more successful. Sign up to receive the Free Marketing Strategy eBook, '7 Steps to get more clients and grow your business' at http://www.marketingforsuccess.com

This article was found at Site Reference.and is reproduced with permission.

Video Killed the Radio Star? Our 50th Post!

2006-02-23T13:22:00.000Z

Today marks a landmark posting Milestone for this Blog ...Our 50th Post!

So come celebrate as we crack open the Java
This is not a world record but nevertheless an achievement which any one can emulate with a little effort and a passion for your Niche!

WANT TO HEAR ABOUT A REAL WORLD RECORD? Lance Winslow EZINE ARTICLES.COM most prolific Author just published over 500 articles in the Month of January.That will be hard for anyone to beat.

Think of the time it took to conqueur Everest,to fly non stop across the Atlantic and to beat the four minute mile barrier and you have an idea of what is ahead of you!

Here is a little snippet for all of you newbie marketers into the great benefits of posting to forums and sending e-mail on your niche Topic to, for example, Radio Stations whose articles and web sites you happen upon.

In the very early hours of this morning before the cocks crowed but while revellers can still be found trying to navigate their four wheels round a lamp post that conveniently got in their way, I came across a web site for a New Radio Station.

Ocean Fm has a very good site and is based in the Northwest of the Island in Donegal Town covering several counties that are well known to Tourists visiting Ireland namely Donegal,Sligo and Leitrim.For those of you not familiar with these Counties...Donegal has the most spectactular BEACHES, ...SLIGO is the spiritual home of one of Irelands' favourite Sons ...the Poet Yeats ...and Leitrim used to be known for its Coal Mining Industry but better known now for its fantastic and unspoiled Coarse Fishing
I Guess I will have to pen a few articles on these Counties in due course.

Finally we get to the startling revelations!

Now I wasn’t surfing for the early morning news but had just received a Google Alert in my in box with an article from one of the Station’s contributors. Yes it concerned my other main passion in life (apart from Marketing) …that of trying to make a difference, however small, to the ever increasing problem of Driving Test delays here in Ireland , but more importantly the Life and Death struggle being waged by Ireland’s Motorists.

Where’s the benefit? ... well… before the ink (!) had dried on my e-mail (no that’s a slight exaggeration ) I received an e-mail from a Producer at the Radio Station asking if I would be available to take part in a broadcast tomorrow Morning.

That is how quickly you can build a contact and a chance to express your views. Don’t you just LUUUUve the power of the Internet? Of course you have to be in the right Mode (or mood) with the strategy well in place if you are going to seize opportunities like this on a regular basis.

I published an article recently at Ezine Articles .com where the GOOGLE Alert strategy was outlined as a very efficient and up to the minute way of creating Blog Posts and Articles. Here is the link to my Article Directory page at Ezine Articles Dot Com Exiled Brit Spouts Forth

Read and Digest (you had better get a pot of Java on the boil) and then suitably refreshed you better go out and do the same…again and again. Your profile will start to build and when this is underway, then you can expect to see an increase in the flow of Traffic to your Web Site and hopefully the increase in sales of your services and products…since you have now become not only known but trusted as well!

Get Writing and go get a Google Alerts Account right now!!
(c) Robin Piggott...Astral Web Authors 2006.

http://www.astralmotoring.ie
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie

Do it –Share it--Take it to the Bank. The Edison Factor!

2006-02-21T13:22:00.000Z

Here's an article published 30 minutes ago on Ezine Articles.com...it explores the possibilities of a technique to drive not only more traffic to your web site but to a specific page on your site that you have decided upon.

Here is the Article:-
by Robin Piggott

When you finally realise that your pretty little web site is not performing the way you had expected (which needs to come sooner rather than later) you have some work to do and then some! First of all it’s worth pointing out that today’s top marketers and those of yesteryear also have one thing in common with those of us starting off right now and that is that they were newcomers once also.

They did not give up at the first hurdle or even the five hundredth! Remember Thomas Edison and his 10,000 experiments before the light finally switched on! Each generation of successful entrepreneurs became just that as a result of the Edison Factor; the never give up, keep going, the dark just before the dawn philosophy.

Believe me it works! And what ever works you better do more of …much much more!

Now that I have your attention let’s home in on your pretty little web site that is dead in the water. At this point and with you tearing your hair out, you just have to pull something out of the bag or in this case for the purpose of this article, your Blog. What the hell has a Blog got to do with it (apologies to Tina Turner).Let me enlighten you and refer again to that dimly lit laboratory all those decades ago when all was finally revealed in a blinding flash so to speak? The Edison factor is waiting for each of us if we only give it a chance to switch on.

Clearly if you have not already joined the growing ranks of the Blogosphere than you should stop reading right now and just go set one up and then come back tomorrow or this afternoon if you really believe that you can get going in 15 minutes like Big Jim Edwards says you can (we are not all blessed with cyber kinetic chips in our little brains!)

Here’s the deal (real or otherwise!)Write a new and devastating page for your web site and hide it away in the murky depths of the “dead-in –the –water” real estate. You aren’t getting any traffic so it doesn’t matter where you put it? For the time being! You should put a reference to it on your home page since this is where your few visitors are mostly going to happen along anyway. This may get them curious, particularly if you have a really punchy headline and the content is going to shake them up a bit.

Now comes the Crunch…Post about it on your Blog (the new page that is); use the title of your blog post to reflect the nature of the Web Page…and in the post you can give a snippet of the page (not the whole page) with perhaps two hyper links. One at the beginning and one at the end of the post. Using some good keyword phrases to act as the Anchor text you link directly to your new page and Voila… visitors to your Blog are now going straight to your new page on the web site. Doesn’t matter how bad you feel about your current(!) illumination(web site presence) you are starting to get visitors into the centre of your site and who knows they may even stick around a while.

At this point you have now bought some time and you should be rewriting and improving your Web Site like there was no tomorrow because if visitors are going to return they have got to have something worthwhile to return to ...Makes sense ...Yes?
Next action is to check your web site stats every morning and look at the entry pages. You will be amazed that within a few days your most read page will be the one that you linked to from your Blog.
This is a technique that I have been using for only a short while and it has resulted in a massive increase in the daily traffic to the Web site. Still not anything like enough traffic and still pitiful, but it’s a principle that works well providing you post very regularly to your Blog and in each post you use anchor text to link to a specific page on your site which could be any page that you want to get further traffic.

Obviously until you build up traffic to your blog this will not break the bank but if it works and you can see actual results from your labours then you will gain the confidence and stamina to keep going until it all clicks together. Yesterday, or rather last night, I used this strategy to announce new changes to our web site and since the pages referred to in the blog post are not even live on the Web Site yet, since I am not yet the Webmaster, I linked to two separate pages in the two links. This morning we have seen the best ever daily visitor numbers to our site and I have already rung the Bank and told them to crack open the Bubbly! No seriously this is a technique along with many others that will get you where you want to go eventually .The important thing to remember is:-

DO IT OFTEN ----- SHARE IT OFTEN----THEN YOU WILL DEFINITELY BE TAKING IT TO THE BANK!

Copyright(c) Astral Driving School.Ireland

Driving with the Real Professionals..on the Road and On-Line

The Larry Dotson Encyclopaedia of Hypnotic Verse

2006-02-21T11:32:00.000Z

Here's a quick link to Larry Dotson's Web Site where you have the chance to download a free Ebook giving you 5000 hypnotic words and phrases to help with your sales copy.

The Ten Thousand (10,000) version is on offer for $19.95 but 5000 will keep you going for a good while until you run out of steam! and heck it's for free.

I come across Larry Dotson from time to time but he perhaps keeps a lower profile than other Marketers. Today while checking up on my published articles circulating out there in Cyberspace he surfaced as a major contributor in this particular Directory I stumbled upon and obviously his Hypnotic words led me to take a look at what he was saying on his site.

I guess this is one of the best ways of stumbling on nuggets of marketing wisdom...just follow the trail from your own articles and it will lead you to some terific Web Sites. Just one of the many benefits of writing articles that means that you don't spend quite so much time searching for new information....just follow the TRAIL!

Larry Dotson's Idpublishing.com

The Science of Getting Rich

2006-02-19T08:15:00.000Z

The Science of Getting Rich is a site that developed out of sharing a valuable, long lost book by Wallace D.Wattles.

Rebecca Fine received the book several years ago and passed it around and this sharing idea became the site you see today.

Go take a look it will be well worth while.

http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net

Tips on the Placement of Advertising on your Site.

2006-02-18T17:04:00.000Z

Here's a good article by Stephen Bucaro on the ins and outs of ad placements on your web site.
Obviously as a newbie you have got to start somewhere and while you could spend all the money(if you have it?) and take weeks or months to get your site up and running with a Professional Web Master, I think it's better to get your feet wet and have a go yourself while learning the ropes.You will be better able to communicate with your webmaster in due course if you are doing some of the development work yourself and you will also know what works and what doesn't much more quickly.

Bear this in mind, most if not all, Web Designers are just that... they are not Marketers nor do they know much about your Business. You owe it to yourself to learn the hard way by doing it and not relying entirely on someone else. When you have money in the Bank, and by jimminee you will need some and a half! if you are going to hire a webmaster; you can then talk confidently with your designer and have some idea of how things should be going during the site -build process. Here is the Article:-

Integrating Advertising into Your Web Design

By Stephen Bucaro

If you are going to be placing ads on your website, you'll
want to put some thought into how you'll integrate them.
Poor integration of ads into your website will cause
visitors to click away fast. Successful integration of ads
into your site can be highly profitable. Before I show you
where to position ads, I want to mention a few important
points about ads.

1. Ratio of ads to content

How many ads should you place on your website? There is an
optimum ratio of ads to content. If your website has too
high a proportion of advertising relative to content, the
traffic on your website will suffer and you will lose
money. If your website has too low a portion of advertising
relative to content, the sales on your website will suffer
and you will lose money.

What is the optimum ratio of ads to content? I can't point
to any studies, but I feel the optimum ratio is somewhere
around 20 to 25 percent ads relative to content. Go much
above that ratio and, despite more ads, the revenue from
your site goes down. But, there are ways to exceed that
ratio and still make more money.

Ads as a service

Advertisements can provide useful information, as well as
content. In that case, the ads become content. Here's an
example. Rather than post ads that pay you the highest
commission, post ads that provide the best value to the
visitors to your website. These are ads where the value is
so good you might respond to the ad yourself. This type of
ad is more of a service than an advertisement.

Another example is ads for gifts around the holidays.
People expect and are not turned off by an increase in ads
around the holidays. Finding gifts for everyone on your
list is difficult work, and people appreciate gift ideas.
Again, this type of ad is more of a service than an
advertisement.

You can safely exceed the normal ratio of ads to content
if you hide the ads in the content. An example of this is
product "reviews". For example, computer magazines are
almost 100 percent advertising posing as product reviews.

2. Repetition of ads and ad management

I have seen websites that display the exact same banner
on every page. If I didn't respond to the banner on the
first page, what makes them think I will repond to it on
the second, third ... hundredth page?

Displaying the same banner on every page of your website
is annoying to your website's visitors, and a money losing
propostion for you. Keep your ads fresh. Ads are boring
enough without repeating the same ad over and over. Display
a variety of ads, and use an ad management system. An
example of an ad management system is a banner rotator.

3. Ad type relative to response rate

I have heard claims that text ads receive the highest
reponse. I'm sure these results are not related to whether
the ad is text or graphics, but more likely related to the
fact that text ads are usually placed in the more
responsive areas of a webpage. All thing being equal, a
graphic ad will always get better response than a text ad.

A graphic ad will get higher response than a text ad, and
an animated graphic ad will get higher response than a
static graphic ad. But animation can be taken to an
extreme. Some types of animation are annoying and not only
does the ad get a low response, but it also causes visitors
to click away from your website.

Examples of annoying animated ads are banners that flash or
jiggle or do something else that distracts the visitor so
they can't read the webpage content. Those visitors that
don't click away will scroll the webpage so this type of
ad goes off screen while they try to read the webpage.

A secret few advertising designers know is that the graphic
that will get the most attention is a picture of a human
face. People are genetically predisposed to look at a human
face in their view area. Try it yourself while you're
browsing the web. If a webpage has a human face on it,
that's the first thing you will look at.

Where to position ads on your webpage

To discuss where to place ads on a webpage, we need to
divide a page into five sections as listed below.

1. Header
2. Footer
3. Left Margin
4. Right Margin
5. Center column

Note: There is a sixth area of the webpage which is the
popup window. There are many forms of popup windows;
pop-over, pop-under, delayed, and exit. The polite way to
use popup windows is the self-closing popup window. Because
of popup window blockers, popup windows are much less
effective today, and, from my own experience, when I tried
using popup windows, the page views on my website dropped
by 50 percent.

The most common position to place advertising banners is
in the header section of a webpage. Web users have
programmed themselves to ignore banners in this position.
The response rate of banners in the header section of
webpages has dropped to something like .0001 percent. The
Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has tried to overcome
this problem by defining giant (what I call "battleship
size") banners. I don't know of any studies that show this
works.

Using banners in the head section of your webpage is a
waste of processor time, but most webpages still use them.
Making a sale this way is a long shot. Banners in the footer
section of a webpage are even less responsive.

Actually Web users have programmed themselves to ignore all
advertising on the web. However, from my own experience,
you can get some response from ads in the left and right
margins of a webpage. Most websites are designed with the
menu in the left margin and possibly ads in the right
margin. This means if the user has a low resolution display,
depending upon the width of the webpage, the advertising
may be off the screen.

Place your menu in the right margin and use the left margin
for advertising. This places the user with a low resolution
display in the positon of having to scroll to view the menu.
Too bad. They should get a bigger display. Website revenue
comes first.

The most responsive position to put your ads is in the
center column of the webpage along with the content. As
visitors are reading the article on the webpage, they come
upon the ad. It's unavoidable.

If you imagine the center column of your webpage divided
into three parts; top, middle, and bottom, the most
responsive position for your ad will be right in the middle.
As the visitors are reading the article on the webpage,
they are forced to look at the ad as they continue to the
lower part of the article. This might be a little annoying
to the reader, but let's hope your content is worth that
slight annoyance.

I would recommend placing your ad at the bottom of the
center column. As visitors read the article on the webpage,
they end up looking at your ad. This is almost as
effective as placing the ad in the middle of the column,
and a lot less annoying to the reader.

As you can see, how you integrate advertising into your
webpages has a major impact on your ability to produce
revenue from your website. Poor ad integration will cause
visitors to click away. Proper integration can make your
website highly profitable. But, ad positon is not the
only determining factor, don't forget the ratio of ads to
content, ad management, and ad type relative to response
rate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR :-Stephen Bucaro

To learn how to maintain your computer and use it more effectively to design a Web site and make money on the Web visit bucarotechelp.com To subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter visit
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Copyright(C) 2004 Bucaro TecHelp.

Fresh Article Published at Ezine Articles.com

2006-02-17T14:29:00.000Z

As a result of attending an excellent Seminar yesterday run by the Irish Internet Association I decided to pen an article on the benefits of getting out of the "Office",
and checking up on what's going on, on your particular home patch.
This could equally be offline or on-line and the benefits can be far reaching if you set this activity up as a regular part of your Business activity.

Here is the link to my Authors page at ezine articles.com where you can find all of my accepted and published work.

There were seven speakers all of whom were experts in their respective fields and the seminar covered Domain Registrations and the reasons for chosing between dot Com and various other Country Domains as well as E Commerce setup strategies and Google Adwords campaigns. The Managing Director of e-Bay Ireland gave a fascinating talk on the explosive growth of E Bay and the way the Company is headed worldwide.

An excellent seminar and well attended by existing Web Site Owners and a few who are about to take the plunge.

One of the greatest benefits to be had by atttending a seminar is the ability to network with other like minded individuals and of course to get some great new ideas on further developing your Business.

To Attend or not to Attend? The Seminar Beckons!

2006-02-17T11:30:00.000Z

We have been off the air so to speak for a few days due to the usual life enhancing activities that come attached to Single Parenting...in this case half term break and important twice daily chauffeuring to Work experience for my younger Daughter.

Any of you out there who are single parents but also trying to run businesses will know that you can't do both simultaneously with any degree of success for 52 weeks of the year 26 weeks maybe... but still life has to go on.

Managed to attend the Live call from Dan Kennedy that Ali Brown (The Ezine Queen) hosted two nights ago .There were 1000 eager beavers registered and just 300 lines available.

Dan Kennedy is well known as one of THE most successful Marketers of our time both on line and off-line. I will be sharing with you some of his advice in future posts .

Alexandria Brown cites Dan Kennedy as her main influence in her success over the last several years and it was quite a coup to get Dan Kennedy to participate in a live conference call. I personally found it totally illuminating.

Dan shoots hard and straight from the hip ..no prisoners!.
You should check out Dan Kennedy if you really want to step up a gear or Ten!

Something to Listen to ....

2006-02-11T00:52:00.000Z

The use of Audio on web sites and blogs is increasing all the time and even Audio Postcards are now hitting the scene.

For a look at Armand Morin's New Audio Generator software go to the side bar and look for the New Blue Box and give it a Click!.

It's a very professional presentation and worth a look at.

We'll be putting Audio on all our sites in the very near future ..it's certainly a more entertaining web experience and well you can even find out which part of the Planet the Marketer is from if you are good with accents!

Actually we decided to show the blue box here as well:-

Hope you enjoy your trip to Audio Generator..I did!

Why Do things always have to Change? Or Goodbye Comfort Zone!

2006-02-09T23:02:00.000Z

Here is Jim Edwards' latest prediction which we are fortunate to be able to reprint. One of the reasons why Jim is so successful is simply that he shares his knowledge freely and has built up a reputation as a likeable and straight talking Marketer.

No unmentionable, no beating around the bush, just tells it as it is and helps people on their way to achieving their goals with a range of books, courses and Marketing magic! Go to it and become a Disciple ...you won't be disappointed!

Actually I almost forgot to mention that Jim has co-authored with other top names in the Internet Marketing World... Yanik Silver... Mike Stewart... David Garfinkle and his Father ...Dallas Edwards who obviously played a major role in the success story.

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Email "Toll Booths" Coming Soon

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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The end of the free ride for email marketing looms on the
horizon.

The days of building up or buying a big email list and
freely using it to market and sell online are numbered like
the dinosaurs heading for an ice age cold snap.

The technical and time costs of dealing with email traffic
(primarily driven by rampant illegal spam) will soon break
the back of both Internet service providers (ISPs) and
online email services.

Major online players like AOL and MSN are currently
wrestling with two solutions to the problem, but I
personally think the almighty dollar will win out in the
end.

The two solutions proposed to stem the tide of commercial
spam once and for all revolve around either "white listing"
email senders or charging a "toll" (typically .25-1 cent per
email message) to allow email through.

Currently, ISPs and email providers can either maintain
their own white lists, as in the case of AOL, or the can
share one.

In the "old" days, companies could (and still do) subscribe
to "black lists" (like SpamHaus.org) which exclude email
senders based on reports of spamming and other factors.

Though the "black list" method rates the least accurate,
it's currently the most popular simply because it requires
the least effort by companies trying to block spam.

However, as spammers get smarter, black listing has proven
an ineffective spam deterrent and ISPs must get proactive if
they hope to survive.

However, an inherent weakness in the "white list" system
makes charging for commercial email inevitable.

Since white listing requires effort on the part of the ISP
or email provider (they must ultimately pay real people to
manage the list), this means additional cost.

Unlike a relatively inexpensive subscription to a "black
list service" which gets implemented automatically by
software filters, white listing requires people to do work
which carries a real world cost.

Bottom line: most ISPs and email services will not be able
to create, maintain or implement a white list for very long
without charging.

Yet, consumers tired of the avalanche of spam are demanding
effective protection by those they pay for Internet and
email access.

Thus, any service hoping to survive long-term must adopt a
hybrid of both the white list and "toll booth" approaches.

This means not only evaluating the legitimacy of every
commercial email sender's methods, but also charging them
for the email they send through a particular service or
network. It's inevitable.

Now, the cry that immediately goes up at this point sounds
like this, "What about the "little guys" who can't afford to
pay the fee or the family newsletters that aren't
commercial? What about them?"

In a perfect world, their email would go through.

In the real world, their email will get lost even more
frequently in the future than it does now in the existing
tangle of email filters and inconsistent white and black
listing.

The hope of survival and prosperity for the "little guy"
lies squarely in the hands of blogging and RSS feeds.

Since blogging and rss feeds enable consumers to subscribe
directly to information using an RSS "reader," they
completely bypass the need to send email.

This eliminates the "middle man" of an email provider and
puts control over what content gets received squarely in the
hands of the consumer.

Though this technology has existed for several years now,
awareness by mainstream consumers of what RSS feeds are and
how to subscribe to them has been relatively slow.

The biggest contributor to the slow adoption in the
mainstream has been the absence of a universally distributed
RSS "reader" on every computer (similar to how Outlook or
Outlook Express on every Windows PC helped make email
universally understood).

But that should also change shortly as more RSS readers get
included in Web browsers and email programs in the near
future.

So while the "big guys" will push their messages to
consumers by paying what will surely amount to an ever-
increasing "toll" to get their emails through, the "little
guys" will "pull" consumers to them with subscriptions to
blogs and RSS feeds.

Whether it happens this year, next year, or the year after -
make no mistake - the email "toll booth" is coming for
commercial emailers and newsletter publishers.

So, if you depend on sending email for your company's
profits, either get ready, plan, and budget for the new
tolls, or start making arrangements to distribute your
content via blogs and RSS feeds, because the market will
shortly force you to make a choice.

-- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how
to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted
visitors to your website, affiliate links, or blogs...

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links... without spending a dime on advertising!
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Get Going On- Line in Just Seven Days or Less!

2006-02-09T11:43:00.000Z

Here is a really remarkable series of Video Tutorials that will get you going with a fully functional and e-enabled site in just a few days without the interminable buying of all the different programmes and software that up to now has been necessary to establish your presence on-line!
The Author of the series is Daniel Kelly of MiniSitesMadeEasy.com

No this is not a "Signup now and pay us only $197 to get Started Fast" type of programme; it is an innovative "Sign up now for a One Dollar, Yes 1$ Trial! for 14 days" type of programme" which will give you full access to the whole class of over 20 video Tutorials and should get you up and running if you follow the instructions carefully.

After the 14 day trial you will be billed for a special introductory price of just $97 dollars ..a real snip as they say! The videos are well produced and are newbie friendly to say the least. If you are on a dial up connection, yes, the loading time is a bit slow but hell you can get on with something else,like your next Blog post while letting the video load in its own time. With the sound on you will know what sort of progress is being made with the download and can refer back when its finished and play it over again start to finish.

Some Tutorials in this excellent video format tend to go a little too fast for my liking but if that is so in your case having downloaded the files you can access them again and again at your own speed.

This is a not to be missed opportuniy for someone who is confused with all the geek speak and the large outlay that seems to be essential (but really isn't )in setting up a functioning Web Site.

Give it a go you have nothing to lose and the dollar down and a dollar a week approach (almost) is a Gift from Cyberspace you don't see that often! Have I tried out and assessed the Course? YOU BET.... it's one of the best offers I have seen in Six years on-line. Am I using it? ...You can Count on it!

Any body that tries it out should let me know how they get on so that we can spread the Word.Here is the link again to Dan Kelley's
"Mini Sites Made Easy" video tutorial course which will have some extra bonuses and some special links to programmes that Dan has used in his On-line Business efforts. I have always found that you get the best of advice and recommendations from Netpreneurs that share their secrets willingly. It can take a helluva time to source all the free stuff that can make a difference to your progress so I always am on the lookout for this clue!

We promised to have the Stone Evans product reviewed yesterday..it will issue shortly .
Have a good Cyber-DAY from Cyber Spy!!!

Robin Piggott

Getting Ready to Take Orders from Your New Site

2006-02-08T23:30:00.000Z

There is so much to do in setting up your site to accept orders.We are in the process of completely revamping our own Learner Driver Web Site which provides services and resources for Drivers in Ireland and the UK.

This will include a fully e-commerce enabled system to not only look after the advance and remote payments of Lessons but also the sale of our own ebooks which are in process and also a full range of Books, CDRoms, and DVD's. We will use this blog to show you what has to be done and what the cost will be in terms of outlay and time and to chart the successful implementation of the system we choose.

Pay Pal looks a front runner and is found on thousands of sites across the Internet and would apperr to be an affordable system, particualrly for Newbies starting off. A Merchant Account at your Bank is likely to be a considerably more costly exercise but would probably be required if your Business grows to a large size in time.
We are also looking at
1shoppingcart.com which is used by thousands of web site owners. It has a bundle of features including Autorespnders which are an essential part of the successful web enterprise.

More on this topic as it unfolds...

Robin Piggott

A Very Quick Product Review.

2006-02-08T22:42:00.000Z

A very quick product review
by Robin Piggott

There are a couple of well established companies on line who are catering to the Non Techy Newbies Market in the arena of “build your own site without the hassle of a webmaster”.

The first I recommend is Ken Evoy’s SiteSell.com which will take you through the process without making life too complicated.

Site Build It! is the hosting package and is used by many Web Site owners including the more experienced of online operators so it’s not by any means an amateurs only outfit.

There are other products in the stable well worth looking at when you visit the site. Including “Make your Site Sell”…”Make your Words Sell “…”Make your Knowledge Sell”.

All in all a range of products to suit a modest budget that a newbie usually has to work with. Ken Evoy was one of the first Netpreneurs I subscribed to two years ago and his clear cut writing caught my attention.

We will talk about the other recommendation …Stone Evans and his Plug- in Profit Site in the next post.

The GURUDAQ Share Index of Internet Marketing Professionals

2006-02-08T14:18:00.000Z

Have you checked the GuruDaq index of Internet marketing professionals recently?

Shoot... what the blazes is the GURUDAQ?

Well I stumbled on this WebSite by Mark Hendricks a few months ago which lays out a Top Fifty Who's Who in the heady World of Internet Marketing.

It's a real eyeopener and guess what in the last 24 hours none other than my own Fave -Rave, the irrepressible JIM EDWARDS is showing the greatest growth for the day.

All the tops Marketers are listed but of course there are many top Pro's who keep a very low profile. All of the Marketers that we subscribe to and are recommending through this Blog are listed ..perhaps we should create an up and coming Guru listing ?

Obviously in any Market place there are Heavy Hitters and sometimes the King gets shoved down a few slots in time as new Young Lions get their chance.Will you become one of the next Generation of Young Lions ?...I hope so..

Remember it takes a lot of effort and usually quite a lot of Investment to make it in any Business.That's an investment in time, emotion, and of course money. There ain't no such thing as an overnight success.You have to realise that; and once you do, providing you are on the right track to begin with, all it will take will be a Truck-Load of Massive Action.....that's Jim Edwards favourite Mantra.

I am continually coming across online marketers who cite Jim Edwards as their prime motivator. He has been for me, which is why I have his products and will continue to promote them. Jim is cutting edge make no mistake!

Have a look at one of Jims Best Products ...the fantastic Turn Words into Traffic and get cracking on your writing career it's not as difficult as it seems at the outset.You need a plan, a Swipe/Ideas file and a good supply of Java as you lock yourself away in your Writers Haven ( for some it's Writers Heaven!...Hint)

What about the Family you might say ...wel that's another routine that is important and I am not going to voice opinions on this subject right now ...there are plenty of others better qualified.

More later have a prolific day at the keyboard!

Key Word Phrases in Text that You Use to Link with.

2006-02-08T04:37:00.000Z

Attention: Please read this article in its entirety first before clicking on any of the Links. Since it is a disguised Tutorial for the previously Faint-Hearted in the Gentle Art of Text Linking.

When you have reached the end of this article please go and click on the link to Ken McGaffin, read and digest his article and then come back and re read this piece and of course get Clicking! Just so that you don’t think we have gone completely off the Planet this is not an exercise to get you clicking on a zillion Affiliate Links because we have deliberately edited these out to give you a more pleasurable Reading and Clicking Experience!

This article as we have already said, is a basic tutorial for Newbies on the Internet to gain some insight into using Key Words relevant to your niche in your Linking Anchor Text Strategy. This linking strategy can be combined very effectively with the use of your resource box at the end of articles that you have published in Article Directories or indeed on your blog. Instead of just having your web site Home page as one of your links in the box, you can create your link to a specific page within your site that you particularly want people to read and have the anchor text give a clear keyword direction to that page.

For example if I want people to visit and read my excellent update on “Driving in Ireland” on my main Driving School website, I can more easily achieve this by saying something like ” if you are planning on Driving in Ireland this Summer visit his web site at…”.. in the resource box and then using the Driving in Ireland phrase as the linking text to that very page on the web site. The clickability factor is much stronger than just expecting people to click on a Driving School home page

Thanks to my Good friend and new collaborator Christi Rogers-Upson, she of the potentially World Dominating,“Doggie really knows Best!” Web Site, Dog Potentials, and Platinum Author at EzineArticles.com you are getting some excellent and important hints in this post, and the accompanying article by Ken McGaffin, which as you will see can have quite an effect on your site traffic.

You do have a Web Site I assume? Well for those of you poor unfortunates (and we were all there not so long ago!) who do not as yet, have some Web Real Estate, help is at hand in the form of a blog that provides Net Newbies with Tips, Articles and Advice on how to get started on your piece of Internet Potential and guess what? it is all free!

Well you know what I mean, we are not counting your Internet Connection ,Computer , Office, Fish Tank, Digital Camera thingy and all the other paraphernalia; not to mention 25 “Must Have” Multi Media Courses and the obligatory 12 and a half dozen E-Books(which haven’t all been read!)

We are venturing into non- Newbie Territory as we guide the ship through uncharted waters, that is for us at least! Now that I have your attention (I do don’t I?) we, that is Christi and I are going to direct you to a very informative article by Ken McGaffin of the Linking Matters Web Site. Ken is an experienced Internet Marketing Consultant (you can tell that because it’s in his Resource box!) and an expert in all things that go “Link in the Night” or should it be “In the Dark”.

Any way it’s an excellent article that you should all read several times in order to get a real handle on the subject matter. At this point there is no need for me to reinvent the wheel so why don’t you go to the Keyword Phrases in Linking Text article by clicking here and then come back to this article and read it again , paying attention to the links this time.

Happy Clicking…but only after you have done what we suggest. We are not responsible for what may happen if you disregard these instructions!

Ken McGaffin is an experienced internet marketing consultant. He has worked for major pharmaceutical companies, advertising agencies, government bodies and non-profit organizations.
Ken created The Linking Matters Report, published in 2003. He consults, writes and
presents widely on linking strategy, website evaluations and emarketing strategy

An Article from the Viral E Book Master.Louis Allport

2006-02-07T12:06:00.000Z

I first discovered Louis Allport a few short months ago and was very impressed with his Tutorial Delivery...but then I undiscovered or rather lost him in the maze of downloads on my Desk Top. Yippee... we just found him again through one of the Membership sites that I recently joined .What is a membership site ..well its a site that you join as a Member for a monthly fee usually preceeded by some kind of joining fee.

What do you get for your Money? well the better ones hosted by experienced Internet Marketers offer an absolute inventory of Articles, Software,E-Books and so on that will not only Educate you into the mysteries of doing business on the Internet but will often enable you to re-package the content as market it in whatever way suits your niche or your budget.

This paragraph does not do justice to the opportunities that Membership sites offer and is only a teaser to get you interested enough in having a closer look.

We will be talking a lot more over the coming weeks about this style of Marketing and in the meantime hope you gain some good insights into finally getting going on the Internet.

Enjoy the article...there will be more !

How I Get Hundreds Of Daily Website Visitors For Free
Copyright © 2005 Louis Allport

Know about "Viral eBooks"?

It's not a new concept I'll admit, but it works like absolute gangbusters. In fact, over the past three years it has personally been responsible for bringing me hundreds of thousands of visitors to just one of my websites. AND - 100% for free.

Getting traffic with Viral eBooks is a "free traffic tactic", which means you're not paying for advertising. But, because you're not paying for this exposure, you need to instead create content that people WANT to pass on.

This takes effort, but if you do it right, it can pay you back hugely. Let's go through it:

Okay - for starters you can create Viral eBooks in two formats:

EXE (executable) format - which means it only works on PC's. This type of eBook looks like a website packaged together.

These types of eBooks look great, and all someone has to do to view it is download and double-click it. But, as mentioned it does only work on PC's, and generally the software to create these types of eBooks isn't free, although it is very affordable. (I personally use the software from eBookCompiler.com which as I write this retails for around $30.)

Alternatively - you can create and distribute Viral eBooks in the hugely popular PDF format. The advantage of PDF is that everyone can read them successfully whether they're viewing your eBook on PC, Mac or "other".

To read PDF successfully, the person who downloaded the eBook needs to have the free Adobe Reader installed on their computer. Most people do, and if they don’t it's a quick download from Adobe.com, so this isn't an issue.

Although PDF’s can be more widely read that EXE style eBooks, they’re not quite as flexible. With EXE's for example you can actually embed video and audio into the eBook. This isn't possible with PDF. With PDF you would need to instead include a link to where the reader can view or download the audio/video online.

So with this in mind, you need to decide what's most important to you and make your choice accordingly for eBook format. I personally don't recommended you create your eBook in both formats, since that just complicates the distribution process in my experience. Stick with one or the other.

For creating Viral PDF's - there's a wide array of software that allows you to create PDF's. Some of this software is free, some mind-bogglingly expensive. To view many available options, simply search Download.com or Tucows.com.

For creating Viral PDF's, I personally use software that I had specially created. And the advantage of my software is that it allows you to easily create fully *brandable* PDF's. This means that people can customize your PDF with their own affiliate or website details.

The benefit of this feature is that it makes it much more likely the PDF will spread far and wide for you as it gives the reader a strong incentive to pass the PDF on as they can now directly profit from it's distribution.

You can get this PDF branding software for free at BrandPDF.com

So those are your two options for eBook formats. Now - how do you make it truly viral?

Well, first of all, decide what kind of visitors you want to your website, and create an eBook on a subject that would interest those people.

Your eBook has to be truly useful, interesting, and credible. Don't create a poor quality eBook since no one will read it, which means of course that no one will visit your site.

You can even include multi-media links within your eBook to related audio and video if you like, making your product even more interesting and unique. These download links lead back to your site of course, which naturally gets you more visitors.

If you're not familiar with a subject matter that would allow you to reach your target audience, you could perhaps have an eBook ghostwritten. There's plenty of Ghostwriters who would bid on a project you list for free at eLance.com.

(Ghostwriters are professional writers who create unique content for you on a subject of your choice, and give you all the rights to it, so you can use it as you choose. Many ghostwriters offer their services very affordably.)

Alternatively - an information-rich interview with an expert in the field could be a good solution. The person you interview gets free advertising that way too of course, so they may well be happy to spend the time.

Such an interview can be done either by email or by phone. The audio of a phone interview would be edited (to remove any mistakes) and then transcribed. Both the audio and transcript can then be offered in the eBook.

In my personal experience, longer interviews (more than just a few simple questions) don't work well by email since it can take the person being interviewed quite a lot of typing, and I find the momentum of the process quickly fades this way with every question asked, which can lead to significant delays.

For this reason, and to keep things quick and easy for the person being interviewed, I have generally gone with phone interviews in the past - one hour of interview generally creates from around 7,000 to 10,000 words of content.

Then after finalizing the recording and tidying the transcript, pass the product by the interviewee before publication to confirm their approval.

And let me stress again - your eBook must be high quality and credible. The higher the quality the further it will spread.

If it's free to give away, maybe aim for an eBook that could sell for $20 comfortably - IF - it was being sold.

Use this as a rough guide to the kind of value you want to aim for with your eBook. The more value you offer in a subject your target market is interested in, the more people will pay attention to it. It's as simple as that.

So finally - how do you make the eBook as viral as possible?

One important point already mentioned more than once is to make the eBook very high quality.

The next important point also touched on is that it is very good to give people strong incentives to pass the eBook on, rather than simply hoping they do. To do this, give them benefits for passing it on. Particularly - by making it brandable so that the person passing it on can add their affiliate links, or even their "home page" address to it. For example:

"This eBook is brought to you by JoeBloggs.com"

If it's a free to sell eBook (which means: if you have a copy of the eBook, you have the automatic right to sell it yourself. In a sense these are resale rights that automatically roll from one eBook owner to the next) - have a ready-made and professional website and sales page linked to from within the eBook, so that it's easy for people to start selling it.

And if the offer, sales copy, website and product are all high quality, the eBook should sell well for everyone who resells it, which means it quickly spreads far and wide for you.

If you give everyone who gets a copy of the eBook a way to profit it will just keep on spreading for years to come. This has been my experience. Search for my name in Google to see this first hand.

And pay attention to the rights you give the eBook - loose rights for an eBook will help it spread far and wide quickly. Specify the rights within the first page or two of the eBook so there's no confusion. And don't just say "Master Rights". Explain the rights in an easy to understand way.

And let me also say that the more eBooks you create, the larger the "Viral Net" you'll have out there working for you to bring you visitors every single day.

I've personally been creating viral eBooks for around three years as I write this, and have over thirty eBooks out there on thousands upon thousands of web sites. AND - on tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of personal computers around the world. And all these eBooks are working automatically every day to bring traffic back to my site.

Starting your own Viral eBook library can do the same for you.

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Louis Allport is an online product developer and marketer. He recently revealed a system that can help you create best-selling products practically on demand: http://www.createoffers.com

Want to Look Good to your Web Site Visitors?

2006-02-07T00:28:00.000Z

Here is an Article by the incomparable Alexandria K.Brown aka

"The Ezine Queen"

5 Ways to Give Your Web Site a Big-Company Look and Feel

by Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen”

We all DO judge a book by its cover, and the same saying goes for Web sites. I’ve seen many entrepreneurs offer great information on their Web pages, but compromise their image dramatically with a few amateur mistakes that can be VERY unforgiving.

If you want to attract high quality clients and customers, and convey that you’re a legitimate, credible, and sought-after business, these five points are a great launching pad to give your site that “big company” look and feel.

1. Start with a high-quality LOGO.

The one your kid created for you doesn’t count! I’m talking about paying a designer to do one for you, and it doesn’t have to cost in the thousands. If you don’t have much of a budget, consider the following options:

For my E-zine Queen site, I used an online logo service called “1800MyLogo” . At the time they charged only $199 to design a professional logo based on my business, style, and personal preferences. The whole process only took about two weeks and was conducted entirely over the Web. (To see the final result, take a quick peek at The EZINE QUEEN)

I’ve also heard good things about GotLogos.com, where you can get a quick Web site logo for only $25!

2. Get your own business DOMAIN NAME.

It’s just a fact that folks will feel safer shopping at a site with its own domain name.

For example, if you were shopping online for a circular saw, would you be more likely to purchase from a hardware site called “...bobshardware.com” or the one whose URL is “...geocities.com/3339/bobshardware'? (This is a fictional example, by the way.)

Having your own domain name implies you’re a “real” company, and not Uncle Bob working in his kitchen at night (even though you may very well be ; )).

There are several places to buy domain names at good prices, but one of my favorites is WebLaunching.net (http://www.weblaunching.net). (Only $12 per year.)

3. Get (and use) a business E-MAIL ADDRESS.

Nothing screams “amateur” like sending out professional e-mail from a handle like “fuzzybear4u@hotmail.com.” Once you get a domain name for your Web site, have your hosting company set up a professional e-mail *alias* for you.

Let’s go back to Bob, for example. Suppose Bob’s e-mail has always been “BobSmith000002@earthlink.net.” Now that he has his own domain name, he can instead use “bob@bobshardware.com”. He still KEEPS his Earthlink address, because that’s where he’ll actually receive his mail. But he should only GIVE OUT the new one on his Web site, business cards, etc.

If you use Outlook or a similar e-mail program, you can set it up so that your e-mails ONLY show your e-mail alias and your personal e-mail address. (To do this in Outlook, go under the “Tools” menu. Then choose “Accounts.” Then select the account you use, and click “Properties.” Enter your e-mail alias in both the “e-mail” and “reply address” fields.)

4. Get a professional-looking Web site DESIGN.

This can mean either hiring a designer to do a custom site for you, OR designing it yourself. Unless you’re both trained extensively in HTML and have a background in design, it’s well worth the money to hire someone.

Find prospective designers who work with small businesses, ask to see samples of their work, and be upfront about your budget. If their rates are higher than you can afford, ask them if they have any pre-designed Web site templates they can just insert your information in, cutting down tremendously on design time and cost.

Whatever design you choose, make it CONSISTENT on every page of your site, by using the same design elements such as borders, fonts, and colors.

If your budget is next to nil and you'd like to choose from a variety of templates that you can customize, check out Ken Evoy's new "Site Build It"! This innovative tool lets you create your own site very easily, and it has some of the most professional-looking templates I've seen. The affordable package (less than $350 USD) also includes hosting, a list service, and more. Site Build it..By the Great Ken Evoy

5. Tell us WHO YOU ARE and HOW TO REACH YOU.

Most of us (and rightfully so) are leery of purchasing online from a company we’ve never heard of before. To alleviate our fears, put contact information on every page if you can, with a physical mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

If you’re uncomfortable posting your home address, lease a box around the corner and use that address. Avoid using “P.O. box” in your address if possible, which can appear suspicious. Real companies have real addresses!

Also, get a *Toll-free* number if you can — it says “big company” and "customer service."

(c) 2002 Alexandria K. Brown

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen,” is author of the award-winning manual, “Boost Business With Your Own E-zine.” To learn more about her book and sign up for more FREE tips like these, visit her site at www.Ezine Queen.com

AKB Communications
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Marina del Rey, CA 90292
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Jim Edwards...A look at the Man and his Mission

2006-02-06T22:05:00.000Z

Jim Edwards...

Jim is probably one of the most successful of the Ebook Marketers and has produced some amazing products over the last two years.

His main themes are helping others to achieve their goals utilising products that he himself has developed as a result of his own experiences and needs that weren't being fullfilled at the time.

Here are some of his BOOKS AND COURSES:-

Video Secrets Revealed (in pre release status currently).

E-Book Secrets Exposed.

Mini Site Creator.

Website Video Secrets.

EBook Fire (the affiliate programme)

33days to online profits... co written with Yanik Silver.

Individually these books and courses are not going to break the Bank; of course if you bought them all at once ...well that's a different story. If you were tempted, which some people might be, if they really believed that this was the package to end all packages (remember the Mother of All Battles by Saddam Hussein!) then it would be a good investment.

However Jim is very prolific and you would get so engrossed in getting things done that it would be a long while before you attacked the Second Column.

I suggest that you start with something manageable like the "eBook secrets exposed" to get a feel for the subject (and the parlance) and also Jims' delivery and move on from there.

Mini Site Creator is a lot more costly than an ebook but will enable you to get your web site up and running in double quick time. Jim is a great motivator not only because he speaks in "non geek speak" but tells it straight from the hip ...no messing.

If you listen to him, which incidentally I didn't for a long while, or at least didn't take any action ..and Big Jim is big into Action, you will undoubtedly succeed.That's not to say you will become rich and successful in a matter of weeks but that if you follow the Master then he will lead you to the Promised Land when you are ready.

Jim has spent years in the Wilderness like most successful entrepreneurs and appeared to have overnight success when in fact as he will tell you he was stressed out,burnt out (almost ) and virtually wiped out when finally it all started to come together ....!

You have to have belief in yourself even when it is coming crashing down all around you. Ever been there? I am sure you have ...perhaps you are even there now as we speak?.Don't give up ...it's amazing the success that comes just after the Dawn!

In future articles we will be highlighting some of the ways in which you can turn yourself around from a seemingly desperate and insoluble situation.

GO TO IT and be guided by one of the Internets' Star Performers and all round Good Guys. I will be continuing this new series of Marketer Reviews every Week make sure you come and visit remember just one Great Tip can sometimes turn the balance in your Favour......

Robin Piggott

Having Some Strange Formatting experiences

2006-02-05T23:05:00.000Z

Hello Again
In case you think I am on a cocktail of Guinness laced with Speed I assure you I am not! I am using the Firefox Browser now more and more and its the one I am building the blog with. Settings and layout here are fine (for a Newbie!)

Internet Explorer is a different kettle of SEO Experts!It'a real mess and at this point I don't have an answer.However if you can bear the angst of trawling though a real Saddam Husein of a blog layout you will be rewarded with some good Content,Tips,Reviews of Products from the Masters and so on.

As we have only been going about ten days now the content is slowly but surely increasing and its time now for me to start to put some futher navigational aids in the form of Categories. So you and I can find our way around.It's quite comical the way the I.E layout is appearing and I can see the funny side of it but nevertheless it is disappointing.

I migrated our first Driving School Blog to a WordPress host after some months last year and I find that this is a better hosting platform.So I guess I will be doing the same before long.

We are about to host our own Blogs at our main Website Hosting company and there will be some Domain name changes obviously. I will keep you informed of any changes as they are about to happen.

Brad Callen..Search Engine Expert!

2006-02-05T21:26:00.000Z

Brad Callen is the Ceo of Bryxen Software based in Franklin Illinois. I have been subscribing to his list for perhaps a year now and he certainly comes across as an expert in his field of Search Engine Optimisation.

He has a very clear and concise writing style which I like, which contains much less flowery and excessive hype –filled language which is common amongst a lot of the Internet Marketers including some of the very Successful ones.

I know there is a massive appeal for these razzamatazz type sales letters and e-mails and while I am happy to make up my own mind about a product before buying I wish the garbage would be reduced a little. Anyone agree with me?

I guess we all respond to different stimuli and that’s only human so where one person comes across as a Sincere and Genuine Marketer with a good product he wants to sell, another comes across as a bit of a Jack the Lad type.

Brad Callen is in the former category and it was obvious right from the start when I began to receive communications from him that he knew his stuff, first of all and that anything he recommended you could be confident in.

He has a fantastic series, and I mean FANTASTIC called SEO POWER STRATEGIES.it runs to about 50 Lessons and you should sign up for the course and get stuck in ,
the link to his first Lesson is below. If you like what you see you should sign up for the course at the foot of his page and be prepared for some serious Search Engine Tactics from a real professional who can get his message across!

Search Engine Strategies Course by Brad Callen

P.S.You will be absolutely staggered(I hope) at the Calibre of what you are about to see.Lesson one will take some getting used to as it runs to several pages with excellent graphics.Some of the other Lessons are shorter but full of cutting edge action Tips nonetheless. His software I don't own yet but should ( I do have to feed myself after all ..and the fish !)

Brad Callen
Professional SEO
SEO Elite: SEO Software

Off the Air during my Regular Posting Window Yesterday

2006-02-05T11:39:00.000Z

Yesterday we just couldn’t connect to any of our Blogspot Blogs during our posting window …hence no fresh content …Horror of Horrors!

SO I am going to make up for that today (groan!) all you happy newbies out there. I guess there have been so many “How to set up your free Blog at Blogger .Dot Com” articles now that their servers are swamped .I have been noticing that during the compiling of posts recently I have been getting a little red message saying “unable to connect with Blogger .Com you may lose your Post “ these come and go quite regularly now but haven’t had any disasters yet.

Here is a good tip for all you Article writers and posters out there ...don’t compile or write your post or article in the “Compile Post Box”. write and save it in Word so you not only wont lose it if you get a break in your connection but you can refer to it more easily through your my Documents Folder in the future for rewriting or expanding on your theme . Even a very short post will give you plenty of scope for future Articles. Now there's a great idea for..........

Is Blogging A Hard Slog? Keeping the Faith until the Tide Turns.

2006-02-05T10:58:00.000Z

Here is an article Published yesterday at Ezine Articles.com which gives some personal observations on the authors development of his Blogging Career to date with a very, very valuable resource at the end of the copy which he stumbled upon recently.

We are thinking of setting up a web site on the lines of www.ReduceYourVerbiage.com to help and assist writers who just can't be brief! I already have my application in !

This blog IS a serious attempt to help aspiring writers and article marketers and by developing these themes, of course its helping the Author to develop HIS techniques simultaneously as he struggles to gain market penetration and who knows Dominance??

IS BLOGGING A HARD SLOG? AN ARTICLE ON WHAT COMES AFTER THAT MOMENTOUS OCCASION WHEN THE BlOG GOES LIVE!

by robin piggott

Well we have all heard about Blogs by now and if you are serious about developing your business you should have set up several in different niches, not because the more Blogs you have the more you will earn!, although that could be a possibility given time.

Quite the contrary; it is a lot of hard work maintaining the flow of content to your Blogs but who said Life (or Blogging )was going to be an easy ride? It is however, probably the least costly way of creating an image for yourself as an expert in your field and is guaranteed to bring results in the way of increased traffic to your web site in a few months. O.K that’s a pretty bold statement coming from a Newbie Blogger, incidentally when does one cease to be a Newbie? Now there’s an interesting thought! Here’s another thought…what if you don’t have a web site yet? Phew that’s another day’s work …did I actually say a day? I really meant a year!

The message is coming through loud and clear…and that is get Blogging right away because the sooner you start, the sooner you will see some results and the quicker you will leave Newbie status firmly in the past. The first faltering steps on the blog road can be interesting to say the least. You spend so much time creating your content aka posts, that you tend to forget that even when you have been at it for a week or two, posting every day, nobody probably has even seen your work at this stage! Or have they?

That’s the next hurdle which is very reminiscent of the New Web Site owner who sits back with great sighs of relief at having the creation on-line until he or she realises that what has just been achieved is actually the easy part and the real work now has to begin in earnest. What is the real work? Well first of all you must set up a routine to collate material to provide your inspiration for your posts and then you gotta keep up the posting momentum. Some experts say that you should post three times a day in the first few weeks or even months and some say you should post at least three times a week. Either way you should decide on a number and stick to it. Easier said than done!

One statement that I came across in the first couple of weeks, and bear in mind the euphoria still had a long life ahead of it yet, was on the lines of “don’t expect to see any real traffic for six months”. Now with all the publicity and mass hysteria surrounding Blogs you could perhaps have been forgiven for thinking that you would become celebrated overnight. Six months… Wow… that’s a lifetime on the Internet with things changing so rapidly. Why isn’t it all going to happen tomorrow?

Well, just like most things in life, time plays a major role in events and even with all the technology at our disposal we have to put a great deal of effort in before we see a return. No such thing as a free Blog, sorry Lunch! That’s a topic that deserves some separate comments outside of this article.
We left the first of all, several paragraphs back, so it’s time for second of all which is finding some, or rather many …as many as possible, Directories to list your Blog. What a chore but necessary. Here is where I reward the reader for getting this far and not switching off long ago.

Wait for it…are you surfing/reading/ snoozing comfortably? Just discovered a wonderful resource that will save hours and hours of research but will require hours and hours of submissions and it’s the incredibly named RSS Top 55 which actually boasts 160 RSS sites and Blog Directories. The author is none other than Robin Good not to be confused with the Outlaw of Sherwood Forest Fame, in those heady pre Internet days when life really was simple (but still not easy!)

Actually the authors real name is Luigi Canali de Rossi who must I guess be of Motorcycle or Formula One extraction. Hence the confusion between the numbers. I have still to work out how 55 makes 160! Though on reflection, if you add a couple of noughts to each of these you are probably close enough to first and sixth gears! So he must have been working on his RPM stats at the time.
Why he should want to change his name is beyond me since this must be the best resource going for a Directory non stop shop. Want the link? Go to the end of the article like all good freebie- hunters and beg!

The listing is on Luigi’s Blog at Master… New…Media; wow I nearly slipped in a “Bie” there by mistake since it is now the most frequented word in my vocabulary. This listing does everything but make the coffee for you …get to it and get Blogging. Don’t you just love it when Bloggers play dirty? Here is the url www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55

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Here is the resource BOX I used for this article. It's worth experimenting with different resource box scripts that can be tailored to suit the particular tone of the article.I don't have any real facts and figures yet as to the success of this technique asoppposed to churning out the same dull flat box each time but my hunch is that a little humour goes a long way.

""Robin Piggott is about to leave his Newbie status behind although that could be open to conjecture! In his spare time he operates a Professional Driving School in Limerick Ireland and provides current insider, under the radar help, tips and information for would- be Drivers through his Web site and Blogs
http://www.astralmotoring.ie
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie ""

The Video Tutorial Master---Sherman Hu

2006-02-03T02:35:00.001Z

Sherman HU is the owner and developer of an amazing and informative web Site:-
www.WordPressTutorials.com where he has recently opened his membership site.

Here is a really up to the minute introduction to one of the hottest Guys on the Net right now.! If you are just getting a handle on Blogs and Blogging or have been tinkering for a while and finding it all a bit of a puzzle then the best thing you can do is to head straight over to Sherman Hu of wordpresstutorials.com who is fast becoming the acknowledged expert on the blogging platform Wordpress.

His member ship site has just opened and there is a wealth of expert tuitional videotutorials to help you on the way to not only your advanced Blogging career but to the new exciting developments in the world of web site video.

Video is going to make a huge difference to WebSite Marketing and should be on the must investigate list of every Web Marketer.

I have been on his mailing list for several months now and without doubt his credentials are impecable.You should check him out at the following URL:-

Here is the link to the Membership Site:

WordPressTutorials Membership Site

www.WordPressTutorials.com

posted by Robin Piggott

A Quick Tip for Creating A Blog Post or Web Site Content

2006-02-02T13:33:00.000Z

Here is a very useful tip for those of you who are starting off with your Blogs and Web Sites.If you seem to be stuck for content and are suffering from Writers' block then a subscription to Google Alerts is a very good way of giving you the insider slant on any topic you choose.

In your own particular field you should have a good think about the keywords that reflect your own special niches and then create an "Alerts" account with Google for these.

Every morning in your inbox you will have a large selection of hot breaking news flashes from around the world that you can digest and then turn into an article or post or even a series of articles.

Be careful about the choice of keywords you select since you may end up getting mountains of news clips which have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with your subject.THis is the down side to this strategy ...it takes a little while to get a handle on it but belkieve me it will provide you with insights into your own particualr field that you missed or were unaware of.

As a person who has been known to suffer from Information Hyper-overload ...I can teel yo uthat you need to be very disciplined with this approach.Here are my top tips to getting the best out of this system.

(1) Read the Alerts before you do anything else when you open your e-mail inbox.

(2) Delete immediately the ones that are unrelated.

(3)Read quickly the ones that interest you .

(4) Copy and paste the article clip into a Word file with Date and Headline of your choice.

(5) If you don't have time at that moment to draft your article that's no problem you have a ever growing folder of content magic that you can refer to again and again.

(6)Keep a separate file that is at the top of your Inbox Folders so you can easily access this in an instant without trawling through the minefield of folders to find what you are looking for.

(7)Sometimes I find that i might get stuck into a rather deeper exploration of the particular topic than previously envisaged so I would part write the articleand come back to it later.

(8) One final point...if you want to keep cranking out fresh content and blog posts regularly you should discipline yourself to doing this first thing before you open your inbox every morning.Opening the e mail will just distract you. Get the article (from your previously filed clips) written and posted before you get stuck into that wonderful experience of the opening of the Inboxand you won't be wishing at the end of the day that you had written more.

One Article a day will put you up there with the most prolific of writers, web site owners and Bloggers and will get you much more traffic to your sites as time goes on.

Remember the purpose of this excercise is to inform your readers and subscribers and get them to recognise you as the one who they should do business with

IF YOU DON'T WET YOUR LINE HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO CATCH A FISH?

2006-02-02T00:40:00.000Z

A Fishy Tale with a Marketing message

Some news just in which is not exactly related to our main subject matter but IT IS related to successful Marketing in several ways.

Ian Powell of the BlackWater Lodge Hotel at BallyDuff Co.Waterford.Ireland has just reported the first Salmon of the Season from one of his beats this afternoon. Today is the opening day of the Fishing Season on this beautiful River and many others throughout Ireland.The Fish was caught by a new employee at 2.45pm !

There are several Marketing techniques that can be learnt from this great news even if you have no interest in dangling (sorry casting) a line into the water for a Fish.Here's the analogy...it's the first day of the season and normally at this time of year the weather is not conducive to catching a Salmon and the River, as we say in Angling parlance, is "out of sorts". Even with the odds stacked against you, it is the adventurous one who catches the fish,or the early bird that catches the worm,or indeed the early Angler with the worm who catches the Fish!
Ian has owned the BlackWater Lodge for twenty years and has now replaced his snail mail newsletter with a fantastic Web Site and a password protected Members area and to cap it all a very excellent e-mail newsletter.

The Web site which is Ian's own project is updated daily throughout the season, not only with details of the fish caught that day and their respective weights but very good quality photographs of the Captors. All of this adds up to a very imaginative and user friendly web site with huge levels of freshly updated content and in the better fishing months of the year towards the end of the season,huge levels of freshly updated (sorry Caught) fish!

Another Internet Marketing technique which Ian introduced last year and which all good marketers will employ is the free offer! This time it is not a free E-Book or mini course, although that would go down very well in the Closed Season I think,but Free fishing during the month of February providing you stay at the Lodge.

This is a very good offer as Salmon Angling is an expensive sport.So here we learn several lessons...keep in touch with your prospects even when things are quiet and push out a really good offer to persuade the gentle nibblers to really take the bait,
head upstream and be fairly and squarely hooked!...

If you are not on the river Bank and if you don't wet a line how you gonna catch a fish?
I will probably return to this topic during the season which runs to the 30th September each year for more Fishy Marketing Tales and successes and not too many that "Got Away"..As we say in Angling circles... Tight Lines!

Email: info@ireland-salmon-fishing.net

Web: http://www.ireland-salmon-fishing.net

http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie

Astral Driving School. Learn With the Professionals

Video will be the Next Main Challenge for Web Site Owners

2006-02-01T02:04:00.000Z

As always Jim Edwards has his finger on the Pulse of what's new out on the Internet!
When there is someone out there in 'NETSVILLE who not only knows where it's at but is happy to share his or her experiences for the greater good then it's a win win situation.
One Day a Long time Ago someone coined this phrase which sums up how You can be Successful ultimately on the Internet:

"If you will only concentrate on helping others to achieve what they want in life, then You Yourself will achieve beyond Your Wildest Dreams"

A very useful mantra for Daily Affirmation I think!

Here's Jim's latest article on the developments in Video which gives the link to the imminent release of His next Video Secrets course which would be well worth investing in if you want to stay ahead.

We have purchased several of Jim's products over the last two years and they are always good value and to the point,and the Point Is Massive Action Gets Results .I have Jim to thank for getting me off my Butt and actually doing something with what resources I have.We have links to some of these elsewhere on the site.

My Thought for the Day:-

Action together with Persistence will always win through in the End!

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Free Websites Showcase Your Videos Online

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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If you didn't realize that video will take over online this
year, you haven't been paying attention.

Everything from video blogs to full-blown website
infomercials keep cropping up all across the Internet.

The driving force behind this video explosion is a
combination of cheap bandwidth, easy-to-use authoring tools,
and Flash video (a video format that works on both PC and
MAC).

With the sudden increase in homemade videos about everything
from "how-to break dance" to infomercials about real estate
products, it seems only natural that another explosion
should follow: the appearance of numerous websites that
showcase these homegrown Steven Spielberg's.

In fact, these online videos have gained so much popularity
some have even crossed over into mainstream television.

Of the three main online video hosting services I looked at,
they all shared the following characteristics.

They all allow you to upload your video and host it free of
charge, making it super easy for even the most technically
challenged videographer.

They all allow visitors to search their sites using
keywords, so describing your video and choosing a good title
(with keywords people search for) will help increase your
exposure.

One of the most exciting features common to these sites is
that they allow you and others to get copy-and-paste code
that you can place on a blog or website (or anywhere else
you can paste html code) and display a video without hosting
it yourself.

This one feature can cause an explosive "viral" effect if
you create a video that appeals to a mass audience because
people can not only pass it along, but post it in additional
locations for everyone to see.

Video.Google.com - Google's video service makes it possible
to upload and play your videos for people searching through
their growing catalog of homegrown video.

You'll find everything from web-cam karaoke to infomercials
and "live" seminars. One of the best things about Google
video is the daily report about how many pages views your
video got during the previous day or week.

Also, Google allows you to charge for your videos if you
want, something the other sites don't yet offer.

A disadvantage of the service is that, of the three, Google
Video takes the longest to approve your videos and make them
available, sometimes taking 48 hours or longer to make a
video "live."

YouTube.com - YouTube seems to want to foster a feeling of
community with its video portal.

Unlike Google Video, which requires a separate software
program to upload video, YouTube allows users to upload
video right through their website interface. Of the three
sites profiled here, YouTube's embedded player makes it
easiest to share and pass along video from a blog.

They also approved my video and had it live online in less
than 10-minutes.

IFilm.com - The coolest thing about IFilm.com is the fact
that they have a show on VH1 every Friday called "Web Junk
20" which features the funniest web videos of the week on
real television.

They also actively promote the concept of "viral videos"
with a separate category in their directory profiling videos
you want to share.

The only negative was that their pass-along player forces
viewers to watch a short ad about IFilm at the beginning,
something the other two don't do.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to get your own money-making
videos posted online...

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"Finally! A Quick and Easy Way For YOU To Painlessly Create,
Post and PROFIT From Your Own Money-Making Online Videos...
Without Being a Computer Geek or Paying Outrageous Fees To A
Webmaster!" (Even If You Can Barely Point-and-Click)

Click Here => http://www.WebsiteVideoSecrets.com
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Butterflies every where...What a day for Mike Filsaime!

2006-02-01T00:13:00.000Z

Just thought you might like to see this E-mail which arrived a few minutes ago from Mike Filsaime of Butterfly Marketing and the Owner of "The List Machine" optin List Building System that we have recommended to you a couple of days ago.
You do the Math .... 500 sales at approximately $1000 dollars a pop in just five hours today with still 1000 programmes still for sale!!

Mike Filsaime and his buddy Gary Ambrose are the Real Deal

Re: 500 sold in 5 hours. But...
Hi Robin,

What a day it has been. As you know, we had some major issues
today with traffic to the site.

We not only crashed the website server several times, we also took
down the entire Data Center.

Yes, the promotion had so much traffic that it took 10 minutes
to load the page. Our host had 7 people from their staff logged
into our machines.

They thought we were experiencing a DOS (Denial of Service)
attack. Talk about a scary moment!

When they realized it was all 'real' traffic, they called the back bone
provider MCI, and asked to double the resources for the entire
Data Center as well as out sites. Speaking with my host on the
phone, He said something about T1 per millisecond. I have no
idea what that means, but he said if it went for 30 days, it would
cost $25,000 in hosting charges.. Can you imagine?

Anyway, many people did not get to see the site. In fact, the first
100 sales and 3 fast mover bonuses went in less than 25 minutes.

I could not even FTP the 'Sold Out' page for those bonuses as the
sever would not let me login.

My host also asked me to remove all the videos and audio from
the page.

Well, good news, the site is running fast now since many people
have seen and purchased....

...we sold over 500 units of Butterfly Marketing in under 5 hours.

So the initial production of 1500 before I decide to raise the price
or evaluate removing the product from the marketplace for a while
(or permanently) will still be around for a few days. So no worries
there (yet.)

Also, the first 3 bonuses are gone and went very fast. However,
my favorite First Movers Bonus (#4) does not go a way for
the first 2 days before it is gone forever, so you also have plenty
of time for that.

So thanks for bearing with us. It has been bit hectic. With 500 new
members to embrace and 1000 more coming in the next few days
it will be a little crazy for us.

I hope to see you get in on the initial 1500 members. We have
a great private forum community we are building and we would
love to take you and your success with us!

So incase the site was down for you, or you could not see the
videos, you can check it out here...

http://ButterflyMarketing.com

Come Join Us!
Mike Filsaime
ButterflyMarketing.com

PS - If we experience any loads to the server again, we may
have to pull the videos off again for a few hours. But as I said,
they are live now...

http://ButterflyMarketing.com

269 Snedecor Ave, Bayport, New York 11705, USA

The Affiliate Classroom

2006-01-31T23:18:00.000Z

Here is a programme that you can join with confidence that takes you by the hand and will show you Finally how to get going On- line as an affiliate marketer, the simple way without spending thousands (which you may already have done),like yours truly!

Anik Singal is a twenty one year old College kid (well that’s how he used to describe himself in his e-mails!) who just 18 months ago stumbled on a way to create a really good Business by helping other people who were also stumbling in the dark trying to get themselves an on-line presence as an affiliate.

He had himself already figured his way through the minefield of becoming an affiliate and had made some money, when a much older (aren’t we all) person approached him for some in- depth help with his business. This person had been struggling for a long while with all the e-books, courses recommendations and downloads until he was dizzy from it all!

Anik realised that here was an opportunity to help a good many people in similar circumstances who found themselves in the affiliate wilderness and at the same time create what obviously had been in his mind all the time…a Unique and Professional business that not only worked but that was very worthwhile in itself. Teaching is not an easy profession whatever the subject but if you are passionate about your Subject then anything is possible.

Success on the Internet or anywhere else on this Planet for that matter requires two basic ingredients without which a project is doomed from the start …a willing Student (who will do what he or she is told or advised!) and a Teacher or Mentor who not only has the special knowledge needed but the passion and fervour to put it across in such a way that the student learns, has fun and gets going with some manic action! Affiliate Marketing is a very diverse topic and it will take you a very long time to get anywhere without help!

Here's the Newsletter Link
Affiliate Classroom Newletter

In case you are wondering that this is a pitch-fest I have been on Anik’s mailing list for about a year now and have seen the way in which he has matured as an Internet pioneer and his new glossy Ezine is amazing!

Below we have included several links that will take you to the Affiliate Classrom Free Ezine which we suggest you subscribe too immediately and also to the introductory page with some glowing recommendations for the Affiliate Classroom Course.
Until you have got your feet wet with the Affiliate Marketing arena and know how this very large slice of the Internet works you shoudn’t really get too involved with creating your own products. Walk before you run and what you learn as a successful affiliate you can then put to very good use as you develop your own Web Site products and services.

Included in the testimonials are two from excellent Internet Marketers that I am aquainted with for some time ...Harvey Segal whose link appears elsewhere and Ian Herculson of The Guru Marketer which I have subscribed to now for nearly two years(that’s a lifetime in Internet Terms)

The Affiliate Classroom

The Affiliate Classroom Membership Page

The Success of your Web Site with KIng Content

2006-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

by Robin Piggott.

A look at some of the ways a Newbie Web Site owner can get going without shelling out a fortune every week!It just takes some of your time and a good supply of Java!

Apologies for the length of this article I really got to find a way to break them up into manageable chunks!

A Guide for Newbies to get under the Radar of the ever increasing mountain of technophobia that faces a Web site owner starting off.

There is of course a huge amount to learn in setting up and running a Web Site, which is why, I believe, that most newcomers tend to put their trust in a web designer, aka webmaster and leave them to get on with things hoping that all will go well. Big Mistake!

It’s only when, having spent quite a lot of money, you find out that your pride and joy is not giving you the results that you imagined, that alarm bells can start to ring. In my own case this took approximately four years to sink in. After a promising start, with some enquiries from the other side of the world, things not only didn’t get any better but got worse!

Of course, if you are running and developing a new business, which takes a colossal amount of time and commitment, you don’t initially have time to worry too much about the success of your web site. After all, a web site will make you a zillionaire quicker than you can spell the long version of SEO! Big Mistake!

I believe it is just as important to designate sufficient time to understanding how a web site is developed, promoted and maintained as it is to spend time on all the other many facets of a fledgling business.

Many new business owners, myself included, thought in the past that just by having a web site and on-line presence AND a webmaster, that everything would be fine. Visitors and sales would surely follow and increase exponentially. Not So!

Probably the pace of change on-line is more rapid than most businesses realise and therefore if you are going to build a site AND do some reasonable level of commerce from it, you have got to study and learn a number of basics.

1. Key word research should really begin before you set about building your site, because it can help with the choice of a suitable Domain name and continue to assist in the titles and scope of your eventual articles.

2. Original and fresh content related to your prospective field is a necessity, and needs to be uploaded on a very regular basis. Unless you are a very large company with an in-house webmaster, this is probably the most crucial aspect of developing a site in terms of getting good search engine results.

3. Writing new pages can be extremely time consuming and unless you have a suitable C.M.S. package installed, enabling you to become your own webmaster, it’s highly likely you will commence the slow but inexorable slide to oblivion, other wise known as Zero traffic.

4. Build your site by all means but make sure that you become your own webmaster, having taken a crash course in the do’s and don’ts. You absolutely must have the facility to control what goes on within your site. If you miss out on this vital aspect of developing a site, the chances are that you will lose interest and stop creating ideas and content.

5. Learning to write your content, even if this seems a bit beyond your reach to begin with is another essential skill to be fine tuned and believe me, once you have got under way it will become easier with each passing day. Looking at how other web sites operate and the standard of their content will help you along the path.

6. Articles on your area of expertise, submitted to a number of reputable Directories, will almost immediately get you noticed and start to build credibility. These can be modified for use as web pages and will provide ideas for new content on a never ending basis. It has been my experience in the recent past that articles can have a very advantageous effect on search engine results. Credibility is something you can never have too much of.

7. Search engine optimization, a very fancy term, with nearly as many, so called, experts as there are sites on the Web and similar in number to the droves of Web site designers! This is a thorny topic and one best left to the experts, for the behind the scenes work. However, it is my belief that the best results come from fresh and original content put up on your site on a regular basis. Results from my blog of only two months existence, in terms of link popularity, are outstripping my web site that has been on-line for five years. This is all down to regular articles on my chosen topic.

8. A newsletter or ezine, is a very good way of encouraging traffic to your site and building your subscriber list that you can eventually turn into clients, customers and sales. Offering an incentive for your visitors to part with their e-mail address can be by way of a free mini course or e book.. In the case of your newly published E-Book, offering a free download of one complete chapter is something worth considering and is a very popular technique. This is all part of the credibility building process. Once you get used to making regular posts to your newly set up Blog, a newsletter should be relatively easy to produce, without too much stress.

9. A Business Blog is I think, the way forward, for many web site owners who would like to see an increase in traffic of a targeted nature. They are easy to set up and have the advantage of being virtually instant. One of the great things that can help you in becoming more adept as a webmaster, utilising your own blog, is that learning the rudiments of html is not the nightmare that it may appear to be. You can practise away to your heart’s content adding and subtracting code from a blog post and see immediately the result in the preview pane. You don’t even need to publish this post. Again, getting used to viewing the source code of other web sites and seeing how they do things will give you no end of inspiration.

10. Control is the key to success in developing your skill as a webmaster. In a follow–up article on the experiences of a complete Blog novice we will have a look at some of the more interesting facts, figures, and activities that will take you where you want to go, and contribute to the success of your web site, providing you are prepared to allocate sufficient computer time and are not expecting to retire a millionaire in six months!

It is, however, an achievable goal to go from Meek to Geek in just a couple of weeks, with a little effort!

First published at Ezine Articles 31.07.05

Robin Piggott is a professional Driving Instructor,in Limerick, Ireland, who has discovered a new way to have fun.Breaking down the Techno barriers in developing a web site.His blog is situated at: http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie and web site at http://www.astralmotoring.ie

Have a look at the e-mail below...

2006-01-30T23:09:00.000Z

Here is an e-mail from The Internet Marketing Centre pioneered by the late Corey Rudl, now under the capable hands of Derek Gehl.

I purchased this programme recently and it really is all is cracked up to be. A step by step Get-you-going-on-Ebay without the sleepless nights.
Give it a once (or twice!) over and try it out.Let me know what you think...

I will give you my full enchalata in due course.Right now busy re writing my web Site for the Year ahead.

http://www.astralmotoring.ie

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Dear Visitor,

I have a favor to ask you. It involves the web site eBay.com,
and requires a bit of work on your part.

However, the payoff for you could be absolutely HUGE! Let me
explain...

I've just been talking to my friend Derek Gehl, the CEO of the
Internet Marketing Center (he's the guy who's been responsible
for bringing in over $40,000,000.00 in online sales).

It seems he recently teamed up with a fellow by the name of
Brandon Dupsky, who is currently making $22,000 a DAY selling
'everyday' stuff on eBay.

Together, they've come up with an easy-to-follow system that
will let anyone copy Brandon's strategies and start making
serious cash on eBay almost immediately!

Anyway, here's where the 'favor' part comes in...

I'm consider partnering with Derek and Brandon -- but before I
team up with them, I want to be absolutely SURE their new
eBay system will work for my customers and subscribers.

So if making a LOT of money (at least $100,000+ in your first
year) is something that sounds interesting to you, I'll have
Derek send you a risk-free "review copy" of their system and
you can give it a try!

Hopefully, you'll be up and running and making BIG profits on
eBay in the next month or so, and will let me know...

If not, no big deal... Just send it back and it won't have
cost you anything.

Sound interesting? You can give it a try by going to:

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All the best,

Robin Piggott

P.S. I should mention, by the way, that this "system" has
nothing to do with selling junk from around your house or
scrounging stuff from flea markets and reselling it on eBay.
See for yourself at:

http://www.auctiontips.com

Ignore Ezine Articles at Your Peril!

2006-01-30T21:40:00.000Z

Below is an article just published at Ezine Articles on the subject of persistency.
Whether you are getting online for the first time or have been dabbling for a while, getting results is not an overnight thing, despite what some of the Gurus say when they are pitching for their latest products.You know the way... just buy now before it is taken down forever and you will see amazing results!

Yes I know that there are some Marketers out there whose products or recommendations will give extraordinary results quite quickly but you should temper that with the need to set up a good infrastrucure first before expecting miracles.

The stories of Maxed out Credit Cards are everywhere on the 'Net I know I have been there myself and I'll be sharing my experiences with you on an going basis.
You need to be careful of information overload and perhaps pick 8 or 10 Newsletters to subscribe to from the different areas of Internet Marketing..and hold it at that level or you will get swamped.
Here's my list of Internet Gurus you should check out..not in any order of importance

Jim Edwards ... Brad Callan
Joe Vitale c ... Denise Wakeman
Mark Hendricks ... Patsi Krakoff
Mark Joyner ... Yanik Silver
Mike Filsaime ... Ian Herculson
Pat O'Bryan ... Gary Ambrose
Russell Brunson... Frank Kern

All of these entrepreneurs know what they are they are talking about and have a range of products that I have looked at which are second to none. I own something from each of these pretty much and am in the process of putting it all together. I will give you the links as soon as I can

I Don’t Like Mondays…a study in Persistence with a Musical Slant.

2006-01-30T21:38:00.000Z

By Robin Piggott

Who Ever said I don’t like Mondays must have been on a different Planet? Best day in the week after all that week end guzzling and chilling out! Today here at Astral Towers we have had a real Saddam Hussein of a Monday. Actually all positive…so I am going to share some of the good stuff with you that will definitely make a difference to your Marketing efforts, if you will only learn the meaning of the word Persistence.

Actually it was Bob, sorry Sir Bob Geldof who is known the world over for his remarkable feat in setting Up and Organising Live Aid in1985, who coined the phrase with one of the Boomtown Rats’ hit Singles (are they called singles anymore?) in the late Seventies. Being rather fortunate (very) to be living in Dublin at that time and trying to impress my Wife- to- be with what I considered to be, an Encyclopaedic knowledge of the Music scene by dragging her off to here –a – gig …there-a – gig at every opportunity, it was my main purpose in life to absorb the music scene. Marketing was some way off at this stage although the seeds were being sown.

One of those gigs that turned out to be life changing, became a memory stamped indelibly on the mind …you’ve guessed it, a ‘Rats gig at a small but swish Hotel in Dalkey, Co. Dublin called the Cliff Castle. No longer a Hotel I believe. It was the first time we had seen Bob and the gang and while the audience numbered about 45 souls (!) Bob showed what was to come by the most energetic performance I had seen in 8 years!
Who would have thought a raggle taggle semi –punk Band would give birth to a World Icon? What happened 8 years earlier in 1969?

Well, my first glimpse of Rory Gallagher and Taste at the Round House in London. There is an article published about this remarkable Blues player at a rather well known Directory which shall remain nameless. It is no surprise that success comes with massive, persistent, action, in all walks of life and both these Bands went on to much greater things as a result of complete Dedication and Persistence although the ‘Rats career was rather short lived.

Bob as we all know went onto become one of the Pioneers of the 20th Century and will go down in history as the little guy from suburban Dublin who had a dream and who wouldn’t take no for an answer! He was never afraid to speak his mind even on his first Guest appearances on the Late Late show which became one of the longest running T.V shows in history! Thanks in no small way to Sir Bob and his total non subservience to the Establishment!

Belief in oneself, which is an admirable quality, but painfully difficult to sustain during periods of upheaval in ones life, is the key to success ultimately. Persistence should be the buzzword that you live by, in what ever field you choose to operate in. How can you maintain that persistence when it all seems to be coming down around you? I guess the only way to sustain this much needed momentum, is to become a sponge and soak up every possible idea that you can and learn from the struggles and ultimate success of others .This means taking on board new ideas even if they are contrary to what you previously believed or were aware of. It means spending time with others who have a success mentality and not getting sucked into any level of negativity. It means never giving up until you have succeeded. Failure and sometimes multiple failures are just a rather unpleasant phase you have to go through until you are ready to handle what success will bring.

In the early days of a salesman’s career it is often the last call on a Friday that will give you the success you have been looking for all the week and that will break the feeling of failure. You know…going the extra mile, doing the extra call, making one more appointment. It’s a fantastic and exhilarating feeling to make that last call and make the sale when all you wanted to do is to slink home and wish the week hadn’t happened!

Life will never be the same when you have put into practise the “Extra Mile Technique” a few times and hey presto you find it actually works! Pretty much every successful entrepreneur, in every field, has reached the end of the week without a sale, or the end of the month in debt, at some stage in their lives until the Persistency Button gets activated. Then it’s watch out Success here we come!

Blogging from the Canadian Wilderness!

2006-01-30T21:22:00.000Z

Doug & Teri Champigny. A Canadian Couple who don’t mess around!

Doug Champigny has a great site, several in fact, that you should subscribe to. The link to his Marketing Domination Newsletter is below along with the others
.
http://www.MarketMyDotCom.com

http://www.Super-Bloggers.com

http://www.earning-more-online.com

On signing up you will get the download links to some terrific stuff including the Power Users Guide to becoming A Super Blogger which is an excellent 8 page E-Book to get your Blogging Career under way, Has some very good recommendations in it .

The free stuff covers the subjects below:-

Starting an Online Business:
Guru Magic E-Book:
30 Days To Success:
Fastlane Profits:

Have Fun...I did !!

Article and Blog Writers: Beware the Internet Meanie

2006-01-30T15:01:00.000Z

Article and Blog Writers: Beware the Internet Meanie
By Jeanette Joy Fisher

Imagine running in cold dry air at 7,000 feet. You suck in the air but you can't get enough. You lie down on the rocky dirt and someone sits on your chest. You can't breathe. You can't stop shaking and you're dry-ice cold.

You most likely know someone who lost a child. I have friends whose daughters died in car accidents. Even though I cried with them, I didn't feel their pain. It's a closed club that only surviving parents know.

Perhaps you lost your grandparent, a parent, or a beloved pet. Nothing compares to the death of your child.

You want to smash things. Not slap - smash big things like table lamps, windows, TVs, computers, and cars.

Instead of sleeping pills and happy pills, I write. Writing became my addiction. But because it's hard to concentrate, I wrote blogs. Keyword blogs on Google's Blogger, like "flipping houses, Design Psychology, home makeovers, fixing houses, selling houses, glorious gardens," and one for my daughter Sara. Some of my posts became articles. Others, like the one about 911 never answering, were not backed up.

I posted many other authors articles on my blogs. I uploaded pictures and cartoons to make the blogs more interesting. Hundreds of people subscribed to my blogs. The high page rank of the blogs helped my websites. I helped my author friends create blogs to promote their websites.

Someone broke into my Blogger Dashboard (control panel) and deleted my blogs. Not only my blogs, but some of my friends that I contributed to. Blogger Support managed to rescue one of thirty.

I can only assume that the person who did this doesn't like what I say about real estate investing. I don't offer expensive mentoring because I'm too busy buying and selling real estate (and writing!). Maybe the anonymous commenter on my article "Building Wealth: Don't Waste Your Money on Real Estate Investment Schemes" is the blog destroyer.

How did this happen? I used the same Blogger Dashboard password on article banks.

With so many anonymous article banks popping up, guard your blogs and important passwords. Take care with your password on article banks.

Joy to you in writing,

Jeanette

I have over thirty websites because my name can be spelled too many ways. Radio hosts get my book titles messed up, so I have variations of "Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars: Using Design Psychology to Increase Real Estate Profits." If you're interested in real estate investing, want to sell your home, build your credit to finance your first home or multiple investment properties, makeover your home for happiness, or contact me, visit Jeanette Fisher or http://www.joytothehome.com.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jeanette_Joy_Fisher

Something else!

2006-01-30T12:58:00.000Z

If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will find the blue box of various ezines that is part of the List Inferno set up that we mentioned yesterday as worth checking out as one of your free list Building services.We have only just started with it (as you can tell!) but I am agreat believer in getting going rather than debating an issue for ever.

I think it is better to make a bad decision ,that you can of course change immediately,than to make no decision at all when it comes to developing a business strategy.

Try something out and if it doesn't live up to expectations within a reasonable period of time then dump it and move on to something else.Sooner or later you will find the winning combination if you persist!

A Few Tid Bits

2006-01-30T12:22:00.000Z

Here is an insteresting link for those of you tinkering with html.It's an interesting site to browse through for ideas for your formatting:-

HtmlGoodies.Com

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A series of books for Improving your Computer Skills can be found at the Dummies site producing a range for all aspects of Computer use:

Publihed by IDG Books Worldwide http://www.dummies.com

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Here's an Author who is in the Guru Category!

Paul McFedries
As President of LOGOPHILIA he has written more than forty books,selling nearly three million copies worldwide.

Take a trip over to his Award winning WebSite and blog for some illumination.
http://www.WordSpy.com

In case you are wondering ? Do I possess The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog the answer is yes. Have I read it all yet Mmmmmmh. Not quite but then you already knew that! It's a great book for Newbies with some useful free software attached including trial versions of Adobe *GoLive* and Macromedia *Dreamweaver*

Check it out it's only $24.95 or €20.60 or in the Uk it's £12.99 .

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Article Writing is a Winning Strategy when combined with Blogging (part one)

2006-01-29T23:22:00.000Z

I am sure what I am about to tell you is common knowledge amongst seasoned Internet Marketers and Business Web Site Owners but it takes a lot of hard graft and several years of trial and error to get any business running profitably. During this start – up phase there will be many sleepless nights and not much in the way of free time. However the exponential growth of the Internet has turned traditional Marketing on its head and provided unheard of opportunities for those who have little start up capital.

One of the ways in which your message can reach a wide audience with breakneck speed is the ability to craft informative Articles covering your particular subject and areas of expertise and get them circulating.

A lot has been written about the importance of getting your articles published and circulating widely, in building confidence amongst your readers and subscribers and web site visitors. Establishing your reputation as a trusted expert in your particular field can be built over time with a constant stream of articles and dramatically enhanced when your work is published elsewhere on the Internet, beyond the boundaries of your own web site. Let’s have a brief look at how you would go about this and what sort of results you could reasonably expect.

With the flavour of the Month now firmly resting with the mighty army of Bloggers, it is worth a quick look at how this could impact on your Article writing career. Blogs have taken the Internet by storm because of the ease with which the every day aspiring writer and marketer can now, without any cost whatsoever, set up a Web-Log in half an hour or less! I suppose the most popular Blogging Host is Blogger .Com and provides a reasonable platform to get started. Many Web Hosting companies are providing alternative blogging software with the more traditionally named Word Press.
It is well worth trying out both these software programmes and seeing which suits you better. My own preference is for WordPress but I am using both for several blogs.

In a nutshell, a blog enables the average person to be published instantly and if you are prepared to take the time to learn the tips and tricks you will soon be posting regularly and will then have the impetus to go a couple of clicks up the ladder to composing fully fledged Articles which will stand along side the best out there. This was my chosen route during the last year and the transition from wondering would it work to getting going, was the most difficult.
Having heard about blogs and articles for quite a while during web research it still took the compelling words of a master marketer to light the fire. It is not too difficult to keep that fire burning once you see some results, however small they may be initially .

In my own case the first and very amateurish blog far outperformed the Web site with links in just two months. The Web site had been going for five years, admittedly with not a huge sum spent on its development, but nevertheless it showed what can be achieved with regular posts or mini articles in a very short time Around this time the first articles were published including one that had sat on my hard drive for a year and it is the combination of these two separate strategies that works so well.

The key I was told in the beginning was to post every day if possible and at least three times a week for the first six months, before expecting any results! The results far outweighed the meagre expectations and continue to grow daily. I am not going to tell tales of unimaginable riches at this point since it is very early days but I do believe that the combination of Blogging and Article circulation can make a huge difference to any ones’ web presence given plenty of action and hard work with the pen. Of course this is only one of the many avenues of making a viable business online or offline for that matter.

In part two we will dissect the various strategies that should be employed to make this work smoothly and hopefully persuade those of you out there who are still sitting on the fence to take some action… no correction! Massive Action. Want to know who the Massive Action Master is? You will have to look a little further to the authors’ resource box thingy below and then do some Detective Work. It would be worth your while since one good idea can sometimes change your life!

This article has just been published at Ezine Articles.com and is in two parts. Look out for the real "how to" tomorrow when I am sure those of you who haven't started yet will get some encouragement to get going!

Hope all of you who have visited so far in this our first week will come back and visit again.We are building this site as we go rather than spend months in the dark.There will be updates every day and we hope you will find the resources useful in developing your own strategies on the Web.

Some Early Hiccups

2006-01-29T16:07:00.000Z

Hi There … we have just noticed that there is some discrepancy between the lay out of the blog on Internet Explorer and the way it is showing in Firefox. Some links are correct in one Browser and not in another. We will be working at it to correct asap.

We are recommending a couple of List Building programmes that were recommended by Doug Champigny of Canada who is a blogging expert. I will be giving you the link to his blogging secrets e- book shortly.
Here are the programmes which could help you over that first hurdle in creating an opt-in list that you can market to.

These Programmes are Free to Join so why not dip your toes?

The List Machine

List Dot Com. created by none other than Mike Filsaime !

List Inferno.

OptIN Storm

Have a great Day!!!!!!!

ONE STOP SHOP FOR NEWBIES?

2006-01-29T08:47:00.000Z

Here is an introduction to a one stop Shop- Site Network for a good many of your needs in the Search Engine Optimisation; Article Directory scene as you take control of your Web site techie activities.

It’s the Jayde Online Network.

We have been a subscriber to the Web Seo Newsletter for a while now and initially it seemed a little too non-newbie but if you pluck up the courage to read some of their excellent Articles which always have a compelling title (hint), you will find that before long, once your brain has got used to the geek-speak, you will look forward to their newsletter and get some really good tips!

Right now there is a very good, but time limited free download of Web Ceo Softwaretool kit on the main page of their newsletter, it’s well worth looking at since there is a training manual included.
Today’s article, which caught my eye as they always do, is entitled:-

15 Shades of SEO Spam
By Jim Hedger, StepForth News Editor,
http://www.StepForth Placement Inc.
.
Jim’s articles are always relevant and easy to read .Today’s article is very useful if you are about to get into the heady world of tackling the various spam issues that face us all and that we might have become embroiled in inadvertently.
Getting involved in Posting to Forums and Blogs can sometimes lead to difficulties.
See my post at the How to Corp Forum yesterday. On that Subject don’t delay in allocating time to scour this forum and begin posting you will find some amazing information there and probably one day someone might view you as a possible Joint Venture Partner stranger things have been known to happen!

In the Newsletter footer you can find all the links to the group of companies including http://www.goarticles.com one of the major Article Directories you should be submitting to.

Another very useful member of their stable is http://www.blogsearch.com where you can search for and add your blog or pick up a feed for a blog of your choice.
Remember having stuff on your hard drive sitting there quietly minding it’s own business just ain’t goin’ to cut it. Take some Actionand I promise you will find that the learning process accelerates and becomes easier on the brain (this tip courtesy of Jim Edwards of http://www.33daystoonlinprofits.com ) who I will dub Action Man!

Have a great day …Robin
http://NetNewbieProfits.blogspot.com
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie

You are not a published writer. So what? Just get going …

2006-01-28T16:41:00.000Z

It is often said that there is a “book” inside of every person and I’m convinced this is true, but what about articles? Well I don’t believe that we have to aspire to be a Freddie Forsythe, or a J.K.Rowling to put together a collection of Articles that can promote our Web Sites or Blogs.

For someone who is not used to putting pen to paper it can seem a daunting task but once you get stuck in and have your first article published on an Article Directory wow there will be no stopping you.

For sure, getting your article written and formatted and then the tortuous journey through the submission page would make you weep for the first few attempts. Don’t give up…it does get easier the more you write and the more you perfect your techniques. It is still time consuming but then nothing that is worthwhile comes easily …can we agree on that?

What’s the whole big deal about writing articles for your Web Site? Or Blog? And submitting them to the major Directories on the Web? Well there are a number of points to consider.

1. A Web Site needs fresh content on a regular basis. Where are you going get this?

2. It’s not really that feasible to hire a ghost writer when you are starting off since you are unlikely to be able to afford them.

3. Your ideas and expertise are all inside you .How long do you think that it will take you to pass all this onto a paid writer? To get him or her to create your message? It’s no contest. Certainly not until you have created financial stability. Even then I doubt whether the paid writer can produce the insider feelings that you yourself will do. Your own personality will shine through in your writing and if it’s new customers and clients that you are endeavouring to communicate and forge new relationships with, then only you can do that.

4. If you are terrified of the keyboard then you gotta bite the bullet and get some keyboard training. Yes it’s a slog but it will be worth it. Doing my third Computer course six years ago and starting at 8.30 am sharp in front of the PC .was quite a shock to the system but a half hour or so of typing practise with Mavis Beacon every day for several months was enough to dispel the fear and give me a few words per minute that even impressed my impatient teenage daughters. You can do the same!

5. Later when you are successful, or at least on the way, you could leverage your valuable time by hiring a copywriter if it’s hard hitting sales copy you are after. I personally would prefer to spend valuable resources on being trained, to produce my own magnetic copy rather than have someone write copy that I put my name to.

6. Later when your apprenticeship is over it will be nothing short of a breeze to crank out excellent persuasive copy and information to your readers, clients or web site visitors.

7. Directories play a big part in the “GETTING YOURSELF KNOWN” process and this is where the Newbie Author has the same resources available to him or her as the experts that have been doing it for years. There are literally hundreds of them on the Internet and quite a number of really large and successful ones that you should consider. EzineArticles are perhaps the best known and growing really fast with about 15,000 authors worldwide; GoArticles are another worth submitting to.

8. You are special and very Unique and have a priceless fountain of Life experience and many areas of expertise in which you excel! Don’t doubt that for a moment. It is precisely these vast Rivers of Knowledge and specialist skills that you possess, that will provide you with a never ending stream of ideas for your Articles. Your Web Site and Blog visitors are looking for what they don’t have currently have but what you yourself definitely do! What’s that?…your status as an expert in your particular field.

9. We all know that the birth and explosion of the Internet has perhaps been the most staggering advance in the area of Communication, Education, Information and Knowledge the World has ever seen. Everyone is thirsty for information and if you have just what the person is looking for, then they very often will gladly pay for it. Which is where you come in?

10. O.K. here you are with a mountain of expertise that you want to share with your fellow travellers and until now it is perhaps only the very well connected and educated and of course Persistent that made the breakthrough to Success, Fame and dare I say it? Fortune! Fortune Fame and Success mean vastly different things to different people. Perhaps it might come as a surprise that the struggle through life that most people endure really doesn’t get any easier, just because you get older and wiser? Unless You Yourself make it happen by first creeping and then gathering speed out of your comfort(or discomfort) zone, and getting plenty of advice along the way, nothing is going to change.

11. Get yourself educated into the ways of the Web and that takes a lot of time in front of the screen, and you will then have the confidence to dip your toes into the icy water and nothing will ever be the same again. We haven’t talked about all the benefits of getting your Articles Published online that’s for the next Article.

12. Do it now, right away get that first Article written and published? You can only find out to what heights you can soar if you Spread Your Wings. A bit like the fledgling leaving the nest for the first time and if you are an Eagle that is one helluva way down to the ground! So what to do? Take a deep breath, close your eyes for a moment and imagine yourself on the Podium and voila it’s just like Orville and Wilbur at KittyHawk all those years ago. Where would we all be today without those two Pioneers?

So be a Pioneer in your own chosen field and fly with the Eagles!

Robin Piggott is passionate about many things in life but is happiest now in front of his PC cranking out his next Article on Life skills and how to get going as an Internet Newbie, which he shares freely with his Web Site and Blog visitors
http://www.astralmotoring.ie
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie
The MotorVAting Blog and Web site of Astral Driving School Limerick Ireland
All Content on this site is Copyright of the Author and all reprint Articles retain the copyrights of their original Authors.
(c)
Astral Authors 2001-2006

Can an Ezine help your business?

2006-01-28T00:54:00.000Z

Most, if not all of today’s household names in the Internet Marketing Scene have benefited from setting up their Ezines because with ease of delivery via e-mail it was very possible with some skilful marketing to build a large subscriber list that could be very viable.

We have all heard the phrase “the money is in the list” and it still remains true but with the march of Technology e-mail contacts have been under pressure from spam filters so it is not quite as effective as it was. However an Ezine viewed on-line by way of a blog and the new rss technology is a major advance and this is the route that Marketers are now more comfortable with.

One of the most dynamic and successful of ezine marketers is the effervescent Alexandria.K.Brown of Del Ray California whose
StraightShooter Ezine is one of the best.
She has over four or five years developed a stable of products and services to help the newbie Web Site owner get a strong grip on the concepts needed for success on-line. It is published weekly and in a very entertaining format with plenty of resources and of course her full stable of products.

The Ezine Queen’s flagship product is her ” Boost your Business with your own Ezine” Course which is an in depth, stage by stage programme. There are numerous other products all endorsed by some heavyweight entrepreneurs including Audio classes in hiring a Virtual Assistant and Marketing and Motivation Mastermind Class. Her upcoming Seminar in March is already well under way to selling out and follows her sell out gig last year!

Any budding Web Marketer who wants a full valued, straight from the hip boost in sales and revenues would do well to check Ali out. She is a superb Marketer as the testimonials will indicate. Go visit Ezine Queen.com and give yourself a straight- up shot of marketing magic.

We are reprinting the first part of Ali’s article ……;-

Your Traffic Building Checklist:
15 Ways to Get More Visitors Who Are Ready to Buy (PART 1 OF 2)
By Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen"

[NOTE: Some words in this article have been disguised to avoid triggering sp^m filters.]

Many of my clients share that one of their biggest online marketing challenges is getting enough visitors to their site. Attracting traffic isn't a cut and dry process - there isn't one perfect way to do it. But there are many ways that, when used collaboratively, will build you a nice stream of visitors.

To get your marketing wheels turning, check out these 15 simple ways to attract new visitors to your site. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but it will give you several fresh ideas to try.

Now, remember - you don't want to expel effort in getting just anyone to visit your site. You only want people who would likely be interested in what you have to offer. So before you read on, answer this question:

"WHO are your target clients or customers?"

The more you know about your ideal clients/customers, the better you'll know where and how to find them.

So ... keep that information in mind as you consider these traffic-building tactics:

___ 1. Sea*rch Eng*ines and Directories

Why not be in front of people who are actually searching for your product or service? Get your site listed in the top sea*rch eng*ines by either learning about this topic on your own or investing in assistance. Because there is A LOT to learn and the rules keep changing all the time, this is an area I advise you get some help in or hire it out. (I recommend my friend Marc Harty at Sea*rch Eng*ine Patrol.)

___ 2. Pay-per-Click Advertising

Services such as Google AdWords let you bid on how much you'd like to pay per click, and many times your listings appear above the regular listings in the major sea*rch eng*ines. AND you can get listed in as little as 15 minutes! To learn more, get my friend Cat Seda's step-by-step course, "Search Marketing Mastery".

___ 3. Your Own E-zine

If you publish your own e-zine, you already have a warm pool of prospects who are likely interested in what you have to offer. Give them a reason to visit (or re-visit) your site by adding new content, giving away a free report or e-book, or offering a special subscriber-only promotion on your products and services. To learn more about publishing your own e-zine, get my award-winning course, "Boost Business With Your Own Ezine".

___ 4. Your Articles in Other E-zines and at Other Web Sites

This has been one of my most successful traffic-building tactics. There are thousands of online publishers who would like to use YOUR articles in their e-zines and on their Web sites! Find them via the Directory of E-zines and also post your articles at free content sites like EzineArticles.com.

___ 5. Ads in Other E-zines

Identify other e-zines whose readership matches your target market. Search the Directory of E-zines and the Web. Find out if the e-zines accept advertising and learn what their rates are. Run at least three ads in a row to get an accurate representation of how the ad pulls. (Use an ad-tracking program to determine how many clicks each ad is getting, such as the one I use that comes with my shopping cart system.

___ 6. Ads on Other Web Sites

Research other Web sites where your target market visits and inquire about advertising. Have ready both text ads and colorful banner ads of the standard sizes.

___ 7. Online Forums and Discussion Groups

Identify popular forums and discussion groups that are related to your subject area and where prospects in your target market may be lurking. You'll find more than you ever knew existed just by doing a few online searches. Let your value shine through in your postings, and include a link to your Web site.

TO BE CONTINUED ... Catch Part 2 in Our Next Issue!

© 2003-2006 Alexandria K. Brown

WANT TO SEE MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS ONE?
See Alexandria's Small Business Marketing Blog.

Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Straight Shooter Marketing' weekly ezine with 17,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and have more fun in your small business, get your FREE tips now at www.EzineQueen.com

Article Writing is a Winning Strategy

2006-01-27T11:14:00.000Z

By Robin Piggott

A few brief comments on the importance of creating your Presence on the Internet.

A lot has been written about the importance of getting your articles published, in building confidence amongst your readers and subscribers. Your reputation as an expert in your particular field can be built over time with a constant stream of articles.

(1) These can be published on your Web Site with perhaps a sign-up required to access the full library.

(2) They should be submitted to as many Article Directories as you can find. I guess that for a Newbie Author perhaps ten or twenty of the top Directories.

(3) Submitting manually is certainly a chore and they do not all have exactly the same submission systems which often leads to one false click deleting your handiwork until you are very familiar.

(4) A major Article can be turned into several blog posts with some variation of the copy.

(5) Blog Posts that are done on the spur of the moment will often give you an idea for an article or series of Articles.

(6) Once you get over the Newbie paralysis syndrome you will be surprised how quickly the ideas come. So you need to create a neat folder or workbook to write down these ideas and then categorise them for your future writing.

(7) It should be possible for someone to create at least three or four Articles a week or more once you get moving ...momentum is a great force of Nature.

(8) Once you have submitted your Articles and they have been accepted you should make a point of doing plenty of keyword/phrase searches and you will be amazed how quickly your article and name will start appearing in these places.

(9) One of our Articles that was not written from a search engine perspective but by chance had in it’s title, some very often used Key words is now showing up in the number one position on a page of 38,000,000 entries .The Article Directory and its high search engine ranking led to this. So if you can do it once by accident you can surely do it over and over again by Design!

(10) One of the encouraging aspects of getting into a very regular Article groove is that other Web Masters and Site owners will , if they like what you have to say and it is in demand by their viewers, publish you on their site The advantage of this is that your Authors’ resource box will be visible with usually two live links to your Web Site or Blog.You can see the general idea below in my own resource box.You get a chance to tell your reader a little about yourself and hopefully entice them to visit your site or blog. You can ring the changes to your resource depending on the particular context of your article or the product or service you are promoting.

We will expand on this technique as time goes on but in the meantime take a trip over to the Webs’ Leading Article Directory http://www.ezinearticles.com and see how it all works. That will be an hour very well spent.

Robin Piggott has spent most of his Career in Sales and Marketing with a considerable time behind the wheel. His internet experience spans six years and is now working on expanding his Professional Driving School through the Internet in addition to getting invoved in the Blogosphere.

http://astralmotoring.blogspot.com
http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie

http://www.astralmotoring.ie

The Night of the Blitz

2006-01-26T21:47:00.000Z

There is a very innovative programme in its early days which is well worth signing up for. The FeedBlitz organisation will get you rolling with syndicated feeds (whatever that is?)and it's very simple to get the code for your website or Blog and give you an instant sign-up form.

Here is the blink I mean link...it has to be one of the easiest add-ons for any Newbie and should give your site a professional slant. Try it out... I don't think you will be disappointed. This is what the code looks like:

http://www.feedblitz.com

Ezine Queen Rides off into the Sunset

2006-01-26T18:55:00.000Z

Alexandria K.Brown, otherwise known as The Ezine Queen is off on her holidays to the Sunny Caribbean.Clearly getting her Tan in place prior to her Seminar in March. We are reprinting her Article from her Straight-Shooter Ezine for your benefit today. Her weekly Ezine is always a good read and She is one of the Prime Contenders in the battle for Ezine Dominance.

All her links are below ...go take a good long look and sign up for what will be a memorable experience. Her article today is about traffic Building Principles:-

Your Traffic Building Checklist:
15 Ways to Get More Visitors Who Are Ready to Buy (PART 2 OF 2)
By Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen"

[NOTE: Some words in this article have been disguised to avoid triggering sp^m filters.]

___ 8. Recommendations by E-zine Publishers

Do you know anyone who publishes an e-zine for the same target market as yours? If you're not direct competitors, ask her about cross-promoting each other. Example: When my friend Wendy Weiss, "The Queen of Cold Calling," and I both launched our e-zines five years ago, I gave a two-paragraph recommendation for her site in my own e-zine, and she returned the favor by doing the same for me. That one exchange resulted in hundreds of new visitors (and subscribers) for each of us!

___ 9. Recommendations by Other Site Owners

Same idea as #8. Many sites offer a "recommended resources" page, so why not get listed on them? Find sites whose target market matches yours and ask if they'd recommend your site. You'll get more yeses if you offer to list them on your site as well. (And especially also if you also offer commissions on sales! See #10.)

___ 10. Affiliate Programs

Grow your own sales force by offering a handsome commission on your products and services. While this requires you to give away some profits on those sales, they're sales you would not have had otherwise. Right now almost HALF of my sales come from traffic sent to my site by my affiliates. Best of all, you can track and pay your affiliates automatically using programs like QueenCart.com (1ShoppingCart), which also handles all your sales and customer database at the same time.

___ 11. Your E-mail Sig File

You're probably familiar with e-mail signature (or "sig") files -- they're the few lines of contact information that many of us put at the bottom of every e-mail we send. Add a few additional lines to your sig file that give us a reason to visit your site. Perhaps you're having a special sale now or you're giving away a free report, e-book, or e-zine subscription. Remember, e-mails get forwarded around all the time, so take advantage of this free exposure. (For more tips on sig files, see my article "Make Your E-mail Sig File Work for You.")

___ 12. Exposure in Print, Radio, and TV

You can drive hundreds or even thousands of new visitors to your site with the right media exposure. Again, no matter how great your interview or article is, people need a kick in the pants to visit your site. So give them something free that they have to come GET at your site. For help in generating publicity at $0 cost to you, check out veteran broadcaster George McKenzie's books and courses.

___ 13. Speaking to Groups

Nothing leaves more of an impact on people than an in-person presentation. At each appearance, collect your participants' e-mail addresses by offering something free (your free report, e-book, or e-zine subscription). The day after the event, send them a reminder to visit your site to pick up their free gift! My friend Tom Antion offers tons of advice and resources on speaking for exposure and profit.

___ 14. Postcard Mailings

One of the most overlooked tactics in today's marketing world is the humble postcard. Postcards are a fast, easy, and reliable way to generate leads and increase visitors to your site. Best of all, they're the ideal way to break through the online clutter by going offline! I use and love ModernPostcard.com.

___ 15. Sheer Shamelessness

If you lived in the Los Angeles area a few years ago, there's a good chance you saw "EzineQueen.com" whiz by you at speeds in excess of 70 m.p.h. Why? It was emblazoned across the back of my black SUV in large, lime-green letters! At least once a week I got a friendly e-mail from someone who saw my giant URL and, out of curiosity, visited my site. A few of them even turned into customers. Lesson learned? Think out of the box! For help in this area, see Debbie Allen's "Confessions of Shameless..." series. (I'm featured in both the Shameless Internet Promoters and Shameless Dating versions!)

(c) 2003-2006 Alexandria K. Brown

WANT TO SEE MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS ONE?
See Alexandria's Small Business Marketing Blog.

Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen," publishes the award-winning 'Straight Shooter Marketing' weekly ezine with 18,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and have more fun in your small business, get your FREE tips now at www.EzineQueen.com

WHO IS JASON MANGRUM?

2006-01-26T09:20:00.000Z

This morning's post is an Article written by none other than Jason Mangrum?
well that's all fine and rosy but who the heck is Jason Mangrum you might ask?

Every day we are bombarded by tales of Fame and Fortune and Success on the Internet and a lot of it is true; quite a lot, as you will find out, is NOT!

I first became aware of Jason two years ago when, after stumbling upon my first Copywriting Expert web sites,(hint!) far too many to list here (lol) his name came up and probably after a while I signed up for his newsletter.

To put you out of your misery, that first eye opening and Magnetic Website was none other than Mr.Fire.com authored by a joe-vial Author by the name of Joe,appropriately enough.Imagine my surprise to find out that someone could be SO famous and in demand that all they had to do was use an outrageously short Domain Name that conjured up visions of Sword Swallowers,Fire Eaters and a Circus Act. Strange but True!

So here we were at Mr Fire's Website (far too short a name to be bothered with really, but what the hell you can always click the back button!) and the rest, as they say is(no not history) but Hypnotic and Spellbinding. I guess at this stage you are none the wiser?

Joe, otherwise known as MR Fire or more correctly as Dr.Joe Vitale, is one of the Internet's best loved Authors and Marketing experts.If you absolutely hate Harry Potter and who doesn,t then you will Love Joe Vitale.He recently toppled Harry off the Best Seller List at Amazon with his then latest offering. That's got to be a Testimonial and a Half! The Book ...well it,s far too uninteresting for me to list here ..get off your Butts and go check it out for yourself at Joe's site.

Jason Mangrum worked closely with Joe and has built his own Internet presence which you can check out through the links in this copy.

My thought for the Day.."Of course you can succeed, you have the same 24 hours in the Day that everyone else has you just have to put it to Good Use. ie some, no, A Lot of Hard Work!"

(c)RCP 2001-2006.

Here is the Article by Jason.. you perhaps may find some of it a little too fast or Internet- Techie as a newbie, hell I have only just reached stage 2 in Newbie College myself, but believe me with a lot of days and nights in front of the little screen the mist will start to clear and you will finally get into second gear..Enjoy the read and do look up Jason and Joe you could do no better than to start your Internet Career here:-
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"Web Traffic Techniques You Can Use Right Now for 2006!"
By Jason Mangrum, Author The Instant Traffic Formula 2006
http://www.InstantTrafficFormula.com

As you probably know, getting web traffic to your site is one of the three most crucial components to making any money online. In Mark Joyner's Internet Intelligence Manuscript (Volume II) he clearly explains how any web traffic (not just "targeted traffic") can be made profitable, by mentally framing, or conditioning your visitors to become receptible to your offer.

One of the easiest ways to mentally re-frame your visitors upon entry to your site, is to walk them through a three-step process that:

A) Grabs their immediate attention with a promise of benefit
B) Pre-Qualifies them before they get to your sales letter
C) Follows up with them over time with new content and reminders of your offer

Keep in mind, web traffic is just one component of the three required to sustain sales.

The other two are:

1. Testing new advertising campaigns and ad copy
2. Tracking and keeping records of your results from each campaign

Here's an example case study of the three-step process...

On December 16th 2005, my book "The Instant Traffic Formula 2006" was released to teach internet entreprenuers how to create, attract and monetize responsive web traffic to any web site or affiliate program. As of today, my web site at www.InstantTrafficFormula.com (which uses the exact techniques taught in the book) is averaging a 64.86% visitor-to-lead conversion, and an average sales conversion ranging from 4.69% up to 11.36% all-around (from the redirect = no followups), which is currently netting me just over $1.48 per unique visitor to my site.

Again, these statistics do not take follow-ups into account. These are "straight-out-of-the-gate" type sales that occur within minutes of my visitors signing up to read my sales letter.

And you can do this too.

I follow a simple formula to create web traffic, qualified leads, responsive subscribers, loyal customers and even active affiliates who promote anything and everything I sell online.

You can sum up the entire formula into the three major components I mentioned above, and create a fail-proof success system for your products, services and affiliate programs. After you've activated the formula, the best way to keep the momentum of traffic, leads and sales coming in on a consistent and even predictable basis, is in three words...

What those three words are, and how to use them by combining eight other powerful elements is carefully documented inside my book. But here's the process I used personally on my site:

1. My visitor is directed through a tracking link (or affiliate link) to a lead capture page called a "Name Squeeze" where prospects give their contact information in order to get details of my report.

2. Upon submitting their contact information, they are immediately directed to my sales page for the details, and offer for the Instant Traffic Formula Scientific Marketing Report.

3. My follow-up autoresponder system immediately sends them an email reminding them of my offer, giving a few testimonials of the report and sends them a link to check it out at another time. A few days later, they receive reminders of my offer, more quality feedback of my report, new articles and content about getting web traffic, and again - links back to my sales letter.

The lead capture page serves to "pre-qualify" visitors who actually want to read my sales letter to find out more about my offer. I've heard a lot of people claim many visitors (and sales) can be lost by forcing your prospects to "do something" before they get to your offer -- but my direct experimentation and results show the majority (64.86%) of visitors who hit my site, sign up.

Once my visitors sign up, they become leads and are set into my autoresponder system to receive consistent follow-ups until they buy, or unsubscribe. Thankfully, the autoresponder service I use (Aweber) allows me to easily direct my new subscribers to a custom "Thank You" page. Most web marketers still use the "default" thank you page and their subscribers are returned to a "thanks for subscribing - now close the window" type message. Useless.

My thank you page re-directs to a tested sales letter that continues the mental conditioning process by giving in-direct answers to questions that were created in the mind of my prospects upon reading, and signing up from my Name Squeeze.

Now that my three elements are together, I combine them with "CII" or the three most powerful words in all of marketing, and achieve phenomenal and consistent results over time.

Using just this part of the formula alone, can cause a massive shift in your bottom line. However, when the complete formula is both discovered and activated, you'll have a direct funnel to bring money "out of thin air" to you whenever you like, and for whatever you want.

Do this. Think of something you'd like to have.

Anything. It can be anything. Don't limit yourself.

A new car, a new house, a nice expensive necklace for a loved one -- anything.

Now put a price on it.

That's your goal. Your intention.

Write it down.

Next, get out a calculator and punch in the price of what you want.

Divide that number by the price for whatever item you want to sell.

Round up to the nearest whole number, and you've got a definite number.

This number equals the amount of sales you'll need to get your wish.

Now use the formula described in this article, and funnel the correct amount of sales into your business, by getting the traffic, pre-qualifying them, and going for the sale using CII to guide you along every step of the way -- until you reach your desired number of sales.

Once the sales you've accumulated equal your desired amount, you get your wish.

Try it for yourself and see the power in this technique to create anything you want.

Above all, stay focused... keep the momentum... and enjoy your prosperity in the new year!

Jason Mangrum is known to internet entreprenuers as both "The Marketing Machine" and "The Marketing Mad Scientist." His newly-released Instant Traffic Formula 2006 divulges a complete, scientific marketing formula that brings web traffic, leads, subscribers and sales to any product, service or affiliate program. More information and details about the book can be found on his site, at: http://www.InstantTrafficFormula.com

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Source Code Goldmine Blow-Out..selling out Fast!

2006-01-25T00:56:00.000Z

Jeremy Burns latest Offering for those wishing to get a head Start in the World of Re sell and Private Label Rights

Grab Private Label Rights To 10
Hot New Products -
This Week Only!

Hurry, Jeremy Burns is only selling 500
copies of this incredible package, plus the price is going up by $50 bucks every few
days so grab this Source Code now!!

"10 PL Rights Products!"
www.SourceCodeGoldMine.com

CLICK HERE NOW FOR ALL THE DETAILS

To Buy or Not to Buy

2006-01-25T00:42:00.000Z

Another Article by Jim Edwards on your Buying Skills

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How To Buy Online Without Getting Ripped Off

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I frequently get similar questions from viewers and
subscribers all over the world.

They often ask me "Jim, what do you think of So-and-So's
product?" or "How does So-and-So's product compare to your
product?" or "Should I buy So-and-So's product?"

Typically these questions are about physical products,
software or information products.

People ask for my opinion not only because I write a
newspaper column, but also because I've produced and sold
tens-of-thousands of products to people all around the world
for the past nine years.

Bottom line: people want a clear, concise "yardstick"
against which to measure any online purchase so they never
feel ripped off.

Let me say right up front that I believe 100% in free-market
competition and that having multiple products and
perspectives on the same topic ultimately improves any
marketplace for everyone.

I thank the Firefox browser and Linux operating system for
getting Microsoft off its gigantic backside and addressing
some serious issues.

But, with so many new products coming to market online,
everyone must operate with a simple, effective criteria for
evaluating any offer, especially in the business arena.

Let me offer you the exact same 2-part benchmark I use to
evaluate any business offering that crosses my desktop.

This will help you avoid getting caught up in the "hysteria"
of the moment and buying on impulse, rather than on careful
thought.

Part #1 - I ask myself this question: Do I really need this
in my business or is this just something "new" for the sake
of something new?

If I realize that I'm just getting sucked into the "try
something new" mentality, I put the purchase on hold for 48
hours to "cool off."

If I honestly decide I need the product, then I move on to
part 2.

Par #2 - I ask myself this question: Has the person selling
me this software, product or course actually DONE (more than
once) what they are selling me "how to" do - and can they
prove it?

If someone sells a piece of software, I want to know how
much time it saved, how much money it saved, how much effort
it helped avoid, and how much money was made as a result of
using it - and I want proof!

Let me simply repeat the mantra of the classic Wendy's
commercial from the 1980's: "Where's the beef?"

If someone tries to sell you a piece of software that claims
to get 10,000 visitors to your site, ask to see screen shots
of their server logs and sales in their merchant account.

If someone tries to sell you a course on creating website
video, ask how many money-making videos they've put online
over the years (ask for specific URLs) and run like heck if
their personal website doesn't have the first video on it
(or if they just put one up this week)!

You'll never go wrong if, before you buy anything online,
you demand concrete, demonstrable proof that lives up to the
claims made by the person or company selling it.

In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan, "Trust but verify!"

--
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to finally create your own
money-making mini-sites...

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"Finally! A Quick and Easy Way For YOU to Painlessly Set Up
Your OWN Moneymaking 'Mini' Websites... Without Being a
Computer Geek, Buying Expensive Software, or Paying
Outrageous Fees To A Webmaster!"

Click Here => http://www.MiniSiteCreator.com
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Gotham City Press Release......

2006-01-24T22:50:00.000Z

Gotham City Press Release: Batmobile gets new Driver as Robin passes his BatmoTest first Time.

{FIRSTNAME =otherwise known as Customer , Reader}, Holy Private Label Goldmine Batman?

Hi there ..couldn't resist this email so before the Marketing Blog is set up (today hopefully ) I am just going to do a bit of experim-I-nting. A new programme by one of the Internets' top Gurus was released last Friday ...There are only a few slots left why don't you check it out if you have any interest at all in what is going on behind the scenes...

That's what Robin(that's me!) would say to Batman when saw the 10 incredible products that all come with PL Rights that Jeremy Burns is blowing out starting Friday. (last Friday!)
I am going to shower you with bribes & gifts 1st thing Friday morning...

Why you ask :-)

Well you can blame it on Jeremy....

This Friday (just passed)he will be launching Source Code Gold Mine.

If you saw the last time he did a sale like this then you already know what this means...

If you didn't see it last time, then you you will want to see what this is all about by going right now to:
http://sourcecodegoldmine.com

The reason I am letting you know about a sale that does not even start until Friday (it already did)that is last Friday not next Friday( Phew... these time zones are tricky suckers!)) is because I wanted to make sure you wait for my email before you pick it up!

You see I am going to be piling an absolutely "Sickening" amount of bonuses on you - if you pick up this incredible package through my link!

So wait for my email on Friday morning(it's not written yet !)- I promise you will be kicking yourself if you let this through anyone other then me!

Best Regards,
Robin Piggott

PS. You won't believe what I have planned to bribe you with!

Go To==Sourcecodegoldmine!

Setting up your Free Blog

2006-01-24T21:12:00.000Z

Setting up your Very Own Free Blog...it's a cinch...just read the Article below by Jim Edwards; grab yourself a coffee and get going ...What's keeping you?

We will be publishing Jim Edwards' Articles and blog posts regularly so keep visiting this Blog for the latest in "How To" from many of the Internet's Top experts
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Set Up Your Own Blog Free

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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I've received a lot of email lately from people asking how
they can set up their own blogs for family, friends, or
business purposes without spending much money or hiring an
expensive programmer or web developer.

Well, ask no more because I will now show you exactly how to
get your own blog without dipping too far into your own
pocket (if at all) and get up and running, even if you don't
have your own website, hosting account, or domain name.

You basically get two choices when it comes to setting up a
blog: host it yourself, or use a service that hosts the blog
for you.

Each one carries advantages based on your level of skill,
experience and how many options you want to add to your
blog.

If you choose to host your blog on your own website, then
you can pick from a number of different options, including
MoveableType.org and WordPress.org.

However, if you don't want to host it yourself, you can also
go to Yahoo.com, put in the term "free blog" and obtain a
long list of services that will host a blog for you, either
free of charge or for a fee.

Probably the best-known free blog service resides at
Blogger.com

Recently purchased by Google, Blogger boasts thousands of
blogs on topics ranging from ecommerce to pet manners.

Blogger enables you to set up a functional blog in about 5
minutes and start posting your thoughts, rants, or family
facts with the world.

Log on to http://Spaces.MSN.com and find another free option
offered by Microsoft's online service, MSN.

This service makes it a bit easier to share photos than
Blogger, which requires a separate software tool called
Picasa (also available from Google for free).

MSN's blogger service also seems to appeal more to
individuals sharing their thoughts than to businesses trying
to scare up new customers or get their links crawled by
search engine spiders (another advantage of publishing a
blog).

So if you're publishing the family blog, this one might
offer more of the user-friendly options you need.

The one drawback to using free services always comes back to
the age-old saying, "You get what you pay for!"

These free blog services come with virtually zero customer
support, so if you can't figure it out on your own, good
luck finding anyone to assist you.

If you don't mind paying $5 a month, you can get a full-
featured weblog at TypePad.com that offers a decent level of
customer support.

The blogs available here offer many more features than
Blogger or MSN, but also require you to understand a bit
more about blogging's more advanced features like "trackback
links" and "pinging" blog directories to let them know
you've updated your blog (so others can come take a look at
your new material).

Regardless of whether you choose the free or paid option,
using a hosted blogging solution rates best when getting
started.

However, once your blog really starts to take off and you
find you need more "bells and whistles," you may want to
consider upgrading to a more sophisticated blogging
solution.

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The Success of your Web Site with King Content.

2006-01-24T18:30:00.000Z

An Article By Robin Piggott (C) Astral Article Authors 2005-2006

A guide for Newbies to get under the Radar of the ever increasing mountain of technophobia that faces a Web site owner starting off.
There is of course a huge amount to learn in setting up and running a Web Site, which is why, I believe, that most newcomers tend to put their trust in a web designer, aka webmaster and leave them to get on with things hoping that all will go well. Big Mistake!

It’s only when, having spent quite a lot of money, you find out that your pride and joy is not giving you the results that you imagined, that alarm bells can start to ring. In my own case this took approximately four years to sink in. After a promising start, with some enquiries from the other side of the world, things not only didn’t get any better but got worse!

Of course, if you are running and developing a new business, which takes a colossal amount of time and commitment, you don’t initially have time to worry too much about the success of your web site. After all, a web site will make you a zillionaire quicker than you can spell the long version of SEO! Big Mistake!

I believe it is just as important to designate sufficient time to understanding how a web site is developed, promoted and maintained as it is to spend time on all the other many facets of a fledgling business.

Many new business owners, myself included, thought in the past that just by having a web site and on-line presence AND a webmaster, that everything would be fine. Visitors and sales would surely follow and increase exponentially. Not So!

Probably the pace of change on-line is more rapid than most businesses realise and therefore if you are going to build a site AND do some reasonable level of commerce from it, you have got to study and learn a number of basics.

1. Key word research should really begin before you set about building your site, because it can help with the choice of a suitable Domain name and continue to assist in the titles and scope of your eventual articles.

2. Original and fresh content related to your prospective field is a necessity, and needs to be uploaded on a very regular basis. Unless you are a very large company with an in-house webmaster, this is probably the most crucial aspect of developing a site in terms of getting good search engine results.

3. Writing new pages can be extremely time consuming and unless you have a suitable S.M.S. package installed, enabling you to become your own webmaster, it’s highly likely you will commence the slow but inexorable slide to oblivion, other wise known as Zero traffic.

4. Build your site with help by all means but make sure that you become your own webmaster ultimately, having taken a crash course in the do’s and don’ts. You absolutely must have the facility to control what goes on within your site. If you miss out on this vital aspect of developing a site, the chances are that you will lose interest and stop creating ideas and content.

5. Learning to write your content, even if this seems a bit beyond your reach to begin with is another essential skill to be fine tuned and believe me, once you have got under way it will become easier with each passing day. Looking at how other web sites operate and the standard of their content will help you along the path.

6. Articles on your area of expertise, submitted to a number of reputable Directories, will almost immediately get you noticed and start to build credibility. These can be modified for use as web pages and will provide ideas for new content on a never ending basis. It has been my experience in the recent past that articles can have a very advantageous effect on search engine results. Credibility is something you can never have too much of.

7. Search engine optimization, a very fancy term, with nearly as many, so called, experts as there are sites on the Web and similar in number to the droves of Web site designers! This is a thorny topic and one best left to the experts, for the behind the scenes work. However, it is my belief that the best results come from fresh and original content put up on your site on a regular basis. Results from my blog of only two months existence, in terms of link popularity, are outstripping my web site that has been on-line for five years. This is all down to regular articles on my chosen topic.

8. A newsletter or ezine, is a very good way of encouraging traffic to your site and building your subscriber list that you can eventually turn into clients, customers and sales. Offering an incentive for your visitors to part with their e-mail address can be by way of a free mini course or e book.. In the case of your newly published E-Book, offering a free download of one complete chapter is something worth considering and is a very popular technique. This is all part of the credibility building process. Once you get used to making regular posts to your newly set up Blog, a newsletter should be relatively easy to produce, without too much stress.

9. A Business Blog is I think, the way forward, for many web site owners who would like to see an increase in traffic of a targeted nature. They are easy to set up and have the advantage of being virtually instant. One of the great things that can help you in becoming more adept as a webmaster, utilising your own blog, is that learning the rudiments of html is not the nightmare that it may appear to be. You can practise away to your heart’s content adding and subtracting code from a blog post and see immediately the result in the preview pane. You don’t even need to publish this post. Again, getting used to viewing the source code of other web sites and seeing how they do things will give you no end of inspiration.
of weeks, with a little effort!

10. Control is the key to success in developing your skill as a webmaster. In a follow–up article on the experiences of a complete Blog novice we will have a look at some of the more interesting facts, figures, and activities that will take you where you want to go, and contribute to the success of your web site, providing you are prepared to allocate sufficient computer time
and are not expecting to retire a millionaire in six months!

It is, however, an achievable goal to go from a complete Newbie to someone who has some idea of where he or she is going in just a couple of weeks.

This Article was first published on the Web's main Article Directory ...Ezine Articles.Com in the Summer of 2005

Getting Started with Internet Marketing

2006-01-24T16:49:00.000Z

Welcome to the NetNewbieProfits Blog.

As you might imagine this is(1) A Blog (2) A Blog for Newbies and (3) A collection of valuable Ways to make a profit without losing too much sleep or spending too much boodle.

Now that's out of the Way we can get on with the serious stuff of looking at how you get going... how you keep going... and when the chips are down how you motivate yourself to create all you are capable of...and that of course ultimately means INCOME.

We are going to give you some good and relatively simple ideas that can be implemented immediately and will in time build your Business.
Before you have a Buisness you must have a Plan, a Dream, and a Computer with Internet Connection and some Goals which must be written down.

You are probably saying to yourself right now who is this Guy and what gives him the right to lecture me? Well this is no lecture this is the real world where dog eats dog or (cat as the case may be)and you have to get off your Butt every day and get things done.

"Better to make a Bad Decision and then change it for a Better one than make no Decision at All"

It is common knowledge that the person who takes action ...Massive Action.. will always out run the better Qualified or Educated person who just sits and Dreams.

Here's the First Lesson that you would do well to type up and hang on your office wall, put on a 6+4 card and carry with you at all times.

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Nothing in the World can take the Place of Persistence. Talent will not;nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with Talent.Genius will not; unrewarded Genius is almost a proverb.Education will not;the World is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.The slogan "Press On" ha ssolved and always will solve the problems of the Human Race.

Calvin Coolidge.American President

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Item Number One..Day One.
Learn about Blogging and set up your first Blog..it's not that difficult or time consuming .I will let you into a secret here..One of the Internet's most entertaining(you have to have fun ) and successful Entrepreneurs Jim Edwards of "I gotta tell you Blog.com got me started by repeatedly emphasing the "Do it Now" mind set and "Take Massive Action".Thinking and dreaming will just not cut it.
How do I do it..well just go to Blogger.com and follow the instructions.

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Here is an Article by the Amazing Jim Edwards (the last of 2005)Tuition (and some good fun as well).If there is one person I would recommend that a newbie should check out and become aquainted with it is Jim. I know I am one of thousands who have benefitted from his enthusiasm, his humour and his straight - up expertise,not to mention his wonderful portfolio of products, books and software...all of which are more than good value..They Rock ..to use a well worn cliche.

Online Video Predictions For 2006

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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About this time every year I make a few predictions about
what will rate "HOT" for the coming year in the online
world. Last year, among other things, online audio topped my
list for 2005.

This year, 2006, I see full-motion online video as the
"killer app" to revolutionize website communications and
ecommerce.

Bottom line: with a digital camcorder and some basic
software, you can transform your website into the Home
Shopping Network, and with distribution tools like
Video.Google.com and video Podcasting on Apple's iTunes, you
can broadcast to the masses just like CNN.

Several major changes in 2005 set the stage for full-motion
video online.

These include faster, cheaper computers, improved video
creation and conversion software, and widespread adoption of
the free "Flash" Web browser plug-in (works on PC and MAC).

Combine these changes with the fact that over 50% of all
Internet users in the United States got high-speed access as
of 2005, and you set the stage for an online video
revolution.

In 2006, you will see the equivalent of little online TV
stations cropping up all over the Internet.

Along with the free-form, "anything goes" content of video
blogging (vlogging), commercial use of full-motion video
will fall into 4 basic categories.

Website "Infomercials" - Any savvy business knows the
Internet actually represents the largest direct-response
advertising medium ever seen.

As such, infomercial techniques of late-night fitness, self-
improvement, and real estate gurus will spill over into
other niche markets online.

Though initially not 30-minutes long like their TV
counterparts, online infomercials will last 2-5 minutes -
long enough to get all the main sales points across.

Live Demonstrations - If a picture is worth a thousands
words, then full-motion video is worth 100,000 words!

Any product that easily gets sold once people see it in
action will greatly benefit from online video.

Also, service businesses such as Realtors can now easily and
inexpensively create full-motion video home tours.

And, sellers on the popular eBay auction site can now show
and demonstrate their items rather than depending strictly
on text and static pictures to make the sale.

Before and After - Anyone selling a diet product, skin care,
cleaning, car repair or other product promising specific
results for the end user can now "show and tell" using full-
motion online video.

Imagine the impact of showing concrete evidence in "before
and after" video to help you make the sale online.

Product Testimonials - Despite widespread acceptance of
online shopping and ecommerce, many people remain skeptical
and somewhat leery of purchasing anything online, especially
based strictly on promises made on a website.

With video testimonials you can put their minds at ease by
showing video of people who used and benefited from the
product or service.

Imagine the impact that will have on the trust and
credibility for any website.

A word of caution to all would-be online videographers:
dial-up users still make up a huge part of the online
population, so you must always try to offer them a dial-up-
friendly option to watch your video or receive your
information.

Don't cater strictly to the high-speed crowd because you'll
alienate a significant portion of the marketplace.

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