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I've
been buying and reading Jay Conrad Levinson's Anyhow
I finally got to meet Jay at Mark Joyner's late-night party in Vegas
last October...a long, long way from my It's called Guerrilla Marketing During Tough Times If your business has been slowing down at all recently, in these tougher economic times - and many have - Jay will show you exactly what to do to turn it back around. Each of the
12 chapters in Guerrilla
Marketing During Tough Times includes action steps that you
can use, and an exercise to help you focus your energy on the areas
of your business you must change. It's real-life advice from a real
marketing expert and something you must read.
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If you subscribe to a number of ezines you've probably received quite a few emails today promoting a new program called Website Lifeline. Nearly everyone is mailing out the same letter in text or html that starts off When
Your Website is Down, Would You Rather Be It happens to all of us. Websites go down. Hey, it's an acceptable part of doing business on the net. Even the biggest sites in the world have problems... The thing is, when your site goes down it's like having your oxygen cut off. You can't take orders. Your customers can't contact you. You pretty much can't breathe. You may not be able to prevent your site from going down, but there is something you can do. Lots of ezines mailing out the same thing at once tends to put me off mentioning it, however good it might be. But in this case I'm not put off, because Website Lifeline is something all serious webmasters, and affiliate program promoters, should be using. So what is it? Well... it's a web site monitoring system that lets you know immediately if your site is down. Now that's not very exciting is it, and it can't really be hyped up as the latest, greatest thing (which some people are trying to do). But I've got to tell you that I'm a big fan of this kind of service. I've been using one for years, so rather than letting all the emails put me off, I investigated further and really liked what I saw.
I spend up big time on advertising, and most of the time it pays off. But sometimes I place an expensive ad and makes no sales. Then I find out that the site that I was promoting was down. It happened just the other week when I ran ads in some ezines (and also reviewed it here) promoting an excellent book called The Dropship Source Directory. I made no sales and I later found out that the site was down when all the ads appeared. If I'd been using Website Lifeline I could have pulled the ads and held off publishing the review. Not using Website Lifeline ended up costing me several hundred dollars. As soon as I heard about it yesterday I got onto Mark Joyner (yes, it's from Mark of Roibot fame, so you know it's a high quality product) and had a chat about it. I wanted to know if it was good for us little guys who mainly promote affiliate programs, and maybe a few mini sites. Turns out it's great for people like us. Mark told me that it's fully customizable, and that you can set it up to check as many affiliate links as you like. (this alone immediately sold me on the product) " It's totally customizable," he said. "It checks as many pages as you want as often as you want (up to 5 domains per license) It fully spiders your sites, and checks the status of each, and immediately notifies you if something is wrong." "It also checks affiliate links outside of your domain (as many as you like - this isn't included in the 5 domain limit) Ok, he's got me sold. I'm using it from now on to totally monitor my online business and make sure that everything is running the way it should be. This is going to save me lots of money and frustration over the years. How about you? I
suggest you try it out for a month by taking the $1 trial _______________________________________________________ One last thing before I
go. You'll find that commissions on the Mini Site Profits affiliate
program have increased to 50% from today. You
can join here.
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business
books for years now. His book Guerrilla Marketing, is published
in 37 languages, and is required reading in MBA programs worldwide.
(Not that I've got an MBA, or any other qualifications...I'm just
old and experienced, work my tail off, and read a lot of books like
Jay's and the book I wrote about last week 
Aussie
home, but well worth the trip. Jay was like a cross between everyone's
favorite grandfather and the Dalai Lama dispensing wisdom and business
savvy with every breath. And at LA Airport, on the way back home,
I bought the few books of his I didn't already own.
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