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Phil Wiley's All the Secrets issue 219 May 12th 2002

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1. Letter from Phil - 2 new books coming... 2. Internet marketing superman strikes again... 3. Instant Poll... 4. Spam, spam, no spam... 5. Pop Up Rotator price rise... Letter from Phil... guess what. I'm starting writing a new book later this week, then continuing it on my 2 month trip to Europe starting May 25th. I've got a few product ideas in mind but I need your help to decide which one to go with. So can you spare a minute to answer this quick poll [ poll closed - result: A full time web income from part-time work. To run a web survey/poll of your own please click here ] Ok, thanks for doing that. now back to the action. I may as well tell you. I'm starting 2 new books this week. Not just one. Ambitious I know, but that's the way I get sometimes. Must have been popping too many vitamins pills. One will be decided by the poll, and the other one is going to be about making money with digital photography. It's something I know quite a lot about, and because it's outside the Internet Marketing/affiliate program niche, that you're most likely a part of, I've not included it in the poll. I'm just going to do it. I might know a lot about using digital cameras and making money with them, but I've never really researched it online (except to see there's little competition for an ebook of this nature) so I'm going to do it all from a Site Build It! web site. Using SBI is going to save me a lot of time, plus the new ecommerce, mailout, and affiliate features are coming online very soon now, so I'll be able to run that entire venture from SBI. Very exciting. I'll tell you more about SBI and why I'm going to use it, next week. phil ps. if YOU make money with a digital camera I'd like to interview you. You can email me at digital@ozemedia.com   Internet marketing superman strikes again... You have kids living out of their parent's home writing e-books about how to "get rich" on the Internet. Some of these kids do pump out good info - aussie wiz kid Shane Peace, for example, who wrote the book Super Affiliate Marketing Exposed But unfortunately a lot of the stuff you end up buying from these kids, from people of all ages really, is worthless copycat stuff. Some of it sells well, because it's promoted well, but really it's just stuff you've read a 100 times or more in ezines and ebooks. What you should do is go straight to the top. Look for people who are excelling in their niche. Check people out before you buy. (that's what I do, which is why my recommendations in this newsletter are usually spot on) In other words, if the person who has written the book you're thinking of buying isn't walking the walk, stay away from the product and go for the main source. In the past few weeks I've written about two different books on promoting affiliate programs. Michael Campbell's "Clickin' it Rich" and Chuck McCullough's "Affiliate Mistakes" Now both these guys are walking the walk and doing the talk, or whatever that expression is. In other words they know what they're talking about...they both make a heap of money with affiliate programs and show you how they're doing it. But in my mind there's one person who really stands out as a master of everything to do with this whole wide area collectively known as Internet Marketing. And that's Marlon Sanders. He's not amazingly old (unlike me) but he's studied and practiced advertising and marketing, both on and off the Internet, all his adult life. Over the past few years I've sold a lot of his products from my websites, and if you haven't got them you're missing out on a lot of knowledge. Marlon personally helped me put my Mini Site Profits book together, encouraging me to write it when I couldn't work out how to find the time. Ideas and tips flowed through his emails and I ended up writing it because I didn't want to disappoint him. Re-reading his famous Gimme book also helped me a lot. Anyway, Marlon's just put out a superb collection called Cash Like Clockwork, which is a package of 11 CD's, and a 156 page step-by-step printed manual. (it says 8 CD's on the web page at but you get 3 bonus one's as well) Cash Like Clockwork has got so many components that I can't list them all here. You really need to go to the web site and check them all out. Some amazing stuff in an amazing package. Thanks Marlon. Instant poll... Thought I'd better tell you a bit about the poll I'm using. Unlike other polls you might have filled in, you'll see there's no ads on it. Which is great. That's because I used the brand new One Minute Poll. (I signed up for a Platinum account this week.) When I put the survey together, a few hours ago, I read through the tips that Marlon provides in his book, "Gimme My Money Now!" Gimme is part of the Cash Like Clockwork package I wrote about above, though like all Marlon's products, it's also available on its own. Gimme is easily the best book around on product creation, and part of the book is about the importance of doing a survey, so that you don't waste time working on something that no one wants to read. He shows you exactly how to write your survey so that the products people will buy are identified before you write a word or compile a word of code. It's essential reading for anyone thinking of getting a product together (or doing a survey). But back to One Minute Poll. It's very simple to use, and it's much better than any free service you could use because it doesn't carry third party advertising. (Plus tons of other benefits) Imagine asking your trusting audience to take a poll only to have some inappropriate content totally out of your control splashed across their screen. OMP also allows you to control exactly what type of questions you ask, automatically compiles the results and doesn't put any time limits on you. Run the poll for as long as you like - up to a year or longer. OMP also doesn't charge you by the response like many other pay services. You pay one low fee and you get "bullet-proof", advertising free, highly sophisticated technology and survey tools, yet it's idiot-simple to set up. Many free services only let you ask a couple of questions, limit the types of questions you can ask, and generally annoy your visitors rather than help them - OMP lets you ask up to 10 questions on each poll, lets you ask whatever kind of questions (yes / no, true / false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and more) and makes it quick and easy to gather the marketing intelligence you need to make money! Recommended. Spam, spam, no spam... I wrote an article here about spam, but just before mailing it out I suddenly realized that your spam filter might block my newsletter because of it...which is why this article is only in the web version. It does have a few rude comments and words though. So if you think you might take offense don't read this section... Warning: rude words ahead... The email program I wrote about last week, Express Plus from has a really neat optional feature which lets you delete spam from your mail server - meaning you never get to see it or even download it. It doesn't come with built in spam words, so you have to spend a while setting everything up, but once it's all in place it works beautifully. There's even a log file to show you the effectiveness of the various filters you create. For the record I've been spammed most times this week by test@sohu.com with 67 emails. (well I'm not sure if this one is spam because I looked at a few of the messages and they're all empty) Next in line is !! with 62 messages. I set this filter up because I noticed a lot of spammers use the punctuation thinking it will grab your attention more. It grabbed mine enough to make me delete them all. Then comes: adv: 25 (how kind of them to tell me its a spam) mortage 23 (already got 2, thanks) viagra 22 (they must think I need it, but it's only when I've been drinking, honest) HGH 15 ( well they could be on to something here. HGH is described as an Anti-Aging Drug and the fountain of youth. Seeing I feel like 105 years old some days perhaps I could do with some of this. Wait though! It's also a human growth hormone...my waistline is far too big already) sex, make love tonight, and life insurance both come in with 11 (is there a link?) then penis and size matters, both come in with 5 (what are they telling me here?) Something's got me puzzled and upset with all this spam though. I want to know what's happened to all the make money ones I used to get? Make money and $$ only sent me 4 each. Very disappointing. I was looking forward to making my fortune this week. Pop Up Rotator price rise... Just a quick warning...Pop-Up Rotator, which I wrote about in issue 217 is increasing in price on May 15 by a whopping 70% up to $97. So if you want to make use of this excellent tool you'd better grab it quick.   Make More Affiliate Sales Small, direct-response, Mini Sites triple affiliate sales at low cost! Learn how to set up a chain of sites to boost sales of ANY affiliate program with my book Mini Site Profits.

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