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Contents 1. Letter from Phil 2. Reprint Rights for $1...offer closing. 3. The Internet Marketing Lounge Radio Show... 4. How to pick a fight... 5. Taking ACTION... 6. Why you need double opt in ezines... 7. An article from someone else... boy, did my
midweek letter, where I explained why I'm NOT I've been flooded with emails, both attacking and praising me for saying what I really thought. You can read it here if you missed it. By the way, have you noticed the hype for Lead Lightning is already dying down. Nothing to do with me, of course. It's just that things that flare up so quickly, because of massive oversell, can rarely keep the momentum going. But now back to business as usual
2. Reprint Rights for $1 offer closing...
Thought I'd better let you know that if you're interested but haven't yet signed up you'd better move fast. Louis says that all the slots will be filled in the next day or two. Just to recap: members will get a new quality product every month, which they can immediately brand with their own affiliate links and resell. The products look top quality, and I can't wait for the November one, which is 4 hours of Q & A with one of my favorite marketers focused exclusively on how to make a full time income online with affiliate programs. Anyway if you're quick enough to join, Louis is offering a 10 day trial for just $1. After that, assuming you stay on as a member, there's a reasonable monthly fee.
3. The Internet Marketing Lounge Radio Show... Tthe web changes all the time, and as more people use broadband the change is going to speed up (in more ways than one). What does it mean to people like you and me who are interested in earning a living online? Well obviously it means we're going to have to change too. To develop new skills, new ideas, new ways of marketing. The old way - of text rich web sites - isn't going to go away, but it's going to be harder to keep a persons attention unless your content is tightly focused and exactly what they're looking for. So what's changed already? Something you must have noticed in the past 6 months, is the big growth in audio marketing. Business talk, and motivational, cassette tapes have been big sellers for years because people like playing them in their car as they drive to work. They're slowly being supplanted by CD's (does any new car NOT have a CD player?) but even newer is the idea of offering audio success stories and interviews as downloadable mp3 files which you can burn onto a CD yourself. It's big and going to get a lot bigger. And we're all eventually going to have to learn how to produce our own audios and videos. One person leading the way is velvet voiced Peter Twist with his Internet Marketing Lounge Radio Show. I've become a member of his site and, even while I write this, I'm listening to this weeks show, which is an hour long interview with master marketer Tony Blake Obviously, with my 26k download speed I'm not listening and downloading at the same time. You have a choice of audio formats and I picked the downloadable mp3 file and set it to download while I slept last night. I'm planning on downloading all the archived interviews and advice and burning them onto a cd so I can learn while I drive (wonder if that makes driving to the beach a tax deduction?) Anyway, give it a try. You can listen to some famous names like Armand Morin, Andrew Laing, Jason Potash, David DaVinci, and Dan Shafer...and that's just last weeks show. Even though the show only started in August the archives are already packed with audios of Yanik Silver, Jonathon Mizel, Clay Cotton, Neil Shearing, Michael Campbell and many more. There are also transcripts for you to print out and read at your leisure, monthly live teleseminars with an internet expert. And even a monthly ebook of one of the interviews which you can rebrand with your own affiliate links and give away to your customers. It's a new way of learning. And I'm hooked already. Listen in here Here's a fun
site which also, in a way, helps you do research on how well known
affiliates and marketers are. For example...Allan Gardyne and Neil Shearing. Which one do you think would win a popularity fight?
Plenty
of people have written in the past few days asking if they should
buy the Affiliate
Marketers handbook 2002 I wrote about the other day. Well I can't answer for them, or for you. All I know is that it was good for me. I read just about everything written by people who are making big money from affiliate programs. I want to see how they're doing it...if they're using ideas or ways I haven't thought of. I want to see EXACTLY what they're doing to bring the big dollars in. And when you get a book by someone who is making this much money, it's a MUST READ for someone in my position. I'm a person passionate about affiliate marketing from mini sites and small content sites. I'm always looking for new techniques to use. New programs to promote. But you might not feel the same way, or be in the same position as me. So is it a good book? Of course it is, but it's expensive. Here's a link to the Affiliate Marketers Handbook website so you can read more. My policy is only to invest money you can afford to lose. If you're struggling to meet the mortgage payments don't buy this book. Sure it will help you make an affiliate income faster than you might without it, but so do other books. Lower cost alternatives
are my own book Mini Site
Profits , Michael
Campbell's Clickin' It Rich and Chuck
McCullough's Affiliate Mistakes. But remember this. No book or course is worth buying unless you follow up on what you learn. Unless you take action and actually do something to bring a profit stream in.
A few weeks ago I was fiddling around with the settings on the Lyris listserv I use to mail out my newsletter when I accidentally set it to single opt in rather than double. Double opt in is where a new subscriber has to reply to a "please confirm that you want to subscribe" email you send them before you add them to your list. This will cut out people deliberately adding bad email addresses, some else's email address, or having ezines sent to an free email service like Hotmail that they rarely check. Each night I get a list of all the days new subscribers emailed to me, but I rarely look at the list. I have no reason to look, it's all automated. Today though I happened to glance at it. What I saw shocked me. Along with the genuine subscribers I was being heavily hit with what look like spam autoresponder addresses. So I looked at yesterdays, and then the day before...they were all similar. Here's just 2 days worth of the bad ones:
Among other "bad" addresses, I found 92 "subscriptions" from the speedi-list.com domain.They were all something like 1B3B30023480673V40221@speedi-list So they all got the chop. Solution to the problem? Today I changed my mailing list back to double opt-in, meaning people have to reply to the email welcome letter before they're fully subscribed. You'd better check the settings on your own mailing list if you have one. Good job I'm
not selling advertising, or I'd have to leave the
Here's one of the rare outside articles I run. I'm publishing it because it matters to you. It's about how not having your own product holds you back...and it goes on to explain how easy it is to create one.
- by Jim Edwards
and David Garfinkel Just for fun, evaluate the following statement: "Most people want to write a book and get it published, but that's simply impossible 99% of the time." Is the above statement true? Not exactly. What's true is that most people THINK they can't write a book and get it published. And while that's a widely-held belief, just the opposite is true. In fact, it's easier to write and get published today than ever before - especially thanks to the ebook "revolution." The field of ebooks is literally wide open for all who are interested - including, perhaps, you! What does it take to write and publish your own ebook? Three things: 1) A TOPIC you are interested in that others would also like to know more about. 2) The DESIRE to get the ebook written (note - you can write it yourself, but you don't have to. There are other proven and simple ways to get your ebook written and published for you.) 3) A simple, one-page, "sales letter" WEB SITE to sell the ebook. Does it take a lot of money or any special aptitudes? Oddly enough, not really. You have to be willing to take action, certainly, and learn as you go, but there are no special educational, financial or talent requirements to become a successful ebook author. The truth is, it costs very little to get started. You can get a domain registered and online for as little as $9 to start and $6 a month for website hosting. In fact, there are actually six ways you can create an ebook without ever writing a word of it - so you don't need to be a skilled writer. We'll tell you about one of them, in-depth, right now. Think of a topic you know something about that you'd like to write an ebook on. Once you have that topic in mind, then all you need to do is write a list of questions other people would pay to get the answers to... give that list to a friend... have the friend call you on the phone and ask you those questions... record the call... have the recording transcribed... and edit the transcription! Presto - you've just created a "meaty" ebook fast! (Yes, it really is that simple!) By the way, if you don't want to transcribe or edit the ebook yourself, you can get both of those things done for you for surprisingly little money... as little as a few hundred dollars, total, in many cases. That's how we wrote our most recent ebook.As authors ourselves, we came up with a list of questions, got on the phone, recorded the answers, and had the entire 4 1/2 hour conversation transcribed. Using this phone call - transcription - edit route we created an ebook in about a week. It cost us a total of $163 to produce it. (We hired out the transcription, and did the editing ourselves.) So far we've spent *zero* money on advertising and, as we write this article today, we've sold over $49,683 worth of that ebook in less than six months! We're not unique in that way. We know many others who have successfully published ebooks - including another small publisher who has used this exact same method to create dozens of ebooks. If you can clearly understand a specific problem, want, need or desire of a large enough target audience and then create a publication that helps them get what they want, you stand to make a lot of money and help a great number of people at the same time. If there ever was a "golden age" of publishing, NOW is the time. The truth of the matter is, today anyone can become a published author with an ebook in less than a couple of weeks. Between us, we have 11 ebooks online and we're making money every day, even as you read this. You can do the same. Opportunity awaits you right now. It's never been easier to seize the day and go for your dream - become a published author! Jim Edwards
and David Garfinkel are co-authors of "eBook For more information on Ebook Secrets Exposed... Click Here
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(c) 2002, Phil Wiley, Wiley Media Group Pty Ltd.
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