<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560</id><updated>2011-10-08T19:10:28.240+10:00</updated><category term='Marketing'/><category term='Product Review'/><category term='eBay Auction Tips'/><category term='eBooks'/><category term='affiliate marketing'/><category term='Online Business'/><title type='text'>Aussie's Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Free Articles About Making Money Online, eBooks etc.
Wide Range of Topics Including Auction Tools, Online Business,  Affiliate Programs, Internet Marketing, Software and more.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>60</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-7053588201995140832</id><published>2011-03-12T04:33:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T04:33:04.377+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>How to Stay Motivated as an Online Home Business Entrepreneur!</title><content type='html'>No matter how dedicated and passionate you are about your online home business, as an entrepreneur who works from home it is inevitable that at some point you are going to find that your motivation levels begin to drop. This is something that will happen slowly over a period of time, so that you don't realize it until you find that your productivity has almost slowed to a standstill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because this happens over a period of time, there are ways to maintain your levels of motivation by developing some daily habits. If you fail to do this what will happen is that your online home business is going to crumble, so it is essential for you to keep up on your daily tasks and keep your head in the game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best thing to do when you begin to lose focus is to just take a short break. Depending on your preferences you could either go for a walk to clear the cobwebs from your mind or maybe just take the whole day off. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people find that the best thing for them is to just change from the project they are working on, to something else for a short while but irrespective of how passionate and driven you are to succeed, there will be times that you find your motivation to carry on faltering, and just trying to push through it can do more harm than good. If you are not sufficiently focused your chances of making mistakes will increase or alternatively you may find yourself just not working efficiently. When you take a break it gives you the opportunity to refresh your mind and come back to working enthusiastically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two hours of focused and efficient work will reap better rewards than eight hours of trying to work and losing focus all the time. A break can help to get you feeling energetic and focused and you will achieve far more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another option to remain motivated is to set boundaries on the time you spend working. One of the difficulties faced by many online home business entrepreneurs is that they tend to spend most of their time in front of their computers. If you plan your time so that you allow time for family and friends in your schedule, just as you would if you worked a 9-5 job then you will have more motivation and focus when you are working. Let's face it you wouldn't spend 60 hours or more per week working in a regular job and just because you are working from home doesn't mean you need to increase the hours you work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep your motivation high by making sure that you really enjoy your free time. Many people feel guilty when they take time off and end up spending that time worrying that they are not working. One of the main reason why people choose to work from home is the freedom of choice that it allows, so enjoy the time when you are free, it will benefit both you and your business in many ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A big issue in the workplace and one that is regularly addressed is motivation and there is a good reason for this. When you are not motivated you will make more mistakes, you will not enjoy what you are doing and your work performance will suffer. This applies equally to running an online home business. Be pro-active, take regular breaks, set boundaries for yourself and enjoy the free time you allow yourself. By doing this you will keep your motivation levels high and you will find greater success for your online home business.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-7053588201995140832?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/7053588201995140832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=7053588201995140832' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7053588201995140832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7053588201995140832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-stay-motivated-as-online-home.html' title='How to Stay Motivated as an Online Home Business Entrepreneur!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-7779522133290172537</id><published>2011-02-15T14:44:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T14:44:40.221+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>How to market your website online!</title><content type='html'>The the web presents virtually an boundless world for marketing. It provides better opportunities to reach the target customers. When used in the right way, online marketing can be a big marketing boost for any product or service. Due to its gigantic potential, there is also very great competition as advertisers jostle for visibility on the cyberspace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good strategy is hence important if one is to successfully market a website online. One has to include a variety of creative and technical aspects of the internet including design, development, advertising and sales. Good website marketing can be achieved through quality web design, site functionality and search engine optimization (SEO) marketing. There are also other formats like RSS feeds, podcasting, blogs, text linking etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social networking presents a wonderful platform for online marketing for websites. Popular social networking sites like facebook and twitter have millions of people from all walks of life looking to interact with others from all over the world. The people can even be assorted in terms of demographics like age, sex and even interests. The social network can provide one with a large audience to market products or services on offer and you can even provide a back link to your website which will help with SEO in the first place. This will help drive traffic to your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs are very efficient in boosting one's search engine optimization positions on the internet. They constitute web development which is very important for success with search engines. Frequent use of blogs helps in getting your website indexed more often. This is also helpful if you frequently develop the site. Rather than create external blogs, you should create the blog on your own website to compliment the web development aspect of the search engine optimization process. In addition to the very important search engine optimization, blogs allow you to express your thoughts, offer feedback to your customers and promote your products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search engine optimization or SEO has fast become the best form of advertising for businesses online and gives the best return on investment. It enables one to reach the large group of potential customers out there on the internet. In order to derive maximum benefits one has to provide unique and fresh content on the website and blogs. There are companies which specialize in search engine marketing. Search engine marketing is a process which places your company website in the common search engine listings. The aim is not only to have your company's website on the search engine listing, but to get a high search engine positioning on popular search engines like Google so that many people access your website through that. Online marketing for websites is a cost-effective way of marketing goods and services. The competition is very stiff so one must constantly come up with new and effective strategies to help not only in staying put but also forging ahead. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are innumerable oppurtunities for marketing online for websites. You have to select a good SEO expert and he will be able to rank your website well on the search engines which will bring a lot of potential customers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-7779522133290172537?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/7779522133290172537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=7779522133290172537' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7779522133290172537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7779522133290172537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-market-your-website-online.html' title='How to market your website online!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-814560605885986181</id><published>2011-01-25T17:30:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T17:39:38.649+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Product Review'/><title type='text'>Illusion Mage Review!</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: cyan;"&gt;Is It Worth The Investment?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://874b9ayf13-gpq92tf-njexokc.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="125" src="http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/ab121/gerdd/complete-3danimation-software.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you imagine if you are able to create animated graphics and models just like Pixar or Walt Disney easily and quickly within the ease and comfort of your own home with similar software that top American studios are employing? This is what exactly Illusion Mage 3D animation software will do. Read my review on it and you'll understand why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creating 3D animated graphics is definitely a long-drawn-out effort and demanded you invest 1000s of dollars buying high-end studio software program. As a matter of fact, you actually required huge time spans and virtually all people, regardless if you are a professional or even you are only starting out, do not have that sort of capital to spend on high-end studio computer animation software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know very well what I'm talking about if you've experimented with various other animation applications with frustration. And I also didn't even bring up the costly fees you need to pay for getting Maya or 3DMax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here is the reason Illusion Mage 3D animation software surpasses the competitors:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: cyan;"&gt;The fully-featured 3d animation software program that equals Maya &amp;amp; 3DMax&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simple and easy to produce amazing animated graphics like Pixar minus the hassles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Hours of Step-by-step video tutorials guiding you through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first 3d software program that offer a 60 day money-back guarantee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;The heart of this package is the amazing 3d animation software which is jam packed with features that rivals the leading 3d software like Maya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IllusionMage is designed for anyone who wants to create animations like the hollywood studios, the easy and quick way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A novice should be able to create their first animation model in about one hour, as long as they are able to comprehend and follow the concepts that are provided in the video and written tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at the complete package, whether you are a beginner, or an advanced user, Illusion Mage proves itself to be very funcitional. And for those who want to discover more of what 3D development has to offer, just say that the suite is your stepping stone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have found this Illusion Mage review to be very helpful. I honestly believe that this is the best best animation software for the both the beginner and the advanced user. Check it out, you won't be disappointed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit IllusionMage.com to download the award winning &lt;a href="http://874b9ayf13-gpq92tf-njexokc.hop.clickbank.net/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;3d animation software&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-814560605885986181?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/814560605885986181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=814560605885986181' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/814560605885986181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/814560605885986181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/illusion-mage-review.html' title='Illusion Mage Review!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-7956461348623868376</id><published>2011-01-10T16:25:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T16:25:57.359+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Understanding Email Marketing Basics!</title><content type='html'>The use of internet as a medium for business expansion has allowed organizations to take a look at the possibility of exploring new and innovative ways to improve their marketing efforts. This email marketing activity has allowed many business organizations to reach out to consumers at a global level. There has been a steady rise in email marketing services in the last five years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email marketing services actually provide techniques that allow maximization of time and reduction in costs with regards to marketing activities for reaching out to a huge number of people through the simple click of a button. Through the use of email marketing campaign, it is possible for the business organization to cut down on its cost of communication with targeted consumers. There is absolutely no need to print a lot of business related material or contact customers through phone since email marketing is a very simple process allowing the business to connect with its users in the best possible manner. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your email marketing activity does not happen in a proper manner then it will lead to spamming for thousands of clients leading to legal issues for your organization. Email marketing can simply be thought of as advertising software that allows your organization to serve its commercial purposes. In case you do not want to handle the email marketing camping on your own then make sure to hire email marketing solution firm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are high performance guarantees when these organizations take over your work. Without the use of service, you might be able to send close to 300 mails every hour. Through the use of an email marketing solution provider it is possible to send out commercial mails to the tune of 10 million messages per hour. There is absolute reliability in message sending and delivering activity of these organizations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will offer an auto retry option so that you can keep on sending mails in case something fails from your end. Acting alone allows you to get hold of this sufficient time for this activity. The main reason that business organizations opt for email marketing campaign is simply due to the fact that it is fast and easy. This will allow you to keep on sending the message until it reaches the subscriber. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the world of internet is highly competitive, simple searching techniques allows the consumers to go through a wide variety of selections available online. During this stage email marketing campaign becomes a potent weapon for the business and allows them to stay on top of their game. The marketer has the benefit of managing their site and monitoring the results of their email campaign. All this analysis allows them to have an idea about potential customers and redesign their marketing campaign to suit their needs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-7956461348623868376?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/7956461348623868376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=7956461348623868376' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7956461348623868376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7956461348623868376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/understanding-email-marketing-basics.html' title='Understanding Email Marketing Basics!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-1589548006939151943</id><published>2010-08-16T06:17:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T06:20:35.990+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>The Ups and Downs of Email Maketing!</title><content type='html'>One of the most potent marketing methods for grabbing the attention of your current customers or reaching out to new ones is email. Many of the online marketing methods, like banner adds and PPC, can cost more then they are worth for the simple fact that they do not produce "repeat customers". The advantage of email marketing is that your message is delivered to a target group that is genuinely interested in your product or service. A well-run email campaign can be very cost effective and draw a high response, making it the method of choice for many marketers who are looking to raise interest in their products. As a marketer, if you discover how to get the full potential out of your email marketing campaign, you will be amazed at the results. Before starting your email marketing campaign, you have to plan effectively. After starting, you must execute it well, allowing you to increase your number of targeted customers. Regardless of the type of business you have, promoting it by email can carry it to new heights of success by creating a list for you of dependable and interested prospects. I will discuss in this article the steps necessary to build just such a profitable email marketing campaign. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you first start you need to be sure that your emails are received in the same form they were sent out. Another way of saying that is they should all go out the same way every time. The majority of the autoresponder companies out there allow you to send a test email to check if everything's okay. This is a great feature to take advantage of so you can do some quality control. For example, if there are links in your email, ensure they're working by clicking on them. E-mails may appear differently in Yahoo, Gmail and AOL. View them in each one to see if they look the way you want them to. There is one autoresponder service called Aweber that will help you format the emails you are sending out to stick to a certain amount of characters so that it will work with every email provider. The kinds of response you get from your subscribers is important. It may not seem to matter on the whole, but it will make a noticeable difference later. An E-mail marketing campaign is doomed to fail if your E-mails cannot be read or you supply broken links. Avoid problems later by testing E-mails and checking links. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Always remember that people don't like to receive spam and will delete anything that even resembles it. Knowing this, you need to make sure your emails do not look like spam. In order to do this, you need you email marketing to have honest subject lines and only necessary capitalization. Make sure your subject line relates to the free information you're sending to your prospects or subscribers, and that the text has quality and is authentic. You need your email marketing campaign to build a sense of trust between you and your prospects. This helps to build your credibility. Do your best to not make your recipients suspicious. As you perform an email marketing campaign, value the privacy of your subscriber as much as possible, and don't inundate them with emails. It's also a matter of keeping your word to all your prospects when you assure them their email addresses with not be misused in any way. Be sure all your email campaigns are considerate and take your prospects privacy into consideration. You won't get great results if you keep spamming customers through the holidays. In addition to limiting your email marketing campaigns, you should expect lower open rates during this time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-1589548006939151943?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/1589548006939151943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=1589548006939151943' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1589548006939151943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1589548006939151943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/08/ups-and-downs-of-email-maketing.html' title='The Ups and Downs of Email Maketing!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-2640265009000718803</id><published>2010-08-09T05:11:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T05:12:24.405+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>How Do You Recognize the Best Money Making Tip?</title><content type='html'>In the world of Internet marketing, I am often asked how someone can actually recognize the best money making tip, and choose this over and above all the background noise of offers, claims and counterclaims. It's true, it is not easy to separate the best money making tip from all the rest, the one positive step you can take is to listen to someone who has tried many methods, found them to be disappointing, but then discovered that the best money making tip does actually exist!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you set out to investigate Internet marketing, it is extremely common to feel literally overwhelmed by the myriad of tips, offers, claims and counterclaims across the Internet. In fact, paralysis by analysis is a very common phenomenon among new Internet marketers, and you very quickly reach a point where you do not know who to believe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how do you discern the best money making tip when your e-mail inbox is overrun by offers from Internet gurus, marketing organizations and so-called free offers that never turn out to be free because they are selling something constantly? In your quest to find the best money making tip, you can be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed, crowded out and very frequently lied to! You learn to become cynical, do not trust anything anybody says and to guard your credit card carefully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not such a bad thing, because it offers a layer of protection against unscrupulous gurus who are trying to glean thousands of dollars from whomever they can. Yet if you're searching for the truth, who do you believe in amongst all the hype?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Believe me, I've done this again and again, month after month and to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to try and seek the truth and actually find the best money making tip I can. I've discovered a brilliant way to make money, skillfully and carefully laid out with video to help to teach you how to do it, and it doesn't cost the earth!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best money making tip that I can offer those were starting off is to listen to someone who has been through the same thing, because I too have been bitten, scammed and disappointed and I'm passionate about saving you from going through the same things I went through. You don't need an inbox full of special free offers or amazing secrets. You don't need telemarketers calling your office phone trying to get you to invest thousands upon thousands of dollars in a mentoring program that offers little more than what you can find commonly on the Internet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you are looking for a break, looking for a chance to make extra money at home online to help pay those outstanding bills, get the mortgage down or take your family out to dinner, then this could be the best money making tip you have heard all year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't give up, and never give in because there is a way to make extra money at home online that is legitimate, does make sense, and while it might take a little bit of work and a small investment, is not the thousands of dollars that many people are demanding of you. When all is said and done, the best money making tip on earth is to take a chance, and don't give up before your dream of financial freedom comes true!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-2640265009000718803?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/2640265009000718803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=2640265009000718803' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/2640265009000718803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/2640265009000718803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-do-you-recognize-best-money-making.html' title='How Do You Recognize the Best Money Making Tip?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-8921160874310971547</id><published>2010-08-07T06:07:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2010-08-07T06:11:23.380+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Should-You-Include-PPC-Ads-on-Your-Affiliate-Marketing-Website?</title><content type='html'>Choosing to promote more than one item on your affiliate marketing website is fine - you may be promoting a dog food product and decide to also offer an ebook about making your own dog treats. Either way, if your visitor clicks on a link for one of those products, they're going to be taken to a sales page and, if they purchase, you'll earn a commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But careful consideration should be taken before you place any type of PPC advertising on your site such as AdSense or Chitika. Remember, one of your goals as a marketer is to remove all distractions and objections that your visitor might have and make it as easy as possible for them to decide to click through on your link.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the one hand, it takes at least 7 visits, on the average, for your reader to finally decide to purchase your product. That means they'll be leaving your site at least 6 times without making a purchase. So if they click on an AdSense or Chitika ad when they leave, at least you'll have made a few cents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, what if you hadn't given them that option? Those ads can be distracting. Particularly the Chitika ads because they generate a pop-up if your reader even looks at them wrong. If your visitor sees something of interest in one of those PPC ads, they may just stop reading your informative blog post and click off the page to find out more about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your argument might be that if they were that easily distracted then they hadn't meant to purchase anyway. But consider this - maybe it's your content. Maybe your content isn't interesting enough to hold their attention. Maybe you haven't been convincing enough to get them to click through. If your visitors are constantly leaving your site without at least clicking through to your product, then you need to take a look at your content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once that reader clicks on that PPC ad, they're gone from your site for good. At the very least you want to get them to your squeeze page so you can get them to opt-in for your list. If they're being distracted by PPC ads then you've wasted your time and effort setting up that site. Rather than resort to using PPC ads to make at least some income, you need to start tweaking your site so you can capture the real money making sales.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-8921160874310971547?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/8921160874310971547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=8921160874310971547' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8921160874310971547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8921160874310971547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/08/should-you-include-ppc-ads-on-your.html' title='Should-You-Include-PPC-Ads-on-Your-Affiliate-Marketing-Website?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-2224453703935141955</id><published>2010-07-29T17:33:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T17:36:05.502+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Staying Away From Those Deceitful Affiliate Marketing Programs!</title><content type='html'>Affiliate internet marketing is a means for individuals to work for themselves with no risk. There isn't any investment and you're paid on performance. Nonetheless, today one must be careful. There are many deceitful people around that are happy to take your money and hard work off of you. Sadly, affiliate internet marketing is not immune to those scammers. Every day, individuals are taken in by guarantees of massive money with comparatively little effort. In this article we are going to educate you on a few of the signs to look for and spot a scam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many times have you seen an ad on the web promising huge earnings? Things like "Earn $1000 a day" or Join our program now and become rich and travel like a millionaire. If your look closely at these ads they are not actually selling anything. Any company that is just selling the opportunity to make money is likely being deceitful. True, some legitimate affiliate marketing companies will have attention grabbing headlines like the ones mentioned above. However, if you go on to read the ad and information, there will likely be a detailed description of what they sell. They will also have a disclaimer and terms and conditions listed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most obvious thing to be aware are those companies asking you to pay to join. If you have to pay to join then you have probably landed on a scam or what is known as a multi-level marketing program. Multi-level marketing programs are certainly legal and some people make decent money with them. However, if you're not successful you may end up buying a bunch of products that you can't sell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You also to need to be aware of disguised pyramid schemes. In this program, you will be asked to pay money for a "junk" service and your investment will double in a short period of time. There is no income being created, just money being passed from member to member. Obviously, at some point the money is going to run out. Not only will you loose what you invested in these schemes but they are also illegal and you can face prosecution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True affiliate programs are free. There are no costs to you and they should also be risk free. Any Affiliate program that demands you pay to join is not an affiliate program. You should ask yourself why they are misrepresenting themselves this way if they are legitimate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of us dream of owning our own businesses. We would love to be able to take control of our lives and careers. The attraction of working your own hours and answering only to ourselves bring lots of people into the affiliate marketing schemes. Affiliate internet marketing can be an excellent way for a motivated person to have an excellent career. There are lots of great programs out there to be joined. However, for every great program there is likely one that is deceitful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before joining, check to see what the company is selling goods or services. If not, then they are likely an illegal pyramid scheme. If they require your own money to get started then they are what are known as a multi-level marketing program. Be sure you do your own due diligence before joining an affiliate program. One idea to get started would be to promote one of the many products offered by Clickbank. It is very easy to join and they are well respected within the affiliate marketing community.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-2224453703935141955?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/2224453703935141955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=2224453703935141955' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/2224453703935141955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/2224453703935141955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/staying-away-from-those-deceitful.html' title='Staying Away From Those Deceitful Affiliate Marketing Programs!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-612540813100268760</id><published>2010-07-12T04:04:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T04:09:12.046+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>7 Email Marketing Secrets That Will Bring Your Online Marketing Campaign To The Next Level!</title><content type='html'>Recent online marketing trends have shifted towards email marketing. Once you have maximized your SEO and paid advertising efforts, its time to profit from your subscriber list. This article will show you 10 ways you can improve your email marketing campaign. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Online marketing trends have identified 10 tips in email marketing which have seperated highly successful online marketers from the mediocre ones. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Huge myth -"The money is in the list"&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The statement that says that the bigger your list, the more money you will get is no longer relevant. The secret is "The relationship you have with your list". Your list will no longer respond to your pleas to check out a certain product unless you first establish a good relationship with them by offering them your goodwill and provide them value. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Spam filters &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of income generating emails have been thrown down the drain due to spam filters. The key is to tell your subscribers to "Whitelist" and also, online marketers should prevent from sending "Spammy" emails which contains "Spam Words" such as "Free" and "Make Money Online". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3) Line width &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A line width of 65 characters of less allows for better chunking of paragraphs and allows for a more pleasant viewing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4) Spread promo links throughout your email &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spreading multiple links throughout promo emails have proved to increase click-through rate. There is no point having your readers scroll through your whole copy just to find that they cannot find any call to action links. Do not overdo it to prevent from looking spammy. Your readers and intelligent people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5)URL cloaking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cloaking "Sales-ey" URLS, affiliates and hoplinks provides more credibility and increases the chance of readers clicking on it. No one wants to click on a link that looks like a spam site. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6) Free gifts &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Constantly provide your list with no strings attached, free gifts that provide value to them and they will return the favor someday after consuming all your free stuff &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7)Talk about daily life &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, it is good to just drop your list an email and tell them about your daily life. This would allow them to relate better to you and connect at a deeper level. In fact, you can even show off a bit about your currently lifestyle of financial freedom and encourage them to do the same. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Online marketing trends are constantly evolving and we should always stay on top of the trends to further improve our email marketing results.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-612540813100268760?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/612540813100268760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=612540813100268760' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/612540813100268760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/612540813100268760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/7-email-marketing-secrets-that-will.html' title='7 Email Marketing Secrets That Will Bring Your Online Marketing Campaign To The Next Level!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3439747225389188158</id><published>2010-06-14T15:44:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:48:38.597+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Patience is a Asset When Marketing on the Internet!</title><content type='html'>Online marketing is in a constant state of change and therefore you must also be willing to make these changes. In short you must have patience and the adaptability to 'evolve' in order to become successful working online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are 5 reasons why your patience will be required if you do in fact intend to become successful marketing online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learning Will Be Ongoing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As previously mentioned constant change will be part of the environment therefore continual learning will be involved. Ongoing change and your ability to adapt to it more than anything will be what will test your patience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Efforts Yield Unexpected Results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results of any efforts when applying new skills may not always be what you expected. Sometimes it may be something you did in the application or possibly your expectations may have been a bit unrealistic. In either case always be prepared for the unexpected so when and if it does occur you are in a position to address what needs to be done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Application Will Require Diligence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every function of operating an online business needs to be performed diligently in order to get the maximum results. This is especially true when you are unfamiliar with what you are doing. You will need to have patience and focus on the task at hand or your efforts and time will be wasted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results Are Not Always Immediate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not expect instant gratification from every effort you invest in your business. More times than not you will need to have patience and be willing to wait to see any results. More than anything else a lack of patience is what causes many to quit before they experience any success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ongoing Testing Will Be Required&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting results is what motivates most people but your patience will be required to constantly test the methods you employ in your business. Testing may seem boring to many but it is an integral component of any business if you want to become successful at what you are doing. Testing is the BEST way to improve your performance when working online!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marketing on the internet WILL require that you have patience with the constant change and learning that is involved in this dynamic industry. The nature of an online business requires constant adaptation to new policies, techniques and restrictions just to simply stay current. This obviously will test your patience and it is this test that will determine if you become successful working online. The 5 reason patience is needed that we explored here today are simply compelling examples of the constant change associated with this environment. As changes occur they affect not only newcomers but also the 'proclaimed' internet marketing expert therefore as time goes on the playing field levels out for all. A newbie today can easily overtake the expert tomorrow provided they are willing to successfully make any required changes!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3439747225389188158?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3439747225389188158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3439747225389188158' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3439747225389188158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3439747225389188158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/06/patience-is-asset-when-marketing-on.html' title='Patience is a Asset When Marketing on the Internet!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3179840788688355424</id><published>2010-05-26T15:49:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T15:53:51.324+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Tips on Writing Better Email Copies!</title><content type='html'>Every online marketer can use tips on writing better articles, blog post, press releases you name it but there is one area often overlooked. Most anybody working online is familiar with the need to build a list but it is what you do with your list that will have the greatest impact on your business. Ultimately the success of your email based marketing campaign will be determined by your copy writing when making contact with list members. If your sales copy is not engaging or fails to get your message across your efforts will likely be wasted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are 3 fast and easy copy writing tips you will want to follow when composing any emails to be sent to your list members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay on Point &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every email you send out to your list will have a specified reason or point for why you are sending it. It is important to not try and cover more than just ONE topic or point in ANY email. Remember to also to keep as short as possible!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State the reason for your correspondence right up front and get to your point as quickly as possible. Considering that you were lucky enough to have the recipient open the mail in the first place you certainly do not want to abuse or waste the readers' time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide Useful Information &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is recommended NOT to send promotional materials to your list members every time you make contact. It is important to also send them content that is useful in some form or fashion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An email based marketing campaign requires that you also 'manage' your list insofar as you need to keep them happy. The last thing you want to do is give them the impression that EVERY email from you will be promoting something. This relationship is 'give and take' and you MUST be helpful if you expect for list members to make purchases with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maintain a healthy 'mix' of nothing but useful content in your campaign to keep your subscribers opening your mail and not opting out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Need for a Call to Action &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you are promoting something to your list your sales copy should be compelling and persuasive enough to get your readers' attention. Once again remember it is an email so you do not have a lot of time to get your message across.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps the single biggest component of any promotional mailing is the call to action. You must clearly tell the reader what it is you want them to do. After they have read through your sales copy you MUST tell them what they need to do next. In most cases you are sending them a link therefore tell them to 'go here now' or 'click on this link' to receive the benefits you have tempted them with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaining tips on writing anything from articles to press releases is of great value when working online and most especially when composing emails. A very important component of any online business is the email based marketing campaign which will only be successful if your sales copy is effective. Let's face it when you build a list your intentions are to promote to these people but your success will require good copy writing skills. The 3 tips shared here are easy to implement and are based upon making your emails concise and to the point. By following these guidelines it will make your messages easier to read and understand while also supplying useful information for your list members. This will result in people being more appreciative of the information they are receiving and thereby more receptive to your promotional offers and.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3179840788688355424?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3179840788688355424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3179840788688355424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3179840788688355424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3179840788688355424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/05/tips-on-writing-better-email-copies.html' title='Tips on Writing Better Email Copies!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-2126957255691757943</id><published>2010-05-22T06:05:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T06:18:22.809+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Product Review'/><title type='text'>Adwords stink...</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;You know what really gets under my skin?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that about 90% of the systems and courses available on the net right now are all teaching the exact same thing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone is taking the same AdWords training guide, changing it a tiny little bit and then re-selling it as some brand new, never before seen system that will create millions for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it's all the same info!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They just slap a new cover on the book and call it new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's really incredible that so many people are getting away with this, and even more incredible is the number of people (like you) who get "taken" by this shady practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AdWords and PPC are old news, they were great 4 or 5 years ago, but these days you've got to spend months and thousands of bucks perfecting your technique before you have a chance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry, it's just the truth. If you're a one-man-show it's going to be a long and bumpy road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what's the solution?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Screw AdWords and PPC! Let's do something new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn't you rather plug into a marketing machine that has almost zero competition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A money-making beast that no-one else is teaching?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enter Cell Phones...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are over 4.3 Billion cell phone users worldwide and if you know the right techniques you can plug into this untapped market with incredible ease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there's only one person I know of who has mastered how to make the most money from them and is actually TEACHING his techniques step-by-step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, to be fair there may be other people teaching about Cell Phone marketing, but I only know one. Mack Michaels has spent years perfecting his systems, they work, all of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now he's release to the public the most powerful course every created to show you the exact steps you must take.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say goodbye to weeks of AdWords and PPC frustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say hello to the largest untapped and fasted growing marketplace on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hello Cell Phone Cash!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During this limited release you can get a copy for under $25, which I think is just stupid cheap for this. Seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I give Mack my highest recommendation, his stuff works, every time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go find out for yourself...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/cell.html" target=_blank&gt;Cell Phone Cash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-2126957255691757943?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/2126957255691757943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=2126957255691757943' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/2126957255691757943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/2126957255691757943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/05/adwords-stink.html' title='Adwords stink...'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4726864752205884573</id><published>2010-05-17T15:40:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-17T15:44:57.624+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Business'/><title type='text'>Paid Autosurf Programs!</title><content type='html'>If you haven’t heard about Paid Autosurf programs yet, you’re about to hear of a great way to earn extra money using your computer and a web browser. If you have heard about them and thought these programs can’t be real, then you’re in for an eye opener as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paid Autosurf programs are offered by advertising companies that pay you to surf their members websites and get paid for doing so. These companies have advertisers that purchase advertising packages that allow their websites and promotions to be shown to members who surf their exchange. Their hope is that as you surf, you will be interested in their offers and make a purchase or at least capture that all so coveted e-mail address of yours so they can try to up-sell you later. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Paid Autosurfs are quite simple. They accept both free and paid members for their service. Free members are able to generate free credits to have their websites shown to other members to help increase their sales. Paid memberships also get their advertisements shown to members but they also earn money for each day they surf in the exchange. Paid members get paid for the days they surf. If they don’t surf, they don’t get paid. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paid members are charged membership fees for Upgrades they purchase and earn a certain percentage daily for the days they surf. When these Upgrades expire, members get paid. Upgrade durations vary between programs. Some may have 4 day Upgrade sessions where others may have 365 day (1 year) Upgrade packages. The percentages paid can range anywhere from 1% to 12% each day and more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you understand the rules of these Paid Autosurf exchanges, the members do not gross the high percentage gains advertised, since initial membership fees are not returned. For example, if a Paid Autosurf program were to pay you 12% each day, after deducting the initial membership fee from your 12% earnings, your net profit would be approximately 3.66% per day. This is still a fantastic gain on your money, but it’s a far cry from 12%. Isn’t marketing a wonderful thing? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many people wonder how these Paid Autosurf companies can afford to pay their members such high daily gains. There are many ways these companies make money, from paid advertisers, to Forex (foreign exchange) trading to playing the odds. The facts are that many people who join these programs don’t understand how to use them. Many of these people lose money. As I mentioned before, the membership fees you pay to earn your daily gains on are not returned. You earn money from your membership fee amount. So if you invested $30 and never surfed a website, then guess what? You’re out $30. If you only surfed half of the days, you lost money. If you don’t have the time to commit to these programs, don’t join them. You need to have daily access to a computer with a web browser to earn money with these programs. If you don’t, then these programs are not for you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Programs like these are always accused of being some type of scam, or money laundering, funding terrorism or whatever else. If people would just learn more instead of crying scam at everything, they would understand how these can be very profitable businesses for the companies running the Paid Autosurf and for their members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There aren’t many programs available today to help folks earn extra money without taking high risks. If you diversify over a few of these programs and limit your investments to very small amounts at first, you can quickly get back your initial investments and start earning more money with your gains. You will quickly be earning more money with no financial risk and you will be on your way to generating a substantial extra income for yourself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4726864752205884573?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4726864752205884573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4726864752205884573' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4726864752205884573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4726864752205884573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/05/paid-autosurf-programs.html' title='Paid Autosurf Programs!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-8478684370544779520</id><published>2010-04-22T06:31:00.006+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-17T06:06:33.739+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>What is an Autosurf site?</title><content type='html'>Commonly also called either an autosurf site, autohits site, traffic exchange or click exchange an autosurf site is a website where you can join (often free) as a member and advertise your website to be viewed by other members. So whether you are selling services, health supplements or even money making opportunities you'll get people from all over the world whom will see your website and consider it. Your website's page and other member's pages will rotate on a timer for between 10-30 seconds, so you will be watching them just like tv commercials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The primary reason people autosurf is to earn cash &lt;br /&gt;or credits. Some autosurf sites require people to add their own money, which combines some kind of job (watching the ads) with a type of "investment" or "membership." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second reason people autosurf is to get traffic to their own websites. Some autosurf programs will show your website to other members in direct proportion to how many times you view other websites. For example, you might earn one credit to have your website shown for every two websites you view. Websites that are purely for traffic and require no monetary investment are called "traffic exchange" programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a credit?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you view another members website you earn a "credit". These credits earned can accumulate be assigned to your website's url. Your website must have credits assigned to it to be included in the rotation for others to view. When a website has 0 credits is it not shown in the autosurf rotation and no members see the website. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a hit?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When another member views your website they are actually visiting your website. This visit is called a hit or visitor. The member whom visited your website earned a credit for viewing your site and a credit is then deducted from your website's credit allocation. These credits earned by other members can then be assigned to their website's urls so that they are included in the traffic rotation. When a website has 0 credits is it not shown in the autosurf rotation and no members see the website. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a surfbar?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A surfbar is a special url that you can find in the autosurf sites members area. This surfbar allows you to earn credits by viewing other members website. The surfbar has your member id as part of the url so you get credited with earnings. Always make surf that your id is correct in your surfbar url or you very well may be earning credits for someone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/autosurf.html" target=_blank&gt;Best Autosurf Programs &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-8478684370544779520?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/8478684370544779520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=8478684370544779520' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8478684370544779520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8478684370544779520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-is-autosurf-site.html' title='What is an Autosurf site?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5770806329801281681</id><published>2010-03-01T18:19:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2010-05-17T08:10:07.631+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>The FREE Traffic Method that Guarantees Online Success..</title><content type='html'>Article marketing isn't new by any stretch. It's as old as Internet marketing itself.&lt;br /&gt;It sounds like a great way to profit, doesn't it? Nothing could be simpler than writing an article to target some "low hanging fruit" keywords, posting it at an article site, and watching the traffic roll in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, sure sounds great...until you realize that you'll need to&lt;br /&gt;write until your fingers fall off. That's the other part of the article marketing story. You have to write A LOT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, it works, but it's a pain in the neck...until now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Article marketing can be painless. Writing THOUSANDS of articles and raking in massive amounts of free traffic can be push-button simple. Mass Article Control makes it so easy, a kid can do it. I bet you've heard people claim article marketing is dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a way, they're right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The competition for good keywords these days is so insanely strong, that if you try to do all the work by hand, you'll end up spending all day every day writing until you can't stand it anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to write an article, which most non-writers are scared to death to do, and most writers hate doing. Then you have create lots of versions of it so you can post unique flavors of it at multiple article sites, and include the content on your own site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn't take a genius to imagine how long that's going to take. So the natural solution most people end up trying is to use software to "spin" articles into multiple versions. Makes sense, but here's what most people who sell article"spinners" won't tell you...the output sounds like a drunk monkey&lt;br /&gt;hammered it out by hitting keys randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it's often that bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you're stuck. You can write the articles yourself, or you can hire a writer to do it, and squash your profit margins. And that doesn't even mention how much work it'll take you to submit all of those articles. Oh, the horror! Well, Mass Article Control gets you past being crushed under the waith of all that work. And it does it with the press a few buttons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's actually two products rolled into one:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Mass Article Creator &lt;/strong&gt;- This is what creates your articles based&lt;br /&gt;on an original (you still have to write that one, or hire a writer, but it's ONE article). It's the best article writing software on the market, bar none. The output is fantastic, like a pro wrote it by hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Mass Article Submitter &lt;/strong&gt;submits your articles to the top 10&lt;br /&gt;online article sites automatically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you see the power of this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's like having your own article writing and submitting staff slaving away for hours every day just to feed you free traffic. But you don't pay for the labor!&lt;br /&gt;While most article marketers are working (or spending) themselves to death, you produce one seed article, click your mouse a few times and unleash the free traffic deluge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't know about you, but that sounds like the kind of "work" I&lt;br /&gt;like.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best of all, with a powerful tool like Mass Article Control on your side, you can invade any niche you want, elbow your competitors out of the way, and be king of the mountain in no time. In minutes, you'll have a phalanx of high-quality funneling you free traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the kind of competitive advantage you need, and it's out&lt;br /&gt;there waiting for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/index1.html"&gt;Article marketing &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5770806329801281681?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5770806329801281681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5770806329801281681' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5770806329801281681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5770806329801281681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/free-traffic-method-that-guarantees.html' title='The FREE Traffic Method that Guarantees Online Success..'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-6387196102683886156</id><published>2009-11-28T05:17:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-11-28T05:26:15.014+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Business'/><title type='text'>True autopilot income... (and how to get it)</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've ever wished you could make&lt;br /&gt;more money from less effort, you need&lt;br /&gt;to drop what you're doing and read this&lt;br /&gt;message IMMEDIATELY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're about to see how you can make&lt;br /&gt;a comfortable, hands off income, from&lt;br /&gt;simple websites that take less than 2&lt;br /&gt;hours to setup and generate you cash for&lt;br /&gt;months, and even YEARS to come...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I know, I know...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usually when you hear about things&lt;br /&gt;having an autopilot income, it's&lt;br /&gt;because you have to stuff it full of&lt;br /&gt;expensive Adwords traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But that's definitely not the case here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is TRUE autopilot real set and&lt;br /&gt;forget stuff. You could take a vacation&lt;br /&gt;for a month, and still be making the&lt;br /&gt;exact same cash...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and that's with no input from you,&lt;br /&gt;and better yet, no expenditure either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know it sounds a little too good to&lt;br /&gt;be true, but I've seen it, it works, and&lt;br /&gt;yes, it can provide autopilot income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's more, it will generate it's own&lt;br /&gt;traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you get your sites up, you basically&lt;br /&gt;get to sit back, and watch the money come&lt;br /&gt;in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't expect you to take my word for that&lt;br /&gt;by the way, just check out all the proof on&lt;br /&gt;the page some guys are already banking&lt;br /&gt;good money with this...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about this - once in a while, something&lt;br /&gt;comes along that can really change&lt;br /&gt;things for the little guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is one of those things.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't want to, or can't afford to&lt;br /&gt;pay for high quality traffic, this is for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't want to wait months or&lt;br /&gt;years to make money, this is for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're tired of setting up sites and&lt;br /&gt;then spending every waking hour&lt;br /&gt;promoting them and hoping they get&lt;br /&gt;traffic, this is definitely for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get over there now, and check it out-&lt;br /&gt;there are some killer bonuses for the&lt;br /&gt;first guys through the doors... you'll&lt;br /&gt;be insane to miss them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This really is perfect if you don't&lt;br /&gt;have the time to spend months and months&lt;br /&gt;on your business  you can get this system&lt;br /&gt;setup, and making money in an afternoon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotshorturl.com/zi54 "target=_blank""&gt;True autopilot income&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-6387196102683886156?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/6387196102683886156/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=6387196102683886156' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6387196102683886156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6387196102683886156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/true-autopilot-income-and-how-to-get-it_28.html' title='True autopilot income... (and how to get it)'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-7210117019332399822</id><published>2009-11-07T12:46:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-11-28T05:28:01.276+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>5 Benefits To Using An Article Submission Software.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the competition on the internet as stiff as it is today, it is vital you do anything you can to get an upper-hand in the industry.  While there are countless ways you can go about generating traffic to your web site, writing and submitting articles to directories is highly effective.  Here are five ways you can benefit from using article submission software today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Time convenient&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The number one reason you want to use article submission software is because of the amount of time you will safe.  If you want to have any kind of effect with article submitting, you need to be submitting to hundreds of directories.  As you can imagine, this takes hours upon hours to complete.  However, having submission software can cut this time down to virtually nothing while still allowing you to reap the benefits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Find countless article directories&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the internet is filled with thousands of article directories, it is not always easy to know where they are.  Fortunately, submissions software makes it easy for you to know what all of the latest directories are to choose from.  Many software will even update your list every time you load it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Massive amount of exposure&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole point behind writing and submitting articles is to gain exposure and generate traffic.  By submitting your articles to hundreds of directories, you will have all of your content amidst the eyes of millions.  This allows you to gain credibility while displaying your knowledge and expertise for various topics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Organized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be difficult keeping track of which directories you have submitted to and which you have not.  Using article submission software makes it easy to stay organized and remember which directories you have already submitted to.  It will also allow you to keep all of the articles you have written organized along with the author bios if you decide to have multiple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Targeted traffic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While it is important you generate as much traffic as possible, it is even more important you create targeted traffic.  These are the people who are already interested in what you have to offer and are willing to look at your web site.  By using submission software, you will be able to select a specific category or sub-category to make it easier for your target market to find your content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The list of ways you can benefit from using article submission software could literally go on forever.  From creating targeted traffic to staying organized to saving loads of time, there is no question it is worth including this in your marketing scheme.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-7210117019332399822?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/index1.html' title='5 Benefits To Using An Article Submission Software.'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/7210117019332399822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=7210117019332399822' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7210117019332399822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7210117019332399822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/5-benefits-to-using-article-submission.html' title='5 Benefits To Using An Article Submission Software.'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5557976437471447782</id><published>2009-08-23T11:52:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-08-23T11:59:24.177+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>New underground method to generate cash!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check this out you'll NEVER forget it....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is pissing off almost every single 'guru' out there and it&lt;br /&gt;has only just started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...an ASTONISHING new CPA Affiliate Marketing System that you can&lt;br /&gt;literally copy and paste and its guaranteed to generate FAST cash&lt;br /&gt;for anyone that uses it. This is based on a set of secret hidden&lt;br /&gt;traffic sources online which leverage CHEAP low competition traffic&lt;br /&gt;on the internet with billions of hits!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's The Shocking Story.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may have heard of an underground marketer called Saj P. He is&lt;br /&gt;notorious for releasing devastatingly powerful systems to suck cash&lt;br /&gt;FAST from the net, and has had four Clickbank best sellers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All I can say is that I've personally seen this guys stuff and the results his students have achieved using his techniques, and this is the REAL deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, a short while back Saj was testing and tweaking a&lt;br /&gt;completely new and strange way of affiliate marketing using CPA offers&lt;br /&gt;and was SHOCKED to discover that he had hit an absolute goldmine in the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The method he almost stumbled across by accident was so damn powerful&lt;br /&gt;that one CPA network FROZE his account with $100k stuck inside as they &lt;br /&gt;thought he was doing something illegal!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had never seen this level of traffic and conversions come through&lt;br /&gt;their network so quickly, and they refused to release his money unless&lt;br /&gt;he showed them exactly what he was doing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saj didn't want to reveal his secrets and was so confident that he could easily use his method to plug into another network and make the money back super FAST that he was willing to leave the $100k on the table rather than reveal his secret system!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's the exact words that the CPA network owner said:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I thought this guy was doing something illegal..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To anyone reading this my name is Sam Lozano, and I’m the owner of CPABullet.com, CPA network. After seeing an immense volume of sales and traffic come through my network I thought this guy was doing something illegal and was ready to shut down his account!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After checking through all the stats I was shocked to discover that it was all legit! I got on his case to see what he was doing and was completely blown away. The methods and systems described in Zero Friction Marketing have resulted in the most targeted traffic and conversions I have ever seen come through my network. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankly I'll say it again, I can’t believe this material is being released to the general public, it is far too powerful...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sam Lozano&lt;br /&gt;CPABullet.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELITE CPA AFFILIATE MARKETING.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have been online for a while you may have heard rumours about a hidden bunch of underground marketers who make Six and Even Seven figures a month through CPA affiliate marketing and do most of this on complete autopilot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well the scary part is that this is actually very true and the methods these guys use are not easy to come by unless you are part of their secret socities. Whats even more frustrating is that you have no chance of even getting close to these&lt;br /&gt;socities unless you already make seven figures and above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saj has been a part of these secret CPA clubs for a very long time and the first time he decided to release some of this knowledge was around a year ago with his release of the controversial Affiliate Payload which made made many rags to riches stories from the people who were lucky enough to get their hands on the information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is that CPA marketing is hands down the most powerful method of generating affiliate cash on the net as you get paid commissions even when you dont sell something and just collect a users basic information like their name or email adress. This is why the conversion rates on CPA offers are ridiculously high and can have you making six figures a month faster than you can with any other online cash generating system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trouble is that it is very difficult to find a CPA system that works and works well as the people who are using them dont disclose the information to the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we have a classic case of the RICH get RICHER whilst everyone else stays in the dark and loom...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have the right blueprint to follow, you too can make an absolute killing with CPA affiliate marketing and end your online earning frustrations for good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUPER CHARGE YOUR RESULTS.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zero Friction Marketing is the new revolutionary Six Figure CPA Formula from Saj P.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the real INSIDERS BLUEPRINT for making an absolute killing&lt;br /&gt;with CPA offers, and now you can get access to it for a very LIMITED time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine a system where you could just set it and FORGET it. True Error -proof Automated Wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saj exposes the devastatingly powerful methods that only the Elite Affiliates on top of the Food chain know about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVEALED in Zero Friction Marketing for the first time are SECRETS such as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* How To Use MSN The Nets Hidden And Most Highly Converting Traffic Source To Bank 6 Figures With CPA Offers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* How To Funnel Buyer Traffic From Bing The New Search Engine Thats Dominating the Online World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Using The Power Of Media Buying And Banner Ads To Drive Hoardes Of Super Cheap And Highly Targetted Traffic To Your CPA Offers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* How The Elite CPA Affiliates Use The Underground Myspace PPC Platform To Make Millions Online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is Just too much information to list in one email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best part is that Saj gives you all the information and tools you need to start immediately so you can literally copy and paste the ads he will be giving you and start profiting in 10 minutes from now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember Saj's last CPA course Affiliate Payload was a NO #1 Bestseller in Clickbank and made the people that implemented the techniques serious amounts of cash. Zero Friction Marketing is TEN Times More POWERFUL and its a copy n paste system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/six.html"&gt;Zero Friction Marketing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5557976437471447782?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5557976437471447782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5557976437471447782' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5557976437471447782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5557976437471447782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-underground-method-to-generate-cash.html' title='New underground method to generate cash!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5029070517504074077</id><published>2009-08-16T16:01:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T16:04:41.375+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Top 3 ways to boost your Affiliate Commissions overnight!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your won website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Know the best program and products to promote.&lt;/strong&gt; Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With ebooks, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks.&lt;/strong&gt; It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners. You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants.&lt;/strong&gt; If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5029070517504074077?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5029070517504074077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5029070517504074077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5029070517504074077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5029070517504074077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/top-3-ways-to-boost-your-affiliate.html' title='Top 3 ways to boost your Affiliate Commissions overnight!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-140955004293079408</id><published>2009-08-08T04:50:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T04:54:51.135+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>5 fatal Mistakes in Resale Rights Marketing and how to avoid them!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resale rights marketing is an emerging approach in the field of internet marketing.  There is a growing market for resale rights products and more and more online businessmen are catering to this segment and have been reporting monumental profits from their efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resale rights marketing involves the sale of products with their accompanying resale rights.  These rights may either be basic resale rights (where the purchaser can resell the products he will buy), master resale rights (where the purchaser can resell the resale rights of the products he will buy) and private label rights (where the purchaser can alter the products he will buy, and by nature of the same, can sell the products as they are or with accompanying resale rights as well).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not difficult to explain the growing interests on resale rights products.  These goods afford the purchasers the opportunity to earn from their purchases, as they could sell the same for profit.  They won’t have to pay the creator any cumbersome royalty fees.  They get to keep all the income they will earn from the sales they manage to effectuate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though resale rights marketing does seem like a promising field, it is not completely free from problems.  A lot of internet marketers who have decided to enter resale rights marketing have been prone to committing some fatal mistakes that gravely compromise the earning potentials of this approach.  Let’s take a look at the top five mistakes that resale rights marketers make so that we’d learn how to avoid them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Selling resale rights products to an unlimited number of people.&lt;/strong&gt;  Your potential customers would find this unsettling.  Every purchaser of your resale rights products would be each other’s competitor.  Though the idea of selling an unlimited number of copies sounds very lucrative, you’d find it hard to effectuate some sales because people would stay away from such offers.  The value of your resale rights products would diminish.  Solution: set a cap as to how many copies you will sell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Selling resale rights products to many people.&lt;/strong&gt;  Indeed, you would set a ceiling as to how many copies you will sell.  But if this ceiling is too high, the value of your resale rights products would still suffer.  Selling to 1,000 people for example, would mean that each purchaser would have to compete with 999 other people for the same market.  Your products would still be a hard sell.  Solution: increase the price of your package but limit the cap to 50 or below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Failing to clearly enumerate the terms and conditions of usage license.&lt;/strong&gt;  Essential in resale rights is the license wherein they should be delineated.  This license is a where the rules are established, and is likewise your guarantee to the purchasers that such rules shall strictly be implemented for the protection of their interests.  Solution: carefully write down the limitations of the rights you will convey, and present the same in a license agreement, preferably in .pdf format.  Adobe documents cannot easily be changed, and it would give your potential customers the security they need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Failing to honor the terms and conditions you have set yourself.&lt;/strong&gt;  Nothing can compromise your brand worse than your failure to live up to your promises.  If you promise to sell 50 resale rights of a product, you can’t sell 51 and claim a counting error.  If you promise to give them private label rights, you cannot restrict the way they could alter the work.  Solution: exercise candor in your dealings at all times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Selling resale rights at the height of the product’s market life.&lt;/strong&gt;  This may be a plus for your potential customers, but it surely is a negative for you on a business standpoint.  If the product promises high salability, you’ll be better off selling it yourself, exclusively at that.  Nonetheless, this is a matter of preference.  If you want to focus on product creation and allow your customers to take care of the marketing aspect, then this would prove to be a good approach.  Solution: have a business plan before venturing to resale rights marketing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-140955004293079408?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/140955004293079408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=140955004293079408' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/140955004293079408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/140955004293079408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/5-fatal-mistakes-in-resale-rights.html' title='5 fatal Mistakes in Resale Rights Marketing and how to avoid them!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-202005688135857938</id><published>2009-08-04T16:16:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T16:23:08.961+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Biggest Affiliate Marketing Mistakes!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all make mistakes, it's a fact of life. It's no big deal in the whole scheme of things as long as we learn from our mistakes and move forward.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The same goes with affiliate marketing since everyone will probably make mistakes at first, but as long as you fix them, it's no big deal. However, some mistakes are much more costly than others and we are not just talking monetary costs. These mistakes are the ones we only discover years down the road after we have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and more importantly, wasted valuable time doing something that was totally the wrong way to do things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, one of my biggest mistakes in affiliate marketing hit me front and center. Although I make a very comfortable living as a full-time affiliate marketer, this mistake has cost me significantly over the years. Perhaps a brief rundown of the common mistakes many affiliate marketers make would prove helpful. Some of these mistakes are:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- you forget to build a list &lt;br /&gt;- you fail to track your affiliate links/traffic &lt;br /&gt;- you don't develop your own unique selling position &lt;br /&gt;- you link directly to your affiliate link instead of going thru an interior keyworded page &lt;br /&gt;- you ignore MSN and Yahoo &lt;br /&gt;- you forget to diversify your affiliate products/networks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus, the one major mistake many beginning affiliate marketers make:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They try to sell products directly to potential customers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is not the way to proceed on the Internet. You must try to solve a problem first and then sell later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people using the web want to solve a problem, anything from how to lose 50 pounds to finding the right student laptop for a son or daughter. They want help solving a problem first and foremost. Your goal as an effective affiliate marketer is to solve their problem for them... selling should always come second or as a by-product of this whole interaction.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Help first - sell later. By giving advice and help, you establish your credibility and trust-worthiness with your potential prospect. It is a win-win situation, they get valuable helpful information to solve their problem and you end up with a sale or a friend. This whole idea of pre-selling is a very effective method for affiliate marketing but is a common mistake many beginners make or rather fail to do. So if you're just starting affiliate marketing make sure it is not a mistake you're making.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;My Biggest Affiliate Mistake This was my biggest mistake: not going after long-term residual affiliate income.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Like most affiliate marketers, I concentrated all my marketing on getting that one-time sale. I eventually realized my mistake and approached the companies involved, a few even gave me private deals with "residual income" for the life of the client. Now, which companies do you think I will be concentrating most of my marketing efforts on in the future? But why stop there? I could further leverage my affiliate income even more by offering a "white label" or a co-branded service thru my own website. It would greatly increase my share of the sale and give me long-term revenue. I believe, this is where many affiliate marketers drop the ball, they don't fully explore "white label", "co-branded products", "full resell rights", "back-end profits" and "residual income" when they think of affiliate marketing. Now some may argue this is more of a "hands-on" arrangement and may involve more work on your part but the rewards will be well worth it; for instead of getting a one time sale you could be building long-term residual income for years to come. Likewise, you should try to "leverage your returns" when picking affiliate products or programs to promote; if possible, always go for those with residual income. Don't make the mistake of settling for less, always check out the maximum return you can get on your affiliate marketing. Investigate special private deals or arrangements with your affiliate partners and bargain for a bigger share of the pie. Like me, you may be pleasantly surprised at the results.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-202005688135857938?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/202005688135857938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=202005688135857938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/202005688135857938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/202005688135857938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/biggest-affiliate-marketing-mistakes.html' title='Biggest Affiliate Marketing Mistakes!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-6461342930393881115</id><published>2009-07-31T18:41:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T18:49:06.585+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Product Review'/><title type='text'>Auto Cash System – Honest review!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of websites out there that claim to have the secret to success on the internet and most of these sites make ridiculous claims of how much money you can make using their system. Most of these are lies and just pumped up sales letters to try and make you a believer so you will purchase their product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought that the system I am going to tell you about in this letter was just another one of those products, until I tried it and actually started making some serious money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the home page of Auto Cash System the author Lanty Paul talks about his battle with debt and how he was finally able to defeat the problem by using his secret techniques to generate thousands of dollars on the internet. He then goes on to explain that he shared his system (which would later be named auto cash system) with four of his family members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After these four lucky individuals started applying his techniques online they immediately began seeing profits. After about a year of following the secret techniques in Lanty Paul’s system each of them were making a killing online sometimes more then $700 in a single day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/autocash.html" target=_blank&gt;Autocash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now this is a huge claim and like you I sure as hell didn't believe it….. but I was proved wrong. I honestly thought I was going to purchase auto cash system and throw away another 50 bucks just to write a horrible review and try to save as many people as possible the hassle and save them their hard earned money, but this was not the case at all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After purchasing auto cash system I quickly realized that this was more than just a simple e-Book. It was an e-Book (two e-books actually) but the system also came with tons of other perks to help me along the way, everything from audio taps to bonus programs. I couldn’t believe the plethora of material that was actually included with the purchase price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read both volumes of Auto Cash System. The first volume was a very detailed guide explaining how to get started right away, and for you newbie’s out there this E-Book will teach you every thing you need to know to be well on your way to making a killing online. The second E-Book was a little more in-depth and really gave away all of the tricks and secrets that are not talked about in any other money making system out there. The things Lanty Paul discuses in volume 2 of his Auto Cash System are flat out the only things you really need to be successful online (there must be a lot of gurus pissed at him for sharing these kind of secrets).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/autocash.html" target=_blank&gt;Autocash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading both volumes I took a dip in the audio pool with tons of audio interviews to choose from. These interviews really dug deep into the mind of some of the biggest names on the internet… period.&lt;br /&gt;After listening to a few of these audio interviews I was pumped and ready to start making some money (I completely forgot that I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this system and was planning on writing a rotten review as I did for every other system I have tried)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I followed the easy step by step system Lanty laid out for me in volume 1 and within 48 hrs I was seeing some profit. I was excited. I began implementing some of the secrets I learned in volume two and almost over night my profits doubled. I stayed on this path for about three months adding more and more of Lanty’s techniques and the amount of money I was earning on a regular basis continued to grow from month to month. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say the rotten negative review of auto cash system that I was planning on writing is not going to happen anymore. After trying several money making systems online that promised the world and did nothing but steal my $50 I am relieved to say I finally found the one product that pushed me out of this downward spiral of failure and drug me to success and really taught me the techniques I needed to know to began earning a substantial income from home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/autocash.html" target=_blank&gt;Autocash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I highly recommend this product for anyone who is honestly looking to make real money on the internet. The best part is even as a true beginner Auto Cash System has everything you need to get started and achieve success in no time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been practicing Lanty’s techniques now for a little over 5 months and I couldn’t be happier with the results. Hopefully within my first year I will be able to see the type of daily income his family members were able to enjoy (and trust me I don’t have very much further to go)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auto Cash System truly is a godsend…… THANK YOU LANTY PAUL!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on this incredible system click the link below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/autocash.html" target=_blank&gt;Autocash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-6461342930393881115?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/6461342930393881115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=6461342930393881115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6461342930393881115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6461342930393881115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/auto-cash-system-honest-review.html' title='Auto Cash System – Honest review!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-1409983365273431701</id><published>2009-07-26T16:09:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-26T16:12:42.267+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Affiliate Funnel System!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're jaded...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worn out and tired of trying every so-called quick and easy "cash creating system" you come across... only to find out a long, hard road of brain-straining work lies ahead of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're chained to your computer, sweating blood, eyeballs aching and yet you only ever seem to make a few cents... if anything at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is this what building a fortune online is really all about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If so you may as well stick to the 9 to 5 grind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there's still the flicker of a dream still burning inside you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who doesn't want to make a six or seven figure income sat at home in their pajamas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you know it's out there. You know some people are pulling down gigantic incomes but... for too long now... it's started to become a bad joke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean sure... you've read countless Adwords ebooks and a ton of SEO methods but damn it's hard work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're starting to wonder if you'll ever taste success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever feel like...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; No matter what "system" you follow you always end up spending more than you earn... &lt;br /&gt; You're running around in circles like a headless chicken looking for one method that actually works... &lt;br /&gt; You're getting increasingly suspicious of the "gurus" and their shiny, new products pushed on you every day (do any of them work?)... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;It wasn't meant to be such an uphill struggle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened to the "automated income" and the "working on the beach" you're always told about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As more and more people join the hunt for online gold... competition hots up and maybe... just maybe... there's no room for the beginner to make any serious dough?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For The First Time Ever... Turn On Little Known&lt;br /&gt;"Profit Valves" All Over The Net...And Witness The Limitless Power Of The "&lt;a href="http://www.aussiesaffiliatemarketing.com/link/funnel.html"&gt;Affiliate Funnel System&lt;/a&gt;"...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-1409983365273431701?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/1409983365273431701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=1409983365273431701' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1409983365273431701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1409983365273431701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/affiliate-funnel-system.html' title='Affiliate Funnel System!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-546900829743846856</id><published>2009-07-17T08:35:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T08:38:03.701+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Affiliate Marketing Secrets!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Affiliate Marketing has become a huge industry. More and more people start to promote affiliate product, but not all of these marketers generate sales. Here in this article you'll discover 2 essential affiliate marketing secrets. There are 2 ways that I've discovered work best for selling affiliate products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The first way is to build up an email opt-in list and then promote different affiliate products to this list.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The second method is to create Pre-Sale Pages, also called Review Pages for different affiliate products. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The advantage of the second method is that you can make sales for months after publishing your website beause it stays there forever. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll have a closer look at the first method now because building your own opt-in list is pure gold. There are several ways to drive traffic to your signup page, but there is only one way that people will give you their name and email address. The big secret here is that you need to offer something for free in return for getting people's name and email address. You could give away a downloadable report, an e-book or software... whatever you give away, it must be something that your website visitors want to have. Your Signup Page, also called Lead Generating Website, should be a small page with a picture of your free gift, a description of it and of course the opt-in form from your autoresponder. A short statement that you won't sell or share their email address and personal details should result in a higher signup rate. Also your picture, phone number or address on the bottom of the page can increase conversions.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The second method for generating affiliate sales requires more work but will have the effect of automated income due to creating more and more web property. Imagine having review pages for 50 different products out there... how many sales would you get daily? I don't know, but you'll get a lot of sales since people search for products on google. So once you know how to get your review pages listed on the top 10 results in google you'll get the sales. There is of course a lot more to know about creating websites, but the basic idea alone should get you started to digg deeper into this topic. After all I can assure you that affiliate marketing can lead to a huge income. A lot of work is needed but once some time goes by you'll find yourself having an opt-in list of 10,000 subscribers and 10 review pages out there. Then you'll be able to generate income on autopilot with your review sites and also with the push of a button through your email list.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;To be successful with affiliate marketing you need to master several different techniques. Mostly it's the little things that keep you from earning, like a bad wording on your opt-in page or the wrong email follow up sequence... &lt;br /&gt;That's why you need to study affiliate marketing, that's why you need to go out there and get your hands on the top affiliate marketing ebooks. Learn from those who have already mastered to build up a full time monthly income from affiliate marketing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Copy the Super Affiliates and you'll succeed as well. What I mean by copy them is that you get their ebook where they talk about their strategies. Then go out there and research their work, check out if they are telling the truth, if they are for real.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-546900829743846856?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/546900829743846856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=546900829743846856' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/546900829743846856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/546900829743846856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/affiliate-marketing-secrets.html' title='Affiliate Marketing Secrets!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5337673940808852293</id><published>2009-07-12T07:34:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T07:40:08.771+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Affiliate Marketing Partnerships!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An affiliate marketing partnership between a publisher and affiliate can take many different forms, although only a few are genuinely popular.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In all cases the affiliate receives a payment for getting a visitor to complete an action, whether that is purchasing a product, subscribing to an e-mail list or just visiting the page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Below are the four most common forms of affiliate marketing partnerships.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost Per Sale (CPS)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Cost per sale is the most common form of affiliate marketing. It simply means that for each sale the publisher make as a result of the affiliate, the affiliate get pays a commission. Usually this commission is a percentage of the profit made by the publisher for that particular sale. This form is popular amongst publishers as it means that they only have to payout when they've made sales, and is popular amongst affiliates because the commissions can be generous. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;CPA is also sometimes referred to as cost per action. In a CPA affiliate partnership, the affiliate is paid money whenever a visitor completes a certain action. For example this action could be filling in a survey, joining an opt-in list or in some cases making a purchase. CPA affiliate marketing has become more and more popular in recent years amongst affiliates because you can receive reasonably high payouts for some actions. Also, getting someone to join an e-mail list for example is often easier than getting someone to buy a product. The money paid out for each action or acquisition varies for each publisher, and there are many CPA networks with thousands of CPA offers on the internet.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost Pet Thousand Impressions (CPM)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Cost per thousand impressions is when a publisher pays an affiliate a certain amount of money for every thousand visitors sent, regardless of how many of these bought the product or completed an action. This kind of partnership is much less common today than CPA and CPS, mainly because publishers know that it is not the amount of visitors that they get to their sales page but the quality of the traffic that's important. This kind of system also isn't popular amongst affiliates because the payouts are generally much less than CPA or CPS, reflecting the low value publishers give to this sort of partnership. However there are some companies that still offer CPM affiliate partnerships. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost Per Click (CPC)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is similar to CPM, but instead the affiliate is paid on a per click basis. Again, this kind of partnership isn't favoured by publishers because the affiliate is paid regardless of whether any sales were made. The vast majority of affiliate partnerships, some estimate up to 99% on the modern internet, take the form of CPS and CPA. This is because they give the greatest monetary benefits for both the affiliate and publisher.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5337673940808852293?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5337673940808852293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5337673940808852293' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5337673940808852293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5337673940808852293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/affiliate-marketing-partnerships.html' title='Affiliate Marketing Partnerships!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4935904000070669682</id><published>2009-07-12T07:29:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T07:29:18.650+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Aussie's Blog: Ethical Marketing!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/ethical-marketing.html#comments"&gt;Aussie&amp;#39;s Blog: Ethical Marketing!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4935904000070669682?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/ethical-marketing.html#comments' title='Aussie&apos;s Blog: Ethical Marketing!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4935904000070669682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4935904000070669682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4935904000070669682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4935904000070669682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/aussies-blog-ethical-marketing.html' title='Aussie&apos;s Blog: Ethical Marketing!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-8161883341870584259</id><published>2009-07-05T08:36:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-07-05T08:45:52.418+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Affiliate Marketing Scams!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money, but it also relies on a certain amount of trust between affiliate and publisher. Because of this it is important to know what to look out for when it comes to affiliate marketing scams, whether you're a publisher or an affiliate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Publisher Scams Affiliate marketing relies on the publisher or network accurately tracking which visitors are sent by which affiliates, and then rewarding those who send the traffic that converts to sales. A corrupt publisher could not pay an affiliate all they are owed, or pay a lesser percentage than advertised to try and take more of the profit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're an affiliate and worried about being scammed by a publisher or network, then it's best to stick with one of the more reputable affiliate networks as they are known to be legitimate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some examples are Clickbank, Commission Junction and PayDotCom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You need to be more careful when signing up to publishers own affiliate programs as these have more potential to be dishonest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Affiliate Scams There are also ways an affiliate can attempt to scam a publisher by tricking them into thinking a sale or action has been made and hence gaining commissions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, some publishers pay per click instead of per sale. It is possible for an affiliate to try and set up a script that mimics online behaviour to make the publisher think traffic is being driven to their site when in reality the traffic is worthless. This is one of the main reasons why paying for PPC traffic from an affiliate is a much less popular model than per sale. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In rare cases, an affiliate may try to purchase a product using money that isn't theirs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example through a hacked Paypal account or stolen credit card. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best way for publishers to prevent affiliate scams is to check each application individual and only pick the ones that have a well run and reputable website. However this isn't always possible with affiliate networks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A common method for affiliates to gain sales without actually sending the visitor to the sales page is through a technique known as cookie stuffing. &lt;br /&gt;Cookie stuffing is when an affiliate places a tracking cookie on every visitor that enters their site, so that if the visitor then goes and buys a product the affiliate gets the sale even though they didn't send the visitor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Publishers don't want to pay commission on a sale just because the customer visited an affiliate's site beforehand, so this is another example of an affiliate scam. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The majority of affiliates and publishers realise the great benefits for each side when it comes to the affiliate-publisher relationship. If handled correctly, a publisher can make many more sales than otherwise possible with an affiliate program and an affiliate can make a lot of money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scams will always be found out in the long run and will damage a business when they are. As an affiliate or publisher it's important to keep out eye out for potential scams.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-8161883341870584259?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/8161883341870584259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=8161883341870584259' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8161883341870584259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8161883341870584259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/affiliate-marketing-scams.html' title='Affiliate Marketing Scams!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-1086468755515371762</id><published>2009-06-27T09:43:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-27T09:57:29.628+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Product Review'/><title type='text'>Maverick Money Makers Review - Is Maverick Money Makers a Scam?</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the Maverick Money Makers affiliate marketing system a scam, or are the earnings screen shots on its website for real? Before you start buying any system online from anyone who claims to help you make money fast, I must warn you that there are many scams online that I have bought into before. The Internet can be a place with a lot of false information, so always check the credibility of any website and find out if there are any real users before you go ahead and invest your money on anything on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Maverick Money Makers Review&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This system uses the concept of affiliate marketing to make money online, which is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get started with earning money today. The only disadvantage is that competition is very intense, thus there is a need to keep yourself updated constantly with new strategies available. After using Maverick Money Makers system, I am proud to say that I have successfully created a full time income online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. How To Make Money with Maverick Money Makers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make money with this system, you will be acting as an affiliate for multiple product owners. This means that you will act as the marketer for their products, and you receive a cut of every sale or lead that you generate. It is a great way to start making money online since it does not require any capital and product creation on your part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Where Do You Find Products to Promote to Earn Money?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is that you can promote any product that offers a partnership program, and these products include physical and down loadable ones. But in Maverick Money Makers case, it recommends only digital, down loadable products since they pay the highest commissions and are the easiest to promote and distribute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotshorturl.com/tm63" target=-blank&gt;Maverick Money Maker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-1086468755515371762?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/1086468755515371762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=1086468755515371762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1086468755515371762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1086468755515371762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/maverick-money-makers-review-is.html' title='Maverick Money Makers Review - Is Maverick Money Makers a Scam?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4359749069997688611</id><published>2009-06-19T18:21:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-19T18:52:56.785+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Affiliate Marketing Success Tips!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;Affiliate marketing can truly offer a great opportunity for&lt;br /&gt;almost anyone regardless of background or financial status&lt;br /&gt;to succeed at making good money and even huge money from&lt;br /&gt;the internet. Since it is so easy to start as an affiliate&lt;br /&gt;marketer expect lots of competition and do not expect it to&lt;br /&gt;be an easy ride. Most people randomly pick any affiliate&lt;br /&gt;program and throw up an ad on adwords or somewhere else and&lt;br /&gt;when they do not make any profits they complain that&lt;br /&gt;affiliate marketing does not work. This is simply not true.&lt;br /&gt;There are many people and each day the number grows that&lt;br /&gt;are making a very handsome living from selling other&lt;br /&gt;people's products and services. However this small, select&lt;br /&gt;group of super affiliates do things very differently from&lt;br /&gt;the mass of affiliate marketers that are failing. Here are&lt;br /&gt;some tips that most super affiliates follow to make big&lt;br /&gt;money online:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip 1: Choose your affiliate products carefully.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Top affiliate marketer select affiliate products&lt;br /&gt;very carefully and are quite strict about most promotions.&lt;br /&gt;Never promote a garbage product as the refund rates will be&lt;br /&gt;very high and these promotions do not work well long term.&lt;br /&gt;Also it can give your website a bad reputation which can&lt;br /&gt;affect traffic levels long term. You need to pick products&lt;br /&gt;that are proven to work, look for valid testimonials on the&lt;br /&gt;sales page. Also make sure the sales page looks&lt;br /&gt;professional and is informative. There are many affiliate&lt;br /&gt;networks you can go to pick affiliate products including&lt;br /&gt;Clickbank and Commission Junction. There are also many&lt;br /&gt;great independently operated affiliate programs that can be&lt;br /&gt;worth signing up for. When selecting products from&lt;br /&gt;Clickbank look for products that are fairly new and have a&lt;br /&gt;gravity over 10.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip 2: Send targeted traffic to affiliate pages.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The affiliate marketing model is simple. Find a&lt;br /&gt;quality affiliate program and send targeted traffic to your&lt;br /&gt;affiliate pages. However this traffic still needs to&lt;br /&gt;convert at a high enough rate for you to make decent&lt;br /&gt;profits. After all you are in business to make money not&lt;br /&gt;lose it. Google adwords while very competitive is probably&lt;br /&gt;the best first choice to get your traffic from. Remember to&lt;br /&gt;keep your keywords very targeted and do not bid too high&lt;br /&gt;unless the keyword is super targeted and justifies a higher&lt;br /&gt;bid. With adwords you need to keep in mind the importance&lt;br /&gt;of a good ad quality score. If your keywords receive a good&lt;br /&gt;quality score then you can reduce bids slightly and still&lt;br /&gt;maintain the same positions and get clicks at a lower cost.&lt;br /&gt;A good strategy is to run 10 test campaigns using product&lt;br /&gt;review style pages on your own site accruing $10 worth of&lt;br /&gt;clicks with different products from different niches.&lt;br /&gt;Certain niches simply do better than others so do not just&lt;br /&gt;promote from a single niche. Your goal should be to make at&lt;br /&gt;least $20 in sales from each campaign or a 100% ROI (Return&lt;br /&gt;On Investment). Expect to have some losers. Even if you&lt;br /&gt;find one winner then it can make up for the losing&lt;br /&gt;campaigns as the profits can be good and can last a while.&lt;br /&gt;You only need to find a handful of winning campaigns to&lt;br /&gt;create good income so do not get discouraged by a few&lt;br /&gt;losing campaigns. Also the experience you gain will teach&lt;br /&gt;you a great deal about how to identify and create winning&lt;br /&gt;campaigns faster. Try some of these affiliate marketing&lt;br /&gt;tips to help you make more money from the net.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4359749069997688611?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4359749069997688611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4359749069997688611' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4359749069997688611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4359749069997688611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/affiliate-marketing-success-tips.html' title='Affiliate Marketing Success Tips!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-9032075076750475887</id><published>2009-06-13T05:42:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-19T18:54:22.400+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>Understand the Basics of Affiliate Marketing!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;There's no doubt that affiliate marketing can be extremely profitable, but with so much information around how do you know who to trust? When starting out, a beginner can easily become overwhelmed by all the different strategies, keywords and advice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;It's important to remember that making money as an affiliate is effectively a very simple process, and the more you over-complicate things the harder it will be to make money. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;When you break affiliate marketing down there are three main steps: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Find a good product to promote.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;This is where many people make mistakes. Always choose a product that is selling well and is popular, as this means people are buying. Remember that if there is lots of competition that's a good thing, as it means there are people willing to purchase the product. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;2. Send traffic to the affiliate link. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;This is probably the hardest part, but there are plenty of options when it comes to traffic generation (see below). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;3. Get paid commissions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;For every visitor you send that buys the product you get paid a percentage. These commissions are then added up and paid to you either by cheque or directly to your bank account. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Of course, it is how you go about these steps (especially 1 and 2) that decides whether you will make a lot of money from affiliate marketing. However if you ever find yourself overwhelmed by all the available information just come back to these three points and remember the underlying simplicity of affiliate marketing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Once you've picked your product it's time to start generating traffic to your affiliate link. There are literally hundreds of ways to do this, but many aren't worth your time and will get you very few results. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Some of the more popular ways of sending traffic to an affiliate page are: • Article Marketing • Forum Posting • Blog Commenting • PPC &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;This is definitely an area you need to track. For example, if you find that article marketing is making you a lot of sales but forum posting is taking as much time and not making any sales at all, then you know either to concentrate more on article marketing or optimise your forum posting strategies. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;One very important technique when learning affiliate marketing or any business strategy is tracking your results. If you properly keep track of questions such as which products sell well, which articles attract the most views etc then you'll be able to see what works and what doesn't for yourself. For example, if you find that a particular product sells well when you send traffic through one technique but not through another than you know to concentrate your efforts on the technique that works to maximise your profits. It's vital to work out what is effective for you. Remember that affiliate marketing is not a get-rich-quick scheme, but if done properly it can make a lot of money. Focus on learning what works and what doesn't, and this will allow you to hone your strategy to make the most possible profit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-9032075076750475887?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/9032075076750475887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=9032075076750475887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/9032075076750475887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/9032075076750475887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/understand-basics-of-affiliate.html' title='Understand the Basics of Affiliate Marketing!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4455903886063495570</id><published>2009-06-08T16:06:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T16:13:04.351+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate marketing'/><title type='text'>The Two Biggest Reasons Why Most People Will Never Make a Full-Time Income Online...</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Two Biggest Reasons Why Most People Will Never Make a Full-Time Income Online...&lt;br /&gt;It all starts when some well-meaning (yet misdirected) person encourages a budding internet entrepreneur to "start in a niche they know alot about", or base their business around "something they're passionate about"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As horrible as it may sound - they've unknowingly sent the hopeful entrepreneur down a path of false expectations, poor results and eventually - failure. In fact, the myth of "do what you love and the money will follow" has been responsible for more failure than likely any other influence - perhaps even more so than laziness or a lack of perseverance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the simple truth of the matter is that the only way you're going to make real money on the net is if your business is based around two crucial things:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Large Demand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Buyers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words - you aren't going to get rich selling a $15 ebook about growing square watermelons - even though that might be a great passion of yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The demand just isn't there. Maybe there's a few searches a day on Google for the topic, and perhaps there's some interest in the online "gardening enthusiast" communities - but you'd be hard-pressed to make even a few hundred dollars a month from ebook sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, you also aren't going to have a particularly easy time getting rich by building websites about some seemingly "popular" topics like humor, jokes, funny pictures and so on. 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(Just imagine what the merchant is making...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some markets there's actually so much demand that the vendors are quite literally selling over a thousand units - or more - per day. Digital products, with practically zero overhead/delivery cost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it all comes back to tapping into valuable demand. In most cases, it takes no extra effort or "skill" to market to a valuable market than it does to struggle along with something you're passionate about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two factors - demand and buying traffic - are what seperate the "wannabe" marketers from the millionaires. Because there's no real secret - you just need to sell what thousands of people are already buying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ball is now officially in your court. 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There would hundreds of web hosting and programs to choose from that the difficulty in finding the right one for them is not a problem anymore.&lt;br /&gt;How does one become a successful affiliate in the niche markets using web hosting?&lt;br /&gt;If you think about it, everyone who needs a website needs a web hosting company to host it for them. As of now, there is really no leading hosting industry so most people choose hosts based from recommendations. Usually, they get it from the ones that have already availed of a web hosting services.&lt;br /&gt;With the many hosts offering affiliate programs, there is the tendency to find the one which you think will work best for you. Think of the product you will be promoting. Pattern them to the site and see if they are catering to the same things as you are.&lt;br /&gt;When you have been with one host for quite some time and seem not to be making much despite all your effort, leave that one and look for another. There is no use in trying to stick to one when you would be before off in another one. Things will only have to get better from there because you already have been in worst situations.&lt;br /&gt;Try this out. If you are quite happy and satisfied with your web host, try to see if they are offering an affiliate program you can participate on. Instead of you paying them, why not make it the other way around; them paying you. The process can be as easy as putting a small “powered by” or “hosted by” link at the bottom of your page and you are already in an affiliate business.&lt;br /&gt;Why choose paying for your for your web hosting when you do not have to? Try to get paid by letting people know you like your web host.&lt;br /&gt;Always remember that when choosing a web host, choose the one that is known for its fantastic customer support. There are also many hosting affiliate programs. Residual affiliate program is also being hosted. This is the program wherein you get paid a percentage every month for a client that you refer. This can allow you to have a steady source of income. With perseverance, you can even be quite successful in this field.&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of niche markets out there just waiting for the right affiliate to penetrate to them and make that dollars dream come true. Knowing which one to get into is being confident enough of your potentials and the good results you will be getting.&lt;br /&gt;Web hosting is just one affiliate market you could try out and make some good and continuous income. Just remember that to be successful on your endeavor also means that time, effort and patience is needed.&lt;br /&gt;Nobody has invented the perfect affiliate market yet. But some people do know how to make it big in this kind of market. It is just knowing your kind of market and making the earnings there.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4223349584257347766?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4223349584257347766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4223349584257347766' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4223349584257347766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4223349584257347766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-become-super-affiliate-in-niche.html' title='How To Become A Super Affiliate In Niche Markets!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-1335497841349132801</id><published>2008-03-28T18:08:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-03-28T18:11:45.493+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Preselling - The Art of Building Anticipation!</title><content type='html'>Preselling is the work you must start doing before you release and sell your product; that's why it's called pre-selling. It's the work you do to convince your to-be-customers that your product has great benefit and only a fool will pass your offer without purchasing -- all this without actually "selling" the mentioned product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preselling can be seen as selling yourself to the customer before you sell your product. When you sell yourself to the customer, you are making your customers think "okay, this guy is not one of those greedy marketers. He's actually here to help me out." so that they will let their guard down and listen to your sales pitch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preselling is also the art of building up anticipation. If a friend told you his chronic headache has been solved overnight by “some new medicine” but did not mention what it really was, would that leave you wondering what the medicine really is? More so if you're having a chronic headache yourself! That's why by mentioning a benefit which would get your prospects' ears perked up again and again but not really revealing what the solution is, you will get your prospects dying to hear what you have to say next as you reveal slightly more about the solution each time. When you finally uncover the whole thing, your prospects will be crawling all over your website looking for the buy button!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, preselling is not just about unveiling your product bit by bit. In fact, that was only one of the various ways one can presell. For example, you might run a weekly newsletter on acne problems and coincidentally you have just written this great ebook called “10 Ways to Solve Acne Woes Once and For All”. In your newsletter, you can presell by including a snippet or two from your ebook and mentioning it as a viable solution to acne problems. If people get good advice from your newsletter, they will perceive you as an expert on acne problems and naturally will be curious to find out the ways you can teach them to solve their problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the day, it all boils down to giving value to people before you ask people to buy something from you. If you can help people to solve their problems, they will, more often than not, be very willing to buy products from you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-1335497841349132801?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/1335497841349132801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=1335497841349132801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1335497841349132801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/1335497841349132801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/preselling-art-of-building-anticipation.html' title='Preselling - The Art of Building Anticipation!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5017448104228342183</id><published>2008-03-26T17:35:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-03-26T17:38:46.938+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Business'/><title type='text'>The Importance of Selling!</title><content type='html'>Not so long ago, when the computer was first mass-produced for selling to the public, a lot of industry experts predicted that nobody will want a box that does nothing besides handling data and hogging up the entire garage. They were obviously wrong – nearly every household will have at least one computer in the US, and most even have two or three desktops!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This little bit of history tells us that no matter how good your product is, you cannot earn even a penny from it if you have a lousy salesperson. Likewise, no matter how good your product is, you cannot sell even one copy of it with a weak sales letter. Hence, it is vital to have a compelling sales letter that will pull the prospect right into it and see clearly the benefits that are presented against the very reasonable price you are charging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good sales letter will first catch the attention of the reader by resonating with the reader's needs and desires. That's why you often see headlines such as “Have you ever felt...” or “Does ... sound familiar”? They work because they empathize with the reader's needs, problems or desires. The Internet is like a very busy freeway and everyone's in a rush. Only a strong headline like that in big, bold letters will stop your target audience dead in their tracks to read through your sales letter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you've obtained your reader's attention, you want to spend the first few paragraphs on telling your story – how you have gone through what your reader probably has the agony of the whole experience, etc. Once you get your reader thinking “he's one of us”, you would be perceived as an understanding individual offering a solution and not an anonymous marketer looking to sell his product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, you have to elaborate on the benefits of the product you are selling. List them all on a piece of scrap paper until you have quite a long list; then write your sales letter from there. In your sales letter, highlight the benefits in point form and elaborate on each benefit. Be sure to point out how your product helps the reader instead of pointing out the features of the product. For example, instead of saying “this gizmo cures headaches”, say “this gizmo can relieve your headaches”. Make it relevant to the reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, write a paragraph or two on how the reader's life could be changed if the problem he is facing can be totally solved with your product. It is important to use very descriptive words so that the reader can fall into the imagination more easily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last of all; make a strong call for action! Your final objective is to make your readers buy your product, so it is important to make a final, strong call for action, be it “click the Buy button”, “whip out your credit card” and so on. Do not make the mistake of forgetting such an important step after coaxing your reader through the lengthy paragraphs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5017448104228342183?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5017448104228342183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5017448104228342183' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5017448104228342183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5017448104228342183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/importance-of-selling.html' title='The Importance of Selling!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-7174992900416210354</id><published>2008-03-24T15:12:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T15:19:42.232+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Ethical Marketing!</title><content type='html'>To sell a product well, it is very important to use powerful selling words to really convey each and every little benefit that your product has to convince the customer. It is not uncommon to see words like “unbelievable” and “phenomenal” and something along those lines in really great salesletters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there are some marketers who intentionally use hyped-up descriptions to sell off their products. These marketers mislead customers into thinking that their products offer benefits that do not really exist in reality. At this point, it would be appropriate to quote a story that really happened:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One evening, a fellow marketer in my MSN Messenger list messaged me to check out his newest salesletter for his product, an ebook on earning revenue with contextual advertisement. I logged on to his website and was drawn right into his sales copy! The reason was the salesletter dived right into my desires and promised that “everything I have ever wanted” can be obtained just by purchasing the said ebook and executing whatever is inside. The salesletter also made it seem that the author owns fleets of Mercedez Benz cars, luxurious mansions and private yachts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem was I know this particular marketer personally. He is actually a 17 year old high school graduate looking for a few quick bucks by selling a little ebook he compiled with information collected from various sources from the Internet. My emergency alarm immediately kicked in and I can just imagine how many naïve newbies can be fooled with the deceptive sales copy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sad but very real fact is that there are many scam artists online, waiting to rip you off your hard-earned money. Hence, remember that the usual advice for consumers still apply online: use your common sense. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, when you intend to purchase something from the Internet, do a basic check-up on the merchant website. First and foremost, if you have even the slightest question on any of the features of the product mentioned, email the merchant regarding it and observe the attitude with which he/she replies. Customer support reveals a lot about the integrity of a business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, if you can't even find support email on their website, click the “Back” button and run away from the site at once!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-7174992900416210354?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/7174992900416210354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=7174992900416210354' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7174992900416210354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7174992900416210354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/ethical-marketing.html' title='Ethical Marketing!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4925834989805086251</id><published>2007-10-21T16:33:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T16:36:21.193+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Making Serious Money Online Has Never Been So Simple!</title><content type='html'>I'm sure you've heard the same hype all before - you know what I'm talking about - all those over hyped nonsense promising the earth and delivering nothing. Well, today I'm here to tell you that FINALLY there is someone who really wants to help you make money online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brian Wynn shows you how to make easy automatic money using dozens of different systems and techniques. He calls it The Millionaire League - and every month you will get given new systems and techniques to make even more cash. So you're effectively getting a membership WITHOUT any ongoing fees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No unnecessary additional product recommendations, no incomplete information, just the simple truth about making easy money online. It's a refreshing and exciting approach which will give you total freedom, flexibility and best of all...money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So join &lt;a href="http://copperkey.tmlcom.hop.clickbank.net/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Millionaire League&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; today to get back in control of your life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4925834989805086251?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4925834989805086251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4925834989805086251' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4925834989805086251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4925834989805086251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/10/making-serious-money-online-has-never.html' title='Making Serious Money Online Has Never Been So Simple!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-7313038922700286112</id><published>2007-09-19T15:41:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-09-19T15:47:52.672+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on The Internet!</title><content type='html'>2007 is in full swing and there have been some CRITICAL&lt;br /&gt;CHANGES to the way you need to market your business to make&lt;br /&gt;money online... changes &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; must know about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I am not just talking about one or two little changes.&lt;br /&gt;I am talking about massive changes that include...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How Google, Yahoo!, and MSN have changed and how to get (or&lt;br /&gt;even just maintain) top 10 listings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maximizing your profits from email promotions and making&lt;br /&gt;sure they get to your customers’ inbox and not get you&lt;br /&gt;labeled as ‘Junk’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to make money in the Pay-Per-Click search engines...&lt;br /&gt;even after the big guys keep changing the rules and most&lt;br /&gt;business are losing big.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What web design strategies and salescopy techniques are&lt;br /&gt;working in 2007 (many of last year’s strategies don’t work&lt;br /&gt;anymore... do you know which ones?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advanced technology that you must start using &lt;strong&gt;BEFORE&lt;/strong&gt; your&lt;br /&gt;competitors steal your customers with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;… and the list could go on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not trying to scare you out of doing business online,  &lt;br /&gt;I just want to make you aware of the realities&lt;br /&gt;of making money on the Internet in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now after that little rant, I do have some &lt;strong&gt;GOOD NEWS&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have gone to bat for my customers and subscribers to make&lt;br /&gt;sure you have &lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; of the latest tools, tips and strategies&lt;br /&gt;from one of the &lt;strong&gt;MOST SUCCESFUL Internet marketing Gurus &lt;/strong&gt;in&lt;br /&gt;the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find out who and what I am talking about please take&lt;br /&gt;five minutes and read the following webpage...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketingtips.com/t.cgi/914147"&gt;Marketing Tips.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This could be the most valuable five minutes in 2007!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-7313038922700286112?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/7313038922700286112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=7313038922700286112' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7313038922700286112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/7313038922700286112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/09/insider-secrets-to-marketing-your.html' title='The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on The Internet!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-6071488343729194244</id><published>2007-08-12T11:14:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-08-12T11:31:42.148+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>E-books and Affiliate Programs!</title><content type='html'>Some E-books combine very well with an affiliate program. When the affiliate receives some extra benefit from promoting the viral message, like being able to brand your E-book with his affiliate links, the affiliate makes a sale when a reader buys through a branded link. You benefit from increased traffic on your website because the affiliate is willing to promote the E-books for you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be absolutely certain that your message includes a clear call to action. There shouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about what you intend recipients to do. Make sure that the instructions are perfectly clear so that recipients know HOW to act. The action that you require should be simple and obvious as well. Don’t make things complicated or it will confuse the reader, such as by adding numerous links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember the K.I.S.S. principle Keep It Simple Stupid! The incentive should be clear to those you want to take an action. Readers will look at your offering for about seven seconds before they move on. If it takes longer than that for them to figure out what it is you want them to do, they will move on. Don’t make your message vague or difficult to comprehend. If you do, chances are you will lose them. You must respect your readers enough to express your message clearly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you are sure you have an E-book that will be of value to an affiliate program, approach them with your idea and be able to show that it will be mutually beneficial.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viral Marketing using E-books is one of many techniques that all together have a cumulative effect in attracting customers and subscribers to your business and in attracting targeted visitors to your website. You will very soon find out that this is an excellent way of increasing sales, subscribers and referrals.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-6071488343729194244?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/6071488343729194244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=6071488343729194244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6071488343729194244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6071488343729194244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/e-books-and-affiliate-programs.html' title='E-books and Affiliate Programs!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3896045299206279935</id><published>2007-08-05T06:35:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-08-05T06:40:12.895+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Business'/><title type='text'>Where do you start?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="www.onlinedealsspotter.com"&gt;WORK AT HOME AND MAKE MONEY ONLINE&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people are looking at the internet as a way of earning&lt;br /&gt;an additional part-time or even full-time income. It can be&lt;br /&gt;a good idea but with millions of available options, and&lt;br /&gt;websites proclaiming to have the answers to questions you&lt;br /&gt;have not even thought of, where do you start?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are thousands of things you can do to make money online. Internet has changed the life for majority of people. Could our parents have imagined that some day we will be able to make money working from the comforts of our homes? Actually pursue a career on the Web!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do keep a few basic things in mind. Like, there could be short term opportunities and long term opportunities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opportunities that require special skills and opportunities that don't. Some offers will be such that you will be able to start working as soon as you have joined the program and likewise money will also start coming immediately, while some will take time to build.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't expect anything to happen overnight. For any home business, or traditional business for that matter, to become successful you need to invest time and find the capability to be patient. There will be ups and downs, moments of glory and moments of despair. You have to invest in a learning process to improve your skills and in the end reap the rewards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A final word of advice, don't let anybody or anything keep you from your goals. If to you it is worth fighting for, then you should be ashamed not to fight. Not fighting for your own future will end up with a never to be answered question. What if? Me personally, I don't want that question hanging above my head the rest of my life. Take action and enjoy the ride.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onlinedealsspotter.com"&gt;Onlinedealsspotter.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Onlinedealsspotter is a comprehensive source for work from home opportunities and deals. Here you will find the resources to find the best home based businesses to fit your individual needs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3896045299206279935?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3896045299206279935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3896045299206279935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3896045299206279935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3896045299206279935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/where-do-you-start.html' title='Where do you start?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-803628830847744939</id><published>2007-07-16T17:52:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T17:57:09.298+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Working Hard at Selling Your Product - But Earning PEANUTS?</title><content type='html'>Without question, the most overlooked, under-valued and under-utilized asset in practically every business is its customer base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact of the matter is that most businesses only look at each customer they acquire as being worth a single purchase. They simply fail to realize that the easiest money they'll ever make is selling additional products, upgrades and services to their existing customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Customers that already trust them, like them and will gladly buy from them again without the need for expensive incentives, bonuses, marketing/selling skill or otherwise effort of any kind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Folks, almost ALL of your expense in business is acquiring new customers. So why in the world would you only sell to them one time!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is called the backend profit model - which is the simple strategy of upselling, cross-selling and recommending complimentary products to already existing customers. Did you know that many successful businesses will literally sell their first "entry product" at a LOSS - just so they can sell them again and again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They take the loss (and the risk) for a reason. It works. In fact, this one easy "change" to your strategy will enable you to literally multiply your revenues without spending more money or "working harder". This is the difference between a business that's a glorified "job" and a wildly successful business that you can sell for a fortune...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you see the logic behind this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, you might have an objection...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Isn't it expensive and time-consuming to develop new products all the time?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is where strategic alliances come to the rescue. You could easily build your own highly-profitable backend profit system in a matter of DAYS just by endorsing someone else's products and splitting the profits with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, you could even fund the development of your own backend products just by endorsing someone else's in the meantime...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What if your average value per customer increased by 400% just by making this one change? Can you see how much easier this is in comparison to finding and acquiring 400% more customers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means your income would increase exponentially as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This isn't some "pie in the sky" theory. This is pure common sense. If you sell more, you will earn more, period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do I have your attention now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the other issue might have with endorsing someone else's products is that it might appear to be "tacky". Believe it or not, if the product is a quality and complimentary fit - and if it's truly going to benefit your clients - then you will actually build more rapport with your customer base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will see you as a business that looks out for their best interests. And yes, they will realize that you're profiting from this, but it won't matter if they can see the logical "fit" (and intention) behind it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't be afraid to do this. Think about how many "Fortune 500" companies you see doing this all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heck, this morning I bought a box of cereal because it had a free movie-theatre ticket inside the box. Am I "skeptical" of my favorite cereal company now? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can do the same thing, and multiply your revenues for very little effort while actually increasing your customer retention rate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I'm sure by now you can see the tremendous benefits of using Joint Venture arrangements to make more money for practically no extra effort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, let me end off with a statement that's likely going to keep you up all night...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What if you got just 10 partners to endorse YOUR product to their customers as well? Not only would you be making an easy fortune from your existing customers - you'd also be getting new customers without the hassle (or risk) of advertising - and they'd simply get plugged into your profit funnel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact of the matter is that joint ventures are simply the most powerful way to make money in business - both on the backend (maximizing profits from existing customers) AND on the "front-end" (acquiring as many customers as you can handle at no up-front cost to you).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this single strategy has the power to easily transform your business from a "bill-payer" into a multi-million dollar enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you've no doubt seen so far, joint ventures are the "shortcut" to your success in business. So I'd strongly recommend that you master the art of approaching and recruiting profitable JV partners. Now, with that said, there's a famous "system" that's been developed by a fairly young marketer, and people all over the net are raving about it. You can check out Chris Rempel's JV System at &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://copperkey.crlongboar.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joint Venture Marketing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Working Hard at Selling Your Product - But Earning PEANUTS? Use this simple strategy to turn the tables in a matter of DAYS...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-803628830847744939?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/803628830847744939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=803628830847744939' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/803628830847744939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/803628830847744939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/07/working-hard-at-selling-your-product.html' title='Working Hard at Selling Your Product - But Earning PEANUTS?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3707602594509287778</id><published>2007-06-23T12:30:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-06-23T12:33:06.201+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Why Publish an eZine?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;On the Internet,&lt;/strong&gt; it is very possible to make money without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an electronic newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a nutshell,&lt;/strong&gt; you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The good part is that you have a flexible choice in automating the process of sending out your eZine issues for you or manually sending them on a periodical basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As an eZine publisher,&lt;/strong&gt; not only can you easily achieve the benefits a conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several trees in the process, you can easily and conveniently spread your marketing influence and expertise to your base of subscribers from the shoes of an ordinary individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In other words,&lt;/strong&gt; you do not have to invest in expensive printing equipment, brick and mortar business, and hiring staff just to run your own newsletter publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Basically,&lt;/strong&gt; all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and broadcast feature to go with, enabling you to reach out to your massive subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All in all,&lt;/strong&gt; if you do not have the commitments of creating your own product for sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power and influence it can offer to you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3707602594509287778?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3707602594509287778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3707602594509287778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3707602594509287778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3707602594509287778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-publish-ezine.html' title='Why Publish an eZine?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4435005947465613801</id><published>2007-06-21T19:25:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T19:27:57.782+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response.</title><content type='html'>So you've got the buyer in front of your auction, and they've read the description. They're must be interested, or they wouldn't be looking… but just how can you push them over that line and make them leave a bid? Read on for some tips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve your picture:&lt;/strong&gt; In all that description writing, you might have missed the vital importance of your item's picture. A picture with bad lighting or an intrusive background looks amateurish and won't make anyone want to buy from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add an About Me page:&lt;/strong&gt; You'll be surprised how much you can reassure bidders just by creating an About Me page and putting a little bit about yourself on your business on there. You can also have a few special offers there for people who bother to look at the page, and let people subscribe to your mailing list so that you can email them updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use SquareTrade:&lt;/strong&gt; Signing up at SquareTrade and displaying their logo on your auctions shows that you are committed to have them resolve any disputes that arise. You always see this on PowerSellers auctions - it makes you look more professional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Write terms and conditions:&lt;/strong&gt; Have the 'small print' clearly visible on all your auctions, giving details of things like shipping times and prices, your refund policy, and any other business practices you might have. This helps build confidence with buyers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show off your feedback:&lt;/strong&gt; Copy and paste a selection of the feedback comments you're most proud of to each item's description page, instead of making bidders go and look for it. If you have 100% positive feedback, be sure to write that on every auction too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add NR to your titles:&lt;/strong&gt; If you have extra space in a title, put 'NR' (no reserve) on the end. Bidders prefer auctions that don't have a reserve price, and doing this lets them see that yours don't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits not features:&lt;/strong&gt; Make sure your description focuses on the benefits that your item can give to the customer, not just its features. This is a classic sales technique. If you have trouble with this, remember: 'cheap' is a feature, 'save money' is a benefit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List more items:&lt;/strong&gt; If you want more people to respond to your items, then list more items! You might find you have better like listing items at the same time, instead of one-by-one. There's no need to use a Dutch auction - you can just keep two or three auctions going at once for an item you have more than one of in stock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept unusual payment methods:&lt;/strong&gt; To reach those last few buyers, accept payment methods that many sellers don't, like cheques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Buy some upgrades:&lt;/strong&gt; The best upgrade is the most expensive one, which makes your item appear first in search results. In crowded categories, you might find that this is worth the money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you've got some buyers, you want to keep them coming back to you. The next email will show you how to turn one-time buyers into long-term customers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4435005947465613801?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4435005947465613801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4435005947465613801' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4435005947465613801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4435005947465613801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/06/10-tips-for-increasing-your-ebay.html' title='10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response.'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-6180298712514818659</id><published>2007-06-16T06:52:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-06-16T07:06:11.348+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Product Review: "Blogging For Dollars"</title><content type='html'>While going through Derek Gehl's new &lt;strong&gt;"Blogging For Dollars"&lt;/strong&gt; system, I was amazed just how powerful blogs really are. The amount of traffic you can drive to your website with a blog is impressive! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you don't have a blog yet, NOW is definitely the time to start one!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you want to turn that blog into a huge success, Derek and his team have invested over $79,583.28 in developing and testing his new system, "Blogging For Dollars," and... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... Their test results were truly shocking!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of Derek's clients and members of his team were scooping up handfuls of #1 rankings in the search engines -- for HIGHLY competitive terms -- without hiring an expensive SEO specialist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I'm positive that anyone can secure a top 10 position in the search engines using the advanced blogging techniques explained in this system! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus, by having a blog, you can drive swarms of traffic to your website, explode your sales and profits...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... OR add new streams of revenue to your existing business!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, what I like most about this system is that it's for both advanced users and it's totally newbie friendly at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, "Blogging For Dollars" lays out a simple plan for starting your very FIRST online business using blogs, and teaches you how to set up your FIRST blog in 45 seconds... 5 minutes if you're slow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's a tiny sample of what you'll learn:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to use blogs to dramatically increase your website traffic -- and add 1,000's of EXTRA dollars to your bottom line! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to rank #1 in Google, Yahoo!, and MSN &lt;/strong&gt;-- for the keywords MOST searched by your target audience! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How Derek's team pushed a webpage to a #2 ranking in Google for a highly competitive keyphrase -- with less than 60 minutes' effort! (And why we saw traffic and sales results in less than 14 days!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which 3 critical steps you MUST follow to catapult your website to the TOP of the search engine rankings -- for any keyword you choose!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to Attract 400% more repeat traffic than your static webpage! Since blogs take just seconds to update (from ANYWHERE in the world), it's easy to draw visitors back again and again with fresh news and postings! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... And MUCH more!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And since blogging is the biggest trend to hit the Internet in the last 10 years, there's more opportunity to profit from it right now than there ever will be. My prediction is we won't see another chance like this for at least another 10 years... Which means the time to act is now! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to get in on the action, and maximize your blogging profits quickly, then I highly recommend you take a look Derek Gehl's new system right away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Blogging For Dollars"&lt;/strong&gt; comes with a 96-minute instructional DVD, and an easy-to-follow guidebook containing 115 pages of every single detailed technique and strategy for generating MASSIVE profits from any blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketingtips.com/trafficsecrets/t/914147"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;to get more details on the system that can help you take advantage of this incredible opportunity... Before it's too late!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-6180298712514818659?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/6180298712514818659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=6180298712514818659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6180298712514818659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6180298712514818659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/06/product-review-blogging-for-dollars.html' title='Product Review: &quot;Blogging For Dollars&quot;'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4424098761078693594</id><published>2007-06-13T19:10:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-06-13T19:12:58.150+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>10 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business!</title><content type='html'>It's surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if you're not careful - sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you really want to? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are some simple ways to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lie about an item:&lt;/strong&gt; Say it works fine when it sometimes doesn't work. Say it's in perfect condition when it has a scratch. Your customers will hate you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post whenever you feel like it:&lt;/strong&gt; Make sure to leave your customers hanging around, wondering when their item is going to turn up. This makes sure they buy from someone else next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let items end anytime:&lt;/strong&gt; Few people will be around to care about your auction if it ends in the middle of the night. Why go to the trouble of working out whether auctions will end at a good time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't bother with email:&lt;/strong&gt; Customers are just timewasters anyway. eBay businesses are supposed to run themselves! Never give informed responses to questions about your item. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sell rubbish:&lt;/strong&gt; Really, it's just eBay. You can just sell any old tat from the market for a 200% profit. Let quality be someone else's concern - I mean, really, what do they expect for that price?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Refuse to give discounts:&lt;/strong&gt; You know what your items cost, you know what your profit margin is going to be, and you're not going to negotiate. Remember that giving customers special deals might make them feel good and come back to you again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make your listings ugly:&lt;/strong&gt; As many colours, flashing lights and animations as possible will really give those customers a headache. Write as much in CAPITALS!!!! as you can. Preferably big, red capitals. Be sure to use the fonts Impact and Comic Sans. For an extra special touch, see if you can figure out a way to add some music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't take photos:&lt;/strong&gt; It's such trouble, after all. If buyers are picky enough to actually want to see items before they bid on them, then screw 'em, that's what I say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Write short descriptions:&lt;/strong&gt; Be as brief as possible, and use lots of mysterious abbreviations. This obviously makes you look very cool. You can even just write the title again in the description box. Think of the effort you'll save!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use reserve auctions:&lt;/strong&gt; Now, this is a fairly controversial final choice, but it really is one of the best ways to scare away your customers. They'll see 'reserve not yet met', and click that 'back' button before you know it. Luckily, they can always bid in a normal auction for the item somewhere else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that you know the ten ways to kill your eBay business, how about we explore what to do if you want to do the opposite, and make a success of it? The next email will give you ten steps to successful selling on eBay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4424098761078693594?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4424098761078693594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4424098761078693594' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4424098761078693594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4424098761078693594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/06/10-sure-fire-ways-to-kill-your-ebay.html' title='10 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5164835580145482027</id><published>2007-05-29T18:21:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-29T18:23:32.569+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Business'/><title type='text'>Back Selling And Cross Selling Can Provide More Income Streams For Your Online Business!</title><content type='html'>Almost every online business follows a basic model. This is a tried and tested system that would allow you to effectively sell your products in the World Wide Web. It is an automated system that could act as your sales agent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, even when you’re offline. Have you followed this basic model so far?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let’s have a checklist:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Have you pinpointed your target market?&lt;br /&gt;* Have you come up with a product to sell?&lt;br /&gt;* Have you created a search engine-optimized website?&lt;br /&gt;* Have you promoted your website well, through article marketing, forum marketing, blogs, and outside links?&lt;br /&gt;* Have you come up with a sales page for your product?&lt;br /&gt;* Are you garnering enough traffic for your sales page?&lt;br /&gt;* Have you integrated a follow-up system in your website?&lt;br /&gt;* Have you determined a price for your product?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have done all these things, then there is no reason why you shouldn't’t rake in some substantial earnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only concern left that we have to tackle is how to sustain your profit. Surely, if you’d gather a stable stream of visitors for your web page, you’d be able to generate some sales. But you should always aim for more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And this can be done through cross-selling and back selling.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cross-selling &lt;/strong&gt;involves the sale of products related to the main products you are selling. For example, you are selling an eBook on dog grooming. You could offer supportive products like dog grooming kits, dog instructional videos, and the likes. You don’t have to come up with these products yourself. You could simply look for other online businesses offering these items, and you could sign up as their affiliate. As an affiliate, you just have to refer people to the other business’ sales page, and when the visitors you have referred would decide to make some purchases, you’ll get a commission for every sale!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Back selling &lt;/strong&gt;is slightly more complicated. It involves offering your other products at the exact points of sale. Points of sale are those moments during the instruction when your customers are most willing to purchase something. By offering them other products during these times, there is a higher likelihood that they’d buy from you! These points of sale can be broken down into:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* That moment when your customer clicks on the order button. He will be diverted to a new page for his payment details. You could include a pop-up for this page advertising your other products. Better yet, the pop-ups could even employ urgency marketing to better your chances of bagging more sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* That moment when your customer has just purchased a product from you. Normally, he’ll be redirected to a Thank You page. In the Thank You page, you could advertise other offers as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When automating your online business, do keep these in mind. If you manage to integrate cross-selling and back selling tactics in specific points of your website, you’d be able to rake in more profit! It’s as simple as that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you need some products to cross promote of to offer at the back end of every deal? You could check out the many affiliate programs online. For sure, there is one which is relevant to the subject your business is servicing. Simply choose the products that complement what you’re offering, or at the very least, target the same audience your own products are aiming for. This would provide for you the greatest chance of success when it comes to the aforementioned supplements for your online sales.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5164835580145482027?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5164835580145482027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5164835580145482027' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5164835580145482027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5164835580145482027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/back-selling-and-cross-selling-can.html' title='Back Selling And Cross Selling Can Provide More Income Streams For Your Online Business!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4699081758143653715</id><published>2007-05-26T19:03:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T19:06:43.541+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>How To Discover Hot Products You Could Sell At eBay!</title><content type='html'>If you have decided to earn some serious cash from the number one auction site in the World Wide Web, then you will have to know what sells well.  Indeed, eBay may be visited by millions of people per day, but with thousands of auctions going on at any given time, it would be hard to generate great interest on your products if the market isn’t really hot for them.  The result can be quite catastrophic.  You might end up paying mounted fees without realizing any profit, since no one would bid on your auctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how do you know what products would be the hottest sellers on eBay?  Here are some tips you could employ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using eBay Tools.&lt;/strong&gt; Your eBay seller account should also provide for you a way to know the website’s most popular auctions.  This should give you an idea about what sells well, and how much they are going for.  Simply visit the Seller Central area for a rundown of the day’s top auctions, and try to view the same with a critical mind.  Determine if the demand is really huge, or if the price is responsible for pushing the demand to the limit.  If the latter, determine as well if you’ll be able to compete with the said price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Online research.&lt;/strong&gt; The internet is a humongous resource center for your market research campaign.  There are many tools that you could find in this intricate network, both free and paid, that could help you discover what any market is really looking for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep in touch with the times.&lt;/strong&gt;  Generally speaking, what is popular in the real world should be popular on eBay as well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4699081758143653715?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4699081758143653715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4699081758143653715' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4699081758143653715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4699081758143653715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-discover-hot-products-you-could.html' title='How To Discover Hot Products You Could Sell At eBay!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5320346137220136146</id><published>2007-05-10T19:58:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T20:03:09.474+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>How to Price Your eBook!</title><content type='html'>You've written and compiled an ebook. Now you have to&lt;br /&gt;decide how much to charge for it. Finding the right&lt;br /&gt;price is essential to the success of your product. If&lt;br /&gt;you charge too little, people will think it's of&lt;br /&gt;little value, and they won't purchase it, or even it&lt;br /&gt;they do buy your book, you will have to sell thousands&lt;br /&gt;of copies to get to the point where you can begin to&lt;br /&gt;see a profit. If you price it too high when compared&lt;br /&gt;with your competition, you will find yourself steadily&lt;br /&gt;lowering the price, which will cause you all kinds of&lt;br /&gt;new problems in the future. For example, if you sell&lt;br /&gt;your ebook at first for $39.99, and later reduce it to&lt;br /&gt;$24.95, don't you think the people who bought it for&lt;br /&gt;$39.99 are going to be PISSED?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choosing the right price for your ebook is one of the&lt;br /&gt;most critical parts of the marketing process. The&lt;br /&gt;first rule of pricing ebooks is to never under price.&lt;br /&gt;Determine the highest price your audience can afford,&lt;br /&gt;and then if you find your book is not selling, you can&lt;br /&gt;always reduce the price. Before you take that step,&lt;br /&gt;make sure you are promoting your book like crazy on&lt;br /&gt;the Internet and on websites. The price should be&lt;br /&gt;aimed at bringing in profits, but you should never&lt;br /&gt;forget that price is one of the factors that people&lt;br /&gt;use in judging the value of your ebook before they&lt;br /&gt;buy it. So always start with the highest price, and&lt;br /&gt;then launch a mega-marketing campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's look at the difference between a book in print&lt;br /&gt;and an ebook. A printed book is an object you can hold&lt;br /&gt;in your hand, store on your bookshelf, even hand down&lt;br /&gt;to the next generation. It is priced on factors such&lt;br /&gt;as paper stock, design and production costs, and&lt;br /&gt;marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think an idea is worth when evaluated&lt;br /&gt;against the cost of paper and ink?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the IDEAS that are valuable! That is how you&lt;br /&gt;determine the cost of your ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should I charge for my ideas?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are all different formulas and methods for&lt;br /&gt;determining the correct price for your ebook. Let's&lt;br /&gt;begin with honing in on your ultimate goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decide if your goal is to get wide distribution and&lt;br /&gt;maximum exposure. This goal is aimed at drawing&lt;br /&gt;customers to your business or service, or to&lt;br /&gt;establishing the credibility of your reputation. If&lt;br /&gt;this is your main goal, you should aim to keep your&lt;br /&gt;price on the low side. The key is to find a price that&lt;br /&gt;maximizes your profits and the number of books you&lt;br /&gt;sell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an excellent pricing strategy if you are&lt;br /&gt;looking to acquire long-term customers. Long-term&lt;br /&gt;customers are extremely likely to buy from you again&lt;br /&gt;and again, as long as the first ebook they buy is of&lt;br /&gt;exceptional quality and beneficial to the customer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if your book contains valuable and more&lt;br /&gt;importantly NEW information, references, or techniques&lt;br /&gt;then you should aim to price it on the high end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After you figure out your goal, you must figure out&lt;br /&gt;what your audience's need is for your ebook. For&lt;br /&gt;example, does your book solve a particular problem? If&lt;br /&gt;it does, and solves it in a way that hasn't been&lt;br /&gt;written about in one hundred other ebooks, you will be&lt;br /&gt;able to achieve high sales at a high price. If your&lt;br /&gt;book solves a problem or answers questions in a new&lt;br /&gt;and unique way, you should price your book as high as&lt;br /&gt;you can go. You will achieve larger profits this way,&lt;br /&gt;but bring in fewer customers. Just make sure the&lt;br /&gt;question or problem that your book solves is one that&lt;br /&gt;is important and relevant to the majority of your&lt;br /&gt;market audience. If your ideas are not common&lt;br /&gt;knowledge, or you are presenting a brand new&lt;br /&gt;technique, you will be able to sell books at a high&lt;br /&gt;price. Just be prepared for your competition to&lt;br /&gt;undercut you on price as soon as they hear about your&lt;br /&gt;book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind that the above pricing strategy is&lt;br /&gt;temporary. Eventually, you will cease to sell books at&lt;br /&gt;this high price. So figure out in advance how long you&lt;br /&gt;plan to offer your ebook at this high price, and when&lt;br /&gt;that time is up, change your pricing strategy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marketing Strategies!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key that unlocks the sales potential of your ebook&lt;br /&gt;is to find a single sentence that becomes your selling&lt;br /&gt;handle. This sentence states what question or problem&lt;br /&gt;your book answers and the benefits your ebook can&lt;br /&gt;provide. Then be sure to use that sentence in every&lt;br /&gt;piece of sales and promotional material, and every&lt;br /&gt;time anyone asks you about your ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides promoting your books assiduously online, there&lt;br /&gt;are several other strategies that can help you sell&lt;br /&gt;more books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One is to give something away for free with your book,&lt;br /&gt;such as a valuable bonus item. Or bundle several&lt;br /&gt;ebooks under one price, which lowers the price for&lt;br /&gt;each ebook if they were sold separately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another strategy is to test out prices by creating a&lt;br /&gt;number of duplicate sales pages with different prices&lt;br /&gt;on each page. Make sure your sales copy is exactly the&lt;br /&gt;same on every page, and includes your selling-handle&lt;br /&gt;sentence. Then figure out for each page the conversion&lt;br /&gt;ratio between visitors to your site and sales of your&lt;br /&gt;book. This will tell you what your optimum price is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, if you've written a book that solves a&lt;br /&gt;problem or presents a new technique, your book will&lt;br /&gt;bring in both traffic and profits. So be sure to write&lt;br /&gt;that selling-handle sentence that sums up what problem&lt;br /&gt;your book solves and what the benefits of your book&lt;br /&gt;will be to the customers who purchase it. And then&lt;br /&gt;watch your market come to you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5320346137220136146?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5320346137220136146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5320346137220136146' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5320346137220136146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5320346137220136146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-price-your-ebook.html' title='How to Price Your eBook!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4507473145751999020</id><published>2007-05-09T17:35:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T17:41:08.465+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>Choosing an eBook Compiler!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;What is an eBook compiler?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You've written and revised your ebook, hired an artist&lt;br /&gt;who has produced outstanding graphics, and now you're&lt;br /&gt;ready to actually put together your ebook. What you&lt;br /&gt;need to make an ebook is software called an ebook&lt;br /&gt;Compiler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many different compilers to chose from, but&lt;br /&gt;first, you need to know exactly what an ebook Compiler&lt;br /&gt;does. Here is the simple explanation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An ebook compiler is a software program that converts&lt;br /&gt;either text pages or HTML text into a single&lt;br /&gt;executable file or an ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you or someone you hired has created a file with&lt;br /&gt;graphics in HTML, you will need an HTML ebook&lt;br /&gt;Compiler. This type of compiler requires a working&lt;br /&gt;knowledge of the HTML tag language. You can also use&lt;br /&gt;software to do this for you, such as Microsoft&lt;br /&gt;FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you choose an eBook Compiler?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a large number of ebook Compilers available&lt;br /&gt;on the market. It can get very confusing and overwhelming&lt;br /&gt;very fast without some simple guidelines to help you&lt;br /&gt;figure out which compiler is right for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing an ebook Compiler depends on a number of&lt;br /&gt;factors:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. How did you create your pages? Did you use HTML or&lt;br /&gt;PDF format? There are many more compilers available&lt;br /&gt;for HTML, but you can find some very good compilers&lt;br /&gt;that will covert your PDF files into an ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Consider how easy the program is to use and the&lt;br /&gt;thoroughness of the software's instruction manual. It&lt;br /&gt;is absolutely necessary that the compiler you buy have&lt;br /&gt;an instructional manual, documentation, or online&lt;br /&gt;"wizards." If it doesn't, your chances of figuring out&lt;br /&gt;how to correctly use the program are compromised, and&lt;br /&gt;the time required doing so is going to be significant.&lt;br /&gt;Many manufacturers of compilers offer a free trial&lt;br /&gt;version so you can play around with it and see if it&lt;br /&gt;suits your needs. Download the trial version and&lt;br /&gt;ascertain that it actually does what it claims to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Security features. If you plan to sell your ebook,&lt;br /&gt;check out the security features of the compiler&lt;br /&gt;software carefully. Security features should include:&lt;br /&gt;prevention of the reader from modifying text, access&lt;br /&gt;only to the pages you assign or by entering a&lt;br /&gt;password, different ways of generating passwords such&lt;br /&gt;as secure passwords, user-friendly, and open&lt;br /&gt;passwords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Supported scripting. Find out what scripts the&lt;br /&gt;software supports. Scripting allows you to create&lt;br /&gt;special effects, customize menus, and create and&lt;br /&gt;modify other user interactivity. Choose a compiler&lt;br /&gt;that permits you to include graphics, search windows,&lt;br /&gt;hyperlinks, forms, surveys, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Pricing. This is a factor that is not always easy&lt;br /&gt;to gauge. The highest priced compilers are not&lt;br /&gt;automatically your best choice. Choose your compiler&lt;br /&gt;based on the necessary requirements for your Ebook.&lt;br /&gt;That means you need to know exactly how you plan to&lt;br /&gt;use your Ebook and what functions you require.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's look at some of these factors in more detail.&lt;br /&gt;First of all, make sure you have the correct browser&lt;br /&gt;to run the compiler. The majority of HTML compilers&lt;br /&gt;use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape. Check out&lt;br /&gt;the version that the compiler supports. Compilers that&lt;br /&gt;require a browser will not run on a computer that does&lt;br /&gt;not have the required browser installed. However,&lt;br /&gt;there are ebook HTML compilers that don't require you&lt;br /&gt;to have any browser installed on your computer. These&lt;br /&gt;compilers run on any Windows system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you choose a compiler that requires a browser,&lt;br /&gt;check to ascertain that the browser is installed&lt;br /&gt;correctly and that it is properly configured to the&lt;br /&gt;specifications of the compiler. Check to see if&lt;br /&gt;certain functions are turned off or on, and make any&lt;br /&gt;adjustments according to the compiler instructions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security is an essential element of any compiler,&lt;br /&gt;regardless of whether you plan to sell or give away&lt;br /&gt;your ebook. One of the main reasons for using a&lt;br /&gt;compiler is to prevent the reader from modifying the&lt;br /&gt;contents. A secure compiler allows access only to the&lt;br /&gt;pages you want the user to access unless they enter a&lt;br /&gt;correct password.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find out how secure an ebook HTML compiler is, open&lt;br /&gt;an ebook on it. While it is open, check the temporary&lt;br /&gt;directory of your computer. This can usually be&lt;br /&gt;accessed by typing in C:\Windows\temp. If you see a&lt;br /&gt;bunch of files when your ebook is open or running, it&lt;br /&gt;means that your computer is decompressing the secure&lt;br /&gt;data from your ebook before showing the ebook to the&lt;br /&gt;viewer. This method is not secure! It means that&lt;br /&gt;anyone with the knowledge of how to access these&lt;br /&gt;temporary files can steal the secure data and then&lt;br /&gt;they can fiddle with your ebook to their evil heart's&lt;br /&gt;desire. Remember, one of the main purposes of buying&lt;br /&gt;and using an HTML compiler is to protect your&lt;br /&gt;property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, let's discuss passwords. When trying to choose&lt;br /&gt;an ebook Compiler, check out the type of passwords&lt;br /&gt;that the compiler supports. Almost all compilers offer&lt;br /&gt;some kind of password protection that insures that the&lt;br /&gt;user can only access the contents they have purchased&lt;br /&gt;from you. However, the best compilers offer varied&lt;br /&gt;ways to generate different types of passwords. Choose&lt;br /&gt;a compiler that gives you the options of secure,&lt;br /&gt;user-friendly, and open password generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another important factor when it comes to passwords is&lt;br /&gt;how the compiler generates them. A compiler that has&lt;br /&gt;internal password protection generation built into the&lt;br /&gt;software is more secure than compilers that link to&lt;br /&gt;live Internet password control systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find out if the compiler generates passwords online.&lt;br /&gt;If it has this option, it allows you to choose any&lt;br /&gt;payment processing system you want or to do the&lt;br /&gt;payment processing yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, look into the size of ebook the compiler&lt;br /&gt;supports. The best compilers can create ebooks up to 2&lt;br /&gt;GB in size without decompressing the HTML pages or&lt;br /&gt;images to your hard disk. Usually, ebooks that are 2&lt;br /&gt;GB in size can easily support 6 GB of compressed data.&lt;br /&gt;The catch here is that only text files will generally&lt;br /&gt;be compressible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You do not want a compiler that decompresses this&lt;br /&gt;amount of data when the user attempts to open your&lt;br /&gt;ebook. This would mean that anyone who purchases your&lt;br /&gt;ebook will have to wait for all the data to decompress&lt;br /&gt;before they can access your ebook right after&lt;br /&gt;downloading it. So look for compilers that only&lt;br /&gt;decompress temporarily files that are NOT HTML to the&lt;br /&gt;local hardisk. Non-HTML files include Flash, Word, and&lt;br /&gt;Acrobat files. This type of compiler is more secure&lt;br /&gt;and certainly faster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sure the compiler you choose is compatible with&lt;br /&gt;your system software. Check out what version of&lt;br /&gt;Windows it requires, and make sure you have that&lt;br /&gt;version before buying your compiler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Support issues are extremely important. Choose a&lt;br /&gt;compiler that includes an installation program. This&lt;br /&gt;program allows your user to choose a number of&lt;br /&gt;different places on their computer to install the&lt;br /&gt;ebook, to place a shortcut on their desktop, and to&lt;br /&gt;add the ebook, if they choose, to the Start Programs&lt;br /&gt;menu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You also want excellent and accessible vendor support.&lt;br /&gt;Make sure you can access quick technical support! At&lt;br /&gt;three o'clock in the morning, this factor will be VERY&lt;br /&gt;important. Also, check to see the terms of free&lt;br /&gt;technical support offered. Unlimited technical support&lt;br /&gt;is obviously the best option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check to see if the company that puts out the compiler&lt;br /&gt;software offers a service level agreement. This&lt;br /&gt;agreement is to assure you of their quality response&lt;br /&gt;to your questions or problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good thing to consider is how long the compiler has&lt;br /&gt;been on the market. Usually, the version number will&lt;br /&gt;give you an idea. The longer the program is on the&lt;br /&gt;market, the higher the version number, the more bugs&lt;br /&gt;have been worked out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When choosing an ebook compiler, do not be swayed by&lt;br /&gt;incredible promises and dazzling sales copy. Do your&lt;br /&gt;homework first, and then consider all the above issues&lt;br /&gt;and factors before choosing an ebook compiler.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4507473145751999020?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4507473145751999020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4507473145751999020' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4507473145751999020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4507473145751999020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/choosing-ebook-compiler.html' title='Choosing an eBook Compiler!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3464912866266846306</id><published>2007-05-07T15:39:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T15:41:01.252+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>How to Use ebooks for Marketing and Promotion!</title><content type='html'>There are innumerable ways to use ebooks to promote&lt;br /&gt;your business and drive quality traffic to your&lt;br /&gt;website. Once posted on your site, you can turn them&lt;br /&gt;into a daily course, which brings your customer back&lt;br /&gt;to read the next chapter. You can use them as a free&lt;br /&gt;gift for making a purchase or for filling out a&lt;br /&gt;survey. Put your ebook on a disc, and you will have an&lt;br /&gt;innovative brochure. Blow your competition away by&lt;br /&gt;inserting the disc into your sales packages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most effective marketing products are those that&lt;br /&gt;are unique. Copyright your ebook, and immediately, you&lt;br /&gt;have a powerful tool that you, and you alone, can&lt;br /&gt;offer to the public. People will have to visit your&lt;br /&gt;site to acquire your ebook, which increases the flow&lt;br /&gt;of quality traffic and the potential of sales and&lt;br /&gt;affiliate contacts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sure that you keep your ebook current. Update it&lt;br /&gt;frequently as the market and trends change. Add new&lt;br /&gt;advice and techniques to show your prospects how your&lt;br /&gt;goods or services can enrich their lives. By&lt;br /&gt;constantly keeping abreast of new trends and&lt;br /&gt;techniques, you can continue to see profits from your&lt;br /&gt;ebook for years after your original creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another phenomenal advantage of ebooks is that you can&lt;br /&gt;test their marketing potential without putting out&lt;br /&gt;hardly any cash at all. You can even produce an ebook&lt;br /&gt;one copy at a time, each time you receive an order,&lt;br /&gt;eliminating the need for storage and inventory. By&lt;br /&gt;this method, you can gauge the saleablity of your&lt;br /&gt;ebook, and make adjustments as necessary until the&lt;br /&gt;orders start pouring in. Ebooks allow you to learn&lt;br /&gt;about your market and customer habits and motivation&lt;br /&gt;over a period of time, without risking your precious&lt;br /&gt;financial resources. They also provide you with an&lt;br /&gt;invaluable way to gather marketing information, which&lt;br /&gt;you can use in many different facets of your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use your ebook to discover what the specific goals and&lt;br /&gt;problems are in your specific industry. Then figure&lt;br /&gt;out how to solve these problems, and publish an ebook&lt;br /&gt;with this invaluable information. This will increase&lt;br /&gt;the value of your business, upgrade your reputation,&lt;br /&gt;and get you known as an expert in your field.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can extend the value of single ebook by breaking&lt;br /&gt;the book down into chapters for a serial course, into&lt;br /&gt;special reports available on your website, or into&lt;br /&gt;audio or visual tapes. Ebooks can be broken down into&lt;br /&gt;several different promotional materials by excepting&lt;br /&gt;some of the articles and using them to promote your&lt;br /&gt;product. You can include a catalog in your ebook to&lt;br /&gt;promote all the products or services you sell. You can&lt;br /&gt;include a thank-you note for reading your book and an&lt;br /&gt;invitation to download a trial version of your&lt;br /&gt;product. Or you can include a form for your audience&lt;br /&gt;to contact you for further information or with&lt;br /&gt;questions, thereby building your business&lt;br /&gt;relationships and your mailing list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using ebooks in this manner helps to cut the cost of&lt;br /&gt;individually producing separate promotional materials.&lt;br /&gt;You can use a single ebook to entice new prospects and&lt;br /&gt;to sell new products to your current customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No other medium has this kind of flexibility and&lt;br /&gt;ability for expansion. Think of your ebook like a&lt;br /&gt;spider spinning a beautiful and intricate web. Now go&lt;br /&gt;and create that web, and see how many customers and&lt;br /&gt;prospects you can catch!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3464912866266846306?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3464912866266846306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3464912866266846306' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3464912866266846306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3464912866266846306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-use-ebooks-for-marketing-and.html' title='How to Use ebooks for Marketing and Promotion!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-8706498834311902416</id><published>2007-05-06T19:38:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-06T19:40:50.977+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>Why Write an eBook?</title><content type='html'>It's not true that everything that has been said has&lt;br /&gt;already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom&lt;br /&gt;came into use, the whole universe has changed.&lt;br /&gt;Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and the&lt;br /&gt;mindsets of entire nations have changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is that this is the perfect time to write an&lt;br /&gt;ebook. What the publishing industry needs are people&lt;br /&gt;who can tap into the world as it is today - innovative&lt;br /&gt;thinkers who can make the leap into the new millennium&lt;br /&gt;and figure out how to solve old problems in a new way.&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks are a new and powerful tool for original&lt;br /&gt;thinkers with fresh ideas to disseminate information&lt;br /&gt;to the millions of people who are struggling to figure&lt;br /&gt;out how to do a plethora of different things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's say you already have a brilliant idea, and the&lt;br /&gt;knowledge to back it up that will enable you to write&lt;br /&gt;an exceptional ebook. You may be sitting at your&lt;br /&gt;computer staring at a blank screen wondering, "Why?&lt;br /&gt;Why should I go through all the trouble of writing my&lt;br /&gt;ebook when it's so impossible to get anything&lt;br /&gt;published these days?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, let me assure you that publishing an ebook is&lt;br /&gt;entirely different than publishing a book in print.&lt;br /&gt;Let's look at the specifics of how the print and cyber&lt;br /&gt;publishing industry differ, and the many reasons why&lt;br /&gt;you should take the plunge and get your fingers&lt;br /&gt;tapping across those keyboards!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Submitting a print book to conventional publishing&lt;br /&gt;houses or to agents is similar to wearing a hair shirt&lt;br /&gt;24/7. No matter how good your book actually is, or how&lt;br /&gt;many critique services and mentor writers have told&lt;br /&gt;you that "you've got what it takes," your submitted&lt;br /&gt;manuscript keeps coming back to you as if it is a&lt;br /&gt;boomerang instead of a valuable mine of information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps, in desperation, you've checked out&lt;br /&gt;self-publishing and found out just how expensive a&lt;br /&gt;venture it can be. Most "vanity presses" require&lt;br /&gt;minimal print runs of at least 500 copies, and even&lt;br /&gt;that amount will cost you thousands of dollars. Some&lt;br /&gt;presses' minimal run starts at 1,000 to 2,000 copies.&lt;br /&gt;And that's just for the printing and binding. Add in&lt;br /&gt;distribution, shipping, and promotional costs and -&lt;br /&gt;well, you do the math. Even if you wanted to go this&lt;br /&gt;route, you may not have that kind of money to risk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's say you already have an Internet business with a&lt;br /&gt;quality website and a quality product. An ebook is one&lt;br /&gt;of the most powerful ways to promote your business&lt;br /&gt;while educating people with the knowledge you already&lt;br /&gt;possess as a business owner of a specific product or&lt;br /&gt;service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, let's say that you've spent the last&lt;br /&gt;twenty-five years growing and training bonsai trees,&lt;br /&gt;and now you're ready to share your knowledge and&lt;br /&gt;experience. An ebook is the perfect way to reach the&lt;br /&gt;largest audience of bonsai enthusiasts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks will not only promote your business - they will&lt;br /&gt;help you make a name for yourself and your company,&lt;br /&gt;and establish you as an expert in your field. You may&lt;br /&gt;even find that you have enough to say to warrant a&lt;br /&gt;series of ebooks. Specific businesses are complicated&lt;br /&gt;and often require the different aspects to be divided&lt;br /&gt;in order for the reader to get the full story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps your goals are more finely tuned in terms of&lt;br /&gt;the ebook scene. You may want to build a whole&lt;br /&gt;business around writing and publishing ebooks.&lt;br /&gt;Essentially, you want to start an e-business. You are&lt;br /&gt;thinking of setting up a website to promote and market&lt;br /&gt;your ebooks. Maybe you're even thinking of producing&lt;br /&gt;an ezine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most prevalent reasons people read ebooks&lt;br /&gt;is to find information about how to turn their&lt;br /&gt;Internet businesses into a profit-making machine. And&lt;br /&gt;these people are looking to the writers of ebooks to&lt;br /&gt;provide them with new ideas and strategies because&lt;br /&gt;writers of ebooks are usually people who understand&lt;br /&gt;the new cyberspace world we now live in. Ebook writers&lt;br /&gt;are experts in Internet marketing campaigns and the&lt;br /&gt;strategies of promoting and distributing ebooks. The&lt;br /&gt;cyberspace community needs its ebooks to be successful&lt;br /&gt;so that more and more ebooks will be written.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may want to create affiliate programs that will&lt;br /&gt;also market your ebook. Affiliates can be people or&lt;br /&gt;businesses worldwide that will all be working to sell&lt;br /&gt;your ebooks. Think about this? Do you see a formula&lt;br /&gt;for success here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Figure out what your subject matter is, and then&lt;br /&gt;narrow it down. Your goal is to aim for specificity.&lt;br /&gt;Research what's out there already, and try to find a&lt;br /&gt;void that your ebook might fill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't have to have three masters degrees to write&lt;br /&gt;about your subject. People need advice that is easy to&lt;br /&gt;read and easily understood. Parents need advice for&lt;br /&gt;dealing with their teenagers. College students need to&lt;br /&gt;learn good study skills - quickly. The possibilities&lt;br /&gt;are endless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After you've writtten your ebook!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting your ebook out is going to be your focus once&lt;br /&gt;you've finished writing it, just as it is with print&lt;br /&gt;books. People will hesitate to buy any book from an&lt;br /&gt;author they've never heard of. Wouldn't you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer is simple: give it away! You will see&lt;br /&gt;profits in the form of promoting your own business and&lt;br /&gt;getting your name out. You will find affiliates who&lt;br /&gt;will ask you to place their links within your ebook,&lt;br /&gt;and these affiliates will in turn go out and make your&lt;br /&gt;name known. Almost every single famous ebook author&lt;br /&gt;has started out this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another powerful tool to attract people to your ebook&lt;br /&gt;is to make it interactive. Invent something for them&lt;br /&gt;to do within the book rather than just producing pages&lt;br /&gt;that contain static text. Let your readers fill out&lt;br /&gt;questionnaires, forms, even crossword puzzles geared&lt;br /&gt;to testing their knowledge on a particular subject.&lt;br /&gt;Have your readers hit a link that will allow them to&lt;br /&gt;recommend your book to their friends and associates.&lt;br /&gt;Or include an actual order form so at the end of their&lt;br /&gt;reading journey, they can eagerly buy your product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When people interact with books, they become a part of&lt;br /&gt;the world of that book. The fact is just as true for&lt;br /&gt;books in print as it is for ebooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why ebooks are so essential. Not only do they&lt;br /&gt;provide a forum for people to learn and make sense of&lt;br /&gt;their own thoughts, but they can also serve to promote&lt;br /&gt;your business at the same time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-8706498834311902416?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/8706498834311902416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=8706498834311902416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8706498834311902416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/8706498834311902416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-write-ebook.html' title='Why Write an eBook?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-6334945619065345111</id><published>2007-05-04T20:10:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-04T20:12:09.478+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>How to Write an Ebook!</title><content type='html'>The hardest part of writing is the first sentence.&lt;br /&gt;When you look at the whole project, it seems like an&lt;br /&gt;impossible task. That's why you have to break it down&lt;br /&gt;into manageable tasks. Think of climbing a mountain.&lt;br /&gt;You are standing at the foot of it and looking up at&lt;br /&gt;its summit vanishing into the clouds. How can you&lt;br /&gt;possibly scale such an immense and dangerous mountain?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one way to climb a mountain ? step by&lt;br /&gt;step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now think of writing your ebook in the same light. You&lt;br /&gt;must create it step by step, and one day, you will&lt;br /&gt;take that last step and find yourself standing on the&lt;br /&gt;summit with your head in the clouds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing you have to do, as if you actually&lt;br /&gt;were a mountain climber, is to get organized. Instead&lt;br /&gt;of climbing gear, however, you must organize your&lt;br /&gt;thoughts. There are some steps you should take before&lt;br /&gt;you begin. Once you've gone through the following&lt;br /&gt;list, you will be ready to actually begin writing your&lt;br /&gt;ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beginning Steps to Writing an ebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, figure out your ebook's working title. Jot down&lt;br /&gt;a few different titles, and eventually, you'll find&lt;br /&gt;that one that will grow on you. Titles help you to&lt;br /&gt;focus your writing on your topic; they guide you in&lt;br /&gt;anticipating and answering your reader's queries. Many&lt;br /&gt;non-fiction books also have subtitles. Aim for clarity&lt;br /&gt;in your titles, but cleverness always helps to sell&lt;br /&gt;books ? as long as it's not too cute. For example,&lt;br /&gt;Remedies for Insomnia: twenty different ways to count&lt;br /&gt;sheep. Or: Get off that couch: fifteen exercise plans&lt;br /&gt;to whip you into shape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, write out a thesis statement. Your thesis is a&lt;br /&gt;sentence or two stating exactly what problem you are&lt;br /&gt;addressing and how your book will solve that problem.&lt;br /&gt;All chapters spring forth from your thesis statement.&lt;br /&gt;Once you've got your thesis statement fine-tuned,&lt;br /&gt;you've built your foundation. From that foundation,&lt;br /&gt;your book will grow, chapter by chapter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your thesis will keep you focused while you write your&lt;br /&gt;ebook. Remember: all chapters must support your thesis&lt;br /&gt;statement. If they don't, they don't belong in your&lt;br /&gt;book. For example, your thesis statement could read:&lt;br /&gt;We've all experienced insomnia at times in our lives,&lt;br /&gt;but there are twenty proven techniques and methods to&lt;br /&gt;give you back a good night's sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you have your thesis, before you start to write,&lt;br /&gt;make sure there is a good reason to write your book.&lt;br /&gt;Ask yourself some questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Does your book present useful information and is&lt;br /&gt;that information currently relevant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Will you book positively affect the lives of your&lt;br /&gt;readers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Is your book dynamic and will it keep the reader's&lt;br /&gt;attention?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Does you book answer questions that are meaningful&lt;br /&gt;and significant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can answer yes to these questions, you can feel&lt;br /&gt;confident about the potential of your ebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another important step is to figure out who your&lt;br /&gt;target audience is. It is this group of people you&lt;br /&gt;will be writing to, and this group will dictate many&lt;br /&gt;elements of your book, such as style, tone, diction,&lt;br /&gt;and even length. Figure out the age range of your&lt;br /&gt;readers, their general gender, what they are most&lt;br /&gt;interested in, and even the socio-economic group they&lt;br /&gt;primarily come from. Are they people who read fashion&lt;br /&gt;magazines or book reviews? Do they write letters in&lt;br /&gt;longhand or spend hours every day online. The more you&lt;br /&gt;can pin down your target audience, the easier it will&lt;br /&gt;be to write your book for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, make a list of the reasons you are writing your&lt;br /&gt;ebook. Do you want to promote your business? Do you&lt;br /&gt;want to bring quality traffic to your website? Do you&lt;br /&gt;want to enhance your reputation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then write down your goals in terms of publishing. Do&lt;br /&gt;you want to sell it as a product on your website, or&lt;br /&gt;do you want to offer it as a free gift for filling out&lt;br /&gt;a survey or for ordering a product? Do you want to use&lt;br /&gt;the chapters to create an e-course, or use your ebook&lt;br /&gt;to attract affiliates around the world? The more you&lt;br /&gt;know upfront, the easier the actual writing will be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decide on the format of your chapters. In non-fiction,&lt;br /&gt;keep the format from chapter to chapter fairly&lt;br /&gt;consistent. Perhaps you plan to use an introduction to&lt;br /&gt;your chapter topic, and then divide it into four&lt;br /&gt;subhead topics. Or you may plan to divide it into five&lt;br /&gt;parts, each one beginning with a relevant anecdote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to make your ebook "user friendly"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must figure out how to keep your writing engaging.&lt;br /&gt;Often anecdotes, testimonials, little stories, photos,&lt;br /&gt;graphs, advice, and tips will keep the reader turning&lt;br /&gt;the pages. Sidebars are useful for quick, accessible&lt;br /&gt;information, and they break up the density of the&lt;br /&gt;page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write with a casual, conversational tone rather than a&lt;br /&gt;formal tone such as textbook diction. Reader's respond&lt;br /&gt;to the feeling that you are having a conversation with&lt;br /&gt;them. Break up the length and structure of your&lt;br /&gt;sentences so you don?t hypnotize your readers into&lt;br /&gt;sleep. Sentences that are all the same length and&lt;br /&gt;structure tend to be a good aid for insomnia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good writing takes practice. It takes lots and lots of&lt;br /&gt;practice. Make a schedule to write at least a page a&lt;br /&gt;day. Read books and magazines about the process of&lt;br /&gt;writing, and jot down tips that jump out at you. The&lt;br /&gt;art of writing is a lifetime process; the more you&lt;br /&gt;write (and read), the better your writing will become.&lt;br /&gt;The better your writing becomes, the bigger your sales&lt;br /&gt;figures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an ebook that is read on the screen, be aware that&lt;br /&gt;you must give your reader's eye a break. You can do&lt;br /&gt;this by utilizing white space. In art classes, white&lt;br /&gt;space is usually referred to as "negative space."&lt;br /&gt;Reader's eyes need to rest in the cool white oasises&lt;br /&gt;you create on your page. If your page is too dense,&lt;br /&gt;your reader will quit out of it as soon as their eyes&lt;br /&gt;begin to tear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make use of lists, both bulleted and numbered. This&lt;br /&gt;makes your information easy to absorb, and gives the&lt;br /&gt;reader a mental break from dissecting your paragraphs&lt;br /&gt;one after the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, decide on an easy-to-read design. Find a font&lt;br /&gt;that's easy on the eyes, and stick to that font&lt;br /&gt;family. Using dozens of fonts will only tire your&lt;br /&gt;readers out before they've gotten past your&lt;br /&gt;introduction. Use at least one and a half line&lt;br /&gt;spacing, and text large enough to be read easily on&lt;br /&gt;the screen, but small enough so that the whole page&lt;br /&gt;can be seen on a computer screen. You will have to&lt;br /&gt;experiment with this to find the right combination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, don't forget to run a spell and grammar&lt;br /&gt;check. You are judged by something as minor as correct&lt;br /&gt;punctuation, so don?t mess up a great book by tossing&lt;br /&gt;out semicolons randomly, or stringing sentences&lt;br /&gt;together with commas. (By the way, that's called a&lt;br /&gt;"comma splice.")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last of all, create an index and a bibliography.&lt;br /&gt;That's it! You've written a book! Now all you have to&lt;br /&gt;do is publish your ebook online, and wait for download&lt;br /&gt;request from your website visitors.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-6334945619065345111?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/6334945619065345111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=6334945619065345111' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6334945619065345111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/6334945619065345111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-write-ebook.html' title='How to Write an Ebook!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3867166773670010792</id><published>2007-05-03T17:41:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T17:42:49.118+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBooks'/><title type='text'>What are ebooks?</title><content type='html'>An ebook is an electronic format of a regular book.&lt;br /&gt;The only difference between a regular book and an ebook &lt;br /&gt;is that ebooks are not printed on paper. Ebooks are &lt;br /&gt;published in a large variety of electronic file formats &lt;br /&gt;and can therefore be acquired in formats appropriate for &lt;br /&gt;all hardware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace.&lt;br /&gt;They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing&lt;br /&gt;information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;Each day the number of people accessing the Internet&lt;br /&gt;grows, causing the exposure of your ebook to increase&lt;br /&gt;incrementally. It's obvious why electronic&lt;br /&gt;self-publishing has become so popular so quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The publishing industry, I hope, does not intend to&lt;br /&gt;forever banish the printed word to the dustbin of&lt;br /&gt;history. Books in print have their own special&lt;br /&gt;qualities and merits, and the world would be&lt;br /&gt;diminished by their disappearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, let's look at what makes ebooks so&lt;br /&gt;important and so unique. Ebooks have certain abilities&lt;br /&gt;and qualities that other mediums do not possess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks can be downloaded in a matter of minutes depending &lt;br /&gt;on the size of the file and your internet speed. Ebooks &lt;br /&gt;come in all different sizes, depending on the length of &lt;br /&gt;the book and the number of images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks are easily and rapidly distributed online. They &lt;br /&gt;are also easily updated; they do not require a second &lt;br /&gt;print run. All you need is to go into your original &lt;br /&gt;creation and modify the text or graphics. Because of &lt;br /&gt;this flexibility, ebooks can change and grow as fast &lt;br /&gt;as you can type.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebooks are also immediately obtainable. You don't have&lt;br /&gt;to go to a bookstore or search through endless titles&lt;br /&gt;at an online bookstore. All you have to do is download&lt;br /&gt;it from a website, and presto. It's on your computer,&lt;br /&gt;ready to be read.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3867166773670010792?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3867166773670010792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3867166773670010792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3867166773670010792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3867166773670010792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-are-ebooks.html' title='What are ebooks?'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-9207141874318782377</id><published>2007-05-02T19:29:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T19:41:07.135+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>Registering As An eBay Seller!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Starting an account on eBay is a simple process, and even better, it's free!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Just go to www.ebay.com, click on "Register Now"!&lt;br /&gt;eBay will ask you for a valid email address. Almost everyone has an email address. If you use a free email service, eBay will require credit card information from you in order to validate your identity. eBay's registration is free, so you won't be charged.&lt;br /&gt;You'll need to create an eBay ID. Your potential customers are going to see this name every single time they look at one of your postings. &lt;br /&gt;You'll be prompted to create a password, and also to choose a "secret question" that eBay will ask you in case you forget your password.&lt;br /&gt;You'll be asked for your date of birth, just to make sure that you're of legal age to do business on eBay. &lt;br /&gt;You'll be asked to agree to eBay's User Agreement. Read it before checking the "I Agree" button. eBay will now send a verification email to the email address you gave them, and you must click on a link inside that email in order to finish the signup process. &lt;br /&gt;You're now ready to post items on eBay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-9207141874318782377?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/9207141874318782377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=9207141874318782377' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/9207141874318782377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/9207141874318782377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/registering-as-ebay-seller.html' title='Registering As An eBay Seller!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-874469410903175491</id><published>2007-05-01T18:02:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-05-01T18:15:05.994+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>The Pros And Cons In Establishing An Ebay Store!</title><content type='html'>Ebay has provided some amazing opportunities for many people to earn online.  This widely popular auction site has become the primary destination for users who wish to purchase anything – ranging from tangible products to digital items – hence making eBay a website visited by millions of people every day.  Because of the volume of transactions happening in its pages, eBay has also become a virtual market place where thousands, if not millions, of dollars exchange hands on a daily basis as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you want a piece of that big, big pie?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you must first have to establish an eBay store.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, this is not a strong recommendation.  This article is not meant as a sales pitch for a membership with eBay, rather, it seeks to present the advantages and disadvantages of building your own eBay store.  You must remember that eBay isn’t the only place where you could peddle your goods.  It is a good place where you could sell your items, but there are other alternatives you could consider.  Should you settle with eBay?  Or should you explore the alternative options?  Let’s study the matter more closely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are most certainly a lot of benefits that could be gained from establishing your own eBay store.  Let’s take a look at them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* You’d be able to sell in a hotly visited environment.  You’ll be able to expose your products to a wide array of prospects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* A Featured Store would also deliver some advanced reports for your auctions.  You could use the statistics delineated therein to improve the way you construct your sales pages, and the way you present your items for better efficiency in your future offers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* A Featured Store will also allow you more eBay pages, which would mean more exposure for your products.  It’s still a numbers game.  The more auctions you have running, the more earning opportunities you could capitalize on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* A Featured Store would allow you to reduce the size of the eBay banner appearing in your every auction.  This would give you the chance to work on your page and bring the focus of your visitors to the items you will be selling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Ebay provides a certain level of seller protection and dispute resolution for potential problems you might encounter with your buyers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though these are great advantages for your online business, please bear in mind that they do not come without cost.  There are also other disadvantages that are attached to having your own eBay store.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Having your own eBay store would pressure you to perform well when it comes to your sales.  Though some may consider this as a benefit since such will motivate the seller to plan his course of action, the dangers will be experienced when you fail to earn enough profit to cover the cost of your subscription.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* People go to eBay expecting the best deals in the online market.  You have to compete at this level, otherwise, the moment people would see the going rate for your auction, they’d immediately hop to the next item up for sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* You’d be bound by eBay’s selling policies.  You cannot go around some of these restrictive policies, otherwise, you account can get suspended, or worse, terminated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Establishing an eBay store is a solid choice for a business model.  But you have to determine your goals as well as your marketing plan.  Would an eBay store help you accomplish them?  Or would selling your own goods in your own website be better for your online business?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The choice is yours.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-874469410903175491?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/874469410903175491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=874469410903175491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/874469410903175491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/874469410903175491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/pros-and-cons-in-establishing-ebay.html' title='The Pros And Cons In Establishing An Ebay Store!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-4012028371711959090</id><published>2007-04-30T18:11:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T18:21:31.538+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>Ebay Secret: Finding A Drop Shipper!</title><content type='html'>Drop shipping involves a contact with a wholesaler, known as a drop shipper.  The drop shipper would offer some items for wholesale prices.  The clincher?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are a couple of them, actually:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. You’d get to purchase these items at wholesale prices even if you’re going to get them per piece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The drop shipper will take care of shipping the item to the designated location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You won’t have to buy items for resale.  You won’t have to create items for your offers.  You just need a relationship with a drop shipper, select from his selection of products, and market the same at eBay.  You could place your own markup.  And you wouldn’t have to worry about storage space or shipping.  Better yet, you wouldn’t be too pressured to make a sale, as your items aren’t technically in stock, rather, they’re with the drop shipper who will be awaiting your word as when to deliver the same to the winning bidder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, here’s what is of the essence.  Where could you find drop shippers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s an important piece of advice: forget about offers that promise to provide a list of drop shippers.  More often than not, these lists contain outdated information, dead links and even fabricated entities.  This is a fact that has been confirmed by eBay itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s a fact that you should know: 80% of manufacturers would be more than happy to do some drop shipping for you.  Whereas a couple of years ago, drop shipping was a novel approach to selling items online, nowadays, manufacturers have realized that drop shipping can be an effective evolution of the direct selling model.  It’s easier to look for drop shippers today than it was a couple of years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing you have to learn is how to focus.  What do you want to sell, exactly?  Have you researched the market for it?  Is it a profitable market?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second step should entail researching appropriate products for the market you have chosen.  What are available for the same?  What, among these choices, do you want to sell?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that remains to be done is to pinpoint specific manufacturers based from the list you have prepared, and contacting them individually.  Ask them if drop shipping is among the services they could offer for willing partners.  Chances are, you will get an affirmative reply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bottom line is this: drop shipping can make your eBay business more profitable and more convenient.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-4012028371711959090?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/4012028371711959090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=4012028371711959090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4012028371711959090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/4012028371711959090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/04/ebay-secret-finding-drop-shipper.html' title='Ebay Secret: Finding A Drop Shipper!'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-5371264125060954680</id><published>2007-04-29T16:40:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T16:54:54.843+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>How Ebay Sellers Can Protect Themselves From Auction Scams.</title><content type='html'>Are you an eBay seller?  If you have been conducting your business in this widely popular online auction site, then chances are you would’ve experienced some fraudulent activities perpetrated against your enterprise.  Scam artists are everywhere, it seems, and the sheer anonymity provided by the World Wide Web makes the virtual world a paradise for all sorts of unscrupulous folks.&lt;br /&gt;Condemning them is one thing.  But you do need to positively act on the real perils of getting scammed.  You have take some precautionary steps and adjust the way you operate your online business to minimize, if not completely eliminate, the risks that these scam artists present.&lt;br /&gt;For many of us, eBay offers great income streams that serve us well.  We must strive to protect the opportunity we have been given by being vigilant against scams and combating them through the implementation of precautionary measures for our every auction.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-5371264125060954680?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/5371264125060954680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=5371264125060954680' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5371264125060954680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/5371264125060954680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-ebay-sellers-can-protect-themselves.html' title='How Ebay Sellers Can Protect Themselves From Auction Scams.'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769363491551547560.post-3074682750959111928</id><published>2007-04-28T17:58:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2007-04-28T18:11:17.331+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eBay Auction Tips'/><title type='text'>Free Instant Auction Traffic.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Here's an easy way to get extra traffic to your eBay auctions...&lt;br /&gt;"Do you look at other people's feedback ratings?"&lt;br /&gt;You probably answered yes...&lt;br /&gt;So here's my idea:&lt;br /&gt;"Whenever you leave feedback, put your website URL in the feedback Comment"&lt;br /&gt;For example:&lt;br /&gt;“your website. com” - Excellent communication and great eBayer, highly recommended.&lt;br /&gt;You can see how the domain will *jump-out* at the reader.&lt;br /&gt;Also, when you leave feedback for your auction sales, do the same.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7769363491551547560-3074682750959111928?l=aussiesebooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/feeds/3074682750959111928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7769363491551547560&amp;postID=3074682750959111928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3074682750959111928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7769363491551547560/posts/default/3074682750959111928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aussiesebooks.blogspot.com/2007/04/free-instant-auction-traffic.html' title='Free Instant Auction Traffic.'/><author><name>Gerd Dieckelmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14357814716408582595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
