Free Downloads for EReaders

One of the greatest things about getting your new eReader is that you can now take advantage of the many free eBook downloads available on the world wide web! If you are new to the world of eReaders and eBooks then here is a quick guide to getting your hands on the books.

If You Own A Kindle

Those who own a Kindle, or are thinking of getting one, should know about the ability it has to connect to the Kindle store and download eBooks in Kindle format. These are generally priced slightly lower than physical books, though you can sort the store to display from low prices to high ones and you can find many free eBooks right there! This won’t work for those who don’t have a Kindle.

Finding Free eBook Downloads in Compatible Formats

You’ll need to check exactly which formats your particular eBook reader can support, but there should be many options for you as long as your reader supports some of the most popular formats (ePub, PDF and others).

One of the easiest places to start is with Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) or Google Books (http://books.google.com/). These provide eBooks that are completely free since their copyright has expired. This means you are free to download and enjoy them on their eReader, and many of them are even available in the popular ePub format which most of the modern eBook readers support.

Some other resources you might want to check out include:

* ManyBooks.net - providing you the same books as Gutenberg etc but in more formats.

* Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com/) - Allows you to specify the size of your reader to download PDF files that display correctly,

* Baen Free Library (http://www.webscription.net/c-1-free-library.aspx) - This is a great resource for books specifically from the Baen publishers of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

Don’t Just Stop At Free eBook Downloads!

Free eBook downloads are a great way to populate your new eReader with content, and to get some entertainment on a budget, but you should realize that all the newest titles are still in copyright and will require you to purchase them from available eBook stores.

Once you feel ready to start buying new eBooks for your device, make sure to check formats carefully and always go for compatible files. You should also follow your reader’s instructions carefully in case you are required to convert any files before they work. Happy reading!

To see MOM's full array of ebook readers, visit:
http://jphvideoventures.com/ereaders/

That's all for now - see you all on the flipper,
RD

Niche Marketing - Thinking Small for Earning Big

Continuing our series on Internet Marketing, here's the next installment .....

Ask any successful Internet marketer what the secret to online success is and you'll get a host of different answers. But dig a little deeper and almost all of them will eventually tell you that one of the big secrets is to concentrate your efforts onto a monetizable niche market. So what is niche marketing and how do you find a niche that you can make money from?

That's what this article plans to uncover for you.

A monetizable niche market is, at its simplest, that part of a crowd that is hungriest.

A hot dog stand outside a restaurant isn't likely to do much business, but put the same stand outside a cinema or theater and it will sell out. The people walking past are similar, but some are hungrier than others.

The trick to successful niche marketing is to be able to identify which parts of an audience are ready to buy and to aim all your efforts at persuading them to buy via you.

To give you an example, someone searching with the keyword 'digital camera' is certainly searching for something, but we have no real idea of their intent. The chances are that they are simply dipping a toe into the market to get some background info.

There are 134,000 searches made every day for 'digital cameras' but you could spend a huge amount of time and effort trying to grab a share of that traffic and still have little to show for it at the end.

They are lookers, not buyers.

The next step up after they have done their background research would be for them to search on a manufacturer, so 'Nikon Digital Cameras' might crop up. Is this a niche market keyword? Not yet. They are warmer, but not yet hot. They are still finding stuff out, comparing models and checking price ranges.

But they are not buyers. Not yet.

Nikon Digital Camera is a topic - and possibly a good one to base a whole site or a section of a site upon, but for our individual pages we need to focus on the niches inside the topic.

So, having decided that they like Nikon cameras more than the competition the next step - the buying step - is for them to narrow their research down even more to a particular model.

Someone who searches on 'Nikon D40 Digital Camera' is in the market to buy. They know what they want and now just need to be reassured and pointed at Amazon.

So a brand name is a niche market, but it still isn't necessarily a great niche market. The number of people searching for a term is important, but not all-important. We must also look at the number of websites we would be in competition with if we were to put in the effort to build one of our own.

A great niche market is one where there are lots of hungry, desperate-to-buy searchers, but few websites satisfying their needs.

In the Nikon D40 Digital Cameras example, there are nearly half a million pages online in competition with us - and as we want the easiest route to getting high Google rankings for the pages we build, that is way too much competition!

We are getting warmer, but it isn't hot, hot, hot quite yet!

A few more minutes work and the following products emerge: Samsung T550 Camera, Polaroid Pogo Camera and Fuji Waterproof Camera. Between them they attract over 10,000 searches per month, but none have more than 7,000 competing web pages already out there. Now that's competition we can set about beating!

Niche marketing is about getting the biggest bang for your buck, the greatest return for your effort. The skill lies in learning how to use your keyword research tools to uncover the millions of phrases people regularly type into the search engines that indicate they are in a buying mood, and to keep researching them until you find ones where there is the least amount of competition.

Then build a web page, make it as authoritative as possible, fine tune the on-page SEO to make it on-target as far as the search engines are concerned and develop the off-page SEO by building a network of backlinks. Then add monetization through affiliate links and watch as your hard work reaps its rewards.

To learn more about how to research a niche market, in detail Click Here!.

And for the ultimate stripped down and simple method of niche marketing, Click Here!

Now we're getting somewhere !!!!! 

Private Label Rights - A Money-Making Magic Wand?

In our continuing series on Internet Marketing, now we're going to discuss .....



Private Label Rights, or PLR's

To anyone outside of the world of Internet marketing, the very idea of private label rights seems a little crazy. But however silly it might sound, many people are making money from PLR articles, ebooks and software every single day.

The concept is simple: one person writes an ebook, a bunch of articles or a software program and then sells on all rights of ownership to anyone who will pay for it. Usually for a very small fee.

So why would someone write, for example, an ebook and then sell all rights to it to someone else? The answer lies in the huge number of people who understand the potential value and are ready and willing to pay for such material.

For sellers, if you can write a short ebook of 20,000 words, or a pack of ten 500-word articles and sell it to 150 different people for $10 each you will have made a tidy $1500. And still retain the right to sell it to 150 more if you can find them.

For buyers, private label can really be like magic: someone else does all the hard work in writing and then for a tiny outlay you can buy the rights to do almost anything you want with the product.

With private label ebooks, articles and software you are generally sold the rights to treat the materials as if you had created them yourself. You can use them exactly as they are, edit them, rewrite them, change the title or name, claim authorship for yourself, create new products by combining several at a time - if you can think of a use, the chances are that you can do it.

The only things you generally can't do involve posting PLR articles to article directories (because the article directories don't like it) or resell the materials with the same private label rights. You normally have resell rights, but not private label resell rights.

But all sources are different and some have fewer rules than others.

Private label rights materials are fantastic for online marketers because they give a quick and easy answer to the age old problem of finding new content for your websites and blogs. Content is the lifeblood of the Internet: your site visitors always want to see new things and the search engines positively reward you for having new content.

Private label rights makes it very cheap and easy to get fresh content that is targeted to the exact niches you need fast.

The only drawback to PLR is that there is an awful lot of bad PLR out there. The majority of what you can find is poorly written junk that has been thrown together in such a rush that it barely makes sense.

Or it has been sold and resold to thousands of people for many years.

Although the vendors of this kind of junk argue that quality is unimportant and that quantity is what counts, the reverse is actually true. The search engines are getting better all the time at working out what is good, authoritative writing and what is semi-literate filler - and you can be sure that your real life visitors can spot the rubbish a mile away.

Would you go back to a website that only offered page after page of nonsense, and would you happily click on links to reward such sites? The answer is almost certainly no.

Luckily there are some vendors of private label materials out there who aim to produce the very highest quality - both in terms of being well researched and interesting to read, and in terms of being written in good English. Those vendors are sometimes a little more expensive than average, but not always. There are a handful of membership sites that provide the very best quality articles, ebooks or software at surprisingly low prices.

As an Internet marketer, content for your web pages, blog posts, newsletters, ezines and autoresponder sequences is what drives your profits. Material to be given away as subscription incentives boosts your mailing list subscription rates and source material to be turned into videos can explode your back links count. And that's just scratching the surface of what you can do with private label materials that someone else has created for you to profit from.


If you want to learn more about PLR's and how best to get started, I highly recommend the Video course I partnered with Liz Tomey on:  http://rdhbusinessventures.com/.

Check out the offical launch of the Contestburner viral traffic system & win!

Check out the offical launch of the Contestburner viral traffic system & win!

It's what's hot right now, so don't miss your opportunity to get in on the action. More on this later.


In the meantime, lets talk traffic. I'm in the process of setting up a really simple trtaffic video course for beginners. As soon as it's up and running, I'll re-post here to let you know. It's only going to be 5 videos, so it will e short and sweet, but really informative for those of you who don't even know how to get started.

I'm doing the same for List Building, so have patience, and I will get this done.

Till next time - Dick

The Amazing Widget - a Game Changer?

'The Traffic & Income Getting Black Box'

I had to ask myself, is this all hype, or is it a true game changer?
 
The Amazing Widget claims to offer a breakthrough new way to generate 'semi autopilot' traffic and commissions,with the launch of their new Software and accompanying Blueprint.

Further, they claim to offer a dead simple way for virtually anybody to begin placing their oddly named 'Amazing Widgets' in hundreds of free spots around the web, as a foolproof way to make money on autopilot once in place.

BUT, does The Amazing Widget (AWS) live up to these claims?

My answer will definitely surprise you, with an even bigger 'viral shock' awaiting as we dig deeper. I've just invested in The Amazing Widget and so far, it's living up to its claims.

Once inside the member area, I found that what AWS offers - both in software and high quality training -truly IS a refreshing change from all the rehashes and copycat products, systems, and formulas I've been pounded with lately...

And in fact, I'd venture to say that you've never seen anything like it, either. Bryan Winters, the owner, claims that 'widget marketing' will soon become a household term among Internet marketers.

And even though that's a rather brash statement, I wouldn't be surprised by that prediction...

Just as article marketing virtually EXPLODED in the early 2000's, 'widget marketing' is poised to replace the old standby 'text article' as the ultimate high tech traffic magnet for drawing people to your online offers.

It becomes a choice between writing and submitting an article, or, placing a widget online within seconds.

While you don't have to know what a 'widget' is in order to succeed in a BIG way with the Amazing Widget System, it's basically a self contained little 'program in a box' that can be placed and shared on virtually any website,blog or social page (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)...

There are widgets that display the local weather in real time.

There are widgets that enable you to play games directly from within the widget.

There are widgets that play radio stations.

And then, there are widgets that are designed to do nothing but make you money on autopilot once placed...

More specifically, AWS's Amazing Widgets.

To the untrained eye, Amazing Widgets look like nothing more than an attractive display ad or banner ad.

It's what lurks beneath the surface that seemingly has the whole web buzzing with excitement - and this was the biggest shock of all..

AWS has a VIRAL rotation and tracking system for every Amazing Widget generated... which means that every widget you put out there is tracked, and its ads rotated with the people who join as your affiliate. AWS has an entire database devoted to this effort.

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�SIDEBAR: Yes I said 'every' Amazing Widget, being that you can choose from AWS's *1 click* Standard Widget that's instantly ready to start placing online with a built in Share Tool...
Or, quickly generate your own *Custom* Amazing Widgets ready to promote any of over 10,000 ClickBank products using their slick web based software... Fill out one quick form, and you have a new custom widget ready to place online.
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As I discovered in their video presentation and sales material, by referring others to The Amazing Widget, member-affiliates share equal traffic and commission benefits produced by the Amazing Widgets THEIR referrals create and place online!

So let's say I refer 'Joe' to AWS, and Joe starts generating and placing Amazing Widgets online like crazy using AWS's free Share Tool. My affiliate links literally rotate 50/50 within Joe's widgets, meaning I stand to make half the resulting commissions on total autopilot ('piggy back' style as they refer to it) doing nothing more than having referred Joe initially.

Now, I could be a total deadbeat and still make money with this system off the work of Joe. And what does he care? He has the same benefit from the people he refers. But I'd be a fool to sit back and do nothing, knowing that the more Amazing Widgets I place online, the more my income potential shoots up.

And what's really slick is that referrals can come easily through the Amazing Widgets I place (provided I choose to promote The Amazing Widget itself within several of my widgets). Or, through a special external link that AWS provides, called the 'X-Factor' link.

Each Amazing Widget promotes TWO products, one through a top (image) ad, and the other through a bottom (text)ad. So its conceivable that you could promote AWS in every single widget you place, along with another product of your choice.

Perhaps the best aspect of all, is the fact that this system will probably never become saturated or outdated -the fate of most other online traffic and money making methods (and the precise reason why so many have failed online)...

The simple reason for this is very simple, and that's the fact that Amazing Widgets can be placed on virtually any of the billions of web pages, social pages and blogs online. There is simply no limit to all the traffic hot spots that you can place endless Amazing Widgets on.

Even at its basic core, the Amazing Widget System is a system that can't 'not' work, precisely as they claim, for the simple fact that people can't NOT see the widgets you place online. People WILL click on them if they are interested in what's being offered. And they WILL order if they feel the product being offered will benefit them.

In this way it's a system that is no different than display ads in newspapers and magazines that companies run time and time again (and have been doing so for a hundred years) for the simple fact that they work. People see the ads. If they like what they see, they take action to learn more and go on to make a purchase.

It's marketing in its purest and most effective form.

Bottom line, AWS's traffic and income getting Software and Blueprint is a major game changer. Not only could your internet life be transformed through this opportunity...

The Internet marketing community as a whole will begin to sit up and take notice.

I'd strongly urge you to get on board and make this an integral part of your online marketing plan immediately. AWS's software and system works easily in any niche, so there's virtually no reason this can't work for you.

http://dickhale.com/recommends/amazingwidget

Make way for the onslaught of the 'Widgeteers'.
Become a Widgeteer your own self......

http://dickhale.com/recommends/amazingwidget

Dick Hale - 

What's Not to Like - We Review KickstartPLR from Martin Avis

Like so many people, I've bought a lot of private label stuff over the years. Articles, ebooks, software ... you name it, I have a hard drive full of it.

The one thing that characterizes most of it though is that it is badly researched and poorly-written. Let's be honest, 90% of the thousands and thousands of PLR articles around are barely even in readable English.

The only reason I keep buying private label materials is that every once in a while you come across a supplier who understands the concept of quality. It's rare, I admit, but they are out there if you look.

And when you do find the good stuff, the money-making potential is amazing. You can literally reap the rewards while someone else does all the work for you!

Good private label lets you do pretty much anything you like - edit it, add to it, merge different articles into a bigger report, post it on websites, blogs, emails ... if you can think of a money-making use for it, the chances are you can do it. The private label license has very few restrictions.

Usually the only no-nos are to post the articles unchanged on article directories, and reselling them as private label. Other than that, the sky - and your imagination, is the limit.

Just recently I came across a new website from husband and wife team, Martin and Delia Avis. Martin has been a full time Internet marketer for years and Delia is an ex English teacher, so between them they know about research, keywords, expert writing and online marketing. A combination of talents that they have put to good use in KickstartPLR.

http://dickhale.com/recommends/kickstartplr

Martin also runs a very long-running newsletter - Kickstart Today - which has been around for over 8 years - and is known for his ethics and straight dealing. In fact, I've been a subscriber of his for about 3 full years now, and he's one marketer I read faithfully.

That background, and the fact that he is one of the most honorable marketers on the Internet today, made me take notice when I learned that they had recently launched a private label articles site of their own.

What I found was that they create a new pack of ten articles, on a carefully researched niche topic, every ten days. So for your subscription fee you get 30 brand new articles every month. What was important for me was that I found by getting them spread out over the month I don't get overloaded.

This is PLR material that I want to use, not collect!

KickstartPLR also has some excellent training materials - which is being added to all the time, and a section with really useful exclusive software you can use in your online marketing. Frankly, I'd have paid the low monthly price just to use some of that software!

Having checked out the site and seen for myself the extremely high quality Martin and Delia both aim for and achieve, I have no hesitation in recommending KickstartPLR.

http://dickhale.com/recommends/kickstartplr

Ring ... Ring ... (The call is for you - answer it).

Normally here in this blog, I review cutting edge products for Internet entrepreneurs.

However today’s post, goes beyond cutting edge Internet products and gives you a glimpse into the future hybrid of Internet Marketing combined with Mobile phone and mobile device marketing.

The landscape of marketing is changing again, even faster than it did from print to web, and if you intend to stay competitive, I highly recommend you read this informative blog review carefully.

Before I begin my review of the product “Mobile Marketing Exposed,” let me first give you some startling, game changing statistics, concerning mobile vs. standard Internet marketing. And why you need to be aware of any products in this burgeoning new marketing sector.

•    88% of all Americans now carry mobile devices religiously and are connected all day long, wherever they go. You can even reach them while they sleep by leaving messages in there “voice mail” ready as soon as they wake up.

When leaving the home, the two most common possessions people claim to need are their car keys and their mobile phone. (Don’t leave home without it!)

•    For every one computer in use, there are now approximately 10 mobile devices, (cell -phones/iPads/Blackberries/etc.) in use sending and receiving information from users all throughout the day.  94% of all text messages sent are read by the recipient, with a whopping 75% of those messages read instantly, as they are received.

As you know, large companies have already been profitably exploiting these statistics by connecting with customers effectively through their mobile devices.

In “Mobile Marketing Exposed”, you’ll find that individual marketers and small to medium sized companies can now effectively exploit these same methods and new technologies to profitably reach mobile customers and their wallets! 

One Case Study from MME: A small-time marketer was uncovered using location based text messaging to alert targeted mobile users of incredibly low automobile prices at web auctions in their area. By offering easy means for signing up to an online auction site promoted through ClickBank, he was able to make instant profits without even owning the site. 

As with all new technologies, marketers will discover new and inventive ways to make money once they understand how to exploit it.

If you’re wondering how your sites fair in this burgeoning new 4.1 billion with a “B” mobile market, check out how some of your sites are displayed vs. perhaps google.mobi by entering both yours and theirs into this free mobile phone simulator http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php provided by Dotmobi.

If you’re shocked or embarrassed by the way your site is displayed to billions of mobile users you will be either happy or horrified to find that most cell phone and mobile device users will never see your site!

Mobile devices usually only access special mobile search-engines so the chance of them discovering your embarrassment is almost zero.

You see, what many cell phone and mobile device users don’t even realize is that when they search for sites online, from there phones and mobile devices their service tries to provide only results specifically optimized and relevant for being seen through the phone or device they are using.

This means your site is filtered out of results if it doesn’t display well.

It’s a brave new world of changing technologies with a network of publishers scrambling to supply content in formats that can be displayed well over this huge but complicated array of differing devices and service providers.

Fortunately, for you, “Mobile Marketing Exposed” exposes how easy it is to find tools for preparing sites that will display great on these mobile devices and get them indexed by the special search engines that people use from their phones and various mobile devices.

Google mobile search is vastly different from standard Google search, as you will see.

Marketing and promotion is also a whole new ball game through mobile applications, with a different set of rules and tools for checking return on investment. Initially it may seem like a maze to traverse but “Mobile Marketing Exposed” directs you to free tools and economical options to capitalize on the power of these mobile mediums.

Through SMS advertising, marketers are achieving an average of 12% conversion, often higher when marketers take time to utilize all of the tools available to target their audience, which are described in detail by Simon and Jeremy in this “Mobile Marketing Exposed course.

As “Mobile Marketing Exposed” explains, you can purchase SMS, text, video and other forms of direct-to-mobile-user-advertising, as easily and more affordably than buying Google Adwords, with even more incredible results.

When building a site to fit mobile device screens you will need to follow a different set of dimension recommendations and mark-up protocols. Some of you who do not have a background in designing websites for the mobile market will be elated to find the resources inside “Mobile Marketing Exposed”. Simon and Jeremy provide an plethora of online site builders and site building services to get the job done, pre-tested by them so you won’t spend time or money spinning your wheels as you begin your own transition into this exciting and profitable mobile world.

Likewise, “Mobile Marketing Exposed” offers you access to a full range of resources so no matter how big or small you are you’ll find the best tools. When you plan to enter this market, you’ll be sure to find the perfect service to fit your needs explained by Simon and Jeremy in this course.

From the one-man operation working on a shoestring budget, up to the Fortune 500, Jeremy and Simon have pulled together the resources you’ll need to get your feet wet, jump in or dive into the world of mobile marketing, successfully.

When it comes to testing your efficiency in mobile marketing, you won’t be let down either.

“Mobile Marketing Exposed” uncovers means to track an online marketing campaign’s efficiency, better than standard Internet marketing methods have provided in the past.

“Mobile Marketing Exposed” covers not only the technical side of mobile marketing, it also defines new market sectors available for marketers to set up new shops in, and exploit areas no one else is taking advantage of by pointing out many of  these new lucrative possibilities.

You’ll also be exposed to the most credible mobile Ad management companies available via Simons and Jeremy’s rigorous testing, and save time and money by avoiding unscrupulous Ad management servers.

You’ll learn how to purchase “ad power” for pennies on the dollar. And if you’re a web publisher, you’ll be happy to learn that you can make money by delivering mobile ready advertising from your mobile site, in the same way Google Adwords worked in its heyday!

There is a lot to discover in “Mobile Marketing Exposed” possibly the biggest thing, for all of us as marketers to learn is, that we can no longer afford to ignore statistics as huge as there being over 12 million people tied to their iPhone’s at this very moment in the US alone.

If you’re looking for a resource that can put you at the cutting edge of mobile marketing in the period of a day… with confidence I can say that by following the “Mobile Marketing Exposed” four video modules you will put yourself in an optimal position.

If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself at Mobile Marketing Exposed.

Link Cloaking - the Ultimate Affiliate Marketers Friend

Link cloaking is a very important part of affiliate marketing.  In
a nutshell, link cloaking is a way to protect your affiliate
commissions from being stolen.  It's not totally foolproof.  Smart
individuals who are well-educated about the matter can still figure
out how to keep you from getting your commission.

But most people won't go that far, so cloaking your links will
prevent most commission loss. How do people steal affiliate
commissions?  Well, have you ever hovered over a link and noticed
that the link was an obvious affiliate link?

Some people type in the parent domain instead of clicking the link
as a way of making sure the owner of the site gets paid 100% for
the sale.  Some people falsely believe that if they buy from an
affiliate link, they'll have to pay more for a commission mark-up.

Some people actually do it for a different reason.  If you're
promoting a ClickBank product, especially to other marketers, many
of them know they can insert their own ClickBank ID and get what's
usually a 50% or more discount on the product.

This is a different type of affiliate commission theft, because the
person doing it gets the affiliate commission themselves, rather
than just making sure you don't get it.  Most people don't do that,
of course, but it happens.

Most people are pretty honest, and don't mind giving you a little
affiliate commission in exchange for recommending a good product to
them.  But it's enough of a concern that you should take steps to
prevent it.

You can easily set up your own link cloaking system.  You can set
up a directory on one of your domains.  Most marketers use the
domain of their own name, as in bobsmith.com.  Then they typically
have a subdirectory called /recommends/.

Inside of that directory, they create a new subdirectory for each
product, like this: bobsmith.com/recommends/productname. In that
directory, they place what's called a redirect file, which
instantly takes the visitor to the actual affiliate link without
displaying it. You can easily find out how create a redirect by
looking it up online. It's very simple to do.

There are also a number of link cloaking scripts available.  Most
of them are relatively easy to install and use.  There's a big
benefit to using a script rather than doing it yourself.  Using
your simple redirect, there isn't an easy way to check how much
traffic you've sent to your link, like scripts do.

Most link cloaking scripts also allow you to add new links very
easily within an administrative area, and then each link is tracked
so that you can see how much traffic is going through the link.  If
you use your own file, the only way to tell how much traffic you've
sent is through your affiliate stats, which may be inaccurate, or
through your web server's stats, which may be difficult to use and hard to understand.

 

One of the best I've found is ViralURL. I've been a member for awhile now,

and it not only cloaks your affiliate link, it also provides tracking, And the best part,

the basic membership is absolutely free. But I suggest you upgrade using the one time

offer. It's one of the best around, and offers a slew of benefits the free membership does not.

 

http://dickhalerecommends.info/viralurl  OR ... using my ViralURL cloak:

 

http://vur.me/shagmiser/viralurl

Cloaking your affiliate links is the smart thing to do if you want
to be sure you are protecting your hard-earned commissions online.

Watch your inbox for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck
with your online marketing efforts!

To your online success,
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P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your
business:

http://www.rdavidhale.com/backen

S.I.M.P.L.E

"All I did was ask for this simple report, and I got inundated with all this crap."

When many people think of starting their own business, they go out and look at all the different options. Eventually, they will come to the online world. Then it's like a vacuum. They get sucked in and can even drown in the information.


I know, because this has happened to me. There are SO many ways to market online, it can be absolutely overwhelming. The "gurus" tell me to follow this system, or that system, and what happens? I can't get off "go" because I'm simply and totally underwater. 

But all that changed recently. Why?

Because I recently had the very good fortune of being introduced to Paul Evans, who is known as the Short Giant of Online Business and champion of all things "online membership" ... Paul is a former Youth Minister, a current Worship Leader, and Executive Director of 100x Missions. He's also an Internet Marketer, and from what I’ve seen, has the best membership resource that there is. He teaches entrepreneurs how to create a simple - but highly effective - membership site in their business. This allows them to work ON their business, not just IN their business.

Listening to him, the light bulbs began to go off in my head. I was brought back to the lessons that I had learned but put aside because I was too busy worrying about all the tasks I needed to do to run a business online successfully. For some reason, many entrepreneurs (myself included) believe that when they start their business, they have to learn everything there is to learn about running and marketing their business first.

From writing articles, buying Pay Per Click marketing, creating videos, setting up a wordpress blog, or forum marketing, we believe we have to know it all and do it all. According to Paul, most marketers can set up a simple membership site - like he has done - to allow them to release a lot of time, 'get a life', and create a real business with Simple Six Figures.

The solution that Paul has for all this? Simple. Simply set up a Simple Six Figures membership site to free your days while you do what you want. Most are not even aware that there are membership sites you can build and spend as little as 30 minutes a week on, and still have a business.  

Now, when I first heard about this, I thought, ‘hmmm…this has got to be very expensive...how can you do this and still not spend hours upon hours on these sites?’ Good question. This question - and more - is answered by Paul so freely at his website and on his brand new video on that site where he reveals a case study.

If you’re looking for a way to spend less time on your business while still being able to count on it, you have got to check out this site that Paul has set up. It will allow you to actually accomplish that.

Paul Evans is known for his integrity and he hasn't disappointed with this product. He pulls out all the stops and lays out a real, doable, and simple system. The same system he used himself to accomplish six figures from just one site that he reveals in his case study.
To see this case study, go to Simple Six Figures and watch it.

http://dickhalerecommends.info/simplesixfigures

But first, Paul has put together a free report that helps to explain the whole thing. Download it here (no opt-in - just the report in PDF format):
 
http://dickhalerecommends.info/simplesixfigures/SSF_Report.pdf

New FTC Rules (Guides) Are Really for Real!

The new FTC Rules (Guides) are in effect now! In fact, they went into effect December 1, 2009.

 What are they? Who do they affect? If you've got a website or blog, you must learn all you can about the new FTC Rules!

 

If you have a website that uses testimonials, these new guidelines restrict many types of testimonials you can use on your websites, especially if your websites are selling something. If you're using the wrong kind of testimonials, you could land on the wrong site of the Fed's fence.

Fortunately, Internet lawyer Mike Young and case studies expert Karl Barndt have teamed up to create a simple solution to this problem.

You can see it when you click my affiliate link right now...

Website Legal Forms Generator version 2.0

Yes, I'll get a commission if you make the wise decision to invest in this solution. However, I'm recommending this to you because I believe it is the right way to protect yourself when using testimonials.


Who does it affect?

It affects endorsements by organizations, celebrities, consumers, experts, material connections (affiliate compensation), testimonials, and bloggers.

Advertisements that use a consumer testimonial relating their experiences for a service or product, must disclose the outcome that actually happened to them or that can generally be expected. The term “results not typical” will no longer be acceptable.

“Material connections” or affiliate compensation usually in the form of payments or free products must be disclosed. This is sometimes called the affiliate compensation disclosure. This is true if you are a blogger or internet marketer.

Celebrity endorsers, under the new guides, must disclose their connection with advertisers (material connection – affiliate compensation) and not give unconfirmed or false statements about the product or service. Advertisers and endorsers may both be liable.

The effective date for these new guides was December 01, 2009.

How can you protect yourself, your blog and website? You can hire an attorney to draft the appropriate documents or use a software program to provide the correct documents. Either way, you should have certain documents on your website or blog. They include Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Policy, Anti-Spam Policy, External Links Policy, Earnings Disclaimer, Affiliate Agreement, Affiliate Compensation Disclosure (material connection) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice.

Remember, the FTC guides are to protect consumers. Be in compliance so you and others can enjoy your blog and website.

If you wish to view the entire regulations, please view the FTC and Electronic Code of Federal Regulations website links below.

Effective Date: December 01, 2009

http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotice.pdf

FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations Title 16: Commercial Practices PART 255—GUIDES CONCERNING USE OF ENDORSEMENTS AND TESTIMONIALS IN ADVERTISING

… 255.5 “Disclosure of material connections. … When there exists a connection between
the endorser and the seller of the advertised product that might materially …”

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=14055e58afb9046553e3ed2f75dc0e2e&rgn=div5&view=text&node=16:1.0.1.2.22&idno=16

Website Legal Forms Generator version 2.0 by Internet lawyer Mike Young is for bloggers and website owners who want to protect their sites.

To your success!

Richard Hale

P.S. It only takes one FTC lawsuit to bankrupt most Internet marketers. Don't become a victim. Fix your testimonials right now.

The Rapid Income Creator System

Rapid Income Creator by John Carter is one of those money making Internet products that comes along only every once in a while that makes you say, “Ah OK, why didn’t I think of that?”

It’s obvious that John has done his homework here and truly created what seems to be a truly hands-off PPV affiliate marketing system.  Rapid Income Creator combines professionally and PRE-BUILT created landing pages, specifically designed for PPV traffic, plus “copy and paste” demographic  research so members don’t have to guess or spend time doing the work to build campaigns.  Better yet, the way the program is set up, there’s no need for you to even have a website of your own, as the landing pages are fully hosted.

If that wasn’t enough, John went ahead and added dummy proof PDF reports on PPV and advertising so anyone could understand it.  And to top it off, Rapid Income Creator also boasts a traffic resources section that even makes many veteran online marketers blush.   There were a ton of new money-making traffic networks and advertising venues I haven’t even heard of.

My honest review of the product was that I was a bit surprised at how simple it was.  Every step of the way the program was laid out in a way that anyone could come in and understand.  It wasn’t heavy with tons of stuff to read and absorb.  The content John Carter gives in Rapid Income Creator is integrated into the program into actionable steps.
 
So every step of the way, you are learning by doing.  Taking specific actions and getting a result.  I have to admit that John does throw in a few documents to read though, but they’re super short and easy to understand.  The control center user interface inside Rapid Income Creator is truly designed as a dummy proof system.  If you can count, then you can use it.  No guesswork involved.

On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the best I would give Rapid Income Creator a 4.5 for quality.  I didn’t give it a 5 because every product can be improved slightly.  In fact, I hear that John has some secret improvements coming up that makes Rapid Income Creator even more valuable.
 
I’m trying to get in on his private list right now and will let you know what I find out when I do.  Rapid Income Creator is so far a lot more than I expected, which is a good thing considering all the B.S. programs and systems in the marketplace.

I also gave this program it a 4.5 for its money making potential,  because John does not go into how to make a large income with it, but does teach how to make a few hundred a day with it.  I give it a 4.5 once again for content because not only are the campaigns set up for you,  you also have top shelf resources that even I wish I knew about.  Rapid Income Creator is a surefire program that is going to do very well online for a lot of people.  How long will these methods work?  Well John has plans on making that indefinitely.

John Carter is one smart guy and I won’t be surprised if he soon becomes a regular household Internet marketing name!   Rapid Income Creator is one of the better products I’ve written about in a long time.

Check out Rapid Income Creator Here:
http://dickhalerecommends.info/rapidincomecreator

Getting it Done in Time for Happy Hour

Where has the day gone? I’m sitting here, doing this and that and thinking I am really doing something, getting something accomplished. Well, I am, kind of, but it’s taking so long. And that’s where the day had gone, doing these administrative, repetitious tasks that have nothing to do with the bigger picture. I’ve gotten so deep into the trivial detail that I lost my place, wasted time, and failed to really accomplish anything. What I need is a way to shorten the amount of time it takes to do these mundane, nuts-and-bolts type tasks.

And that where automation comes in. This marketer I know, (he likes to be called Mr. Q) has come up with a set of automation macros and scripts that boil a many click task into a few. Talk about saving time. It’s called the Push Button Marketer, and I’ve got an in ….. just for my readers.

For a short amount of time, we (Mr Q. and I) are significantly discounting the price of this puppy, a complete suite of automated scripts and macros that will definitely save you time. I mean, the regular price is ridiculously low, so you can imagine what the discounted price is going to be (or can you?). If you want to check it out now, go HERE.

Man, it’s all about saving time in the day, right? The more we can automate our tasks and still get things right, the more we’ll accomplish before the sun sets. I don’t know about you, but I hate missing happy hour.

What’s in this very comprehensive package? Well, here’s a whiff:

1. The Software and Training Course. This is the "amazing" software that I've been telling you about. We've named it Macro Marketer. Essentially, Macro Marketer is a software program designed to save your time by giving you an unlimited number of shortcuts in your daily work.

2. The Automation Blueprint – which focuses on two areas: 1) Specific areas of automation that are included with the Push Button Marketer package, and prepackaged with the Macro Marketer software. For such areas, it includes instructions to help you implement them into your business. 2) Ideas and plans for additional tasks that you could use the Macro Marketer software to help you automate. We did some serious brainstorming on this, to help you get the most out of your software, regardless of what type of business you're running.

3. The Automation Videos - If you're more of a visual learner, you're in luck, because we've also included 6 great "Automation Videos" to show you some of the best ways that you can start saving time and profiting from the Macro Marketer software right away. However, these are not to be confused with the 8 training videos in the Macro Marketer training course.

4. The Instant Automaters - We've included a collection of 21 prebuilt "macro sets" that you can instantly plug into the software to automate your business. And I say "sets", because some of these Instant Automators contain several macros, and in some cases over 100 macros.

This is a major package, and one I am very glad to own. And one I can get for you at that steeply discounted price. CLICK HERE to go read about the details. You will NOT be disappointed.

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 On another note, I just recently published a help page for training and resources. It’s not much, but you all might find some things on there that are useful. There’s no opt-in, no sales, no OTO, nothing to really distract you. So go check it out –Recommended Teaching Videos. 

That's enough for today - it's Happy Hour.

Blogging your way to Success

Niche marketing is one of the hottest things going in Internet Marketing today, and blogging about that niche market is the best way to monetize that niche. But how do you go about doing that? How do you find your niche, how do you set up a blog, how do you research for the best keywords for your blog, how do you drive traffic to your niche blog, and exactly how do you make money from it?

Whoa! That's a lot of questions. But they must be answered if you want to have any hope at succeeding with niche market blogging. That's where Niche Blog Advantage comes in, and where Jason Johns new product really shines. This hot new product is so new off the press, even Jason hasn't really started promoting it yet, at least not as of this writing.

Niche Blog Advantage

If you've heard the name Jason Johns before, it's probably because of his product from about a year ago, WordPress DeMystified, all about how to build WordPress Blogs. That was an excellent course that not only sold well, but taught a lot of people about using WordPress to create their own blogs.

Now he's gone to the next step, teaching you all about Niche Blogging. And it doesn't hurt that (according to Martin Avis) he sounds a lot like Ricky Gervais in both humor and tone. But he's not doing this for the laughs. This is a detailed course that takes you from A to Z while looking over his shoulder the entire time. Very close to an OJT technique (On the Job Training), if you know what I mean.

OK, here's the skinny. The course is in 4 basic parts:

First off, there's a whole mess of videos (11 to be exact) on how to go about picking your niche. This is a major topic, and one that Jason covers in detail.

Next, he goes into master keyword research. This is not an art, but a science, which he truly demystifies (12 videos).

Then he goes into the meat of the thing, how to build an effective and profitable niche based WordPress blog both quickly and easily.

And finally, everything you could ever want to know about traffic generation.

But just when you thought it was safe to jump into these niche marketing waters, he covers even more bases with bonus videos on Twitter, Automated Blogging, and that hot topic - CPA offers. Now that's a package worth taking to the bank.

Niche Blog Advantage

Now to your final question, how much does it cost. Well, Jason has priced this entire course very low. Just like Chubby Checker used to say, "How Low can you Go?" In this case, extremely low. In fact, he might just wake up to that fact and re-price it, but until he does, it's to your advantage to jump on this price while you can.

When you see the price, you'll probably ask yourself, "can this course be any good at this cheap price?" Yes it can, and yes it is - because it's content and the way he teaches it is priceless.

Here's a sample - from Jason's Intro Video:


Remember, this is just a sample. The video you'll receive is a 640 X 480 high resolution video.

To our continued success,

Dick

Niche Blog Advantage

Empowerment, Blueprints, and Fulfilling Your Goals

I love that word - empowerment. Makes me want to sit up, take notice, puff my chest out, and say "Yeah! I am somebody." What a great feeling, knowing I'm on the right track towards fulfilling one of my goals. It's part of my overall blueprint, my road map towards success. And if you don't have a blueprint, you need one.

Right now, I've got a blueprint for you that will cost you nothing.

Yes, it really is true. Because two of the Internets most successful affiliate marketers, who make hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions every year and regularly feature in the top ten lists of super affiliates are spilling the beans on how they do it.

And - once their secrets are YOUR secrets - it's no exaggeration to say this could empower you to step up to a whole new life where the old limits of money and time don't apply.

Because one of the major techniques they are going to reveal is how to keep getting paid for sales you made ages ago. So can you see what that means?

You can position yourself to receive an increasing and reliable monthly income, whilst you get to work setting up ever increasing amounts of affiliate commissions - or simply relax and enjoy your new found wealth.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, because if you've tried affiliate marketing and couldn't quite get it off the ground or are making a reasonable income, but want to take it to the next level then this program will definitely help you. What's more ... it won't cost you a single red cent. Now or in the future.

Yes, you can click this link: http://dickhalerecommends.info/webprofitplans/ and gain immediate access to the whole program and there's no immediate payment ... no payment in seven days ... in fact, nothing at all to pay - ever.

It's simply that Jeremy and Simon find making vast affiliate commissions so effortless now, they want you to short circuit some of the problems they experienced getting to where they are now.

Then - only if you choose to - you can become an affiliate for this program, yourself. That means you'll be able to start your stable of top quality products with a sort-after program from two of the most respected and effective marketers on line today.

So here's just a tiny taster of what you'll find inside this eye-opening program...

* The three fatal mistakes most affiliates make without even knowing they can murder their chances of success.

* The lightening-fast way to decide if a product will be worth your time and trouble promoting for maximum profits.

* The closely guarded secrets to pre-selling your affiliate product BEFORE you send the prospect to the vendor's site.

* How to locate poorly promoted - yet red-hot - products that will fill your bank account, while everyone else wonders what happened.

* Squeeze page mastery and how to build a super responsive list for future effort-free promotions.

... and much more besides.

Right now, this program is available totally free of all charges.

But information this good won't stay that way for long and I've already heard there are plans afoot to sell this for $27. Still an amazing bargain, when you consider the life-changing secrets inside - but why not be smart and grab it, right now, from: http://dickhalerecommends.info/webprofitplans/ while it's still completely FREE?



That's it for today - I'm going back to Fishing in Retirement.

Dick

Dream Big - It Can't Hurt

An Author, who remains anonymous, once said this:

“You will never live life beyond your wildest expectations until you
first have some wild expectations.”

This comes from Mat Morris and his Unemployed Millionaire book. Here's the link to Amazon, if you're interested:
The Unemployed Millionaire: Escape the Rat Race, Fire Your Boss and Live Life on YOUR Terms!

One of the things I have been thinking about for awhile is helping my Mom earn some extra income via the Internet, to supplement her meager fixed income. She's in assisted living, and has little room for extras. In fact, all of her kids, me included, have to kick in monthly to keep her afloat.

To that end, I found 2 PLR courses dealing with the stock market, specifically, options trading. So I packaged them up, built the sales pages, the thank you/download pages, and set her up with her own PayPal acount. To help drive traffic, she now has her own blog, the MomProgressBlog, and her own twitter/twittollower account. (You really have to check out Twittollower, it automates Twitter followers, thereby sending traffic traffic.)

The 2 packages I am talking about are the Trading Pro System, and the Tailwind Trading System. Now, here's a little secret I kind of built into the entire package. If you buy the Tailwind Trading System, it includes the main EBook and 3 other bonus books for $79.95 total. However, if you buy the Trading Pro System, which is over 40 videos of detailed training, one of the unadvertised bonuses includes the Tailwind Trading System. I kid you not. I did this to provide extra value for the course itself. Now that's a deal.

If it's not there when you get ready to download the course, email me and I'll provide the link. We're still tweaking this entire thing, and sometimes things drop through the cracks. But it should be there, on the main download page.

So, help out my Mom, buy one of these 2 packages (not both), and we'll make sure you know what's coming up next. It supposed to be a complete Internet Marketing course by none other than Paul Counts. More on that later. In the meantime, fill out your bucket list, and dream big.

Dick

Haiti, the media, and Shelter Boxes

A long time correspondent of mine, Martin Avis in England, recently had this to say about the crisis in Haiti. I copy it here because, 1) he says it a whole bunch better than I could, and 2) I agree with everything he has to say. I do this without his permission, but I think he won't mind:

"Have you noticed how the news coverage of the terrible situation in Haiti is changing? More and more now we are seeing stories about how the American military are holding up aid deliveries, or how the constant visits by publicity-seeking VIPs is hindering work on the ground, or how the French are accusing everyone else of imperialism, or how looting is out of control, or how a lawless country is descending into anarchy.

"Now that there are no more pictures to be had of children being pulled out of rubble alive, it is as if the world's media has decided to vilify Haiti and all concerned with trying to help there - because outrage sells.

"Well I'm outraged alright.

"I'm outraged that petty commercial interests are being put in front of millions of people's lives.

"I know that sending aid to a devastated country like Haiti is going to be fraught with difficulties. I know that criminals will try to hijack some of it. I know that desperate people will resort to desperate measures to feed their families. And I know that the sheer scale of the problems means that there will be delays and holdups in getting the right aid to the right people.

"And I still say that we should be sending all the help we can.

"If we listen to the veiled suggestion by the media that our aid is being wasted or diverted and stop putting our hands in our pockets, the death toll won't be 200,000 as some estimates suggest, but maybe ten times that.

"Make no mistake ... what has happened to one of the poorest countries on Earth is an ongoing disaster of epic proportions. And only by the US and UN sending people to help, only by 'celebrities' raising awareness of the situation, only by ordinary people like you and me putting our hands in our comfortable, well-fed, safe pockets can there ever hope to be a better life for the millions of survivors.

"Better life? Make that ANY life.

"All over the world, Rotary clubs are trying to help by providing money to send Shelter Boxes. Each box contains a tent and survival equipment for ten people for up to 6 months and costs £490 (pounds - about $780 I guess).

"The entire ShelterBox organization is run by Rotarians, so admin costs are absolutely minimal. You can see more about what they do at http://www.shelterboxusa.org/.

"Already thousands of boxes have been sent - the first ones to arrive were used as emergency field hospitals - and thousands more are being prepared to go as soon as possible.......

..... if you are moved to give something to help, donating directly to http://shelterboxusa.org/ can be done on their web page.

"This is a disaster on a scale that none of us can really comprehend. Please don't allow your compassion to be eroded by
cynical media reports that are just about making headlines. "

Martin Avis
http://www.kickstartdaily.com

Note: I did change the shelterbox URL to reflect the USA website instead of the UK website since the vast majority of my readers are in the US.

That's it for today. My next post will be about something really helpful and full of insight, I hope. Till then .......
Dick

What is a Blueprint ? What is a Niche Blueprint?

A blueprint is a step by step detailed plan or program of action for completing a very specific set of tasks toward a well defined goal. A picture, if you will, of how to go about getting something specific done.

A niche, for our purposes, is a specialized market. And what we, as Internet marketers, like about niche markets is that they come with their own covey of knowledgeable, ready-to-buy, customers.

Well, if you are into Internet Marketing, believe that marketing to a niche market is the way to go, and want to learn from the experts on how to build your own online niche market, Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton, along with the Hermansen brothers, Dave and Mike, have just released probably the most definitive guide to niche marketing yet. They have created a complete system for setting up ecommerce websites in very specific niche markets to sell physical products.

They will teach you how to find hot markets full of motivated buyers, source those products using drop shippers, drive traffic to your niche product website, create your shopping cart, and forward your orders to the drop shippers.

There is no forced continuity, OTO, up sell, or affiliate marketing. It's all there in one packaged price, nothing left out. It's a complete course.

Everybody and his brother are promoting this thing right now, so I don't know how much longer Tim and Steve are going to keep this offer alive. I'd check it out before they take it down. Too many sales overwhelms their support staff, and they believe in providing excellent support.
No kidding, this is a complete course on how to build a niche online business, nothing left out, with tools and support to match. The actual modules are detailed on their sales page, along with the requisite videos, proofs, testimonials, et all, along with the promised rate hike if you don't act now, but don't let all that stuff put you off. This is an excellent course that, if followed step by step, can build you a profitable ecommerce niche business.

Here's their sales page - check it out:
http://dickhalerecommends.info/nicheblueprint2

BTW - this is actually Niche Blueprint 2.0. The original blueprint sold out really fast and they took it off the market. 2.0 is the updated and improved version.

BTW #2 - These are the same guys that came out with a product back in September 2008 called Commission Blueprint. That was one of the best courses on making money with ClickBank by using PPC that I've come across in a long time. I bought the product, used it, and highly recommended it. So these guys know whereof they speak.

That's it for today, so make sure and build your business profitably, ethically, and make it fun.

Dick