Revenue Insider Reality Check

PGInsider Review : How To Generate $100 A Day Using AdSense

2006-04-16T06:52:00.000-07:00

Fact: If you want to earn substential money with AdSense, your site-building efforts need to be fast, effective and automated.

Most people give up their dream of earning great money online with AdSense page-generators simply because they never figure out what works and what doesn't. Making money with page-generators is extremely easy if you have a system that works!

I'd like to share with you the private software and strategies Adam Short has been using over the last several years to earn a very nice living online using page-generators.

For a short time and a incredible cheap price ($47 a month), Adam Short gives all his painfully tested secrets at his membership site: PGInsider.

PGInsider is basically a suite of tools and ebooks:

- Ebooks detail Adam Short's methods to raise AdSense income (and Adam is really undercharging, the pdf called "The System" is worth the subscription price alone).

- Tools (and keyword lists provided (more than one million keywords!)) allow you to replicate his methods.

Once you have choosen your own personal template for your site, keywords and tools allow to automate sites creation. Then you apply Adam's system to index and promote your pages, that being the most important step as no visitor = no money.

There are video tutorials for each step and there is also a great forum for support.

Scripts and tools are all stand alone and you do not need to stay subscribed to PGInsider to use them.

But that's not all!

You can also build the type of sites as those mentionned by John Reese in its famous video (more than $500,000 with AdSense)!

Adam has just released a new video series explaining an advanced page-generation strategy called "1-3-1: One Visitor, 3 Clicks, 1 Sale."

In a nutshell, he's explaining a method he uses every day to get both AdSense clicks and ebook sales from the SAME VISITOR.
And if you don't have any of your own ebooks, you can simply become an affiliate for the ebooks of your choice and make sales that way.

So for now, I'm very happy by the value received for the small price, most of all after the Revenue Insider fiasco of last year!

And there is a lot more very interesting things to come:

- 2 MILLION KEYWORDS next month (instead of one million this month),

- Various scripts updates (ex: the option of creating subdirectories or subdomains when building your pages),

- Outsourcing For Profit Videos
1. Outsourcing Overview
2. Outsourcing Secrets. This video will reveal tons of minute details that most people overlook when outsourcing their tasks.
3. A Tour of Elance
4. How to Choose the Right Service Provider for Your Business (and why paying hourly is a waste of money).

- How to Make $100 a day in AdSense ebook

As you probably know, there are no secrets to generating AdSense profits.
In fact, making $100 a day in AdSense revenue is actually very easy as with PGInsider, we have the tools and knowledge to do this.
But, there are always new things to learn. That's part of what makes this business fun.

So, Adam is currently working on a new tutorial just for PGI members.
It's called "Turnkey AdSense Profits"
In this tutorial, Adam is going to explain step by detailed step exactly what it takes to earn $100+ dollars a day in AdSense revenue.
He is going to assume that we are currently making $0 in AdSense.

The tutorial will include:
- What kind of server you need
- What kind of budget you need
- How many domains to buy
- How many pages to build
- And again...how to promote these pages, promotion being an ongoing process. So it will be covered in great detail in the manual.

Finally, Adam will give us the daily schedule we should follow to accomplish this.

Knowing that PGInsider will probably be closed to new members very soon, if you want to gain access to a system that works, be sure to check carefully PGInsider.

In some weeks, you will be happy you did!

To your success,

Oliver

V1.53 Update XSitePro Review

2005-09-13T07:32:00.000-07:00

XSitePro 1.53 has been released and it is free for previous owners.

To install the update load XSitePro click on "Help" and then select "Check for Updates". The system will then prompt you through the rest of the process.

Here is some changes in the new version:

- Added over 100 new templates and split the sales letter templates into two categories - with and without graphical headers.

- Added a new script to the script wizards: Close Window. This is useful for adding to popups and any other links that are opening in new windows.

- You can now change the language for the spellchecker and specify whether you would like the US, International or combined English dictionary. (The setting is available on the Tools menu, on the Settings submenu)

- The Date and the Future Date scripts now have 6 extra date formats which only include the month and the year.

- There is now a new button on the designer which will allow you paste code from Microsoft Word a lot more effectively. It will remove all of the extra formatting information which was previously causing layout problems. You may find that some of the Word formatting is lost when you paste using this method because Word was using some non-standard way of formatting.

If you don't own it, get XSitePro here.

Don't Have Any MONEY? You mean you don't have the DESIRE.....

2005-07-30T03:08:00.000-07:00

Well, time for me to go on holidays doing some sailing so here is something to meditate meanwhile my return.

Don't Have Any MONEY?
By Brett Rademacher

On a fairly regular basis, I get emails or phone calls from people who say they want to have a home based business or be successful in network marketing.

BUT they don't have any money.

Most times these people just quit.

Or they go from one deal to the next, looking for the pie in the sky opportunity that will NEVER appear.

They use the EXCUSE that they don't have ANY money as the reason why they can't do network marketing or home based business and have success.

When I hear people say that they can't do network marketing because they don't have any money, the first thing that comes to mind is.

"You don't REALLY want to do this."

Because IF you REALLY wanted to do this, you would FIND a way.

"Brett, how can you say that?", you ask..

Say I challenged you by saying, "If you come up with $500 dollars by next Monday, I will give you $100,000."

What do you think the odds are you would have $500 by next Monday?

100%?

You see it's NOT about whether you have money, it's about whether or not you are motivated ENOUGH to TAKE ACTION.

Let me give you an example.

I live in Alaska.

Let's say I wake up in the middle of the night and I want some ice cream.

But it is the middle of winter. It's 10 degrees outside and there is snow all over my car. If I really want ice cream I am going freeze my tail off, shovel off the snow and drive to the store in a car that does not have time to warm up.

But if I don't REALLY want ice cream bad enough to go through all the effort and discomfort, I am just going to roll over and go back to sleep.

I didn't really want ice cream. I was just WISHING for ice cream.

And there is a BIG difference between WANTING something and WISHING something.

MOST people are just WISHING for money, a better life, and nicer things. But they do not want to go through the EFFORT and DISCOMFORT of acquiring them.

They have bought into the lie that success is easy or happens like winning the lottery.

And all they do is look for reasons WHY they can't do something.

The problem with that approach is it becomes a way of life. And the only way you are going to change things is if ONE day you wake up and say.

ENOUGH!

NO MORE!

THAT'S IT!

I am going to do SOMETHING to change my life NOW.

And I am going to START TODAY.

And I am going to do WHATEVER I need to do, to accomplish MY DREAMS. Because no one else is going to do it for me.

There are ALWAYS going to be EXTERNAL obstacles and forces that tell you, that you can't do something. But YOU have to KNOW what it is DEEP down inside that YOU really want.

Because without that you do NOT have FUEL to keep the FIRE burning HOT enough and LONG enough, to make the journey from FAILURE to SUCCESS.

So if you are saying, "I don't have any money."

Then my response to you is.

"That is EXACTLY why you should be doing network marketing or have a home based business.You need the money MORE THAN I DO. And therefore you MUST find a way to do this business."

Think about this.

If you are a GROWN adult over 25 and you do not have a few hundred dollars to start a home-based business, something is SERIOUSLY WRONG.

Maybe you..

* made some bad life choices.
* don't manage your money well.
* have wrong priorities.
* don't take personal responsibility for your life.
* or are just plain lazy and don't want to work.

I don't know what the reasons are. And I don't need to know.

But what you need to do is take a SERIOUS look in the mirror.

And ask yourself, "What is it that I TRULY want out of life."

WHAT IS IT? (and this may take some time for YOU to answer.)

And whatever YOUR answer is, that is your motivation for DOING ANY home-based or network marketing business.

You need to do this for YOUR reasons. Not mine and not anyone else's.

And if YOUR REASON is BIG enough and motivating enough.you will do WHATEVER it takes (morally and legally) to make it so.

Because ONCE you find the thing that TRULY motivates you, there will be NO MORE EXCUSES.

You will be UNSTOPPABLE.

But you MUST have a BIG enough REASON why!

It MUST DRIVE YOU!

Because YOU WILL HAVE obstacles and hurdles and setbacks.

And you will NEED a BIG REASON why to PUSH you through EVERYTHING that will try to stop you.

This is ONE of the TRUE SECRETS to SUCCESS.

It is a FOUNDATION PRINCIPLE for ALL accomplishments throughout human history.

Think about this.

There are people who immigrate to the United States with nothing more than the shirt on their backs, start out as dishwashers or some other menial job and within 5-10 years are VERY FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL or EVEN MILLIONAIRES.

Do you think they are any smarter? They sure didn't have any money. They had to do it all on their own and they started at the BOTTOM.

Your success is NOT determined by you NOT having any money. It's about you FINALLY getting a REASON WHY that motivates you enough to TAKE MASSIVE ACTION.

Success is when OPPORTUNITY meets a DETERMINED will.

Its about you GETTING off your rear end and QUIT making excuses and START DOING something with your life that MATTERS to YOU.

(And quit sitting around EVERY night, getting your brain PICKLED from watching MINDLESS television shows that SUCK THE MOTIVATION AND LIFE right out of you.)

Sure it's going to be TOUGHER starting out with no money.

BUT YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO!

And if YOU don't do anything. WHO is going to do it for you?

And if YOU don't start now. WHEN are you going to do something?

Nobody is going to do this for you.

Mom and Dad aren't going to pick up the pieces.

The White Knight in Shining Armor is a myth.

And there is NEVER going to be a perfect moment when ALL the stars are in alignment and Ed McMahon shows up on your doorstep with the BIG SWEEPSTAKES check.

You have to do this yourself.

When you FINALLY have the ATTITUDE that you are going to do WHATEVER it takes (ethically and morally) AND then FOLLOW through with INTELLIGENT, MASSIVE ACTION because you have a DRIVING REASON WHY, you will have EVERYTHING you need to START achieving your dreams.

You will find a way.

You will be creative.

You will work harder.

You will work smarter.

You will pray for God's guidance and blessing and protection.

You will ask for God's power and strength.

You will keep going.

You will not stop.

YOU WILL NOT BE DENIED!

DOORS WILL OPEN!!!

This message does not JUST apply to your network marketing opportunity.this message applies to your WHOLE LIFE.

And if you do NOTHING with the NetMark Pro, BUT you take this message to heart and APPLY it, in a way that MOTIVATES you to change your LIFE then I have done a lot better thing for you than selling you on why you should be part of NetMark Pro.

Now, I know there are SOME people reading this who REALLY are in unfortunate financial circumstances BEYOND their control. This email was NOT intended to insult or belittle you or your situation in ANY way.

But I would like to highly encourage you to reevaluate your situation. Because if you REALLY want something better in life, and make up your mind to DO something about it, and stick with it, you can change your WHOLE life.

It won't be easy. But it will be worth it.

You can do it, if you have a BIG enough reason why. And through the POWER of PRAYER, even IMPOSSIBLE situations can change, sometimes in an instant.

I KNOW this is true, because at one point in my life I had one of my businesses collapse, and I had to start from GROUND floor zero.

And once I got of the pity potty, looked in the mirror, realized what was really important in my life, looked to God as my SOLE source of guidance, strength and provision, put my shoulder to the plow not looking back, and worked with an UNRELENTING determination to NEVER, EVER quit, God has blessed me beyond all I could imagine.

And my prayer for you, is that you will take this message to mind and it will light a fire in heart, so that you to will be UNSTOPPABLE too in whatever you are called to do.

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Brett Rademacher is the creator of such concepts as the Remote Control Selling System, Split Second Wealth, NetMark Pro Global Affiliate Network, and Lead Dog - a virtual lead distribution and tracking system

V1.50 Update XSitePro Review

2005-07-22T03:59:00.000-07:00

XSitePro 1.50 has been released and it is better than ever!

Several of the new features that have been added are listed under the heading 'PowerPack'. This is because these features are either very powerful or are intended for power users. They include such things as the import feature, tokens, and the Google site map creation tool.

Warning: In the future it is quite likely that Paul will be selling the PowerPack separately to the main application, but for now you are receiving the complete PowerPack absolutely free of charge. So don't wait too long before buying XSitePro!

Paul has also been busy updating the manual, tutorial and online help. The manual is now over 400 pages long and includes details on every feature in the software.

NB: In the near future, Paul will also release more templates.

Along the new features:

Google Sitemap creation. This is part of the Power Pack and allows you to create a Google Sitemap xml file that will be uploaded when you publish your site and can be submitted to Google to get your pages indexed faster.
A powerful import function that will allow you to import pages that have been created with Content Desk, Article Automator, or from files on your hard drive. Tokens have been added which allow you to create variables in the multi page creation wizard, in the new import function and at the time of publishing.
You can now add Channel codes for AdSense ads.
A robots feature has been added so that you can control the robots.txt file and the robot headers on each page.
An option to publish files via FTP in non-passive mode has been added for servers that do not support passive mode.
A new design wizard has been added which will allow you to create a testimonial box that includes code from Audio Generator.
A status bar has been added to the bottom of all screens that provides you with information such as the site you are currently working on, the number of sites in a project, the number of pages in a site, the date a site or project was created and the date a site was last published.
You can now automatically add scripts to every page directly above the closing body tag (ideal for ad trackers) in addition to adding them just above and just below the opening body tag.
Ability to reset cookies when previewing pop-ups.
Option to have link to site map only on the home page.

So, if you don't use XSitePro, what are you waiting for? Get it here.

How To Fight Info-Overload

2005-07-15T09:51:00.000-07:00

Hello dear reader!

Again this week, I've been quite busy with feeding my different sites. So not much spare time left to post on this blog!

Anyway, I've two freebies for you this week:

1) A Nice Free Tool To Check Search Engine Indexation Of Your Sites

Using the free Link Popularity Check script at Uptimebot.com, you can get detailed statistics of indexed pages and backward links for one domain in the most popular directories and search engines.

Use it at http://www.uptimebot.com/sql/one.php

2) Info-Overload: How Do You Keep Up With All That Reading?

Most of us are awash in information – avalanches of email, letters, journals, books, articles, reports, web sites, paperwork that come our way each week. Knowing that, in order to be effective, we need to sort through the mountain of information and extract the most important nuggets, how do we approach the climb?

Learn it out in this great article at http://entrepreneurs.about.com/library/weekly/uc021303a.htm

Have a nice week-end,

Oliver

Is Critical Thinking Useful?

2005-07-08T04:32:00.000-07:00

While I am waiting for my 4 sites to be fully indexed in search engines, let's come back to critical thinking usefulness.

Outside helping you not to believe whatever internet marketing hype, it will help you not to have a herd mentality with what the media feed you.

For example, many people concerned about global warming follow a herd mentality, failing critically to examine the data.

Using Google, you can find a lot of scientific data that debunks two of most repeated environmental BS:

One, that Mother Earth is on the verge of entering a period of rampant global warming with rising temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees triggering a series of catastrophic storms, droughts, quake and floods.
Two, the hypothetical extreme warming - there's no evidence that it is happening - is caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other so-called greenhouse gasses.

One of the sites to check is
http://www.nationalcenter.org/KyotoQuestionsAnswers.html
with several questions and answers on global warming such as:

Q: Is global warming occurring? Have the forecasts of global warming been confirmed by actual measurements?

A: There is no serious evidence that man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to heat under the "greenhouse gas effect" should be the lower atmosphere - known as the troposphere. Highly accurate, carefully checked satellite data have shown absolutely no such tropospheric warming. There has been surface warming of about half a degree Celsius, but this is far below the customary natural swings in surface temperatures.

So, whatever the topic, don't forget to think before taking any decision!

Oliver

Top Ways To Create Ideas For Your Next Highly Read Article

2005-07-07T12:34:00.000-07:00

If you want to get incoming links from all over the net that will bring you fame and traffic, a good strategy that won't cost you a dime is to write articles that relate to your product or service.

Search Engines are constantly on the "look out" for freshly written content that has been submitted online. So how do you come up with ideas for your next article? Here are several suggestions that may help...

* Hang out in online forums. Watch what people are talking about. Look at the questions they are asking. The topics that are bringing the greatest number of visitors would make for an excellent article.

* Take a look at what information is being broadcast on TV, radio, newspapers, and online. This information is usually a hot topic.

* Read blogs. What are people posting about? What kind of comments are they leaving? What questions do they have? Blogs are the hot internet marketing medium right now and you can literally find them everywhere on any topic. This is an excellent source for your next article idea.

* Survey your current customers or website visitors. Ask them what kind of article they would like to see in your next ezine or published on your website.

* Check bookstores online. What are the top sellers? This can be a good way to come up with an article that catches the attention of what people are reading.

* Be seasonal. Write about what is going on that time of year. Holidays, festivals, sports, graduations, etc. all make for an article that someone will want to read.

* Write an article about a current fad. There is always something that is hot at the time and could make for interesting reading from you.

* Keep track of what your customers and prospects are asking you. If you get an email or phone call with a question this may make for a good article. Others may have the same question, but are afraid to ask it.

* Start a swipe file on what others are writing about. If it is of interest to you it will probably be of interest to others. Never plagiarize the work of others, but you can certainly get good ideas this way. The biggest benefit of a swipe file is having it handy to refer back to over and over whenever you are ready to write your article and are not sure what you want to write about.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas on how to come up with your next article. The internet marketer who can write interesting articles has a huge leg up on their competition. If you can master this strategy there is no limit to how much money you can make online.

Free Quick Way To Turn Text Into A Pdf File

2005-07-06T14:02:00.000-07:00

A great way to increase the value of your website is to offer some free reports, acrobat files (pdf) being the most common file format.*

Here is a free quick way to turn text into a pdf file:
Elfima Notepad is a free text editor to create PDF, HTML, XML, and SVG documents.
With Elfima Notepad you can also reimport and modify your (Elfima Notepad) PDF documents.

Get it at http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php

Your First Step Towards Prosperity And Abundance

2005-07-05T05:54:00.000-07:00

Here are some great thoughts by Randy Gage:

“The real reason so many people seem so hopeless, hapless and helpless, is they have forgot how to think.

Like most of the herd today, they look for people to tell them what to think. It’s been so long since they actually thought for themselves, they have simply lost the skill. They no longer have critical thinking ability.

And that’s why so many people live in lack and limitation today. They have lack-centered beliefs and limiting thoughts, so they manifest those results in their life. Which is why so many people are sick, unfulfilled and broke. Broken marriages, dysfunctional relationships, struggling to pay their bills and wondering what happened to the passion in their life.

They let it creep away, one thought at a time. Which is the price you ultimately pay when you let other people think for you. Becoming a critical thinker is the first step back towards prosperity and abundance.”

Free Tool To Automate All Your Windows Actions

2005-07-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

RemoteKeys is a great free program that can automate complex control systems, but also simple jobs like inserting text passages into Word and emails, filling out (internet) forms with recurring phrases etc. To do this simply click onto one of the 2500 buttons, which can be freely assigned and labeled. The macros can also be released by using the keyboard if prefered.

For those wishing to make full use of RemoteKeys, there are over 350 commands available, e.g. inserting the actual date into a text, opening program groups and ordering them on screen or even to automize Excel calculations. The buttons may be assigned with the help of the integrated macro recorder and an integrated timer can activate these buttons.

Additional features include an image memory and a clipboard history function. RemoteKeys is always at hand in the systemtray, can be individually configured (button, form, fontsizes and colours), is networkable and requires no installation.

RemoteKeys comes ready-configured to do many different things. Initially don't worry about what it does, start by configuring it to do your commonest repetitive tasks. Then after a few days' use, look at what else it can do.

For exemple, you can use it for:

Launching programs
Shortcuts to Alt-x-y-z key sequences
Inserting standard blocks of text (such as articles...)
Shortcuts in Windows Explorer
Recording key sequences / macros

...and it does all these things and so much more with just a single click.

Grab it at http://www.freewarehits.de/RemoteKeys.htm

Procrastination Does Not Make Perfect

2005-07-01T10:06:00.000-07:00

As I've not been very productive this week, here is an Denis Waitley's article to boost me (and you) for next week.

Enjoy!

Oliver

Perfectionists are often great procrastinators. Having stalled until the last minutes, they tear into a project with dust flying and complaints about insufficient time. Perfectionist-procrastinators are masters of the excuse that short notice kept them from doing the quality job they could have done.

But that's hardly the only variety of procrastination - which is one of my own favorite hiding places when I try to blame external conditions instead of myself for some difficulty. Mine comes with a gnawing feeling of being fatigued, always behind. I try to tell myself that I'm taking it easy and gathering my energies for a big new push, but procrastination differs markedly from genuine relaxation - which is truly needed. And it saves me no time or energy. On the contrary, it drains both, leaving me with self-doubt on top of self-delusion.

We're all very busy. Every day we seem to have a giant to-do list of people to see, projects to complete, e-mails to read, e-mails to write. We have calls to answer and calls to make, then more calls to people with whom we keep playing voice-mail tag.

Henri Nouwen's classic book, Making All Things New, likens our lives to "overstuffed suitcases that are bursting at the seams."

Feeling there is forever far too much to do, we say we're really under the gun this week. But working hard or even heroically to solve a problem is little to our credit if we created the problem in the first place. When most people refer to themselves as being under the gun, they want to believe, or do believe, that the pressures and problems are not of their own making. In most cases, however, the gun appeared after failure to attend to business in good time. Instead of being proactive early, they procrastinated until the due date became a crisis deadline.

One of the best escapes from the prison of procrastination is to take even the smallest steps toward your goals. People usually procrastinate because of fear and lack of self-confidence and, ironically, become even more afraid when under the gun. There are many ways to experiment and test new ground without risking the whole ball game on one play.

Experience has shown that when people go after one big goal at once, they invariably fail. If you had to swallow a twelve-ounce steak all at once, you'd choke. You have to cut the steak into small pieces, eating one bite at a time. So it is with prioritizing. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. Each small task or requirement on the way to the ultimate goal becomes a mini-goal in itself. Using this method, the goal becomes manageable. When mini-mistakes are made, they are easy to correct. And with the achievement of each mini-goal, you receive reinforcement and motivation in the form of positive feedback. As basic as this sounds, much frustration and failure is caused when people try to "bite off more than they can chew" by taking on assignments with limited resources and impossible timeline expectations.

Two major fears that sire procrastination are fear of the unknown and fear of rejection or looking foolish. A third fear - of success - is often overlooked. Many people, even many executives, fear success because it carries added responsibility that can seem too heavy to bear, such as setting an example of excellence that calls for additional effort and willingness to take risks. Success, without adequate self-esteem or the belief that it is deserved, also can create feelings of guilt and the result is only temporary or fleeting high achievement. Playing it safe can seem more tempting than a need to step forward with determination to do it now and do it right.

Here are some ideas to help make you a victor over change rather than a victim of change:

1. Set your wake-up time a half hour earlier tomorrow and keep the clock at that setting. Use the extra time to think about the best way to spend your day.

2. Memorize and repeat this motto: "Action TNT: Today, not Tomorrow." Handle each piece of incoming mail only once. Answer your e-mail either early in the morning or after working hours. Block out specific times to initiate phone calls, personally take incoming calls, and to meet people in person.

3. When people tell you their problems, give solution-oriented feedback. Rather than taking on the problem as your own assignment, first, ask what's the next step they plan to take, or what they would like to see happen.

4. Finish what you start. Concentrate all your energy and intensity without distraction on successfully completing your current major project.

5. Be constructively helpful instead of unhelpfully critical. Single out someone or something to praise instead of participating in group griping, grudge collecting or pity parties.

6. Limit your television viewing or Internet surfing to mostly educational or otherwise enlightening programs. Watch no more than one hour of television per day or night, unless there is a special program you have been anticipating. The Internet has also become a great procrastinator's hideout for tension-relieving instead of goal-achieving activities.

7. Make a list of five necessary but unpleasant projects you've been putting off, with a completion date for each project. Immediate action on unpleasant projects reduces stress and tension. It is very difficult to be active and depressed at the same time.

8. Seek out and converse with a successful role model and mentor. Learning from others' successes and setbacks will inevitably improve production of any kind. Truly listen; really find out how your role models do it right.

9. Understand that fear, as an acronym, is False Evidence Appearing Real, and that luck could mean Laboring Under Correct Knowledge. The more information you have on any subject - especially case histories - the less likely you'll be to put off your decisions.

10. Accept problems as inevitable offshoots of change and progress. With the ever more rapid pace of change in society and business, you'll be overwhelmed unless you view change as normal and learn to look for its positive aspects - such as new opportunities and improvements - rather than bemoan the negative.

There is actually no such thing as a "future" decision; there are only present decisions that will affect the future. Procrastinators wait for just the right moment to decide.

If you wait for the prefect moment, you become a security-seeker who is running in place, unwittingly digging yourself deeper into your rut. If you wait for every objection to be overcome, you'll attempt nothing. Make your personal motto: "Stop stewing and start doing!"

This week, get out of your comfort zone and go from procrastinating to proactivating!

Denis Waitley

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Denis Waitley has studied, counseled and trained leaders in virtually every field including Apollo astronauts, Olympic gold medalists, Super Bowl champions, returning POW's, heads of state and Fortune 500 top executives.

Denis is recognized as a world class speaker and author and has traveled the globe sharing success ideas and strategies to thousands of companies the past 25 years. To book Dr. Waitley to speak for your company or to be part of your upcoming Regional or National Convention send an email to speaker@deniswaitley.com or call 877-929-0439 and ask for Hilary.

Free Text File Merging Tool

2005-06-30T12:22:00.000-07:00

Let's say you have a directory full of articles in text files and you want to combine them, for instance to use with Kurt's Bombs.

How do you do that?

Easy with this free text file merging tool:

TXTcollector grabs all .txt files from the directory of your choice and combines them into a new (larger) text file.

NB: you can also grab .htm, .ini, .inf and .log files...

Grab this great freeware at http://bluefive.pair.com/

How To Automatically Generate Article Based Sites

2005-06-29T13:49:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I gave you some free resources for getting targeted traffic by writing articles.

Well, I just learnt that a new feature to come shortly in XSitePro will let you import ANY pages created in packages such as Content Desk, Article Automator, and Traffic Equalizer.

It means building great sites is easier than ever and adding content becomes so simple that it makes you feel guilty!

NB: Article Automator is a great software that allows you to find articles by keyword search and create pages for websites from those articles.
Sitemaps, article snippets and RSS feeds are also automatically created.

To your prosperity

Oliver

Free Resources For Getting Targeted Traffic By Writing Articles

2005-06-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Fact: The best system for generating steady targeted traffic to your website is writing articles that you submit to articles directories.

Where can you submit your articles?

Steve Gill's 'Directory of Article Directories' lists 99 article directories that can be used to submit articles that will promote your business and website.
http://www.arcanaweb.com/resources/article-directories.html

To submit articles, you can use this semi-automated solution:

At http://www.wavget.com/adwizard.html, for a small $10.00, you can get Adwizard.

Originally created to place ads, you can use Adwizard for submitting articles too as all the fields are customizable with no space limit.

The first time, for each site, you paste the site url and fill manually the submission form.

Next time you want to submit an article, Adwizard will automatically go to each url and will fill the forms out for you.

Ok, but where do you find articles to submit?

If you don't want to spend time writing articles, you can hire a ghostwriter or use private label article resources such as InfoGoRound.

You can utilize the content that they provide in an endless variety of ways just as if you'd written it yourself. You never have to credit the original article authors in any manner, and you can modify or add to the provided content in any way you desire.
If you want to write your own articles, there are numerous free articles available on the net about how to write articles, such as the following ones:

Thirteen Gremlins of Grammar

1. Correct spelling is essential.
2. Don’t’ use no double negatives.
3. Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
4. Don’t write run-on sentences that are hard to read.
5. About them sentence fragments.
6. Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
7. A preposition is not a good word to end a sentence with.
8. Remember to not ever split infinitives.
9. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
10. Alway’s use apostrophe’s correctly.
11. Make each singular pronoun agree with their antecedents.
12. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
13. Proofread your writing to make sure you don’t words out.

Top Seven Tips for Writing Articles on the Internet

Online readers love information, but be sure your information is crisp, clean, clear and concise.

1. Keep your paragraphs short, even a line or two. Online readers will ignore long batches of words in long paragraphs, whether in an ezine or at a Web site. That costs the author a lot of book sales. Respect readers who want material short and sweet.

2. Write tips in their correct format. First, use a verb as a command. Follow it by the cost of not doing it. Then, end with a positive comment. Use this three-sentence formula to bring the curious to you.

3. Make your heading compelling. If you haven't tested it on associates, or haven't edited it at least five times, it says "lackluster." People will delete it or click on to something new. Which one will you read? "How to Write an Article," or "Sell More Books by Writing a Short Article?"

4. Get to the point quickly-in the title and the first line. Keep your introduction down to a sentence or two, the same for a conclusion.

5. Tell your readers what you want them to do. They are waiting for your magic formula to make them richer, healthier, or enjoy great relationships. Make your copy strong, clear, and direct.

6. Target your article to your preferred audience. Not everyone will want your information, so include your audience in the title or introduction. When you focus your information, you write more compelling, focused copy that your readers will love. They will reward you by checking to where your book is sold.

7. Eliminate all superfluous words such as adjectives and adverbs like "ly" and passive verbs. Because of a lack of effort, novices ruin their work with sentences full of "is" and "was" linking verbs instead of bold verbs. Neither books, nor articles will sell with these "slugs."

Keep these tips in mind, so that your article will bring folks to you, your service, your Web site, and your products.

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Judy Cullins: author, publisher, book coach Author of Ten Non-techie Ways to Market Your Book Online and Write your eBook or Other Short Book-Fast! http://www.bookcoaching.com/products.shtml Subscribe to FREE ezine "The Book Coach Says..." mailto:Judy@bookcoaching.com

New Google Site Maps Feature In XSitePro

2005-06-27T10:31:00.000-07:00

I guess you have been reading recently about how you can get your site registered faster in Google by creating a specially formatted site map in XML, haven't you?

If so you're probably excited about the potential.

You should be.

It's definitely something worth doing and if you are familiar with building site maps and creating XML files it's easily done but if you're not I have some terrific news for you.

Good News For Xsitepro Users!

In the new version of XSitePro, which is due out within the next two weeks, there is a new feature that does it for you - YES - absolutely ALL of it! You can just pour yourself a long slow drink, put your feet up, and enjoy the summer sunshine.

There are already lots of great new features in the new release, but I wanted to let you know about the addition of the powerful Google SiteMaps feature because there is such a buzz about it at the moment.

Here's how it works. It's really simple.

1. Just click on the Google Site Maps button in XSitePro.

2. Enter the details for your site

3. Click the publish button to publish your site

and that's it. Just three steps.

Whenever you publish your site the Google Sitemap XML will be updated automatically. This is very powerful stuff because it means it updates the last modified dates in the XML file without you having to lift a finger (you don't even need to know what an XML file is) and this is something that Google really does like to see.

When you use this new feature the chances of you appearing in the Google search engine sooner rather than later are increased dramatically.

This new feature will be available in the new release and will be available for free to all current registered users.

So, if you are not currently a registered user of XSitePro don't risk paying extra for the upgrade. Click here and get your hands on this powerful software today.

Not only will it provide you with the most sophisticated Google XML Site Map creation tool available, but you'll also get all the other benefits that XSitePro offers.

Make sure you get it now so you don't risk having to pay extra for an upgrade. If you buy it now you are GUARANTEED to get the brand new version at absolutely no additional cost as soon as it is released.

All the best

Oliver

How To Launch A Site And A Product With Less Than $50

2005-06-24T14:28:00.000-07:00

Well, what happened this week?

- I found articles and news for my blogs. I posted them in one session and relied on the future posting plugin to dispatch them as the week days went by.
- I searched for a new niche to launch. I managed to found (cheap) resell and modification rights to an original product. Frankly, it is really not worth your time to spend time creating products when you can find them so cheap! Time is better spent marketing to earn truckloads of money!
- Then I used Haden's Keyword Report and Keyword Locator tool to choose the most adequate keywords. With these keywords, I went to http://www.deleteddomains.com/ to grab a great deleted domain name, hosting being provided by Revenue Insider.
- Time now for me to build a quick site with XSitePro!

To your prosperity

Oliver

Free Script - Amazon Grabber

2005-06-23T13:20:00.000-07:00

This free script grabs products from Amazon.com and neatly displays them on your site with your affiliate code embedded.
The products are randomly displayed based on a list of key terms that you supply.
This is a great way to boost your Amazon commissions.
Get it here.

Adsense - Estimate How Much You Will Get Paid For A Click

2005-06-22T10:54:00.000-07:00

1. Open an Adwords account and play around with it.

2. Check what people are paying per click for your page keywords by using Google's AdWords TrafficEstimatorSandbox tool.

3. Divide that number by 3 and you will get a rough estimation of what revenue you can realistically expect your average revenue per click.

4. Don't forget to target if possible high paying Adsense keywords to maximize your revenue!

How to Craft Cash-Creating Climactic Copy

2005-06-21T13:16:00.000-07:00

Have you ever picked up a book off the shelf at a local bookstore, read the front and back covers, opened it up and, after reading a few pages, just couldn't put it down?

Do you remember, after buying the book, how you flipped each page with an almost excruciating curiosity because the story was so tantalizing, you became increasingly riveted to the book with each subsequent chapter?

Copy is, or should be, the same.

Look at it this way: Good copy makes a good case. But great copy tells a good story. A great copywriter is also a great salesperson. But all great copywriters AND all great salespeople also have one thing in common...

... They are also great storytellers.

The closer your copy reads like a compelling story -- keeping the reader interested and engaged, hanging on to every word -- the greater your chances she will read your copy until the end and, of course, buy.

Your story should tickle the reader's curiosity and pull her into the copy. Each new idea introduced should build on the other, pulling the reader further and deeper into the salesletter. Your copy should almost mesmerize the reader to the point she's in a trance-like state, totally engrossed in your story.

Each paragraph and each word crescendos and prepares you, step-by-step, for the climactic twist in the story's plot.

The climax, of course, is the offer.

And the plot, in copywriting, is called the "platform."

To read the rest of this great Michel Fortin article that will help you write great landing pages, go to
http://michelfortin.com/archives/2005/06/how_to_craft_ca.htm

Google AdSense Stop Words

2005-06-20T02:11:00.000-07:00

This site offers a few suggested "Stop Words", which MAY prevent normal Adsense ads from
being shown. These reputed stop-words cause PSAs (Public Service Ads) to be
substituted, instead of normal AdWords ads. PSAs do not pay any money, but count
as impressions, thereby diluting your AdSense statistics.

N.B.: This adsense word list is pure webmaster speculation.
NONE of the words below are proven stop-words, but ALL the words have been mentioned by webmasters, as POSSIBLE AdSense stop words.

In no way, is this meant to be a comprehensive stop-word list.
It is intended to help direct your SEO thinking in your particular situation.
The words are grouped by category, to make associations easier.

Grab the list here.

Free Jay Abraham Report: 29 Simple Ways To Produce A Profit In Your Business Immediately

2005-06-17T14:35:00.000-07:00

Jay Abraham just released a free pdf report called :
The Windfall Profits Paradox: How You Can Build Tremendous Long Term Business Wealth and Success Using Short Term “Windfall-Generating Opportunity” Thinking

Within this report, Jay Abraham gives you 29 stunningly simple ways to produce a profit windfall in your business immediately.

Read it thoroughly and, and if you agree that it makes sense to take the next step, pick ONE of the ideas and implement it in your business.

Pick the easiest, most doable, most success-and-profit-certain one.

Don’t try to do them all at one time, no matter how appealing the thought is.

Jay has discovered that people who are most successful with his principles and methods, pick a technique and work it until it is integrated into every facet of their business…then they pick another technique and work THAT into every facet of their business.

In this way, you’ll be assured that your profits will be enduring rather than just a one time, temporary phenomena.

Which is where the real money is…

Grab this report by right clicking then "save as" here.

WordPress Posts on the Fly

2005-06-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

“Press it" basically gives you the ability to put a link in your favorites.

The, while your surfing, if you find a page you want to comment on and make a quick post about, you click the link and the form pops up with the link already in the post...

Add a few comments, put it in the appropriate category, and submit...

It shows up instantly in your Blog!

Give it a try. It's really easy, and makes blogging and adding information to your WordPress site fast and easy.

Get it at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_It

Free Tutorial For XSitePro

2005-06-15T13:43:00.000-07:00

Some people told me they felt a little daunted when they first start using XSitePro.

This is totally normal.

And completely understandable as Paul Smithson has intentionally built a LOT of functionality into the software.

The upside to this is that once you get to grips with your new software you really do have a VERY powerful tool at your disposal, but like anything worth achieving, it can take a little effort.

But here's the great news!

The learning curve for XSitePro is a short one.

Before you know it you'll be using the software like a true professional and really benefiting from all the great tools it puts at your disposal.

The secret is to go through the tutorial from start to finish - don't skip anything - fellow every step of every lesson.

The tutorial has been specially written to guide you through the essentials in the least amount of time possible.

By completing the tutorial you will go from inexperienced to experienced user in the shortest period of time. By the time you finish it you really will know what XSitePro is all about, you'll be able to see the power, and you'll know how to perform many of the most important tasks.

In a nutshell this is what the tutorial teaches you:

Lesson 1 - Adding a New Project and Web Site
Lesson 2 - Generating the overall Page Layout
Lesson 3 - Creating your first Web Pages with XSitePro
Lesson 4 - Generating Site Maps and Links Page
Lesson 5 - Adding Contact Pages and a Privacy Statement
Lesson 6 - Creating content rich sites with XSitePro
Lesson 7 - How to add powerful Pop-ups, Pop-Unders and Pop-Ins
Lesson 8 - An Essential Report : Generate a Ready to print To Do List
Lesson 9 - Optimizing your site for the Search Engines
Lesson 10 - Publishing your site to the Internet

Paul Smithson provides the tutorial in two different formats. As a help file that you can access by selecting "View Tutorial" on the Help menu or as a pdf document, which you can access from the XSitePro group on your Start button.

If you are anything like me you might find it easier to follow tutorials when you have a hard copy so you might want to consider printing it out.

Have fun with XSitePro!

Oliver

Wordpress Posts: How To Make An Activated Link Looks Like Normal Text

2005-06-14T09:50:00.000-07:00

Context: When you use a free article from another author, it is a moral obligation to have the link back to the author site activated (i.e. a visitor can click on it).

Problem: if your goal is that a visitor click on a adsense link or a affiliate link, you don't want your visitor be attracted by the author site link.

Solution: make author site activated link looks like normal text.

To do that, add the following to your WordPress template style.css

.storycontent a:link    {
/* Applies to unvisited links of class storycontent */
text-decoration: none;
background-color: white;
color:            black;
}
.storycontent a:visited {
/* Applies to visited links of class storycontent */
text-decoration: none;
background-color: white;
color:            black;
}
.storycontent a:hover   {
/* Applies to links under the pointer of class storycontent */
text-decoration: none;
background-color: white;
color:            black;
}
.storycontent a:active {
/* Applies to activated links of class storycontent */
text-decoration: none;
background-color: black;
color: white;
}

Oliver

Warning : Auto-Excerpt WordPress Plugin Bug

2005-06-13T11:04:00.000-07:00

Hello all!

I hope that you did enjoy your week-end.

For me, along with some great quality time with my family, I managed

to prepare future posts to 3 blogs for the whole week.
to notice a bug in the Auto-Excerpt plugin I told you about last post: this plugin does not like ' character and put garbage in the excerpt. So beware because if you chose the "summary only" option for your RSS WordPress feed, it will screw your RSS feed.
By the way, a good resource to check your RSS feed validity is http://www.feedvalidator.org/
to further improve my XSitePro knowledge, definitively the killer application of the first part of the year! Creating and managing a site is so easy with it! And you don't even have to know html!

See you tomorrow for more great WordPress tricks,

Oliver

Automatic Generation Of Excerpt And Description Meta Tag In WordPress Blog

2005-06-10T13:29:00.000-07:00

If you recently have a site indexed by Google, you have surely noted that Google uses again the description meta tag for its description of your site.

Problem:

Description meta tag is missing in the default WordPress template!

So...

In header.php, add the following code in between the <Head> tags under the <Title> tag:

<?php if(is_single()) :
get_posts('numberposts=1');
foreach ($posts as $post) :
$excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
endforeach;
?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo htmlentities($excerpt); ?>" />
<?php endif; ?>

Then your post excerpt will fill the description meta tag.

Of course, this hack will work only if the excerpt already exists.

So ...

Use Auto-Excerpt plugin: when you publish a post, if you don’t manually create an excerpt for your post, it takes the first 50 characters and inputs that for you.

NB: I recommend you to edit the plugin file and increase the 50 characters value (150 is fine for me).

Get the Auto-Excerpt plugin at
http://blog.morydd.net/archives/2005/02/18/auto-excerpt/

Oliver

Most Useful Free Keywords Tools

2005-06-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

If you can't afford the best keyword tool Keyword Locator, I have good news for you!

Phil Tanny's Keywords-For-You offers you the following:

Keywords Brainstormer is a free service which provides a quick and easy way to find new keywords related to your project. Create, manage, save and download multiple lists of your keywords.
Keywords Organizer is a free online tool that helps you manage the data from your Wordtracker Competition Research reports. Manage multiple keyword lists in an easy to read display with sortable columns. Add/delete keywords from any list. Email yourself reports that highlight the most promising keywords.

You can use Phil Tanny's Keywords-For-You tools at http://keywords-for-you.com/

Other useful free tools:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often.
http://www.goodkeywords.com
is a software to find targeted keywords in Overture and various other engines.
NB: v2 was released on May 20 2005

Good Keywords v2 also include several tools:
The site popularity meter allows you to measure your success by comparing your traffic with that of your competitors.
The link popularity meter is for checking how many sites link to you. The results are obtained from search engines like Altavista, Lycos, MSN and Google.
The keyword phrase builder creates hundreds of new keyword phrases from your own word sets.
Type in a keyword and generate all possible misspellings for that keyword with a single click. You can also configure the misspelling generator to generate keywords based on different criteria (like keyword proximity error, missed character, double character entry, etc.)
Use web page explorer to study web pages including keyword density. Use direct http access or a built-in internal browser to obtain the web page contents.

Oliver

How To Make Wordpress Send Pingbacks In The Future When You Publish A Future Dated Post

2005-06-08T07:32:00.000-07:00

By default, WordPress sends pingbacks and trackbacks when you push the Publish button, regardless of the date you’ve assigned to the post. This means that if you future-date a post, any sites in your Update Services list will be notified of the fact that you posted, even though no one will yet be able to read it.

So you need WordPress 1.5.1.2 and a free plugin: Wp-Cron

WP-Cron Future Pings plugin suppresses the default ping and trackback action when you post a new item dated in the future. Then (roughly) every 15 minutes the plugin checks to see if any future-dated posts are now visible to readers. If they are, the pings and trackbacks are sent!

WP-Cron is available for free at
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2005/05/21/wp-cron-update-1/

Installation:
Extract WP-Cron and WP-Cron Future Pings plugins from the zip file and upload them in your Wordpress plugins directory.
Then activate both plugins in your admin section.

Oliver

SEO Friendly Blog Installation

2005-06-07T07:21:00.000-07:00

Using templates given in the membership, it is time to install WordPress, one of the best blog software available (and free).

Wordpress is very easy to tweak for SEO (CSS based templates, clean url(permalink) and some plugins) with automatic ping via Pingomatic.

You can easily prepare your posts one month before and WP will publish them one a day and will ping (with a plugin) at that date.

You can import RSS feeds as well as post via email.

Of course, you can include Adsense around the blog or even in your posts (with a plugin).

To tweak a little more your template, I recommend you "Dissection of a WordPress theme", a great tutorial about WordPress themes at http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themeguides

In the following days, I will tell you about the best WP plugins.

Oliver

The Ultimate Web Page Builder For Search Engine Optimized Sites?

2005-06-06T06:20:00.000-07:00

For years, I designed web sites with Notepad. I really had no use of bells and whistles of the much more sophisticated other html editors.

Until last month. I switched from Notepad to XSitePro.

Notepad is now rusting in its directory and I really can't see how I will ever come back to it!

Why?

Well, XSitePro is of course and first, a WYSIWIG web page builder that will also FTP your pages on your host.

But XSitePro is also much more as it allows you to obtain for your site the kind of professional website design that would take days on other programs - in a fraction of the time.

XSitePro has a lot of unique features that you will make a huge difference in your search engine rank.

Here are the features I like the most:

Verify pages if they are search engine friendly and make suggestions where necessary.
Add article pages to your site in just two minutes using the fill-in-the-blanks template.
Redirect pages to hide your affiliate id and prevent your commission to be stolen.
Manage all of your affiliate schemes using the Affiliate Wizard, which means you won’t have to go hunting through old e-mails to find the username and password for someone’s affiliate administration page or to find the code you need to include when adding a link.
Insert an affiliate link for any of the schemes you are a member of into any page on your site in a single mouse click, which means no more cutting and pasting e-mailing links into documents - it’s all done for you.
Split very long documents into up to one hundred (or more) pages that include complete page navigation menus, which means you can create dozens, even of hundreds of pages in an instant (from public domain books for exemple).
Built in instant always up-to-date sitemap.
Choose from three different types of pop-up, including one that will help you avoid getting trapped by pop-up blockers.
Dynamically generates pages from your keyword list. Rather than create pages one at a time, you can create dozens, even hundreds of skeleton pages that you can then go through and add appropriate content to. Each page that is created will already have a name based on the keyword, the keyword in the title, and your selected primary, secondary and generic keywords entered into the meta tags.
Add Google Adsense ads into your web pages with just two clicks of your mouse, which means you can add an extra income stream without any extra effort.
Add a links page to your site that looks great and is easy to update, which means you can benefit from a reciprocal linking campaign (i.e. exchanging links with other sites).
Make sure that you behave honourably with your visitors data by instantly adding a privacy statement page.
Produce a list of all of the links leaving any of your pages, which lets you see how optimized the links are for your chosen keywords and phrases.
Use the Design Wizards to add standard design elements in seconds. For example, if you want a 100% money-back guarantee graphic in your sales letter just select it from the dozens that are available. Or how about a testimonials box. Choose testimonials from the Design Wizard, enter the testimonial, the name of the person who made the testimonial, select a photo if you have one, click okay and the testimonial will appear in your sales letter with all the correct formatting done for you. And then there are bullet points. Choose from check marks, check boxes, crosses, and colored shapes. There's no need to worry about how the bullets will be laid out on your page as the Design Wizard will look after all of that for you. The Design Wizards will save you lots time and help you to give a really professional look to every site you create.

Paul Smithson (the software author) did really a great job! And I'm not talking of the very detailled manual, the step-by-step tutorials and the frequent (free) updates...

So if you want to spend your time more on the keyword research and the promotion of your site rather than in its building, XSitePro is definitively the tool you need.

I invite you to check by yourself by going to XSitePro site and watching the video Paul made about what you can do with XSitePro.

Oliver

How I Use Free Content For My Site

2005-06-03T05:44:00.000-07:00

Using SEO optimized templates given by Haden, I started developing my site. As english is not my native language, I based my content on two resources:

US government site info: a lot of info on .gov site are copyright free.
NB: be sure to check for each site you borrow content!
Reusable/rewritable articles from InfoGoRound.

Infogoround is a new membership site that gives you content. For $24.95 a month, you have access to hundreds of articles, with more added daily. And you’re allowed to reuse these articles anyway you want.

What's great is that in order to expand the number of articles InfoGoRound proposes, just by writing and submitting one of your own articles each month, you get a rebate of the $24.95 a month membership.

By the way, if you're one of the next 400 people to join InfoGoRound, you also get exclusive, private label resale rights to monthly, in-demand niche information product.

Each private label product release comes with resale rights. You can do just about anything you want with these products. Modify them. Sign YOUR name as author. Insert your own affiliate links. Use them to set up content- based web-sites and Google Adsense "portals". Turn them into "polished" PDF or EXE format and offer them for up to $25-50 or more a copy.

You can get more info about InfoGoRound here.

P.S. Upon joining you will have instant access to the main IGR members area. IGR will email you the separate (private) LINK to the private label product section separately (within 24 hours following your order).

Oliver

Some Great Adsense Tips

2005-06-02T06:54:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, people forget that the best tips about how using adsense successfully is simply Google.

For instance, very few adsense users know of that page where you can learn:

Where should you place Google ads on your pages?
Which ad format should you use?
Should you put AdSense on all of your pages?
What color palettes are the most successful?
How can multiple ad units be used effectively?
Keeping your filter list small
Monetizing search from your pages
Enhance your pages with link units
How can you get your site included in Google’s search results?
Keep track of changes with channels

Learn it all at
http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html

Oliver

It's Time To Choose A Domain Name

2005-06-01T01:45:00.000-07:00

Following my reseach with the Keyword Locator tool , I collected around 400 keywords around "nice widget".

Each keywords will be extended into a full page on the future site (more about this later).

Next step is to register a domain name: I know you can find .info for less than $3 but I chose a .com as they are also cheap these days. Hey, remember that the target is $500 monthly so $0.42 more a month for a .com extension will not make me broke!

A reminder: a good domain is:

short,
easy to say and spell,
descriptive,
memorable,
distinctive, and
keyword-rich.

At least, I made sure that nicewidget was part of the url.

That done, I requested hosting to Haden, hosting being included in Revenue Membership.

Next step: build the site...

The "Marginal Net Worth" And The "Lifetime Value" Of A Customer Explained

2005-05-31T00:36:00.000-07:00

These two concepts appear again and again in Jay Abraham writings. And it's important that you master them.

Why, because of marketing leverage.

What is "marketing leverage?" Marketing leverage is getting much better results for the same amount of money and effort.

So, here is how Jay Abraham explain the concepts:

"The marginal net worth and consequent lifetime value of a customer is the total aggregate profit your business makes, over the life of an average customer - including all residual sales - less all advertising, marketing, and all product or service fulfillment expenses.

Let's say your average new customer brings you a profit of $75 on the first sale. He repurchases three more times a year, and the average reorder is $300. On each $300 reorder you make $150 gross profit, and the average patronage life is two years. Every new customer in your door is thus worth $1,050 to you.

I got $1,050 by adding up the $74 initial profit, plus the three purchases per year at $150 profit per purchase, multiplied by the two years he or she remains a customer.

If a customer will be worth $1,050, and it costs you $30 in marketing and advertising to bring him/her in, then every $30 you spend is worth $1,050. You would be foolish not to increase your advertising budget to produce more customers. In other words, spend everything you can justify to bring in a customer as long as he/she costs you less than he or she earns you.

To calculate the lifetime value of your customers, do the following:

1) Compute precisely what a customer costs you to obtain, by dividing your current marketing budget by the number of customers it is not producing.

2) Then compute the cost of a prospect the same way.

3) Then compute how many sales you get for so many prospects (the percentage of prospects who become your customers) and the cost of converting those prospects into customers.

4) Next, average the cost to generate an outright sale, and the cost to generate, then covert, a prospect. This is your average cost for producing a customer immediately.

5) Then subtract the amount determined above from your customer's average initial purchase. This will give you your profit on their first purchase.

6) Then compute your average repeat sale and your average profit on that sale.

7) Then compute how much additional profit a customer could be worth to you over their lifetime of patronage by determining how many times most customers come back, and multiply that by the average profit per repeat sale. Be conservative.

Repeat sales and ancillary sales are where the big money is or can be. That's the "back end." It's one of the keys to successful marketing. Once someone buys from you, it's much easier to get them to buy again and again. It's less expensive, too, because you don't have to spend as much money on advertising as you do on the front-end.

You can resell, up-sell, and cross-sell all of your customers.

Reselling is simply selling them the same thing they bought before. Up-selling is getting them to buy a better, more expensive or more sophisticated product. Cross-selling is getting them to buy something else that's related to the original product.

What are you selling on the back-end right now? What could you be selling? How does this impact the lifetime value of your average customer?"

This is an extract of a must read Jay Abraham article: Q&A with Jay - The Thirty Most Stimulating and Universal Questions Ever Addressed

Enjoy!

Oliver

Part 2 Of Finding A Starving Crowd

2005-05-30T07:29:00.000-07:00

A ideal niche is not always easy to find. Outside the keyword selection done as in last post, here are what to look for:

a niche with some competition (ie there is a market) but not too much (ex: internet marketing)
a niche where they are big bucks products to be an afiliate for
a niche with a good sized online community with forums, newsletters, articles based sites
a niche where top 10 results in Google for main keywords are poorly SE optimised sites
a niche with a good variety of keywords

Oliver

A Critical Concept To Your Online Success

2005-05-29T13:47:00.000-07:00

The first step to online success is to focus enough on a concept that is absolutely critical : find a starving crowd and then feed them happily with your web site content.

The origin of this concept comes from Gary Halbert :

"As you may or may not know, every once in a while I give a class on copywriting and/or selling by mail. During these classes, one of the questions I like to ask my students is: "If you and I both owned a hamburger stand and we were in a contest to see who could sell the most hamburgers, what advantages would you most like to have on your side to help you win?"

The answers vary. Some of the students say they would like to have the advantage of having superior meat from which to make their burgers. Others say they want sesame seed buns. Others mention location. Someone usually wants to be able to offer the lowest prices.

And so on.

Whatever. In any case, after my students are finished telling me what advantages they would most like to have, I usually say to them something like this: "O.K., I'll give you every single advantage you have asked for. I, myself, only want one advantage and, if you will give it to me, I will (when it comes to selling burgers) whip the pants off all of you!"

"What advantage do you want?" they ask.

"The only advantage I want," I reply...

"Is... A Starving Crowd!"

Think about it. When it comes to direct marketing, the most profitable habit you can cultivate is the habit of constantly being on the lookout for groups of people (markets) who have demonstrated that they are starving (or, at least hungry) for some particular product or service."

So how do you measure this hunger?

Well, Haden gives us a monthly updated file: the Keyword Report.

The Keyword Report contains 6000 AdSense Keywords sorted by Cost Per Click (CPC), Clicks Per Day, and alphabetically. The keywords in the report range from $0.95 to $36.00 and contain no adult, gambling, or pharmaceuticals.

So my first step was to study this report, choose some keywords following Haden's advices, played with them in search engines and in Keyword Locator in order to select the right keywords (by the way, Keyword Locator tool is really one the most amazing piece of software I've ever used).

I finaly chose "nice widget" as the theme of my first web site.

NB: keywords names have been changed to protect the innocents!

Part 3 - How I Plan To Generate A $500 Monthly Residual Income With Revenue Insider Starting From Nothing.

2005-05-29T00:09:00.000-07:00

About achieving the $500 mark:

You should FOCUS on the $500 mark goal and use the months spent to reach that mark as the FOUNDATION of your business. Then, and only then, you will build around a FRAMEWORK to success.

Huge successful marketer Jim Sweeny explained it better than I:

"In order to explain building this business to you, I'm going to draw a building. The most important factor in a building is the foundation. Building a business is just like building a building. Exactly the same kinds of things apply.
The hardest work you may very well do on a building is in the foundation. It may even take a good portion of your time, if not most of your time. It's the dirtiest part of the work you are going to do.
It's the part that one day will be covered up and nobody will ever see and one day somebody will forget all about it. But, nevertheless, the building stands on the foundation. It either stands or crumbles on the foundation. You have to build a strong foundation that will stand the test of time."
- Jim Sweeny

Unfortunately, the most difficult step in launching a business is also the first step.

Main reason is that people just love to procrastinate, to the delight of most marketing "gurus".

Do you know the three frogs story?

There were three frogs and they were floating on a leaf in the middle of a river and one of them decides to jump.
How many frogs are left on the leaf? Anybody know?
Two?
No.
Three.
Exactly, because deciding to jump and jumping are two totally different things.

So don't procrastinate acting another minute. JUST ACT!

As I said some time ago in Anthony Blake Forum, most of the people who buy marketing courses don't act. More, they buy them by truckloads, hoping to find the magical formula to get rich quick in their pajamas.

Sorry, but as Vidal Sassoon once said:
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."

But that fact doesn't prevent the continuous launch of hyped products by "gurus", products all wrapped around the following:

"I earned a six figure income in only 3 months and with my blueprint, you can do it too!"

Bulls**t!

Most people selling "how to get rich quick" type stuff on the internet are lying: their claim that what they do can be easily replicated is a myth.

Most of the time, their success is linked to a very well focused niche. And that niche can't be replicated.

Or their "$65000 in 24h" was only possible because of their already established credibility and/or huge optin list/high traffic site.

Not only you will not get rich using that information, but you will lose a lot of time and hence, a lot of money, trying to make it work for you.

"Wasted time is wasted money"
- Paul Barrs (and many others)

So you have to build your OWN foundation.

So stay tuned on this blog!

Part 2 - How I Plan To Generate A $500 Monthly Residual Income With Revenue Insider Starting From Nothing

2005-05-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

About residual income:

If you are not familiar with the residual income concept, here's a quick reminder:

If you are like most people these days, you have to work for a living.

If you don't work, you don't get paid.

You get what is called linear income: your income continues only as long as you continue the work.

When you stop working, the income stops coming.

Residual income is different.

Residual income is that when you do something right just one time, you get paid over and over again for what you did.

Sounds much better, doesn't it?

For instance, residual income can be the royalty check that you receive every month for the book or the song you wrote some years ago.

You did it right one time, and now you collect every month!!!

Residual income sounds nice, doesn't it? Unfortunately, most people have trouble developing a residual income.

Over the next weeks, I will reveal to you how to do that, following Revenue Insider concepts.

And don't worry, I will not ask you to sing, write music, or write a best-seller!

No, the key to residual income is to leverage your time, your efforts, your money.

You have to build your business so that it can continue to build on your previous efforts and from each individual sales.

For instance, you have to follow-up with back-end products until the prospect say "stop!" and not before.

If you use affiliate products, you should only promote the affiliate programs which allows you to get the buyer email address or which gives you residual income.

Outside for back-end products, one shot affiliated products SHOULD BE AVOIDED: you will only give cheap prospects for the high profit back-end products of the affiliate program owner.

So if you have only one thing to remember from this site, it is the following:

"If you only sell something to people once, you are wasting your time!"
- Oliver Peters

to be continued

Part 1 - How I Plan To Generate A $500 Monthly Residual Income With Revenue Insider Starting From Nothing

2005-05-27T13:35:00.000-07:00

I hear you: "Oliver, only $500?"

Well, for 99% of people, a $500 monthly residual income is more than enough (and more than they will ever earn with their typical affiliate program).

I recently read a Tom "Big Al" Schreiter's book where he relates a wonderful story about a man who came into the business with the goal of making $500 a month. Not $10,000 or $20,000. Just $500 a month. The man achieved that goal fairly easily and stayed at that $500 income level for a number of years. That didn't seem very ambitious to Tom - especially for such an obviously gifted and capable guy - so he asked the fellow about it. Here's what the man told Tom:

He took his initial $500 and accelerated the mortgage payment on his house, paying it off in record time. He then used his owned-free-and-clear equity to buy a second property, rented it out, and applied the "extra" $500 in the same manner he had with his own house. In less than five years, he ended up owning five income properties and was financially set for the rest of his life.

All by virtue of his $500 per month.

So my goal will be to show you it is possible to reach the $500 monthly residual income mark.

Statistics in the industry showed that if you helped your affiliates to create at least a $500/monthly income, they would NEVER leave you.

Just think for a minute........ what would an extra $500 a month, if applied to your current debt situation, materialize in just a few short month??

Statistics show that a majority of 2nd income earners in a home could be brought home with as little as $500/month!!

What kind of a Christmas would your family enjoy if you added $500/month to your Christmas account?

How much sooner could you pay off your home (saving thousands in interest and creating a huge financial asset) if you applied an extra $500/month to principle!!!!!!

Have you ever stopped to calculate what $500/month put aside in a mutual fund for the next 30 years would amount to??!!!!!

(Would you believe: well over a MILLION DOLLARS!!)

And finally, government reports have indicated that an extra $500/month would solve 80% of the bankruptcies across the nation!!

These are just some of the reasons why your goal in any program should be simply to create an additional $500 in monthly cash flow.

Why? If you could make an additional $500/month.....then you would KNOW that you can teach others to do the same!! And when that happens, you will be reaching more higher income levels.

to be continued…

Part 0 - How I Plan To Generate A $500 Monthly Residual Income With Revenue Insider Starting From Nothing

2005-05-26T04:41:00.000-07:00

Object of this blog is to show you in "real time" how I plan to generate a $500 monthly residual income with Revenue Insider concepts starting from nothing.

Of course, even if I will give you a lot of free or low cost resources and my general actions, don't expect me to reveal you exact Haben's technique or urls of my sites.

So, this blog is mainly here to

show you that it is possible to generate a $500 monthly residual income when you follow a blueprint,
gives you the free (and very low cost) tools and resources as well as little know techniques you need to master if you want to win some passive revenue,
help me to stay focused and in action, persistent focused action being the key of any success.

By the way, english is not my native language, so please be kind with grammar and syntax mistakes, thank you!

And be sure to read the following legal words:

There is no guarantee that you will earn any money using the techniques and ideas in this blog. Examples in this blog are not to be interpreted as a promise or guarantee of earnings. Earning potential is entirely dependent on the person using this blog ideas and techniques. I do not purport this as a “get rich scheme.”

Your level of success in attaining the results claimed in this blog depends on the time you devote to the program, ideas and techniques mentioned, your finances, knowledge and various skills. Since these factors differ according to individuals, I cannot guarantee your success or income level. Nor am I responsible for any of your actions.

Materials in this blog may contain information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of the securities litigation reform act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give my expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They use words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with a description of potential earnings or financial performance.

Any and all forward looking statements here are intended to express my opinion of earnings potential. Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to mine or anybody elses, in fact no guarantees are made that you will achieve any results from these ideas and techniques.

That said, let's get started!

Oliver