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Here’s the scoop: Derek was challenged by a frustrated blog reader to “put his money where his mouth is” and PROVE it’s possible to build a niche website from scratch in ONE WEEK or less.

… And Derek’s agreed to do it!

Not only that — he’s going to videotape the whole process!

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I’ve talked to a lot of people who are very skeptical that a “Guru” like Derek could actually build a new niche business from just an idea.

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A massive amount of people have already signed up for a “front-row” seat to see if Derek can practice what he preaches. To be honest, a lot of people are not sure if he’s going to pull this off.

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Increase Sales By Flying Under
Your Prospects’ “Radar Defenses”

- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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How do you persuade someone to do what you want them to do?

A whole world of marketing exists around us trying to do
that every minute of the day. Do you even notice it anymore
or, like your prospects, have you subconsciously set up a
system of “radar defenses” against the daily bombardment of
marketing messages?

Take a minute and count up the advertising methods which
fight for your attention (and money) every day. Just the
basic list includes:

· Yellow page ads

· Newspaper and magazine ads

· Postcards, catalogs, and direct mail circulars in your
“snail mail” box

· Radio pitches interrupting the flow of your favorite songs

· TV ads - about 20 minutes worth per hour now

· Hundreds of storefronts, “mega” malls, and strip malls

· Highway billboards by the thousands

· Circulars hung on your doorknob

· Illegal signs on stop signs and telephone poles

· Legitimate email messages

· Spam email or UCE (without permission commercial email)

Just these 11 sources can overwhelm your brain with
marketing messages. Like trapped rats, people develop
defenses against this never-ending onslaught. They throw up
a wall or a “radar defense” that goes into action the minute
they smell a “pitch” or a sales job. Don’t blame them. We
all do it!

So how can you get around this psychological wall against
the constant sales and marketing messages? Well, the answer
does NOT lie in hitting people with more frequent and
obnoxious advertising or sly, sneaky tactics. You might get
them to trust you for a minute, but it will backfire in the
long run.

You must do two things instead:

1. First, you must establish credibility for yourself and
your business as an expert.

2. Second, you must reduce their fears about doing business
with you.

Doing these two things will get you past their defenses and
allow you the opportunity to persuade them to buy your
product.

So how do you accomplish these two “simple” things? What
will win someone’s attention, raise your credibility, and
lower their fear factor all at the same time? The one-word
answer really applies to most everyone.

Trust!

If a seller can get behind your defenses with information
which makes you trust them, then that credibility will carry
over into a sale much of the time.

How can you get this credibility?

Well, take this next fact as online marketing “gospel,” for
many people have proven its effectiveness.

Fact: Publishing and promoting with free articles gives you
one of the most powerful opportunities available to tip the
buyer’s credibility scale in your favor.

How can we prove this works? Quite easily actually. Take a
break from reading this and go check out a newspaper or
magazine for a minute.

Which do you trust more, the ads or the articles? Most
people will choose the articles hands down. Why? Because
the articles don’t try to “sell” you anything. Instead, they
hand out useful information for educational or other
practical purposes.

Most of us grew up in a culture which says we can believe
and “trust” what appears in the standard “news” or
“information” format. In other words, if it appears in
print, then we can believe and trust the author.

So go ahead! Use this lifetime of conditioning to your
advantage in selling your products and services!

Very few things will create an atmosphere of trust and
confidence in people as reading one of your articles on a
subject that greatly interests them. It shows you know your
business. It also demonstrates you will do more than just
try to sell them something.

Publishing articles literally lets you fly under their
advertising “radar defenses.”

So remember these points when deciding whether or not to use
articles to promote your business:

1. Few things create as much trust and confidence in the
minds of potential customers as reading an article you wrote
on a subject which specifically and intensely interests
them.

2. Articles establish credibility quickly because, right or
wrong, we’ve all been trained to trust the “news.”

3. An article, or series of articles, will differentiate you
from the competition, who bombard people with nothing but
sales messages.

4. Providing content-rich, non-sales-oriented articles will
also help build and solidify your relationship with existing
customers so they give you repeat business.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-
author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to
use free articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted
visitors to your website or affiliate links!

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Gobala Krishnan, blogging expert, reveals how to create beautiful niche websites, add high quality content and magically attract thousands of free visitors from Search Engines with very little effort - all with a free software called Wordpress.

This system is great for beginners because you can actually start from scratch.

This is a great product that actually shows you how to create a Wordpress niche website with no technical knowledge.

The system consists of 7 modules with some bonus products.

Module 1: Massive 156-Page Guide To Making Money with Adsense

Module 2: Plug-in-Profit "Super Adsense" Wordpress Themes

Module 3: EWP Keyword Generator and Adsense Niche Database

Module 4: Step-by-Step Instructional ScreenCam Videos

Module 5: Lifetime Members Support & Exclusive Forum Access

Module 6: The 7-Day "Quick Start" Action Plan

Module 7: Unlimited Premium Directory Text Links

The bonus consists of 4 other blog related products and software.

I like the 8 week no-questions-asked 100% money back guarantee.

Gobala wrote an article on the comparison between Blogger blogs and Wordpress blogs. You can read more about it here.

I am currently using one of his themes as well. It is called ‘Super Adsense Business Theme 2.1′.

You can find more info about this system here.

I ran across this article from Rosalind Gardner and wanted to share it. She has given me permission to re-print it.

It is several years old but I still think her points are valid. Rosalind has become very well respected and I trust her words.

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15 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer

- by Rosalind Gardner

© 2004 Rosalind Gardner - All Rights reserved
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There are HUGE benefits to promoting affiliate programs with your own home-based Internet business, and I’ve come up with a list of 15 great reasons to become an affiliate marketer.

Let’s look at each reason separately:

1. No Production Costs - The cost to develop and produce a new product is prohibitive for almost anyone who wants to start a home-based business. With affiliate programs, production costs aren’t an issue. The product has been developed and proven - all on the merchant’s nickel.

2. Low Cost Set-up - Compared with building a brick and mortar store, starting a home-based Internet business is relatively cheap. You probably already have a desk, Internet-connected computer and word-processing software, which is all the equipment you may need.

3. No Fees for Joining or Licenses to Buy - I often compare doing business as an affiliate, with distributing a line of products in the real world. The biggest difference is that the distributor must often pay for a license to distribute products within a limited geographic region. Affiliate programs, on the other hand, are usually free to join, and geographic market reach is limited only by the affiliate’s ability to promote his web site.

4. Choose From Thousands of Products and Services - What isn’t sold online? That list must be shorter than the one describing all that IS sold online. There are thousands and thousands of affiliate programs selling every product under the sun. That makes it easy to find products related to your current or planned web site.

5. No Sales Experience Needed - When I started my affiliate business, I had absolutely no sales experience. That wasn’t a problem, however. The companies I affiliated with provided excellent marketing material. Using their sales copy, I was able to get my first affiliate site up in less than a day.

6. No Employees - The largest expense of most businesses is employee salaries. Although there might be times when you need or want someone to work for you as an affiliate, it’s doubtful you’ll ever have to worry about hiring full or part-time employees. When you have a project you want to hire out, it is easy to find specialists in every computer-related field who can work for you from the comfort of THEIR own homes. You pay only for the project, and never have to worry about ongoing employee-related benefits and deductions.

7. No Expensive Merchant Accounts Needed - Setting up a merchant account for any business is a time-consuming and costly business. It’s even more tedious for Internet businesses. However, merchant accounts aren’t a concern when you’re an affiliate. The merchant bears that cost and handles all processing of payments. You never have to lose sleep over potential chargebacks, fraud or losing your merchant account when you’re an affiliate.

8. No Inventory to Carry - Even if you live in a small one-bedroom apartment, as an affiliate you can sell large items without storage concerns.

9. No Order-Processing - Forget the problems associated with collecting and storing names, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. The merchant does all that!

10. No Product Shipping - The cost and hassle to prepare and ship products to customers worldwide could be staggering. Affiliates never have to worry about packaging supplies or postal rates.

11. No Customer Service Concerns - Do you hate the prospect of dealing with nasty people or customer complaints? Don’t worry about it! The merchant handles the snivelers.

12. Make Money While You Sleep - What other business allows you as a sole proprietor to keep your doors open and keep making money even when you take breaks or after you go home for the night?

13. The World at Your Doorstep - The Internet is the world’s largest marketplace. You can drive more visitors to your online store in a day, than many small-town merchants sees in his or her brick and mortar business in a year.

14. Minimal Risk - The product you chose isn’t making money? Dump it. Take down your links and promote another! It’s that easy. There are no long-term contracts binding you to products that don’t sell.

15. High Income Potential - If you have a job, your salary or hourly wage is probably pre-determined. Maybe there’s not much, other than working overtime, that you can do to increase your income. With your own affiliate business on the Internet your income potential is limited only by your desire, effort and imagination.

There you have them - all the good reasons to start your own online affiliate marketing business. Start today and benefit from this incredibly simple, cost-effective business opportunity known as affiliate marketing. The time is right, and the time is now.

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Article excerpted from Rosalind Gardner’s “Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 Last Year Selling Other People’s Products Online”. Rosalind is the ‘Net’s most recognized expert on successful online selling as an affiliate marketer.

Visit her site at: Affiliate Business Blueprint

I’ve taken a lot of internet marketing courses and read a lot of ebooks. Most of them talk about the same :

– Sign up for an autoresponder
– Create a squeeze page
– Create a series of emails
– Rinse and repeat

You can make a LOT of money doing this…don’t get me wrong.

But what if you woke up one morning and your autoresponder service got wiped out by some freak of nature?

Here’s another scenario: what if your pay-per-click campaign got shut down? Or new spam laws prevented your emails from getting delivered?

If you aren’t keeping up with the changes in technology (or your autoresponder goes up in smoke) you’re outta luck.

But you can make a lot more if you start harnessing offline marketing in your business.

You see, online marketing is preached as the “holy grail” of marketing.

But ask the big information marketing powerhouses like Agora, Boardroom, and Weiss where the REAL money is made. They absolutely clean house offline… humiliating any online marketer who comes in their path.

Russell Brunson realized this a long time ago and decided to do something about it. He implemented offline marketing into his marketing mix and has tripled his business every year since!

He created a controversial report called the “IM-Myth” where he explains how he did it. He shatters the myth that internet marketing is the “be all-end all” of marketing.

You can check it out here:

==> http://www.kevinkingonline.com/immyth

Believe me, this stuff is the real deal. The marketers who absolutely annihilate their competition are the ones that incorporate offline marketing into the mix.

One of Russell’s techniques brought in massive profits that wouldn’t have been possible online. It’s extremely easy to do, yet hardly anyone’s doing it.

So check out Russell’s report today before you’re competition discovers it.

So download it here:

==> http://www.kevinkingonline.com/immyth

…and be prepared for a huge “A-HA” moment.

One of Russell’s tips he reveals is how he moved his offline list online. This absolutely blew me away, and is something I’m going to implement in my own business immediately. So get it today, right now, while it’s still on your mind.

“Honest Riches” is Honest Work From Home

I wanted to write this review after I got interested in Holly Mann’s book when I found out that she wrote it in based on her own experiences when she first started working from home.

I finally ordered this Internet marketing book. For $37, I don’t think you can go wrong. The Money-Back Guarantee is 56 days. Lots of bonus download material. (Note: The old version has been discontinued. Honest Riches 2 is the new 95 page book filled with new techniques and strategies for the market as it is for 2007.)

Holly has a son and is a disabled American veteran. Her finances were so unstable that she had to sell everything and move to Thailand where she could afford to spend time getting her Internet business started. Within 4 months, she was making $12,000 a month in profits.

Holly’s techniques are completely ethical. Honesty is the basis of her success. No pretending to be something she’s
not.

Many of the suggestions are free to implement. The ones that do require a fee or have to be purchased, she is up front in letting you know. Doesn’t hide anything. She lets the reader decide what is best for them at the time.

She even talks about the basics like business preparation and explains what affiliate marketing is.

• Researching,
• making money without having a website,
• website design and development,
• some open source secrets,
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO),
• list building,
• and many more topics are covered.

Written in a way even the beginner can understand. (Which is what I was looking for.)

Step-by-Step. Inch by Inch. She provides the information.

I feel that this book is worth it. If you’re a beginner, and you don’t know what you want to do to profit on the Internet, this is a great starting place.

When you buy this book you become a life time member of her Affiliate Program. You can then promote and sell her book through Clickbank. As a affiliate you get access to the affiliate web site which is loaded with great information you can use immediately to begin promoting the “Honest Riches 2” Internet Marketing Success guide.

You also get access to her Work From Home forum where you can ask questions or start discussions.

Start your own online Internet marketing business. Get Honest Riches now… Click here!