How To Create Profit Producing Articles and Earn $2000 Per Month!
Dec 2nd
Back in August of 2009 I was earning virtually nothing from this method, and it was frustrating me. I knew that I was able to produce the goods and yet I had never focussed on venturing out to the rest of the world with my product. I had always written my own content and articles, but never thought I was good enough to be writing for others. This changed in August when I recieved a request from someone who had seen my writing on a site I was managing.
Since that time, and for less than $200 in total, I have written more than one million words of content for other people. Everything from simple 250 word articles, to 20,000 word eBooks and lots in between! I found that the fact there was no need to sell someone elses products, recruit sellers, and do all of the usual things associated with online business and particularly Internet Marketing (IM) that setting up an online service business was very easy indeed.
Writing Magnificent Content Is An Art
Dec 14th
Writing great content is more than researching a particular subject and deciding to write what you know about it. It is more than taking instruction and translating someone else’s idea of what sounds good to the reader. Sure these things can be achieved with almost any form of writing, but to truly grasp the attention of the reader is an art…
To be able to immerse yourself into any character and/or situation that offers knowing the subject of the content. Having experience with something certainly helps to turn your writing into magnificence as opposed to just great! Feeling passionate about a subject is the basis for excellence. For me, writing this article whilst playing my favorite songs through the headphones, allows me to remove myself into any given subject, and in this case its education, to write something with feeling.
Anybody can write about how the sky is blue, and the sun is yellow, but can everyone write about the transition between seedling and Christmas tree. Some people resort to art, others to poetry, I tend to favor music as my way to release, and this creates the most creative environment for the joy of writing. Oblivious to the outside world, it’s me, my music and an idea…
We have been online with you now for almost 4 months and in that time there has not been a lot of time to personalizing this site in too many ways. You will over time start to understand that what you say to someone through the content on your website, can have many different results, but ultimately there are only two that matter. Whether your visitor “enjoys” what it is when they arrive at your site, or not! Your content, the quality and uniqueness of the information you provide them, is what will determine whether they come back and keep coming back.
Some people can do this well, and well enough to do what it is actually meant to do. As a business, your website needs to be able to attract business, and “people” are your business. You must connect with your visitors, your traffic, in such a way that they love being in your zone. Being able to communicate with people, long before you ask them to spend any money with you, is something you need to “feel” that you want to do. The only way to do this is to communicate.
Some people have got issues with opt in boxes and asking people to part with their email address. Well you need to get over this if you want to sell anything online at all. An opt in system on all of your websites, is the only way you know that the people you are dealing with are there because they want to be there. There is no point having a mailing list full of people who do not really want to be contacted by you. Anyway “always” have the facility on your site that enables those visitors who want to, the ability to leave their contact details.
You can see that it is all a process. You have a product or a service and you have a website to promote whatever it is you are offering your subscribers. The first thing you do is capture the interested visitors and obtain their contact details. When you have the details stored in your auto-responder, you can start emailing your subscribers, and building your mailing list. All of this is achieved through the use of great content.
Make sure that a “good writer” is always selected to write your content. If you are confident of achieving it yourself and you trust your own abilities, then go for it. There is nothing more pleasing than seeing the results of work you can personally carry out. If on the other hand you will be using a 3rd party to handle your content requirements, make sure they are passionate about their work. You can normally tell this by reading between the lines of what they produce, and by asking a series of qualifying questions, just to be sure! Great writing can take time to produce so you need to ensure you plan your content in enough time to get it online for the best possible coverage.
I hope you have gained something from this early evening ramble. I will leave it at that, and let you get back to what you were doing. Thanks for listening.
EZYTRAK Is Now Free For Everyone!
May 30th
Some time ago Aces Legacy designed and developed a software program that would keep control of online spending. It was a software program that came about because of forgotten payments being deducted from a Paypal account, and when this realization was made public to others, the feedback was amazing. Many people were experiencing the same thing, and this gave reason for the EZYTRAK system to be developed.
Not only will EZYTRAK keep a check on Paypal payments, it will remind you when you have Money Back Guarantee deadlines looming. You know the situation where you sign up for something, and then forget about it, and before you know it you have missed the deadline for claiming a refund on the money you spent on the item. Believe it or not a lot of online business people set their Money Back Guarantees for time frames that they know a number of people will forget about. This is clear when you buy a product that comes with a 60-day Money Back Guarantee. 2 months is a long time to remember and the chances are that within 2 weeks you have tried the product and decided you don’t like it. Sometims the product may be too involved, and you simply decide to shelve it for now and come back to it at a later date. Then you forget.
By the time you get back into the product, it is past the deadline for claiming a refund, and this is what some sellers hope for. In fact it is considered common that as many as 90% of all buyers will forget about the deadlines, and never claim a refund, even though only 20% of all buyers will in fact go on to use the product they purchased.
EZYTRAK will warn you of these deadlines in enough time for you to enact them, and successfully claim your refund. This is the same for Trial programs that you may subscribe to. You know the ones! These are the programs that offer a 14 day or 30 day trial for $1 or $7 and then at the end of the trial period, unless the seller hears something to the contrary, full price is charged for the next cycle. This can sometimes mean that even though you have no intention of using the product, and simply because you forgot about notifying the seller, or canceling your subscription payment, you fork out more money without wanting to.
Again EZYTRAK will keep you up to date with whatever is due for payment, or due for action. You are warned at the 7-day point, and then again at the 3 day point, and yet again on the day that action is required. But not only will EZYTRAK act as your early warning system, it will also act as a viable review information system. By this I mean that when you purchase a product or join up to a membership site, you will fill in the details as required by the software. You can also add screenshots. These screenshots may be of the Sales Page that contains the information that enticed you to join in the first place. It may be that you want to take a screenshot of the Warranty Details page. Whatever it is that you want to capture EZYTRAK will store those images, in case you need to or want to refer to them in the future. Why is this important?
Well it is important because, over time websites can change. A webmaster can log into his or her account at any time and remove, edit or add details that may not have been present the day you signed up. What do you think would happen if you joined a site today that presented you with a 30-day money back guarantee, and in 3 weeks you decide to claim a refund, only to find that when you went back to the main page of the site, the warranty details have changed to read 7-day money Back Guarantee?! Of course you would normally have a fight on your hands! Not with EZYTRAK, because you have an image of the sales page and its contents, as they were presented on the day you signed up.
Another great way ti use the screenshots is if at a later date you would like to establish a review site where you list details of the products and services you have bought and used. The addition of the screenshots means that you can use images to enhance your review listings. As well as this, EZYTRAK allows you to add notes and periodic review data about any product or service that you have added to the system. Again all of this information is stored in your program until you decide to delete it. It can be exported, and printed out at will, when you decide to use it.
For people new to the world of online business EZYTRAK can save a lot of time and money. For those who have been buying and selling online for some time, you can end any frustration you may have already experienced by loading EZYTRAK to your own desktop for future use. Available in both PC and MAC formats, there is no reason why you would not want your own copy. You can even advertise your newbie-friendly site on the EZYTRAK Resource Directory, but we will deal with this in a later article. For now, do yourself a favor and head over to http://www.ezytrak.com and download your very own copy of this software, FREE!
Stop Smoking The Easy Way: Its Been Five Weeks Now
Jan 25th
Having taken the decision to quit smoking some 5 weeks ago now, it has been a tough road to date. Admittedly I have not gone through the trials and tribulations that some people state they go through, and I certainly have not had a massive increase in dietary intake, but I have had the urges and the impulse to smoke. In fact on two occasions now I have given in to those urges, and it actually felt good that I did.
The first drag of those cigarettes made me light headed and I had forgotten what that felt like. Was it a good feeling? Well yes it was! Was it something I missed? Well yes it was, and it is not something that you experience every time you have a cigarette, at least not when you are a full time smoker. It is something that you experience as a novice or new smoker.
I am also pleased that I gave in to those urges because it showed me what it was to smell like a cigarette. I had long forgotten what it was to smell like an ashtray and now I knew once again, that smell that all smokers become used to. I knew first hand what it was a non-smoker first noticed about me when we met in the street or for lunch. It was not pleasant.
So today I am sitting outside having a coffee, usually a time when a cigarette would have been in the other hand, and I noticed this smell of stale cigarette. Looking around I saw a discarded butt on the ground. I picked it up and took a sniff, and it was disgusting! It is quite amazing how in tune the senses become when we stop smoking. I am not too sure about the taste senses yet, but the sense of smell is certainly more intense. This discarded butt was testament to that.
So for me, and after 25 years of smoking a pack a day, I am almost a non-smoker. I still feel something is missing in my life and I guess in a way it is. Sometimes I still get the urge to smoke, especially living with a smoker, but so far I have only indulged twice in 5 weeks. I mean come on, for someone to have a 25 year addictive habit, and then drop down to even 5 smokes a day would be doing a huge thing. Yet it is funny that some people around me believe that unless I am able to stop “cold turkey” in one day – I am still a problem smoker! Yeah right, well they know where they can put their opinion!!
For anyone who is considering the move to quit, remember this! This would be the fourth time in my life that I have attempted to quit. The previous three times were because of either “other peoples” wishes, or because of the cost… This time I actually felt like I wanted to give up, and it was really no problem to go a day or half a day at first, without a cigarette.
The hardest times for me were first thing in the morning, and I still get the urge every morning, and after dinner. These are the two times I can safely say that I am still affected by the decision to stop. If I can ride these times out, I will be fine. If you are thinking of quitting, go for it! But remember that “You MUST want to quit!” Don’t do it for someone else and don’t do for any other reason than you want to do it! Oh and by the way….
Since stopping smoking, I am able to ride a bike again without having to get off and push it up the slightest hill. I ride an average of 5-6 kilometers a day and I feel great afterwards!
Most Internet Marketers Will Lie To Get Your Business!
Jan 23rd
We all know that most Internet Marketing people will have no problem telling lies to potential customers to get the business. This was obvious when I started in this industry 4 years ago, and not too much has changed today.
In the last couple of days I have visited three sites where the sales copy was a lie, and in all instances I contacted the site owners to tell them what I thought about it. One of the three changed the information to accommodate the truth, and the other two did not even give me the coutesy of a return email.
One of the most obvious of lies is the one where you land on a sales page to be told that the price you are seeing is a “Special Price” that will increase at a certain time on a certain day, and normally that day is the next day or sometime in the very near future. In 99% of cases, this is not the truth, and if you avoid signing up on the day, bookmark the page and make a note to visit the site again the day after the supposed price increase, you will still see the same “Special Price” offered as before.
This is nothing but a stupid ploy to entice you to spend your money without delay. In my opinion it is a tactic used by people who have absolutely no confidence in the value of the product they are offering. If someone has to manipulate the situation with marketing BS, rather than rely on the benefits associated with their product, what good could the product be!?
Always err on the side of caution with these sorts of offers. In most cases there are alternative products from other sellers, that are not being promoted this way, and these are the people you should do business with. If someone can lie about a price increase, they can also lie about anything else, and this could be the product itself, the after sales service, or even the money back guarantee. How can you trust someone who has blatantly lied and manipulated you for their own personal gain?
It really is a sign of the level of care that they offer to their customers. Winning business on the back of false information would in the real world fall under the category of misleading practices, and depending on where you live, you would have legal right to demand a refund, compensation or other resolution. Because we are talking about an almost unenforceable business technology, there is very little that can be done if you fall victim with the wrong intentions.
Its almost the same thing as a retailer offering a special deal on products in their store, that don’t actually exist. Some think it is okay to do this, and then when you visit the store they simply tell you that the special priced product has sold out, BUT they have some other similar products available at a much higher (still discounted) price. How many times do you think you have fallen prey to this one?!
If you see these tactics being used online, steer away to a competitor who is not conducting the same misleading advertising. Do business with people who you think you can trust as opposed to those who scare you (or try to) into buying without delay. They are dishonest in most cases, and at best, unworthy of your time or money. If you want to make things interesting, and then record and report your results, send them an email about your concerns, and see if you get a satisfactory response. I doubt you will, and if not, how about setting up a business that highlights and humiliates these people, for all the world to see. After all, you would only be telling the truth!
