Jim Edwards here with a couple of VERY important announcements (and an article to help you deal with the "information overload" that's sure to hit you this month)! It's a fact... What you do this month (Jan 2005) will set the stage for your success the entire year! Right now, this minute, you're setting the tone for what kind of year you'll have... because what you *think* about NOW dictates your actions the next 12 months of 2005. To help you kick-start 2005 the right way, I've arranged two very eye-opening and up-to-the-minute events *this week* so YOU can get what you want this year! ** Event #1 - The Google Gold Rush is Back On! (January 11, 2005) This past week Google announced a *MAJOR change* to their AdWords advertising program... a change that will profoundly affect ANYONE selling through affiliate programs. ** This change applies to both affiliates AND affiliate managers / product owners. This change will revolutionize the way affiliates (and affiliate managers) will use Google AdWords in 2005... and the quicker you adapt the more profits you can grab! I've arranged for world-famous Google AdWords expert Perry Marshall and myself to get on the phone for a special 1-hour teleconference on Tuesday 1/11/05 to lay out exactly WHAT these AdWords changes mean to you AND what you should do NOW to position yourself for ongoing earnings! :-) Go here to sign up for the fr^ee call now (limited seating) => http://www.ebookfire.com/Google-AdWords-Call.html But that's just the first half... Regardless of whether you sell as an affiliate... publish a blog... sell your own product... publish articles to drive traffic... operate a membership site... or whatever you do to make money online... One of the most valuable things you can possess is the knowledge of how to write excellent, profit-pulling sales copy. This one skill alone has impacted my own personal financial bottom line more than ANY other skill you can name. In a nutshell, if you know how to write great copy, you can make *good* money on the Internet! This fact leads us to event #2 this week... ** Event #2 - Yanik Silver's Ultimate Internet Copywriting Secrets Call (January 13, 2005) Yanik Silver is a friend of mine... he's also one of the BEST copywriters in the world! Now that's a tall statement, but Yanik knows how to put words on paper (and on the Web) that get people to spend money on valuable products and services. How do I know he's this good? Because I can personally attribute hundreds of thousands of my own business's sales and income to Yanik's help and advice on writing effective sales copy... yes, he's that good and his information and coaching have helped me directly! So, to help YOU start writing better copy, I called in a favor from Yanik and convinced him to do a teleconference with me to teach you some insider secrets on quickly creating kick-butt copy! On this special call you'll discover: ~ 3 of the 13 most powerful psychological hot "buttons" for making people order now and not think it over... ~ 2 of the 7 best ways to create urgency and compel people to act now... ~ 1 of the 4 best ways to deal with price so it's not even an issue... ~ 2 of the 9 best "PROOF" elements you can use so ultra skeptical visitors trust you and much, much more! Plus, Yanik will reveal the little-known copywriting technique he used to put $43,668.73 into his pocket in 24 hours. Go here to sign up for the call now (seating for this call is also limited): => http://www.ebookfire.com/-Yanik-Copy-Secrets.html One more thing before we get to today's article... Here's a question I frequently get asked by subscribers about tele-conferences: "Why should I get on the call when you'll be publishing it as an MP3 and I can listen to over the Web later?" In other words, why should I schedule the time, jump on the phone, and pay long distance charges when I can probably download it later? This is a very legitimate question... with a very simple answer. If the topic of a tele-seminar (ANY tele-seminar) interests you, you should schedule the time and get on the call for 4 excellent reasons: 1. It gives you a time -- an appointment -- to sit down, get rid of distractions, and make an investment in yourself by listening to the call and absorbing the information... 2. As far as I know, you never get an opportunity to ask an MP3 file questions (and there are no guarantees that the conference recording won't encounter a tech problem and get lost forever)... 3. By jumping on the call live, you get the information BEFORE anyone else does (which can give you a significant advantage over your competitors)... 4. Often, time-sensitive, special BONUS offers are made on these calls that are NOT available to those who listen to the MP3 a week later... So, bottom line, if you want the information someone is making available on a conference call, take the time to sit down and get on the call... you'll get a lot more benefit from a "live" event than you will from a recording. Finally, before we get to the article (which, by the way, teaches you a couple of great techniques for dealing with information overload), I have something I need to get off my chest... I'm feeling very upset about the whole tsunami tragedy and all the devastation and problems I'm seeing on the television (I can't bear to watch most of it). This truly is a disaster beyond measure. Originally I said that I would give half (1/2) the profit from sales of my "5 Steps To Getting Anything You Want" in January to go directly to the relief effort, but I've changed my mind... I've decided I'm going to give ALL the profit to the relief effort. That's right! I am going to give *ALL* (not some... not part... not half... but ALL) the profit from sales of that product in Jan 2005 to the relief effort. So, if you've been on the fence about ordering a copy of my program, now's a great time to act. => http://www.HowToGetAnythingYouWant.com I'll keep you posted on how that ends up. So with no further ado, here's this week's article, which by the way, if you like it, feel free to share it with your own list, post it on your site, or add it to your autoresponder. See the end of the article for reprint details. To your success! Jim ----- START Article ----- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 3 Ways To Cope With "Information Overload" - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- It's been said that the typical Sunday edition of the New York Times newspaper contains more information than the average person in 15th century England was exposed to during their entire lifetime. In the information age, our minds get bombarded daily with so much data that we start filtering it out as a self- defense mechanism. On the Internet, the information overload gets so severe that it seems to bring out the ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) in all of us. To make things worse, expect the avalanche of information we must all deal with online to start coming faster and harder this year and to never, ever stop. Unlimited amounts of information available online represents a truly double-edged mental sword for all of us. On the good side, you can find out virtually anything you want about any person, place, thing, fact, problem and more. On the bad side, since you can find anything, many people get caught up and lost in "everything"... which means they never accomplish much. In fact, most people end up drowning in the sea of information when all they wanted was a simple drink of water. To help you effectively deal with the never-ending torrent of online information, let me offer 3 simple solutions that will profoundly affect your ability to get things done this year. First, operate with a clear purpose for what you plan to accomplish online. Many people start out with a vague idea of what they want to accomplish on the Web and end up wasting hours surfing aimlessly. One simple solution: write down your purpose for going online on a sticky note and put it on the side of your monitor. Simple purpose statements like "Check email" or "Find map to Detroit" or "Research where to advertise my blog" can save countless hours by reminding you of your true purpose for sitting down at the keyboard (and keep you from wandering off to explore Britney Spears or The Simpsons). Next, if you do want to go off on a sidetrack away from your original purpose, set a time limit. Kind of like recess in kindergarten, give yourself a set amount of time to run free, but then get back in the classroom and get back to business at the appointed time. Typically, I give myself anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to roam, but only if I think it will bear fruit for my purpose in the end. I also force myself to honestly answer the question, "Does this really fit with my purpose for being online right now?" If not, then I goof off for about 5 minutes and then write down the idea, website, or topic that distracted me and leave it for future investigation. By the way, a simple egg timer also works great for this. Finally, if you ever find yourself online without a purpose, but can't seem to stop surfing, searching, or clicking the "send/receive" button on email, simply get up from your computer and walk away for a few minutes to clear your head. Often this represents the fastest way to stop yourself wasting countless hours in meaningless activity online. Bottom line, implementing these simple strategies for dealing with information overload online now will pay huge dividends in peace of mind and time savings in the future. -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> http://www.TurnWordsIntoTraffic.com -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------- End Article ---------- ** Attn Ezine editors / Site owners ** Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine or on your site so long as you leave all links in place, do not modify the content and include our resource box as listed above. Feel free to substitute your affiliate link in place of our link in the resource box. Earn up to 50% on every purchaser you refer! Affiliate details are available here: http://www.ebookfire.com If you do use the material please send us a note so we can take a look. Thanks. © Guaranteed Response Marketing, LLC

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 7 Years At The Keyboard - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ok, for those of you still waiting, the Internet won't go away. Hang up the hopes that it represents a passing fad sharing the fate of the Beanie or the Pet Rock. With legitimate high-tech stocks finally in the market, regular people doing "real" business online, and consumer acceptance to the point of purchasing movie tickets and homeowners insurance over the Internet, the Web is here to stay. However, many people still get that glassy-eyed, far away dreamer look on their faces when they think of the riches awaiting them on just the other side of their own dot-com. Well, whether your business represents a laptop on a TV tray in the basement, or a mega-corporation with offices all over the world, my last 7 years in the Wild West online has revealed a few "truths" which should last from here until the end of computers. ** There is no get-rich-quick! ** I guess it's in man's nature to desire instant wealth. Since the dawn of history, people threw common sense to the wind and went off in search of "buried treasure." Unfortunately, instead of discovering riches, most just ended up buried under a load of debt, misery and despair themselves. In the late 1990's we saw the modern day equivalent of a gold rush with high-tech stocks, dot-com companies, and investors who decided not to use common sense. Well, we all know the result... many people lost a lot of money and the first online "gold rush" was over. :-) ** The "Secret" to online business success! ** Would you like to know the real secret to making money online that will govern the Internet for all eternity? Here you go: Spend LESS than you MAKE. That's right! Simple math creates millionaires on the Internet! Regardless of the market, size of your enterprise, or the nature of the product or service you sell, the people who make money online spend less than they make in revenue. The people and companies that make money are the ones who let someone with basic math skills monitor the advertising department! ** People don't buy refrigerators online! ** That's right, most people don't buy refrigerators online, but to look at the way some companies operate, you'd swear they did. Here's how people use the Web to buy a refrigerator (or any other major purchase): they go online, research different models and prices, look for a local store, go to the store, and buy one. Companies that use the web to make money (instead of wasting it by the bucket-load) understand the difference between closing the sale online and providing information that leads to making the sale at a physical location. If you don't know it by now, the Web is a direct response advertising medium. What this means is, if you're trying to do business online, there are really only 3 things you can do: 1. Make the sale (they pay on the site) 2. Get a lead (usually an optin for newsletter, mini-course) 3. Make money on a click (referring through Google Ad Sense) Knowing what your audience will and will not do online is critical so you know which of the 3 (or combination) is best for your site's maximum profit. ** The quick and the dead! ** People who buy online have little or no patience. They go online to get information NOW, or to place an order NOW, or to get their questions answered NOW! The online world is a "right NOW" world, where wait times get measured in seconds and people get mighty testy if their needs don't get met almost instantly. Speed, not size, determines the victor in e-commerce because the businesses that meet people's immediate expectations as quickly as possible (if not faster) ultimately win. That's great news for the "little" guy, or the individual entrepreneur who has an idea and can act on it quickly. Often, the real opportunities online appear so quickly that a decision must be made and acted on in a matter of hours. While larger companies are trying to arrange a meeting to discuss what might be done, small, fast operations have already tested their theories and started to slurp up the customers! ** "Change" - The only thing that stays the same! ** How we did it last year isn't necessarily how we'll do it next year. The online world moves so fast that techniques and strategies for doing something can appear one day, get adopted as "the way we do things" and then disappear or get rendered useless in 6 months or less. Perfect example: pop-ups and pop-up blockers. Pop-up's used to be the #1 way to get subscribers... but now pop-up blockers have rendered them virtually useless. No if's, and's, or but's -- Pop-up's are DEAD now that Microsoft has them in their sites as a security problem! (You heard it here first) By the way, the catalyst for change can come from anywhere. A casual comment... a bit of information from one place, combined with another... a hunch... a "feeling"... all of these combine to create opportunities, while also closing doors to "how we used to do it." Accept change. Learn to adapt to change. Embrace change as a fact of life and business online and see it as opportunity opening up before you. To do otherwise is suicide. ** It's Never Too Late To Start ** Many people never start anything because they think the bus has left them standing at the station. They think it's too late for them to jump in the game... any game... and all the good opportunities have already been snatched up by somebody else. All the good domain names are gone... (wrong!) All the best businesses have already been started... (nope!) Traffic is too expensive... (uh-uh!) It's too complicated... (negative!) I don't have the right skills... (hire someone cheap!) If only I knew how to do this or that... (so learn!) If only I knew so-and-so... (introduce yourself!) I don't have a list of subscribers... (build one!) All of these are lame excuses that actually have no basis in reality. If you want to get in the game online... just do it! If you want to start an online business... just do it! If you want to start a newsletter... just do it! *** Here's a real "secret," something I learned about 14 years ago when I was a "green" loan officer at my first mortgage bank: "The more things change and the faster they change, the easier it is to get into the game even if thousands have gotten in before you." Why? Because when something changes, EVERYONE goes back to square one and has to learn how to deal with the new information that impacts the marketplace. All you have to do is get in the game, things will change, and you'll be right up there even with everyone else. Since things change so fast, the Internet actually makes it easier to start late, catch up fast, and even PASS the "old hands" and established players by adapting to change faster than they do. The biggest mistake most people make is simply not believing in themselves enough to start... and if you never start, you can never cross the finish line. But, just by starting.... you are on your way to winning! -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 7 Years At The Keyboard - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ok, for those of you still waiting, the Internet won't go away. Hang up the hopes that it represents a passing fad sharing the fate of the Beanie or the Pet Rock. With legitimate high-tech stocks finally in the market, regular people doing "real" business online, and consumer acceptance to the point of purchasing movie tickets and homeowners insurance over the Internet, the Web is here to stay. However, many people still get that glassy-eyed, far away dreamer look on their faces when they think of the riches awaiting them on just the other side of their own dot-com. Well, whether your business represents a laptop on a TV tray in the basement, or a mega-corporation with offices all over the world, my last 7 years in the Wild West online has revealed a few "truths" which should last from here until the end of computers. ** There is no get-rich-quick! ** I guess it's in man's nature to desire instant wealth. Since the dawn of history, people threw common sense to the wind and went off in search of "buried treasure." Unfortunately, instead of discovering riches, most just ended up buried under a load of debt, misery and despair themselves. In the late 1990's we saw the modern day equivalent of a gold rush with high-tech stocks, dot-com companies, and investors who decided not to use common sense. Well, we all know the result... many people lost a lot of money and the first online "gold rush" was over. :-) ** The "Secret" to online business success! ** Would you like to know the real secret to making money online that will govern the Internet for all eternity? Here you go: Spend LESS than you MAKE. That's right! Simple math creates millionaires on the Internet! Regardless of the market, size of your enterprise, or the nature of the product or service you sell, the people who make money online spend less than they make in revenue. The people and companies that make money are the ones who let someone with basic math skills monitor the advertising department! ** People don't buy refrigerators online! ** That's right, most people don't buy refrigerators online, but to look at the way some companies operate, you'd swear they did. Here's how people use the Web to buy a refrigerator (or any other major purchase): they go online, research different models and prices, look for a local store, go to the store, and buy one. Companies that use the web to make money (instead of wasting it by the bucket-load) understand the difference between closing the sale online and providing information that leads to making the sale at a physical location. If you don't know it by now, the Web is a direct response advertising medium. What this means is, if you're trying to do business online, there are really only 3 things you can do: 1. Make the sale (they pay on the site) 2. Get a lead (usually an optin for newsletter, mini-course) 3. Make money on a click (referring through Google Ad Sense) Knowing what your audience will and will not do online is critical so you know which of the 3 (or combination) is best for your site's maximum profit. ** The quick and the dead! ** People who buy online have little or no patience. They go online to get information NOW, or to place an order NOW, or to get their questions answered NOW! The online world is a "right NOW" world, where wait times get measured in seconds and people get mighty testy if their needs don't get met almost instantly. Speed, not size, determines the victor in e-commerce because the businesses that meet people's immediate expectations as quickly as possible (if not faster) ultimately win. That's great news for the "little" guy, or the individual entrepreneur who has an idea and can act on it quickly. Often, the real opportunities online appear so quickly that a decision must be made and acted on in a matter of hours. While larger companies are trying to arrange a meeting to discuss what might be done, small, fast operations have already tested their theories and started to slurp up the customers! ** "Change" - The only thing that stays the same! ** How we did it last year isn't necessarily how we'll do it next year. The online world moves so fast that techniques and strategies for doing something can appear one day, get adopted as "the way we do things" and then disappear or get rendered useless in 6 months or less. Perfect example: pop-ups and pop-up blockers. Pop-up's used to be the #1 way to get subscribers... but now pop-up blockers have rendered them virtually useless. No if's, and's, or but's -- Pop-up's are DEAD now that Microsoft has them in their sites as a security problem! (You heard it here first) By the way, the catalyst for change can come from anywhere. A casual comment... a bit of information from one place, combined with another... a hunch... a "feeling"... all of these combine to create opportunities, while also closing doors to "how we used to do it." Accept change. Learn to adapt to change. Embrace change as a fact of life and business online and see it as opportunity opening up before you. To do otherwise is suicide. ** It's Never Too Late To Start ** Many people never start anything because they think the bus has left them standing at the station. They think it's too late for them to jump in the game... any game... and all the good opportunities have already been snatched up by somebody else. All the good domain names are gone... (wrong!) All the best businesses have already been started... (nope!) Traffic is too expensive... (uh-uh!) It's too complicated... (negative!) I don't have the right skills... (hire someone cheap!) If only I knew how to do this or that... (so learn!) If only I knew so-and-so... (introduce yourself!) I don't have a list of subscribers... (build one!) All of these are lame excuses that actually have no basis in reality. If you want to get in the game online... just do it! If you want to start an online business... just do it! If you want to start a newsletter... just do it! *** Here's a real "secret," something I learned about 14 years ago when I was a "green" loan officer at my first mortgage bank: "The more things change and the faster they change, the easier it is to get into the game even if thousands have gotten in before you." Why? Because when something changes, EVERYONE goes back to square one and has to learn how to deal with the new information that impacts the marketplace. All you have to do is get in the game, things will change, and you'll be right up there even with everyone else. Since things change so fast, the Internet actually makes it easier to start late, catch up fast, and even PASS the "old hands" and established players by adapting to change faster than they do. The biggest mistake most people make is simply not believing in themselves enough to start... and if you never start, you can never cross the finish line. But, just by starting.... you are on your way to winning! -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jim Edwards here from "How To Write And Publish Your OwnEbook... In As Little As 7 Days" I've just published a very unique free report for you :-) It's actually a 2-part report: Part 1: (Print Article)The "Frustration Factor!" - Is It Holding You Back?...Discover How To Cure The Unconscious Belief ThatCheats 95% Of People Out Of The Success They Deserve! Part 2: WhiteBoard Video (flash)"My Formula For How To Get What You Really, Really, ReallyWant From Life!" You can read, print, and view the report here: => http://www.HowToGetAnythingYouWant.com/-TheKey.html Hope you enjoy it... and feel free to pass this email orweb address on to anyone you care about and want to seeget more from life! PS - If your life isn't where you want it to be... if you'refrustrated... or if you feel "stuck" right now -- I wrotethis report especially for you! => http://www.HowToGetAnythingYouWant.com/-TheKey.html

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Does Microsoft Show Hackers How To Attack? - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved The Net Reporter Ezine -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- After another security hole recently surfaced in Microsoft's Windows operating system, the software giant released a patch this past Friday to plug the possibly devastating "back door" which allows hackers to potentially seize control of any pc running Windows. The latest threat, "Download.Ject," infiltrates computers after users surfing with Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser visit websites infected with the virus. This newest security patch covers Windows XP, 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Several factors make this latest development more disturbing than past discoveries of security problems with Internet Explorer, currently the most dominant web browser on the market. First, it demonstrates very clearly that criminals discovered they can use the power of viruses to very profitably steal important bank, personal, and credit data from people on a large scale. Second, it took Microsoft what many would consider a very long time to come up with a patch for this problem. Before a fix appeared, Microsoft told everyone who uses Internet Explorer to stick their finger in the dyke by putting their web browser security settings on high, rendering it impossible to view or use features on many websites and web-based services. Third, expect this to happen again as new holes open in the future when Microsoft makes Windows more complicated, adds layers of code, and generally makes the operating system more complex. This may sound like business as usual, however, I think this story actually points to a much deeper problem, one for which I'm not sure a simple solution exists. Though free and reasonably reliable, many people do not automatically update their Windows operating system through the update service on Microsoft's website. (I won't even get into how many people don't operate up-to-date anti-virus protection.) Whenever Microsoft publishes a security update, especially for a highly publicized and obviously widespread security breach, thousands of people will not immediately download the update. In fact, tens-of-thousands of users will not download these security updates for days, weeks, even months (if ever). So let me ask what seems like a very elementary question: By publishing security updates that point out very obvious flaws in their system, doesn't Microsoft also point the way to exactly where the holes exist? Let me put it another way. Doesn't this rate the same as discovering that the local bank vault won't lock and then announcing the details on the front page of the paper along with the dates and times no bank guard will be on duty? After all, if tens-of-thousands of users won't immediately get the Microsoft Security Patch, don't those patches show hackers exactly which holes get plugged (and which, logically, must already be open without the patch)? It doesn't take a hacker with more than a basic set of skills to recognize where and what holes got fixed and then reverse-engineer how they can get into computers that don't get updated. Now, do I have a concrete, 100% bullet-proof answer to this problem? Unfortunately, I don't have more than a common- sense answer... At this point, your best defense rates staying current on the latest threats and how to defend against them. Keep your anti-virus software current, your firewall up, and your Windows software updated with the latest security patches. Though not a perfect solution, at least you'll have a fighting chance to prevent, or at least minimize, any possible threats. For more information from Microsoft's website, go here http://www.ebookfire.com/download-ject.html -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> Ezine Article Marketing Secrets -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jim Edwards here with a double update for you... => The Biggest Lie Ever Told Online I've just published an informative and unique free report for you to finish out the month of June and start July with a bang :-) It's actually a 2-part report: Part 1: Print Report "The Biggest Lie Ever Told Online!" This one has been told by some big names online... find out what that lie is and the bottom-line truth about what it *really* takes to succeed selling information and ebook publishing (and yes, it goes against the popular opinion right now). Part 2: Whiteboard Video "The Fastest Way To Build A Huge Opt-In List and Have Super-Affiliates Climbing All Over Themselves To Make YOU Money!" In this video I explain (in no-nonsense terms) what it takes to build a big opt-in list without going broke on pay-per-click search engines. You can read, print, and view the report here: => The Biggest Lie Ever Told Online Hope you enjoy it... and feel free to pass this email or web address on to your friends (but certainly *not* your competitors!) Jim jim@ebookfire.com PS - The valuable, "double-shot" report is free... so be sure to take a look :-) => The Biggest Lie Ever Told Online © Guaranteed Response Marketing, LLC

Jim Edwards here with the "I Gotta Tell You" Newsletter with another Friday Night "SMACK DOWN" WARNING: certain people WILL be offended by this audio (no kiddin' around - this ain't for the kiddies) Click => Friday Night SmackDown This week we go after the "The Psycho Refund Seeker". Enjoy the rant.... Thanks Jim PS - Please forward this email message to your friends!

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Let The Email Wars Begin - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved The Net Reporter -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Things just got a lot hotter in the hyper-competitive world of online email providers. In response to Google's announcement that their soon-to-be- launched "Gmail" service will offer users 1 gigabyte of email storage, Yahoo! announced an upgrade of their free email service to allow users 100MB of free email storage along with other enhancements. Microsoft's Hotmail will surely also announce a free upgrade in email storage space. On the surface it might just appear like a simple case of one-upmanship, but it actually represents major forces digging in online and preparing to do battle. It appears Yahoo! simply wanted to take the issue of email storage space off the table as a consideration for users as to which email service to choose. Google enjoyed considerable media and public attention over the past few weeks with the media marveling at how Google intended to give hundreds of megabytes more space to its users than Yahoo! or Hotmail. With this move, Yahoo! made storage a "non-issue," but the real war has only just begun. Email ranks as the number one most popular online activity according to virtually any survey you care to read. When people go online, they spend the single biggest chunk of their time sending, receiving, and reading email. Online email providers understand that eyeballs on a page looking at advertising and responding to offers is what makes them money. By increasing loyalty among email users in order to repeatedly draw them back to the same website (often several times a day), email service providers like Yahoo!, Hotmail and Google can keep people looking at revenue generating ads. Despite the best efforts of government regulators, private organizations, software filters, ISP's and others, over half of all email sent online rates as unsolicited commercial email (SPAM). Besides storage space, Google, Yahoo! and Hotmail will start claiming that their spam filters rate better than the rest. These online powerhouses hope to attract users with the promise of cutting down and even eliminating the avalanche of get-rich-quick, pornography, and ink-jet cartridge offers (among others) that bombard virtually anyone with an email account more than 15 minutes old. This will, however, lead to another problem that many of them won't talk about, which involves filtering legitimate email as spam. Unfortunately, the sword cuts both ways on this issue. So where does it all end? Never! Hotmail will enter the fray with expanded storage capacity as well as the promise of less spam and a more "friendly" interface to make your email life even easier. Yahoo! and Hotmail will most likely copy Google and start serving context sensitive advertising based on the content of each email message as it get viewed. Privacy advocates will weigh in to claim that all of the filtering and serving of ads based on an email message's content violates our rights to privacy and heralds the arrival of "Big Brother." But all this jockeying for position and enticing users from one email service to another actually represents a great boon for the average Internet user. It will force three of the Web's biggest players to wake up and improve their services after 2 or 3 years of "business as usual" and we can all expect a few valuable innovations to result. -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr-e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> Turn Words Into Traffic -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ** Attn Ezine editors / Site owners ** Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine or on your site so long as you leave all links in place, do not modify the content and include our resource box as listed above. Feel free to substitute your affiliate link in place of our link in the resource box. Earn up to 50% on every purchaser you refer! Ebook Affiliate Program details are available here: http://www.ebookfire.com If you do use the material please send us a note so we can take a look. Thanks. © Guaranteed Response Marketing, LLC

Jim Edwards here with a traffic update! I've just published a really cool and unique free report for you :-) As an ebook author, online business owner, and affiliate marketer, this report will reveal a *proven* technique I use to get thousands of people to my websites each month... and I don't pay a cent in advertising costs! It's actually a 2-part report: Part 1: Print Article "Increase Sales By Flying Under Your Prospects' Radar Defenses" Part 2: Video "How To Get 72,000 Qualified Visitors To Your Website... Without Spending A Dime On Advertising" You can read, print, and view the report here: => http://www.TurnWordsIntoTraffic.com/-mmupdate.html Hope you enjoy it... and feel free to pass this email or web address on to your friends (but certainly not your competitors!) Jim jim@ebookfire.com PS - The valuable report is free... so be sure to take a look :-) => http://www.TurnWordsIntoTraffic.com/-mmupdate.html © Guaranteed Response Marketing, LLC P.O. Box 878 Lightfoot, VA 23090 (757) 715-2157

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Cyber Crooks Go "Phishing" - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Phishing," the latest craze among online evil-doers, has nothing to do with sitting at the end of a dock on a sunny afternoon dangling a worm to entice hungry catfish. But, if you take their bait, this new breed of online con artist will hook you, reel you in, and take you for every dollar you have... or worse. "Phishing" describes a combination of techniques used by cyber crooks to bait people into giving up sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, bank account numbers, dates of birth and more. Their techniques work so well that, according to FraudWatchInternational.com, "phishing" rates as the fastest growing scam on the Internet. Here's the basic pattern for a "phishing" scam... You receive a very official email that appears to originate from a legitimate source, such as a bank, eBay, PayPal, a major retailer, or some other well known entity. In the email it tells you that something bad is about to happen unless you act quickly. Typically it tells you that your account is about to get closed, that someone appears to have stolen your identity, or even that someone opened a fraudulent account using your name. In order to help straighten everything out, you need to click a link in the email and provide some basic account information so they can verify your identity and then give you additional details so you can help get everything cleared up. Once you give up your information... it's all over but the crying! After getting your information, these cyber-bandits can empty your bank accounts, deplete your PayPal accounts, run up your credit card balances, open new credit accounts, assume your identity and much worse. An especially disturbing new variation of this scam specifically targets online business owners and affiliate marketers. In this con, the scammer's email informs you that they've just sent $1,219.43 (or a similar big but believable amount) in affiliate commissions to you via PayPal. They need you to log into your PayPal account to verify receipt of the money and then email them back to confirm you got it. Since you're so excited at the possibility of an unexpected pay day, you click the link to go to PayPal, log in, and BANG! They have your PayPal login information and can empty your account. This new "phishing" style scam works extremely well for 2 basic reasons. First, by exploiting your sense of urgency created by fear or greed, crooks get you to click the link and give them your information without thinking. Second, the scammers use a variety of cloaking and spoofing techniques to make their emails and websites appear totally legitimate, making it extremely hard to spot a fake website, especially when they've first whipped you into an emotional frenzy. The good news, however, is that you can protect yourself relatively easily against this type of cyber-crime with basic software and common sense. Most of these scams get delivered to you via Spam (unsolicited email), so a good spam blocker will cut down on many of them even making it to your inbox. If you receive an email that looks legitimate and you want to respond, Stop - Wait - Think! Verify all phone numbers with a physical phone book or online phone directory like www.Verizon.com or www.ATT.com/directory/ before calling. Look for spelling and grammatical errors that make it look like someone who doesn't speak English or your native language very well wrote it. Never click the link provided in the email, but go directly to the website by typing in the main address of the site yourself (example: www.paypal.com or www.ebay.com). Forward the email to the main email address of the website (example: support@paypal.com) or call the customer service number on the main website you typed in yourself and ask if it is in fact legitimate. Above all remember this: Your bank, credit card company, PayPal, eBay and anyone else you deal with online already knows your account number, username, password or any other account specific information. They don't need to email you for ANY reason to ask you to confirm your information -- so NEVER respond to email requests for your account or personal details. -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr-e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links... -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> "Turn Words Into Traffic" -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jim Edwards here with something new... It's a combination update that gives you: 1. A new article about the three fastest ways to get traffic to your website and/or affiliate links... AND 2. A video that reveals how you can "recycle" traffic to get the most out of each visitor. (And no, this has nothing to do with some lame exit traffic scheme... this is a new spin on a proven idea.) Get your update now => Jim Edwards' I Gotta Tell You Newsletter Enjoy! Jim PS - I'm trying something a little different to appeal to everyone... people who like to read, watch and/or listen. Let me know what you think of the "combo" approach :-) => 3 Fast Website Traffic Sources © Guaranteed Response Marketing, LLC

Here's my response to someone who recently asked if multi-media products were hype or real. Multi-media has been around and is here to stay... despite the fact that you're seeing (and will continue to see) a whole lot of people who know nothing about it jump on the bandwagon and start flogging it as the next greatest thing. A multi-media product is anything that's not plain text like an ebook. It can be a newsletter, like my http://www.IGottaTellYou.com It can be an irreverent RANT on just about any topic http://www.FridayNightSmackdown.com It can be a simple combination of a PDF with MP3 http://www.MortgageLoanTips.com It can be a HUGE collection of DVD's, Screen Capture Video, Print, and more http://www.TheUltimateTrafficMachine.com or it can just be a couple of CD's on a specific topic http://www.HowToGetAnythingYouWant.com But multi-media is not the niche, it's a way to provide more value faster... and in a way that can be absorbed more quickly... to ANY niche. The amazing thing (like anything) is that multi-media will fall out of favor... I'm not kidding. It's the hot topic right now, but the crowd will move on to something else here in the next few months. All the hype will die down, the knock-off artists will move on to other areas... and it's back to business as usual. The serious product creators are adopting multi-media as part of their arsenals... and it's not just making a few Camtasia Videos and calling it a "product." Like anything, it's a tool, it's not and end in and of itself... learn the use the tools correctly, and you'll smoke the competition. :-) Jim

Jim Edwards here from "I Gotta Tell You" with the latest newsletter issue! Click => http://www.igottatellyou.com/issue22.html In my humble opinion, this is one of the best issues in a long, long time (but then again, I'm biased!) :-) ~ Is Your Legitimate Email Being Blocked? ~ Entrepreneurial "A.D.D." Do you have it? A Fast, Simple Way To "Cure" It! ~ What to do if you've written and ebook and people still have questions when they're done reading? ~ My Favorite Story From The Classic "Acres of Diamonds!" ~ TOP 10 Reasons Why Selling Information Rocks! ~ How to get your email message read (2 surefire tips to massively improve your chances of getting your messages through)! Get your newsletter issue right now! Click => http://www.igottatellyou.com/issue22.html Thanks Jim

Had the big re-release of my Multi-Media home study course yesterday.... got my autoresponder lists all together.... pushed send.... database crashed.... server crashed from too much traffic.... all around, a very interesting day.... I plan to document the whole thing for you horror story fans in the next few days :-) What a mess... but it was a great wake up call that is going to force me to make some positive changes in my business infrastructure. Why do the most impactful things in business have to hurt so much when you do them? Wish I knew the answer to that one.

Jim Edwards here with a new article and an update :-) This latest article (below) will get published in my newspaper column tomorrow... but you get the scoop on it today! "More Cool Web Tricks" contains some awesome shortcuts, quick searches, and other nifty things you probably didn't know about that can speed up your surfing, improve performance, and reduce frustration! But a quick update first... Last week I announced that May 3 I would re-release my best-selling multi-media home-study course for one week ONLY... and then I'm pulling it off the market. http://www.MultiMediaSecrets.com/has-Jim-lost-his-mind.html There was an absolute frenzy of questions and frantic emails asking for more information as to why I'm doing it this way. Bottom line, here's the deal: 1. I'm only making the product available for one week, May 3-10, then I'm pulling it off my virtual "shelves." 2. The reason I'm selling it this way is to make sure everyone gets fair warning about this incredible home-study course. Last time I released it we sold out in 49 hours and a lot of people missed out (and were not happy about it). 3. The order links are not live and will not work if you click them. Sorry, but to keep it fair we can't let anyone slide in early :-) The purchase links will go live at Noon Eastern time, May 3rd. We will use www.time.gov as our clock and the links will go live within +/- 5 minutes of Noon on May 3rd. 4. We do not have an advanced notice list this time since everyone is getting advanced notice. The sale starts at Noon Eastern on May 3rd... so if you're interested in getting a copy, I suggest you check out the website and mark your calendar to be there Monday, May 3rd at Noon Eastern when we open the doors. 5. Why have I decided to pull this home-study course off the market after only making it available for a total of a little over 9 days (which includes the 7 days next week)? Go here to find out why... http://www.MultiMediaSecrets.com/has-Jim-lost-his-mind.html By the way, if you like this article (below) and would like to share it with your subscribers, add it to your autoresponder sequence, or post it on your website, feel fr^e! ;-) Please see the basic guidelines at the end of the article. Have a great week! Jim -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- More Cool Web Tricks - by Jim Edwards © Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved I Gotta Tell You Newsletter -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If you ask most people what frustrates them most about the Internet, many of them will tell you "It's the little things!" It seems like all the great tricks and tips that make people exclaim "STOP! How did you do that?" never make it into any manual (at least where I can find them). My father (and co-author of "Turn Words Into Traffic") calls it the "reverse oral tradition" of computing, where children teach parents the survival skills of PC life. Well, if you want to look good to your kids or buddies around the water cooler, check out the following cool web tricks. ~^~ Cool Google Tricks ~^~ Virtually everyone knows that Google.com ranks at the top of most people's search engine lists, but it does a lot more than just tell you where to find vitamins or information on George Washington's wooden teeth! Need a map to a specific location? Type in the address, city and state of virtually any location in the US, hit the search button, and Google serves up several different map providers across the Web. Want to know what software application a certain file goes with on your computer? Input the file name into Google's search box and a number of reference sites will help you know exactly what purpose a file serves. I actually used this to feature to identify a piece of "spyware" lurking on my computer. Want to know who's calling you on the phone in the US? You can just input the phone number on your caller ID or cell phone display into the Google search box and get information on listed numbers before your answering machine can even pick up! Log on to http://www.google.com/help/features.html for more cool search features that harness the search power of Google. ~^~ Text Zoom ~^~ Next time you can't see small text clearly on a website, try holding down the "CTRL" key and then moving the scroll wheel on your mouse up and down. The text in your web browser (and some programs) will increase and decrease in size as you roll the wheel back and forth. This little trick provides an excellent means of quickly getting what you need from websites with tiny text. ~^~ Slow Surfing? ~^~ If your Internet Explorer web browser starts giving you problems, you might want to clean up your "Temporary Internet Files." Most people don't realize it, but when you leave a web page, it doesn't leave you! Most of the time you keep a copy of websites you visit on your hard drive and, over time, they build up. This collection of old web pages can eventually cause your surfing to slow to a crawl and even cause errors! Here's one way to clear out those old files. Click your "Start" button, then "All Programs," "Accessories," "System Tools" and "Disk Cleanup." After an initial check of your hard drive (which can take some time if it's the first time you've ever launched the utility), you can check the boxes of the files you wish to delete. To speed up your surfing, at a minimum, make sure you delete the "Temporary Internet Files." ~^~ Surfing Shortcuts ~^~ To quickly cycle back and forth through a series of web pages you've visited, hold down the "ALT" key and tap your left and right arrow keys. Left arrow takes you back while the Right arrow takes you forward. The Page Up and Page Down buttons allow you to quickly move up and down any web page without struggling to find the scroll bar slider on the right side of the page. -- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist (http://www.TheNetReporter.com) and is the author of several best-selling ebooks, information products and software programs. -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! 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Fair Warning: My Breakthrough home-study course on Multi-Media will be made available again from May 3-10... and then I'm pulling it off the market. Keep your browser pointed to http://www.multimediasecrets.com because on Monday, May 3rd, I'm opening the castle gates one more time to let a few select individuals into the treasure room... then I'm closing the door and locking it (and don't plan to open it again any time soon). Jim

Fair Warning: My Breakthrough home-study course on Multi-Media will be made available again from May 3-10... and then I'm pulling it off the market. Keep your browser pointed to http://www.multimediasecrets.com because on Monday, May 3rd, I'm opening the castle gates one more time to let a few select individuals into the treasure room... then I'm closing the door and locking it (and don't plan to open it again any time soon). Jim

Here's a copy of the email I sent to my affiliates yesterday.... Jim Edwards here from www.ebookfire.com Affiliate Program with an unhappy announcement :-( Time is short... and this is so important... that you must read every word of this update! Unless we act now, there is a very good chance my affiliate program (and your opportunity to earn affiliate commissions) will go straight down the tubes. Here's the story... By now you've no doubht heard of the "CAN-Spam" Act intended to cut down on all the unsolicited email on the web. What you probably don't know is that one of the aspects of the law that's still under review by the FTC involves "suppression" lists. Now why should you care about this? .... simple! Because, as I read it, this law will render affiliate marketing useless for both merchants AND affiliates. Now, I'm not a lawyer (didn't play one on TV either), but as I have read it -- and based on the information I have gathered from reading and from people who know -- here's the bottom line problem for all of us... If one consumer tells one affiliate or merchant that they never want to hear about a particular product (brand) EVER again, then EVERY affiliate AND the merchant must remove that consumer from their list whenever advertising that product. The question on your mind should be "How in the #$%^ would that work? Answer: Go to MySuppressionList.com and take a look... I for one don't see how you or I will be able to deal with it. If the FTC interprets CAN-Spam strictly and enforces the use of "suppression" lists with affiliate programs it will make it virtually impossible for us to do business! Bottom-line: if they do this, I honestly don't see how any of us will be able to market through affiliate programs for much longer and I will most likely be forced to shut down the eBookFire.com affiliate program :-( You might be asking "Why haven't I heard about this before and is it too late to do anything about it?" Answer: Because at this stage, though the law has passed, the interpretation and implementation of it by the FTC is still open for comment, we can do something about it... but we only have until April 20th to act. My good friend, Marlon Sanders, had made it super easy for all of us to take action. He's set up a website that explains how to respond to this crisis. Please go to Marlon's site right now and follow the instructions there (he's made it real easy). => http://www.yousubscribed.com/canspam/ If you want additional information on this issue, here are some links to help you. Another buddy, Paul Myers, has very clearly covered the problems of suppression lists in his blog => http://www.talkbiz.net If you want it straight from the horse's mouth, go see links on the actual ftc website http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/04/canspam.htm http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/03/canspam.htm Let's get into action now! Jim PS - Understand that it is NOT TOO LATE to comment, but it certainly will be too late after April 20th Go here now => http://www.yousubscribed.com/canspam/

I found a keystroke logger on my computers after running a Spyware sweeper on my PC... I was so PISSED off I could barely speak... of course I have Norton's Firewall and Anti-Virus installed, but it didn't catch it! I made a video to vent my rage at Friday Night Smackdown Also, got some great suggestions from my subscribers about spyware fixes and other programs to help you spot and fix problems! 1> CWShredder to rid your machine of the CoolWeb/CoolSearch spyware and its very many variants. this one is not blocked by Norton, ect. this one is really nasty. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html 2> Spybot - Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/ 3> Ad Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ 4> Spyware Guard http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

To Blog Or Not To Blog by Jim Edwards eBook Affiliate Marketing © Jim Edwards - All Rights Reserved Web logs, commonly referred to as “blogs,” represent all the rage right now in online publishing. Not really a newsletter or traditional html page publishing, blogs resemble more of a web-based diary where the creator records their thoughts, posts links, or responds to questions. With so much confusion online and an absence of “personal touch,” blogs stand to actually bring back some humanity to the web by allowing people of like minds to come together. Why Blog? As the sea of information on the World Wide Web gets larger and deeper, people starve for knowledge. It’s a fact that most human beings learn better when someone else shows or tells them how to do something, or explains what something means and its impact on their lives. People sitting around a fire and passing information one to another is as old as human history, and with blogs you can do the online equivalent. Blogs allow you to do everything from staying in touch with family members to building a world-wide following of loyal readers based around a hobby or your profession. Monologue or Dialogue You basically have two choices when it comes to your blog. You can set it up so only you can post to the blog and viewers just read your posts, or you can allow your audience to comment on your posts and create a dialogue with them. Which model you choose comes down to your purpose for the blog. If you want to get feedback from customers, family members, friends, or subscribers, then allowing them to post will add a tremendous dimension to your communication. If you want to keep it simple, then start out with a blog where you post and others only read. How Do You Set Up a Blog? Log on to Blogger.com to set up a free account (monologue type). With absolutely zero experience and without reading the help files, I set up my blog ( Ebook Blog ) in about 5 minutes. At first I just posted a few old articles to fill in content and see how the process worked. Lately I’ve gotten the “blogger bug” and plan to start posting several times a week. Though my blog gets posted on my own website, Blogger.com also allows you to post to their server so you don’t even need a hosting account to set up your own blog. You can get a more full-featured blog (dialogue type) from MovableType.org. There you have the option of getting their software installed on your server or obtaining a very reasonably priced account hosted on their servers. Either way you choose, posting rates as simple as typing into a web form, clicking a button, and your articles and comments automatically get posted to your blog (no html or ftp skills required). If you want to find one of the thousands of blogs online about everything from cooking to puppy potty training, log onto www.daypop.com, www.blogsearchengine.com, or www.feedster.com to search through rapidly expanding databases of blogs open to the public. -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links? "Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate links... without spending a dime on advertising! Click Here> Ezine Article Marketing -=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

It still amazes me how well my For Sale Buy Owner ebook is selling. We've been online since 1997 (when I decided to post the book while drinking beer with a friend at college homecoming. After many fits and starts... I've managed to create a full-time living online selling information. My Ebook Affiliate Program now has over 5000 members... and it all started with a simple ebook based on my experience as a real estate agent. The moral of this post is several-fold: 1. Everyone has at least one ebook in them... 2. Good information is timeless... especially if you stay away from the "make money" ebooks... 3. Act on a good idea (instead of doing what most people do... which is to let their good ideas go down the drain!) With some minor maintenance, there is no reason why this ebook can't sell for at least another 7-10 years :-) Jim eBook Secrets Exposed

By the way... I have been selling this ebook about mortgages for over 4 years now... and it amazes me how people think that the only ebooks that make money have to be about "making money"! That just goes to show that it's not the case... I have this site also ( mortgage refinance links ) to draw traffic to my mortgage related site... but the point is - ebooks make money! Ebooks don't have to be about making money to make money either! Another example: For Sale By Owner Help - Where I sell my ebook "Selling Your Home Alone"... this has been online since 1997! Selling every month... and it has nothing to do with making money on the Internet! So if somebody tells you that ebooks don't make money... turn your back and run... because they do!

-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Discover Hidden Profits in "Spare Change" Time - by Jim Edwards (c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved I Gotta Tell You Ezine -=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Fact: Take the spare change out of your pocket every night and put it in a child's piggy bank. At the end of a year you will have at least a hundred dollars to spend as you wish. Now take this same principle and discover the huge payoff in the "spare change" time you've been wasting all these years. How often do you sit in front of your computer and wait? Everyone waits for the computer to reboot, restart, unlock, "scandisk", "defrag", finish printing, download a file from the Internet or generally accomplish tasks that have you sitting twiddling your thumbs for at least 60 to 90 seconds or more. The shocking truth is that those one, two and three minute nuggets of time contain the seeds for accomplishing all the tasks you never seem to have enough minutes in the day to finish. Computers represent a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they are supposed to save us time by efficiently helping us with big tasks such as balancing our checkbooks, running our businesses, and doing our taxes. In reality, it seems the time computers save you gets sucked right back up in time-consuming tasks such as installing software, scanning for viruses and waiting for the computer to restart! Think about the spare change in the piggy bank example. Now use that same principle to your advantage by developing an awareness of how you spend your "pocket change" time in front of the computer every day. Small bits of wasted time add up quickly over the course of a day, week, year - all of it in 2 to 3 minute increments. Fifteen wasted minutes a day equals well over 1 ½ productive weeks wasted per year! Take this "one-day challenge". Today, try these alternatives to sitting and watching the "hourglass" on your monitor while waiting for your computer to finish a task! ~ Organize your desk ~ Sharpen your pencils ~ Make a quick phone call ~ Check your "to-do" list; if you don't have a "to-do" list make one ~ Write a fast note to a friend ~ Put in a load of laundry ~ Go to the bathroom ~ Get another cup of coffee ~ Pay a bill ~ Catch up your checkbook entries ~ Pick up your office ~ Brainstorm an idea ~ Stand up and stretch ~ Day-dream for about a happy thought for 90 seconds! Carefully watch how much time you spend in front of the computer waiting for it to do something and then see how many things you can accomplish with that time. Nothing could reward you more than developing a consciousness about how you spend those spare moments that add up to enough time to write a book, take a trip with your family or take positive actions that will change your life forever. Use your "spare change" time to accomplish the things you claim you never find time to finish! ---- Jim Edwards, co-author of "The Lazy Man's Guide to Online Business", will teach you How to Work Less, get Paid More and have tons more FUN doing business online! Proven tips, tricks, and strategies of Superstar "Lazy Achievers"! Click=> Lazy Man's Guide To Online Business

-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 3 Ways To STOP Affiliate Link "Hijackers" By Jim Edwards (c)2004 Jim Edwards - all right reserved Ebook Affiliate Program -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Let's face the facts! Almost everyone online today is looking to make or save a buck any way they can. In the past, most of the people who clicked on your affiliate links used to purchase without a second thought... but, as times get tougher online, it seems a growing number won't! As money gets tighter and product prices rise, people who know how to manipulate the system will sometimes replace your affiliate ID with theirs and "hijack" your commissions. Here's an example: Let's say your affiliate link is www.ebookaboutcats.com/?live-well. Say the highjacker uses the affiliate ID of captain-hook. What he would do is replace your ID with his, and buy from the URL www.ebookaboutcats.com/?captain-hook. The bottom line: the hijacker puts your money in his pocket. In other cases, they can't stand the thought of you "making money off them" so they bypass you by simply chopping off the end of your affiliate link that contains your ID. Instead of buying from www.ebookaboutcats.com/?live-well, the bypasser will simply "chop off" the affiliate ID at the end and simply buy from the plain URL www.ebookaboutcats.com --without your affiliate ID attached! Either way, you get cheated out of your rightful commission. To help you fight these affiliate link hijackers I offer a couple of my best (proven and battle tested) tips, which will at least confuse these "hijackers" and, in many cases, often defeat and disarm them completely. Side Note: If someone really, really wants to steal your affiliate commission, they will find a way; however, most hijackers are just opportunists who will only act if they see an easy buck. The first and cheapest way to hide your affiliate links is using a javascript redirect page. This is where you hide your affiliate link in a page on your site using a simple javascript that redirects people to your affiliate link. It works great not to expose your "naked" affiliate link in your actual email messages and ezine ads, but, once people get redirected to the true affiliate link, many affiliate programs expose the affiliate link along with your ID in the browser address bar. Here's an example of a redirect script in action. Click => http://www.ebookfire.com/esejs.html Notice how the link takes you to a page where you can see my affiliate ID, ebookfire, in your web browser's address bar. Like it or not, someone can replace my ID with theirs and "hijack" the commission... but at least the redirect script keeps them from immediately seeing my "naked" affiliate link (http://hop.clickbank.net/?ebookfire/ebksecrets) when I publish it in my newsletter, email, or on my website. You can get free redirect scripts just about anywhere you find free javascripts. Here is the script I use http://www.ebookfire.com/jrs.shtml. A better way to hide your affiliate links is using a zero- frame or "invisible" frame that masks the affiliate link by making it appear you are sending people to a page on your website. In reality, you are actually sending them to your affiliate link. This is the technique used by those "sub-domain" redirect services that provide you with urls like http://ese.ebookfire.net. While giving someone a link like that is much better than using a "naked" affiliate link such as http://hop.clickbank.net/?ebookfire/ebksecrets, there is a problem. As soon as someone does a "view >> source" in their web browser they'll see your naked affiliate link plain as day... which instantly blows your cover! Currently the best way to protect your affiliate commissions from ruthless hijackers is to use a combination of a zero- frame page along with URL encryption. This involves sending someone to URL that looks like a page on your site, but actually pulls in your affiliate link like those "sub- domain" services. However, there's one critical difference... If someone does a "view >> source" in their browser, you have added protection in that all they will see is a jumble of computer code instead of your naked affiliate link. Check out this example of a zero-frame with URL encryption in action. Click => http://www.ebookfire.com/ese.html Side Note: Beware of cloaking scripts that use javascript to mask your affiliate link because they could malfunction in some web browsers. Here's the bottom line: if you are going to sell through other people's affiliate programs, never send a "naked" affiliate link... you're just asking for people to hijack or bypass you if you do. If you want to get paid more often through your affiliate links, make sure it's not obvious you're referring people to an affiliate link. If they can't easily see how to hijack or bypass your link, a lot more people who would have taken the money out of your pocket will just go ahead and buy through your link - which is, after all, the whole point! :-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jim Edwards, author of numerous best-selling ebooks, earns thousands in affiliate commissions every month! Jim has developed "Affiliate Link Cloaker," the easy, FAST, safe way to STOP affiliate link "hijackers"... Dead in their tracks! Click Here => Affiliate Link Cloaker

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Let's Get One Thing Straight About Being A Published Author - by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel © 2004 - All Rights reserved -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Just for fun, evaluate the following statement: "Most people want to write a book and get it published, but that's simply impossible 99% of the time." Is the above statement true? Not exactly. What's true is that most people THINK they can't write a book and get it published. And while that's a widely-held belief, just the opposite is true. In fact, it's easier to write and get published today than ever before - especially thanks to the ebook "revolution." The field of ebooks is literally wide open for all who are interested - including, perhaps, you! What does it take to write and publish your own ebook? Three things: 1) A TOPIC you are interested in that others would also like to know more about. 2) The DESIRE to get the ebook written (note - you can write it yourself, but you don't have to. There are other proven and simple ways to get your ebook written and published for you.) 3) A simple, one-page, "sales letter" WEB SITE to sell the ebook. Does it take a lot of money or any special aptitudes? Oddly enough, not really. You have to be willing to take action, certainly, and learn as you go, but there are no special educational, financial or talent requirements to become a successful ebook author. The truth is, it costs very little to get started. You can get a domain registered and online for as little as $9 to start and $6 a month for website hosting. In fact, there are actually six ways you can create an ebook without ever writing a word of it - so you don't need to be a skilled writer. We'll tell you about one of them, in-depth, right now. Think of a topic you know something about that you'd like to write an ebook on. Once you have that topic in mind, then all you need to do is write a list of questions other people would pay to get the answers to... give that list to a friend... have the friend call you on the phone and ask you those questions... record the call... have the recording transcribed... and edit the transcription! Presto - you've just created a "meaty" ebook fast! (Yes, it really is that simple!) By the way, if you don't want to transcribe or edit the ebook yourself, you can get both of those things done for you for surprisingly little money... as little as a few hundred dollars, total, in many cases. That's how we wrote our most recent ebook. As authors ourselves, we came up with a list of questions, got on the phone, recorded the answers, and had the entire 4 1/2 hour conversation transcribed. Using this phone call - transcription - edit route we created an ebook in about a week. It cost us a total of $163 to produce it. (We hired out the transcription, and did the editing ourselves.) So far we've spent *zero* money on advertising and, as we write this article today, we've sold over $49,683 worth of that ebook in less than six months! We're not unique in that way. We know many others who have successfully published ebooks - including another small publisher who has used this exact same method to create dozens of ebooks. If you can clearly understand a specific problem, want, need or desire of a large enough target audience and then create a publication that helps them get what they want, you stand to make a lot of money and help a great number of people at the same time. If there ever was a "golden age" of publishing, NOW is the time. The truth of the matter is, today anyone can become a published author with an ebook in less than a couple of weeks. Between us, we have 11 ebooks online and we're making money every day, even as you read this. You can do the same. Opportunity awaits you right now. It's never been easier to seize the day and go for your dream - become a published author! -- Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel are co-authors of "eBook Secrets Exposed," the authoritative resource for making a lot of money quickly writing and publishing your own ebook. Guerrilla Marketing series author Jay Conrad Levinson says, "If ever there was a 'must-read' for this century, it's this book." For more information... Click here => Ebook Secrets Exposed

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