Announcement
I'm very happy to announce our first monthly winner of the 'Online Business Idea Referral' contest for the month of July 2005. After a mad dash at the end it was Joseph Nyakairu who got the lead and I'm proud to present Joseph Nyakairu with a software packages from 'The Internet Marketing Tool Box'. (Joseph if you're reading this, please contact me!)
The contest will continue and each month there will be a new winner. So please make sure that you enter frequently to increase your chances to win.
Click now to enter this month's contest. Remember you can win a quality software package of your choice.
I'm looking for testimonials for my products. If you want to get one of these tools for free write a testimonial and I will give it to you for free. Here's how it works. Of course I need to make sure that I get something in return for handing out free stuff, so I decided to offer you the tools for half price (50% off regular price). Once I received your testimonial I will refund 100% of your purchase price. This makes it absolutely Free for you.
Click now to pick your tool that you want to write about (Don't worry if you're not a InstantBuzz member, this is just to give you the 50% discount).
This Month's Giveaway
PHP Script CollectionIf you're a webmaster that wants to do more than just put some html pages together, these are the scripts you need to automate and optimize your website. 10 easy to use scripts that will make your life easier and your websites look and feel more professional.
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Affiliate program Review
As I mentioned over and over again, I will be honest in writing any reviews of programs I personally participate. If I don't like what I'm experiencing with any one of them I will let you know. Also I will tell you of a business opportunity is worth the effort or not.
This month I will talk about 2 affiliate/MLM programs I joined a while ago and they are just not performing. Let me be more specific. They are not performing despite the time and money I invested into the promotion of these programs. I'm not talking about a few bucks, I'm talking about hundreds of dollars invested and very little in return. These are the kind of business opportunities that will discourage newcomers.
The first program I quit was
GDI. GDI or website.ws offers .ws domain name registration and web hosting services. The domain name registration is Ok, the web hosting service sucks and the email service I never even tried. Don't get fooled by the advertising pitch that .ws stands for website. It actually is the country registration for West Samoa. A little tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. I found this information after I researched more about GDI and the .ws domain.
To be honest with you, I was very impressed with GDI's marketing. Probably some of the best I've seen so far. However, I wasted hundreds of dollars with GDI supplied leads, 13,000 to be exact. Out of these leads I got 4(!) sign ups. Meanwhile 2 of them quit. So, I'm getting $2 a month in commission compared to $10 I spend for the membership. I wouldn't mind if the monthly commissions would cover the cost. Then at least I would have a chance to recover the initial investment over time. Either way this doesn't sound like a good business investment.
Bottom line, I have to stop the financial drainage and quit the program.
The second program is
ISPVIP. They offer dialup internet connectivity in several countries all over the world. The cost is reasonable and the their tools seem to work fine. I signed up because of the income opportunity. After a half a year with no signups I decided to quit the program. I don't need an additional dialup ISP and the ISPVIP website did not convert at all. There's nothing wrong with the service, but this is not a good business opportunity.
Again, I have to stop the financial drainage and quit the program.
As you can see I don't mind to tell you when I'm wrong and I certainly don't want you to get burned like me. If you made similar experiences with affiliate programs, please let me know and I will write about it in this newsletter.
Traffic Generator Review
InstantBuzzYes, InstantBuzz is back, stronger than ever. Despite the recent setbacks InstantBuzz is gaining support all over the place. The last time I wrote about InstantBuzz I mentioned the drop in visitors to my website. Yes in deed I certainly missed the flow of traffic from InstantBuzz while the site was down.
For those who don't know what InstantBuzz is, here's a little overview. InstantBuzz is absolutely free to use. Once you signed up you have 3 ways to advertise your products.
A toolbar on Internet Explorer displays InstantBuzz member ads every time a new webpage is displayed. In exchange of these ads displayed on your IE your ad will be displayed on another member's browser. There's a formula to calculate how many times your ad will be displayed. They are working on a FireFox version as well.
Every time you send out an email InstantBuzz automatically inserts a member ad on top of the email. Your ad will be included on somebody else's email correspondence. Very powerful to bypass these ugly SPAM filters.
An unblockable popup can be inserted onto all of your web pages. This will display a small popup on the right upper corner. Again your ad will be displayed on somebody else's web page.
I don't want to go into too much detail. However the key to a constant traffic flow is in building your downline. The more people contributing to your viewing statistic the more often your ads will be displayed. Remember this is not your typical random traffic. People are clicking on your ad because they are curious what you have to offer. This is pure targeted traffic marketing.
The only thing I regret is that I didn't sign up for the gold membership when I joined. This will give you a head start in the exchange system and your ads are displayed a lot more often than as a free member. The catch is, that you can't switch your membership after you joined. So, if you're serious in internet marketing and looking for a prime advertising opportunity, sign up for the gold membership at the time of joining. If you don't it will be too late and you will never get another chance to do so.
Click now to experience first hand what this powerful advertising tool can do for you. Make sure to opt for the gold membership. You cannot change it later on.
Featured Article
The Rats Are Winning the Rat Race (c) by Peter Dobler
There was this great entrepreneur who came up with a genius idea. He went and bought eggs; lot’s of eggs and paid 5 cents per egg. Then he painted the eggs and sold them for 3 cents. While doing this he became a millionaire. How in the world did he do this?
Did he miraculously find a way to reproduce each egg? The numbers don’t add up, but still he became a millionaire. He also has proof that he’s officially a millionaire. Still puzzled about this? Well, here’s the answer; he started out as a billionaire. Huh, bad joke! No quite. That’s about how you must feel with all the business opportunities advertised day in and day out.
Everybody claims to make a fortune out of thin air and everybody claims to have proof that it works. If you’re long enough in this business you will realize that most of these claims and corresponding proof are copies from somebody else’s “success story”. Ever so often there’s a new email floating around that claims the same exact results than a similar email that you received a few weeks ago. Same content different product.
But still, there are thousands and millions who want to believe that the only thing they have to do is to go online and start making money. That’s of course the message that all these clever internet marketers send out to a well responding crowd. These people are caught in the moment and act like deer in the headlights.
So what’s the outcome of this? Those gurus are making more money and the opportunity seekers are getting milked until they can’t afford it anymore. Now wonder there are so many angry and frustrated opportunity seekers out there.
My next question would be; are all these self proclaimed gurus just smoking mirrors and con artists? By all means NO! Everything they claim to be the next big money maker is possible for the most part of it. So why doesn’t it work for me?
The answer is simple. They have all the web traffic they need and thousands of quality contact email addresses at their disposal. If you don’t know it by now, it is one big numbers game! If you don’t have the numbers, you don’t make any money, period!
How do we win the rat race? So far the rats are winning and there’s little or nothing we can do. Well not quite. The one thing you have to do is changing your mindset. It’s no longer about winning; you need to get comfortable with the fact to be the runner-up.
Kiss the dream of a six-figure income goodbye and embrace the more realistic 3 and 4 figure margin; or even better, be happy to make at least some money. Most of your peers aren’t making nay money at all and just depleting the hard earned funds to a pile of rubble.
Based on this outlook shouldn’t you just close up shop and quit wasting your time? I hate to say this, but it depends. If you are able to learn from your mistakes and constantly tweaking your efforts and streamlining your products and services, you will have a good chance to survive. If you are a pure copycat and never ever invest a minute of your time to analyze your situation, sorry you have no future in this business.
I know I will stir up some heavy duty emotions with statements like these. However in my opinion it is the brutal truth. You have a choice. You can go out there and experience it first hand and most likely get burned or you can take a break now and analyze your situation. If you still believe you got what it takes, go for it. Everybody else, quit before somebody gets hurt.
About The Author:
Peter Dobler is a 20+ year veteran in the IT business. He is an active Real Estate Investor and a successful Internet business owner.
http://www.online-business-idea.com (Online Business Idea Center)
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mailto:pdobler@getresponse.com Must Have Ebook
Private Posts - Volume 1(by Allen Says)
If you put me on the spot to tell you what are the 10 must have books to start your online business, Allen Says' Private Posts would be one of them. I'm going a step further and make the statement that this book is the only book you've ever need to make money with your online business.
Allen explains in plain and simple words how the whole business works and what strategy works and which one doesn't. Before I read Allen's book I was somewhat successful in selling products online. But Allen showed me where I was making huge mistakes and how to correct them.
Ever since I read his book and used it as a guideline my online business is taking off to a level I've never dreamed to reach. Some of his strategies are so simple that I told myself "Why didn't I come up with this idea?".
The one thing I noticed is the list of people who actually use Allen's book as a guide. This list reads like the who-is-who of internet marketing. Apparently Allen knows what he's talking about and the big shoots of the business respect him as well as the thousands of people who build their business withAllen's advices.
Click now to read more about this book now.
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