A Big List, or a BIGGER List? Those Are Your Only 2 Options...

(Near the end, I explain how you can also obtain Unlimited Autoresponders that DO NOT require you to reconfirm your optin leads...just LOAD and GO! FREE!)

Not having a list is not an option. The title clearly says, "A Big List, or a Bigger List?" and since you are reading this, you have, unbeknownst to you, tacitly agreed to one or the other. So if you do not have a mailing list, or you think it's way too hard for you to get one, or you're unhappy because yours is really puny, then you won't get any sympathy from me. Because I'm going to show you, and give you, concrete ways to build your list - to either be BIG or....

BIGGER!

Let me come at this from another angle.

As of this same time next year, there's going to be somewhere on the order of another 24 million people surfing the web. Out of those 24 million, some of them will have built a mailing list in less time than it took either of us. But MOST of those 24 million are going to be looking to BUY something.

And out of those who want to BUY something, MANY will want to buy something that YOU have already heard about and/or have tried. Now...

WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE READY FOR THAT?

In the previous article, I spelled out clearly how it is I continue to both survive AND thrive even when my webhost is under a Denial of Service Attack. I spelled out, clear as day, that because I had paid the modest fee on the one-time-only offer upon signup at ListDotCom, I am now able to email 5,000 random people EVERY OTHER DAY for as long as I, or Mike Filsaime, live. :-) And that I earn between $50-$200 each time.

As you can see in the previous posts comments (and in my email moreso), people wrote to me asking,

"Ok Sam, you've made a very good case for the ListDotCom Diamond Membership Upgrade, now what should we sell?!!"

Well I can't tell EXACTLY everything I sell or people would copy me and I would lose my shirt big time. However, in some comment replies, I DID link to Mike Filsaime's PayDotCom which has 100s of merchants with 1000s of affiliate product to choose from. And I said that since Diamond Membership upgrades have every other day FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES to email 5,000 people then, unless there was a financial crises at hand, they would have ample time to experiment and to do a little testing to find out what was right for them.

Furthermore, I went on to say that any member of my list who reads my emails and blog posts is constantly exposed to some fine examples of writing that he or she can study (not copy, but study) to help get a good idea of how to do the same. I mean it's all right here, like out in the open, a REAL way to go about making some cold hard cash rather quickly and regularly.

AND YET...I SHALL BE VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT ONE OF THE SECRETS I PROMOTE WHEN EMAILING TO THE 5,000 RANDOM LISTDOTCOM MEMBERS.

Now if you're on my list, you may know that I've already told people TWICE about what you're going to see next, however, I've never quite framed it this way before, or told people HOW I have used it to explode my list huge. I just offered this awesome list building product simply AS a list building product without ever having mentioned that I use it in conjunction with ListDotCom.

But before I tell you what it is, let me tell you WHY I use it. Even though we get to email 5,000 people every other day for the rest of our lives - live people just like you and me! - I still consider EACH and EVERY mailing PRECIOUS! Each one you miss, or mess up, is like throwing money and leads out the window. And you work too hard for that...I know I do. So here's the formula I use to maximize my ListDotCom Diamond Membership mailing results every other day.

Each outgoing message (except for rare circumstances) must contain both,

• A brief tempting description, about 1-2 paragraphs long, of a hot, direct sale item that invites or teases the reader to have a closer look, and
• Something FREE - and USEFUL. (lead generation)

That's the minimum necessary for a ListDotCom mailing. Strictly speaking, the reader often gets the fr/eebie and then sometimes buys the product. Win-win-win...

Since I'm burning the midnight oil here, I'll now just show you what it is I use in ListDotCom that gets me signups OVER and OVER and OVER and will make your list BIG!

A MEMBERSHIP GIVEAWAY RIGHTS LICENSE!

With it, I get to give away the following (all the links lead to the same place, but I'm showing them so you can see what some of your splash pages would look like..)

Splash Page 1
Splash Page 2
Splash Page 3
Splash Page 4

(Go ahead, get one, I don't mind! ;-) )

And if you said you wanted your list to be even BIGGER...then

HERE'S THE GRAND-DADDY OF ALL GIVEAWAY LICENSES!

So, now you have the final piece...and you can make the most difficult decision of deciding whether you want a BIG list, or a BIGGER list!

Here are the culprits again...!

MEMBERSHIP GIVEAWAY RIGHTS LICENSE!

and

THE GRAND-DADDY OF ALL GIVEAWAY LICENSES!

And remember, those are just GREAT starters for collecting TONS of leads. You get to give away the memberships on the splash page above wherever allowed...forever and ever...! I do it REGULARLY and that's why my list isn't BIG, but....

BIGGER!!!

Alright, don't just sit there staring at your screen! Between mailing 5,000 people every other day at ListDotCom and stuffing each offer with AT LEAST 1 tempting direct sale item and 1 free membership giveaway as per above, you should soon be styling with a bulging mailing list in JUST enough time to be ready for those 24 million people next year!!! :-)

Now get crackin!

Sam

PS. As mentioned at the top of this post, if you either join LDC under me as a Diamond Member, OR obtain either license above, I will GIVE you FREE UNLIMITED AUTORESPONDERS that DO NOT REQUIRE YOU TO RECONFIRM YOUR LEADS. Yes, you can upload your leads lists without having to ask them to opt back in! And don't worry - my friend who runs it watches it VERY carefully so anyone who attempts to spam is GONE...!

A One-time VERY Low payment lets you give away Free Memberships FOREVER...

MEMBERSHIP GIVEAWAY RIGHTS LICENSE!

PPS. Ah, I forgot, this you'll appreciate...the Ultimate License comes with SIXTY THOUSAND LEADS. And MAN those "no reconfirmation required" unlimited Free autoresponders are going to come in SUPER handy, huh? ;-)

THE GRAND-DADDY OF ALL GIVEAWAY LICENSES!

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How to Survive a Denial of Service Attack on Your Business!

It's really simple. You're cruising this blog for the simple fact that either your fascinated with it and have nothing better to do, or, you're desperately seeking to increase your income enough to escape the rat race hellhole some people mistakenly accept as "ordinary life."

Well, you've come to the right place, so bookmark it now.

Two nights ago, my webhost was hit by a Denial of Service attack. My ad trackers were all down, and so were my lead capture pages. The tremendous traffic that I'd worked so hard to generate could not get through. If you are one who hasn't had much, if any, traffic to your website(s) yet, let me explain how I felt through a saying I once heard in history class:

"You don't know what freedom is until you've had it, then have it taken away."

Well, you don't know what loads of traffic leading to list building and sales are until you've first experienced it, and then had it taken away. Fortunately, it was only for an evening, and it wasn't ALL of my sites (as I've like 3 webhosts) but it was most of them - enough that it mattered.

And it cost me, I'd guess, about 50 leads and around $100-$200 in sales.

Now that might not seem like a lot to some, and like a fortune to others, but when you have a formula where the goal to financial freedom is to make at MINIMUM one $87 sale per day, then it matters because one $87 sale per day adds up to $2,697/mo. Whereas the gurus would have you chasing 5 and 6 figure paychecks every month, the wise man knoweth that all one need do is cover his or her monthly expenses, and then some, to experience that highly sought after "peace of mind."

Once you have the one $87 sale per day down, you can then focus on increasing it, but the goal has to be FINANCIAL FREEDOM, and not DESIRING bigger, outrageous sums of cash which is no freedom at all.

So, with my one $87 sale per day formula lightly explained, what was I going to do now that my sites were down? I mean, even my blog is full of ad trackers and my ad trackers weren't working, so now what?

LISTDOTCOM TO THE RESCUEEEEE!

I told my loyal list members just 2 days prior that I use ListDotCom to make an extra $50-$200 EVERY...OTHER....DAY. That's on top of website and list sales! Because we're so conditioned to believe making money is supposed to be HARD, we just don't see the forest for the trees or, as Earl Nightengale used to say, the "Acres of Diamonds." And ListDotCom is one of the biggest, no-brainer money making secrets I've ever been privy to.

So when my webhost basically came to a grinding halt, I remembered that I had ListDotCom to achieve my simple goal of AT LEAST one $87 sale per day.

"SO HOW EXACTLY DID YOU IT, SAM?"

As simple as pie, honest. Coming from a long history in a wildly successful family business, I knew that the only way to make money is to spend money. That's it. That's an immutable law of making money - you have to spend it to make it. Of course, you have to spend it wisely, but how can you spend it wisely when you're conditioned to chase 5 and 6 figure paychecks rather than one $87 sale per day?

Since Day 1, I have done virtually nothing more than tell everyone very candidly what I do to make mony on the web. Is it always glamorous? No. Is it always flashy!? No. Is it always like the gurus?! No! But does it help me make AT LEAST ONE $87 SALE PER DAY?!

YES! YES! and YES!!

You bet it does! So what in Heaven's name is stopping you from hearing? What is preventing you from making the one $X sale each day that will help you experience that peace of mind? You have 24 hours to make it, and you can take bathroom and snack breaks whenever you want. And there's no one lording over you and blaming you for their mistakes. So where is your minimum of one $(your amount) sale per day? Is there some kind of shortage of people on the web that I don't know about? Did a spaceship take a whole bunch of humans to Mars?

Where is your one sale per day?

ALRIGHT, are you ready to listen? Are you ready to start making your one sale per day? Or, if you prefer, you can continue chasing that big pay day promised to you by any of the big MLMs pushing VOIP or Luxury Condos in the Swiss Alps, or whatever you like, it's your life. But if you want to speed things up a bit and start down that path towards your "AT LEAST one sale per day" life, then listen closely...please, for you... not for me because I am already doing it - I am already free.

HERE IS WHAT I'VE DONE TO ALMOST GUARANTEE $50-$200 EVERY OTHER DAY TO REACH MY "AT LEAST ONE $87 SALE PER DAY" GOAL.

I upgraded at Mike Filsaime's ListDotCom and have never looked back. It has allowed me to email 5,000 random people every other day! Now, I don't know if maybe you have an issue with Mike Filsaime, or if you are envious of him, or don't like his ad copy, or don't care for the fact that he has worked alongside Mark Joyner, but if you want to keep hanging on to that grudge, just know that it's costing you $50-$200 or more, every other day.

That's a costly grudge to be holding.

If that's you, do you think you want to maybe let go of it right about now, or would you prefer to wait until the IRS comes and takes away another couple of pieces of furniture? :-) It's up to you, but what's the worst that's going to happen? Let's take a look at what will happen after you upgrade at Mike Filsaime's ListDotCom

• You end up on his mailing list (big deal, that's part of the game)
• You pay a one-time UPGRADE fee (which is WAY more than reasonable for the opportunity), and then,
• You have the rest of your life to mail 5,000 people EVERY OTHER DAY in order to make back your investment and more. Hello? Anybody home?

Make sure you read that correctly: You can email 5,000 people EVERY OTHER DAY for the REST OF YOUR LIFE!

"Yeah but, how do I know all 5,000 people are receiving my email?!"

You want the truth? You'll always get it here...YOU DON'T KNOW! You have NO WAY of knowing if 5,000 people are REALLY getting your email, or if spam filters are devouring 50% of it. But here's what I DO KNOW....

Pursuant to my goal of having financial peace of mind by making "at least one $87 sale per day" I am only concerned with reaching at least 2-4 buyers from that group of 5,000. So do I want to deny myself that extra $50-$200 (sometimes $400-$800) just because I have no scientific way of measuring whether or not ALL 5,000 of my emails are getting through? Should I give back all the money I've made and tell Mike I want a refund of my original upgrade investment?

I DON'T THINK SO..!

You know how it is...you can burn right outta here and head back to your inbox to face down those 50 or 100 other swell offers from people less capable than you, trying to tell you that Book A or Book B, or stuff that's just going to enhance your dust collection, is somehow the next best thing since the Garden Weasel, or....OR....you could make a reasonable one-time payment to someone who already has all the ducks lined up for you and start mailing FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE EVERY OTHER DAY!

Think about it...

Spammy Inbox...? or 5,000 people?
Spammy Inbox...? or 5,000 people?
Spammy Inbox...? or 5,000 people.
Spammy Inbox...? or ListDotCom

I'm only telling you what I do, and what those I know do, and what, as a matter of fact, a LOT of people do that WORKS, starting NOW, not tomorrow, or next week or next year...NOW!

Sincerely wishing you great success,
Sam Freedom
PS. Mark my words. The moment I post this, I am heading over to ListDotCom and making AT LEAST another $50-$200 EASILY. Go check it out for yourself right here:

ListDotCom

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Congratulations! Apparently You Have a Brain! - "The Rich Jerk vs. RoboRiches". Which One Is Right For You?

	VS.
RoboRiches Robot		The Rich Jerk

Ok, the gloves are off! RoboRiches, by Bob Williams and Brian Garvin just hit the streets hot off the presses. Being in the loop, and one of the first to know, I looked it over and blasted out to my loyal list members immediately so they could get the jump on the crowds while their heads weren't yet full of distortions or distractions from the swarm of copy/paste ads that would soon find their way to my list members inboxes.

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A number of people wrote to me shortly thereafter with some version of the following question:

"Sam, which one should I get?
The Rich Jerk or RoboRiches?

Understandable, since each makes some really big claims:

THE RICH JERK:

ROBO RICHES:

Tough choice, huh? Either $25k/mo. or $100k/mo. seems like a no-brainer, right?

THINK AGAIN...!

The Rich Jerk:

Offers strategies. To its credit, these are some of the finest strategies without which most successful marketers would not be where they are today. Even with all his experience, Willie Crawford wrote that he had learned a nugget or two that made getting it worthwhile (and that was at twice it's current price!)

RoboRiches:

Offers an in-depth, detailed SYSTEM with ongoing notifications from Brian Garvin and Bob Williams, two of the most successful marketers today. Besides, Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" says if you want to break free of the rat race, you NEED a system!

And this is directly from the RoboRiches sales page:

"The only requirements are that you need to follow exactly what we've done and you will never have to worry about Money again.

If we tell you to Turn Left.. just do it OK."

So, The Rich Jerk gives you a steamship full of truly secret, proven, money-generating strategies that all successful marketers know and use; while Robo Riches gives you a SYSTEM and tells you what to do - direct from the wisdom of two PROVEN successful marketers.

So Then Which One Should YOU Get?

That depends on two things:

1) Your current setup; and,
2) Your current financial situation.

For a limited time only, The Rich Jerk is on sale for HALF PRICE!

That makes it a "MUST...GET...NOW" for anyone's educational library. But if you absolutely had to make a choice, then here's how I would make the determination as to which one wins my hard-earned money:

If you are already in motion, setup on the web, either taking orders or getting ready to take orders, you have your own little system and your own product and/or business, then
THE RICH JERK is for you. It will show you powerful STRATEGIES as to how to make your current, and all such future endeavors SIGNIFICANTLY more profitable.

However, if you fashion yourself to be a pretty fast learner and are desirous and confident enough that "...if only someone would lay it out clearly and show me exactly what to do, I would do it." then ROBORICHES is for you.

And in case you're wondering, "Sam, do you actually buy or look over these things before you recommend them?" Well, you be the judge...

From inside The Rich Jerk...

From Inside Robo Riches...

See, Proof of Purchase AND a brain! Woohoo! I have a brain!

Warmly Wishing you great SUCCESS,
Sam Freedom
PS. When it comes to "RoboRiches vs. The Rich Jerk", one thing is abundantly clear: both are must-have resources for your ongoing education but AT LEAST one of them belongs in your possession RIGHT NOW. All that's left is for you to remember what I wrote above and decide.

Check Out RoboRiches:
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/RoboRiches

Check Out The Rich Jerk:
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/A-Half-Price-Secret

ENJOY!!!

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Sam Freedom Newsletter Sample - Feast Your Eyes!!!

(if you want some of this good lovin', click on the title of this post and you'll
find an opt-in form...)

Subject line: Oct. 14, 2005 - Sam Freedom Newsletter #9,345,282

Good morning, afternoon and evening, [[This Could Be YOUR Lucky Name!]],

SAM FREEDOM NEWSLETTER #9,345,282
October 14, 2005. Subscribers: Over 10,001 responsive
(at least, I've lost count)...


Did you know you can give away memberships
to various websites as sales bonuses or
for opt-in leads?

Learn how I do this all the time...
It works like a charm.

CONTENTS:

1. Hey, Look What I Found! - Security Issue
2. Ad Tracking 202 - Rethink the Link
3. Mini-Sites Made Easy - Doubled Expectations
4. Giving Away Memberships, plus some..
5. Guru-itis: What's Mark Joyner up to now?
6. Hooray for Medical Billing!
7. PROJECT SAM - It's Not Too Late to Turn Back Now!
PS. Fre/ebie in the PS section
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1. Hey Look What I Found! - Security Issue
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I'm not going into detail on this, but I'm just going to say
as loudly as I can without using capital letters, if you
have any kind of websites at all, make sure you have an
index.htm file in EVERY directory folder. That's ALL
I'm going to say on that matter.

Whether it's the news, or just a guy loving attention,
some people go into details about "dangerous things"
just because "its the truth" or "its just the facts" and that's
true, it's often just the facts. But I believe one also has
a responsibility in presenting those facts and must take
into account the possibility of tempting people into bad
behaviours.

So I am agreeing that I AM MY BROTHERS KEEPER,
and without tempting anyone, I'll just say, one more time:

Make sure all of your directory folders have an index.htm
file in them. In fact, make it juicy advertising or just blank
white if you want, but make sure there's one in there,
otherwise, you've got a gaping hole in your business.

Nuff said...
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2. Ad Tracking 202 - Rethink the Link
==================================

Proper Ad Tracking Links are the most underestimated
"link" in the chain. Which do you gravitate towards?

http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator
http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?16644

After struggling so hard to get links viewed and
clicked on, why do people present an ugly link that
has "Amateur" written all over it?

Since this is one area that people will ALWAYS
underestimate, the one who doesn't, clearly has
the edge. And I won't take up any more space
talking about it because I blogged about it sufficiently
at the link below:

http://controversialmarketing.blogspot.com/2005/10/ad-tracking-202-what-do-these-5-links.html

Btw, for any of you wiseguys out there, ;-) blog links are
not ugly. They are not tracking links; they don't spell
"affiliate commission"; and they contain information AND
pique the curiousity of avid bloggers. So there...!

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3. Mini-Sites Made Easy Doubled Expectations
==========================================

Wow! This is the find of the century. As you may know
by now, I want myself and others to be proud of what
I do online, so my thoughts first go to whether or not
something can REALLY be of use to the everday guy and
gal.

Well, here's one that OVER-delivers:
Daniel Kelly's Mini Sites Made Easy video series
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/mini-sites-made-easy

I wrote about it just a few days ago, and was surprised
with DOUBLE the response most offers receive. It went
through the roof, and mainly because Dan's product is
so USEFUL and so well done, that he confidently gives
visitors a whole TWO WEEKS to review ALL ..not some,
but ALL, of his materials for just ONE DOLLAR..yeah,
you heard me right....all 28 videos (plus the bonuses)
can be reviewed for two weeks for only $1.

Now I know a LOT about web marketing, a LOT...I'm
like a sponge, and yet i still learned from his video course,
so if I had THREE thumbs, I'd give it three thumbs up.
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/mini-sites-made-easy

(if you pick this up and stay with it, I'll see to it that
you are furnished with a free web hosting account.
Just email me with your receipt 2 weeks after signup..

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4. Giving Away Memberships, plus some
==================================

Here's just ONE of the many ways I gain new
subscribers....

I go to a forum, any forum will do, and I find posts
that I can help with. It's important that the post
really be of help because marketers tend to
frown upon junk posts meant only to get exposure.
(or at least ask a darn good question!)

Most forums allow you a signature file with about
5 lines to advertise whatever you want, and some
forums allow an image link (most dont, though).

So I use a picture like this:
http://www.sam-freedom.com/images/freemembership.gif
and a link like this:
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/This-Free-Membership
(go ahead, see where it "leads", no pun intended)

And you can do either that, or some other creative
way of adding to your subscriber base. That one is
just so simple that it blows me away more people
haven't discovered it yet...actually, it doesn't surprise
me, when I think about it. I discover all the backroads
under-the-reader techniques that the gurus will never
tell you about, so it makes sense now.

If you want to go to seminars every 3 weeks and sip
tea and smoke cigars then just ignore this section,
but if you want to start fattening up your list, then take
a close look at what you're about to see:
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/You-Fatten-Your-List

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5. Guru-itis: What's Mark Joyner up to now?
===========================================

Ok, everyone is allowed one rant, and this won't
even be a rant, but it doesn't take 75 minutes to
explain viral marketing to people. But, as always,
a lesson can be learned from anything...

The lesson here is...that most people don't know that!

So they can't wait to hear the lastest on Viral Marketing
and they spend 75 minutes listening to someone drag
out a concept that can be clearly explained and illustrated
in less than half the time. So props to MJ for taking
advantage of the gullible and naive and framing it in
the context of "marketing" or "people thirsting for knowledge."

If you're one of his cheerleading zombies, please tell
him Sam said hello when you report back to him on
what I just wrote. Thanks!

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6. Hooray for Medical Billing!
==============================

Like a rainbow, I'm not sure how long this pretty
little thing will last but SOMEHOW on my main
lead capture portal, Google Adsense has served
up 2 ads for "medical billing."

Now I'm going to show it to you, but whatever you
do, don't click on them. It's against Google TOS for
me to tell you TO click on them, but there's nothing
in Google's TOS that says I can't tell you to NOT
click on them, so please DON'T click on them.

Doing so would only increase my coffers and
it might cause the pretty little thing to go away
and I kinda like it there. So please DON'T click
on those juicy, huge mo/ney, $3+/click medical
billing ads, please, ok? Thanks!

http://www.sam-freedom.com/brand.htm

Just look at them, like me, and scratch your head
in wonder. ;-)

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7. PROJECT SAM - It's Not Too Late to Turn Back
========================================

I am passionate about internet marketing. I find it
exhilirating, but there are times when I could just
pull my hair out, or put my monitor through the window.
So I'm gonna do something no other marketer I've
ever seen has done before...PROJECT SAM.

I'm going to start a blog that lays it pretty bare.
No technical mumbo jumbo, 8,000 words thrown
in your face hoping to get Adsense commission...
no, I'm going to blog straight
forward about what a pleasure and what a
nightmare marketing can be.

Usually, you get a LITTLE insight into what
others are doing. Or it gets packaged into
a fluffy book and presented with impersonal
ad copy. But I'm not going to give you any
of that. I'm going to just lay it bare and tell
you what I'm going through as I create my
campaigns.

And I'll leave up to guys like Marlon Sanders
to try to package it up and sell it to you:
http://url123.com/wvpcu
(oops, was that an ugly link?)
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator

So stay tuned for Project Sam, I have the graphics
designer working on the template now. Who knows,
I might even put up "The Sam Cam"...shhhhh!

Wishing you the best,
Sam
ps. Always do a ps, remember?
pps. Yes, the freebie - It's a secret! A very nice resource
having to do with the latest sensation:
http://a-great-idea.biz/x/go.php?c=lizblogbook&s=blog101405
pps. When giving out a freebie, it's ok to use an ugly link!

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Ad Tracking 202 - What Do These 5 Links Have In Common?

Greetings Fellow Entrepeneur,

Without clicking any of them just yet, take a moment or two and see if you can tell what the following links have in common:

http://eztrackpro.com/trackbiz/control/redirect.php?d=461
http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?16644
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator
http://url123.com/zwhmp
http://a-great-idea.biz/x/go.php?c=plg

At a glance, you might say it's the "http://" at the beginning and technically you'd be right. But non-technically, from the viewpoint of a marketer who needs to pay the bills each month, there is nothing obviously connecting them.

Now go ahead and click on a couple of them and, suddenly, it becomes obvious - they all point to the same opportunity, "Powerlink Generator" by Mike Filsaime. If you're an experienced marketer, you might have even guessed that they were all tracking links. But how could you? Because you recognize the ugly links by now. You're familiar with them because you've seen them being used all over the place.

So they must be good, right? I mean, if they're being used all over the place, how could they possibly be bad for your online health? Besides, aren't many links stuffed behind link text?

http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator

Well, there's much more to this than meets the eye, so let me tell you why I chose to write about LINK TRACKING POWERFULLY. Plain and simple, there is so much taken for granted about it and most people, unfortunately, are none the wiser. First of all, if you're NOT tracking your campaigns, you are WAY, WAY out of the loop. Link Tracking is just a fact-of-life for successful marketers. You have to know, with a fair degree of certainty whether the places in which you are advertising are worth your time and energy. And sometimes you discover a hidden gem, like a signature line in a certain forum, for instance, might get you more clickthroughs and sales than a $99 advertisement in a 20,000 member ezine.

[If you are an "advanced" marketer and think you know all of this, read on, you might be surprised...]

Without TRACKING, you are blind to the results of your efforts, and are almost certainly losing time, energy and, therefore, money. And the bill collectors don't care that it's because you're not tracking your campaigns. So then listen closely because I am really here to help, and I do, and I track my campaigns.

So then what's all the fuss about tracking links?

Let's be honest, here. If you were to read over the following links and could pick only one, which would it be?

http://eztrackpro.com/trackbiz/control/redirect.php?d=461
http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?16644
http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator
http://url123.com/zwhmp
http://a-great-idea.biz/x/go.php?c=plg

Most people who've answered this question for me pick one of the following:

http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator
http://a-great-idea.biz/x/go.php?c=plg

But mostly the first one made by Mike Filsaime's Powerlink Generator. And why is that? Because...

#1 It speaks to your mind in a familiar language.

It's an actual full sentence.

#2 It means something to you instantly.

You can wrap your head around it without any tiresome brainwork. AFTER the fact, you can theoretically argue anything, but knowing how the brain works, it always gravitates towards what takes the least effort to digest.

#3 It identifies and promotes the link owner and his or her site,

(rather than the site of any free link tracking services with the ugly non-meaningful links).

The more people see your Powerlink, the more they say, "Hey, who is that person?" Think not? You would be surprised. Coca-Cola knows that, in a market full of colas, having their name in as many places as possible is just as important, if not more so, than having a good cola. In fact, Pepsi usually wins the taste tests rather decisively.

http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator

A few people chose the 2nd link:
http://a-great-idea.biz/x/go.php?c=plg
because it, TOO, had a catchy phrase in the domain, but even to get that result (still with an ugly ending) was not free. PLUS I had to have it installed by a professional (I don't do installs!). Mike Filsaime's Powerlink Generator installation is PARTIALLY AUTOMATED and gave me the final steps by VIDEO which made installing it a CINCH! I literally had it up and running in under 5 minutes.


http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator

So Here's the Million Dollar Question....

WHY..., do you put so much time and energy and cash into things like list building and traffic generation only to try to close the deal with a stinky, ugly link? SOMETIMES you can stuff the link into HTML but you know that's not always convenient or possible. Don't your hard efforts at traffic generation and list building and forum posting deserve the click? Why, at that last crucial moment of getting people to go where you want them to, do you limp in with a link that looks like it was created in the dead language of Sanskrit?

AND WHY..., with all the desire to get people to your affiliate programs, or your own sites, do you let all your efforts go into promoting SOMEONE ELSE'S site that generates free ugly links when you could be getting all that pagerank and backlink credit from the search engines for yourself?

AND WHY, ALSO..., do you put all of that effort into promoting someone ELSE'S name when you could instead be identifying yourself as an authority or some kind of expert in your field? You work SO HARD for everything online, why let such an important part of it all slip away?

This is a perfect example of what seperates the successful from the unsuccessful - the successful take such details as these very seriously. Otherwise, no pun intended, these details become "the weak link" in your sales process. You somehow get to thinking,

"Oh, it won't matter. As long as I get people to read what I write, I can pretty much toss any link at them and it won't matter what it looks like...if they're hungry enough, they'll go."

So Then Please Tell Me...

If you're an expert fashion designer, and you're wearing rags to parties where no one knows you, do you think they can tell from across the room that you're a fashion expert? Do you think even if you are introduced as a fashion expert that they'll take you seriously? EVENTUALLY MAYBE...but the point is that it will take a LOT MORE CONVINCING if you are wearing rags.

And it will take you a lot more to convince people that you are qualified to make recommendations if you are using ugly links from free services or an affiliate back office.

A lot of people now realize that I know what I'm talking about (most of the time!), so I might be able to get away with some ugly links...but knowing what I know, I am now going to be using Powerlink Generator almost every chance I get. It's nice to have a good reputation, but there's no need to lean on it all the time - especially with something like Powerlink Generator to present the professional appearance that increases good reputation instantly and therefore increases your clickthrough rate.

And you know what else? I didn't even get around to telling you how Mike Filsaime's "Powerlink Generator" also allows you to store your affiliate login page, username and password so you don't have to run all over the place looking for the back office login info for the affiliate programs you're tracking.

Bottom line is...., that it not only doesn't pay, but can cost you significantly, to understimate the significance and importance of both tracking the results of your efforts, AND presenting prospects with a link that promotes you as a professional and an authority in your chosen field.

Now with that being said....

http://www.samfreedom.com/recommends/Powerlink-Generator

Here's to your success, my friend!

Sam Freedom

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20 Dollar Bill Brings $840 During Ebay Auction

This is a TRUE story from an expert marketer far outside the perimeter of the celebrity guru circle.

It is a fascinating lesson in understanding human behaviour and how $20 really can bring in $840 from an Ebay auction. After reading this in it's entirety, I am certain you will see the potential of using Ebay in a much different light.

Thus begins the story of Master Marketer, Terry Gibbs:

"20 Dollar Bill Brings $840 During Ebay Auction.
Last week I showed you an eBay auction as an example of the pricing power of eBay.
During the auction, I got emails from subscribers and eBay searchers asking me questions. In this email I'll answer a few of the questions, and you can read along in order to learn some important lessons.

If you were watching the auction you already know the bill sold for $32.05. The headline says I made $840. I'll show you where this extra m0ney came from.

It might surprise you.

To recap, I listed a 1950 20 dollar bill on eBay with a starting price of 1 cent and no reserve.
My intention was to prove in a dramatic way that as long as an item is listed in the best category with an adequate description and picture it will sell for at least wholesale value.

The reason for getting at least wholesale value is dealers will bid any antique or collectible up to it's wholesale value. Ifyou get a few end users to bid on the auction, you'll get the retail price.
The only time this won't be true is when demand is less than supply. For items where demand meets or exceeds supply, you will always get at least the wholesale value.

I thought the twenty dollar was a great example because it had a face value. Remember, I got the bill at the bank when I was cashing a check. Basically, I paid 20 dollars for it.

The first question I got was from a subscriber who wanted to know if I had people bidding on the auction for me.

Shame on you for even thinking that. I didn't have anyone bid on the auction - this is called shill bidding and violateseBay's rules.

Another question I got was more of a statement:

"You've got to be kidding, someone will really pay 23 or 24dollars for a 20 dollar bill? Whoa!"
I actually got quite a few of these type of questions.

Remember this is a 55 year old bill. While it's worth 20 dollars as currency, it also has collector value. I got an email from a dealer who saw the bill on eBay and here's what he had to say:
"We have a bill like this one in our shop... The bill is worth approx. $30.00 on today's market. The reason? You notice the back does not have In God We Trust. That was not put on our paper money until 1957. If you spend the bill in a store today, it will end up back at the reserve bank and then it will go to the incinerator to be burned. Keeping it in good condition will only cause the value to increase. I just thought I would share the info with you. Have a great day and good luck with your auction."

This dealer say's the bill is worth about $30. The auction ended at $32.05 which is within ten percent of his guess.

Here are two questions that bear some scrutiny:

"I notice this auction has had over 2900 page views, how did you get so many people to look at your auction?"

And -

"I have to ask...and you can answer if you like. How did you get enough watchers on this auction to make eBay Pulse? The auction is fascinatingly simple."

I got over a dozen similar questions. Some referred to the pulse,most referred to the number of visit0rs.

Before I address these questions, let me explain what the pulse is for those of you who are unfamiliar with it.

The eBay Pulse is a page that lists the most watched eBay items. It also contains information about the most popular searches and the largest stores. I haven't mentioned the Pulse in the past because it has verylittle value. It's good for entertainment, but doesn't provide much information for the average eBay seller. The Pulse does have a use, and I'll explain that in a minute.

Now, I looked at the auctions of everyone who asked about traff1c and/or the pulse. They were all small sellers with low feedback selling new items. Actually, they were listing new items with few items getting bids.

These sellers were looking for traff1c because they think it will solve their problem. By itself it won't.

Protect Yourself and Maximize Your Effort on Ebay with Terry's Two FREE Guides at the Bottom of This Page.

Someone who needs some new socks will go to Wal-Mart, not oneBay.
Remember, the point of the example was to demonstrate that items will sell for at least wholesale value AS LONG AS THE DEMAND MATCHES OR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY. The demand for socks and batteries is much less than the supply.

I have one more question to share with you and then I'll tie this all together and show you the m0ney.

This question is from a reader, not an auction viewer:

"I couldn't help but notice the graphic for the buyers guide right on the auction page.. That's kind of pushing it with eBay isn't it? I know the link only went to your Me page and you linked out to the AR page from there."

This reader has been paying attention.

He has an idea of where the extra 830 dollars came from.

To answer his question, this does not violate eBay's rules. I have been doing this in my auctions for years. Additionally, I have taught thousands of people to do this in their auctions.Neither I nor my students have ever had a problem with eBay for giving away free reports on the me page and telling people about them in the auctions. Yet, I constantly get questions about eBay's rules.

Actually, I think people who misinterpret the rules are looking for reasons not to do something.
Rather than go into a rant, I am going to skip the whole rules question and go back to explaining where the m0ney came from.

As the question above mentioned the image of the eBay buyer'sguide linked to my me page. The me page has two links. One directly to the Auction Revolution and one to my IWantCollectibles site. This is where the extra money came from. I sell my ebooks andoffer other items as an affiliate on my websites.

While this auction was designed to prove a point about pricing, I did spend the extra few minutes to set up a me page and put links to my websites on the page. None of the people who asked about traff1c have me pages that link to websites. They suffer from the idea that the only way to make money on eBay is by listing and selling items.

They are caught in the volume trap.

Think about it. I made $11.00 directly in the $20 bill auction. I ma.de over $800 additional dollars as a result of my me page.

Even better the extra pr0fits were robotic. Once I set the system up I don't have to do anything except cash the checks from the affi1iate programs.

I said earlier there is a use for the Pulse. A lot of the people who look at the pulse auctions are eBay sellers looking for ways to improve their pr0fititablity. I teach eBay skills, so being listed on the pulse drives qualified people into my me page. This is why the number is so high. Usually the results are much less.

Now for some information you can use in your auctions.

If you don't already have a me page set up, you set one up.You can give away the eBay Buyer's Guide in your auctions until you can come up with your own report. You can personalize the guide on the Auction-Revolution.com website, and will get commissions from all sales resulting from yougiving away the personalized guide.

Secondly you need to start thinking about additional items you can promote related to the items you already sell.

The Auction Revolution contains complete instructions for leveraging your auction results.
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Terry
PS You might be thinking "I sell ______ and this won't work for me." Or, "I only sell a few items a month." It doesn'tmatter what you sell, or how many items you list a month. A small amount of time learning to leverage your auctions will provide results for any eBay seller. http://url123.com/xrzdg

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Free Advertising AND Traffic - Why Did the Gurus Not Tell You Until It Was Too Late?

You know the deal. If you're in a rush, here's the link, but if I were to pick one out of all the posts I've written so far for you to read in it's entirety, this one would be it.

Or maybe you're just burning with curiousity?
http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

Last week I told you about a special program. Now I know that both you AND I get so many offers in our mailboxes that everytime someone comes out with the "Next Amazing Thing!" you and I both give it that "Yeah, yeah.." response.

It's gotten so out of hand with so many mediocre programs and offers that it's nearly impossible to drive the point home when something really am'azing DOES come out!

Like this:
http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

So here's what I'm going to do....

First, you should know that I was one of the primary driving marketing forces behind the brilliant and powerful application listed below. The author, Amy Cross, is a virtual genius to the point where it would be just way too much to explain every nuance of this. It's easy to use, but to explain all the brilliant reasons it works so well, and what AMY knows about the search engines that even SEARCH ENGINE GEEKS don't know, would take way too much space.

But this explains it simple, quick and clean:
http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

I told all my partners and members and all but a few of the elite gurus came back with the "yeah yeah" except Mike Filsaime, Laura Childs, Cody Moya, Ken Reno, Lamar Owens and a fistful of others who I would call EARLY ADOPTERS. The ones who are about to PILE ON now are NOT the early adopters. They are the CROWD FOLLOWERS who just got a couple of lucky breaks and are thought of as gurus.

So when you see "gurus" screaming from the rooftops about BLOGSUBMITTER PRO, and it's up-coming phenomenal upgrade - vSearch, just know that YOURS TRULY saw the brilliance of it WAY BEFORE any of their grey matter finally caught up to speed.

I realized the brilliance of this program INSTANTLY:
http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

Instead of taking up your time with a whole bunch of features and technical mumbo jumo, I'm just going to bullet point the things you need to know RIGHT NOW if you want one of the BEST, UNDER the RADAR applications that WILL, *I PROMISE* be DISCONTINUED at some point in the not-so-distant future. That is to keep it from being watered down by too many users.

Check out this beautiful proto-type:
http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

So here are the points you need to know NOW
to make an informed decision:

1) The upgrade is coming out SOON. It could be tomorrow, or 7 days. It was supposed to be a couple of days ago but there was a minor delay. If you own Blogsubmitter PRO before vSEARCH arrives, you get vSEARCH for F'R'E'E. If you don't you pay an extra $100 and it really WILL be discontinued.

2) You get to use it RISK-FREE.

http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

3) I have used it SUCCESSFULLY. Here are just a couple of my results.

a) Click Here for they phrase "seo keyword tip".
b) Click Here versus internet marketing top SEO experts.

And I have about 20 other keywords that were not even in the top 1000 and are now ranging from 20 to 55, and moving up fast, every single day...all in under SEVEN DAYS!

4) If you make your risk-fr'e'e purchase through the link in this letter, you will also receive the following:

a) A hot, new book on blogging for m'oney.
b) Totally fr'ee hosting with no catch whatsoever.
c) Auto-Advertister - You can see it at the sales page.
(right here: http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8 )

I've made over $3000/mo blogging so I know the book is valuable. And the fr'e'e hosting belongs to my partner, one of the best, most conscientious people in the business.

5) You'll be one of the first to use a product that actually DOES something for the everday man and woman who knows a little about web marketing but doesn't have all the fancy connections that the gurus keep a tightly closed fist around.

Sorry gurus..! http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

So take my word for it, as someone who USES it, and someone who BENEFITS from it. And someone who KNOWS the author and her plans for future upgrades, and couple that with your purchase is RISK-FREE.

Read that again - that means you're not going to end up throwing your m'oney away yet again on an over-hyped product that doesn't work. Your purchase is protected.

Take a look: http://click-here.ws/ArmandMorin-8

So thank you for reading this far. If you have, it tells me you are serious about succeeding online and that this product is for you. Use the link below to read more about it again including testimonials and to see the fr'ee program you'll be getting along with it.

Then email me with your receipt and I will furnish you with the m'oney making blog book AND the loaded up hosting account at no extra cost to you. Even if you return the blogsubmitter pro, which I don't recommend, you get to keep the hosting and the blog book for fr'e'e.

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My very best wishes for your success.

Your friend,
Sam Fre'edom
PS. Watch, pretty soon your mailbox is going to be slammed by so-called gurus who got on board TOO LATE. By then it will cost $247 more but they won't write about how their inaction ended up costing their members an extra $100. Oh well...!
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Sam Freedom - The Coolest Guy On The Planet SEO Contest - There Can Be ONLY ONE!

The Final Update: After finishing this article, see the final results of my efforts in this post.

Who IS really the coolest guy on the planet? Cool guys have roamed the planet since the earliest of days, but here, in the 21st century, being the coolest of the cool guys on this planet takes a new twist. Read on...

Here's MY Results in YAHOO Going Up Against the Net's Top SEO Experts:

UPDATE #1 08/18/05: Bye, Bye, Willy Crawford!

UPDATE #2 08/26/05: Bye, Bye, Brad Fallon!

UPDATE #3 08/??/05: Then I SQUASHED Brad Callen to Take the Top! #1!!!

And PRSearch.net Also Me at #1!

So, what happens when Internet Marketing geeks all take a small breather from spamming the net with promotion after promotion? Don't even try to guess. But instead, just imagine the fun and the thrill of having a whole bunch of guys participating in a good-natured SEO competition.

Yeah, that's right. A whole bunch of guys who are out of their prime and no longer the coolest guys on the planet are trying to see who can best optimize a site for "the coolest guy on the planet" and get the #1 position at Google, Yahoo, MSN and so on. So far Brad Whatshisname and Mike Whosamajiggee are in it, as well as a bunch of other people are jumping in like fish trying to get back up stream to their spawning grounds.

It's actually kind of funny, and in a strange way pretty cool, but since everyone knows that I'm really the coolest guy on the planet then the contest is really moot. I mean, I'm all for letting the guys run amok and squeeze out whatever small bit of testosterone remains in their systems, but no matter who gets to the #1 position in Google or Yahoo for keywords containing cool guy and planet, etc, I'll still be one of the coolest guys the planet has ever known.

When woman look for a cool guy, they don't promenade over to the computer and Google for one. Or am I that out of the loop? Maybe they do. Ladies? Do you Google for the coolest guy on the planet? Or do you do what you've always done which is scan the environment for the tallest guy sporting the fattest wallet.

Oops. Did I really just say that?

Why, yes I did. Being the coolest guy on the planet means you can pretty much say whatever you want...within reason, you know, nothing truly injurious, but good natured sometimes callous barbs are perfectly within the realm of the most cool guy the planet has ever known. Anyone with half a mind would surely agree. And anyone with the other half of the mind would surely recognize that if the coolest guy was going to show the rest of the planet that he was the coolest guy, then surely he would have to quickly jump in and dominate the SEO competition for the coolest guy on the planet keyword, and put it to rest so that every man, woman and child could put their curiousity to rest and get back to work.

Now what I'd like very much for you to do is to leave a link back to your site as my way of saying, "I, the coolest guy on this planetary rock, want you to get some Pagerank." All I ask in return is...

...for you to assist for this month by adding a link for the coolest guy on the planet pointing to http://www.sam-freedom.com and together, we shall rule the cool in styyyyyyyyyyle.

Sam Freedom
ps. Remember, the final results of my efforts are right here in this post.

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TRIANGULATING with GOOGLE ADWORDS for Almost FREE Advertising, Almost FREE Traffic and BIG BUCKS!

Greetings,

Alright, settle down.

First, a small word to those who already know this stuff:

Everyone does NOT know this, maybe you and a handful of others do. Despite how easy I'll make it sound, it still takes a strong will to put it all into play, and a great load of doubt to overcome, but nonetheless, here it is...

TRIANGULATING WITH GOOGLE ADWORDS
=================================
The basics aren't so difficult or even
secret, but the biggest obstacle most
will ever have to overcome is to discover
that this is really possible and just
staring them in the face all the while.

Now instead of going into reams of theory
which I, and many otheres, sometimes love
to do (hear ourselves talk, that is...),
I'm just going to give you an example of
what *I* would do and how *I* would go about this...

I'm also going to be giving those of you
who can use it a very nice little niche
to dominate....for a while, as you'll soon see.
I take something that isn't ordinarily popular,
but is extremely popular due to current events.
(As time goes on you'll get better and better
at spotting these on the horizon and start to
act sooner and sooner). Take....

SPACE SHUTTLE

Woohoo...searched about 42,000 times according
to overture, so we know that really means probably
like 20,000 times. Huge? No. Niche-worthy, yes.
Already it has some competition in paid sponsors.
Now,I could get all intamellectual and try to find out
if I could outbid them or get in for cheap, and that
IS a very valid way to go...but let's just say I'm
REEEEEALLY LAZY, and I don't want to have to do all
that work....

....that means I really don't even want to scan down
overtures keyword list and test out all those keywords
to see if there's anything worth competing for. But
again, that is VALID and a GOOD IDEA if you're comfy
making the effort.

So I figured since everyone is so concerned about it,
and since we've already had TWO, I'd check out the
term:

SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER

Now that's not nice, is it? No, but that won't stop
space exploration enthusiasts from buying models of
the space shuttle will it? Will it stop them from
looking for space exploration memorabilia on Ebay
or Amazon? I don't THINK so....!

So now I hear a voice exclaim, "Wow! I can own
that keyword for a nickel per click! Woweeee!"
and with my new found energy, I can perform extra
tasks even...so I run to do an OVERTURE search at
Rich Rubinstein's (DoctorDuplicator.com)
very cool, new keyword research app:

http://www.cheapcalls.com/keywords/form_template.htm

SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER

And lo and behold!

931 space shuttle disaster
926 space shuttle columbia disaster
726 space shuttle challenger disaster
59 cause disaster illness shuttle space
35 space shuttle disaster 2003
35 columbia space shuttle disaster picture
34 first space shuttle disaster
33 video of space shuttle challenger disaster
31 space shuttle columbia disaster video
27 space shuttle challenger disaster 1986
27 columbia space shuttle disaster photo
27 disaster in people shuttle sickens space texas
25 disaster from illness shuttle space
25 disaster reason shuttle space

I really only care about the 1st three:

931 space shuttle disaster
926 space shuttle columbia disaster
726 space shuttle challenger disaster

Ok, so I've got me the makings of a sweet
little niche - until about 4-5 weeks after
the shuttle lands safely and so on, but even
after that, at a nickel per click, I'd leave
the campaign in place because it all comes
down to ROI. If ever nickel can get me a
dollar....then I don't care if 40,000 people
searched it that month, or 500.

It's free money and it only takes one time to
set it all up.

BUT WAIT! How the heck am I going to make
money with an adwords campaign for Space Shuttle
Disaster? I mean, who really searches on Space
Shuttle Disaster to buy something? And who really
has any kind of a worthy affiliate program for"Space Shuttle Disaster"?

I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO REMIND YOU
OF TWO VERY IMPORTANT MARKETING CONCEPTS:

1A) WITHIN EVERY FREEBIE SEEKER IS A CUSTOMER WAITING TO BE BORN.
1B) WITHIN EVERY CUSTOMER IS A BUSINESS
OWNER WAITING TO BE BORN.

2) WHEN PEOPLE SEARCH THE WEB, THEY ARE
NOT REALLY SEARCHING FOR FREE INFORMATION,
OR FREE STUFF. THEY ARE SEARCHING FOR AN
EXPERIENCE. IN MOST CASES, IF THEY CAN
GET IT BETTER AND MORE QUICKLY THAN FREE,
THEN THEY'LL SPEND THE $20.

3) BONUS CONCEPT! THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST.
(bet you already knew that, didn't you?)

Both you and I are examples of this and
know first-hand this is true. It's just
that now it's your turn to market to others.

So here's what *I* would do:

First, I would create a "FREE" PDF report that
began with a paragraph or two about how the web
is full of all kinds of untargeted information
about these unfortunate events in space exploration
history, "but here are some links and resources by
those best-equipped to write and speak about them."

(if you need a pdf writer, you can get one, plus free
templates here:
http://www.sam-freedom.com/sharingthelove.htm

Then include a dozen or so links to web sitessuch as this:

http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html and
http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/ , and
http://tinyurl.com/b98nv

Then either at regular intervals or at the very
bottom, you could add a "resource section for
space exploration enthusiasts" etc

NOW...HOW TO FIND THINGS TO INCLUDE:

1) cj.com - commission junction could
have some affiliate programs in there
such as military.com which has had info
about the shuttles. With a little creative
searching, you can find something there.

2) other affiliate networks similar to cj.com

3) clickbank (though I found nothing)

4) search Google using some of the OTHER more
popular space shuttle keywords and see if any
of the paid sponsors have affilite programs.

5) include aff links to ebay and amazon just
like you see in hurricane pages, etc.

6) Google for space shuttle terms and add
"affiliate program" so that sites returned
should have affiliate programs on them.

But give it your best shot and go wide. You
can include an aff program to a site for model
builders. You can include an aff program for
people who might want astronaut memorabilia.

And remember, even if a person didn't ever even
think of looking for astronaut memorabilia, etc,
when it's squarely staring at them, sometimes,
curiousity gets the better of them. If I'm
honest with myself I can say that's happened to
me a number of times.

IN SUMMARY....

Find a niche to triangulate prospects into relevant
affilite programs which would not otherwise be effective
if presented from the outset.

You create a FREE report to give the niche seeker exactly what
s/he wants thereby getting the opt-in email address, PLUS
permission to advertise to the seeker IN THE REPORT
and eventually on the backend.

Say you spend $50 on a test campaign - this will get you
1000 clickthroughs. One affiliate commission for $20 pays for
400 of those clicks....three and you're in profit.
The report is FREE, so expect a high conversion
rate from clickthrough to report request.

Can you make 3 sales? I guess it comes down to
either the affiliate program's conversion ability,
or your ability to pre-sell just before the afflinks are presented.

Having SOME marketing ability is important, but
the money is in the list, and $50 for a targeted
list is a great investment to a capable marketer.
And any commissions you make from the immediate
report offset campaign costs...

So really the sky's the limit...

Get to it...it's staring you in the face!

In fact, here's a valuable resource from
a proven expert in the field. Click the box,
and thank me later...!


Sincerely,
Sam

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A Must Read if You Use PAYPAL

Greetings,

Make sure to read this in its entirety especially if
you either HAVE a 2 tier affiliate program, or are a
member of one.

Say goodbye to 2-tier affiliate marketing programs.
I received notice from Paypal this past week that I
was shut down. At first, they wouldn't say why, but
to their credit, they did let me withdraw my funds.

After continuous phone calls professing my innocence,
they told me it was because of the affiliate program
I was offering here:

http://www.masterights.biz/affiliate.htm

First things first - I bought the site about 2-3
years ago as a turnkey website. It came with that
page, but I never used it, never activated it, and
the page is, has been, and always will be non-function.
It is a dead page, no affiliate program for masterights.biz
exists.

I have only used the site mainly to get signups to my
mailing list here:

http://www.masterights.biz/freedownload.htm

(im really not advertising, but showing people the
full facts)

I had not ever even promoted the site for the products
on it because shortly after getting it, I started learning
other ways to make money on line that were more effective
than just trying to promote individual products, so in
2-3 years, about 3-4 sales were made from people just
happening to look around after signing up for the mailing list.

three to four sales through the email address associated
with those paypal buttons should have tipped them off that
not only was no affiliate program in place, but the site
wasn't even being promoted. A warning would have been nice,
like, "Remove that page, etc" but their official response was
your account is closed and you have no appeal.

Well, I've learned that what companies say mechanically is not
the god's honest final word written in stone. I'm appealing
to cooler heads higher up to take a closer look at the facts.
I am moving up the chain very slowly, but so far I haven't a
need for drastic measures.

BOTTOM LINE -

The program described on my non-functional affiliate program
page is what all of us marketers have long thought to be
acceptable to paypal - that it met their criteria and did not
violate their acceptable use policy. But in light of this
situation, that no longer seems to be the case. Here is their
acceptable use policy pertaining to this:

"Dear xxxxxxx,

Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern regarding the limitation on your account.

The website that was found to be in violation of the Multi-Level-Marketing policy is http://www.masterights.biz. Your program of offering "commissions" for personal sales, and sub-affiliate sales cannot be offered, using PayPal as a payment option. Multi-level marketing plans, include any business in which a person receives proceeds from his or her own sales of goods or services, of recruited members, or any combination thereof.

We regret to inform you that we cannot overturn the limitation on your account. Due to the violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding MLM, Pyramid and Matrix Programs, your account has been closed. Please remove all references to PayPal from your website(s) and/or auction(s). This includes not only removing PayPal as a payment option, but also the
PayPal logo and/or shopping cart.

If you have any questions, please contact the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at aup@paypal.com.

Sincerely,
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department
PayPal, an eBay Company"
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Now you have to understand something. You can try to quietly go about your business looking straight ahead and hoping not to be noticed, but I'll repeat the words of the 1000s of others I've read about since investigating this,

"I thought this sort of thing only happened to other people."
"I never thought it would happen to me."

In my heart and mind, not only have I never violated their policy, but I have actually made it a point to be very careful not to. Did we not all think that 2 tier affiliate programs were acceptable? Are there not virtually THOUSANDS of 2 tier programs using Paypal as a payment processor?

Let me paraphrase something I heard the other day,

"When they came for X, I didn't say anything. When they came for Y, I did not stand up for them. And when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me."

This is something we all need to attend to, as a group, and soon. Because any one of you reading this could easily be next. This is what paypal's compliance dept does day in and day out, look for violations. And if they think 2 tier affiliate programs are a violation, you can bet your life they are looking for more of them right now.

And you can bet that anyone who has received payments from 2 tier programs using paypal, or has ever made payments through such a program, is in real danger of getting their livelihood disrupted in a major way.

Please post your thoughts by clicking on "comments" below.

Best wishes,
Sam
PS. UPDATE 7/29/05 5pm- Someone from compliance returned my call and cooler heads prevailed. He took my information seriously and without promises, went off to review it. He called back later and said that what the page described was a violation but that based on the evidence, there was no way to join, and not one affiliate payment ever made for that site. So while he was basically saying that I'm reinstated, he had to technically say that I was reopen for appeal and had to accomplish 2 things - remove the offending program page and sign an affadavit that I read and understand the Acceptable Use Policy.

I can honestly say that it took all the patience, restraint, understanding and brainpower from my 30 years in a prolific successful family business to get my case heard and properly resolved, and so my concern now is for those who not only aren't ready for such disruptions, but who don't even see it coming.

Again, your comments via the link below are not only welcome, but full encouraged. People just like you need to hear what you have to say and get different viewpoints, and suggestions, etc.

Sam

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Sam Freedom's "Mike Chen's Secret Weapon Lite" Giveaway Link Spam Post!

In the beginning of April, I spent $497 to
procure a copy of Mike Chen's "Secret Weapon."
Along with Mike Chen's Secret Weapon came a
version that was "less filling", but still
"tasted great." It was known as Secret Weapon Lite.

As always, I like to surprise my list members,
so I promised that anyone who signed up for it
would get a FREE copy of Mike Chen's Secret Weapon Lite.

(CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE COPY)

(could I be optimizing this blogpost for the phrase,
"Mike Chen's Secret Weapon Lite"?)

Nearly a thousand people signed up for it (remember,
in marketer-speak, "nearly a thousand" could mean
501) and within the first two days of release, 200
of them downloaded it...along with instructions, for free.

So I've created this message for people to say "Thank You"
and get some nice links back to their sites. Did you hear
that? Links back to your sites...or, if you have no site,
then a few signature lines to your favorite affiliate program.

Does the thoughtfulness ever stop?! Let's hope not!!!

Now please feel free to post your site links, ahem, I mean
"thank you message". ;-)

Sincerely,
Sam
ps. Kindly register for my blog in the top right of the main
sidebar. Whenever I post an amazing post, you'll find out
instantly. INSTANTLY! Nothing is faster than INSTANTLY!
PPS. Hey Sam, I love the idea of being able to post a link to
my site. Here, click on this one!
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Kindness Went and Got a Face...

Having just returned from 2 days at a wake and funeral, I just heard news that Cory Rudl, a well-known marketer whose presence and knowledge was a big part of many marketer's every day lives, died from injuries in an amateur car racing accident:

Newsclip about Cory Rudl

I was not friends with him, but a lot of people were and apparently, behind the veneer of his marketing persona, he was a very well-liked guy who lived life to its fullest.

Also, Priya Shah just notified the marketing community that her beloved husband of 18 years died of a suddent heart attack.

(you may leave a kind word here):
http://marketingslave.com

I've added this very paragraph *after* this post was originally published. I read a little more about Priya's huband, from Priya herself, warm condolences of personal acquaintances, and have seen a picture of her husband's heart-warming smile. He has a look that says, "true friend to anyone and everyone." I could be wrong, but I have never been wrong about this sort of thing before. Here is his photograph so you can see for yourself:

Priya's Husband, Sagar
(Click on the beating hearts to hear a song he would sing to her.)

Reality always intrudes on our best dreams, though, doesnt it?

We seem to go along with our heads down, noses to the grindstone and then, "Wham." the unthinkable happens. And it got a friend and I thinking about what it would be like for our loved ones if we died suddenly? Would our notes, etc, be in order so that loved ones could continue to reap the benefits of our efforts? This is a topic I shall write more on later, but it needs to be addressed as to what steps we can take to ensure our online labors are not lost forever from our loved ones when our life on earth ends.

As stated in the letter to my list members, Napoleon Hill wrote:

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. "

I realize this is of no immediate comfort to one who is overwhelmed with grief, but after we regain our composure, we can make a goodwill effort to turn our attention to focus on the many things for which we still have to be grateful. And it is my experience that doing so is more than just a mere exercise, but really does serve as a powerful ally in chasing away the blues.

Please post a comment about any benefits you have realized in spite of a tragedy, something that turns out to be wonderful despite it's inception in an otherwise uncomfortable event.

If something occurs to you, then please just take a moment to tell others of the things you have to be grateful for, and the joy they bring you. Please...it'll be good medicine, and I'll administer the first dose. :-)

I am grateful for my health.
I am also grateful for my family and my loads of really great nephews and nieces.
I am grateful for being passionate about something.
I am grateful that I am able to be of service to others in various ways.
I am grateful for fresh air, clean water and a sound mind that grows stronger and sounder each day.

Blessings and peace to all,
Sam

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Is It Getting Out of Hand?

Lately, it seems more than ever, that my inbox is filling up with tons of absolutely useless, monotonous, low-grade promotions by those who are considered successful marketers. So it surely must be a numbers game for them because the content is literally mind-numbing. It is boring, and unoriginal and just plain nasty.

Whether it's Jason Mangrum with his "Hey Buddy!" style, or Cody Moya with his latest ad-nauseum Roman orgy style junk-product massive giveaways, it all just leads one to wonder, "Do marketers give a flying **** about anyone but themselves?"

Here's a free Instant Download to Help You Escape this Madness:

Now, what about you? What's your experience been?
And what do you think about all of this? Go ahead, flame away.
We're big boys and girls, we can take it.

Now, click the jumping geek for your gift download, and then I want you to go post a comment.

Sam

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