Would you rather be a success, or a failure?
That’s probably an easy question to answer, right?
What if I gave you a third choice? You can either be successful, unsuccessful, or a failure. Unsuccessful means you aren’t a huge success, but you’re also not a failure.
Or are you? Interesting question, more on that later.
Now, presented with those choices, which would you rather be, and which would you rather not be?
And before we go much further, you do have a choice about whether you’re one or the other, as we’ll discuss in this report.
Success or failure doesn’t just happen. It requires a person to perform some activity to reach the ultimate event.
Not so with “unsuccess”. Unsuccessful people can just sit around, waiting for success to happen.
Do the same job day after day. Come home. Eat dinner. Sit in front of the TV set. Go to bed.
Lather, rinse, repeat enough times and before you know it, you’re wondering what happened to your life.
Sad really. Really sad.
There is a difference between people who are successful and those who are unsuccessful.
But you’d be surprised at how small that difference is.
Successful people take action when they sense an opportunity, or as often happens opportunity comes to them. This bothers the heck out of the unsuccessful people. “Why does he/she get all the breaks? I’m just as smart!”
Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, procrastinate.
Successful people aren’t afraid to fail, knowing that failure produces feedback.
Zig Ziglar, one of my favorite motivational speakers, said it so well: “Failure is a detour, not a dead end street.”
When you’re driving down the street on the way to work or shop, if you see a detour sign, do you turn around and go back home? Or do you stop your car and wait for the detour to be removed so that you can continue?
No, of course not.
But unsuccessful people accept a detour as an end result, and all too often quit. In fact, unsuccessful people cringe at the thought of failure. They think people will laugh at them, they’ll be rejected or shunned, they’ll have wasted their time.
That’s a good one. They don’t want to waste their time doing something that might result in a positive outcome, afraid that it won’t, so they watch television instead.
Give me a good solid failure any day of the week so that I can move forward!
Successful people work a little bit harder sometimes. But not that much harder. In fact sometimes they work less hard (work smart, not hard). Actually the most successful people don’t consider what they do to be work at all, since they enjoy what they’re doing.
The thing that’s important is that successful people have a “why”. They know why they’re doing what they’re doing, whether it’s so they can escape a job they hate, so that they can enjoy a better standard of living for themselves and their families, so that they can have more free time for the important things in life, or so that they can make a difference in people’s lives.
They’re driven to succeed, they’re passionate, they’re resolute. Nothing can stop them. Sure, they’ll encounter the same detours everyone else gets, but they’ll accept them as part of the process, and keep on going.
Unsuccessful people say “Hey, I worked 8 hours today, I need to relax”, while soon-to-be successful people will say: “I worked 8 hours today, I don’t want to do this the rest of my life, so I’ll work on my personal project now”, and have a huge smile on their faces.
Successful people work on improving themselves as much as they work on improving their businesses, because they know that the more skills they possess, the more leverage they have, and the quicker they’ll be able to taste their success.
Unsuccessful people finished their education when they graduated from high school or college.
Successful people manage their time well. They know that every minute of every day is precious. They know that they get exactly the same number of daily minutes as everyone else, including the President, CEO’s of the world’s largest companies, and the homeless living in the streets.
They know that wasted time is something that can never be recovered, so they use tools that make them super productive, super focused, super organized.
Unsuccessful people look around at the end of the day and say “is it time for bed already?”
To summarize…
Successful people take action, accept occasional failure, work a little harder, have a “why”, manage their time well, and are constantly looking for ways to improve themselves and their skills.
So let me ask you…
If you had 100% confidence that those traits could make you a success in life, rather than an “unsuccess” or a failure, would you do them?
Myself, I’d rather be a failure than unsuccessful. How about you?
I know if I fail at something, it’s because I tried something. I reached that detour. I got feedback if only “Hey that didn’t work”.
Thomas Edison was a failure 10,000 times before his ultimate success. He had a lot of detours. He’s famous for his eventual success, not because of the other 10,000 events. Thomas Edison had a “why”. And his invention made life much better for the entire planet.
Here’s another quote I like from Zig: “Failure is an event, not a person.”
Let me say that again in another way, because that is so important that it could change your life:
If you fail at something, YOU are not a failure. It’s just the steps that you took didn’t quite work out well. That time.
Next time a slightly different sequence of steps might work. YOU still have a tremendous opportunity to succeed.
In fact your chances are better now, because you just identified one series of steps that didn’t work, and you learned from them.
Burn it into your core beliefs. Failure is an event, not a person. In fact if you teach that to your children, that simple teaching could improve their self esteem so much that it could change the world.
Failure is not a person.
Are you so afraid to fail because you think you’ll be laughed at, rejected, scorned, and embarrass your family until the end of time?
Did Edison want his tombstone to say “Here lies Thomas Edison, he tried to invent the light bulb, but after 16 tries, he gave up. But hey, that’s 16 times more than anyone else tried.” Or did he prefer it to say “Here’s lies Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb.”
Relax, even if the video of your failure ends up on YouTube, as long as you dust yourself off and persevere, you’ll be respected more than the unsuccessful person that sits at home and watches TV 7 nights a week.
I like to say “Failure is your friend”. Goodness knows I’ve failed more than I’ve succeeded, but the bottom line is what counts.
A single success can change your life, even define your reason for existence. I like to think that every human being is put on earth to make things better for the rest of the planet. We’re not put here to sit and drink beer while we watch TV.
A thousand failures, ten thousand failures, a hundred thousand failures, cannot prevent you from reaching that one success.
Only you can prevent you from reaching that success.
Another of my favorite sayings is “Money loves speed”.
What that means is that financial success is attracted to people who are decisive, who take action quickly. Do you or do you not want to be quick to act, and let money come to you?
Breakthroughs are often serendipitous events. You never know when they’re going to happen to you, but one thing I can pretty much guarantee you …
They’re going to happen to people who are out there taking action.
Finally a majority of the population believes that successful people paid a huge price for their success, a price that the unsuccessful people don’t want to pay themselves.
In reality, and again to quote Zig: “You don’t PAY the price for success, you ENJOY the price of success.”
The short term price of that success may be temporary failure, long hours, frustration, and criticism, but the bottom line is that you can end up with a much better life for the rest of your days, maybe even improve our planet, or at least have a positive effect on someone else.
Think about it another way. If you pay the price for a new car, you enjoy the ride for years to come. So too with the price you pay for success.
Hey, do you want to be successful or not? Do you have a burning desire? Do you know your “why”?
Answer those questions, and get out there and do it! I know you can. All you have to do is make a few minor tweaks to how you go about your day.
Now make today a spectacular day. I’m rooting for you.
Tags: Mindset
Hola guys,
Welcome to my first blog post here! 
To kick off my new post, I wanted to discuss copywriting.
I know many people get super-overwhelmed at the prospect of facing the blank screen. I used to be one of those people until I learned some super-stellar tactics. 
Watch the video below to see some of my best tricks for knocking that copy out:
I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know if you have any questions or comments!
With love,
Rachel
Tags: Copywriting
I love summer. And summer is ending soon. That’s so sad. It seems
like every year goes quicker and quicker. I was talking to a friend
on Skype the other day and he reminded me it’s time to get the
holiday sites going.
Before you know it, it will be 2011.
Not that I’m complaining, mind you. There are some very exciting
things coming down the pike for Earn1KaDay and the business as a
whole. I just wish I could go back to a time when time went a
little more slowly.
It seems like I’m composing a new Friday email every day, in fact.
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Here are this week’s new downloads:
Outsourcing For Profits Webinar recording:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11859
Digital Product Demon:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11917
Article Marketing Profits:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11919
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You probably received my emails about my offering resell rights for
Action Enforcer. If not, here’s the sales page:
http://e1kad.com/r/action-enforcer-resalerights
The price goes up on September 1st.
Bottom line, if you aren’t using it, and you use a PC rather than a
Mac, you should use it if you value your time.
And if you know others who value their time, maybe you should be
recommending it to them by either selling your own copy, or by
being an affiliate for it.
‘Nuff said.
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Forum threads of note:
Jason has some thoughts and questions about how to build a REAL
business in IM:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11922
Quite a heavy topic there, by the way.
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Judy posted a link about how you can make phone calls straight
from Gmail.
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11921
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Kelly was looking for online computer backup recommendations:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11895
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Lisa’s wondering about the number of views some articles get on
ezinearticles:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11912
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Looks like this thread started by Tom is the most popular one of
the week, about how Philadelphia is going after bloggers, among
others:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11884
Quite a wide range of opinions on this controversial issue.
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Chicagogirl was looking for affiliate link cloaking help:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11861
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Kat’s just starting with Amazon S3 and wanted recommendations on
securing those files:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11902
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Judy’s caught a virus this week, it seems:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11888
Or something.
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Steve went from page 44 on Google to page 1 in 3 weeks.
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11885
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Jon thinks Google will be an also ran in 5 years, what do you think:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11873
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Judy thinks this is a must read for all IM’ers, or any Internet
user:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11874
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Stacy was looking for a google search string to interrogate
ezinearticles, and got her answer. Joe provided a tool also, you
might want to check out this thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11875
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More Google decline thoughts from Jon:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11880
I hope Google isn’t spying on our forum, what with the I Hate
Google thread last week, and now all this.
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We’ve made a little progress on the Earn1KaDay giveaway event,
thanks primarily to Tamara. Are you getting ready?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11787
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If you watched the Outsourcing webinar with Rachel by now, here’s
the thread to ask any questions:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11858
and we’d absolutely love some testimonials there. Eventually this
will be beefed up and released as a product, and knowing what you
liked, and the questions you still have, will help a ton.
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Rhonda found a site offering 100 free high quality WordPress themes:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11881
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Speaking of WordPress, Rachel has been making a believer out of me
about the power of WP. She asked me to set up a new blog, where
she’s making sales pages for me, rather than letting me do them in
HTML.
She’s grown fond of a package put out by one of our members, WP
Sales Engine, and I can see why she likes it.
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Favor time… If you’ve read 5 Bucks a Day, would you mind
reviewing it on Amazon for me?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11893
and if you haven’t read it, I’m shocked!
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Special offer… I twisted Rachel’s arm to let me offer her
previously $497 Make 10K in a Weekend package for $77. If
interested, here’s where you can get it:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11898
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Jon’s wondering whether or not to start a non-sexy WSO:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11930
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Teresa’s wondering if anybody pays to use Akismet:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11931
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Zana couldn’t get into one of her blogs and Spanky came to the
rescue:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11929
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Gene’s becoming a spendthrift. What do you think?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11899
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Reminder: If you’re new to Earn1KaDay, or didn’t remember this, all
the weekly emails, from the beginning of time, are archived on the
blog here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/wp/
If you ever miss an email, or want to check the archives, you can
always go there and do a search.
Another reminder: I get asked (a lot) about the affiliate program
to Earn1KaDay. A thread was set up long ago with details, here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=417
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That’s just a short review of some of the highlights, there is much
more going on all the time at the forum. Don’t be a stranger
there, that’s where the primary value of your membership is, after
all. We’re not there to chat so much (though there is a lounge
there if you want to unwind), we’re there to learn from each other,
and share with each other, and as you can see from the above sample
threads, there’s a lot of that happening.
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Until next week, I wish you the very best in everything.
Dennis, the 5 Bucks a Day Guy.
Tags: Email Archives
Wow, what a week. Never have I been so exhausted and exhilarated at
the same time. Many reasons, some of them will come out in this
email.
But first…
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Here are this week’s new downloads:
Amazon Navigator:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11833
Ebook Money Machine System:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11837
Webinar Pitch Secrets (from Jason Fladlien):
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11839
You do want to at least read the report, I guarantee it. Even if
you have no intention to do pitches on webinars.
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If you haven’t been paying attention to the forum, you might not
know that I’ve taken on a new partner to help me build my business,
and to build Earn1KaDay into an even better place to visit.
The whole story is here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11793
Since I wrote that post, though I was in a super excited and happy
frame of mind then, I now feel 10,000% more sure that I made a good
decision. I hope as you see what starts to happen in the near
future, you’ll feel that way also, and that you’ll welcome Rachel
to a more prominent role inside Earn1KaDay.
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By the way, one of the first orders of business was to convince her
to do a webinar with me. It was yesterday, and it was everything I
expected, and more. Look for the recording soon.
What Rachel and I would appreciate would be, for those that were
either on the live webinar, or who watch or listen to the live
webinar this weekend or early next week, to give us your feedback.
I personally think it was a very valuable presentation, but we’d
like to know what you think. Please post your thoughts in this
thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11776&start=15
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There is more and more activity in the forum every week, and the
buildup of fabulous threads is astounding. Sometime I’d like to
take a month off and go through them all again, to find the really
golden ones, and promote them to Top Forum Threads. If anybody
wants to help in that project, let me know.
But more than that, I want to make a quick little speech.
As you know, I wrote the report “How to Win Forum Friends and
Influence People” quite a while ago, it’s actually one of the
things I’m proudest of, though it wasn’t something I sold. In it I
almost begged people to stop lurking in their favorite forums and
contribute, because I know the life changing effect that coming out
of my lurker mode around 5 years ago had on me.
So let me say it another way. Probably my favorite motivational
speaker of all time is Zig Ziglar, and I love his quote: “You will
get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what
they want.”
It’s the old pay it forward theory. Help someone today, you’ll get
repaid many times over soon enough.
One of our members was really frantic about losing something like
four years of blog posts, and Spanky came forward and gave him some
advice that got him quickly back in operation. Kudos to Spanky, but
he isn’t the only one. So kudos to all the other caring and
helping people that are actively on the forum doing those kinds of
things.
I really want to put on another drive to get more people to post
more often, whether asking about what’s holding you back, or
helping someone else that’s facing a problem you’ve already solved.
You don’t have to post as often as myself, or Judy, or Michael, or
some of the others, but we really do want to know what’s working
and not working for you. Please.
Our Earn1KaDay community is truly special, and the more that you
and everyone else is a part of that specialness, the better for us
all.
Please, look for opportunities to help others, and don’t be shy to
ask for help, and together we’ll keep moving forward.
Thank you very, very much.
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Forum threads of note:
Here’s an example of a truly helpful post. Sudha needed some tools,
and one day recently decided to go through the download archives to
see if there was something here.
Now that’s not a quick task with over 500 items, but after some
time, came up with a couple tools that were helpful:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11844
Honestly, I don’t remember uploading one of them, but now other
members have come forward and are going to use it. Thanks, Sudha.
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I set up a new Wikka page to help clarify things here, it isn’t
totally finished yet, but some people were having a problem seeing
the mind map on the page. Ian gave advice on the problem (on the
viewer’s end), so if you could check it out, I’d appreciate it. You
might like it as well:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11794
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Rob was wondering where to find a WordPress sales page theme:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11816
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From Hendra, when outsourcing, do you use your real identity?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11799
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Judy has a cautionary concern about using the Quick Site Indexer
tool that I gave you last week. It seems like there’s no problem,
and I have had very good feedback from others that have tried it:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11789
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Speaking of Judy, she’s going to start charging people to read her
posts in the forum:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11800
Ha, ha, not likely, Judy.
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Teresa’s got second thoughts about buying a domain name that
contains a trademark. Again the common advice is don’t:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11811
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Last week Judy started a thread about organization, this time it’s
about momentum. There are some absolutely brilliant replies in this
thread, don’t miss it, and please post your own thoughts:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11798
Momentum is the whole idea behind Earn1KaDay, after all. I started
it with the realization that if you can get someone to make a
thousand dollars in a day just once, it will happen more and more
in the future.
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Richard’s tired of some of those headlines that come to his inbox.
He’s not alone:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11823
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One of Rachel’s first ideas to be implemented will be an Earn1KaDay
sponsored giveaway event. Tamara’s going to help us. Details here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11787
Who’s in?
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Bob had a devil of a scare yesterday, but it looks like it worked
out, thanks to some help from Spanky and HostGator:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11840
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Cool website that Tom wants you to check out:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11826
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Cori’s been missing in action for a while, but she’s trying to
catch up:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11830
and, she posted a link to a really awesome post she made on her
blog:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11849
That girl can write!
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Here’s a great thread that our member of the month started, asking
people why they hate a certain large Internet property, who will be
named only behind the closed doors of our forum:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11828
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Tom started a very interesting thread about the 2 degree difference:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11809
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Sabrina is looking for help with her site disclaimer:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11831
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Can you help Jeannie set a selling price for a site:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11820
I guess she’s asking because her favorite site to suggest a price
doesn’t seem to be working any more:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11806
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Cori’s wondering if Squarespace is worth getting excited about:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11835
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James had a pretty good week, and shared his method:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11782
Yep, a new 25K income stream is certainly a good week.
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Dave advised how to disable Facebook Places:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11841
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Debbie’s a new Biz Breakthrough Brainstorm participant, can you
help her:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11797
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Would you be interested in seeing Rachel and I do a personal
challenge and documenting the results?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11819
If we do go through with this, it will start September 1st.
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And last but certainly not least, we’re going to start giving more
emphasis on the Earn1KaDay blog. I’ve always been posting the weekly
email archives there, but now I’m going to try to post at least two
meaty articles a week, and I asked Rachel to do the same, and I’ll
be looking for some guest bloggers as well (PM me if interested).
So please check out our blog (link below), and watch the blog become
another one of the helpful resources within Earn1KaDay.
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Reminder: If you’re new to Earn1KaDay, or didn’t remember this, all
the weekly emails, from the beginning of time, are archived on the
blog here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/wp/
If you ever miss an email, or want to check the archives, you can
always go there and do a search.
Another reminder: I get asked (a lot) about the affiliate program
to Earn1KaDay. A thread was set up long ago with details, here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=417
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That’s just a short review of some of the highlights, there is much
more going on all the time at the forum. Don’t be a stranger
there, that’s where the primary value of your membership is, after
all. We’re not there to chat so much (though there is a lounge
there if you want to unwind), we’re there to learn from each other,
and share with each other, and as you can see from the above sample
threads, there’s a lot of that happening.
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Until next week, I wish you the very best in everything.
Tags: Email Archives
I have an extremely important announcement, one that gives me an incredible amount of pleasure and excitement to make.
Over the years I’ve taken on some “partners”, not legal partners, but some individuals who were promised (and received) revenue shares from Earn1KaDay based on certain financial goals, with the expectation that they would make contributions that would cause Earn1KaDay to increase in value, bring in new customers, and make it a no-brainer to stay.
The earlier partnerships have expired for one reason or another, no harm, no foul.
I originally wanted one or more partners in case something were to happen to me. The person theoretically would be able to make sure the forum ran smoothly in my temporary (hopefully) absence.
That’s the background story.
I was recently talking to a person I’ve known almost since the beginning of Earn1KaDay, have a lot of respect for as far as ability and personality, and I jokingly said something about if something almost impossible to attain could be done, I’d make her a partner.
Imagine my surprise when she said “really, are you serious?”.
I was shocked that my off the cuff comment wasn’t completely ignored.
So we talked, and talked, and talked, and the more we talked, the more I became energized with enthusiasm for not only working with this person, but also moving Earn1KaDay and my business light years ahead of where it is now.
It’s been official for just a short while now, and it’s time to officially announce that Rachel Rofe is now my “partner” (again, not in a legal standpoint, but in the standpoint of two people who are in synchronicity as far as doing things to improve this site and my business).
And by the same token, I’ll be doing things that hopefully will improve her business.
We’ve already come up with several ideas, not the least of which is an Earn1KaDay Giveaway Event (her idea). there’s a lot more.
Yes, we will be producing joint products and services some of which will be apart from Earn1KaDay, but our main focus will always be in adding value to Earn1KaDay and its members. For example, improving the conversion rate of the sales page will mean affiliates (you?) will more enthusiastically promote it, and you’ll make more money.
But even if you don’t, we’ll get more people in here from other JV partners who do promote it, and the occasional “star” will join us. Not that you aren’t all stars in my eyes, just that the more frequent posters we get here will help us all.
And when we create new products as a team, again, when you promote them, you’ll make more money.
The plan is that future product ideas from either of us will be done as partners. Two heads are better than one, and all that jazz.
Rachel has also given me a fresh perspective on Earn1KaDay. She senses things that I don’t see as being a problem, because I’m too totally immersed in it. The old “can’t see the forest for the trees” concept.
Additionally, Rachel will become a frequent poster to this blog, and I’m going to begin doing that again as well. I’ve neglected it, except for my Friday email posts here, you’ll soon see some very significant content here. I promise.
I have to admit, I’ve lost sleep a few nights this week because my head is just absolutely buzzing with ideas and excitement at working with Rachel and doing more than tread water with membership levels.
However, there’s always a drawback. We have some concrete plans in place already to significantly raise the value inside the Earn1KaDay Insiders Club. That will mean that eventually, sooner than later, the price of entry will increase. We’re actually due for a price bump anyway, the current low price has been at that level for longer than I can remember.
The price isn’t rising tomorrow, or next week, none of that false scarcity, but it is indeed going to rise, probably this year, that’s the closest estimate I can give at this time. Of course all members in good standing at that point will never have to pay that increase, so if you’re thinking of joining us. you’re catching an opportunity to join what many people have spoken of as their favorite Internet marketing site, at a price that will never again be this low.
Tags: Announcements
How’s things? I’ve had quite a week, lots going on, a lot of it
behind the scenes at the Earn1KaDay “plex”, but all good, and
making progress towards the next installment of “you ain’t seen
nothing yet” improvements.
But I wanted to stop and put together yet another weekly update, so
here we go…
Oh, wait, I just noticed. Today’s Friday the 13th. I love them,
they’re always lucky for me. Do you remember ever really having bad
luck on a Friday the 13th? Not me.
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Here are this week’s new downloads:
Article Marketing Explosion:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11758
Quick Site Indexer:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11777
Cool tool to submit your site to dozens of spots, and it worked
great in a quick experiment I did with it yesterday.
WordPress One Time Offer Plugin:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11771
Most Inspiring Music:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11770
Actually I’d like you to check this out, regardless of whether you
care about inspiring music opinions or not, because I think it’s a
good sort of basic template on how to create a product.
Mind you, I’m not saying this is a stellar product, you could do
much better, but this guy did create a product, and obviously it’s
selling at least a little bit.
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I hate to give up a summer weekend, but I think I’m going to be
spending some time watching the live feed from the Las Vegas
seminar, where most of the Earn1KaDay speakers are gathering again.
I sure wish I could be there to relive old (3 month old) memories,
but watching the feed is the next best thing, maybe better since I
don’t have to hassle with flights. You still have a chance to
watch the feed, it’s starting very soon (today):
http://e1kad.com/ppfeed
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Even more exciting is one of those people is going to hop on a
webinar with me when she gets back from Vegas next week.
Yes, Rachel Rofe is going to give a presentation titled
“Outsourcing for Profit” next Thursday at 3 p.m. eastern time.
More details are in this thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11776
Of course, as an Earn1KaDay member, you’ll be seeing a download of
the recording in the members area eventually, assuming there are no
technical difficulties, but you might have questions you want to
ask Rachel, and the only way you can do that is to be on the live
event.
Plus, larger numbers of attendees are always encouraging to the
speakers, and they tend to be more generous with their information,
knowing that the audience appreciates their efforts.
BTW, this is going to be a totally no pitch webinar.
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Since it’s Friday, I’m having another Five Buck Friday special.
Most of them have been selling products that are already in the
Earn1KaDay members area, but not this time.
Today’s special is the IM Quick Start Strategy, 4 mini seminars
from the archives of Daily Seminar, where Jason Fladlien, with a
bonus appearance from Robert Plank, talk about what to do if you’re
an IM beginner, the mistakes they made in the beginning and learned
from, and more.
It’s a fascinating series of videos (including audios and
transcripts), anyone at any level could learn something from these.
The price of $5 is only good for 72 hours, beginning now, through
noon Monday, at which time the price reverts back to the normal
price of $27.
http://www.e1kad.com/IMQuickStart/
By the way, if you didn’t know, you can promote Five Buck Fridays,
and make a little extra cash. Here’s how:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11628
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Forum threads of note:
John had an issue with Rapid Action Profits that concerned him:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11767
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Debbie found an article in the New York Times site about plagiarism
that should be of interest to all IM’ers:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11773
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What would you advise if you were making 10K a day?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11762
I mean besides registering the domain name.
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Interesting information came out of this thread on how to get
Google Alerts to go into an RSS feed:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11765
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Is this really the “ultimate guide to spinning unique articles”?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11761
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Jeannie’s looking for advice on giving free reports to Craigslist
people:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11756
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Sudha found an awesome testimonial someone made for me in a Warrior
thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11764
Those are always nice.
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Judy was surprised to find out that she was able to get into a
client’s full Amazon account, even though she was only working on
his S3 account in the past. Scary stuff.
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11751
With so much under Amazon’s umbrella: S3, Mechanical Turk,
Createspace, Kindle, etc., be careful about giving outsourcers
access to any of it, or they could be buying big screen TV’s
without you knowing it, on your credit card.
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And Judy has also been investigating verious forms of organization
lately:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11724
She actually gave me a good idea this week for a great use for the
WikkaWiki, something I was excited about a while back, but my
enthusiasm didn’t seem to catch on with others.
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Speaking of outsourcing, Mike asks: Why not?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11725
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Tom wants to know who the top PPC experts are:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11740
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Jon’s discouraged and is losing hope. Can you help?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11738
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Bill wanted advice on whether to use GoDaddy or HostGator as a host:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11730
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Judy’s spreading some thanks around to members for helping me find
new products for the download area, and for other reasons:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11722
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You’ve probably heard of Fiverr.com, now you can have your own
version of that mega-successful site:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11750
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Rob passed on a great article he found about SEO for video:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11749
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Dan started a thread in the Offline Marketing section about
exposing your competition’s faults. This has turned into a
potentially very valuable thread of ideas:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11757
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If you have some spare short articles you’d like distributed, maybe
virally, I’m looking for some:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11763
Yes, you can keep the links to your own site inside. I think this
is a win-win-win proposition.
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I had an idea, and started a poll, to see who’d be interested in
taking advantage of Burn Your To Do List services (that’s Rachel
Rofe’s site), without having to subscribe, at a discount:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11743
I spent a good deal of time talking about this idea with Rachel
this week, and there’s a good possibility it can happen, but there
are complications that have to be worked out.
I’d love to do this, and it looks from the poll results that it
woulc be a very popular addition to the benefits of belonging here,
so I’ll keep plugging and negotiating, and let you know what
happens one way or the other.
In the meantime, if you haven’t cast your ballot, please do.
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Did you notice that I made some minor rearrangements of the forum
this week? Nothing major, but some larger changes are coming in the
near future.
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Did you know you could get a free Kindle reader? I thought
everybody knew that, but I guess not. Anyway, I mentioned it in
this thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11746
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John asks: Is company loyalty the most important thing?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11754
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Do you talk to yourself? Do you email yourself? You can, you know,
there’s an app for that:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11741
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Reminder: If you’re new to Earn1KaDay, or didn’t remember this, all
the weekly emails, from the beginning of time, are archived on the
blog here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/wp/
If you ever miss an email, or want to check the archives, you can
always go there and do a search.
Another reminder: I get asked (a lot) about the affiliate program
to Earn1KaDay. A thread was set up long ago with details, here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=417
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That’s just a short review of some of the highlights, there is much
more going on all the time at the forum. Don’t be a stranger
there, that’s where the primary value of your membership is, after
all. We’re not there to chat so much (though there is a lounge
there if you want to unwind), we’re there to learn from each other,
and share with each other, and as you can see from the above sample
threads, there’s a lot of that happening.
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Until next week, I wish you the very best in everything.
Tags: Email Archives
Welcome back to yet another installment of the Earn1KaDay weekly
update. Thanks for reading, you don’t know how much I appreciate it.
There was quite a bit of forum activity this week, so let’s take
a look…
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Here are this week’s new downloads:
Keyword Collector Pro:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11705
(for everyone who missed Keyword Snatcher, this is the next best
thing)
Amazing Mini Site Templates, Version 2:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11700
(another very cool Graphics Club Monthly product)
Marketing Motivation:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11701
(if you like the hypnosis audios, this is a good one, along with a
book on hypnosis that you can resell or give away with the audio)
Social Networking Explosion:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11702
(primarily about Facebook, from prolific product creator Matt Bush)
12 Social Marketing Tips:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11703
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One of my favorite IM’ers in the whole world, Rachel Rofe, is
wanting to do something special for her boyfriend’s birthday.
Specifically she wants to take him to a Yankees/Red Sox baseball
game, and if you know baseball like I know baseball, those games
are awesome, and tough to get seats to, especially at Fenway Park.
So she’s giving away some prime products for almost nothing, to help
finance the trip. I owe her a favor so I told her I’d mention it:
http://e1kad.com/ob
Included is a product she sold tons of at $497, which is an absolute
bible for offline marketers wanting to do local seminars. I own that
product, I promoted it in the past. It’s good.
But there’s a lot more included in the birthday special, check it
out:
http://e1kad.com/ob
Note for copywriters, you get use of her personal copywriting
services to write headlines for your sales pages, along with the
rest of the package. That alone is worth the total price.
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You’ve heard about the “Wealth Scientists”, the people that came
together at our seminar in Las Vegas, and decided to take the show
on the road.
Last night, as you know, they tested out their live feed
technology, with which they’ll make it possible for people to view
the seminar live, without waiting for the recordings. There were
over 1000 people on live last night for the test, and after some
tweaking it seemed to work perfectly (at least for me).
In fact there were some advantages to the live feed, in that you
can back up through the speaker’s slides, and click on live links
on the slides. Very cool indeed.
If you missed the beta test, you might have missed the offer to
sign up for the feed. They’re raising the price on Monday, I
believe, so if you’re interested, now’s a good time to book your
virtual seat:
http://e1kad.com/ppfeed
In other words, it’s almost as good as being in Vegas, without the
slot machines beckoning to take your money, without the smoke rooms,
without the travel expenses, and being able to schedule watching
the sessions at your leisure (anytime within 7 days from the end of
the seminar).
There are also some advantages to the feed, like being able to go
back through slides and click on live links. I signed up:
http://e1kad.com/ppfeed
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After 3+ years and over 100,000 posts, I think it’s time to do some
forum reorganization.
Nothing major, but some of the sections haven’t had a post made in
many months. I have a feeling new members get overwhelmed, and a
little discouraged when they see sections that are stale.
Still there’s a lot of good information inside, so I don’t intend
to just willy nilly delete threads. But I do want to spruce up the
place a bit.
What I’ll probably do, unless somebody objects, is move the seldom
used sections down to the bottom of the forum, sort of out of sight.
Unless somebody has a better idea that won’t take days of work,
I’ll probably be doing that in the near future, so don’t be
surprised if there’s a slightly new look.
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Forum threads of note:
For those of you who didn’t read it the first time it appeared,
this thread was nominated and placed in the Top Forum Threads
section. The title of the thread is Perfectionism:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9727
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Stacy posted a helpful tip about how to have multiple gmail
accounts open at once:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11692
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Jon’s looking for advice about turning his webinars into products:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11690
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Tips about SSL security:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11682
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Eric noticed significant differences in results using the Google
keyword took depending on whether he was logged in or not:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11691
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To outsource or automate, that’s Doug’s question:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11688
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Cool find, Judy thinks:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11680
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A fairly high profile IM’er is in huge trouble because of cookie
stuffing, after earning over a million a month from the eBay
affiliate program for a long time.
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11669
The background information reads like a soap opera, and if you like
that kind of gossipy blog posts, you’ll enjoy it a lot.
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Rob was looking for a new text editor, several people posted their
favorites:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11658
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Rhonda had a question about trademarks:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11651
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Speaking of that live feed, Rick and others were impressed enough
to start and comment on it in this thread titled “I just saw the
future!”:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11711
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Certainly a novel way to do market research, putting GPS devices
inside detergent boxes:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11659
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Gene was looking for a video conversion utility:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11643
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Rob’s looking for an article submitter:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11647
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Judy started a mysterious thread and left us hanging:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11644
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Dave’s looking for an SEO course for dummies:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11676
The course won’t be for Dave, of course.
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And John’s looking for someone to provide SEO services for a client:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11685
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dominodivine is stuck, wanting to build MMS’s, but not sure which
way to go at this point:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11689
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Harry’s looking for a drip feeder for a membership site:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11674
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Spanky found a new way to quickly transfer WordPress settings:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11694
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Thom had a question about Aweber:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11649
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Is Google giving credibility to SEO experts, or sending a warning
that they want to prevent them from doing their job?
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11662
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Congratulations to the July Member of the Month:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11653
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Don’t forget to help out with member’s Biz Breakthrough Brainstorm
requests, or consider posting your own if you think you’re ready:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=52
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Here’s a cool way to put together a keyword list appended with
local city names, probably useful for offline marketers:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11707
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Speaking of offline marketing, Dave scored a nice contract, and out
of the thread came a great idea for a new service you can offer:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11713
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Garry’s looking for some copywriting advice to bring new life back
into his WSO offer:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11695
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Reminder: If you’re new to Earn1KaDay, or didn’t remember this, all
the weekly emails, from the beginning of time, are archived on the
blog here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/wp/
If you ever miss an email, or want to check the archives, you can
always go there and do a search.
Another reminder: I get asked (a lot) about the affiliate program
to Earn1KaDay. A thread was set up long ago with details, here:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=417
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That’s just a short review of some of the highlights, there is much
more going on all the time at the forum. Don’t be a stranger
there, that’s where the primary value of your membership is, after
all. We’re not there to chat so much (though there is a lounge
there if you want to unwind), we’re there to learn from each other,
and share with each other, and as you can see from the above sample
threads, there’s a lot of that happening.
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Until next week, I wish you the very best in everything.
Tags: Email Archives