I’m running behind today, unfortunately, on a day I wanted to get
an early start because I’m taking a few days off next week and want
to get things cleaned up before I go away on Monday. I didn’t
count on waking up to half a foot of beautiful white snow, and more
on the way. No complaints though, it’s been a mild winter for
northern New Jersey, it was over 60 degrees one day last week.
Anyway, on with the show …
This week’s downloads are here:
e-Book Covers Without Photoshop
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This was written by one of our members, Lynn, and I picked up
resell rights for it a while ago, and just remembered I had it this
week when I was working on an e-Book cover of my own (more on that
later). It’s meant for the graphically challenged, and I sure
qualify.
Mark Hendricks – Live
http://earn1kaday.com/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2829
About 8 hours worth of audios. I haven’t listened to them myself,
I’ve been told they’re pretty good but more for newbies. Hopefully
someone will give some reviews in the thread above.
Last week I mentioned that 5 Bucks a Day (version 3) was done, and
gave you a link to it, the purpose of the changes was so that I
could make a print version and an mp3 version. The print version
is now available here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1865468
I hacked away at the cover for half a day, and it might not be the
best looking, but I’m happy with it, and my wife, who is an artist,
had no criticism, so that’s a relief. Those of you who were
wanting a print version, now you’ve got it. I set the price
knowing that most of the purchasers, at least in the beginning,
would be people who’ve already spent money on the e-Book, so I kept
it about as low as I could after covering Lulu’s production costs
and commission. I’ll probably raise the price soon and hope to
pick up some new readers.
OK, I promised I wasn’t going to do this, but the snow shovelling
has invigorated me, I’m all pumped up about my 2 day breakation
next week, and feeling pretty good, so I’m going to give out the
idea that I’ve teased people about in the past, but just to
members, and just to the ones reading this email.
Long ago I mentioned that there was a 6-figure idea hidden in the
forum, waiting for the right person, but as far as I know nobody
ever picked up the specific post, if they did they didn’t tell me,
and I’ve never seen a product come out.
Then when I started the autoresponder series for ICG, I mentioned
that somewhere along the way I’d throw that idea out there hoping
the right person could find it and make a fortune with it. Well,
this week I did a 2-part article doing just that, but without
specific reference to what I had in mind. That article can be
viewed, even for those of you that aren’t that far along in the
autoresponder series, here:
http://earn1kaday.com/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2828
So here’s what my idea was all those many months ago, it came from
this thread:
http://earn1kaday.com/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=43
My thought was that if someone came along with a service to allow
international affiliates to promote eBay, they’d clean up. Yes,
AuctionAds.com does that, well, I just looked and it appears that
they used to do that, but it doesn’t look the same anymore. They
used to serve up eBay ads in AdSense style blocks, and you’d get
commissions based on registrations and winning bids, and they took
a share of your revenue. Now it looks like that has changed.
Anyway, I digress. My idea was that with a bit of work (I didn’t
say it would be easy to get a 6-figure monthly income), someone
could maybe figure out a way to service international affiliates
that couldn’t get their own eBay.com approval, and track their
sales (via the SID or similar), they could really do well.
If I were doing this (and I have no intention to tackle it, so feel
free), I certainly wouldn’t want to restrict the eBay ads to look
like AdSense blocks. They should look like RSS:os ads, eBay editor
kit ads, AS:e ads, or BayRSS ads.
The biggest problems I foresaw were tracking, making sure that an
affiliate didn’t do something to violate CJ or eBay TOS and get
your master account killed, and I guess making sure that eBay and
CJ would approve of the scheme to begin with. If they allowed
Auction Ads to do it, I guess it was OK, but now that I see that
Auction Ads is no longer serving eBay ads the same way, maybe it
isn’t OK. Maybe someone knows when and why Auction Ads made the
change in format, and can post in the thread I mentioned above (the
one where I linked to the ICG articles).
In any event, even if this idea is full of holes, there are plenty
of ideas out there to help people cope with unfair discrimination
from companies. Even as simple as not allowing non-US residents to
submit articles for payment to Associated Content might be
something that someone could make a service fee from.
The next time you see something being done by someone that seems
unreasonable, think about improving on their service. Like the
person to build the proverbial better mousetrap, you could have a
lot of people beating a path to your doorstep.
What I’m getting at in this email and in the articles that I
pointed to above is the old standby advice: think outside the box.
Do that and you’re on the way to riches. And nobody said you have
to do all the work of, for example, writing software to track eBay
commissions for your customers, you can outsource that easily.
So I’ll leave you with that thought this week and go back to
getting ready to take a few days off. When I get back, I hope
someone has had an “ah ha” moment inspired by these thoughts, and
will tell me about it.
And as always, my sincerest wish and hope is that you are able to
take several steps this week toward completion of your most
important goals.
Dennis, the 5 Bucks a Day Guy.
http://www.earn1kaday.com
http://www.5bucksaday.com
http://www.instantcashgenerators.com
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