Wow. 2 weeks until Christmas. It never fails that I start panicking
at this time of year with all the things left to do before the
holidays. This year is no exception. You’d think I would learn, but
well, what can I say?
Have you scheduled a time to sit down somewhere quiet and start
planning out your 2010 goals and strategies? I’m hoping to do that
next week myself. For now, let’s see what happened this week at
Earn1KaDay.
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Here are this week’s new downloads:
Word Ebook Template Package:
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Some nice templates for MS Word or Open Office to use for designing
your eBooks or reports.
Software Maker Pro:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9550
I was excited to find this again. There’s a personal story behind
this, actually, in the thread itself.
Google Rank Analyzer:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9551
5 Bucks a Day Jr. Resellers Package
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6095
Sorry about this, I mentioned the new download last week, of the
resellers package, but one of the members found a couple errors in
it. The copyright statement was wrong in the teaser report, as well
as one of the links wasn’t brandable that should have been. So if
you’re using this, you should grab the new version. Hopefully it’s
correct now.
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Back in June, I started this thread about article packs for
rent-a-sites:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8048
Though there was some good response, it wasn’t quite as robust as I
expected, and the project has been on the back burner since then.
The problem was the time needed to manage an outsourcing team (or
person), including finding them, training them, keeping them busy,
and making sure the quality was right, among other things.
Rachel Rofe has solved my problem, hopefully and I signed up for
her service yesterday (she posted a link in the WSO Announcements
section), so I’m ready to give this a shot.
Here’s probably your last chance to contribute suggestions for
article topics (not just any keyword phrase, read the thread to
refresh your memory on what we’re looking for). I’m not sure how
these article packs will be distributed, but for sure, if you
contribute to the keyword research, you’ll be glad you did.
If this works out, it may be a separate membership. Or it may be
something that’s reserved for veteran members (I don’t really want
someone to join, download all the content in this new section, and
then refund or leave after 30 days, after this library gets to the
size I expect).
If it becomes a separate membership, Earn1KaDay members will be
given a much better price, I assure you, and those that contribute
to the keyword research phase will probably get a complimentary
membership.
Again, it might be part of the membership at no charge, at least
for veteran members (those that have been here 4 months or more)
As you can tell, I haven’t thought out the monetization part fully
yet, and can’t until we see how valuable this becomes.
So please use that thread to post your feedback and your keyword
lists for offline niches that you think are worth targeting. Now
that you’ve hopefully had a chance to listen to or read Tim’s methods
of targeting certaining industries, maybe that will give you a
better focus on this:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8048
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Forum threads of note:
Looking forward, looking back:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9559
I think it will be fun and very enlightening to hear how everyone
has done this year compared to the goals they set a year ago. And
then what you expect to accomplish in 2010.
I know a lot of things didn’t get done that I wanted to accomplish.
But there were opportunities I couldn’t have envisioned last
December that took their place.
So overall, how’d you do, and what’s next? Please post, nobody will
be critical.
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9559
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Gene noticed news that the FTC evidently isn’t just grabbing U.S.
marketers, in this thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9516
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I think I mentioned this before, but Michael remembered this week
that our autoresponder messages need updating because of the FTC,
so in case I didn’t say it before, this thread is a reminder:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9518
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Tim’s question about copywriting got quite a few responses, and
this thread has some good suggestions about what courses people
have found of value:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9487
We do have quite a bit of copywriting related material in the
download area, of course, so that’s where you would want to start.
Don’t forget Copy Cheats either.
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Kunaki price reduction, with a twist:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9533
I’ve recommended Kunaki for CD and disc duplication for quite a
while, and use them for sending out the download compilations and
the seminar DVD’s. They used to charge $1.75 per disc for
duplication including the packaging, which I always considered a
steal of a deal.
This week I noticed they’ve reduced that price to just $1.00 if you
order 10 discs or less at a time. However they charge more for
bigger orders, up to $1.75. Interesting concept, we’re usually used
to getting a better deal for larger purchases, right?
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Steve bit the bullet and hired a full time outsourcer:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9535
That’s actually one of my goals for 2010, to build a team of people
to help add value to Earn1KaDay and for other reasons. I talked
about it quite a while ago, and yes, believe it or not, that
project is still on my radar, as mentioned earlier.
If you’ve had any outsourcing experience, why not post in Steve’s
thread?
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MMS survey results from this thread:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9450
Question: What’s Your Experience From Building Mini Money Sites?
Never tried it [ 18 ]
Tried it briefly, lost money [ 1 ]
Tried it, made no profits but didn’t lose anything [ 4 ]
Best month, earned less than $100 a month [ 10 ]
Best month, earned between $100 and $500 a month [ 13 ]
Best month, earned between $501 and $1000 a month [ 2 ]
Best month, earned between $1001 and $2000 a month [ 5 ]
Best month, earned between $2001 and $5000 a month [ 8 ]
Best month, earned between $5001 and $10,000 a month [ 1 ]
Best month, earned over $10,000 a month [ 5 ]
Total Votes : 67
Interesting that out of the respondents, of the 49 that have tried
building MMS sites, 19 of those have earned over $1000 a month,
14 have earned over $2000 a month, and only 5 of the 49 failed to
make a profit. Not bad at all.
In fact, as many have earned over $10,000 a month as have failed to
earn anything. I guess it would be interesting to isolate the
difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10%. Please post your
thoughts, regardless of which (if any) group you fit into, in the
thread. It will be appreciated very much, and will help us all.
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AdSense tips:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9512
There’s some great tips in this thread from Remy and others.
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This was news to me:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9538
Stacy noticed that indeed you are allowed to have duplicate article
titles at EzineArticles, I thought differently. That could be
useful to know.
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This is an old thread that was revived, it looks like Google’s been
shutting down more AdWords accounts:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8926
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Gene found a Dragon Naturally Speaking app for the iPhone:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9537
Right now, it’s free. I so want an iPhone even more than ever now. 
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Since I mentioned this member special offer in an email before (it
sounded like a good deal), I’m afraid I have to mention it again:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9348
Reason being that some people haven’t gotten what they paid for. I
hope the person in question is OK, and will fulfill her
obligations, but for now, I’ll assume that you should not place any
further orders.
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Hopefully it’s not too late, but beware promoting products with
“Google” in the name, such as Google Cash, etc.:
http://www.earn1kaday.net/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9553
It’s actually becoming very, very clear that it’s a bad idea to
promote a product that uses a trademark in the domain name, a
trademark in the product name, or purchasing a domain name yourself
with a trademark in it.
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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.
http://www.earn1kaday.com
http://twitter.com/5buckguy
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