It was just two years ago today so suddenly, and unexpectedly I lost my dear Sheila, about 00.30 Sheila had gone downstairs for a snack, I suddenly woke to a strange noise, jumping out of bed and running downstairs I found Sheila chocking on a nutragrain bar of all things, despite me performing the Hinderic manoeuvre then manually clearing her throat and performing CPR, I could not revive her.

Sheila was the love of my life, sole mate, wife and best friend. She had been so supportive in all things, even when in 1999 I started the long journey into online marketing, working full time then sat at the computer often until 3 in the morning and up again for work before 7.

Sheila and I the last photo

Sheila would proof read all my typing despite having poor eye site, correcting my grammar and spelling mistakes she knew I would make it on line. 2002 found us together 24/7 when at last I could go full time on the internet.

The next four years were good despite various health problems and family tragedies we supported each other in every aspect.

Although I consider myself a strong person on Sheila’s passing grief depression set in a big way, for months it took me all my time to just scan my email, thankfully I received very few customer service requests as even the simple ones appeared to be a huge amount of work, I had no focus at all.

Part 2 to follow the business killer…

Well, they have done it again, earlier this year Internet Marketing specialists: John Delavera, JP Schoeffel, Jeremy Gislason and Simon Hodgkinson. joined forces to build a simply massive membership site - As you can imagine this thing is just packed with killer stuff…

They have reopened with another huge amount of great content. It took me hours to download and evaluate before I wrote this.

Inside you’ll find absolutely everything you need to increase your sales, grow your sites, and add serious profits to your bottom line.

There’s brand new software tools, videos, audios, books, courses and so much more it’d be almost impossible to list everything here.

This is a limited number site as they don’t want to flood the market they do want you to make money, as a matter of fact until the 17th members can sell membership for 100% commission, Yes these ethical marketers are actually giving the members all the one off membership fee so in esance you make one sale the membership is free, make more than one sale you are already in profit even before you have time to take advantage of all the high value content.

click hear to Check out the new D4M2 site now.

By the way, the price is going up on the 18th but for the next 7 days only You can take advantage of the intro price.

As great as Frank is with his free masscrontrole information my personal view is he may have dropped a clanger, Responsive lists are built on trust, it is far too easy to diminish or even destroy that trust using subject lines like ‘Bad News’ particularly if it’s just a ploy to have people open the email or the content is primarily a pitch for a product.

Frank’s masscrontrole must work as I am amazed at how many experienced marketers have just sent the stock email for Frank’s video without any thought of diminishing trust, As well respected marketers some may get away with it BUT I would really suspect the unsubscribe rate to those lists will take a big jump. The bigger problem will be when marketers just building lists use this type of tactic which could virtually kill their small list and set them back months or even dishearten them enough to kill their business altogether.

Building a list with honesty and integrity does take time, for goodness sakes don’t kill your list by dropping a clanger.

Well, it has been rough few days with the computer’s the gremlins struck big time.

First off my trusty HP notebook slowed nearly to reverse, my own fault for not keeping an eye on downloads. I spent a full day moving files and programs onto a new 500gig external hard drive including my IM Index (organisation system). After re optimising the notebook was running sweet, just as good as taking it out of the box.

Thennnnnnnnnnnnn……..

The gremlins took over the new hard drive failed. The light went to RED the drive started clicking. When did this happen? Immediately, on my return from buying the new pack of DVD’s to run the backup. All my source files, video and audio, GONE. Thankfully, the majority of files are also on the desktop computer and the ones that aren’t are recent downloads, I can replace, I just have to wait for the replacement hard drive to arrive now.

Gremlins 2

My information site officiallifestyle . info showed as going over quota on checking, I found it was a vulnerability in the partner link exchange program well taken advantage of by a link spammer, the main problem after locking out the spammer, the server software stooped me from removing any files. Being over quota I did not have the space to create a trash bin, No great problem I thought as this is my own server just increase the quota and clean up. GRRRRRRRR quota increased by 250% still no trash bin. still working on that one.

Gremlins 3

Then just to cap it off today one of the grandchildren managed to download something onto the networked computer I have set up for them that froze the wireless connection to the desktop system. A simple reset and running the spam check did not work.

So at this moment in time I have a computer full of business files that wont talk to the net and a notebook with no business files that will and a server that won’t let me delete files.

I have pest control coming tomorrow to remove a wasp nest in the house wall I wonder if they have a way of removing gremlins? I wont hold my breath

As it’s about midnight, I think a couple of whiskeys and an early night I will de grmlinise in the morning.

Twitter appears to have come to the for this week I came across an excellent video produced by Harris Fellman on Monday. Then Tuesday John and soren launched tweet my blog a great wigit for wordpress visit tweet my blog to pick up your free wigit. If you don’t use Twitter yet you are missing out on a great source of traffic to say nothing of the great information you can pick up following the people in your niche.

Back to the wigit, if you look in the right side bar you will see my Twitter feed click any of the notes it will take you to my Twitter page where you can see all the tweets I have made and who I am in conversation with, see something that interests you click that and follow through for more information. This can work as a fast track for info and you are much more likely to see relevant stuff you may miss by not opening emails or speed reading (skipping over) parts of web pages.

Now I am not an expert on Twitter by any means but for the few days I have been using it I am very impressed, it could become addictive but selective clicking of tweets can also speed up the way you gather pertinent information.

It costs nothing but a little time to try out, Go ON see if it fits in with your business model.

I just wanted to let you know about this new site that launched. It’s all about Firefox Add-ons, and how they affect you as an internet marketer.

I had NO idea that so many people have been missing the important parts of my pages, just because of these addons!

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Plainly put, back-end marketing is the sensible way to do
business. If you’re not doing a great deal of it at present,
there is a good chance that your business model is leaving a
lot of money on the table unnecessarily. And there’s also a
great probability that you have a lot of competitors who
know better-who will snap that money up-and who will
ultimately put you out of business if you don’t change and
fast.

So why is back-end marketing so important? I sat down and
thought about it. I came up with dozens of different
reasons, but I’ve limited this article to only four of the
more important reasons. Next time you question whether or
not you should use back-end marketing, look no further than
this list?

1. In almost all situations, it is far cheaper to sell
another product to an existing customer than it is to obtain
a new customer. Some marketers estimate that it is ten times
cheaper. Even if it Is not that much cheaper for you, it is
still probably considerably more affordable. Therefore, do
yourself a favor and change your marketing efforts to your
existing customers. It will significantly cut your marketing
costs.

2. Your active customers will be far more willing to
purchase than will complete strangers. This is because
active customers have purchased your products and services
already. They now know that you are a genuine Internet
marketer who has something useful to them. Other people
don’t know this. And that is just why you should attempt to
sell your higher-end products to your existing customer
base, instead of people you do not know: they will resist
less and this will result in a greater conversion rate.

3. Consider offering, back-end products that are useful
complements to your existing products, this will get your
current customers to trust you. Rather than you appearing to
be a con artist, useful and sensibly priced up sales will
establish that you are devoted to supplying your customer
base with all of the useful information; they need for them
to be prosperous marketers.

4. Offering a large discount through a ‘back-end’ sale
gives you an excellent means through which you can
re-activate ‘inactive’ customers. You may not realize this
now, but inactive customers are some of your best prospects.
While they are not currently following your product
releases, they have purchased from you in the past and they
may be a single email away from purchasing from you again in
the future.

Well there you have it: four factual reasons why you should
be using more back-end marketing. If you didn’t know these
before you read the article, you have probably quickly
identified them as good reasons for using back-end
marketing.

If you want to learn more about how you can actually use
back-end marketing to your advantage, please visit my site
where you will find free, seven-day course on back-end
marketing, a free report on back-end marketing, and a
full-length, detailed ebook on back-end marketing.
This article is available as a unique content article with free reprint rights.

In October 2007 I had the privilege of spending four days with a group of ethical marketers whose top priority is GIVING true value for your success. Today you can download this $97 report f.r.e.e. just right click and save to your desktop. Do take the time to study this report I will guarantee it will increase your success factor.

John Delavera opens Turbo Big Bang at 9am Saturday, no doubt you have had lots of mail for this already. If you intend to purchase this superb package TAKE THE TIME to check several of the offers to pick out the best fit bonus for YOU’R business model.

There are some fantastic bonus packages available, some may even outstrip the value of Johns package (that will take some doing) but do use due diligence for the best fit for YOU.

Continuing with the previous post theme Focus on your own business model look for the bonus package that will best suit your needs this will certainly save time and money in the long term and give you usable resources.

Working along those lines last year I bought John’s Jvm2 package, the bonus from the affiliate has already saved me thousands of $s and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I found a perfect fit for my business model just by taking the time to check out each offer before I purchased.

You can check out my Bonus offer here.

Advice:

Just to make sure you do purchase with the bonus you want BEFORE clicking that link CLEAR your browser cash this will make certain you receive the package you want.

IM Giveaways can be a great source of content and tools to help you in your business. One of the big problems though is information overload, download everything in sight, start to receive tones of follow up mail get bogged down in a huge roadblock of fresh material.

Nowadays I am very selective not just with giveaways but in all product offers, If it does not fit with my business strategy it gets passed by. I now have Focus,that saves me a huge amount of time and in some cases a lot of money. It is so easy to be seduced by great sales copy you can end up spending thousands on products that sit gathering cyber dust because they don’t fit into your plans.

One of the tools that helped is a great report called Laser-Focus Shield. It is well worth checking out.

Speaking of giveaways My friend Reed Floren just released the internet’s most massive giveaway ever:

Simply sign up and get the scoop. -tons of ebooks -tons of scripts -tons of everything you’ve ever wanted

Where did all these goodies come from? I teamed up with Reed FLoren who has called in some favours from a whole bunch of top online marketers and convinced them all to give you TONS of Products at no cost to you. It is our way of saying “thank you”!

These products are worth thousands and thousands of dollars and have already made the owners thousands and thousands of dollars. Go get it now! BUT don’t forget to focus be selective and only download what fits your business plan.

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John

Having been burned with new start-ups in the past I waited until this one proved itself before talking about it.

A few days ago the long awaited Pay per Click program started rollout. Although lots of people have been frustrated by the slow start I appreciate this company really wanting to get the system right before going to full throttle. All early indications show this will be a great passive income source for anyone with a website of their own.

Much better than Google adwords as there is no clicking of links involved. Visitors hear a short audio message on the first visit to your page in any 24 hour period YOU get paid.

DON’T expect to make a fortune that is NOT what this program is about. YOU will make passive income with only a few minuets effort to load the code just once on your pages.

Interested? Want to know more? Go here for the full story http://www.johnaustwick.com/l/ppp/index.html

Work smart for better returns.

John