Home Business World Ezine
June 2003 issue
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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Fr33bies
  3. Marketing and Tech Tips
  4. Business Programs
  5. Paid Email/Survey/Surf
  6. Coming Soon

Introduction

I hope everybody is learning something from this newsletter. I don't get much feedback from you.

I know I learn something every month. And if I forget to include it in this newsletter, I will have documented it on one of my sites. The one being updated the most, is free-marketing-help.com. It is kind of an experiment - I haven't included any link-exchange section, and it uses frames instead of tables - but I want to see if people will link to it for fr3e, due to it's usefulness.

Wh3reas a-get-paid-site.com has a link-exchange section, is highly optimised, and will use as many fr3e link-generating techniques I can find.

I want you to succeed. If you have joined one of my paid programs under me, I will help you to build a website to promote it. If you don't have paid h0sting, choose a free one, like fr~eewebs.com. You can tell me which keywords you are targetting, send me a title, your content, and I will format the HTML for you. Advertise hard on startpages, and see what happens.

Do you feel like being sidetracked? Metaspy.com shows you what real people are currently searching for. Be prepared to be scared. MetaSpy

Fr33bies

Courtesy of Frank Garon, an ebook How To Use Surveys.

Marketing and Tech Tips

The articles section has finally appeared on my home-biz-world.com site. Access it from the menu on the left. Only three personal articles so far, but I had fun writing them. N0w I can finally use all those announcement sites on my marketing pages. In July.

Everybody has heard of Zeal, the non-commercial, volunteer-staffed search engine directory that makes such an important contribution to Google. Well, there are other similar engines you should try to place your site on. JoeAnt and GoGuides are consistently suggested by searchengineforum moderators. You have to signup, but it is fr3e.

You should have already heard about ListFire - similar to Fr3eNetLeads, you basically promote the idea of fr3e leads, and get people to signup underneath you so that ultimately you can mail your ads to them and everybody else that they signup. You may email your downline every 7 days. The idea of signing up for a program that may send you ads sounds wierd, but in practise, I can't remember receiving any ads from my upline yet. It's worth joining just to get a fr3e copy of Mike Chen's Web Army Knife. I just joined their forum, and it's one of the most useful I have ever seen , in terms of people helping each other with fr3e marketing ideas. And Mike Chen keeps giving you stuff for fr3e.

Plus he keeps building fantastic new programs. I'm not fond of Fly-In Ads, but his latest program is a great idea. ScreenBlaze - Turns Screensavers Across the Globe Into Your Tra'ffic Generating Slaves - a catchy description. Just like a screensaver, it only comes on when you aren't using your terminal. You might have gone away for a cup of coffee, and when you come back there's somebody else's ad on your screen. And yours on theirs.

I've put all my information about safelists on the Free Marketing Help site. Go ch3ck it out.

For the first week of July I will be spending all my time exchanging links on my various sites. I do it the slow way, selecting sites through Google, and exchanging links manually. First I search on my chosen keywords, and select the first 30 sites, and ask them to exchange links. Then for the top ones, I find out who linked to them by typing LINK: theirwebsitename.com. And ask those people (who have proven that they are willing to exchange links), to link to me. Hopefully they will update their links quickly. And at the end of July I will delete any people who have not yet exchanged links.

And then the kids are on school holidays......

Business Programs

The latest trend is systems that offer to build your list for you. "The m0ney's in the list" catchphrase has been around long enough n0w for people to try to make mon3y out of it. The first system I saw had a great sa1es letter that basically offered to maintain your lists and write your newsletters for you - do all the dirty work for you for fr3e, as long as you ordered expensive paid leads from them.
Others sell the use of their "responsive, targetted" lists. They may be responsive, but if I was a member of those lists, I would feel like I was being promoted as a sucker with too much m0ney to spend. And as usual, you would have to be one of the first to promote your business to that list. And it costs m0ney.

Another trend is the sharing of autoresponder courses. There was one with a catchy title - 5 steps to something-or-other - so I signed up for their secrets. Then I forgot, saw the ad again, and signed up again. Gee, the same content came from two separate email addresses. There's nothing new under the sun. And basically it told you to setup the same messages in an autoresponder, while trying to get people to signup to their ML'M. There were no secrets there.

I've seen the ads for Costa Marketing heaps of times, but n3ver seriously checked it out. I didn't realise it was only $2 per month - that's affordable. It lets you send emails to 1200 safelists each hour, with no confirmation emails. They have some other interesting programs affiliated with them.

Shared Pr0fit seems to be having a resurgence in popularity. It has changed from a matrix to an inv3stment format with payouts after 17 weeks. I'm testing the waters with 2 shares. Ask me how it goes in 17 weeks. EqualChanceClub are pushing it, as are numerous Get Paid programs. Shared Pr0fit has been around for a while n0w.

Paid Email/Survey/Surf

Hmmm. If you ever drop in on GetPaidForum, you'll see why people are dropping Jay's programs.

My Australian survey companies are sending me lots of surveys lately. It's nice to be wanted. They usually just reward me with an entry to their draw, but hey, I won $100 from Zeal that way.

A brand new high-paying email program is out. Annies started out with 7cent emails, but found it hard to maintain that rate. They are managing to keep them frequent and at least one cent in value. Not bad. Annies

A big reason I do paid emails (apart from Mikes $150 program), is to earn credits for advertising. I saw an ad for MokerCash where the guy said he earnt enough points for advertising in three days. So I am taking the challenge. So far I have earnt half the points necessary to get my banner on their paid-to-click section in about 4 days. So not bad. MokerCash

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