Saturday, February 26, 2005

James Maduk Is At It Again...

(You can read my previous post about James Maduk here.)

You may have heard about "podcasting".

Well right now, listen to this podcast that has really got me thinking how this stuff is going to affect everything – one more huge step forward for all of us on the internet.

What a cool time to be alive... Ain't it great?

The question now is, when will you actually apply these new technologies in your own business? (Well, I'm sure getting ready to.)

Enjoy!

Friday, February 25, 2005

Yes... YOU Can Write A Book

Dear Internet friend,

Have you ever wanted to write a book...

...fiction or non-fiction, but you just couldn’t get it started, or didn’t have the time, or couldn’t think of a plot or had writer’s block, or didn’t think you had anything important to say, or didn’t think you had the writing talent, or had something else that was stopping you?

Well, I’ve just discovered a web site that is specially designed to help you write your book faster than you ever thought possible. In fact, there’s information here that will lead you to write your book in 14 days!!

Now, I know that seems hard to believe, but when Mark Victor Hansen (co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and dozens of other books) saw the information, he not only said it was some of the best stuff he’d ever used, he even asked the owner of the website to speak at his next seminar! And Mark is using this information to crank out still more books!

Listen, this stuff is so powerful that folks all around the world, even absolute novices, are using these techniques to write books faster than they ever thought possible.

There’s even a free email course that gets you started FAST! So if writing a book has always been your goal, your dream, your desire, get yourself over to...

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If this has always been something you've wanted, don't wait another minute.
I know YOU can do it... and you deserve this for yourself.


All the Best...


Louis Foussard
Saint Paul, MN USA
Hm Office: (651) 695-1050
-
P.S. I know this method works. And It will work for you too.
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-and-

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He's practically building a business for you (and me).

Remember, these are private label products meaning you can modify and edit them freely... insert your own affiliate links, retitle them, sign YOUR name as the author, and more!

(Further details below.)

...In addition to the two new products above, there are currently TEN other top quality private label packages worth over $5,000 (ACTUAL price paid by Bryan!).

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Each month, you are provided with TWO freshly written "private label" information product packages with resale rights. The "private label" part is what makes these products so special...

You see, YOU are allowed to handle these products almost as if you'd written them yourself! You can sign YOUR name to them. Retitle them. ADD to them. MODIFY them. Insert profitable affiliate links. Extract content to create newsletter articles, or set up a content based web-site.

And more!

There is NOBODY that you have to credit - no "resource box" or anything at all that you need to include. It's all about YOU.

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Reason 2.
Each product package focuses on a proven, profitable health and fitness niche. Never has there been an easier way to grab your share of the MULTI BILLION dollar health and fitness market than as a member of Push-Button Health!

Reason 3.
Bryan literally and actually spends $1,000 per month to provide these products to members. The sales page even shows the actual invoice that Bryan paid his freelance writing team to write the first "batch" of products:

(...By the way, you can sell or distribute these products almost ANYWHERE! Through your own newsletter, through eBay.com, through your own website... You could create an audio version of each product, a CD-ROM version, a hard copy version to sell off line or through the US Mail and classifieds... The possibilities are truly endless!)

Reason 4.
Bryan also spends an *additional* $300 per month out of pocket to have a professional copywriter create accompanying sales letters for each product. You can use these sales letters in a variety of ways, including to set up your own direct-response style web-sites to sell each new product!

Reason 5.
Bryan provides ongoing training to all members. This training starts out by showing you how to create your own highly profitable newsletter without even writing your own articles, and goes on to cover how to set up your own website, how to create your very own exclusive products in *minutes* using the private label packages... and much, much more!

Reason 6.
The training Bryan provides is PROVEN. He generates over $20,000.00 in pure profit from his *other* websites (this doesn't include any money generated from Push-Button Health). If you want to EARN like an expert, you need to LEARN *from* an expert like Bryan. There are many "fakers" out there trying to tell you what to do to succeed online, when they themselves are still struggling!

Reason 7.
Internet information marketing is *incredibly* inexpensive to get involved in, yet can easily lead to a six figure annual income if you're willing to put some time and effort into building your business (remember, successful businesses aren't "born" - they are built!). Bryan was able to recently pay off his entire home mortage *as well as* pay for a brand new 2004 Corvette C5 convertible, thanks to his information marketing business.

Why couldn't YOU do the same?

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As a Push-Button Health member, you have the chance to earn a very nice residual income simply by referring others. PBH pays you $17 per month for each and every member you refer - for as long as they remain a member!

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P.S. Don't forget about Bryan's money back guarantee! You have a full 30 days to check things out, and if you're not fully satisfied - simply contact Bryan and he'll promptly send you a refund. You have NOTHING to risk!

Push-Button Health

How to Find the Best Products on the Internet

If you’ve ever...

...embarked on a shopping expedition on the Internet, you know it’s easy to get lost in a sea of look-alike products and copycat offers. The Internet offers everything you could ever want. In fact, it offers about 500 different versions of everything you want.
The problem is, not you or anyone else on the planet has time to sort through all the offers for "the best one".

This is the beauty of ClickBank Storefront Websites.

ClickBank offers over 11,400 of the Internet's best, most in-demand, electronically deliverable products. But don’t be overwhelmed by the sheer number of products and opportunities ClickBank offers. With a storefront portal everything is appropriately categorized, making it easy to find the products and opportunities you want.

But not all ClickBank storefronts are created equal.

These storefronts are run by affiliates, and most of the parent companies only allow them to sell about 20% of theproducts and services Clickbank has to offer.

If you want to find the most extensive selection of products, visit a site like www.ClickBankSuperTips.com.

Here you'll find the only ClickBank Storefront to offer the full line of ClickBank Affiliate Marketplace products, so if you want access to the best selection, this is the place to visit.
With the vastness of the Internet expanding every minute of every day, we strive to continuously make shopping at our ClickBank Storefronts as enjoyable as possible.

Our marketplace includes an extensive selection of shopping categories, such as Business-to-Business, Computer and Internet, Fun and Entertainment, Health and Fitness, Home and Family, Marketing and Advertising, Money and Employment, Society and Culture, and Sports and Recreation.

Also, if you are interested in owning your own Internet business, becoming an affiliate offers you top commissions on over 11,400 ClickBank products, and more benefits and related services than all the other ClickBank Storefronts combined!

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Or visit www.ClickBankSuperTips.com



Thursday, February 24, 2005

Work For Money - Not Your Passion ?? Hmmm...

Bob Bly at Bly.com posed an interesting question. Go see for yourself.

You'll see my comments there too. Add your own comment here or there – or both!

Enjoy !!

Just Start

A Cute Little Story About...

a man who wished to visit a friend living in a faraway country.

The man was very poor - too poor in fact to be able to afford any form of transport for even part of the way.

So he decided to make the journey on foot. It took him many weeks to traverse the deserts, climb the mountains, and ford the rivers.

Eventually, footsore and weary, he arrived at the home of his friend who greeted him with enthusiasm and amazement.

"However did you manage to make such a long journey?" the friend asked.

The man's answer was simple: "I just started," he said.

Often when I am confronted with a task that looks as though it will be very long, difficult, or unpleasant, and I wonder how I am going to cope, I remember the man.

And then I Just Start.

It is remarkable how much shorter, less difficult and less unpleasant a task will seem once it has begun.

Frequently, we find that it is not nearly so bad as we had expected it to be; but be this as it may, there is no other way to achieve results than to tackle it.

It is extremely foolish to try to find a way out of, or around, a difficult job that simply must be done, and to put it off until a later date certainly does not help to make it any easier.

Conversely, delay may make the job seem harder.

Procrastination, we are told is the thief of time. It is true that a great deal of time is robbed or wasted because people postpone acting when they should.

Opportunities are also wasted: those who procrastinate sometimes find that they have delayed too long and the chance has been given to someone else - someone willing to
do the work on time.

The next time you are confronted with a task that you think will take a lot of your time, which seems to be beyond your capabilities or which seems as though it will be unpleasant,
do not make it more difficult by wishing that you did not have to do it.


Just Start.


All the Best...


Louis Foussard
Saint Paul, MN USA
Hm Office: (651) 695-1050

Just Start.

Monday, February 21, 2005

Believing in YOU... Einstein could'nt speak until he was 4

BELIEVING IN YOU...

Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers wor­ried about his mental ability.

Beethoven's music teacher said about him, "As a composer he is hopeless." What if young Ludwig believed it?

When Thomas Edison was a young boy, his teachers said he was so stupid he could never learn anything. He once said, "I remember I used to never be able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of my class...my father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided that I was a dunce." What if young Thomas believed what they said about him?

When F. W. Woolworth was 21, he got a job in a store, but was not allowed to wait on cus­tomers because he "didn't have enough sense."

When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young he had difficulty learning to read and write. Today, we may say he had a learning disability, but his father said of him, "I have an idiot for a son. "His uncle agreed. "He's uneducable," he said. What if Rodin had doubted his ability?

A newspa­per editor once fired Walt Disney because he was thought to have no "good ideas."

Caruso was told by one music teacher, "You can't sing. You have no voice at all."

And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was incapable of writing anything that would have popular appeal.

What if these people had listened and be­come discouraged? Where would our world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edi­son? As Oscar Levant has accurately said, "It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
You have great potential. When you believe in all you can be, rather than all you cannot become, you will find your place on earth.

Go for it!

The above is quoted from a friend's blog at:
http://free-spirits.blogspot.com/2005/02/believing-in-you-einstein-couldnt.html

Sunday, February 20, 2005

TrackBack Secrets Revealed

Will Wonders Never Cease?

I'm so new to this "blogging thang" that I hear about stuff and sometimes don't have a clue what it's all for. For instance... a feature that is available in many of the blog software systems called: "trackback".

Well, I have no need to explain trackback for you here. Jim Edwards and Thomas Pierce (whose recently released How 2 Blog has made him famous) have already done it all for me... and now for YOU too. I've been a subscriber to Jim's "I Gotta Tell You" newsletter for quite some time now. He's even turned that into a blog format now and you can see it for yourself right HERE.

http://www.igottatellya.com/blog/

Go there right now and you can learn all about trackback for yourself. Learn how you can even enable trackback on a free blog like I did right here using technology from HaloScan. It actually took me less than two minutes to make it part of this blog. Very slick indeed!!

Also, be sure to read my recent review of Thomas Pierce's new product in a recent post right here.

Enjoy!

Real Blogging Secrets...

The shooting war is about to start on the battleground of topsearch engine rankings...

And at the center of the flying bullets is Stephen Pierce, famed author of The Whole Truth, Secrets of Creating Wealth and the creator of Smart Pages. But Stephen isn't the guy with the bulls-eye painted on his chest- not yet.

This is about a full court press conspiracy to silence his brother Thomas from revealing the insider secrets that can attract traffic to your website without lifting a finger.

"They" want to stop him from revealing the secret shortcut to high rankings and "real" targeted traffic without spending a dime on pay-per-clicks or fooling around with complicated optimization strategies.

Look, everyone's talking about Blogging but no one is showing how you can make serious money with websites that literally write themselves and elbow their way into the coveted top ten Google rankings.

Thomas has been a member of the "secret online underground" where the serious money is made. These are the guys who out think, out smart, and out maneuver the rest of the pack. But us little guys never get inside their heads… until now. They've gone over the top to make sure these secrets never see the light of day…

Recently, Webster's Dictionary reported a 4 letter word B-L-O-G was the word of the year. That maybe so but more than 99% of the internet *gurus* have got it dead wrong.

Just check out the whole story at How 2 Blog and next year, your own word of the year will have 4 letters too: C-A-S-H

Listen, if you miss out on this, your competition is going to walk all over you. Or you can get on board now and become one of the pitbulls of the internet.

Your success starts now:

Learn How 2 Blog right now. (I am) :- )

Adsense Secrets?

Hi, folks...

How do you go from $30 a day to over $18,000 a month... without creating any new content or products?

That's a tough trick. A friend of mine showed me recently how he pulled it off. The good news - he's willing to tell YOU, too.

Pretty much anyone with a web site can follow his lead. You may not make $18,000 a month from it, but there aren't a lot of people who couldn't do very well without a huge amount of work.

If you just want to get straight to the details, check out:

This really is an amazing story.

....

I know several people who are making that kind of money legitimately with this approach. This fellow is the only one of them who's teaching it.

The guy's name is Joel Comm. I met him recently at a private conference in Pittsburgh.

His secret? AdSense.

No, he's not using iffy search engine techniques or automated page creators. He's using the content he had before he joined the AdSense program. He just figured out how to get the maximum clickthroughs out of his traffic.

In his case, those clicks will add up to over $200,000 a year.

The great thing about this is that it costs nothing to join the AdSense program. You plug some code into your pages and when people click on the links, you get paid.

A lot of people use it, but very few actually do well with it. Joel's book will show you how to turn that around.

No fancy technology or special skills needed. Just some simple attention to detail and knowing what to do.

....

I'm going to be talking a lot about niche and special interest sites over the next few issues. There are a lot of ways to make money with them. AdSense is one of the biggest.

It's also a very cool and easy to set up "project" system.

If you've got any kind of content at all on the web, you want to take a look at this book. If you have a lot of content, especially in the form of articles or an active discussion board, you're throwing away a lot of money if you don't grab a copy.

Back in a few days with more articles. In the meantime, check it out...

See for Yourself.

Until then...

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

"Moving From Vision To Action"


TURN all your dreams into Reality
though the six levels of success


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Moving From Vision To Action - Emmanuel SEGUI"Moving From Vision To Action" is a guide on how to take you personal and professional life to a whole new level. "Moving from Vision To Action" will give you a lot of NLP techniques to overcome fear, set clear goals, lose weight, develop your creativity, build strong relationship of trust with your customers and give you motivation.


It is sometimes hard to understand and apply all the tools and techniques presented in this ebook, and you will need to read some passages twice to really integrate some principles, but when you try only one of these techniques, you want to know more, because it works. I really like the Meta YES/NO pattern. It is a powerful tool to get rid of our fears and limiting beliefs. And it is FAST. That's the big point. Most of the tools will really change your perception of a bad experience in a matter of minutes.


Emmanuel SEGUI is a NLP meta-master practionner He is a writer and uses his knowledge to help families and children improve their lives. He inspires people to enhance their performance capabilities, become entrepreneur and build businesses.


NLP is known to have the #1 life changing tools and techniques. NLP has helped thousands of people throughout the world, particularly in the field of communication and change management. Most people consider neuro-linguistic programming as one of the most powerful method for deep and lasting change.


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This is THE prospeity book you should have to build and
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These series contains very good mp3 audio files regarding
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What will "Moving From Vision To Action" bring you:

" Moving From Vision To Action " and Emmanuel's
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the vision and purpose in your life.
He helps you bring
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For NLPers, you will instantly recognize the 6 logical levels,
developed by Robert Dilts and how Emmanuel uses this model
to help you realize that you can achieve your dreams, get
rid of your fears and live in total harmony with your core
values.


In the first chapter, he explains the different BIG reasons
why a vision, or a dream, is the fundamental and essential
component of your future success. He then let you define
the vision/dream of your life.


Each following chapter is dedicated to one level (mission, beliefs
and values, strategies, behaviors and actions). At the end
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your missions, beliefs, values, strategies and behaviors
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The whole purpose of this book is to identify your vision and
to help you be,believe and behave in accordance with your
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Emmanuel SEGUI outlined 6 points about the power of
the vision in your life:


1. A sense of vision will give you a reason, a purpose for
a living.

2. A vision establishes credibility for your business because,
right or wrong, a strong compelling vision will drive customers
to you.

3. A vision gives you motivation and inspire you to overcome
obstacles you surely find on your road to excellence.

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your behaviours and your attitudes, which will inflluence
people who watch you.

5. A vision will help you build trust with your customers.

Actually, what you want is persuading and influencing,
you want long term relationships and the only way to do
that is by defining a crystal clear vision of your business.

6. The defining of a vision will bring you peace
and a sense of direction in your personal and family life.



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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Wanna See How It's Done?

I had never even heard of James Maduk until late last night. In fact I could hardly sleep after I discovered his website.

Now, I am convinced he's a sales and marketing genius.

He's put together hundreds of training videos on every aspect of building an online business you could imagine – everything. This is nothing like the "internet marketing" stuff we all see. These are clear, step-by-step training sessions – audios, videos and actual screen captures of how to setup and run any business online.

Whether you want to sell doggie toys, baby clothes, gardening tips (or anything else) - this is your answer.

All I can say is... GO THERE NOW!

Don't Walk... Run There Right Now!!


Success

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Make Money Blogging Without Writing a Single Word!

Extremely Urgent and Time Sensitive!

This is not my usual post but it's really something that has huge profit potential so I wanted to share it with you. Don't worry, it won't cost you any money. :-)

Ok, so we all know that Blogs are HOT. But...what if you could plug into the hottest blog on the Internet and profit BIG from it! Without doing any work!

Can you imagine making money from a Blog without writing a single word?

How about making even more money from that same Blog because thousands of other members below you link to it?

And how about being able to do all this completely Free?

Now you can easily do just that...by plugging into the one Blog that will make history...

This is a very rare and unique opportunity for all of us, so please don't put this off. Go sign up for this profit powerhouse right now! Here's the link...

Click here to make money without writing a single word!

If you'd like to see this amazing blog first, you can view it here...

Click here to see The Instant Guru Blog

That's all for now. I will post my next killer tip soon!

Enjoy your weekend!

Louis

Instant Buzz is Open for Sign-ups !

This is Urgent & Time Sensitive!

Instant Buzz is in open-signup again... but only until next Tuesday morning, February 15. (Then it will be back to invitation only).

If you are not using Instant Buzz yet, you have an opportunity this weekend to get in. I have had amazing results, good click thrus, and have added several hundred people to my email lists and other programs using this very elegant and totally free service.

I’ve said it before...this is the best no cost advertising tool ever invented because it actually works. Now it has a new system that drives even more traffic through a revolutionary new mail technology.

Just check it out, you’ll see what I mean.
Click Here to Sign up

If you missed this opportunity a few months back... don't miss it this time.

You'll thank me for this - I promise.

Louis

Friday, February 11, 2005

Most Concerned With Debt...
Plan to Incur Even More!

New Survey by LendingTree.com Finds Those Most Concerned With Debt Are Planning to Incur More in 2005

"When it comes to breaking the cycle of debt, most Americans have good intentions. What they lack are the tools, support and knowledge to manage their debt wisely. They dream of a debt-free future, but need to learn how to become smart borrowers to make that dream a reality."Ed Powell, chief consumer officer at LendingTree.com.

Americans (just like me) on the whole dream of a debt-free future but few are doing anything to plan for that scenario, according to a new survey released by LendingTree.* The vast majority of people who are most concerned about their debt have no intention or definitive strategy to manage it, but instead plan to make big-ticket purchases that will make their financial situation even worse.

80% of the respondents believe their future holds a life completely free from debt. However, few plan to use smarter borrowing practices and decision making to make this dream a reality. Isn't that just like us? : - )

Consumers indicate in their responses that they are either not doing enough or are making matters worse with unnecessary purchases that will ultimately aggravate the situation.

Some of the alarming findings of the survey:

· Of the 76% with outstanding balances on credit cards/personal loans and are concerned about their overall level of debt, 37% are only making minimum payments and playing "credit card bingo" by rolling over balances to lower interest cards.

· 30% of those who lack a financial plan are more concerned with the amount of their monthly payments than the overall terms of a loan.

· Almost one in four consumers surveyed have a debt-to-income ratio of 50% or more.

EverydayWealth gives American consumers the tools, support and knowledge they need to manage their debt wisely. They help Americans make their dreams a reality. (I have used these services for over two years now.)

*About the survey: LendingTree.com, via Insight Express, polled more than 1000 respondents during December, 2004 for their Smart Borrower Survey.

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Five Steps To Creativity

Being out of the habit of writing here as often as I'd like - it's now a strange sensation to be writing twice within the space of two days!

But it's easy when it's not me doing the writing.

Here’s a great article on boosting your creativity by Harry Hoover, managing principal of Hoover ink PR.


Everything you know about creativity is wrong, according to scientists. We have discovered roughly 95 percent of what we know about the brain in the past 20 years.

So, you probably think that only "special" people are creative. You couldn't be more wrong. All humans have the potential for creativity. But like any other skill, it requires some work to get good.

Let's examine the five steps to creativity.

First on the list: opportunities. You must look for chances to be creative and you can't let our old friend “fear of failure” get in your way. Take risks instead of settling for the status quo. Examine your daily routine. List all the things you do by rote and look for ways to improve them.

Training is our next step. Whether you seek out classes, or you go the DIY route, there is plenty of material available to you. Read How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, or Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. Pick up the Creative Whack Pack by Roger von Oech or Michael Machalko's ThinkPak.

The creative process requires encouragement. Seek out creative mentors. Hang out with other creative people who have positive attitudes. Negative nannies suck the creativity right out of you. Avoid them.

Practice your newfound creativity. Remember, ideas can come from both success and failure. Thomas Edison learned 1,800 ways not to build a light bulb before he found his first way that produced light.

Finally, our most important step: belief that you are creative. A quick story to illustrate: A New York publisher was concerned about the lack of creativity among his editorial and marketing staff. He hired psychologists to try to determine what differentiated the creative employees from the others.

After a year of study, the psychologists discovered that there was only one difference between creative and non-creative employees: belief in their creativity. Creative employees believed they were creative, and the non-creative ones believed they were not.

I believe that you are creative. Now, it's your turn.


Harry Hoover is managing principal of Hoover ink PR. He has 26 years of experience in crafting and delivering bottom line messages that ensure success for serious businesses like Brent Dees Financial Planning, Duke Energy, Levolor, North Carolina Tourism, Ty Boyd Executive Learning Systems, VELUX and Verbatim.

Saturday, February 05, 2005

Marketing Wisdom for 2005

Here's some rock-solid, real-life, business research we all need to digest and apply to our own businesses.

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105 Marketers & Agencies Share Real-Life Tips

Note: This report comes out once a year from MarketingSherpa. I mentioned them in a message to my newsletter subscribers a few months back as being one of the best sites around for marketers.

Download and read it with highlighter in hand. It contains valuable insights on what’s working and what’s not working - including:
  • Part 1: Email Marketing
  • Part 2: Search Marketing
  • Part 3: Site Design & Conversion Tactics
  • Part 4: Advertising (Online and Off)
  • Part 5: Direct (Postal) Mail
  • Part 6: General Advice
  • Part 7: B-to-B Marketing
  • Part 8: PR & Blogging

and much, much more. Great stuff…


Enjoy!

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Easy Millions! Oh C'mon Now – Really?

Well… Maybe I'm Dreamin'... But I’ve just gotta share this with you. Yes, there actually ARE people making large sums of money on the internet in some non-traditional, powerful and very interesting ways.

I have always been sort of a sucker for "Get Rich Quick" stuff, so naturally, I've been "burned" (more than once) in the past. Today, I tend to check things out quite thoroughly before I make any decisions. Keep in mind that few things are guaranteed, but while I was doing my due diligence on this deal (you need to do the same)… what I found was – quite frankly – shocking!!

The world truly has changed. Read on…

(NOTE: All links in this article point to an information site – you'll
find links directly to the company site from there.)


This Internet Income System is in a League all its Own ... Truly

I am introducing you to my top earning recommendation... by far.

It's called "Your Money Machine Success System" (YMMSS for short).

And no, it is NOT a money doubler type of program. It's far better than that, because unlike doublers (which can only last a short while before they stop working – that's a known fact based on their business model), YMMSS is designed to last for a very, very long time. In fact, for many generations, says the CEO/owner/creator, Kim Inman.

I spent an hour on the telephone with Kim just a few months back. And... Well...
Did I join the program? You bet I did! And you probably will too.

YMMSS is an Internet Advertising Program that pays its private members generous commissions for reading advertisements. Commissions are paid "per cycle" (cycle times vary based on several factors).

Members qualify to get paid by reading ads at the company's site (inside the member's area). How much they are paid is determined by how many positions they own on the income ladder.

Please continue reading...

Why YMMSS Will Continue to Generate Income for Years to Come

1) It's built on a legitimate product with a clear and strong commercial value – that product is online advertising, and the demand is growing, and the revenues to successful online advertising companies are growing as a result.

2) The business plan – a straight line matrix. I like to think of it as an income ladder. No downlines to build. Just get on board and the combined efforts of all the members means your name continues up to the top of the ladder, which is where you get paid. Of course, you can own as many positions on the ladder as you like, and get paid for every one of them. That's what I am doing and it's already working brilliantly. (I am still pinching myself.)

3) YMMSS has multiple sources of income – they are not just redistributing new money to earlier members. 'First in' does not mean 'earn most' with this business model.

4) The integrity of its designer/owner, Mr. Kim Inman.

5) The remarkable community of members which Kim has attracted.

6) Proven performance, with no missed payments – it was established mid 2002, so there is a substantial track record here. Member testimonials galore certify this to be true.

7) Huge plans for continued worldwide expansion into multiple languages, and other business developments to ensure and enhance the longevity and prosperity of the company and all its members. (This is not just an online entity – It's becoming a huge, global company.)

All of these are solid reasons why I differentiate this company
from all other internet income businesses.

Again... Do Your Own Due Diligence

And don't just give this thing a quick "once over" and make any snap judgements. If you pass this over now... you are going to be kicking yourself down the road. Take the time and get to know everything about this – learn the history – visit the forum – exchange messages with current members – even talk with a few members over the phone.

Then... you let me know if I'm crazy or not! : - )

Access to lots of extremely useful resources you'll need to make a truly informed and sound business decision about YMMSS are all located right here.

Feel free to call me personally with your questions:
(651) 695-1050