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April 23, 2005
JV On Controversial New Product Release With Willie Crawford
Here's another note that I emailed to my ezine list
but wanted to make sure that you didn't miss...
It's Willie Crawford of Limitless Marketing
Ezine. I had a number of time-sensitive things
that I wanted to pass along to you. I've been
off-line most of the last 2 weeks due to an on-going
family emergency. I'm now catching up on just a few
emails.
I wanted to pass these things along as concisely as
practical without a lot of hype. Please take a
few minutes to read this email COMPLETELY through
and check out each one :-)
1) I'll start with a course on JV brokering. I've
mentioned to you before that I helped my friend
John Evans sell nearly $60,000 worth of his ebook,
"Success Alert" in under 30 day. I did this by brokering
the launch of John's ebook. Much of what I did, I learned
in a course from a 19-year old kid named Jason Cox.
I just did what Jason taught in a course that he sold for
up to $397 and the results blew everyone away.
Well... now Jason is giving away this course. You can
get it free from his autoresponder at:
williecrjvdeals@aweber.com
Jason's course on JV brokering tells you how to earn a
huge payload without owning a product or a list. You
just act as the middleman, and you get a share of each
sale made. Jason tells you how to do this for free in
his course at the autoresponder address. When you sign
up for the autoresponder, you will be asked to confirm
that you want the autoresponder sequence. If you don't
confirm, you won't get the autoresponder course.
2) Secondly, I wanted to mention a product that I'm
personally on the verge of releasing. It's an ebook
that will be released within the next 2 days, and will
likely be called, "Unprecedented CONFESSION of A Top
Internet Marketer." This report/ebook will sell for $97
per copy and I'll be looking for a few JV partners. If
you're interested in telling your list about this, after
reading a free review copy, drop me an email at:
willie.crawford@gmail.com with the subject line, "Want
to JV On Your Ebook" and I'll send you details as soon
as everything is ready.
The above ebook will share much of what I've learned
about Internet marketing over the past 9 years, and will
be both controversial and very well received. I've put a
lot of my heart and soul into it!
3) Third, I wanted to tell you about a new HTML
editor I know that you'll like. It's as powerful as
FrontPage or even DreamWeaver, but much easier to learn
and use. It's also dirt-cheap. I don't want to spend a
lot of time describing it to you since the webpage does
a good job of that. I'll just add that I've been a beta
tester of this program for the last 3 months. In a word...
"IT ROCKS."
Check it out at http://WillieCrawford.com/123.html
That's it for now. Thanks for taking the
time to read this email.
By the way, a good way to keep up with good stuff that you
should know about is to read my blog regularly at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/
Since I can only publish my ezine every so often, I post
pressing news that can't wait to my blog. Be sure to
bookmark it.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Willie Crawford
2345 Whispering Pines Blvd.
Navarre, Florida 32566
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$1 Teleclinic on May 4th - Filling Up Fast!
Here's an email notice I sent to some of my subscribers
- on a teleclinic I think you should attend IF you're not
a subscriber to the ASK database. I'm posting it here too
because email filters mean notices like this don't make it
through to every subscriber :-)
I attended, and have the recordings from, the tele-clinic
mentioned in the P.S. below. It's exactly how I test and
develop some of my product ideas before I go through the
trouble and expense of creating a product!
Here's the email:
I'm writing this email hoping for your immediate reply...
I hope this gets to you in time because I've just made
special arrangements to get you private access to a $1
teleseminar on May 4th called, "Tested Ask Campaigns That
Make You Rich (Part II)".
* * * $1 Teleclinic For Non-Subscribers Only * * *
Only 496 teleslots are available, and you're eligible to
attend only if you DO NOT currently subscribe to the "ASK"
Database ~ world's first search engine for survey data.
Click this link to get registered now:
http://www.askdatabase.com/cmd.asp?AF=117479
FAIR WARNING: Registrants will be taken on a first-come,
first-served basis and once all 496 teleslots are filled,
teleclinic candidates will be placed on a "Stand By" list.
* * * How To Claim $5,500 In Free Bonus Gifts * * *
If you're one of the first 496 to register for $1, you'll
also be eligible to get access to additional bonus gifts:
~ Unlimited use of Ask Database - until May 25th ($50 Value!)
~ Free MP3 audio files of the May 4th teleseminar ($20 Value!)
~ Free PDF transcripts of the May 4th teleseminar ($20 Value!)
~ Private LIVE! access to the May 4th teleseminar ($79 Value!)
~ Eligibility to win 1 of 12 Ask Certifications ($199 Value!)
~ Eligibility to win 1 of 5 annual subscriptions ($359 Value!)
~ Eligibility to win 1 lifetime subscription ($5,000 Value!)
* * * How To Find Out If You Made It In Time * * *
To find out if you're one of the first 496, click this link:
http://www.askdatabase.com/cmd.asp?AF=117479
I'll listen for you on May 4th...
Best of Success,
Willie Crawford
Limitless Marketing Ezine
P.S. Once you get confirmed for this $1 teleseminar, you'll
also get private access to the MP3 audio files and PDF Transcripts
to "Tested Ask Campaigns That Make You Rich (Part I)".
So don't wait, make sure you get in as one of the first 496!
http://www.askdatabase.com/cmd.asp?AF=117479
Posted by Willie Crawford at 01:24 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 21, 2005
Front Page and DreamWeaver Are In Trouble - This Is Easier To Use and Dirt Cheap!
I haven't posted for a while because I took time off to visit a
younger brother who's on life support at a hospital about 10
hours from where I live. He's been on a respirator, and had major
problems for several weeks now, but is stabilized, so I've turned
some of my attention back to my online activities.
I just wanted to share this note that I sent to my ezine list, earlier
today, with you. It's about an html editor that I honestly feels is
better than FrontPage or DreamWeaver in MANY ways. The learning
curve is so much lower, it's incredibly powerful and it's dirt cheap!
Here's part of the note I sent out:
Mark Hendricks and Michael Nicholas have released what I believe
to be the world's easiest to learn and use 'What You See Is What
You Get' HTML Editor and website creation software.
If you can use a word processor, you can create and edit
great looking websites and webpages using...
"123 WysiWyg HTML Editor"
I don't have the time or space to tell you all about it here, so
just click this link, read all about it, see all the comments they've
gotten from 123 WysiWyg users, and look at all the great extra tools
they've included too.
http://www.williecrawford.com/123.html
I've been using it for some time now, and I love it. I got to use
the beta versions and provide my feedback.
I spend a lot of time working with both seasoned marketers and
complete newbies. This HTML editor is perfect for everyone! I
think it's something you'll love as much as I do, and you'll want to
tell all of your online contacts about. It's that good and THAT easy
to use ;-)
http://www.williecrawford.com/123.html
Get your copy today, you'll love it.
Willie Crawford
Posted by Willie Crawford at 09:58 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
April 07, 2005
Latest issue of Limitless Marketing Ezine - Contains the REAL key to earning a six or even 7 figure income!
Here's the latest issue of my ezine. You can also
read it in PDF (recommended) at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/limitless7april05.pdf
Limitless Marketing Ezine April 7th, 2005
ISSN: 1525-8459
Publisher: Willie Crawford - willie@williecrawford.com
2345 Whispering Pines Blvd, Navarre, Florida 32566
Phone 850-939-5794
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Today's issue is fairly short for personal reasons. I'm at
the bedside of my brother who is a year younger than I am.
He's on life support and not expected to survive. I
haven't given up hope, but know enough about medicine to
know that the doctors are just being honest with us.
Whether he survives or not, I will be setting up a trust
fund for his three small children. When they are ready for
college, and if they are so inclined, it will be paid for,
as will most of their other major expenses... until they
reach adulthood. If you'd like to help, instead of sending
emails (which I currently get over 1200 per day that aren't
diverted to virtual assistants), you could contribute to
this project. I haven't finished setting up the trust fund
yet, so you could just Paypal it to me, indicating it's for the
trust fund. My Paypal email is: willie@williecrawford.com
If you'd like to verify that he's in the hospital, he's
in the intensive care unit at Halifax Medical Center in
Daytona Beach, Florida. They'd probably prefer not being
flooded with hundreds of phone calls, but that's where he's
at and where I'll spend most of my day.
To those I'd promised to meet at the Big Seminar in Atlanta
this weekend, I won't be there. My apology. I do invite
you to meet me in Costa Rica on the weekend of the 23rd.
You can read about that here:
http://williecrawford.com/customerappreciationseminar.html
This is coming up fast, so don't procrastinate :-)
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We will have our regularly scheduled networking and
brainstorming call this Saturday. My good friend, Jay
Abraham-trained copywriter, Paul Elliott, will run the call.
I'll dial in if practical. The call should still be very
productive. Paul is very knowledgeable as are many of the
other regulars on the calls.
To get full details on the call, send a blank email to my
autoresponder at: willie3-56875@autocontactor.com
This will send you full details including the dial-in
number. That email also tells you how to submit your site
for a free site review during the call. There is still
room for another site on this week's call.
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Regular readers will know that I am using greeting cards
as one of my marketing tools lately. It's a way to get
around the email clutter and deliver impactful messages to
your customers and prospects. I send real, full-color
greeting cards right over the internet for less than $1
each (including first class postage).
I invite you to check out the system that I use at:
http://SendOutCards.com/willie
Look around the site. If you'd like more details you can
just email me at willie@williecrawford.com If you'd like
to know how I will actually earn five figures from the
card business this month (unless things change dramatically)
click on the link labeled "Income Opportunity). Click the
link at the bottom of that page too, and if it asks for a
number, enter 2663.
NOTE: While anyone, anywhere in the world, can send cards
using the system, the distributorships are currently only
open to those in the U.S. The company will be expanding
into other countries one at a time. Canada should be within
a month or so.
If you'd like to actually send a FREE card or two, so that
you can see how the system works, and so that you can see
the quality of the cards, you need to fill in the form at:
http://MakeLoyalCustomers.com/willie
The link is in the left menu bar to request a free trial.
We basically allocate cards and postage from our account
and let you send a few cards. Go ahead and do this today.
Let someone dear to you know that you're thinking about
them. Say hi to a business associate or old college
buddy :-)
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Ok - on to today's article. It ties in a little with personal
events in my life this week, but it's also an article I'd been
mulling over for weeks. Professional trainers and coaches
know that the topic of the article is one of the key
ingredients necessary for major business success.
Enjoy :-)
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Feature Article
How Overwhelmingly Powerful Is YOUR Reason Why?
Copyright 2005 by Willie Crawford
A few years ago, as I contemplated retirement from the
U.S. Air Force, I DECIDED that I was going to become a
millionaire. None of my family members, or early role
models, were millionaires. Most of my online associates
weren't millionaires. Yet I DECIDED that I would become
one.
You see, I had discovered the secret. Actually, I had
discovered it as a teenager, but it only crystallized
a few years ago. That secret is... a compelling reason
WHY. It has to be an overwhelmingly powerful reason why,
so that no matter what obstacles you encounter you will
never even CONSIDER giving up or lowering your goals.
Despite the appearance, lofty goals are not easy to
achieve for many. The reason it often appears effortless for
the mega-successful is because of the many years they spent
preparing and laying the foundation.
When I was 20, I learned that "Successful People Do Things
That Unsuccessful People Don't Like To Do!" I also learned
that these were the very things that SUCCESSFUL people often
didn't initially like to do. These were things like forcing
yourself to make more cold calls if you’re a salesman.
These were things like forgoing immediate gratification so
that you can experience more long-term benefits. I learned
that if you did these things they did eventually become
habit, and therefore... nearly effortless.
This is simple stuff that most of us know intuitively.
Yet, without that compelling reason why, we don't do it.
That's why you need to identify YOUR reason why. You
need to really dig deep and make sure that this reason
why is so powerful that once you become aware of it on
a conscious level it drives you incessantly.
To help you understand, please allow me to share with you
my reason why. Please, realize that your reason why can
change over time as your circumstances change. However,
some strong factor has to currently motivate you into
action!
My reason why is that I lived all my early life in extreme
poverty, and it "sucked!" I never again intend to be forced
to wear clothing with holes in them, or to have to choose
between food and paying the utilities so that the
electricity won't be shut off. I never again want to FEEL
that I can't choose to have the simple things that
those around me all seem to enjoy.
Mentors taught me that your reason why has to be based
upon sound moral principles. It's ok to want to be rich
for example, but it has to be for the right reason. My
reason is that I appreciate all of the good things one
can do if he has sufficient resources. Life had also
shown me how it feels not to be ABLE to do good deeds that
you really want to do because you're "worse than broke!"
My reason why is that having lots of money allows you
to do more good.
My reason why was recently reinforced and strengthened...
My mother recently called me to tell me she had just
gotten a call from a hospital in Florida. The hospital
told her that my brother, whom we had not seen in about 10
years was on life support and that things looked grave.
I had not seen this brother for so long, because as I
traveled the world in the Air Force, he had drifted off
and disappeared. Try as we may, we couldn't track him
down. Governmental agencies told us that he was alive
but couldn't be contacted. That was one of life's great
mysteries.
Day to day activities pushed this brother out of my
conscious thoughts... until that phone call.
The hospital told us that he still didn't want to be
contacted, but that since things appeared so grave, they
elected to contact us anyway. I'm sure they complied with
whatever procedures they had in place.
My mother said that she wanted to fly down to be by
my brother's side, but that she didn't have enough money.
This immediately reminded me of my reason why!
A call to the hospital revealed that they had my brother
so heavily sedated that he would be totally oblivious
to our being there. They did this because he was
fighting off a lung infection, and they wanted to give
some medications a chance to weaken the infection and
at the same time allow his body to fight back. They
also sedated him to the point of unconsciousness because
they didn't want him struggling against the breathing
tubes that they had inserted.
A quick email to a friend, who is also a retired physician,
revealed that many people with my brother's condition
never even regain consciousness when they reduce the
medications and try to bring them out. Based upon that
fact, I too agreed that my mother should fly down immediately
to be with my brother as long as necessary, and I took care
of all her travel plans and expenses.
All of this brings me back to my reason why. Working
harder... or smarter, and earning a lot of money is not what
it's all about. It's just a means to an end. For me that
end is...
- Never having to say to my elderly mother that I can't
easily provide her with a plane ticket and hotel
accommodations for practically anywhere she really wants to
go.
- Never having to say no to my young-adult children if
they need assistance with a large expense.
- Knowing that even before my grandchild was a month old
that her college tuition was assured if she chooses to
go to college when the time arrived.
- Knowing that when I'm in my 60's, 70's or 80's... just
meeting living expenses won't be a struggle.
- Being able to contribute huge sums of money to my
favorite charity or cause, and not feel that I am depriving
my family of anything that they really need.
It's really all about freedom and the ability to do
anything that I really want to do within reason. That's
why I decided I would be a millionaire. That was the
compelling reason that forced me to do what it took to
attain many of my initial goals... and that will push me
on to attain more recent ones.
So, back to you... How really overwhelmingly compelling
is your reason why? Is it strong enough to cause you to
STOP making excuses? If not, you need to dig deeper and
come up with one that is! It IS within you.
Without identifying that deep-seated, REAL reason why,
most of us won't have the driving force necessary to
accomplish things that we at one time considered
impossible. With that reason why, we CAN accomplish the
previously unimagined.
Spend some time today, or this week, really identifying
your reason why. It will accelerate your growth in business,
and in other areas of your life, like nothing else.
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author,
seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host,
retired military officer, karate black belt, master network
marketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He
shows people how to actually generate substantial income
on-line using very simple, easily implemented systems. An
example of such a system that you can study and utilize
is at: http://SendOutCards.com/willie
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April 06, 2005
Is Pay-Per-Click Click Fraud Robbing You Blind?
Jason Cain over at http://www.goldblogger.com/blog/
has a nice article on click fraud and exactly how it's
carried out. His Marine, lauguage is a little brash,
but my Air Force (retired) ears could take it so I image
you're can too.
If you're using pay per clicks, you need to read this.
Willie
Posted by Willie Crawford at 09:17 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 05, 2005
How to Find "Public Domain" Books and Reprint Them As Your Own
I've actually done this many books, most recently with a cookbook
from 1893 :-)
Have you heard the rumors of “The Lost Files?”
Every day copyrights for very valuable books are expiring.
After the copyright has expired, there are small groups of
people who are taking these files and secretly using them
to make themselves small fortunes.
They take these books and republish them, create derivative
works out of them, and some even use them as content for
their websites. (a very powerful way to get Google to send
you huge checks)
Until now there were very few people taking advantage of
these lost files. I’d like to personally invite you to
become part of this secret group. You can get all the
membership information here:
http://www.thesecondtier.com/cmd.php?Clk=1066210
Hopefully I will see you on the inside.
Thanks,
Willie Crawford
P.S. If you join in the next 7 days – you will get rights
to a very powerful “un-released” product.
http://www.thesecondtier.com/cmd.php?Clk=1066210
Posted by Willie Crawford at 04:59 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Southern Collard Greens
Southern Collard Greens
Ingredients
1 1/2 quarts water
1 1/2 pounds ham hocks
4 pounds collard greens, rinsed and trimmed
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
salt and pepper to
taste
Directions
1 Place the water and the ham hock in a large pot with
a tight-fitting lid. Bring to a boil. Lower the heat
to very low and simmer covered for 30 minutes. 2 Add
the collards and the hot pepper flakes the pot. Simmer
covered for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally. 3
Add the vegetable oil
and simmer covered for 30
minutes.
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Two Options: "Victor or Victim"
Contributed to our recipe list by Keela
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$48,000+ Per Month - What's Willie's Secret?
In an interview with the International Association of Home Business Enterpreneurs about 5 months ago I revealed that my best month to that point had only been $48,000. I was at the point just starting
to use some the traffic generation techniques I'd learned from John Reese in his Traffic Secrets course. Since then, I'm happy to report that I multiplied that figure, but I won't say by how much :-)
You'll notice on John's salesletter that he didn't even feature any testimonials from guru's. He wisely showed that anyone could succeed by using his material. So I missed that free publicity :-)
You can check out the interview at: http://www.iahbe.org/
One of the reason I wanted to point out that interview is because I also wanted to point out the POWER of free publicity. That interview published by IAHBE was pushed out to the world by SFI Marketing Group.
Those of you who are SFI affiliates know that SFI is a network marketing organization (among other things). Some may not realize that there are MILLIONS of affiliates.
I copied this blurb from their site:
SFI was launched in 1998. Today, with affiliates in over 200 countries, it is believed to be the largest affiliate network in the world.
Over the last 24 hours their newsletter which included except from my interview went out to affiliates. I noticed an INSTANT spike in website traffic and subscribers! When the interview was first posted on their website, I noticed that same spike but to a smaller degree. These spikes caused a NOTICABLE spike in sales (and phone calls) too.
When I rank free publicity that I've garnered, I would have to rate this as the most powerful to date.
My main point... when you seek free publicity, identify the sources of BIG publicity and then get in front of those that can make it happen for you.
It's very powerful and not that difficult to do. So one of my secrets... free publicity. You KNOW that it's more powerful than paid advertisement because you have a third party either directly or indirectly endorsing you!
Willie
Posted by Willie Crawford at 02:31 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Advertising "Click Fraud" Rampant Online?
Here's an excellent article by Jim Edwards...
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Advertising "Click Fraud" Rampant Online?
- by Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Pay-per-click," by far the most popular form of online
advertising, recently came under fire as charges of rampant
"click fraud" gather steam on the Web.
Google and Yahoo! earn the majority of their money through
sales of advertising to tens-of-thousands of online
merchants, companies, and professional.
In fact, some estimate that 99% of all Google's revenue
comes from advertising sales. Unfortunately, allegations of
click fraud may well rain on Google's otherwise sunny
parade and cause a whole scale revamping of current online
advertising practices.
Pay-per-click advertising does exactly what it sounds:
advertisers pay for each click on their ad, usually mixed
in among search engine results or displayed on relevant
websites.
"Click fraud" occurs when, for whatever reason, an ad gets
clicked by someone or something (usually an automated "bot"
that simulates clicks) with no intention of ever buying
anything from the advertiser.
The sole intention of click fraud is to simply drain an
advertiser's budget and leave them with nothing to show but
an empty wallet.
Who commits click fraud?
Usually an unscrupulous competitor who wants to break a
rival's bank, online "vandals" who get their kicks causing
other people grief, or search engine advertising affiliates
who want to earn fat commissions by racking up piles of
bogus clicks.
Regardless of who does it or why, click fraud appears to be
a growing problem search engines hope stays under their
advertising clients' radar.
This problem isn't exactly news to the search engine
giants.
In fact, on page 60 of their 3rd quarter Report for 2004,
Google admits that they have "regularly refunded revenue"
to advertisers that was "attributed to click-through
fraud."
Google further states that if they don't find a way to deal
with this problem "these types of fraudulent activities
could hurt our brand."
Bottom line for Google and Yahoo! (which owns Overture, the
Web's largest pay-per-click search engine): as word of
click fraud spreads across the Web, they must act quickly
to calm the nerves of advertisers who could well abandon
them over doubts about the veracity of their advertising
charges.
The search engines all claim to carry measures that
identify and detect click fraud, but details about how they
do it and to what extent remain sketchy.
They claim revealing details about security would
compromise their efforts and give the perpetrators a leg up
on circumventing their defenses.
This sounds good, but affords little comfort to advertisers
who feel caught between losing out on their best traffic
sources and paying for advertising that won't result in
revenue.
One way to protect your business against click fraud is to
closely monitor your website statistics.
Look for an unusually high number or regular pattern of
clicks from the same IP address.
If you need help, enlist the aid of your hosting provider
to aid you in spotting suspicious trends in your website
traffic.
Also, a number of services such as ClickSentinel.com have
sprung up online to help advertisers spot and quickly
analyze and compile the data necessary to effectively
dispute fraudulent click charges with the search engines.
--
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how
to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted
visitors to your website, affiliate links, or blogs...
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Need MORE TRAFFIC to your website or affiliate links?
"Turn Words Into Traffic" reveals the secrets for driving
Thousands of NEW visitors to your website or affiliate
links... without spending a dime on advertising!
Click Here> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com
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Would You Like To Be The Featured Seminar Guest?
At 9am, EST today, John Reese will re-release Traffic Secrets. This is when the new salespage should go live.
At that time, you'll probably be bombarded with HUNDREDS of email from affiliates. Compare all of those offers to this...
Willie Crawford's Bonus For Purchasers Of John Reese's Traffic
A Free 3-Day Seminar Where YOU and Your Business Are In the Hot Seat...
More than 100 NEW testimonials PROVE that John Reese's Traffic Secrets
Course delivers everything it promised and more. The purpose of this page
is not to sell you on the value of the course. If you're not already
convinced of the value of the course then you need to go here to read what
regular business people who've actually put it to the test had to say!
This page is for those who know that they need the course, but want the
absolute best deal.
Listen, many of the affiliates selling Traffic Secrets are going to offer
you bonuses and rebates. Those offering rebates shouldn't be offering
more than $250... because that's one of the ground rules!
Many of the offers you'll see for bonuses will state GROSSLY inflated
values. Actually, if they're offering something as a bonus that has
never been sold before, and they state a "value" they're lying to you.
Maybe "lying" is a little strong, however they ARE pulling the numbers
out of .... thin air.
Many of the bonuses will be OLD, out-dated stuff that they're giving you
because they know they could NEVER sell it to you! Some of the bonuses
are simply stuff that you don't really need and will never use.
I don't want to insult your intelligence, so let me describe the bonus
I'm offering.
I'd like to give you free access to a 3-day, live seminar where YOU
and YOUR Business is the center of attention.
In every seminar that I've ever attended or hosted, the hot seats have
been the most popular part.
During the hot seat sessions, a lucky individual is chosen from the
audience based upon some critera, and they are brought up front. They
are asked to explain their business, product or service... or atleast
the concept. They share what they're doing to drive sales or traffic,
their conversion rates, and what they want help with....
Then the experts offer their best tips, observations, and recommendations
based upon their experience. Seasoned marketers in the audience offer their
inputs too.
For 20 - 30 minutes, the person on the hot seat is in the spotlight
and the WORLD focuses on and helps to build their business.
This is very POWERFUL!
So powerful that I'm hosting a conference that is 3 straight days of
hot seat sessions. There are so many hot seat sessions that EVERY
attendee gets their moment in the sun. Every attendee gets the opportunity
to have their business critiqued and brainstormed by the ENTIRE ROOM.
This is very PoWERFUL!
While the person on the hot seat is having their business problems
SOLVED for them, others in the room are also examining how these lessons
might be applied to their business.
This is very POWERFUL!
This HOT, Springtime Hot Seat Seminar, will ONLY be open to those who
purchase John Reeses's Traffic Secrets Course through me during this
re-release. Only 60 attendees will be allowed because that's what
we plan to pack into those 3 energy-filled, breakthrough-generating
days. That's also the capacity of the meeting room we have.
On May 20th, 21st, and 22nd, in beautiful Navarre, Florida,
we're going to pack 60 attendees, plus a handful of experts into
a hotel conference center. For the entire three days, were going
to focus on you and your business.
Yes, I'll have some of some Internet marketing authorities there.
You do want their "$500 per hour advice." We WON'T subject you to listening
to them tell you how good they are, or of THEIR successes. They
won't be there to pitch their products to you. This is not about
them, it's about YOU! In fact at this point I won't even tell you
which "experts" will be there. This is because I want to determine
what you need first.
Here's how this is going to work....
First of all, to get in, you MUST purchase through my affiliate
link. I'm using the commission I earn to pay for the event. If you don't
click on my link before ordering, someone else gets the credit, and
there's NO WAY for you to get in.
The first 60 people to order through my link will get in. THEN,
there'll be a big note across the top of this page saying the event
itself is SOLD OUT!
If you still want to get Traffic Secrets after the seminar is SOLD OUT,
you can, but when the 60 seat are gone, they really are GONE. I expect them
to go with 48 hours! At that point I'll offer the DVD recordings of the
event as a bonus for purchasing Traffic Secrets.
Yes, I'm going to record the entire 3 days of HOT SEAT Sessions
and put them on DVD and CDs. All of the attendees will get the RIGHTS
to reproduce the DVDs and CDs, sell them at any price they choose,
and keep ALL of the money!
John Reese and his company have no part in putting this seminar
together. They are not involved in offering this bonus! This is entirely
the responsibility of Willie Crawford and Willie Crawford Inc.
As soon as your order if verified, you will receive a certificate in
the mail. THIS will be your ticket into the event. If you purchase
the course using the payment plan, you will get the certificate as
soon as your first payment clears but it will be invalidated if you
fail to make your second payment (which will be due before the
seminar).
The certificate will be transferrable. To transfer the certificate,
the person who originally received it MUST notify Willie Crawford
and Willie Crawford Inc. of the transfer in writing at the address
printed on the back of the certificate.
The certificates have no cash value, but the next HOT SEAT Seminar
I host will start at $2997 per attendee!
You are encouraged to prepare slides showing what your site is all
about and what challenges you hope to remedy during the hot seat
session. Each hot seat session will be 30 minutes!
A webpage will be available within the week listing all of the
recommended hotels within the area along with prices, etc. My
staff will assist with accommodations as desired.
The schedule for the event is from 8am - 8pm, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. Afterhours you're on your own. The area is a tourist
paradise, and I'll party with you until the wee hours of the
morning if desired. This is when some of the best networking
occurs.
You are encouraged to bring your family along. The beach area
in Navarre is so beautiful that many movie stars vacation or
own condos' there. Destin, Okaloosa Island, and Fort Walton
Beach are all within 20 minutes of Navarre, and filled with
things for the entire family.
Click here to get your copy of traffic secrets now. Then forward
a copy of your receipt to trafficsecrets@williecrawford.com
We'll acknowledge receipt of your email and confirm your
attendance.
Note, if you're flying to the seminar you'd fly into Pensacola
Regional Airport. After you grab Traffic Secrets come back and click here to lock in the cheapest airfare :-)
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April 04, 2005
Free Video - "3 Methods For Testing Your Product Idea"
Jeff Smith, whom I've learned an aweful lot from over
the years about product creation, has a very nice 7
minute video that's well worth checking out.
I first met Jeff several years back when he was working
on one of his first info products, an ebook on coming up
with product ideas and he called me to do an interview.
He later told me that his mentors had told him to come
up with some unique, killer bonuses. So he interviewed
me. That in itself was a very powerful lesson in a
niche where everyone seems to be offering the same old
tired bonuses.
Jeff's video is called "3 Methods For Testing Your
Product Idea" and you can check it out for free at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/testing.html
Willie
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Stomp out Automatic Negative Thoughts
Stomp out Automatic Negative Thoughts
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Pioneer Brain/Mind Researcher
© 2005 All Rights Reserved
http://www.quantum-self.com
You've heard the expression, We are what we think.
But is this old saying really true in a scientific
sense? Do our thoughts really control what we
accomplish in life?
I recall a classic study from many years ago. Picture
this: A teacher comes into a primary-level classroom,
and tells her students that a new scientific study
proved blue-eyed children are a lot smarter than brown-
or green-eyed children.
The results were both immediate and dramatic. The
blue-eyed children immediately began to outperform
their brown and green-eyed classmates in all aspects of
their studies.
Then two months later the teacher calls a special
class-room meeting. She tells the students shed made a
serious mistake. She apologized, and said the study had
actually proven that brown- and green-eyed children are
the most intelligent.
Again the results were dramatic and immediate.
The blue-eyed children lost their edge and their
performance dropped. The brown- and green-eyed
childrens grades, on the other hand, immediately
soared to the superior range!
What does this prove? Simply this:
= If you *believe* youre smart, you act smart.
= If you *believe* youre creative, you act creative.
= If you *believe* youre a success, you act
successful.
= If you *believe* youre excellent at something, you
act excellent.
We each live up (or down) to the image we hold of our
self.
** An Important Insight.
Earl Nightingale, a prominent success philosopher and
teacher, spent a good part of his life studying the
wisdom contained in the worlds philosophical,
religious and metaphysical writings.
Nightingale reported discovering one common belief: We
become what we think about.
It seems Nightingales finding agrees with what the
classroom-study proved: If you *think* youre bright
and destined for success, guess what? Youll be smart,
and youll do smart things that will move you along
toward success. But if you *think* youre dumb and
destined to fail youll do dumb things, and ensure
you end up failing.
** How This Works.
We really are just like those young children in the
classroom. Perhaps you remember something like this:
Youre 7 years old and want to learn to play ball. But
you havent had any experience catching, throwing or
hitting.
So -- you approach some kids playing ball and ask to
join. They assign you the position of third baseman.
But by the time the inning is over, youve clearly
shown your lack of skill. Then catastrophe strikes when
you come up to bat and strike out! That's the end of
your baseball career.
You were dubbed a stupid dummy, and thrown off the
team.
Then suppose you tell your Dad what happened, and he
says something like: Im not surprised Son, youre
really not cut out for sports.
**The ANTs Have Invaded.
Do you have some particular areas of life in which you
seem to have natural limitations? If so -- take a look
inside your mind. Youll find some image-damaging
messages from childhood.
These ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) dont just go
away on their own. They sneak around in your
subconscious mind twenty-four hours a day sending their
messages throughout your mind.
If you even consider engaging in an activity that has
ANTs attached to it, a whole army will start to march
along your neural networks. Suddenly youll decide to
just forget it because I'm not any good at that
anyway.
Sound familiar?
** How to Stamp Out ANTs.
To claim more of your TRUE potential for personal
excellence, youll have to move those ant hills out of
your subconscious mind. The following exercise works
especially well for eliminating negative thoughts.
This exercise is intended to be performed in privacy,
while facing a mirror. Look straight into your own eyes
and repeat an affirmation. Get as much emotional
feeling into it as possible.
= If you want to overcome negative feelings about
public speaking, for example, your affirmation might
be: I am an excellent speaker.
= If you want to stomp out negative feelings about
failure, you might say: I am fearless.
Frequent repetition creates new and stronger neural
networks.
The author, Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler, is the creator of a
remarkable ANT-stomping personal empowerment ecourse.
Stop buying into false beliefs about having personal
limitations! Join thousands of people from around the
world who have used this powerful course to discover
new levels of personal power and self confidence.
http://www.quantum-self.com/smash_your_limits.htm
Come visit the exciting Self Discovery Community.
Discover the most interesting, unusual, stimulating and
creative methods of self discovery on the web today!
Free sizzling weekly ezine, and the web's first Brain
Gym ezone. http://www.quantum-self.com
*********************************************************
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April 03, 2005
Willie's Got Grandpa Fever
And another picture from Willie.
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More Pics From Willie
Another photo.
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Tell Me How I Can Help You
I sent this out by email earlier....
I'm sitting here in a lawn chair, in my backyard, in
beautiful Navarre, Florida - thinking of you. I don't
really know you that well, but you ARE on my mind. It's
really peaceful here, with only the sound of lawn mowers
punctuating the tranquility.
You're on my mind because I do a lot of introspection
lately. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because when I
became a grandfather for the first time back in October
of last year, I began to feel older. I certainly grew to
understand why people show you pictures of their grandkids.
In fact, if you want to see my granddaughter, I have a few
photos of her on my blog at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/
(Note: you can see the pictues on this post and several
others I have or will post.)
Maybe it's other major things happening in the world like
the death of The Pope. Regardless of religious affiliation,
things like that do cause you to reflect upon the meaning
of it all.
Where am I going with this?
Well, my online business is just a small part of what I
do and care about. Having traveled to more than 40 different
countries, and having seen and experienced a LOT of things
that most people can't even imagine, I do care about things
around the globe. However, I realize that most of those things
are completely out of my control, so I don't worry needlessly
over them. I do what I can to create positive energy, but I
realize that I'm not the one running the world. Heck, I have
trouble just running my life at times :-)
As an ezine publisher and someone trusted by a lot of the
online community, I do have the ability to make a difference
in a LOT of lives. I have the ability to teach what I've
learned through NINE years of running a business over the
Internet. I have the ability to share with you, a subscriber
to my Limitless Marketing Ezine, what I've learned from dozens
of mentors, dozens of seminars and tele-seminars, and more
courses than I can count.
With that ability, comes responsibility!
I take that responsibility seriously.
Over the years I've cultivated a lot of trust, and a lot of
close relationships. That trust means peoples who are unsure
of what they are doing to build their business often ask me.
They ask what they should buy, what they should do, what
projects they should get involved in, etc.
Many of the people I've worked with even apologize in
person that they've used my information for as many as 8
years (I started this ezine in 1997) and never purchased
anything from me. People actually walk up to me at seminars
and ask what they can buy from me :-)
Don't buy anything! I get a blessing out of helping you.
It makes me feel good.
In fact, part of my reason for this note is to find out HOW
I can best help you. You see, I now have about as many
projects as I can handle. So I reject most new projects or
JV offers. I simply need to finish up some of the ones
I've already started. However, that doesn't mean that you're
out in the cold if we're not working on something together.
Some of the dozens of projects that I'm involved in may
be just what your business needs. Some of the people that
I know may be just who you need to be introduced to in
order to make major progress on a project.
So, I need your help. I need for you, as a subscriber, and
someone I sincerely care about, to tell me how I can help you.
NO, I'm not going to drop everything that I'm doing to
manage your project. I now outsource many routine tasks
so that I can focus on orchestrating a number of major
projects, and on brokering a few major deals. What I need from
you is some idea of HOW I CAN HELP YOU!
Just drop me an email, outlining your projects, your
interests, and your talents. I'll personally read every
email that makes it through the filters, and I WILL get
back to you. Realize that this email is being sent to all
of this list, and so I'll likely get hundreds, perhaps
even thousands of emails. So, it may take me a while to
get back to you.
What I'd like to do is have you tell me what you are
working on, and then I can see if it fits in with anything
I'm working on..... or anything that I know about. If so,
I'll let you know about it. If I can't help you, perhaps
I can put you in touch with someone who can. My database
of contacts is very extensive and includes everyone from
Internet marketers, to media personalities and celebrities,
to angel investors. So you never know.
Send me an email at willie.crawford@gmail.com detailing
what you're up to. I'll see if I we can help each other
grown our businesses.
Also, I'm co-sponsoring a customer appreciation seminar
on April 22-23rd. I'd love to have you there if you're
a past customer or client. If you're not sure.... just
ask me :-) Get the complete details and sign up for the
seminar now at:
http://williecrawford.com/customerappreciationseminar.html
I look forward to working directly with you
Willie Crawford
2345 Whispering Pines Blvd.
Navarre, Florida 32566
877-262-3367
P.S.
When you get a chance, check out http://sendoutcards.com/willie
It’s changing a lot of lives!
And here's a picture of my first grandchild... the heir to
the Crawford fortune :-)
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How To Build A HUGE List!
I have several friends who took on a very ambitious project... they
wanted to teach you and other Internet marketers how to build a
mailing list of 1 MILLION subscriber. They approached 52 experts
in the field of personal development or Internet marketing, and they
interviewed all of these forks seeking their best list building
secrets. The list is a veritable who's who and includes people
like Jay Abraham, Robert Allen, Dr. Robert Anthony, Mark Victory
Hansen and WILLIE CRAWFORD :-)
We were all did recorded interview, and our list building tips were
put to the test. You can read all about this project and gain free
access to the interview at here.
Willie Crawford
http://TheRealSecrets.com
http://MakeLoyalCustomers.com
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Don't Miss This "Little Black Book!?
I told you about this already but really want to encourage you to snag a copy BEFORE IT'S DISCONTINUED. It will play heavily into some things I'm going to be teaching my blog readers and ezine subscribers.
Here's an excerpt for an email I sent out to my ezine list...
... wanted to let you know about this before it's pulled from
the market.
As you may or may not know, I earn in the high five-figures
virtually every month lately,and it's largely from doing
large joint ventures. Most often it's from "brokering"
joint ventures.
My secret is that I get top Internet marketers, or top
marketers in other niches to do coordinated promotions to their
highly responsive lists. I get a percentage commission on all
of THEIR sales. For just introducing a product owner to "high
power" list owners that I have access to, I make a small
fortune.
Even six months ago, when I did this interview at
http://www.iahbe.org I was in the 40,000 dollar per month range
EVERY month. When I shifted my focus to brokering JV's that
multiplied!
Just one JV that I brokered generated nearly $60,000 in sales
in the first 30 days. That wouldn't be impressive except that
it was for a $47 ebook :-) You can read all of the details
on that particular JV and EXACTLY how I set it up at:
http://williecrawford.com/jvfortunes.pdf This is a PDF
ebook that you can have for free. I just want to show you
that I really do make this kind of money, and let others
PROVE it to you!
Anyway, back to the "Little Black Book" that you want to
grab now...
A friend in the U.K., James Harkin, has decided to level
the playing field somewhat. He's researched and found the
contact information on all of the JV partners I use... and then
some. He's now offering this list, along with their contact
information to anyone and everyone. However, he's only going to
be offering this for a short time because he doesn't want the
"gurus" so bombarded with JV offers that they're all forced
to move to new addresses.
Check out:
http://www.jamesharkin.com/ultimatejv/williecrawford/index.htm
James provides the addresses and other information on the Top
316 Internet marketers. With this list, contacting them and
setting up joint ventures should be a breeze. He also tells
you how you should go about contacting them, right on this page:
http://www.jamesharkin.com/ultimatejv/williecrawford/index.htm
I actually have an indepth, 6-cd course on how some of the
top JV brokers do this day-in and day-out. That won't be
released until late April. When I saw James' list, I recognized
this as the perfect compliment. It will easily save you 100
hours of research!
Take a look and if he hasn't been pressured to pull down the
page yet, grab a copy.
Willie
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April 02, 2005
The Power Of Personal Notes
My friend Wanda Loskot wrote a very nice article on The
Power Of Personal Notes. You can read it here:
http://attractionmarketing.com/articles/personalnotes.html
I've shared with you before that I send real (physical)
greeting cards right over the internet. In fact I send
HUNDREDS most weeks. These cards cost me 98 cents each
(including first class postage). I send them because
they drive THOUSANDS of dollars worth of business to me,
and because they make people feel good.
Few things make a friend feel good quicker than receiving
an unexpected card or letter from you. The thing is that
most of us are lazy, so we just don't do little things
like sending cards. With the system I use, I can send
a greeting card in under a minute.
I don't need to go down to the store and browse through
their often limited selection.
I don't need to go to the post office to mail the card.
I just browse the selection of more than 2500 cards,
pick one, enter my personalized message (in my own
handwriting font if I want to), enter their mailing
address (or pull it up from my online database of
thousands of addresses I automatically uploaded from
my database) and click send.
The company prints the card, stuffs it in a nice
envelope with a first class stamp, and mails it for me.
A few days later my friend, loved one, or client
gets the card. VERY POWERFUL!
How powerful?
Wanda wrote about the card that I sent her on her
blog here: http://attractionmarketing.blogspot.com/
The card I sent her had one of my favorite poems by
Maya Angelou...
"People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel"
I first met Wanda way back around 1997... if I'm not
mistaken. Well, I've never physically met her. I use
to hang out on a discussion board that she ran. She was
the one who told me to put my photo on my website.
I sifted through my photo collection and found one
that I could "tolerate." Most of us are somewhat
uncomfortable with how we look. I timidly stuck that
photo up there,and now it's virtually a trademark. It's
on hundreds of sites that feature my articles, interviews,
and products. The picture is probably 15 years old now,
so it needs replacing, but as I said, it's practically
a trademark.
Anyway, check out the system that allows you to warm hearts
so easily, and even earn money at the same time.
NOTE: Anyone can become a customer and use the system. Cards
can be sent anywhere in the world. However, they only offer
distributorships in the U.S. right now :-(
They do plan on expanding into other countries soon :-)
If you go to http://SendOutCards.com/willie you can see the
system.
If you'd like to see a sample card, I'll even set up a free
sample account where you can send a card at my expense. If
you send it to someone in your household, then you both get
to see their face light up, and to see the quality of the
cards. To get the sample account setup, fill in the form
accessed by the link in the left menu bar here:
http://MakeLoyalCustomers.com/willie This is a lead capture
website. In order to set up the sample account I do need
your address. I enter that, allocate some of the cards and
stamps that I've paid for and then email you a username and
password.
If you'd like to know how you can make money by telling
others about the system, you can read the details by
clicking on the "Income Opportunity" link at
http://SendOutCards.com/willie
After reading that page, click the more info link at the
bottom of the page and there's a chart showing how much
you get paid. You'll be asked to enter a number. Enter
mine which is 2663. FYI, every time I sign someone up I
earn $150. Lately I've signed someone up every day, so this
is getting to be VERY lucrative.
Take a look and let me know if you have any questions. You
can call me at my home office between 8am and 10pm CST
any day. The number is 877-262-3367 (that's toll-free
in the continental U.S.)
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Are You Going To Big Seminar In Atlanta, April 8th -10th?
My schedule has been in a slight state of flux recently so I just confirmed with my chief-of-staff (my wife) that I'm actually going to be at Armand Morin's Big Seminar in Atlanta, April 8th - 10th.
I'd planned on being there all along but I'm going to be at three seminars this month, my youngest daughter graduates college, and I have out of town relatives visiting... so I guess it was a slight question at one time.
Armand already had 350 people registered when I last checked so I know it's going to be a big crowd of like-minded individuals. I go to these events mainly for the mega-networking, but I do learn something from every speaker at every event I go to. The key is to put what you learn to use. I believe that I do that better than the average person :-) I make a list of things I hear that I'm going to actually do and I write them on my calendar. Then, I do them!
I'll be blogging while I'm there. I'll also drag along my digital cameara and maybe a digital recorder. The recorder would allow me to get together with one or two people I wanted to interview or talk about a specific subject with, record it, and walk away with a product that I could easily sell or use as a bonus. If you don't do this too when you attend seminars, you should!
If you haven't signed up for Big Seminar, go ahead and do so now. I'm an affiliate so I can help you out there. If you sign up through my affiliate link (by clicking here) I'll give you BACK $700 of the tuition. That's provided you're paying regular price and don't have some weird discount offer because you're a coaching client of Armand's or something. Here's how that would work. You sign up through my affiliate link, and then when Armand pays me, I'll give you the rebate. So you would have to wait until the award ceremony at the seminar I guess... but I think my rebate is the best offer I've seen.
Let me know if you've seen a better offer, and I'll try to match it
;-)
I hope I'll get to meet you in Atlanta next weekend.
Willie
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Site Full Of Info On Podcasting
As I continue my research in podcasting, I came across this gem:
http://howtopodcast.blogspot.com/
I think I'll spend a lot of time on this site until I get this podcasting thing down.
Willie
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April 01, 2005
How Is Podcasting Used
Here's the second article on podcasting that I wanted to share with you...
How Podcasting is Used
Sharon Housley
Although podcasting is new, it is well on its way to becoming a
mainstream communication medium. Podcasting, simply put, is audio
files that are delivered via RSS. Many people believe that
podcasting is solely for the distribution of music files, but
really, nothing could be further from the truth. This emerging
method of audio file distribution has opened an array of
marketing and communication opportunities to businesses.
Currently, most who are familiar with podcasting are technically
savvy, but it is clear that podcasting will be more than a
passing fad as many businesses are adopting podcasting and
employing it in unusual yet powerful ways. Podcasting can be used
for talk shows, tutorials, music demos, educational training,
stories, comedy clips, debates or even foreign language
tutorials.
While RSS has had the capacity to include audio files for a few
years, only recently have entrepreneurs made the conceptual leap,
taking advantage of the new power held within this communication
medium. In reality, podcasters cover the gamut; some are
professional broadcasters, while others are obvious amateurs.
Podcasts are usually published with associated meta information
that includes descriptive data about each specific audio file.
This allows listeners to make a determination of which audio
items are of interest. If listeners are using a news aggregator
that supports podcasting, they will automatically receive updates
in their feed reader or news aggregation software when a new
podcast exists for a feed that they have subscribed to.
Why is podcasting so beneficial to the subscriber?
Unlike traditional radio, with podcasting the subscriber decides
what content he/she receives. Podcasting is extremely useful to
the subscriber because the user can easily receive information
he/she would like, and listen to it when they want. The material,
once downloaded, can be listened to and viewed on wireless
handhelds, allowing subscribers to utilize time on the road.
Topic-specific radio talk shows with commentaries, interviews and
debates can now be heard at a time and place of the listener's
choosing. Consider the benefit of educational tutorials and
foreign language instruction; lessons could be listened to during
a work commute. Supplementary class lectures, step by step
tutorials or walking guides are all possible using podcasting. An
unlimited collection of books read aloud for elderly or
visually-impaired listeners only scratch the surface of what is
possible in the future of podcasting.
The fate of podcasting is in the hands of the subscribers. The
subscriber can easily delete podcast feeds that do not satisfy
their needs with the single tap of a button. Ultimately, the
subscriber maintains control and determines what podcasts are
deemed successful. This intrinsically builds in a quality control
level and will ensure that the more innovative instructional and
interesting podcast feeds survive.
The technology is fresh and, like the Internet, is opening doors
to entrepreneurs. As podcasting evolves, users will find more
creative kinds of audio content to deliver. The low barrier to
entry has forced this new medium to the forefront, as businesses
and individuals have really little to lose in adding podcasting
as a communication channel.
Copyright 2005 Sharon Housley
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll
http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and
publishing RSS feeds and NotePage, Inc. http://www.notepage.net a
wireless messaging software company.
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What Is Podcasting
Here's one of two articles I came across on the topic while researchng exactly what podcasting is and how it's used....
What is Podcasting
S. Housley
Podcasting is quickly becoming a buzz word among the techie
crowd. So what is podcasting, anyway? Podcasting is online audio
content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Many people liken
podcasting to radio on demand. However, in reality, podcasting
gives far more options in terms of content and programming than
radio does. In addition, with Podcasting, listeners can determine
the time and the place, meaning they decide what programming they
want to receive and when they want to listen to it.
Listeners can retain audio archives to listen to at their
leisure. While blogs have turned many bloggers into journalists,
podcasting has the potential to turn podcasters into radio
personalities.
Podcasting can be used for:
Self-Guided Walking Tours - Informational content.
Music - Band promotional clips and interviews.
Talk Shows - Industry or organizational news, investor news,
sportscasts, news coverage and commentaries.
Training - Instructional informational materials.
Story - Story telling for children or the visually-impaired.
Podcasting is the syndication of audio files using RSS.
Podcasting works the same as a standard RSS feed reader or news
aggregator, the only difference is that the feed you subscribe to
contains an audio file in it. Instead of reading content in your
RSS feed reader or aggregator, you can listen to the contents of
your feed using a reader or aggregator that supports podcasting,
or you can listen to them on an iPod or similar device. While
podcasting was named for the iPod, you do not have to have an
iPod to listen to a podcast. Podcasts can be displayed on
websites with clickable links to audio files and many of the
standard RSS readers, like FeedDemon's latest beta, have begun
supporting audio enclosures.
The audio file that makes the feed a podcast rather than a
standard RSS feed is contained in the 'enclosure' tag. The
easiest way to think of this is as an e-mail attachment.
Although the "enclosure" tag is not new to RSS feeds and has been
included in the RSS v2.0 specification for about four years,
podcasting has only really been around since August of 2004.
Webmasters are finding creative ways to provide media-rich
content. The syndication aspect and potential increase in
audience size are an attractive lure. Listeners benefit from
podcasting because, like RSS, podcasting is a means to publish
content that ultimately gives the recipient the control over the
information they want to see or hear.
Podcasting Resources -
Podcasting Tools - http://www.podcasting-tools.com
Podcast Alley - http://www.podcastalley.com
PodcastBunker - http://www.podcastbunker.com
Podcasting News - http://www.podcastingnews.com
It will be interesting to see how this publishing medium
develops. Currently, only the technical crowd has endorsed
podcasting as a new audio medium, but the potential is real and
the process is not overly complex. With a little time I think
this field will develop and prosper.
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll
http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing,
publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages
marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net a wireless text
messaging software company.
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I'm Looking For A Few People For Serious, High Level Business Joint Ventures
I'm looking for a handful of serious marketers to JV
with on several projects I'm orchestrating. These
projects range from new product releases (most of
the projects) to seminars and conferences I'm putting
together, to new products that I'll coordinate the
development of (both digital and physical products).
We've even looking at one new breakthrough medical
product.
To simplify things for myself, I have my contact
database set up so that it tells me who has an interest
in what. My database currently contains over 9,000
people I've met or worked with in various capacities
over the past 9 years. These contacts range from email
newsletter publishers, to digital product developers,
to bankers, actors, authors, politicians, broadcaster,
and just people I've communicated with via email, phone
or in person. This database is entirely separate from
any mailing list that I maintain.
I'd like to offer you the chance to participate in
some of these projects/joint-ventures, but I need an
idea of what your interests are. If you'd like to
be considered in any capacity for these projects -
a few of which will generate millions - please send
me your info. Email it to me at:
willie.crawford@gmail.com
Make the subject, "Interested In JVing"
I need:
Name
Email
Physial mailing address
Phone
Resources (i.e.,size of list or primary url)
What type of JV you'd be interested in.
As my focus shifts somewhat over the next year,
practically all of the JV's that I take on WILL
originate by working with people who are in this
database. That's simply because these people have
already presented to me more project ideas than I
could serious consider getting involved in. Still,
I don't want to shut out the possibility of a great
project idea that never gets off the ground because
you weren't on my radar scope... when even if I
couldn't have taken it on I could have introduced
you to the right person.
I may have the contracts to help your pet project
get off the ground ;-)
So, send me your info if you're interested. I'm
being forced to narrow my focus more and more each
day,and that's going to cause me to limit new projects
I consider over the next year. If you'd like to be
included in this database that is really a network of
very serious and high-level business people, don't
miss out.
Willie Crawford
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How To Boost Your Sites Page Rank Effortlessly and Brilliant Marketing Lesson In The Fear Of Loss!
This email that I received today from Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com
was brilliant. Read the entire email below and I'm sure you'll
agree.
Let me tell you why it had me ready to act... fear of loss is
the short answer. Direct marketers have proven the fear of loss
is one of the most powerful motivators that there is!
I consider myself an expert at generating free publicity and
traffic using articles. I submit my articles through article
submission services for a number of reasons including that it
just saves time. I also hand submit or have someone hand
submit for me to just a handful of article directories. My
biggest criteria for which directories I submit to....
Currently it's page rank of the directory I'm submitting to.
One of my purposes in submitting in to get incoming links to
my sites from high PR sites. THAT'S why this email spurred me
to action.
EzineArticles.com is a PR6 Site. This is how you get free,
one-way links to your sites from a PR6 site. You write good
articles that contain links to your sites that you want to
increase the PR on and you submit them to sites that already
have high PR. Ok, I have lots more strategies, but this one is
simple and POWERFUL.
Read the email, and then go submit some of your articles
EzineArticles.com to go Fee-Based
Last Call For Free Submissions!
Effective Tuesday April 5th, we will close the door to free
submissions.
We're returning to become a fee-based article marketing service &
publicity provider and plan to have packages available that begin
at $200 USD. If you'd like to get in before we begin charging to
submit articles, use one of the links below to create an account
or log in to your existing account to send in as many original
articles as you can before the Tuesday, April 5th deadline.
If you have not created a free membership account, do so today:
http://EzineArticles.com/submit/
If you have a membership account, log in to send more before we
begin charging:
http://EzineArticles.com/members/
We've ordered extra server capacity through Tuesday to handle the
load. We apologize if the server is a bit slow during this end of
our free submission period.
To Your Writing Success & Passion!
Christopher M. Knight
http://EzineArticles.com/
PS: Yes, it's April 1st and this IS an April Fools Joke! We will
not be charging for submissions after April 5th, but you're still
invited to create an account or send in your best original
articles today. :-) We love you and your articles and hope you're
not mad at us for today's joke. Smile, it's Friday!
PPS: Here's an article for your entertainment pleasure:
The Last Laugh: Parental Pranks for April 1
By Rob Stringer
Everybody loves a well-played joke and the infectious squeals of
children's laughter. So this April 1, why not try to catch your
own "young fish" in a harmless prank and make it a day of family
fun. Just remember ... don't leave this article on the coffee
table. You wouldn't want to give your kids any good ideas:
http://EzineArticles.com/?id=18773
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Stop Overpaying For Your Merchant Account
Just testing the script, but here's a great place to get a merchant account. It's where I have mine!
Willie
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