Product: Facebook Payday
Creator: Peter Koning
Website: http://www.facebookpayday.com
Purpose: This product is intended to show you how to make money on facebook using a simple system that takes minimal time to implement.
Price: $77.00*
Reviewed by: Shane Higginbottom

* As an added bonus Peter has created the Facebook Payday Action Worksheet System. This is a powerful tool to help you make money using Facebook. Combined with the 101 page manual, facebook tutorials, you’ll find everything you need to learn how to make money with facebook. A “quick start” your way to success. By itself, the Action Plan could be sold for $47, but you get it free when you order Facebook Payday today!.

Peter created this product with the intentions of making sure that anyone who bought it would be able to go from opening their first facebook account to understanding how to market yours or another product product on facebook, making money using affiliate marketingon facebook. Establishing your self on facebook and most of all using facebook to make money.

I’ll tell you, as a facebooker myself , there are many ways to get overwhelmed when it comes to trying to decipher all of the facebook ins and outs that comes with the facebook territory. Simple things to experienced facebook Marketers can be a headache to the newbies. Things like using your inbox, the walls, facebook pages,facebook adds and more, can all seem like a foreign language to someone wanting to make money with facebook for the first time.

Peter Koning stepped up and has offered a product designed to help people new to using facebook to make money get over the beginner curve quickly. His product is the best I’ve tested so far when it comes to guiding beginner to intermediate facebook marketers down the path of making money on facebook.

Who Is It For?

This product is easy to follow, and you can use it regardless of your facebook skill level. Peter has some pretty heavy interviews with some people who are making money on facebook, 8 of them actually, so you’ll need to listen closely, and take notes These mp3’s are just awesome!!.

The facebook Payday System was created for the beginner, but I would recommend it for the intermediate to advance facebook marketer too - you will stumble across a few gold nugget ideas that you didn’t know before, even if you are familiar with Facebook. Advanced facebook Marketers will probably find much of the Beginning material basic, but its good to refresh, never know what you have forgotten. Facebook Payday gets you familiar with how to set up a Facebook Account, install critical applications and the best facebook monetization methods, money making opportunites for facebook, how to create facebook applications and monetize existing facebook applications.

I was pleasantly surprised by some of the tips Peter has in the MP 3 interviews, in particular the monetization suggestions, as he offered a few ideas I had never heard of before. For example, the section where he covers Mari Smith – The Relationship Queen
Never one to keep knowledge to herself, Mari is the host of Facebook Fortunes, a free online class on social media marketing. In this interview, Mari gives several valuable insights on the proper frame of mind when going into Facebook, how relationships can help you go a long way, and the little things that can be crucial.  Theres not alot of talk about how to build relationships with facebook as a way to make money from facebook and it’s interesting how Mari leverages the networking power of facebook.

Why Would You Need This Product?

I’ll be honest with you, you don’t need this product. You can learn most of these strategies yourself if you are willing to spend alot of time and do some digging around. But if you truly value your time, why spend months researching when you could just spend a weekend listening to the Mp 3 interviews?

When I first started out with facebook, I spent three months straight gathering the information that I could have learned in a single weekend with the help of this training course.

What Is In The Product

The product itself is a series of mp3’s, e-books, facebook primer module and an action plan worksheet. The methods are largely taught via the e-book but the mp3’s come with transcripts and there are 8 of them included. The mp3’s are info packed so I’d recommend listening to them and making notes along with the transcripts. With a rest in between so that the information soaks in.

The E-books and Mp3’s start out assuming that you don’t even have a facebook account, so as to make an easy reference point for complete beginners. Peter walks you through the steps of Getting a facebook account. After doing that, you are walked through the steps of creating your profile, networking, building relationships, branding yourself and making money on facebook

The e-books and mp3’s aren’t just for novices. The first facebook primer module is the beginning of the system teaching you how to get started and then followed by the facebook pay day report and mp3 files they progress in a logical manner, call it a step by step progress as you advance through the system. The facebook payday process dives into other topics, such as Using Facebook for Market Research and Marketing, monetizing your RSS feed, and advanced traffic building techniques using social bookmarking sites.

Here is a breakdown of all of the content in Peter’s how to make money with facebook Facebook payday system. This is just a list of the main e-book table of contents, there is more information in the complete package that I will let you discover yourself for the sake of brevity.

1. Facebook Mindset
2. Creating Your Facebook Payday
3. Selling Your Own Products
4. Affiliate Marketing
5. Selling Online Advertising
6. Selling Services
7. Investing
8. Using Facebook To Make Money
9. Selling products on Facebook
10. Affiliate Marketing on Facebook
11. Online Advertising on Facebook
12. Selling Services on Facebook
13. Build Your Own or Monetize Existing Applications
14. When you should start using Facebook to make money
15. Things you should know
16. Summary:
17. Establishing Yourself on Facebook
18. Creating a profile
19. Adding Friends
20. Expanding your Network
21. Building Relationships
22. Call to Action
23. Contact Building Best Practices
24. Using Facebook for Market Research and Marketing
25. Facebook for market research
26. User behavior
27. Searching For Customers
28. Search Results from the People Tab
29. Search Results from the Pages Tab
30. Search Results from the Groups Tab
31. Search Results from the Events Tab
32. Search Results from the Applications Tab
33. Other Market Research Tools on Facebook
34. Facebook Polls
35. Facebook Mini-Feeds or News Feeds
36. An unusual technique.
37. Turning Your Facebook Contacts into Customers
38. Use market research to the fullest
39. Follow the communication, branding, and relationship-building advice throughout this reportSpeak their language
40. The most important thing: appeal to their identities
41. Summary:
42. Using Facebook to promote your business
43. Free Promotional Messaging
44. Private Messaging
45. Walls
46. Virtual Gifts
47. Discussion Threads
48. Facebook Pages
49. Joining Networks
50. How to Join Networks:
51. Group Creation Strategy
52. Observe
53. Think of a name
54. Advertise
55. Provide Value
56. Stay Active
57. Promoting products and services
58. Social Ads
59. Beacon
60. Driving traffic to your site/business
61. Include your site URL in various areas of your profile
62. Use applications
63. Useful Applications for Businesses
64. RadicalBuy
65. Business Cards

The Good Points

1. It’s easy to get started. This system is easy enough to follow. All it takes is basic web knowledge, some free time and you’ll be on your way to making money on facebook in your first week.
2. Simple, yet advanced topics are covered. Simple enough to get started, but advanced enough to keep more experienced Facebook interested.
3. The Guarantee. Peter is so confident in his system that he offers a 100% no questions asked money back guarantee.

Room For Improvement

No product is perfect, but here are a few things I would have done differently, had I created the system.

1. Videos. This is one area that people like me just can’t get enough of. I would have liked to have seen some videos I’m a visual learner, but that’s just me.

Should You Buy This?

What I like about Peter’s system is that he really does offer a method to make money on facebook very quickly, if you’re willing to put it to work. His monetization of existing facebook applications strategy is quite clever because it guarantees you get paid for producing your application “If you’re application becomes popular enough for businesses to capitalize on, don’t be surprised if you’re approached for sponsorship and partnership options.” I can’t guarantee you’ll get rich of course because like everyhting else in life it requires work.

If you want a quick crash course in making money with facebook, this is a package worth investing in. It won’t make the money for you, but it will give you a system that works if you sit down and follow it. Just don’t expect to get super rich super quickly - no system can promise that.

At $77 this is one of the better options out there for learning how to make money with facebook. With the money back guarantee that we’ve come to expect from products like this, you shouldn’t have any hesitation at least trying this system out if the offer is compelling to you.

To read more about the product and buy your copy, click here -

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Funny isnt it.

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Note: Before you begin, if you’re NOT 100% serious about getting your website to the top of Google, Yahoo, and MSN, don’t read another word. Only read on if you plan to put everything I will be teaching you into action.

If you’re anything like I was when I first began blogging, you’ve probably created a brand new Blog.  And then You did what everyonelse did: submitted it to a few search engines and hoped that people would auto-magically show up at your site and buy whatever it is you were selling. WRONG huh !!!

So typically what happens is this:
A little time passes maybe a few weeks and only a few stray searchers pop into your Blog, you decide to try and “optimize” your website around your main keyword in hopes that you just might rank well in 1 of the millions of search engines. Another couple of weeks go by and still no luck.

At this point you probably give up and decide to either build another website around a different target market or just lose all hope and quit. Well, news flash, as you’ve probably figured out by now, this is not the way to go about doing things.

Let me give you a specific example of what your very first steps MUST be when creating any website… no matter what the subject matter is. And this is something I wish I had of known or had someone show me. One of my first ideas was to do a weight loss blog, my girlfriend was struggling at the time with her weight, (it’s a chick thing I know). So I figured I had a very real insight and could get content via her torment with losing wieght, get her insights and all the rest.

Know what , why don’t we just do that our example, let’s create a weight loss related blog live right here on this blog anyone who wants to participate can. ( I get all the money though, hey its my idea so I get all the moolah)

Before we start creating and collecting content for the website, we need to do a little keyword research. This is VERY important and should not be skipped. To do our keyword research we need to visit a few websites.

The first of which should be:
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php?keyword=weight%20loss#results

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

They have a very good keyword tool, and best of all it’s free! Once we are there, we can enter the most generic keyword for our website into the keyword selector tool. In our example, our keyword would be “weight loss”. We get  85,100,000 for “weight loss“ searches for the month of June 2006.

Now that’s a lot of demand for weight loss just on the past month of June 2008! But that’s not all. What about the supply for that hungry demand of people looking for weight loss information, pills, programs, etc?

Well, the way to do that, and by the way this is called finding your competition. Go to Google and type the following (without the quote marks “”) “allinanchor:weight loss”.

Now notice on google where is says Results 78,200,000 for allinanchor:weight loss. Now this is what I call, some SERIOUS competition for the weight loss. If you are just starting and want to use this keyword to optimize your website, forget it! Yes, demand is high, but your supply, or competition, is so high that you can’t even consider optimizing your website for that particular keyword.

This is one of those keywords and niches that is very lucrative but might take for ever to rank for. Using the primary keyword phrase weight loss

So whats the answer then? How do I search for high demand but at the same time less competitive keywords? Very simple. I can give you some off hand data but I have to tell you that now a day SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) got even easier with a new tool.

You can take a keyword with a demand of about 500 to 30,000 searches a month using the seo book keyword tool mentioned above.

Yes you could take one which has over 30,000 searches if you have an unusual supply or competition which is lower than the requirement.

Using allinanchor:keyword on Google you expect to have a search result of 15,000 or less in order to say that you are on safe ground to optimize your website and rank higher, faster and easier.

Let’s review this next example, look on wordtracker down to weight loss foods with 99 searches last month, nice demand!, now lets see our supply or competition for this particular keyword using allinanchor:dotties weight loss zone on Google. Now you can see what we get: 58,700 for allinanchor:weight loss foods So what does this mean? You got it! GO FOR IT! 58 thousand is a bit on the competitive side but certainly we could rank high and fast doing proper use of that keyword on your website.

Looking at another term I find interesting is Weight loss spa:

Heres some information for you to consider adding in to your weight loss blog.

Keyword                                  searches

weight loss spa                      162
spa weight loss                        37
istanbul spa weight loss          18
mexico weight loss spa             8
spa and weight loss vacations   8
weight loss spa arizona             8
weight loss fitness spa              7
dance, fitness, spa, weight loss 6
weight loss body wrap spa        5
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So there you have it. Always do Step 1 and if it is a pass, move to step 2 and if that is a pass, use it, if it doesn’t pass, go back to step 1 and find another keyword with proper demand and move on to step 2 again. Meet those two very important requirements and you will be able to start the right way.

In the next few days I’ll be back with other means and ways of finding High Demand Low Competition Keywords for Your Blog

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But first I have some good news for you:

You can have an income generating, PR 3, top Google ranked niche site within the next 24 hours—complete with content, subscribe incentives, affiliate programs—the works.

I am having too much fun working with my mentoring students and writing stuff on FullTiltBlogging.com to update FullTiltMarriage.com, a niche site I never really “finished.” I am working on four books and I am producing a new video for my mentoring students each week and I just don’t have the time or energy to put into the site.

Don’t get me wrong, you’re still getting a complete site that’s already making money, it just needs someone to give it some tweaks.

It won’t take much to tweak, but it will pay off big dividends for you.

Here’s the scoop on the site:

Google PageRank:

Google PageRank 3 for main page and several internal pages.

Google Page Rank helps Google determine how important your sites pages are in relation to other pages in the same market niche. A PR 3 shows the site’s main page and several internal pages are relatively important in the market niche—approximately 64 times more important than a brand new page in the same market niche.

Incoming Links:

1,049 incoming links (according to MarketLeap.com)

Incoming links help you with search engine positioning.

Search Engine Positions:

Here are the search positions for several keyword phrases in the market niche:

Content Value:

371 indexed content pages (according to MarketLeap.com) - $1,500.00

“How to Seduce Your Wife Tonight” Guide – 4,616 words - $1,154.00

This report can easily be made into a “ready to sell” eBook by adding a section with sex tips and tricks researched and added from the internet by a ghost writer. At that point it would be a “ready to sell” eBook in the $20 to $40 range.

“Why Your Husband is a Jerk (…and how to fix him)” Guide – 10,996 words - $2,749.00

This book is “ready to sell”, meaning you can create a sales page and begin selling this book in the $20 to $40 range.

175 Double Opt-In Newsletter Subscribers - $1,750.00

Custom HTML newsletter design (click here to view) - $ 100.00

Assorted Book Covers and Graphics - $ 100.00

WordPress is already installed and the site is tied to Aweber list management.

Traffic Value:

Over the last three months the site has generated 7,824 visits. All of this was free traffic, with the bulk coming from search engines and referring sites (click on the thumb below to see full sized stat from Google Analytics.)

According to this appraisal service, the value of traffic to a website can be estimated by using the price of pay-per-click ads.

Google Adwords clicks average $ .34 (low) to $ .45 (high)

87 average visits per day, 31,730 visits per year.

Low: 31,730 x $ .34 = $ 10,788.20 annual traffic value

High: 31,730 x $ .45 = $ 14,278.50 annual traffic value

Income:

Affiliate Income - $97.12 last 90 days

Here is a screen shot of the ClickBank stats (click for full size):

Ad Income - $27.74 last 90 days

Here is a screen shot of the Google Adsense Income (click for full size):

Total Value:

If you took the value of all the above it totals around $20,000.00. And if the site was being actively monetized it would be worth that amount.

However, since I have basically ignored the site and don’t have the time to work on it to get it where it is producing a solid $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 a month, I am going to sell it for a fraction of its value for only $ 4,000.00.

Other Goodies:

I want to use your experience with this site as an example of how an average person can create a niche site and make automatic profits. If you do things right you can be making $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 a month within 4-6 months.

To make sure you are going to get there, I am going to do something I have never done when I’ve sold a site before—I am going to give you 10 hours of free consulting time. We can do it by phone or in person, it’s up to you.

I typically charge $350.00 an hour for my consulting time, so this is a huge value – worth another $ 3,500.00.

All I ask is that you allow me to use your experiences with FullTiltMarriage.com as a basis for some future writing.

Questions:

For general questions, leave them in the comments below so everyone can benefit.

For personal questions or any other questions, email me at – Aaron@FullTiltBlogging.com. Make sure the subject line contains FullTiltMarriage.com so I catch it quickly. If you need to talk to me by phone email me and I will send you a number where I can be reached.

How to Claim Your New Site:

I’m accepting offers via email this weekend. If I accept your offer, you need to be prepared to transfer 10% of your offer on Monday, and I will contact you about how to send payment and how we will transfer the site to you.

Your offer needs to include the following:

Your Name

Your Phone Number (Include the Country Code if you are outside the US/Canada)

The Amount of Your Offer

Your email address

Also make sure to tell me where you heard the site was for sale. I love to give “atta boys” to someone who helps me in business.

I look forward to working closely with you and seeing what you will do with this site.

Here’s the Guide I Promised You:

I put together a complete guide for you to download showing all the steps you can take to build your own automated income niche business. Download it here:

http://www.FullTiltBlogging.com/autoincomebusiness

This article is a guest post by Aaron Abber of FullTiltBlogging.com.
I am a part of Aaron’s mentoring program where he is teaching me and others how to make money blogging. Go visit the site now and grab his free report “How to Retire on 200 Visitors a Day”.

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I have to admit I’m a bit ticked off that he’s done this because I have paid 70 bux a month in other training courses for people wanting to use blogs for affiliate marketing. He uses a different system to teach you the skills necessary to make money blogging and you don’t have to pay a dime for it, so it’s worth checking out his methods. AND we have a great time at the meeting every Monday. So you cant really do better than that.

Here’s what Aaron’s Blog mentoring program is about -

The Blog mentoring is more than just another course; it’s a complete system for affiliate marketing with blogs. It comes with a special link tracking system, special list building system. And very narrowly defined method for finding a Niche.

Click here for more details…

Aaron teaches a method of lead blogging to drive traffic to your strategically crafted WordPress blog themes (coming soon) that focus on pre-selling an affiliate product and driving traffic to your newsletter subscription incentive. in short a lead blogging theme. SO be on the look out for that.

The idea with Aarons lead blogging system is to use a WordPress blog as a “landing page” that is themed and has content designed to pre-sell the visitor on an affiliate product. While focusing on attracting and collecting email subscriptions. (leads) Obviously the plan is for as many visitors as possible to click the affiliate link on that blog post and then purchase the product, which is how the revenue is generated. While at the same time Having your Blog content pre-sell a subscription incentive so you can build your newsletter and RSS feed base.

If you’ve been online any length of time you already know that your list—whether RSS or Email of both—is your key to success. The more people on your list, the more money your business will produce.

Aaron also makes use of targeted email lists he builds using his affiliate blogs, which is something I can wholeheartedly agree with (I’m all about email list building). His mentoring package actually comes with a script that makes the technical part of adding an email list opt-in form to your blog easy. This is something I have yet to add to my blogs. (So much to do so little time to do it) When you’re registered as a Blog Mentoring Student, you’ll be sent the script from Aaron.

One great way to build a larger subscriber base is to offer a free gift—a free download of an eBook or software—as an incentive for subscribing. To do this You Also get a very cool plug-in that allows you to deliver the Free e-book in your Rss feed. With out having to create another page or send it out manually.

Aaron provides PDF workbooks that teach the Lead blogging system, Along with The mp3’s from the weekly meetings, a quickstart guide and a bunch of other stuff you can check out on the Why join page.

Testing and tracking is not something most bloggers do , you do track don’t you? when it comes to affiliate marketing and it’s great to see a blog mentoring that includes this topic and even provides you with a special tracking link that Aaron uses to encode your ID which then pays YOU for referals to make the sign up process easier. Props to AAron for coming out with such a great feature.

Does This Lead blogging System Work?

Let’s state the obvious - affiliate marketing using blogs works. Thousands of affiliates make money every day using blogs to sell other people’s products. I’m doing this right now with this blog post (well, if any people sign up for Aarons Blog mentoring program after reading this article I am anyway!).

What I can tell you is this that my Rss feeds and newsletter subscriptions have gone through the roof. I’m presently doing very well using Aaron’s established system.

I will be straight with you - I can’t tell you this system will work for you, but if you don’t have a system yet and you are still in the learning and testing phase, this is something you can try and may just turn out to be a winner. I just don’t know how much work you are willing to do.

I like Aarons mentoring style and how polished his stuff is - he clearly puts a lot of work into it. I think he’s a great Internet marketer and I know he already makes thousands of dollars online. I also have to admit that I’m super interested in the topic of this mentoring program combining two of my favorite things, blogging and affiliate marketing, which is why I am recommending you check this out.

Again as I said above this mentoring prgram is completely free of charge, so it’s not a super huge investment considering you get all the tools and a pretty extensive manual.

Here’s the link again for further details check it out to see if it is right for you

Aaron abbers lead blogging system

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ritten by Garry Conn

Many bloggers often wonder some of the best niche marketing strategies are. That can be somewhat of a challenge to answer as your strategies can vary on the niche you are marketing. Here are some simple and universal thoughts that will help and guide with you through your ventures in niche marketing. These are general strategies that will help you overall. More or less, just some common sense things that I think many people including myself tend to neglect. These strategies all work very well for me with making money using Market Leverage. So here goes:

Branding: So many blogs that I find are spreading the products or things that they are trying to sell way too thin. I can visit just many niche blogs that are marketing many products and it gets overwhelming. Many months ago, I stated that new niche sites that are trying to market products and services should really pick just a few and roll with them. Even though these products aren’t your own, you should act as if they were. The product that you’re marketing is your brand, in essence you become an extension of the product your support and promote.

Timing: In the world of niche marketing and developing strategies, timing is everything. I focus on seasonal niche marketing. I have quite a few blogs that take full advantage of the deals market and I promote heavily holiday based products. Most profitable for me have been Black Friday, CyberModay and The Day After Christmas.

Awareness of Demand: Another reason why I work in the seasonal niche market is because I know in advanced when spikes in business will occur. People don’t shop for Christmas items in July and these same people don’t buy fireworks in October. I am always aware of supply and demand.

Effective Marketing: You need a channel to promote your business, product or service. I use WordPress primarily. Why? Because WordPress is a glorified web based version of FrontPage. It is well designed and produces web pages that are of very high quality in code. WordPress is very search engine friendly and with a few minor tweaks and modifications, a WordPress blog opens up a huge pipeline with many of the major search engine web crawlers. Effective marketing means everything in your niche marketing strategies. I also use online video syndication services such as YouTube, AOL Video, Revver, MySpace Video, etc. to promote my niche blog. Additionally, I use Digg, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and Propeller to thrust out mass awareness of anything I am trying to flood and promote into the blogosphere and Internet.

Micro Management / Bean Counter: Give me a blog with 100 daily visits and I’ll produce a golden brick. I am very particular with things and I micro manage my traffic. When I get a visitors to my blog(s) I act as if they are physical people entering into my brick and mortar storefront. I closely control where my visitors go and what they see. My job is making sure their actions on my sites create revenue in my pocket or converts into regular readers. I closely control my outgoing links and provide very useful information.

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How to find a blog niche series and Other posts you might find useful

• how to find a blog niche
• Do niche market research with google trends
• Niche market Selection Case study part1
• Niche market Selection case study part 2
• Best fat burner niche blog workout
• 10 great niche marketing resources and tools
• How do I know what to blog about
• How to discover Low competition high demand niche markets
• Use ebay to easily find a blog niche market
• 9 basic and easy steps to building a niche blog
• Internet advertising tutorial program
• How to use googles keyword tool to find a seasonal blog niche
• My girlfriend is such a niche
• Tips for finding a blog niche
• use classified ads to find a blog niche market

But if you’ve followed the steps here, I’m pretty sure you will find your own niche market very soon. I hope you enjoyed this how to find a niche market for your blog series.

How to use this post on your blog. please include the footer with all active links in tact.

This post is by Shane Higginbottom. Shane is the owner of http://making-money-blogging.com/blog where
he teaches bloggers just like you how to make money blogging. Go there now to pick up his
latest post series “How to find a niche for your blog” free.

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I have been following Garry Conn as he goes head to head with John Cow in the Cowpetition where they both are launching new blogs to see who sells theirs for the most money at the end of 30 days. They are letting readers in on the whole process.

Both have been giving some good information, however, for me, Garry has been going above and beyond the call of duty, not just with the competition, but with his blog in general. He has be very helpful to me over the last weeks, and I love the content on his blog, it’s like a freaking school or something!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I won, and to encourage you to get in these contest put on by some of these blogs. You really do have a chance of wining, just take it, most are very easy and the prizes are helpful. Check out this crazy blog contest that is still just getting started over at blog premiere.

See you all later, remember aim big, you never know what you’ll end up with! Go get it!

I’ll give a thorough review of the course after I watch it.

Hey there, my name is Joe and I’m just a regular guy trying to make a living online and help  others do the same.

I constantly look for ways to help the everyday person succeed, because that’s who I am and who I can identify with. I know what it’s like to search and search for those real and honest opportunities. It is my goal to help you find those opportunities, along with methods and tools to help you along your path to success. Please visit IMwithJoe.com

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Hi. This is Forest Parks from The Random Forest.

Shane has kindly allowed me to write a guest post about a new tool / service that I am offering for free.

If you are looking to create your own ebook, info product or software package to give away or sell, then you definitely need a nice graphical representation displayed on your site. A professional 3D representation of your product will help entice people.

Many of you are fine creating your own flat ebook cover. But to give it that professional web 2.0 look is something that seems to confuse many bloggers and marketers. Thus, I decided to create something to make the whole process a lot easier.

This Photoshop CS2 action and template will create a 3D ebook from 2 flat JPG files (one for the cover and one for the spine) in approximately 30 seconds.

If you do not have Photoshop CS2, then you can still download the templates and email me the flat files . I will email your 3D ebook back to you, absolutely free of charge.

This is the first of many 3D ebook and product templates that will be made available to all my subscribers. When you sign up to my mailing list you get direct contact with me and can suggest any improvements or templates that you would like to see.

So now I guess you want to know how to get it?

Just sign up to my mailing list and you will be sent the download link immediately after confirmation.

To read more and see the full tutorial you can visit my post: Get yourself a FREE 3D Ebook Creator

Thanks for reading and thanks Shane for letting me post about this tool. I hope it helps your readers.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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PROS OF GOOD WEB GRAPHICS AND E-BOOK DESIGNS

Look at the below points to judge for yourself, what elements make a good e-book or web graphic (headers, templates, footers, logos etc…)

* Clarity - make sure the main title is clear and contrasted * Sharp definition in image - anything blurred or are the edges too sharp?

* Good color combinations - Red and yellow … now that’s too cheap

* Realism - Does it look like the real, tangible product?

* Text - Too small, Too Much or Too Big?

* Layout - Does it all align well?

Note: Lowest price isn’t the best - lowest price is usually cheap graphics Anything under $35 - be very careful before purchasing unless it’s a special deal.

Why are these factors so important?

Well, the quality of your design can ultimately increase or decrease the perceived value of your e-book. If designed professionally an e-book will definitely help your marketing campaign, including:

* minimization of charge-backs and refunds
* Boosts sales of your other products
* Improve good review networking.
* Attract subscribers
* Save money and time
* Increase conversion rates
* Impress visitors

You see, too often people hire e-book services that create their e-books without considering the above marketing factors and as a result the sales could suffer and the damage is irreversible, because people remember the image and it’s quality. It could also dent your reputation on future e-books or marketing products.

You have to stand out amongst competitions. There is a multitude of consumer choice so you product must look impressive, just to capture attention!

The Impression on E-Books

E-books are tangible and if you make it scream, that people want to reach in and grab it, then you are on the road to securing more clients.

Establish trust, credibility in dynamic web graphics. First impression count and most will see your image before they even look at your sales copy.

A well designed e-cover and web graphics will let you charge more for your product - seriously think about that.

Remember, people see the wrapping before opening the gift.

People are looking for something unique to all the rest and a product that is superior to your Competitors. Honestly, only the top designers can capture this and design to impact.

People don’t want overload, so please don’t bombard your cover with your sales copy or a load of small font. All you need is a simple title, followed by subtitle. Remember the old saying, ‘less is more’.

As an e-book only helps make a sale, it should support your sales copy not the other way around.

Tomorrow you’ll discover Why you should leave your designs to the experts.

Today I wanted to share with you why you should leave your designs to the experts…

Want to design your own e-book cover and save some money

Don’t design yourself if you’re not a designer - I humbly accept I am not a terrific marketer, therefore I try at
every avenue to outsource or get advice - not attempt the task myself and ruin my online reputation / identity. You can’t expect a cook to perform brain surgery, in the same way, many (not all) marketers aren’t always the best artists! Forest Parks over at The Random Forest Has a free 3d e-book and e-cover design action script for photoshop you can download.

If you Don’t have photoshop Forest will even do the design for you, for nothing. Can’t pass up a great deal like that.

If you go for cheap alternatives people will pass over your site - or re-consider your product based on not only your sales letter, but presentation.

Unfortunately, people do judge books by their covers - that’s just the way it is.

All the client has is a sales letter and graphic to decide on their purchase. If that’s the case, then both elements need to come across professionally.

The proper use of graphical images on a sales page will lift your reputation and will surely increase conversions.

You don’t want to look like everyone else. Secondly, don’t bother looking at software if you’re not a designer - even if you have the packages you still have to design the face and the graphics - so it’s not going to be much easier.
Don’t waste your time or money.

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Do your subscribers pee all over your business?

By “pee” I mean: Complaining that you don’t provide enough free stuff, not buying products and services you recommend and not coming by nearly often enough? Are they “bad dogs”?

First, let’s get something clear:

“You Are In Business to Make a Profit”

I am surprised how many people seem to miss this simple fact. Your goal is to get people to visit your site, sure, but you want people WHO WILL BUY THINGS. Things you recommend. Things that make you money.

But your subscribers are not buying things from you. Even when you ask. Nicely. Several times.

Instead they whine, cry and pee in the corner. And you have to clean up their mess.

“You Have Poorly Trained Subscribers”

If your subscribers don’t buy when you recommend something, it’s because they are poorly trained.

Just like a dog who pees on the carpet. ANY healthy dog can be taught to NOT pee on the carpet. If your dog pees on the carpet then it has been poorly trained.

And guess what? If your subscribers love free stuff and never buy anything that costs them some coin, it is because you have poorly trained your subscribers.

“Why FREE Doesn’t Make You Money”

Don’t get me wrong, giving away some things for free is a good strategy. It can add people to your list, seducing them into giving up their email address (the real one, not the throw-away one) and their name.

But imagine Wal-Mart using this strategy.

Sam Walton looks down from his position as God’s CEO (get it, he’s dead so he’s in heaven). He decides to send out the regular weekly flyer, but instead of filling it with products he wants to sell, he fills it with products he is going to give away free this week. The stores are flooded with eager shoppers freebie seekers.

He does the same for a couple more weeks. “After all,” he reasons, “I am so popular with all these people who have been getting my free stuff that they will certainly come back and pay for the products they love.”

So this week he sends out a sales flyer with his trademark “Low, Low Prices”. The doors are opened and…

“Nobody Buys Nothin’”

I’ll bet you’re way ahead of me here, right? His visitors are conditioned to expect free stuff so they don’t buy anything. In fact, his sales actually drop after all his “goodwill freebies” because even people who used to buy things from him now expect things to be free.

Now it would be foolish for Wal-Mart to do such a thing. That’s obvious. But what about you, Einstein? Does it make sense for your business either? Yeah, I thought so.

“Here’s How to Train Your Subscribers”

First, give them something free to get them on your list. That’s actually OK as long as you do the rest of the things I am going to tell you about below.

Second, tell them you are going to sell them things before you sell them things.

Yup, tell them. Tell them you are going to “only point out the very best products for them to buy.” Remind them “of course you know I can’t give away everything for free or I’d be out of business.” (Well, that’s if you live in the US. If you live in Canada translate the “out” to “oot”.)

On Friday, June 27th you need to spend $5 to join my private membership site. There, I just did it. Unless you are extremely poor or extremely dumb you will join this site. It will cost you $5. Did I mention you need to spend $5 with me on June 27?

Third, when you actually tell them to buy something, remind them what a good guy you are–unless you’re a girl. In that case remind them of what a good gal you are. Like this:

You know how I’ve always shown you the very best resources–most of them free. Here is a tremendous resource. It’s not free, but it will make you so much money it’s worth ten times what you’re about to invest in it.

“Now Go and Do Likewise”

Now go train your doberman subscribers. Sure, it’s not instant, but put these three tips to work and they will buy from you. It will make you money.

“Now for the Good Stuff”

June 27th I am launching my new private members’ site. You will want to be a part, but you can also bring friends along. I will even pay you $215.64 for every friend you tell about the site. And you can start today.

For details go here. Do it. Now.

This article is a guest post by Aaron Abber of FullTiltBlogging.com. I am a part of Aaron’s mentoring program where he is teaching me and others how to make money blogging. Go visit the site now and grab his free report “How to Retire on 200 Visitors a Day”.

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