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    Do you want to succeed?

    October 27th, 2008

    Yes, do you really want to succeed?

    I can hear everybody screaming “YEEES!

    In the same time I can see many of you doing actions that scream “NOOOO, we don’t want to succeed.

    You’re very undecided!

    Now I can hear you saying “What are you talking there about?

    Read further and you’ll understand…

    Let’s look at the case of a successful person. For example Bill Gates.

    How did he become successful?

    By knowing nothing about computers and simply copying a software?

    By saying “I don’t know to do this or that“?

    By saying “I don’t have time to do this“?

    No way.

    We can look at how many examples you want. They all are the same.

    You cannot succeed by COPYING.

    You cannot succeed by saying “I don’t know”. If you don’t know, then LEARN.

    You cannot succeed by saying “I don’t have time”. If you don’t have time, stop doing what you’re doing or about a part of it and you’ll suddenly have some time.

    If you want to succeed (but only if you REALLY WANT), then free some of your time that you WASTE, LEARN (educate yourself) and STOP COPYING.

    Let’s remember the topic of this blog: ezine advertising.

    If you really want to earn more than you need for buying some peanuts, then learn as much as you can and stop copying and pasting ads.

    Of course … only if you want to succeed!

    Otherwise you can find a lot of excuses, “I don’t know this”, “I don’t have time”, “This doesn’t work”, etc.

    Listen to this: if you look for all sort of excuses, then … you don’t cheat anyone but YOU.

    One more thing: if you want to tell me about successful people that don’t know what they are doing, they don’t learn, and so on, here is the answer:

    Don’t confuse the word SUCCESSFUL with the word LUCKY.


    How to Avoid Later Troubles

    October 24th, 2008

    Before buying anything online from a seller you don’t know, do yourself a favor in order to avoid further troubles:

    Contact the customer support service and ask a question.

    1) There is no way to contact them before paying?

    If you cannot contact the customer service BEFORE paying, are you sure that you can contact it AFTER you pay in case you need it?

    2) You got no answer to your request?

    If nobody cares about you and within 24 hours you don’t receive a reply to your request for help, why place the order? In order to waste your time later sending again and again your requests for help, then maybe the requests for refund?

    When you contact the customer service, take care and follow these 2 tips:

    1) Don’t ask a dumb question. If the answer can be easily found on the website by anyone, then you may not receive an answer. Not because the seller doesn’t provide a professional service but because she or he wants to avoid further troubles. It is well known that dumb people are trouble makers.

    2) Be sure that you provide for contact an email address that works good. Not an email address where spam filters (or other blockers such as Spam Arrest) are installed. Your goal is to be contacted, right?


    Ezine Ads: The Spam Filters Threat

    October 13th, 2008

    No matter what type of ezine ads you choose, no matter how good your ezine ad is and no matter how good the product/service/program you promote is, you always have a powerful enemy: the SPAM FILTERS.

    If you don’t know how to avoid the spam filters then the email containing your ezine ad may be sent to the intended recipient’s Spam folder or even deleted at the server level.

    So what you promote the best product in the world, so what your ezine ad is written by the best copywriter in the world?

    If no one receives the email containing your ad, everything is in vain.

    Here are a few rules that will help you beat the most powerful enemy of ezine advertising.

    Rule # 1 - Never write the subject line of a solo ad or a full line or more using CAPITAL LETTERS.

    It is OK to emphasize some of the words by writing them ALL CAPS, but never ever write a whole line ALL CAPS.

    Rule # 2 - Always check whether the links from your ad belong to a domain name that is blacklisted or not.

    Do NOT wrongly assume that only spammers’ domain names are blacklisted.

    You may be surprised to find out that the domain name of your favored program is listed by such a blacklist and as a consequence ANY affiliate link - including yours - is blacklisted too.

    A very good tool for this checking is this one: http://lookup.uribl.com

    Rule # 3 - You must not use in your ads words and expressions that are penalized by spam filters.

    Those words are COMMON words, so don’t think that you never use the same words a spammer would use. The spammers are real people like you and me and they talk the same language. Because of them, you will be surprised to find out that many words
    usually found in ezine ads … are penalized by spam filters.

    Here are 3 examples:

    - amazing
    - make money
    - financial freedom

    You see? How many times didn’t you use these words?

    As more such words you use in your ads, the higher your chances to be blocked by spam filters are.

    Before starting to write your ezine ad, you NEED to KNOW what words NOT to use in your ad.

    Side Note: Never ever mispell the words that are penalized by spam filters.

    Many advertisers and PUBLISHERS make this mistake without knowing that the most updated spam filters penalize also this type of NOT PROFESSIONAL writing.

    Examples:

    m0ney (zero instead of the letter o)
    f.r.e.e

    This type of writing is called attempt to obfuscate words in spam and is penalized too.

    Therefore, mispelling words in spam doesn’t help you to avoid the spam filters and in addition … make your ezine (or ad) look ugly. Not so good, right?

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