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Writing new original content for me is the PITA (= Pain In The Ass for those of you lucky ones not knowing this expression yet). Not that I don’t know how to do it (I had my first short story published in the National newspaper when I was 16) but I just Hate IF I “have to” do it!

But with the newest Web2.0 fever going on the web right now one simply Has to write content. Fresh, updated, original and as much as possible. (= If you are retarded enough like me to try making the living on the Net. )

Basically you have 2 choices How to make money on Internet:
1.) either Pay your way to potential customer and hope your expenses will be smaller than your profits
or
2.) the “freebie” way – which usually means wasting the time of your life instead of the money.

Well, since I am not Bill G. or anybody in That league most of the time I simply Have to exchange my time for making the money.

Now with the route #2 of course you are exposed to all the possible ways of getting bossed around by all those Big powerful Free traffic generators: i.e. Search Engines, Directories, Content Directories, Web2.0 sites etc… and their ever-changing rules.

However there is ONE rule which seems to be untouched even by the most finicky SE: the rule of an “original content”. You got an Original Content = You are the King!

So I – like many other Internet hopefuls – labor on my own original content. Of course I tried to make my life easier, so yes, I have to admit, I also felt into couple of traps of those “automatic content re-writers” or “content compilators”, “instant article creators” and such things… Have to say, so far I haven’t find one which would create at least a decent content in the eyes of a human being.

But since I am always on the lookout for automating as much as possible when I heard about something called IContentRobot I did go and checked it out. The name is actually – from my personal view – very uncomfortable and inappropriate, but hey! Who cares about what is it called IF it’s something what finally Does do what it says on it’s sales page.

Well, have to confess, after I read through the whole sales page of icontentrobot I did sign up! Even when it is NOT what I originally thought it will be.

You see originally I got the impression I can just put “Any keyword/keyword combination” “I” need into ICR and it will create unique articles for those keywords.

However that is Not the case: the Reality is that IContent Robot Will create Unique articles which you don’t have to be ashamed of and Are actually Acceptable by any ordinary human (Click at the link if you want to see a Real example of iContent Robot created content)
- However it will do that ONLY for the 50 keywords/topics you will get send each month with your membership to Icontent robot!

So yes, you Will get basically unlimited unique versions of the 400-500 words articles, but it will be on those 50 topics you will get. (Seems like the source from which ICR is pulling the unique content is something which has to be created in their own database for the given topics.)

On the other hand, Think about it: 50 topics with unlimited unique articles you don’t have to be afraid to put your name on is waay enough to make me happy that “I” don’t have to torture my brain to figure out What to write and How! Not to mention all that Research I would have to do for those topics I know nothing/very little about.

So yes, I happily signed and so far I am very satisfied with the results I am getting! And if You want to save the time of your life and money also! (yes, you Will get traffic with distribution of your own content!) then I recommend you sign up too and make your life easier!

Sign up for IContentRobot

Update!

IContentRobot has changed to ContentFX, but the service is still the same, will be even upgraded.

Well, at least the name sounds better now.

What if I told you it was possible to earn revenue on every single person that visits any of your websites, at any time?

Yes, now there is a way for you to earn money on 100% of your web traffic without selling anything and without visitors having to click on anything.

As a matter of fact your website visitors don’t have to do anything at all and you get paid!

Sound too good to be true?
I assure you that this is for real!

Recently I came across a new innovation that you need to hear about because it may affect the way you earn with your website in the very near future.

Do your online business a huge favor. Stop what you are doing for just a moment and learn how you can earn revenue on 100% of your website traffic.

This is a F*R*E*E opportunity that is taking the advertising community by storm.

This is bigger than radio, television and all other forms of media combined!
It is called PayPerPlay – Net Audio Ads.
And you should’ve heard an example of it when you landed at the home page of this site.

NetAudioAds™ Pay-Per-Play (PPP) advertising is a way for advertisers to serve a 5 seconds audio advertisement to your website visitors. It is a way for advertisers to target their 5 seconds audio ad to specific interests, demographics and geographic locations.

So if you join PayPerPlay as a Publisher (webmaster) you get a little java-script code you put onto your page and every time someone visits that page a short 5 seconds audio will play automatically, and you will get paid for that!

The ad is invisible and is only heard.

Click at this link to hear another sample of what PayPerPlay – NetAudioAds Advertising will sound like on your site.

As you could hear, these ads are extremely professional. Best of all the ads will be related to the content of each web page of your website.

Basically it means you will be able now to Earn a revenue on 100% of your traffic as Nothing else is required from your visitor: no click, no sign ups, no downloads, nothing… Just to be.
And the best part is that the visitor will not leave your site since there is nothing for them to ‘do’.

And yes, those ads playing on your site will be targeted to the content of your site.

What is the compensation structure for PayPerPlay - NetAudioAds program?

You get:

• 25% of what the advertiser spends on Pay-Per-Play ads you serve on your own website(s).
• 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) of those you refer.
• 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) that your direct referrals bring on board.

You can get paid by Paypal or by check, but all the payments are in US currency.

You can read the PayPerPlay Long detailed story here,
Or the sweet and short here.

Yes, you Can install hundreds or even thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress. And you don’t have to pay for an expensive software like WordPress Mass Installer, Blog Matrix Pro, or any other similar software.

You can just use a free version from the original Open Source WordPress called WordPress MU

WordPress MU – or Multi User is designed to allow you to run hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single installation of WordPress.

Since WordPress MU is a wrapper around the core WP code that virtualizes multiple blogs, 95-99% of MU is core WP, it is easy to install for anyone used to the single WordPress.

WordPress MU does everything WP does. But you can have unlimited users and blogs, different permissions on different blogs, scaling to tens of millions of pageviews a day, and more…

Plugins work just like in regular WordPress, they can be activated and deactivated on a per-blog level, all themes work, so does Akismet spam protection.

If you need help there are forums for any question you can have.

You can download WordPress Multi User from here:
http://mu.wordpress.org/download

There was a time I used to lose the time of my life sending emails to those deceitful marketers who - despite strict laws - Still do not give you an unsubscribe option in their newsletters, and requesting them to Unsubscribe me.

I don’t bother any more, and I recommend you don’t do that either.

There is an easier way if you have your own website with Control Panel.
Simply logon to your Control Panel and just put an email Filter on that particular email address. You can either discard it or bounce back.

I am using Cpanel so I go to Mail -> Email Filtering -> Add Filter -> I enter the info needed -> then just hit the Activate button, and that’s it!

Usually I just put straight discard on the particular email address as there is enough of unnecessary traffic on the Net anyway, so I never even see that email message again.

Here are some examples of the annoying publishers without any Unsubscribe option in their emails:

$header_from: contains “@jamesmaduk.com” Discard
$message_headers contains “tyler@submitsolutions.com” Discard
$message_headers contains “administrator@affiliate-marketing-school.com”

So Save yourself time and aggravation, just put a discard filter on those ‘unreachable marketers’ and let Them lose their time and resources sending useless emails into the black-hole of cyberspace.

I came across an interesting post from Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog: Most frequently visited websites - not what you’d expect

It is from April 2007, nevertheless it is interesting. It looks at the top 2000 domains but ranked by number of visits per month. The results were a little surprising.

F.e. info Google has been ranked as #15! Who was first?
Take a look!

Got this question: Why did you buy PPC Classroom?

Why?

Well, here are 3 Main reasons:

#1.)
I have Absolutely No Interest whatsoever to “Build a list”! I Hate writing newsletters!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s Not that I hate writing, I just hate writing when I “Must” do it! And with a newsletter you simply Have to do it very often otherwise your list will be ‘dead’.

I also have a hard time to withstand all those complaining idiots who after your Mailings, start complaining about spamming them Regardless they had to Double opt-in and had manually Confirm their subscription! Not to mention in each and every mailing there is a convenient Unsubscribe link where they can do it with one Click. Yet they prefer to lose more time going around writing all these complaints no matter your mailing list is managed by the Paid 3rd party professional company!

I personally believe one Can make money on the Net even without “squeezing” people for their email.

Which is Exactly what Jeremy Palmer – the man behind PPC Classroom and High Performance Affiliate Marketing - Quit Your Day Job did!

#2.)
I am getting tired of selling all these intangible = ‘unreal’ products Internet Marketing world is full of. I want to try to sell the ‘Real world’ physical products.

I see it all around me: still 95-99% of my friends, or people I meet, have No interest about some “info” products, nor do they even know about them. Yes, they Do go on the Net and Buy – actually some of my friends are quite ‘heavy’ users of Online shopping, but they buy computer accessories, DVDs, computers, health products, electronics, home improvement, even cars!

I have an experience in Online products but not very much of those ‘tangible’ items 95% of the people online are interested in.

And I don’t know about anybody else who is a better master like Jeremy Palmer who made all his hundreds of thousands a year Profits promoting these types of products.

#3.)
And so far I also have no interest at all to increase the amount of own info products. Opposite: I Want to Get rid of all My Own Products!

It used to be ok and fun to have own product, but since about a year ago I have such a bad experience with ‘customers’ who found out they can “have their cake and eat it too” that I want to get rid of the people who don’t value other person’s hard work. Nor do I have the nerves to deal with  Online Payment processors who issue the refund even when it’s clear it’s a scam. I don’t have such a Thick skin which is needed for Online selling of info-products these days.

Just an example of 1 of my products: It is a package which has nothing to do with Internet marketing. For couple of years I’ve been selling this package my ‘return rate’ has been around 0.5 – 1 % Max! Mostly for the technical inability of this market to deal/manage Online products. Ever since about 2006 the ‘refund’ rate jumped suddenly up to 13%! Although I haven’t changed anything, quite opposite I even Added to that package which is selling for such a ridiculous price you probably wouldn’t be able to find One book in an Offline store for such a price. Yet I get people requesting a refund 20 minutes after they downloaded the package with 10 products incl. market specific ebooks, scripts, games even videos!

So why should I go through these headaches?

Here again, Jeremy Palmer is a person who did all those big $$ Without his own product!

Yes, yes, I know he used to have (still has) one Info product: High Performance Affiliate Marketing - Quit Your Day Job ebook, but that was NOT how he made his big money. When he released his High Performance Affiliate Marketing e-book his gross sales already have been over a million dollars a year selling other peoples products as an affiliate!

BTW: High Performance Affiliate Marketing is one of the Very few e-books I’d given rating 5 out of 5!

There are also couple more of the other reasons I joined PPC Classroom but these are the Big 3 for me.

The answer is simple:

Because they have Absolutely Miserable Support service!

I’ve spent many hours trying to submit a request for Cancellation of a monthly subscription service - never able to submit even I used 2 different browsers, only to have my computer Crash at the end!

So from now on no matter Who or What is it I am Never Ever going to subscribe to anything which has a Clickbank recurring billing!

Of course I couldn’t find any phone number for CS listed on their Customer support pages.

Interestingly enough when you are a merchant who is selling just the one time offer they are extremely quick of issuing refund even if the ‘customer’ purchased the item 10 minutes ago, or regardless you can Prove you’ve sent that ‘customer’ 5+ support emails helping them with their ’supposed’ problems to which they never ever replied!

Ok, seems like my troubles with PPC Classroom product are Not over yet!

Ever since I went for the purchase on Sept 25, there have been problems I’ve never encountered before Online.

Just as for the recall of events:

• I’ve tried to order basically right when the site went Online on Sept 25, 2007. Had money taken from my CC twice, although supposedly no payment got to PPCC (read my first post)
• after a week of exchanging emails with Affiliate Classroom billing support and numerous phone calls to my bank the over $1,100 came back to my account
• I’ve bought again and got the 2nd confirmation of payment on Oct 4, 2007.
• Having not getting any info about the physical shipment of the product I’ve sent the email re: My Tracking ID from UPS to a Specified member of Customer service on Oct.9, 2007 as it has been recommended on PPC Classroom forum.
• Today is Oct 18, 2007 and I still haven’t gotten nor course nor ANY reply from Affiliate Classroom support.

And I live in Canada. Snail Mail from Central Europe comes to Canada in 1 week!
Yet it’s 2 weeks since they have taken money from my CC and No word from PPCC/AC

Yet according to the statement on their sales page:
“If after 30 days, you don’t find incredible value in PPC Classroom, you can return this product for a complete refund. No questions asked and no hard feelings. Take 30 days, test drive it, implement its powerful strategies - we know you won’t be sorry.”

So When exactly this 1 month period starts and ends? When they took money from my CC or when I actually get the Whole package I paid for?
Is This a PPC Classroom strategy how to reduce requests for refunds?

Not to mention it does get on my nerves losing the TIME Constantly having to login first into their website and then the forum to look for info and update, having to write posts about my experience, so Maybe - just “maybe” somebody would actually read and do something about it! (as I am Not the only one having these problems)
- not to mention losing the time of my life with customer support since Sept 25, - which makes 23 days already!

I’ve never lost so Much Time of my life with totally unproductive frustrating tasks

I Am Seriously Considering for asking my money back - since it seems I will not even get the chance to actually See and ‘Test drive’ the full product before my ‘trial’ period expires.

This is not the first time I had this miserable experience with Affiliate Classroom Customer “support”. [For those of you who are members of Wealthy Affiliate can read about my experience at their forum in my post from December 2006]

I bought this course because I Believe in Jeremy Palmer delivering - no, actually Over-delivering for his customers and subscribers. And for what I have had the opportunity to download for now, it’s Very very Good!

But I would be damned If I Ever buy anything from Affiliate Classroom nor would I recommend it to someone no matter “Who” is the author of the product “They” market!

As for the cont. of my story with PPC Classroom:

I called the CS department of TD Bank Visa couple of times the last week. Every time I got a different rep on line there was a different answer to my question: How could they take money from my account IF there was - supposedly - an issue with the merchant?

Finally, After over a Week! I got all the money back to my account!
But because the bank rep told me that they are ‘not sure’ if this won’t happen again I used another Credit card, and the order went through without a glitch.

As I mentioned in my previous post the lady at Affiliate Classroom support was very understanding and helpful, quick to reply to all my emails.

I am just still waiting for the extra bonus from the Affiliate whose link I have used to purchase PPC Classroom.

Well, and of course to catch up with the rest of the gang who was lucky their order went through in proper manner.

Ok, here is the continuing of my story with PPC Classroom purchase.

As a mentioned in my previous post I got an update from PPC Classroom customer support rep later that night that although my account Has been created with all my info Logged, the payment didn’t go through.

The next day = yesterday, I called my Bank Credit card support and found out that actually TWO payments of $551,54 CND (I live in Canada) have been taken from my Credit card and sent to the Affiliate Classroom.

So another email to CS of PPCC. I have to mention here that the lady at PPCC Customer Service Department has been and is Very helpful, and I got replies almost instantly, however according to her when she contacted PPCClassroom accounting department she got info that both of my payments have been void because of some “authorization issues”.

So back to my TD Bank Canada Credit Card support service Finally to find out that yes, there have been an Authorization issues but not because of my credit card, but because Affiliate Classroom is Not an approved merchant on Their approved merchant list!

So “for my protection” they produced this “Authorization errors”.
Which is an Absolute Stupidity from my point of view because HOW am I supposed to Know That…??!

So according to them I should have called them first, so they could “check PPCC/AC merchant status credibility” and they would add them to their (mines) Approved Merchant list if they pass!

But here is the Biggest Kick:
Even the Affiliate Classroom (PPCC) is Not on their approved list the money Still Has been Taken from my account and sent to them anyway (!)

Can You Believe something like THAT???
What kind of “Client Protection” is this?

On the other hand I still would like to repeat my suggestion from the Previous post:
PPC Classroom should have offered an Alternative payment as well!
I never had any problems with Paypal, 2Checkout, Clickbank etc…

And I live in Canada! I wonder How the people from other - more distant nations were able to pay?

Now let see how this story will continue….

PPC Classroom - one of the most expected launches in the Internet Marketing circles.
Authors: Jeremy Palmer from Quit Your Day Job fame and Anik Singal - most known from his Affiliate Classroom membership site.

And one of the prime examples how things can go wrong.
What happened?

The launch was supposed to be today, September 25, 2007 at 12PM ET.
Couple of minutes before the official opening time there was a message on the site home page and the blog that due to some unexpected technical problems the launch has been delayed.

First it was 15 minutes, then 1 hour, then more… as the time passed nothing has been happening. Well, except their blog where people post their comments and frustrations became inaccessible. On and Off - many times when I tried to post something even access it for updates it gave me 405 error, or ‘fatal error’ or simply just WordPress error message.

One would think that if these guys Are really making so much as they claim they would at least spend a decent money on some decent programmers, and have their own Robust Decent Servers, not to mention a “smart” BACKUP at different independent servers - even a different name for the redirect at their DN registrar, etc…!

Then after over 2 hrs or so finally the Sales page appeared. Guess what? When I tried to order and hit the Pay now button I got another Fatal error message!
Now what? Was my Credit Card charged or not?

After couple of attempts to post my question on their blog I was finally able to access it and post only to find out how many people have been disappointed and disgusted with all this Circus.

I Know the things “Can” go wrong and especially in this artificial computer/Internet world, but it Did make people mad and confused because they didn’t know what’s going on.

To be honest at first I did not even consider buying this course because I am getting more and more sick of all this Big Brother PPC game where The One who Pays is being dumped and pushed around by the one who is Taking Money from the payee -
(can you imagine Anything like this in the “Real world”? = the merchant You give Your money is Kicking you Out from his store just because you didn’t adhere to his ’secretive rules’ he never actually Reveals to you…?
Russian communist style of dealing with people, anybody? I was born into a totalitarian system and risked my own life to escape so I CAN “smell” that kind of behavior at a thousand miles! So Please Don’t bother to tell ‘me’ this is not a “Big Brother” behavior!)
- but then I received a bonus offer from one marketer I had truly hard time to refuse.

So I said to myself: what the heck. Go for it maybe it will help you to get money faster for your Ultimate Goal = being able to buy Media Advertising. ’cause that is where the Truly big $$$ kicks in, without ever worrying what the next caprice of some SE will be.

[BTW: this is another Mystery to me:
Why anybody in his right mind, who is supposedly making all these Big $$$ on the Net - would even bother with some PayPerClick advertising?
Losing their time and nerves for this Overinflated, Over-Priced, Over-expensive way of advertising, when you can get that nice calm easy-breeze much more Cost Efficient Media Advertising…?
Any Big Company which is spending Huge amount of money on PPC advertising are to me bunch of idiots! The same like it was before that dot.com crash where they were throwing fortunes to every crazy idea which had something to do with ‘Internet” without even knowing Why]

Anyway, since I had to go to see my surgeon, I left all this mess, only to come back about 3 hours later to find out that no matter what I did my Credit card got Declined!

I checked my account online - sure enough, nothing wrong, my business CC has Plenty of room on it, yet it got declined 3 times! The same card I’ve just used yesterday for a payment through Paypal.

Now I am wondering What actually happened/will happen? Because also while I was filling up the form my FireFox browser was telling me that the site is NOT secure, there are “Unauthorized items” on the page.

They should’ve offered an alternative like Paypal, 2Checkout etc - which I believe would be much more Secure.

So for now I gave up, left with bad taste in my mouth because up till now Jeremy’s ebook High Performance Affiliate Marketing - Quit Your Day Job was one of the very few e-books I’d ever given my Highest recommendation. And I Truly thought Jeremy is one of the Exemptions in this Wild West Internet Marketing world of scammers and “who cares” “marketers”.
[I am not commenting on Anik]

Oh yeah, one more thing: in case you are wondering where that Blog I am talking about is, I have to tell you “I don’t know”! It simply ‘disappeared somewhere’ and no matter what I try it does not exist anymore.

—————-

An Update:
I’ve just gotten an update from PPC Classroom that they have been attacked by some bastard DOS.
I do feel sorry for them but it also does make me wonder about the safety of my Credit card.
I still think they should had offered an Alternative payment as well! It is much harder to get down Paypal or 2CO or another big experienced CC processor company.

Somebody asked me the other day what am I using as a text editor?

Even I am still using Notepad for most of my own HTML writing, my Most Favorite text editor is EditPad. It is truly a great Windows text editor with lots of features, incl. Unlimited Tabs.
You can either buy a Professional version EditPadPro for $49.95 or
you can download a Free version: EditPad Lite.

Another text editor I mostly used for writing and formatting my ezines is NoteTab
There is a Standard version for $19.95
Professional version (which is programmable) for $29.95
They also offer a basic Light version which is Free.

There is also another text editor many people I know off are using, called TextPad
I downloaded the free trial but found it a little bit complicated for my simple tasks, so I basically never used it.
They offer a free trial, the price is $30 US, or 16.50 UK Pounds for Single user license.

If you need a good Text Editor just check those 3 above.

This week’s review is on a new software product called Affiliate Page Pro

What is Affiliate Page Pro?

Affiliate Page Pro is a software designed to make the generation of affiliate pages ridiculously easy. Which it’s good news for product owners because someone has finally filled an obvious lack in the majority of affiliate programs.

Product owners with affiliate programs (especially ClickBank) have been fighting with one arm tied behind their back, when they couldn’t contact their affiliates and especially when they didn’t provide them with the proper promotional tools.
Imagine you’re a big company with hundreds of sales people but you expect them to do everything themselves and you don’t/can’t talk to them at all. It would be ludicrous!

Ok affiliate pages make sense… but can’t you do this by yourself. You sure can.

“But personally I’m not a programmer and I don’t have the time and the resources to hire somebody else to create me an affiliate page which will do all this for me.”

Well Affiliate Page Pro will change all that because it makes it ridiculously easy to create an affiliate page within less than 15 minutes. And not just any affiliate page either - Affiliate Page Pro generates a professional affiliate page to…

1) Collect your affiliates contact details…

2) Automatically add them to your favorite autoresponder to follow them and send them announcements for competitions, more promotional material and general motivation.

3) Automatically embed the affiliates name and affiliate links within the promotional material so there are no more accidents such as, , being sent to the affiliates subscribers.

This software is very powerful and the best part it is so easy to use.
All you have to do is fill in a couple of fields, copy and paste your promotional material and it will automatically create an affiliate page for you to upload to your website.

The software runs on your PC but is only for Windows users (sorry Mac owners) and has it’s own installation program so it installs right in your start menu.

When you run the program it’s nothing fancy, no eye popping graphics here, all you see is a long form to fill out, which takes you step by step through everything you need to create your own affiliate page.

You start with your affiliate program, if you are using ClickBank all you need is your vendor ID, if not all you do is put your basic affiliate link and put #AFFILIATEURL# where the affiliate number or user name usually goes (eg. http://www.YourDomain.com/affid=#AFFILIATEURL#)

Then you fill in your autoresponder details, once again if you are using Aweber, GetResponse and 1stShoppingCart you fill in your normal form details. It works with an “invisible form” but if you are using something different you just put in your autoresponders email.

Ok, once that is done, you now have a series of fields for promotional material. It has the basic ones such as solo ad emails, forum signatures, email signatures, reviews and a few more and you can choose up to 5 of each. Then all you have to do is copy and paste your promotional material within the form fields and put #AFFILIATEURL# and #AFFILIATENAME# where you want the affiliates URL and name to appear.

From there you choose from 3 templates (very basic but all CSS, so you change the style.css file and it changes everything) and then you can preview your work and create it if you like what you see. The software then spits out a PHP file which you simply upload to your website and then link to it for all your affiliates to use to promote your products.

I especially like how it automatically saves your project to load up whenever you want but once you have your PHP file and styles.css you can then change it however you want (even if you don’t know PHP). All you have to do is open the file in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) html editor.

Overall the software is very good and does just what it says it does. Very intuitive, very quick and easy to use. Once again it’s nothing pretty to look at but it does the job. The current version is not as flexible as I would like it to be, but if I really wanted to I could change the completed PHP file which is A LOT easier then starting from scratch.

Another thing that I didn’t like was that you can’t add your own general fields, you are stuck with using theirs. Hopefully they fix that in version 2, we will see.

So in conclusion if you have any type of product and you market it via an affiliate program then you need an affiliate page and the easiest way to create an affiliate page in less than 15 minutes is with Affiliate Page Pro

To Your Success,

Dagmar

Do you know? If you guessed “Identity Theft” you were correct!
(well, of course if we omit crimes our governments are committing on their citizens… ;-))

I didn’t know that, until I read an article in a magazine while I was waiting for my dental appointment about a lady whose House was Sold without her even knowing!!

I couldn’t believe it! But yes, it Is Possible. She almost lost her home, it took Forever to basically ‘get back’ what Was hers in the first place No matter “She” had nothing to do with it!
Of course, bureaucracy is “never” at fault, right?

The article then went on how the Identity theft is The Fastest Growing crime in USA, - but I wouldn’t hold my breath Canada is far behind…

Just a couple of months ago my husband got a new statement from his new credit card he just gotten shortly before and what did he find? Well Over a thousand dollars charged on it! although he hardly had an opportunity to use it in ONE grocery store only. He called the Credit card company immediately and when after an enormously loooooooong effort he finally Was able to talk to a Human Being he found out that he - supposedly - bought an expensive Air-ticket!
Well, of course since he Knew he was going to his work obediently every day for the past 2 years supporting the flourishing capitalism in this country so our “caring” politicians can jetting around the world supported also by his taxes, he Protested the charge and Canceled that card immediately.

Of course it took much more paperwork and statements and although we Did ask for a results of the investigation till this day we haven’t heard a word from the CC company.

That article basically confirmed my worst feelings that Nobody is immune about all these personal frauds, scams and even the whole identity thefts.

And since I cannot give you the article, here is a short video with more info about Identity Theft.

If you want to make sure it does not happen to you, your family or friends and to find out how to protect yourself take a look. Click Here and Do what it says.

Dagmar

This article is a courtesy of ConOpMark.com - Your Internet Business Resources Directory

Believe it or not, there still are people (companies) on the Net who rely with their life-hood mostly (solely?) on the Free traffic from the Search Engines, worse yet Just from ONE Search engine…!

There was a big whimping in one of the SEO ezines I read from one guy whose business is almost belly-up because Google delisted their site (sic!) and he doesn’t understand why, they haven’t done anything wrong and please Please can you help them to get their high position back?

Gee, let me give it to you straight you bozo! You Deserved it! If your business existence relies on customers from One Search Engine Only - be it the biggest one so far - you have to be mentally retarded and you don’t deserve to run a business!

There are so Many other venues Online and Offline how to get constant stream of customers that you definitely don’t have to rely on one source only.
Just coming to mind:

• General Directories
• Industry Specific Directories (one of the best sources!)
• Ezines advertising and marketing
• Viral Marketing
• Joint Ventures
• Affiliate Marketing
• Link Exchanges
• Pay Per Clicks
• Banner/Text Advertising
• Press Releases (= also very good source)
• Articles Writing and Publishing (another Very Good One!)
• Forums (own or participating)
• RSS and Blogs
• Web2.0
• Media buying
• Shows
• Local Advertising,
• Radio Advertising
• etc… etc…

… so Many of them and this bozo is complaining because ONE Search engine just delisted his site and he won’t have money to buy a bread.

Have can anybody with an ounce of the common sense rely just on ONE search engine traffic beats me. You always have to be prepared, and not have all your eggs in just one basket.

Like another of the Internet Marketing “dinosaurs” Harvey Segal says: “Search Engines come and go - my sites stay!”

Dagmar