No, I’m not talking about raiding the cupboard for some salt and pepper or some origano or tarragon. I’m talking about adding to your income using the Seasons.

And in particular, the holiday seasons, Xmas, Easter, Thanks Giving, Hallowe’en and other celebration days.

I’m actually witing this post from Turkey. And no, I’m NOT sitting basking in the sun by a glittering swimming pool sipping a ridiculous-looking cocktail. I’m actually sitting in a large sweater on my hotel room balcony, shivvering and watching lightning streak across the sky and the rain pouring down!!

So why am I shivvering in Turkey? Well, my husband makes his money from the Seasons… he’s a landscape gardener and the summer season is the time when he makes most of his money. He flat refused to leave the UK in the summer so we could have a holiday! Grrr!! So here we are in Turkey, searching for the sun and trying to escape the cold and wet of England for a few days. Typical!

Of course, all this ruminating on the seasons got me thinking about how I, as an internet marketer, can take advantage of the Seasons to make some extra cash. For example, with Xmas looming now is a great time to get myself over to Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk and see what’s going to be hot giftwise — what are people going to be searching for to buy as gifts.

And then there’s the inevitable and somewhat tedious task of creating a website with all the mucking around with html and .php to promote the products, either that or I have to pay someone to create one or more for me – arrghh!

But I’ve found the solution…

I can show you how you can create your own professional-looking website without using any html .php, plugins, cascading style sheets, MySQL databases and all the other technical bumph that goes with it. And, you can get it started and finished TODAY!

What’s more, you can promote any product or service you like with just the click of your mouse.

Amazon products – they’re covered
eBay products – covered
Clickbank products – covered
PayDotCom products – covered

In fact any product or service that has an affiliate program, you can add to this amazing website.

Check out this quick example Xmas Gift Ideas website I set up  in about half an hour

If you’re not into Xmas, why not create a website around another holiday, Easter, for example, or Valentines Day? And you don’t have to stick to the holiday seasons. Do you have a great product or service in mind that you want to promote? A hosting service, an eBook, a coaching program? Why not create a website around that?

A great trick that not many people know about, and I’ll probably be deeply unpopular for is this….

Say, for example, you know that the Panasonic TX-L32X15 32-inch Widescreen HD Ready LCD TV is hot at the moment — why not go an grab the domain name tx-l32×12.com and set your website up on that domain.

All you need to do then is copy the blurb about the product that you find on Amazon (or other affiliate program), rewrite it a little, swap a few paragraphs round and add this to your website as content.

You can do this with any product you wish to promote (be careful with trademarked names, though)

Alternatively, you might like to make your whole website about widescreen LCD TV’s — a kind of review site — and place your affiliate links to several products on the site. It’s entirely up to you.

So, how do I create this website and can I make as many of these websites as I wish?

The only place you can get your hands on this webiste, a website that you can create over and over and over again; a website that you can create multiple streams of income from; a website that you can design the way you wish; a website that you can set up in about an hour with no html, .php or technical knowledge is from John Thornhill and Dave Nicholson at Multi Profit Websites.

John and Dave have been working on this amazing system for nearly 3 years. I can seriously vouch for that as each time I’ve met up with them this has been virtually all they’ve talked about!  To be honest, I was beginning to think they would never get it finished. But after looking at it and test running it myself, I’m not suprised it has taken so long. I know that they have listened to everyone’s requirements…..

• I want to put up a website with no technical knowledge

• I want a website that looks good with lots of different themes and templates

• I want a website that I can promote products from not only the big affilite programs like Amazon an eBay but I want to be able to add my own

• I want a website that I can build a mailing list from

• I want a website that will make me money

and on and on….. each request that came in, so John and Dave listened and added the functions. Superb! Seriously!

So if you’ve got products in mind that you want to promote for Xmas (or even Hallowe’en which is only a few days away) you can get started today. But think beyond the seasons — I’m sure you have loads of ideas flying around in your head, I know I do! The possibilities are endless.

Check out Multi Profit Websites right now and if you decide it’s something that floats your boat, grab it pretty sharpish as it launches today and like many of these sought after products there are only a few quick action bonuses and an this is an introductory price. Once the bonuses are gone (and there aren’t that many available, only 50!) then they’re gone and once the introductory price runs out, you’ll be kicking yourself you didn’t get in at the beginning.

Take a look at the bonuses on offer — I can vouch for every single one of them as I’ve tested them all out without exception and you will find reviews of many of them on this blog. Additionally, I have added my own personal bonus…

Now as I’m in Turkey at the moment, I don’t have the facilities to create some splendid tutorial videos (not needed anyway as the tutorial videos for Multi Profit Websites in the Membership Area are fantastic), but I am happy to offer to the first 10 (ten) people that purchase MPW through my link Personal

Troubleshooting and Ideas Generation with ME!

I’m not going to say that my time is worth X-amount of dollars, as many marketers do. My time is only worth to you what you get out of it – if you feel tha I don’t help you, then my time is worth nothing to you. However, I’ve been around the block a few times in this crazy internet marketing world, so most will agree that I pretty much know what I’m doing!! I am happy to offer you any advice an support on any aspect of Multi Profit Websites, including setting up, troubleshooting, idea generation  etc etc. You can email me whenever you wish and we will also arrange a special call on Skype, or a chat on MSN where you can ask me as many questions as you wish in an hour.

Simply purchase Multi Profit Websites from my link here

then email me your clickbank receipt, and I’ll come back to you to discuss when we can chat.

Have fun creating your websites and I sincerely hope you get `in’ in time for the other brilliant bonuses offered

Keep your fingers crossed for me that it stops raining, and that I can do a bit of sunbathing tomorrow. I’m off to try a bit of belly dancing now – and believe me there’s a fair bit of belly to be dancing with!!

I’ve stumbled across a piece of great software yesterday created by Brad Callen and what’s even better (and surprising) is, it’s absolutely FREEEEEEEE, so I thought I’d tell you about it.

Just as a sidebar, in case you don’t know who Brad Callen is, he’s the SEO and keyword software genius behind such brilliant quality products as SEO Elite and Keyword Elite – so for someone of his calibre to be giving away a piece of his software for free, is pretty darn exciting.

If you want to cut to the chase and grab it now – check it out here and watch the video to see how it works

Basically, you install the software and then all you have to do is browse Google, and the software will automatically place a “view keywords” button below any Adwords advertiser’s listing.

If you click the “view keywords” button, you can see the keywords ANY Adwords advertiser is bidding on! Plus, a bunch of other very cool stuff. Yep, you can legally spy on your competitors!

If you’re writing blog posts, or articles, this is a must-have to give you some great ideas for key words, as well as if you’re  doing Adwords campaigns.

Until now, nobody had access to this information, except for Google, and the advertisers themselves. I suspect this is going to completely change the way keyword research is done on the internet.

I’ve never seen anything anywhere near this powerful, especially  being free – but why not have a play with it yourself and see what you think.

I don’t know how long this application will be free and you will have to give up your email address (so remember which one you used) to download and activate it.

Enjoy!

Now that the subscribers to the priority list have had their exclusive 24-hour first-come-first-served period, there are a few of my limited licence PLR autoresponder email packs left.

Just upload them to your autoresponder, set and forget!

If you are looking for eBay-related autoresponder emails; fresh content to send to your subscribers… check these out… but hurry, once they’re gone, they’re gone

Grab your 3-month, 6-month or 12-month packs here

Enjoy!

I dont believe it….. has anyone noticed that in the past few weeks launches for decent products have suddenly become like waiting for a bus? You stand around waiting for one for ages and then all of a sudden two or three come along at once!

What to do? I mean, no-one wants to bombard their subscribers with offer after offer, well at least I certainly don’t – but at the same time I don’t want my subscribers emailing me saying “Paula, how come you didn’t tell us about that new blah blah product that was released with the great “Fast Action” bonus? We’ve missed it now and it’s all your fault, I’m never going to open another email from you again!”

OK, so maybe that’s a bit of an over-exaggeration there, but I do like to keep my subscribers up to date with new stuff on the market that’s well worth a look at.

In the past two weeks, I’ve had eight products sent to me to have a good old rummage around and out of all of them, only three were something that I thought you’d be missing out on if I didn’t tell you about them.

You all know about Omar Martin’s KASP (see review here), which I’ve been getting some great feedback for. Then there’s another really excellent product that came in for review late the other night, but I’m putting that one on hold temporarily, as I really feel it’s stretching things doing two reviews in a week.

The third product that I’ve been eagerly anticpating the launch of is PLR Monthly - the new Membership PLR site by Dave (Slick) Nicholson and Daniel Sumner. And yours truly’s been having a good old nosey around!

Launch: 1st August, 2008 7 PM UK time / 2 pm EST

Now I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when asked to take a look at this, as I know there are a lot of PLR Membership sites out there all vying for the same business. Blimey, was I surprised!

This is no ordinary PLR site, no sir-eeeeee.. PLR Monthly gives you so much more

What’s Included:

Every month you get 3 private label rights eBooks, that means that you can put your own name to these products and sell them as your own; add your own affiliate links, virally drive traffic to your own websites and products; you brand your name as an expert – you can do whatever you like with these.

You’ll also receive a complete minisite including graphics and ebook cover graphics for each one. Everything is ready to go.

There’s also a bunch of extra PLR articles, which you can use to submit to article directories or your blog to drive traffic to your mini-sites.

As if that wasn’t enough, you also get a bonus PLR eBook and some great special offers, and then there’s the audio eBook!!!!

I’m in danger of gushing now, aren’t I?

I can assure you that I didn’t stop there… of course, I downloaded everything and tooka good look and it’s hot stuff, excellent quality and the graphics are top quality, as most of you have come to expect from Planet Divinity.

And for those that might find it a little overwhelming knowing what to do with all this top quality stuff, particularly the sales pages, there’s a whole section of tutorials to show you what to do and how to do it, step-by-step.

And these boys haven’t left anything out, they realise that some people like to learn from videos and some from copy, so there’s tutorials in both video and text.

For those interested in placing your new PLR products on eBay…. well, you’re catered for too.

You’ll be delighted with the CD and DVD graphics and the excellent eBay listings templates.

Another great feature is the requests area where you can send in niche requests – so, for example, if you’d like an eBook and mini-site in the dieting niche or the basket weaving niche, just ask away – cool bananas!

Oh, and I forgot to tell you that you can’t afford to dither if you want to grab this! Why?

1. There are only 200 slots available at the low introductory price

2. There’s a fast action bonus of lifetime Membership to John Thornhill’s Mentorship Monthly

http://www.paulabrett.com/Recommends/PLRMonthly.php

All in all, I dont think you can go wrong with this package. For as long as I’ve known them Daniel and Dave have always produced well thought out, top quality, customer-friendly products and I can see that this tradition will continue with PLR Monthly.

I’m just hoping that my nosey-parker membership isn’t revoked now I’ve finished rummaging …. come on boys???

If you’re looking to successfully promote your affiliate products and avoid shooting yourself in the foot and derailing your marketing efforts read on…

Do you know what the number one way to promote any product or service online is? No, it’s not creating big, splashy product launches or flooding blogs and forums with thinly disguised marketing ads that might get you banned for spamming.

Article writing has long been highly touted as the SIMPLEST and BEST way to promote your products on the Internet. It is an easy, proven method for driving targeted visitors to your pages or blogs. Sales are much easier to make when your visitors arrive on your sales pages already wanting your affiliate products or services.

Most tutorials and “How To Market Online” ebooks have the same, somewhat vague advice on how to market with articles submitted to directories and ezines. Sure, they all tell you to write an article of 300-500 words, stressing the benefits of using the latest widget or joining some membership community. They also tell you to include a tantalizing offer to capture the reader’s curiosity and to submit your article to as many article directories as you can.

That’s all accurate advice and pretty standard across the Web, but, since most people haven’t got a clue about how to use their articles to generate REAL INTEREST in their affiliate products, it’s pretty much incomplete or useless advice.

Think about it.. . why did you write your article in the first place? Regardless of how beautiful your actual prose is, your ONLY reason for writing articles is to send targeted traffic to your offers. That means you have to attract interest and create enough curiousity to make your readers click on your link that sends them to your landing page or sales page. If your article doesn’t do that, your marketing efforts will not generate income for you.

To complete the article marketing process, here’s five simple steps you can use to get the job done for you.

#1… Focus!

Select the product or service you want to promote and sign up as an affiliate. This will get you an affiliate ID that you will include in all links to the product you are promoting. That affiliate ID lets the company know who gets the commissions when customers you send through your efforts buy their product or services.

For your first venture, stick with ONE product or service. Don’t join everything that comes your way. You will become too scattered to be an effective marketer. What you are doing here, in the first step of this plan, is selecting your affiliate product to market with your articles.

Don’t complicate it. Before you can create a simple and powerful marketing plan, you have to know WHAT you are specifically marketing. Most successful marketers advise using the product or service before you start marketing it and that’s very good advice.

How can you tell your readers all about the benefits of using your product if you’ve never used it yourself? Your short article has to reflect YOUR OWN PASSION about the product to stimulate clicks on your links.

#2… Plan Your Strategy!

This sounds more difficult than it really is. When you’re writing your marketing article, you focus your content on creating and building up your desired response from the reader. That response would be clicking on your link to get MORE information or a better solution to a problem they might have. Initially, you give them enough good quality information to make them want more.

Here’s an example. Let’s say you are marketing “Forever Shining” car wax.

Your title would be something like, “How To Keep Your Car Looking Brand New For Years” or “5 Easy Steps To Increase Your Car’s Value.”

Your article would list several important benefits of just waxing your car like a gleaming finish that also protects from bird droppings, keeping your car paint from fading with sun exposure, keeping that brand new look or, it only needs to be applied once a month. Include a tip or two for each benefit you list. Your ONLY purpose here is to provide good content and tips to make the reader’s task easier.

Then, you drop the bomb: “If you want to wax your car ONCE A YEAR, instead of once a month, and still get superior protection, Check This Out!”

Your affiliate link to your sales page would be behind the “Check This Out.” So, if you are sending your customer directly to the product’s main sales page, they go wrapped in your affiliate ID. If you are sending them to your own sales page, make sure that any link on that page has your affiliate ID behind it.

See how that works? It’s simple, but powerful. Your article on the benefits and tips to make car waxing easier is useful information your reader can implement immediately. The simple money-maker for you is your very strong, unspoken, enticement to be able to spend weekends fishing or watching sports on TV, rather than waxing their car in their garage.

#3… Use Tips And Tutorials To Your Advantage!

Internet surfers are universally looking for the same two things:

• INFORMATION they need for their own knowledge or to complete a project, like “Why do I need renter’s insurance?” or “How do I make a macrame plant hanger?” for example.

• SOLUTIONS to everyday problems they have, like “How do I get my teenager to clean up her room?” or “Why do my roses die before they actually bloom?”

It’s not brain surgery. Your task is to uncover the need and provide information to ease that need or steps to solve the problem in your articles. Don’t forget the strong statement that leads them to even more information or much better solutions.

Your article titles have a great influence on starting that curiosity twitch in your readers that leads to clicks on your links.

QUESTIONS are powerful titles that encourage readers to click on your article to find out the answer. Here’s a couple of examples. Fill in the blanks to suit your purposes.

“Want To ____________ Your _____________?” or

“Do You Know How to ___________?”

The title on this article is: “5 Simple Steps to Effectively Promote Your Affiliate Products?”

It could just as easily have been: “Do You Know The 5 Simple Steps to Increase Your Income?” or any other version of that statement.

NUMBERED LISTS are a second very good option for titles. People like “To Do Lists” and follow your link to see what the ___ steps are.

“10 Amazing Ways To Reduce Your ________ “ or

“Double Your Online Income With 6 Simple Tricks Of The Trade”

STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIALS are always welcomed by your readers who want to learn how to do or accomplish something by themselves. Your tutorials have several powerful benefits for your marketing plan that the other two options mentioned do not have.

• eMail delivery is simple and can be set up with an autoresponder so each step is delivered on a specific schedule without your intervention. Each step is delivered on a different day, usually a few days or a week apart.

• Increased marketing possibilities for each step that will keep your message and products in front of your readers, increasing chances for purchases. If your tutorial is full of good content and easy-to-follow directions, you will create a credibility factor with your readers that will develop loyalty to your projects. Money can’t buy that!

• List-building is much easier with a good tutorial. Encourage reader feedback; get them involved to build a sense of “belonging.” With each email tutorial step, ask for opinions about the subject or questions or just comments. If that doesn’t suit your style, send an occasional extra email to your list and ask for their input. You could get several good topics for more tutorials. If you don’t create a responsive, loyal list, you do not have a market, which equals no sales.

All you have to do here, or with any of these three tried-and-true methods, is decide what result you want from your article, provide the content to accomplish that result and publish it.

It really is as simple as it sounds. Visit article directories and read some articles that interest you. Develop an outline of the strategies used by those authors and you have your own template.

#4… Light Their Fire!

A very simple process to determine both the content and the flow of your article, keeping in mind the result you want when someone reads it, is to use the old outline technique you hated in school.

Make a list of the main points you want to include in your article. Don’t be too critical here, just list them as they pop into your head…just the two or three-word points. When you finish doing that, arrange the points in some logical order to accomplish your marketing purpose, which is creating a desire to want more information and to click on the link to your sales page.

Once your list of points is arranged to suit your purpose, start expanding on each one, writing one or two short paragraphs or several sentences for each one. Make sure you are providing outstanding, quality content and not just fluff or filler content.

If your points motivate your readers to want more from you or challenge their old ways of thinking, you just created a customer. The secret here is to give them enough to create curiosity, generate questions they want answered and jump start their passion for the subject you are writing about.

Sounds like a lot for a short article to accomplish, doesn’t it? It isn’t. Successful Internet Marketers are doing it all day long and they don’t waste time on methods that don’t work.

#5… Wrap It Up And Set It Free!

There are five critical finishing touches that, if not completed before you publish your article, will result in you shooting yourself in the foot and derailing your marketing efforts. If you remember, I mentioned this at the beginning of this post.

First, REREAD YOUR ARTICLE with a critical eye. Answer these questions while you read it:

1. Is the information provided really useful?
2. Is it easy to understand and not peppered with confusing “insider” jargon?
3. Does it deliver the message to your readers that you wanted to deliver?
4. Does it make your reader want to know more?

Before moving on to the next step, read your article out loud and listen for awkward phrasing and poor grammar. Fix any you find before moving on.

Next, CHECK OUT YOUR RESOURCE BOX and make sure the information there really promotes your offer. You wrote this article to promote your affiliate product and your final message to your readers, your resource box, has to put the icing on it and motivate a click on the link to your sales page. It’s why you wrote the article in the first place.

If you are not sure what to put in there, visit the article directories once again and you will notice that most of the resources boxes are essentially the same. Don’t be afraid to copy success!

The last task you need to finish before sending your article off to do the work it was designed to do is one last PROOFING FOR ERRORS of any sort. Don’t do this yourself. You are no longer objective and your tendency will be to read what you want it to say, rather than what it actually does say.

Ask a friend or relative to do it for you and listen to what they tell you. They will be reading it like your potential readers will. You don’t want to make a bad impression with something as easily corrected as misspelled words or bad grammar.

You ready? Let’s get it published and working for you.

Send a copy to your favorite list of publishers. Don’t have a list? Google for some and you will probably be overwhelmed. Submit it to article directories…the more the better. Just be sure you read their individual submission guidelines and take them seriously before you do it. You don’t want your article declined because of something easy to fix, like not having Every Word In Your Title Start With A Capital Letter.

If you have a newsletter or blog, don’t forget to publish it yourself. You’d be surprised how many new authors forget to do this. You can even email it to your list if you think they would be interested in the valuable content you just created. Your task from now on is: Market! Market! Market!

Finally, if you haven’t skipped any of the tips and techniques listed above, your efforts should start producing sales for you when your article gets published. Take a deep breath and relax for a moment. You have researched, organized, written and published your first marketing article. You have a working template you can use over and over.

Know what comes next?

Do it again!

Best wishes and have fun

Paula

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