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 received a very clever email the other day. At first I thought it was some kind of joke or spam or something.

Why?

Because it was from top internet marketer Jimmy D. Brown, creator of the highly successful Membernaire. Why would a massive marketer like Mr. Brown be opening a ticket on my support desk?

That’s right, this wasn’t just any old autoresponder email plopping into my inbox resulting from me signing up to a mailing list. It was actually a personal message from Mr. Brown himself. Sheesh!

Jimmy told me that he’d written an article on his blog and linked to a great post that he’d found on my blog, he’d also included links to a few other posts on various other high traffic blogs.

He asked if I would be prepared to post his article on my blog so that we could mutually benefit from the traffic – what a fantastic idea!

So what’s in it for me (WIIFM) and what’s in it for him?

Obviously, Jimmy’s a pretty clever guy and if you run your own blog, regardless of the niche, take note and defintely try something like this yourself…..

Task: Find other bloggers in your niche and research blog posts that are informative, well-written and that have had a good response (check out how many comments have been received to that post). Pay particular attention to blog post titles such as

“6 Top Tips for…”

“27 Ways To….”

“101 Benefits of….”

these type of `list’ articles are very popular!

Benefit: Your readers will love the fact that you are presenting them with great content on the niche that they are interested in.

Task: Create your own blog post around the articles that you have selected, include an introduction and an explanation of why you think your readers will find the articles helpful.

Benefit: If you’re a blogger that sometimes struggles for article ideas this is an excellent starting point. Sometimes it just takes a small nudge in the right direction, a chink of an idea and you’re off and running.

Task:. Contact the writers of the blog posts you are linking to and tell them you enjoyed their post and that you have included it in a post on your own blog.

Benefit: It’s a fantastic idea to participate in the blogging community and what better way than to communicate with other bloggers. Most bloggers are delighted to get a ping back or link back from fellow bloggers. It puts you on the radar in your niche and you can build some great relationships. Who knows where it could lead!

Task: Ask those whose articles you have used if they would be willing to post your article on their blog, or at least link back to your article.

Benefit: Remember, this is all about traffic. If you linking to other blogs they will get a pingback or notification that you are doing so and they will come and check you out. If you are mutually linking, you will both benefit from the flow of traffic from both sets of readers and search engine traffic.

How have I benefitted from this?

Check out the three screen shots below. You’ll see that prior to Jimmy’s article and link to my blog, which he posted on 29th April, I was receiving no traffic from his blog at all. And the same goes for other contributors who also posted Jimmy’s article on their blogs, Terry Dean and Carrie Lauth. However, look at the spikes of traffic after Jimmy and the others had posted.

Traffic from Jimmy D. Brown’s Blog

Traffic From Terry Dean’s Blog

Traffic From Carrie Lauth’s Blog

Task: Ensure that you have some kind of sign up box on your blog to capture email addresses for your mailing list, together with a prominent RSS button so that visitors can subscribe to your blog feed. Give your visitors every opportunity to keep up with what you’re doing on Twitter, Friendfeed and other social networking platforms by displaying the relevant links and icons in prominent places.

Benefit: Why waste all this free traffic? If your visitors like what they read why wouldn’t they want to sign up for your free product or report.  If you’re publishing great content, they’ll want to know when you next post again and sign up to your RSS feed, perhaps.

Start to build a relationship with your visitors, make them regulars, get to know them via email, Twitter – communicate with them and build your following.

So, without further ado, my thanks to Jimmy D. Brown for including me – below is his excellent article. I hope my regular readers will enjoy the great content that he’s selected and if you’re a new visitor to my blog, welcome, and I hope you visit again

189 Internet Marketing Tips, Tactics and Techniques
By Jimmy D. Brown of http://www.JimmyBrown.com

“Have you ever wished someone would do all of the “research” for you so you could just cut to the chase? I know I have. There have been many times I’d like to not waste hours of my life sifting through low-quality articles and blog posts to find the occasional gem.

If only someone else had written this article for me to read a long time ago. Fortunately, I’m gonna save you the trouble of getting double vision from staring at your computer screen trying to find some good internet marketing reads.

Below you’ll find some great “tips based” blog posts that are filled with meaty ideas. Some of these authors you’ve probably heard of, some you might not have heard of. All deserve to be included for providing some golden nuggets in their content.“

10 Ways To Make $10K Per Month
By Jimmy D. Brown
http://www.jimmybrown.com/10-ways-to-make-10k/

27 Ways To Get Your Blog Readers To Comment
By Nicole Dean
http://nicoleonthenet.com/2008/blog-readers-commen/

11 Steps To Getting More Blog Traffic
By Alice Seba
http://www.internetmarketingsweetie.com/blog/blog-traffic

21 Ways to Add More Subscribers
By Terry Dean
http://www.terrydean.org/21-ways-to-add-more-subscribers/

10 Free Ways To Drive Traffic To A Brand New Website
By Lynn Terry
http://www.clicknewz.com/633/traffic-tips-for-new-sites/

100 Free Blogging Tips
By Carrie Lauth
http://carrielauth.com/blog/free-100-top-blogging-tips/

5 Simple Ways To Increase Click Through Rates
By Zac Johnson
http://zacjohnson.com/5-simple-ways-to-increase-click-through-rates/

5 Simple Steps To Effectively Promote Your Affiliate Products
By Paula Brett
http://paula-brett.com/blog/5-simple-steps-to-effectively-promote-your-affiliate-products/

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Today’s the day that John Thornhill unleashes his much anticipated Marketing Masterclass and judging by how many people jumped in on his Early Bird contact list, places are going to be really tight when the doors open to the public later on at 5 p.m. EST.

For many, grabbing a place on this much coveted course is going to be a no-brainer.  John has already been running a highly successful coaching course for the last year and has proved over and over throughout that time that he knows his onions!

I’ve personally been involved with many of his past students either on the hosting side when they have hosted their  websites with us at D9 Hosting, or on the product creation side where John has used my best-selling Operation eBook as part of his course material. And I haven’t spoken to anyone that hasn’t raved about the quality of the materials

What to expect from John’s Marketing Masterclass?

This course is SUBSTANTIAL – it will last for a full 36  weeks.

By the end of the 2nd week you will have your own website online and ready to start making you money. By the end of the course, your website will be established,  you will have your own product to sell and you will have started your own list of subscribers.

Every week you will receive your course material with step-by-step instructions for the tasks you need to complete that week.

And there are a couple of extra bonuses to this course too.

1. You will be able to participate in `live’ webinars where John will be coaching you in real time and where you will be able to ask him questions. For those that miss a webinar or who can’t make it for any reason, recordings will be available for you to listen to at your own leisure.

2. You will be able to watch John create a product in real time over the course in front of your eyes. He won’t just be saying “step 1 do this, step 2 do that” and leave you to it.

He’ll actually be creating his own product along with you, so you can literally watch over his shoulder what he does. And guess what,he’ll be giving that product to you at the end of the course, so in fact you’ll have two brand new products to sell at the end of the course, your own one, and his!

Things to consider if you’re not sure the 36 week Marketing Masterclass is right for you?

• I need a quick fix – I need to pay off some debts by the end of February

If this is what you’re looking for, this course isn’t for you. Don’t buy it, it won’t work for you.  Marketing Masterclass is a carefully constructed plan to building a long-term online business. As with any construction, your business needs to be built on solid foundations, not something flimsy and short-term that could crash down around your ears at the first gust of wind.

• Things are really tight at the moment, the world is in recession, I think this is too expensive for me

If you’re down to your last penny and joining the course means that your kids will go hungry, or you will fall into mortgage arrears, or any other serious financial situation like this – DON’T BUY IT.

However, if things aren’t quite so serious for you, consider how much you spent last year on products to help you with your business.

If you’ve been trying to create a business on-line for a couple of years, or more, consider all the products that you’ve bought in the past, make a list of the $47, $7, $27,  $97, $147 products you’ve invested in – products that are probably sitting gathering dust on your hard-drive, products that you’ve probably only given a cursory glance to; products that only give you half of the plan.

Wouldn’t it be better to have the whole plan mapped out in front of you, over 36 weeks, with help on hand whenever you need it, with someone holding your hand?

This isn’t just another eBook that you can skim through and then never open again because it’s asking you to do things that you feel you’re not capable of and the instructions are written by some techy that assumes you know what he’s talking about.

How many individual products would you need to invest in to ferret out all the information you need to get up and running?. How many hours would you need to pour over loads of eBooks to pull together all the information you need to get going?

• Are there any guarantees?

Yes and No!

Yes – there is a four-week guarantee!  When you sign up for the course, you get to sample the first four weeks materials and if you think it’s a pile of doggy poop, then you can get your money back. BUT, this is highly unlikely. After the 2nd week, when you’ve got your website up and running, you will be raring to get on with the next four weeks

No – it would be impossible to say “hey, take this course and you’ll be a millionaire by the end of the year”

There are no guarantees about anything in life, except of course that we’re all going to die someday!

If you think by joining this course, you can click a few buttons, put up a website and then sit back, switch on the TV and watch your favouite soap for a few months whilst everyone flocks to your website, buys your products and the money rolls into your PayPal account, DON’T BUY IT!

You will need to put in some effort. You will need to be determined. You will need to plan and you will need to be pro-active.

No slackers allowed!

If you’re the kind of person that buys something, takes a quick look, does nothing with the information provided and then gripes that “it’s crap, it didn’t work“, then DON’T BUY THIS!

This WILL WORK if you follow the course and allow John to show you exactly how to do it.

• Will I be left on my own to fend for myself on the WWW (no, not the world wide web but the wild, wild west) when the course finishes?

No you won’t.  Because one of the most important things you will do right from the outset when you take this course will be to align yourself with other students. Students who will all be of varying degrees of experience, students who will all have different talents and different areas of expertise.

Most importantly, you will also be aligning yourself with one of the most successful internet marketers online today – John Thornhill.

He will know all his students PERSONALLY. He will be involved with what you’re doing, what you’re trying to achieve and he will be doing everything he can to make sure that he promotes you and your products to his massive list of subscribers.

I know that he will be doing this, because he did it for me. He did it for my business partner, Dan Thompson, and he did it for countless other of my online friends, Randy Smith, Omar Martin, Daniel Sumner, Dave Nicholson — we are all making a full-time living online today because John helped and guided us.

No man is an island (to coin a well-used saying) – we can’t achieve a profitable business on our own. Alligning ourselves with successful, knowledgeable people is a major part of being a success online – forming partnerships, joint ventures, helping and supporting other marketers, becoming involved with what others are doing and asking them to become involved in what you are doing…… all of these are major factors in your success.

I hope that this has helped you come to an informed decison.

Ask yourself this…

Do you need a guided, step-by-step plan to creating a solid, long-term online business with a top name in the internet marketing world guiding and advising you every step of the way, getting to know you personally and perhaps promoting you and your products to his subscribers?

Or are you happy to bumble along trying different methods and systems – working it all out for yourself and hoping that you will hit the jackpot at some time or other not specified?

I hope you make a decision that is best for you. If you do decide that John Thornhill is exactly the right person to help you, then I would be delighted if you chose to sign up for the course using my link.

BONUS TIME

As a thank you for purchasing your coaching course through my link I am offering the following bonuses, which will perfectly compliment the tasks you will be performing in your course – >> CLICK HERE TO VIEW <<

Good luck and I hope you secure your place

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!

I just wanted you to take a look at a really cool video that my friend and mentor, John Thornhill, has posted.

www.JohnThornhill-Masterclass.com

In the 4 years that I’ve known John, I’ve found him to be the most honest, genuine and up-front marketer that I’ve come across.

The thing I like about him is that he doesn’t swan round acting like a big shot. He KNOWS that he can help people AND make money at the same time – and that’s exactly what he does.

John isn’t all about telling you that you can become a millionaire overnight and urging you to buy pie in the sky products thatyou have to jump through hoops to see any return on.

He is all about showing you how you can create a better life for yourself, spend more time with your family and treat your loved ones to some of the nice things they deserve.

Yes, OK, we’d all love to become disgustingly rich overnight, wouldn’t we?  But realistically speaking the chances are that this is most unlikely to happen.

I think most of us would settle for a little less than the million dollars – just a nice amount to make things more comfortable – a nice amount to stop us worrying about our bills – a nice amount to give us the choice of where and when we work.

That’s why I suggest you watch this video and see how John Thornhill went from working in a Nissan car factory, doing a mind numbingly boring job and where his friends are now being made redundant, to where he is today – a guy that still works hard but now does it on his own terms – a guy who doesn’t have to wait for the axe to drop at the factory leaving him wondering if he can keep a roof over his family’s head.

And before you watch the video, it’s important  that I tell you, for those readers who don’t know much about John (hard to believe!), he isn’t some `fake it till you make it’ guru,  crowing over his million dollar lifestyle that probably only exists  in his own mind.

Many of you know that I’ve worked with John and been a moderator on his private forum for quite a long time now. So, I’ve personally witnessed all the changes and stages that he’s been through over the past few years and that he talks about  in his video. I was on the forum when he talked about quitting his job, when he took his family away on holiday that he could never have afforded previously, when he moved to a bigger and better house……

Even if, for some crazy reason, you don’t fancy watching the video, do download the great free report, which I know will really inspire you for 2009.

Yes, I’ve finally cleared my desk and am ready to launch myself into 2009! A very happy New Year to all my readers. I can feel it in my water that it’s gonna be an exciting year

I expect you think it’s a bit odd that I’m launching my New Year when we’re already half way through January? Well, I have to come clean and tell you that when I look back at 2008, I was a bit skittish; a bit flighty; a bit of a flibbity-gibbit.  I don’t know why but I just couldn’t settle down and finish many of the things I started.

I’m sure you know the scenario…. you have this brain-wave, this fantastic idea for a product or a project, you get all excited about it and you rush off and buy the domain name — you get started, then something else grabs your attention and you’re off on another tangent. And by the time you get back to that original idea, your enthusiasm has wained, or the project doesn’t seem like such a good idea after all!

Well, I feel as if this happened to me quite a lot in 2008 and it bugged the hell out of me all year. It was like I was floating outside of my body and watching myself doing it; being aware of it, knowing that it was gnawing away at me but refusing to do anything to put a stop to it. I was just coasting along.  Not a great feeling!

Of course, I was still making money from my products and projects that were completed but I wasn’t pushing myself to go on and `rinse and repeat’, which is what I talked so much about in my first post of 2008 when I was looking back at what I’d done in 2007.

It was only when I was chatting to my friend, Peggy Baron, on Twitter and she told me that that post was her favourite and she asked me if I was going to make a similar post looking back at 2008, that I started to really assess my performance last year in the cold, hard light of day.

I wasn’t impressed and I have to say it was quite uncomfortable!

Too many half finished, half realised projects – that’s what last year was all about for me. So, that’s why I’m only now saying that I’m ready to launch myself into 2009.  Like an office worker who has to clear their intray by the end of the each day, I couldn’t say goodbye to last year until I had cleared my 2008 intray. So, I’ve spent couple of weeks going through all my stuff – my online real estate, as some people like to call it.

I’ve scrapped some projects that were half started, so they won’t bug me this year, they won’t be at the back of my head yelling “finish me”.  And, most importantly of all, I’ve taken steps to go ahead and finish other projects that are viable and that I still have enthuisiasm for and that I still believe in.

I feel that I’m starting 2009 with a great weight lifted off my shoulders.

So for me, 2009 is all about

• Discipline and planning
• Following things through to the very end
• Staying focussed
• Risking failure
• Bursting through that membranous wall that is my comfort zone and surprising myself

How about you? Can you relate to some of the things I’ve mentioned? Were there things you did in 2008 that you’re determined to kick to the curb this year? Are you starting this fresh New Year of 2009 with optimism and enthusiasm? Do leave a comment and tell me how you’re going to be moving forward this year.

You may remember back in July that I alerted readers to Seth Godin’s new Triiibes project.  Seth Godin, the creater of Squidoo, writes such an inspirational blog – indeed it’s one of my favourites – I always come away from it shaking my head in sheer admiration.

Seth has posted his most popular blog posts, (measured by click popularity) over on his blog – starting with

1. Are You in the Tribe?

2. Email Checklist

3. Scarcity

Why not check out the other 17 here and if you’re not already an avid reader of Seth’s blog, why not add it to your feedreader?

Apologies for not posting for so long everyone, it’s been a bit like a madhouse here, what with Christmas coming up.

I actually have 7 draft posts in my blog dashboard, all half written and then put on the shelf  to `finish later’.  My New Year’s resolution will be `get yourself organised, Paula, and stop getting distracted’!!! I promise

Anyway, I’ve got lots to tell you about, what I’ve been up to the last couple of weeks, not least that I’ve been spreading my wings a bit, getting out and about the internet more than usual and I’ve been meeting some interesting new people.

But first, though, I wanted to give you all a heads up on something that you can jump in on right now…. to get some traffic to your blogs. It’s actually something that a new online aquaintance,  Eoin O’Leary told me about…

Take a trip over to Jack Humphreys blog, Friday Traffic Report, and check out his Technorati Favorite Blogs Exchange.

All you need to do is leave a comment on his blog and follow his instructions.

More posts coming…… honest!

A few weeks back my friend, John Thornhill, blogged about another income stream that he’d added to his arsenal. And I thought to myself, “sugar, why didn’t I think of that? Of course……” [cue light-bulb moment].

What was especially weird was that I actually HAD “thought of that” a few years before…. and I’d actually gone as far as to do something about it. So what did I do wrong? And what was the “brilliant idea”?

Well, let’s answer the second question first. The idea!

John decided to turn one of his best-selling “eBuuuwks” into a real life, physical buuuwk (just joshing with you, John ) And in doing so, he’s exposed himself to a much wider audience.

How so?

Well, now that he is the author of a physical book, which has its own official ISBN number, his book can be seen on the world’s leading online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

And that’s not all….

He has yet another product to sell on eBay. With the current eBay rules you can’t sell an eBook as a digitally delivered item. However, now that he’s converted his eBook to a book, he instantly has another type of product to list.

He’s also created another traffic generation system because he still adds his links back to his existing products, just as he does in his eBooks….

… and yet another way to generate an affiliate income. Yes, he can still generate an affiliate income from his book.

Pretty cool, huh?

So where does my big mistake come into all this?

Well, after I’d read his blog post I thought, wow, I’m going to turn my best-selling eBook Operation Ebook into a `real book’.  And then I remembered that I had actually opened an account with Lulu.com a few years before, in 2005 to be exact.

I seem to remember I was working on my first eBook, a babies name eBook, actually, (I cringe when I look at it now) and I was looking for a way to turn it into a PDF.  OK, OK, so now, of course, I know that I can do this really easily with Open Office, but at the time I didn’t know this. That’s when I stumbled across Lulu.

I created the book and then, to be honest, I completely forgot all about it.  Other things came on the scene, I was selling the eBook digitally on eBay and the `Lulu stuff’ just went out of my head.

And so did the login details of my account :0 Yep, that was me, flitting from one “next best thing” to another — I’m sure you all know the scenario?

Anyway, when John had the clever idea of showing everyone the process of turning your eBooks into books and creating a totally comprehensive, step-by-step video package that does just that, I begged and cajoled a sneak peak. Cheeky, I know….. but if you don’t ask, you don’t get [bats eyelashes in a sickening way]

You know me… I’m a sucker for a good old rummage, and I have to tell you, I’m so excited about these videos and this “turn all my eBooks into physical books” business, that I want to get testing straight away. A lot of fantastic things have happened at Lulu since I last visited in 2005

So I’m actually going to see if I can create my book in an hour, as John claims on his website http://www.ebook-2-book.com Yep, that’s right, I could have my own book up and running and for sale in an hour….

Now, I’m not promising that I’m going to be back posting in an hour with the finished product… think I’m going to have to get the stop-watch out as I’ve got bath-time, bed-time stories, dishwasher filling and some dirty clothes to put in the machine… but I’m going to be really strict, get the stop-watch out and report back with my results.

If you don’t want to wait to see if it can be done and are chafing at the bit to get started on your own project you can grab the package here http://www.ebook-2-book.com

I tell you what, I’ll run a little competition (this’ll keep me on my toes)

The first two people to email me with their Clickbank receipt number, after purchasing eBook 2 Book through my link AND to post a comment below about which of your products you’re going to turn into a physical book and why you think it’ll make a good physical book — I’ll send them through the post, absolutely free, a copy of the `physical’ version of Operation Ebook that I’m going to create using John’s eBook 2 Book video course.

I’ll also offer 5 copies of the downloadable version to the next five people (same stipulations as above — a receipt number and a comment )

Please send emails here

So what are you waiting for? Get publishing http://www.ebook-2-book.com

P.S. What a nice surprise!! I just found my old password and login to Lulu.com buried in the nether regions of my `puter, and, can you believe this…. that book I was telling you about, that I’d just abandoned, forgotten all about, has sold two copies! How cool is that? And that’s just through someone finding it on Lulu – there were no links on any of my websites, or in any of my autoresponder messages etc. Nothing.

Yes, the princely sum of 8 quid is now mine…  I’m off out on the town!

I’ll report back later

No, that’s not me barging into some plush restaurant, being refused a table and demanding “Do you know who I am” like some publicity-crazed reality TV Z-Lister!

I had never really thought I was that elusive, (obscure, maybe), until my friend, ghostwriter to the stars, Pat Graham, referred to me as “one of those hard-to-find Internet Marketers” on her “Pay It Back With Gratitude” section of her just-launched site, Kitchen Blogging.

I mean, I’m not exactly the shy and retiring type and I always thought that I put it about quite a bit! You couldn’t exactly put me in the pigeon hole of “most private internet marketers on the net” in the same league as the recently “self-outed” Tony Shepherd – and no, before you get hold of the wrong end of the stick, I’m not saying he’s outed as in `gay’ outed…. not that I would have a problem if he was gay…. but he’s not…. he just has a big wooly beard…… so, perhaps we do have something in common after all!! Hmmm, best stop now before I dig this hole any deeper…..

Anyway, back to ME and the whole point of this post… to let you know about the release of `Real Life’ blogger, Daniel Flower’s warts and all, no holds barred, kiss and tell interview with little old moi!!!

So if you want to know how I muddle through in the I.M. world and other stuff, you can download it here

Oh, and don’t forget to download Tony’s interview — the link’s in PDF above ^^^ (Phew, think I might have got away with it!!!)

Do leave a comment and let me know what you think, I can handle it!