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Share your photos–the easy way

August 21st, 2009

Hotmail gives you more than just email in August‏

Share your photos–the easy way
Are you still sending photos as bulky e-mail attachments? Instead you can post your images online in galleries that you create at Windows Live Photos. Your friends simply get a link and an invitation from you. No e-mail to download!
Create your albums now. Keep the conversation going .

Keep the conversation going

You can IM even when you’re away from your computer using Windows Live Messenger on your mobile device. Mobile IM looks and feels similar to Messenger on your PC: quickly see who’s online, start a group chat, send emoticons, and much more.

Discover the convenience of Mobile IM.

Time to upgrade your Messenger

Upgrade today so you don’t miss out on any of the latest features like drag-and-drop photo-sharing, video chat, enhanced personalization, and much more. It only takes a few minutes to download.
Get the very latest. Download the Windows Live Toolbar
Windows Live – Get the most out of your digital life. Your updates, in one place. YOU CAN GET THIS!
Profile ,Contacts, Calendar ,Photos, Help and more !… GET THIS!
Your updates, in one place, With everything you do online, wouldn’t it be convenient to have your updates from sites like Facebook, Flickr, and WordPress live in one place, for your friends to see? With the Windows Live™”What’s New” feed, you can. All with just one log-in.

Simplify your social network

Windows Live Tip of the Month
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The Web has a dark side, but fortunately Hotmail® has built-in security features to fend off spam, phishing e-mails, and other scams sent your way. You can surf with confidence, 24/7.
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Global financial meltdown

July 13th, 2009

Global financial meltdown & the shift in Internet marketing?
From: @ infusionmail.com on behalf of Perry Marshall (@ perrymarshall.com )
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:28:04 AM
To: business 2k blog place

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Super special discount price

July 2nd, 2009

My sordid history of seminars, both good & evil‏
From: infusionmail.com on behalf of Perry Marshall (google@perrymarshall.com)
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:47:02 PM
To: Bussiness 2k

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Peeking under the hood: Conversion 2.0

July 2nd, 2009

Peeking under the hood: Conversion 2.0?
From: infusionmail.com on behalf of Perry Marshall
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:07:07 PM
To: business2k.com, Bussiness 2k Blog Place

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Get a 48-hour business boost

November 18th, 2008

Do you know what a Rube Goldberg machine is?
Wikipedia says, “A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted fashion.”

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Management

March 20th, 2008

You are now in management, because you will be managing yourself as well as your affiliate partners. Management is essentially taking care of the business at hand and doing so in a fair and impartial manner.

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Summary 4 :Joint ventures

March 17th, 2008

● Ok, part four of the course – wrapping up your joint venture deals. By now if you’ve been through the previous sections, you should have a good understanding of how to find and grow your list of joint venture prospects. You know how to watch them like a hawk through your lazy/smart research and select the ones that are appropriate to your business.
● Also you know when and how to approach them, how not to get deleted right off the bat like the majority of deals from other people, and you know how to put your offers forward in a beneficial way that doesn’t involve extra profits. You have a great base for your journeys already. Let’s continue developing these joint venture techniques into something practical and profitable.
● Let’s follow straight on from that and look at following up your mails. Something that rarely happens, maybe because it costs too much for international calls, people are shy, or are worried about being intrusive and told no for example. If any of those describe you, put them aside right now.
● This is business, albeit probably the most personal form you’ll undertake, it’s still business. The worst that can happen is that they’ll say no. This is also different from the cold call, or sales pitch, in that it’s a mutually beneficial deal. If the deal is good they’ll be interested and glad to hear from you.
● The reason we opted for mail first rather than a call is twofold. Number one, you’ve got all the time in the world to plan a mail, and set your deal out on the table rather than having to go into a phone conversation with little or no knowledge of what to expect.
● Second, it’s far easier to grab someone’s attention when you’ve already made contact first and your JV target knows the ins and outs of the deal and what you’re asking. It’s very much for organization purposes, on both ends, that call for the initial email approach.
● The reason it’s important to call in the first place is simple. How many times a week, or even a day, do you see things and think to yourself “Hey, yeah that’s cool, I’ll check that out later” and you just plain forget, get distracted or called away to something else. Don’t forget to prepare for your call. Have the basics in front of you for a start. There’s no guarantee that your mail actually got read. Be ready for that, and be ready with some back up plans and to change your original offer. The better the list, the higher the profile, the more you’re likely going to have to offer.
● If you can, have some preparation ready for alternate plans or extras that you can give when you make the follow-up call. It’s always handy to have something in case your original offer wasn’t powerful enough. Even to give that little bit extra, than that offered in your original mail, which does something even better and more profitable than any single JV could do.
● That is pave the way for the future. You’ve treated them like individuals from the start through your research, and your mail, and tailored the deal to their list. The more you do this, the more they’re going to remember you, and you’ve taken the first step to paving the way for future deals and permanent contact, and even larger full blown partnerships. Who knows where that next conversation will take you?
● A good method of doing this whilst following up is to allow them the same courtesies that they’ve given you. Tell them that your list and resources are always open to joint ventures. Get them to add you to their contact list and say ‘Hey, next time you launch a product, get in touch and I’ll make sure my customer base and list hears about it too’.
● “Hey name here, a quick mail regarding the joint venture we carried out last week. Just to let you know that I also have a private list of people with one heck a response rate that I don’t promote affiliate programs to, just my own stuff. In light of our recent deal, you’re quite welcome to add me to your list of contacts ready to promote your products when they initially launch in the same fashion”. It’s as simple as that, either by phone, or by mail.
● Alright, now your joint venture offer is complete. You know how to go about finding joint venture prospects and how to approach them to maximum effect, quickly, efficiently and effectively, and you know how to pave the way for future offers. We’re almost there but, before we finish up, there’s a couple of general tips I’d like to give you that I
couldn’t fit into the very factual step by step approach we’ve taken with these past reports.
● Even though they’re just general tips don’t underestimate them. You’ll probably find that you come across one or more of these situations later on in your career.
● The first piece of advice I’d like to personally give you is, don’t try to take advantage of people, but most importantly, don’t be taken advantage of. Remember, the idea here is that the offer is even. We give something, we receive something in return. That’s business right? Sure, for most people it is, but either through ignorance or negligence, or through their sheer desire to make money, there will come a time when you find someone who is going to try and milk you for everything you have.
● I remember back in the day when I received one of my first JV offers. The guy tried to take advantage through low commissions, and even by charging me for his product if I wanted to see how good it was. Above all he expected me to make him rich with no mutual benefit at all. Pay attention to this, because when you start your products rolling out the door, you’ll begin to experience this type of attempt from people who think you’re going to make them rich too.
● One slight mistake, one slight slip up, no matter how insignificant it seems to you, is the difference between a surefire “No leave me alone”
response, and a “Yeah that sounds great, lets do it” response. There’s absolutely no room for sloppy work where joint ventures are concerned.
● Another big thing that was going on here was that this person was trying to hide something from me. He totally neglected to tell me in all his explaining about this product, and what it did for his customers to be, that this was a re-sell product. Now I don’t have a problem with that at all. Re-sell products aren’t such a bad thing, especially when there’s only a limited number of them that has gone out, but when it’s so old and decrepit that’s another story.
● Never hold back information from one of your JV prospects. Remember, you’re not just messing with your own business here, but someone else’s, and there’s a great deal of mutual trust that goes into even the simplest of joint ventures.
● Adding to what we’ve just said above, if you’re not sure about something, fix it up, finish it and perfect it until you are sure. If there’s any doubt in your mind about your product, about your offer or your sales process, get it sorted for the same detrimental reasons we talked about above. Get it wrong, have it blow up in your face, and you may have just wrecked future business relationships. We know how fast word of mouth travels and how quickly people find out about bad stuff like that. Not good for your all important reputation.
● Finally plan well and keep a record. Who are you dealing with? When? Who have you mailed for what promotion date? Who have you called, who replied to your mail, and who didn’t. Simple records that will allow you to make important decisions about how to move forward at a later date.

Tags: conversation, customer, decision-making, email, experience, idea, Information, little bit, money, Private, process, product, profit, profits, success, understanding
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Can You Make Me Money Now?

March 16th, 2008

And on that note I reckon it’s time for that story I promised a little earlier on, about a guy that approached me some time ago with a joint venture offer. It was possibly the worst attempt I’d ever seen, but I’d like to give you a little idea of what you’re up against. How not to do things, and what you’re capable of now you have the information in these reports, compared to this guy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting you’ve ever done anything like this at all. This is the harshest example that I can remember. Have a little fun, and take everything you’ve learned in this report and pick this story to pieces. Here’s a real life example of a joint venture approach. What can you spot that he’s done wrong?
So here’s me, sitting at my computer in the late evening, listening to my relaxing ambient music, while at the same time briefing a freelance programmer on some work I wanted doing to some affiliate software. From nowhere, up pops a message through my instant messenger “Hello”. Now, I don’t like to give out my IM addresses to just anyone, I generally keep them to the people I know or have had previous joint ventures with. Anyway the conversation started with me trying to figure out who this was “Sorry do I know you?”. “No” came the reply. “Ok, are you one of my customers?”. “Yes”. Jackpot, so this is a customer of mine that somehow managed to get a hold of my instant messenger handle. Not a problem. I politely requested that if he has a problem to submit a ticket. “Oh no, I’m not here for that, I wanted to ask you to do something for me”. Ok now we’re getting somewhere. “Right ok, what’s that?” I replied. “Well, I’m launching a new website and wondered if you would promote for me”. At this point I thought hey, joint venture offer. Strange approach but I have half an hour before heading out with a few friends. It’s a rare ‘not busy’ moment for me now I’m done with the programmer so I’ll hear him out. Normally I wouldn’t have had the time. I would have apologized and asked him to e-mail me but it was just a lucky break for him. So he proceeds to send me to this website. It didn’t look too bad at first glance, but after reading the sales letter, something jumped out at me. I recognize this. I asked him when he wrote the product, which happened to be a very basic marketing training guide. He told me, in a round about way, that he didn’t write it at all. It was a re-sell product from the late nineties, not even a re-brandable one. Yikes, ok this is where I start to back away. So the best way I know how I tell him, sorry no can do, and of course, why. The reason, this time around, was because he had a weak product. To be honest, with his indirect hidey type approach, that took fifteen minutes longer to explain than it should have, he was lucky to get this far and even get my attention, or anybody else’s for that matter. However, I’m a patient guy. Anyway, off I go thinking no more of the encounter. I return home, have some food, grab forty winks and jump online again to meet the programmer who I’d arranged to talk to later that day. By this point it was about three in the morning. On goes the computer, on goes the messenger, and take a guess what pops up. “Hello”. Uh oh. “I wonder if you’ve reconsidered my offer”. Well I hadn’t to be honest. “No sorry, the product isn’t strong enough”. Alright so granted his product wasn’t strong enough, and the approach he used wasn’t exactly to his advantage, but if those two factors had been all present and correct, would I have said yes? Not likely. Where’s the evenness, the give and take of it all? He’s given me nothing at all that I would want in return. It was clear he hadn’t planned this well. I couldn’t resist it. Out came a little friendly advice. “Look man, I’ll be honest. If you want to secure a joint venture like this with someone, you need to offer them something in return. A bit of give and take ya know?”. Big mistake. “But I want you to be my marketing manager”. The phrase which would eventually become the bane of my existence that week. He proceeded to tell me that he’d give me a dollar per sale on his fifty dollar product, which would go up to four dollars if I sold over a hundred copies. So not only was his product dodgy and something I wouldn’t recommend, and not only would he not even give me it to see (He pointed me to the order link at the bottom of the page when I asked), but he was offering me the worst possible commissions ever. Everything about this deal is totally negative and a huge no. After a week of him messaging me every time I got online telling me “I want you to be my marketing manager” he was blocked, and it’s safe to say I’ll not be doing business with him anytime in the near future. So you see what I’m showing you here? I’m not saying you’re like that at all, far from it, but what I am trying to demonstrate is no matter which factor we remove from the lessons you’ve learned in these reports, no matter which section no matter how minute the detail, once it turns from a possible positive into a negative, you’ve totally lost your deal. If you’ve forgotten anything, or you’re ever unsure of anything come back to this course, and read over these sections again. One slight mistake, one slight slip up, no matter how insignificant it seems to you, is the difference between a surefire “No leave me alone” response, and a “Yeah that sounds great, lets do it” response. There’s absolutely no room for sloppy work where joint ventures are concerned.
Another little thing, you may have picked up from that story, is that this guy was trying to hide something from me. He totally neglected to tell me, in all his explaining about this product and what it did for his customers to be, that it was a re-sell product. Now I don’t have a problem with that at all, re-sell products aren’t such a bad thing. Especially when there are only a limited number of them that have gone out, but when they’re so old and decrepit that’s another story. Whatever you do, don’t hold back information that could be important. When you have a good product, and you’re comfortable with it, and confident about it, more confident than you’ve ever been about something, then you shouldn’t have anything to hide anyway. If you do, then there’s something wrong. Go back and fix the problem before offering up any joint ventures, because to put it quite bluntly, if it sucks and you do fob someone off and get them to promote it, when their long time customers come back with complaints or it dents their reputation because of it, they sure aren’t going to be happy. Remember, be open, be honest, and don’t hide stuff. If stuff needs to be hidden in a joint venture of this nature, there’s something wrong with your product and sales process. Go fix it, or you’ll have big problems later. Adding to what we’ve just said above, if you’re not sure about something, fix it up, finish it and perfect it until you are sure. If there’s any doubt in your mind about your product, about your offer or your sales process, get it sorted for the same detrimental reasons we talked about above. Get it wrong, have it blow up in your face, and you may
have just wrecked future business relationships. We know how fast word of mouth travels and how quickly people find out about bad stuff like that. Not good for your all important reputation.

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How To Approach Your Prospects. Mistake 9

March 14th, 2008

See the undecided-ness compared to the previous versions there? I know that’s a pretty blatant and harsh example but it happens to different extents. It’s the time and hassle issue all over again. What you don’t want to get into (at this stage anyway) is twenty or so e-mails going back and forth to this person, who’s likely very busy and pressed for time. Keep it simple, set everything up, and get this ready and sorted before you even send the e-mail. It’s much nicer receiving a concise offer that offers a clear advantage that’s ready to go rather than having to wait and fiddle around, get all messy and disorganized. People just won’t bother with it. Don’t make that same mistake because it will in effect ruin everything you’ve picked up in these reports so far and destroy your chances of a meaningful response. Don’t get me wrong though, if they initiate conversation and bartering fair enough. This can lead to some long term and very profitable deals for the both of you. Just know how to go about the first approach, know when to stop and how to keep things organized and set out clearly on the table for you both to see and manage so you can make use off it quickly, and with minimum hassle.

Tags: conversation, Management, profit
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The Trading Game

February 13th, 2008

The Trading Game:
Playing by the Numbers to Make Millions

With clear explanations on how to harness the power of money management for any trading system, The Trading Game walks traders through the entire process, including how many trades to place.

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