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Today I was sent an email from a marketer inviting me to participate in online surveys. What I didn’t expect was to be taken to a site which ’sold’ a directory of online surveys. This is it…

This is a VERY attractive header, don’t you think? Note the happy mother and child pic and the money apparently flowing out of the laptop. Also note the major brand names - I wonder if they know their trademarks are being used for this?

Anyway I’ll let you into a secret. All you’ll find inside this site, once you’ve got past the One Time Offers for other ‘money making opportunities’, is a huge list of survey companies. Most of these are out of date and don’t respond if you fill in the applications. When you do find one or two that are still functioning you’ll be filling in survey questions for the equivalent of $10 an hour.

I know because I did try this some years ago. It took me a month of filling in daily surveys to earn $50!

Don’t fall for the false promises in the salesletters used by these websites. If you DO want to fill in surveys just do a search on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Ignore the sites trying to sell you ‘directories’ and just concentrate on the links to companies actively looking for survey correspondents in your country.

But, I assure you, there are easier ways of earning money than this.

Over the weekend I checked my sites only to find that every single index page on every site had been replaced by an interloper - the Q8hack. Luckily this wasn’t too damaging. About an hour’s work and I’d restored all the correct index files again.

One unfortunate aspect, though, is that anyone who tried to access any of my sites will have seen the hacked page and, unless they hit refresh when visiting again, their browser cache will continue to show the incorrect page.

However I got off likely. One of the sites at which I’m a member, Earn1kaday, found that their forum had been shut down because their webhosts had found an ‘infestation’ that was attacking and damaging other sites.

How these attacks happened I don’t yet know. Clearly the hackers have to break security to get into the servers to perform these ‘infestations’. We’ll probably never know the answer.

I could warn you, if you run your own sites, to always make sure you have a backup of each site ready to restore just in case a server hack brings your sites down. But, in my experience, people don’t bother about backups until the worst happens!

But it does remind me that I was going to write a report on avoiding email hacks and scams which are far more prevalent. I’m seeing more intelligent use by email scammers of clever tricks these days and, whilst I’ve concocted a recipe for avoiding these, not everyone manages to avoid the ravages of an email opened by mistake.

So I’ll start writing and I’ll get this report to you as quickly as I can. If you’re a subscriber you’ll get it for free.

You probably don’t know it but this is just one of several blogs that I write for on a regular basis. Isn’t one blog enough for anyone? Well, yes, it is for some, but you should never underestimate the power of blogs.

For example Yaro Starak started blogging in 2004, taught himself how to attract traffic by using the power of blogs, and now earns between $10,000 and $35,000 every month from blogging.

I started reading Yaro’s posts in 2006 when I was interested in building traffic to my sites. But then I found that blogs could also be money earners in their own right. So I invested in Yaro’s coaching - a mentoring system that really opened my eyes to the true power of blogs.

Yaro doesn’t run these coaching programs very often, but he’s opened his doors one more time today. If you are interested in earning from blogs or just, as I first did, want to know more about attracting traffic to your sites using the power of blogs, then you should seriously consider joining Yaro’s coaching system and learning from a master.

Not for nothing is this coaching program called ‘Blog Mastermind’. You can find all the details here…

The Blog Mastermind Coaching Program

Sorry if that title sounds dramatic. It isn’t about me, thank goodness, it’s about a popular lecturer at Carnegie-Mellon University called Randy Pausch.

When he had two months to live he gave his last lecture to his students. This lecture proved so popular, so inspiring, that he was asked to give a reprise of the lecture on Oprah.

If you were told you had two months to live what would you say? What would you do?

Here’s what Randy Pausch did. It takes just 11 minutes to watch. It might just change the way you look at life…

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

Randy Pausch died yesterday.

R.I.P.

A few years ago I invested in, what was then, a revolutionary course by John Reese called ‘Traffic Secrets’. It cost, then, the seemingly high expense price of $997 but you know what? I have never regretted forking out a single penny of that $997 because what I discovered by following the original Traffic Secrets has paid me back thousands of times over.

By far the biggest problem that I’m most asked to solve is ‘how can I build my list’. I can tell you - building an email list is simple, you put up a squeeze page and offer a great book to your erstwhile subscribers. The problem is, actually, much greater than that because…

It all hinges around traffic. Unless you can drive interested internet surfers to your squeeze page it isn’t going to do a thing. In fact you can put up the best, most persuasive, web page in the history of the internet, populate it with drop-dead gorgeous products that no-one can resist, and you won’t get one subscriber or sale without traffic.

So, if traffic is the answer, how do you get it? Tomorrow you’re going to find the answer. Because tomorrow sees the launch of Traffic Secrets 2.

But before you turn away I’m absolutely delighted to tell you that Traffic Secrets 2 isn’t going to cost you $997. In fact it’s not even going to cost you half that. Because, although its author, John Reese, has updated and expanded the ultimate course on generating traffic, he’s also brought it within reach of anyone who’s serious about their online career.

You can get an idea of what Traffic Secrets 2 has in store for you by previewing John’s videos here…

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/jpaston

Even if you’re not interested in buying Traffic Secrets I do suggest you view these videos because it will give you the background to how traffic generation methods have changed recently and what you have to do to maximize your website or blog’s potential.

There’s one more video which I’ll post shortly before the release of Traffic Secrets 2 tomorrow.

Today’s big launch (there’s a launch of one IM product or another just about every day, but you don’t always get to hear about it) is for Google Nemesis, the latest and greatest from fellow UK marketer Chris X of Day Job Killer fame.

This isn’t going to be a message persuading you to buy Google Nemesis. I’d rather give you some hints on what it promises to be first. Because I really think you should be looking beyond the hype whipped up by Chirs’s JV partners in order to see whether Google Nemesis is of any use to you at all.

As is common with big launches these days, the author often provides much of the info that’s going to be available in the ebook or ecourse as a ‘preview’ video or document to the launch.

Chris actually gave out more than a few clues to the background of Google Nemesis in the short reports he released. You can read a couple of them here…

Review Page Blueprint

Track and Test Blueprint

This isn’t the be-all and end-all of Google Nemesis, but it does show that ‘Nemesis’ is going to be more practical than Chirs’s previous works.

I jumped on the Day Job Killer bandwagon when it was first launched because I thought it was truly innovative in the way it taught how to use Google Adwords successfully. But Google, and Adwords, don’t stay still for long and, as Chris points out, the competition for keywords is now fiercer than ever before.

If Google Nemesis can solve the keyword competition conundrum then I’ll be the first to hail ‘Nemesis’ as the new Day Job Killer. I’ll wait for the launch and see!

(Want to know more, now? Click here to see the preview of Google Nemesis).

I bet that many of you reading this would never have thought of eBay as being the ideal opening to an online marketing career. Most people I talk to regard eBay as somewhere to sell off their unwanted junk - a sort of online yard sale! Little do they know that many people make a more than comfortable living selling on eBay.

For the online marketer eBay has long been seen as the easiest way to start building an email or ezine list. The strategy that has erupted in recent years is to sell digital download items (ebooks or software programs) at exceptionally low cost in order to grab the names and emails of purchasers.

One of the problems that this has caused eBay is an apparent abuse of the Feedback system. By selling 99c items a new eBay trader can become a Powerseller practically overnight, and who’s going to give poor feedback for something costing less than a dollar, even if the goods don’t always match up to the claims made on the sales page?

So, as part of their Feedback clean-up strategy eBay has banned the auction of digital download products.

To say this sent a ripple of horror through the online marketing forums would be an understatement. For many sellers this new policy is being seen as the end of their careers!

Well all I can say is ‘Great’. Because now, at last, the incredible power of eBay marketing is open to sensible marketers. To show you why I’ve prepared a report which outlines exactly how you can use this new policy to your advantage. You can download it, there’s no charge, from here…

http://www.monday-madness.com/leapfrog.html