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Ramblings Of An IM Junkie – Getting Ready For April

Well, I am all pumped up. It’s the last day of March and I am getting ready for an April that is going to be an absolute blast.

Want to hear all the things I’m working on?

I knew you would.

For starters, I’m coming out with my first co-created products ever this month.

The first one is a product that I created with John Rhodes called PLR Exploitation. It’s going to teach people EVERYTHING that you can do with PLR material and most importantly, HOW to find good PLR and how to make it profitable.

The second project is a book that I created with Justin Michie called “The Complete Guide To Product Creation”. At least that’s the working title. This book will show you everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING that you need to know about creating your own products.

Finally, I’m coming out with my own story. Yes, after 5 years, you’ll be able to read about my climb to the top of the heap and also discover my secrets for how I got there.

I’ll be sharing these URLs with you in the near future as soon as they’re available. My new book is called 5 Years Profits…The Steve Wagenheim Story.

If you want to be told when it will be available, just opt into the list below:

http://www.stevewagenheim.com/btl_squeeze.html

You’ll also find out about all the lies that you’ve been fed when it comes to making money online.

That’s all for today.

It’s going to be an Amazing April.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
Creator My Secret Articles

A Work at Home Community You Need to Be Part of!

It’s more than a work at home information site…

It’s more than a work at home forum…

It’s more than a work at home blog…

It’s a full blown social networking community for those who work at home or want to get started working at home!

The team over at WhyDoWork.com are constantly updating the functions of their website to keep up with the changes of the internet and give their visitors a much more rewarding experience.

I’ve been a member of WhyDoWork.com since 2004 and have witnessed all the changes (for the better) that they have made over the years. Most sites haven’t kept up with the times but whydowork is always evolving.

They have recently transformed the whydowork community into a social networking tool for interacting with others interested in making money at home.

Here are some of the new features they have added recently:

* Sticky notes to quickly post a question on another member’s profile page.

* Personal pages where you can add whatever you want. You can add anything about you or your business, including advertisements.

* Your own blog within your personal page where you can post anything you want and syndicate them with a personal RSS feed.

* The ability to search and add friends who have similar interests, ideas, or even live in the same area as you.

Oh and did I mention that a membership with this work at home community is completely free? Yep, that’s right, you don’t pay a cent for all these features!

You can start at their home page and go from there to find all the great features: Work at Home Community

(Hint: The forum is the place to join and get started for free)

Coordinated Promotional Advertising Model

What the…???

Okay, I know that’s what you’re thinking. What’s this Coordinated Promotional Advertising Model?

Well, it’s basically the heart and soul of my business. To understand that, you need to know something about my 5 years online.

See, I had no idea what I was doing when I first started out. I had no direction and nobody to give me any direction. So I had to learn things…piece by piece.

Anyway, what I discovered over that period of time, especially when it came to promotional methods, is that none of these methods existed in a vacuum. See, all the books I had read treated the subject of, whatever, as if it existed by itself.

The reality is much different. What I have discovered is that every form of promotion, regardless of what it is, if affected by everything else you do.

Think about this. Let’s say you only did Adwords advertising. But for some other reason, maybe through articles that others wrote about your product, your site started to climb up the search engines and suddenly you were getting more clicks through organic search results. You found that you didn’t have to rely on Adwords as much. Maybe you were even able to stop your Adwords campaign altogether.

Point is, there are things you can do to get various forms of promotion to work together in such a way that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Anyway, I’ve finally written a book on the subject called 5 Years Profits…The Steve Wagenheim Story. If you want to get on my mailing list and be the first one to find out about it and all you’re going to get along with it, you can pick up my free report that blows the lid off of all the lies that you’ve been fed since trying to make a living online. The link is in my signature.

In the meantime, I want you to think about the methods of promotion that you’ve been using and see how they interact with each other. I think, if you studied them hard enough, you would find a correlation between them.

If not, don’t worry, my new book will give you 6 CPAM systems that will greatly increase your traffic and profitability.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
Blowing The Lid Off The Lies Of The Internet

How Come I’m Not Making Any Money?

Good question.

Lots of people ask me it too. Do you have any idea how hard it is answering a question like that when you have no idea what the person is doing to even try to make a living online? It’s like guessing his birthday in one guess when there are 365 days in the year. It’s almost impossible.

So what follows are a few of the main reasons why you’re not making any money online, though I can’t be 100% sure since I don’t know YOUR situation.

1. No Business Plan

Do you think you can just throw up a website, post a few ads, write a few articles and the money is going to start pouring in? Trust me…it doesn’t work that way. You need to sit down and write out a comprehensive business plan.

Don’t want to do it?

Then don’t expect to make a lot of money.

2. No Knowledge

Think you can make money online without knowing what you’re doing? Forget it! There is so much you need to learn to be successful online it would make your head spin…everything from sales copy to advertising strategies to list management. If you don’t take the time to get educated…don’t expect to earn a living on the Internet.

3. Improper Research

So many people dive into a niche without even taking the time to find out if there’s even any money in it. It doesn’t matter if you think people will love your product. If they have no need for it, they won’t buy it. It’s that simple.

Research takes time…lots of it. You need to research keywords, competition and whole lot of other things.

Don’t want to do it?

Then don’t expect to make any money unless you get very lucky.

4. No Work Ethic

This is probably the biggest culprit of them all. No, surfing the net and playing video games is not working on your business. And checking your email and Adsense stats every 5 minutes isn’t working on your business either.

You need to sit down every morning, or better yet the night before, and write out a schedule for your workday.

And then stick to it.

The above 4 items are just the tip of the iceberg. The truth is, there are so many pitfalls that can fubar your business that they’d blow your mind.

Maybe what you need is a mentor. Problem is, they don’t come cheap.

Well, in my sig is a link with my mentoring services.

If you want to get your sh*t together and stop putzing around with your business…drop me an email.

Or not.

At least I know where my next meal is coming from.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
Affordable Mentoring So You Can Get Your Sh*t Together

Do People REALLY Want The Truth?

You know, lately I’ve been on my high horse about blowing the lid off the lies of the Internet…and then I got to thinking…

Do people REALLY want the truth?

You might be tempted to say yes, but it’s not really all that cut and dry. Let me explain why that is.

If you look at MOST of the sales pages and make money sites out there, most of them are selling the “dream.” In other words, they make things sound as easy as falling off a log. All you have to do is sign up with our program and the cash will start falling down from the skies.

Why do you think that is? Why do you think so many sales pages are promising you the moon for almost no work at all?

Give up?

Because it works. Why does it work? Because this is what people want. It’s the reason why they go to the corner store twice a week to get their lottery tickets. It’s the reason they go down to the casinos to gamble. They want the big score and they don’t want to work for it.

Operating a home business is no different. Nobody REALLY wants to hear that it’s not easy or that it won’t happen quickly or that you need to have smarts and a business plan to make money on the Internet. That kind of information just kills the dream.

So I have to wonder…Does anybody REALLY care that I’m going to blow the lid off of all the lies?

If you’re one of the few who want the truth, here’s a FREE report you can read.

Blowing The Lid Off The Lies Of The Internet

You may not like what you’re about to read. It may even make you sick to your stomach. But one thing I can promise you is that it will be the truth.

That’s if YOU want it.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
Creator My Secret Articles – The Only Info Package You’ll Ever Need
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