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I have found Squidoo to be an excellent source of Traffic and indeed an increasing number of sales. I love the way you can easily create a Lens about any subject under the sun and make money for charities as well as yourself.
If you haven’t checked out Squidoo yet then you are really missing out! Take a look at Squidoo by clicking on that link!
Tiffany Dow is an expert on using Squidoo and her superb ebook Dominating Squidoo is the definitive work on the subject. She even has John Reese recommending her ebook as well as me! Gosh could she ask for more!
Tiff is currently running a Squidoo challenge which I am participating in and really enjoying. You can take a look at my Hair Loss Remedy Lens again by clicking on the link!
March 18th, 2007
Let me start by wishing each and everyone of our readers a Very Happy New Year! I hope that 2007 brings you and your loved ones everything you desire and that our world will become a better place in the year ahead.
Those of you who have been keeping up with developments will know that the closing weeks of 2007 presented a fair share of challenges following the crash of one of our main Hosts. However, we have been working hard and all the major sites are now back up and attracting large numbers of visitors again!
One of the things that the collapse of the Hosting enabled us to do, as part of our planning for 2007, was to carry out a complete review of all our online activities. 2006 was a very successful year for us and one in which we explored a whole range of areas and niches.
Plans for 2007
During 2007 we will be focusing on a number of niches in which we believe that we can add real value and will be looking to bring online a number of services that will be useful to you.
We have some great plans for the coming year. We hope that the many hundreds of you who have joined our subscriber lists over the last few weeks and those of you who have been with us for some time will enjoy the ride!
To give you a taste of what we have planned:
Membership Sites
GenMates
The launch of GenMates (The Genealogist’s MySpace) in the middle of 2006 was a phenomenal success with some tremendous publicity across the Genealogy community. We have been talking to our members and have been taking on board their feedback. As a result of that GenMates is evolving! The consensus of opinion has been that whilst they really enjoy the ability to interact with each other and with us they rarely find themselves using the wide range of features available to members. This feedback is broadly in line with what we have been observing over the past few weeks. You can read more about these exciting developments and the evolution of GenMates which will occur on 10th January 2007 by visiting GenMates - Your Genealogy Centre.
Internet Business Creators
One of th most frustrating effects of the Hosting crash was that our plans for the launch of The Niche Marketer’s Coaching/Membership site was delayed. However, I am pleased to be able to advise you that the site will now launch on 1st February 2007.
Those of you who have signed up at Internet Business Creators will already be aware that you will be getting a substantially reduced monthly subscription to a site at which I will share many of the techniques and strategies I use in my Internet Marketing endeavours. In addition the site will provide an opportunity for me to help individuals and for us to explore Group Coaching.
What you will not be aware of is that I intend to impose a strict limit on membership of one hundred people - yes just 100. My intention is to grow a small community of like minded people who can grow and develop together.
Self-Improvement and Coaching Site
As those of you who have been with me a little while will be aware I a passionate about Coaching and Training - indeed it’s something that I spend a lot of my time doing both online and offline.
I have been thinking of launching a site which provides self-improvement advice and Coaching for a little while and in the second half of 2007 we will be launching such a site. I am really excited about the opportunities that will provide and my thinking at the moment is that the site will be limited to no more than 100 people!
More details of that site will become available as the year evolves.
Other Plans
Those of you who are coming here from the various subscriber lists will be aware of the various niches that we are focusing on in the coming year - with one or two more to be added as the year unfolds.
In each of the niches that we will be operating in our guiding principle will be; to provide high quality information in a variety of formats which enable people to make change in their lives in both the small ways and the big ways. We want to ensure that you have access to the latest and most useful information and that is what we will be very focused on.
Other News
Article Directories
Look out for information from us towards the end of the first quarter of 2007 about the launch of a Hobbies Article Directory and also the evolution of Genealogy Articles into an Article Directory! These will be sites at which you will be able to submit your articles for others to read and also use on their own sites.
Choosing Domain Names
Let me share with you some information which seems to be “hot” at the moment!
When I am thinking about a new domain that I want to do something important with I pop over to www.whois.net and have a look in the deleted domains.
Basically I put the main keyword that I am looking at using into the search box and see what comes back. Now sometimes you have to work your way through what appears to be a load of junk names before you find one that sounds like something you might want to use.
When I spot some that I like the sound of I pop over to www.leapfish.com and get a “domain appraisal.” I am not looking for the alleged value of the site (although it’s nice if it comes back with a 3 or 4 figure value) instead what I am looking for is whether the site has existing links within the search engines and also a good archive score.
If I do find some that I want to register I go straight to a domain registrar and get them registered (having done a Google search for any “coupons” for the registrar(s) that I use.) Then once registered, and this seems to be “hot news,” if I don’t have a site to go up straight away I “park” them at Sedo.
I earn a nice little amount each month from those I have parked there - not massive but worthwhile. I must admit I had forgotten to do this with quite a few domains in the last year and have spent a couple of hours over this weekend getting myself sorted with those as well.
Obviously there is much more to the real profiting from the buying and selling of domain names but hopefully that will help one or two people.
So in closing let me again wish you and your loved ones a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year for 2007.
January 1st, 2007
Hope you have had a great weekend so far and are looking forward to the week ahead?
Those of you in the Uk will be aware that today (5th November) is Bonfire Night and therefore will understand why as I write this the sky is filled with colour! There is also a lot of noise with the fireworks going off on the Village Green as I write.
Our Genealogy MySpace Alternative GenMates is continuing to grow at a tremendous rate which is great to see. It’s also great to see members taking advantage of the facilities on offer. Our British Genealogy Group is also growing having just passed 500 members which is tremedous!
This week has been another busy one with a number of exciting new developments. This afternoon (UK Time) one of my articles was featured as the lead article on the Gather Home Page. If you are not aware of Gather it’s well worth taking a look at. Gather is what some have termed a MySpace for intelligent Adults and is packed with fascinating articles. If you want to take a look at and connect directly to me then click on Join Paul. When when you get there click on the “Connect” button under my picture and you will be invited to join Gather!
We have also been working on the development of the Internet Marketing Coaching Blog which I will be launching soon. Those of you who have signed up for Internet Business Creators will already be aware of the detail. It looks like it is going to be something really special and those who are subscribed to Internet Business Creators when we launch will get something in the region of a 50% discount on the monthly subscription fee.
We have also been working with some excellent people in the development of a number of Health Websites which you can take a look at by visiting Living Healthily - that is an area which we will be developing over the coming months.
Finally in this brief update this week we have been working on a number of customised Google Search Engines which are a really exciting development. You can take a look at them by clicking on the following links:
Free Genealogy Search Engine
The Internet Marketing Search Engine
duxcoo - The Family, Health, Hobbies and Home Search Engine
November 5th, 2006
Hope that your week has gone well and that you have had a great weekend?
I know for us it’s been a little mad to put it mildly. As some of you will be aware my partner had a knee operation early in the week and I have been running back and too trying to look after them! Anyway things are slowly getting on the mend. So that is good news!
It’s that period of the year when Internet Marketing products appear to be launched left, right and centre. One of the things that seems to be happening is that the pricing of some of these products appears to be losing touch with reality! They are becoming more and more adept at marketing these products and playing on every concievable emotion - witness the latest email from the people behind the 6M Profit Method - essentially you must buy our $3,000 product aimed at newcomers to Internet Marketing in case you get sick! I am sorry I will not be recommending this over-priced product to anyone.
What worries me about this sort of stuff is that it is drawing people into chasing a dream which is out of touch with their real desires. Ask anyone if they want to be a multi-millionaire and I suspect their initial response will be “Yes Please!” Then sit down with them and talk to them about their real desires (as I do many times when I am coaching people at all levels) and their desires will start to come out. You will hear phrases like “I want to earn a comfortable living” or “I want to be able to look after my loved ones” or even ” I want to have a freedom of choice.”
Notice in there the phrase “comfortable living” and how many of us wouldn’t want that? How many of us would like to be able to make choices and decisions in our lives? The decision to go on holiday? The freedom of choice to decide whether we want to work for ourselves or want to build up a nest egg for the future? Does that sound a little more routed in reality than the day dreaming of being a multi-millionaire which some internet marketers hold out to us with their multi-thousand pound “offers of enlightenment” on a regular basis?
Don’t get me wrong I believe in aspiring to great things, indeed that is what so much of my work in coaching is about, but that is always rooted in reality and in the real and achievable aspirations of the individuals concerned. None of us should beholden to the aspirations of other people especially those that like to post pictures of their houses (with the spotless kitchens with no pans and plates in them!) or their boats which have never touched water.
Now I firmly believe that the Internet Marketing arena can offer many people the opportunity to achiev thir true aspirations without making them broke along the way! It is something I have managed to do over the past 12 months or so with some degree of success.
Those of you who have subscribed to my updates on the Internet Business Creators page will have received my recent email. In it outlined how my original idea of developing a series of eBooks outlining my approach to developing an Internet Business has developed in response to the people the project was aimed at. The feedback was that people want a more intereactive opportunity where they gain the information in a different way. So essentially I will be running a subscriber site/Blog where I will share exactly what I do to earn a very comfortable living which gives me freedom of choice. Price point set at something like $19.97 per month (reduced by 50% for subscribers).
It’s a project that is really exciting me and there will be more details in the next few weeks! If you haven’t signed up and want to then go to Internet Business Creators!
Now turning to other matters GenMates is continuing to grow at an amazing rate. We are seeing so many new members joining and taking advantage of the facilities on offer and it’s great to know that we are providing something that genealogists clearly want. We already have plans for a number of other sites in associated niches (areas of interest) so watch out for the news on those. If you are a member of the Warrior Forum and are looking at getting a Social Networking site launched in your Niche(s) my WSO offer is still available!
The events of the last week have delayed some of our activity but we are rapidly catching up! The Genealogy Audio Articles and The Scrapbooking Audio Articles are getting there and as someone said to me the other day they will be great to listen to on the colder winter nights. Talking of winter nights I don’t know about you but it doesn’t feel like autum yet does it! Well certainly not here in the Uk where the trees are still looking very green and leaf laden! Oh that reminds me the other thing I was asked about the Audio articles was whether the audio files will be available as MP3 downloads so that people can listen to them on the move. I am working on that at the moment and seeing how we can make them available at a nominal charge for the lot - so again watch out for news on that.
During the week I made a special offer available of The Genealogy Guide and literally dozens of people took advantage of the offer. It’s still available if you want to grab a copy for yourself and I will probably leave it available for just a couple more days at The Genealogy Guide.
We also received quit a few emails asking if we could make other offers such as that one and I am pleased to say we are doing at PK eBooks - Your eBook Store! The site specialises in home and hobby quality eBooks and you will find eBooks on Scrapbooking Ideas, Coin Collecting, Stamp Collecting, Amateur Photography and much more besides! Do take a look at the site as you will find a lot of eBooks and there is even a free download which I think you will find interesting!
So there you have it a very busy week!
October 22nd, 2006
My weekly update is a little earlier than usual this week as my partner is due to have an operation on their knee very early next Monday. As you can imagine we will be a little busy getting ready this weekend!
GenMates and Social Networking
Our Social Networking site for Genealogists continue to attract massive publicity with yet another interview being featured in the press. As a result membership continues to grow at a tremedous rate and we are seeing over 600 unique visitors per day! If you haven’t checked out GenMates yet then we look forward to seeing you there soon!
Talking of Social Networking we have a number of new sites planned for the coming year which I think you will find of interest - so as they say “watch this space” for more news!
Blogging
As you may be aware I have a number of very successful Niche Blogs and various subscribers have asked me recently if I have any information on how to Blog. If you go to Blogging for All you can find free report covering some of the basics of blogging. If you are interested in looking at how to Earn Money From Blogging you just need to click on that link to look at a very interesting package that will really help you. Finally if you have mastered making money from blogs but are interested in really increasing your readership then you need to take a look at Increasing Your Blog Readership.
Did You See The News?
If you are in the UK then you cannot fail to have seen the news items on Obesity which is an increasing problem both here and in the US. Childhood Obesity in particular appears to be increasing massivly and is a real cause for concern for any parent. Given the issues that this is clearly causing we wanted to make our very popular Childhood Obesity ebook available to as many people as possible so have massively reduced the price for a limited time. Just click on Childhood Obesity and you can see what is covered and the advice it gives in dealing with the problem. I hope the limited time price reduction will help anyone who needs help with this problem the opportunity to grab a copy.
1911 Census Petition
Again we have been getting massive publicity for the 1911 Census Petition and in a short time we have well over a 1,000 signatures!
Our Genealogy and Scrapbooking Audio Articles are currently being developed as well as the informative Scrapbooking Blog! Add to that the Squidoo Lens that we have created at Scrapbooking Ideas and you can see that we are continuing to develop a while range of sites that meet your needs! if you have any ideas for new sites or additions that you would like to see then just drop me a line or leave a comment here!
See you again soon!
October 12th, 2006
Hope that your week has been good and that you are enjoying the weekend?
It’s been another busy week for us and several of our sites have been featured in National Magazines in the UK!
Our Get The 1911 Census Online Petition has been fetaured in Your Family Tree and we have seen lots more signatures added, if you haven’t signed it already then do op along and join our Campaign!
In addition GenMates - The Genealogy MySpace has been featured in a half page spread in Family History Monthly and we have already seen a flood of new members. GenMates is absolutely our members site and unlike other Genealogy Sites our members create the content!
We are also looking to develop our resources for Genealogists and others with a new site which will have Audio Articles on it! So in addition to reading the articles you will also be able to listen to the articles at your leisure. Initial feedback from those we have asked to try the concept has been very positive and we may well look at offering the audio articles for sale at a reasonable price so that people can listen to them on the move! So get your iPods ready! The first articles will cover Genealogy and Scrapbooking. In the meantime you can also check out our existing Genealogy Articles site.
Squidoo
You may have read my comments elsewhere about Squidoo which I think is a fascinating site. It fits in so neatly with my passion for providing information to people which empowers them to make real changes in their lives. From a marketing perspective I also think it offers great opportunities and I have already seen the benefits of quite a lot of additional traffic to other sites. if you haven’t already taken a look at my Squidoo Lenses here are a few:
Genealogy and Family History
Hobbies For You
The Blogging Guide
Make Money From Blogging
Family, Home and Garden
How to be a Success in Niche Marketing
I also have a collaborative project going on at the moment with a number of experts in their fields which I will be talking about shortly! If you haven’t started your own lens yet then you can do so here: Squidoo and have the potential to earn an extra $5!
Finally for today! I don’t know about you but I like to be able to read reviews of things that I am considering buying and that’s one of the reasons I have gotten involved with Clickbank Reviews - you can tak a look and let me know what you think!
Have a great week!
October 1st, 2006
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