FFA/Reversed Marketing

FFA/Reversed Marketing

by: Thomas Grodem

Have you ever submitted your ad to an FFA page? most likely you have. Did you get any results from it or did you just get a ton of emails in your inbox?

FFA pages are gaining popularity popping like bombs everywhere!

What is an FFA page? It is a free for all page.

How it works is quite simple: you place a line of text on the FFA site for free…like thousands of other advertisers each day.

The problem with FFA pages is that everybody is submitting their ad to it. So each time a new ad is submitted, all the other ads roll down one rank and the oldest ad is dropped of. What originally gave an exposure of days per submission, today only gives you about 30 minutes. This means you have to submit at least 3 times a day. You can do this automatically by using an auto submitter, which claims to submit your ad to a zillion websites. You must understand that this is not regular websites, but search engines, Directories and FFA pages.Still it is a lot of ads, and someone might see it.

The lack of results from these ads is because:

your ad is mixed in with hundreds of other ads

Have you ever visited an FFA page and looked at the ads? Today most people use automated submission tools, so they never visits the site.

If someone does visit the page, your ad could be gone within a few hours or less.

Fore those of you that has submitted your ads to FFA pages, you must have noticed all the emails you receive back.

How would you like to be the one sending out those emails?

What i am saying is that you shouldn’t POST to FFA pages… You should HOST your own FFA page!

There is several ways to approach hosting your own FFA page.

You could create it yourself if you know how. Or, there is someone willing to help you for free. Go to http://ratesaver.com.au/lp.htm

The next step you have to do is notifying URL submission services.

The manual way: use search engines like google to find URL submission services and notify them of your links page

The automatic way: go to http://ratesaver.com.au/tsalintro.htm

Enter your links page title and address. Press submit and you will notify over 140 URL submission services about your page.

This service costs us$19.95.

Now you are the one sending out all those emails with your info in them. It’s called ‘reversed advertisingก. And it’s the most effective way to market yourself on the internet today!

About The Author

Thomas Grodem publishes Home Business Tips, a fresh and informative newsletter dedicated to supporting people like YOU! If you’re looking for the best rated home business opportunities, the latest time saving tools and helpful support from an honest friend in the business come by and grab a FREE subscription today at: http://prosperconnection.com

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This article was posted on September 06, 2003

by Thomas Grodem

Truth and Lies

Truth and Lies

by: Jim Murdoch

How low can one get? The number of encounters I have had in the few months as a network marketer with liars is astounding. Why do people need to stoop to lying in their attempt to succeed? Do they really believe that they will attract customers by using deceptive means. Hey friends, Iกve got news for you! You are the ones who have been deceived!

When I placed a single ad with the URL of my newly created autoresponder, I started to receive all sorts of strange emails to that autoresponder address. All of them said they had seen my business ad and bla bla bla. Liars! All I advertised was my autoresponder! So what was going on?

Well, I have a confession to make. About seven years ago, when I first discovered the Internet, and got my first taste of spam, I fell for it, and became a spammer myself. But not for long, as my ISP was quick to disconnect me, before I even knew what กSpamก was. Well I soon woke up.

What I had done, following instructions of course, was to download a program which กharvestedก other emails from web pages on the Net. Then I had also downloaded and used a bulk emailer. Apart from getting temporarily disconnected I also received some nasty replies. And guess what? My second attempt, which was an attempt to avoid unsolicited email sending, I used the addresses of people who had spammed me. Some of them even wrote nasty replies complaining. Hypocrites!

That was an end to my early attempts as a Networker. I gave that up quick, especially after reading about Spam and realizing how unwanted it is. I also realized that bulk email is not the way to market. Recently I have come across the term กSafe listsก. A Safe List is supposed to be a list of email addresses from people who have requested information on a business opportunity. But just how safe are these lists?

Here is how I imagine it. John requests from Mary information about her business. Mary sells Johnกs email address as part of a safe list to Tom, Dick and Harry. John now gets emails from Mary, Tom, Dick and Harry, three of which he did not request. Hence John was spammed, and Mary gets paid. Tom, Dick and Harry get a nasty spam complaint from their ISP who disconnects their account. Thanks Mary.

Amazingly 90% or more of the email coming into my mailbox is spam from people selling bulk email software, or offering some other get rich scheme. They are still using harvesting software (this is how they got my autoresponder address) and the bulk email software (this is how they emailed me) they just paid for. Sadly these are mostly the victims of the master culprits who get these poor suckers to buy into their program. Guess who gets rich, and who doesn’t?

Do you see the untruthfulness in this kind of marketing? Letกs not call it that, it is spamming. They first of all steal the email addresses. Next they sent emails to these addresses totally unsolicited. Consequently they get disconnected. But they seem to expect that. I get many emails from the same people using different email addresses to send from each time. Some, I think, even use false addresses. So the criminal intentions are there.

Here is my message to these criminal spammers: Why waste your time and money on these fruitless efforts? Why go to all that trouble just to get a bad reputation? Get into a real profit making program. There are many legitimate companies helping many people make a reasonable income. If you put all the hard work you are wasting on these deceptive programs into one of these legitimate programs, you will not only make for yourself an income, you will also have satisfaction.

If you, dear reader, are contemplating using any of those enticing offers of bulk email or email harvesting don’t do it! Losing money and ISP credibility isn’t worth it. How can you build a solid base if your customers don’t trust you? Trust is what your customers are putting in you, and trustworthiness is what you should give them. Tell them the truth, be honest and they will love you for it. And they are sure to come back and bring others with them.

About The Author

Jim Murdoch is new to network marketing. Read what he has to say about ขWhy you need your own home businessข in his autoresponder: mailto:[email protected]. His web site is at http://www.upwardpath.com?64

This article was posted on April 30, 2003

by Jim Murdoch

Keep Spam Mail Away From You !

Keep Spam Mail Away From You !

by: Deniz Akay

In the last couple of years, spam mail has become perhaps the most terrible headache of email users on the internet. Depending on how popular your mail service provider is and how old your email account is, you may be receiving every day ten to several hundred unwanted emails about advertisements, propaganda, news and a bunch of other topics that you did not and most probably will never ask for in the future. Mail service providers have developed some protection systems to reduce this discomfort their customers are experiencing, such as filters, but sometimes spam attacks can even get past these barriers. Even if these barriers are effective, all those spam mails produce annoying heaps in the junk mail folders just to take up your mail accountกs precious storage space.

As mail services offering large storage spaces are becoming widespread this year, people are moving to these new accounts and creating their new addresses. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been a couple of months since the most famous of these email services, Gmail, has started giving out accounts by invitations and the word has already gotten around that spam attacks have discovered these new fresh targets as well. Although the number of these attacks is low at the moment, it will surely increase and may reach a threatposing amount in a short period of time.

No matter how well the spam filters are, us email users cannot be fully protected from spam today, but we can still take some precautions to evade these attacks, while registering for new accounts and after. Some crucial tips to avoid spam may be listed as follows:

1. While you’re creating an account, do not choose a short username. You will receive spam mail due to dictionary attacks. For example, think of the username กangelก. Each address starting with the word กangelก will receive a spam mail:

angel@

angels@

angelic@

angelica@

angelina@

…

2. Since usernames that are to be attacked are generated from the first few letters, itกs better to start the username with letter or number series without a meaning:

Example: ytgkj.username@ or 72149.username@

3. Itกs always better to use special characters in the user name if they are allowed.

Example: username@, user_name@ or user.name@

4. If you are sure that itกs a spam mail, do NOT click the links like กClick to unsubscribe, remove your address from the listก and do NOT reply them with emails having subjects like ‘removeก, กUnsubscribeก etc. These will verify your email address and will only make your address receive more of them.

5. Some sites may want email addresses for registration. These are potential spam dangers. If you have to use an email address for registration, always use a temporary address. Sites like กMailinator.comก create temporary mail addresses for a short period of time and you are done with these addresses once you are finished with registration.

If you also have to receive email after you have registered, in other words, when you are filling out forms on the internet, do not use the mail account that you give your friends and relations. Instead, get yourself a free webmail (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) and use that always.

6. Never write your email on the web. Some robots are scanning the web for email adresses. If you need to give your address, write it like :

myaccount กATก myprovider กDotก com

instead of ก[email protected]ก .

7. When you are sending emails to multiple recipients, always use BCC. Why? If you type the addresses in the CC or To line, all the recipient addresses appear in the mail content when those emails are forwarded. If the forwarded mails reach the spam senders in some way, all these addresses are added to their spam lists.

8. If your webmail provides a junk/bulk mail filter service, make sure that this service is activated. However, all the mail coming into this folder might not be spam. Because the mass emails sent by some sites you register or mail groups that you are a member of are sent by scriptbased ways, they may be considered as spam and they make their way into these folders. Itกs good to check this folder once in a while.

9. Finally, make sure that you view the Message Headers fully. How do you do this? For example in Gmail, click กMore options > Show originalก besides the address received from and in Hotmail, click กOptions > Message display settings > Message header > Fullก. This will allow you to see useful information about the sender of the spam mail you received.

If you are sure that itกs a spam mail, copy the header information as it is and report it to spamcop.com. From the same web address, you can send the mail service provider the information about the spam mail.

Please do not forget that these are only precautions that you can take against spam individually and will not stop spam completely, but at least it will help in keeping spam away from you.

About The Author

Deniz Akay

Webmaster of Extreme Gmail Forums http://www.emailx.net

This article was posted on February 08

by Deniz Akay

FIVE ADVANCED and Essential features of Your Follo

FIVE ADVANCED and Essential features of Your Follow up Autoresponder

by: Radhika Venkata

If you are not using a follow up autoresponder until now, just buy it. Follow up autoresponders are very valuable tool for online business.

You can offer free email courses

Send ezines, ezine articles

Follow up your customer

Conduct polls and quizzes

*****Your personal Follow up autoresponder software:

These software should be installed on your web site. You are completely in control of your software. These are affordable with good features.

http://www.autoresponseplus.com/

http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/

*****Five Advanced and Essentials features of a follow up autoresponder:

1. Personalization of Your emails:

If your subscriber sees his/her name in the subject field, they will stop a second at your email. Well… itกs human nature to respond to their names. Once they stop at your email subject, more chances of clicking on your email and go in to the message.

2. Email un/subscriptions:

Advanced feature that needs some email forwarders to redirect subscribers emails to the cgi script. In this feature you can offer un/subscriptions through emails apart from form subscriptions.

3. Broadcast emails:

Broadcast emails also called onetime emails. Means instead of follow up emails at specific intervals, you can send promotional emails, ezines to your subscribers one time.

4. Bounced emails:

Very good feature. You can use this feature to clean up your lists. Your host will be happy as bounced emails uses the server resources and you delete them with your autoresponder script. Some free email services put your emails as spam or your subscriber no longer at their subscribed email or other problems like your subscriber email server is not working at the time of your emailings… Any of these reasons. The email will bounce back to your server. All these emails should be cleaned up once in a while, otherwise your host will send you email telling you are using too many resources.

5. Custom fields:

These are the fields to keep certain text in their text areas and if you keep the defined tag, the script replaces it with the text you provided. Great for keeping ads, signatures, links in your emails.

FIVE BASIC and Essential features of Your Follow up Autoresponder: http://www.webmasterscentral.com/wp/em/5basic.shtml

About The Author

Radhika Venkata

Subscribe to กEbookBiz Magazineก which is completely focused on ebook business and Internet Marketing. Receive FREE Ebooks with Resale rights every month!

http://www.ebooksworld.com/freetosell.shtml

Webmaster Resources: List Your product, ezine or web site free!

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This article was posted on October 23, 2003

by Radhika Venkata

Why you need to and How to Follow up Your visitor

Why you need to and How to Follow up Your visitor or customer.

by: Radhika Venkata

The person who comes to your web site seeking products or information is a visitor. A person who bought a product or service of yours is a customer or client.

***Why should you follow up Your VISITORS?

Simple…

People tend to forget easily.

After he gone from your web site, he may not remember that he came to your web site. He/She could have some reasons not to buy a product right now. Or he still searching for a product similar to yours. This person is a potential prospect to you. So try to get their email adddress and permission from them to receive emails from you.

How to get their email:

Offer free product with basic feature, later they can upgrade

Offer fully functional demo product that expires after a time

Offer coupons that give discounts on your products

Offer a free ecourse

Offer an ezine

Offer a free ebook

Offer free membership for a certain period

***Why should you follow up Your CUSTOMER?

You can ask me… Why should I follow up my customer? He already my customer, isn’t it?

Don’t forget the simple กpsychology of comfortก. Once your customer is using your product means, he will have more confidence in you and your service. So he/she will be easily influenced to buy your other products.

***How to follow up Your visitors and customer?

The main aim of the following is to do optin email marketing.

1. Put email addresses in an follow up autoresponder: You can buy a mailing list software or an autoresponder to send follow up emails. Schedule them every 15 days or so. Or you can send broadcast promotional emails to your customers.

http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/index.shtml

2. Start forums for your products or service: People will join in the forums to ask you presale questions or someother product inquiries. During registration process tell them that they will receive promotional emails once in a while and they can unsubscribe anytime.

3. Offer a free product in exchange for an email address.

4. Offer discount to your present customers. Once they signed up for your membership area means you should have their contact emails. So you can send them coupons, discounts etc.

Radhika Venkata (c).

About The Author

Radhika Venkata

Subscribe to กiNet Marketing Ezineก which is completely focused on Internet Marketing. Receive FREE Ebooks with Resale rights!

http://www.webmasterscentral.com/subscribe.shtml

FREE Ecourse :: 30 days Solid work out to increase your online profits!

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This article was posted on October 16, 2004

by Radhika Venkata

Are Your Emails Gettting Through?

Are Your Emails Gettting Through?

by: Charlie Cook

If sending email to a mailing list is part of your markëting or business building strategy, you want to make sure your messages are reaching your audience. Are your readers getting your emails? Due to the proliferation of sp@m, ISPs (your web access and email provider) have added content checkers to try to reduce the flow of unwanted mail. In principle this is a good idea. In practice, lots of sp@m is still getting through and many lëgitimatë emails, possibly including yours, are being blocked.
You may assume that since your content is lëgitimatë and because you only send messages to 0ptin readers, your prospects and clients are getting all of your emails. Bu presently sp@m filters are blocking emails that include words such as:

hëre
n0w
lëgal
questi0ns
lëgitimate
ordër
bu1k
chëck
mi11ions
st0ck
f0rm
markëting s0lution
rëmove
opp0rtunity
cl1ck hëre

Even to send this article to the people whoกve requested it, I’ve had to write carefully and creatively to disguise these words to get them through the sp@m filters.
In an effort to eliminate junk mail, most email providers have sp@m filters in place, and, smart as these are, they don’t know you are not a sp@mmer if it includes what it considers to be suspicious words. Some filters automatically dump suspicious email into a bu1k mail folder, others block them entirely.
Chances are you don’t consider yourself a sp@mmer. You don’t blindly send mi11ions of emails a day to people who don’t want your information. You do respond to client inquiries and send information to people who request it. Even if you only send email to people who have double optëd in for your ezine, you can have your newsletter or message labeled as sp@m if you’re not careful. 1030% or more of your emails may be getting filtered by overzealous ISPs.
Usually, use of just one กoffensiveก word won’t get your email blocked, but repeat it or use it in conjunction with another กoffensiveก word and your recipients won’t receive your articles or notes.
I hate junk email as much as the next person. But if the recipient has requested your ezine or an email response, they should get it. In there effort to eliminate sp@m, the ISPs are beginning to infringe on lëgitimatë communication and commerce.
What You Can Do
Review available lists of words that ISPs consider กsuspicioiusก. I’ve posted one list of some innocuous and common words that if used together or frequently can get your email blocked at: http://www.marketingforsuccess.com/wordstoavoid.html
Use one of the online content checkers to see which remaining words could create problems with sp@m filters such as:
Ezine Chëck http://ezinecheck.com/check.html
Lyris http://www.lyris.com/contentchecker/
Where possible, replace กoffensiveก words. If you need to use a word like กmarkëtingก because it’s the best word for the job, you can get creative with, as I did above, but some sp@m filters block emails containing odd characters.
No strategy for getting by the ISP filters is foolproof, but every effort you make to eliminate potentially problematic words will increase the likelihood that the people who want to read your emails will get them. Take a minute to check your email before you send it and you’ll increase the number of people who read it and respond to it.
2004 © In Mind Communications, LLC. All rights reserved.

About The Author

The author, Charlie Cook, helps service professionals and small business owners attract more clients and be more successful. Sign up for the Frëe Marketing Plan eBook, ก7 Steps to get more clients and grow your businessก at http://www.marketingforsuccess.com

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This article was posted on July 13, 2004

by Charlie Cook

How To Write Email Messages For Phenomenal Result

How To Write Email Messages For Phenomenal Results

by: Ewen Chia

Would you be interested in getting 10 times better results from your current email marketing campaigns?
While the above is a hypothetical figure, it sure got your attention didn’t it…
Though most successful marketers use email marketing as an incomegenerator, only the ultra successful are truly maximizing their profits with it.
What sets them apart? And more importantly, how can you create profitpulling solo emails that put thousands more into your bank account fast?
It’s no rocket science. You’ve basically got to get your readers excited and give them a reason to respond quickly.
There IS a simple formula to achieve this. It’s nothing revolutionary, in fact it’s…
..the same darn formula for writing good copy!
Look, if you want to experience increased sales from all your email promotions, start writing your solos based on the ageold formula known as…
..AIDA!
The basics of copywriting must be applied anywhere words are used to gather responses, especially in your emails.
Here’s a quick look at how you can structure your messages using AIDA as a guide:
1. A Attention
Create subject lines that get your emails opened. Think of this as the headline of your ad as any good copywriter would tell you.
Grab the attention of your rea.ders by using curosity, fear, happiness etc.
An example : ขHave you heard about…ข
Heard about what? They’ll want to find out…
Extend such attentiongrabbers to the first sentence or paragraph of your message body to encourage further reading…
2. I Interest
Once you’ve got their attention, it’s time to get them interested in your message.
An easy way to do this is to simply highlight or ‘create a problem’ they may be experiencing. This puts them on alert and peaks their interest.
For instance, you could highlight the pains of how getting hundreds of spams daily could affect their business, and how there’re no good solutions in sight…
3. D Desire
The ‘desire’ section of your message is where you introduce your proposed ‘solution’ to the problem stated.
Fact is, people need solutions to problems. To be an ultrasuccessful email marketer, your job is simply to give them what they want!
4. A Action
Getting your rea.ders to take positive action, to act on your message, is probably the most important part of your entire campaign.
But a high response rate is only possible if you’ve created the flow of Attention, Interest and Desire successfully.
To encourage immediate action, you should tie a specific deadline or give ‘scarcity’ to the solution you’re offering. For example, a 40% discount for the next 2 days only. Let them know that if they miss this dea.dline, the discount would end and they would have to pay a higher price for the same solution.
Hereกs another tip to squeeze more mileage from all your email promotions: http://tinyurl.com/2soof
Use the AIDA formula today in all your email campaigns, you’ll love the phenomenal results and extra profits from doing so!
Copyright 2004 Ewen Chia

About The Author

Ewen Chia is a successful information publisher and Internet marketer who spits out marketing secrets with fiery passion! Learn how you can instantly get more traffic, sales and increase your profits by visting his various websites here:

http://www.MarketingMakeMoney.com

http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com

http://www.MarketingEbookReview.com

This article was posted on May 16, 2004

by Ewen Chia

A Hard Lesson Learned ….

A Hard Lesson Learned ….

by: Diane Hughes

Are you like me? I like to handle things on my own so I don’t even THINK about incorporating help with anything I am working on … especially my business as a whole.

Well, I learned something new recently. It was a HORRIBLE experience that actually turned out for the better. Let me tell you my story:

I have a team of about 2000 associates. Since all my sites are hosted at Host4Profit except for the site that their websites are hosted on, I decided to transfer everything over. Well, I have transferred many sites before so I knew how it worked. I knew I would get access to Host4Profit before transferring with my registrar and that all I had to do was upload everything over to the new host while my old host was still active. This would make a seamless transfer. No one would ever know anything happened …

To make a long story short, it didn’t turn out to be as seamless as I hoped and things were a little messed up for about a day. Needless to say, I received TONS of emails!

กWhat happened?!ก

กWhere did you go?!ก

กGive me my money back!ก

กHello? Are you there?ก

Well, I couldn’t ANSWER these emails because I was busy getting the transfer problem fixed. This caused most of them to email me a SECOND time, therefore doubling the amount of emails sitting in my email box! Stress was building as I worked to get the problem fixed ….

After the problem was finally resolved, I sent an update letting everyone know what happened. I got back to any emails that I felt needed answering … this whole thing took almost 18 hours of my time and NO SLEEP for me!

The stress and the fact that I had no sleep took itกs toll on me. When I got some really rude emails from some angry customers and associates, I didn’t take my own advice and let it sit until I calmed down. You know what I did instead? I gave refunds to all of them! I didn’t even want to deal with it … as a result, I refunded over $1000 in sales.

I know, I know … you’re asking yourself, กHow could that be a good thing?ก Well, it made me get out of my bull stubborn กIกll handle it allก attitude and incorporate some much needed help. Now I have someone to answer those emails, someone to answer those calls, and various other things. What a RELIEF! Why didn’t I do it sooner?! 🙂

If you answered กYesก to my first question above, heed my advice. Take off those bull horns and find a couple of people that you trust to help with some of your dauntless duties. And if your business is not big enough yet to incorporate help and you’re handling it just fine … don’t forget this advice when it grows right before your very eyes

Copyright 2004 Diane Hughes

About The Author

Diane C. Hughes * ProBizTips.com

FREE Report: Amazingly Simple (Yet Super Powerful) Ways To Skyrocket Your Sales And Build Your BusinessInto A Tower of Profits! ==>> http://madmarketer.com/diane

This article was posted on April 26, 2004

by Diane Hughes

Nigerian Scam

Nigerian Scam

by: Nowshade Kabir

Although this scam has its root from Nigeria dated a decade back, nowadays, you receive similar scam letters from many African countries, notably, Nigeria, Benin, Togo and even South Africa.

The subject lines of these emails are pretty similar. Something like: Business relationship, Urgent Assistance needed, Soliciting for your assistance, A cry for help etc. Most of the emails from this scam begin in the same way. Here are two excerpts from most recent emails that we received:

กI am Engr Moses Ekpen a director in the budget and planning department of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (FMPNR), I had a seven man Tenders Board Committee in charge of contract award and Payment approvals. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.ก

Or

กI am Mrs. Mariam Abacha, the widow of Gen. Sani Abacha, The Late Nigerian Military Head of State. You were introduced to me through the Chamber of Commerce. I am presently in distress and under House arrest while my son Mohammed is undergoing trial in Lagos and Abuja. He is presently detained in prison custody. The government has frozen all the family account and auctioned all our properties.

To save the family from total bankruptcy I have managed to ship to Europe and Asia through a Shipping company, the sum of US20, 000,000.00 respectively kept by my late husband.ก

The essence of these emails are also basically the same – the person although does not know you, thanks to your business reputation, has decided to contact you with a very confidential proposal to transfer a mind boggling amount of money from his country to any foreign land.

There could be numerous stories but the bottom line is they require your help to transfer the amount. For your service they will promise you something from 10 to 40% of the whole amount. There would be a telephone no or an email address to contact the person.

You may wonder how they swindle people.

There are various ways that the crooks rip off their victims. Some of the most commons ones of them are described below:

They will ask you to open a bank account under their name. On their second step, they will ask you to deposit a sum of say US$ 10000 to that account, explaining if the account does not have any decent amount, the officials those who are responsible for transferring the promised millions of dollars would become suspicious and won’t authorize the transaction. Once you deposited the asked sum, they simply withdraw it and disappear. Usually they choose a bank where they might have some connections. So you, after losing your money, do not get any help from the bank either.

They will ask you to send some merchandize or gifts for the officials they need to bribe in order to make the transactions of the assumed millions of dollars smoothly. Naturally, you never hear from them once you sent the requested gifts to their address.

We even heard stories like this one: A man was persuaded to come to Nigeria to look after the transaction by himself. Over there he was kept hostage until he shifted all his liquid assets to the thugs.

Looking at the increasing quantity of scam emails that we receive, this only convinces that many fall for this seemingly simple trap. According to FBI these swindlers have defrauded millions of dollars from gullible people.

There could be other variations of this scam, next time you read an email that feels suspicious, just delete it! There are other ways of making money!

Some words of cautions! Although most of these scams originate from African countries, please do not generalize and consider that all companies form these countries are bad. As usual a few people are responsible for tarnishing the reputation of a country.

About The Author

Nowshade Kabir, Ph.D., is the founder, primary developer and present CEO, of Rusbiz.com, a global business to business ecommerce portal with feature like storefronts, aggregated catalog, emarketplace, trade leads, internal messaging system supply chain solutions, etc. With a doctorate in Information Technology, Dr. Kabir has worked an advisor to government projects and has over 12 years experience in International Trade. An author of many B2B and business related articles; he publishes a biweekly Ezine for online business community. You can subscribe to his newsletter free of charge from http://www.rusbiz.com.

[email protected]

This article was posted on July 11, 2003

by Nowshade Kabir

Five Profitable Ways To Use Your Follow Up Autores

Five Profitable Ways To Use Your Follow Up Autoresponder

by: Radhika Venkata

What? You are not using a Follow up Autoresponder? Then better be. If you are SERIOUS about increasing your subscriber database, you need Follow up autoresponders.

Web site promotion should start with search engines. Next comes your optin list. To maintain your optin list you need a mailing list manager or an autoresponder. You can publish your ezine or offer a free email course through your autoresponders.

What are Follow up autoresponders?

Follow up autoresponders send a series of emails to your prospects that goes at specified intervals. You have complete control on this interval period.

Some of the Follow up Autoresponders: (These are follow up autoresponders with mailing list manager features like broadcast emails)

http://www.autoresponseplus.com/

http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/index.shtml

What you can do with your Follow up autoresponder:

1. Offer free email courses:

Load your autoresponder with a series of emails as a free course. Name it as กMini course that doubles Your profits in 7 daysก or something like that. User should really get temptation to subscribe for your course.

Once they subscribe, emails will go at the set up intervals.

Remember these tips before offering an email course: =Name your email course something attractive =Don’t keep too much gap between your emails =If possible refresh the previous topic in every next email =Keep short URLs =Try to use short courses like 7 10 days. It would be interesting for your reader. They should’t feel like a classroom =Check the URLs before loading them in to your autoresponder

2. Follow up your customer:

After your buyer purchase your product they will be landed on your subscription form. They will enter their name and email address. They will be redirected to your download page. You can set a follow up emails at an interval of 15 or 30 days. Offer some discount in this follow up emails on your other products. Selling a product to your present customer is easier than searching for a new prospect. In this method, you have to keep one form for each of your product.

3. Conduct quizzes, polls:

Yes. You can fill your follow up autoresponder with 10 quizz questions and can set up to send it one per day. People that answer all questions correct will get a discount on your product or free product or free membership etc. DON’t forget to keep your product links in each of your emails. This is a kind of advertisement for you.

4. Benefit from your Ezine articles:

You write ezine articles. Don’t you? Good…

Then load your Follow up autoresponder with 5 10 ezine articles and put a subscribe link on your web pages or in your signature file. Send the link to publishers who are willing to receive your articles. Your articles will be delivered to the subscribers and publishers at an interval of 30 days or what ever time you set up there.

I like to send the articles every 1 2 months to my publishers list. Good publishers always file articles they receive. So if you send them too frequently, it will be little annoying. So better to keep minimum interval of one month.

5. You can also use your follow up autoresponder to send:

testimonials of your products

ebook chapters as samples

product reviews

Frequently asked questions

Tutorials

About The Author

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This article was posted on November 14, 2003

by Radhika Venkata

Paid To Read/ Paid to Click Programs: Can You Real

Paid To Read/ Paid to Click Programs: Can You Really Make Money From It??

by: Jon Dell

Paid to read and paid to click programs, otherwise known as PTR/PTC are legitimate online scheme that are now proliferating on cyberspace. This method is employed by many internet companies in their advertising campaigns. These companies pay people for reading emails. They pay you when you click a link in the email and visit the site that they are advertising, usually for a set amount of time. Others offer payment for surfing, clicking links, banner or just for joining or subscribing to a program. They also give additional money when you get other people to join under your link.

Some people say, itกs not worth they time. กYes they pay, but for a measly sum.. and it takes so much time and effort before you receive your checkก.

About two years ago, I joined some of these PTRE companies and started reading emails and clicking links hoping that I can earn some amount for my gas. I earned a few bucks after six months and I am tempted to stop. But I realized that I only did one part of the system. I never advertise and tell anyone about it… and thatกs the reason why I never accumulate my earnings.

The secret to making money on PTR/PTC is to build a network of members under your name. You see, these companies give additional bonus if those people under you read their emails. And thatกs where the real buck is. Imagine, if you have 10 people under you and those 10 recruited 10 each, you will then be entitled to some amount everytime those 110 people click their emails. The good thing is that most of these PTR/PTC pay up to 5 levels of your downline.

But certainly, you will not accumulate thousands of dollars reading emails and clicking banners. But if you have the habit of sitting in front of the computer daily, maybe, you might as well give this a try. Spending an hour opening your inbox will not harm you anyway. And sometimes, you can really find good offers and products that you do not find in your usual surfing cruise.

May I just give you a few tips in case you are tempted to join a few of these PTR programs. Before joining any program, it is important that you read exactly their offers. What you should look carefully are the following:

Payout Scheme: it is advisable to pick those that give low and reasonable payouts;

Mode of Payment: usually, most PTR/PC pay in check but others also offer payment through egold, paypal or stormpay. Select what will be the most convenient on your situation;

Pay rates: The range is usually from 1 cent to 10 cents, but others also give special rates for special click options and pay to join program;

Signup Bonus: Usually, itกs better to pick those that offer lower signup bonus. Those that give $50, $100 will put you waiting because, their payout will also be much higher.

There is one last thing: Joining too many PTRE programs may clutter your mailbox. For starters, it is advisable to pick at least 10. Make sure that these programs also give you some freedom to choose the type and categories of product ads that you wish to receive. That way, you can also have some enjoyment of viewing the offers.

To build you network, it is important to put those ten PTRE companies into one URL to make your referral task more easier. There are some sites that offer site consolidation.

One can be found at www.ptre.allreal.net.

Good for starters. If you join from their site, you also learn to setup your own mini website that will offer all the programs that you join.. all for free. I suggest that you visit the site to overcome your possible difficulty in building your downlines.

PTRE is all for real and its free. If you need money and looking for a job, certainly this can help. But never expect to get enormous riches out of it.

About The Author

The author is a selfgrown marketer and also owns the following websites.

http://www.smartliving.4all.cc

http://www.ptre.allreal.net

This article was posted on November 14, 2003

by Jon Dell

Free Program Removes Spyware not Detected by Premi

Free Program Removes Spyware not Detected by Premium Security Scan

by: Ed Zivkovic

What is Spyware?

Spyware monitors your surfing habits and sends the data off to some remote server in cyberland. Your computer can get infected with spyware easily by visiting a web page or installing a software program. Kazza is a classic example of a free software download riddled with spyware. More info here: http://compactURL.com/sdft

Spyware Detection Alert

Every week I do a full system scan with Norton Internet Security Professional.

This version of Norton is the top of the range when it comes to detecting all manner of viruses including Trojan horses, spyware, scumware, joke programs and other programs which can cause harm or pose a security risk.

It is an excellent program and I believe my computer would be dead and buried if it was not for Norton.

My most recent scan detected a Trojan Horse called Download.Trojan. This little meanie will attempt to go to the originators site and download more Trojans, worms, viruses and execute them. Scary stuff but Norton nipped it in the bud before any problems were created.

Also, every day Norton detects threats contained within my incoming emails. It immediately removes the threats by either fixing the infected files or deleting infected emails. This can be a reason I can be accused of not answering emails. Bad luck I say to that.

Ever since I have been running Norton, I have not been scanning with AdAware. I recently discovered that AntiVirus programs, as good as they are, sometimes fail to detect all threats from a computer. So I did a full scan with AdAware and was surprised to discover even more spyware on my system. So now I will also be scanning once a week with AdAware.

Free Spyware Removal Software

AdAware is so good and yet it is free. It is available from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/

There is more good free spyware detection programs available here: http://www.spybot.info/en/index.

Find out what Scumware is here: http://www.scumware.com

Symantec has an Online Virus Encyclopedia which after a little browse, should be enough motivation for anyone to get some kind of antivirus and security program installed on their computer. Find the entire AZ known viruses encyclopedia here: http://compactURL.com/qhdf

Conclusion

Do a full system scan at least every week. Download the latest AntiVirus definitions as soon as they become available. Use more than one program to ensure all threats are detected and removed immediately. Always enable your antivirus and security program to scan all incoming and outgoing emails.

If you do not have the very best antivirus protection, do not complain if your emails get no response. I allow my antivirus program to delete all infected emails along with any attachments.

Copyright 2004 Ed Zivkovic

About The Author

The author, Ed Zivkovic owns his own website which contains articles with all sorts of tips for work at home webmasters. Here is the site: http://www.ezau.com

This article was posted on September 20, 2004

by Ed Zivkovic