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Date and Time: Tuesday April 18th at 8 pm EDT
Thursday April 20th at 10 am EDT
Speaker and Topic: Mike Paetzold on Using Article Submissions to Build Your List
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The article for today's issue was written by Tim Whiston. Feel free to use this article for your newsletter or blog, as long as you include the resource box. If you are a rebrander of Opt In Master Course you may substitute your link for Tim's when publishing this article.
What The Internet Owes Me
by Tim Whiston
What does the internet owe me for all my hard work? What am I entitled to in return for the money I spend advertising my business every month? What, in the grand scheme of things, do I rightly deserve for giving 100% of myself to the success of my networking ventures? Not a single thing.
Don't misunderstand me here. The question is not "What would I like to see in the way of profits from my efforts?" Clearly, I hope and work for the best possible results.
However, my projections and anticipations are an entirely seperate issue for the moment. The matter at hand is the ideal the we deserve success because, after all, the internet "levels the playing field".
I read a lot of forum posts made by people who "just don't know what to do" or "are almost out of money (sob)". I can almost hear the whine in their voice as I read their little pity rant.
I'm sorry to see people struggling with money issues, and I know it can be very frustrating to work so hard at a venture and make zilch after months of perseverance. I've been there before, and I'll probably be there again because that's life for everyone but the Rockefellars.
Business is risk, and there is no guarantee. I chose to write about this because it's something I need to continually remind myself of.
This past week, I was throwing my own pity party, and I invited a friend via IM. After a brief exchange of "How's it going?" type stuff, I let fly with the moaning and groaning.
"I don't understand it. I'm spending hours a day on this thing, and I've dumped $400 into advertising within the last four weeks. Why am I not seeing the results I want?"
The victim of my energy sapping whimper fest casually told me he had spent $6,000 on one of his ventures in 2004, and that things were starting to go pretty well for that project. There was a brief pause in the conversation as I realized I was being cordially told to quit with the whining.
It was a nice reality check for me. What had I been thinking? Did I honestly expect to make a fortune in a month's time just because I had been working really hard and spending a decent amount of money on advertising?
After all, my online business is a long term commitment. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of a new endeavor. A tremendous amount of hard work and the wise use of one's resources will usually pay off, but it may take a while for this to manifest.
To borrow a few of the words used by Clint Eastwood in his film Unforgiven: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it..."
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Tim Whiston is one of the creators of Opt-in Master Course, a complete guide to building and managing a profitable mailing list.
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Check out the forum
There are reviews of the various recommended programs being undertaken. One of the biggest reasons for making this a web based program rather than using something like a rebrandable pdf is to allow it to be kept current. There will be some updates to the course also adding in some more information. Take the time to let your opinions be known.
You may access the forum here.
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New Program from Mike and Tim
In response to numerous requests, we have recently produced three complete autoresponder series that can be dowloaded or, if you use Email Aces, transferred instantly into your existing responder.
We have launched these as a separate site ResponderSeries.com.
So if you are struggling to come up with a sequence of messages for your opt-in prospects take a minute and check it out.
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New program from Mike
I am also hard at work at creating an automated newsletter creator. This will allow you to pick an article, add in your information and ads then click a button and format it so that it is ready to copy and paste into your autoresponder.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in you can sign up for the launch notification list at Ready Made Newsletters.
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Thanks for your support and we are here to help you build a profitable list.
Mike Paetzold and Tim Whiston
