Is the Recession Already Here?

One business that usually does well in down economic times is do-it-yourself or home improvement stores. You take on projects yourself like painting and lawn care that you would normally hire others to do when times are good. You might even take on bigger projects you would not normally consider.

If you make $1000 a week, why scrub your own toilets?

I see landscapers everywhere in South Florida. Mostly immigrant crews. Legal or illegal? I don’t know and frankly don’t care.

But Home Depot’s sales are down 26% from last year. I was in to purchase some materials a few days before Christmas, and the checkout lines were not even long.

If a so-called recession proof business is already in a recession, are we now in a depression without knowing it?

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Charles Lamm, retired attorney and lifelong scanner, posts articles on his Virtual Joe Friday blog. His latest project is Affiliate Marketing for Scanners.

2 CAs

As a scanner affiliate marketer, you have only 2 tasks to complete each day:

1. create original pre-sell content
2. get eyeballs on that content

You can pick any affiliate niche or topic your scanner heart desires. You can then create:

• articles
• reviews
• blog posts
• ebooks
• reports
• white papers
• blog comments
• videos
• podcasts
• flash presentations
• MP3 files
• streaming audio
• streaming video

How you promote your content depends on your media.

The Devil is in the details.

Micro invest $9.29 now and play scanner trumps the Devil and the details.

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Charles Lamm is a retired attorney and a lifelong scanner who recently discovered his “affliction”. You can read this and other articles – on a variety of topics, of course – on his blog at http://www.virtualjoefriday.com. His websites include http://www.clixforbrix.com and http://www.affiliatemarketingforscanners.com.

Micro Invest by Clicking Here.

Marketing Guru Beatdown

Affiliate marketing “gurus” fall into 2 major schools:

1. build an email list of opt in subscribers and hammer it with offers

or

2. open a Google Adwords account and pay for targeted visitors to your affiliate link

Do these marketing techniques work? Sure. For a few non-scanners. And these methods are not working as well for the gurus as they once did.

Why do you think there are so many free ebooks available now teaching list building and Pay Per Click? If you download the free ebook, you subscribe to their list. You agree to get hammered when the guru comes up with a new method of marketing that might actually work for you.

Why are lists and PPC not working the way they once did?

1. spam is killing email

and

2. Google and the other PPC search engines are making it harder and more expensive to promote affiliate links

Your email inbox is likely so full of Nigerian bank scams, penis enlargement, fake watches, get-rich-quick schemes, and Viagra ads that you may well delete 80% of you email before reading anything.

If you are really smart, you use a web-based email account to join all newsletters, and then delete all of the email in that account after you get the free stuff for subscribing.

Be honest. If you really want to send a text message to someone, don’t you use your cell phone instead?

My daughters texts me. My wife texts me. I text them back. No spam. No email filters. No delays.

Even the biggest list marketing “gurus” have been shut down by their web hosts in the middle of a sales campaign by bogus spam charges.

Your ISP is not your friend. They will shut you down in a nanosecond and ask questions later.

Some of the best affiliate marketers made their bones on PPC advertising. Four years ago. Which is something like 100 years ago in Internet time.

As soon as some clever marketer comes up with a way to make good money online, in come the copycats and the vultures. Google changes the rules, and everyone gets screwed. Except Google.

Even the affiliate merchants themselves will prohibit affiliates from bidding on the most lucrative keywords.

Affiliate marketing for scanners is not about:

- building a list
- writing a newsletter
- publishing an ezine
- PPC
- email list marketing
- black hat
- cloaking
- banners
- classifieds
- SEO tricks

It’s amazing. The big guys let the little guys discover new profit niches, then they change the rules and steal the pie instead of sharing it.

Fight Back. Don’t Fight Yourself.

You can start today to make money with affiliate marketing using totally free resources. Once you get your feet wet, you can then set up your own web host, domains, and websites.

What other business lets you test the market free before investing?

To save time, I am going to ask you for a micro-investment?

Why?

Because the Devil is in the details. I bet you can smell the sulphur.

For a one-time $9.29 via Pay Pal or your credit card, you can instantly download Affiliate Marketing for Scanners, which covers the 2 Critical Activities that every affiliate marketer must do to succeed.

Only 2. All the other marketing techniques are dessert.

These Critical Activities are so fundamental that the search engines could not exist without them.

Beat the Googles of the world and stare down the Devil for $9.29. You are smarter, faster, better, and more innovative than the big boys could ever hope to be.

To read more, or to make your micro investment, visit:

http://www.affiliatemarketingforscanners.com/?page_id=4

The rest of the PayPal Story

PayPal lovers gush over the advantages of this payment processor for eBay auctions or business in general.

For fans, PayPal allows you to:

1. accept credit card payments without a merchant account

2. sell products or transfer money for low fees

3. buy or sell physical or digital products internationally in 6 different currencies

4. set up your online business and receive income in minutes using the PayPal shopping cart

5. buy and sell on eBay with shipping and taxes built in

6. take advantage of buyer and seller protection plans

7. prevent fraud in online transactions

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See the full article: The
Love-Hate Relationship with PayPal

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If you sell online and use PayPal as your main payment processor, you
have to take steps now to prevent an arbitrary and capricious shutdown
of your account, especially if you sell on eBay.

Selling Products Disapproved by Paypal?
Paypal account frozen in the past?
Tired of being at PayPal’s mercy?

Register
your name and email address to find our how you can take a few simple
steps to help prevent you from ever getting your PayPal account
Suspended.

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About the author: Charles Lamm is a retired attorney and
lifelong scanner. His most recent project is the mini-ebook Affiliate Marketing for Scanners.

What do you do for a living?

The core conflict for scanners is that we let others confine us with the question, “What do you do for a living?” or its cousin, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

How many lovers have told you to grow up? Not enough fingers and toes to count? You are not alone.

In the U.S., we judge and label people based on their occupations. Status attaches to certain jobs like doctors and lawyers. We call them professionals, but each is really just a job in snob’s clothing.

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See: 101 Reasons to Micro-Invest $9.29 in Your New Scanner Life with Affiliate Marketing for Scanners

PayPal Survival Guide

“Next, bring out the heavy guns:
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The best defense is a good offense. With the PayPal Survival Guide, you can learn:
- How to open a new anonymous Paypal account.
- Sell ANYTHING from ANYWHERE without PayPal knowing.
- Get a new account without Paypal linking it to your old account.
- Become PayPal verified without revealing your personal info.
- Prevent PayPal from ever tracking and tracing you.
- Never have your Paypal account Restricted or Frozen.
- Withdraw money from Paypal into ANYONE’S Bank Account
- Prevent your eBay and PayPal accounts from ever cross-linking.
- PayPal ‘Seller’ Protection Explained in English.
- Pass routine account verification processes with a breeze.
- Alternative Selling Options
- Stop Paypal from ever knowing what you’re selling.
- Eliminate Frozen accounts for Good

The small cost of the guide is the best insurance that you won’t be caught with your PayPal pants down.”

Full story: The Love-Hate Relationship with PayPay

Critical Activities for Affiliate Marketing

Critical Activities for Affiliate Marketing

by Charles Lamm

The one marketing activity that will never be blocked by the search engines is fresh, original content.

Never.

The search engines are thirsty for content. Dying for it. Can’t live without it.

People use search engines to find INFORMATION. They don’t go searching for ads, but ads is a lot of what they find.

If your surfer has a choice between a well-written article with a link to a recommended product or service, or an in-your-face flash banner with audio blaring, what do you think they will choose?

This brings us to the two critical activities all affiliate marketers must do:

1. Create content with links to your affiliate products.

1. Build a network of friends and prospects via email, blogs, rss feeds, and social networking sites.

You can learn Search Engine Optimization tricks and tips later. SEO matters, but not until after you have content and places to display it in place. It is beyond the scope of this ebook to teach you to market your affiliate campaigns. We need to concentrate on setting up the campaigns in the first place in Scanner Expert Optimized fashion.

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Charles Lamm is a retired attorney and a lifelong scanner who recently discovered his “affliction”. You can read this and other articles – on a variety of topics, of course – on his blog at http://www.virtualjoefriday.com. His websites include http://www.clixforbrix.com and http://www.your-dating-directory.com.

Be the Goal

Be the Goal

by Charles Lamm

External goals are the enemy, a prescription for failure. Giving your personal power away to the prison of goals guarantees defeat. Why put yourself through it?

Be the goal.

Think about all the problems you have in life that stimulate you to create goals. You even work hard to make sure your goals are measurable and have a deadline.

Few of us have not succumbed to ambitious objectives much like these:

· Lose 20 pounds before the class reunion next month.

· Become a millionaire in 5 years.

· Workout at the gym 3 times a week.

· Cut out all junk food from your diet.

· Spend 1 hour a night helping the kids with their homework.

Then, life gets in the way.

Your boss needs a proposal for your major client by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. You brew a pot of coffee, open a box of donuts, forget the gym, leave the kids to their own devices, and start to work – on your own time.

If you define success with external goals, life will assure your failure.

Be the goal.

If you are to be the financially successful, physically fit, nurturing parent you have created in your mind, no one interruption from reality can stop you from being you.

All “problems” have one common denominator – you.

Your problems do not exist without you. You and you alone are responsible for everything that happens in your life. The situation may not be your fault, but you are responsible.

How can anyone else be responsible for you?

Boss requires you to work late? It’s your responsibility.

Kids failing in school? It’s your responsibility.

Gasping for air walking up a flight of stairs? It’s your responsibility.

Allow your mind to simmer and create the solutions.

Be the goal.

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Charles Lamm is a retired attorney and a lifelong scanner who recently discovered his “affliction”. You can read this and other articles – on a variety of topics, of course – on his blog at http://www.virtualjoefriday.com or contact him by email at focus@vitaclix.com.