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Hey folks;
Dec. 21st, 2004
Hello once again and welcome to the many new members, we continue to
grow.
As usual you are getting this newsletter because you subscribed. See
the link at the end of the newsletter if you no longer want to receive
my tips and ramblings...grin... though I hope you do continue to join
me.
A few more newsletter archives
are up at:
http://crazywebguy.com/crazy-archives.htm
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I hope all of our USA members had a great and blessed Thanksgiving!
I hope all of you have very great and blessed holiday season. I'm saying
that now in case I don't get back to you by Christmas time here in the
states...grin...
I have my calendar blocked out for vacation from Dec. 22nd until Jan
3rd 2005, so it could be next year before I write again, but no that's
not a promise, but most likely.
...smile...
Ok, on with the Crazy Web Guy Notes & News.
:-)
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Web Log Awards
Don't think blogging is popular?
Check out the below site for the blog awards for 2004.
There were 366,187 votes cast in all categories over 10 days in early
December 2004, here are the winners of the of The 2004 Weblog Awards
http://2004weblogawards.com/
If you are thinking about starting a blog then check this site for ideas
and examples of what the favorite and popular blogs are doing.
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Holiday 2004 Appreciation Teleseminar By JVAlert
Download your "no-charge" copy in the member's area.
Participants submitted their most pressing questions about Internet
marketing, traffic, pay-per-click advertising, making money on the Internet,
copywriting, conversion, and a bunch of other subjects. Plus we discussed
revolutions in marketing we've seen in 2004 and what we think is coming
up for 2005.
With this diverse group, needless to say not everyone was in agreement!
Fun, fun, what can I say.
Several great panelists joined us such as Ken McArthur, Rosalind Gardner,
Willie Crawford, Paul Myers, Jane Mark, Phil Bastin, Sid Hale, David
Garfinkle and James Maduk.
Oh yeah I was there too, I hosted the event.
Be sure to grab a copy of this informative event "no-charge",
the link has been posted in the members area.
http://crazywebguy.com/members/members.htm
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(all lower case letters)
Scroll down to the Audio Files section.
It's a rather large mp3 file so allow time for downloading if you don't
have a high speed connetion. About 20+ meg.
The online issues of the newsletter will not
have the user name and password posted. This will be sent out each month
via email.
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Resources and Tools
Did you know you can monitor your interests with regular alerts sent
to you by Google? Google has a new service called Google Alert.
Setup some keywords or phrases you want to track and Google sends out
alerts to you.
http://www.googlealert.com
You could use this to monitor other businesses in a similar area as
yours and how they are doing in the search engine area.
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Content protection from theft or being plagiarized.
Ever wonder if your content has been copied or stolen from your site?
Visit the below site to check and see. Type in your URL and it will
return results with links that have matching or almost matching copy
to yours.
Of course if you are using a sales page template from a reseller program
then that's a different matter. It will then return the top 15 results
of similar resellers.
They also have some tips to help you protect your stuff.
http://www.copyscape.com
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A little fun and mind teaser.
Check out this mind teaser and online card trick, watch as the computer
reads your mind each and every time you pick a card.
http://www.oxfordstudent.com/funstuff/card.html
Can you figure out how it works?
After doing the trick several times I figured it out. It's really simple
yet amazing in the effect it gives you. If you don't figure it out,
stay tuned and I'll explain it in the next issue of the newsletter.
This is an example of how we sometimes look past the obvious. Sometimes
I think we assume the obvious too much, even in our business.
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Upcoming teleseminar on Tuesday
Dec. 21st at 7:00 PM Central Time
Yep that's tonight!
Nathan Anderson is the "behind the scenes" SEO expert to top Internet
marketers like Kirt Christensen and Brian Keith Voiles and he will be
the featured speaker at our next Perpetual Learning Series Event.
He's been in Internet Marketing since 1997. SEO Club offers a monthly
statistical analysis of the Google and Yahoo search engines, as well
as discounts to popular SEO tools, personal SEO training, and a forum
for ongoing support.
Nathan will be talking about getting the most from the search engines
without spending enormous amounts of time and effort learning all the
theory and methods of Search Engine Optimization.
I'll be there hosting the event tonight. Go to the below link for more
details:
http://www.jvalert.com/events.aspx?id=12
I hope you join us tonight.
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Creating Info Products
I want to leave you with an excerpt from one of my previous teleseminars
with Michael Green, Willie Crawford, Jeff Smith and Tony Blake.
We had an almost two hour teleseminar on creating informaion products,
details at:
http://www.createinformationproducts.com
Below is the excerpt, and Tony is talking about getting ideas to create
info products and doing the research and I just want to share a portion
of his ideas and resources with you:
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Tony said:
"Gary, I think one of the things we all need to understand is and
that's creating information products on a bass ackwards type of situation.
People create the product first and then go out and try to find the
market. You need to find the market first and then create a product
specifically for that market.
You also need to look at the market universe and see if the universe
is big enough to support you making a profit on it. Just because there
is a book available doesn't mean the market place is large enough for
you to profit from it on a larger scale.
A lot of stuff that's published out there, is published with just that,
as in a very general sense. One of the tools that I love to use, I've
talked about this several times this week alone on several teleseminars
and teleconferences is something I think a lot of people tend to forget.
A lot of the tools, everyone wants to do everything online, well there's
still a lot of stuff off line you can use. Jeff talked about magazines,
bookstores, well listening to people, I love going to restaurants and
sidewalk cafes and malls and listening to what people's concerns are.
But one of the most important tools out there that very few people use
now days is a multi-book set, especially in the United States, I presume
Canada probably has their own version, I think the UK has one.
It's called the Standard Rate and Data Service, SRDS book of lists.
Standard Rate and Data Service you can find it at SRDS.com there's a
couple of challenges here in using the SRDS and before I get into how
you can use the SRDS to find and discover niche markets you can create
products for. You need to understand first that the SRDS is a grouping
of different books that are used for buying and selling and placement
in certain media.
There's a book on television and radio, there's a book on magazines.
The one we want to look at is the one on mailing lists. It's a two volume
set. You can't just walk in any bookstore and buy it, it has to be done
by subscription, and subscription runs about five or six hundred dollars
a year. Which is out of the means of a lot of people, unless you are
going to use it a lot. Sometimes on eBay there are people that will
sell used copies.
Now someone once said to me, if I buy a used copy it's going to be,
by the way the SRDS comes out six times a year. Every other month there's
an issue of the SRDS that comes out, and again they are about the size
of two big city telephone books. They say well this thing is outdated
about 6-8 months, so who cares, we are not using it to rent list, though
we may use it down the road to define lists we may want to rent if we
are going to do offline marketing.
What we want to look at is what's out there, what's in that niche, what's
being sold, what is the price point, how big is the universe, by the
way the word universe means how many people within that market niche
are there, that might be interested in this product.
If there is fifteen hundred people within a market niche you know that
is a tight market niche to make a profit on. But if you find a market
niche that might have two or three million people you know there is
a large enough universe to introduce your product and make a fairly
decent profit off of that market place.
When you get to the SRDS first off you can find most SRDS, and they
are 6 months to a year old, in most any big city library especially
in the United States. Again overseas it's going to be a different story,
the SRDS is specifically a US product and it handles US lists. But almost
any big city library has a copy of the SRDS, they get it from SRDS and
they get sent out to libraries and it's usually six months to a year
old but that doesn't matter. We want to use it for information purposes.
Once we define a market place defining a market place using the SRDS
and understanding there may be 25 or 30 lists, we can look at the price
point products sold, what the products were that sold, break down between
men and women, what kind of credit cards they used, etc.
We can then also go online and do research and find out if that market
place also transfers online. Usually if there is a market place offline,
there is a market place online although it may be a smaller market place,
but it let's us know if there's a market place online. And we can find
that out by doing Google searches, by going to several online list rental
companies that will sell you opt-in lists for specific markets and again
you can run a Google search for list rental companies.
Going to specific websites and forums and discussion lists that service
that niche market and listening to what they are talking about, listening
to what their pains are, what solutions they need.
Because that's what they want to buy, they want to buy information to
deliver solutions to them. It's a tactical way of going about it, but
it also assures your product has a greater chance of success because
you've now done your homework."
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So heed Tony's wisdom and "do your homework" first.
Want more details on the teleseminar?
Go to:
http://www.createinformationproducts.com
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Coming in the next issue:
I'll have the interview I did with Willie Crawford where he discusses
how he makes six figures in his online business. It will be available
in mp3 and PDF format to members.
I'll also have my CrazyWebGuy show with Becky Hagel posted for listening
to online.
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Well that's it for this issue, happy holidays!
:-)
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Last but not least, please send any comments, suggestions,
tips, hints and so forth to:
gary@crazywebguy.com
I do appreciate your comments and input.
Till next week;
May you and your family have a blessed
and safe week.
Thanks for joining me;
Gary Knuckles
Crazy Web Guy News
http://www.crazywebguy.com
BudgetWare, Inc.
5531 Youngville Rd.
Springfield, TN. 37172
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