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		<title>Using Free Traffic System For The First Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a follow up on my previous blog post on starting all over again for my health website, and using the advice from Andrew Wee, I have just completed converting one of my articles to a spinnable format so that my articles can be spin into different articles.  Now awaiting for approval from Free Traffic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a follow up on my previous blog post on starting all over again for my health website, and using the advice from Andrew Wee, I have just completed converting one of my articles to a spinnable format so that my articles can be spin into different articles.  Now awaiting for approval from <a href="http://www.freetrafficsystem.com/a.php?p=5498" target="_blank">Free Traffic System</a> (easier to refer as FTS) and see what kind of results can I expect.</p>
<p>I use a keyword i am targeting that is not that competitive and should be easy to rank as my experiment for FTS.</p>
<p>In the mean while, I just realized I have more than 15 articles in my computer that I have written in the past but never submitted to any article directory.  Stupid move but it sure allows me to have more articles to convert to make full use of the <a href="http://www.freetrafficsystem.com/a.php?p=5498" target="_blank">Free Traffic System</a> platform.</p>
<p>By the way, to Andrew Wee, thanks for the tips in the previous blog post comments you made.  I have written down the details and executing them.</p>
<p>Ok.  Thats it.  I have a slow plan to produce 4 unique articles for 4 different platforms and 1 spinnable article for Free Traffic System per day and see how things worked out.  Still have to change my squeeze page too.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>andrew</p>
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		<title>Time To Improve Clickbank Sales After Neglecting It For So Long</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I started doing videos for customers to teach them how to install software, I have became very very lazy in terms of writing articles to improve my clickbank sales.  Though I can pretty much survive just by doing videos for customers, I have to admit laziness is the middle name now.  I can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever since I started doing videos for customers to teach them how to install software, I have became very very lazy in terms of writing articles to improve my clickbank sales.  Though I can pretty much survive just by doing videos for customers, I have to admit laziness is the middle name now.  I can enthusiastically setup software programs for people, learn new software, write my own programs but when it comes to the right things to do for clickbank, I have totally neglected my clickbank sales.</p>
<p>This is the current sad status of my clickbank account. And truth be told, since i had found another way to find money on the Internet, I gave up clickbank for quite a while.</p>
<p>But it was always a wish of mine to see the bars of clickbank being in blue and grey everyday.  So as of now, I have only made $25.48 for the whole month of April 2009.</p>
<p>Inspired by John Yeo of <a href="http://www.johnyeo.name/">www.johnyeo.name</a> as well advice from Andrew Wee of <a href="http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/">www.whoisandrewwee.com</a> , I felt it was time to buck on clickbank.  Consistency is the game and Andrew Wee gave me a lot of advice as well.  There was no point in showing empty clickbank account.  And since i have all the time in the world, it was time.</p>
<p><strong>Case Study : Weight Loss Niche<br />
</strong></p>
<p>On this day, I have decided to document down my steps to turning this website profitable again.  When I first started this health website in May 2007, i was hoping for it to be a hit and played around with it.  It went through a number of transformations.</p>
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<p>1 &#8211; It was first a review site, then i use ppc and article marketing to push traffic.<br />
2 &#8211; After that, I made the website into a weight loss quiz site (using a script given out freely by Eben Pagan), but i got mixed results.<br />
3 – Then I tried to add articles to the website so that it will look more like a full fledge website<br />
4 – Then I converted the website into a blog but it wasn&#8217;t focus enough.<br />
5 – And the final transformations became just a long squeeze page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/weight-loss-website.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-290" title="weight-loss-website" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/weight-loss-website-300x224.png" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p>When I was very focused, I manage to churn out around 100 articles for this website. And majority of the articles was mainly submitted to ezinearticles.  I once emailed Sean Mize and he mention that in terms of article marketing, ezinearticles is still the best and most effective place to get traffic.</p>
<p>Upon the advice, this was what I got:</p>
<p>This is the current status of my article marketing efforts which I have captured from my ezinearticles for my article statistics.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats1_p11.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-292" title="ezinearticle_stats1_p11" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats1_p11.png" alt="" width="500" height="31" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats1_p2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-293" title="ezinearticle_stats1_p2" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats1_p2.png" alt="" width="276" height="161" /></a></p>
<p>I have another pen name to write those weight loss articles as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats2_p1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-294" title="ezinearticle_stats2_p1" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats2_p1.png" alt="" width="500" height="31" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats2_p2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-295" title="ezinearticle_stats2_p2" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ezinearticle_stats2_p2.png" alt="" width="281" height="162" /></a></p>
<p>This is the number of submission I have made:</p>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>No Of Articles Submitted</strong></span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Month/Year</strong></span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Clickbank Sales</strong></span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>No of Sales</strong></span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Remarks</strong></span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: small;">6</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: small;">Sep 2007</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: small;">$23.05</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: small;">Change to Review Page</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">21</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oct 2007</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$27.12</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Change to Quiz Page</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nov 2007</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$23.05</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Change to collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dec 2007</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$53.14</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">11</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jan 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$40.18</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">11</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Feb 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$66.75</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">43</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mar 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$45.29</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Apr 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$40.18</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">May 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$0.00</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">0</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Changed to direct linking</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">0</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jul 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$26.96</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Changed to direct linking</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Aug 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$26.96</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Changed to direct linking</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td width="71"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sep 2008</span></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;">$0.00</span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;">0</span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collect Opt-in</span></td>
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<td width="140"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Total Articles : 122</strong></span></td>
<td width="71"></td>
<td width="146"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Total Amount : $372.68</strong></span></td>
<td width="111"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Total Sales : 14</strong></span></td>
<td width="141"><span style="font-size: x-small;">That&#8217;s it. No more sales after that. </span></td>
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<p>And after some cleaning up of my subscriber base, i have around 259 subscribers in my getresponse list.  On average, I have about 5 to 8 new subscribers per month.  This is very bad opt-in rate.  Let me show you why.</p>
<p>This is capture by statcounter.com on 23rd April 2009.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-statcounter-stats_p1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-296" title="overall-statcounter-stats_p1" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-statcounter-stats_p1.png" alt="" width="500" height="355" /></a></p>
<p>On a total basis, this is what I have.  A total of 191 visitors for the month of April 2009.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-statcounter-stats_p2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-297" title="overall-statcounter-stats_p2" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-statcounter-stats_p2.png" alt="" width="500" height="31" /></a></p>
<p>Based on a check of statcounter, I have a page that captures all subscribers who are confirmed subscribers via double opt-in, and this is the results.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-statcounter-stats2_p2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-298" title="overall-statcounter-stats2_p2" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-statcounter-stats2_p2.png" alt="" width="500" height="31" /></a></p>
<p>But on a check on my getresponse list, out of 10 opt-ins, 3 subscribers have unsubscribed.  So I could only find 7 subscribers left for this month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-getresponse-stats.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-299" title="overall-getresponse-stats" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/overall-getresponse-stats.png" alt="" width="400" height="141" /></a></p>
<p>Facts:</p>
<p>1 &#8211; A total of 191 visitors with 10 opt-ins.  So the conversion rate is only <strong>0.05%</strong>.<br />
2 – Since 3 have unsubscribed, my conversion rate is really just <strong>0.03%</strong>.</p>
<p>This is bad.  And since only 7 have subscribed, I cannot really expect much sales from the opt-in.</p>
<p>So time for some revamp.</p>
<p>These are the resources i am using:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/recommends/bluehost" target="_blank">Bluehost.com</a> – Choice for hosting (Its not free)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/recommends/getresponse" target="_blank">Getresponse.com</a> – Choice for collecting opt-ins (Its not free)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.clickbank.com" target="_blank">Clickbank.com</a> – Choice for getting products to promote (free)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ezinearticles.com" target="_blank">EzineArticles.com</a> – Choice for submitting my articles (free)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.statcounter.com" target="_blank">Statcounter.com</a> – Choice for tracking where my traffic is coming from (free)</p>
<p>To include into my arsenal:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/recommends/affiliateprophet" target="_blank">Affiliate Prophet Software</a> – Choice to track conversion rates (Its not free)</p>
<p>wp-traffic – Choice to distribute my blog articles.  It is a paid wordpress plugin. (Its not free)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.humanspinner.com" target="_blank">humanspinner.com</a> – Choice to spin my articles by real humans. (Its not free)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/recommends/freetrafficsystem" target="_blank">freetrafficsystem.com</a> – Another choice for me to mass submit my articles. (free)</p>
<p>(Read this squidoo lens done up by my friend Eusof on the freetrafficsystem.com here at <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/how-i-get-first-page-on-google" target="_blank">http://www.squidoo.com/how-i-get-first-page-on-google</a> )</p>
<p>I am still coming up with a final blueprint, which I have to dig where I stored Andrew Wee&#8217;s notes (ashamed to say I stop reading it and worst, did not do anything about it too).</p>
<p>This will be for day 1.  Let&#8217;s count down to the first 7 days and see what exactly is my blueprint and what is the results i am seeing.  Hopefully, some sales can start coming in.  I am doing this same plan for another 1 more website but it will remain more of a secret for now because it is a profitable niche than this weight loss site (Made around $483.50 for this website).</p>
<p>Regards,<br />
Andrew</p>
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		<title>Testing PPC with Yahoo Search Marketing In February and Google Content Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have barely updated my blog but this is a good thing for me.  Cause there are progress in my IM journey and that is why I seldom blog.
First up, I have been helping a friend setup DLGuard and Amember software.  What a learning process to go through.  I think i can start [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know I have barely updated my blog but this is a good thing for me.  Cause there are progress in my IM journey and that is why I seldom blog.</p>
<p>First up, I have been helping a friend setup DLGuard and Amember software.  What a learning process to go through.  I think i can start doing some videos and selling it.</p>
<p>Second, been running 3 campaigns using Yahoo Search Marketing and after failing to get any sales for my first 2 campaigns, my 3rd campaign is already seeing 2 clickbank sales.  Thanks to friends and a coach who has been giving us some great training.  His name will be revealed soon.</p>
<p>Thirdly, i finally started running my polls for a CPA offer again.  Though I lost money, i still consider it a step forward.  Spent $215 singapore dollars and earn $165 from my CPA network.  This was the first time i ever surpassed $100 for my efforts from the traffic in google content network.</p>
<p>Fourthly, subscribing to SENuke now.  Lets see how much money can this software bring my sales.</p>
<p>Business have started picking up.  Clickbank sales is still way below my usual mark but hopefully it starts to increase.</p>
<p>Thats all for now.  Time to earn more money.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Been Pretty Bad Sales Since December 2008 Until January 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, it has been a pretty bad sales month for december 2008 and january 2009.  Really learnt a lesson that I should have expanded to more niches instead of relaying on just 1 niche.  Look at the stats below.  It was going up but the moment december came, things went downhill all the way.
October  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So far, it has been a pretty bad sales month for december 2008 and january 2009.  Really learnt a lesson that I should have expanded to more niches instead of relaying on just 1 niche.  Look at the stats below.  It was going up but the moment december came, things went downhill all the way.</p>
<p>October  2008 $246.54<br />
November 2008 $268.43<br />
December 2008 $26.30<br />
January  2008 $32.34</p>
<p>Time to buck up, buck up, buck up</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Out Of Reservists And Back to Learning The Basics Of Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been pretty out of focus these days and though the sales are coming in slowly, I have decided to go back to basics.  Meaning I have been feeling a bit of loss because I seem to miss a step whenever I launch a new campaign and even though some campaigns may bring in sales, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Been pretty out of focus these days and though the sales are coming in slowly, I have decided to go back to basics.  Meaning I have been feeling a bit of loss because I seem to miss a step whenever I launch a new campaign and even though some campaigns may bring in sales, it does not really last that long, especially if there are more and more competitors fighting for the same product sales.</p>
<p>I sign on to both Patric Chan and Affilioblueprint courses and see if i can breakthrough from my current stagnation and strive for higher sales.  My main aim is still to conquer clickbank sales to achieve at least $3000 per month from it.  Though I have temptations to deviate to CPA networks and such, clickbank is something that i would like to conquer.</p>
<p>Lets see how both courses go from here.</p>
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		<title>Lazy Has Been My Middle Name These Days But Luckily There Is Clickbank Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly speaking, I have not been as hardworking as I should have been and progress has continued to be slow.  But the funny thing is sales for clickbank has been improving a bit.  In the sense that at least there are some sales this month. Still shy from really making a living online since the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frankly speaking, I have not been as hardworking as I should have been and progress has continued to be slow.  But the funny thing is sales for clickbank has been improving a bit.  In the sense that at least there are some sales this month. Still shy from really making a living online since the sales, when compare to any affiliate, is peanuts (hence businesspeanuts).</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 340px"><img title="Clickbank progress october" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/images/clickbank_progress_oct08_so_far.jpg" alt="Clickbank progress october" width="330" height="147" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Clickbank progress october</p></div>
<p>I have around 60 over articles not submitted yet so progress should have been much much better i guess.  Anyway, I have to apologize if some of you are looking for some information on what i am doing.  But basically, my methods are superbly easy and straight forward. Basically I have been very lazy for this product but it seems to bring in the best results.</p>
<p>This is what i have roughly done so far. <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>The simple 7 steps to small clickbank sales</strong>.</p>
<p>Step 1: Find a product in <a href="http://www.clickbank.com" target="_blank">clickbank</a> with <strong>gravity between 50 to 200</strong></p>
<p>Step 2: Find long tail keywords and do abit of keyword spying on the competition, <strong>gather around 30 keywords (<a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2" target="_blank">google keyword tool</a> and <a href="http://alwaysfindsuccess.com/recommends/keywordelite" target="_blank">keyword elite</a>)<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Step 3: Buy a domain name (<a href="http://namecheap.com" target="_blank">namecheap.com</a>) similar to the product you are promoting</p>
<p>Step 4: For the new domain name, set a redirect to your clickbank affiliate link</p>
<p>Step 5: Write 13 articles and submit to <a href="http://www.ezinearticles.com" target="_blank">ezinearticles</a> (3 sales from here. I still have 30 articles not submitted for this product)</p>
<p>Step 6: Use those 30 keywords and get as targeted as you can possibly be for some of these keywords. I created around 20 adgroups and slowly eliminated and left with only 6 adgroups now. But these 6 adgroups have generated around 8 sales over these 2 months.  I only did my homework in September and I got lazy, so it has been just 6 adgroups without any change for these 1 month plus.</p>
<p>Step 7: Monitor your adgroups cost versus your sales. As well as monitor which of your articles seem to be bringing in the sales.</p>
<p>Thats it.</p>
<p>Simple steps to accomplish right? I tried doing my own landing pages, squidoo pages but heck, I just can&#8217;t get the right formula.  So might as well just start driving traffic and get some sales on the road, and once there is money, I will spend more time perfecting my landing page skills.</p>
<p>For the time being, the bulk of my money will still have to be on creating websites for clients, as well as doing some part time jobs so that I can outsource more in future.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>(I will be gone for 3 weeks for my army incamp training so hopefully, my sales will not be affected when i do not have access to my computer)</p>
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		<title>Stupid Thing I Did To My Businesspeanuts List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I realize i had not updated my businesspeanuts list for such a long time that i did not realized that people who signed were recommended to a forum that they can earn a bit of money.  I always wanted to write a &#8220;how-to&#8221; guide but was always too lazy busy.
Anyway, I wanted [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all, I realize i had not updated my businesspeanuts list for such a long time that i did not realized that people who signed were recommended to a forum that they can earn a bit of money.  I always wanted to write a &#8220;how-to&#8221; guide but was always too <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">lazy</span> busy.</p>
<p>Anyway, I wanted to segregate the active from the inactive just by looking at the list and for some strange reasons, I deleted the whole list of people.  Though the list was only consisting of 20 over people, I still couldn&#8217;t believe the mistake i made.</p>
<p>So sorry to anyone who sign up.  Deeply apologize. I better start writing that ebook, that was left half-done about a month ago.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Latest Statistics Of My First 25 Days Of Doing Internet Marketing Full Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much clickbank sales but in terms of providing web services, income has increased.  Expenses could be lower but the itch to buy IM products is killing my profits.  Damn! I have also began outsourcing article writing on a daily basis.  I wrote 30 articles last week and it took my life away.  It is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not much clickbank sales but in terms of providing web services, income has increased.  Expenses could be lower but the itch to buy IM products is killing my profits.  Damn! I have also began outsourcing article writing on a daily basis.  I wrote 30 articles last week and it took my life away.  It is simply too boring.  Frank Kern was right, do what you like and outsource everything that you do not like.</p>
<p>My past and present performance below.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><strong>First week </strong></p>
<p>Income &#8211; $34.80 (Clickbank)</p>
<p>Total Expenses &#8211; $170.58</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><strong>Second week</strong></p>
<p>Income &#8211; $120.32</p>
<p>Expenses &#8211; $89.35</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><strong>Third Week</strong></p>
<p>Income &#8211; $170.10</p>
<p>Expenses &#8211; $193.71</p>
<p><strong>Breakdown Of Expenses:</strong></p>
<p>Buy IM Products &#8211; $121.80</p>
<p>Adwords &#8211; $8.41</p>
<p>Food &#8211; $45.00</p>
<p>Newspaper &#8211; $0</p>
<p>Taxi &#8211; $0</p>
<p>MRT/Bus &#8211; $0</p>
<p>Miscellaneous &#8211; $18.50</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><strong>Fourth Week So Far:</strong></p>
<p>Income  &#8211; $252.00</p>
<p>Expenses &#8211; $20.27</p>
<p><strong>Breakdown Of Expenses:</strong></p>
<p>Adwords &#8211; $4.27</p>
<p>Food &#8211; $16.00</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Last week, I bought this product call Market Samurai (bought it for US$87) and the promises seems good but the performance and stability has been questionable. It can do keyword research, find all the hubpages, squidoo lens and ezinearticles that has the keyword you are trying to target.  But the problem is performance.  And sometimes, the loading just cannot seem to finish.  I am comtemplating to ask for a refund or to wait for a further release.  Anyway here is how it looks like.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 410px"><img title="Market Samurai Pics" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/images/market_samurai.jpg" alt="Market Samurai Pics" width="400" height="280" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Market Samurai Pics</p></div>
<p>It is offering a free trial for 30 days.  It cost US$147 for the full version but there is no full version at the moment.  Whether you are using free or paid, it is the same version as they are still trying to solve many issues and the estimated time for the whole software to be stable seems to be at the end of the year.  So if you intend to buy now, I think you should just save your money until a stable system is out.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>First 12 Days Of Being A Full Time Internet Marketer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typing this blog post at Starbucks, relaxing with a mocha frappacino. Basically, it has been a lazy 2 weeks.  First week was a transition period.  Distractions from my dogs, my baby niece as well as totally being unmotivated to do anything except eat, sleep and eat some more.  But still manage to squeeze out 1 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Typing this blog post at Starbucks, relaxing with a mocha frappacino. Basically, it has been a lazy 2 weeks.  First week was a transition period.  Distractions from my dogs, my baby niece as well as totally being unmotivated to do anything except eat, sleep and eat some more.  But still manage to squeeze out 1 clickbank sales from no where.</p>
<p>Second week was much better.  Starting writing articles (about 10 so far), made changes to my adwords campaign as well created 1 new CPA campaign as well.  Got 1 clickbank sale from my article marketing effort and also got paid $70 from a friend to guide him on using some CPA tools.</p>
<p>So overall:</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p><strong>First week </strong></p>
<p>Income &#8211; $34.80 (Clickbank)</p>
<p>Total Expenses &#8211; $170.58</p>
<p><strong>Breakdown of Expenses:</strong></p>
<p>Buy IM Products &#8211; $32.78</p>
<p>Adwords &#8211; $16.90</p>
<p>Food &#8211; $43.50</p>
<p>Newspaper &#8211; $1.40</p>
<p>Taxi &#8211; $16.00</p>
<p>MRT/Bus &#8211; $25.00</p>
<p>Miscellaneous &#8211; $35.00</p>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong></p>
<p>Create 2 articles. Submitted to ezinearticles.</p>
<p>Met new friends in the IM industry.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p><strong>Second week</strong></p>
<p>Income &#8211; $120.32</p>
<p>Expenses &#8211; $89.35</p>
<p><strong>Breakdown of Expenses:</strong></p>
<p>Buy IM Products &#8211; $0.00</p>
<p>Adwords &#8211; $17.40</p>
<p>Food &#8211; $48.90</p>
<p>Newspaper &#8211; $1.40</p>
<p>Taxi &#8211; $0.00</p>
<p>MRT/Bus &#8211; $3.00</p>
<p>Miscellaneous &#8211; $18.65</p>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong></p>
<p>Wrote 7 articles but did not submit.</p>
<p>Wrote 2 articles and submitted to ezinearticles.</p>
<p>Created 2 CPA Polls.</p>
<p>Got paid for advice on CPA website creation.</p>
<p>Set target with <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com" target="_blank">Donald </a>to make SGD$3000 by December 11th, 2008.</p>
<p>Spoke to Chee Kui for advice on what he do day to day to achieve 4-figure paycheck now.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>I am not calculating my other income that is coming in from my part time jobs so that I can track those money that has to do with online.</p>
<p>I have still got a long way to go but for being lazy in the first 2 weeks, it is still ok I guess.  Just need to work much harder next week.  Let&#8217;s see how things will go.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>My 4th Clickbank Sale In July And Google Adwords Advertising Contributed 3 Of The Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was about to give up on Adwords again (this is the 4th or 5th time already), the magical feeling has happened again! This is the first time in my Adwords history that I have achieved 3 sales in just 3 days using purely Google Adwords advertising.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just when I was about to give up on Adwords again (this is the 4th or 5th time already), the magical feeling has happened again! This is the first time in my Adwords history that I have achieved 3 sales in just 3 days using purely Google Adwords advertising.</p>
<p>The last time I achieved a sale from clickbank was in last year september 2007 and so far, in my first 4 attempts at google adwords, I have already lost $400+. So for this fifth time, it feels great that my cost is still low and yet, the profits are there.</p>
<p><strong>Finally &#8230; Finally&#8230;Finally..</strong></p>
<p>Why the initial dejection from me? Because I have 2 campaigns, one for a CPA offer and one for this clickbank product.  I was making a lost on that CPA offer but when the smell of profit is just about to come, I seem to have been slapped on that domain by Google.  And the clickbank campaign was not really making money.  But after these 3 days, it has been a joy!</p>
<p>CPA offer Campaign &#8211; Still Slapped!</p>
<p>Clickbank Campaign &#8211; Profits finally!</p>
<p><img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/images/july08_clickbank_sales.bmp" alt="" width="339" height="221" /></p>
<p><strong>Breakdown From Clickbank</strong></p>
<p>Using Adwords From 1 Clickbank Product  : SIN$105.76 (USD$78.34)<br />
Adwords Expenses 11/07/08 to 31/07/08 : SIN $34.35<br />
<strong>Profit (Sales minus Adwords Expenses): SIN $71.41</strong><br />
<strong>Article Marketing To Clickbank Product: SIN$35.58 (USD$26.96)</strong></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Total Profit(Adwords Tactic + Article): SIN$106.99</strong><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>This is the first time that i had 4 sales from clickbank and the special moment, 3 of them came from adwords.  And using a tracking software, I am beginning to know my first profitable <strong>&#8220;long tail keyword&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p><strong>For The Future</strong></p>
<p>I have just tendered in my resignation today and hopefully, for the month of August, since it will be my last month on the job, the game will be raised to a higher level.  Both on the article marketing and adwords front.  Maybe when i see more success with august, i can start sharing some strategies that i have just recently learned.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading!</p>
<p>Regard,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>New Bum Marketing Video By Travis About Writing BioBoxes That Attracts Clicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just receive this email from Travis who is one of the kings of bum marketing and this is a pretty good video about how to write a good bio box that attracts people to your website when you are using articles to attract traffic.

Enjoy!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just receive this email from Travis who is one of the kings of bum marketing and this is a pretty good video about how to write a good bio box that attracts people to your website when you are using articles to attract traffic.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrTvpm5SZSA"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YrTvpm5SZSA/default.jpg" width="130" height="97" border=0></a></p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>Bum Marketing &#8211; Earn Money Working From The Comforts Of Home Is Not Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You Have Been Sold The Idea That Earning Money Working From Home Is Easy
The very idea that you can earn money working from home is one that can really get people excited with plenty of ideas on how much money that can potentially earn from the Internet.  But life working from the comfort of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>You Have Been Sold The Idea That Earning Money Working From Home Is Easy</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The very idea that you can earn money working from home is one that can really get people excited with plenty of ideas on how much money that can potentially earn from the Internet.  But life working from the comfort of your own home can be far from the reality some guru always portray to others.  Do not get sold into the idea that making money from home means you can constantly be relaxed and comfortable, only working one hour a day. What makes it different is the fact that even though you are doing a job, there is no safety net that comes when a person is employed. Instilling certain disciplines and methods into your working can make you successful and totally independent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The majority of us hope to identify a way that we can make easy quick money, and all of us that look at all of the different ways to work from home are at first drawn into all of the different types of offers of get rich quick schemes. Some of these do really work, but rarely enough to justify the hype that normally surrounds the sales pitch each person receives. </span></p>
<p><strong>These Paid Surveys And Home Based Data Entry Jobs Rarely Turns Out Real. Mostly Exist As A Scam</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Opportunities such as paid surveys and home based data entry jobs promise to make you rich but they very often don&#8217;t deliver what they state. One imagines doing a few surveys in the morning, then a leisurely lunch may be, then doing a few more surveys and ending up with several hundred dollars for the day; this is ridiculous.</span></p>
<p><strong>How About Writing Your Life To A More Stable Online Income As A Start</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">This really isn&#8217;t the way to go if you are looking for a well paid job working out of home. This is an area where scams abound so it pays to be careful. If you do have the writing skills, you can start off by writing articles &#8211; and there is always a need for these; of course how well you do will depend on how good you are. However, in the beginning you will usually find that you are writing for people who are selling your efforts on as their own. In the beginning, it doesn&#8217;t pay well &#8211; perhaps for 500 words, just but this is how it goes so don&#8217;t get disappointed.</span></p>
<p><strong>Ideas</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">If you then start thinking of writing for yourself, you could maybe think of private label rights or PLR articles as these could bring in more money. You could write a certain number of articles and then sell them not to one but a few people, pricing the articles low. If you charged 10 dollars for the bundle of ten and sold them to thirty people, that would be 300 dollars, or the equivalent of 30 dollars an article, which is considerably better than 5 dollars an article.</span></p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">You need to put in constant efforts to make your home based employment more dependable and to earn a regular income. In the beginning it will not be easy, however, once the kinks have been ironed out and the process streamlined, it will be easy. When it gets to the point of getting a pool of writers who outsource for one, that will be the point of hitting the jackpot and real money can be earned.</span></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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<p>Download the Simple Internet Income System now! =&gt; <a href="http://www.low-cost-home-business.com" target="_self">www.low-cost-home-business.com</a></p>
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		<title>Looking For People Who Are In The 60 Minutes To Freedom Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anyone who is in Jo Han Mok&#8217;s 60 minutes to freedom program who is already making money from the first module?  The email claims that there are many people earning money from the first module so i just want to know those who are earning, how are you doing it?
Regards,
Andrew
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there anyone who is in Jo Han Mok&#8217;s 60 minutes to freedom program who is already making money from the first module?  The email claims that there are many people earning money from the first module so i just want to know those who are earning, how are you doing it?</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Bum Marketing In A Refreshing Effort Starting June 1st 2008.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been getting back my momentum before my long awaited 3 weeks break from my job.  Thanks Hannie for some valuable advice on how you achieve $100 a day and how I should focus my efforts when I do IM full time.  Trying to get a schedule up and start tomorrow.  Your advice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Been getting back my momentum before my long awaited 3 weeks break from my job.  Thanks Hannie for some valuable advice on how you achieve $100 a day and how I should focus my efforts when I do IM full time.  Trying to get a schedule up and start tomorrow.  Your advice on affiliate marketing for MoreNiche and Clickbank was great!</p>
<p>Anyway, I have been bored and today is the first time I check out the market place in sitepoint and suddenly, I learn so much more about building websites to sell, how everyone sells their service and the kind of money involved in buying content, buying websites as well as the selling portion.</p>
<p><a href="http://marketplace.sitepoint.com" target="_self">http://marketplace.sitepoint.com</a></p>
<p>Check out the website and maybe for newbies, we can learn quite alot from how some of the experts are doing.  I was stunned by one of the offers on a health niche with a PR6 and looking at the website, I have no idea how google gave it a PR6.  Need to really study how things worked.</p>
<p>I just sign up Jo Han Mok&#8217;s <a href="http://http//www.60minstofreedom.com/" target="_self">60minstofreedom</a> (totally sold out now) with a friend and will be starting in June 7th so hopefully this course can work out fine towards learning how to achieve a full time income online.</p>
<p>My sales from clickbank has been awefully stagnant since I stopped writing any articles nor building any links.  Guess it is time to get back to focus.</p>
<p>Write more articles, automate more rewriting and finally building more links.</p>
<p>By the way, I will be raising the price of my offer for Frank Kern&#8217;s Mass Control Revealed or I will be taking it down.  The last 5 people will buy it and I will stop the offer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alwaysfindsuccess.com/" target="_self">Frank Kern&#8217;s Mass Control Revealed Private Interview</a></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Get Your Blog Post Republish To Other Websites For Free For The Time Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 05:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Friends,
Jon Leger (to me, he is the $7 man) has just started a new website that was launched to fill a gap for bloggers.  You can goto Share A Post now to check out what it is about.
In a nutshell (hopefully my own explanation is clear enough), we submit our articles to ezinearticles.com to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Friends,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jonathanleger.com/" target="_blank">Jon Leger</a> (to me, he is the $7 man) has just started a new website that was launched to fill a gap for bloggers.  You can goto <a title="Share A Post" href="http://shareapost.com" target="_blank">Share A Post</a> now to check out what it is about.</p>
<p>In a nutshell (hopefully my own explanation is clear enough), we submit our articles to ezinearticles.com to get backlinks as well as traffic.  Well, for Share A Post, you submit your blog post (useful and informative content) to the website and other bloggers who are looking for quality blog post to add into their blogs will republish your blog post. So you can see more of your post being republished on other blog sites.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/images/shareapost_pic.jpg" alt="Share A Post Picture" width="352" height="249" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;">Basically, to really know more about it, you just have to test it yourself.  Currently, this website is still undergoing testing and debugging and Jon has not decided if this service will continue to be free or he will charge a fee in future.  Anyway, no harm trying it now.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://shareapost.com/" target="_blank">http://shareapost.com/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Just found out I got 2 blog post being republished already.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>(PS: When you have the time, check out Jon Leger blog at <a href="http://www.jonathanleger.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jonathanleger.com/</a> too.  He has alot of good case studies to learn from.  And personally, I find that many of his experiments dispel what some other gurus are preaching about as well.)</p>
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		<title>For Part-Time Internet Marketers: Does Your Work Sap Away Your Energy To Do Your Online Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi friends,
Recently, I have been so busy at work and so burnt out from using my brain that I seem to have lost all interest in my work as well as in my internet marketing strategies.  I can be sitting in front of the laptop after work and just not doing anything.  The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi friends,</p>
<p>Recently, I have been so busy at work and so burnt out from using my brain that I seem to have lost all interest in my work as well as in my internet marketing strategies.  I can be sitting in front of the laptop after work and just not doing anything.  The brain seems to freeze and no ideas, no inspiration and definitely a lost of momentum.</p>
<p>Most likely, this lifestyle will be over in the beginning of July when I am out of this job but for the time being, the struggles between work and online business is really bad.</p>
<p>The good thing though, I manage to secure $50+ dollars in commissions even though no action was done on my side at all.  So more spare cash to spend when I am finally out of work.  If you have any ideas for a JV for a project, let&#8217;s do it since I have the spare time coming up.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>No Action For The Past 2 Weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No action done recently due to my work sapping up all my energy and motivation.  So from 16 April to 30th April 2008, I did not do anything nor submit any new articles until today.
Just submitted 3 articles, create a new website and wrote a new blog post for the website.
Results:
Earning $22.  Still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No action done recently due to my work sapping up all my energy and motivation.  So from 16 April to 30th April 2008, I did not do anything nor submit any new articles until today.</p>
<p>Just submitted 3 articles, create a new website and wrote a new blog post for the website.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>Earning $22.  Still a long way to $200.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Subscriber: 175.  Still have 25 more subscribers to hit 200 subscribers.</strong></em></p>
<p>But for all the inaction, I still manage to get around $22 for IM niche sales so it is still pretty good.  At least there are some money being made, although I wish it will be greatly increase.</p>
<p><strong>Latest News:</strong></p>
<p>I will be quitting my job in early July 2008 so I should still be damn busy at work but I am looking forward to doing full time bum marketing after quitting my job for 2 months, for some rest and some discipline dealing with Internet Marketing.</p>
<p>Just counting down to the days now~~~</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">28, 29, 30,</span> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 . . . .</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Report Card For Bum Marketing Efforts Between 16 March 2008 To 15 April 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Bum Marketing Efforts Report Card for the period between 16 March 2008 to 15 April 2008 has been quite a journey of fever, cough and flu and lucky for iContentRobot, manage to use it to squeeze in some articles.
Failed my targets this month:
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;
Target Earnings: $200
Achieved Earnings: $124.43
Remarks: Short Of $75.57
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Target Subscribers: 200
Achieved Subscribers: 162
Remarks: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My Bum Marketing Efforts Report Card for the period between 16 March 2008 to 15 April 2008 has been quite a journey of fever, cough and flu and lucky for iContentRobot, manage to use it to squeeze in some articles.</p>
<p>Failed my targets this month:</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Target Earnings: $200</strong></p>
<p>Achieved Earnings: <strong>$124.43</strong></p>
<p>Remarks: Short Of <strong>$75.57</strong></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Target Subscribers: 200</strong></p>
<p>Achieved Subscribers: <strong>162</strong></p>
<p>Remarks: Short Of <strong>38 subscribers</strong></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Traffic from www.StatCounter.com to track my squeeze page.</strong></p>
<p>(Had to edit the chart below because it was showing unnecessary information like page load and returning visits.)</p>
<p><img title="traffic_stats_for_apr" src="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/wp-content/images/traffic_stats_for_apr.jpg" alt="traffic_stats_for_apr" align="middle" /></p>
<p>Above, there has been a slight improvement in traffic, though it is still small.  But it also shows that my conversion rate has been quite pathetic because out of <strong>1176 visitors</strong> to my squeeze page, <strong>only 62</strong> has sign up as my subscriber.</p>
<p>So <strong>62/1176 = 0.05% conversion rate</strong>.  But the good thing is that out of 62 subscriber, one person bought my affiliate product (its an upsell package too).  And the rest of my income comes from iContentRobot and Mass Control Revealed.</p>
<p><strong>What did I do to create $124.43?</strong> <em>(Not sure anyone is interested but I am writing down to remind myself what I did so that I know what else I can do to increase sales.)</em></p>
<p>For <strong>iContentRobot</strong>, <strong>review</strong> which I created a USfreeAds, blogspot website, using this businesspeanuts to promote it, created one squidoo page and uploaded 4 videos that I made personally and paste it to youtube.com and viddler.com.  This effort created <strong>$72</strong> and it is a monthly subscription. <em>(Take note that I personally bought iContentRobot and therefore, I spent more than I make as I paid for a full year subscription.)</em></p>
<p>For my health site, created a total of 24 articles and submit to ezinearticles.  Create 1 new squidoo page to promote other health affiliate product too.  This created <strong>$40.18</strong>.</p>
<p>Made another <strong>$10</strong> from Mass Control Revealed and <strong>$2.25</strong> from selling text-links.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Best Buy For Me: <strong>iContentRobot</strong></p>
<p>Seems like alot of people have misuse the articles from iContentRobot to spam the articles all over the internet.  Personally, I find it a damn good software service that eliminates a lot of time needed to write articles.  You can look at the chart above and check the date 8th April 2008.  It garnered 144 unique visitors from 5 articles.  And each of these article is 100 percent unique, even though it was produced from iContentRobot.</p>
<p>If anyone is interested, I will list out the steps I did to make each article unique and it will take less than an hour to complete 3 to 5 articles.</p>
<p>Check my previous posts:</p>
<h2><a title="Permanent Link to My iContentRobot Review: It Is Like Bum Marketing On Steriods! Writing Articles In Just 4 Seconds Flat!" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/icontentrobot-review/my-icontentrobot-review-on-writing-articles-in-just-4-seconds-flat">My iContentRobot Review: It Is Like Bum Marketing On Steriods! Writing Articles In Just 4 Seconds Flat!</a></h2>
<h2><a title="Permanent Link to icontentrobot review video part 2" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/icontentrobot-review/icontentrobot-review-video-part-1">icontentrobot review video part 2 </a></h2>
<h2><a title="Permanent Link to First Video On iContentRobot Review And Is It Really 4 Seconds? Watch The Videos." rel="bookmark" href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/icontentrobot-review/first-video-on-icontentrobot-review-and-is-it-really-4-seconds-watch-the-videos">First Video On iContentRobot Review And Is It Really 4 Seconds? Watch The Videos.</a></h2>
<h2><a title="Permanent Link to iContentRobot Review Video Part 3: Make Sure You Know What iContentrobot Really Can Do Before You Buy!" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.businesspeanuts.com/icontentrobot-review/icontentrobot-review-video-part-3-make-sure-you-know-what-icontentrobot-really-can-do-before-you-buy">iContentRobot Review Video Part 3: Make Sure You Know What iContentrobot Really Can Do Before You Buy! </a></h2>
<p>Check out <a title="icontentrobot article software" href="http://alwaysfindsuccess.com/recommends/iContentRobotReview" target="_blank">iContentRobot</a></p>
<p>That&#8217;s it. Thanks for reading.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Busy 5 Days Without Much Access To Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi friends,
I was in malaysia for 4 days and it was pretty difficult to do anything when the place you stay do not have much internet.  Anyway, I am pretty behind on schedule but let&#8217;s see if I can increase my sales and subscribers within the next 8 days.
I have some big plans for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi friends,</p>
<p>I was in malaysia for 4 days and it was pretty difficult to do anything when the place you stay do not have much internet.  Anyway, I am pretty behind on schedule but let&#8217;s see if I can increase my sales and subscribers within the next 8 days.</p>
<p>I have some big plans for <a title="icontentrobot article software" href="http://alwaysfindsuccess.com/recommends/iContentRobotReview" target="_blank">iContentRobot</a> to help me generate the content I need and hopefully, it will bring out the rewards within the next 8 days.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Results:</span></strong><strong> Period: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">16th March 2008</span> To <span style="text-decoration: underline;">15th April 2008</span> </strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Monetary:</strong></span></p>
<p>Target:$200</p>
<p>Achieved: $79.25</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Remarks: Need to earn another $120.75 in 8 days. On average, need to earn $15 per day.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Subscribers:</strong></span></p>
<p>Target: Reach 200 subscribers</p>
<p>Achieved: 143 subscribers</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Remarks: Need to get another 57 subscribers in 8 days.  On average, need 7.13 per day.</span></strong></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Testing Social Bookmarking And How It Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Diary for 24/03/2008, written another 5 articles and submitted it to ezinearticles.com.
But I just realized one thing.  As a platinum member, my articles seem to get approve alot slower than when I was a basic upgrade member.  I think your articles will tend to get approve slower when you are either in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Diary for 24/03/2008, written another 5 articles and submitted it to ezinearticles.com.</p>
<p>But I just realized one thing.  As a platinum member, my articles seem to get approve alot slower than when I was a basic upgrade member.  I think your articles will tend to get approve slower when you are either in the basic or platinum membership as most people are in that 2 category.</p>
<p>But if you are in the basic upgrade membership, it seems that less people are in that category and therefore, the articles seem to get approve faster.  Anyway, it was just my findings.  Not sure if i am too overly sensitive.</p>
<p>Tested this socializer tool for web 2.0 as well.  It is use for bookmarking a particular site you like to multiple social bookmarking sites.  Test it out if you want.</p>
<p>http://ekstreme.com/socializer/</p>
<p>OO&#8230;.found a new content writer tool.  Thinking of buying it to write articles.  I shall buy and test to see if it really works.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/social+marketing+socializer" rel="tag"> social marketing socializer </a></p>
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		<title>Health Niche Traffic Sucks For Me During The Weekends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Seems like the health niche i am in really sucks big time during the weekends, and especially this weekend.  Totally no new subscribers.  Now still standing at 122 subscribers.
Anyway this is what i did during this weekend.
Useful Stuff:
- Wrote 10 articles for health niche
- Started a PPC campaign for another niche.
- Discuss IM [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Seems like the health niche i am in really sucks big time during the weekends, and especially this weekend.  Totally no new subscribers.  Now still standing at 122 subscribers.</p>
<p>Anyway this is what i did during this weekend.</p>
<p>Useful Stuff:</p>
<p>- Wrote 10 articles for health niche</p>
<p>- Started a PPC campaign for another niche.</p>
<p>- Discuss IM with Donald from <a href="http://www.donaldlim.com" target="_blank">www.donaldlim.com</a></p>
<p>Relaxation Time:</p>
<p>- Watch 2 movies, 10000 BC and that animation Horton.  (Plenty of elephants in both movies.)</p>
<p>I will be writing some research results I have obtained on my niche.  I will share with everyone on a later post.<br />
Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/health+niche+traffic" rel="tag"> health niche traffic </a></p>
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		<title>A Lazy Good Friday Report On What I Did For Bum Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
It&#8217;s the holidays in Singapore and laziness is setting in my heart.  Anyway, time to record what i did.
20-Marc-2008
Wrote 1 article
Edit Squidoo lens
Got 49 unique clicks from ezinearticles.com to go to my new squidoo lens.
Receive 2 subscribers
Earn $0 
21-Marc-2008
Wrote 1 article
Edit Squidoo lens again
Created new adwords group to test out squidoo page
Got 40 unique [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the holidays in Singapore and laziness is setting in my heart.  Anyway, time to record what i did.</p>
<p><strong>20-Marc-2008</strong></p>
<p><em>Wrote 1 article</em></p>
<p><em>Edit Squidoo lens</em></p>
<p><em>Got 49 unique clicks from ezinearticles.com to go to my new squidoo lens.</em></p>
<p><em>Receive 2 subscribers</em></p>
<p><em>Earn $0 </em></p>
<p><strong>21-Marc-2008</strong></p>
<p><em>Wrote 1 article</em></p>
<p><em>Edit Squidoo lens again</em></p>
<p><em>Created new adwords group to test out squidoo page</em></p>
<p><em>Got 40 unique clicks from ezinearticles.com to go to my new squidoo lens.</em></p>
<p><em>Receive 2 subscribers</em></p>
<p><em>Earn $0</em></p>
<p><strong>Total Subscriber Base: 122</strong></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/test+out+new+adwords+campaign" rel="tag"> test out new adwords campaign </a></p>
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		<title>Slacking On 19 March 2008&#8230;..Can&#8217;t seem to get myself to write an article today.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Seems like I have ran out of steam as well as not having enough sleep everyday.  Could only manage to write 1 article in the morning while on the way to work.  And for the rest of the time, I have been checking everyone&#8217;s blog and stuff.
Was there a holiday in the US? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Seems like I have ran out of steam as well as not having enough sleep everyday.  Could only manage to write 1 article in the morning while on the way to work.  And for the rest of the time, I have been checking everyone&#8217;s blog and stuff.</p>
<p>Was there a holiday in the US? I have got 7 articles that was on hold for 2 days and 5 of them just got approved while the other 2 articles are still on pending status.  Since I still have one article written this morning, maybe I should write another 40 articles throughout good friday all the way to the weekends and submit 5 article a day to ezinearticles.com next week.</p>
<p><strong>Experiments:</strong></p>
<p>Registering for social bookmarking websites in order to make use of bookmarketing web 2.0</p>
<p>Registered for Micheal Ramussan&#8217;s email promotion videos given free (of cos you have to opt-in).  Watch some of the videos.</p>
<p>Digg, stumble and deli.c.ouis some websites for the fun of it as well as do it for my own websites.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong></p>
<p>Added 2 subscribers.</p>
<p>No Sales yet.</p>
<p>Total Subscribers: 118</p>
<p><strong>Planning:</strong></p>
<p>To achieve 200 subscribers, I will need another 82 subscribers and I have 26 Days left.</p>
<p>82/26 estimated 3 to 4 subscribers must sign up per day.</p>
<p><u><strong>Clear Actions Set To Achieve Target For These 26 days (now until 15 april):</strong></u></p>
<p><strong><em><u>Needed &#8211; Increase Subscribers Base To 200 = Now short of 82</u></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em><u>Needed &#8211; $200 For This Month = Now still $0</u></em></strong></p>
<p><em>* Write 40 articles and distribute it among the 13 article directories</em></p>
<p><em>* To use 9 social bookmarking sites to stumble 5 different websites a day, of which 1 will be my own.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>* Write 5 niche blog post</em></p>
<p><em>* Create 2 US free Ads</em></p>
<p><em>* Meet up with mastermind group</em></p>
<p><em>* Create another 2 new squidoo lens with 10 articles pointing to it </em></p>
<p><strong>Something is wrong:</strong></p>
<p>Some one supposedly bought <a href="http://alwaysfindsuccess.com" target="_blank">mass control revealed</a> from me but i did not receive any payment but the subscriber manage to download the videos.  I wonder how this had happen. All the stats tells me he has access but no payment was given to me from paypal.</p>
<p><strong>Recommendations:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.statcounter.com" target="_blank">www.statcounter.com</a></p>
<p>If you are looking to track where all your traffic come from, which page have the visitors visited, then try out the services from this website.  I have been doing data-mining from the data i collected from statcounter to improve my conversion rates.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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		<title>Bum Tasks Done on 18th March 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Tasks I did today:
Experiment Using jetspinner
Using jetspinner, it created 18 new articles using just 1 article.  Submitted to the following directories to test the traffic from other article directories other than just using ezinearticles.com.  Selected 3 articles to test on these 3 article directories.  Will be expanding the list of experiments to other directories.
http://www.amazines.com
http://www.articlealley.com
http://www.articlesbase.com
Normal Tasks:
Submitted [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p><em><strong>Tasks I did today:</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Experiment Using jetspinner</strong></p>
<p>Using <a href="http://www.jetsubmitter.com/?thankyou-page=9196" target="_blank">jetspinner</a>, it created 18 new articles using just 1 article.  Submitted to the following directories to test the traffic from other article directories other than just using ezinearticles.com.  Selected 3 articles to test on these 3 article directories.  Will be expanding the list of experiments to other directories.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazines.com" target="_blank">http://www.amazines.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.articlealley.com" target="_blank">http://www.articlealley.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.articlesbase.com" target="_blank">http://www.articlesbase.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Normal Tasks:</strong></p>
<p>Submitted 2 new articles to ezinearticles to point to Squidoo lens.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong></p>
<p><em>Total Opt-in = 5 new subscribers out of 33 unique visitors</em></p>
<p><em>No Sales So Far.</em></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/experiment+using+jetspinner" rel="tag"> experiment using jetspinner </a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/test+other+article+directories" rel="tag"> test other article directories </a></p>
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		<title>Bumming These Tasks On 17/03/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No More Mr Lazy Today.  Below are my bum marketing efforts for the day.
Things accomplished:
General Actions:
Applied for jetspinner account. Allows you to make &#8220;almost&#8221; unique articles for different websites.  Will be writing a new article and get jetspinner to spin out 21 different version of an article for me.
Register for 13 new accounts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No More Mr Lazy Today.  Below are my bum marketing efforts for the day.</p>
<p>Things accomplished:</p>
<p><strong>General Actions:</strong></p>
<p>Applied for <a href="http://www.jetsubmitter.com/?thankyou-page=9196" title="jetspinner" target="_blank">jetspinner </a>account. Allows you to make &#8220;almost&#8221; unique articles for different websites.  Will be writing a new article and get <a href="http://www.jetsubmitter.com/?thankyou-page=9196" title="jetspinner" target="_blank">jetspinner</a> to spin out 21 different version of an article for me.</p>
<p>Register for 13 new accounts at 13 different article directories.</p>
<p><strong> Actions For Existing Health Niche:</strong></p>
<p>Submitted 5 new articles to ezinearticles.com for health niche.</p>
<p><strong>Actions For Squidoo Lens:</strong></p>
<p>Submitted 3 articles to ezinearticles.com for new squidoo lens. Created a new blog to point to squidoo lens.</p>
<p>Included RSS feed from this blog to my squidoo lens.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>andrew</p>
<p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bum+marketing+actions" rel="tag"> bum marketing actions </a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/actions+for+squidoo+lens" rel="tag"> actions for squidoo lens </a></p>
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