If you have not heard of the ebook $5 Mini-Site Formula, it is a great book on making money with easy to make mini-sites. It’s been newley updated – and I should also mention that it is FREE.

The author Josh Spaulding, lays out for you step-by-step how to makes these sites, the tools you need and how to pick the right niche to focus on. The idea is to create mini-sites that will earn you $5 / day.

Create enough of these fast-to-make mini sites and soon you could be making a nice monthly income.

I have been using some of Josh’s techniques with my mini-site so I know first handed that they work.

Get your FREE $5 Mini-Site Formula Here

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Recently I have decided to quit using my main email to receive newsletters, ezines, etc. So every time I get one, I click on the little link that should be at the end of every email where you can unsubscribe and hopefully edit your membership.

See, I am finding it much better to use Gmail for receiving all my emailed newsletters and I want to change all my newsletters, IM correspondences, etc to go to my Gmail account.

Unfortunately not everyone has a link that allows me to simply change my email address.

Aweber makes this very simple and large number of marketers do use Aweber. but those marketers that are using a different program may be out of luck.  Some only offer an unsubscribe. If that’s the case then I simply unsubscribe and I am lost to that marketer probably for ever. Sure I could find their homepage and re-subscribe, but that really is so much of a bother.

Some autoresponder services such as Getresponse must have a setting as some people using Getresponse have simple to edit subscriptions and others do not.

Have you checked your autoresponder to see how people can simply change their emails.  People change their emails for all sorts of reason. Make it easy for them to do so.

Wishing you the best of success!

- Rupps

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Here is a great audio interview of Frank Kern interviewing Eben Pagan on his current pre-launch of a new product that he is promoting.

I’m not promoting this as I have not reviewed the product and this is not an affiliate link, but the audio is definately something you should hear.  It has some great take-away ideas that you should implement. I know I will.

http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=50

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Happy Easter to you and your family,

I received Butterfly Marketing 2.0 in the mail yesterday and installed it last night.  Despite what I heard, it was relatively easy to install with the video tutorials that I received through Bob The Teacher.

For those that are not familiar with this highly hyped software, what it does is make a membership site for you. It’s a basic script that has some nice features such as handling one time offers and well as different membership levels.

You can look forward to a members only section of this website in the future with great tutorials on building your online business empire.

The software came bundled with a ton of CD’s – Recordings of Mastermind calls from such Internet experts like Rich Schefren, Mark Joyner, Michel Fortin, Gary Ambrose, and others.

Mike did an outstanding job with this launch and has made it extremely easy to cancel the membership if and when I like.  Some marketers hide the contact info or phone number for those who wish to cancel, but not Mike.  The first sheet of paper you see when you open the package has all this information clearly shown.

I have a lot of work to do now that the script is installed.  All the graphics, sales letter, offers and content need to be completed. I do not have a deadline for this to be completed as of yet, so please sign up for my newsletter and I’ll let you know when the membership is live and I’ll throw in some cool bonuses too.

Wising you tons of success!
- Rupps

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My readers know that I am not fond of huge product launches, but there is no denying that they work.

This time I succumbed to the latest launch of Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing 2.0

In a nutshell, the main part of Butterfly Marketing 2.0 is a script that allows you to maintain a membership site and offer upsells when someone joins.  It’s a highly successful script that many have used to build their businesses and I am sure you have probably seen it in action if you have ever joined a membership site (even free ones). These are tried and true Internet marketers that have shown proof to the benefits this script.

The cost was $30. Well actually it was free with $30 shipping. Of course there is always more to it than that.  There is a newsletter you automatically get signed up for which is I think about $40 per month which can be cancelled at any time.

True to most major product launches, the site crashed and would not take orders.  This delayed ordering for about 5 hours. But Mike Filsaime did something I thing is extremely honorable.  There were supposed to be only 5000 of these free courses available – first come first serve.  With the technical difficulties, Mike promised everyone who wanted to order (I think within the next day or so) would be able to get a copy even if that meant he needed to get more made.

So in about 10 days I should get my package in the mail.  I mostly ordered out of curiosity and to learn from a master like Mike Filsaime. I am not too interested in a membership site as I had one in the past and spent way too much time on it. However, if utilized correctly it would take very little time to do.  Russell Brunsen has a method he teaches on hoe to do this. Between Russell’s course and Butterfly marketing I think you could have nice niche membership sites building you a nice list and income.

To Your Success!
-Rupps

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I’ve had just an awful week.  I had to put my 14 year old puppy down on Tuesday and that alone is bad enough.  then me and my son were terribly sick with the flu for the rest of the week. My Internet was down for 24 hours and finally by email was down all weekend. – YIKES!

But I press on. and no more doom or gloom.

The Latest Product Launches:

Right on the heels of Frank Kern’s latest launch were 2 equally promoted launches.

The first was PPC classroom and the other was Ewen Chia’s book.  This shows you without a doubt that this style of product launch works. They both sound like decent products, and the bonuses for Ewen’s book that people were giving away made it seem like a no brainer. Unfortunately my to-do list is so long rihght now I did not really have time for either at this point.

Another launch that made some waves this past week was something that I think actually will benefit a lot of people. It’s a membership called EasilyAnswered.com and it’s unlike anything that I have ever seen.

For $97 month, you basically get access to a slew of top notch Internet marketers. This is a question and answers type of membership.  You ask your questions and the experts will respond – simple enough.

I wish I could remember all the names, but people I HIGHLY REGARD like Willie Crawford, Kevin Riley, Ross Goldberg are all on board.  Really if you need a regular amount of help then join. I don’t have a link as i am not promoting it, but seriously if you need it you won’t do better.

I made my first sale from the blog I created for Ed Dales 30 day challenge so that was cool.  I never finished the challenge as i really chose a bad topic for where the course went.  If I had known where the daily lessons were leading to when i started i would have chosen something else. But I did choose an awesome topic that is now listed highly in the search engines based on what I learned. Now I just need to monitize it better.

I was able to get 3 Squidoo lenses made this week, 2 in a new niche I am sort of excited about. Hopefully those start to bring in some traffic soon.

Wow, the frenzy over Frank Kern’s latest release of Mass Control was insane.

I received a ton of emails form a lot of marketers trying to get a commission on that product.  Just like traffic or even a television, once the noise gets too loud I just have to either turn it off, block it out or leave.

Don’t get me wrong, because I think Frank Kern is a genius at marketing his products. The guy is definitely cool.

So I didn’t buy, but they did get me last time around. It’s a pretty decent product. If you are already familiar with Dan Kennedy and Gary Halbert you probably don’t need Mass Control anyway.  But then if you are using Dan Kennedy or Gary Halbert’s stuff, then you have enough cash to buy Mass Control anyway.

So where am I going with this?

Well first if you are doing a product launch using top affiliates to promote your offer know that you are going to turn a bunch of people off – but that’s a small tradeoff for what you will make.

Second, I see Frank did not offer this course for only the cost of shipping with a monthly membership like last time. This time it was all up front baby. That makes me wonder if he got too many cancellations from the last launch.

There’s a lot to learn from watching a launch from a guru and then subsequent launches, you can see where they have been and where they are going.  Use that to your advantage, but protect your hearing, it gets pretty loud at times.

To your success!

Rupps

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Well after the Holiday rush I can breath a little easier and get back to the 30 Day challenge.

Obviously I am not meeting my deadlines, but what I have learned so far is nothing short of outstanding. Ed Dale and Dan Raine really outdid themselves creating this free course.

I just imported this blog into the WPDirect interface. I had to manually install the plug-ins but that was pretty easy to do. Next I’ll fix some of the posts and start playing with some of the uber cool content software.

I’ll continue to keep you updated.

Wishing you the best in 2009!

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I have been going through Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge and I must say I am extremely impressed.

The 30 day challenge is a step-by-step guide that will take you from not knowing a thing about building a web business to making your first sale online. At least that is somewhat how Ed describes it.

However it is WAYYY more than that. If all he was trying to do is to get you to make your first sale online, I am sure he could have made it more like a 7 day challenge.

No, what this is really about is learning the latest and greatest methods of building a Real business. This is without a doubt the most complete step-by-step directions I have run across on the latest strategies of building a site and building sustainable traffic. The best part is that it’s free. While there is some software that he uses that does cost money, he describes no-cost ways to go as well.

While I will stick with my recommendation on the Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet by Derek Gehl as the best course to building your real Internet business as it describes in depth the “how, what and why” things work and don’t work, Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge used by itself WILL make you not only your first sale, but it will also build your confidence on how to make sales online. Used in combination with a thorough course such as Insiders Secrets, you have a deadly combination.

The only drawback? Completing this in 30 Days. I will admit I am way behind and should have been done a week ago. At my rate (being the Putz that I am), I won’t get done for another couple of weeks.

My conclusion is that you need to go through this challenge and I do not care what level you are on – YOU WILL LEARN something that you did not know. This challenge is taking me further and faster than anything else.

Click here to join in for FREE

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One of the keys to successful selling online is doing research on the market that you want to sell to. It’s a tough uphill battle trying to sell something that no one wants to buy. Almost as hard is trying to sell something that people DO want to buy but you cannot reach.

Doing proper keyword research is critical to finding out what the size of your market is and determining if you can reach that market. Doing the research before you even pick a product to sell will help you from wasting time on a poor product or a poor market as well as steer you to the correct market and product.

There are many free and paid for tools to help you do this research. Google has it’s own free keyword tool that is very powerful and has always formed the basis of my research. then there are tools like Word Tracker and Keyword discovery. The BeBiz software which I am a big fan of because of it’s keyword tool while not free makes sorting and organizing your keyword data a breeze is another top-notch, highly recommended tool. BeBiz has more than just a powerful keyword tool, it also helps you build your whole website taking you step-by-step through the entire process – including how to create your sales page.

Another tool I have just begun using is called MarketSamurai. This thing so far is fantastic. It really gets into depth telling you not only search volumes and the costs that your competitors are paying for PPC (pay-per-click) advertising, but it goes into it even further and then helps you get content for your website.

Like BeBiz, MarketSamurai is not free, but there is a 40 day free trial (no credit card needed), plus I believe the keyword research part of it will always be free.

http://www.marketsamurai.com/

www.marketingtips.com/bebiz

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