Archive for June, 2008

Filipino software company FireballSoftware.com, a division of Fireball Planet Corporation, launched FreePDF.org, a free online PDF creation tool for companies and individuals who can’t afford expensive PDF creators like Adobe Acrobat that costs more than $400.

“When I was just starting publishing ebooks in PDF as a home business, I had a hard time acquiring a PDF conversion suite as the famous one is not within my reach. So after having an established company, I thought of offering something that would help a lot of people who might have the same problem that I had before,” says Ian del Carmen, president and CEO of FireballSoftware.com

FreePDF.org teams up with an India-based charitable institution, Dr. Mani’s Children Heart Foundation, to bring to the consumers the easy 3-step PDF creation tool – and to reward users who choose to follow their heart and donate to the foundation by providing them with a service upgrade. But the free version is fully functional and is now being used by hundreds of users worldwide.

With any donation made through FreePDF.org to Dr. Mani’s Children Heart Foundation – even if only $10 - users will receive a lifetime service upgrade allowing them to create an unlimited number of PDF documents – without any references to the FreePDF.org online service in the footer of their documents.

“FreePDF.org will become completely transparent in your daily operations, your clients and partners will never guess you are using a free online tool to create the outstanding documents you provide – and make you feel good knowing you’ve made a difference,” says del Carmen. “We’re also considering adding more beneficiaries of this project including charitable institutions from the Philippines and other third world countries.”

The best part in this whole easy-to-follow process is the fact that FreePDF.org …

* Is Completely Free To Use – You will never be charged a penny for any of the documents you produce with the FreePDF.org tool – Even if you’re planning on selling your information product, you keep all of the profits.

* Requires No Disk Space – As FreePDF.org already sits on our own dedicated servers, you have absolutely nothing to install on your computer – no matter where or when you find yourself stranded, it is always easily accessible online.

* Creates High Quality Documents – Project a professional image at all time with the high quality rendition of text to PDF – Say goodbye to blurry lines of text forever.

FreePDF.org is the perfect solution for anyone who needs the high quality results of the more expensive PDF document creation suites, on a small business or office budget.

Why pay hundreds of dollars for a commercial PDF creation suite full of fluff and advanced features that you’re never going to use, when you can get started for free today by creating a free account online with FreePDF.org?

Visit www.FreePDF.org for more details and to claim your own free account.

by Sam Tongson

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about Private Label Rights (PLR) content. I used to think that it was only for lazy people who didn’t want to do their own writing. But as I learn more, I’ve come up with lots of great ways I can use PLR in my own business.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, PLR is content that you get from the original author along with their permission to use it as your own. So you can get a great report, put your name on it and have your own product to sell or give away!

The first couple of products I created using PLR only took me about half an hour. There have been a few sales so far from them so that was definitely time well spent.

When searching for PLR content to use, I found there were a lot of different types of sites available. Some offered monthly memberships and others offered just one time purchases. So be sure to look around before you decide where to buy.


The site I found that was by far the best was PLRWholesaler. Not only do they have an unbelievable amount of content, but it’s completely FREE. Most sites charge an arm and a leg for the amount of content that this guy is giving away.

And although I haven’t been through everything yet, what I have read is very good quality. It’s stuff you would actually want to use as your own.

Since it’s free, I highly recommend that you check out PLRWholesaler and see if they have anything that you can use in your business. There just may be an ebook or audio recording that you could quickly brand with your information and start selling to your list.

Check it out and let me know what you think…

http://PLRWholesaler.com

Any internet market worthy of the name knows that, whilst it is possible for almost anyone to earn a few dollars online, the people that make the really big money are those that automate their online marketing businesses.

In essence, the most successful marketers use autoresponder systems to handle as many of the mundane, day-to-day tasks as they possibly can, because they understand that even the most humdrum tasks are an integral part of running a successful marketing business. By doing so, they free up a great deal more time which they can then use to focus their attention and efforts on the money making side of that business.

No business on earth, whether it operates principally on the internet, or in the offline ‘real’ business world, can ever be entirely free of administrative tasks and duties, that’s a given. Fulfilling or completing these tasks and duties is an extremely important ‘cog’ in the machine that keeps the business running smoothly.

In other words, they are jobs that need to be done, and somebody or something must do them.

This is where people who operate their business mainly or entirely by using the internet have a significant advantage, because, by using on autoresponder service, it is possible to automate almost all of their business systems and activities.

For example, most leading internet marketing experts and ‘gurus’ will tell you that it is critically important to the long-term success of your business that you build a mailing list.

By building such a list, you create a ‘captive audience’ of prospects (and eventually customers) to whom you can send details of all the latest offers and products which you are promoting. Some of these prospects will occasionally buy the products that you recommend, and therefore, your mailing list will generate additional income for you as a result.

In order to send the details of the offers or products that you are currently promoting to your mailing list members, you could, of course, send out an e-mail every two or three days through your own e-mail account manually.

However, to do so would probably take you all day to send just one e-mail to everyone on your list. That is, therefore, a day completely wasted.

If you were using an autoresponder system, however, you would load up a series of e-mails which would automatically be sent to prospects, one after another at pre-set intervals. Once the prospect adds themselves into the preloaded e-mailing series by subscribing to your list, every individual e-mail message that is sent to them thereafter will be delivered entirely automatically.

From just this simple and relatively basic example, it should be very easy to recognize the value of automating your own online business. In order to do so, you need an autoresponder.

Whilst every individual marketer will have their own favorite autoresponder system, for the majority of experienced and serious internet marketers, the choice has traditionally come down to one of a handful of autoresponder operators who are widely recognized as being the best in the business.

The first and probably the most popular of these online autoresponder systems amongst the internet marketing community has long been Aweber.com.

In the past couple of months, Aweber have made significant changes to both their website and to the features and benefits that they are providing to their autoresponder customers. At the same time, they have also made large scale changes to their pricing structure, with the price that many marketers will now have to pay being noticeably higher.

This free course will, therefore, look at two aspects of the recent upgrades that Aweber have instigated.

Firstly, we will take an in-depth look at the upgraded features and benefits that Aweber are now providing for their customers, and how they can be used in order to improve the profitability of your online business.

Secondly, we will look at the new pricing structure, before asking and answering the question of whether Aweber still represents good value for money for a new subscriber.

To be continued on July 4th…

Guest Blogger: JL Scott, i-Cop.org

Now, the BIG One - VERY IMPORTANT!

Anything to do with spam laws is important and should be given a heads up.

As you probably know, the CAN-SPAM Act has been a travesty against legitimate online business owners from the beginning. It gave us an opt-OUT law rather than an opt-IN law.

This law is commonly referred to as the “YOU-CAN-SPAM Act” because the bill does NOT require emailers to get permission before sending commercial email.

This means, with certain conditions, anyone can send you commercial email, and it’s up to YOU to opt-OUT of their list. There is NO rule that anyone has to use opt-in procedures.

However, this hasn’t stopped the anti-spam people who have declared (no rule - just their say-so) that you MUST use double opt-in procedures to build your list - or they will have you black-listed with the ISPs.

Most of this is to promote “pay-to-send email.” We don’t hear much about it, any more, but it’s merely gone underground.

The same people are still there - still working on it. This includes John McCain, who was one of the MAJOR players in getting the CAN-SPAM Act written and passed.

And, this is a guy who ADMITS he knows NOTHING about computers, and can’t even USE one! Now, WHY would he have a dog in this race? Think his dog might be green with pictures of presidents on it?

(No - this isn’t a political statement and it has nothing to do with our upcoming elections. I raked McCain over the coals for the CAN-SPAM Act years ago. So, don’t start with me!)

The “pay-to-send email” people also include Anne Mitchell, former CEO of Habeas, Inc. You DO remember Habeas, don’t you? If not, they were one of the first companies trying to get folks to pay to send their email, and I fought them tooth and nail.

The Federal Trade Commission has now issued four new rules that amend the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

Anne Mitchell - yes, the same Anne Mitchell - has helped author and assisted with the development of the new amendments. What does THAT tell us?

The new rules came out as a 109 page memorandum. Good GRIEF!

Anne has also created a 49 minute MP3 file that fully explains these changes, including what they mean to you and how to comply with the changes in detail. And, of course, that Mp3 sells for $39.95!

Gee, wouldn’t you think that information would be FREE for folks to use? Oh, I get it … write the amendments to be so complicated, people have to PAY to get help understanding it from one of the authors!

And, people wonder why I’ll no longer have anything to do with working with the FTC - or any other government agency!

But, I digress. I don’t see anything so complicated in these new rules that requires paid explanation. So, I’m going to give it to you here - for FREE!

The amendments go into effect at the end of this month - June, 2008.

The amendments affect all senders of any commercial email with a list of any size from 2, on up.

Here are the rules:

#1 The receiver of the email cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her email address and opt-out preferences, and must be able to opt-out of the mailing list using a SINGLE ACTION.

This may be by replying to the email - or by clicking ONE link to go to a SINGLE web page.

#2 The use of the word “person” is defined in regard to whether the CAN-SPAM Act applies. “Person” is now defined to include non-companies. In other words, any and everyone can be liable for sending commercial email - breathing person, company, organization, etc.

#3 You may use a post office box or private mailbox (PMB) - rather than the address of an actual private building - as the physical address in your commercial mailings to satisfy the CAN-SPAM Act.

#4 For any mailing containing advertisements from 3rd party advertisers, either the party who the email is “from” must have an advertisement in the email - or - all of the advertisers with ads in the mailing are responsible for opt-out requests.

This is known as the “Designated Sender” rule. When the party listed in the “From” field has an ad in the mailing, that party becomes responsible for processing opt-out requests.

I don’t see anything complicated about any of this. The fourth rule IS a bit convoluted in the way of government writings, but something had to look complicated if there were to be a product to sell.

Let’s put it this way. If you send out a mailing with 3rd party ads, just be sure to have an ad of your own. Then, only YOU have to worry about processing any opt-outs.

If you DON’T have your own ad in the mailing, each advertiser MUST remove any opt-outs from their own lists. Assuming, of course, they even HAVE a list.

Seems simple enough to me. Don’t see any 40 bucks worth of information there!

If you would like to read the entire 109 page document, you can get it here:

www.ftc.gov/os/2008/05/R411008frn.pdf

In any event, if you are sending commercial email - including an ezine or newsletter - be SURE you get in compliance with these new rules before the end of the month.

And, yes - it DOES apply to everyone sending commercial email within or into the USA!

I really want to hear from you! Tell me what you think!

Have a fabulous week, and … keep on keepin’ on!

jl

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