You must know by now what happens when you sign up for a free offer? Yes, that’s right, you eventually end up on a sales page, which is only to be expected. We are all here trying to make a living, and to do that we are selling stuff. It’s just that this week in particular, I seem to have overdone my signups and I’m not going to have time to give each of them the attention it deserves.

One of them does stand out though, and I’m really glad I stumbled onto it. It’s The Secret Affiliate Code, the first product from a new marketer, Craig Beckta. The Secret Affiliate Code has come into my life at exactly the right time – its just what I need right now. I signed up for the product, and for the OTO (believe me, I have become pretty good at resisting the beguilement of salescopy, so that’s how good the sales page is). The price is very reasonable, and I reckon this will be a valuable resource both now and for a long time to come.

There’s a large pdf manual. After a quick look at it, I was so excited, I printed the whole thing out so that I can read it sitting comfortably in a chair, or in bed. There’s heaps of other material as well, that I haven’t had a chance to look at properly yet, but right now, I’m setting out to write a review of the product to submit to article sites.

I won’t go on about the Secet Affiliate Code here; I’ll be posting my review on this blog so you can read more about it there. In the meantime, I recommend you go take a look at it for yourself. Here’s the link Secret Affiliate Code

Oh, and there’s a secret code on the sales page. If you can crack the code, you  get $20.00 off the price if you decide to buy.

Afterwards, feel free to come back here and write a comment. I’d love to know what you think.

I have just recently completed the first run of John Thornhill’s Personal Coaching program (which I highly recommend, by the way). I wasn’t planning on taking Mike up on his offer of all this free stuff, because I figure I’m not advanced enough for all that yet. But on John’s advice to “watch and learn”, I went through Mike’s sales process, signed up for all the free offerings, resisted all the upsells and one time offers (because I thought I’m not ready for them yet) and I learned a lot (including that I wish I had purchased Mike’s one time offer – it is a bargain!)

If you’ve been undecided about whether to look at Mike’s offer, I urge you to do so right away, before it closes on Sunday. And don’t do what I did and miss out on the one time offer – it could be the best investment you’ll ever make for taking your online business forward.

Drop whatever you’re doing and go here right now. Watch the video; read the whole page; follow the instructions. You’ll thank me for it in time to come.

This week has brought a huge buzz of excitement for me!
We have started to create our own product.
Firstly, we read Paula Brett’s excellent book about writing an ebook – Emergency Surgery – Operation ebook. (See My Review). It’s an excellent, easy to understand  guide for anyone who is wanting help with getting ideas, or wanting a system to follow for getting a book written.

We developed the title of our product and ordered the domain name and the graphics.

The graphics were what caused me my big buzz. At John’s recommendation, I ordered them from Planet Divinity. It was my first time buying professionally designed graphics and I was a bit wary of parting with my money, but I decided there was no point in doing the course if I was not going to follow advice. So I paid the very reasonable fee, filled in the order form, sent off some of my own photos for the designer to use and waited to see what I would get.

I did not have long to wait. One friendly email communication from the designer (about my photos) and a mere 48 hours later I had my web page template, complete with buy now button and a few other incidentals, and my product cover in two sizes.

To say I was thrilled with the design is an understatement. It is gorgeous! The colours are just as I had visualized them and my photo that I was not sure would be any good just leaps off the page with energy.

I am very pleased I followed John’s advice to get professional graphics. It saved me hours of struggle and got me a great result I could never have achieved myself. As for Planet Divinity, I am so impressed with their service they will be my graphic designers for life.

If you’ve been trying to make it as an internet marketer of information products, even for only a short time, the message will eventually get through – you need to have your own product. For many of us, the next thought is – “But I don’t know enough about anything to write an eBook”, or “I can’t write well enough to write an eBook” or “nothing I am interested in is of any use to others”.

From the very first page of her book, Paula Brett shows us that she has shared our pain and then goes on to offer us a clearly laid out plan to overcome all our obstacles. Her “Emergency Surgery” is to effectively remove our own self-defeating thought processes and transplant in their place a confident, positive attitude to the task ahead.

Paula takes the process of creating an information product and breaks it down into manageable pieces so that our feelings of  “overwhelm” fade to insignificance. She guides us step by step through a system which is almost as simple as “connecting the dots”. Paula includes a set of worksheets that help us work through each step. Her instructions are interspersed with encouraging anecdotes from other successful writers, about their own beginnings in internet marketing, which serve to remind us that everybody was once new to this fascinating arena. By the time we have finished reading Operation eBook, we understand exactly what we need to do.

I have found Operation eBook to be well written in an entertaining and readable style, with clear instructions that are easy to follow. I followed them, even though I had no idea what I would write a book about. Paula’s book first of all helped me find my topic, and then showed me how to create my product. My very first ebook has almost written itself!  Not only that, but also I now have many other topics buzzing around in my head, waiting to become my next product.

If you have been struggling to discover something that you can write about, or grappling with the “how to” of writing your book, I can strongly recommend Paula Brett’s Operation eBook as the solution to your problems.

If you want to stop that little voice in your head that’s telling you you have nothing to write about and can’t write anyway, I urge you to give Operation eBook a try. Go there now, before you forget. Here’s the link – you won’t regret it.

http://paula-brett.com/hg/?a=2phLsh