Special Offer Manager is the solution to enhance and heighten your sales. First and foremost, by presenting special offers that will attract more customers and buyers.

Anyone will go for the products which have exclusive and convincing offers, right? What you aim for is for the customers to buy right away without having any second thoughts. And this is the thing for you.

Special Offer Manager lets you generate and form your special offers in no time. Moreover, it will run and take charge of them for you. And not only that, it will also manage their expiration dates and do the work for you.

What could be more convenient than that? In addition, it adjoins your clients and customers to your newssheet or to the autoresponder programs you have defined.

Special Offer Manager is the product that is suited for the people who want to work hands free and without so much effort. If you are saving your time for yourself, this is the best solution for you.

Others who have tried it say that it is a grand product that makes it simple yet so effective. It is the product that makes real special offers that can definitely comply with that immediate deadline.

In addition, this will absolutely increase your sales and you will be surprised by the immediate responses you’ll get.

Today, people are sometimes so busy and preoccupied that they do not want to shop offline. They prefer going online and adding products and goods to their carts.

So, having special offers is a great opportunity for attracting and drawing customers. One should have the tool that will magnetize and invite the visitors to your web page and purchase the product straight away.

And it is good that the Special Offer Manager exists to aid you in your marketing and business needs. The good thing is that everything is done in a zap and the work is done for you deliberately! You just have to label and define three various points.

The first is the time that your special offer is prepared to proceed. The next is the point when the special offer is already running. And the final is when the special offer is ended or terminated.

All of these are done inevitably for you. The special offers that you generate can be based on the amount of orders that were taken, the number of days that the special offer will persist, or the number of hours that your offer will last.

However, you can also choose to combine these options to add variety to your special offer and to draw more attention.

Special Offer Manager can show the amount of product orders that is offered and the amount of orders remaining. It also shows the duration or the length of time that the special offer will last. Furthermore, you can also use this to advertise and manage your future and upcoming special offers.

Special Offer Manager even shows the countdown and displays the number of days remaining before the special offer expires to inform your visitors and customers. However, it is advised that you give and create sequential special offers.

This will give the customers a choice of whether to buy the product now or next week, but still have a special offer. By creating a variety of good offers, your customers can choose from a wide range of special offers that suits them.

Special Offer Manager automatically displays and replaces them after the special offer time, then proceeds with the next offer in line. So it is good that you prepare many special offers to keep the sales going. It is a clever script that can be the best companion for your autoresponder.

So with Special Offer Manager, you do not have to count the remaining number of orders, the number of days left, the replacement of your web site whenever the special offer ends, the manual adding of users to your autoresponders, and physically sending significant information to your customers. And surprisingly, you can connect the Special Offer Manager to your server within a few minutes.

If not, you can get your money back. The number of special offers does not matter. You can present as many special offers as you can on the same web page.

With this, there is no need for you to make a database. And the work it does is guaranteed. All you need is the Special Offer Manager.

Gilles Rais

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There are many ways to create your own graphics. But before creating graphics, you should first know what things are needed to create a good design such as understanding the different graphic formats like bitmap, pixel-based, and vector. Bitmap or pixel-based format are GIF, PCX, JPG, and TIFF.

Vector file formats include EPS, CGM, PICT, and WMF. The most commonly used file formats in creating websites and designing e-covers are the low-resolution JPG and GIF formats.

For you to create a good graphic design, you need to have an illustration program and an image editor for graphics. Some of these programs may have features of both, but for most work, you’ll need each one. Each type of graphics program works primarily with either bitmap or vector images.

Adobe Photoshop is an example of an image editor that works with GIF, JPG, TIF, and other bitmap graphics file formats. CorelDRAW is an example of an illustration program used primarily for EPS and other vector file formats.

Using the right color combination is also important in creating good graphic design. Images or graphic design used in Website and e-cover must be in Red, Green and Blue color combination also know as RGB.

Now in creating a good graphic design for e-covers, your first step is to know what the details are of your target market. Take some time to really determine every unique aspect of your target market before you begin your graphic design.

There are many different templates available to use to create your graphics, but you will not be unique because there are others who copy these templates. So it is much better to search for a good e-cover generating software and start creating a good graphic design.

Creating good and nice eCover Templates for your products might result in you becoming a best seller. Many of the customers online are all attracted to good presentation and may choose your product if you have good graphics.

With an eCover Generator software program, the lack of artistic ability is not a problem. This is a real time and money saver and will give you large profits.

Here are some easy ways and tips to create your own eCover Templates;

1. Use an eCover generating software. It’s easy to create thousands of designs without spending too much time and money.

2. Make sure that the graphic template you use is neat and clean. Your eCover will look more professional in appearance.

3. Choose the right image you will use for your eCover. Create or use some examples in some eCover generating software that you like and try to modify it. It must be creative and original yet not overexertive.

4. Add a title to your eCover and any additional text you want to include, but keep your text as brief as possible and to the point. You can also add some text color that will work best on your eCover.

5. Try also some different background color that matches to your eCover. Design an attractive cover-layout that works with your eCover so that it catches the attention of viewers.

6. Also try to add some photographs to your eCover or additional text like a catchy phrase or sub-title to enhance the cover. This does not work for all covers though.

7. Try a new style for your eCover. There are certainly many of them to choose from on the Web and they can include SLANT, FLAT, series, groups, various other angles, eCover binding (thick, thin, slant, rounded corner, notebook, etc.,) and other eCover options such as an eBag, eBox, eT-shirt, and more!

Mostly, options are very limited because of the many different templates that are free and available in various sizes, colors, and more. Give your eCover more than just a title; an eye-catching eCover will strike your potential customers’ imagination in an effective way.

Get the viewer’s attention and this will bring more sales to you. Many eBook eCovers are profitable; it is usually the first thing a customer sees when searching for an eBook to purchase.

eBook Covers have a proven track record for creating more sales for an eBook and if it is designed and tailored correctly, it can enhance the selling of an eBook even more.

Gilles Rais

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Life without color is boring.

Remember the early days of the movie industry, when all movies were shown in black and white? Or the days when television sets only showed black and white images?

They used to entertain people in the past and, well, they can still be entertaining today. Without color however, these old movies and television shows look, well, old and boring. People are attracted more to new movies and shows that features vivid colors.

As life without color is boring, so is a new product without any good graphics or graphic design to showcase!

Imagine a book without any attractive cover to inform a potential buyer what it is all about. Again, people in the past wouldn’t mind this and still buy the book. But in today’s world of colored movies and television, the modern book buyer would be inclined to purchase a book with an informative graphic cover than one that has none.

Without an informative graphic design to convey or even to give a hint of what the book is about, the potential reader is left guessing as to what he can get from the book.

In the same manner, albeit for a different reason, food products packed in a box filled with interesting graphics can attract a buyer better than products that have none.

This is especially true for the cereal products that one buys for his kids. A food product with a nice graphical box would surely attract more attention than one packed in a boring and monotonous box.

Just as products in the real world are better off with good graphics, so are those from the online world. Graphics is very important in the World Wide Web. For a website itself to attract a lot of attention, it must have good graphics.

But aside from making the site attractive, the graphic design also helps site visitors understand fully what the site is all about.

To persuade and to inform — these are the purposes of good graphic design in the online world. This is especially true for digital products that an online marketer sells.

For example, an e-book or ezine with an attractive graphic cover can easily persuade a digital product buyer to purchase it. Further, the graphics on the digital product’s cover can inform a potential buyer what the product is all about.

Creating good graphics, therefore, is something that every online marketer needs to learn about. Gladly, there are a lot of graphics creation and editing software products that an online marketer can choose from.

Some of these graphic software programs have been around since the beginning of the World Wide Web while others are fairly new.

But while there has always been a graphic creation and editing software for creating online graphics, it has not always been easy for anyone to create good online graphics.

For one, most graphic design software programs in the early days of the web were crude, only allowing a designer to perfectly create a few simple shapes and designs.

Advances in online graphic design, however, have greatly improved the quality of graphic design and editing software programs. One product of this continuous advancement in graphic design technology is the Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop, creating quality online graphics is now possible.

But while the Photoshop has greatly improved the quality of graphics being created for the web, its creators have made the least effort to make the software easy for everyone to use.

While everyone can possibly learn how to create graphics using Photoshop, doing so may take a long time. This makes the program not ideal for online marketers who need to create graphics immediately without having to go through the long process of learning.

Graphics creation for e-books, ezines, software boxes, multimedia presentations, and other purposes, however, should not be difficult.

In fact, with the various graphic design software products available on the web today, anyone can potentially create quality graphics without having to learn all that stuff about the Adobe Photoshop and all other complicated graphics creation software programs. One of the programs that make graphic creation really easy is the eCover Magic.

The eCover Magic is a product by George Sepich. In essence, this product allows anyone to create very professional graphical layouts without having to learn all about the complex procedures that are required using complex software programs. With eCover Magic, creating professional graphics for e-books and ezines can be done in a snap.

At the core of the eCover Magic is the Adobe Action Script. This script is the same powerful animation tool used in the Adobe Photoshop software to create amazing graphical designs.

With Action Scripts, anyone can potentially create a professional looking and rather complicated graphics design much more easily. All the graphic designer really has to do with the eCover Magic is to edit the text, graphics, and colors of the graphic cover, and in no time, a new graphic cover will be formed.

The program itself will handle all the hard stuff and complex procedures so there is no need for you to worry about them.

Gilles Rais

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This issue includes…

° How to Find Time to Build My Online Business

° Weekly Marketing FreebieS

° Internet Marketing Special Offer

° Persistence is the Key to Your Success!

° A Little Used List Building Success Strategy

° Tell Me What You Think!

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The 60 Second Weekly Tip
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How to Find Time to Build My Online Business

This is something most people struggle with…

When you initially decide to go online, you struggle to
find the one thing… the one idea to follow!

But if you ’stick it out’ and hang around long enough
opportunities start flying out of the woodwork. In fact, it
can even become overpowering and it’s almost impossible to
make up your mind what to do or what not to do.

Then once you finally come to a decision on the things you
are going to do, you then have to arrange your time in such
a way to get things done.

But how do you settle on what it is you should do first?

Priority is one method of narrowing down the list of what you
want to do. You need to determine what is most essential?
What model or strategy is going to make you the most money?
Which method is going to make the fastest profits?

Once you have figured that out, you then need to develop a
plan and a timeframe to complete the tasks outlined in
your plan. In the initial stages your plan can be something
as simple as a piece of paper that you stick to your
monitor or on your bedroom mirror so you see it everyday.

Then comes the hard part. You have to actually take action!

This is the one step that accounts for over 90% of people
not making it online. They have the best intentions, but
when push comes to shove they don’t follow through with
their goals. So it is imperative that you identify the
tasks you need to do, and then do them!

You can either do your tasks one at a time or combine
related tasks together in batches to achieve your goals
faster. Just take care not to do too much at once,
otherwise you will only confuse and frustrate yourself.

Regardless of how you accomplish your tasks, your main
goal is to see things through to the end. It’s better to do
one thing well and complete it, than to do a bunch of
things poorly and only half-finish everything.

Not everything you are going to be doing will be fun, so
sometimes it will be difficult to stay focused. The trick
is to break down your plan into smaller ‘bite sized’ sub-
tasks to make your job appear easier. Then concentrate on
the results you are going to get.

Focus on what the benefits of your actions will be. If
it’s a big project that’s going to take a while, it might
help to write down the benefit that you can imagine clearly
in your mind and then stick them in a place you will see
them everyday to help motivate yourself.

For example, benefits could include:

1. Help you pay the utility bills
2. Find the extra money to take the family on a vacation
3. Pay for your web hosting each month
4. Buy that car you’ve always wanted
5. Allow you to quit your day job

You get the idea. Simply figure out what it is you want
the most and then write it down.

The next time you are doing that task that is driving you
crazy… close your eyes for a minute and visualize what
it will be like when you achieve your goal.

Then it’s just a matter of setting specific goals to
complete your tasks - and disciplining yourself so you can
reach those goals.

I suggest you to read Setting Goals, a free resource available
in the Ebooks section.

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Weekly Marketing FreebieS
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Social bookmarking

Jean-Philippe Schoeffel just created a *Free* Special Report on
one of the latest Internet development: social bookmarking.

Discover social networks and how to use them for your online
business:

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Reminder:

Tomorrow september 5th, 2006 Aaron Dwyer releases
ScriptSmart, a collection of important tools for your online business.

There will be bonuses granted to the first customers.

Make sure you register your Free Trial right now!

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Internet Marketing Special Offer
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My friend Dirk Wagner just released his DirksCrazyWeek firesale!

These tools are worth thousands and thousands of dollars
and have already made the owner enough money for a living
online.

Act fast and grab some of his mystery bonuses for fast movers.

Go get it now!
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This only runs for 7 days or until 500 copies are sold
whatever comes first. After that, it’s gone for ever.

Don’t miss it for anything.

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Featured Article
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Persistence is the Key to Your Success!

Are you persistent?

You better be because most often than not it’s the only
way you will be able to achieve your goals and dreams.
Almost everyone who has succeeded either online or off-line
has only done so because they were persistent - even when
things look their most darkest.

Most of the most successful people in their field have
failed the first time round - and most times on more than
one occasion. But instead of staying down for the count,
they got back up, dusted themselves off and kept on
fighting.

Successful people are made - not born. There are no rules
or statistics that can accurately predict the results of
any venture - well not that I’m aware of anyway - but
through persistence you can tilt the odds of success in
your favour.

Listen. The Internet is filled with promises of quick
riches, and due to our overwhelming desire to succeed we
tend to fall for this over and over again. Now don’t get me
wrong. You can become an overnight success. But the odds
are that you won’t.

On average it can take you up to 4 years to become an
overnight success. Ask most marketers who have achieved any
level of real success and they will tell you a similar
story. Very rarely does anyone instantly hit a home run on
their first dig.

It’s not that they don’t have a chance to become
successful. They do. In fact anyone can. It just takes
time and patience. What most people do is try one or two
things and if they are immediately success, they move on to
something else. Big mistake. You need to identify what it
is you want to do… and then stick with it.

So the first thing you need to do if you decide to pursue
something online is to do your homework. You need to become
familiar with the playing field and learn the rules of the
game. In other words, know your competition.

When you’ve found your niche, you then need to develop a
plan based on thorough research. It doesn’t have to be
complex, but you need to lay the foundation for your online
business first. The stronger your foundation, the better
the chance you have of building a solid long-term business.

Then you need to develop your business plan and set in play
the motions to build your foundations. Once you do this
you should have a better understanding for how the online
game works and you will be better prepared to go out make
it happen.

You must then take action and employ persistent tactics in
order to succeed. Your first venture may fail. Your second
venture may fail. Heck even your seventh venture may fail.
But if you are persistent and continually seek out
different and new techniques - you WILL succeed.

So find your niche, research and develop it - and then
pursue it. And pursue it with persistence. It’s the key to
your success!

The Niche Site Manual is an excellent resource to start with.

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Effective Marketing Strategies
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A Little Used List Building Success Strategy

Here is a little used technique you can implement to build
your mailing list for no additional cost. I call it “using
subscribers to make subscribers” - much like in the
context of “using money to make money”.

This simple list building formula can be summed up in two
words:

Ad Swap!

In simple terms an Ad Swap is when you JV with other ezine
publishers within your niche to trade advertisements
between your lists.

This works best if you partner with someone who has a
similar size list to that of your own. This way it’s fair
to both you and the other ezine publisher.

In essence, you broadcast your partners advertisement to
your mailing list, and they advertise your ad to their
list. Yes, you are actually cross promoting each others
offer to each of your mailing lists.

The best strategy to get the best results is to use an
endorsement style mailing. In other words, you get your JV
partner to endorse your offer.

The reason this method is so effective is because your JV
partner should have already built a level of trust with his
readers, so when he endorses your offer they will trust
his judgement and visit your page.

But a word of warning…

You should never directly promote a product or service
with the view of making a sale using this method. You can
do this once you have subscribers on you list, but you
should never send new visitors to a sales page without
first asking them to join your list.

If you do this, your results may be very disappointing.
Let’s face it. Your JV partners readers don’t know who you
are, so why should they purchase anything from you without
first getting to know or trust you.

So with this in mind, your primary goal with this form of
marketing is solely to get as many subscribers as possible
from the other ezine publisher’s mailing list to sign up
for your list. And the most effective method to do this is
to offer them something of value in return for signing up
to your list.

The result is that you can grow your mailing list without
spending a solitary dime, which can have a major impact on
your bottom line.

Not only this, you will also have multiple opportunities
to promote your offers to your new readers, which if done
correctly can exponentially grow your profits.

Of course this is just one method of building your list,
but it is one of the most effective as you are targeting
hot prospects who have already shown an interest in your
topic.

All you need do then is to build a relationship with
them to gain their trust.

So go out and seek as many ad swaps with as many ezine
publishers as possible to begin building your own list of
loyal readers.

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Tell Me What You Think
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This is your chance to speak out.

Comment on articles I’ve run in the newsletter, give me
your thoughts on changes or your ad testing results or
questions relating to your business, etc.

In other words, just talk to me about what you think I
need to do to improve the newsletter.

Be sure to include your website address too, because if
I use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter,
I’ll thank you by posting your address so that you can get
additional free traffic to your site!

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That’s a Wrap for this Week
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That wraps up another week’s newsletter and I hope you
enjoyed this issue.

Don’t forget to send me any comments or questions you
may have to the Feedback Loop. I would be only too happy to
help you in any way that I can.

From time to time I’ll send you important updates
that will provide information that has the potential to
greatly improve your online business… and of course
your profits!

However, you can rest assured that I will only ever
recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value
and will provide indisputably benefits to help you grow
your business… that’s my guarantee!

Your friend,

Gilles Rais

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If you own your own website, there are a variety of things you can do to generate extra income for yourself. To enjoy the most success from your efforts, you must take into consideration your existing website content, as well as your particular target audience. You will also want to know the approximate number of visitors you regularly receive to your website.

Once you have this information, you can implement any of the following:

1. Use the web resources

Include Google Adsense on your web pages. Google delivers text and image ads that are targeted to your site and its content. When people click on an ad, you will receive a portion of the amount paid to Google by the advertiser. On average, you can expect to receive anywhere between 2 cents to a dollar per click, depending on the keyword.

Make money selling other people’s products and services through affiliate programs. Each program you register for should provide you with an affiliate link to track your referrals. Depending on the program, you will normally be paid on a per sale basis or for each sign-up you generate.

Sell advertising space on your web site. You could sell banner and/or classified ads. If you want to make additional money, sell sponsor ads and place them in a special section or towards the top of your website for the most exposure.

2. Membership services

If you have enough web space available on your server, you could rent web pages to other people. You could also give the web pages away for free, but include your banner or advertisement on them to generate income for yourself.

Charge people a fee to access a dedicated part of your website. People will pay you money for your website content if it’s valuable to them. The content can be ebooks, reports, software, etc.

3. Sell your own products or services

They should be related to your target audience. Selling your own product is your preference. Think of ways to improve them once you have made up your mind investing in them. Make your reader visualize they have already bought your product in your ad. Tell them what results they have gotten and how it makes them feel. They’ll already be emotionally attached before they buy. Products sold online make the most money. You have to make sure you have a decent sales marketing plan, which includes a good website to sell the products. Turn your ad into an article. It could be a story or how-to article.

This will lead them into your ad without them knowing it’s an ad. They’ll already be interested when they get to your sales pitch. Give them a couple tips in your ad that will help them with their problem. This will give your business credibility and gain your readers trust to buy your products or services. You can count on them as long as you maintain your integrity and have a good healthy environment for you and your customers.

You will also want the ability to securely accept credit card payments directly from your website. Other forms of payment such as PayPal, ClickBank, etc. are also preferred. Delivery of your product should be as fast and efficient as possible.

Private Label Rights products are a very good way to start. Click here for sites offering PLR products.

4. Publish an e-zine from your website.

An electronic magazine, whether delivered via a Web site or an email newsletter is highly recommended. Ezines can inform your prospects to buy your products, In addition to direct sales of products or services you are promoting, you could sell classified or sponsor advertising inside your e-zine.

You can have your own mailing list to have a good number of prospects. From your website, you have to give them the option of subscribing to your ezine mailing list, which you can do easily. Have people subscribe to the e-zine right from your website.

Each of these ideas will generate income, but if you are a new website owner, I recommend starting with Google Adsense. These ads continue to grow in popularity and are easy to customize and install on your webpages–simply copy and paste a block of HTML.

For new Internet home business entrepreneurs, in addition to Google Ads, you should also consider affiliate programs. Most affiliate programs are free to join and usually offer marketing tools and resources that are readily available for your use.

My Software Gold Mine offers an affiliate program, with free resources for you to learn more about affiliate promotion. Check it out here.

Gilles Rais

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