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With Worldwide Brands, you CAN take your eBiz to that next level of selling success!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:22:00 +0000

Hello everyone, Are you still in the recession beating mood this coming holiday season? Here is some very GOOD NEWS from Worldwide Brands. Now is the time to get the right products you need to sell online. Now you too can enter the drop ship business from wholesale merchants of repute. Get the basic resource for your small business essentials. This is a tool for your success.

Check out this offer from Worldwide Brands CEO, Chris Malta.

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If you're planning on making money online during the upcoming holidays, NOW is the time to get started. Everybody else is! So I've got two BIG announcements for you. You've been asking for these options. And Worldwide Brands has been listening... here they are:

1. You can now pick up "The Whole $ale" as an individual product Because you asked, we're now offering our complete eCommerce Product Sourcing educational package - with or without a membership to our wholesale supplier database:

www.worldwidebrands.com

Here are just 2 examples of the many ongoing premium eBiz bonuses that "The
Whole $ale" members enjoy:

• Exclusive Liquidation Auctions
NOW through 7/16 (Wed.), "Whole$ale" members ONLY can bid on select
lots of premium liquidation goods from GENCO Marketplace.

• How-To Traffic Video
In this hard-hitting, pure-content video, traffic expert Andy Jenkins shares
simple steps for driving qualified traffic.

Unlock the secrets to What to Sell Online, Where to Get It, and How to Sell It here:

www.worldwidebrands.com

2. Our financing option is back So many of you have expressed a desire to use our tools and learning materials, but told us you need a payment plan to get you started.

In order to help as many people as we can, we're making our entire Product Sourcing package - "The Whole $ale" AND membership to our supplier database - available for only $99 down.

Get all the details here:

www.worldwidebrands.com

With Worldwide Brands, you CAN take your eBiz to that next level of selling success, and we'll be here to support you every step of the way!

Thanks and I'll talk to you again soon,

Chris Malta
CEO www.worldwidebrands.com

P.S. Our exclusive liquidation auctions only happen once-a-quarter, so hurry and take
advantage of the premium goods that are available now through Wednesday, July 16th:

www.worldwidebrands.com

P.P.S. With our new financing plan, you can kick your eBiz Product Sourcing into high gear for only $99 down. Getting started is now easier than ever:

www.worldwidebrands.com

Thinking Real eCommerce? You Need Real Products. Real Dropship Wholesalers!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:18:00 +0000

You Need Real Products. You Need Real Drop ship Wholesalers. You Need a Worldwide Brands Membership. Here is a special Recession beating offer. You Need this Now in this economic climate. It's the first payment plan ever offered by Worldwide Brands.

Read this article by Chris Malta the CEO of Worldwide Brands, and if you are serious about selling real products at more than competitive prices then You better take action Now.

"Now you can get started with the 'Product Sourcing Membership' with over 6 million wholesale products and our premium education product, 'The Whole Sale' for only $99 down. You’ll make easy payments of $133 over the next 3 months, but start enjoying the benefits for your eBiz right NOW.

There are 2 reasons why we're doing this...

Reason #1: We just finished surveying over 10,000 people who signed up for our "Beat The Recession with eCommerce" series and almost 80% of them didn't know what products they would be selling this holiday season.

It's a mistake that could cost thousands of dollars in sales and profits. Experienced retailers know that right now is the time to get your orders in to the wholesalers. Not a few months from now.

If you wait, you could miss out on the 2008 holiday season and you'll have to wait until next year.

Each year, the holiday season is the time most retailers make the bulk of their profits.

You definitely don't want to miss out on it. Click here to find the products you want to sell this holiday season and to get your orders in with the wholesalers.

Reason #2: We want to give you some financial relief.

Even though we showed you example after example of retailers making record profits through the recession, we still heard from people who are little afraid to get
started right now. We understand.

So, in addition to giving you a payment plan that makes it easier to get your eCommerce business moving, we're going to give you a $200 discount on everything.

You can read about it HERE:

We obviously can't keep this offer open forever. It's only available through this coming Monday night, June 30, 2008. When the clock strikes midnight (Eastern standard Time)this Monday, the offer will expire.

Take advantage of this right now. It's the best offer we've ever made".
Here are the full details.

To your online success.

How to Build an E-Biz on a Budget: 4 Start-up Tips for the ECommerce Entrepreneur

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:02:00 +0000

by Chris Malta & Robin Cowie

Many online sellers start their businesses from a position of necessity. They need a steady income, but they lack start-up funds, and have little-to-no retail experience or technical expertise. However, according to Shawna Fennell, president of 1Choice4YourStore.com, those things aren’t mandatory for an Internet entrepreneur to succeed. Tells Fennell, “When I started my first E-Biz, I was a newly-single mom. I had nothing but my babies and the clothes we left the house with. Several years later, I’ve got seven or eight very profitable retail sites, and an E-Biz consulting practice. If I can do it, anybody can do it.”

Easy Entry
If you’re considering coming online, but know nothing about eCommerce and can’t afford to lose any money, Fennell shares several tips to help alleviate the stress in your transition into online sales:

• Consider starting out with a storefront on a reputable selling venue, such as Yahoo! or eBay. They’re easy to set up, even without a proficiency in coding. You can easily get started selling without hiring a web designer, programmer, or SEO consultant – much more easily than with an independent web site.

• Drop shipping is an ideal product sourcing model when you begin retailing online. Whenever your customers place their orders with you, you turn around and place those orders with your drop ship supplier. Your supplier then sends those products from their warehouse directly to your customers’ homes. You only pay your drop shipper when your customers pay you, so you don’t have to invest money you don’t have into inventory that might not sell.

• You may not have a great deal of money to spend on search engine optimization, but you can still do well in the natural rankings if you concentrate on giving the search engines what they really want: original, quality content. New E-Biz owners often make the mistake of posting the template product descriptions their suppliers provide. But if a hundred sellers use the same product description, the search engines will see a hundred identical listings and only bring back one of those stores in the results. That’s why each of your products needs its own unique copy. Even if you have hundreds of products, you can work on a set number a day until you’ve written a fresh, unique description for every item.

• While you wait for your SEO efforts to pay off, you may have to invest in some Pay Per Click ads to bring customers into your store. Fennell recommends advertising on a shopping search engine, rather than a traditional search engine. Typically, the cost is lower, and the conversion is higher. Your Google ad may bring in ten times more clicks per day than your ad on a shopping search engine, but you’re going to see about the same number of sales resulting from those clicks. And with the shopping engine, you’re only paying for one-tenth of the clicks.

Walking the Walk
Opening an E-Biz isn’t a magic bullet, or a quick fix for all your financial woes, but it is a low-risk, low-investment opportunity for anyone willing to do the work. The key is to set realistic goals and take practical steps to make them happen. As Fennell points out, “It takes consistency and it takes time, but it can be done. If someone is prepared to study, to apply the things they learn, and – most of all – to stick to it, they can build an online business and be very successful with it.”

BIOGRAPHY: Product Sourcing Radio is Created and Hosted by Chris Malta and Robin Cowie of WorldwideBrands.com, Home of OneSource: The Internet's Largest Source of Genuine, Factory-Direct Wholesalers for online sellers. Click Here for more FREE E-Biz & Product Sourcing info!

4 Rules for New Entrepreneurs - Practical Tips for Starting Right

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:00 +0000

by Chris Malta & Robin Cowie

If you sell on Amazon®, Yahoo!®, eBay®, or your own website; a Worldwide Brands Membership is the ONLY Source you’ll ever need.

It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur—in the last decade, technology has leveled the playing field and propelled an entrepreneurial revolution. As an entrepreneur, you now have more access to information that enables you to make more intelligent choices more quickly. You have an advantage over big businesses in that you’re lighter, more flexible, and faster on your feet. You can target new markets more quickly, and you can turn on a dime.

But being a successful entrepreneur requires that you look at the big picture and follow a plan through from beginning to end. Rieva Lesonsky, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine gives some practical guidelines that can help you when beginning your own enterprise:

1. Don’t Quit Your Day Job.
Consider starting your business part-time, especially if it’s online, while you’re working and have a steady income. It usually takes six months to a year to get a business going and you don’t want your ability to make your house payment to hinge upon your company being an overnight success. Start with what you can manage, financially and time-wise, and scale up as your business grows.

2. Find Your Niche.
The days of general stores are over. Particularly online, consumers are looking for stores that specialize. You have to find a need—something a specific group of people want, but can’t get at the big chain stores—and fill it. Advises Lesonsky, “You can’t compete with the big guys, so you have to find where the big guys aren’t and go into your niches.”

3. Have an Online Presence.
Even if you’re not planning to start an online retail business, consider that the internet can still play a valuable role in your company. Having an online presence eliminates the limitations of physical location and broadens your customer base by, literally, millions. It’s also a great tool for promoting yourself and letting people, even in your own area, know that you’re there, and what you’re doing.

4. Refuse to Quit.
Successful entrepreneurship requires creativity, energy, and a drive to keep going when you fail. Few people realize that before Bill Gates created the extremely successful Microsoft 3.0, he created a Microsoft 1.0 and 2.0, both of which flopped—but he kept at it. And that determination and refusal to give up is what will separate successful entrepreneurs from unsuccessful ones. Says Lesonsky, “Arm yourself with optimism to get beyond the ‘No’ or the trouble. There’s nothing wrong in failure—just don’t repeat the same mistake!”

BIOGRAPHY: Product Sourcing Radio is Created and Hosted by Chris Malta and Robin Cowie of WorldwideBrands.com, Home of OneSource: The Internet's Largest Source of Genuine, Factory-Direct Wholesalers for online sellers. Click Here for more FREE E-Biz & Product Sourcing info!

Mike Filsaime, The Butterfly Marketing Course Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:08:00 +0000

I was going over Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing Course details to form a "straight" opinion for this blogs announcement and review. What struck me instantly was the long list of testimonials. What was interesting was not just the long list of testimonials, but rather the fact that this list contained the 'who-is-who' of the online marketing world! Almost all the 'famous' big guys of internet marketing had something to say about this Viral marketing course. The product's slogan actually calls it "The Viral Marketing Experiment"!

Hey guys to me this doesn't sound like a marketing experiment. I am calling it "the viral marketing reality"! Check this: if your problem up until now has been finding the right tools for making money online from a serious small business then this is worth checking out .

The Butterfly Marketing is a step-by-step viral marketing course. It is a multimedia accelerated learning program and software for you to truly create an online presence and to make money online. It is not just for those who are sick and tired of seeing some marketers making money online and they are not. It is for everyone who believes they can make money on the internet.

By the way the real focus of Butterfly Marketing is on starting a small business online with the ability to have a huge list of customers. Ahh yes, you guessed it, I am referring to list building. This is the river of online survival. Yes you have heard it over and over again, "the money is inb the list". But do you know how to create one? I mean one with true opt-in? One that will be a real asset to your money making business. If this is your focus then team up with the guys at Butterfly Marketing starting right here.

By the way did you know this FACT: 97% of marketers making over $10,000 per month online have their own products, membership sites, or both!

And oh, please do not be discouraged by the price, because you know the saying, quality is valueless, go for the value. Butterfly Marketing is well worth the value.

When you have setup your membership site or when you begin your opt-in list, please invite me. I will be glad to give you support.

To your money making business success. START HERE NOW.

PayDotCom.com is ROCKING the marketplaces! Really ... ?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:07:00 +0000

Hi everyone! It's TheWordSmith here..., with another announcement!

If you are familiar with Clickbank.com (R), or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP ...

There are some of you who say well you like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace... but they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions...

Well, there is a NEW SERVICE now... and it appears to be great and it is a new and FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.

Your OWN product...

- OR - (the best part)
You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace. It does not matter which country you are in, there is no restriction on this too!

The new marketplace is called PayDotCom.com! Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join? You bet it is! With PayDotCom you can Sell Products Online or join the Affiliate Marketing program and best of all you can now effectively utilise your PayPal account if it has not been that active lately in receiving funds!

In my opinion this site has the potential to KILL all other marketplaces and by now almost EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.com or they are seriously thinking of switching. You should too.

So rush there now and see how much they offer...or even GO SIGN UP NOW!

OH! - Also, PayDotCom.com have introduced their own affiliate marketing program that pays you HARD CASH to your PayPal account just for sharing the site with other people.

They give you cool tools like BLOG WIDGETS, and they even have an advertising program to help you get traffic to your site.

You want an ARMY of Affiliate Marketing troops to Sell Products Online for you? PayDotCom.com is the place. They also allow you to have Free placement in their marketplace!

Even better... If your product becomes one of the Top 25 products in its category in the marketplace (not that hard to do)...then you will get Free advertising on the Blog Widget which is syndicated on THOUSANDS of sites World Wide and get Millions of impressions per month.

I hear PayDotCom.com is ROCKING the marketplaces!

Go on check this out NOW!

Get your FREE account now...

Thanks. To your success and prosperity.

P.S. - Make sure to get your Account NOW while it is still Free to join.

Use Your Words to Sell, Not the Graphics. This is a FREE Course for you

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:50:00 +0000

Make Your Words Sell! What Do YOU Sell?
Want to Sell More? Selling software on the Net? Info-products? A service? A million dollar cables for suspension bridges? If you want to sell more... Use the right words. Because words sell, not graphics.
Get this FREE Course NOW and watch your business, you will surprise yourself!

Check out other products in this range.

The BIBLE Of Selling On The Net

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:45:00 +0000

"The definitive work on making any Web site sell" This is The Book That Was Coined" The BIBLE Of Selling On The Net", It Is Now FREE! Get it Here. FREE. Seven volumes, over 1,500 pages... When Make Your Site SELL! (MYSS!) launched in 1999, it was instantly coined "The BIBLE of selling on the Net. MYSS! debuted at the low price of $17.

It really was the BIBLE of selling online. Praised universally, it has sold well over 100,000 copies.

Now, you too must GET hold of this FREE Manual before it is pulled down.

Check out other products in this range.

You Just Need a Brain and Motivation to Succeed Online

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:44:00 +0000

...Do You want to be a winning affiliate?...You just need a Brain and Motivation or be ...
a B.A.M. (I mean a real positive B.A.M!) First off, affiliate marketing like any other business is a serious affair and has lots of success stories. Yours is the next success story waiting to be unveiled! Problem is, some tend to think that success will come just by waving a wand. Nope, it won't happen. This ain't no Harry Porter stuff! You've got to love it, nurture it, put in some hard work, commitment and use the right resources. Be original and unique in your roadmap. But above all else you will need a brain ( I pray you have this with you all the time...) and lots of motivation too. These are just some of the variables YOU require to Succeed.

When you put your heart in your business, then your success is already half way achieved. Remember that all important faith adage from the great teacher himself? "Where your treasure is, that is where your heart will be also." Build a lifestyle and enjoy it and not just some pass time.

So then let's start by looking at some of these variables. Oh! by the way, if you are just starting out you are not a "Newbie", but an 'Emerging Entrepreneur'. Don't be intimidated! But if you have been at it for a while you already know this fact. Anyway check out these variables which are listed in no specific order:

Do you just shoot from the hip - not good. You must have a plan. These days the common phrase is roadmap to someplace...in your case it is a roadmap to your success.
Choose a program which will give you benefits LONG TERM not just one off payoffs. Read the fine prints and checkout the pay structure critically. Ohhh and find out what sort of residual income there is (if any) in addition to the direct commissions.
Be UNIQUE. Don't be a copycat. The internet is awash with all manner of stuff it is confusing. Take care. Someone once said "Do not believe 50% of the stuff you read in the papers." Question is which half do you believe? This is true even for content in Cyberworld.
You must have a target audience for your marketing campaigns. Check the first variable on this list. You are not marketing to every Tom, Dick and Harry, or are you?
What about the support? Are you left to break your back on your own in order to bring in sales? Are you in a business partnership with your Merchant?

After reading this Post and you are "convicted", then here is an affiliate marketing solution that You can start with right HERE. It does not matter how long you have been at it. It is never too late to confess and turn around!

To your Peace and Prosperity

Does your merchant have what it takes...I mean quality and integrity?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:48:00 +0000

... my short testimony...
Nearly 10 years ago, I came across a company that was marketing an all in one product which among others had website creation, hosting, domain registration etc..) Interestingly, I decided to check them out years after my discovery of the internet around 1996/97. At that time I saw great potential in this company but well, I never did anything about it because it was not in my "line of business interest" then. So recently, almost 10 years on, I went back to check them out and discovered that the company is still alive and growing. They have mellowed! They have no hype about them.

Their products are truly impressive and being an IT person myself, I see a lot of integrity in their line of products which include: site designing (you do this without knowing any coding), hosting and much more. They have one of the best online affiliate programs too! When I returned to the internet 'fulltime' recently, I knew this was it. I did not hesitate. I joined the affiliate program and bought the site builder product. The price is good too, considering the quality! But hey..lemme not push you, after all seeing is believing right? Yes? Yes! There is a lot here to be blessed with especially trust and integrity. Go check them out. You won't regret. I am still happy. The support is fantastic.
Check them out here: This is the one!

I pray Peace and Prosperity to YOU in abundance.

Affiliate Marketing, Do You have a brain and motivation?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:12:00 +0000

I will dedicate some time to sharing some Reliable Affiliate Programs and tools for real business success. Let's face it we all want to succeed online but not just anyhow! Above all, we affiliates must please understand that there is no magic wand. No Harry Porter fantasies here. Just plain hard work. Nothing works magically. You NEED a Brain and Motivation in addition to hard work, so you must be a B.A.M. in the positive sense!
So to get started, check out content additions every so soon. If you require more reading material download the Affiliate Masters course -here; it is a wealth of info for you marketers.

I am truly frustrated by spam and junk!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:00:00 +0000

I am so frustrated! I am so frustrated it's driving me nuts! I mean I cannot stand this spam business any more. What is even more frustrating is the fact that there are no real solutions out there for me to get rid of spam once and for all. Everywhere I look communication has stopped being communication any more. Good people have been scared into retreat from spam and have found relief in creating cocoons of temporary relief from spam. I am talking about things like "thank you for subscribing to our blur blur blur, but please check your inbox to confirm it is really you!..." Aaahhh can someone quantify the lost resources in time and money due to spam/junk?

I want to throw a challenge to all you smart programmers. Can you come up with a lasting solution? Let me give you some ideas along these lines:
(1) - Create a program that will first of all identify the ISP address of the mail that I have classified as spam and I have junked it;
(2) - The program must crawl and identify the web host where the notorious spam has come from;
(3) Let the software send a "friendly" warning to the ISP and Web Host that an e-mail with IP address so and so is deemed offensive and can they exculpate themselves within 48 hours or else they will face a law suite whose primary emphasis will be to shut them down;
(4) The software should permanently block the offending IP address and bounce off every e-mail back to the sending ISP or Web host until they get so clogged up they must deal with this matter or else "we run them out of town!"
(5) The anti-spam software must be developed under open source arrangement and made available freely for home and personal use. A commercial version should also be developed but priced afford ably from which resources will be raised for continued development of this software.
(6) All the programmers to work on this project must be open minded and enthusiastic to move this project forward.
(7) etc. etc. etc.... If you have any feedback regarding this matter help me to resolve this problem. I am spending too much time looking and worrying about junk mail. The authors of e-mail software currently in use are not doing much otherwise we could have found a "spam/junk cure" by now!

I am truly frustrated.

Well for now at least,
I pray Peace and Prosperity to you in abundance

Quality and Integrity...does your affiliate merchant have them? ...my testimony

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:19:00 +0000

About 1999 I "discovered" the internet. At that time I had come across a Canadian internet company that was marketing an all in one product which among others had website creation, hosting, domain registration etc. Interestingly, I decided to check them out years after my discovery of the internet . At that time I saw great potential in this company but well, I never did anything about it because it was not in my "line of business interest" then. I was a full time IT manager in the corporate world. I did not need anything else, after all my career was anchored on solid pay-check foundation! But now, as an 'emerging entrepreneur' (not a newbie, please!), I decided almost 10 years on, to check them out again and discovered that the company is still alive and growing. They have mellowed! They have maintained a NO HYPE stance in their business. This greatly encouraged me to see that they have not faltered in the face of the internet pressure to make quick bucks at the cost of quality. The INTEGRITY AND QUALITY which I had noticed that time has become one of their pillars. This was and still is very encouraging, indeed!

Their products are truly impressive and being an IT person myself, I clearly see a lot of integrity in their line of products which include: site designing (you do this without knowing any coding), hosting and much more. They have one of the best online affiliate programs too! When I returned to the internet 'fulltime' recently, I knew this was it. I did not hesitate. I joined the affiliate program and bought the site builder product. The price is decent too, considering the quality! But hey..lemme not push you, after all seeing is believing right? Yes? Yes! There is a lot here to be blessed with especially trust and integrity. Take advantage of the integrity and quality and go check them out. You won't regret. I am still happy. The support is fantastic. A lot other products of similar type currently being hyped and overpriced on the internet by self acclaimed 'gurus' fall far short.
If you have been thinking about starting something online, check this one out: This is the one! Go see.

I pray Peace and Prosperity to YOU in abundance.

Join the Army and Kill the Terror...s

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:32:00 +0000

In this our day, politicians of voice the world over are saying, "yes, we are joining the war against terror. We must get them wherever they are before they get us. We support the war on terror. So much resource power is being pooled to fight the terrorist and to make sure they do not come into our 'safe' territories". Surprisingly, we know where the big bad guys are but we can't get to them! They are grouping and re-grouping in ever large numbers and carrying out "missions" here and there and what do you know? ..these big bad guys are using weapon power from the 'safe' countries. How is it getting to them, when they are supposed to be isolated? Hey, I think we need to change strategy. We need to have focus ... with a special kind of bad guy focussed army....

Hello! Did I scare you with that little intro? Sorry, I did not mean to. That is how I view the cyberworld's 'siege situation' right now. I feel angry my dear friends and I want to take it off my chest and mayhap I will feel better. I am fed up. We cannot go on like this. Everywhere I look, or turn, or surf there is just spam, virus, trojan, worm, spyware lurking...! But I don't want to scream, "Hey stop the internet train, I wanna get off!" No, no, no I will hang in there and challenge all of us who make up cyberworld to get angry and fight the cyberworld terrorist. Let us join resources and kill spam and all his relatives. I have been scammed, spammed, virused, trojanned, spywared upon ...! I have lost data. I have lost hard disks. I have lost time. I have lost money in trying to reset my computer life. In summary, I have been inconvenienced. I cannot get online without a part of me having to be on the alert. This is wasteful. I need all my faculties to be at full blast to do that which I intend to accomplish the time I hook up. So it is only right I get angry Yes? So, can someone please set up an internet army? I want to enlist to fight the bad guys! Who will join me. You? Good. That makes the two of us. You also, you say whaat? Yes, yes everyone is welcome to enlist. Thank you for your enthusiasm for the internet army.

Listen to this. On a number of occassions I have signed up for one thing or other on what appeared to be a respectable site, especially ones that even had 'billboards' clearly announcing, "We hate spam just as much as you do and, we can never never sell your address details to anyone. Never! Not us." Two days downline I begin to see offers landing in my inbox from places I had never been. Did you see my opening story above. How are the terrorists getting the weaponry unless someone from the good world is aiding them? Same thing online. Worse still when it comes to cyberworld, spam and virus and all these related enemies are a source of money making opportunities for some. Another time I signed up for what I genuinely thought was a good newsletter which is managed through a respected listserver. I got the first one, two, three email newsletters one every other day. No problem. Then all hell broke loose! From this same one subscription, (not even from elsewhere) I started getting five, then seven then ten e-mails in ONE DAY!!!!!! All unrelated to my original subscription. I was angry. My 'privacy' was raided. I tried to send an e-mail to vent my anger, but most of you by now know that these things are just one way traffic. A good genuine subscription turned into SPAM! I continued to be spammed with this kind of 'official spam'! I tried contacting the Listserver but alas.. yes you guessed it... nothing doing. Anyway to cut a long story short I found a way of killing that terrorist at the root. And I breathed some cool air once again. Lesson for you? Don't take everything at face value. Checkout some of these places before you subscribe or indeed before you download anything, especially when you don't feel "too comfortable". Most of us in the affiliate business have a tendency to want more and more reports, info, software etc to convert more and make more and more money. But hey, be carefull out there. Don't become a bad guy for want of more sales.

======Time out========================
Talking about affiliate marketing if you are looking at joining another affiliate program, here is something worthwhile. Go check out the affiliate program on this site. It is my considered view that this is one of the best programs on the net, yet.

On the other hand, if you are about to set up a website, STOP! check this out. Everything under one roof, hosting, design software (you don't have to know html coding), search engine optimisation, just the whole works. Go see.
==========End time out=================

Today everyone in cyberworld is building fences. Subscribing to some good stuff these days is now a long process of sub and confirm. If you are downloading anything you just be careful that you are not also importing any of the internet terrorist! If you are surfing make sure your browser is not as naked as your birthday suit. You must be fully amoured. All fenced up. Wheeewww! What a life! Result? Cyberworld is living in fear. Fear from being exterminated by a common enemy. The internet terrorists. Who are these bad guys? We know them but we are not fighting them. We are accomodating them because someone somewhere sees this as a money making opportunity. We know these guys are online, spam, virus, trojan, worm spyware etc. But..!
Back in the days of the 'Wild West' some bad guys would ride into town and hold it up for a while, then from some 'corner' a good guy will appear all by himself and take on the bad guys and kick them out of town whilst all the time the town's people would be peeping through the openings of their firmly shuttered windows. (Which one are you ..?) When life returns to normal, everyone thanks the good guy and it is business as usual. That is exactly what is happening in cyberworld. Some good guy finds a way of preventing spam or virus going his way, he gets thanked through sales of an anti-something. What happens to the common enemy? He is still there somewhere lurking and causing havoc. He has simply relocated from one part of the territory to another, could even be behind some little hill or big mountanous place. It becomes a 'no go' area.
I say we raise a common army to fight the common enemy we know, right?
What's your take on this matter?

To your peace and prosperity

The->WordSmith
8th August 2007

Eureka! Eureka! I found it! Ifound it! ...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:32:00 +0000

Eureka! Eureka! Eureka! I found it! OOhh praise God! I found it!
(the year? 1997!)

"Joe, hey Joe, wake up, wake up. what is it? What have you found? What's going on?" Then my eyes opened and I looked straight at my wife who had just woken me up. As I got more awake I too asked her what was happening. Then she said to me, "you have been shouting excitedly 'eureka! eureka!' and you woke me up. What is it that you have found, do you know what time this is?" "Never mind the time", I said to her, "it is real, Maggie, it is real". "What is real?", she asked me, "what are you talking about? Are you ok or you are having a bad dream?" She asked me. Then I began to speak to her as one who had authority concerning what I had just discovered, the internet.

You see my dear I was not dreaming, the lord took me in a vision. He gave me an opportunity to have a glimpse of His gift to mankind, just as he had prophesied to the prophet Daniel several thousand years ago about the increase in knowledge in the world. We are in that era where knowledge has increased exponentially and it keeps multiplying everyday. The internet is a wonderful discovery of our time and my prayer is that humanity will treasure this gift. It is not out of our intellect that this has come, no, it is a wonderful gift from the Lord for us to use wisely for positive development of our communities which the internet is linking into what we are now calling the global village. You see, we are only able to 'shrink' the world much more effectively by using the internet. Just imagine I do not have to travel all the way from Zambia to Europe, America or Asia for me to attend a meeting or indeed do business or preach! I can be right here at home with you and be in a 'live' meeting anywhere in the world. A specialist doctor can be in his surgery in the US but attending to a very sick patient somewhere in the jungles of Asia. That is how useful this internet thing is meant to be.

Then Maggie looked at me and said, "I have heard there are many evil things going on there, I mean on the internet do you want to...". Before she could fininsh I said to her, "You see my dear, wherever good abounds, evil will also come and encroach. Remember the story of Job in the bible? He was good but Satan went to the Lord and said all manner of evil just to get Job destroyed. But you see the ending of Job's life? He was focused on the truth in God and the Lord rewarded him. Man is in the same shoes as Satan, always wanting to manifest more evil than good. Look at all the wars from time immemorial. Man has failed to live in harmony with himself. We create all manner of evil things to fight the good in us. Just check out the amount of money the world spends on weaponry for killing man compared to what is alloted to taking care of the needy in our world. I will leave that to your good judgement!" But even though Man has elements within him that always lead him into wanting to self destruct, on our part we must focus on the truth that is in the internet. Yes there's a lot of good in it and I truly believe the internet is a great gift from our Lord for us to use wisely and who knows when everyone's eyes become open to the truth it shall surely triumph over the bad which is making the good people shy away from being part of the cyberworld!

So, I continued to explain to my dear Maggie that what I had discovered in the internet was a tool that all of us good minded people can make use of to improve our lot so that we can become better citizens of our world. Look at the amount of information and the technology available to us through the internet. With the internet we can trully be our brothers' keeper. With the internet we can cover every area of our lives such as in communication, health, spirituality, all manner of technology, including matters of climate change! the list goes on and on. You know as we collectively collaborate on the internet in truth we will begin to 'walk in agreement' with one another. We will begin to feel close to each other, break the artificial barriers, have love for one another and then who knows, we will together confront the common enemy and find lasting peace and prosperity. This could be the 'last frontier'.

So I have decided to enter this cyberworld in order to be part of the solution, to contribute to the well being of my fellow citizens of this global village. To be of benefit to those that I will be able to appeal and reach out to. So I welcome you dear visitor to my site. I pray that as much as I want to reach out to you and be of benefit to you I will appreciate if we could truly dialogue you and me through this blog, meaning I welcome your 'constructive' communication. Dialogue is two way so please leave a comment. If you feel like continuing in fellowship with me concerning the topics I will be posting here on matters of life on the internet (or is it life in cyberworld?) please subscribe to the e-mail feed on this site so that you do not miss a thing. I appreciate your doing so. God bless you and yours.

=====Begin side Note========
Recently I signed up for a work from home online business with the Lord's permission. Interestingly I have signed up with a company which was one of the few I took an interest in soon after my "eureka discovery" of the internet around 1996/97. At that time I felt a great potential in this company but well, I never did anything about it because it was not in my "line of business interest". Besides, I did not even understand the on-line terms anyway. But recently, nearly 10 years on, I decided to check them out again. Surprise, surprise, the company is still alive and growing still no hype, just as I saw and felt then.

The line of products is truly impressive and being an IT man myself I see a lot of integrity in this company's products which include website designing (design your site without any html coding knowledge), hosting and more. I also think they have one of the best affiliate programs on-line too! Go sign up here. When I 'came back' to the internet recently, I knew the Lord had set me up again. I did not hesitate. I joined the affiliate program and bought the site builder product. Price? Reasonable I suppose, if you compare with some of the overly hyped products of the same type. The quality too is good. Hey..lemme not push you, after all seeing is believing right, yes? Yes! There is a lot here to benefit from, especially trust and integrity. If YOU have been thinking of "going on-line" but have questions, start from here. Go check them out. You won't regret. I am still happy and the support is fantastic!
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Next topic, I will be voicing out my "feelings" on SPAM and Virus. This is enemy No.1 as far as my experience in cyber-kingdom goes.
Thank you.

The WordSmith.