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7 Minutes to get in shape and in profit too!

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:56:00 +0000

I've been looking for a while for another business to sit alongside Cashbackcard which would appeal to all those people who couldn't use it because they are not UK residents.

Well now I think I have found exactly what I am looking for. It is in the health and wellness sector, it is global, it does NOT rely on you buying a whole heap of product every month and it is easy on the pocket.

I've put on a lot of weight in the last couple of years because some of my health problems have prevented me doing the sort of exercise I used to do. I needed an exercise system that was not high impact, did not rely on going to the gym and was easy to follow. That is how 7 Minute Workout came into my life - as an exercise system. The fact it is also a brilliant home business was not the first tick box!

The system involves you doing 3 x 7 minute sessions per week, You will use weights for some of them, but you can use things like cans or bottles of water if you don't have or can't afford dumbells. Each exercise session targets a different muscle group and in a 2 week period you will work every part of your body, with a day's rest in between. If you don't want to work out on the weekend, just stretch it a bit and do Monday, Wednesday, Friday and start again on the next Monday.

Don't worry if you have injuries or weaknesses in particular parts of your body, just do what you are comfortable with and you can also ask for help with alternative exercises just for you.

The payplan is excellent. 7 Minute Workout is part of the GVO group of companies, if you haven't heard of them they also do great videoconferencing software which they use for webinar calls. The backup is phenomenal in terms of what there is on the website and all the calls and information.
This is a brilliant time to join because you will get in for just ONE DOLLAR to try it out and then $9.95 a month.

I would like to invite you to a webinar where you will find out about the science behind this system and also about the business. Just RSVP with your name on this link.

http://www.myfitnesswebinar.com/?id=jennyf

Join a Consumer REVOLUTION!

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The newest way for UK people to collect cashback and build a business is here - it's called Cashbackcard.com.

Shop online at the exclusive mall or shop instore. Build a business as an Independent Promoter - visit the sites below for official information.

Cashbackcard.com works to help you personally to reduce your cost of living by collecting cashback (not points!) EVERYWHERE you spend money. Plus you have the opportunity to develop it into an incredibly powerful business, when your friends and family join too.

New payplan launched in September 2011 - company is still in pre-launch till October 2011, so things may not all be perfect on the website just yet! Contact me for any queries about the benefits of joining and promoting.

I'm already earning as an Independent Promoter. Hope you will join me!

Join Cashbackcard.com free here -
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More ways to savings AND extra cash

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:33:00 +0000

From what is turning up in my email since the start of the year, it is looking like the new 'Big Thing' for 2011 is going to be discount and cashback schemes with affiliate marketing opportunities included.

Cashbackcard which was very successful in 'soft launch' last year is in the throes of its full launch. You can visit the site and see what it's all about, and you can sign up at no immediate cost and shop online right now. Commission plan for Independent Promoters is extremely good.

The other moneysaving sites I have found work broadly in the same way. They negotiate deals with companies and recommend them to you. You get a voucher code for a retail website or printable voucher from the site to take with you when you shop (or eat, or visit) - you get your money off and hopefuly the business gets extra trade. Sometimes the offers are more local, and there is an opportunity here for small businesses to get involved.

You can make money by recommending the discount website or specific offers to your friends. If they sign up or participate in the offer too, you benefit.

Groupon is in several countries already and I'm a definite fan Get a daily email to tell you about offers where you live. Recommend offers to your friends for extra money. The deals really are moneysavers if they happen to be what you want when you want it. There are nationally available deals too, don't miss those. An example of a deal in my area this week was a 2 course lunch in a brand new and classy Indian restaurant. The one I snapped up was thirty pounds worth of Body Shop goodies for just twelve quid.

My next find in this category was Quidco - available in the UK only and looking very good with a free-to-join affiliate membership. They have agreed deals with a number of national and internationally known retail chains and websites. Do read the small print and understand what you are getting and any time limits.

Just this week I have joined BeRuby which is also active in several countries and works in a similar way to Quidco in that it gives you coupons or coupon codes, but lots more - how about getting paid to visit your favourite websites? Yes, really, I can earn when I visit the BBC website or check my Googlemail, even when I want to browse ebay!

Finally, and most importantly there is The Customer Advantage. If you are in the USA, you will be the first to benefit from discounts and cashback deals with roll-out worldwide some time in the future. It is in pre-launch now and free to join, so get in at the head of the queue and get recruiting. You DON'T have to be in the USA to join and benefit from the deals accepted by people in your team. This is a very professional looking site, the explanatory videos and back office area are excellent and I would advise joining immediately regardless of where in the world you are.

Take it from me - these are real sites with real offers that ordinary people and families can benefit from - we are not just talking about big purchases here, everyday shopping is included on some sites. While Cashbackcard was in soft launch for example, I was getting cashback when I shopped in Sainsburys - no problem - and getting my Nectar points too - double bubble!

Do visit all these sites for yourself and join some or all of them as it suits you. Contact me via this blog with your email address if you would like a personal invite to Cashbackcard when it re-launches, or just watch this space.

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Get more signups with team builds - but be choosy

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:13:00 +0000

I have been enjoying a rush of new GDI signups in recent days with a couple of team building sites I joined.

There are a lot of websites around that claim to help you build an income with GDI but many of them have a basic problem that could get them into serious trouble with GDI if they aren't careful. The reason for this is simple. The ones I joined are both happy to take me on and put my existing GDI username into the 'back office' for my site to be advertised in rotation.

However, other teams require you to do one of two things.

Either you have a spouse or partner that can sign up into the team build GDI downline or they try to get you to delete your GDI account and join again with them. The problem is, that the second is strictly against the GDI Affiliate terms that you sign when you join.The teambuilders may not tell you about the requirement to be in their downline, in the advertising, it's only when you contact their admin and ask about it, that you find out.

Yesterday, I was re-reading those GDI terms and discovered something else interesting. GDI require you to advertise that you are selling a web hosting service. One ad I saw was explicitly dismissive and rude about the domain and hosting service and said it is just income and it doesn't matter what it is for because you aren't going to use it are you.

When someone signs up in GDI with me, I contact them personally and suggest options for how to use their domain name and hosting space.

To keep within the GDI TOS there should be no inducement whatever from anyone to abandon your current sponsor in any part of the advertising or any material they send you. If you do delete your account and re-join and GDI find out, you stand to lose your new account and your entire downline so watch out.

When I pointed this out to one of them in the traffic exchange Sweeva, the response I got was to say the least aggressive and abusive. I appealed to the admin of Sweeva, who were quite concerned, and I was told that he got a warning. I have heard since that he's done the same to other people on Sweeva and have heard bad things about that specific team build. Still, I am not mentioning them here. I don't need more nastiness - just watch out for some extremely aggressive and boastful language in the advertising and you will have found them. I have also heard that some people have left them because of the overbearing and bossy way they behave when you join them.

Enough about that. Let's take a look at the GOOD guys!

MyEzybiz has just fully launched. They are not solely a GDI team build and have some other very lucrative and interesting income streams. I got in within a few days of their pre-launch and built a handsome 45-person downline. A couple of those have joined GDI with me, others have joined the other income streams. There is a spillover feature in their team structure which I like.

Income Community works with GDI and with TrafficWave, a high quality and well-respected auto responder. When I first discovered them a week or two back, they too were insisting that you join both opportunities with them. I suggested very politely to their admin. that it would be good business to find a way for existing members to join them and to my surprise they agreed. Now, you can go in as a member of one and join the other with them - result!

It is Income Community who have brought me the two most recent signups in GDI this week so that is very good progress towards the 10 for each business in 60 days that their advertising promises. IC give you a link to promote and their site does the rotational advertising in the background. Brilliant and clearly very effective.

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New Looks!

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:26:00 +0000

If you are one of my regular followers or an occasional visitor, don't be surprised if the blog looks different every time you visit for a while. Aliens have not taken over. Blogger has introduced a new template customizer and I am experimenting with all the myriad new looks to choose from.

Now, back to business. Still looking for and finding nice little earners. Now here's a suggestion for you. Pick a couple of them, maybe MyLikes (if you have at least 50 Twitter followers) and Readbud. Watch your earnings rack up, maybe wait for a payday. Then instead of frittering your money away on treats, use them to go into a paid program. I'm suggesting GDI because it is relatively cheap and reliable. You could equally choose VWD (e-lottery) if it is legal where you are, or Sendoutcards or whatever other paid program you happen to be promoting.

Your aim should be to get your prospects into a solid business with a REAL product or service, of value to them personally, that they will stay in for the forseeable future, not a fly-by-night matrix or cycler.

GDI gives you web hosting and a domain name, VWD gives you UK/Euro/Spanish lottery entries, Sendoutcards gives you a great way to send real greeting cards from your PC without the hassle of printing and mailing them yourself. These are tangible and understandable products and services.

For some reason totally beyond me, a number of networkers seem to hate GDI - why? They provide perfectly good web hosting, and the rates aren't excessive. They now feature a much improved website builder which is great for anyone without the skill to DIY.

I hadn't really bothered to promote GDI for a while until I noticed that my downline had reduced. Naughty me. I should have monitored that and contacted them when they abandoned ship to ask why. Anyway I have set about regaining the income from that source. In the process I noticed that GDI have dropped their payout threshold and I had some uncollected cash which will be on its way to me very shortly.

Looking around for ways to promote I found two candidates. One is MyEzybiz. Now since this is in pre-launch, it's hard to quantify how well it is going to work! The basic offering will be co-op advertising. It's free to enter right now, so you may as well get in there. The downline structure has a spillover feature, so you will gain from my recruiting efforts as well as your own.

The second candidate is Bear Marketing. Like MyEzybiz it works for people already in GDI as well as those new to the program. It also promotes the popular Peoplestring and again, if you are a member already, you just enter your ID for your sponsors to pick up and come in underneath you.

And now another little earner, so far untried. I can't quite work out what IncomeWeb are up to. They want you to post a scripted banner code in your site, so presumably the banner could show multiple ads. I'll give it a try and see what happens. Please let me know if you see anything objectionable being advertised and I will zap it! Banner follows.

That's all for today folks!

Sweeving to success

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:16:00 +0000

Continuing from my last post when I talked about a number of 'little earners', it's all been going hunky-dory. MyLikes - the Twitter advertising moneymaker, is proving very popular, and people are signing up every day as well as clicking on my ads, but that has a lot to do with some new methods of promotion.

Swom is certainly one of them. Everytime I check my SWOM dashboard, there are people who want to connect with ME and I have made it a habit to choose a couple of their contacts to request connections with. From those connections have come some signups and also some budding friendships and business relationships.

One of those is with a guy called Mark Gartrip. Mark has written a book which kind of follows on from the ideas I had already latched onto in 'The Secret', but it develops the ideas into something far more self-empowering. Mark is keen to get the book into an ebook format, something I know a little about and to find new ways to market it. For the moment you can buy 'How to Fix your life' in hard copy format - highly recommended reading, and you can test drive the first two chapters here on Mark's blog.

The advertising star of the last week has most DEFINITELY been Sweeva. This is not the ubiquitous traffic exchange, but a very new and exciting advertising format where everyone signed in and watching sees the SAME ad at the same time and has an opportunity to comment, ask questions and rate it. What you need to operate successfully on Sweeva is a good splash page. If you can say the essential things about your business in a couple of headlines, a pic or banner and a handful of bullet points you are onto a winner. It's free, there is an optional upgrade if you want to earn from signups.

I can tell you - this new kind of surfing for traffic really does work and you will not be wasting your time as I feel you may be doing on traffic exchanges.

One of the ads I saw on Sweeva and followed up was a blog written by a young guy called Mike Gartner. It's a good looking, well written, and informative blog and Mike is going to go a long way in the world of online opps. and all the technology evolving to help you market.

To get your advertising on Sweeva, you earn points by surfing and spend those points to advertise. The more you are there, the more you comment etc., you can earn points bonuses which you will also gain from the people who see your add and give it a thumbs up.

To make my first splash pages, I have chosen InstantSplash. Once again it is free with an upgrade option, but because of it's huge initial popularity, the owner, Carl Bailey has imposed a limit on the number of splash pages you can have at one time. This might be just fine for you anyway and making a splash page is SO simple, it's easy to rustle up another one and scrap an older one. 5 minutes is really all it takes.

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A Little from a Lot

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:34:00 +0000

http://www.cashium.net/?rid=jennysue19http://wordlinx.com/?r=281639I have a bunch of really brilliant free-to-join opportunities which are not taking off as much as I thought they would do. The reason is, that on the surface they don't look like they are going to make millions for you. This post explains why you have to look at the bigger picture.

In one case, Geostring, you are only making just $0.01 from every person who signs up with you, but it goes down a massive TEN levels! Plus you do have to wait a while to get the payback. Just stop and think about it and use the calculator on the site to work out your returns if you only sign up 3 and they only sign 3 and so on - I promise you, it is STILL massive - so don't ignore it please, it takes a moment to join and so easy to explain to potential referrals.

Three of the other opportunities revolve around Twitter, one way or the other, Two - RevTwt and Twivert are straightforward ad tweeters, You get an email or go on the site to receive the ads they want you to tweet and you are paid per click, They also pay for referrals, Yes, the revenue looks tiny, but you have to think in terms of how much per month you earn from each one.

The latest Twitter-related opportunity I've found also works with Facebook, blogs and websites, MyLikes gives you a 'menu' of opps and services to choose from and, different to RevTwt and Twivert, YOU get to talk about the products in your own words. MyLikes also pays per click and in some cases per TWEET at a much higher rate and for referrals, What is so nice about it is that it pays WEEKLY and you only have to accumulate $2 to get paid, by Paypal, so a $4 referral will guarantee, straight away, that you'll be paid that week.

Then, there are paid-to-read like Readbud and paid to click like Clicksense, Neobux, Wordlinx and Cashium - in the last 3 you can rent referrals to help you earn, this can pay off, but keep an eye on the stats. It is certainly working with Neobux. In the others I have a small but loyal following of referrals who click regularly. You could make $3-$4 overall daily just while you drink your first cup of tea in the morning.

Then there are my mystery shopping trips and online surveys. Once again, you have to be diligent, do all the jobs you are offered and look at what you are getting per month. I wrote about the companies I work for on Squidoo - the mystery shopping ones are UK, and ROI, but you only have to google where you are to find similar ones, Some of my survey companies like Toluna and Lightspeed are international, others are UK. Some pay and some don't and some take the mickey by getting a load of data from you then telling you that you 'don't qualify' for the survey. Ciao is particularly bad in this respect and when you do qualify, you get peanuts so don't bother with them, I've also taken part in focus groups on and offline which have paid travel expenses and as much as £30 for participation, through these same companies.

Taken together, the mystery shops and the surveys usually pay my grocery bill and my gas and electricity which are, for the moment on rechargeable key-meters. If I reach a payout threshold on the surveys (and one, Pinecone pays me separately for each one) I might also get £10 or so in Paypal, or as an Amazon voucher which, for an avid reader is most welcome. Valued Opinions include paper vouchers for John Lewis stores in its reward scheme - these also work in Waitrose supermarkets.

What I am really getting at here, is that even though what you are getting from these activities on their own, may look tiny and not worthwhile, you don't have to spend much time and effort each month on all of them together to accumulate a sum worth having. So, if the rewards look tiny to begin with, don't overlook these little earners, regard them as part of a bigger picture of online rewards. Look at my previous posts too, for more free-to join moneymakers.

Finally, I want to tell you how I came to write this post. I've been reading Rhonda Byrne's book 'The Secret'. This is a self-help book that NO online marketer can be without. It totally transforms your attitude to life, to relationships and moneymaking and is the basis of all those other 'attraction marketing' e-books you may have seen or read. The contributors to 'The Secret' go back hundreds of years. They all knew the power of saying 'Thank you' and being grateful for small things in your life, as a step on the way to greater achievements. Please, click on the link and buy 'The Secret' and you will understand. It is just a few dollars and you WILL thank ME for the rest of your life.

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More little ways to free cash

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Apart from Geostring which is ticking along nicely, I have found a couple of other good moneymakers this week.

Of course I have been Tweeting about them a lot and I have learned a very neat trick to get my tweets noticed. What you do is to look at the 'trending topics' list in your Twitter sidebar. See if there are any topics that you could use in a tweet that would connect in anyway with your marketing message.

For instance, I found a hashtag #Yougottaloveitwhen. I used this in a tweet about Sendoutcards and hey presto, just minutes later, someone visited my SOC website and signed up for a free gift account - if they like the service - which of course they will, they can simply buy more points and postage on the site to convert the gift account to a retail account, or that could be the start of a new distributor on my team - see the power of watching hashtags?

While surfing on SWOM, I came across another neat little money earner. I already write articles for Squidoo and earn a few $ a month that way, now I can also earn by READING articles on Readbud. The idea is that you read and rate. For advertisers, seems like you can't put links in articles you write for Readbud, their revenue comes from the ads around your article, so they don't want people diverted off elsewhere. I've asked their support a question what advantage there is for article writers and will be interested to see what they say. Pay is via Paypal and you have to earn $50 to get paid out. You also make $5 from referrals, but not till THEY get paid out too. At the rate I'm getting articles to read, I should hit the payout level in about a month for very little effort. Will report back on how quickly I get my dosh.

Found on SWOM!

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:40:00 +0000

I've been making loads of new contacts in the few days I have been on SWOM, and the requests to be a 'connection' keep on coming.

Took a step sideways today to check out some of these new acquaintances and found a really great and genuinely helpful blog.

Penny Cannon is a Brit, she lives in Devon and her blog is called 'Wiggies Warren'. Apart from a VERY comprehensive writeup on SWOM, she talks about getting a nasty PC virus and how she fixed it. I am currently owner of a virtually dead laptop. I'd been all through the steps that Penny mentions and was on the point of giving up and wondering when I was going to be able to buy a new lappy, plus wondering about getting my files off it. It seems there is hope, so will try Penny's suggestion and see if it works.

There is a lot of other information on the blog making it a great resource for any Internet Marketer.
A definite thumbs up and recommendation.

Wiggies Warren

Congratulations Squidoo - you listened

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:33:00 +0000

After all my moaning about it here and on Squidu, the Squid Forum, the home page has finally been fixed. There are still some anomalies, but I think it may be a timing issue - at some times of day, you can look at the Top 100 lens list, then when you look at one of the lenses, it may have a ranking above 100.

Along with some other angry Squids, I have been making war on 'live streaming' sports lenses that link to spammy blogs, and sometimes worse - to a page that tries to sweet talk you into giving them your email address for 'offers' then you find you are expected to PAY for an offer before you get access to the live video.

It's been a kind of busy week elsewhere, what with the UK election and doing a lot of mystery shopping or accompanying a friend on his mystery 'shop' excursions, two free meals thanks to our market research company Retaileyes, a good curry and a trad. Sunday roast lunch. More about mystery shopping here.

I have a blog post to create over on 'Angry Button' before I release this one, so do please hop across and read that one too. Right now I need a cup of tea and a think about which of several subjects on the drawing board will emerge as the next lens. I note that I didn't publish a link to the last one about Noah's Ark being found in Turkey - an experiment which proved that my theory about watching Google trends and Twitter trending topics actually works.

Squidoo progress and why not

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:32:00 +0000

I've been pretty busy during the last couple of months creating lots of new Squidoo lenses. It's been hard work and to be honest the income so far has been disappointing. Only one of my lenses has really taken off, and I am becoming a bit disillusioned with some of the ways that Squidoo works.

For example, the Top 100 and the lenses on the front page. The Squidoo home page is supposed to reflect the Top 5 in each category. Most of the time it doesn't. I've posted in the forums about this and had no satisfactory answers from those who are in a position to do something about it.

If the lenses that WERE displayed were representative of the high quality work you can find on Squidoo, I wouldn't mind. Problem is a lot of them are spammy and junk, and contain very little original thought or work at all, and even more of a problem, some are by Squids who have been around a long time and seem to think they can break all the rules of what is and is not acceptable content.

For instance, there have been a steady stream of lenses in Sport and Recreation that highlight sites where you can stream sports events. Some of the sites linked to require you to complete 'offers' before you get the video content, not free offers either. What they are after is affiliate income.

Now look at the Squidoo landing page and compare the supposed top 5 lenses. No correlation. In fact the lens listed as No. 1 on the home page is way down in Sports and Recreation top 100 and hasn't been No. 1 for over two months.

I have a theory about choosing lens subjects which I will be experimenting with in the coming months. Yes, it is fantastic that you can write about whatever you like on Squidoo, but if your choice doesn't line up with flavour of the month on Google, you might be better spending your time elsewhere.

On the plus side, I am getting lots of visits for some recent lenses and there is one lens that is constantly top of my lensranking list, even if within Squidoo it hasn't made the category top 100.

These are the ones doing well:

Masterchef 2010 - UK cooking show

Save endangered animals fro extinction (also top Amazon earner)

Why I love 'Top Gear' - the top BBC TV motoring show

These are the latest ones:

My food and cooking lensography - collecting all my food and recipe lenses together

Should marriage be rewarded with tax breaks? - a topic for the UK Election campaign

Quick tiramisu for cheats - Because you just love desserts

A Biog of 'Chocolat' author Joanne Harris -find out about all her books and buy on Amazon

Now, just a note about my other online activities.

I'm not allowed to mention this on Squidoo but it is a very easy business for anyone in the UK (or other countries where its allowed) - VWD

Sendoutcards is so easy to promote - your home page offers the chance to send an absolutely free greeting card anywhere in the world - not e-cards - real cards - send someone some love today!. SOC have recently started up a new way to join the business that you won't want to miss. - my SOC home page

MyWorldplus - this is a great discount card that everyone needs - and you make money too!

Squidoo gets tough with spammers - but gets it wrong

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:42:00 +0000

One of the things you absolutely MUST do on Squidoo is to hang around in the forum and see who wants their new lens reviewed. You can then post a comment which can include a sig. In my case, I put my principal business link - to my Xocai website, my lensography lens, my latest lens, and this blog.

You get to see the best of the best, and to start recognizing the Giant Squids and why they have got such a good reputation but also you get to see the worst of the worst, that is to say lenses that have one aim and one only, to get you to visit an affiliate page, an ebay item etc and have very little informative value. Typically this type of lens will have the affiliate link repeated over and over in huge type and next to nothing else.

This is, deservedly the type of lens that no-one wants to see and can be consigned to the bin without any great loss. However, as they who must be obeyed at Squid HQ have tweaked this module, some sinister effects have crept in.

My lensography lens mentions all my blogs - like you would - and three of them are here on Blogger. And, as you would expect, it mentions all my lenses too. They are presented in a format encouraged by Squidoo - the featured lens module. When I publish this lens I get a nag saying I have too many outbound links to the same domain - UH???

Till today, this was OK, I could simply hit the 'publish anyway' button and not worry about it. Then I got a second message page saying my lens was suspected spambait or had something that broke the rules, and I couldn't get past it.

I read the rules and realised red-faced that yes it did. Squidoo frowns on gambling in all its forms, even buying a lottery ticket or participating in a business that is linked to a lottery is a no-go area. OK, it's a nuisance not being able to promote VWD along with my other affiliate businesses but it isn't the end of the world. So I went through the lens with a fine-tooth comb and removed all references to VWD, its website, the tags that said lottery, VWD and win and tried to re-publish. It refused to co-operate, no matter how many times I edited, took out tags or whatever.

So the lens is sitting there with the code in that they don't want and I can't complete the work to correct it. In the meantime I apparently run the risk of having not just that lens locked or removed, but losing my entire Squidoo output. Doesn't seem very fair.

I have filed a Squidoo bug report and will report back on the response. However, it would be nice if a site of Squidoo's size and reputation did 'what it says on the box' and made sure that when they made a change that potentially hits a large chunk of their community, they did their testing with a little more care.

To redress the balance I would like to say a big thank you to Paul Duxbury, a Squid Angel who blessed my new lens today and has got traffic going to it even before Squidoo has promoted if from a work-in-progress to a complete work. He has a good blog which is worth bookmarking and rss'ing

Squid goes to the movies!

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:03:00 +0000

Squidoo gives you a number of options to monetize your lenses. Some of them are shared revenue like Amazon and ebay, but others can bring you direct affiliate commissions.

One of these is Allposters and Squidoo is not the ONLY place that it can make you money - how about this blog for instance.

First step is to sign up with Allposters then I can put a link to their posters or other merchandise in my lens or blog post.

Allposters expect your content to be broadly relevant to the merchandise you are linking to - here, because I am talking about their site and affiliate program generally, I can link to pretty well anything.

For instance - I could write reams and reams of stuff about my favourite movie 'Casablanca' - the stars, the plot, when and where it was filmed and so on - but today I'm just using it as an illustration - literally. Allposters is a good way of getting some pictorial content into your posts without falling foul of any copyright issues.

Casablanca Poster - 26.25 in. x 34.5 in
Buy at AllPosters.com

What I did today was to get some pics for a lens I wrote recently that features the books I'd take to a desert island - along the lines of the famous BBC radio programme 'Desert Island Discs' - I am sure Roy Plomley would approve though. Several books have had movies made from them so I got hold of the links to the posters and automatically pulled in the images.

The basic HTML you get doesn't come out quite like the above - it needs a bit of tweaking - this Squidoo lens explains how.

http://www.squidoo.com/formatting-allposters

Displaying merchandise is not the only way to make money either - you can give out your Allposters affiliate link and anyone who signs up with you as their referrer will also make you money when they do.

I'm also going to add a sidebar item linking to Allposters, so whatever blog post is on top, it will be available.

I'm a SQUID !

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:05:00 +0000

Was chatting to an online friend recently and mentioned that I was enjoying the more creative writing I did during the Havant Literary Festival whose Wordpress site and blog I maintain.

She asked me whether I had considered writing for sites like Squidoo and HubPages. Now to tell the truth I HAD heard of them, but had pushed them to the back of my mind.

So, I set out to re-discover at least one of them and this post is about Squidoo as that is what I have been learning about this week. Now I am not going to pretend that this is going to put thousands in your bank account overnight. However there are some very definite ways that you might add to your online income by creating articles on these sites and there ARE folk out there who earn a very considerable income this way.

Squidoo articles are called 'lenses' and you can write lenses about pretty well anything. Before you read on, take a moment to open these links in a new window so you can see for yourself what a lens looks like and to see how the moneymaking modules are incorporated.

http://www.squidoo.com/livinginHavant
http://www.squidoo.com/whitechristmascake

Google is good at indexing lenses provided you title them well and tag them properly. There is plenty of good information ON Squidoo about writing for and making money from Squidoo. This is just a summary and I am not claiming it's complete either - but it will give you an idea whether it is for you.

Squidoo income streams

Ad revenue sharing - there are Google ads on Squidoo pages and lensmasters (anyone who writes for Squidoo) shares in what they earn.
Amazon links - You can choose to add items from Amazon in modules included in your lenses. For instance, I wrote a lens that detailed one of my favourite cake recipes and I incorporated some links to Amazon books about making and decorating cakes. If someone clicks through and BUYS from those links, I'll earn some of the shared commission. I am also a personal affiliate for Amazon.co.uk whereas the commissions are coming from the US site. You can create links from all your featured Amazon titles to the UK site too.
Ebay links need a little more looking after because items are sold and auctions end. However, if you already run an ebay shop, write some good lenses about what you sell, your shop will get more exposure and you'll sell more. A good idea is to link to a relevant seller and the module and ebay will decide which items are listed and you don't have to worry about finished items at all.
Zazzle and Cafepress - your own items on these sites can also get more exposure via your lenses, but other lensmasters don't get commission from them.
Clickbank. If you are already a Clickbank affiliate or you write e-books and sell on Clickbank, you can increase your revenue by lens-ing about what you write or what you sell.

Blogging and writing lenses can march hand in hand - you are reading this, and hopefully you'll wriggle over and take a look at my Squidoo lenses to date. I referred to my foodie blog http://lovebritfood.today.com on one post and it was clear that some of my visitors were also interested enough to go take a look at the blog. Now the Today.com blog makes money for me already, so I'm happy!

I've really only skimmed the surface here, hopefully it will give you some good ideas! Since I started on Squidoo, I have two pages of one-line ideas for lenses and my hope of ever catching up with myself is a dot on the horizon!

Oh - and did I mention you can also get a referral fee if someone joins Squidoo on your link and creates a lens? And an extra bonus if they earn more than $15!

Here's the link

The message gets through!

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:38:00 +0000

Just a brief post from me.

It seems at last that my message about duplication is getting through. I have had a couple of comments here directly on my blog, but have had a whole lot more as DM's on Twitter, emails and messages via social networks, skype and so on.

This is going to hurt a lot. All those marketers out there that tell you that all you have to do is buy THEIR course, or e-book or whatever are pulling the wool over your eyes.

Learn to read between the lines and don't waste any more money. This is the way they trap you. You sign up for a 'free' or very cheap e-book. When you confirm your email and click through, you are put on a page with another tempting offer. Statistically a lot of people weaken at this point and buy the extra product. That's just ONE hook.

You might or might not read the e-book. Lots of people never read half of what they download. You crazily start promoting something else. What HAPPENED to the original product you signed with?

Keep focussed. Choose a product - a simple, great useful product like a domain and hosting from GDI. Join GDI with me and I'll teach you, at no additional cost why you needn't spend money on extra e-books and courses and what these guys are REALLY doing to get your money.

I'll show you that the tiny amount of money you spend when you first join GDI will rapidly turn into profit AND how you then build on that profit.

It's taken some time, but it IS working. Even if you NEVER made money online before, you can now.

Let's PROVE duplication works - together

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:20:00 +0000

In network marketing, one of the most frequent things you will read or hear is that to be successful you have to DUPLICATE.

The word duplicate means copy exactly, but from what I’m observing, a very large number of marketers don’t listen and don’t do it!

To be fair, when you go into many opportunities, the first thing that happens is that your upline goes OFFline and you never hear from him or her again. In several of the opportunities I have joined and abandoned, and a couple I am still in, I know that my uplines aren’t even in the business any more.

They have moved on, probably joined something new, and abandoned a whole new set of people to flounder on for themselves.

A great marketer who I had the pleasure of working with recently, gave me a lot of help and good advice. He was prepared to take it down to the wire and tell us in training EXACTLY what advertising he used, where, what to say and how to sort out the people who came out of that process. I HAVE been using his techniques and been better for it, and now I want to stress it to you.

In one sense, it doesn’t much matter what your product or service is, but I could NOT become involved in anything that was just a money game, albeit with a thin veneer of a few ‘information products’.

The point is this. Whichever of my primary businesses you come into – and they are all described here or on my other blogs – I will HELP you to duplicate – on one condition. You have to join, listen, learn and above all DUPLICATE – copy me in the type of advertising I use, what I say and so on.

No going off at a tangent thinking you know better!

Just to prove to you that if you do it right, you WILL make money, I’m going to conduct an experiment. In the last couple of days I have found a couple of fledgling businesses, one already launched and totally free, the other in pre-launch and free for the time being.

If you join these AND do what I say, you WILL make money. When you have enough in the kitty, I’ll offer you the chance to join other businesses in my portfolio.

By that time, you will know me well enough to get on skype and chat to me, or even pick up the phone if you are in the UK, send me a text or talk.

To compare and understand WHY this works, just take any real-world job. Let’s say working in a supermarket filling shelves. To do that job successfully you need to be able to know where to find items in the warehouse, how to load them onto a trolley safely and where the items should go in the store.

It’s also nice to know where the staff restrooms and cafeteria are, where you can get your uniform laundered and a host of small things. It could take you weeks or months if no-one helps you and if they don’t you’ll probably be so upset and depressed at your colleagues’ lack of helpfulness, you’ll be scanning the vacancies for a new job.

On the other hand, if everyone helps you, encourages you and shows you where things are and what to do, you’ll be off to a flying start AND your team leader will probably get a few nice words said by THEIR supervisor for being good at training new people. You’ll enjoy it, the job will be done well and ultimately the customers will be happy too, and when YOU get promoted to team leader, how will YOU train your newcomers?

Network marketing is NO DIFFERENT. It is often portrayed as being a ‘closed world’ where a few people at the top make all the money and everyone else feeds them. In reality the only reason that they are making money and you aren’t is that you aren’t copying their success recipe.

You know this all makes sense – so this time you WILL DUPLICATE won’t you!!

Let’s test the theory. Join these two freebies, and I’ll be in touch as soon as I get your contact details with your next steps.

The Power Bar Club – no cost to you ever - http://ihid.us?i=ojm
Teamwork Revolution – free in pre-launch – your choice to pay later, but likely to cost you the equivalent of a pizza – not a big ask is it. - http://ihid.us?i=lx1

Product Review: Web Traffic Juggernaut

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny Fletcher) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:19:00 +0000

Web Traffic Juggernaut is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test...

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up & running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Juggernaut" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Juggernaut Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Juggernaut link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Juggernaut link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Juggernaut. So if anyone clicks the Juggernaut image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Juggernaut links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Juggernaut (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Juggernaut image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Juggernaut also.

I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Juggernaut even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Juggernaut really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that they use a unique dual-matrix technology that builds your downline in 2 ways. First is the typical way--you refer members, who then refer members, etc. But the 2nd matrix is a "forced matrix" that places all new members in a downline in sequential order. Without getting technical, what it means is that if you join and just stay a member (even if you don't do anything) your downline will grow automatically because new members will fill in your forced matrix. And you earn credits on them too. Now THAT's really great.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Web Traffic Juggernaut. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

See it & join here:

http://www.webtrafficjuggernaut.com/vlt/?aff=40264