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Issue: #6
Date: March 8, 2004
Publisher: David Cooper
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Contents
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-Editor's Note

-Feature Article Product Review: Money for Nothing by Chuck McCullough

-Kevin Bidwell's Passive Income Report

- Freebies

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Editor Notes:
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Hello ~~NAME~~

Been another busy weekend on my end. Took the family to New Bern, NC to celebrate my wifes grandmother's 93rd Birthday. This woman still looks incredible. I hope when I am 93 that I look half as good. Heck, most days I just hope to make it to 93.

Today's feature article is a really good one by Chuck McCullough. If you don't know Chuck then you are missing out. He is truly one of the good guys in the internet marketing game. Chuck is the owner of AffiliateMatch.com. He has also produced one of the best ebooks I have ever read in regards to affiliate marketing. You can check it out at www.affiliatemistakes.com/c.pl/coopsd

Kevin Bidwell has an awesome product that some of you may be interested in taking a look at. I have included some information about it in this issue.

I am truly interested in what you think. I would appreciate it very much if you would visit my revamped site at http://www.1source-webmarketing.com and let me know what you think. I really do value your input.

Please don't forgot to download your free ebooks from the freebies section of this newsletter. It is the same as last week for those of you that had problems.

If there are any topics you would like me to address in upcoming issues please let me know. I am here to help and get you the information you are looking for.

I hope you enjoy this week's edition of the 1Source-WebMarketing Newsletter!

To Your Success

Dave Cooper

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Feature Article
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Money for Nothing
© Chuck McCullough

Not hardly!

It is so easy to turn a newbie into an Internet junkie by telling the tales of "gurus" making money with their website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

They go on vacation for a week or two and the site just keeps on paying the bills.

Doesn't get any easier than this....

I still have my first website that I created when I first became addicted to the Net. I haven't touched it in over a year now, other than to change an updated URL here and there.

Everything that you can do wrong with your Internet business, has been done to mine.

Mostly because I lost interest. My wife says that I'm bad about that. Many of my hobbies have fallen to the wayside for this same reason.

The site made me a little over $6,000 last year, and about the same the year before. This year is off to an even better start for some reason.

Whenever I talk to people about this, their eyes glaze over as they imagine throwing up their own site and watching the checks roll in.

Money for nothing?

Well, if you look only at this past year it pretty much looks like it was free money. I didn't really do anything and still pulled in a decent chunk of change.

Many of the "gurus" on the Internet have a similar story of how they have a website or two that are on auto-pilot like this one.

This is part of the problem with our industry today. Too many stories of easy money float around just like the ones above, and the unsuspecting quickly fall prey.

Now let me shed some light on my story...

For the past year I haven't done very much, that's the truth. But what I failed to tell you is how much time, and for how long it took me to get that particular site to the point it was one year ago.

From the moment that I first discovered the Internet, I was hooked.

Me and my AOL account were inseparable. For that first year my website must have gone through a complete redesign every two months.

I would spend hours and hours asking other webmasters to link to my site, monitoring my search engine positioning, and trying to find ways to make money from it.

When I was away from my computer all I could think about was getting back to it to check and see how many visitors came through, and how much money I made.

There were many letdowns and many frustrations in getting it off the ground.

If you take what I made with the site last year and divide it by the number of hours I spent, its one heck of an hourly rate!

But if you take what I've made from day one and divide it by the number of hours I put into it, you'll find that I probably could have done better with a part-time job flipping burgers.

And who knows, maybe I could have even spent more time with my family because when I clocked out from my part-time job, I would be off for the evening.

When you are bit by the Internet bug, you'll find yourself watching the sun come up on some days...after an all-nighter!

The sad truth is that the vast majority of the "gurus" out there leave out this part of the story. It doesn't sound quite as awesome to hear someone say they are making money with their website, but they might do better offering "fries with that."

At this point you are probably thinking: "Man! Chuck, what's up with all the gloom and doom?"

I'm trying to set your expectations appropriately. In my last job, one of the most important lessons that I learned was to "set the customer's expectations."

When I went into a job that I knew would probably take 4 hours, it was better to tell the customer that it would take 8.

If I was done in 4 I was a hero. If I ran into major problems and it took 8, then I was right on time.

But if I had told the customer that I should be done in 4 hours and it took me 8....

VERY upset customer!

It is all about perception.

You need to set your own expectations. Don't think that you can "build it and they will come."

Don't think that you can put up a site and instantly put it on auto-pilot.

If you don't use the right approach to your business, you can easily find yourself on the list of "Internet failures."

The bright side to this story? Today, through the "school of hard knocks" I have learned how to get a website up and running in a much shorter time frame, and with far fewer mistakes.

Looking back on it, what would I have done differently?

I would have invested in some training materials so I could learn what others have found to work, and not work.

I would have gotten my own domain name a lot earlier.

I would have invested in a decent log analysis tool instead of spending hours "counting clicks."

And, I would probably have doubled my "expected time to completion" :-)



Chuck McCullough is the owner of http://AffiliateMatch.com/c.pl/coopsd offering FREE articles, tips, hints, and real-world advice on how to make money with your website. Visit his site or join his FREE newsletter, The AffiliateMatch Informer by sending a blank email to mailto:newsletter@affiliatematch.com.

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Kevin Bidwell's Passive Income Report
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I have been reading and re-reading Kevin Bidwell's new Passive Income report. It's amazing.

It tells how anyone can create an ongoing, lazy income without a website, a product, a mailing list or spending a dime. I always wondered if it was possible, Kevin reveals here how it can be done.

For instance, on page 15 you discover how a "silly idea" turned one email into $4126 in income for Adam--and how anyone can do the same.

You need to grab a copy of this for yourself.

http://all-in-one-business.com/cgi-bin/at.cgi?a=270051&e=/pi

Let me know what you think

PS: Make sure to sign up for his newsletter while you're there-- he's giving up over 500 pages of critical marketing info to every subscriber.

http://all-in-one-business.com/cgi-bin/at.cgi?a=270051&e=/pi

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Freebies
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"Self Publishing Made Easy" How Anyone Can Start A Lucrative Publishing Business from the Comfort of Home!" by Bryan Winters

Download your FREE Copy below: http://www.1source-webmarketing.com/free-ebooks/spme.exe (right click on link and save target as to your desktop)

Hope you enjoyed this week's issue!

Until the next time!!

Dave Cooper http://www.1source-webmarketing.com

dave@1source-webmarketing.com

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