Internet marketing and Make Money Online HowTo

If you love to play golf as much as most golf enthusiasts, you would probably play more if the great game of golf and most golf equipment wasn’t so grossly expensive. An 18-hole round of golf at even a moderately expensive golf course averages about $36.00. A decent box of 12 golf balls costs roughly $19.00, and golf clubs are hundreds. Although it’s impossible to get it all for free, there are ways to get free rounds of golf and huge discounts on golf equipment. Here are some guidelines to help you play more rounds of golf for free, get some free golf equipment and get huge discounts on other golf stuff:

Free or reduced rounds of golf:

Play golf writer for a day. Since anyone can contribute articles on the Internet, call the golf resort or club where you’d like to play and ask for the club pro. Tell him that you write reviews of golf courses for an Internet site (you can create the site yourself, or put them her for ezines). Tell the golf pro that you would like to play his course, write an article on it, and you were hoping he could set you up with a complimentary time. Perhaps he could even play along with you. Once you’ve done this, you’ll most likely be able to play there time and time again for free or for a reduced rate.

Get a free club, even a $400 driver:

This is no great secret, but few people know about it. Best of all, it’s very easy to do. Go to a search engine like Google. Type in review or test golf clubs. Many golf equipment review pages will come up. Research a few of them and learn what it takes to be one of their consultants. Many just require a complete written review of the golf club in a particular amount of time, and you get to keep the club. Some people do this and never purchase a golf club or a golf ball.

Get free or discounted golf balls, golf gloves and other golf stuff.

This is another one that has been around for awhile, but not every golfer knows about. Many major retailers have golf membership clubs with small yearly fees that offer amazing freebies and discounts on golf balls, golf gloves and other golf equipment. Sometimes, the membership comes with a free sleeve of very nice golf balls. So, the membership might cost you $15.00, and you’ll get a sleeve of balls worth $9.00. Most future purchases include a 10 to 25 percent discount, and usually once each month, you’ll receive correspondence about a special, buy-one-get-one-free deal on balls or gloves.

Get a beautiful free golf hat and golf bag tag today.

Another great place to go for discounts and freebies is the USGA. Their one-year membership fee is $15.00. With it comes a free golf hat, with the name of one of golf’s majors stenciled on it and a name tag for your bag that says USGA. Throughout the year, your membership will afford you many discounts on golf rounds and equipment, along with neat golf publications from the USGA. No true golf enthusiast should be without this membership.

These are just a few of the numerous ways golfers can save literally thousands of dollars each year on golf and golf equipment. Give them a try today.

Mark Barnes is novelist and how-to writer. His novel, The League, is a suspense/thriller based a conspiracy to eliminate professional athletes, so someone can win $30 million in a fantasy football league. His next novel, Troon, is about a club pro accused of stealing $10 million from a powerful private organization, running a secret golf tournament at Royal Troon in Scotland. Learn more about Mark’s novels at http://www.sportsnovels.com. Get his free home loan course at http://www.winningthemortgagegame.com.

Part One of Nineteen
[See notes for overview]

Planet SSARGPlanet of Grass
[Part of the: Cadaverous Planets]

Outside of the Milky Way, beyond Moiromma, and Ice Cap, is a planet the size of earth, with a large moon that seems to guard, and protect its inhabitants from invading forces like comets and meteorites, and the suns alter bright rays; again, much like earth’s moon. It has a canopy of clouds around itwater soaked clouds you might say, low and over-headheavy clouds; and a subterranean underworld, and much of its land is rich with grass, and vegetation, and rivers, lakes, mountains, basins. Should the canopy break, I’d fear the planet would surely be flooded: flooded, and afterward: have 400-years of mud, yesfour hundred years to dry out, should the canopy break, with its abundance of water. It has no oceans this planet, but grass, much grass, oceans of grass you might say. A soaked climate, and not always so conducive for walking; and if need be creatures could lurk, hide in the swampy tall grasses of the lands. Never to be seen, and if your were attacked, the same.

This phenomenon [of the planet] is repeated throughout the globe, these endless meadows of grass, some ten feet all, others intertwined tightly around one another, to make them look like cobwebs. Deep within its mushy roots, are the red, brown and black snakes, the grass snakes of the planet, the vipers.

Forenoon, it was forenoon, when Siren appeared on this planet, a tide of grass coverer her whole being only the sky to see, and she was she tall, you know, perhaps under seven feet by an inch, perhaps over seven feet by an inch. Uninhabited it seemed to her, it was not like Moiromma, its arctic cold north. It was quite evident to Siren she had left her planet unexpectantly, not quite remembering much, except she fell to sleep one evening in the arctic winds, froze to death I suppose. She was happy she did not land on Mercury, or earth, but apprehensive of this grass infested planet, nevertheless. If people did live here, it would seemingly be a nightmare she thought: in a Grass infested Jungle.

It was quite the sensation to be hurled from one sphere to another, across a ton of light-years away, to say the least. It was all new for her, but becoming second nature.

As she stood in the morning mist, it was alarmingly peacefultoo quiet for her liking. As she explored the new grassy planet, naked as a jaybird, countless snakes whizzed by her feet, stirring some terror in her, and then a whisper in the back of her head, her mother speaking
Comforted her; and by the feel of these slimy bodies, they were extremely long, heavy and wide.

It would seem with all these vipers crossing her path, if they wanted to, could kill her, if they really wanted to; yet she did not know the nature of the beasts, or of the planet: and I suppose, likewise, they did not know her. Some were twenty to forty feet long. With saber-teeth fangs, a foot in length, likened to a wild boars. Heads as big as footballs; tails with swaying prickles, for she could now see some as they dashed by, around over her feet, curious who she was I’m sure. Actually, after a few hours they became menacing for the most part. Her courage was now at its peak, lost for a moment back there in the grass but it comes back, was back.

Siren was tall and her limbs were muscular, shoulders broad she was famine, yet masculine; much like her mother. She found within the grass vegetation that she used for a loin-cloth and constructed some sandals with other fragments she found for her feet. The snakes looked at her with amazement, followed her every move, gazing up at her deep sunken in, but beautiful eyes, eyes that seem to come out of the great halls of India. Her countenance was difficult is express inwards in words: her jaw was partly square, a powerful look one, it was her eyes that softened her looks, and long black hair that made her feminine; heavy hair that took more than a swift wind to blow it wild, hair down to her rump. She had wide heavy lips, thick looking teeth, and sharp. The big noticeable difference between her and earthlings was her nose, rudimentary, one might say, in comparison, to the rest of her face, yet it had two large flaring nostrils: her skin, a dark brown, with an icy gray to it at times, a mixture, like marble; thick black eyebrows, low forehead, ears smaller than humans. She was not-indeed not, a hairy person, as her male counterparts on Moiromma, or Asteroid Ice-Cap. But fair to look at.

See Dennis’ travels on his website, and books: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

Did you know that you already have an eBook inside you?

And, like your coach, you can earn thousands of dollars each month?

Even if you are a non-techie like me, you can write your ebook at the same time you write your print book. Or, solve your readers’ problems using other articles and reports already in your files. Expand a two-page article with a story or add other how-to’s.

If you want to double and triple your present book income, check out these mistakes and correct them now.

Mistake 1. You don’t write a short eBook first to test the waters.

Short is in the eyes of the beholder, but let’s say from 15-90 pages. Your future customers will be glad to download these pages and print only the ones they need to.

Your eBook needs to be more concise, easy-to-read, and compelling than your print book. That means you can shorten your analogies and stories. You can use a “success format” that poses a question (a heading) your reader wants answered, then answer it. This formula gets to the point quickly, and always remember, your Online audience is busy and doesn’t want a wordy style.

Mistake 2. You don’t check in with a professional editor or book coach before you sell your eBook.

Yes, it’s good to get feedback from peers, but you need to get a professional look at the final edition–someone who can set you straight about words and grammar that makes your writing vital and original. For instance, you need to drop your passive constructions such as “there is” or any form of “is, has, begin or start”. Limit the -ly adverbs that merely tell rather than show. Your readers want a picture and want to respond with their emotions. Limit your -ing forms of the verbs. Keep your copy in present or past tense.

Mistake 3. You don’t know your audience before you write your eBook.

Emerging authors make this biggest mistake. They have information, so why not write an eBook? Instead think about the audience you will serve. More targeted works well. People who want something quick and easy that will save them time and money–another audience. The best one so far in the untapped Internet or Online audience. Mostly small business people, they are eager to buy what they need to make their life or business more enjoyable, profitable, and easy.

Right now, think of your one or two preferred audiences, and keep their profile of their needs, complaints, or problems as well as their picture by your workstation. Then you will write the book your pre-sold audience already wants!

Mistake 4. You don’t automate your business .

As a newbie or non-techie, at first you may resist learning how to do this. Three years ago I knew nothing about the net, and today I’ve published five eBooks on Internet marketing and eBook writing and publishing. You can too, little by little.

Since each book will not bring you landslides of profit, think about limiting your small priced books. Or, bundle them so that each sale is around $20 and up.

Offer your eBook for sale through an 800 number. One with excellent service is MRC business Support at 800-366-5596. Set up a link for people to download your book. Two companies to investigate are Clickbank.com and Paypal.com.

Delegate some of this work to your computer assistant. Contact your local high schools and technical schools where Online geniuses live. And, the cost is nominal in comparison to the results.

Mistake 5. You don’t have a title that sells well.

A good title is short, clear, and clever. The best title includes your book’s number one benefit. Use words your audience can relate to. Even cliches are OK for book titles. Instead of “How to Market Online” offer a title like a Web site headline:

“Quadruple your Monthly Book Income–Market Online.”

Brainstorm a list of your possible titles with associates through a small marketing survey. Ask them to vote from 1-10 and offer their own title ideas that would make them reach into their wallets and pay $15-20 or more.

6. You don’t leverage your eBook for higher price sales.

When you look at the valuable information inside your eBook and you realize you only make $20 a sale, you may want to investigate putting it into an eCourse. These courses sell for $79 and up. With just a little revising and tweaking, you can set your book up to be a hands-on how to course.

You can bundle several lower cost eBooks and list their singular prices. Then offer a fabulous discount to buy all three or four.

Mistake 7. You don’t add bonus value to your eBook.

Whenever you put 2-4 bonus special reports at the end of your eBook document in Portable Document Format, you make your offer so appealing, that many will buy for the bonuses alone. For an eBook on How to Write your EBook or Other Book–Fast! an eBook that sells for $24.95, the author offered these three valuable bonuses as an incentive to buy. “Titles Sell Books” - value $4.95, 2. “Write Like a Pro Checklist.” - value $3.95, and 3. “How to Get Testimonials from the Rich and Famous” - value $595 . That’s $15 of valuable reports added to $24.95–Total value: $40.00 value for only $24.95.

She put a new link on her Web site “Discounts of the Month.” With a limited time offer, from her ePromotion bi-monthly offers, she got many new buyers. Everyone wants useful, original information. Everyone also wants a bargain.

Mistake 8. You put too many topics in your book.

Remember, best sellers focus on one main topic. Each chapter must support that subject. When you try to give too much, your information isn’t organized, short, and compelling. Instead of the end all, be all book, concentrate on one “how-to” and give plenty of details to make it useful to your reader.

9. You don’t market while you write.

Most writers wish someone else would do it for them. Not in this lifetime! It’s so much easier to put marketing into each chapter title, each chapter’s questions you will answer, rough draft of your eBook’s back cover (sales letter), the One-Minute “Tell and Sell,” and knowing your targeted audience, thesis and table of contents before you write a single chapter. Knowing these essential “Seven Hot-Selling Points” before you finish your eBook will have you ready to promote the second you write your last word. .

10. You don’t brand yourself, your business, and your book.

Some people join an affiliate program or set up an affiliate program for others to sell their products and sell many products. As a marketing coach, what I want for you is to think of the overview “umbrella” you can house your products under. Think about your biggest benefit you offer through your service. Think about your book title. Can you put a key word from it into each chapter title? For the book, “Passion at Any Age,” the author put the word passion in each chapter title such as “Passionate Self-Care”. In one client’s book, “Watch Out! Your Relationships Can Be Hazardous To Your Health.” the author included the key words “watch out!” in each chapter title.

The eBook earning curve while short, is important for all writers to conquer. It’s easier when you contact a professional coach or take a teleclass to inform yourself. Stop making eBook mistakes so you can earn the money you deserve.

About The Author

Judy Cullins: 20-year author, speaker, book coach

Helps entrepreneurs manifest their book and web dreams

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Increasing your website traffic does not have to be a long drawn out procedure that takes up a lot of your precious time. In fact, there are a lot of things you can do to increase your website traffic in less than 60 minutes. Consider the following five tips that will take you little time and have huge results regarding traffic flow on your website.

#1 - Search Engine Listings

Obviously, if you are not listed with the major search engines, people who go to search engines to search for different products and information will not stumble upon your website. Start with the larger more popular search engines and get your URL listed. This does not take a lot of time to get started and is something you should do immediately.

#2 - Search Engine Optimization

Getting listed with the search engines is important, but optimizing your site so that it ranks well is equally important. Find out what keywords people are searching for regarding your content and then include them on your website to get more traffic.

#3 - Quality Content

Quality content is important if you want large search engines to list you, and it is also a great way to include the many keywords you will need to drive up your ranking in the search engines and to get more people to visit your site. Also, if you have quality content once the visitors are at your site, they will be more likely to stay.

#4 - Trade Links

Trading links with other websites can be done as quickly as propositioning another site through an email. The more links you have to your website, the more traffic you will receive. Plus, lots of links help you climb to the top of the search engines as well, which is very important for driving visitors to your website.

#5 - More Pages

Having more pages on your website increases traffic simply because of the numbers. The more pages you have, the more content with related keywords you can utilize as well as links, and the more keywords and links you have means more traffic and customers. Keep this information in mind if you are building a one page website. A one page website about sunglasses will find it very difficult to compete against a 15 page website on sunglasses, simply because of the additional content and keywords targeted.

All of these suggestions are things you can easily do within the hour if you sit down and get started now. Before you know it, the traffic on your website will start picking up as well as your product sales, and you will have learned the secret to directing traffic exactly where you want it to go.

Michael Turner reveals step-by-step how you can increase search engine traffic in his free 7 part mini-series. Grab it now at http://www.powertraffictactics.com/

Everyone enjoys a good party. But did you know that setting a theme is the most important first step? It doesn’t have to be a costume party or a boullia festival. It should just reflect the tone of the evening. Maybe you are just celebrating the coming together of a few friends on a Friday night and you want to make a big deal out of it. Great. Wow your guests with one of the coolest invitations they have ever received.

Your invitation will indicate to your guests what they can expect. In the case of a simple party of friends you can get really creative. Find an old picture of one of your friends, or all of you together, and incorporate that with your invitation.

Your invitations can be created by any desktop publishing software. I like MS Publisher. It’s easy. Digitize the photo if it is not already, and place it as a watermark on your invitation. Place the lettering over the top of the watermark. It really is that easy.

Finding an envelope for your occasion is not tough either. Publisher creates has templates that make it easy to find the right envelopes. Your local big box discount store carries a great selection. For something really special, check out a craft store of an office supply store. There are some good ones on the internet, too.

You have created a wonderful envelope and invitation that will make your friends laugh. That should be your goal anyway. Everyone will come to the party and know what to expect: a good time and lots of laughs with good friends.

Robb Ksiazek is a successful author and publisher for http://www.checks-4u.com. He has researched and written hundreds of articles and can simplify your online search by recommending merchants for the best value and selections in business or personal checks, address labels, rubber stamps and envelopes.

There is no doubt that executing the perfect golf swing is a difficult feat and doing it consistently is even harder to accomplish. But there is a golf swing secret that can change everything for any golfer.

This golf swing secret is so powerful that those who practice it start seeing massive improvements in their game almost immediately.

This golf swing secret is based on the fact that the golf swing is an awkward movement. Awkward to the human body. So what any golfer has to do is to train their muscles to feel natural when performing this unnatural and awkward motion of a golf swing. That is the golf swing secret that will make all the difference.

The first and most common excuse you will hear from the vast majority of golfers is that they do not have the time to get in any exercise. Many struggle just to get the time to play their golf in the first place.

Part of this golf swing secret is that you do not need to create any time to get away from the office or your work station. You can condition your muscles right in the office.

You cannot truthfully say that you can’t find 15 seconds at your computer, while still seated on your chair. That is enough time to get something done.

There are actually many different stretch exercises you can get done in your office, but I will give you just one here. I call it the seated twist. Sit upright in your chair with chest high and your back straight. Reach behind you with one arm, which will rotate your upper body. While staying erect, twist as far as you can go and hold. You can then twist the other way and repeat.

Go both sides 2 to 3 times, holding for 10 seconds. This is a very effective golf swing secret for eliminating or even reducing back pain and at the same time tremendously improving your backswing and follow through range of motions. The result will be a much better swing, higher club head speed and much more distance.

Try this approach and you will soon agree with me that this is truly an amazing golf swing secret.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf fitness experts in the country, author of the Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf fitness sites. Check out his new golf fitness - golf training site at Perform Better Golf.

In the past I’ve never really paid much attention to security issues when it comes to user names and passwords. Frankly I figured it was all a lot of overblown hype. This led to an unfortunate incident that involved my website being attacked, apparently by a skillful youth with a propensity for mischief.

The main security flaw with my website was probably the simple fact that the username and password were exactly the same. Granted I did realize that this wasn’t highly intelligent but I didn’t have the power to change it myself, and I didn’t think it really mattered enough to bother about it. Having an identical username and password is a massive “no-no” in computer security. Your username and password should not even be related along the same line of thought. A username of “Dragon” and a password of “Fire” is not a secure combination.

For maximum security, passwords should not be cohesive words or phrases and should not be too obviously related to something like your birthday or the birthday of someone close to you. Personal information is one of the first things used when people attempt to break passwords. Having a password of “Password” is indeed humorous and ironic but it is not in the least bit secure.

A “brute force” password hacking technique involves using certain rules and guidelines to take a guess at possible passwords and generally works through a dictionary of sorts, trying combinations of possible words and common characters. Your best bet at creating a secure password is to pick a random collection of letters, numbers, and symbols, including varying case changes (in a password the letter “a” is not the same as the letter “A”, so alternating at random between upper and lower case will increase the difficulty encountered in cracking your password). Selecting a sequence of characters on the keyboard (such as “asdf” or, worse, “1234″) definitely does not create a secure, random password.

Having symbols in your password is an easy way to greatly increase security. These are the special characters accessed by holding the “Shift” key and pressing one of the numbers at the top of the keyboard. If you want to truly expand your arsenal of special characters, try holding down the “alt” key and pressing a combination of numbers on the num pad (the rectangular collection of numbers on the right hand side of most keyboards) then release “alt”. For example, holding “alt” and pressing numbers, 1 then 6 then 8 and releasing “alt” will give the character “?”. Most combinations of 3 numbers will enter a different symbol into your password. This may make it a little harder to enter your password but it makes it a lot harder for anyone else to crack it.

To make passwords easier to remember you can use something original, like the name of your favorite character in a book (personal information that other people won’t know). Then add some numbers to it, perhaps use the “Leet speak” (check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet for exact definition) method of changing letters to numbers and generally mix things up so that to you it seems coherent and memorable but to an automated pattern recognizer it seems random. For example, “jAm35_5m1Th?” (”James Smith”) is actually surprisingly secure. In this case the password’s meaning is obvious to a human reader but it will take a lot of work for them to divine the password without prior knowledge (unless you’ve used your name or a close relative/friend’s name which, as we’ve already discussed, is not a good idea).

For additional security you should not use the one user name and password for every account that you have. If you do and someone manages to get hold of your details for one site they pretty much have the run of your digital life. It is not particularly vital to have perfect passwords for less important accounts (e.g. web based email from Hotmail, forums you visit etc.). These sites can quite happily be accessed using the same password. However, bank accounts, work email etc. should be made as secure as possible.

Hopefully a few of these tips will assist you in making your online activities more secure. Keep these guidelines in mind, change your password on a semi regular basis, and with any luck you’ll be able to avoid the hacking menace that befell me.

Daniel Punch
M6.Net Web Helpers
http://www.m6.net