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The tradition continues into 2008!

A couple of years back, I did something on my birthday, which has now become somewhat of a tradition.

Basically from the day of my birthday, which is today, 10 November, for a week, I give a discount on all my top selling products, equal to the age I turned that year.

Well, this year, TODAY, I turned 37.

So, you can now, until 16 November, get 37% discount on the products listed below!

Boy, don’t you hope I reach a 100?!

Tech HoTo Videos: http://www.imnicasoft.com/techvids/

HTML Made EZ: http://www.imnicasoft.com/hmez/

Script Install Made EZ: http://www.imnicasoft.com/simez/

Internet Marketing Made EZ: http://www.immadeez.com/

Joomla! in about an hour: http://www.imnicasoft.com/joomlavids/

Advanced WordPress Training: http://www.imnica.com/awt/

Tiger Project Management: http://www.imnica.com/tpm/

PLR Master Class: http://www.plrmasterclass.com/

A Dozen Templates: http://www.imnica.com/products/adozentemplates/

WP Secure Pro: http://www.imnica.com/products/wpsecurepro/

WordPress as a sales page (Includes WP Secure Pro as a bonus): http://www.howtovideosmonthly.com/WordPressSalesPage/

To get your 37% discount on any of the above mentioned products, just follow the normal order process, until you get to order page 2.

The is a field almost at the bottome of the page, called Coupon.

In that field, enter the following code: Richelo37

After you entered the code, make SURE you hit the Update Form button, and make SURE the price changes!

Have a AWESOME day, week, and rest of 2008!!!

[tags]Internet Marketing, PLR, Selling, Sales, WordPress[/tags]

What recession/credit crunch?

I just wanted to share with you my thoughts on the current so called recession or credit crunch.

It’s virtually impossible to turn on any news from any source, without being bombarded with news on how bad the world economy is doing, how everyone is suffering, how another bank has been taken over or went bankrupt.

It’s freaking depressing!

Let me ask you a couple of questions….

1.       If you are in a JOB, are you earning any less than you did a couple of months back?

2.       Has all your expenses suddenly gone through the roof, and where you could pay all your bills from your salary before, you now cannot?

3.       Is there actually any less money in circulation than there was before?

I am pretty certain that you answered no to all the questions.

Yes, prices have generally gone up. What year, month, or week for the past decade have they NOT gone up?! This is a fact of life! Prices for basic necessities have always been going up, and they never stayed in line with salary increases!

At almost any time in the past, we have all been where we are now. Basic necessities have been going up in price, much faster than our income has.

Were we in a recession or credit crunch then?

Just a year ago, people were spending MUCH more than they are now! What changed?!

NOTHING really!

Banks have gone under, only to be rescued by either the government, or some other bank buying them out.

House prices have fallen through the carpet. I see this as a GOOD thing! House prices around the world were WAY out of whack with reality!!!

You THINK people have less money lying around, and less money to spend……

Let me tell you something from my own life, which happened just yesterday, which PERFECTLY illustrates my point on people STILL having money.

I have been thinking of switching banks for a while. The main reasons being that I was not happy with the service I was getting at my current bank, and their rates for credit was not as good as some of the other banks I was looking at.

So, I finally started to make the move. Yesterday I was required to go into the local HSBC branch to show and confirm identity.

While there, I started chatting to the service person dealing with my documents. I jokingly said that they must be inundated with new account requests over the past couple of months. ( I live in the UK where the government has taken over a few of the top banks. HSBC is one of the few NOT taken over, and one of the few which has a VERY strong balance sheet.)

The service person confirms to me that yes, they have had a record number of new accounts opened.

Then she tells me something which confirmed my suspicion that people still have money, they are just spending much less. She tells me that HSBC has this special high end account, which you can only get if you have £50,000 or more in savings. She said that in the past week, they have had 19,000 people open those accounts!!!

Let’s have a look at the sequence of events, and how it has created this vicious cycle:

1.       Banks decide they want more money, so, they start lending to people who do not really meet the lending criteria. (Sub-prime) This was also driven in a big way by the US government.

2.       WAY more people are buying houses.

3.       House prices skyrocket.

4.       A big portion of those people can’t re-pay their mortgages.

5.       Their houses get’s repossessed, and the houses are dumped back on the market by the banks to try and get their money back.

6.       Because there is suddenly a huge influx of property back on the market, at far below market value, the housing market bottoms out.

7.       The banks don’t get their money back, and because they borrowed much of that money in the 1^st place, THEY are now in trouble.

8.       Banks go under, and governments and other banks have to bail them out.

9.       Media reports on all the doom and gloom all the time.

10.   People get scared and spend and borrow less.

11.   Because people borrow less, banks get into more trouble.

12.   Because people are spending less, business are making much less sales.

13.   Companies goes bust, or, downsize workforce.

14.   People who lost their jobs, can’t pay back their mortgages, and other debt.

15.   Banks get’s deeper into trouble

This is a WAY over simplification, but, you get the idea of the vicious circle!

So, banks started this by being greedy. We, the people, made it worse by panicking, and spending less!

There IS a positive side to all of this!

Business wanting to stay in business, have started lowering their prices. Nothing drastic, BUT, enough to see a difference in overall monthly outgoing! (If the damn energy companies would just follow suit! )

So, does this affect Internet Marketing?

You bet it does!!!

ANY marketer who tells you they have not been affected in the past couple of months is straight out lying to you!

We have ALL been affected!

So, what can we as Internet Marketers do to survive this?

Continue to create worthwhile products, and sell it a reasonable costs!

DO NOT go and drop all your prices by crazy amounts just to try and win business! This not only devalues the product, but, you business as a whole!

Above all, always remember the old saying: “This too shall pass.”

I would love to hear any of your thoughts on this matter!

[tags]Internet Marketing, Business, Sales, credit crunch, world economy, recession[/tags]

I am a lazy IDIOT!

There, I’ve said it!

Sometimes we as Internet Marketers gets so caught up in what we are doing, we don’t realize how we disrespect our list, nor do we notice the SILLY mistakes we make.

I just sent out an email promotion to my WHOLE list, promoting the new Stomping The Search Engines 2 launch.

This is the email, VERBATIM:

Hey

Andy Jenkins has finally given me the all-clear to spill the beans on this insane offer that StomperNet has cooked up.

TODAY, Sept. 3rd at 3pm Eastern, you can get StomperNet’s big daddy expert SEO Video Course, “Stomping the Search Engines 2″… for FREE.

That’s right.  FREE.

All you need to do is just TRY their new monthly printed Action Journal called “The Net Effect” – and guess what?…

You get the PREMIER ISSUE of “The Net Effect” for FREE TOO!

You don’t pay one penny more than Shipping and Handling unless you LOVE it and want to get issue 2 a month from now.

That’s NUTS.  They are betting the FARM that you will LOVE this stuff and stick around for more.  That takes GUTS, and and HUGE confidence in the quality of their stuff.

But then again, it’s StomperNet.  I’ve SEEN the stuff, and can vouch.  It would be worth FULL PRICE.

But for FREE?  You’d be FOOLISH not to check this out.

Don’t believe it?  Watch this video they’ve released to the public.  No fooling – this is a FOR-REAL DEAL.

https://member.stompernet.net/?r=100481&i=68

This MIGHT just change your online business fortunes…  forever.

YOUR NAME

P.S. There’s no hint of scarcity here – they’ve got tons of BOTH products ready to ship.  But still – be there EARLY.  If I hadn’t already gotten my “insider” review copy, I’d be the FIRST one on this page today.

Check out my full review here if you haven’t yet: http://www.imnica.com/stomping-the-search-engines-2-review/

I spent a little time cleaning up the formating before I sent it out, and also took care to add the review link at the bottom.

So, what did I do so wrong?

Well, let me answer that by quoting an email from one of my list members first:

Do you know something, I thought you would make a little more effort than just to copy and paste the sales letter that has gone out to all of the affiliates that are trying to make an affiliate commission.

Especially the part where you are meant to insert your name.

Very dissapointing

DANG!!! I did not notice the YOUR NAME part!

Not only that, I insulted all my subscribers inteligence by using the copy provided by the guys at StomperNet, AS IS!

I was just pure LAZY!

I am not going to send another email to my list appologizing for the mistake, as that would make things even worse.

If any of my subscribers are reading this, I would like to appologize for my arogance and lazines. I was a SMUCK!

Please don’t let my lazines and arogance distract you from the quality of this product though. It REALLY is an AWESOME product!

So, lesson learned!!! DON’T use the copy provided by people I am promoting! Take the time to write the damn copy myself! ALSO re-read the copy at least 5 times, AND get my wife to read it, BEFORE I send it!

[tags]SEO, Business, Sales, Email, Online Business, Affiliate, promotion, internet marketer, Stomping The Search Engines 2, Lazy[/tags]

Stomping The Search Engines 2 Review

Most people are frantically trying to find out more about the upcoming Stomping The Search Engines 2 product by the guys from StomperNet.

Well, I hope this video, and some info below the video will help you get some idea of what to expect.

Stomping The Search Engines 2 launches on Wednesday 3 September at 2PM EST. You can go here on that date, from 2PM EST onwards.

Here is a quick breakdown of everything that is covered:

Module 1: Introduction

• Benefits of SEO

• Short Term Tactics: Spam & Deception

• Short Term Strategies: Low-Value Sites

• The Stomper Way: Aggressive White Hat

Module 2: How Search Engines Work

• Meet the Players

• Understanding the SERPs

• Search Engine Tech – Crawling

• Search Engine Tech – SERPS

• Search Engine Ranking Recipes

Module 3: Keyword & Content Strategy

• Keyword Strategy Concepts

• Keyword Research & Discovery

• Mapping Keywords to Content

• Competitive Research

• Tools

Module 4: Site Structure

• Site Structure Concepts

• Designing for Crawlability

• Anchor Text & Link Reputation

• Canonicalization & Duplicate Content

• Using Redirects

• Improving Your Indexing

• Review & Takeaways

Module 5: Optimizing Content

• On Page SEO Introduction

• Getting Your HEAD Together

• Optimizing Page Structure

• Get Your BODY In Shape

• Creating Unique Content

• Robots.txt Tutorial

Module 6: Link Building & Promotion

• Link Building Concepts

• Assessing Your Position

• Vertical & General Directories

• Link Targets & Link Bait

• Marketing & Promotion

Module 7: Improving Results

• What To Measure

• How To Measure

• Planning & Processes

• Review & Resources

What about pricing?

Well initially it was going to be a $497 product, but, they will be offering a deal together with their new monthly print journal called The Net Effect, which will make it affordable to EVERYONE!

Watch this blog for more information as we get closer to the actual launch!

[tags]SEO, Plan, Stomping The Search Engines 2, Stomping The Search Engines 2 review[/tags]

Brand New Feature!

Hey,

Today we introduced a brand new feature here at Imnica. It’s called Ask Richelo.

So, what on earth is Ask Richelo?

Let’s break it down in quick bullet points:

• You can ask ANYTHING related to Internet Marketing
• You can ask ANYTHING related to business in general
• You can even ask some “Techie” questions

What it’s not:

• A support form
• A contact me form

There is a Support menu option for the above mentioned 2.

There is NO need to opt in, or anything like that! You will NOT go onto some mailing list at all!

Please note that we do anticipate a HIGH volume of questions, so, NOT all questions will/can be answered.

We will answer the questions right here on the blog for everyone to benefit! We will use these formats:

• Text
• Audio
• Video

We will use the best medium to answer the question at hand!

What are you waiting for? ASK NOW!