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MY IBIZ WEEKLY
Vol.10, Issue 2
October 7, 2003
Editor : Donesia Muhammad
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Table Of Contents
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>> Editors' Notes
>> Ezines On Parade
>> Married To The Computer..Finale... Prelude to the Ebook
Nothing in Life is Ever 50/50
>> Spotlight Ads
>> Article: Six Easy White-Listing Ways...Stop Losing Important
Emails! By S. Kumar 2003
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>> Article: Sell Up to a Standard, Not Down to a Price by Paul
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Hi Donesia and welcome to another edition of MIBW. Today is
the final part of the Married To The Computer Series. I figure
the ebook should be ready in December 2003. The final part of the
series is a breakdown of what we all feel working online and
trying to maintain it all.
Once that is done, then I can get started on my next series which
will be announced in due time :)
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Help! I'm Married To The Computer........... Finale
Nothing in Life is 50/50
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By Donesia Muhammad
Copyright (c) 2003 KDM Publishing
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When I started this series I knew that it would make people
think. As much as we worry about how to make money online, how to
prosper online, what is the best product to sell online, what
about your other life, you know the one we had before we got
started.
How will that fit in with your plans?
I have received tremendous amounts of feedback from this series
because it really made some people think before they really jump
head on into the online world.
Is this really right for you is something we probably ask
ourselves everyday and this is from those who are making a living
online..
No one is going to tell you how to approach your family when you
want to get started online, they ( meaning so called guru's) all
assume that nothing will change and you can make your millions.
Yeah Right...
> Honey, I want to Start A Business
"Okay and who is going to maintain the house"
> I'll just take one of the guest rooms to make an office
"What Guest Room, we live in a 2 bedroom apartment?"
It's Two in the morning, why are you still working?
Just Remember..
When the plumber is fixing your leaks so your water bill isn't
sky high
When the checkbooks need balancing and the kids have fevers, and
you have to get up in a few hours to go to your real job, the one
that pays the real bills.
In the midst of all that, you tell me who cares about why Aol
blocked your email or why you got screwed out of a commission
check because someone changed your affiliate links.
There are tons of avenues to explore when starting off, do you
think you have time for it all? Do you realize the realities of
it all?? Most Newbies don't as you can see below
Hmm........
Obtain A Business License
A What?
Get A Federal Tax ID
A Who?
Open A Business Account
Realize When its tax time that you should have kept those
receipts
Create Your Own Product Or Service
Hmm, well I guess Snake Oil is out of the question
Create Your Site
Oh sure, either I pay someone a thousand bucks or take years to
figure it out myself
Create A Mini Site for better search engine rankings
Find A Suitable Web Host
Find Another Web Host after the first few fail you and leave your
site and email down for days at a time without notice
Once You find that host, start looking for the new host which
will accommodate all your email traffic and mini sites
Start An Ezine
Realize that next to a telemarketer, you get cursed out more
times than ever. Not even scammers hear it the way we do.
Create a Site For Your Ezine
Easier Said than Done
Buy Leads.... even though everyone says don't buy leads. If this
was the case, why are those companies still in business? Keep
thinking that publishers don't buy leads.
Write Articles, then Give Them Away For Free
Say What?
Write an Ebook
Oh sure that sounds simple
Watch Someone Steal Your Ebook because you didn't know the
security risks involved and you were too trusting of your site
visitors
Resell Ebooks
Realize that everyone else is selling the same ebook
Realize that what you are selling, the owner is now giving away
for free
Create An Ecourse
Try to find an autoresponder that won't shut down on you after
you have given out the email address to everyone
Buy Targeted Traffic
Learn That hits don't mean a thing if you are not converting it
to sales
Create Meta Tags
Create Doorway Pages
Create Split Test Pages
Submit to Search Engines
Start Using Pay Per Click Engines
Realize that you will drive yourself crazy worrying about search
engine rankings
Find a Target Market ( Boy, Are you just figuring this one out?)
Advertise in Ezines, Websites, Coops, Ad Agencies
Get Complaints From Readers about too many ads. Hmm, too many ads
means that obviously someone is buying ads, so who do you listen
to, the FREE loader who isn't going to buy a thing from you or the
one who is purchasing advertising?
Make sure you are not involved in any Non-FTC Compliant
activities
What exactly is the FTC anyway?
Privacy notices, disclaimers, what next. You mean I need those
things too?
Get Involved in MLM opportunities
Oh Boy, this is a series in itself with this one :)
Become An Affiliate
Ten Cents a Click, You Gotta Be Kidding Me!
Start Your Own Affiliate Program
Beg For Affiliates to Promote Your Product
Realize that it still takes more than this to gain sales
Start Your Own Message Board
Wonder why no one is posting
Start Your Own Discussion List
Gee, didn't realize that I have to always maintain the list or it
will go stale
Join Everything under the sun that requires a monthly payment and
don't complain whether it helps or not.
When Visa, MasterCard and American Express start calling about
the huge credit card fees, don't say I didn't warn you.
And when all is said and done, then you find out your Paypal
account is frozen........
The list goes on and on
How to balance it all ? Is there even a way to balance?
Are we making things too hard on ourselves and not even realizing
it?
Even if you can handle it all, what do you do when you realize,
You don't even remember what your kids' homework is about.
Your stove is clean because you can't remember the last time you
cooked.
Your spouse, didn't I have one of those??
Hey, It's Wintertime. When did that happen?
As I told a good friend once, when I complained that my house
looks like such a mess because I spend too much time online.
"If I were to get robbed tonight, I wouldn't even realize it,
unless of course if.............
They took the computer."
Oh My Gosh......
Help, I'm Married To The Computer...........
Coming in December 2003, the first ebook from Donesia Muhammad
and the start of a new series of ebooks.
Copyright (c) 2003 KDM Publishing
Donesia Muhammad is the publisher of My IBiz Weekly,
http://MyIBizWeekly.com a newsletter designed to help all
business owners succeed, one step at a time. She is also the
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Read the Introduction here
Is Your Work At Home Perception Fuzzy?
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Read Part One:
The Real Secret Revealed Why Women Truly Want to Start Their Own
Business
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Part Two: Business and Soap Opera's Don't Mix
Why the lazy way of marketing may not be for you. Stop blaming
others for your failures. Look in the mirror first.
http://www.myibizweekly.com/2003/aug/0812.htm
Part Three: Does Working At Home Have You Bouncing Off The
Walls.....
Discussing how boring it can be sometimes at home with
your business. Learn how to avoid Cabin Fever and not getting
your spirits broken
http://www.myibizweekly.com/2003/aug/0826.htm
Part Four: It's Not A Crime To Take A Day Off
Can you ever be able to take a true day off when you work at
home. Not likely
http://www.myibizweekly.com/2003/sept/0909.htm
Part Five: Prosper with Patience and Priorities
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Six Easy White-Listing Ways...Stop Losing Important Emails!
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(c) Copyright S. Kumar 2003
http://www.learnhomebusiness.com
Are you dead sure about receiving of all the important
emails that is sent to you?
"The chances are that you are among the 42% of the
people who ARE NOT receiving the genuine emails and
newsletters that you requested for".
Why this is so?
Increasingly, ISPs are using filtering systems to try and
keep S/p/a/m out of customers' inboxes. Being automated,
these filters are not perfect. Many authentic emails get
caught in these filters.
Sometimes, they accidentally filter that "All-Important-Email"
you were waiting for. And you have no way to know which
of your emails is filtered. The end result is, you end up losing
critical info that may prove to be vital to your business.
Is there a way to solve the problem?
Fortunately for all of us, there exist simple solutions. But the
action has to come from you to make sure that these critical
communications reaches your mailbox - Unblocked.
Six of the most common and easy solutions are given below.
It's simple to implement.
#1. *The HOTMAIL User*: You can 'Safe List' an email ID
in hotmail. Here's how:
1. Choose the 'Options' tab from the top
2. Select 'Safe List' ( Given under the head -Mail Handling-)
3. Now type the email address that you want messages
to be received without filtering in the one line form.
4. Now choose 'Add'
#2 *The AOL User*: Place an email ID in the 'Address Book'
in AOL. Here's how:
1. Go to Keyword Mail Controls
2. Select the screen name to which the newsletter is send
e.g. "HomeBiz Tip E-Mag"
3.Now choose 'Customize Mail Controls' For This Screen Name
4.For AOL v7.0, include in the section: "exclusion and inclusion
parameters", the domains from which email is send.
For e.g. @learnhomebusiness.com, @learnhomebusiness.net
For AOL v8.0, choose "Allow email from all AOL members,
email addre^sses and domains"
5. Choose 'Next'.
6. Choose "Save" displayed at the bottom.
Important Note On AOL 9.0 : AOL 9.0 has become more
complicated. The best way is to place an email ID to the
"Person I know" buddy list. All mail you receive from this email
ID will pass through the filters. So, make sure that when you
join for a newsletter, it is ADDED to your buddy list.
#3 *The YAHOO User*: Correct the 'Bulk' Folder in your
Yahoo. Here's how:
1. Newsletters gets mistakenly filtered to your Yahoo 'Bulk'
folder. Go to your 'Bulk' folder; locate the filtered newsletter
and choose, "this is not S^pam", next to the "From" field.
Also, to ensure that you do not miss on important emails to
your Yahoo Inbox, do these steps:
1. Open your Yahoo mailbox
2. Choose 'Mail Options' (Given at the right corner)
3. Choose 'Filters'
4. Choose 'Add ' button.
5. Now, in the top row - From header: Choose 'contains'.
6. Type the domain from which the newsletter is sent.
For e.g. learnhomebusiness.com
6. Finally, at the bottom -Move the message to: Choose Inbox.
7. Choose 'Add Filter' button.
#4. *For OTHER Users*: Meant for email programs like Outlook,
Outlook Express, Eudora and Netscape Mail. Here's how:
Inform your ISP or the person responsible for your email that
you want to receive all communications from a particular domain.
For e.g. a member of
http://www.learnhomebusiness.com , asks
them to white-list the eZine "HomeBiz Tips-EMag' so that he
can continue to receive our Zero-cost products without a break.
#5. *For Own Filter Software*: Many times the filter software
installed in the computer is the culprit. Here's how to prevent
it.
Look for "Options" in the filter software that you have installed
in your computer. Then give permissions for all emails from
a particular email ID or domain.
#6. *Two Additional Tips To Prevent Loosing Important Emails*:
Tip #1 : You may be currently receiving all your email messages
without a hitch. But, it's still advisable to white-list and
prevent
future problems.
Tip #2 : No matter what the email system you are currently
using, add the email ID of your opt-in Newsletters' to the
'Address Book' of your particular email system.
Currently, white-listing is the ONLY way to ensure that you
receive all your important emails. Do not ignore this important
aspect of email communication.
From a personal angle, the major chunk of what I learned so
far is from small, nifty newsletters that arrives in my mail box
with a welcome smile. I can never block these little capsules
of vital info.
If I do, I am blocking myself from the 'tit-bits' that adds to my
knowledge. Ultimately, Integrating these 'tit-bits' into my
website
http://www.learnhomebusiness.com , keeps it live and
current - Everyday.
Copyright 2003: S. Kumar,
http://www.learnhomebusiness.com
Author of eBook:"Become A Global Homebusiness Pro..."
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by Paul Uhl
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Are you creating value for your product or service? In most
competitive markets, where low prices are emphasized, the profit
margins are slim. But by creating value you can still be
competitive and profitable.
Let's face it, a small business can seldom compete in a sizable
market on price alone. You have to add value, quality, or
service in a niche of that market over-looked or considered to
be too small by the big boys.
For example, in my business training and consulting business,
I don't compete with the much larger companies to get the
Fortune 500 clients. Instead, my focus is in the fast growing
small business arena. I know my market and what their needs
are, which are far different from the staid and starched
hierarchy of big corporations.
My small sales force targets small businesses that are hungry for
ideas. We offer methods and technology that once were available
only to the large corporations.
Specifically, the most successful sector in our market are car
dealerships, repair shops and contractors. We are not just
showing them effective management, sales, and customer service
techniques, but through a joint venture with a major
manufacturer's distributor we also offer a unique product.
Several of my salesmen go into these shops showing off a new
air hose developed for the US military by a major manufacturer.
This air hose is quite expensive, but the quality is so
superior that it comes with an unconditional written guarantee.
When these highly skeptical business owners see something like
that, they are so impressed that they not only buy the hoses, but
sign up for many of our training programs! At this point, price
is not as important of an issue as the benefits.
Sure, they can buy air hoses much cheaper, and get similar
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