May 8, 2008

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March 29, 2008

Book Review: Now, Discover Your Strengths

There seems to be no lack of the number of books written about personality traits, talents and how to more effectively manage personnel to the advantage of the organization. However, Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the book First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, now provide managers with a positive approach to help identify and utilize strengths of individuals to the benefit of the organization in their bestselling Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book maintains that this unique, positive approach of focusing on strengths is far more effective in achieving success than eliminating weaknesses, given that we all have inherent strengths and natural weaknesses no matter what positions we might have. For example, the book points out, it does not matter if you are Bill Gates or Tiger Woods. True, these are individuals with tremendous talents that have made them well known in their respective fields, but they also have weaknesses that play into the mix. It would seem our brains are programmed by nature from early childhood, no matter how good our nurture, to start being selective in a few key areas. It is as nature intended it to be. Without being selective, and allowing many of the billions of connections we are born with to lapse into disrepair, we would become dysfunctional with information overload. Therefore, it is understandable that with sufficient practice, while we might be able to learn different tasks well, we will never be great in these areas unless we have a natural innate talent for them.

Unfortunately, most of us do not have a good sense of our talents, let alone the ability to effectively use our strengths to our advantage. Rather, most of us spend our lives becoming all too aware of our weaknesses and spend our time trying to deal with our flaws, while neglecting our innate talents. However, most original and potentially most revealing, to address this problem, Now, Discover Your Strengths provides access to a web-based interactive questionnaire, developed by the Gallup Organization, that quickly identifies your top 5 (out of a total of 34) positive “personality themes”, such as: Achiever, Deliberative, Harmony, Empathy and so forth that you might naturally posses. The book goes on to elaborate how each of the 34 unique themes can be identified, complete with individual profiles describing how each might act and what each might “sound like.” As each sees the world through their own strengths filter, it is easy to have friction between different individuals within the same department or organization, because we all see the world, and how it should look, so differently. While one may hear what someone else is saying, they may not be able to assimilate it into their own world effectively. This is why partners or advisors are often so effective, as they ad balance to the limits of others. One word of caution however: do not buy this book used if you intend to take the preference test. There is a unique, one-time code that comes with each copy of Now, Discover Your Strengths, which is absolutely necessary in order to access the website’s resources. The book has limited value without the ability to take the online test. However, the test alone is well worth the price of the entire book just by itself. With this resource, you will better understand how to build a “strengths-based organization” by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.

With an estimated 8 out of 10 people in this country not really in a position to capitalize on their strengths and talents, chances are most of us could benefit from reading this book. As most of us fail to capitalize on our strengths, it is not surprising that most departments in any company, no matter the size of the organization, are not operating at even par performance. The risk doing nothing is costly- not only in lost productivity, but in job satisfaction, employee retention and absenteeism and so on. This groundbreaking, resourceful book is easy to read in short concise chapters. Along with the associated preference test, Now, Discover Your Strengths, is a positive cost effective solution in resolving problems, and helping each employee achieve his or her full potential. This is must read for managers and office teams who want a win-win solution in improving their own departments, as well as the lives of those who work for them.

John Woolf is the founder of several successful Internet technology companies including the Book Price Comparison website CompareBook.com. As a pragmatist of the world around him, he is both a critic and crusader on international politics and energy policy as it relates to our security and our impact on the global environment.

Visit CompareBook.com to read reviews, find similar titles, and search for the lowest possible price for Now, Discover Your Strengths and other fine books.

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February 16, 2008

Seven Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrar

Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and Tibet’s impending invasion by China, Harrar pens an evocative account of a country suspended in time. Medieval in many ways, it is a place none-the-less, readers will deeply regret having missed.

Lhasa was not Shangrila.

The capital city of Tibet was dirty and lacked sanitation; books and recreation were hard to come by; the diet was limited; medicine was more shamanistic than practical; and technology (even the wheel) was looked upon with suspicion. Even so, it was a city easy for the Western imagination to fall in love with; laughter was a constant; curiosity and pleasure were valued beyond industry; and inspite of a rigorous religiosity, the Tibetans were perhaps the least moralizing people of the modern era.

It’s with a great breath of mountain air that Harrar references the guilelessness of his hosts; how for instance laughter was a constant and jokes, retold century after century, never failed to solicit mirth. Curiousity, religion, and pleasure were all valued beyond industry. An earthworm in a shovel of dirt would stop the construction of a ditch, the departure of a friend would require elaborate farewells, and the changing of a season would require the performance of one ritual or another. Festivals, parties, and social interactions kept Lhasans engaged — modernity’s harried pace most emphatically did not.

I mention this at the outset as a way of explaining why Seven Years in Tibet has endured as an adventurer’s tale. Apart from the power of its narrative and quality of Harrar’s prose, it proves exactly what every wanderer wants to believe; that he or she can stumble away from the complexities of today (a British POW camp) into the simplicity of yesterday (Lhasa circa 1940). It’s escapist literature writ large. And more-over, its literal.

Harrar arrived in Lhasa unbidden, unwelcome, and on the lam from a British internment camp. Tenacity brought him through the city’s defenses. The size of his heart endeared him to the locals. In anecdote after anecdote we are reminded that he gave as much as he was given. - translation services, medical advice, engineering … At first a novelty in the capital, he soon became indispensable, and later a fixture.

Essentially, Harrar escaped WWII, and rode out the war in a place as far removed from the conflict as was culturally and geographically possible. The fact that he was a German citizen figures into it only tangentially; serving, more than anything, to illustrate what it means to be a decent human being, while one’s countrymen are being horribly indecent … he never deigns to impose his values, language or politics. And while perpetually curious, he is never curious in the way the throngs descending on travel hotspots today are. Granted, his primary motivations were self-motivated (escape and curiosity), but each action was self-less. And, while it all must have been terribly complex … what with geopolitical and practical issues … none of it seems to have been complicated at all. From the escape attempts to the engineering of waterworks, and construction of a movie theatre Harrar takes his situation in hand and continues apace. While there are instances where he records being homesick (Christmas in Lhasa), for the most part he conveys the feeling that there is no place he’d rather be. It’s this trait exactly that makes his account as endearing and enduring as it is.

That said, no one would care a whit about Harrar’s, Seven Years in Tibet if it weren’t written well, or failed to intersect with the contemporary zeitgeist. Like Joshua Slocum’s, Sailing Alone Around the World, it’s an example of a non-writer penning an account of first class narrative and literary power. And like Cherry-Gerrards, The Worst Journey in the World, it isn’t so much timeless, as it is modern in the proper sense … the prose, content and subject all seem perfectly suited to readers many decades later. There is none of that awkward disconnect between presentation and content that readers of late 19th century adventure literature will be familiar with. It is direct. It feels honest. And it is not couched in acres of excess verbiage. Readers will get from point A to point Z and will have hardly sensed the passage. It fits somehow, with where we are today. For a variety of reasons it will engage the millennial mind.

Trevor Paetkau
Proprietor, Moraine Adventure Books

Ps.
At the risk of banging on a last point should be touched on … religion obviously played a role in determining the characteristics of the nation … Tibet was a theocracy with its fingers in every pie. Feudal overlords managed the provinces, monks and governors with inherited privilege governed Lhasa. Unlike our so many of our contemporary religious leaders however, the Tibetans were able to accept and revere the faith of outsiders. To their detriment, they remained neutral during the war … a neutrality that may contributed to the invasion by China and ultimate dismantling of Tibetan culture.

In the Epilogue written in 1996, Harrar makes note of the 1.2million Tibetans who lost their lives to the conflict, and near complete ransacking of the nation’s 6,000 monasteries and shrines. It had to have been a horrible introduction to modernity. And alas, it was the last nail in the coffin of our Western dreams of Shangrila.

Pss.
Readers wishing to read a contemporary account of the region should check out Wickliffe Walker’s, Courting the Diamond Sow. It’s an account of the fated first descent of the Tsangpo by American kayakers. It travels through much of the spiritual terrain traversed by Heinrich Harrar. A great companion piece.

About the Author
In addition to his lifelong interest in the outdoors recreation community, Trevor Paetkau is the proprietor of Moraine Adventure Books, an independent source of Adventure Travel and Outdoor Recreation books, articles, advice and resources.

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December 10, 2007

How to Discover If Your E-Book Idea Will Sell - Before You Actually Write It

Jim Edwards sent out a survey about e-books. He asked a variety
of questions. But the number one thing everyone wanted to know
was this: “How do I find out if my e-book will sell—before I
write it?”

Obviously, that’s a great question. If anyone could accurately
determine the salability of an e-book before it was written,
that person could be a billionaire. Every aspiring author would
hire him, or her, to judge their idea.

The truth is, there is no guaranteed way to 100% accurately test
an idea for an e-book before you actually begin to sell it. Yes,
you can run ads for your e-book and see if it will fly or not.
But that’s not totally accurate. Or guaranteed. And if people
buy and you don’t deliver that e-book within 30 days, it’s also
illegal.

But there *is* a way to massively improve the odds of your
e-book being something the public will want. This is something
you can do right now, before you write a word of your e-book.

Let me explain this system to you:

I researched the 1800s to write my book on P.T. Barnum.

I researched the 1920s to write my book on Bruce Barton.

I researched the last 150 years to write my book on ads.

And I’ve been researching ancient Roman history to write a
forthcoming book on old world marketing practices. What I
discovered in the most unforgettable way is that in every era,
people wanted the exact same things.

People never change. They will always have the same basic
desires. Technology will change. People won’t. Today we have
e-books. That’s a new technology. Yet what people want to read
in those e-books will remain the same as always. Human desires
are hard-wired into our DNA.

That’s good. By knowing what people want, you can profit from
their desires. And since their desires are predictable, your
ability to make money from your ideas just got a lot more
bankable, as well.

So, what exactly do people want to read about?

First, the top three general categories are these: Food, sex,
and money.

There will *always* be a market for new cookbooks, new books on
love, and new books on ways to make money. That will never
change. Ever. So if you have an idea that fits in one of those
categories—and if it’s a new spin on existing ideas—you may
have a wining race horse.

Second, Jim Edwards and I identified the TOP Ten tried and true
subjects for e-books in our own e-book, “How to Write and
Publish Your Own e-Book in as little as 7 Days.”

Our own research proves these ten resaons are just as reliable
as the three more general ones that I discovered. These are the
subjects people will *always* want to know about. Since those
subjects are listed in our e-book, I won’t discuss them here.

Third, after Jim and I wrote our e-book, we discovered 16 more
subjects that people always want to know about. These, too, are
proven hot buttons for people. When I reviewed my studies from
the last several years, I realized that these 16 topics are
things people will always want to know more about, too. Here
they are:

11. To attract sex. 12. To keep their possessions. 13. To have
more fun. 14. To satisfy curiosity. 15. To protect their family.
16. To be in style. 17. To have beautiful possessions. 18. To
quench their appetite. 19. To emulate others. 20. To avoid
trouble. 21. To avoid criticism. 22. To be an individual 23. To
protect their reputation. 24. To grab opportunities 25. To be
safe. 26. To make work easier.

So, how does this system work?

Okay. Say you have an idea for a book on how to make money in
network marketing. Will it sell? Since people want to (20) avoid
trouble and (26) make their work easier, I’d say chances are
good it would. Add to this formula the fact that people always
want to know how to make money (one of the top three subjects
hard-wired into our make-up) and yes, the book could sell.

And what if you have an idea for a book on how to find cool
things at garage sales? Would that sell? If you tied the title
to a direct benefit—such as to make money—then your idea
could work. In other words, title the e-book something like,
“How To Make A Fortune In Garage Sales” and you just made it fit
one of the basic human desires. If you can also tie it to (14)
satisfying their curiosity about garage sales, all the better.

What if you have a technical book idea, such as an e- book on
how to filter out spam? No sweat. People want to save time, so
you might tie your idea to that benefit. “How to Save Time By
Eliminating Spam!” might work. Or you could even tie your idea
to (23) protecting their reputation. Then your e-book might be
“Protect Your Name By Stopping Spam!”

Get the idea? You can take almost any e-book idea you may have
and improve the odds of it selling by simply matching it to one
of the 16 categories above or the TOP 10 listed in our e-book.
It’s easy.

Now, before the critics rush in and shoot at any holes they see
in this system, let me add these final words:

A book that sells is more than “a good idea.” It’s an idea well
expressed. It’s an idea packaged in an irresistible way. It’s an
idea targeted at a specific niche audience. And it’s an idea
that works once people begin to implement it.

In short, make your book idea fit one of the key categories
people are proven to want more information on. Title it to
reflect benefits people want. Describe it in your sales letter
in ways that activate people’s basic desires. Just be sure you
deliver what you promise.

Do all that and your e-book will sell—guaranteed!

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November 30, 2007

Her Backyard - Book Review

Her Backyard by Doreen Lewis is an adventure, romance novel that depicts a career woman in the middle of self-discovery. It is about making choices that may not be so easy to make and complex relationships between co-workers, siblings and friends. I am certain that many readers within the age group between 30 and 40 will find a connection with Audrey, the main character.

Audrey and her sister Ava have a touching, close – sometimes tense, other times humorous – relationship. Their mother died when they were young and now they were facing losing their beloved father. Audrey returns home for the funeral and meets up with an old flame that helps her come to terms with what is missing in her life. Office politics were wearing thin and career hungry co-workers were beginning to both irritate and consume her.

She begins to question her choices in life and is faced with desirable options that play tug-of-war with her mind. Finally, exhausted and emotionally wrought she is given the opportunity to choose the path of content happiness. Audrey learns to make a decision based upon her needs, rather than trying to live up to the impossible lifestyle society encourages.

Her Backyard definitely has a story line that I think many women can relate with. Career women have to make many sacrifices and there are times when one wonders if this lifestyle is truly full filling all their needs. I think Doreen Lewis has written a fine book portraying this conundrum.

ISBN#: 0976091941
Author: Doreen Lewis
Publisher: Helm Publishing

~ Lillian Brummet - Book Reviewer - Co-author of the book Trash Talk, a guide for anyone concerned about his or her impact on the environment – Author of Towards Understanding, a collection of poetry. (www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

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November 1, 2007

SEEKING THE 100th MONKEY

Have you ever noticed … how something “new” is usually viewed with
suspicion and dis-trust until people become familiar with it? This is human
(or animal) nature and cannot be discounted. Successful marketers know this
and devise strategies to shorten the time a new product takes to become
accepted.

There are dozens of examples. “Fads” begin among teenagers, who, having
nothing to un-learn, quickly embrace new products, new ideas. Many
fad-products are first introduced in Japan and spread rapidly throughout
the world.

One needs only to look at the Internet, something that was very avant-garde
as little as four years ago, but today it is taken for granted. While it
didn’t start among teenagers, nor in Japan, its world-wide growth has been
explosive!

What brought about this phenomenal acceptance - and how can one profit from
it?

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Once upon a time, there was a colony of 100 monkeys that lived next to a
stream, which coursed through the jungle. The trees bore abundant fruit and
the monkeys were well fed.

But the monkeys, like some of their human cousins, were sloppy eaters. They
frequently dropped their food to the jungle floor where it got dirty and
insects pounced on it almost as soon as it hit the ground. A monkey who
dropped his food and retrieved it had to eat it - dirt, insects and all, or
pick it clean before he could resume his lunch.

There came a day when one little monkey dropped his morsel. When it hit the
ground, it bounced into the stream. The monkey scampered down from the tree
and grabbed it back out of the water. Voila! No dirt, no insects. It was
tasty indeed! Soon, whenever he dropped his dinner to the jungle floor, he
was taking it to the stream and washing it off instead of picking off the
insects and dirt as did his brethren.

Monkeys are not stupid people and the others learned very fast from the
example of the one who first discovered that food tastes better when it’s
clean. Soon they were all taking their dropped food to the stream and
washing it off. In fact, they started washing it even BEFORE they dropped it!

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Thus the “Legend of the 100th Monkey.” It can be applied to marketing
efforts. All that is needed is for ONE person to be the adventurer, and
soon there are throngs of followers.

Already electronic books are appearing on the Internet, available by
downloading or to be read directly on-line, or on Compact Disks. CD
versions of encyclopedia and research material have been around almost as
long as the CD-ROM drive. The National Geographic magazine has put its
entire collection - back to the year 1901 - on CD and markets it through
computer stores.

Much informational content is now being distributed exclusively in
electronic form.

Computers are as ubiquitous as television and radio sets. They’re being
given away free with subscriptions to Internet services, much as cellular
phones are given to customers who will sign up for a year’s service.

Books on tape have been available for many years, but they were not readily
accepted when they were new. Part of the resistance was due to a reluctance
to change established habit. But at one time, even printed books were a
rarity. People were used to being TOLD stories, and few could read. Of
course that changed over time.

Then those who read books avoided books on tape because they viewed it as a
step backward. Many felt a loss of intimacy with the printed word that they
could read at their own pace and that allowed them to paint their own
“mind-pictures” of the activity being described.

Then came movies based on books, and the screen-writer’s interpretation of
the author’s words don’t always agree with those of the viewer who has
“read the book.”

With E-Books one still can read. If he wants, he can have the printed word
to read from.

But just as e-mail has supplanted written correspondence to a great degree,
gaining knowledge by reading from the computer screen has become commonplace.

Some have said that nothing can take the place of sitting in a chair and
reading a book to a child.They’re absolutely right. But the truth is that
the computer already has become the learning center in millions of homes.
Adding E-Books to one’s educational toolbox can only enrich the lives and
enjoyment of families everywhere.

About the Author

Jud Banks,
e-mail - radical@aloha.net
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October 30, 2007

Ebook Review: Quick Cash Injections

EBOOK DETAILS
File Size: 1,287kb Zipped, 1,300kb Unzipped.
Number of Pages: 1 long scrolling page.
Format: Executable (.exe)
Subject: Quick Cash Injections details the methods Sara used when she first started out in Internet Marketing to generate quick cash when needed.

ABOUT SARA BROWN (AUTHOR OF QUICK CASH INJECTIONS)
Sara Brown is one of the UK’s top Internet Marketers. She sells on eBay at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Jobhaters-Marketplace and also runs a variety of websites which can all be accessed from http://www.sara-brown.com/choices/. If you want to know more read her About Me page on eBay or subscribe to her newsletter through her websites.

ABOUT THE EBOOK
After reading An Interview with Sara Brown I was intrigued by her unique income generating methods and had to know more. This led me to purchase her ebook “Quick Cash Injections.” This ebook tells you how Sara generates quick cash injections when she needs them.

In the ebook Sara discusses how to:
· Get your first set of cash injections within 24-72 hours!!
· Get your second set of cash injection within 1 week!!
· Get your third set of cash injections in 2+ weeks!!
· How to generate quick cash injections with Digital Products!!
· How to generate quick cash injections with Physical Goods!!
· How to generate quick cash injections without any product!!

Ultimate Income Plan begins with Sara telling you why you need quick cash injections. As she puts it there are some of us who do not have savings and “There are often financial emergencies and unexpected bills that require a sudden cash injection to rectify.” She then goes on to explain how you can generate these quick cash injections in three basic timeframes; 24-72 hours, 1 week, and 2+ weeks. She then sums up the ebook and outlines why soon it will be necessary to generate quick cash injections using the “Pensions Crisis” (where thousands of people are now facing a bleak retirement due to having ten years salary stolen from them) as an example.

As expected I found this ebook to be a very interesting read. I feel some of the methods Sara uses are very good and some are not so good. To conduct this review I will outline each cash injection below and how effective I think it is.

Sara’s first cash injection is reselling ebooks on eBay. She believes that this can provide you with a quick cash injection within 24-72 hours. Whilst the actual chapter does outline some useful tips for ebook sellers (such as using a unique listing title), I have to disagree with the timeframe Sara uses. As I outline in my own ebook “How to set up a Successful, Automated, Ebook Business on eBay” the ebook market on eBay is now very competitive. Simply listing the ebook on eBay does not guarantee you a sale. I think the best method of selling ebooks on eBay is to build a large, constantly expanding, automated ebook business on eBay which requires regular promotion. To achieve this will take considerably longer than 24-72 hours and I personally would not class this method as a quick cash injection.

The next cash injection is making money from other people’s mistakes. I can’t go into too much detail as it will give too much away but I have to agree that this is a very good quick cash injection. When I launched “How to set up a Successful, Automated, Ebook Business on eBay” I made quite a few mistakes, some which could have potentially been very damaging to my sales. Luckily for me I had someone identify these mistakes free of charge, and all before the product was launched. However, I have learnt from this the value of checking for mistakes. The earlier they are identified, the less damaging they can be. Now as I said I can’t reveal exactly how exactly you can make money from other people’s mistakes but it is one of the better 24-72 hour cash injections included in Quick Cash Injections.

The third cash injection is Ebay Arbitrage. Now most Ebay Arbitrage systems I have seen involve a misspelling tool which is still an effective tool but is becoming increasingly widely used. Sara’s arbitrage system involves simply buying goods off eBay and reselling them on eBay for a higher price. I can’t say anymore as it will reveal exactly what she does. Sara also includes an example of the system in action with examples of real goods she has purchased and sold on eBay. This is a good cash injection with the potential for high profit margins but it does require more time than some of the other methods outlined.

Next up is the 1 week cash injections. The first involves buying and selling domain names. This is again another excellent cash injection. Sara gives plenty of good tips in this chapter on which domains should be popular and which domains may not be so popular. She also provides a great resource to get free appraisals on domain names. Although I have not personally dabbled in this area, I have seen others do it successfully so know that there is potential for high profits. Also, it can all be done without even having to leave your PC so I can again see this as being a great method to get quick cash injections.

The second 1 week cash injection involves selling disks (CDs). You don’t need your own product but there are various legal guidelines you need to be aware of when embarking upon this cash injection. Sara outlines them all inside the ebook. My overall opinion on this cash injection is that although it will work I don’t think it is worth the effort when compared to some of the other cash injections mentioned. This idea involves sourcing, packing, and shipping whereas for some of the other injections you don’t have to leave your PC.

The next cash injection involves freelance writing. In this section Sara provides you with an excellent free resource on which contains a database of thousands of jobs for freelance writers. Most people are an expert at something so this is a cash injection worth considering. Personally, I am in two minds about this subject. On the one hand it would be great for me to be paid for writing articles similar to those that I already do. On the other hand if I did write freelance articles for others, I would not be able to use these as promotional tools like I currently do. Overall, opinion on this cash injection is likely to be divided and it all comes down to how you want to use your writing skills.

Following the previous cash injection, Sara provides two website links. The first is a website that lists goods that people don’t want anymore. If you want that person’s goods then they will give them to you for free. What you do with it after is up to you but this is a potentially useful cash injection. The second website is a free list of 1000 money making ideas. I have read a few of the ideas and some are very easy to set up, some not so easy. However, both these websites are a useful bonus and could easily provide quick cash injections.

After this section comes the 2+ weeks cash injections. The first of these is paid online surveys. In this section Sara outlines why you should never pay for access to surveys (to summarise companies aren’t allowed to make you pay to perform market research). She then provides you with a website that gives you access to many free paid surveys. This is an invaluable link as many ebooks charge you for this very information. I personally don’t rate paid surveys too highly. Although you do get paid for sitting at your PC and filling out a survey (which is simple enough) I find it quite boring. If you feel that the money outweighs the boredom or actually enjoy doing surveys then this could be a good cash injection for you to try.

The next cash injection is the car boot sale method. Again I can’t say too much or I will reveal exactly what it is but this is one of my favourites in the ebook. The car boot sale method is basically a technique that Sara uses herself to get goods from a car boot at well below the price they are being sold (and no she doesn’t steal them). Once aquired these goods can be sold separately on eBay or at the place where Sara herself sells them (again I can’t reveal it here). Using this method Sara says that she bought some stock from a car boot for £60 and then sold it for £1,920. Although I haven’t tried this method it does sound like an excellent way to generate a lot of cash for very little work.

The final cash injection is creating your own software without being an expert programmer (or even amateur programmer). Again I can’t reveal how you achieve this here (it’s all revealed in the ebook) but I can tell you that all you have to do is come up with the idea i.e. what function do you want the software to fulfill. Now this income stream will cost you a bit of money to set up but in my opinion the potential returns are well worth it. Out of all the methods mentioned in Quick Cash Injections I think this is one of the best and one that I am seriously considering looking into in the future.

Overall, Quick Cash Injections comes with a mix of ideas but thankfully the good outweighs the bad. I personally don’t think that the ebooks with resell rights chapter would serve as a very good quick cash injection and I don’t rate paid online surveys highly, but on the other hand I think the car boot method and creating your own software cash injections are some of the best money making ideas I have come across. The ebook is worth it’s price for these methods alone.

GOOD POINTS
· The making money from other people’s mistakes cash injection can generate money within a couple of days, for very little work, without you having to leave your PC.
· The Ebay Arbitrage System with a little creative thinking can be another great quick cash injection and could even be used as a long term business.
· Buying and selling domains allows you to generate cash from the comfort of your own PC.
· The car boot sale method is a unique, easy to implement idea, which requires little time and can produce huge profit margins.
· The creating your own software cash injection can be used by anyone, and for a small initial investment, could make you a LOT of money.

BAD POINTS
· I don’t think that reselling ebooks on eBay qualifies as a quick cash injection.
· Selling disks (CDs) takes a reasonable amount of time and only produces very small profit margins.
· Paid online surveys can be long, tiring, and often boring.
· The delivery system delays your access to the ebook which I found quite annoying.

HOW I HAVE GAINED FROM QUICK CASH INJECTIONS
At the moment I have not implemented the ideas from Quick Cash Injections. The reason for this is that I do not require any quick cash injections at the moment and also I am pursuing more long-term money making methods. However, I could definitely see myself using some of the ideas in the future, especially the creating your own software one. Next time I end up at a car boot sale (although I don’t go very often) the car boot sale method will prove a nice little earner.

Tom Parker offers many impartial ebook reviews just like this one at his website http://www.theebookcavernreviews.co.uk/. Tom also runs a free newsletter for ebook sellers which you can join by sending an email to: newsletter@theebookcavern.co.uk. Please include this bio when reprinting.

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October 26, 2007

Got Loads of Free Ebooks and Not Sure How to Get Them on Your Web Site? Here’s the Answer For You!

There have been loads of free ebooks and products that have been given away this Holiday. If you are one of of the lucky recipients, and are not sure what to do in order to sell them? Here’s a step by step guide for you.

1)You need to unzip your item into a new folder on your computer - so that you do not lose it or confuse it with other files. VIP: keep the original zip file where you can find it.
2)Look for your resell rights in the package or the ebook - make sure that you have resale rights - if you do not you cannot and must not sell the item. Master Resell rights means that you can also sell the resell rights to your customers.
3) Look and see if there is a readme file (of similar name), read it and follow those instructions.
4) Many packages have a reseller kit with your sales page etc inside - start with one of these packages until you get more experienced. Unzip the reseller zip file if necessary, to the same folder. The sales page will be called - index.html, sales.html or similar. If you double click on it - it will open in explorer for you (without the images).
5) Open up your MsFrontPage, FrontPage Express or similar and locate the sales page, open it in your chosen program. At the moment the images will not show up. Copy the images from your unzipped folder to your website folder (something like C:websiteimages)
6) Make changes to the page as you wish - e.g. insert your site name and price you want (are allowed) to sell it at as well as your payment link, and then save it once in it’s own directory.
7) Open up your web site and make a directory where you want to save your products. VIP call this directory _unusualname VIP note the _ this means that search engines and casual surfers will not be able to see what is in the directory.
8) Open up the new sales page again and then save it in the same folder as your website. Call the file something that is memorable and will describe to your surfers and search engines what is on it. Something like: item_name.html Do not use hyphens but the underscore do not use more than one underscore as this is not good for search engine positioning. Do not use CAPital letters as some servers cannot recognize capitals and then can’t find the file when you need it. Make sure that you add the new page to your web site menu so that your visitors can find it. FrontPage will show you how to do this - and they have a great menu function.
9) Make a directory for your downloads - call it something unusual like _d45tg again note the underscore.
10) Make a directory for your download pages - these are the pages that you send your buyers to, in order for them to download their purchases.
11) Open up your download page from the reseller pack. If there is not one then make a simple page that says thanks, this is how you can contact us if you have problems and the all important link. I also put the box image on the page as well. If you are really clever you will also put an upsell on the page - just a few lines about a complimentary item or an upgrade, plus a link to that page that opens into a new window.
12) To make a link - highlight the sentence you want to use - e.g. Down Load Here. Highlight the hyperlink tool - on FrontPage it is the globe with the paperclip (:>)) not sure why).
13) You now need to leave FrontPage for a short while and copy (not move) the original zipped item into your download folder - it will look something like this C:website_d45tg Make sure that it has a recognizable name so that you and your purchasers can recognize it. Again do not use capital letter, spaces or hyphens as they all confuse servers.
14) Note that we always leave the original zipped product where it is. So if you make a mistake you can always redo it.
15)Back to FrontPage and then change the download link to where your product now resides in your website. FrontPage will allow you to navigate to the file and then click.
16)Save the download page into your download directory with an unusual name such as _124tyg.html Note the underscore again as the last thing that you want is this page to show in the search engines.
17)Make sure everything is saved and then quit FrontPage.
18)Open up your ftp program - the two most popular are ws-ftp and cute ftp, both have good help files to show you how to set them up and use them. Your hosting company will give you the details you need to ftp into your hosting account.
19)Navigate the left hand pane to your web site on your PC and the right hand pane on your server and upload the directories you have just made as well as the new sales page as well as any other pages you have changed in order to add this page to your menu. Upload the new images as well.
20)The last and most important stage is to TEST ALL THESE ITEMS. Ensure that the page and the download link all work.

Now go and market those items.

Lee Lister - EzineArticles Expert Author

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October 24, 2007

Review: The Rich Jerk

I recently (five days ago) purchased an internet marketing
program from The Rich
Jerk
. I must say, I’m impressed. So far I’ve been able
to fully implement only one of his ideas and I’ve made over $100
in just three days. I know that’s not a lot, but there’s no
doubt in my mind that I’ll make plenty before I’m through.

Several of his ideas I’d already learned about by doing
internet searches, but there are so many more that I had not
heard of. His e-book is very short (less than 50 pages) and
concise, but is packed full of great ideas. I highly recommend
buying his program. Even if you only learn one new idea, it will
more than pay for the small investment.

Les
Reeder

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October 16, 2007

What is it? How does it work?

What is it? How does it work? I don’ t get it.

The Internet is full of tools and ever-changing developments
that can leave the mild surfer in a cyber rip current, left in a
wash on how to get grounded. One new development, ebooks,
benefits all Internet users but still plagues the lot of us. So,
Dream Jobs To Go.com is throwing out a free ebook, as a buoy, to
help you float through the maze of Internet confusion.

What is an EBOOK? It is a question that baffles many, even those
in the publishing industry. Some describe an ebook as a device
used to read electronic books. Is that your final answer? If it
were, you would have wished you used a “Dream Jobs” lifeline.

An ebook is a mystery to most. How do you get one, what software
do you need to use one? Why should I read a book on my computer?
All of these questions are perfectly valid to anyone who has
never used an ebook. They are not just for the cyber bookworms,
in fact, it is designed for the non-cyber savvy humanoid.

So lets clear this up:

What is an EBOOK? It is an instant downloading manuscript that
is emailed to your pc for immediate use.

How do you get one? There are many sites that offer these ebooks
but if you want short works of about 30 pages,
www.DreamJobsToGo.com has an ever-growing inventory of titles.

What software do you need to use one? You need Adobe Acrobat
Reader available free from www.Intellectua.com and used on many
sites such as Amazon and B&N.

Why should I read a book on my computer? The beauty of an ebook
is, that while you are reading the material on your computer,
active links allow you to view a website the author is referring
to. This feature acts like an interactive teacher and allows the
reader the opportunity to fully understand the information.

The trick with everything cyber is to gain a complete
understanding by experiencing it first hand. We feel the same
way, so www.DreamJobsToGo.com has offered a free ebook on the
site so everyone can completely understand how an ebook works,
risk free. Go to the site, download the free reader software
(it’s so easy) and then download your free ebook “Clothing
Optional – Finding a New Career in Your Underpants.” Not only
will the freebie give you the complete ebook experience, it will
also give you tips on how to use the Internet as another
valuable resource: finding a job while surfing the web, even in
your underpants, or your swimsuit, you cyber guru, you.

Welcome to our world.

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