Archive for October, 2005

WOW – in getting ready for the “Website Video Secrets” Workshop
this week, I rediscovered 3 videos I’d forgotten about… but really
like

If you’ve never seen them, enjoy… if you have, they make a great
review!

“The Biggest Lie Ever Told Online”
http://www.7dayebook.com/the-Biggest-Lie-Ever-Told.htm

“How To Get 72,000 Qualified Visitors To Your Website… Without Spending A Dime On Advertising”
http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com/mmupdate.html

“My Vegas Vacation With Yanik Silver”
http://www.howtogetanythingyouwant.com/thelesson.html

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How To Find The Perfect Images Online

– by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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Has this ever happened to you?

You need a photo for a website, brochure, flyer, or CD / DVD
cover.

You buy one of those 100,000 photo and clipart collections
on 10 CD-ROMs hoping to find the “perfect” picture, but
after hours of searching you find your brain tired, your
mouse hand numb, and no “perfect” photo in sight.

Fortunately, the photo and clipart business got a lot
smarter online, and anyone who ever needs good photos at
rock bottom prices stands to benefit.

Buying one of those mega-photo collections to find one photo
rates about the same as buying an entire aisle at the
supermarket in hopes of finding a single Snicker bar!

Personally, my shelves hold over 2,000,000 photo and clipart
images on over 100 CD-ROMs, most of which rate quite useless
to me.

To further complicate matters, photo collections on CD-ROM
tend to go out of date.

Many of the photo collections I bought in the mid-1990’s
contain photos of people from the 1980’s, so the hair,
clothes and even makeup look out-of-date.

The solution to this dilemma lies in the fact that you can
now buy photos online at bargain-basement prices.

Previously, in order to buy photos online, you either joined
a membership site, which charges a monthly fee, or you
bought by the photo from sites charging $100 or more for one
photo.

Do a search on google.com for “royalty free photo,” “stock
photo,” or “buyout photo” and you’ll find plenty of websites
offering photos at premium prices (not to mention the
confusion of finding what you want).

Two excellent options for buying photos and clipart are
ClipArt.com and BigStockPhoto.com.

Clipart.com charges a membership fee to browse their
database and download images.

Their best deal is the yearly subscription of $169.95
(equates to about $15 a month) with unlimited downloads.

This represents an excellent option if you plan to use a
large number of images over the year, but I found the actual
photos (they also carry clipart, sounds, illustrations and
more) about average.

At BigStockPhoto.com I found the photos much more compelling
and dramatic than ClipArt.com.

I also like the fact that BigStockPhoto.com lets you buy
only the photos you want by purchasing credits instead of
paying for a membership.

You can buy a single photo for $2.50, but the price per
picture goes down when you buy multiple credits (10 gives
you the first price break).

Whenever you buy images, carefully read the fine print in
the license about how you can and cannot use the images,
especially for commercial purposes.

It does you no good to buy an image you can’t use. Beware of
“free” clipart and photo websites, they can often display
images of dubious origin.

Also, free clipart sites frequently carry tons of banner and
pop-up advertising (along with some more sinister spyware
applications that install themselves automatically on your
computer).

Regardless of why you want them, buying images online now
rates much better than buying a huge clipart collection and
hoping to find what you need.

And, by purchasing only the pictures you need, you’ll save
yourself significant time and money in the long run.

–
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to finally create your own
money-making mini-sites…

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Computer Geek, Buying Expensive Software, or Paying
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If you missed it… I’m sorry you missed it…

Sorry you missed the maiden voyage of “The Jim Boat” this
past week… it was truly an adventure of a lifetime!

You can watch the video here:

=> http://www.TheJimBoat.com/HighLights.html

21 people and their partners joined me for an exciting 5 day
trip to the Caribbean where, among other things, I revealed
all of my ebook publishing secrets

I created a 4-minute highlight video of the trip (very cool
tropical pictures) AND you can download one of the handouts
from the workshop (this is the main “RoadMap” handout for
your ebook business).

For those of you who asked, I plan to release the DVD’s of
the cruise workshop in the near future… you can sign up
for the early bird notice on that by going here.

=> http://www.TheJimBoat.com/HighLights.html

To your success!

Jim

PS – I’ll probably limit the number of sets I sell of the
cruise DVD’s (and it won’t be 1,000 copies either), so if
you want first dibs when I roll them out, don’t hesitate to
get on the “early bird” list right now.

=> http://www.TheJimBoat.com/HighLights.html

P.P.S. – Want to learn how to make videos like these?

Check out this workshop Mike Stewart and I are putting on
in Los Angeles next week!
=> http://www.WebsiteVideoSecrets.com

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Blogs aren’t all peaches and cream… there’s a @#$%^ element out
there that uses blogs and the social dynamics of blogs to spread
their !@#$%^ and, frankly, I’m sick of it.

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The Dark Side Of Blogs

– by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved
The Net Reporter Ezine
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America Online (AOL) announced recently they will pay as
much as 25 million dollars for Weblogs, Inc.
(www.weblogsinc.com) in a move to expand their reach even
further into the consumer market.

Blogs, also know as weblogs, enable individuals to post,
comment, and respond to various topics online without
publishing a website. All text editing and commenting takes
place right through the web browser.

The Web’s leading blog search engine, Technorati.com, lists
19.2 million blogs online.

Blog popularity has skyrocketed to the point that even news
networks like CNN and MSNBC quote blogs, in particular
political blogs, often giving some blog publishers instant
rock star status with the media.

With all the hoopla around blogs, people forget that blogs,
by their very nature, represent opinions, and opinions don’t
necessarily represent the facts.

~ Information Pollution Syndrome ~

Blogs use a powerful form of psychology know as “social
proof” where we look to others to help us understand how we
should view, feel, or react to news and information.

Since the glut of information only gets more massive online
with each passing day and rates impossible for one person to
get through completely on their own, we look to others to
help us sort the piles of data.

When you combine this with another online phenomenon,
virtual anonymity, you get a volatile combination where any
social responsibility for what gets posted flies out the
window in many cases.

People can and do post whatever they want because no “hall
monitor” can call them down for blatant intellectual
hooliganism.

~ Facts Colored With Opinion ~

Strong opinion often equals an agenda, however hard to
discern for either the author or the reader.

But make no mistake, every person publishing a blog with any
level of readership (not junk blogs used for search engine
promotion) takes a stance on the issues, whether political,
social, religious or business.

Even if they strive to be impartial and only report the
“news,” blog publishers are human beings who want you to
think they’re smart, agree with them, and accept their point
of view, even if they don’t realize it consciously.

Less scrupulous blog publishers often exploit the social and
psychological power of blogs to spread disinformation
(intentionally wrong information) to further their agenda.
This tactic rates quite popular on political blogs and has
started creeping into business blogs too.

~ Protect Yourself ~

Whenever you read anything online, use the following
evaluation criteria to help separate fact from opinion.

What is my purpose in searching for information on this
subject?

Is this a credible source of information?

What ulterior motive, conscious or otherwise, do they have
in publishing this information?

What alternative sources of information can I find to
confirm / dispute the information on this blog?

Don’t rely heavily on the opinions of others to make your
decisions, especially the opinions of nameless, faceless
bloggers with a self-serving agenda who operate with a veil
of anonymity and a no sense of social responsibility.

–
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to finally create your own
money-making mini-sites…

-=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
“Finally! A Quick and Easy Way For YOU to Painlessly Set Up
Your OWN Moneymaking ‘Mini’ Websites… Without Being a
Computer Geek, Buying Expensive Software, or Paying
Outrageous Fees To A Webmaster!”

Click Here => FREE Mini-Site Secrets Audio
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ezine, blog, autoresponder, or on your site so long as you
leave all links in place, do not modify the content and
include our resource box as listed above.

Feel free to join our affiliate program, substitute your
affiliate link in the resource box, and earn a healthy
commission on each sale…

Get the details here:
=> http://www.minisitecreator.com/affiliate.html

If you do use the material please send us a note
so we can take a look. Thanks.

© Guaranteed Response Marketing, LLC

Jim Edwards here with the download information for the MP3
of the tele-conference where Mike Stewart and I discussed
the “online video revolution”

In a word, the call “ROCKED” and you can download it here,
now:

http://www.jiminterviews.com/videorevolution/

Mike and I revealed some absolutely killer information,
including:

~ Why Online Video is HERE… NOW!… What’s changed to make
online video an everyday reality…

~ The two main types of online video and how each one is
used very differently to make money…

~ The exact tools we use and where to find them…

~ Actual case studies of how we’re using online video to
make money online right now…

~ How long your videos should be (depending on your purpose)
so you don’t chew up memory or lose people’s attention…

~ and a LOT more!

Hope you made the call live, but if not, you can download
the MP3 right now:

http://www.jiminterviews.com/videorevolution/

To your success,

Jim and Mike

P.S. If you want more information on our live workshop, or
more information on equipment and software we talked about on the call, go to
==> http://www.WebsiteVideoSecrets.com