In this Post
* Catch Up 
* Facebook Resources That Are VERY Handy
* Reminder, Meet Up – Sat 4th Feb!
* Sign Off

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* Catch Up

Hi Everyone
Not much of a catch up this week as I’ve had a lot of time off dealing with some family ‘stuff’
I’m so glad I’m an internet marketer and can take time out whenever I feel like it

I’ve got my meet up this Saturday, and a few bits to catch up on myself over the next couple of days, and then next weke I should be back into full swing

One thing I did notice while working less – was how often I would check into facebook from my iPhone!
Even with them constantly changing things – It does seem like the site isn’t going anywhere… So I’ve prepared an article to hopefully help anyone who has yet to increase their exposure on facebook.
(see below)

Well that was a brief catch up wasn’t it…lol

Chat soon
Randy
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* Facebook Resources That Are VERY Handy

OK – so we’ve all heard of facebook, and hopefully most of us have a profile for ourselves?
Mine is http://www.facebook.com/RandolfSmith

Personal profiles are where everyone starts, and to a degree you can post links as well as the usual jokes and funny pics and videos – which all lead to more exposure of your profile and hence your sites (provided you’ve added them to your profile)….
BUT – if you want to get more and more links and visits back to your sites from Facebook – then you’ll find using some tools and getting some like pages built can really help.
I have various like pages for different sites that I promote (not all finished yet ) so to give you some ideas here are mine:
Randy Smith page – a personal page promoting me and anything I want to link to
Northallerton Meet Up page – just promoting my monthly meet ups
WizardWebServices page – for my offline local service promotions
Internet Marketing Apprentice page – set up initially to promote IMA
KrystalsCraftCorner Community page – a page for Rachel to eventually sell her craft items

So as you can see – you can build pages for all sorts of opportunitys.
How – you might ask…..lol
Well I’ve used a range of tools to get mine built….
For my own page I used John Thornhill & Dave Nicholsons ‘Like Page Builder‘ – which is one of the easiest tools I’ve used due to their step by step videos
(they also have the pages hosted on a secure server with an SSL certificate – so there are no challenges with favebook showing the page since their last rule changes!)

I got a little more complex with the WizardWebServices one – as I own an SSL certificate for that domain…. But what a chew on that is! Getting the ceretificate is one thing, invloving a cost and a few emails back and forth, and then understanding all the techy aspects was enough to put me off doing that again… haha
Craig my partner in IMA sorted the IMA one, so I’m not sure how he went about that. And the Northallerton Meet Up Page was a gift from the lovely Sally Neill – who used a program she pays for monthly at a higher rate than Like Page Builder.- I like the wso pricing for the pro version of like page builder – as it includes a developer license as well as the SSL, so you could even build these for other people and charge for the service

The one for Rachel was totally unique, in that she wanted her page to do so much more in the future, so I used a blog theme that also reduces the pages to facebook and mobile sizes, then I needed to find a way to get past the SSL certification and have facebook show the page!
That was a challenge easily met by using a free service that I found on facebook!
Social Server have a page you can go to on facebook, like it and add your name and email to use their FREE adapter!
This then allows you to add your non-secure page into their system and they give you a secure link that shows your pages on facebook!

This was a great find for doing Rachels pages, as it meant I could add any content she wanted to her blog, and then onto the facebook page by using social server to adapt it into a secure page!
So once she has some better photos, she’ll be able to actually list items for sale on facebook … but do so on her like page and community, thereby getting others who visit to share the links and attract even more traffic for her.

And at the end of the day – if we’re in business online – we do want to use facebook for traffic don’t we?… It’s not just for fun videos and pictures, or letting people know what the weather is like in our part of the world…lol
In fact – with new software coming out all the time, it’s getting easier to run a business and have facebook as a major part of the traffic generation, tools like reward/reveal widgets and like page builders, as well as other sites that link our posts from blogs and twitter to facebook walls too (I covered that in an earlier post with a video for twitterfeed), mean we can even make a full time living helping local business as well as building our own sites.

Before long if you do start seeing results from facebook, you may well want to consider social media marketing as a serious part of your online efforts. That could even lead to using other services both on and off facebook.

I’ve seen people go to fiverr and pay for a certain number of ‘likes’ or ‘comments’ on their pages. Which can help you look more professional but doesn’t really bring in hoards of traffic.
Other avenues to consider are facebook advertising, which unlike the big G, can still be bought very very cheaply.
This would get you real and targeted visitors to your pages, and many people use these ads to drive traffic that is highly targeted yet inexpensive to pages or offers they have on their facebook like pages!
I have to admit it’s something I’ve discussed with people doing it, but not yet tried myself due to a bad experience with Google ads once, where I went way over budget in a matter of just a couple of hours…lol – That said in the past year alone the amount of active users of facebook has shot up to over 700 million, generating over 100 BILLION hits per day!
With at least 50% of these users logging in on a daily basis. Therefore it’s obvious that there is a huge amount of traffic available using Facebook Ads!
Although if I was going to be building and managing more sites for local small business as well as my own, I might well consider using a broker who could guide me in the right direction and make sure I didn’t spend more than I budgeted for. – Especially with so many small businesses now using facebook for business,  It’s something I believe we’ll all need to check out at some point.

And from figures I’ve had shared with me by people using facebook for business, It does seem to be the easiest way to get some guaranteed traffic to your facebook pages and offers.
Even simple ads saying things along the lines of - “If you love babies – click like” seem to get a very targeted response from young mums liking and thereby sharing the page with their lists of friends – who in turn pop along to check what their friend has liked and see all the goodies on offer!
Another method would be using a like/reward feature, where the new prospect clicks like and then automatically adds a post to their wall saying something along the line of “I just got a great freebie from xyz site” – this allows them to get the freebie, cost you just one advert – but potentially goes viral as more and more of their friends visit to grab the freebie!

So feel free to take another look at facebook and ‘like’ pages, and do consider using facebook ads if you have a good broker or resource to refer to, as it’s certainly getting me more and more traffic from my own efforts and I still have more methods to implement yet!

I hope this revisit and the resource links help

Randy
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* Reminder, Meet Up – Sat 4th Feb

Last Reminder – Here are the details for our next meet up

1pm til around 5pm, Saturday 4th February 2012:
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

Venue:
The Oddfellows Arms
251 High Street,
Northallerton,
DL7 8DJ
Tel:    (01609) 773018

Chips and Sandwiches for our consumption.

There will be a charge of around £25 per person to cover the costs.
Any issue – give me a shout:
http://www.RandolfSmith.com/support
Or Skype – randolf.smith

Get your ticket booked here
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

You can find the dates etc. on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/NorthallertonMarketingMeetup

Cheers
Randy
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****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****

Til next time
To You and Yours,

Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Warm Regards
Randy

In this Post
* Catch Up 
* Amazon Bits
* New Cloaker News
* Next Meet Up – Sat 4th Feb!
* Sign Off

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* Catch Up

Hi Everyone
Well here we are half way through the month already.
And yep – I’m up to my usual sillyness already. I don’t think I’ll ever learn from my own advice!

I’ve lost count of how many times I tell others to stick to one thing and see it through, and yet I keep ‘Flitting’ from one thing to another myself!
Quite honestly I shouldn’t complain… after all we’re only a couple of weeks into the new year, and yet I sit and wonder why ‘stuff’ just isn’t finished yet?

Granted some projects take time, and we do need to wait until they’re complete before we can move on…. But boy oh boy it FEELS like I’ve been working on some for an age…lol

Does that affect you too?
Does it feel like you’re ‘flitting’ from one thing to another and making very slow progress?
Do you have 3 or more projects on the go, and as you ‘flit’ between them – does it feel like you haven’t moved forward?

If it does – here’s some food for thought:
I’d bet that if you have been chipping away, progress will have been made ! (It’s just that sometimes it doesn’t feel that way)
If you check on where you started and then where you’re up to – you will have been moving forward!

Sometimes it’s like we’re on a journey, but we forget to look at the map!
All we can see is how far we still have to go – and it’s so far away that it feels like we’ll never get there!

This is then compounded by the fact that all day and EVERY day we get email after email telling us of yet another new product we should check out and buy!

Now we all know that we should be avoiding anything that doesn’t fit with our business plan and marketing objectives. so that’s a given….
BUT – what these constant launches do – is make us feel like every man and his dog is making more progress than we are – doesn’t it?

So here’s what I’ve realised.
We ALL need to STOP from time to time and check our MAP!
NOT to see how far we have to go – but sometimes to see how far we’ve come!

Only by cutting out all the noise from the constant launches and feelings of everyone is moving forward except me…… Can we take some time to see how much progress we’ve actually made!
This then helps us to stay motivated and keep plodding forward!

I say plodding forward – because sometimes we don’t make leaps and bounds towards our goals….
Sometimes we take one baby step after another …. literally belly crawling forwards to our final destination!

But Hey – I can tell you from both online experience of keeping plodding until I get a project finished, and from an analogy of a time when I was in uniform doing my bit many years ago…
Online – I just need to remind myself of the stuff I have gotten finished and the regular money those items make (check my links if you need to)

My Analogy from past offline experience is taken from a time I was on a military exercise.
This one night, myself a small group of ‘specialists’, were given the task of keeping our enemy awake all night by launching probing attacks on them every couple of hours. (the idea being to ensure they were sleep deprived prior to our forces launching a ful scale attack the following dawn)
Unfortunately, due to their having patrols and sentry posts forward of their front lines – this meant we had to be very very quiet and take our time moving forwards for each probe.

Yes I’m getting to the point…lol
What we had to do was use techniques such as ‘ghost walking’ ‘belly crawl’ and ‘doubling back’ throughout the night…..
We would move forward literally inch by inch until we were in postition to shoot.
Then a hasty retreat after we had woken them, only to repeat the procress again an hour later!

Each time we moved forward we had to go so slowly it honestly felt like we’d never get into position – and yet each time we eventually did.
We’d be laid hidden in the undergrowth while their patrols marched past us, watching as they took just a few minutes to move over trerritory that we would take an hour or more to move over.
But because of our patience and checking exactly where we were on opur maps – we knew we’d get there and we did.
On every occassion we would surprise them and make our escape. (we even captured two of their sentries and a front line gun team…lol)
Come the morning the full scale attack was a resounding success and we got to sleep for a large part of the morning, as well as getting a great meal as a reward for our small part of the exersice.

The lesson being that sometimes those extremely long times of feeling like progess was so slow, We did need a look at the map and the overall plan to remind us that what we were doing was the right corse of action, and even then if we can only ‘Belly Crawl’, we’re still mo9ving forwards!

So if you’re feeling like everyone is rushing ahead of you …
Check you map!
See how far you’ve come,
Take note of any detours you’ve had to make,
And make sure you give yourself a pat on the back for any progress.

Then just stick at it until!

Remember – if you never give up – you can’t possibly lose.
Just keep it moving forwards

OK – that’s enough story telling for today, now back to what’s been feeling slow for me…lol
And maybe you’ll see some progress and I might realise I have actually got some stuff done…haha

Chat soon
Randy
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* Amazon Bits

Strange title I know, but let me explain…..
I’ve called it Amazon Bits because there literally are a few bits to mention. – Not just one aspect or element or product
This also in part covers some of what I was just talking about in terms of the time it takes to get stuff done!
With the first part of ‘time’ being no ones fault – but still a heck of a wait (or at least that’s how it felt)

Before I go on, I guess now would be a good time to add the fact that Amazon is one of the key areas of growth I want for my own business this year, I still have other online stuff to get done too – hence the multiple projects that I advise against…lol
And here’s one reason for having multiple projects on the go too…….
The Waiting!

First bit:
I’ve been meaning for ages (and I mean more than a year) to get a physical book created with Amazon Create Space.
This allows anyone to publish their own book and have it for sale world wide via Amazons Print On Demand Service. (Also worthwhile because unlike old fashioned self publishing – you don’t have to order a minimum print run of hundreds of books in order to see your name on a book cover)
So long story short – I finally got around to adding something.
It started out as some PLR I bought the rights to, and I edited it to make it my own.
(As it turns out it’s proving popular with my family and friends – because they can finally understand what it is that I do….lol)

But from a TIME point of view – I hadn’t realised just how long it would take for people in the UK to actually have a book shipped!
I submitted my work, created cover graphics etc. – and then had to wait around a month for the proof to be shipped to me! – ALL BEFORE I could approve it and have it listed!
Hence I had no choice but to move onto other projects while I awaited the postman, after all – just sitting around waiting wasn’t going to kep my business moving forwards….lol
So I got on with other things like the new link cloaker mentioned below.

Anyways – finally my proof copies arrived!
(Here’s a vanity part…. no matter how many ebooks I have out there that are making me regular monthly incomes – there really is NO DESCRIBING how it feels to see a physical book with your name and picture on it as the Author!)
My intention isn’t to make a fortune from selling this book, it was more to use the book as a ‘business card’ in effect. to give a free copy to local business people who might be interested in using my services from my offline site. After all – how much easier is it to consider using someone who is a published Author of a book about online marketing, when making a descion on whom to give a contract to?

But just in case you’d like to buy a copy – here’s the link:
Help…. I’m Addicted To Internet Marketing….. Will You Be Too?

And if you do buy a copy – let me know by sending a me a support ticket, and I’ll happily throw in any of my paid ebooks/products as a bonus, as I could do with some buyer reviews…lol
(that only applies to products/sites that are my own, and not ones where I have a partner or co-author… naturally)

So that’s create space, a great tool to get your name on a book and give you a larger than usual head when you chat to family & friends ;

Moving on…. – Do you own a Kindle Reader?
Kindle

Next bit

As well as Create Space, I’ve also been revisiting Amazon Kindle Publishing.
I already had some titles published on kindle - Randy Smith On Kindle  But I did them a good while ago and forgot about them.
Long story short – I’ve seen so many people promoting ‘Kindle’ products over the last year, and I actually promoted one myself  ages ago. On a personal level – I stopped looking at most as I saw the shear mess people were making, as well as the useless products that were just videos saying “get your ebooks on kindle”, and then making an offer of a heap of PLR to upload!
Where they failed was in actually showing people how to do the job properly!

For a start - Amazon didn’t take long before they started the ‘Kindle Slap’ - removing all the duplicate content poor quality PLR junk from the site!
And secondly – I didn’t see the hundreds of daily sales all those selling the plr claimed was so easy to make!

Well – as with all things – the Kindle guides have evolved!
Plus Kindle has continued to grow and grow! – It even got a mention in my MENSA magazine that I get sent out every month!, and that reminded me to take a look at my own products!

I can say that I was pleasantly surprised to see I have made a handful of sales (not the hundreds people talk about), but nevertheless – sales coming in from nothing other than listing 4 items in the kindle store!
Hence I’ve been on a mission to grab as much info and training on Kindle as I could find!…. and trust me when I tell you – there is LOADS of it! .. lol

One reason I’m mentioning it today is that I finally found some great training that has opened my eyes to why I haven’t made more sales…. And also teaches me exactly what and how to start doing in order to get more from my Kindle products!

What I love about kindle is that it’s actually easier than creating IM products with all the pages that a typical ebook site needs in order to make money from it!
(So the work load is a heck of a lot less, and less techy too!)
Anyways – If you’re still reading this far in, then I assume you might also be interested in taking a serious look at getting some products into the Kindle Store.

So here’s my strogest recommendation and a couple of others that I’ve bought recently and been pleased with.
I’ve learnt something from each of these product, so feel free to check them all out.
But if you ask me for just one – then I’d have to plump for Geoff Shaws Kindling membership right now

Here are the links:
Geoff Shaws Kindling Membership
Geoff alrwady has some fantastic info in this membership that is a one time fee – BUT – He is also adding more and that will increase it’s price as time goes by… So the best time to grab this is now!
ALSO – If you do buy it – Please contact me… as I’d like to set up a small groups of us to help each other as per geoff’s training on the section about Instant Social proof … yopu’ll know what I mean once you’re inside
This is my Strongest recommendation – because I learnt more about what I personally did wrong or missed out from this, and I haven’t even been able to get through the extra content he’s added since I last logged in!! Now, this is slightly higher priced than the WSOs I normally recommend, but having compared the value, there really is a complete and modern Kindle course in here. Just check my testimonial on Geoff’s page
Very Impressed!

Others I’ve bought:
Kindle Content Miracle
Happy enough with the content, but I would add that Cory seems to be a marketer who promotes stuff daily!

Kindle Pack
A Great basic guide to ensure you get set up correctly on Kindle itself, and some further study in the cheap oto Also the product that got me looking for more and more Kindle info

Vals Kindle Guide
This is the product I used when I started adding products to Kindle, and Val also did me a special offer page for my readers

Perfect Publishing System - (I’m awaiting affiliate approval – so in the mean time search the warrior forum if you don’t want to wait – Seems daft that after over 48 hours he hasn’t logged in to approve affiliates!!)
This one from Jonny Andrews was recommended by Geoff Shaw so I bought it… It’s more about how to make money rather than how to set up your ebooks etc. Also packed with info and videos to guide you through the process! – Highly recommended.

Kindle Publishing Kit
Another very useful offer – In this guide you get links to free software to help get the formatting right with kindle (Which also happened to be one of my biggest hurdles!!)

So there you have some of the kindle products I’ve bought and am happy to recommend. I wont try and tell you which to consider other than repeating that Geoff Shaws membership is what I’d consider to be the most complete and valuable, but some of the others have useful parts in their own right  like the Kindle Publishing Kit, so do check them out if you’re getting into Kindle, and grab what you feel will help you

And don’t forget to contact me if you buy Geoff’s one, As I seriously do want to have a chat to benefit us all

Moving On
Randy
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* New Cloaker News

OK – This has been a lengthy post with a lot of info about Amazon.
So I wont get into too much detail from here.
Re the new cloaker – all I will say is that after going through the comments and ideas given in reply to my last post.…..
Simon and I have been tweaking, testing and adding all sorts of extra features and facilities to the ‘extras’ that were already built in.

This has made the cloaker much more than just a link cloaker and tracker!!
We’ve wrapped it up now and encoded it ready for adding it as a product for sale – and just have the remainder of the sales copy and what it can do to write, along with some affiliate tools etc.

In the mean time – Here’s a link to a ‘HotPage’ I created in around a minute or so complete with header graphic title, links in boxes and footer etc. for those Amazon links I’ve recommended above.
Basically just showing off ONE of the amazing features the software has built in…….
Not forgeting to mention that this is the easiest software I’ve ever installed – with just ONE simple install file to upload and NO databases or database users to add and remember etc.!

So here’s the ‘hot page’ – Randys Recommended Amazon Kindle Links

Do take a look at the whole of the page, and remember – All I did was fill in some blanks and push a button!

More Soon…
Randy
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* Next Meet Up – Sat 4th Feb

Finally – Here are the details for our next meet up

1pm til around 5pm, Saturday 4th February 2012:
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

Venue:
The Oddfellows Arms
251 High Street,
Northallerton,
DL7 8DJ
Tel:    (01609) 773018

Chips and Sandwiches for our consumption.

There will be a charge of around £25 per person to cover the costs.
Any issue – give me a shout:
http://www.RandolfSmith.com/support
Or Skype – randolf.smith

Get your ticket booked here
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

You can find the dates etc. on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/NorthallertonMarketingMeetup

Cheers
Randy
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* Sign Off

****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****

Til next time
To You and Yours,

Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Warm Regards
Randy

In this Post
* Catch Up 
* Sunshine Award
* Coming Soon – New Cloaker with extras
* Next Meet Up – SATURDAY!
* Sign Off

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* Catch Up

Hi Everyone
Welcome to 2012
I hope it’s everythng you wish it to be.
So where do I start with my first post of the year?…. Well for one thing I wont sit here and details everything I got for Christmas or everything I bought for family and friends…lol
We had a great time and everyone loved everything they got… Myself included

We also had a great New Years Party and missed the morning of the new year completely…lol
So now it’s back to ‘work’ for everyone… some online some still juggling between a day job and their internet hopes, So thre last thing I’m going to do is start listing my hopes and goals for the coming year… They would hardly be relevant to you now would they?
What’s important is that you have a plan in place to get you to where you want to be a year from now. So I hope you’ve found the right info and have a good idea of what you need to do!
Whichever route to internet freedom you take – just remember to focus, stick at it, and only spend on the things that will help you get there

Meanwhile – I hope that my ‘Ramblings’ continue to provide useful tips and content to aid your personal journey
Speaking of which, that leads me nicely into my first post about me getting an award!

Yep – it’s all about me me me…lol
Seriously though, do check out the post below to see how this award actually helps a bunch more people. You see it’s an award given by readers of blogs to other bloggers who’ve helped them and probvide good content.
So the reader has obviously benefited or they wouldn’t pass on the award in the first place.
Those who then get nomiated befit from yet another backlink & traffic.
And those who visit get more people who have been recognised as good bloggers to gain more useful insights and tips from:)

Basically another viral form of generating traffic, links and goodwill… win win win all round!

So let me get into it and see if you all can benefit from my award

Chat soon
Randy
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* Sunshine Award

Here it is… My Sunshine Award

So what’s it all about?
Well firstly, There is no prize or trophy attached to the award,  :(  (though you can copy the cool graphic to use)
It is more about recognising bloggers whose positivity and creativity have inspired others in the blogging community. To be awarded the Sunshine Award from established bloggers that we hold in high regard really is an honour and to be publically recognised on their blog is a very much appreciated backlink…lol

So THANK YOU VERY MUCH Barry Wells for passing this along to me
(I did say on his blog that I’d throttle him for giving me yet more workload…haha – I was of course only Joking, as I do feel honoured to have been mentioned, and I seriously appreciate the link)

So what else is involved to make this interesting, possibly viral and pass on the gratitude for others who I hold in high regard?

The 3 Rules of the Award

There are 3 rules to the award which are:

1: To thank the person(s) that gave the award.

2: To Answer 10 questions.

3: Pass the award on to 10 deserving bloggers.

I have already thanked Barry for the award, but thanks again. It really does mean a lot to me, thank you
Now on to answer the Ten Questions, and in typical Randys Ramblings Style – there is no straight forward answer from me to many of them….haha

The 10 questions are:

 1. Favourite colour –  If I’m wearing it – Black (even though Black technically isn’t a colour), If it’s for a website, Blue. For Decor, warm reds. On Rachel, well anything really But I do like her in blacks and reds… so I guess it’s about the circumstances of use of the colour… lol
2. Favourite animal – Tiger, oh and Wolves too, but if I have to pick one a Tiger would be it (which also happens to be my Chinese year of birth)
3. Favourite number –  8 (also popular in the far east) but it has always been a number that featured in my life as a favourite since I had it on my Basket Ball strip way back in school!
  4. Favourite drink –  Quality Coffee or Vodka & Coke, well no one specified what type of drink?
5. Facebook or Twitter –  Facebook for me, as twitter doesn’t alow me to ramble past 140 characters… haha
  6. My passion –  EASY .. Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing that Passion on!
7. Giving or receiving gifts – Of course I like to receive, but you can’t beat seeing someone face light you when you give
  8. Favourite day –  Any that ends in a Y .. I love everyday of my life, and being an IMer, it doesn’t make a difference what day of the week it is when you’re free from the j.o.b.
    9. Favourite flower – I guess I’d say a Rose… That’s what I used to buy Rachel regularly before she educated me into replacing flowers with SHOES whenever I want to treat her just for being her!
10. Favourite food – A little more boring here… I love all sorts of nations foods, But given a free choice (without me having to cook it), I reckon I’d go for a full Sunday Dinner – Roast beef, Yorkshire puddings and Steamed Vegetables.

See – Told you, I don’t ramble as much on purpose… there really wasn’t a single straight answer in there! haha
And now for the harder part…. Not hard in picking people to pass the award to – just hard in limiting it to just ten!

10 Deserving Bloggers To Pass The Award To

I know I should give reasons etc. (judging by other peoples posts), But I know my rambling would end up making this an ebook…lol – So I’ll just give you their names and links.
As for descriptions – these are all people whom I’ve met online initially, some I’ve now met in person and even worked with, but all of them I now consider friends, and I always read their posts. Hence it’s easy to link to them as I know you’ll not be lead up any wrong paths if you visit and become another new friend
I’m not sure they’ll all join in and post about the award as some are very busy people these days… But in terms of learning from them – you wont go wrong with these guys and gals!

Barry Wells 

Sally Neill 

Dawn Kay 

Mandy Allen 

Daniel Sumner 

John Thornhill 

Keith Purkiss 

Dave Nicholson 

igor Griffiths 

Dee Ann Rice 

So that’s my list of people I’m passing the award to, They have ALL made more than one useful post, All great people and knowledgable in what they do, and what’s more – they bring Sunshine into their readers lives by adding quality info to their blogs.
I know some have already been awarded before and I suspect some wont have time to even acknowledge this award due to their continuing to have other more helpful posts to create and add. But I hope you do get chance to check them all out and let them know they’ve been mentioned

Phew – that lot took a while
Next is a quick mention of something coming soon (and a chance to get some money links in…haha)

Moving On
Randy
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* Coming Soon – New Cloaker with extras

Do you know what… I’ve just seen how long I’ve been typing away, So I think I’ll leave you in suspense a little longer … or should I?
OK – tell you what, I’ll show off a Small Part of a new cloaking tool I’ve helped develop.
(when I say helped – I obviously mean I have tested and tried to break it, and added a few suggestions… lol)

I’ve teamed up with Simon Phillips ( a very techy friend), To add even more functionality to an idea for making a professional link cloaker that doesn’t require ANY techy skills – NOT EVEN how to create a database!
Basically – we’ve been testing and tweaking it for a few months, though we still have to create a salespage etc.
BUT – here’s why I’m showing a small part of what it can do now….
It gives me a chance to have some affiliate links in this post… haha

On a serious note – it’s a chance to show off a useful feature that is all done for you once you have the software…
You get to be able to create what we call ‘Hot Pages’

These are pages that allow you to send a page to your lists or put it on your blog that shows all the products you recommend by date or category

So without further ado – check these to see some extreme examples of a push button page creation based on cloaked links from within the software.

My Products Page:
http://randolfsmith.com/recommendz/RandysProducts.php

You get to pick the background colour, header, and when you create your links you can add your ‘HotPage’ text which is what you see on the page.

Another example would be to show a page by category….
In This Case – ALL the products I’ve recently created links for, and with No Header Image This Time – just to show the flexibility
http://randolfsmith.com/recommendz/ALL.php

And this example will look a bit daft…. But imagine at the end of the month recapping on all the products you’ve checked out during the month…
You could then send out a link like:
http://randolfsmith.com/recommendz/Jan.php

To list all your Hot Links for January (or whatever the current month is)

NOTE The Different background colours, Headlines, header images or not etc. – and please forgive the extreme use of colour in my examples…lol

OK – That got a few links online for you to click through, so I’ll leave it at that for today, as I’ve just had Rachel on the phone needing me… so I’m off
Just a quick reminder of the meet up and then I’ll save the post and pop back later to upload it
(back and about to upload this… after being a Taxi for an hour!! – Don’t you just love working from home )

Randy
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* Next Meet Up – SATURDAY

Here are the details for our First Meet Up in 2012

1pm til around 5pm, Saturday 7th January 2012:
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

Venue:
The Oddfellows Arms
251 High Street,
Northallerton,
DL7 8DJ
Tel:    (01609) 773018

Chips and Sandwiches for our consumption.

There will be a charge of around £25 per person to cover the costs.
Any issue – give me a shout:
http://www.RandolfSmith.com/support
Or Skype – randolf.smith

Get your ticket booked here
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

You can find the dates etc. on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/NorthallertonMarketingMeetup

Cheers
Randy
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* Sign Off

****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****

Til next time
To You and Yours,

Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Warm Regards
Randy

In this Post
* Catch Up & Controversy
* A Round Up Of WSO’s I’ve looked at
* Last Meet Up of 2011 (with special guest)
* Sign Off

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* Catch Up

Here we go again……
Another post full of excuses as to why I haven’t got much done….lol
OK – we had our November meet up on the 12th, which was a great event as Mandy Allen took over and put on a great workshop that everyone enjoyed and benefited from.
Speaking of which – the December one is close now too – see below for details.

Then I fully intended to get busy last week….but… (;))
I ended up taking time out to help a daughter complete her move, more time out to help my Step Mum with some chorses that were too difficult for her now, and more time out to start the Christmas shopping!
Add to that the usual dose of webinars and work for John Thornhill, updates to my membership sites, starting a new site for Rachel to sell some handmade craft items on, buying a heap of plugins and wso’s that I hope will come in useful sooner rather than later…… and I’m left wondering what to mention in this post

I guess I can start with a mention of Internet Marketing Apprentice and RandysMoreMonthly, as it’s those whom have the new downloads added for members

Also worthy of a mention is a freebie video John has just added to his brand new blog – It shows how he has installed and configured his cool looking new blog with a free theme that is certainly flexible!
I’m very tempted myself – but it’ll probably get moved down my priority list… lol
Do feel free to watch the video on John’s blog though, as he even shows you when he messes up – which proves we’re all human….haha

CONTROVERTIAL:
I also spent far too long trying to finish reading an ebook that fascinated me… totally NOT  Internet Marketing… but if you enjoy a fascinating read – check this:
Earths Fobidden Secrets by Max Igan of thecrowhouse.com …..

WARNING, This contains some controvertial information that some wont want to read or believe. Of particular concern is the Sumerian writings section – The Sumerian writings are perhaps the oldest record of an actual civilization that we have any real knowledge of and, through clay tablets, cylinder seals and stele, the Sumerians have provided us with a graphic and richly detailed version of mans early histories including the story of creation, both of the earth and of man. ….

EVEN THOUGH – It has now been universally agreed by both scholars and Theologians alike that the biblical story of creation does indeed have its basis in the Babylonian ‘Enuma Elish’ which itself is undoubtedly an abbreviated versions of the much earlier Sumerian texts. This can be easily confirmed as a great many parallels that can be seen in the Sumerian account when it’s compared to the Babylonian and Christian creation stories. It appears obvious that both of the latter accounts were heavily influenced by the much longer and more detailed Sumerian story.

I’m sure some people will take offence at what theologians and historians believe. So please – if you are a creationist, I’m happy to respect your right to believe whatever you wish, I merely said I thought this was a fascinating read. And yes – I am aware that one archbishop or pope centuries ago said that ‘The Devil came to earth early to duplicate the Bible so that when the bible was written it would look like a copy’… so everyone can feel sound in their own beliefs
(If anything – creationists may love parts of this ebook, as it certainly knocks Darwin into touch with some of the Out Of Place Artifacts found over the years! )

Anyways – You’ve been warned, and I’m only saying I thought it a fascinating read
Moving on:

Anyways…. It’s happened – I saw the TV commercials with CocaCola’s Santa and truck with lights… So I’m guessing it really must be nearly Christmas!
So if I don’t email again… I better wish all you USA readers a happy thanksgiving … as for the rest of us… Do we chill with the Yanks, go Christmas shopping or try and get stuff done before it really is Christmas??
With only 6 weeks left of this year – I figure a bit of everything is in order

Randy
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* A Round Up Of ‘Some of the’ WSO’s I’ve looked at:

Yep – Once you’re in the WSO section of the warrior forum, It’s hard not to notice stuff that seems very useful and really cheap!!
I wonder if anyone remembers the post I did ages ago that said more and more people would be promoting these just to earn comissions?

Well I could list a hundred here quite literally, but rather than jump on the me too bandwagon, I figured I’d just list the ones I’ve bought or am seriously interested in over this last week or so:
Whether they fit with your own business models etc. – I don’t know … hence as usual, I would onbly suggest buying stuff you will actually use!

Here’s a few to check:

My & John’s “7 Key Elements” report for $5 with an upsell to buy the PLR to it

John & Daves CB Affiliate Master Software (mentioned last time )

52 Weeks of Autoresponder messages for Offline prospects (if you do any work for small business owners building their sites etc. – thsi would be great as a list builder

G+ Offline Arsenal =- More for offline stuff (can you guess I’ve been focused a lot on adding to my wizardwebservices site…lol)

PennyProduct creator – Only available til the 26th! – Heaps of useful videos showing how to do expensive stuff for cheap or free!!

On Demand Backlinks: Power Posts – Another cool WSO by David Walker – here you get the links to heaps of good PR posts you can get backlinks from!

I also wanted to add Rob Corrigans 12 Roads Blueprints, (Now Added)
(I would suggest that’s a weakness of the WSO pro thing…. at least with clickbank you can promote what you want without having to wait for approval!!…. never mind all the hush hush let’s not mention how many have had their paypal accounts frozen issue that is still a worry with these type of WSO’s) <- Just as well I know I wont make thousands from mentioning these…LOL

OK – I don’t feel so bad now… At least you have a few links to check out, so I haven’t just rambled on and bored you to death

[EDIT]

Here are a few more I’m adding while I edited Rob’s links above:
These are this weeks WSO’s that I’ve bought or am going to:

WSO Domination (John Thornhills Full On Course)
http://randolfsmith.com/checked/wsodomwso

A Bargain Price for comprehensive training!
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WP Instant
I love this – all the pages and plugins easily added
to a WP blog with just a mouse click or two instead
of an hour or two messing about!

http://randolfsmith.com/checked/WPInstant
And at a great price too!
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OR – If you want EVERYTHING DONE FOR YOU
Take a look at this Drip Fed Blog offer:

http://randolfsmith.com/checked/DripFedBlog

Not cheap and I’m still considering it myself
to be blatantly honest…. But it does look so
tempting… especially if you tweak it once it’s
set up
But hey – decide for yourself
It certainly seems to have a lot of potential!

I’d better stop at that or you’ll be telling me
off for spending too much instead of taking action
with what I have bought…lol

Chat soon

Randy
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* Last Meet Up Of The Year

Here are the details for our last meet up of this year
1pm til around 5pm, Saturday 3rd December:

I can confirm we will be graced with the presence of John Thornhill again, which is bound to make a few people rush to grab a last minute ticket to get the chance to network with John and friends…..
So I have put a limit, based on the room size, for the number of tickets available…
Hence I suggest getting booked early to avoid disappointment!
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

Venue:
The Oddfellows Arms
251 High Street,
Northallerton,
DL7 8DJ
Tel:    (01609) 773018

Chips and Sandwiches for our consumption.

There will be a charge of around £25 per person to cover the costs.
Any issue – give me a shout:
http://www.RandolfSmith.com/support
Or Skype – randolf.smith

Get your ticket booked here
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

You can find the dates etc. on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/NorthallertonMarketingMeetup

Cheers
Randy
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* Sign Off

****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****

Til next time
To You and Yours,

Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Warm Regards
Randy

In this Post
* Catch Up
* $97 Software for $5,…Here’s the Catch!
* Charity Mention for Addictions
* Don’t forget the Meet Up
* Sign Off

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* Catch Up

Well after being partied out last week – we had yet more evenings out and late nights!
Rachel had both her parents birthdays last week AND her sister’s engagement do!
(Good food and good company all round)

I then had an interview with Dawn Kay which was fun, I’m sure you’ll see it soon on her blog
A day in John Thornhill’s office with a couple of guys who I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of soon
And a middle of the night webinar with Omar Martin for His ‘MyUnfairAdvantage‘ members!

Plus we had Bonfire night to attend… just a night of watching some cool fireworks, a bonfire and then a family takeaway with Rachel, her girls and their Dad

So yeah – nothing much done to my sites as usual…lol
Thankfully they mostly tick over on autopilot and enough keeps coming in to pay the bills.
That said – If I was my own outsourcer – I think I’d fire myself for not being better organised!! – I really should have got more done, but hey… Life is for living

This morning involved a trip to the dentist and yeah – yet another appointment for yet another filling…. NOT looking forward to that!
And now I’m adding this lot to my blog… yet another post with only a $5 recommendation that isn’t for everyone (just people with a product on clickbank, or those who will have one at some point),
And a charity mention just for the sake of it
Plus a very last minute reminder of the meet up on Saturday!
(Actually – while I’m here – this is your first mention that Decembers meet up will have VIP guests again… so watch out for the link after Saturday and get booked early as it’s sure to be a sell out!)

Anyways do feel free to skim through and just take on board anything that might help you (that said – it would be great if you could pass on the charity links in any way you are able)

Randy
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* $97 Software for $5,…Here’s the Catch!

If you are a ClickBank vendor you will realise that you can only have affiliates promote one product via your standard ‘hoplink’.

This can be quite frustrating, especially if you want to create discount pages for your affiliates to promote.
And even more frustrating if an affiliate approaches you and asks if you can set up a personalised discount page.

Well John Thornhill and Dave Nicholson had the exact same problem when a big name guru asked for a special discount page to promote one of their products they were selling via ClickBank.

They knew that they couldn’t set the page up via ClickBank. So Dave got to work and created a product that enabled a page special personalised discount page to be set up and ClickBank Affiliate Master was born.

This proved to be such a success Dave and John decided to make this product available to everyone along with a series of training videos showing you how to maximise your ClickBank sales by offering affiliates personalised discount pages.

If you sell products on ClickBank I highly recommend you check this out as it will help you make more sales, period.

http://www.randolfsmith.com/recommends/CBAM/

Here’s the catch….

John and Dave are once again using the power of giving *Exceptional Value* on the front end,in order to be able to tempt you with an upsell for a heap of products for a bargain price!

Well – you didn’t expect anything different really did you?

The point here is that this is a stand alone piece that doesn’t require the upsell – so you get a bargain and save $92 !
Whether you’re tempted by the upsell is up to you.
But do grab the software as it it easy and very very useful for when you get a product onto the clickbank marketplace

Nuff Said

 http://www.randolfsmith.com/recommends/CBAM/
Regards,

Randy
P.S. – Speaking of WSO’s

I had a phone call from one subscriber telling me he missed the chance to grab PLR to my 7 key elements wso when he bought the wso for $5….
So here’s a tempter for you
Grab the “7 Key Elements” here:
http://randolfsmith.com/recommends/7KeysWSO/

They take the upsell for PLR
Then send me a support ticket, and I’ll send you the initial $5 back

Is this for everyone?… Basically YES.
Chat soon

Randy
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* Charity Mention for Addictions

A marketing friend asked if I would give this charity a mention… Hey, Life’s not all just about money is it:)

Addicitions UK

Home-based and Residential Treatment
AUK are a leading provider of home-based addictions treatment and residential treatment as required.

Whatever your addiction, They will be able to develop a programme to help you, your family and your carers.
They use a combination of the following methods:

The 12 Steps Programme.

? Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
? Motivational Interviewing
? Peer Support
? Person-centred Counselling
? Coping Strategies
? Coaching as well as Teaching

If you believe that you have an addiction and are really committed to recovery,…..
Check out their facebook page and like it to spread the word:

http://www.facebook.com/AddictionsUK

It will hopefully help someone

Also worth a mention – if you are at all worried about whther your kids are taking drugs….
Do check some of the tips and free articles on Pat Graham’s page at: www.ChildDrugAddicts.com

Regards
Randy
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* Last Meet Up Reminder For November

Here are the details for this Saturday:
1pm til around 5pm, Sat 12th November 2011

Venue:
The Oddfellows Arms
251 High Street,
Northallerton,
DL7 8DJ
Tel:    (01609) 773018

Chips and Sandwiches for our consumption.

There will be a charge of around £25 per person to cover the costs.
Any issue – give me a shout:
http://www.RandolfSmith.com/support
Or Skype – randolf.smith

Get your ticket booked here
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html

You can find the dates etc. on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/NorthallertonMarketingMeetup

Cheers
Randy
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* Sign Off

****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****

Til next time
To You and Yours,

Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!

Warm Regards
Randy