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Lorie Therese Locara |
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I am a geek in essence, and a writer by vocation. I love technology, and I am passionate about life and just about everything I care about: be it relationships, the causes and principles that stir me, gadgets, and basically anything and everything that I value.
I try to be objective, but when it comes to things that matter most, I never hesitate to state my opinion.
Detail-oriented, I make sure that everything I do is done thoroughly.
Professionally, I am a writer, a blogger/pro-blogger, and in my spare time, I make commentaries on the things I am passionate about in my blogs and vlogs.
http://www.nenyalorien.com ;) |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Auto Income Secrets |
| By: Neil Shearing |
| Category: Perks - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Amazing Value in One Pack! |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Have you always been aware of the potential of the Internet but never knew how to tap into it? Well, here's a great resource for you!
Neil Shearing's Auto Income Secrets package is a veritable gold mine of knowledge: knowledge that you will need to be able to start on your pursuit of wealth on the Internet.
It contains step-by-step instructions aided by screenshots, and is very detailed. It is a total crash course on website creation and keyword optimization.
The downside to Auto Income Secrets is that it needs to be better organized. But the bonuses more than make up for it: the bonus Adsense Empire e-book is very organized and gives you a full course on starting your gold mining from Google Adsense.
The Adsense Empire e-book is very organized, very detailed, and even contains a very helpful summary at the end, where you can be sure to remember the most important tips. Aesthetically, this takes the cake in the entire Auto Income Secrets package. But content-wise, you have a gold mine already in the Auto Income Secrets e-book alone.
But if you can take one more bonus, then you won't be disappointed in the free Article Site Builder. With the Article Site Builder, you can create your own article website in no time. Just make sure to read the READ-ME.html file before proceeding.
The bottom line is, this package is great for beginners. But if you're already a web developer/pro, this could be of great value to you, still, as the tips are very helpful in terms of keyword and search engine optimization.
So do you want bang for the buck? Get the Auto Income Secrets package. The moment you hit pay dirt, you'll forget you spent $77 on it: you'll only be able to think of how to spend your money! |
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| Product Reviewed: JV Secrets Report |
| By: Richard Quek |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Good Stuff! |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Joint ventures ensure your survival in the cut-throat world of the Internet. If you need tips on getting joint venture partnerships, this e-book is definitely for you. This is a good place to start when you need guidelines on how to write the correspondence emails for your prospective partners. The e-book highlights the key words that will really help you in clinching that partnership deal. Politeness, openness, friendliness, professionalism, and a stress on mutual profitability is found all throughout the e-book. The e-book is very easy to read, uses simple words, and is very easy to follow.
Marketing has never been this friendly, and even user-friendly, and its secrets are here in this book. The instructions are step-by-step: as I said, very simple, very easy to follow. Keeping it simple has taken on a new meaning through this e-book. But the best part of all? This is FREE. I suggest you download it now! |
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| Product Reviewed: Private Label Ebook Pack |
| By: Edmund Loh |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good Read, Good Info. |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Top Affiliate Tactics
This e-book is very detailed in the tactics most helpful in affiliate marketing. This is definitely useful for people who want to make money online. I had an "a-ha" moment when I came across Mr. Loh's tip on using social networking sites for affiliate marketing. Definitely a great discovery.
Guide to PC Security
If you are a Windows PC user like I was, this could save your life. Or at least your life's work, if you haven't backed up yet. There are also tips on backing up your files and the software to use before your computer crashes. But if you are a Linux/Mac user, you can still benefit from this e-book with the section on "Phishing & Identity Theft".
5 Steps to Online Dating Success
It is a down-home, practical, common-sense guide to online dating. It emphasizes knowing what you want, being cautious, and really choosing well. If you need a primer to help you in choosing a partner online, this could be of great help.
Social Networking Sites Exposed!
One great aspect of this e-book is its reminder to not be too revealing on your social networking site profile. This is often taken for granted, but this information could prove to be valuable, especially if you are very particular with your security. Another great point is the use of social networking sites in business promotion. Now that is something you don't read about everyday! |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Viral Marketing Made Easy |
| By: Sharlene Raven & Jean-Philippe Schoeffel |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good. |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
What I like about the Viral Marketing Made Easy Package is that it is very organized. Great graphics, clean formatting, clickable links. It has great suggestions on how to advertise online in a viral way.
If you're advertising online, you might as well do it with a bang, right? You might as well get as many people as you can to see your products. Doing so will increase your chances of closing deals, getting sales, etc. This e-books suggests techniques that have earned companies like Dominos-eBay infamy in a certain social networking/video hosting site mentioned in the e-book.
As for the reseller package, the website is clean, complete with the scripts needed, in the usual reseller's website format. What sets it apart is its wise use of black, white and red, which, as a combination is pretty clean and goes well together.
The downside is that some other e-books also have covered these topics before. So it's up to you to choose which one you prefer. |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: The Ultimate Recipe Book Collection |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: I didn |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
Reseller Package Website Review:
The first thing I noticed when I saw the website supplied by the package was that it was a great-looking site, with a look suited to selling recipes. With a yummy, fun, look, it doesn't take long for the site viewer to salivate. It really must be the color. The fonts are clean, the lines are clean. When you unzip the package, everything is already there, so all you need to do is just upload everything up to the server.
The good part is that it comes with an HTML editor. But the HTML editor is rudimentary, that it's almost better to just use the good ol' notepad. But if you could use a few tools here and there, the free HTML editor is good enough. It is no MS Frontpage, let alone Dreamweaver. The GNU/Open Source web editors actually do better. But if you just want to edit the webpage supplied, this is good enough.
In today's Web 3.0 world, a website like this would look shabby, honestly. But I must give it credit for its yumminess, cleanness and its strange effect on me: I salivated.
So would this sell its recipes? I bet it would. But I feel that the webpage would raise an eyebrow of a true web developer.
Product Review:
I must admit that I had to close the first PDF file of recipes that I had opened, lest I salivate and then be disappointed that I do not have a kitchen here to test the recipes on.
The titles alone are wonderful, and if I open all those..
The bottom line is, get this package. With so many women out there who would like to learn how to cook healthily for their families and partners, this would be a sure seller. Get this, it's too good to pass up! |
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Blogging Cash Course |
| By: Gabor Olah |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great Potential, Just Tweak a Bit More |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
This is a good primer on blogging, but it is immensely lacking in the how-to department.
The good part is that this has sections on the benefits of RSS, niche blogging, SEO, AdSense, and how blogging could help your business.
If you need a step-by-step guide on how to make a blog, don't go for this. But if you want an overview of the benefits of blogging and some great tips for creating an online presence, then this is for you.
If you want to develop this further, this has potential. This is a good bedrock for a full-fledged how-to on blogging.
My personal favorite on this e-book? It promotes my favorite blogging tool/host: WordPress.
What it needs: A how-to on setting up a blog, screenshots, and a table of contents. But despite the lack of a table of contents, I like the way the entire e-book was organized. You can find the sections easily by scrolling.
I didn't see a price, but unless the contents are updated, this shouldn't be priced so high, as the buyer will still need to add to this blog. Great potential, though. |
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: 10 PLR Ebooks |
| By: Peter Iremo |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Get This Set!!! |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
"Unlimited Customers Goldmine"
The first thing that made me sit up and take notice of "Unlimited Customers Goldmine" was its catchy intro.
Good points: One of the things I really liked is that it contains a disclaimer that it's not a tech guide, so you won't go looking for that aspect in this e-book only to be let down. The e-book makes it clear that it is a marketing guide, tried-and-tested, period. Another thing is that the tone and style is conversational and engaging to read: it will catch your attention and have you reading from start to end. It addresses the most important questions you may have in affiliate marketing, and it is very well-organized.
Not-so-good point: I disliked the overview part. It reminded me of a lesson plan or academic paper. Why is this a bad point? Because it interrupts the style and flow. If you noticed, "real" books do not have an "objectives" page. If they want to lay down the book's objectives, they would do it in paragraph form.
The bottom line: This book is more than potential, it is a great buy in itself.
"E-book Creation for the Illiterate"
Still the same impression: great read, engaging.
Great points: The e-book is organized with a clickable Table of Contents, so it's a lot easier to find the sections. Great for lazy people like moi. This is a great guide for the would-be e-book moguls, packed with information, suggestions, overview of current topic trends, and even forecasts of future trends. Grab a tall mug of decaf capuccino or latte. You will want to sit through this one and devour it to the end.
Not-so-good point: A little more organization won't hurt, but as it is, the e-book is not bad. A cover page would be needed too. And the "Illiterate" label tends to sound politically incorrect/derogatory, and may offend if it's taken too seriously.
The bottom line: As I said, go grab that tall mug of decaf capuccino. You would want the coffee companion without the caffeine kick. Because if you had the caffeine with it, you'd probably be out trying all the tricks you've learned from this book at once!
"Exploding Your Sales"
Good points: Detailed, and presents the whole picture by also factoring in the competition. Well-written and engaging to read still.
Not-so-good points: It didn't really catch my interest, as I'm not into sales. But this has potential for those who are into marketing and sales. It offers great tips on what words to avoid putting in a marketing campaign. And it has that "Overview" section that just looks so out-of-place in a commercial e-book.
The bottom line: Good guide, good read. Pretty useful, especially to marketing managers.
"Maillist Cash Extraction Goldmine"
Good points: Very detailed, packed with information, well-written.
Not-so-good-point: The ever-present Overview section really should be in paragraph form, and it should drop the "To.."
The bottom line: Pretty useful.
"Beating the Beast Goldmine"
Great point: This is THE survival guide for Internet business newbies out there. If you want to make a fortune on the Internet, DON'T start without this. Great read, very detailed, it is the perfect companion to the "E-book Creation for the Illiterate" guide. You better prepare for several mugs of decaf capuccino on this one too.
Not-so-good points: Needs organizing, and would benefit from a clickable Table of Contents. When you get to the end of the e-book, however, you may want to ask for more. You may clamor for a how-to on setting up your Internet business. What would be your options? Where do you go once you've avoided the beasts? Though the entire set more than makes up for it, it would do good to extend the e-book or incorporate it with another that gives a how-to Internet business options.
The bottom line: Grab this and the "E-book Creation for the Illiterate," and I'm sure you'll get rich.
"Google AdSense A-Z," "Affiliate Marketing A-Z," "Email Marketing A-Z," "eZine Marketing A-Z," "Pay-Per-Click Marketing A-Z"
Good points: These have good overviews on these topics, and are detailed enough. They have disclaimers that they could be improved, which is good.
Not-so-good-point: Not too organized; these need work on the section breakdown. The subsections and steps need to be labeled/titled.
The bottom line: These are great places to get interested in Google AdSense, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, eZine Marketing and Pay Per Click Marketing, and even on setting up these revenue-generating systems. You just need to spot the steps, the important tips, and the subsections and label them yourself.
What I would want this set to have: This set could be consolidated into one major e-book, with the "Beating the Beast Goldmine" as its first chapters, but that would make the e-book too long and too heavy to open and run. It could, however, be organized so that the "Beating the Beast" would be on top, then an overview e-book should be added next to this. This overview e-book should contain a general look of the options a person has if he wants to enter the Internet moneymaking treasure trove. Aside from that, the e-books should be uniform in style (fonts and formatting), and they should all contain clickable Tables of Contents.
Overall, with the "Beating the Beast Goldmine" and the "E-book Creation for the Illiterate" alone, you already have more than the value of what you paid for, for this set. I'm speechless, I'd sell these in a split second! |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Ebook Creation Toolkit 5.0 |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: not good enough, sorry. |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I'm on a Mac, so when I was able to run and load the "e-book" on a Windows emulator, I saw a browser page that had clickable links leading to pages that urge downloading, as Lynn Lopez observed, the program was unwieldy, as it was just a browser that was turned into an executable file.
There was no readily-extractable information, and in fact, there was a three-day lifetime till the program will close down and require a password to open.
My take on it is, it's not user-friendly. Tools like these should have readily accessible information. Maybe this should be improved.
There have been executable e-books that stand alone, and this program could be marketed that way, that way there won't be a need for a browser. Another thing is, it should be consolidated and the information and tools should not need to be downloaded. If the creator of this intended to enable the other resellers to distribute this, the products themselves should have been provided. |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Private Label Reports |
| By: Simon Hodgkinson |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: This is really a blah product. |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
These e-books are both motivational (albeit military-style) text and instructional manuals in one. They are focused on teaching and motivating you to earn $150 a day. Though these e-books get you fired up about earning passive income, and give the most important facts on creating content sites and maximizing Google/Search Engine Optimization, the expectations are unrealistic. I don't know anyone who can write 5 articles in an hour. Ten to twenty articles a day, perhaps, I can fathom, but 5 articles an hour? Now that is unrealistic.
And I find it funny that one has to work so hard to earn income passively.
Another thing I don't understand in the package is the bonus content on Roman Emperors. In January 2007, there were only around over 5000 terms searched for the word "emperor". That is nowhere near the top in SEO. How is that going to drive traffic to your site? If you wanted to drive traffic to your site, Google Zeitgeist says that the top two terms searched for were "Bebo" and "MySpace". If you wanted to create a traffic-magnet site, you better use articles on social networking!
But all in all, the e-books are pretty informative, and they could prove useful. They just need to be organized better, and to have a Table of Contents. The content of the e-books, however, could be found elsewhere. The only thing engaging about them is the style of writing: very persuasive.
The webpage template for the reseller is totally bare, so you really have to tweak it on your own, thoroughly. This is not really a good idea for newbies.
All in all, there's nothing stellar about this product. But you may be persuaded by the writing style. |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Turning Digital Trash Into Cash |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great resource! |
| Date Reviewed: July 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The great parts about this e-book are that it's well-designed, very organized, clickable, and most importantly, packed with information. There are sections on the pros and cons, which are very useful in weighing the value of making decisions towards your own Internet marketing business. It's not just step-by step, it's thought-to-step-by-step process. So detailed that it's easy to get overwhelmed where to start applying the learnings right after.
It's really well thought-out with uniform sections and even section separators. The only "defect" is that the entire e-book dropped down from the "Legal Notice" section, when the Legal Notice section should be a separate section altogether. But then this was accessed on a Mac, so I wouldn't know how it would look on Adobe Reader.
The only thing this e-book would need are screenshots to diagram some instructions. Other than that, this is an amazing resource, and it's totally worth your money to get this e-book.
The reseller site is eye candy, and would be sure to attract customers. Totally recommended! |
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| Product Reviewed: Secrets Of The Super Bloggers |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good, but I have a few minor complaints though.. |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
My old review:
The entire package is a veritable gold mine of blogging tips. However, I believe that this is a little outdated. I would have given this package five stars for its comprehensiveness, but since WordPress and Blogger are so much easier and this kit contains the old-school, do-it-yourself techniques and tools as yet, I'm giving it only 3 1/2 stars. It is important that tools and information, especially in Web publishing be updated, because blogging is the fastest-growing branch of the Web today. There are millions of blogs in China alone, and push-button blogging has enabled millions more around the world to create and fully customize a blog in an hour now.
Advanced users and veteran bloggers won't find this resource good enough. But for the newbies, this could prove to be very valuable.
I just have to say, though, that this has great potential, it just needs updating.
My other gripes:
1) Everything is packed into zip folders, which makes it complicated to open. If you're excited to open your resource, you might find this a letdown, as opening the zip archives takes time.
2) A lot of the ebooks included are Windows-executable only, and they are mostly link pages which tend to disappoint.
3) I could not find where the templates for the blogs are. All I see are the screenshots of them.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Christmas Happy Package |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Too Preachy, Too Much Emphasis on Spiritual Warfare |
| Date Reviewed: July 24, 2007 |
When I first opened the 50 Christmas stories package, I was honestly shocked. Being on both sides of the "sheep pen": previously someone who was confused about Christ, and now a Christian, I was appalled that serious subjects such as Spiritual Warfare were already introduced to children in such a crude manner.
Honestly, I believe in exposing children to the power they have in Jesus and the Holy Spirit, but with the way these subjects were treated in the series of stories, I believe these have to be edited.
The way the subject was treated could prove damaging to children, as this creates fascination with the spiritual war prematurely. Children are impressionable, and to expose them to spiritual warfare too early could create fear and an undue fascination with demons.
There is a tendency, too, for the works to be too preachy, too judgmental. If I were a seeker needing the love of God, or a believer who would be backsliding, these works would leave me condemned.
The redeeming point for this package is its classical Christmas tales component. Who wouldn't want to read about good ol' classic Christmas stories? If only the whole package consisted only of this. But as it is, I wouldn't buy it unless the other, preachy, component were removed and the price slashed in half. |
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Tube Pros |
| By: Steven M. Renner |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Impressive! I'm Speechless! |
| Date Reviewed: July 24, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
There is no denying that YouTube is possibly THE most viral marketing tool that has ever been created. Advertising for companies had become low-cost and yielded the most phenomenal results because of this spunky company. More so now when it became a part of Google.
I'm a YouTuber, and I know how viewership exponentially increases if you have a great video and great material backing it up. It's a matter of substance, or if you don't have that, shock value and entertainment value goes places too. More so than substance, actually, but I'm a purist.
This tutorial was made for those who want to get into YouTube for the marketing side of video broadcasting, and this covered the ground thoroughly. If I wanted to get into YouTube as a marketer, and a newbie at the same time, this would be perfect for me.
I was also impressed with the reseller website. Examples of YouTube videos were already embedded, and the reseller website captured the look and feel of YouTube's site design itself: clean lines, simplicity.
Overall, absolutely excellent, worth every penny! |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: One Time Offer In A Box Product |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Comprehensive, But Complicated. |
| Date Reviewed: July 24, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need the ultimate Internet income-generation resource, get this package. It covers everything from Google Adsense to designing "one time offer" packages so that your customers will be loath to leave your website without buying your product.
Comprehensive, the reseller package covers nearly all the aspects involved in Internet marketing. If you need the resources in making reports, there is a program/software included, and there are covers to help you along in creating and marketing your reports
The only complaint I have with this is that everything is packed into several zip folders. On a Windows XP machine, you have to contend with having to right-click everything in order to open them. On Mac OS X, you have to contend with the 3-second delay when it unpacks through the built-in archive utility. On Ubuntu Linux, as I could recall, it would also take several clicks to get to an archive. The easiest place to unpack this thing would definitely be on OS X. But you have to make sure you have a large RAM/Memory, or else you would be putting up with 3-second delays on a 512MB machine.
The only sad part is that the programs included are all Windows-based so that's that.
I like the comprehensiveness of the package. I loathe the complicated way it needs to be opened. |
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| Product Reviewed: Resell Rights Renegade |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good, but needs more focus. |
| Date Reviewed: July 24, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I agree with Kosta on the lack of a clickable table of contents. This feature is important for the customer's ease.
The entire e-book is a collection of the kinds of strategies you could use in marketing or in being persuasive in marketing. These are just brief descriptions, so you've been warned.
It would help if the strategies were discussed with more detail and if a how-to on applying these strategies would make it more worth your dollar to spend on this resource.
As it is, some not-too-known perspectives on Internet selling were pointed out, and the ebook does give a fresh look to Internet marketing as we know it.
If I were to sell this one, I would sell it at $1 per copy. And when I do, I better make the most persuasive spiel on my website to sell this. But the downsides of the ebook, like it's being spread too thin and need for more depth is making me apprehensive that I won't break even if I sell this. |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: The Web Marketers Traffic Course: Your Guide To Traffic Generation |
| By: Alan Reece |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: I love this Crash Course! |
| Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need driver's ed to get traffic to your website, you don't need to read the traffic signs. You could get this manual, and be on your way to climb up the ranks of Google and Alexa in no time.
Comprehensive, it covers virtually all the aspects of website traffic generation, including with other forms of web marketing. It even includes the use of non-internet media, such as TV and radio, in your advertising campaigns.
It is themed with traffic lingo, so its very fun to read, especially those who need to have novelty incorporated in their web marketing crash courses. If you have loved crash courses on web marketing but hate the fact that you zone off to sleep on most of them, try this one, because you will never fall asleep with this!
Great points: Virtually no "fluff", fully packed with information.
Area it needs to improve on: A clickable Table of Contents would be nice.
But other than that, I would definitely recommend this to everyone! |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Niche Graphics 12 Pack |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Beware: Limited to 4 Niches |
| Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you have a website targeted to babies, weddings, cats and dogs, then this is an excellent resource for you. This is a pack/set of websites and graphics that you can customize for yourself, if you are selling products related to the abovementioned topics/niches.
The website templates are clean and very appealing. However, in a Web 3.0 world, this may be outdated. But if you're targeting the mommies and those who aren't zipping on the Information Superhighway but are ambling along just yet, this is good for that target market.
As for the limited niches, it would help if the makers instead just put up a service. Because not all customers have "babies, cats, dogs, and weddings" as their idea of a cash cow. If the product blurb misled them to believe that these are general-purpose sites, there may be an onslaught of people who would want refunds. So it would help if the product description included the niches that were targeted here.
As for the bonuses, they would be quite useful, but it would help if there were Linux or OS X versions. The tech world is moving from Microsoft dependence into Open Source or back into Apple, so it would be good to cater to that market too. |
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| Product Reviewed: Graphical Optin Template Pack |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great Resource! Get It! |
| Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are a product reseller and would want to add a template or options for your customers to upgrade their products, this is the perfect download for you. The entire package is composed of five color variants of the opt-in templates: black, blue, gold, green, grey and red.
My favorites would have to be, in order of my most-liked: gold, grey, red and black. One great aesthetic aspect of this is that the graphics have gradients, for that shimmery, attractive look.
This is the one-stop resource for product resellers out there who do not have the time to create opt-in templates for themselves. The package even comes with testimonial boxes and webpage templates where you can sell your products.
I have only two gripes though: Gripe #1: These templates do not come in Pink or Purple! For those targeting the teenage set, this would be a loss.
Gripe #2: This set should be sold in color ranges. Some people, like me, abhor green. So this could be sold in, say, Package 1: the Shimmer set: Gold, Silver, etc. Package 2: the Neutrals set: Black, White, Brown. Package 3: the Teen Set: Pink, Purple, Mauve, Rose, etc. Package 4: the Classic Set: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow.. You get the picture. But overall, excellently done! Would surely recommend this if anyone asks. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: First Class Resell Rights Marketer 3 Pack |
| By: Edmund Loh |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great Strategy, Great Resource! |
| Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The first thing I said when I finally got to open this package was: "Wow." Everything was organized and the detail was just amazing. Everything you need to know about product reselling is here. There are tips, secrets, and even insights on the entire product reselling business. A how-to on product reselling is also included.
What amazes me more is how this resource was chunked into three. That is not only to not overwhelm the reader, but it also serves another purpose: you can resell this in a way that your customers will think that they're paying less and getting more value for their money, when they would actually end up paying more because the three separate chunks of the resource could be priced higher. An enthusiastic customer might end up not counting the cost of the entire package, but would only count his/her "savings" on getting each chunk. You could also target the marketing in such a way that this would be emphasized all the more.
Another point is that this could also prove to be advantageous to the customer. If he or she just wants to see what the package is about, he/she can download just part 1. If he/she likes it, he/she can download the rest. So it could work for the customer too, after all.
Great Points: Comprehensive, Information-packed, Innovative Marketing Strategy
Can Improve On: This could use a clickable Table of Contents.
Overall: Highly recommended! |
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| Product Reviewed: Niche Products PowerPack2 |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great Resource! |
| Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you want to sell some really helpful products online, this one would be great for you. Here are my favorites in this pack:
Divorce Rebuild Package
Good Guys pack (dating package for men)
404 Self Improvement Tips pack
Workplace Warrior pack
NicheFortune Exposed (bonus pack)
5 Recipe Books
The package is a veritable treasure chest of stuff you can resell, and stuff you can read for yourself. This is a series of survival guides, and some other resources that you definitely don't want to miss.
The Divorce Rebuild Package is for those trying to recuperate from, well, divorce. Though it is good to help one in his/her recovery from a divorce, and may even help in just a relationship breakup, it leans towards moving on. Being a conservative-leaning person, I believe that a divorce primer ought to include an option on working out a marriage before finalizing the legal breakup. Just a suggestion.
The Good Guys pack is for men who need tips on how to go about looking for the perfect date. Perfect for clueless guys! It's a good take on the dating scene, with the emphasis on being a "girl's guy," or the non-alpha male type. If you're a "nice guy" and would like to go the nice guy route instead of the highly confident jerk.. Err, jock, route, then this one is for you.
The Self Improvement Tips ebook covers money saving, creating success, how to get in shape, and ways to build lasting relationships. A true survival kit!
The Workplace Warrior is a Workplace survival guide, and the NicheFortune Exposed is a how-to if you want to venture into the product selling/reselling business. And the 5 Recipe Books is, well, a collection of recipes I myself I'm dying to try.
The rest of the bonuses is composed of executable ebook files that are filled with links to other downloads. While some links work, others don't. It's just a matter of getting lucky.
Overall, great pack of resources. Despite the "bonuses" being merely a collection of links hawking other products in disguise, this is still a resource you definitely won't want to miss.
But $195 is much too steep though... |
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| Product Reviewed: Internet Marketing Essentials |
| By: Tjin Aurelius |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: value for your money! get this one! |
| Date Reviewed: July 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
First up, I would like to say, that for its price, this collection is superb.
The most priceless in this collection are the Self-Esteem PDF and the Pricing Strategies Exposed PDF.
One thing about the Self-Esteem PDF is that you will be greeted with a major typographical error. While that would turn off most people, don't be daunted by it. Because the rest of the ebook is pretty much a treasure trove. Great part: family values. It gets at the root of the problem of self-esteem, or lack of it, which is in one's childhood.
So many people can relate, because most of us, even some of the powerful, driven, outwardly self-confident ones can trace their being driven to a childhood of self-doubt, which they had compensated with becoming overly driven. This ebook sheds light into this, and encourages parents to build their children's self-esteem at a very young age.
The Pricing Strategies package, I find really essential. For a newbie at internet marketing, it would help to have a road map on how to position my products, price-wise. This is the resource to have, if you're like me and you would want to know how to position your products on the market.
Overall, at $19.97, you'd be pretty getting a steal with these 7 ebooks. Value for the money, great material, you can never go wrong with this product! |
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| Product Reviewed: Feedback Analyzer Pro Version 2 |
| By: Dave Guindon |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: please make a version for other OS's |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need software to simplify your eBay buying and selling experience, then this one would prove very useful to you.
Feedback Analyzer Pro v.2 would help you organize eBay feedbacks into the negative and the positive ones so you can weigh the credibility of the sellers you want to buy from or the buyers wanting to buy your products. No more wading through the many feedbacks, straining your eyes on looking out only for the negative ones or the positive ones. You can use the Feedback Analyzer Pro v.2 and you already have a sorted-out list of feedbacks.
You can also use this to compile your own feedback, to publish on your profile. This would help build your credibility on the eBay community.
Great points of the software:
-easy to use
-clean interface
-no spyware
-great support/help/instructional videos
-you can opt to get reselling rights
-light on the computer's resources
The only thing I would like for this program is for it to have a version for *Nix systems like OS X or Ubuntu Linux. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: 13 Mini Reports Volume 3 |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: not worth it. |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I actually do not understand whether these are really meant for you to customize, if they were really designed to inform, or if they are just the "bare bones" of pdf ebooks you can create yourself.
While they definitely carry such interesting articles such as "How Do You Treat Your Women," I do agree with other reviewers here that this package is certainly a letdown. Maybe these were really meant for customization, as the package includes software for you to embed your own URLs in the PDF ebooks.
I actually would dare to say that even at only $9.97, you would be wasting your money on this package. Unless the owner updates this, this package would be a mere waste of your dollars, even though it's only less than $10.
My advice is that if you want to sell something, make your own ebook, learn how to compile and create a PDF file that has better clickability than these ones, less of disclaimer and fluff pages, and sell it yourself. |
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| Product Reviewed: The 5 Master Resell Rights Products |
| By: Edmond Loh |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great resource! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need a quick and direct-to-the point series of guides to getting rich on the Internet, even with little technical know-how, take it from Edmund Loh. While he may not be a college graduate due to his previous difficulties, you would be impressed with how he makes moneymaking an easy thing, especially for those who have little to invest but their time and Internet connection.
This is a veritable survival guide for online moneymaking, and what sets this apart from the others is its fast-pace way of delivering the facts and the how-to's. Another great point in this resource is that Edmund Loh tells his stories in such an engaging manner that while most young people would fall asleep to the sound of the word "moneymaking", when you read Edmund Loh, it's almost like reading a youth-oriented novel or magazine.
So if you are of the young set and you're interested in making it big, take it from Edmund Loh. He should know, he's young, dynamic, and he knows his way around the Internet moneymaking biz. |
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| Product Reviewed: 10 Niche Booklets |
| By: David & Shery Russ |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: you won't go wrong with this one! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you're looking for booklets that pack punch into their content, then this is the resource for you. While some other sellers have offered booklets that contain nothing but fluff, this one would be perfect if you want to resell something that has value for your customers, and would even prove helpful and entertaining for your own use.
Looking for great content for your reselling business is hard, but with this pack, you couldn't go wrong. So many people love their pets, would like to take care of themselves, would want to know how to organize their lives and manage their time, learn some new tips for housekeeping, gardening, and even learn a thing or two on how to treat their customers. This pack has something for everyone.
If you're just starting on your reselling business, this is a good place to start. The booklets are valuable, and I'm sure that given the right marketing strategy and the right positioning, you would succeed on your first steps in reselling, using this set.
Highly recommended! |
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| Product Reviewed: Super Forum Marketing Video Tutorials |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: good for newbies! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This pack is a set of video tutorials that will set you on your way to marketing through forums. Forum marketing is a viral way to promote your products because people go to forums for help with other products, with software, to discuss issues, or to have a sense of community.
These videos are very basic, and they are very helpful too because they also introduce Google tips and tricks to help you with finding your niche forums.
A great part of this package lies in the software that it contains. These software not only help you in your forum marketing venture, but they also help ease your forum browsing experience. Push-button bookmarking, web crawling targeted to forums, with your own niche in mind, these are the pluses of the programs included.
Ways to improve the video: it would help if a voice-over with a more neutral accent were used. The Southern accent tends to confuse other people who are not used to hearing that English accent variant. It would be great if someone from the Midwestern area (neutral, standard "newscasting" accent) was the one who did the voice-over. And it would help draw in the customers if it were a woman doing the voice over.
Aside from that, everything had been simplified and they are absolutely useful to the newbie to forum marketing. I would definitely recommend this resource! |
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| Product Reviewed: 5 New Niche Products With Master Resell Rights |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: would definitely resell this! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
It is quite difficult to look for value-driven products that give the reseller flexibility in branding while giving the customer a reason to buy it, but this package is a great reselling resource!
It has a survival guide for not getting scammed in buying a car, another one on how to raise a baby well (including a primer on how to, yes, survive postpartum blues), cashing in on the affiliate phenomenon, positioning your online marketing with the added bonus and attraction of using coupons, and even a how-to in planning your dream wedding on a shoestring budget.
With these 5 diverse subjects, you can appeal to the budding Internet entrepreneur, the blushing would-be bride, and even the mommy who'd trying to raise that angel. Something for everyone? Definitely!
It even has programs/software included that can help you customize the pdf files to brand it for yourself when you want to resell it.
Looking for a place to start in the online reselling business? Look no further. Try this one! |
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| Product Reviewed: Niche Master Vault |
| By: Software Gold Club |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: more than your $47 |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
While you would expect to be given a download of gigantic proportions, do not be disappointed if the download link takes you to a registration site. Just register with your name and email address, and if you are a Surefire Wealth Gold Member, you will be taken, with no further charge, to a webpage where you will go crazy with the things you can possibly download.
From family and parenting to pets, crafts, suggestions for occasions to dating, health, travel, business, computers, even languages and fiction stories for children, there is so much for you to download on this website. Honestly I went crazy trying to decide which to download and read first.
One thing I really like is that the ebooks are well-written. They are engaging to read, and you would even be tempted to take up "Scoubidou" or "Irish Crochet" if you had the time to.
This site is worth more than what the product price says, and it is a must-visit. If you want to share your newfound product discovery, you can resell these products. The membership page says that one has lifetime access to their resources, and thus you can come back again and again to download their products. You don't need to download them all at once!
So is $47 worth the price you pay for this? More than worth it, I say, and you're losing out by delaying on clicking that link!
Go be a member of Software Gold Club now!
*I rated this with 5 stars, but someone had previously rated this with only 2 stars, probably because he/she did not understand how to access the content. Well, now you know how! |
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| Product Reviewed: Unlimited Product Ideas Package |
| By: James Jackson |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: idea bucket rocks! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you have a website and you are the type who is so busy that though you have so many ideas, it seems like you're bleeding them away because you keep forgetting about them, then the Idea Bucket would be a great script for you.
The Idea Bucket was the reason why I wanted to try this package in the first place, and I must say that.. It works. If I could have screamed "eureka" when I got it up and running, I would have. This script is amazing, and it's a nifty toy for amateur webmasters and tech buffs like me.
The interface is simple to use. If your webhost has an effective uploader, can do .php scripts and allows you to put up directories and run scripts like these effectively, then you can surely set this up.
Being .php based, which is a dynamic format of webpages, meaning it updates instantly, as soon as you click the "add my idea!" button, your idea would be posted, and you wouldn't need to look elsewhere but your own website for those ideas you used to forget as soon as you closed your browser.
So is this a great app? Yes. Does this work? Seamlessly! Simple to put up? Yes!
But I wonder if a good ol' sticky notes application/program would do the trick as well. But if you are on the go, you don't have your computer with you and just needed to update your site from the Internet cafe, then this is a great replacement for a sticky notes program!
The rest of the package may be worth trying, too, but the other scripts seem more complicated to install. Beware of the 99Minutes7 package though. It has dead links. But with the Idea Bucket script, I'm more than satisfied! |
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| Product Reviewed: Holiday Cash Profits 2 Pack |
| By: Keith Wellman and Gary Ambrose |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: good to read, but not worth the price. |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The holidays are definite cash cows for most enterprising marketers, but if you're looking for a fresh way to use affiliate marketing and apply it to the holidays, this is not the place to look for it. Honestly this is just a rehashed affiliate marketing resource and there are better places to look for it.
But there may be points inside these ebooks that may help you, especially when it comes to strategizing your Google Adwords and optimizing them. There may also be fresh ideas related to eBay selling, and it would be worth your spare time if you looked through these ebooks.
Is it worth $39.95? I must say that it's not. But is it worth your membership money in SurefireWeath to download this? Well, you might as well maximize your membership here. Because despite the tired concepts, someone could always offer a fresh perspective. It's a matter of looking for these new perspectives in an ebook of old ideas. |
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| Product Reviewed: 5 Niche Products with Master Resell Rights |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: another great package by Liz Tomey! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If there are two people I like best on this website, it would be Edmund Loh and Liz Tomey. While Edmund Loh is a whiz at marketing and making millions from the Internet, Liz Tomey is the best when it comes to lifestyle-related reading fare. Her material is down-to-earth and very practical and applicable, especially to mothers and women out there.
With this installation of her niche website material, she has outdone herself again by making excellent, entertaining and very readable material that will delight stay-at-home moms, wives who want to keep the fire in their marriage, budding entrepreneurs, and even insomniacs.
This package contains 5 ebooks you can modify using the software she had included, as with the other package. These contain topics on beating insomnia, keeping the fire in one's marriage, and the material for entrepreneurs include how to sell your house, how to hold seminars you can profit from, and even a guide on how to set up a catering business, for stay-at-home moms who want to make the most of their time..
With the material she puts out, I am now a sworn fan of Liz Tomey and would definitely watch out for her products! |
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| Product Reviewed: Adsense Newbie Starter Kit |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: good videos, just slash off the templates.. and the price. |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The package is good in that it is very detailed. This means that the customer can get all the information he or she needs in one package. The bad part is that most of the information contained herein have already been discussed elsewhere, and that they are all packaged in my pet peeve: .zip and .exe files.
There is a redeeming factor for this package though. The video tutorials are very helpful and you can actually download them later for offline use. I love the British accent because it puts a professional flourish to the videos. Simple enough to teach a grade school child, while professional enough to impress. The videos are seamless and very helpful and I have no complaints in that aspect.
I especially love the header graphics: well done, and if you do not have time to tinker with Photoshop, this would be great for you. But if you are a Photoshop expert anyway, then this would be good for you nonetheless, as they can be used to build your own graphics.
The templates are too yesterday. With the new layouts now, they are definitely going to look washed out. You would do better to learn Macromedia Dreamweaver instead.
The pack is good for the videos. If the price could be lowered and the templates slashed off, I would recommend this. But as it is, you would be better off using the purely pdf adsense primers. |
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| Product Reviewed: The 4 Private Label Products |
| By: Edmond Loh |
| Category: Private Label Right Products - Gold Members |
| Review Title: another great Edmond Loh pack! |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I was downloading this pack, I was already anticipating savoring another Edmond Loh package. Edmond Loh is a favorite of mine, and truly this pack did not let me down. While I do not approve of network marketing, the pack has two ebooks dedicated to it. What I appreciate best about it is the emphasis on planning, which is important in marketing in general.
Though targeted for networking there are concepts contained here that will prove useful in any business. Thus, it is important to keep that in mind and not write off this package.
But what I enjoyed most were dating guide and the dealing with loneliness guide. This is a good way for someone to get to know himself/herself more, and this is a good way to learn how to deal with relationships.
So though I really am not interested in networking resources, this pack taught me a thing or two, and I'm still undoubtedly an Edmond Loh fan. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Dynamic Website Creation |
| By: JayKay Bak |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: other books do better |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I was longing to see something in here for the more techie of users, but I wasn't prepared to face this ebook. Though I do understand a bit of webpage coding and I do know the basic principles in programming language in general, I was not prepared for this crash course on PHP page creation.
Dynamic page creation is relatively more complicated than simple HTML, and even I was daunted, despite my general knowledge in scripts.
This is good if you do not have the desire to learn the ropes or the basics in this programming language, if your aim is only to focus on making Amazon.com, Adsense or other dynamic webpages. However, if that is your only aim, then you're better off getting a template from somewhere and tweak it through Macromedia Dreamweaver.
With Macromedia Dreamweaver, you can have push-button web publishing, just learn your way around. If you can work Adobe Photoshop, then Dreamweaver won't be brain surgery at all.
Do I think this is a worthy download? Well, probably to get a general idea only. If you want to learn PHP webpage creation, other books are better at this, and I'm sure Dreamweaver tutorials abound elsewhere.. Unless I bump into one here. ;) |
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| Product Reviewed: 2 Minute Video Report |
| By: Terri Roberts |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good source of ideas |
| Date Reviewed: July 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are of this generation or if you got bitten by the bug that afflicts today's denizens, then I assume you have the attention span of a gnat. If you understand what you would want as a consumer: quickly delivered everything, information at your fingertips, at a click, all within less than a second, then this ebook is for you.
Unlike other ebooks about viral marketing that emphasize the theory, this is packed with information on how to spark your ideas for the creation of your ultimate viral video: that next dancing baby (remember Ally McBeal's Dancing Baby screensaver?) or the next Two Chinese Boys/Back Dorm Boys phenomenon.
One great thing about YouTube and other video sites is that when word spreads about a great video, others pick it up and post it everywhere. So it really helps that this eBook encourages you to think out of the box so you can create original stuff that are sure to draw in the crowds.
But just a tip, from a video maker herself, it's best to be on YouTube. It's more viral, is embedded into Google, because YouTube is a Google subsidiary, and, YouTube's community is large, most of them encouraging. If you tread on political issues, though, brace yourself for mudslinging. And no one has ever been immune to "haters" or spammers.
But overall, if you're in it for marketing, YouTube is the best bet. It is video sharing married with social networking and backed by a search engine. It's marketing bliss.
And this eBook will give you the ideas to fuel your rise up the search engines. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: List Building Firepower |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: a training in hard selling |
| Date Reviewed: August 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Just like his Resell Rights Renegade e-book, this is another collection of brief descriptions of the strategies he’s encouraging his readers to use. Again, the good points of this book include the fact that it is well-written, fast-paced, concise, and quite interesting to read. But for those who want more, then they would probably prefer an e-book with less strategies, but a deeper explanation for these.
But in terms of its “fire power” and the apparent effectiveness of the strategies, I have no question about that. Clearly, the headings alone convey the persuasiveness of the individual strategies. To me, the topics make use of such persuasion techniques that could be considered borderline “black hat” already, but they could actually be adapted so as not to seem too much of a hard sell. If I tried these on anyone, I’d say these would really work. But the question is, would I turn out to be too much of a hustler if I used these? I’m all for the subtle approach, you see. But then in the world of sales, the more persuasive the sales talk, the better results it gets. No wonder most salespeople are really of the competitive and driven kind.
I believe that this e-book is very helpful, and the strategies here will no doubt work. If you need ways to boost your sales, this is one of the best resources for you.
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| Product Reviewed: Private Label Persuasion |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: |
| Date Reviewed: August 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you want to be on your way in the Internet business, and you want to take the reselling route, this e-book would really help you. Like his other e-books, this is a list of 100 concise strategy ideas. This is not for the uninitiated, however. This is really for those who have already started to build their business and are just looking for means to better it. The strategies here are industry mainstays, like the blogging strategy, but there are also some suggestions that give you that “Eureka!” moment.
As always, Larry Dotson delivers a well-written, interesting, concise read. It’s perfect for those on the go, for those with an attention span of a gnat, like me, and for those who just need to refresh their ideas and to enhance their selling strategy. But for those who are totally clueless and would need a how-to on starting their reselling or other online business, they may need an e-book that takes them back to the basics of reselling.
But on the whole, this is a good buy, and an even better download. :)
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| Product Reviewed: Information Product Infantry |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: another good Larry Dotson strategy collection |
| Date Reviewed: August 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is another Larry Dotson strategy collection, and true to form, it is concise, well-written, and can hold the attention of a gnat a little while longer than most because of its engaging writing style. Again, this is not for the pure dummies out there. This is for those who have their business in place and would only want to enhance it.
I actually think that it would do Larry Dotson good if he just sold all his strategy e-books in one big package. All these complement each other, and are good companions for each other. But I think he already has that strategy in place. Being a master strategist himself, he has apparently applied it to his own business, as he has a big advertisement page on the page right after the table of contents. This ad is an invitation to be a member of his site, and he does advertise an arsenal of strategies. This is probably the collection of all these strategies I’ve read so far.
So for the bottom line: this e-book is good, but is pretty much complementary to the others Larry Dotson strategy books. While it can stand alone, it would do you good to download the others too.
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| Product Reviewed: Buying Websites On Ebay |
| By: Affiliate Dragon |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: a great place to start |
| Date Reviewed: August 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are looking to buy a website on eBay and you don’t know where to start, this is the ultimate guide for you. This e-book covers virtually all the aspects of buying a website off eBay.
While I am more cautious on eBay and other sites, for those who are risk takers and are considering shopping for websites on eBay, then this would prove to be a great resource. The great points include the fact that the e-book covers the aspects of Google PageRank, traffic, design and navigation, and even “length of domain name,” among other aspects of website buying.
I would advise getting a website designer and getting your own domain, but there are advantages to buying a pre-existing website: it already has its existing traffic, its domain has already been registered, and there are already site “patrons”.
This e-book is wonderful too in the fact that it also has a section warning of scams and other fraudulent sales talks done by website sellers. This also has tips on how to find gems of websites.
If you are on eBay for a website to buy and you don’t know where to start, this is the place to do that.
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| Product Reviewed: Article Writing Super Secrets |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: another liz tomey uber resource! |
| Date Reviewed: August 05, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Article Writing Super Secrets is a compact, well-organized, highly informative resource that will surely help you with your article-writing venture. Whether your intention is to create marketing or sales copy, or to drive traffic for your adsense site through sending out articles throughout the Internet, this resource is for you. This Liz Tomey great is well-organized, well-written, and packed with tips and strategies to get your article writing venture underway.
What I like about it is that it also covers the aspect of hiring a ghostwriter to help you on your way. Ghostwriters are essential because they allow you to generate articles, which would, in turn, translate to traffic, without you typing a single keystroke.
It discusses the pros and cons of article writing, the benefits of writing, and tips on how to distribute your works: through blogs and ezine directories. What is lacking here, though is a discussion on modern article writing tools, such as spinners and other tools that make duplicate copy creation a breeze.
But on the whole, I am again impressed with Liz Tomey. This woman never fails to amaze me!
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| Product Reviewed: Confessions Of A Niche Marketing Maniac |
| By: Vondre' Whaley |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: I was amazed by this! |
| Date Reviewed: August 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I opened the e-book of this pack, I was prepared to read another run-of-the-mill niche marketing handbook. But what I saw was beyond my expectations. This is not another blah and boring niche marketing handout. This is comparable to those published books on marketing!
Its great points include: great organization, great layout, great graphics, entertaining style, and most importantly, content that would prove valuable to one who is about to venture into business.
While most other e-books similar to this are nothing more than persuasive fluff, this one is the meat of marketing. While most people would advice to go for markets/industries that are popular, Vondré Whaley urges people to go for something interesting to the entrepreneur, but backed with research. Backed with research in that the market must be studied for the potential profitability of the product to be launched.
For me, this is one resource that must not be overlooked. I didn’t even need to look at this pack’s bonuses to be convinced. This is a treasure in your hands. Put it to use, and you will be raking in the millions!
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| Product Reviewed: Cash Sucking Sales Letter Secrets |
| By: Liz Tomey and John Hostler |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: another Liz Tomey great! |
| Date Reviewed: August 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I opened this e-book, the classic Liz Tomey touch was there: attractive graphics, great layout, great organization, and best of all, great content. Everything you need to know about making a great sales letter is in this e-book, and I believe this is one resource you cannot afford to miss, for several reasons:
1) It’s by Liz Tomey. I’m a fan of hers, so this wouldn’t come as a surprise, I’m sure. :p
2) It is filled with information on how to develop a sales letter that is sure to draw in your customers.
3) It shows you how NOT to write a sales letter, so you will know how to pick out your mistakes.
4) It introduces a system of writing a sales letter that has been guaranteed to reel in people to buy the products.
5) It walks you through writing a sales letter.
6) It’s packed with tips on how to enhance the persuasive abilities of your sales letters.
Whenever I read a Liz Tomey product, I never fail to gush, because it’s always excellently-done, from the layout to the content. And it also helps that her co-author John Hostler, has had an impressive career in marketing and consultancy. This is a collaborative effort that had stellar results, and I won’t hesitate to recommend this to people who are starting their marketing career. Excellent job, Liz!
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| Product Reviewed: Healthy Dating & Relationship Tips |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good, just needs sprucing up |
| Date Reviewed: August 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
While this dating e-book may have its good points and its usefulness, I was totally turned off when I opened it: It was too plain, and there were a lot of grammatical errors you can pick out here and there. One thing that an e-book must take care to have should be presentability. Humans are very visual, and in this fast-paced world, one look could either draw in or drive away people. But when you decide to be patient and try to really read through the e-book, it proves to be pretty useful, after all. It has a primer on how to read body language, a workbook (which the author termed “guide”) which could be used to enhance or to help save a relationship. These exercises are self- and-partner-awareness techniques actually used in therapy, and having them in this e-book would no doubt prove helpful to the reader.
So the bottom line is, let not appearances deceive you. This e-book has potential, it just needs a bit of repackaging.
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| Product Reviewed: Mystery Shopping Secrets |
| By: Myrna Marshall |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good, but could be more comprehensive |
| Date Reviewed: August 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
A friend of mine had introduced me to “mystery shopping” before. It was a job that I wanted, and I was curious about it, but writing had a more persuasive pull. This e-book by Myrna Marshall answered my questions. This e-book walks you through all aspects of mystery shopping and is probably the authority on this business. So much has been said about article writing and all other methods of earning online, but so little has been said of mystery shopping. While this is not as comprehensive as I would really want, this still is excellent as a resource for mystery shopping.
As a plus, the layout is clean, and it is well-organized. The cover page really compels you to read the e-book, because it’s very attractive.
The topics covered include the ways to tell whether the program you’re joining is a scam, and there is also a primer on the payment facilities you need to sign up for to be paid for doing mystery shopping jobs.
While this may not be the most comprehensive resource around, this is a basic, for-dummies how-to on mystery shopping, and it’s bound to start you on your way in that business.
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| Product Reviewed: Cat Care Naturally |
| By: Elizabeth Beresford |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: the ultimate in cat care resource |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book is free, but despite that, I was amazed that the author took the trouble to create a very detailed instructional manual that would walk you through owning a cat, from the choosing of your feline, down to feeding and grooming it.
It is comprehensive, it has links to other resources included inside, and is no doubt going to be very useful to people looking to own a cat.
While this would definitely not earn you a Veterinary degree, this is enough to give you in-depth information on cats that would almost make you an expert when you're done with this e-book.
This is a valuable resource for pet lovers and would-be pet sellers. If you want to get into the pet sales business, this would be a good idea: why don't you give this e-book away with every cat you sell? If you care about animals, you can at least give yourself the peace of mind that you have helped the new cat owner on his/her take care of his/her cat properly.
The e-book does say that you can actually give this away, just don't change it or charge money for it. So why don't you download this, and consider my suggestion, because I'm sure, your customers would just love going back to your pet store because of the freebies! |
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| Product Reviewed: Affiliate Classroom Magazine |
| By: AffiliateClassroom.com |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: With resources like these, getting rich would be a breeze! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are looking to enhance your skills in playing the affiliate ad field, this e-magazine would be a good resource for you. Let me warn you though that this is not a for-dummies primer. This is for someone who already understands affiliate marketing, search engine optimization, and the Internet business in general.
The focus of this issue is PPC or pay per click campaigns. Google Adsense and Adwords are discussed extensively, and search engine rankings were given the spotlight.
If you want to monetize your Internet experience, or be like the 20-year-old person who earned more than $10,000 in a short time in this e-book, then this is for you.
Good points of the e-book: very informative, packed with what you need to learn, great layout, has table of contents, and it is free.
The table of contents just needs to be clickable, and I'll be totally happy. But as it is, the layout is just yummy, and it's free, so I'm loving this e-magazine! |
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| Product Reviewed: The Encyclopedia of Free Online Advertising 2nd Edition |
| By: Luke W Parker |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: The A-Z of webvertising |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need a guide on the Internet's potential as an advertising machine, this is the perfect one for you. The best parts of this e-book are its brevity, its use of ratings, and its great layout and attractive way of presenting the facts.
It covers everything from Affiliate Programs to Yahoo Search Marketing, and even the use of MySpace in advertising.
This is a comprehensive "Encyclopedia," but I wondered why it didn't include other social networking websites. But either way, I believe this is actually one of the most definitive primers on Internet Marketing around, and you shouldn't be without it at all.
What is great in this e-book is not only that it's packed with content that would really help you, which you can read in a fast-paced way, its topics are also easy to find, because the table of contents are... Clickable!
The layout is impeccable, and there is nothing you could complain about with this e-book. I'm keeping this in a special place in my e-book stash!
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| Product Reviewed: Murder Your Job |
| By: Fabian Tan |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Go get that gun! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
As I was scouring this website on resources for moneymaking ideas, I had to stop in my tracks when I came across this one. If you want to be an Internet moneymaking mercenary, then this is the e-book meant for you.
I was just reading it and I was already amazed at how this was the perfect guide to my startup on the Internet business. Now all I need is the time to apply these principles, and I will be on my way to building a successful passive income stream through affiliate marketing and other strategies.
It is undeniable, however, that you need hard work to get this off the ground. There needs to be investment, and you need to really work as hard as you should. Immersing in all these e-books is giving me so many ideas, but if you're like me and you want a place to start with an Internet business, then I recommend you start here.
And truly, this e-book will really help you "Murder Your Job."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Making Money With CD Duplication |
| By: Ian del Carmen |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: CD Duplication, a comprehensive guide |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I was into CD duplication before, and I must say that this e-book would really help someone who is going to start on that business. All the technical aspects of CD creation are there, and though it's not in totally basic terms, it's pretty much understandable by a beginner nonetheless.
What is good about this e-book is that it is very thorough, very detailed in the technical aspects. Each page is packed with useful information, and by the time you finish reading through the entire e-book, you will be an expert in CD duplication.
What is lacking in this e-book are two things that I deem important in any resource that seeks to aid one's moneymaking ventures: a section on how to price the products, and a clickable table of contents. In fact, it doesn't even have a table of contents at all.
While the table of contents requirements is not related to moneymaking, it is important in any lengthy reading material, especially one divided into sections. The author has stated instructions to read through the entire material once, so maybe that's why he didn't include a table of contents. But still, it would be nice if it had one, especially a clickable one, so it would be easier to find where everything else is.
As for the pricing, the e-book is geared for companies that need CD/DVD copies of their products. It would be nice that this e-book have a section for those who want to get into the duplicating/replicating business themselves, as service providers for the companies that need CD copies. And more importantly, this e-book should have had a section that contains how to price the CD products, for both the duplicators and the company that needs the duplicates.
But the bottom line is that this e-book is VERY INFORMATIVE. It is definitely worth your time and money. |
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| Product Reviewed: Secrets To Niche Mastery Beyond Silo Structure And LSI |
| By: Jean-Philippe Schoeffel |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: their principles actually work, despite my skepticism! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book actually made me go, "Huh?"
Apparently, this is about how to market one's niche or PLR site. How to so structure it to maximize the traffic going there.
This e-book is to sell the idea of how SILO-structured sites are to be marketed. Honestly, I am skeptical, because I never liked SILO-structured sites. But I was amazed when I looked at a SILO site I knew: it had a Google PR of 5!
I realized then that this e-book may be onto something. SILO sites are generally not favored because they sell something, and there have been so many scams that tried to duplicate the SILO structure. But the legit sites of the members in SFW are mostly using the SILO structure. With this e-book, you can actually optimize the traffic-grabbing and moneymaking capabilities of your SILO site. You just have to be warned, though, that this e-book is filled with jargon that you may find hard to understand.
But on the whole, if you're looking for a strategy to drive traffic to your SILO site, this e-book just may help.
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| Product Reviewed: PC Protection Guide |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good for newbies |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you want a good laugh at how some computer users could actually do that to their computers, then this is a great e-book for that.
While this didn't really intend to be a humorous venture, I found it more or less funny, because I didn't realize that some people could do really idiotic things to their computers that would warrant an e-book like this.
A majority of the e-book is composed of helpful tips on backing up one's hard drive and data, and these are very helpful reminders, especially to those whose lives depend on their data.
But there's one point this e-book made that I found really funny: the fact that it pointed out that laptops were not made to be used on the lap.
The modern laptops, like the Apple Macbook, and the Toshiba ones have efficient cooling systems and are very safe to use on one's lap, so it's really funny for me to read that laptops were not meant to be used on one's lap. What if you need to use it in an area that has no tables then?
But all the same, I believe this e-book would help people who are not as acquainted with caring for their computers, and there are some gems inside that are worth exploring. |
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| Product Reviewed: The 118 Most Useful Plugins for Your WordPress Blog |
| By: Clement Chan |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: a collection of plugins |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I unzipped this pack, I was thinking I would get an instructional manual. What I found out, instead, was that I had, on my hands, a treasure trove of Wordpress Plugins, just as it says on the title.
Wordpress is the rage in the blogging world, and the blog is the new vehicle for advertising on the Internet. Thie e-book is a collection of links where you can get plugins to enhance your wordpress-based blog.
These plugins would prove useful to you with your Wordpress blog, especially when it comes to spam-busting, search engine optimization (SEO), control panel management, and even blog design and layout. There are so many plugins out there I am dying to try, but I suggest you try the anti-spam tools, the SEO tools, and tag-generation plugins first.
There are so many other blogging platforms out there, like blogger and typepad, but Wordpress has conquered the blogosphere because of its simplicity, ease of use, excellent content management, and how it really helps in SEO. This e-book would help you start in your search for plugins to enhance your Wordpress experience. Enjoy and get the most from it... I did. :)
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| Product Reviewed: Fitting Exercise Into A Busy Schedule |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: fitness can be achieved, even in this busy world! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Yup, this is a busy, busy world we're living in and fitness just won't fit into the schedule. We can all complain that we don't have the time to hit the treadmill, but this e-book outlines how we could actually squeeze in exercise into an otherwise busy sked.
The tips are VERY practical, like walking instead of driving, and also, it helps you figure out how important it would be to incorporate exercise into your lifestyle, through the section "Assessing Physical Damage and Accepting the Importance of Exercise".
You know you are in need of exercise, and this e-book would help you get off your corporate behind and get into the regimen towards health.
There is a list of what you need to have in order to start your lifestyle of exercise, and there is also a page where there is a link where you can get more information.
The only thing this e-book lacks is a diet program. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Copy The Super Affiliates To Success |
| By: Paul Kleinmeulman |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: be a super affiliate! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Everything about Internet Marketing fascinates me, and if I can get my hands on anything related to making money on the Internet, I would. This is a detailed resource that is good not just because it tells you everything about marketing through the Internet, but also because it emphasizes things I did not expect Internet Marketers would.
This e-book emphasizes people and their importance to a business, which is pretty surprising in the cutthroat business world. Though this e-book also outlines other aspects of affiliate marketing, the impressive thing to me with this e-book is the realization that people are important to affiliate marketers too.
So in essence, this is not your usual e-book. This is your ticket to Internet Marketing success with a humane twist.
As a bonus, this e-book also tells you that a "super affiliate" makes use of technology to further your internet marketing ends. Not bad, since you have the best of both worlds: people and technology, to help you in your search for financial freedom through the Internet. :)
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| Product Reviewed: Content Speed Writing |
| By: Andrew Hansen |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Amazing read! I won't attempt to make money off the Internet without it! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I opened the e-book, I didn't notice the bare-bones black-on-white-no-graphics look. I was immediately hooked with the title: Content Speed Writing. But what got me line and sinker was the subtitle: "How To Write Killer, High Quality Web Content
At Warp Speeds." To a writer like me, of course I would settle deeper into my seat (or in this case, my bed), and prepare to be riveted.
And riveted I was. If you want to learn how to write fast, write well, and write in a manner geared to sell stuff on the Internet like hotcakes or generate traffic like a bot, then this.. Is by far the best ever resource I have ever come across.
Though the system Andrew Hansen is using is almost exactly the same one I am also using, I can't help being thankful I came across this: because this e-book confirms that I have been on the right track all along.
I would recommend this e-book for those who are just starting on the web and web writing businesses because this would really be important to you, and I would recommend this to "veterans" like myself, because you would still learn a lot from this. I know I did, and I would read this again soon. |
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| Product Reviewed: Build Huge Lists Using Free Tools |
| By: Amar Mehta |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: not for the beginner. |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Another e-book that made me go "Huh?!" E-books are supposed to be instructional manuals. You should assume that your readers are newbies because they just might have encountered the topic you're discussing for the first time ever.
The bad part about this e-book glared at me from the moment I opened it: I didn't know what on earth it was talking about. List? What? What's a "List"? What kind of List is that? What?
That was exactly my reaction, and I was honestly annoyed that I didn't find that in the e-book at all. For me, this e-book should at least have cared enough to explain to the reader what making a list is for, and what kind of list it was.
Apparently, he's talking about a Mailing List, and how you could monetize it. But if you're not a dummy such as I am, then this e-book would help a lot because it enumerates the free services and sites you can use to expand your mailing list and how to motivate people to recruit more people and promote your network's products to give y'all more money. Phew. At least I finally understood what this e-book was all about.
If you're out for knowing how to improve your Mailing List system, then this is definitely for you. If you're a dummy like me, do look for other resources to understand what this author is talking about.
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| Product Reviewed: Bluebook 4 Multiple Incomes |
| By: Martha Schrader |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good read. |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I have never been a fan of network marketing, but this e-book sparked my interest in it. There have been so many networking scams, and it makes you wonder if there is still some value or some legit way you can earn through networking.
This e-book puts network marketing in a down-to-earth light. The practical side of it was highlighted, and the idea that you can actually use network marketing in promoting your products is what had been put forth here.
There is no mention of creating a get-rich-quick scheme. Rather, the emphasis was on how no one gets rich without hard work, and even Internet Marketing needs hard work, actually.
In fact, this e-book denounces get-rich-quick schemes. It just basically converts networking principles into a system you can use for real and virtual products, yours or not.
There is also a section explaining why you need to have multiple streams of income. I wish the e-book explained the different streams of income better, but as it is, this is a good resource nonetheless. Very helpful, if you wanna get rich, and you're willing to put in hard work to get there.
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| Product Reviewed: Bluebook 4 Network Marketers |
| By: Martha Schrader |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good read, though it's a duplicate. |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
This e-book is the exact same copy of the Blue Book 4 Multiple Incomes e-book. There is only one difference here: the authors chopped out the section on multiple streams of income.
I was actually more interested in that aspect of income generation, as I would like to have a passive income stream, but I don't have the time to build a network or go into network marketing yet. I was thinking of going into mutual funds or some similar investment scheme. The "safe" kinds, of course. It would have been better if the other e-book focused more on a person's options to create multiple streams of income, and this one be marketed purely on how to build and use a network marketing scheme.
But anyway, the great points of this e-book are: comprehensive information on applying a networking system. It also contains down-to-earth suggestions on how to apply the networking system. This is not an advertisement for a get-rich-quick thing. Rather, this e-book emphasizes the rock-solid income-generation value of hard work.
If you want to make money, online or offline, put in HARD WORK, and you'll never go wrong.
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| Product Reviewed: The Definitive Guide To Email Marketing |
| By: Jessie McCloud |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good resource! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
The good part about this e-book is that it is very detailed, and walks you through the entire Internet Moneymaking thing, and the importance of email marketing in this equation. If you are looking for a place to start your Internet moneymaking venture, start here.
But the bad part is that the e-book gave me the impression that there isn't anything here that wasn't discussed elsewhere. Also, the e-book turned me off in one aspect: the fact that they spelled my most revered search engine, Google, as "Goggle". What sacrilege.
But those aside, this e-book, in all fairness, is a one-stop shop for the newbies. If you need just one resource to get you started on your journey to make money off the Internet, this is a good place to start. But if you're a Google fan, do prepare to be outraged.
Aside from that, I like the fact that it has examples of autoresponder emails. If you need the format, it's here. Aside from that, there are tools to help you with figuring out what you really need to focus on in terms of internet moneymaking, in the form of quizzes.
Worth your time? Yes. Are the errors ignore-able? Yes, too. Bottom line? Read it if you're a newbie to the Internet biz.
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| Product Reviewed: Offline Marketing Strategies For Online Businesses |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good strategies. |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are a brick-and-mortar business that just happened to be online and would like to use the "old school" strategies of TV, radio and print media, this e-book is for you. If you are a primarily web-based business that needs more traffic, this would definitely work for you too.
This e-book sells itself as effectively as its ideas would work, I believe. This is the barometer upon which I believe these guys' strategies are effective, because they can sell their own stuff. You have to be an expert in your own backyard before you attempt to be a consultant in someone else's, right?
What I like about this e-book is the presence of a clickable table of contents, always a plus in my (e)book. Everything is organized neatly, readily accessible, but most importantly, the e-book packs a lot of information in its 26 pages. Definitely an informative read.
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| Product Reviewed: Using The Power Of Positive Thinking |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: an entertaining new look into positive thinking |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I wanted to read something fun in a long time, and I finally found it in this e-book. True, I read Norman Vincent Peale and I know how the positive thinking thing works, but this gave it a fun twist, in a slightly sarcastic way.
Very organized, very entertaining to read, very engaging. I loved reading the e-book and it entertained me from start to end. With subtitles like "Positive Thinking is a Bunch of Crap – and Crap Makes Great Fertilizer," to "Self-Esteem: Catching the I-Love-Me Disease," who won't be caught up in the fun-ness of this e-book?
It is also peppered with sensible quotes from well-known people. These quotes served to make me reflect on how I'm thinking, on what principles actually guide my life, and whether or not I can actually apply this "Positive Thinking" thing in my daily existence.
On the whole, I find this book a refreshing new look to a philosophy that the pessimists may say is trite. This is a resource that you should not be without, and even if you don't buy it, it's a good respite from this stressful world.
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| Product Reviewed: The Fun of Getting Thin |
| By: Samuel G. Blythe |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: inspiring weight-loss anecdote |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is a nine-page information-packed resource on how important it is to get thin, and how the process can actually be fun.
The author had just survived the challenge of weight loss himself, and he shares his epiphany with the readers. The fonts are rather thin, but it's worth it, considering the e-book is all of nine pages.
This is a breathless narrative of losing weight and it's actually engaging to read. When you are in need of losing weight, this is the perfect success story for you.
His steps were simple: he ate what he wanted, but he curbed the portions. What is strange is that he advocated what he learned from another extreme (weight) loser: that exercise need not be harrowing. It had to be fun and leisurely and calm. It worked for them both.
It is odd though, that he titled the book "The Fun of Getting Thin," but ended it with emphasizing that getting thin isn't a frolic. Rather, it's a fight. But nonetheless, it's an inspiring, good read, and I recommend you read this.
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| Product Reviewed: Mailing List Gold |
| By: David Zohar |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: comprehensive resource! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are looking for a comprehensive resource on Mailing Lists, from the "Why?", to the "How?", to the "What then?", here is the ultimate resource for you.
I aim to get into Internet Marketing in the near future, and I am just soaking up the information. When I found this resource, I went, "Oh wow, this is exactly what I need!"
What this is, is a thorough instructional manual on how to build your money-raking Mailing List.
Great parts: explains the "Why?" aspect of the subject thoroughly. It also explains the "How-to" parts with detail, and you won't get lost in this e-book.
This resource is perfect for the newbies, and this is still very valuable to the veteran Internet Marketers.
It is rare for an e-book to be an all-in-one stop on a subject, but this one achieves that gracefully, and with an interesting writing style that would really grab the attention of readers and keep them riveted to the subject. Recommended? Totally!
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| Product Reviewed: Online Freelancing Report |
| By: John Delavera |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: don't live off the internet without this! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
With the online business this website offers, it amazes me that every day I discover a new one. While I was amazed with another e-book outlining how a writer could make a killing on writing alone, this is another must-have e-book. This is the ultimate for freelancers, and they would do well to get this e-book, and as soon as they can.
What I love about this e-book is that not only is it organized, very organized, but it is also laid out like a magazine. Attractive sidebars contain valuable information expressed in a concise way, which gives the reader extra, valuable, information in a nutshell.
This e-book is highly organized, tastefully laid out, with strategic links here and there.. This is truly an electronic publishing masterpiece.
What is most valuable to me is the way they suggested the prices for freelancers. It gives the starting freelancer an idea of how much he or she should be worth.
On the whole, this e-book is a gem. I won't start my freelancing career without it, and though I don't regret that I started my career the hard way, sans this e-book, I am very thankful that it's in my hands right now.
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| Product Reviewed: The Making Of An Internet Millionaire |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: another Liz Tomey great! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I opened this e-book, I was already attracted to the cover. But when I spotted that it's another Liz Tomey masterpiece, I sat up and paid attention.
As is characteristic of Liz Tomey, she has written another verbal masterpiece. But not only that, she has also driven home the point that getting rich is not just a function of wanting money and wanting money bad, it's a function of a motivation to provide what your clients need, personal excellence and leadership characteristics, and the passion to do what you do.
I love the suggestions on how to market yourself and your products. But what I love most is the emphasis on how you are going to have to work hard, and even for free, especially in the first stages of your venturing into the Internet business.
Indeed, the Internet may be a treasure trove, but it requires hard work to uncover buried treasure, and Liz Tomey reminds us, in an engaging manner, about that.
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| Product Reviewed: Mini Ebook Gold Mine |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: a gold mine indeed! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are looking to market your products in a viral way, but you don't have the expertise, time, or patience to make a youtube video, then the option to make "mini e-books" would be for you, definitely.
This is a very detailed e-book, and it outlines every aspect of mini e-book creation, from why it's significant, to the point on how to go about it. In fact, it shares how you can create your own in 24 hours.
With this resource, you can start to market your website, your products, actually just about anything and everything on the Internet using the mini e-book as a tool.
The strength of this instructional manual? The details spell out everything for you. The downside? You might think that it's not worth exploring, on the first glance, because the first page is just a drab text-filled thing. But nonetheless, this e-book is a gold mine of knowledge itself. I won't hesitate to hawk it at all!
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| Product Reviewed: PC Safety 101 |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: i'm a Mac. :p |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
As I was downloading this, I was actually beside myself with amusement. I was chuckling to no end because this is actually a problem with Microsoft Windows users, but not much with Linux and Apple's OS X users.
One thing that this e-book is good for, is that it would emphasize to the Windows user that his/her computer is actually a vulnerable thing. This would really show the Windows user that he or she should get an antivirus program and get it now.
However, I do not agree with this e-book that Norton and McAfee are the best antivirus software out there. While they certainly dominated the market, in my experience with these two, they were expensive to maintain, and they were heavy on the computer's resources.
My recommendation is to try Clamwin, which is an open-source community project, or Avira AntiVir. These two were the most excellent anti-virus programs I've used so far, and by far, through all the infestations that my formerly Windows computer had gone through, these two survived, I only had to alternate them because sometimes the malware blocked their access to the Internet. But the best bet for me would be to go for a Unix-like system like Linux or Mac OS X.
But back to this e-book: it's very informative, and would educate people on the true significance of protecting their computer... Or choosing a better Operating System. :p Linux is free, you know..
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| Product Reviewed: The Newbies Guide To Making Software |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: bottomline: research and analyze first |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Dan Thompson's "Making of Auction SOS" is a primer on how he made "his own" auction software. Actually, he just designed it, and he outsourced the coding itself to a programmer from a project outsourcing site, Scriptlance, as he mentioned in his e-book.
If you wanna go in his steps and create software of your own without having to learn a programming language, this is for you. Yes, you will have to pay the programmer, and yes, you will gamble your money on this, but if you really want to have your own software, this is a good case study/anecdote/step by step account of how you can duplicate what Dan Thompson did.
What I love about this e-book was that Dan Thompson also included the mistakes he made. I also love the fact that every step he took in the process is in here, and there are screenshots to both guide the reader and to show how he really did it.
He warns readers though, never to risk their last $500 on software development if that money is their last. Software development has risks that he had outlined in the e-book, and he went into it not primarily for moneymaking, but more to do something new. He had the money to burn, so he was able to go into it. If you are considering software development out of desperation, DON'T, unless you yourself will do the code, and before you do, do research your market first.
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| Product Reviewed: Underground Outsourcing Strategies |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: the ultimate guide indeed! |
| Date Reviewed: August 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need the ultimate resource on outsourcing, this is the e-book that has everything you need. It dispels the notion of outsourcing as the black hole of in-house jobs and puts outsourcing in the light of how it would benefit people on all sides of the coin.
The e-book is very organized, excellently written, and packed with information on everything you'll ever need to know about how to outsource your work. And it helps you see how it would really help your business, and the fact that there should be no stigma on outsourcing your production needs, because even the big businesses do it.
Very true.
Even Apple outsources the production of its computers' components nowadays.
But what really grabbed my attention was the statement that said that "well-known businesses actually just do little more than manage a brand nowadays." (slightly paraphrased) Which is sort of an epiphany trigger to me, because if you look at the Information Technology market, that is the exact trend that's happening right now.
I wonder why Microsoft hasn't jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon just yet?
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| Product Reviewed: Your Own Home Movie Theater |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Not the usual Liz Tomey, but good still! |
| Date Reviewed: August 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I usually read Liz Tomey writing about Internet Marketing and everything that has to do with making money online, so I was not quite prepared to read her writing on setting up your own home theater system. Though I did realize eventually why she wrote this e-book, I was still in slight disbelief. But anyway.
Again, this is trademark Liz Tomey: a well-written, entertaining read, and neither did she scrimp on the information in this one. Everything you need to know about setting up a home theater is here, down to what kind of furniture to choose. Well-organized, good layout, but somehow, I feel that it is not up to par to the usual Liz Tomey resource.
Nonetheless, this is good for light reading, and if you are looking to invest in a home theater system, this just might convince you. The steps on how to set it up are here, so you need not look any further. |
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| Product Reviewed: Tohami Success Secrets |
| By: Mohamed Tohami |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: worth reading also |
| Date Reviewed: August 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Most success and motivational gurus nowadays hawk so many “secrets” to successful living that either sound alike or are just plain cliché already, that you would be disillusioned about it. Honestly, I am tempted to both rave and shoot down this e-book precisely because there are glaring reasons why you shouldn’t pick it up. But I have my reasons for reading it through, too.
1) The principles here have already been said elsewhere, even better.
2) The grammatical errors and weird-sounding syntax could get distracting.
3) The e-book needs to be better organized.
But I decided to read the e-book through because I realized that there are things that he Tohami said in a light that I didn’t see before. Even if he did say it in an acronym of his name, still, there were fresh insights to age-old truths that lead to success: self-control, right mindset, taking responsibility, persistence, the importance of networking, and the most crucial factor: defining your purpose.
Bottom line: others have written better material, but this is worth reading, too. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Expert Guide To Organizing Internet Marketing Information |
| By: Alex Goodall |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: too much jargon |
| Date Reviewed: November 29, 2007 |
What I didn’t like about this e-book was that it didn’t have a “hook” to make me feel compelled to read it. But when I did, I must admit that I did learn a thing or two.
I like the author’s use of mindmapping to organize information. The detailed instructions on how to organize your downloads for your e-business, and the other aspects and information about it. What I don’t like is that its use of jargons made me go “huh?”.
For one, the heavy use of industry-dependent jargon would make your eyes bleed. So if you are not an IT or Marketing professional, you would really be lost somewhere between “mind map” and “granularity”. For crying out loud, to sell something online, do you have to have “taxonomy” too?
Most people who want to make a buck cannot be bothered with combing through a dictionary every five seconds because a word is just making them, me, scratch their (my) head/s. So you could imagine the struggle of someone who’s new to Internet Marketing through this e-book.
Any knowledge resource must make you drop your peanut butter and jelly sandwich in favor of focusing on the material. This one makes me want to go back to my pb & j. Excuse me while I do. |
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| Product Reviewed: Expired Domain Fortunes |
| By: Tuks Engineer |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good place to start with SEO |
| Date Reviewed: September 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are looking to start an Internet business, you have to consider creating a website for yourself. Along with that, it would do you good to get a catchy domain, too. But what if you have a better option? What about a pre-existing domain that already has traffic, loyal returning visitors, and would need little supplementary SEO for you to get up on the top of the search engines?
This e-book is an instructional manual on how you could benefit from acquiring a pre-existing, but expired domain. But over and beyond selling the idea of buying expired domains to you, it also gives tips on how to choose domain names. While some domain names may seem catchy, some are actually connected to spam websites. If the search engines have marked those domains as connected to spam sites, you would do worse for your business if you get that domain.
So if you’re looking for easy SEO through acquiring an expired domain, this is definitely the e-book for you. |
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| Product Reviewed: Following The Guru |
| By: Jessie McCloud |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: useful nonetheless |
| Date Reviewed: September 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you have decided to enter into Internet Marketing, but your business has yet to take off, you must be wondering what you are doing wrong. This e-book will help you think of the strategies you may need to employ in your marketing campaigns.
The good part is that this book gives you valuable ideas on how to attack your marketing strategy. It is also well-organized, and the layout is good enough. But the ideas here are not exactly original. This, however, shouldn’t stop you from actually picking up the book and still getting ideas from it. There are gems here that cannot be found elsewhere. I am a firm believer that no matter how many books have been written on a subject, someone is always bound to give something fresh to read and learn from.
The e-book has minor grammatical errors, but I have no doubt that you can live with them. Just realize that you have to look at what you are going to get out of the material, and you will really find this useful. |
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| Product Reviewed: Ghostwriters From The Inside Out |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: the inside story in getting a ghostwriter. |
| Date Reviewed: September 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Being a freelance writer, I know how the game works. And this, I must say, is an insider’s point of view for the clueless businessperson about to embark on a journey of paying a professional writer for work that will have the businessperson/client’s name on it.
I totally agree with virtually all the tips inside this, because had I not the skill to write, I would look for these exact same things in a person I would hire to do my work for me.
This e-book not only outlines a checklist on what to look for, this e-book also points out the problem areas for you to look for in your ghostwriter.
So is this comprehensive? Yes. Is this useful? Absolutely. Is this your complete resource and guide to getting the near-perfect ghostwriter for you? Let me put it this way. I’d go to the lengths of becoming a girl scout brownie girl just to sell this e-book to you. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Giveaway Gold |
| By: James Jackson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: hmm. study your market first |
| Date Reviewed: September 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I know the marketing value of sale events, but I didn’t realize this would spill over into Internet Marketing as well. This e-book details how you could actually benefit from a joint event among other Internet Marketers with a giveaway event. It is just like a sale, as far as I’ve understood it, but only that everything is to be given away, totally free, but with the hook to sign up, of course.
Pretty innovative strategy, and the presence of the networking element somewhat guarantees that the project won’t be a total loss.
I am actually skeptical about “giveaway events” because why should I try to urgently catch something then sign up for membership on individual sites when I can just be a member here and get all that they’re offering, also virtually free, anyway?
Yes, the gimmick may be good to hook some, but I believe you should first study your market before plunging into this kind of thing. |
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| Product Reviewed: How To Make A Fortune Buying And Selling Gold Coins |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: gold, yesterday, today and tomorra |
| Date Reviewed: September 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book is fascinating in that it makes you realize that there is potential in buying and selling gold coins and other things made of gold is still profitable. It gives a short background of gold trade, then proceeds to tell you how and why you would profit from investing in gold yourself.
But it’s not just ordinary gold, it’s gold coins that the author emphasizes, because it’s not just gold that some people want to pay for. Oftentimes, it’s the coins themselves they want. And to expand that, there are only some coins that people want, because of the percentage of gold in them.
The e-book also states that there is a growing need for gold in the market, because paper money is depreciating. With investing in gold, you not only secure profits, you also secure your finances.
Honestly, I am skeptical at the pitch that gold will be your road to riches, but I do believe that it is sensible to invest in it, because metal trade has always been valuable. I think this e-book could prove useful, nonetheless. |
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| Product Reviewed: Internet Marketing Your Stairway To Heaven |
| By: PV Reymond |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: may i beg to differ a bit? |
| Date Reviewed: September 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
To be honest, I was incredulous with reading this e-book. This e-book had pictured Internet Marketing and moneymaking as the be-all and end-all of existence, as nothing short of a spiritual pursuit. While moneymaking is indeed important to one’s existence, I doubt that it should be treated as a mission and as one’s primary purpose.
The e-book was actually generally inspiring and pretty much feel-good, and it also had sensible and sound principles to teach. But when I got to the point that the author said, “The higher you are, the easier everything flows. But you must be cautious. Once you achieve success, your business will be thriving. Don't think you are done yet! You can't just leave your business, because if you don’t sustain your concentration and attention, you could fall dangerously.”
I bristled at that, because it seemed to me like the author wanted to let the reader think that moneymaking is a life-and-death situation. Yes, you need money to survive, to live, but it is far, way far from having that kind of attitude displayed here. Money should not be a religion altogether. A means to an end, perhaps, but to be the one thing that drives you?
I know, I’m supposed to be reviewing the book itself. Yes it’s a good resource. Just ignore that the author tried to picture moneymaking in a spiritual light, and you’ll be fine. |
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| Product Reviewed: Make Your Ebook Sell |
| By: Steven Schneiderman |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: get it; it's worth it! |
| Date Reviewed: September 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
At a glance, the great thing about the e-book is the presence of a clickable table of contents. The irritating thing is that the author used the exclamation point only too liberally in the table of contents. It’s sort of annoying and nearly turned me off. But anyway.
The topic is hardly original, but there are some things here that I like and deem useful. Some principles most of us overlook, like studying your market and learning how to market your product through a good strategy has been emphasized. An emphasis on creating and maintaining relationships and using these to your advantage was also a strategy that gave me an “a-ha!” moment.
What I like about the e-book is that it’s very organized, the information is easy to spot because of the organization and the layout. the principles here are sound, and would make you remember that relationships are what drive human systems, whether business or whatever field.
Despite its flaws that I spotted initially, the important thing is that you can learn from this e-book. Get and keep it; it’s worth it. |
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| Product Reviewed: Making Money With Autoresponders |
| By: David Zohar |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: use with caution |
| Date Reviewed: September 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I am not a fan of email marketing because I am irritated with spam. But while those Viagra ads do warrant my annoyance, there are ads that would help you, such as those that sell content. While you can always choose to not subscribe to their paid content, you can actually already glean information from their newsletters already. And this is my side, the customer’s side, of the equation.
On the other hand, if you are enterprising enough, you would realize that these guys who provide the service do get customers. As they said, though this is a mean way to put it, “there is a sucker born every minute”. And this is where this e-book comes in. The subject of the book is on how to cash in on the autoresponder system, the software which sends out email in response to queries.
To hook customers, this e-book details how to craft your email so that within a few emails, your prospects would already be compelled to join your service.
Good for Internet Marketers, but use with caution. Make sure you do give quality material for their money, and make sure you don’t spam. Because consumers like me are allergic to them. |
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| Product Reviewed: Maximum Monetization |
| By: Alex Goodall |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: too much jargon :p |
| Date Reviewed: September 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I must admit that the information in this e-book is simple, but may prove useful and powerful. The gist is that to maximize the monetization of your website, you can include tips on how to organize information in a “file-it-away” “mind map” method constantly championed by Alex Goodall.
The system is outlined in detail in the e-book, but I must warn you that a cursory glance at things will make you go “huh?” There is, like in his other mind map e-book, much too much of jargon, so if you weren’t paying attention or having an attack of ADD (attention deficit disorder) like me, you’d get lost between the copyright page and page 1.
My advice in reading this e-book and also his other one, the Guide to Organizing Your Internet Marketing Information e-book, is that you have a background on Mind Mapping and Internet Marketing in the first place. Bring a dictionary for the jargon, and a tall cup of coffee for concentration. You’ll need both to survive this. |
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| Product Reviewed: Money Secrets Volumn I |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Road map to the Internet Marketing jungle |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Liz Tomey was absolutely perceptive when she said that the Internet is “slowly changing to fee-based” information and service provision. There is no doubt about that trend, as, if you notice, the better information sources, those that contain really authoritative articles on certain subjects, can be accessed only if paid for. In terms of software, the majority of the better software out there are shareware or demos, meaning, they have to be paid for after a certain time period elapses or, some features on the software are locked and can only be used with purchase of the software. Thus, she was right in saying that the Internet is becoming a new marketplace.
This e-book’s goal is to awaken you to the fact that you can cash in on that trend, too. Liz Tomey takes you through the basics and the nitty-gritties of establishing an online business. With this guide in your hands, you won’t get lost in the Internet Marketing jungle. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Power Profits Workshop |
| By: Tim Godfrey |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: good place to get ideas |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
This e-book covers possibly every online moneymaking venture out there. With this resource, you will be guided in the setup of your online business, but only up to a certain extent.
In some topics, this e-book is very comprehensive, but in other aspects, it’s a bit lacking. The strength of this resource, however, is on the merits of getting into online advertising. The use and recommendation of online advertising is applied even to the blogging aspect of online revenue creation.
The e-book teaches you how to promote your own website and its products, and also how to benefit from other people promoting their own products through you. As I said, this is the e-book’s strength.
The e-book is packaged attractively, and so far, this is one of the most attractive and organized e-books I’ve come across. But while it is attractive, it is spread out on too many topics and the information is not as comprehensive as I would have liked it.
But on the whole, as its name says, it’s a business review. So while I usually look for a comprehensive, one-stop-shop in a resource, this is a good place to start in building ideas. |
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| Product Reviewed: Paid Customer Goldmine |
| By: Edmond Loh |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: internet marketing essential |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I saw Edmund Loh’s name on the e-book’s cover page, I grew instantly excited, because I’m a big fan of his and Liz Tomey.
As in the usual Edmund Loh style, the e-book delivered a short but sweet, and highly informative piece that surely riveted me. In 26 pages, Edmund Loh succeeded in pitching his system of getting more customers in a style that is leaning towards networking and joint venturing. The thought that you need only come up with one original product or resell others’ products to rake in the profits is highly revolutionary in a KISS (keep it simple, stupid) kind of way.
I would definitely file this e-book among my growing collection of Internet Marketing essentials: e-books on how to profit from the Internet. This e-book makes use of easy-to-understand concepts that even I am dying to try. The right balance of brevity and detail were employed, and I wasn’t disappointed. Or maybe it’s just because I’m a fan of his? Either way, I urge you to get and read this e-book now! |
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| Product Reviewed: Podcasting Made Easy |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Valuable podcasting resource |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Ever since I started using the Macbook, my horizons to information and resources have opened up like never before. One application on OS X that proved absolutely valuable was iTunes, and it was how I discovered Podcasting. Through Podcasts, I was able to download and listen to sermons that I would have otherwise missed. Through Podcasts, I was able to listen to valuable resources on Psychology and Self-Help. I knew the potential of Podcasting as an information medium, but since most of the resources I downloaded were free, I never really explored the possibilities of Podcasting as a moneymaking venture.
This e-book discusses the basics of creating a Podcast in detail. But over and beyond that, this e-book lets you realize exactly WHY you should be Podcasting. In this information era of ours, where knowledge in the currency, people would line up to buy your Podcasts, IF you have something important to say.
This is a valuable resource that you just mustn’t live without. |
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| Product Reviewed: Powerful "Offline" Marketing |
| By: John Ritskowitz |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: brief and sweet |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
In this web-oriented world, you’d think we need purely online strategies, right? Wrong! And this e-book teaches you how you can go about it.
The concepts are in concise chunks that are readable in less than a minute, so you can actually read some ideas first, then explore the rest later. But despite the concise nature, this e-book does not scrimp on information.
As the title says, this resource deals with using offline strategies to power up your online business. But it’s not just that. Just as a little spoiler, towards the end of the book, it talks about how you can boost your sales and income through getting into partnerships, or what we Internet Marketers call Joint Venture partnerships.
The e-book is very organized, and as I said, its strength is brevity. This brevity is what will compel you to read it through its 65 pages. Short and sweet, but also surprisingly comprehensive. Altogether helpful. |
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| Product Reviewed: Profit Secrets II |
| By: Jessie McCloud |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: practical advice |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Most of what we sell to each other on this website are called Private Resell Rights products. They are products that, if you are their producer, you would be giving others the right to actually brand those products as their own: modify the content a little, add their own personal brand on these, then sell the product off as their own.
Maybe you wonder if doing that is cheating. Maybe you wonder if you would be better off hiring someone to make the products you want created instead. But before you consider other options, do read this e-book and explore this side of Internet Marketing first.
What I loved about this was the parallel between the Private Label Rights industry and the chemical industry. The use of a real-world example gives the reader an idea that this venture/strategy could actually be applied to the real world. So if the reader is iffy about Internet Marketing, he or she can actually still read this and then apply it to a brick-and-mortar (real world) business venture. |
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| Product Reviewed: Profit Secrets |
| By: Jessie McCloud |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: outdated in one aspect, but good download and resource, nonetheless. |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
In the ad-driven marketing world, you cannot deny the need to upgrade your marketing strategy. The Internet Marketing field is getting fiercer and fiercer by the minute, so you need to step up your marketing game. While you can be content with your affiliate ads and your passable marketing strategies, this e-book jolts you out of your complacency and makes you realize that with the search engine ranking competition becoming tighter, you need to generate and keep traffic to keep your ranking high up on the search engines. If you are a search engine nobody, you better listen and learn because you’ll never make a single cent lurking in the 10th page of the Google results.
The only thing I dislike about this e-book, however, is its take on blogging. Seeing that this was written in 2006 as yet, it is only understandable that its stand on blogging is slightly primitive. Being a blogger, I know that the potential and even the current situation of the blog is much, much more than this material portrays. But aside from that, this is a great resource, and you would do good to download this yourself. |
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| Product Reviewed: Startling Seeds Of The Delaverian Code |
| By: John Delavera |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: needs structure, but an inspiring read. |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book is a pretty inspiring report on how one can succeed in online/Internet marketing despite the lack of training or credentials. It contains anecdotes of the average joe who succeeds despite the lack of formal training in fields other than Internet marketing. Aside from that, there are also anecdotes of success in the online marketing field itself.
While it is true that Internet Marketing, including the article and content business is not journalism where there is a need for perfect semantics and what-not, there should at least a standard for the tone of the e-books we read. True, most Internet books are conversational and informal in tone most of the time, even reverting to colloquialisms, but I believe that a rambling sentence structure is just taking things too far.
The e-book starts out with code then, though I was entertained, I got lost in the ramble at one point.
The good part is that reading this e-book is just like talking to an old friend. The bad part is that this old friend seems too close for comfort. But on the whole, this friend never fails to inspire. |
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| Product Reviewed: Secrets Unlimited Downloads Revealed |
| By: DownloadCatalogue.net |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: this is ad copy! |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Expecting to find an instructional e-book on how to filch material from the Internet, I was amused, both at myself and at the makers of this e-book, because it was actually just a collection of links and promotional material for some websites.
While the experience of opening a blatantly ad-driven thing packaged in an e-book was downright comical, I had to admire the ingenuity of these guys. I know that e-books have been created to drive traffic, as promotional material for some products, but I have never, ever, encountered something laid out so obviously formatted as ad copy.
Actually, the bottom line is, this e-book is nothing more than a collection of links aggregated to draw sales. So if you’re looking for an instructional e-book, this isn’t the place to look in. But if you want links to download sites, then this is the material for you. Just don’t say you weren’t warned! |
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| Product Reviewed: The Wizard |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: collection of ideas |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you want absurd ideas to get your own “idea machine” going, then this is the resource for you. Nine hundred and ninety nine “great” business ideas indeed.
This is not the usual e-book with chapters and sections, I must warn you. This is a list of 999 ideas for you to start with or even use to make money.
Entitled “Wizard’s Brainwaves,” this is the stuff me and my nerdy high school friends would talk about for hours. The absurdest of ideas are all compiled here, for you to use, modify, mull over, and realize that you can create your own, even more absurd, crazy, or brilliant.
Its craziness is so fresh, I would recommend this in a heartbeat. But there are dud ideas, too, so you better use your common sense and sift the crap from the gems.
Creating great ideas is taxing for quite a lot of people, and with the need to make money, people get pressured to think up a surefire way to generating income. Well, if you’re one of us who are brainstorming but are stumped on what to do next, this is the guide for you. |
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| Product Reviewed: Teleseminars And Webinars |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: really good instructional manial for webinars |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Motivational speaking, instructional seminars, seminars on technology, anything that sells information is the rage nowadays. people are looking for ways to upgrade themselves, and one way to do this is to attend seminars.
While physical seminars create and provide the interpersonal connection that people most crave for today, there is a disadvantage. Some people, who would want to attend these events, are hindered by the prohibitive cost of traveling. Not to mention that traveling would take them away from their jobs and/or families, there must be a way to get the information to those who most crave for/need it.
This e-book sets you up on how to reach those untapped masses who clamor for information. While they may not be able to pay for the travel costs, most of them, if they want your material enough, would pay to be able to attend even just an online broadcast of your seminar, or even a television broadcast of it.
This e-book teaches you the basics of setting up a teleseminar or webinar (web seminar), and what you can benefit from it. It is comprehensive yet concise, and absolutely easy to understand.
Worth downloading and reading. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Magic Formula |
| By: Simon Hodgkinson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: engaging, might prove crucial to your business. |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The hook for me with Simon Hodgkinson’s e-book started at the attractive orange cover page. When I read the opening lines, I sank deeper into the e-book, and by the time I read about Mistake #1, I was ready to throw the afternoon away.
Selling point of the e-book: points out the mistakes, then gives the solution. This feature was what made it different from the other e-books. While the other e-books of a similar nature saturated you with principles and theories, this one actually, genuinely helps you. Because if you are the type of business owner who does not have a clue what on earth you’re doing, you would be helped with this because this points out what you’re doing wrong. That way, you can relate your Internet Marketing experience and rectify what you’re doing wrong.
This e-book can also be applied to real world/brick-and-mortar businesses, so it is absolutely useful.
Get it as soon as you finish reading this review. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Travel Niche Profits |
| By: Digital Reseller Club |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: importat if you want to get into the travel business |
| Date Reviewed: September 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
From the opening line, I knew that this guy had something to say.
I am a professional blogger, but I started on the paid-link kind of commercial blogging. Over time, I noticed that the links that ordered my writing again and again were mostly travel sites! So I knew right from the start that this guy knows what he’s talking about.
Then I started to read his story and how he got into choosing the travel niche as a good place to tap into for revenue and profits. He was a customer himself! So what better testimonial for business than from a customer who patronizes the field himself, right?
Thus, with this e-book, you have in your hands an instructional manual in how to dip into the billion-dollar international travel industry.
Niche marketing married with affiliate ads is the rage, and I have a feeling that it will be here to stay for a few years to a couple of decades to who knows more. As long as there are people looking for services, and websites and businesses willing to meet these needs, ads will always be attractive to clicking. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Nettle Magazine - Issue 39 |
| By: David Congreave |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Uh-huh, worth downloading! |
| Date Reviewed: September 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The Nettle Magazine is an ezine/newsletter dedicated to web design and web marketing, owned by Paypershop, Ltd. It is a monthly subscription, and it’s totally free. For me, this month’s edition, “Whose Goal Is It Anyway,” is an excellent resource because of its main article, also entitled “Whose Goal Is It Anyway”.
Of course, it was clear to me that this e-book was ad copy. I mean, it’s free, and it was just filled with ads. If you’ve been in the Internet Marketing circles for so long, then you’ll realize that this is one strategy the gurus recommend for advertising: using e-books as an advertising vehicle. Pretty admirable! Well, at least to me, anyway.
Yes, despite the entire e-book’s worth being contained in the articles “Whose Goal Is It Anyway” and “How To Overcome The Curse Of Feature Creep,” these two articles actually make it worth your while to download and skim through the pages.
Yes, I gave you the tips where to look for this thing’s treasure, now go and download! |
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| Product Reviewed: Free IQ |
| By: Brad Fallon |
| Category: Internet Marketing Resources & Online Business Tools |
| Review Title: The portal of the future! |
| Date Reviewed: September 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Wow. A search engine just for free resources. I’ve been loving Google for the most part, but I am under the opinion that sometimes, the content being delivered is just not meaty enough. Not that it’s any of Google’s fault. It is just that because of Adsense generation and the boom of the SEO venture, where ad copy is optimized for Google, we are getting more and more results that are 70+ percent fluff. But thanks to FreeIQ, there is now a way to get better content.
While I had expected articles, this search engine-slash-marketplace is actually a repository of audio and video resources. When you type a search term, if the content or the resource is available, then there would be results that would appear, and you can have your pick of them.
The good part is that even the free results, whether video or audio, are all valuable, and though I have yet to come across written content, I am excited enough at the potential of this portal/repository.
What makes this a valuable resource portal is that their search engine results system is determined by the users’ ratings of the content. Therefore, the users have more control over the rise of the content up the ranks of the results pages.
The good: free _valuable_ content galore, innovative, and the clean lines and layout only serve to make me enthuse over this even more.
The bad: the content is mostly made up of audio and video. So if you are unfortunate enough to be on dial-up, then you may grow impatient as you are downloading the content you wanted to access.
But on the whole, I am loving this, and I’m hoping they get their patent approved soon, then roll out of beta! |
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| Product Reviewed: Internet Legal Research Group |
| By: Maximilian Ventures LLC |
| Category: Internet Marketing Resources & Online Business Tools |
| Review Title: comprehensive, but design needs work. |
| Date Reviewed: September 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Honestly, I was impressed with the sheer comprehensiveness of this portal. There is a legal document for every single matter you can think of. Hmm. Might come in handy if and when I decide to sue anyone. Kidding.
But while I was impressed with the usefulness and the comprehensiveness of this website, I noticed that the site looks cluttered. Yes, it’s not as cluttered as the worst of them, but this site sure could use some layout revamping.
But that aside, I believe that this website is absolutely user-friendly. With the top category being for the legal profession, then the next being for the academe, this was really thought-out well, with the practicing lawyer as the priority, then the law student as the next-in-line. Which is exactly the way the Law world works, right? Though I’m wondering if law students would be more likely to use it.
But I believe, in this niche, the presentation matters less compared to the content. So on the whole, I think this is great, especially for those needing documents, or who are in this field. |
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| Product Reviewed: DNS Tools |
| By: DNSstuff, LLC |
| Category: Internet Marketing Resources & Online Business Tools |
| Review Title: Pretty impressive! |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I agree with Lynn. This resource is particularly creepy because it lets you see an IP address and pinpoint its location. I had tried it with a certain blog stalker’s address, and I had only one wish with this DNS tool: that it be able to name the name of the user, so that I’ll know who berated me on my own blog. Haha!
But seriously, this tool is amazing. Everything you need regarding IP addresses and DNS lookups are there on the page. You really don’t need to look too far to find what you need. Just scroll down and everything, and I mean everything you might need regarding domains, IP addresses and what-not are there. In fact, there is even an email test tool, so you can test whether that email or provider is still working, and a tool to tell whether an email provider is free or not.
There is also an “Abuse lookup” for domains. So if you have complaints, like I usually do, this would be absolutely handy.
And don’t think that the website looks like its thumbnail here, all kid-like. The real website looks absolutely polished. Pretty impressive, uncluttered, and user-friendly, actually.
Oh I am so loving it, I have bookmarked it! |
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| Product Reviewed: Easy List Builders |
| By: Geoff Shaw |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: WORK HARD. Period. |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
“No Action = No Money”. That is the message that this e-book has that I find to be a gem. Despite the fact that I don’t like that the rest of the e-book gives a false impression that you can make a million dollars just like that online, this line was what redeemed the book in my sight.
I know how hard it is to make money anywhere, and actually the online world is just a little easier than the rest of the industries, and giving people an overall impression that they will be raking in the green with gung-ho and applying these strategies is just setting them up for disappointment.
BUT, I do believe that had the phrase/equation I quoted at the start been put in bold, given a MUCH bigger font, things would be so much better. But to give credit to the creator of this e-book, at the very least, he does part with the message that this takes your action to meet your financial targets online.
On the whole, the e-book is absolutely encouraging and is filled with ideas that will spark your enthusiasm to start an online business. But as in every venture, prepare for hard work, and brace for disappointments. With that, you’ll be fine. |
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| Product Reviewed: PLR Profit Tips |
| By: Edmund Loh |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Another excellent report by Edmund Loh! |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Edmund Loh does it again. This is a sweet eight pages of purely valuable information. I agree with Lynn that for eight pages, this e-book is already a good way to get initiated into the PLR world.
The formatting is great, because clean lines always encourage a clear mind. This means you can actually ponder upon what Edmund Loh is talking about in this because the distraction of a cluttered resource has been eliminated from the equation in this e-book. Simply excellent. Even for a free resource, Edmund Loh gives you solid, helpful, totally useful content.
I love that it is organized into sections, uses bold and normal fonts, and even capitalizes headings, so as you’d know where to look immediately.
If you are at a loss with how to start your PLR business, this is the best place to start. It is free, it is packed, it is only eight pages. You can read the entire thing in 15 minutes and realize what you need to do to kick-start your business. I love it! Edmund Loh outdoes himself again! |
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| Product Reviewed: The Attention Age Doctrine |
| By: Rich Schefren |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: I have the download link of this e-book below. Just delete the spaces when you paste it to your browser. |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
It had been a long wait for this e-book and I’m not quite sure if it was worth it.
I had to go through hoops just so I can get this e-book, and the long, twisted story is just a disappointing memory to me now.
The e-book itself had its gems near the end. All Rich Schefren had to say was that we are an age of distracted individuals. I think he is right. Like Jeremy, I have had to turn off instant messaging in my computer just to get something, anything, done.
Rich Schefren was very convincing, but he took an awfully long time to blurt out that we are a generation of distracted characters and that we need focus.. And then to segue that we need _his_ help.
While the book made sense towards the end, no arguing about that, what I don’t like is that it took 50+ pages to get to that point. And the book’s layout was only too cluttered, with too many things going on at once. So how are you supposed to focus when the thing that’s teaching you to focus is the one giving you distraction.
Yes, you may learn a thing or two from this. I learned to be kind. So here, so that you won’t go through hoops to get his e-book, here is the url to the download. Enjoy.
http:// www. strategicprofits .com/age/dl1.htm |
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| Product Reviewed: Make Your Transition |
| By: Steve Coerper |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: amazing, you just gotta download this! |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I actually read the bonus PDF file first, the one where there were tips on using Google to your edge when it comes to applying for jobs. It reminded me of a tip I had for my dad that if you wanted to find out about anyone, look for him or her on Google. I’m glad to know I was right.
The entire e-book is filled with gems on how to make your transition from a day job to an Internet/home-based one. Yes, this is a virtual treasure trove. The content is so good, that it’s easy to ignore what I don’t like about it.
Speaking what I don’t like about it, it’s the icons and the graphics that I found I’m allergic to. One reason is that it breaks the importance of the message and the topic, because they were kid-like. The layout needs work too.
But on the whole, I’m just impressed with this e-book. But the biggest gem in this resource is its six-step transition plan. If you want to know what that is, do download this now! |
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| Product Reviewed: My PLR Unionizer |
| By: K Smith |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: i love it because it's great for lazy writers, a.k.a. me. :p |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This software is just an application that would merge your text files into one big document. While yes, my first reaction was, “Uhh, so this pastes files together. So?”
But then I realized, this could actually be helpful in making e-books. If you do not want to use a RAM-hogging office suite application, especially one that embeds code that will impede efficient search engine indexing, then this might be helpful to you. No, it’s not a text editor or a word processor. This is something that will help you consolidate your text files into one big document. Some people who write e-books tend to write the chapters in several text files. This could be helpful in finally consolidating everything into one long document. You may have to edit the formatting a bit, but still, it sure beats copy-pasting.
I would recommend this for people as lazy as moi. But a heads-up though. You may need to wait around 30 minutes for the .NET framework to be done downloading. Not recommended for a corrupted system, because I remember that I had hell with .NET before because my system was scarred with a trojan invasion.
But after the .NET framework is done downloading, installation is a snap, and you can have your nifty tool in no time.
And yes. I love it because I like doing my work in text files, and I’m absolutely lazy. :p
Too bad it’s in Windows. This is exactly the reason why I want a new laptop. Heheh. |
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| Product Reviewed: MASSIVE Keyword List Builder |
| By: iBizResearch.com |
| Category: Software - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: worth downloading and keeping. |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
First thing: quick download. Next thing: quick install. I just zipped through the entire download-and-install process. The downside was that you needed to enter your email for the license code. But nonetheless, the preliminaries were fast.
Good points: fast engine, somewhat easy interface, has everything you need at a glance. The trial version does not have the other stats enabled, however. It just shows you the keyword list you can actually make use of for SEO. But other than that, you may have to buy the final version to use the other stats.
Honestly, I am not as sold on this software as I am of a similar resource I found in the “Internet Marketing Resources & Business Tools” section. That one actually displays the stats for free, has a more attractive interface, and is web-based.
But I’m keeping this on my computer because I can use it has a different system as opposed to that other tool. The other one displays results with your exact original word, while this one displays the most searched alternatives. For example, a search for “mental health” will display “mental illness,” “depression, and even “spiritual health”. The other one would display “infant mental health journal,” “mental health grants” and so on.
If you have the hard drive space for this, by all means, download and keep this on your computer. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Keyword Content Multiplier |
| By: InfoClicks.CO.UK |
| Category: Software - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Yep, find-and-replace would do fine. :p |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I had mistakenly opened the PDF manual when I finished downloading the package. And I was in for the shock of my life because the enormous title had said “Multiplyer” instead of “Multiplier”. Uh-huh.
Shock number two came when I opened the program itself. It didn’t need installation. Pleasant shock, at least. :)
Now for the acid test...
Eureka, it works!
It does put in your keywords where the keyword tags are placed. But my concern is, what if there are several other keywords you need to put in your work? I tried looking for a button or a menu option for putting in multiple keywords or other different keywords, but there was none. There is a function that allows the program to mix and match the keywords, however. Just click “double up keywords” and you’ll be able to produce mix-and-matched-keyword files.
But even that doesn’t give the program a redeeming edge, because only one keyword, whether stand-alone or mixed-and-matched, gets embedded per file. And to think I had high hopes for this. :(
So really. Your text editor’s “Find and Replace” function would do really fine. |
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| Product Reviewed: CAT: Cool Adsense Templates |
| By: Strive Mazunga |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: pretty much mediocre. |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I was looking around this site for stuff I might be able to use when I came across the template section. I was instantly drawn to this because I had planned to make some adsense-optimized websites. I was thinking that this was the solution to my so-called “dilemma”.
But after seeing the templates, I realized that given the time and the patience to learn dreamweaver, I might be better at making a template.
However, I must admit that judging from the screenshots of the brown and blue templates, it has potential. The themes were somewhat limited, however. The brown one was a theme with gamers in mind, the other one with surfers or extreme sports enthusiasts. Good thing there weren’t screenshots. At least I didn’t waste my time racking my brain how to install this on my free webhost. The pages were all in .PHP, by the way.
The other zip inside the main zip, plug-in.zip, had a collection of five other templates. Template 5 was the only one I deemed worthy of looking at a second time.
I’m sorry. This was so mediocre I came away from looking at it surly. Not to mention disappointed. Maybe I’ll look for other templates. If I find a stellar one, I’ll tell you. |
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| Product Reviewed: Web Elements Deluxe Web Design Graphics Gallery |
| By: Garland Valley |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: essential for web designers! |
| Date Reviewed: September 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I as l was viewing the pack, I was getting a little disappointed because what I had unpacked first was the reseller pack. I thought that was all there is to this. But when I finally got to the .exe repository of image “swatches,” I was just overwhelmed and was rolling in glee at the realization that I had all these backgrounds, in my hands, right here, right now.
I am a blogger, and I do edit my profiles and my blogs on my own. As much as possible, I do tweak the designs. And honestly, when I saw the collection, it wasn’t just the volume that amazed me. It was their selection of images: very tasteful, very delicious, at some points, and there were plenty of pinks, reds and purples: enough to keep me happy for months, and enough to let me change my blogs’ backgrounds once every month.
In fact, when I would have the time to make my own website, I am running to this resource at once. The backgrounds alone more than made up for the 12-minute download time.
The only downsides were that the icons had slightly crude edges, and I noticed duplicates. Hopefully not to give the illusion of bulk or volume, but my oh my, the backgrounds were so delicious, I was more than happy and couldn’t complain more. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Money Spinning Lists Unrestricted PLR Rights |
| By: Tuks Engineer |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: passable |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
While I was certainly expecting more from this resource, because I have this line of thought that website templates should at least let the user kick back, relax, just put the templates up and watch the money come in, this pack was pretty passable.
The articles/content were good enough. Not exactly jump-out-of-the-screen attention-catching, but good enough. They have generally been free of grammatical errors, but one article had a word that had a missing letter that jumped out at me. I mean, you put this up for sale, at the very least make sure it’s perfect.
If you’re looking for a place to start with making your website and thought this would be a good resource, my tip is for you to tweak the website well. Because who knows, someone else (and I’m sure this isn’t a remote possibility) might have downloaded this and used it as his website’s template. You would want your readers to come back to you, so you might want to give a fresh look and fresh content.
Which brings me to another tip. The content here is a passable start. But keep in mind that search engines are allergic to duplicate content. So you better modify the articles. At the very least, if you want to keep them as they are, do go over the articles. You just might need to edit them.
Warning: this doesn't come with instructions and how to embed your adsense scripts though. |
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| Product Reviewed: Press Release Principles |
| By: Andy Machin |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Worth it, go download! |
| Date Reviewed: September 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Press Release writing is an Internet Marketing niche that is not as oft-explored as other niches. This e-book, all the sixteen sweet, short pages of it, has put forth an instructional on how to create press releases. These instructions are pretty easy to follow, and would encourage the first-time press release writer.
While the task of writing the press release itself may be daunting to the uninitiated, this e-book makes the process seem a lot easier. It walks the reader through how to create a press release in a manner that is welcoming to the aspiring entrepreneur. It is brief, concise, and easy to digest.
But what impressed me most was the bonus. There is a bonus PDF on how to create webpages. While the rest of the world is intimidated with the thought of creating an HTML webpage, the bonus PDF lets the reader realize that creating a webpage, even from code, is pretty simple after all.
If you are testing the waters of the Internet’s potential moneymaking power, this is a good place to start.
My only gripes: too simple cover graphic. But the clean lines and good organization, plus the very helpful content more than make up for it. |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: How To Create A Web Site - Non Techie Guide |
| By: Bina Omar |
| Category: Audio & Video - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: highly recommended! |
| Date Reviewed: September 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Apparently this e-book was supposed to come with movies. When I downloaded the PDF file, though I was impressed with the content, there were no movies.
But while that was the case, I wasn’t discouraged or disappointed with the e-book. I was actually so impressed by it that I didn’t really care about the movies, or lack of them, anymore.
This is a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand manual of creating a website that covers everything from the planning to the design, to the upload and setup of the website on the server, down to the launch of the website.
I love: the clean lines, the beautiful, relaxing, engaging design that gives your mind a sense of quiet when you are mulling over your ideas for your website.
The e-book provides links to applications that will take you to the software you need from the design to the site checking/evaluation and monitoring. The best part? Some applications he recommended were totally free, and even GNU, Open-Source apps, like Mozilla Firefox and Kompozer, or the precursor to NVu, one of the most recommended Open-Source HTML/Webpage editor.
A note to those interested in trying their hand at creating webpages and websites, if you want your website fully optimized to the search engines, avoid FrontPage and other Microsoft applications; they tend to embed unnecessary, even bad, code, which would only serve to hamper your SEO efforts.
Get this resource for a start, and good luck! |
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Skype Secrets |
| By: Louis Allport |
| Category: Audio & Video - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Get this resource! |
| Date Reviewed: September 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is a step-by-step video tutorial on how to use Skype. For those who don’t know the potential of applications when it isn’t pointed out to them, this is a good place to look for a how-to.
Generally, I use Skype only for what it was intended for: for calling people. I also use it to send SMS to people when my prepaid credits have run out. When I read the link that there was a tutorial on how to record audio, I wasn’t that surprised because I used to use GizmoProject and I did have an inbox full of voicemail when my contacts can’t get through to me. So the possibility of a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) phone or any other VoIP application being used to record audio wasn’t new to me.
I then realized that it wasn’t really a part of Skype itself, per se, but it was a plugin and you had to download and install it. It also works with Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger, so if you are not really interested to have Skype on your computer, you can download the plugin. Just search for the keyword you’ll find in this video tutorial. I’m too lazy to post it here. :p Well, actually I just want you to give this resource a shot and find things our for yourself. :p
As for the rest of the video-book tutorial, well, it was pretty simple, pretty understandable though I did not understand why the tutorial took too much time on the CNET rating system for the plugin.
Audacity was mentioned here and it’s funny because I do use Audacity on my Mac for my audio editing needs. And I do agree that it does the job and is a nifty FREE application besides.
So on the whole, this videobook is worth it, if you are a newbie. Just watching the animated tutorial was pretty entertaining. Would be useful in killing time if you have too much of it on your hands.
I am just wondering whether my firewall was blocking the audio though. But though it was turned off, I fully understood what the tutorial was getting at. This shows just how user and newbie-friendly it is. So yeah, get it, and learn what else you can do with your Skype. :) |
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Video Web Wizard |
| Category: Audio & Video - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: easy interface. i recommend you try it. :) |
| Date Reviewed: September 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I must admit that I was intrigued with this program because of the manual. I unzipped it, installed it, and fired it up. When I got it up and running, I was surprised with how simple the controls were. My only disappointment was that there were error messages with every button that I clicked. Pretty frustrating if you were really bent on getting it to run.
But what I wanted to know was that if this could rip from .flv, convert it into .mov, .avi, an mpeg codec or whatever, straight into your computer, but according to the manual, the only thing it does is convert the abovementioned codecs into .flv format, which is the format for web streaming.
If I can get this thing up and running on a different computer, I just might start embedding my own kick-butt movies in my blogs. But as it is, I am pretty happy to announce that this is absolutely user-friendly. If your system and this program are compatible, then I believe you’ll find it a breeze to operate this, and you will enjoy video-posting away to Internet stardom or Guru-hood. :D
And oh, I doubt that this program is the defective factor in the equation. Because other stuff here on this website don't work too well with my Windows box here too. It must be the drivers and codecs with my system. I still recommend you try this. :D |
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Ultimate Techniques For Time Management |
| By: Brad Gearhart |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: I love the principles, I love the writing style, I recommend this!!! |
| Date Reviewed: September 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I opened this e-book, the table of contents alone told me that I needed this resource like my life depended on it. I am a horrid, horrid time-manager, and reading the principles here, I totally agreed with the author, Brad Gearhart.
Take for example the fact that we seem to believe that we have 24 hours to do our jobs and to cram our days with all the activities we can. Honestly, his words chastened, humbled and sobered me. I mean, it totally makes sense that in our 24 hours, we sleep 7 on average, and I sleep 4-6, then we still eat, take a bath, answer the call of nature, and thus that leaves us with a little over 10 hours for productivity. Oh. No wonder I get nearly nothing done.
And he points out that severe time-wasters include talking on the phone, people who talk too much and hog our attention and time, among other things. His tip is simple: prioritize and mind your time.
What I like too is his checklist of notes on whether one is a workaholic and/or headed for, or even already in, burnout. When he said that, my eyes glazed over because I was positive for workaholism. Burnout, sometimes I reach that point. But I do have a main energy booster that he never mentioned: God.
But anyway, I do love his bottom line: that we only have one life to live and that we should live it to the fullest. With time management, as he said, it is all a matter of self-management. How so totally true. |
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: How To Stop Smoking Forever! |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Needs more info |
| Date Reviewed: September 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Smoking is such a virulent habit that captures men and women everywhere that when they end up gripped in this addiction, it takes sheer iron will to finally pry themselves out of this habit.
I was attracted to this e-book because yes, I had been a victim of my addictions. While I believed that nicotine was making me focused, it was actually making my brain more inefficient because it was running on artificial fuel. This e-book drives home a point that nicotine really is a very virulent chemical.
While the tips to get out of it are run-of-the-mill, just passable and could surely use some more comprehensiveness, I like the presentation of being an .exe file, and the nifty maroon-colored e-book was eye candy.
Very organized, but needs more details and facts. Surely a start, but honestly nothing more than an equivalent of a toy or a children’s book in the self-help literature genre. |
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| Product Reviewed: Business Goldmine |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good ideas, bad formatting. |
| Date Reviewed: September 16, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This Larry Dotson e-book is a 23-page collection of moneymaking ideas. While the ideas certainly aren’t new, they do put forth pretty sensible concepts. The good part is that it was packaged in a concise, easy-to-read format. On the other hand, some people, like me, may find this format much too simple for their taste.
I certainly like the conciseness of the e-book. But I do dislike the fact that it looks just like a collection of ideas mish-moshed into a Microsoft Word document then printed as PDF. I mean, you’re selling this e-book. People do want it to at least have a bit of formatting so that it won’t look entirely like a haphazard piece of “work”. As it is, the e-book just looks just like a numbered list of ideas and suggestions for moneymaking.
It would have been a good thing if this were just a PLR pack, at least there is an excuse that this looks the way it does: bare and in need of additions. But since this is not just a PLR pack, I think it should have been formatted accordingly. It doesn’t even have the usual sales/welcome page. I mean, you probably made this e-book to sell something, right? Why then does it not have the standard sales page, the standard links?
The bottom line? Good ideas, bad formatting, doesn’t look like an e-book. |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Free Computer Software Report |
| By: Robert Eilers |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: good applications mentioned here |
| Date Reviewed: September 16, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
You may have been looking for free software replacements for your Microsoft Office applications, and you are dumbfounded where to start looking. But here is a free e-book that serves as a guide for the most essential, and the best free software replacements to Microsoft applications.
I am a big fan of the applications the author recommends myself, so I can vouch for the quality of the programs he recommended.
Although I was expecting programs I haven’t come across, this is a good enough guide for those unfamiliar with the Open Source applications the author presented here, especially since this is a free resource.
Just because it’s Open Source doesn’t mean that these software are any less good than its high-cost counterparts. On the contrary, the software mentioned here are as good, or even better than their Microsoft equivalents.
What makes them good would be the fact that they almost have the same functionality as the Microsoft Windows applications, and even better features in some aspects. Open Office, however, has formatting issues when transferred between Microsoft applications, even at the Microsoft file formats.
With Mozilla Firefox, the only thing I want to say is that it is much, much better than Internet Explorer 7. In fact, the only other application I like next to it would be Apple’s Safari.
Good e-book because of what it mentions. Also because of the author's tech evangelization for Open Source applications. Altogether better because it’s free. |
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Free Traffic Explosion |
| By: Simon Hodgkinson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Excellently-made: great layout, comprehensive content! |
| Date Reviewed: September 16, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is honestly an impressive e-book. I know I had reviewed a couple of Simon Hodgkinson products before, and when I checked, I did a negative review on one, and rave reviews on others. I’d say, this one belongs to the rave reviews.
This book is not only aesthetically pleasing and well-organized, it is also packed with comprehensive and crucial information. Just a scan alone through the table of contents will entice you to read more.
Prepare an afternoon off to immerse yourself in the strategies in this e-book, because you will want to absorb every word of it. As I said, the topics here are comprehensive. This e-book covers a wide range of website traffic-generation strategies from Squidoo to StumbleUpon.
Want to know what exactly those websites are all about and how and why they will help you in traffic generation? Read this excellent e-book and you will know. |
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Ultimate Traffic Generator |
| By: Tolulope Adeyemi |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: be warned. |
| Date Reviewed: September 29, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
You would think that this actually contains a program that would generate traffic for your website right? Well, I’m sorry to disappoint the hopeful. This is just an e-book in .exe format that gives you a slew of links to traffic-generation websites. Honestly, it’s pretty disappointing on the part of the end user, but if you understand how affiliate ads work and you realize that the creator of this was only following the advice of the Internet Marketing experts, you’d actually cut him some slack.
Also, look at the bright side: the links actually work, and they could actually help you generate traffic. Just exercise caution with these sites, because sometimes, some traffic-generation sites could either be spammers, trojan-embedders, and even just send you viral spam that just makes life an annoyance. I have used a traffic-generation system before, and I did not like it because it took too much of my time clicking through other people’s links to earn points to have them click on my own links. Not a very exciting thing to do.
Not only that, the system had ugly-fied my browser, and worse, I think it was one of the last straws that broke the camel’s back in wrecking my former Windows XP system. So the bottom line is caution in using this program, still. |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Monetizing Secrets Of Going Web Social |
| By: Nelson Tan |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Great, for a freebie! |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I have been meaning to get into the social bookmarking craze because it seems to work for getting traffic for most Internet Marketing experts. This resource is great enough not just because it is free, but also because it is pretty detailed. It covers the basics, from the purpose of social bookmarking, to its benefits.
Not only did I want the traffic-generation and search engine optimization features that social bookmarking has, I also always wanted to be able to bookmark my websites from any other computer I use, because in case of Murphy’s Law acting up, I do need to resort to using other machines. I had used Foxmarks before, and it is pretty limited in that it is just a bookmarking facility per se. Foxmarks is generally known to be a Mozilla Firefox plugin, but though it also has a portability feature in that it is accessible on its website, it still doesn’t have the added SEO features of social bookmarking, as mentioned earlier. This e-book actually gives you bright ideas in how to incorporate social bookmarking into your SEO lifestyle. My only gripe is that it needs a little more organization.
Brilliant, for a free offering, and with its link to a full-length, full-featured e-book, this is a worthy teaser and introduction. |
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| Product Reviewed: Networking Nightmares |
| By: David Congreave |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Layout 5 Stars, Content 10 stars! |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I have been hearing quite a lot about networking in Internet Marketing. I am very aware that there is a need to join forces with like-minded people, learn from the experts in the Internet Marketing field, and just basically return to the basics of life as applied to business: relationship-building is the way to go, no matter what, and it applies even to the virtual moneymaking world of Internet Marketing.
While it is enticing to stay the antisocial moneymaker that you are, you have to face the fact that you need to learn the new technologies. Maybe the reason why your affiliate ad accounts are still stuck at $50 is that you have been doing it wrong. And this e-book shows you that it is about time you start going out of your shell and attending those real-life seminars and start to network.
David definitely sells the idea of networking to you. I, for one, by the end of the e-book, was thoroughly sold on the idea of attending a real-world seminar. Psyched? Yes I am. Will I apply what I learned here? Definitely. Is this e-book great? Absolutely. |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Niche Package 1 |
| By: Stan Morse |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: It's free, and may prove useful. |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I first opened the e-book set, I had groaned inwardly again, as it was another set of zips, something I am totally annoyed with. When it comes to zips-upon-zips in these packages, it’s really annoying. But because when I opened the first PDF file and I saw an excellently-done e-book, I continued opening and reading the others.
My opinion is that the e-books were well-written. Absolutely well-written. Comprehensive, fully-detailed, engaging to read and with the appropriate layout that is apt for the topics, you cannot go wrong if you choose to use this set for reselling or even viral marketing. The only downside to the layout is that the e-book is in single space, so you or the other readers may find it a little harder to read.
The only downside to this set is that it seems like the Blogging101 e-book is the only relevant thing in there. By relevant, I mean useful to the reader, and are up to date with current trends. The rest are for hobbyists, and I’m not sure if these are still good topics to go by.
I haven’t checked the demand of any of the other topics, which are: aquariums RC cars, RC hobbies and tattoos, but I am skeptical of the demand/saleability of these. But then maybe that’s just me. The bottom line is, this is free, so it’s already a steal for you. The only thing you need to do is to check the search engine popularity for the niche topics here. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Essential Guide to Organic Gardening |
| By: Jason |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great, especially because it is free |
| Date Reviewed: October 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
What is good with this e-book includes the following:
1) It has an attractive cover.
2) It is detailed enough, yet also concise enough.
3) It has great organic gardening suggestions, and even suggestions on what to do with your harvest.
4) It is relevant.
I say that this e-book is relevant because we live in the age of herbed bread, herb seasoning as opposed to salt and sugar, and general health/fitness consciousness. Because of these, the need for people to ensure that their vegetables and fruits are pesticide-free, organic garden is the only way to go.
While this is by no means an organic gardening encyclopedia, you will have enough to go on with this in terms of why you need to get started and then how you can get started when you’ve been convinced of your need to pesticide-free plant produce.
Well it is free (If you are a Silver or Gold member, heheh :p). It is certainly worth your time to download and read it. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: 11 Steps To Subscription Success |
| By: Vondre' Whaley |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: step by step: good for newbies! |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Subscription websites are one of the viral marketing and moneymaking systems on the Internet today. If you have always wanted to start your own subscription-based business but you didn’t know how to, this is your step-by-step guide.
Not only will this e-book walk you through the system itself, it will also help you create your own system and even give you suggestions for strategies and approaches as to how to implement the subscription system you have created for yourself.
Another thing that is good about it is that it also has a step-by-step self-help plan for you, which will help you define your goals in Internet Marketing, identify your niche and even your strategies for conquering that niche, and even to the traffic-generation for your website.
So in a word, it covers all the ground needed in Internet Marketing (subscription service, especially) startups, in a concise, easy-to-understand manner. This is absolutely perfect for the pure, absolute newbie, and this will be the best way for one to make the first step in his/her Internet Marketing journey. |
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| Product Reviewed: Safeguarding Your Family |
| By: Ed Steel |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good, but prepare to be paranoid. |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Honestly I was initially incredulous with this product. Why? Because it actually encourages paranoia. Which is not a good thing in a post-9/11 society. Why reinforce fear, when you can actually encourage hope.
BUT, as I read on, I realized that there may be some sense to what the author had outlined. The contingency plan was comprehensive, and I realized that this manual could prove helpful and may be handy someday. This e-book would be good to read now, in times of relative security, to bear in mind when tragedies would strike. To be caught unawares when you have been given a resource that would prepare you for catastrophes would be sheer stupidity.
The only thing I need to disagree with would be the section on computer safety. Yes, I totally agree with the fact that computer users, especially Windows users, should always have antivirus software installed. I just don’t agree with their pushing their own software (though this is the clear intent of the e-book), maybe because I have my own antivirus software preferences.
But on the whole, the tips here were very sensible. A little paranoid, but sensible. A big plus is the fact that the organization was excellent, and the layout was quite good. |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: The Marketing Chronicles |
| By: Rich Carter |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great! Just needs improvement for e-book navigation. |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book is not your ordinary e-book. This is an entire e-course that will set you on your way to making your fortune online. While the content certainly is not exactly original, the presentation actually is. The content is presented in 12 sub-lessons, and it serves the purpose of making the lessons easier to follow.
I happen to like the content itself already, and being able to learn about the topics in chunks makes it better, all the more. I also like the colors and the graphics. And also the layout.
However, I do have my complaints.
1) The use of italics and bold+italic fonts in areas that I don’t deem appropriate only serve to distract.
2) The lessons all had the same headings as they appeared on the table of contents pane of my PDF viewer. It would have been better if the headings were titles of what the lesson was about.
3) There was no master/main table of contents.
On the whole, this e-book has potential. It is only too bad that it doesn’t have PLR or MRR, because had anyone the right to modify it, I would suggest better navigation to take some pressure off the readers’ brain cells. But as it is, this is already excellent. |
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| Product Reviewed: Search Engine Optimization Predictions for 2006 |
| By: Jeff Dedrick |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: It will only be a time capsule now. |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
It was unclear to me whether these predictions were done in 2006 to predict 2007 trends, or had predicted 2006 trends, but one thing is clear. These guys were mostly right.
This just goes to show that when it comes to trends, people who know what they are talking about actually make accurate predictions for coming trend patterns. It’s not that they’re psychic at all. But watching patterns and realizing how the trend curve may go is actually a predictable process. Some do it intuitively, and the mathematically-oriented ones have calculus as a tool.
But what is actually remarkable about this e-book is how the people who have been tapped to view the trends were actually pretty accurate in it. Something that would really make you either admire their eye for trend patterns, or would scare you for their purported “psychic” abilities.
One can only wish that he or she came across this in 2006, because this would have been a guide on how to ride the trends and where to strike out for gold. But as it is, this will only remain a time capsule of sorts, or at least an entertaining read. |
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| Product Reviewed: Using Content And Articles |
| By: Jason Potash |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Do not do business online without this! |
| Date Reviewed: September 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is actually an eye-opening e-book about how article submission works. If you’ve been hanging around this website for so long, you would realize that so many people are advertising PLR, are advocating article submission, and other tactics to drive traffic to their websites. While it is understandable that people would want short cuts, this e-book takes a stern look at how that won’t work at all.
You may have heard that Google is allergic to duplicate content. Heed that, and this e-book will tell you why you have to. You may also have heard that trying short cuts in the search engine optimization game is a no-no. Heed that, too. Because if you won’t, you will end up banned from the search engines!
This e-book is not your usual, upbeat Internet Marketing resource. This takes a sober look into what you should NOT do in the SEO business. If you want to succeed online, pay an attentive ear to this e-book. It will be worth the time you took to read this! |
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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| Product Reviewed: Article Marketing Content Guide |
| By: Evelyn Lim |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: A little polishing would certainly help. |
| Date Reviewed: October 01, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
My first impression with this e-book was that it had a very academic approach to Internet Marketing. Something that may bode well or ill for this e-book, in that most of the time, people who want to venture into Internet Marketing may need and prefer a more practical approach to the topic.
I like the fact that this e-book has a clean layout and is very organized. However, like Lynn pointed out, there are grammatical errors that kind of unpleasantly surprise you at some points. Honestly, on the first sentence alone, there already was a glaring error. And because of that, you may want to rethink the credibility of the author in putting forth these principles.
I believe in excellence. Even if it may just be a word amiss here or there, if you’re putting forth a product for people to be able to use, even if it’s free, you should at least make it free of grammatical errors. The quality of your work speaks of your credibility, and is the basis for people to trust your products. It will eventually be the ultimate ad for your products and yourself.
On the whole, the information here is pretty detailed, with statistics, facts and figures to back it up. However, a little polishing certainly would help this e-book. |
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| Product Reviewed: How To Be A Red Hot Persuasion Wizard-Sample Chapter |
| By: Michael Lee |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: just needs to be faster-paced. |
| Date Reviewed: October 01, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This may just be a sample for Michael Lee’s e-book, but it is already informative enough for you to want the rest of it. I have two things to point out though.
I think that for a persuasion e-book, this shouldn’t have been done in a narrative voice. Rather, it should have been said in more of sales copy type of prose, wherein the tempo/tone of the work is fast-paced. To sell itself, the book should have been as persuasive as its topic.
But on the whole, this e-book puts out enough meat for you to want the rest of what it can offer. I look forward to buying the rest of it, so that I can read how else to be able to persuade people to my ideas faster and with better results. It helps a lot in this field, you know. As an Internet Marketer, persuasion is like oil to make the gears of my moneymaking machine work more efficiently. And this e-book will no doubt help me. |
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| Product Reviewed: Starter Guide To Setting Up A Website |
| By: Evelyn Lim |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: short, concise, helpful ad copy :p |
| Date Reviewed: October 01, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is actually just a viral marketing e-book, with links embedded to websites the author recommends. With only ten pages, you get links to lots of helpful websites.
While viral marketing/link love e-books tend to turn people off, this one is actually quite helpful. If and when you want to make and launch your own website, you could actually start here, especially if you are totally clueless about where to start looking and what to type in Google.
With the links here, you can turn this ad e-book into an asset for your web business. That way, it will spell a win-win situation both for you and the e-book creator!
Just watch out for the usual grammatical errors that would prove to be an eyesore for the obsessive-compulsive about grammar, syntax and semantics like me.
But on the whole, this is a very helpful e-book.
And by the way, is Evelyn Lim actually a GUY?! |
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| Product Reviewed: The Resale Rights Revival |
| By: Affiliate Classroom |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: you shouldn't miss this one! even if it's an april 2005 issue! |
| Date Reviewed: October 02, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The Affiliate Classroom magazine is probably one of the most respected in the Internet Marketing field, and it will probably remain so. This April 2005 issue is excellently written, has impressive graphics, and has absolutely helpful topics covered.
Unlike your usual Internet Marketing e-books, this one is just like a “real” glossy mag, complete with the slick graphics. When it comes to delivering Internet Marketing information in a very yummy way, the Affiliate Classroom mag is just the right resource to turn to. But the best part is that not only is this e-mag yummy, it is also absolutely meaty, that’s why you won’t want to turn to anything else for your Internet Marketing mental diet.
There are just areas of this e-mag that is quite overdone and a little cluttered, however. But on the whole, this is a great, authoritative resource on Affiliate Marketing that you shouldn’t miss downloading! |
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| Product Reviewed: The Nettle Magazine - Issue 40 |
| By: David Congreave |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: It's not Affiliate Classroom, but it's good enough |
| Date Reviewed: October 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The Nettle Magazine certainly isn’t Affiliate Classroom, but you can surely pick up a thing or two from this e-mag. The movie reviews are entertaining, and the feature articles on blogging are really informative. Despite the fact that this e-magazine may not be up to Affiliate Classroom’s par, the articles discussing the importance of blogging and the background and kinds of blogging may prove helpful to your internet marketing business. Look for the article “Congratulations, It’s A Blog!”.
The only thing that didn’t sit that well with me is the fact that the e-book was, as the last Nettle magazine was, the layout was only too messy. Something you wouldn’t want to see from Internet Marketing experts.
As we know, we all are selling our services, our names and our reputation here. For our services to look slipshod would really raise eyebrows: with those who are trying to get ideas from us, with those who would want to do business with us; generally the public who are buying our products and services.
And yet, this is a free download, so I’m thankful that I can get what I need here. In fact, I have to concede that the “Congratulations It’s A Blog” article is so good, that I still felt compelled to keep the e-book. ; ) |
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| Product Reviewed: Get Paid To Build Your List |
| By: Liz Tomey |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Don't ask me why I am a RABID Liz Tomey fan! |
| Date Reviewed: October 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
It still amazes me how Liz Tomey could turn an old yet still profitable topic and make it seem new. She has created another resource that she has compellingly positioned to be so relevant and valuable, that you would be lost in the Internet Marketing world without it.
Even though it talks of a topic that has been hashed, rehashed, ground, sent through the garbage disposal, and even regurgitated, she has taken a trés fresh approach to that topic, repackaged it, and gave us a resource that is verily a survival guide in online moneymaking.
Great points: the Liz Tomey trademark of above-par organization, attractive colors and layout, and excellent content.
Don’t brush this e-book aside with a jaded “I’ve read/heard it before” statement. Look past the seeming duplication and try to see what Liz is telling you and you would see that this indeed is a valuable resource. I assure you, you won’t regret downloading this. At all. |
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| Product Reviewed: Lazy Man |
| By: Info-Publisher.com |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: He ain't know writer, but I think he knows what he's talking about! |
| Date Reviewed: October 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Honestly, he had me at the title.
I have been in the Internet moneymaking business for around just a year now, and I must say that the learning curve wasn’t that steep for me. I had been writing since age eight, so it wasn’t as hard for me to adjust to the lifestyle of writing for a living. But for a non-writer to be able to say that you can write, and make a killing out of it, sans the initial skills needed..
Before, when I was such an elitist, I would probably turn my nose up at such an atrocious claim. So would my “writer” friends who would turn up their noses at writing commercially. And yet this guy has a point. When he said, “People love a story, success story or even a failure,” he really hit the nail right on the head. No matter how you package it, if you just start telling your story, “talking” in black and white, you will have an audience. And if your story, no matter how crudely written it would have been, as long as the spelling and grammar are sound, you would soon gather loyal readers. And this, the author points out, is where the cash is.
If you can type, if you have a computer, if you are inquisitive enough, explorative enough, you are bound to make some cash online. If you have friends, if you have a blog, you will be able to make at least some gas money from the seeming drivel you spit out.
Take it from this guy. He’s no Franz Kafka, Deepak Chopra or Paulo Coelho, but I’m sure he makes enough cash to be able to back up what he’s talking about. ; ) |
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| Product Reviewed: User-Generated Content Handbook |
| By: The Internet Company LLC |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Cutting-edge technology that sets you on the wave of tomorrow! |
| Date Reviewed: October 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This has been one of the most trend-aware e-books I’ve ever come across on this site, so far, and rightly so.
While everyone is still talking of article and content creation, viral buzz and other techniques that are slightly yesterday’s news, this one talks about the bleeding-edge technology of a few months ago, the cutting-edge technology of today.
Written in a convincing and refreshing manner that will surely enchant you to consider the merits of getting into the user-generated content industry, the information here is so comprehensive, that if you aim to start on riding the wave that YouTube, MySpace and the other UCG companies have pioneered upon, this would be a great guide.
A caveat, however, because what is today’s trend will be tomorrow’s passing fancy. So while it is sensible to get a huge percentage of your ideas from this e-book, the best way to go and maximize this is to innovate. Make your investment/project an excellent one, and surely you will succeed. Take Facebook, for example, and you’ll know what I mean. |
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| Product Reviewed: How to Become a Blogging Pro |
| By: Doug Champigny |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Just a correction. |
| Date Reviewed: October 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book certainly is a good guide to a newbie to blogging. Because this is for newbies, it has a for-dummies feel to it. And yet there is nothing in this that the blogging pro won’t enjoy either.
I am a blogger, and so I know the trade by heart. My only complaint with this entire guide is the fact that they recommend that you “plan at least 20 posts” and “create a posting schedule”.
I disapprove of that practice specifically because I believe that blogging is a spontaneous activity and that it is not supposed to be done in such a straitlaced manner. There are breaking-news posts, and as blogging is becoming like newspaper publication nowadays, the posting has to conform to current events and trends. If you plan 20 posts in advance, your posts may no longer be that relevant by the time you have posted.
But on the whole, the e-book is a good read and a good guide. This is just my two cents’ worth. |
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| Product Reviewed: PLR Voodoo |
| By: Simon Hodgkinson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Not really Voodoo. Just plain ol |
| Date Reviewed: October 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This e-book gives you the basics of using Private Label Rights and turning it into your very own cash cow. While it is certainly informative, I just do not like the mess of the different emphasis styles: bold, underline, italics, generously sprinkled everywhere on the pages of this e-book. There is no method to the emphases, and the general visual mess had turned me off.
Yet the one great truth that this e-book has that encompasses everything you need to know about PLR is this: “Sometimes the only thing that separates a HOT product and a dud is the title.” This is one truth in real-world marketing, advertising, and in the principles of branding that is absolutely true in the Internet Marketing world. Translated, it only means that it is only excellent branding that spells the difference between a success and failure in Internet Marketing and elsewhere.
But really, there’s nothing voodoo-ish about this, save for the cover. :p
And I was really surprised when I learned this was from Simon Hodgkinson. I was used to how excellent his stuff were. And I'm totally weirded out that this one was not up to par. |
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| Product Reviewed: Internet Startup Secrets |
| By: Fabian Tan |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Absolutely Good! |
| Date Reviewed: October 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
There are days when you get jaded about Internet Marketing resources, and today was an “OMGWTFBBQ” (To use a friend’s crazy expression. And yes, the “BBQ” does stand for barbecue. :p) day for me. I had gotten so jaded that I will never find a worthy, “Eureka!”-inducing e-book anymore that I was nearly shocked out of my seat when I opened and read this one.
Yes, I’m serious. This e-book was so amazingly done, I had to exclaim that borderline-epithet expression up there. I cannot rave enough with this e-book, because:
1) It is soo true. You do need to work, and work your butt off in this Internet business.
2) The emphasis on mindset is very relevant to this business.
3) An outline of why Internet startups fail was a very salient cornerstone of this e-book. Highly helpful if you want to know how not to fail.
People seem to think that if you are an Internet Marketer, you can, to use some of Fabian Tan’s words, “party all night, sleep until noon, and then make a living in 3 or 4 hours sitting in front of a computer.” Fabian here makes sure that you realize that the Internet Marketing business is not all play. Neither is it all that easy. And yet, he presents solutions on how you can get your Internet business up and running. I particularly love the part wherein he points out that even if this is web-based, you still need a business model. And it is only so true.
I’m saving this in my resource folder for later, guys. You should too! |
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| Product Reviewed: How To Design A Profitable Website |
| By: Dirk Dupon |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: This e-book is genius in a PDF file, why did you not see that?! |
| Date Reviewed: October 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
While I certainly agree that the title of this e-book is a bit of a misnomer, claiming to help you create websites that are profitable while actually focusing on the technical details of website design, I beg to disagree that the information is “limited”. If you want an e-book on how to monetize your site, on how to create a site that will reel in the money, Surefirewealth.com is rife with e-books that talk about the profitability side of website creation. There are way too many books mouthing off how you can make money through websites, and not enough excellent reports as these that talk about how to plan and create your website.
This e-book takes you step by step into virtually all aspects of website creation. If you aim to make a website, do not be without this.
If you want to learn how to monetize or how to profit and what kind of website to profit from, there are other resources around this website. Check out my other reviews to find out the best of them by clicking my name. That should get you started. As for this, I give it 5 stars. Excellence such as this should never be shot down.
And it helps that the author used the Courier New font too. :p |
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| Product Reviewed: Massive Passive Income |
| By: Michael Domeck |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good for newbies + inspiring read! |
| Date Reviewed: October 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
From the very moment you open this e-book, you are treated to a story that has much in it for shock and “hook” value as it gives the e-book a very human feel. The tragic story at the start compels you to read through to the end of that tragic anecdote, at least, then when you come up for air, you would decide to at least sit and read through the other ideas Mike Domeck is trying to sell.
I think that story brings credibility to the entire moneymaking aspect of this e-book because it shows you that “These happened to him, and he was able to get back on his feet through these steps he talks about! Might I be able to use those on myself too?”
That was the question I had asked myself. The methods Michael Domeck is talking about here won’t be new to Internet Moneymaking veterans, but if you are a newbie, these ideas and methods really help. The only downside is that he tends to insert jargon too much.
Believe it guys. This guy virtually rose from the ashes to where he is right now. Most Internet Marketing gurus had gone that way, and he is just another one of those sad stories-turned stories of inspiration and hope. Listen and learn! |
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| Product Reviewed: Marketing Warrioress CookBook |
| By: Jan Tallent |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Yummy and Quick! Dying to try em! |
| Date Reviewed: October 18, 2007 |
When I opened this e-book I was about to write it off as sloppily done. I mean, in this day and age of Flash websites and Flash-based social networking profiles, you’d expect an e-book to be more than a glorified text file in .PDF form, right? However, when I decided to read through the introduction page at least, Jan’s engaging “talking” style had me hooked.
No frills or filler. Just pure, raw (pardon the pun), delicious goodies in recipe form. I had recently told my fiance that when we celebrate our monthsaries, we should try cooking dishes we’ve never cooked before. I never thought I’d find the answer to that dilemma here on Surefirewealth.com!
This is certainly helpful, not just because there are so many recipes here that I’ve never even heard of and will certainly make interesting monthsary fare, what is more precious with these is that, judging from the simplicity of the ingredients and the cooking processes described in the recipes here, you can actually do most of them in under 15 minutes! A bonus for men and women on the go, as is the standard today.
So don’t be turned off by the simplicity of this e-book. This is valuable, and despite the lousy formatting, I’m giving it a 5! |
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| Product Reviewed: Money Bombs |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: categorize the list yourself hehe |
| Date Reviewed: October 19, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Larry Dotson really seems to like his lists. I would have to agree, though, that his lists contain pretty sensible entries, and despite the rather crude presentation, I have to give him credit for sensibility. This is really pure marketing genius, and I believe this is applicable not only to Internet Marketing, this could also be applied to brick-and-mortar businesses.
The list thing has a downside though. Because this entire e-book is just a series of seemingly disjointed marketing ideas, it’s hard to be able to keep tabs on certain tips. I would rather this e-book be still in list form, but organized into several categories. Being random offers spontaneity, but in the interest of being able to locate certain tips, I believe categories would be good. But since we cannot very well make Larry Dotson change the e-book itself, I have a bright idea: get a notepad when you read this, and list down the tips you deem most important. Or, if you’re feeling up to it, you can always categorize the entire list yourself. :D |
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| Product Reviewed: 8 Common Bum Marketing Mistakes, and How To Avoid Them |
| By: Arindam Chakraborty |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: wake up and smell the "nuttie" coffee! |
| Date Reviewed: October 24, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
When I read the Nuttie Bums e-book, it was, seriously, and I’m not just being hyperbolic here, an action-packed experience. From the moment I opened the e-book down to the last word, it was seriously an experience to beat.
Why? Because everything the author said here made sense. And everything they outlined about the biggest mistakes in Internet Marketing are so true.
When it comes to making money online, I think this is the resource to beat. Because the sensibility of the points here, including the frank pointing out of Internet Marketers’ mistakes, these all, well, floored me.
I love the author’s style. The wording, writing style, and the tone was pretty tart. Knocks you back into your senses. With frankness like that, I don’t know what “bum marketer” won’t wake up to how lazy he or she has become.
This also has a part where the author is waking up those who nearly give away their services (hello, ezinearticles) and shows them, that somehow, they are being used. Whoa.
I believe that even on the Internet, hard work has to be done. So if you think you can get away with sleeping all day long and not being industrious enough to put in some work, wake up and smell the “nuttie” coffee. You are being too bum-like. :p
(They said it, not me! Heheh!)
And oh, did I mention that it comes with a free brander? |
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| Product Reviewed: Beekeeping |
| By: Kenny Tan |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good guide to beekeeping; absolutely detailed! |
| Date Reviewed: October 24, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is a great niche resource that you can surely use. With details ranging from the bands on the queen bee down to dealing with bee stings and even how to process honey, you will have in your hands, a complete guide to beekeeping.
Well-researched, with even a bibliography provided on the last page, and a resource list for where you can get the stuff you need to get started with beekeeping, you are pampered by this e-book as regards beekeeping.
I love how even the equipment you will need is discussed here.
With this package, you are treated to an image pack, a sales letter, and the webpages you need, aside from the material itself. All you need to do is to unzip, upload to your webhost, and you’re good to go.
There is a downside, though. No free pdf conversion or branding software inside, like some other packs. Up side: when it unzips, the directories are already open. No more multiple unzip headaches. Yay.
Though I am skeptical about the market for beekeeping, this may prove to be a good resource. If you are a Gold member anyway, just get this and sell it. Nothing to lose. This is good material, and if you want to start a beekeeping effort someday, this may prove handy and helpful.
So yeah, get this. You won’t regret it. :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Paid Online Surveys - A Complete Guide |
| By: Lynne O'Connor |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: In reality, paid survey prices per survey taken are too low.. |
| Date Reviewed: October 29, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Honestly, while everyone else is so optimistic about online surveys, permit me to be Scroogette today and let me burst your bubble. And even if you won’t let me, I will, anyway. :p
What I like about this e-book is that it gives the real picture of the paid survey scenario: it will not make you a millionaire. It also dispenses good advice on how to make a go of using it to make some money.
However, I am not convinced that paid survey work can ever become a career. Because as I’ve experienced, even the big-name survey givers haven’t been paying their survey takers. Even Yahoo and Google haven’t paid their survey-takers though I think those I took had come-ons of financial rewards. At the very least, my complaint is that they haven’t paid ME. Well, I’m not trying to discredit the search engine giants, or “paid surveys”. I’m just saying that I’m skeptical that these could truly work.
I had been a survey site member a couple of years back. They did seem to work, but because PayPal Philippines wasn’t available then yet, it didn’t work for me.
I just researched on paid surveys, and this e-book seems to have listed the credible sites, as a website had listed some of the choices in this e-book as part of the gaggle of legit survey sites.
But you have to be aware that each survey/email you complete actually earns you only a few cents. So while you will really earn, it will take you quite a while. You better just go for forum posting on certain paid forum sites. :p |
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| Product Reviewed: How to Drive Free Massive Traffic Using Simple RSS |
| By: John S Rhodes and Matthew W Rhodes |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: need more info |
| Date Reviewed: October 29, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
First up, I’ve never really taken to RSS. I still do not understand the technology today, maybe that’s why it really took curiosity and a fear of becoming ignorant for me to open this e-book. When I read the first pages, I appreciated the fact that they made a disclaimer that the e-book was not about RSS as a technology. Rather, it was all about how you could harness RSS to drive traffic to your site.
While I had spotted a grammatical error, the e-book was generally easy to read and digest. The only downside was, it was vague at some points. I believed it oversimplified everything, that it didn’t quite explain how it could give you free traffic.
They tell you to sign up for a ping service, ping your RSS feed, then you will get massive traffic. I didn’t quite understand how doing just that will give your website traffic.
For those who are just satisfied with being introduced to a system that apparently works, this is okay. But for those who need to know why things happen the way they do, much like me, we need more info. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Insider |
| By: Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: salient and relevant. |
| Date Reviewed: October 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
What I like about this report is that it doesn’t mince words. Especially at the last part, where it does admit that it’s out to scare the reader to action. If that isn’t sheer chutzpah, then I don’t know what is.
Though there are some stray grammatical errors, I, for one, can ignore them, because I believe that this e-book is highly relevant and sobering. True, there are quite a number of webmasters who are used to backing up data. There are also users of Windows computers, who are so used to backing up because of having to contend with an excess of five times a day of system crashes. But what about us Mac and Linux users who are spoiled by our systems?
I have been so spoiled by the Mac (OS X Tiger) system, that recently, I hadn’t really thought about backing up, except to free up hard drive space. Since this computer hasn’t been turned off for more than 3 weeks, and even then, only briefly, it’s hard to get a sense of urgency for backup, until this e-book.
Though having files on a server is different, as opposed to being on a personal computer, the analogy is still relevant, as all the components of file hosting for web hosting are done on computers.
This e-book gave me a cautionary reminder, before I venture into a website of my own, that it is actually still a must for anyone and everyone to back up. It reminded me that some people I work with have server problems, and it is unavoidable on the Internet.
Relevant? This e-book is. Better keep the principles this puts forth in your mind. If you have a website, you will surely need it. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Making of Auction SOS |
| By: Dan Thompson |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Balance With Research! |
| Date Reviewed: October 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is a great chronicle of how a non-programmer managed to get his own software out in the market without him writing a single line of code. Before I go on with the rest of my review of this, I would just like to get my gripes out of the way.
I do not approve of the fact that he didn’t even know what programming language to have his software written in. Honestly, I may admire marketers and businessmen, but I am not comfortable without being a hands-on person with your products. Granted, his was a pretty simple program. But then, if you don’t even know what language your software will be in, what would you answer possible complaints and criticism of your product?
I admire Dan Thompson’s marketing skills. But I would surely admire him more if he knew a lot more how to make a specification sheet than a diagram.
A restaurant is more than the ambience. You have to get into the menu, then the kitchen, to make sure the food is good and would be liked by your customers. You have to get into the accounting to make sure the profits are not going elsewhere. Likewise, in softwares, a program is more than its GUI (Graphical User Interface). You have to know that the code will be solid and stable, else your customers may come back, dissatisfied because of bugs and glitches.
Another reason for needing to know what the base programming language will be is that you can then gauge the difficulty level of how the programmer will make your software. He may be overcharging for something that was actually simple.
Dan Thompson has excellent marketing strategies here though. I believe that is his forte. So balance Dan Thomson’s advice here with more research, and you’ll be fine. |
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| Product Reviewed: Article Writing Secrets |
| By: Jeff Dedrick |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Great Basic Resource! |
| Date Reviewed: October 30, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
While I surely like the way that this e-book is very organized, has a great layout and great font choice, I am pained by the stunted way that this has been written. I am always on the lookout for great article flow, and this just pains me.
However, on the bright side, the content is highly relevant. From research to writing to editing tips, and even to the point of giving the reader a how-to on marketing his/her articles, this e-book is your one-stop resource for online article writing. As they say, from the drawing board to the newsstands, this e-book is with you all the way. And that would be reason enough for me to totally ignore the stunted way the e-book written style/prose flows.
Another thing I like about this e-book is how it differentiates online writing from print media. Jerry here explains to the readers that while a novel author could have his/her leeway in taking the reader into his/her own world, you cannot do that with online writing. Jerry emphasizes that online article writing is a give-the-beer-now-and-pour-it-into-a-mug-too thing: instant gratification for the reader is the rule of thumb. Having that in mind would save you all the unnecessary words then. This piece of advice also serves to keep your writing focused.
If you need a one-stop basic primer to online article writing, this resource is for you. Download now! |
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| Product Reviewed: SEO Predictions Package |
| By: Jeff Dedrick |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Still quite relevant. Worth a download. |
| Date Reviewed: November 02, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I believe that these guys based their opinions on the trends at the time of this e-book’s writing, and went from there to form their opinions. Though most of these points are still true, actually, the search engine and tech company wars are redefining search engine optimization at an exponential rate. As Web 3.0 enters the scenario, I’m not so sure that these ideas would still be true.
However, this e-book would definitely be good for guiding your website and your online business model for now. You can use this to shape your decisions, as the mentioned trends are still in place. But keep in mind that you have to brace yourself for Web 3.0.
The advice to create unique content is very, very relevant, however, and several, if not most, of the experts echoed that. Indeed, search engines are working hard to eradicate spam, and this advice cannot be dispensed in a more important time than now.
Even though this seems outdated, it’s actually pretty relevant still, so I still recommend your downloading this. |
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| Product Reviewed: Adsense Revenue Exposed |
| By: Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Won't make you feel like a dummy! |
| Date Reviewed: November 02, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
After hanging out in this website for so long, one cannot help but to be influenced by all the internet marketing ideas that just fly around. One of the most-recommended and oft-written-about topics is Google AdSense, along with Affiliate Marketing. Though I have certainly given up on finding truly refreshing content on the topic, I like this one because it’s the kind of resource I can give to my father and not have to explain to him the rudiments of what he’s trying to learn, in this case, Google AdSense.
This e-book is spoonfeeding without making you feel dumb or like a dummy. A great plus is the fact that after the first pages, the layout is good, too. Not heavy on the superfluous, unecessary details, it gives just the right amount of information to satisfy the newbie’s need for facts.
If you want to start an adsense branch to online moneymaking, this is a great start! |
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| Product Reviewed: Sick of the Boss |
| By: JP Maroney & Jack Bastide |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Absolutely Inspiring! |
| Date Reviewed: November 03, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I was expecting an e-book filled with negative gripes and rants about people’s bosses. Rather, I found a collection of rags-to-riches stories of real people who had promise, crash and burned, and finally made their way back up.
Honestly, I could so relate. Because I’m in a point of my life where these people were, before they found success. I know that, as one of the contributors, JP Maroney, said, “..it doesn't get any lower than this. That means we can only go up from here,” my situation will change. These stories serve to inspire me, and remind me that I am somewhat on the right track.
One great point that I also got to appreciate was the fact that JP Maroney was helped on his way by a mentor. I myself got thrust into the freelance world straight from college and I’m grateful for mentors who have taught me a lot: my bosses.
So while the title seems to imply that this is a snark-fest on bosses, this actually is an inspiring volume on how even a dust-poor person can make his or her way to success.
Highly, highly recommended! |
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| Product Reviewed: Web2.0 Secret Report |
| By: KP Yang |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Eye candy, should have better content. |
| Date Reviewed: November 03, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Let me say that this e-book made me feel a little teary-eyed for both good and bad reasons.
Let’s start with the good reasons:
-Great layout
-Great graphics
-Trendy
-Relevant content
Main atrocious reason I nearly cried: the grammar and terminologies used.
Before I snark on the grammar and the terminologies, I would like to say that you can still learn quite a lot from this e-book. The e-book covers trends from the Web 2.0 community, and if you’re not a techie-slash-English buff like I am, then you’d do fine reading this e-book.
But if you are a stickler for accuracy, your best bet would be to read up and not take the content here are sealed and immutable truth or constitutionalized law.
When reading this, better check with more reputable sources, like ZDNet, where technology articles are more credible.
But to the author’s credit, this does give ideas on how to benefit from Web 2.0’s user-oriented social networking website platforms. Another thing is that the diagrams are so much of eye candy that I will keep this e-book for them.
Lovely to look at, just read with a grain of salt, and a lot of side research. |
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| Product Reviewed: The Nettle Magazine - Issue #41 |
| By: David Congreave |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Best Issue Ever! |
| Date Reviewed: November 03, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This issue is probably the best The Nettle mag I’ve read so far. Two articles I’d like to focus on and really commend are the Godfather Marketing and the Viral URL articles.
I like the Godfather Marketing article a lot, because, indeed, who would have thought that the Godfather (the movie) would be a source of ethical marketing practice tips?
But deeper than that, I like the concept wherein Internet marketers are advised to actually give away stuff, to actually be generous. This is not a manipulative tactic, per se. Rather, this, to me, is an act of goodwill that natural law would actually encourage. Because, as many religions advocate, the more generous you are, the more the Universe would oblige and return the favors you gave away a hundred fold.
I think this is great advice because giving away stuff and services serve to ingratiate people to you, and actually make them want to partner with you. And I believe in doing this with sincerity, because people will pick up if you are being a fake; fakeness and being untrustworthy would only serve to scare potential partners and customers away.
The part on Viral URL is pretty timely for me, because I had taken to “decanting” or shortening my URLs lately, using URLtea. Though I like the part where you can choose the names or codes or words for your URL extensions, the examples given were longer, negating one of the purposes of URL cloaking.
I tried the ViralURL system, and it was good, because it actually hides the true URL, even after it had been clicked. As opposed to URLtea and tinyURL, when you click the URLs, by the time the page has loaded, the URL has reverted to its original string.
A bigger plus is that you actually earn from their system.
A timely thing, because I’ve been considering going on affiliate programs and getting a move on on my passive income generation.
I shall use their system!
So back to The Nettle.. Best issue ever!
And I can even overlook the formatting ugliness now. :p |
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| Product Reviewed: 306 Pro Design Website Templates |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: What a Blessing! |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
The first thing I thought when I first opened the pack was, “Oh no not another zip-filled headache!” But other than the fact that all 306 templates were in zip folders, which I’m really allergic to, I was just overwhelmed with the fact that there were so many templates to choose from, and what’s more, they are all beautiful and sleekly done.
My first impression with the templates was that they were tastefully made. Your website will really look great if you use this. The colors do not clash, they are actually well-blended and well-matched. What’s more, these templates are so pretty, I will use them myself.
I had been mulling over creating my own website, and I was thinking of how I needed to invest in a customized template for it. I was dreading the expense, but this was a blessing to me!
I’m one for aesthetic perfection myself, and seriously, this pack meets my standards! Now the only thing I have to worry about is whether these have been created through Microsoft FrontPage. If they’re not, I’ll go ahead and use them! |
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| Product Reviewed: 21 Online Business Headers |
| By: Dee Ferdinand |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Just one teeny tiny complaint.. |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is a collection of 21 absolutely stunning graphic headers that I believe would be useful in any website, whether it’s just a blog or a full website, whether business or personal.
All the headers have tech-themes in them, and there are some that have money graphics: these make them ideal for online business sites, as Lynn says.
And yet, if you’re a tech buff, you would definitely appreciate the fact that the graphics are mostly hardware. From keyboards to laptops to mice and even a webcam, this is really eye candy for the tech geek.
And yet one graphic disappointed me. While I was attracted to it because it was the only pink banner there (filename: nu21_blank.jpg), I was wholly disappointed because it featured a woman that I found a little unattractive because she.. Looked too homely to be up on a banner.
I may be a girl, but when it comes to graphics, I sure would like the Angelina Jolie types.
But on the whole, these are skillfully done, highly attractive, and would definitely be useful to those who do not have time to tinker with Adobe Photoshop! |
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| Product Reviewed: Exit Message Template Wizard |
| By: David Congreave |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good popup template wizard |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is a nice little exit popup page/email form generator with several designs to choose from. The only downside is that you have to upload it to your webhost first to use it, but if you have time anyway, then that should be okay.
I like the way the popups were designed. They looked fun and eye-catching, and there were some designs I really, really liked. The template wizard even had options for you to configure your popups to have either just a lead capture (email signup) form, or have a lead capture form plus one that has an affiliate link on it, or one that has a redirect link, or a redirect link plus an affiliate link.
I believe that this will prove useful to those who want to gather email addresses for a mailing list, and those who are setting up websites that sell stuff. The popups would help you automate the gathering of their emails, so you will have people to contact in case you’re selling something new. |
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| Product Reviewed: Templates In A Box |
| By: Alex Albert |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Download if you need a website AND a product! |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you want the one-stop shop for your PLR or any other sales-oriented website, this is the pack for you. I was actually pretty overwhelmed about the entire thing. It contains scripts for you to customize the website templates, templates for “squeeze pages,” sales page templates, adsense templates and One Time Offer templates. There are bonus software packs in here, so it’s really more fun for everyone.
There are templates that I particularly like. For the Adsense templates, I particularly like Template 001. For the Squeeze Page templates, I like all of them, but the Sales Page templates really didn’t grab my attention. Included in the pack is an e-book on what product would be good to focus on selling and how to position them to really increase sales.
If you’re daunted about how to install the scripts and the software here, don’t worry, there are manuals included and they are pretty easy to follow
On the whole, you have plans of setting up a website, and selling stuff on there, you have here, a one-stop-shop, including the product to resell, even.
So for you to hesitate downloading this would be quite a loss on your part. Unless you didn’t need this in the first place. :p |
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| Product Reviewed: Graphical Optin Template Package |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good Download! |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need opt-in templates but you don’t know where to look, this is the pack for you. This also comes with a reseller page, so if you really do not want to have to make your own webpage to sell your reseller’s product on, in this case, the graphical opt-in templates, then this is really going to be helpful for you, because this is complete in itself.
You can just unzip, upload to your host, and start selling. You may want to configure and customize to your heart’s content, but if you’re the type who has too much on his or her hands and you’re just looking for something to resell, instantly, then this is perfect for you.
You and your customers will be treated to delightful, tastefully-designed opt-in boxes (templates), and you have the master resell rights for these besides!
I like the templates themselves, I like the fact that it comes with its own seller page.
Good download! |
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| Product Reviewed: Ultimate Newsletter Templates |
| By: Ladan Lashkari |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: great templates! |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I’m in template heaven again!
If you are looking for great newsletter templates, then you need not look further. These templates would give your newsletters enough variety to keep your subscribers’ aesthetic palate happy enough. My specific favorite is Template 7, with its lime theme. It’s so pretty and yummy that I really couldn’t resist it.
There are enough templates here to go around for several months of newsletters. I’m sure your subscribers won’t have room to complain, because these are well-designed templates that should complement great content.
It comes complete with a convincing sales page, including other reseller’s pages and tools. It also comes with text Readme files for where you are reassured that you have full, master resell rights to this pack and these templates.
Make your content as compelling and as excellent as these yummy-looking templates, and you will be sure to draw in the memberships and the subscribers! |
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| Product Reviewed: Mini Site Graphics |
| By: Tom Mansell |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Good for a startup site! |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you have no time to create your own website, then this is the product for you. With four templates to choose from, with packs that actually include the PSD files so you can edit the graphics in case you want to, you can set up your own website in no time.
No more headaches looking for someone to design your website for you. You can just unzip, customize, then upload these templates to your webhost, and you will have your very own website in less than a day, I suppose.
I like the clean lines, well-made and attractive graphics, and the fact that they make your work easier for you. It may not be top-notch web design, but it’s attractive, clean, user-friendly and good enough for a basic website. My personal favorite is Site 4, and Site 1 comes a close second.
Not to worry, this pack is fully customizable. Works for the time-pressed, and works for those who don’t want to waste money having a website designed for them, and brain cells trying to design one on their own. |
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| Product Reviewed: 131 Ice Cream Maker Recipes |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: great goodies, stunted language, kinda needs improvement. |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is an e-book that is packed with the yummiest, simplest ice cream recipes on the planet, so prepare to salivate.
While the recipes certainly are original, easy to make and easy to understand, I believe that there is room for improvement for this e-book.
For one, I believe the recipe syntax should be a little less choppy, in terms of the word flow. I mean, I know it’s a recipe, but should you leave out the connecting words?
Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t like reading stuff that make me feel like I’m reading a robot talking. I compared with other ice cream recipes, and the others didn’t sound as robotic as the way the recipes here sound. Also, introductions could be included. It seems to me like this was just a PDF file made out of recipes combined together, not a full-fledged cook e-book.
But still. Get out your ice cream maker and churn out these goodies now! |
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| Product Reviewed: 10 Graphic Design Mistakes |
| By: Marlon Sanders |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: :) |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Fine. I like the layout on the pages of the e-book. At least the uniformity and the attractive play of black plus white plus red. I like the accents and the formatting. But what I don’t like is the fact that the author positively crammed way too much within his e-book’s pages.
They did say that if you were to lead, lead by example. Lynn and Karen are right, Marion Sanders should have followed his own advice. And looking at that surgeon putting on those gloves made me think he was about to do something really nasty. Not a very welcoming first page at all.
Still, I love the red accents, I love the fact that on one corner there he has the website he is doing a critique on, and then there is a pattern to his evaluations and recommendations. I love patterns and he takes a vote from me because of that. More so because he cited .Mac as a design must-copy. It is no secret that I love Steve Jobs’ innovativeness, genius and taste, and anyone praising anything remotely related to Steve Jobs gets my vote. |
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| Product Reviewed: LearningToEarnOnline.com Pass |
| By: LearningToEarnOnline.com |
| Category: Perks - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Go, go, go! So much to learn here! |
| Date Reviewed: November 04, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you want to learn more about the trends in Information Technology, if you want to earn more online, if you just want to feed off information so you can use it to maximize your income, then click the “Download” link. This would lead you to possibly the best learning portal I’ve ever come across.
True, I’m not exactly a newbie at the things they teach here, modesty aside, but even so, I am fascinated about what I have seen so far.
A warning to the techies, however. The course on Windows XP may disappoint you a bit, because you know these things already. I was expecting more, like perhaps nifty tips and tricks, but this is basically for the newbie to Windows XP. Still, it is very informative, and I so love the format.
The gems I have spotted so far are the Copy Writing e-course and the Blogging e-course. I am excited to really absorb the SEO e-course because I feel I will really learn from this.
On the whole, I am just so fascinated and overwhelmed that I can do nothing else but to urge you to become a member! Free or Gold, you will be treated to courses that will blow your mind and help you on in your quest for the big online bucks! |
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| Product Reviewed: Paid Membership to ElistSecrets.com |
| By: Jeremy Gislason |
| Category: Perks - Gold Members |
| Review Title: one-stop shop for email list resources! |
| Date Reviewed: November 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I’ll make it nice and easy for you: the good parts and the not-so-great parts of this website.
Great parts:
1) It’s all your mailing list tutorials and resources in one place.
2) It is highly organized.
3) It has e-courses!
4) I love the color scheme.
5) It has audio lessons and interviews.
The only downside to this website is that the content here can be readily found on SFW. But if you want a place that’s focused solely on email list strategies, then you’ve come to the right place. Just click “ Click Here to Access.” Don’t forget to use the promotion code provided, or else you won’t be able to access the website.
It’s really a one-stop shop for e-mail listmaking strategies. So if you don’t want to have a hard time looking for your email list resources, then this should be the place for you to look for resources first! |
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| Product Reviewed: SavingYourTime.com Regular Membership Pass |
| By: SavingYourTime.com |
| Category: Perks - Gold Members |
| Review Title: nice hangout |
| Date Reviewed: November 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
At first I wondered why there were titles on this website that were not related to time management at all. Then I realized that this wasn’t about time management, rather, this your Internet Marketing resource hangout. The article repository contains articles from the usual Internet Marketing fare down to weight loss program enhancement articles then even to an inspiring article on hope, as related to Internet Marketing.
If you want to pass time and learn at the same time, you should opt for this place, SavingYourTime.com, because it is sure to help you, teach you, let you learn more, and just fill your mind with ideas and inspiration.
The layout is clean and comfortable to be in. If you are at home with the SureFireWealth.com layout, you will find it comfortable here.
I like this place because it’s like a refuge for the embattled Internet Marketer. I mean, with articles on hope, who won’t think it’s a refuge, right? :) |
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| Product Reviewed: Video Skins Template Pack |
| By: David Nayavich |
| Category: Perks - Gold Members |
| Review Title: great for the video-savvy! |
| Date Reviewed: November 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you have videos top put up on your website but you’re worried that the background is plain and drab, then worry no more. These HTML skin templates will jazz up your video players like nothing else on the market. There are 24 designs, from the fun to the elegant, and there are even simple ones if you just want to put an accent around your video player.
What I like about this pack is that not only does it contain the templates, this even contains a PDF file: an instruction manual to help you along in installing these themes/templates.
The instructions in the PDF manual are pretty clear, and tells you which parts of the HTML code (which you will use to embed your player) you should edit, and which parts of the HTML code you should not touch. If you understand HTML in the first place, this should be a breeze for you.
A pack that is essential for the video-savvy marketer! |
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| Product Reviewed: 3 Bonus Software for Gold Members |
| By: Alan Reece |
| Category: Perks - Gold Members |
| Review Title: Too bad they don't accept members anymore.. |
| Date Reviewed: November 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I was able to reach the landing page, but when I tried to join, I wasn’t given a link at all. Most likely, it’s because, as the splash page says, only the first 500 people are entitled to join. Too bad I didn’t make it.
However, when I saw the software they offered, the website does have a fine selection of software for you to resell. Software that is essential to the Internet Marketer.
While I think some of them have functions that are actually already covered by other software, my philosophy on software is that it’s a user thing. Meaning, the usefulness and the preference of the user is the biggest factor on whether the software will be of use to him or her.
With the wide selection of software here, I doubt any reseller will lack for options for his or her avid customers. I personally like some of the selections here, and truly regret that I cannot be accommodated by the network anymore. :( |
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| Product Reviewed: SEO Digger |
| By: SEOdigger.com |
| Category: Internet Marketing Resources & Online Business Tools |
| Review Title: Needs Improvement, but good enough! |
| Date Reviewed: November 06, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I was intrigued with this website/resource, because I’ve seen so many other SEO tools before, and I wondered what was different with this one.
I searched my own blog website, because I didn’t know what this tool would actually display. I found that it displayed the keywords with the largest density in the website you searched.
I found it hilarious in that words that were not intended to be keywords at all, appeared in the results. Totally unrelated words were classified as keyword results. These words were not even placed beside each other in my blog!
I tried checking their manual and F.A.Q’s to see if I read their results correctly, and I have. So it must be an algorithm glitch or something.
What I like, though, is that you can export the results to a .CSV file that is readable by MS Excel or any other spreadsheet program.
I like the comprehensiveness of the “full search for domain name option” too.
I think this tool is best used to determine what keywords your website is actually displayed on Google for.
Though it certainly needs improvement, I think this tool is good enough! |
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| Product Reviewed: Search Engine Marketing Tools |
| By: Marketleap.com, Inc. |
| Category: Internet Marketing Resources & Online Business Tools |
| Review Title: Pretty and fun! |
| Date Reviewed: November 07, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I’ve seen some great SEO sites, but I always thought they were more on the functional side, rather than the aesthetic side. Though the applications and functions are great, they are still so lacking in the aesthetic department. I always have a notion than websites, no matter how great the services or content, should still have great layout and aesthetics.
This nifty website by MarketLeap sure balanced the entire shebang of prettiness plus functionality. The fact alone that it has great SEO tools, like the Link Popularity, the Search Engine Saturation and the Keyword Verification tools already makes it an essential website, but what would keep me coming back is the fact that the pages look great. What’s more, you need only to explore the website a bit and you will find helpful SEO resource articles, and other SEO resources that will be helpful to you.
I happen to like the reports of the tools, because they are in easy-to-understand graphical form. At least you need not grapple with understanding incomprehensible numbers.
Just as a guide, the Link Popularity tool determines the number of sites linking to you, the Search Engine Saturation tool is a guide to the number of your website’s pages a search engine displays in its index, and lastly, the Keyword Verification Index determines whether your website is in the search engines’ top three pages, the most crucial of all, because web surfers and researchers do not go well into the tenth page anyway.
Well I sure had fun exploring this website. Hope you would too! |
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| Product Reviewed: Visitor Tracker |
| By: Crazy Egg, Inc. |
| Category: Internet Marketing Resources & Online Business Tools |
| Review Title: Go CrazyEgg! |
| Date Reviewed: November 08, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This website features absolutely visually appealing website tracking applications that makes tracking your website’s statistics more detailed, more specific, and... More fun.
I especially liked the heat map, because not only is it pretty attractive, it also tells which areas and which links are most clicked on your website. The heat map actually, is much like a real thermal imaging thing, which highlights the “hot” areas on a body or object being viewed, much like in those spy movies. The Crazy Egg heat map, though, plots out those parts of your site that readers are most attracted to.
There are also other tools there, so if you’re intrigued, head on over there. The heat map is not the only thing there. There are other statistics-tracking tools that are seriously fun to look at, but also seriously functional and absolutely useful, like the “confetti”.
While I agree with Lynn that there are free statistics/SEO analysis tools out there, I guess the heat map has been the most impressive app I’ve seen so far, so I’m downright sold.
Crazy Egg! Go! Go! Woohoo! |
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| Product Reviewed: 101 Romantic Ideas |
| By: Michael Webb |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: Seriously melt-your-heart mushy! |
| Date Reviewed: November 08, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Honestly, I had mixed feelings reading this e-book. At first I was really excited to read it, because, c’mon, what girl won’t actually feel butterflies in her stomach when it comes to romantic stuff, right? But when I started reading it, I decided to not read through to the end, because I didn’t want to disappoint myself if my fiance won’t do these things for me.
So I decided to just pass the e-book on to him, so that he’ll get the picture and do this mushiness for me!
And yes, I must tell you how innovative and melt-your-heart-into-hershey’s-kisses-in-the-sun the ideas are. So really, if you are a wife, fiancee, or girlfriend, I suggest that you don’t read this. Just pass it on to your boytoy and cross your fingers that he’ll get a clue.
And I’m really, totally, absolutely serious about you not reading this yourself. Serious! So don’t! Pass this to hubby/fiance/boyfriend, quick! NO PEEKING!
If you peek and read too much, you will cry.. I nearly did! (Or maybe I really just am a mushball..) |
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| Product Reviewed: 101 Recipes For The Deep Fryer |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Just tweak a little and you're good to go.. But you might wanna cut out the skunk.. |
| Date Reviewed: November 09, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Indeed, sinful delights await you with this e-book. From appetizers like pasta nibbles, to main courses like sinful deep-fried turkey, Cajun-style, to even dessert sinfulness like fried Ice Cream and Mars Bars, this is your veritable road map to artery-clogging deep fryer sinfulness.
But while I totally agree with the delectability of this e-book, I would suggest to the reseller that he or she modify the .doc file thoroughly before it is re-printed to .PDF. I suggest the reseller address these issues:
1) The font sizes and the capitalizations differ between recipes. Better make sure the recipes have a uniform style all throughout the document.
2) Like everyone else suggested, a table of contents would be nice.
3) Classifying and ordering the recipes by kind: appetizer, main courses, desserts, food types (chicken/poultry, grains and pasta, vegetables, etc.), etc., would be good too.
Then add your affiliate and other links at the end pages, or put them as footers in the pages of the e-book, and you’re all set for reselling or for giving this pack away!
And yeah, eew on the French Fried Skunk. Was this a joke, or are the French really that fond of such exotic fare? |
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| Product Reviewed: 404 Page Secrets |
| By: Jason Dinner |
| Category: Audio & Video - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: good idea-sparker! |
| Date Reviewed: November 09, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
While I agree with Todd that this is certainly not going to be for everyone, I still believe that Jason hit the nail right on the head with his suggestion to monetize your otherwise useless 404’s.
And yes, I agree with Todd that Adsense blocks would be a better idea, because most web surfers are looking for free information. But why not take it a step further? What about a page that has both adsense blocks and products? Because if you have both, you just may be able to make a sale off someone who is willing to pay for information products or whatever it is that you are selling.
I don’t think it needs a thesis for this e-book to sell its idea. I think that if Jason just crammed everything he needed to say in one condensed page, he would have expressed the idea to you in one fell sweep. Sure, you won’t find a 404 page setup tutorial in here, but if you like, why don’t YOU make that e-book yourself? You might earn from that yourself, right? Why don’t *I* do that? When I get the time to, I guess. But the point is, this e-book is an idea-sparker, and that’s what I like about it! |
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| Product Reviewed: 2006 Quick Start Guide to Google Adsense Profits |
| By: Michael Nicholas |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: crucial resource you shouldn |
| Date Reviewed: November 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Reading this compilation of interviews with men who have made it big through Adsense got me really excited. Some of them shared what helped them “make it big,” while Joel Comm even shared how to put up the Adsense code on one’s website. Paul Kelly let interviewer Michael Nicholas know that even scraped content on a portal could earn you money and you can earn even, say $200 a day, if each of your portals earns just a dollar a day and you have 200 of them.
There are so many secrets in here that if you just have the patience to read through what everyone has to say, especially the men, you would be surprised what you could do with how to squeeze out the most out of the Adsense system.
Though I was actually looking forward to Liz Tomey’s interview, being a Liz Tomey fan, I was pretty disappointed because she didn’t know the technicalities of Adsense. She, however, did give a step-by-step for creating an Adsense profit system that integrates blogging.
Well, if you are like me, eager to cash in on Google’s millions, then you better grab this e-book. I assure you, this will prove essential to your search for ultra passive income.
And oh, this comes with a bonus PDF from Jim Morris wherein he encourages us, with his own inspiring story, to persevere in our efforts. And in the process, he shares his secret to maximum energy: great health, aided by great health products.
I think what he's recommending is pretty sensible, because I have read and heard much about the stuff he's recommending. Just download and read to find out what! I won't spoil this one for you! ;) |
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| Product Reviewed: 120 Lip-Smacking Good Jam Recipes |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: love the recipes, love the layout. yummeee! |
| Date Reviewed: November 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I had been bracing myself for another lousily-formatted cookbook, when I got a mild, pleasant surprise: this one is excellently-formatted! It had a table of contents, the fonts were clean and uniform throughout the recipes, but I actually chuckled when I saw that it did not have a cover page. Maybe it was for rebranding purposes that it didn’t have a cover page? But still, I couldn’t help being amused that these cookbooks always have something missing.
Then I looked at the.. A little over 120 jam recipes, and I couldn’t help feeling overwhelmed at how many these were. I was tickled pink when I saw the first recipe: Roasted Garlic Jam.
I mean, who eats that stuff? Then when I saw that it was meant for pizza, grilled meats and bruschetta (whatever this is), I realized that this has potential. I think this recipe is of Jewish origin, because part of its ingredients lists kosher salt, which is a good thing for our Jewish friends. At least we know that this is okay for them. I might try making a batch of this, in smaller proportions, someday, then slather it all over my pizza. Yum. :)
I love how there was a primer on jam-making at the start. Definitely a great addition.
Now all it needs are: a cover page, an intro, and a conclusion. :p |
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| Product Reviewed: 7 Steps to Job Search Success |
| By: Jason Adams |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: resource you shouldn't miss.. at least for your customers! |
| Date Reviewed: November 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
This is actually an essential for job-seekers. But if you’re skeptical about the fact that you can’t find a cover letter or a resume sample in here, well, let’s face it, this is a free e-book, meaning it’s just a lead to a sale. Click any of the links in here, those at the footer, and you will be taken to Jason Adams’ site, where he sells, you guessed it! Resume and cover letter-writing resources! You just have to admire his ingenuity.
But despite having those two elements lacking, this FREE resource is already your primer for a job search. It prepares you for the process itself. The highlights for me include:
1) The first tip on page 4, which is to get your personal life in order. This advice may be simple, but it’s so sensible, because if you think about it, one factor that keeps people from relentless focus is a messy personal life. With this sensible advice, you get your messy personal life out of the way, in order to focus on this job hunt. Sensible, right?
2) The reminder that no one owes you a job, on page 7. This should spur you to be persistent and resourceful in your job hunt.
True, this is not something internet marketers/entrepreneurs could relate to, but let’s face it, this is something YOUR customers might need. If not this free e-book, you can look for means to resell Jason Adams’ system itself. Heck, if I had the money to use now, I’d do a JV with this guy!
The material is sensible and to the point. Truly a resource worth passing around.. Or even reselling, if you could get Jason to partner with you! |
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| Product Reviewed: Finding Profitable Niches |
| By: Teri Champigny |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: crucial for niche marketing success. |
| Date Reviewed: November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you need your online moneymaking advice/tips fix in a jiffy, this is your perfect resource. With attractive diagrams to aid you in finding that perfect niche market, and absolutely sensible advice that is beyond the usual IM blabber, I am all for downloading this crucial resource.
What I particularly like, besides the sensibility of the advice here, and the diagrams/screenshots, as I mentioned, are the yellow highlights on the most salient advice. That way, you won't need to rack your brain looking for your favorite lines, or to find ways to annotate/highlight your PDF file yourself, right? This is probably the only e-book around that gives you the main gem and the principle that its message revolves around on the first page, and highlighted with yellow at that.
Not just diagrams, tips, and other stuff that you would nonchalantly brush off as stuff you can find elsewhere, it also has the best web-based tools you can possibly find online. Let’s face it, if you comb for these resources on your own, you will most likely spend hours to days before you can stumble upon some of these. Heck, I’m a Google baby and I still learned a lot from this!
Download, READ and keep! Now! |
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| Product Reviewed: 10 New Baby Templates |
| Category: Website Templates - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: steer clear if you can't do HTML, even with a manual to guide you! |
| Date Reviewed: November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I didn’t know what to expect when I saw this title. But show a fecund girl anything that says “baby,” and she’ll gravitate too it, and probably coo, too.
But seriously, I still didn’t know what to expect, I mean, what are “baby templates,” after all? I was thinking they were templates for websites meant for baby stuff shopping or baby care tips or what, but when I saw that these were website templates for parents who want to announce the birth of their babies and add links for baby gift registries too, I didn’t know what to think, all the more.
I am all for gift registries, especially for babies, because we have to face the fact that caring for babies isn’t all that affordable. I am all for announcing the progress of one’s baby. I’m just surprised that these things actually exist. I guess my being a non-parent adds to that.
BUT, on the technical side, here is my take on the templates:
-I think most of them are cute; pretty even.
-But I also think that they seem to be cut from the same mold; some details were just modified.
-If you have no patience for HTML and coding, don’t touch this.
-It comes with a PDF instruction manual, though, so you might want a crack at it if you are patient enough.
You have to modify certain parts of the code yourself, to customize it with your baby’s details. So if you don’t think you can hack that, even with the PDF manual, better steer clear.
But if you can do HTML, and won’t mind 10 similar-looking templates, go ahead and download.
But for me, if you can’t download this for free, you’re better off having someone design your page. Else, use a social networking blog service, like Multiply, instead. It’s free too. |
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| Product Reviewed: As A Man Thinketh |
| By: James Allen |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: The first step off the I-hate-me treadmill. |
| Date Reviewed: November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Everything you need to get your jaw to drop is encapsulated by the line, “Man is made or unmade by himself.”
We all need an inspirational tome on some days. And for this day, this is my inspirational tome. I had been needing something akin to The Secret to give to a special someone, and this.. This was the answer to my prayer.
While the language is dated, while I have to admit that the “you are the master of your own fate” mantra certainly does not sit well with my beliefs, I believe that some of the principles here would be helpful to people who sincerely want to get away from the treadmill of self-flagellation and self-crucifixion.
Even today’s religious leaders already recognize the need for a person to train his or her thoughts to the positive, that a majority of a person’s counseling needs (for the pastoral counselors) actually stem from his or her own self-loathing and negative thinking.
It is certainly fascinating to get to read the root of Norman Vincent Peale’s paradigms. I know this will help people take the first step from negative thinking. |
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| Product Reviewed: Blueprint Guide To Blogger |
| By: Joesy |
| Category: Free Downloads - All Members |
| Review Title: better than good enough. |
| Date Reviewed: November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
If you are interested in making a Blogger-based blog but you are clueless as to how to go about it, this is a good primer. “Joesy” minces no words with his tutorial, and this e-book is complete with screenshots and squiggly arrows and circle/oval figures to highlight the areas you should focus in.
While I would do the same thing: edit the screenshots up on a paintbrush-type application to turn it into an instructional diagram, if a tutorial is on e-book form, it would be nice if the figures are the ready-formed oval, circle shapes and straight lines.
The text itself has grammatical errors, too, but it’s pretty much negligible.
A great touch is mirroring the Blogger theme in the text colors: orange text to highlight certain items.
While the entire e-book is certainly far from fully professional, you have to credit Joesy for being detailed to a fault. A better than good enough resource/Blogger tutorial, if you get my drift. |
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| Product Reviewed: 30 "Short But Powerful" Business Books! |
| By: Larry Dotson |
| Category: Resell & Master Resell Right Packages - Gold Members |
| Review Title: not my thing, but it might be your thing.. |
| Date Reviewed: November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
Larry Dotson.. The king of mini-tips. Tips you can digest in a gulp. Or two. This zip file contains 31 e-books, one of which is a duplicate of Secret Selling Blueprints. The “30 ebooks” PDF file must have been intended to be a primer on these e-books and what they’re for, but in reality, it must have been a mistake in packing the files, or in printing the PDF.
What I like about Larry Dotson’s e-book writing style is that it’s much like a magic-8 ball, where you pick a page and read the tip there, and you have your tip of the day. But while that would be fun on some days, reading through dozens of mini-tips that don’t have a coherent, focused flow may get tiring. And the novelty may wear off.
Also, I don’t get his “Hypnotic Internet Selling Suggestions.” It’s not hypnotic at all. More like Operant Conditioning methods, or a rewards system to get your customers to subscribe or buy from you. Kind of misleading.
But if mini-tips smooshed in e-book form/PDF files are your thing, this is good reading, then. |
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| Product Reviewed: 101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes |
| Category: Ebooks - Silver & Gold Members |
| Review Title: Dying to try the recipes! |
| Date Reviewed: November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lorie Therese Locara |
I always liked recipes, because I’m a foodie, and I was intrigued with these outdoor “camping” recipes. I was wondering if they’d be special, or if they’ll just be the usual food under a fancy e-book title.
I was looking at first for trail mix, because I am a big fan of nuts and cereals. But when I found one, on page 13, I was surprised because the recipe called for both honey and curry powder in one strange mixture. Though I am predicting that that would taste strange, I cannot deny that I am intrigued enough to try it someday.
Another must-try for me is the Antiguan Charcoal Baked Bananas. It’s your ordinary banana with a Caribbean twist: rum. Spices. Sugary butter and lime. I sure wonder how that would taste. Dying to try the recipe. There are such delights as hash with a meat twist, cobbler desserts, and more. I love the organization and the fact that this is rather neat, despite lapses, but what I love more.. Are the exotic recipes inside.
Dying to try them, I am! |
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