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Newsletter Changes – please give your feedback

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Yesterday I spent some time looking back through my old ezines/newsletters and discovered that I’ve only written 67 “Letters From Phil” in the past four and a half years.

I didn’t realize it was so few, and I almost feel ashamed about my output.

What it does go to show though, is that unlike the majority of people who write marketing and online business ezines,  I don’t rely on them to make an income, so I don’t have to send you 3 or 4 ‘sales pitches” a week J

Probably (and I haven’t done the figures, so this is only a guess) 90 percent of my earnings come from non internet marketing niches. It might be an even higher figure.

To cut what could be a long story short, because I want to give you the chance to get Adrian’s software before they’ve all gone (you’ll never find a lower cost toolset, so grab it) I want to say that things are changing around here and I’m going to start passing on more of more knowledge, and more frequently.

So I hope you don’t get sick of too many newsletters from me :)

What I’d like you to do, if you can spare a few minutes, is give me some thoughts on what you’d like to see from me, what you’d like to see me write about or do for you.

Do you simply want more newsletters which are a mix of product reviews, news, and advice?

A low-cost member site where I pass on all my knowledge to you?

Ebooks, reports, and other tutorials?

Let me know :)

phil

Facebook friends

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John Reese caused quite a stir recently when he emailed his super-sized lists inviting his subscribers to become his friend on Facebook, and in just a few days reached Facebook’s self-imposed maximum of 5000 friends.

As a spin-off other Internet marketers on Facebook gained new friends, as people new to the site started using the Facebook tools to send out their own invites, and I got dozens of requests .

The whole thing has been an excellent example of how viral marketing works. Personally I’ve been on Facebook for around 6 months, after joining out of curiosity, and although I haven’t embraced it as passionately as some of my fellow Internet marketers I must admit that I find it fascinating at times and spend longer there than I should.

So here’s a little invite from me: if you’d like to become my Facebook friend you’ll find my page here.

phil wiley on Facebook

GadgetSpots update

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A few weeks ago I added the new viral classified advertising system, Gadgetspots, to a couple of my websites, and a few days later recommended the 2-tier affiliate program.

So here’s an update: my ads have now had many thousands of impressions ( I lost track of the exact number, because I deleted a couple of test ads which had a few thousand impressions each and found that removing the ad also killed the stats for that ad) and I’m now seeing a monthly residual income of a couple of hundred dollars from the affiliate program. More importantly I’ve made 3 affiliate commissions from products I’ve advertised on the system, earning me $111 in commissions.

And with impressions growing every day those product sales will grow too. If I was a free member I probably wouldn’t have made the 3 sales, because my ads would have been seen far less frequently.

So I highly recommend the paid membership option. For my previous, fuller look, at Gadgetspots read this previous post.

Donate to Cancer Treatment Center

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Donate to Cancer Treatment Center.

My wayward daughter Kate, who once worked for me as a writer and occasionally contributed to this newsletter, is now running the huge PR team at Envirowise envirowise.gov.uk in Oxford, UK.

A few weeks ago she even had to do a presentation in The House Of Lords under the shadow of Big Ben ( She said it was amazing. I think she was talking about The House Of Lords, not her presentation :) )

Anyway, even though she’s scared of heights, she’s agreed to abseil down the the top of  the famous John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to raise money for the hospital’s new cancer treatment center.

And, if you’re reading this before the 28th April 2008, she’s seeking sponsors/donations.

It’s important stuff people. As you know, cancer is something that touches many families, and when Kate was little I photographed the annual report for The Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia, and I can never forget all the young children in the cancer wards. Some smiling at the camera, some in too much pain, and many of them never growing older.

If you can do something to help please donate at this page.

http://www.justgiving.com/katewiley

Warning: never put all your eggs in one affiliate basket.

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Last year an affiliate program which netted me just under $28,000 in recurring annual revenue closed down.

$28k, which is $538 a week, is a big slice off anyone’s income.

A few weeks ago a medical affiliate program I do well with announced that it was cutting affiliate commissions from 50% (plus a 5% second tier) to 20%. So I had to scramble around to find a replacement. I managed it, but so far the results are dismal.

And now another health based affiliate program I did well with has just shut down with only a days warning.

Affiliate program changes like this shows that you should never, ever, rely on just one revenue stream.

Think of all the people who lost out bigtime when they relied almost totally on Google Adsense. Over the past few years seven good friends of mine, six in Australia and one in England, have had to go back to their old jobs, or find new ones, after Google cracked down on their sites. The same thing could happen to you unless you spread the risk.

So this leads back to Dr. Shearing’s 10 Day Cash Secret because it will help you spread that risk by letting you quickly start new streams.

In fact his previous product, “Passive Cashflow Secrets” perfectly compliments this new tool, by showing you ways to generate passive cashflow from multiple sources.

If you’ve already got it dig out the tutorial videos and watch them again.