Is there really such a thing as "cheap Photoshop"?  The two words are a contradiction.

Everyone knows that Adobe Photoshop is the Rolls Royce of graphic design software.  Well I recently decided I needed to secure a copy for my business and went on a hunt for a low cost solution.  Boy, did I find one!  It surprised me so much that I decided to write a report to share with everyone.  You can get a copy of "How To Get Photoshop for Cheap" HERE or by clicking on the image above.

Cheers,

Matt

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The Top Seven Mistakes eBook Authors Make

-By Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel 

© 2002 Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel
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eBooks are the hottest thing going on the Web right now!

Authors with the entrepreneurial instinct are making anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars per month – that's right, per month – by selling ebooks online.

Why are some authors doing so much better than others? We've discovered seven key mistakes that most ebook authors make (and in doing so, hold themselves back from major success):

1. They don't write to a specific, target audience. 

The biggest mistake most ebook authors make is they don't clearly define, identify and visualize who they are selling their ebook to. On the Web, to be successful, you must write to a specific group of people who have specific interests. Make sure that you know exactly who is going to buy your ebook, and where you can find them online. 

2. They don't automate as many of their business activities as possible. 

Selling ebooks, though it is highly profitable, is not a business where you make hundreds of dollars per sale.

Automate everything you can – credit card processing, ebook delivery, as much technical support as possible. If you can't automate a function, delegate it to someone else. 

3. They don't have a compelling title for their ebook. 

Use words that convey the benefit of what's in the ebook, as well as words your audience is familiar with.

A bad title for an ebook: "Online Marketing for Newbies." A good title for the same ebook: "97 Ways to Promote Your Website – No Experience Required."

4. They try to cover too much ground. 

Many ebook authors convey a lot of information but don't cover anything in-depth. As a result, they never fully explain anything in enough detail to provide any useful value to their readers. This is a very bad mistake to make, especially when it comes to how-to ebooks, which happen to be the best type to write.

5. They are not proactive in their marketing. 

It would be nice if marketing for your ebook simply happened on its own – but it doesn't. You have to do it yourself.  After you've promoted your ebook to the people on your own mailing list (if you have one), then you have to contact other Website owners and persuade them to be your affiliates. You should do this continually.

6. They don't differentiate their ebook from its competitors. 

When you choose your topic, even if there are a hundred other ebooks out there on same general subject, choose an angle for yours that will make it easy for yours to be distinguished from the others.

For example, right now job-hunting ebooks are very popular.  There are dozens that are big sellers. "Secrets of Breaking Into Pharmaceutical Sales" has a very specific title that sets it apart from the competition, and is aimed at a clearly identified target audience. Incidentally, it's selling very well itself.

7. They write ebooks that nobody will pay for. 

Many ebook authors write about information that either people can get for free, or that people are not actually interested in enough to pay for the information. 

Before you invest weeks or months into the writing of your ebook, invest a little time investigating whether other ebooks in the same subject area are selling on the Web. 

So, there you have it – the seven big mistakes to avoid. Remember, the opportunities are plentiful – and huge – right now for anyone who wants to become a best-selling ebook author. Simply use common sense, follow our advice, and let your literary career flourish!

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Secrets Exposed: How to Make Massive Amounts of Money in
Record Time With Your Own eBook (whether you wrote it or
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ebooks on the Web. 

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5 Costly Viral Ebook Mistakes (Or, How To Make Viral Ebooks Work For You) By Jimmy D. Brown

If I had only known, I wouldn’t have made these mistakes.  But I did.

For such a small word, “if” sure does cause a lot of problems, doesn’t it?

    “If I had not turned off the alarm clock, I wouldn’t have overslept.”

    “If I had paid attention to what my wife said, I would have not shrunk my 100% cotton shirt three sizes too small.”

    “If I would have taken the time to fuel up, my car wouldn’t have run out of gas out here in the middle of nowhere.”

    “If I had charged up the battery on my mobile phone, then I would be able to call AAA to bring me some gas out here in the middle of nowhere!”

See what I mean?

“If” is such a tiny word.

But it’s like dynamite.  It packs a lot of punch.

For me, as I teach (and learn myself!) about viral eBooks, the phrase is this:

“If I had only known, I wouldn’t have made these mistakes.”

You see, I made MANY costly mistakes in my early viral eBooks.  Mistakes that are *literally* costing me thousands of dollars in profits right now.

And there is nothing I can do to change them.

Once you set a viral eBook into motion, it’s impossible to get it back and make corrections to things ya screwed up on.

Man, if I could go back into time and change some things.

I have learned the hard way some things you DON’T want to do with viral ebooks.  

That’s what we’re going to take a look at here.

I’ve made ‘em all.

You don’t have to.

Don’t do this…

1. Never use any link inside the content that you can’t control. 

I learned the hard way that you should always use redirect links from your own domain when putting any kind of link inside your ebook.

For example:  most people insert their affiliate link for an affiliate offer inside the ebook that they have put together.  The one that was given to them by the affiliate program owner.

Instead, you want to link to a page at your site that refreshes and redirects the visitor to your assigned affiliate link.  Something like this… http://www.yourdomain.com/brainstorm.html
This is important so you can CHANGE the link anytime you want to in the future.

    For example:  If I decided to no longer use ClickBank to handle my affiliate program and went with a different affiliate tracking link, what happens to the thousands of copies of your viral eBook that are in place with that old affiliate link in there?

They become obsolete, unusable and unprofitable.

Or, suppose you are linking to a dating service that goes out of business?  What now?
Your links are toast.  They are worthless to you.

With a redirect link you can easily adjust the target page and send the traffic to a different dating service, or to a page at your site. With a redirect link the changes are made at YOUR SITE, which you remain in control of regardless of what happens with the products and services that you linked to.

Even if you change hosts or servers, you still remain in control.

You don't have to make changes to all of those eBooks — which would be impossible to do — you simply make a 2 minute change at your site.

I can’t tell you how many dead links are in some of my earlier ebooks that continue to give me headaches as people email me saying, “Jimmy, you’ve got a dead link here … can you give the correct link?”

It creates a lot of extra work in answering emails and certainly is throwing away potential profit for the countless people who never bother to ask for an updated link.
So, never use any link inside the content that you can’t control.

Always use redirect links.

2. Another thing is you want to avoid using dated information by providing too specific details.

Affiliate program A may not be offering that free 30 day trial offer very much longer.

The price for admission to that special site may not always be $29.95.

That site that was “just released last week” may have become an all-time classic by the time Bob reads your viral ebook two years after it was released.

You want to make certain that you stay away from information that is too specific that can easily become irrelevant.

Again, I get emails all the time griping about inconsistent prices because I put a price for the Profits Vault membership into one of my early viral ebooks and that price is no longer valid.

Hasn’t been for almost two years.

I’ve even gotten ugly emails accusing me of fraud and false advertising, with threats to turn me in to the attorney general and all kinds of nonsense.

So, be careful that you don’t date your viral ebook if you can avoid it.

3. Another no-no is to never put any information into your ebook that you don’t want all over the world.

These things travel folks and they can be global in a matter of days and certainly over time you can easily have a worldwide audience.

I made the mistake of putting my cell phone number in one of my earlier ebooks because everyone claimed that if I didn’t have my contact information in there,  no one would buy from me… which is nonsense I might add.

Anyway, I started getting all kinds of calls at all hours of the day.

What was 3:00 in the afternoon in the Philippines was 3:00 in the morning where I live.

So, it was a nuisance.

Kind of a funny story came out of it.

I disconnected that number, of course, and got a new one.  That was almost 2 years ago.

Well, about a month or so ago I had a lady email me and she was hopping mad.

Apparently, she had ordered a cellular phone and got my old number… and folks were still calling!

She told me that she was getting calls from England and all over looking for me and they were running her cellular bill up with charges.

She wanted me to do something about it and all I could do was tell her “I’m sorry, there’s nothing I can do”

With viral marketing, it’s pretty much unstoppable, which is why it is so effective.  It keeps spreading and it’s hard to stop the growth once it gets going.

So, never put anything into your ebook that you don’t want the world to know and  use.

4.  Another thing is this … always have your carriers do the branding.

You want to automate the process as much as possible.

Again, I learned the hard way.

Early on, before there were all of these branding tools available, I hand customized each ebook.

And as they began to spread, the customization requests grew to be way too much for me to handle.  I was spending most of my day putting together these customized viral ebooks for each new person that requested a copy.

That had to change and so now I use branding tools and branding instructions.  I give them to anyone who wants to customize the ebook and I let THEM do the work.

Keeps me out of the loop completely.
So, unless you have some specific reason to do it yourself, place that responsibility onto the ones who want to distribute the viral ebooks. 

5. One more thing I want to share.  Always launch new browser windows with your links in your ebooks.

Whenever you link to a site within your viral eBook content, always remember to code that link to launch a new browser window when the reader clicks on it. I learned this the hard way.  There are many scripts involved in the order-taking process at online credit card processing sites.

And many of those have caused glitches in the eBook due to the software the eBook was created with and it crashes the eBook, making it impossible to order.

So, what happens is this.

You do your job well.  The content is great.  You've got a hungry customer waiting to buy.
They click on a recommended product link.  They arrive at the site still inside your eBook window.  They click on the order link and the entire thing shuts down.  I mean completely shuts down the ebook and website altogether.

And, in some cases, it even crashes the computer. You just lost a customer because two sets of code didn't like each other.

That has happened to me on MANY different occasions in some of my early ebooks.

Now, all of my links launch new browser windows OUTSIDE of the ebook if you click on a link inside the ebook. All you need to do is insert a simple line of code into your links inside the eBook.  The code looks like this…

Target="Resource Window"

Now when someone clicks on your link, a new browser window will launch outside of the eBook itself before taking them to the website.  Now, you're safe. EVERY link in your eBook should have this code.  You can thank me later.

(NOTE: IF you are using a PDF maker for your ebooks, you should be fine with your links.)

Viral eBooks are tremendous tools.  But, there are also some pitfalls associated with them.

I’ve just shared five of the mistakes that I have made.

There is just no way of measuring how much profit I have lost over the years due to those errors.

There wasn’t a manual available to tell me how to do it.  History hadn’t really been recorded at that time to tell me what to stay away from and what to make sure I did in order to protect myself from problems.

So, you’re getting something that I didn’t have.

Aren’t ya happy?

In all seriousness, don’t make the mistakes that I made.

History doesn’t need to repeat itself on this one.

Want to learn a NEW viral ebook strategy that isn't outdated and overused? Check out "How To Get Free Traffic With PLR Reports " by clicking here .  You'll learn a great way to get free traffic to any site you choose with free "private label rights" reports. 

Free reports are hot items today among Internet marketers. Most of the very savvy ones have discovered just how valuable a free report can be and how it can serve to help build those all-important opt-in lists.  Free reports do help to build opt-in lists, that’s true, but they can serve other purposes as well.

A good free report is something that your average, garden-variety Internet surfer actually seeks out all by himself. You never have to beg people into taking free stuff.  When a surfer is looking for information on any given topic, the first thing they usually look for are free reports on the subject.  People do pay for information but only after they have gotten the free information first and are looking for more specific and detailed information.  One thing that you can absolutely count on, though, is that people will download and read free reports if they are interested in the topic of the report. That’s a given.

The real question is, in addition to obtaining an other email address for your list, how else can you benefit from your free report?  Content does matter, and if you are providing quality content that is relevant to your new prospect, it will go a long way towards future sales.  However, to really benefit from a free report, you need to make it attractive to affiliates to send to their lists and promote on their websites.  To do this, you need to make it rebrandable so the affiliate can actually embed his/her affiliate id into the report, so that any link the prospect clicks on will be cookied to that affiliate id.  Now instead of relying on organic traffic to draw the prospects to your report, your report will actually be pushed to prospects by your affiliates. 

I'm sure you can see the power in that.  And that's exactly where Go Viral Reports can help.

Finish Strong,

Andrew

PS:  Don't forget to grab your free report before you leave

Adobe Photoshop is well known to be the industry leader in graphic design software. No other application compares to the power of Photoshop and no other application is more widely used by professional graphic designers. That being said, the only limitation to Photoshop comes in the way of price; at $600 average per application, Photoshop is by far the most expensive application on the market today.

How To Get Save on Photoshop

Is there such a thing as cheap Photoshop? The words "cheap Photoshop" are definitely a contraction. Most budding online entrepreneurs not interested in outsourcing graphic design need an application like Photoshop. Anyone interested in purchasing it will seek the lowest cost solution.

Googling "cheap Photoshop" will bring up 13.9 Million results. Many of those will be offering so called OEM software. OEM refers to Original Equipment Manufacturer, and OEM software refers to software that is sold to computer assemblers and hardware manufacturers in large quantities, for the purpose of bundling with as a complete computer system. OEM software may also be a fully-functional version that can be bought at a discounted price with a new computer because the system assembler sells in large quantities and passes that savings on to the buyer.

Is it legal to purchase OEM software? It's actually difficult to say as it is a grey area. You definitely need to do some research. There are many limitations and conditions but there are exceptions that allow a supplier to sell OEM software (business liquidation auctions for example).

Here are 12 warning flags to watch out for when purchasing cheap software online:

• The price is way out of line from the prices offered by authorized resellers.
• The supplier has a FAQ on their website trying to justify how they are legal.
• The suppliers "terms of sale" has a statement that you give up the right to initiate a refund through your credit card company.
• If you are required to use a special number (not the serial number) for activating the software before you can use it.
• You received by unsolicited email (spam) trying to sell to you.
• The software is advertised as an OEM, NFR (not for resale), or academic version.
• The software is advertised a "full version" but states that you will receive only CD's.
• The software is advertised as a "backup copy" with serial number.
• The supplier states that the software can't be registered.
• The suppliers website does not use a proper domain name, but a series of numbers instead.
• The supplier does not provide a full business name, street address, or phone number.
• There is no warranty or refund policy available to you.

Be cautious when purchasing cheap Photoshop software (or any other application for that matter) and read up on the limitations and legalities of the threat of pirated software and what it means to you. There are legitimate online businesses selling OEM software but they can be difficult to spot in an ocean full of pirates.

How To Get Save on Photoshop

Anyone who has researched viral marketing knows there is a simple method to generating loads of traffic and potential sales:

1. Create a short PDF ebook or report
2. In the document, link to an affiliate programs
3. Allow your affiliates to brand the report with their own referral ids.

It's a powerful approach to list building and attracting an army of affiliates!

However, it sound simpler than it usually is.  Here is why…

The tool you use to allow these reports to be rebranded probably is super-hard to learn how to use, only works on certain computers, and will end up causing you and your affiliates headaches.  The complexity of the rebranding process is a huge turn off to affiliates, and it cuts way into the viral report's effectiveness.

There is a lost opportunity to attract quality affiliates that understand the importance of using [Read more...]