For quite a while the bright point of my day was lunch. Hey is this a re-run? My mother used to say I went to school to eat my lunch, now my career is turning out the same?

I was addicted to going to a certain discount store across the street almost everyday at lunch and it really made me feel good to buy nice clothes and other things to compensate for my feeling of dread.

When they moved the store out of the neighborhood there was months of sales on the already reduced prices. I was really lost and bewildered when they finally shut the doors. Cold turkey, baby.

What do I do at lunch now? So I ventured out and walked a few blocks and decided to look at cars just for fun. There was a super-charged beauty, the same make as the older car I had, but newer and an even soupier upgraded version with many more ‘bells and whistles (satellite radio and Onstar to name a few). … Omigod, and it was on sale!

Since the one I had used regular gas, I didn’t even think to ask, just assuming the new version would be the same. Not so. Premium only. You think that is dumb? I was too embarassed to take it back when I found out. Couldn’t deal with another hostile environment even for the day or two it would take to wiggle out.

Besides the interest was really good and the car is a dream. I fell in love with it the first time I drove it on the freeway, and it was just what I needed to feel good, especially when the super-charger kicks in and feels like it is flying.

… but now the fun starts on two fronts. About a month later, my company announces it is downsizing in yet another merger, and horror and ecstacy at the same moment, I am getting laid off! But I have a car payment now! How can this happen NOW?

Just about that same time, gas prices started climbing (and you know they have not stopped climbing for 4 years now). Of course premium is way more expensive than anything but diesel. OK so I got lemons.

Now for the lemonade: I didn’t need to panic exactly, because I had months of severence pay and then unemployment insurance would kick in. I needed time to recover from the post traumatic stress of 6 years in a place that was nearly always hostile from day one and went steadily downhill.

Then I planned to work contract jobs while I looked for another job. I registered with every conceivable online agency and spent endless, fruitless hours trolling the job boards. I got a few interviews that were nightmares, and a few contracts, but I noticed that well, the thrill is gone. I really love to work, but I began to realize I just don’t like the whole dynamic and being vulnerable.

Somewhere along the line, I discovered the concepts of ‘internet home based business’ and ‘work from home on the internet’ opportunities and started to check them out. I tried a few, and spent hours and hours online, and spent even more money trying to find a way to earn an income from home. I was swirling in information to the point of delerium sometimes. Strange new territory…

It got pretty scary after a year when the money was running out and the debt was mounting. Nothing was really working. I would make not-very-funny jokes about maybe I would end up living in my car with a laptop.

…BUT all the while my car was parked (which brings to mind another not-funny joke of mine that you can literally watch the gas gauge plummet). Now it is four years later and Praise the Lord, the car is STILL PARKED 99% of the time, and no I am not living in the car! I eventually found a couple of different sources of income on the internet and I have already matched the income I was making after 15 years experience in corporate.

In learning to write ads and copy for internet marketing, I often mentioned not having to commute to work when you work from home. I was thinking of the stress of traffic and road rage, parking and the nightmare freeway looking like an endless parking lot at most hours.

I even wrote one about ‘you can’t go home from the office when you work from home’. I still struggle with that one, but the main thing is, everytime I see the price of gas, (now around $4.50 for premium here), I realize that the $500 a month I calculated that I saved back in 2004 by not going to work outside my home, has increased exponentially and would probably be $1000 by now!

Bottom line - bet you thought I would never get here ->> is STAY HOME and make lemonade. Keep the money you earn in your pocket and don’t let the gas pump have it! Find a way! If I can do it, so can you!

By the way the ideal way to do this is while you still have a job, starting part time - so that if something happens to your job, you already have a foundation to start with; not to mention a way to survive while you figure it all out. Even if you have to sacrifice some entertainment - make a list of those type of ‘expendable’ expenditures and see how much money you can come up with to create an operating budget.

Make a list of all the skills and talents you have that you made your living with and see how you can do it online, and learn what the various services people working on the internet use.

Get some free online training, find some products to sell, get involved in some organizations, join business forums and community sites and network, network, network.

Hey, isn’t it everybody’s dream to work around the clock? No? Well how about when you can take a nap whenever you want or take a time out to relax or get some exercise? Even a day off whenever you want, my pretty?

Let’s all hoist a nice tall glass of lemonade and make a toast to working from home on the internet with our vehicles PARKED! Cheers!

Patricia Brucoli
Working From Home and Loving It
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com

The same tactics that have worked with internet marketing in the past are continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. Here are the top three marketing techniques that will help you to increase your sales and survive in affiliate marketing online.

1. Unique web pages - used to promote each separate product you are marketing. Don’t take a flea market approach and lump everything together. It is best to have a site lazer focused on each product and nothing more.

Be sure to include product reviews on the website so that your visitors will have a clear understanding of what the product can do for them. It’s also a good idea to include testimonials from users who have already tried the product - Evidence that the product is good. Always be sure to get permission from these customers to be sure they are willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site for the specific product you are promoting.

It would also not hurt to write your own articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Create attractive pages that are compelling.

Or, if you do not feel you have the skills to create pages, one suggestion to help you do this is to join a club that provides content through articles and even mini-sites so you can have one for each product or keyword you are focusing on. If you have a domain and hosting, then it is likely you can add free sub-domains for each mini site.

Here is an example of a club called Profit With Articles that will be launching soon. A club like this will provide content for pennies on the dollar compared to having articles ghost written, and as time is money, joining a club like this will save you both!

Headlines should be exciting and attract the readers so that they will want to read more, and even contact you. Highlight the benefits and features of your product. This should help your readers identify what the product or service can do for them, and they will want to find out more.

Be sure to have a call to action strategically placed and plenty of post scripts. Do not forget their power to persuade, and are especially effective for people who tend to scan from headline to bottom.

2. Free Bonuses and Reports - Offer free bonuses and reports to your visitors. Feature your bonuses at the very top of your page so it they won’t be missed and may motivate people to read on.

Always attempt to capture the email address with an opt-in form and create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. That way you will not lose contact with those that have not quite made up their mind, as according to research, a sale is most often achieved on the seventh contact with a prospect.

By sending your prospects useful information at certain specified periods, you will remind them of the product they thought they might want later and may take action. Be sure that your content is directed at defining the value and features so as not to make it sound like a blatant sales pitch.

Put the main focus on important points about how your product can help them or make life easier and more enjoyable. As much as possible, convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing out on something big if they do not take action. There are different emotional triggers that you can use such as limited time special offers or limited quantities.

3. Targeted Traffic - Focus your efforts on getting traffic that is targeted to your product by the use of keywords. If your traffic is merely untargeted and your visitors have no interest in what you offer, they will not respond.

Write and submit articles for publication in e-zines and article directories. Locate publications that focus on your target customers so that what you have might attract them to your site. Blogging is always a great free way to promote your online business. You will also build one-way links from all of the publications back to your site.

Try to submit a minimum of 2 articles per week, of at least 300-600 words. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that marketing is and has always been a ‘numbers game’ and that only one in one hundred people are likely to buy your product or service. So on average, if you can generate as many as 1,000 targeted hits for your website per day, that means you may be able to achieve 10 sales, based on industry statistics.

Marketing requires consistent action over time to achieve the desired reesult. Don’t rest on your laurels - you need to build momentum and keep it up.

Patricia Brucoli
Affiliate Marketing
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com

Leadomatic is an online lead generation and automated marketing system by Veretekk. Veretekk is a leading provider of internet marketing services and internet marketing resources. Fomerly known as the Hammer, Leadsomatic is the world’s premier standard for effective, ethical online marketing.

Leadsomatic is a fully functional reverse marketing lead generating tool. A reverse marketing tool is simply a submission tool that submits a piece of information about your particular website to many locations. Leadsomatic submits ads to up to 2 billion locations. Your information ends up on sites that are being indexed (or read) by search engine crawlers many times throughout the day including Google. By this you have just done a very effective job at getting the search engine spiders to view your information.

This incredible tool has been developed over a 10 year period by constantly monitoring the multitude of website systems and services that are capable of receiving remote submissions in order to continuously update the Leadsomatic database. The system has grown from 10 million web sites to the current 2 Billion sites contained in the database.

When you use Leadsomatic, you will produce backlinks. Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. Leadsomatic, therefore is a highly sophisticated backlinking tool. When you utilize this amazing program consistently, you will begin to notice an uphill movement of your website. For merely $10 per month, you are getting a lot of bang for the buck.

Leadsomatic is also one of many affiliate programs available through Veretekk for those interested in home based business opportunities. The Affiliates of Veretekk are provided with ample internet marketing resources essential for making money online. You will be able to work at home creating a residual income. Leadsomatic offers a very lucrative income opportunity by combining direct commissions with an exciting profit pool program. Commissions are earned as you signup paying members, and you can be your own paying member.

Patricia Brucoli
Internet Marketing Services
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com

You need comprehensive instructions that include all the details, not just an overview that you have to figure out on your own how to execute. You need an internet marketing program that will:

Recently I have come across something that really seems to have it all. This simple 3 stage course goes through every aspect in an easy to follow step by step process.

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Patricia Brucoli
Internet Marketing Systems
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com

Finally I received one today with the subject ‘Need Recovery Program’ and I felt he was really reaching out for help and I don’t mean the technical or customer support variety. He is so discouraged and has tried so many different ’schemes’ only to find he has wasted a ton of money and feels he has to give up on his dream because he is inept and a total failure.

Brother, can I relate to that! Just about every point he made I could understand perfectly what he was feeling. I am really busy and planned to write to him later sometime but I knew I could not conscionably just ignore him. Then I couldln’t do my work until I responded. It came out rather well I felt, probably because of the empathy and passion I feel. I would like to share it for other lost souls who feel they need a hand to recover their bearings.

XXX, what can I say - ‘been there done that’, or something trite. Some other better things are ’sayings’. Here are a few that are relevant to your situation:

‘You can’t fail unless you quit’
‘Success is just getting past all the failures’
‘Success is still spelled w-o-r-k’
‘Think marathon, not sprint’
‘Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are probably right’

Every single person who ever ‘made it’ failed several times along the way. Don’t beat yourself up -

Here are some observations which I can share, since you have chosen to share your feelings with me, please consider my feedback.

There are some pretty classic symptoms that I have personally experienced and overcome that I sense you too are afflicted with at this juncture:

Information Overload (I don’t care how smart you are, you can only assimilate so may new concepts and strange terminology at once) You need to focus on one thing at a time.

Business Opportunity Addiction - Again this is dangerous because (a) you can’t focus on anything long enough to produce results because you are always on to the next one and the next one, and (b) the money thing.

Marketing Tool Obsession - Same as above plus stick with what is recommended by someone you trust. Realize that most gimmicks simply don’t work - The search engines want valid links and content from a legitimate business/website. They don’t like tricks that make it seem like someone is more than what they actually are.

Fear of Failure - Being self-employed and doing sales or marketing is not the same as doing X job for XX hours to get XXXX amount of money. There may be long periods where you have to keep motivated without seeing any tangible results. Marketing is a numbers game and you have to put out a ton of effort just to see a small conversion.

You can’t allow yourself to get discouraged because it is not only counter-productive but can actually be fatal to your dream.

Near Bankruptcy - self-explanatory

Magical thinking - No such thing as your computer becomes like a big slot machine and spits out cash just by virtue of the fact you threw up a website. You have to market the programs consistently and aggressively over a long enough time to produce results.

Gambling Addiction (don’t kid yourself this is gambling) Don’t gamble with more than you can afford to lose.

The Magic Matrix Delusion (the reason they implode is because everybody thinks someone else will do the work and they just sit there and wait).

There is no free lunch.
There is no magic
There is no such thing as ‘get rich quick’

Autopilot - Something many people misconstrue is the word ‘autopilot’. It does not mean there is no work or learning involved.

Take our program for example. We build you a fully-functional website for free (all you pay is your own domain & hosting).

OK this is automatic for real.
Your site is displayed on the internet 24/7*

The affiliate programs that we ask you to join (4 are free and 2 are optional and not free) will give you affiliate IDs. You give them to us and we build the site with the IDs embedded on the website.

The affiliate programs handle all your sales for you. That is they take the order, they provide the service or product, they deliver it, they do the billing or payment process, they pay the commissions. THIS IS AUTOPILOT.

All of the above does not construe that you sit out by the pool now. Your ‘job’ is to vigorously promote the website by using as many techniques as you can, OVER TIME.

There are many free ways to promote your site - and again I don’t mean gimmicks. I mean w-o-r-k. That is principally by these methods (right now) blogging, submitting articles to directories, posting in forums, all with your URL in the signature to create backlinks to your site from where these are published on the internet.

Search engine optimization of your site content, and all ad copy including all of the above, by the use of relevant keywords. F-R-E-E - NO TRICKS - NO GIMMICKS.

Well I could go on, but I will give you a break. If it is any consolation to you I have never heard of anyone who actually got anything from XXXX Wealth Package and XXXX seems to have removed them. I hear about them several times a day - always in the same context as what you wrote almost word for word. {Never got my $3000 site, could never figure out how to launch it, could not get a response to my support requests}

So my last thing to say to you is YOU NEED TO TAKE A REST FROM THIS - When I started I got so wound up and addicted and discouraged that I had to take a full 3 MONTHS AWAY from my computer. The only thing I did was answer personal emails and maybe play a few games but internet marketing, home business and affiliate programs WAS OUT OF SITE AND OUT OF MIND.

Then when I felt like I could think straight again (clue was I didn’t get dizzy when I thought of the business I so wanted and needed to start), I started in again TAKING THINGS IN CHUNKS, ONE AT A TIME. FOCUSED. RATIONAL. METHODICAL.

I am still no millionaire after 3 years but I am loving my life working from home, making enough to live pretty comfortably (and I could make more if I would just apply myself more). I don’t have the commute blues and the only traffic I worry about is the traffic everyone prays will go to their websites; I have no nasty, surly boss; I take cat naps, get up when I want. You can’t beat working at home with a stick!

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Thank you!

Best Regards,
Patricia Brucoli
Member Support Director
Plug-In Profit Site
http://the3rdpartynetx.com/pips.html

It’s a matter of comparing apples to oranges. I would say it is human nature that it may discourage someone and possibly make them feel like they are doing something wrong, or might as well give up, since they did not achieve what you achieved by the time it took you.

It is also human nature to want some encouragement, and it may work the other way, to encourage those who can’t yet see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Here are a few reasons why it’s apples and oranges.

* What skills did you bring to the table in the first place?

Do you have Computer skills? Writing skills? Marketing skills? Business management skills? Having any of these will give you a leg up over someone who has none of these. So the learning curve is going to be longer for those people who do not.

Note: Key factors here are determination and commitment though, so if you have those attributes, it is more important and relevant than having or not having any of the above skills.

* How much time do you have to devote to learning how to and promoting your business?

Part time? Full time? Do you have a day job? Commute? Are you laid off? Do you struggle with a disability? Do you have a big family or other issues that take up the majority of your time? Are you just an internet marketing hobbyist, satisfied with just making a few extra bucks, or are you planning on quitting that day job and working from home full time?

* What season of the year did you start your internet business?

For example, Summers are incredibly slow for internet marketing every year due to vacations and good weather where people are out of doors or away from home and are not online. So you can see here 3 months in the Summer is different than 3 months in the Fall. So when I say it took me 3 months, with everything else being the same, it could be 6 months for you.

Holidays people are spending money on gifts and traveling and not so much online looking to start a home business or having spare money. The entire holiday season sales can be off.

* How is the economy?

The year I started, the rate of unemployment was 10% so there were plenty of people looking to start a home business, but the year you started it was 5% and people were gainfully employed and not worried they couldn’t find another job if they were suddenly to be ‘outplaced’.

It can work either way with this factor - some people will hold on to every last dime because they are fearful of or even anticipating losing their job, and not want to risk their money starting a business; or they can be looking down the road and say, hey tomorrow is not promised, I better prepare for the worst case scenario and start my own business in my spare time, in case I lose my job.

* How much is your operating budget for your business?

If you are employed and have a little extra money, you are in the right place. If you don’t have a job and are living on disability or unemployment, then you would not be able to start a business right now, unless you are willing to incur credit card debt or use your savings. If you have neither credit nor savings, you are not going to feel like you can risk your rent money (AND SHOULD NOT).

Note: There are many ways to promote your business for free, and some are more effective over time than some of the paid advertising methods; so not having money does not mean you can’t run a business from home successfully - it just means you may need to work a little harder and it may take you a little longer to build momentum. Again - however, determination makes up for anything you may not have otherwise.

More important than competing or keeping up with someone else’s statistics, is doing the very best that YOU can. Set goals for YOURSELF. Make them small, achievable goals so that you won’t get discouraged. Make short, mid-way and long term goals and focus on your target.

Patricia Brucoli
Business Online
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com/

Many who are still breathing wonder where in the world you got their name — I am not joking - even with leads that cost close to a $1! This is why I call buying leads pouring money down the black hole.

Hence, this year, I have not bought any leads in the conventional way. I really don’t need to, because of the great tools that I have discovered that bring free leads — well do the math - at $10 divided by 2 billion - you may as well call it a a free classified ad.

When I tell you that you can actually send the 2 billion free classifieds as many times as you want to, for as many ads as you want to for $10 a month, well, how far can you break down a penny in fractions? .000000000000000000001?

For Example, Leadsomatic is the most powerful submission system online today! Over the years, scores of submission services have come and gone. Leadsomatic is a product of Veretekk functionality that has evolved over time to what it is today.

This incredible tool has been developed over a 10 year period by the dedicated genius’s at Veretekk, who constantly monitored the many website systems and services that can recieve remote submissions.

The best part is there is no doubt where these leads come from because they have responded directly to your free classified ad.

You can sign up for Veretekk’s free silver membership and start using the submission tools to benefit your business.

So, if you are interested in having your own classified ad posted across the entire Internet, then Leadsomatic is for you. With the click of a button you will watch your submission go out to all 2 Billion sites as Leadsomatic goes to work before you can finish a cup of coffee.

With a service this great, why not make some extra money!?!

The Leadsomatic submission system is a service that every online marketer can afford. It offers more value than all other submission systems combined, and costs less than any of them at only $10/month! (no contracts)

You will certainly want to tell your business partners and others about Leadsomatic, and Veretekk will pay you when you do!

Leadsomatic offers a very lucrative income opportunity by combining Direct Commissions with an exciting Profit Pool program.

So on top of doing your advertising for way less than a penny per ad, Leadsomatic will even give you a way to put that $10 back in your pocket by letting you earn commissions on it!

It just doesn’t get any better than Leadsomatic and this is one internet marketer who will never buy leads again!

Patricia Brucoli
Internet Marketing Residual Income
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com

Putting a VoIp application on your website or at least having a link to a live web conference room - or ‘live support’ as it can be known, can make all the difference in the world as to whether your sales page converts prospects to customers.

There may be some piece of information your prospect doesn’t find that is a critical element to them deciding to take action - by the time they run around in circles - send an email and wait for a response, make a phone call and wait for a call back - a million things can happen in their lives to either put the idea on hold or even forget about it. Worse, next time they think about it they can’t find your site, but can find your competitor.

So you need to strike while the iron is hot! Get them while their attention is focused on your site. You can give information in the usual text, graphics, etc., but there is always going to be someone who doesn’t quite understand, or can’t find some detail that they need to know before making a decision.

Most interactive sites also would have a video and/or audio presentation that may spell out the same information in a different way. Again, though it may not answer all their questions.

There are even forums on sales pages, but to my mind this leaves a lot to be desired in the instant gratification area - post a question, keep checking back for an answer? I don’t think so…

If you have a VoIP client installed they can just call you - if you are away they can leave you a message to call them back. It’s a free call either way when you go PC to PC. You have the ease of voice communication with the ability to text chat and send links or files that are related to the conversation. No more - I’ll email you (someday, and it IF you receive it, then maybe…)

A link to a VoIP web conference room would be where you may have a presentation running and even can be contacted when someone comes in to your room, so that you can go and meet them there. Or, when you talk to them the first time you can have them meet you there so that you can hold a conversation with graphical demonstration.

You can try out a VoIP web conference room for free for 3 people by clicking here with no obligation.

You need to get into the 21st Century with your advertising and this means BE THERE NOW, online and in person! As a matter of fact, please get in touch with me if you would like to discuss this. Skype me at ‘the3rdpartynetwork.com’

Patricia Brucoli
Internet Marketing Solutions
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com/

More and more people are turning to home businesses to meet their financial demands. You, too, can be part of this tendency – and you can use the Internet to turn your home business into an online money making business. All you have to do is find your niche and sculpt it, and you can make money through your talents in no time.

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Some earn cash by making money online in order to take care of their children and still make money each month to pay their bills.

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