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Sorry I haven’t been sending anything much out lately.  Life has been really crazy for me, as it is for many folks today.  I hope things are going well for you!

Rumors are that holiday shopping will be down this year, in part because I think people are just burned out on all of the “noise”.  It’s also partly because people have downsized their driving habits because of gas prices.  Oh, and there’s this “economy thing” going on.

The Good News in all this is: sales of stuff online is expected to hit record levels this holiday season.  Bad news for retailers, but good news for you and I!

If you don’t have a site set up to capture sales, put one up today.  Stick on some links to Amazon products you like, maybe some links to eBay auctions, and get some traffic.

There are tons of ways to get traffic. One is to put up reviews of things.

Here’s a really great, and inexpensive, Wordpress theme designed specifically to let you set up review sites:

http://is.gd/7oku

It uses Ajax widgets to create a very “Web 2.0″ish experience for your visitors.  Just find things on Amazon
that you’re familiar with, put up an affiliate link and a nice little review, and see what happens.

You’ll need some traffic, and this handy little set of videos offers some great ways to leverage “Web 2.0″ tactics to generate lots of traffic:

http://is.gd/7o0O

I’m going to be promoting more stuff like this over the coming weeks, for two reasons.  One is that I’m feeling the economic crunch just like everybody else, and I hope that you find some of these products to be useful in YOUR online efforts.

The second is that most of the programs I’ll be promoting not only pay IUNSTANTLY, but they have affiliate programs where YOU can sign up and get paid instantly for YOUR promotional efforts as well.

My cashflow has slowed to a trickle, and I can’t afford to wait until January for affiliate commission payments!

So I figure the best way to make some money is to help YOU make some money — RIGHT NOW.

Got any comments or anything in particular you’d like to see?  I’d love to hear about them!

-David “The Tool Wiz” Schwartz

After using Twitter for almost a month now, I think it’s rather interesting and will keep using it. I seem to gain about 10-12 followers a week somehow. I have to admit that I don’t know most of the people following me, which is actually a rather strange experience for me.

For the uninitiated, Twitter is what’s known as a “micro-blogging” platform. It’s like a blog, but you can only post 140 characters at a time. And some of that space is taken up by your own name. You can find out more at http://twitter.com. You can search for me as “thetoolwiz” and follow me. (I don’t post a whole lot.)

If you’re looking for a handy guide to working with twitter, try this: TwitterProfits . In this post I’m reflecting on some of my experience using Twitter for the past month.

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