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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

I’ve recently launched a new program I’ve been putting together for over a year. It’s called the “4-Step Wealth Building System”. It’s broken into 4 steps:

• Learn to manage your credit profile
• Expand your income with a home-based business
• Set up a business entity and qualify for credit in the business’ name
• Set up a business in your IRA and grow earnings tax-free

We’re just launching the first two steps now. Go visit my site: Ninja Credit Solutions and you’ll probably learn a few new things you didn’t know about your credit profile. There’s a nice video I made that’s about 40 minutes long, and some additional pages that let you get involved in some way.

Basically, you have the choice of a killer software app that helps you deal with your credit profile; it’s $47.

Next, we have a one-year coaching program. It’s not actually open yet. Rather, we’re enrolling people into another plan and crediting you with the enrollment fees each month towards the coaching program.

This part is about learning how to manage your credit profile.

If you’d like to make some money, then that option is available also. And, as a special bonus, we’ll give anybody who signs up 50 leads to call. These are phone numbers of people who’ve left messages after seeing a sign that says: “Credit Restoration $47 1-800-555-1234″. They’re converting at about 15%-20% (one in every five to seven calls).

Our goal is to ensure that people will have earned MORE within 30 days than it cost them to get started.

Learn to manage your credit profile and make money while you’re at it! What could be better?

Also, when you opt to make some money, we’ll set you up with a clone of the site you see at Ninja Credit Solutions only with YOUR links in it rather than ours.  It’s all included at no extra cost!  All we ask is that you do what the Coach tells you to do.

Are you looking for a way to earn $10,000 or more a month on a consistent basis?

This isn’t a gimmick or some kind of scam. I wouldn’t even say that it’s easy. Well, for some folks it will be. But for others, nope.

There’s a package I recently got to review that talks about how to make $10k in a weekend. Technically, that’s true. If you’re fairly aggressive, you can do that every month. And you can probably even earn more than that.

If you’re a REAL GO-GETTER, like someone who can build a small team and manage several projects at once, you can EASILY make two- to five-times that every month.

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There are literally thousands of ways to make money online. One of the most solid business models to ensure a continual monthly income is a subscription based membership website.  This article presents an interesting perspective on how to accomplish that.

In these situations, members pay a monthly fee for access to a private member’s area where they can access your information. You can provide a variety of information in as many formats as you choose. You can offer articles, reports, audios, videos, teleseminars, downloads, software, almost anything you can imagine.
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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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I’d like to call everybody’s attention to something that all internet marketers need to be aware of and keep an eye on, whether you’re involved with this particular business or not. The reason is that the CA Attorney General has decided to declare war on companies that sell web sites for money-making purposes and are coupled with monthly maintenance fees, especially when most of the buyers either mis-interpret what’s being sold and/or fail to take the action needed to earn any money from those businesses.
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I’ve been listening to a terrific audiobook version of a new book entitled Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

This is a really fascinating account of several experiments done by the author, Dan Ariely, who’s a “Social Economist”. If you think this stuff is boring, you’ve got another thing coming. Actually, the audiobook version is quite fun to listen to. The guy reading it has a nice British accent, and in many situations it’s really amusing.

If you’d like to learn some new business strategies that work because of the way people just tend to act, then you really want to read this book.

One example they discuss is a strategy for “getting the guy/girl at a party”.

There’s also an excellent discussion on “Why People Cheat” and how you can predict when it’s most likely to happen.

The audio book contains 7+ hours of material, and it would take quite a while to go through it all. Just visit the link here and see what else it contains. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

Phishing fradusters are everywhere.  I get “PayPal Fraud Alerts” several times a week.  I get stuff from banks I’ve never heard of, and banks I don’t do business with.  But the ones you need to be most careful of are the ones you DO work with.

Well, I just got a Phishing spoof purporting to be from Google advising me of the following:

Dear Advertiser,

This is your official notification from Google AdWords that the service(s) listed below will be deactivated and deleted if not renewed immediately.

As the Primary Contact, you must renew the service(s) listed below or it will be deactivated and deleted.

Renew Now your Google Search Advertising services.  <<— FRAUDULENT LINK!

SERVICE: Google Search Advertising
EXPIRATION: July, 23 2008

Thank you for using Google AdWords service.
We appreciate your business and the opportunity to serve you.

Since your Google AdWords account is tied not only to credit cards but to stuff that can cost you a LOT OF MONEY if it’s messed with, be VERY CAREFUL with these kinds of things!

Do NOT click the link!  Rather, go to your AdWords account the way you usually do (adwords.google.com) and see if you get any kind of notice when you login.

Personally, I’ve never been advised that my AdWords account needs to be renewed — only that my credit card is expiring and that I need to update my records.

Be informed, and be careful.

-David “The Tool Wiz” Schwartz