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How to Make Year 2008 a GREAT Year for You and Your Internet Business

Here's a Comic to Spice up Your Christmas – and Jumpstart Your 2008!

Hope you’re doing great and enjoying the Christmas holidays! :-)



My friends Edmund Loh & Vince Tan have a hilarious comic to share with you. It certainly did lighten up my mood and I think you should take a look at it too!



It doesn’t just stop at the laughs though; there’s a strong, inspiring message behind it and it has to do with how you can make Year 2008 YOUR YEAR.



Whether you’re young or old.



Whether you juggle a full-time job or you’re unemployed.



Whether you have superior technical skills or just basic computer literacy.



And number of years of experience under your belt is NO longer a requirement to succeed online.



These boys have proven.



Go read this comic for a couple of laughs and be sure to see Part 2 after this!







Click here to see the rest of the comic in full.



Talk real soon and a Happy New Year

IMC Course on Special Offer from Derek Gehl

I received this email this morning -

I just got an email from Derek Gehl I had to tell you about.

Get this...

Apparently, a whole stack of boxes containing his "Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet" courses fell over, and almost landed on one of his employees!

(I can see the headlines now: "Internet marketing guru turns warehouse employee into human pancake.")

Keep in mind that just one of Derek's courses contains
850+ pages, plus DVDs, CDs, booklets, and tons more...
So having one of them landing on your head would NOT be pleasant!

Anyway, Derek told me his employee was ok... but his courses weren't so lucky. Apparently most of them were slightly
*damaged* from the tumble.

A few scratches here and there, the odd dent, maybe a bent page. Bummer!

But Derek is famous for being a perfectionist, and he thinks those copies of his step-by-step "Insider Secrets"
course are not quite pristine enough to sell at the regular price.

... So he's going to give them away at a HUGE discount!

Dented copies of Insider Secrets


Just in case you haven't heard of "Insider Secrets"
before, here's what you need to know:

This Internet marketing "bible" has been the best-selling guide to how to grow your own money-making Internet business from scratch for more than 10 years running for one reason -- the strategies inside WORK! -- and it's been updated with brand new strategies for 2007.

So if you're willing to overlook the odd scratch on the cover or the occasional dog-eared page, this is your chance to get your hands on the exact same information that 1,000s of regular folks have already used to generate full-time incomes of $50,000... $100,000... even $250,000 (and more!) per year on the Internet from the comfort of their own homes...

... And you can get the blueprint they followed for a small fraction on the regular price they paid!

There's just one catch: Derek only has 267 'damaged'
copies up for grabs, so don't delay. *This offer is strictly first come, first served basis.*

http://www.clickcommerce.co.uk/recommends/dingsanddents

To your success,

Derek Gehl
The Internet Marketing Center

P.S. If you've been dreaming about starting your own successful Internet business, but lack of cash has been holding you back, this is your perfect opportunity to get your hands on ALL the tools you need to start your own highly profitable Internet business and earn a life-changing income...

... WITHOUT a big upfront investment!

So hurry, before those 267 copies are gone! Go to:

http://www.clickcommerce.co.uk/recommends/dingsanddents

PS - if you're wondering about the jewelry, check out Hebridean Jewellery for further information! Highly recommended as well.

Coupon codes for Hats - and Pyjamas

Have a great Christmas - and enjoy our Christmas Shopping Suggestions.

My mini challenge - 100 members before the end of December

When is a web ring not just a web ring ???


.... well, when it's called Blogrush, it's a web ring on STEROIDS!

When you look at Blogrush model, you'll see that, although there are a variety of sophisticated tweaks to this, actually what John Reese created was a web ring. It's not pulling in the titles of sites, just the RSS feeds from new posts; they are shown on related web sites using a small code widget that you place into a web template; where it gets a little trickier is that it's a bit of a pyramid in that early adopters recruiting new members get the benefit of huge downlines. It also suggests that the last folks may have a much harder time getting traffic as all they're doing is adding fodder to the early recruits.

So, What does that tell you?

Well, firstly that the model of web rings hasn't died and gone to Net Heaven! It looks like they may well be valid methods of creating back links, spider fodder and web traffic.

So, you're invited to join my new web ring at The Marketing Web Ring - and we'll give this a good test! You're welcome to add sites, old and new - heck this code even goes into a Squidoo lens quite happily. No porn, racist, illegal, dubious sites will be accepted.

So what's my challenge, you might ask?

Well, I'd like to get 100 sites into this web ring by 1 January 2008. That doesn't seem like too big a mountain to climb!

If you'd like to help me get there and test out this theory, please join.

You have to register for an account, then, once you activate it from the email sent to you, you get the opportunity to add a site to the ring. I approve the site - and that's it, really.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Trip to Tarbert, Argyll

Rhod came to visit us a few days ago and we had an away-day to Lochgilphead, Crinan and finished at Tarbert in Argyll.

This is Tarbert - with a lovely yacht sailing through the entrance to the harbour. When they dropped anchor, there seemed to be several folks on board who were having a great time.

The west coast of Scotland was looking beautiful - and it's lovely going to see what activity there is at Crinan. This is the view from the banks of the Crinan Canal.

If in Doubt - Read the Question

I had a complete DUH moment on Thursday.

I was due to go to a client to do some work for their web site; I was harrassed, I had other stuff to do before I got there. So, feeling slightly distraught, I jumped into our van and set off - when the low fuel warning light came on!

£$%*&^$V**** .... or other slightly offensive words!

In fact, it wasn't a biggie - I just drove into the petrol station and drew up at one of the fuel pumps; joy of joys, I couldn't get the fuel cap off - it's one of those lockable ones and I always have a battle with it. Then the kindly gentleman in the car on the other side of the pump said

"You ok, hen - you need a hand?"

I looked up, thankful for a friendly voice, only to realise that he was talking to his wife who was filling up their car with fuel.

Hmmm -

At that point, the fuel cap disengaged itself from the van and I reached for a pump to fill up the tank, paid for the fuel and set off on the 40 mile trip. The van started to run a little rough, but I made the trip satisfactorily and sat down to do the business.

After a couple of hours, it was time to go. I jumped into the van and tried to start - and it wasn't going to fire up at all. Then someone said to me - you did put diesel in the tank?? ....

Smart alec!

Of course, when I checked the fuel receipt, I had put petrol into the diesel tank. AAAAAAAAAAArgh.

I called the rescue services who towed me to a local garage where they drained the fuel tank. They asked if I was waiting while the work was done so I said "Yes", asked where I could get something for lunch - and wandered off.

The moral of the story - I should have checked to make sure that I had hold of the diesel pump instead of the petrol one. I assumed it was correct - and it was a costly mistake. That is one of the mistakes made by the young apprentices on the Apprentice program. Quite often they tackle the task they think they have been asked. Speed and inattention aren't very good bedfellows - and can be expensive in all kinds of situations.

So, my old aunt was right when she said to me at exam time -

"Read the question.
Do your best to answer the question.
After you've completed the exam, go back through it.
And when all else fails, Read the Question once again to make sure you answered the question posed not the question you guessed was being asked!"

Love you, Auntie Marjory!

This all distracted me from one of the challenges I set for myself - to get 1,000 members in my Squidoo Group - the numbers are increasing gradually but I'm not up to the quarter mark yet. I will get there, though.

My latest lens, http://www.squidoo.com/hebridean has been more successful than I had anticipated. I've had more traffic to it than to any of my other lenses. Long live the romance of the Hebrides.

G'night for now.

Margaret