Christmas Sales - Letters to Santa Explode Income
“It’s all Hype!” The unsubscribe button had been hit and I was reading the comment for the person who unsubscribed from my ezine. I noticed their email came from a dedicated website domain, so I looked it up. Their email came from a coaching program that sold for $3K which included a weekend seminar featuring the person who was complaining about my info being hype.
I smiled, clicked off the site and went back to the email.
“Thank you for sharing your opinion, I appreciate your thoughts and will take them into consideration. Have a great evening! Jan” was all I wrote.
About a week later, I noticed their name, once again on my list…
The gift of giving - offers you an opportunity to allow others free expression. In most cases, my first offer is FREE. A FREE Gift, provides me with an opportunity to get to know my reader. Then I can send them offers that are more interesting, sometimes a bit costly, but more often than not — I end up with a buying customer who receives great benefit from the FREE Gifts I give away and supports my lifestyle with a few purchases along the way.
What do THEY get from the experience?
Those who are interested in earning an income online receive specific directions they can easily follow to create products, sell them online, and market their products to a well targeted audience. And occasionally, I give them a link to some of the tools I use to market my info, such as this Sales Letter. It’s easy to use, fun to do, takes very little time, and I gain a lot of miles from the product because I use it over and over again.
So, the next time I noticed the Hype Customer, I was shipping out Santa Cards, and there was that name again. He purchased three Christmas Cards to Santa from Billy the Elf, who promotes one of my Christmas Sales Products. He’s a good friend of mine, posts on his blog. Now and then he makes a concerted effort to sell some product. Then he steps up above and beyond the call of duty and sells my Christmas Cards. He’s cuter than me at Christmas time… LOL
After receiving the Christmas Cards, he sent me a nice little message via email asking me for information about how to sell his own Christmas Idea. So, I responded and we’ve now become friends. Me and the Hype Customer - who’d a thunk it?
Christmas Sales - Letters to Santa Explode Income
You can do it too. The letters to Santa are fun to answer, they offer a great opportunity and anyone can do them, but you need an original idea. Not everyone can be Santa Claus, receive letters to Santa, live at the North Pole, and expect to make a profit.
Often the simplest way to design a project that makes you money online is to simply write what you want people to know. One interesting old guy I know writes stories about Mules. His website is a blast of fun and interesting information. People stop by regularly and comment to him about his latest endeavors. He sells his work occasionally and that’s what he’s about. He wants to make a few extra bucks a month. He just built a new house, drives a nice truck and has a great wife. That’s as good as it gets! You can’t beat that life…
All he does is tells people what he wants them to know in a simple three column brochure format.
So, what’s difficult about that?
As my Hype Customer pointed out in his last message, “sometimes a little hype can be fun. It’s all about sharing what you do with people. Thanks for letting me come back.”
So if you want to know how to Make Money Online, go ahead and Click on the Link then you too can know how to make some money online, get your head out of the sand, and enjoy the good life of Internet Marketing for Profit. It really CAN explode your Income
Coolest Woman on the Planet
Did you have any doubt?
It’s just past Thanksgiving weekend and the world is still turning… Did you show your gratitude?
Often, we forget to tell those who have impacted our lives thank you and show our appreciation for all they’ve done in our lives. It isn’t that we didn’t notice, or recognize their affect on our world, but rather that we didn’t take a moment to TELL THEM.
Just recently, my daughter lost her best friend. I listened as she commemorated memories of a young woman who had truly impacted her life, and as she talked, she remembered, “I forgot to tell her Thank you for saying that to me.” I know, and she knows that Ti knew how much she was appreciated, but just that one time Brenna forgot to SAY IT. Did she remember all the times she held Ti’s hand and they worked through teenager difficulties together? Yes, but the moment that came back full force was the moment she forgot to tell her friend Thank You.
How much would our lives change if we took that moment to say Thank You? Or told a friend or family member “I love you.” What about if we just sat down over tea and crumpets and shared our day with a loved one, who just needs to say what’s on their mind?
My hometown is small, located at the Crossroads of America and destined to greatness. I know this because over coffee at a local establishment, a friend and I made a pact to Make a Difference. We want to challenge each other, our family and friends to join us in this pact and make a BIGGER difference.
The plan…
If you don’t have any ideas, you can visit the Crossroads of Connections at our Hometown and see what kinds of things we came up with to suggest.
Come on and take the challenge! Make a Difference with the Coolest Woman on the Planet!
I’m dreaming of a White Christmas…
It never ceases to amaze me, if there are clouds in the sky and I’m headed for Parker, there’s a blinding snow storm. Tonight was no exception. What an amazing drive!!!
Snowfall in Parker in December is not unusual, but it’s unusual for me to be headed that direction. Besides, Tatia and I were driving through the snow singing Christmas Carols together… YUM. I can still taste the eggnog and sugar cookies!
But the best part was the cause for the journey.
Dazzling lights glistening in the night would be enough reason for me to drive down US 83 into a blinding blizzard. The mommy-daughter talk Tatia and I were having would have been enough reason for me to drive down US 83 in a blinding blizzard. You know, I can’t think of many reasons why I wouldn’t have driven down US 83 in a blinding blizzard, singing Christmas Carols with Tatia and looking at the lights… Be that as it may, this journey was special.
Am I going to tell you what this journey was all about tonight? Probably not… I might reveal a clue later in the weekend… Or perhaps even tell you why I went by middle of next week. But tonight… Suffice it to say that the drive down US 83 was quite productive, extremely profitable, and my world will continue to spin on center because of it!
Enjoy the snow!!!
Trying Something New
I received some suggestions about AD Placement in my blog and I’ve been toying with some new ads that would be beneficial to my readers and myself. The majority of my readers are also entrepreneurs with their own businesses. They have businesses that would interact quite well, from one to another, and you all have so much to offer other businesses (particularly your writing skills) that I just wanted to add in some serious motivation for marketing your businesses, on my business site.
Ad Placement is a key spot of contention, among most Internet writers, so, I thought I’d work with this concept a bit and see where it takes us.
Education, as always, is the key to great ads and workable profit making sites. Once you know what you’re doing and can increase your links and ads equitably with easy content added html coding, you’ve got standard placements you can place on your site, in the code portion of your blog posts. (Easy Stuff!) This part is the educational part of putting these ads in the context of a blog post. Wish me luck… !
Knowing the value of marketing your products without separating your work apart from the ads and marketing tooks increases the impact of your marketing tools. A General context ad can include script, words, simple formatting changes, or dedicated linked photo ads, anyof which could actually be used in your content with viable ease, using simply html coding.Yes, I’m aware that some don’t have coding knowledge, but if it is super simple, you can learn it easily. Building your content with viable ad marketing makes your content appear bigger and better, and gives you credibility. “People advertize there, she must be providing great content!” And of course, your content is good - you are a content provider and you’ve been doing it long enough to know the importance of adding greater value.
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Make a Million Online
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Building a business online requires some serious thought about what your interests actually are. Without a viable plan for your online business and some SERIOUS interest in your concept, you’ll run out of things to write within a week or two, then what happens? Blogging should be a regular event in your life with steady input of quality information. Even if you’re blogging your viewpoints and opinions, do it often and stay on target. You probably don’t want to jump around all over the planet like the Coolest Woman because, generally, that doesn’t work. But, you will want to make a difference and stick to your targeted niche group.
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Along the Backroads of Yesterday
Oris George writes significant details about what life used to be. His work includes informative childhood narratives and animal stories relevant to this time because of their simplicity. For more read:
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Marketing your work to include various content surrounding the lives of your readers and solving their basic problems means you have a solid grasp on reality yourself. Often, those simple solutions provided in your content are filled to the brim with information you already know and understand, and they know it too. You don’t have to go searching and digging for something new (although eventually, you’ll want to) if you already have a good solid grasp of what your readers want to know.
So, how much of the new design are you interested in participating in here? Let me know with comments on this post.
Home for the Holidays
This year, home for the holidays took on new meaning. Brenna invited our family to her house for Thanksgiving. It’s her first time to cook dinner, and she had a blast. Her menu included the traditional family selection, and a couple of new dishes from her new family. She prepared the turkey just right, in a browning bag, with natural juices and a selection of herbs. The dressing was delicious, with apples, celery and onions, along with more of those herbs and dried breads. She sliced up onions and added white cheddar for a delicious cheddar and onion casserole, and prepared the traditional beans and French Fried Onion Casserole.
It’s always a delight to have the kids gathered around, singing Christmas Carols, talking about many memories of Holidays past, and playing games. We played a new game of strategy tonight, with Kenton winning first place, Brenna coming in second, Sean at third and Mom all the way at the back end of the game. Life is good.
Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for what we have, and today - we shared our gratitude of family memories and the joy of just being together.
Tatia and her new husband, Kevin, shared in the day. Elizabeth wowed us all with her great talents and skills, she’s learned to “fly” on the edge of the kitchen table… Her landing was a bit rough, but the flight was good.
Dinner gave us many laughs, much joy, and a few new memories. Brenna kept the Primary Family Tradition of cooking WAY too much food, and we packed away most of it for leftovers throughout the next week, or two, or maybe three. We’ll be having turkey sandwiches, stuffing casserole and side dishes for the next several days.
The kids and I will be moving into our new place. Enjoying the opportunity to have all new furniture, new carpet, and new paint on the walls for the first time ever… It just looks like a great place to hang our hearts, with a nice fireplace mantle on which to hang stockings and perhaps… A chimney to entice Santa with, now that we’re all on the ‘nice list’.
Holidays don’t get much better than this….
I love my kids, my grandbaby, and my life… I’m looking forward to the rest of this Christmas season and the New Year! What a joy it has been to spend Thanksgiving with my daughters, my sons, my son-in-law, and my grandbaby! The gratitude today has filled me to the brim and bubbling over… How about your Thanksgiving?
A Grateful Heart
I’m having a bit of a trial this week with the grateful heart. It’s Thanksgiving week and I have much to be grateful for, so for those many things I’m grateful and filled up to the brim with feelings of thanksgiving. But there’s another little issue that’s stealing away my joy, and I’m struggling with that issue.
As I deal with this issue, I keep remembering the line “Things are not always as they seem” and thinking how that statement fits my current situation.
People often say the things you want to hear. They’ll tell you what they believe will make you happy. When they’re done telling you what they think you want to hear, they revert to their real selves and leave you standing there wondering what really happened.
But what happens when you hear those things, and feel in your heart of hearts that it probably isn’t true. Do you jump into the soup and assume they’re being honest? In many cases, I have.
Then moving on toward the source of contemplation, you’re left wondering about the weird feelings that don’t quite measure up. You’re left wishing you could just step over those feelings and move on, maintaining your grateful heart.
Tears come, shadows fall, and life sometimes feels out of control. You stumble and fall. Your grateful heart shivers and fails to respond with gratitude or thankfulness. But then…
The feelings you allow to take over during those times shrink your position on earth and bring you to a place of need. You can change that direction and choose stronger reactions to the down moments. You can CHOOSE to be grateful even in those moments when your grateful heart is struggling.
I’ve experienced that choice. I know it can happen. This day, I’m choosing to have a grateful heart and leave any issues behind. I’m choosing to be thankful, grateful for all that I have with a grateful heart.
Crossed Hairs - Attempts to Please
Often as a business owner, we make an attempt to please our customers only to find we were on a different wave length. We didn’t take the time to get to know what they wanted, so what we spent our time doing what the customer didn’t want. Or was it just explained badly? Does it matter? The point was we goofed up, the job wasn’t done to the customer’s satisfaction.
So, how do you focus in on the cross-hairs and satisfy your customers with laser targeted application of solutions to their problems?
Is it possible to meet the needs of your customers and continue to do business in the manner you’re accustomed to doing?
Recently, I found myself in a situation where life wasn’t exactly as I’d planned it to be. Needless to say, I wasn’t prepared for the shock of reality that suddenly shot me in the foot. I got caught in the cross hairs, no satisfaction there. Life as I knew it wasn’t happening.
I realized that I hadn’t done anything wrong, but the situation escalated until nothing I knew to be true was any longer in existence. The reality was different than what I’d originally perceived and there were new factors that didn’t meet my expectations.
Should I live with the choice I’d made on limited knowledge or regroup and rethink my perceptions and choices. I chose to change the direction of my step and move forward with new views.
Sometimes the focus of the cross hairs has to change. There are just times when I can’t control the outcome, so I must change the input facts. Such a time is this. To refocus means to move the cross hairs to a totally different target - not impossible, but not within the plan. The goal changed!
Ultimately, I had to have the faith to take the leap and just trust that God would be there with His net to catch me.
New Community - Home Again
After living in Lamar, Colorado for most of my 49 years, moving across the state was a little scary. Who’d think I could find friends within a few days of arrival. But… there they were, ready and waiting.
As a single mom of four, I’ve often relied on my extended family, friends and neighbors for emotional support and even help during those difficult days of parenting. You all know the days, the ones that strike you down before you have a chance to focus on what you need to do. Life gets in the way and you struggle with the smallest events. I wondered if I’d find anyone to lean on in a new community.
Once I’d started moving in, it wasn’t long before a neighbor brought over a cake to welcome us to the neighborhood. Another neighbor brought over a casserole of the best tasting lasagna I’d had in a long time. Still another neighbor offered to keep our chocolate lab when we had to go back home for a funeral. I didn’t have to stop the paper or my mail for three days, the same neighbor checked the box, picked up the paper and scooped the snow when we got three inches while I was gone.
Am I concerned when I leave the doors unlocked these days? Not really. Although it’s a different community, so I’m a little more aware of an unlocked door or open window. I know how important safety is, and I realize it’s a valuable commodity in this day and age.
I’ve learned that I can bloom wherever I’m planted. I will make a difference!
The SECRET Revealed
SECRET Tips & Strategies for Marketing Ads & Affiliate Products on Your Website
First off… Let’s get this straight! It ain’t a SECRET!
Whew! There, I said it. There isn’t ONE SINGLE Secret that will make your business successful on the Internet. Internet Gurus all over the world (yea, me included) want you to think there’s some big hairy secret that only they know, that prevents you from making money on the Internet.
The honest-to-goodness fact is, there is NOT one secret that will make you money on the internet, there are several. Unless you’re willing to use the strategies and tips you get online, mix up what works for you and let the rest go, you’re NEVER going to make money online. And, that, my friend is the reality.
So what does work?
The following tips and strategies work well. Some gurus use all of them, others use part of them, and some aficionados of independence have struck out on their own to create their own methods. You’ll have to determine for yourself (with the help of a kindly and wonderful marketing guide) which tips and strategies will work for you.
Get a website. For goodness sakes, take some cash out of your Starbucks fund and buy a domain. Set up a hosting plan and do what you have to do to get a professionally designed website that YOU can add to and increase the content, for better marketing genius.
Get the word out. Your website isn’t a secret. Tell your friends, put a message on all your email signatures, referring people to your site, send out a press release. Put up a Bill Board in New York City, but get the word out.
Get content in there. Add some impressive, unique, and information providing content to that website so readers have a reason to stick around. Give them something to do while they’re there. Put some quality on the site and build some context that will bring them back.
Get some traffic flowing. Put up a few ads, write some articles for marketing, and send out some feelers on the Internet that will drive traffic to your website. You can’t get anywhere if you’re not on Main Street. Get there, with CONTENT, Keywords, and MARKETING.
Get serious about sales. You know, everyone wants to do something that requires NO SALES. Okay, but where is the money if you’re NOT SELLING? Give me a break. Somebody has to SELL something before money changes hands. SELL something!
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© 2008 – Jan Verhoeff
Blazing a Twitter Trail
Networking on Twitter offers something I never thought much about before… A chance to catch up with old friends on the Internet.
I don’t know how he found me, but Terry Brejla found me and is now following me on Twitter. After a short friendship on Ryze several years ago, I’d lost contact with Terry. He’s a writer, so we run in the same circles, but I hadn’t thought much about bumping into him. Today, I woke up and ran through my list of followers at http://twitter.com/janverhoeff and there he was.
He’s not the only one, there are many more friends who are now followers on Twitter. It’s a chance to catch up, see what’s going on, and stay tuned in to your family and friends over the Internet in quick bits of info. You may not notice it all, but every now and then you’ll catch a glimpse of someone you know or want to see more of.
But, the best part is, they can see you too.
Network Twitter - it’s a wave of communication sweeping the world in a rush!