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Tripletpreneur in Action

May 24, 2007

Meet my newest employee — Sierra. In her quest to earn more money for those infernal Webkinz, she asked was there any work she could help me with.

Sierra is the most serious of the triplets — many people have remarked that she is an “old soul”. She certainly is the most like me.

I looked at her for a long moment, then said “Ok. Meet me at my desk in 5 minutes.”

I decided to try out her data entry skills, copying and pasting articles into the article tracking system, which I developed in hopes of tracking the massive amount of content being developed for our growing network of authority sites.

Guess what? She took to it like a champ! Worked 2 hours one day and 1-1/2 hours the next. Then we got caught up in the birthday party preparations and end-of-the-school year activities so it’s kind of fallen by the wayside.Sierra at work

But seeing how easily she achieved this task has given me a whole new appreciation for just how much my children are capable of. After all, as of May 20th, they are 10 years old!

Of course the other 2 are begging for a “job” now but I’m stalling until I know they can match Sierra’s level of concentration. She’s really, really good.

Tripletpreneurs - Great Coin Caper

May 9, 2007

Ok, so the ebay sale whetted my little entrepreneurs’ appetite for making money, and they wanted to know how they could earn more so they can buy more Webkinz. That $5 a week allowance is not cutting it anymore.

My eyes fell upon the big Arrowhead jar that we’ve been lugging around for years because of all the coins inside. We had long since taped over the mouth of the jar because the kids kept dropping little toys inside. In my ongoing quest to rid the house of clutter, I saw this as a golden opportunity.

So this was the deal I presented to them: whatever pennies you wrap are yours. All silver coins would be split among the three of them. This was to prevent a mad dash and bloodshed over the quarters, dimes and nickels in the jar.

The great thing about this job is it didn’t require any help from me other than a trip to Office Depot to get the coin wrappers. I was so happy to not to have to do anything else that I didn’t even deduct the cost of the wrappers.

(Here’s a picture of them wrapping coins, surrounded by those little Webkinz critters they are working so hard for…)

Tripletpreneurs in Training

Guess what? They wrapped that entire half jug of coins in about a day! It was amazing how diligently they worked, counting up how much money they had earned so far. First they had to do the pennies, which resulted in:

  • Isaiah - $19.00 in pennies
  • Mariah - $17.50 in pennies
  • Sierra - $13.00 in pennies

Then came the big event — rolling the silver money! What joy that was after slogging through all of those pennies. That’s why I made them wait til the pennies were done — the silver became the dessert. Total silver: $120.00 or $40 each

I acted as the bank, of course, accepting the rolled coins in exchange for cold hard cash. Their eyes danced with glee as I counted out the greenbacks.

After making $53-$59 each in a single day, they have told me in no uncertain terms that they will never ask to do another ebay sale. Good news for me and for our local women’s shelter, which is where all gently used clothes will go from now on…

p.s. They participated in National Lemonade Day last weekend and made $60 with their lemonade stand. They balked a little at re-paying their investor (me) the $20 for supplies…gotta work on the concept of “Cost of Goods Sold”!

The System Seminar Photos

May 4, 2007

Just uploaded the photos from my trip to Chicago last weekend. Was it only a week ago? I can’t believe how quickly time flies at seminars…everything is so intense and compressed and then, whoosh! It’s over. I’ll bet on Monday there were a lot of people like, “Where do I start?”

Thankfully I mapped out my strategy on Sunday night while talking to Ann Covenry — visit her at http://www.annconvery.com and she’ll help you get unstuck and learn to speak your business in 30 seconds or less. I wasn’t so much stuck as trying to figure out how to marry the 2 areas that I’m interested in: local internet marketing and lead generation. I’ve put a lot of time and energy into creating GeoLocal.com and don’t want to throw all of that away. But it’s become painfully obvious that “local business” is too big of a target market, which is why I’ve floundered in my quest to get my arms around it.

But somewhere along the way, I stumbled into lead generation, quite by accident in fact. Found that I had a knack for it, and within the last year or so, it has developed into my family’s main source of income. Go figure.

With my background in “everything local” it was only a matter of time until I turned my lead generation skills to the local market. Competing in a local market is so much easier than at a national level — clicks are cheaper and the SEO part is a piece of cake because so few people are doing it.

Anyway, more about that when the new course comes out — Terry Dean and I collaborated on a 6-CD audio set and it rocks (or so I’ve been told by beta testers/reviewers). One of these days (soon) we’ll finish up the graphics and all the stuff that goes into selling something. It takes longer to create all the “stuff” than to create the product. No wonder so many good products languish on shelves and in basements! Hey did I ever mention that Advanced Testimonial Strategies is going to launch any day? ;-)

In the meantime, enjoy the photos from The System — I know Dave Bullock is going to make me remove some of the palm reading pics, so hurry up and take a look.

System Photos

Are You Tuned in to “The Secret”?

May 3, 2007

The day after I got back from Chicago, I popped in the DVD “The Secret” and watched it while walking on my treadmill. My body actually missed the exercise, and I ended up doing 8 miles on Tuesday and 11.4 miles Wednesday. I love, love, LOVE my treadmill desk!!! (Will post more details about that later).

Anyway, I was so charged up when I got back from Chicago that rather than jump right in and start doing stuff, I wanted to stop and take a look at the big picture … what my business is, what belongs and what doesn’t, and how all the parts fit together.

So I decided that “The Secret” would be the perfect launch pad for that sort of thinking, and boy was it ever. Every time I watch it, I learn something new. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend to you head over to http://thesecret.tv Buy the DVD so you can watch it multiple times.

After it was over, I realized something — The Secret has been at work in my life for a very long time. My experiences in Chicago prove it.

  • I’ve been wanting a better way to identify the keywords I should be targeting on one of my biggest sites. Guess who I attracted into my life? A guy who — get this — had visited my house with a real estate agent in California in late 2002. We looked at each other, did the “you look familiar” dance, and he told me where we had met. Talked a bit about business and he told me about this amazing free tool that does exactly what I’ve been wanting to do. It shows you in real-time what keywords people are using to find your site. Did I mention it’s free? Go to http://www.hittail.com — it’s very cool.
  • At the end of the event, I was invited to the faculty mixer where I met Ann Convery, a wonderful lady who helps business owners “speak their business in 30 seconds or less”. This is something I have struggled with, but after talking with her at length that night and on the phone since I got back, I’m getting closer to being able to say what I do quickly and concisely. She loved the fact that I have triplets and encouraged me to use it as my part of my “hook”. Say hello to The Triplet MomPreneur!

Those are just a couple of examples of how I believe “The Secret” is at work in my life. Maybe you don’t believe in all that stuff and it sounds a little hokey to you, but it has worked in my life. Give it a try, what do you have to lose?

BTW, I just saw John Reese’s “Rebooting Your Brain” video and it fits in well with “The Secret” (except for the part where he tells you to write down your fears). Take a look
http://www.marketingsecrets.com/reboot.html

Ok, enough DVD watching and Brain rebooting for me, it’s time to get back to work!

My Triplets: Entrepreneurs In Training

April 19, 2007

It’s funny how the simplest little statement can give birth to a huge project. In this case, it was “Mommy, how can we make some money?”

Apparently the $5 per week allowance each of my children receives is not enough to buy the hottest, most ridiculously expensive must have toy - Webkinz. These are plain little stuffed animals, the kind you can find at Wal-Mart for $5, or even $1 at a swap meet. But the retail price for these little varmints is $9 - $11 … that is, IF you can find them. The few stores that sell them can’t keep them in stock.

So what’s the big deal about Webkinz? It’s the fact that each one comes with a “secret code” that the kids use to “register” their little creature and “adopt” it at www.webkinz.com. Then the kids earn money by playing games so they can feed their virtual pet, decorate their rooms, play with them, etc. The Webkinz people regularly “retire” some of the little critters, driving up the price and of course, the exclusivity of having this one or that one.

What a racket. Yep, that’s pure old sour grapes and jealousy right there — wish I had thought of it first.

Anyway, my kids caught the Webkinz bug and came to me looking for ideas to raise money. They’re too young to babysit or dog walk, what can they do? So I came up with an idea — they could sell some things on Ebay and keep all of the profits.

I don’t know what possessed me to say it, probably because enough time had passed since I last sold things on ebay so that I had forgotten what a pain in the ass it is, which is why I stopped doing it. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I figured that at 9 they were old enough and it would be an educational experience for them.

Of course they were all for it and got really excited about the prospect of making a pile of money. I had to talk fast to tame their expectations but not dampen their enthusiasm. I told them if things went well, they could make between $150 and $200. No, not each, collectively. They did some quick calculations and figured that they would probably end up with 4 or 5 Webkinz apiece. I warned them that it wasn’t as easy as it looked and they assured me, “We’ll do all the work, Mommy!”

So on a recent Friday afternoon, we pulled all of the things out of the Ebay closet, which was quite full since I hadn’t sold anything on ebay in 2 years. Actually I’ve been on a “Clean Sweep” type binge during the last few weeks, so the pile was manageable since I had donated or thrown out most of the clothes. So we were left with a nice stack of Gap, Hilfiger, Polo, Gymboree, etc. in excellent shape.

I showed them how to sort the clothes into lots by size, although they kept wanting to sort them by color or brand. That took all of Friday evening. On Saturday I showed them how to take pictures of the clothes. That was truly funny to watch, each of them “posing” the clothes, then taking turns with the digital camera. I was very proud of the way they stuck to it, even when their little friend Maddie came by and asked them to come play with her and her puppies. They were tempted but didn’t give in … no, they had work to do. Visions of Webkinz danced in their heads.

On Sunday, it was time to write the descriptions. By now, my little people were starting to tire of the project, but they tired at different times of the day, and peer pressure from the other 2 was usually enough to keep them going. I set up an email account for them and showed them how to email me the descriptions. Each child was given a range of numbers to use to number their lots so that I would know which description went with which set of clothes. They taped the lot number on the bag and included it in the subject line of the email.

Oh those descriptions, they were so cute! I got misty-eyed and laughing cramps all at the same time, reading the way they described things in their little 4th grade English. I’m not sure how long they will be retained in ebay’s memory (yes I saved a copy of all auctions), but here’s one:

Boys 7 pc Lot Gap Hilfiger Shorts Pants Size 7-8

and

Girls 6 Pc Lot Old Navy Hilfiger Shorts Tops Size 6

Each child had a different writing style and added their own flair to the descriptions. They’d put in little details about the person who wore it. Isaiah’s tended to be very brief and to the point. Mariah wrote very long and detailed accounts. Sierra’s writing was very artsy and hip. I got such a kick out of reading those descriptions and couldn’t believe some of the words my babies knew!

Sunday evening was our target time for posting the auctions, so that afternoon I started creating the listings using the free tools at http://www.auctiva.com

It ended up taking longer than we thought, another couple of evenings (after school) to finish up the descriptions and post them to Ebay on Tuesday as 5 day auctions so they would end at the same time as the others. This was to encourage people to bid on multiple auctions.

In order to charge enough for shipping, the kids had to weigh the clothes and include that in the auction description they sent to me. So they were using all sorts of skills — writing, math, art, everything. It was quite the educational experience. People would write and ask questions about the clothes or shipping weights and I would pass it on to them so they could figure out the answer.

Of course, I supervised everything and made sure the info was correct — I have a good ebay feedback score and wanted to keep it that way. But it was their auction and they did much of the work.

Of course, the most exciting part was when bids started coming in. Every day they would come home from school and race to the computer to see how much money they had made. They started counting the number of webkinz they had earned and debating about which ones they would buy.

Hold on pardners! Not so fast. It’s not over until people actually pay. And don’t forget, you have to deliver the goods, as in put them in the mail. And then there are those pesky ebay fees that had to be subtracted from the proceeds. Hmm.

So the auctions ended and money started coming into my Paypal account. They had a total of 32 auctions, and 27 of them sold. We’d agreed that anything that didn’t sell would be donated to charity. So I printed out the postage from within Paypal, which is really cool, something they didn’t have a few years ago. Also the USPS will come to your house and pick up Priority Mail packages, which is great!

Anyway, the kids had to match up the right lot with the right person and postage label. Of course, I checked and double-checked all of this, having been on both ends of ebay mixups before. They had made $164.39, and $26.13 of that went to ebay for fees, leaving them with $138.26. So I didn’t want their profits to be eaten away by mailing mixups, where you mail the wrong item to the wrong person, then have to send them the money to send it to the right person, plus pay to mail them the right thing. With so many auctions, it would be easy to make a mistake and by then, they were tired of the whole thing. Frankly, so was I.

I had forgotten how cheap people were on ebay. Yeah, it was cute that kids were selling clothes and writing the descriptions but they still wanted to nickel and dime us on shipping and send money orders and ship to Canada and all that crap.

I tried to be nice but one lady really taxed my patience whining about shipping and how I could get a free box from the grocery store. Lady, you got a nice 6 or 7 piece lot of barely used Gap and Hilfiger clothes for $3.24 and you’re complaining about paying $10 to ship? No, I’m not running around town looking for a box, it’s Priority Shipping or no shipping. Then she paid with a debit/credit card so Paypal charged fees. Don’t you know I emailed her and made her pay me another $1 to cover those fees? My kids cracked up when I sent that email because they know that a dollar doesn’t mean that much to me, but I wasn’t going to let this old biddy take .72 out of their $3.24. It was the principle of the thing. And she was the one who had the most questions during the auction process! It’s true what they say, the cheapest customers are usually the ones that are the most high maintenance.

But finally we were finished. The last package was mailed and finally were off to the store so they could fulfill their fantasies. They carefully selected their 4 Webkinz each and have registered them and faithfully take care of their virtual pets every day. I do believe they will treasure those little critters even more, considering how hard they worked for them.

As for me, well, it was a hell of a lot of work. I worked harder during that 10 day period than I had in months. I had to take a week off to recuperate and am just now getting back in the swing of things. The fact that I could take time off to work for pennies to make them happy has given them a new appreciation for Mommy’s online business.

They know how hard we had to work for them to earn less than $150, all the while my websites were still earning money..and it’s a good thing too! One evening after we had knocked off for the day, they saw me check the stats and were amazed because they knew for sure I’d been working with them on the auctions all day. That’s when I explained to them about residual income and why it’s such a wonderful thing. You know what? I had explained it before, but on that day they really got it. That’s a lesson I don’t think they would have gotten any other way.

So it was a good experience for them and for that I’m glad. But the next time I open my mouth to make another suggestion like that, will someone please slap me?

Sharon

p.s. For their upcoming 10th birthday, I promised each child $150 to do with as they please — have a birthday party, take a few friends to the movies, or buy whatever you want. Three guesses what they want? Yep, more Webkinz. Since they’ve bought pretty much all of ones available at the local stores, guess where we’re having to look for the ones you can’t buy in the store?? Ebay!

Butterfly Marketing: Beyond the Hype

February 14, 2006

Sharon Says check out Butterfly Marketing

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple months, you’ve probably heard about Butterfly Marketing. Here’s a product who was promoted a bit too well and as a result, turned off a lot of people because it was being shoved into their faces too much.

That’s how I felt, and at first I refused to even look at it. I’ve seen how these things work: lots of hype, big build up, a frenzy of buying, then… nothing. You get the product and feel like you’ve been duped. Great sales copy but like the Wizard of Oz, nothing behind the curtain.

So when I heard about Butterfly Marketing, that’s what I thought of it. Then I opened the door just a crack and took a look, kind of like “well, I’ll take a look but I’m not buying”.

After reading about it, seeing the proof of income video, and adding up everything that was included, I decided that Butterfly Marketing had been a victim of the hype machine, that there really was something unique and different about it.

So I took the plunge. Yes, I confess, I purchased it on January 31st and I’m very glad I did. The past two weeks have been fun and exciting. Here’s what happened: as soon as I purchased I got an email asking me to join a private forum for BFM owners, which I did. So did 900 other purchasers.

Overnight this thriving community sprang up and it’s totally dedicated to helping everyone get the best out of their packages. Newbies, intermediate and advanced marketers alike, people of all levels of expertise. There are some people who don’t even know what HTML means, and people are pitching in to help them get up to speed.

The other thing that’s been so surprising is all of the unadvertised bonuses that Mike (the creator of BFM) gave us. He has other sites that people actually pay to be a part of — $97, $147, and $250 memberships. And he’s giving all of us top level memberships in those sites. Sites like InstantBuzz and ListDotCom, which allow you to build an optin list. These memberships will give you a jump start on building your own list. He’s also giving us all of the products he’s ever created, and that’s a pretty long list. He says that “nobody will be left behind”, everyone who’s willing to do the work will succeed. It’s really unbelievable.

Of course the best thing is the BFM package itself, which tells you exactly what to do and includes all of the scripts and software you need to do it. To me, that’s what makes it different from all of the other products I’ve seen come and go. They might tell you what to do, but not how. Or give you some scripts, but you need a programmer to get them to work.

So I’ve been pretty busy the last couple weeks trying to grasp all of the concepts, getting to know others in the community, and brainstorming ideas for my first Butterfly Marketing sites. Stay tuned to this blog for the results.

I posting this now because some readers have asked why I didn’t promote Butterfly Marketing and they thought it was because I didn’t recommend it. That’s not the case, it’s just that I detest hype and the “in your face” emails that I got about this product. I figured that you had gotten them too, and I didn’t want to be part of the hype machine. I wanted to wait and see what was really behind the curtain.

But now that I’ve looked beyond the hype, I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you what I’ve learned so far. There’s an air of excitement and optimism on the forum that’s refreshing and contagious. As people are getting their packages, they’re reporting back and posting questions and others are jumping in to help. It’s such a positive thing and it’s only going to get better.

Like all big product launches, there were some glitches. It’s taken longer for people to get the package than they originally thought, especially those overseas. This is because everybody’s so excited that they want it to arrive overnight.

Another not so cool thing: some people actually asked for refunds for some of the products they had previously purchased that are now being given to us as bonuses, those memberships to ListDotCom and Mike’s other sites. Not nice. But there are always a few bad apples in any crowd of 900 people, that’s just life. But for the most part it’s a great community and getting better every day.

I’m really glad I looked beyond the hype and took the leap of faith. Mike really does overdeliver to the extreme. It’s really going to take my business to another level. Stay tuned…and if you haven’t taken a look, please do so now while the course is still available. (Of course there’s a money back gurantee.) Sharon Says check out Butterfly Marketing

Put Content Building on AutoPilot with RSS2Blog

January 18, 2006
My rating: 5 out of 5

RSS2Blog is a script that’s installed on your server, which allows you to automatically post to one or more blogs. It’s for people who want to setup multiple blogs and have content posted to them on a regular basis without having to do it manually. If you only have one or two blogs, it’s not worth it, but if you’re a serious blogger, keep reading.

RSS2Blog

I learned about RSS2Blog during my investigation of “portal building”. That’s a nice respectable sounding term for what’s really just a bunch of spammy sites created for the sole purpose of generating Adsense revenue. I’d rather create sites that add at least some value, but to each his own. But one of the tools I discovered during this process makes it very easy to post content to multiple blogs.

If you have a bunch of unique content, such as private label articles or your own writings, you can put your blog on autopilot. Or if you’re going on vacation or plan to be busy for a few days, you can pre-write posts and have them posted automatically.

The way RSS2Blog works is this: you login to the account you setup on your server and create a job that runs on whatever schedule you set. You input the type of blog, userid, password, URL, etc. Then you select the type of content you want to post to the blog. You can choose from Search engine results, news, RSS feeds, text or all 4 on a random basis. Each option has more options, such as number of results, keywords to search for, feed URLs, etc.

So I can create a job to post items in the news about “local search” to my local business blog automatically, without me having to lift a finger. You have to be careful with the keywords you select, otherwise you could end up with irrelevant blog posts.

To me, the best feature of RSS2Blog is the ability to add text. Just think, you can load up a bunch of articles on a topic, each separated by #BREAK# with #TITLE# to indicate the article title. Then have them “drip” into the blog on a regular basis. You can also mix in merchant datafeeds for affiliate income. You can create multiple jobs to post to the same blog on different intervals.

It’s a great program and can be used in many ways, including to make money in the offline world. I’ll just tease you with that for now, more on this subject later.

All in all, I’m very pleased with my purchase of RSS2Blog. It would be nice if it had a feature that would help you format the text with the #BREAK# and #TITLE# tags, but that’s a separate product and requires an additional purchase.

For the serious blogger, RSS2Blog is a must have tool.

RSS2Blog

Finding Deleted Expired AVAILABLE Domain Names

January 17, 2006
My rating: 5 out of 5
When it comes to grabbing expired domains, I’ve tried many different services, paid and free. I don’t know if it was bad luck, bad timing or both, but whenever I tried to register any of the names I found, they had already been taken, even if they had supposedly just expired! I was beginning to think it was all a racket until I found Expired Domains.

Amazingly, with Expired Domains almost every domain I’ve ever found and tried to register has been available. Of course some get snapped up pretty quickly no matter what, such as the ones that have existing PR or are listed in Yahoo or DMOZ.

But all in all, I’ve had great luck in finding previously registered names, then checking their status on http://www.waybackmachine.org before registering them at http://www.godaddy.com. Lots of the names I’ve acquired have had pages indexed in the major SEs before, and if statistics are to be believed, that makes them eaiser to be indexed the second time around.

The interface for the members area is terrific, which all sorts of options for searching or subscribing to regular updates. You can receive email updates of recently deleted domains sorted by Deleted Today, Deleting in 24 hours, On Hold, etc. You also get a thorough education on how the deleted domain process works. I always wondered what RGP meant, and now I know. I’m very impressed with their service, the layout and ease of use of the website, and best of all, the results —expired domains that are really available.

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You Can Make Your Living Online

January 9, 2006

You Can! Make Your Living Online!

If I were going to write a course, Dave Vallieres’ “You Can! Make Your Living Online!” would be it. I liked the course so much that I purchased resale rights to it in December.

With the crush of the holidays and all, I haven’t had a chance to write a complete review of it yet. But for now, check it out here and sign up for the free 6-part course :

You Can! Make Your Living Online!

InfoGoRound Private Label Content

December 8, 2005

InfoGoRound - King of Private Label ContentMy rating: 5 out of 5

I first heard of InfoGoRound last summer and was immediately intrigued with the idea. I’d heard of private label rights articles, and it made sense to me to use them instead of articles written by other people. For one thing, I don’t like sending people away from my site if I can help it.But the biggest thing for me—some of those free articles are terrible! Bad grammar, bad formatting, misspelling, ugh. Haven’t these people heard of using a spellchecker? Also, if you think about it, most of those outgoing links lead directly to competitors. Good for them, not good for you.

So private label articles make sense, and it’s the direction I want to go. Anyway, I was coming to that conclusion when I stumbled across InfoGoRound. What made their offering different from other PLR sites was their “Cash For Content” program, where you could potentially get a rebate for the $24.95 monthly fee.

I hate monthly fees, and will avoid them whenever possible, so this immediately caught my eye. I signed up for their mailing list and received some free sample articles. That was a nice touch—it gave me an idea of what’s behind the gate. They did a good job of staying in touch and making offers.

When I finally decided to get serious about building niche portals, I thought about IGR and took a closer look at their program. I decided to sign up and check it out, reasoning that if I didn’t like it, I could unsub. I hadn’t really thought about grabbing a bunch of content then unsubbing, but in case anyone thinks about doing that, be prepared to pay $67 if you want to continue using any content after you leave.

The way the Cash for Content program works is this: you write an article and other members rate it on a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being best. If you get a good rating (4 I think), then you get a rebate on that month’s article. So you still pay, but somewhere down the line you get a rebate. If you don’t submit an article, well you paid a small price for a lot of great articles that you can now load up into an autoresponder or post on your website.

Of course I put off writing my first article until the very last minute, and considering the amount of time it takes me to write an article, I probably would have been better off just paying the fee. But I wanted to try it at least once, so one day before my first month’s billing period was up, I fired up Microsoft Word and banged out an article on—what else?— local business and the Internet. That’s where I started, it’s a subject I know well and I find it easy to write about it. So I wrote, spell checked, set it aside, then decided it was up to my standards and logged in to submit it.

That’s when we had our first tiff—I couldn’t cut and paste the article into the editor! I couldn’t figure it out, so I went to read the directions (something I never do unless forced) and that’s when I found out that you’re supposed to type the article into the little box manually. I guess that’s their way of making sure it’s an original article, not published anywhere before, written just for IGR? Dunno. Makes no sense to me—if you’re determined to plagiarize or use pre-written content, you can very easily just type it into the box while reading it from a piece of paper.

By now I had spent much too long messing around with this article and was in no mood to TYPE it into the box. Time is money and by my calculations, I had lost quite a bit while trying to recoup my $25 fee. So I fired off an email to the IGR guy, complaining about having to type my article into the little bix, then pasted the article into my email. I knew it was a damn good article, and apparently he felt the same because he placed it into my publishing area for me, but told me to be sure and use the online editor next time. Fair enough. Next time I know to actually write the darn thing online—you can save articles in draft mode and get them just right before publishing them.

So I published it and the article has been rated a 4. If you get 2 or 3 articles with good ratings, apparently you get “special” privileges that will allow you to cut and paste. We’ll see. The membership fee is so cheap that I think my time is better spent on other things, so I’m not sure I’ll write another one.

If you want to see the article I wrote, check out my GeoLocal Blog —even though it has my name on it, you may see it anywhere online with someone else’s name on it. That’s okay, because there’s a lot of content that will be posted across many of my websites that won’t have any author’s name on it—and that’s the beauty of private label content.

Another pleasant surprise were the niche article packs—25 or 50 articles on a subject such as gardening, dating, or gambling. There was even an ebook on dating, which could be used as a giveaway to get the email address. There are about 5 or 6 of these article packs in the member area, along with the searchable article database. I was pleasantly surprised by the interface, the quality control and all the extras. InfoGoRound has thought of everything. I think I’ll stick around.

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