Could Kunaki be the Solution to the eBay Digital Ban?

Well, the blogs and forums are buzzing with the unexpected news that after March 31, eBay will no longer allow the sale of digital products. And let me tell you, from what I've been reading, most folks are madder than a wet hen! I won't personally go into the injustice that this move is doing to hundreds of small businesses, you can read about it yourself be checking out the comments here.

While reading over eBay's new policies again and trying to think of some alternative that those who are affected by it can implement, I remembered a service that I had heard about several months ago but never really paid it much attention because it didn't fit in with JanRon's business model at that time.

One of the 'loopholes' if I may call it that, to eBay's new policy is that if the digital product you sell can be shipped to the customer in the form of a CD or DVD, you can continue business as usual. The problem that most digital product sellers face with this is, how to get their product on a CD or DVD, have it packaged, set up a method of taking orders and then shipping the product to the customer.

Enter... Kunaki. All of those problems that I just listed above, Kunaki will
handle them all for you - and get this, at a cost of ONLY $1.75 per unit!

Since it's been several years ago that I last sold anything on eBay and I've not used Kunaki myself, I'm not quite sure how or if you can integrate the two together. But at a price of only $1.75 per item you can order copies to have on hand and ship them yourself.

Of course, you'll probably need to raise the price of your products to cover the cost of shipping, but think about this, a physical product has a higher perceived value than a product that's downloaded immediately, so your customers will expect the price to be a little higher and most won't mind paying it.

The only negative that I've heard anyone say about Kunaki is that you have to place each order manually and that you only get paid once a month as opposed to Clickbank's twice per month payment schedule. But, as is usually the case in online business, where there's a need for something better, there's a clever programmer waiting in the wings to create a piece of software to fill that need.

Such is the case with the CD + DVD Automator. What this simple little php script does, is automate your entire payment and order process with Kunaki
and sends your customer's payment to YOUR Paypal account - immediately. A sweet deal if you do decide to use Kunaki's service. Click here to see a video that shows the script in action.

Ok, hopefully Kunaki and the CD + DVD Automator will be a solution for saving your digital products business from eBay's constantly blowing winds - but - what if you don't already have your own digital products?

No problem. Now you can start your own audiobook publishing business and all the product creation, including websites and graphics, is done for you. And here's the best part - in the 6 months that JanRon Publishing has been using these products, all of them have been in non-marketing niches. That is, unless you want to include Basic Blogging - How To Get Started as a "marketing" product.

And did I mention that you can get a FREE audio business package right now?


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Sharon Bray-McPherson

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

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Get a Sneak Peek at Extreme PLR Makeover

If you've been a JanRon subscriber for a while, you know that we don't jump on every new product launch that comes along like stink on a skunk.

The reason for this is that we realize most of our readers are just getting started in their online business and can't afford a lot of the products and services that are being launched on an almost daily basis. So why waste your time and ours, not to mention make you feel bad and think you'll be missing out on the "latest and greatest" if you can't afford it. Which btw, let me assure you, you're not missing out on much, because a lot of it is like 'stink on a skunk', if you know what I mean.

But every once in a while something comes along that makes us say, "yeah baby, that's what I'm talkin' about" and we'd be remiss if we didn't let you in on it.

What I'm referring to is Brett Ingram's new Extreme PLR Makeover.

Rather than me try to explain what it's about, Brett has just released a sneak peek video that will show you a little of what's waiting inside Extreme PLR Makeover when it goes live Saturday, March 30th at 10am Eastern.

But before I give you the link to the video, I'm going to ask a favor of you. If after viewing it, you like what you see and want to get inside while it's still FREE, close the video window when it's completed and join through this link:

Extreme PLR Makeover

Yes, it's an affiliate link, but JanRon won't make a penny on your joining unless you decide to purchase the OTO or upgrade when the site is launched.

As my son says, I'm going to give it to you straight up - if you want to build your business around private label rights products, an Extreme PLR Makeover membership is something that will help take months, maybe even years, off of your learning and profit curve.

Ok, click here to watch the video which will open in a new browser window. When the video is finished close the window then...

Click Here To Get Your FREE Extreme PLR Makeover Membership.

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Sharon Bray-McPherson

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

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Elvis, Ted Williams' Frozen Head and Beverly Hills, Florida

Since establishing the JanRon Publishing Digital Club, I've had the pleasure of speaking to several members by telephone. Almost without fail the first question they ask is, "Is there really a Beverly Hills, Florida?"

So, while not nearly as notorious as that 'other' Beverly Hills, I thought I would post the graphic proof, that yes indeed, there really is a Beverly Hills, Florida.

This is a screenshot of the coordinates for Beverly Hills, which is located on the beautiful Gulf Coast in Citrus County in West Central Florida.



This is a screenshot of the map image returned when you Google Beverly Hills, Fl. BTW, my house is located right under the dot on the i in the word Hills.



This is Lake Beverly near the community center, located on the east end of Beverly Hills. Unfortunately we're not allowed to fish in it. Dang it, it's so much closer than driving to the grocery store.



The welcome sign to Beverly Hills, just a few blocks from my home.



Ok, so our zip code isn't 90210 and we don't have Paris, Lindsay or Britney (sigh), but Citrus County does have it's share of "famous celebrities". Among them are...

James Best, best known for his role as Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on the hit TV series, Dukes of Hazzard.

Gary Burghoff, who portrayed the lovable Corporal Radar O'Reilly in M*A*S*H.

Atlanta Braves Pitcher, Mike Hampton.

Hall of Fame baseball great, Ted Williams. The Ted Williams Museum was located just a few miles from my home until moving to Tampa last year. Rumors abounded in the community that Williams' cryonic frozen head was locked in a freezer vault inside the museum. This could never be proven as fact, even though a few of our "enquiring minds" attempted to do so after having a few too many shots of courage at the Old Mill Tavern.

The building that once housed the museum is now a bank, so it is possible it really did have a freezer vault that the bank is now using. What, you've never heard of "cold hard cash"?

And although he never lived in Citrus County, Elvis has been "adopted" as one of our own ever since they filmed the courtroom scenes in Elvis' movie, Follow That Dream in the Citrus County Courthouse.



The official movie set was actually about 15 miles northwest of Beverly Hills in the towns of Yankeetown/Inglis in Levy County, an event Inglis is so proud of that they renamed part of the main highway through town, "Follow That Dream Parkway".



Of course being the huge Elvis fan that I am, I had to locate the spot where the film was made as soon as I heard about it. A large part of the island has since been returned to the alligators and snakes, but there is one spot that I found hidden among the weeds and Florida scrub, that has a cement slab approximately 4ft. x 4ft. with the initials E.P. written in it while the cement was still wet. Even my 'doubting Thomas' husband, whose name is actually Dave and thinks I'm "a little teched in the head" when it comes to Elvis, admits the initials bear a striking resemblence to this signature, recognized by Elvis fans worldwide...



And you wanna hear something really hokey I sometimes do, that not even my family and best friend and partner, Jan, knows about? Ok, but promise not to laugh too much.

When all of this gets to be too much, and by "this", I mean - Internet Marketing, 'guru product launch giveaway' overload, subscribers who don't bother to read an entire email that gives them the clear option to click a link to opt-out, but will instead write scathing letters accusing us of spamming them, freebie seekers who want everything given to them for nothing and then b***h to high heaven when you don't give them what THEY THINK you should have, or gasp! be brazen enough to include links to our products in an email and then get slammed with "I appreciate the free stuff you give your readers, but how dare you try to build a business by actually trying to sell me something" - and last but certainly not least, at least 1,000 spam emails per day pushing everything from fake designer watches to enlargement "miracles" for something that, being a woman, I don't even have to enlarge...

...anyway, when it all starts to close in on me and I begin to wonder if it might be easier to just 'throw in the towel', I get in my truck, stick a cassette with the theme song from the movie in my tape player, crank the volume up, roll the windows down and sing at the top of my lungs while driving the 15 or so miles through the Citrus County countryside to what I now call "my dream spot".

After an hour or so alone with just the alligators, snakes, EP's initials - and my uninterrupted thoughts - I'm then ready to renew my determination to -

"follow that dream... wherever that dream may lead".



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P.S. To the folks who own the Lazy Acres farm out on County Road 488, I do apologize for upsetting your chickens so badly a few weeks ago. I think they must have mistaken my singing for the screeching of an owl and frantically started running for their lives.

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

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Clickbank Marketplace Now Offering Products in Spanish

It took them long enough to realize the Global reach of digital information products, but Clickbank has now finally ventured into the worldwide market with the launch of phase one of Platform Globalization.

This is terrific news for publishers and vendors who want to reach one of the fastest growing demographic groups online, Hispanics.

Here's the announcement from the Clickbank website.

"ClickBank is pleased to announce the launch of phase one of Platform Globalization.

Platform Globalization is a ClickBank initiative that allows you to expand your reach and capture additional sales from new markets. The first phase of Platform Globalization includes both Spanish language capabilities and a currency converter.

Beginning today, publishers can offer products in Spanish. Spanish language capabilities allow for interaction between the customer and ClickBank to be "localized" in Spanish. Additionally, affiliates can easily identify publishers in the ClickBank Marketplace offering Spanish products and begin referring customers to these new products.

Also included in the first phase is the addition of a ClickBank currency converter to the order form. The currency converter will provide customers a means to see the product price in currencies other than USD.

Later enhancements include French and German language capabilities, as well as the ability to accept orders in currencies other than USD.

For more information about phase one of Platform Globalization please refer to the 2008-03-18 Release Notes."


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Sharon Bray-McPherson

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

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eBay Ending Sales of Digital Products

I just received news from John Thornhill of Mentorship Monthly that as of March 31, 2008 digital products will no longer be permitted to be sold on eBay.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200803.shtml#2008-03-24125416

Although I've never used eBay as a means to sell my digital products, I am saddened for all those that do use it as their only method of conducting their businesses.

Saddened, but not surprised, considering the way eBay has been sticking it to their sellers lately. In my opinion, this ban on digital products is just one more way eBay is showing where there main interest is - and it ain't with their resellers - the people that have made eBay a name recognized around the world.

If you find yourself out of business because of this ban, there are 2 alternatives for selling your products that I can think of right off the top of my head. They are, Ebook Tags and Payloadz.com - both free.

I'd really like to know what you think about this new policy, so use the comments link below.

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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

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A Musical Video Parody of the Web2.0 Bubble

MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Digg, Squidoo - whew, it seems like there's a new "social site" being launched every day. If you're starting to feel trapped in the Web2.0 bubble, take a few minutes to watch this humorous musical parody.


If you're having trouble seeing the video you can open it in a new window here.

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

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Rewrite your PLR Articles or Pay the Duplicate Content Penalty

You've acquired some PLR content. So how do you use it to your advantage while avoiding the dreaded duplicate content penalty, which not only can lower your site's rankings in the search engines, but can get it removed completely?

By taking a few simple steps to make it uniquely your own.

Search engines are trying to feed surfers relevant results. To do that, along with other things, they have to scan the on-page content. If you think that having the same content on two different sites gives you two chances to be ranked high in the results, think again. They got wise to that trick a long time ago.

Search engines have complicated algorithms that can be difficult to reverse engineer. But one thing is certain: if the exact same content is used across multiple websites, you can suffer a duplicate content penalty. Rewriting PLR content is the best way to deal with that problem. It takes a little more work, but it's an almost sure way to keep from getting hit with a penalty.

It's difficult to know exactly how much to change, but even changing only 10% of the content can easily put you in the clear. Out of a 500 word article, that's only 50 words - less than one paragraph's worth over all. Pretty easy to accomplish.

Tailoring content has another advantage. You can give your site a unique 'flavor' by modifying the PLR article to something that sounds more like how you would write.

When you do that with a number of articles, you are guaranteed to differentiate your site from your competitor. That keeps vistors and customers loyal, because then you are the only one in the world with exactly that content.

You could avoid the duplicate content issue entirely by writing every article from scratch. But that's time consuming and not everyone has the interest or ability. To run a successful site, you have lots of things to do every day. Whatever time you spend writing, you're not doing those other things.

It's a lot easier to re-write something than it is to start from just an idea and a blank page staring back at you. Changing a phrase here or an example there is easy and the writing that's already on the page stimulates you to think of alternatives.

Quality counts too. You may not have the ability or interest to write great content that attracts visitors and backlinks. Or even if you can, it takes time to do it well. And if you don't take the time, you'll end up with content that isn't polished. That turns people off and is definitely not a good business strategy.

It's much quicker and easier to modify good quality content to avoid a duplicate content penalty and make it your own than it is to fix up junk. That's why if you're using content provided by a vendor you should get the content from someplace that puts an emphasis on quality. After all, you can polish good chrome to a shine in a few minutes. If it's rusty, you'll be rubbing it for hours!

PLR content vendors vary a lot and the good thing is that there are several of them that only offer content in exclusive markets. This allows you to reach into the deeper "long-tail" niches, which by the way, is where the real money lies.

The top 2 private label content providers that I use and recommend if your market is in non-marketing niches are:

Niche-Content-Packages and AudioGoRound.


Without a doubt, Niche-Content-Packages is one the most professional and unique private label article providers I have found. Not only do they provide articles and graphics in niches such as, health, pets, food & drink, sports & recreation, home & garden, travel and more, their content goes deeper into the niches, with packages available for "long-tail" markets in each niche.

If you're looking for complete turnkey business packages, then you can't go wrong with AudioGoRound. Each package includes 25 articles, a PDF ebook with accompanying MP3 audio and ready-made websites including professionally created graphics. And with 4 new packages offered to you every month you'll never run out of new products to sell. You can see one of the businesses that we have online here.

But even if you have good plr content, if the thought of re-writing it still makes you break out in a cold sweat or you just don't have the time, don't panic.

The great thing about doing business online is that if there's a need, there's probably already been a piece of software created to fill it. One such piece of software is Secret Article Converter by my friend, Jeff Dedrick. If you can click a few buttons, you can use SAC to create unique keyword dense content from your private label articles in just 2 minutes.

To see the resource mentioned in the video go to: Article Post Robot

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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

Free Video Shows How to Rewrite Private Label Rights Articles

Whether you love it or hate it, there is little doubt that private label rights, or plr as it is also known, articles and ebooks have made life easier for the information products markter.

But, there is a right and wrong way to use plr content. The biggest mistake that most people make with private label articles, is not changing the content before using it as their own.

The following article, written by Jeremy Gislason, of Membership Millionaire and video, presented by Tiffany Washko from Natural Mom PLR, will show you how easy it can be to edit and rewrite private label rights articles.

"How PLR Products Can Boost Your Internet Income"

Popularizing a web site to improve your online business can be easily achieved by learning how to use private label rights in acquiring high-quality content or information. Private label rights (PLR) content generally are articles, manuals, software, and e-books that are free for subscribers to use as they wish. Having private label rights gives you ownership and the right to PLR products, as well as the right to make changes on these products, as you may wish. This is especially useful when you have an idea on what your clients or visitors most need to know, as you can just tweak these PLR content articles to be more relevant to your web site and your clients.

Using PLR Content for Your Business

You can make some revenue by driving traffic to your web site through paid advertising, such as Pay Per Click (PPC), or through organic traffic that comes to your web sites through search engines. You can also use PLR articles to boost your affiliate commissions by making a lot of sales just by boosting traffic to your websites. You can also build your reputation as an expert in your niche, by distributing as many high quality and useful articles.

All you need to do is to use PLR articles on a wide range of niches, and edit the PLR articles before you post them. You can also use them to create viral reports by compiling PLR articles into short reports, and giving them away for free. If your products are high quality, your viral reports will be distributed all over the Internet. You can also create back-end products with the use of PLR articles, and then sell them with other complementary products.

To make PLR articles unique, you should learn how to customize them. If you are using keyword optimized articles, change the title without changing the keyword in the title. So if your article is based on the keyword "Losing weight", your title might be "Losing Weight the right way" and so on.

You should also modify the opening paragraph of the article, but just make sure that your keyword appears at least once or twice. Find out ways on how to modify a sentence but still mean the same thing. You can use synonyms to alter tones of different words, or even add to the introduction, if not change it completely. You can also adopt a different approach while dealing with a topic. Just make sure that the opening paragraph is altered.

Increasing profit from your online business can be done easily by using PLR content and products. You can use PLR content and products to increase your web site's search engine optimization (SEO), or your ranking on search engines, which plays an important role in boosting traffic to your web sites. You can make your web site available in search engines by posting unique articles, which is made easy by PLR because you can just rewrite your PLR articles to make them unique and exclusive. It is highly suggested that the revisions are at least 30% of the original content. How to Alter Your PLR Articles

Having useful, unique, and fresh content on your web site, and being able to submit articles to public article directories, will drive massive traffic to your web site. However, submitting duplicate content is not allowed by most directories, which is why you need to send unique articles. It is recommended that you completely alter the articles that you have obtained from private label rights content resources, so that they are no longer recognizable as the original articles. Many article directories require you to be the sole author of an article, so check their submission guidelines before submitting. They will know if a PLR article has been re-written; and in some cases, they can get the author banned.

The same techniques can be applied when working through the body of the article. You can also alter or delete words and sentences in the paragraphs. You can present the facts in a different order, or expand them by adding new points. Rewrite in your own words and be creative.

You can actually create a whole new article if you take two or more Private Label Rights Content articles of the same theme and blending them into one longer, better informative article. You may need to supply additional information if the article lacks them. Keep in mind that your intention is to make the readers love your articles and make them crave for more stuff from you.

However you may choose to go about altering PLR content articles, make sure that you insist on producing top quality articles on niches that have high levels of demand, so you can ensure that your site will yield revenues. Profitable niches, naturally, will always have competition, so make sure that you stand out from the others.

How to Effectively Market Your PLR Content Articles

One of the most cost-effective ways of marketing products or services in the Internet is through the "Pay-per-click" advertisement campaign, which can attract the right consumers at the shortest possible time. This is an easy to understand advertising strategy, wherein you pay to be always visible in the net for specific keywords of your choice.

You select keywords and/or key phrases about your web site, and the highest bidder ranks the best. You only pay after the visitors click your link, hence the name "Pay-per-click". This also allows you to improve the campaign strategy by effectively responding to the activities of both customers and competitors. This will be easy, considering that you can manage the "Pay-per-click" advertising 24 hours a day and 7 days a week through the Internet.

Another affordable way to generate traffic for your web site is through search engines. You can use this effectively if you can rank high on the search engines, which is only possible if you can offer fresh and unique content on your web site. Ranking high in search engines is important because when people type in specific keywords that relate to your web site, your site comes up listed high on these search engines, offering you a better chance to get more people to visit.

Private Label Rights Content is a welcome alternative for those who are not yet generating a high income through AdSense or affiliate sales, especially if acquiring articles from freelance writers at sites like Elance or Rentacoder are rather an expensive proposition. In any case, you can use private label rights products to increase profits for your online business.

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Jeremy Gislason is a leading expert on membership sites, marketing and online business. Do you want to market and sell all of your products faster? Free how to business and marketing courses at: http://www.MembershipMillionaire.com

Video Courtesy of Natural Mom PLR Content

By the way, to get a free copy of the software that's mentioned in the video go to: DupeFreePro

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

Your own testimonial on resale rights sales pages, now why didn't I think of that

Recently Brett Ingram from Think Big Publications asked his members what's the biggest challenge they face with PLR products? You can see what the not so surprisingly number one answer was in Brett's post, #1 Member-Submitted Challenge with Private Label Rights.

While reading Brett's helpful (and free) tips earlier today, or since it is now 3:00 in the morning I guess I should say, yesterday, I came across a comment from Gaida, of the Lifestyle Discoveries Blog. The tip she included in her comment was the kind that makes you slap yourself in the forehead and say, "duh, why didn't I think of that?"

The tip is, when selling private label or resale rights products that include a sales page, that you add your own testimonial to the page because most people don't make changes to the sales copy, so it's free advertising in its simplest form.

Is that the sound of foreheads being slapped I hear in the distance?

Check out Think Big Publications for more great tips.


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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

The hidden danger of using URL redirection & cloaking services

There probably isn't an affiliate in the industry that this hasn't happened to - at least once.

You spend a couple of hours constructing an informative and helpful email or article, include your affiliate link for a related product or resource and shoot it out the public. Then, for whatever reasoning their convoluted thinking can come up, some joker will remove your affiliate information from the link and go directly to the website to make their purchase.

Even more troubling, is the "fellow marketer" who replaces YOUR affiliate ID with THEIRS so they can make a commission on their own purchase. And when they do - you've just been robbed by one of your own my friend.

Humph, whatever happened to "honor among thieves"?

But, there are a couple of methods you can use to keep this from happening.

I recommend that JanRon Digital Club affiliates use the FREE services of ShrinkMyLink.

It's quick and easy to take an ugly and recognizable affiliate link that looks like this, http://www.niche-content-packages.com/index.php?PARTNER=sbm and get a new shortened and cloaked link in just minutes.

Just go to ShrinkMyLink and in the box enter your affiliate link. Click the box that says, "Cloak" and hit the Shrink! button.



You will then be given two link options you can use.



Now when you use your new link and someone clicks on it, your affiliate link will be cloaked, which means it will NOT show up in their browser.



For even greater protection against commission thieves, I recommend you consider setting up a redirect link on your own domain. So, say you want to create a redirect link for Niche Content Packages. You just set up a new page on your domain called /niche-content-packages.html or something similar. In that page place the following code:


Now whenever you use the url, http://www.yourdomain.com/niche-content-packages.html - it will redirect to Niche-Content-Packages and your affiliate url is hidden.

Most people, myself included, set up a special sub-directory or folder on their domains to use specifically for redirects.

Example:

http://www.janronpublishing.com/goto/nichecontent.html

But - there is a possible danger in using an online service to shorten or cloak your links and it is the most important reason why I strongly suggest you set up a redirect link on your own domain.

While sites like TinyUrl.com and ShrinkMyLink have been around for years and I don't anticipate them shutting down operations any time soon, it has recently happened to other services like, lnk.to and jtty.com.

Unfortunately, all those people that had used these site's redirect or shortened links in ebooks, articles, newsletter archives and on their websites, suddenly found themselves with links that no longer worked.

If they had taken the extra step to set up a redirect link on their own domain and included that link in their ebooks, articles, etc., they could have simply changed the cloaked or shortened url in their own domain's redirect code and still have working links.

I'm not saying that the methods I'm recommending are 100% foolproof, because a determined and experienced commission thief will know how to get around them, but they will help cut down on the amount of commissions stolen from you.


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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

Free PLR Report & Audio and Sharon Makes An Oops!

I'm sure you've heard by now that Brad Smith and Guido Nussbaum's Easter JV Giveaway 2008 is now live and accepting new members.

If you haven't joined yet, my question is, why not? At last count there was over 500 products available - for free - many of them that even I had not seen before.

Jan and I have included our own gift in the giveaway, but we want to offer it to you directly here.

It's a great package that includes a PDF Report, Audio and a squeeze and/or sales page that you can use to give the report and audio away - or sell it and keep the profit yourself. You can see the exact squeeze/sales page you'll be getting here. And yes, that's my voice on the recording, which by the way, you can remove from the page you'll be getting if you want to.

So, grab your free report and audio package here, then 'hop' (sorry, I couldn't resist) over to Easter JV Giveaway 2008 and go download hogwild crazy.

Ok, I hope the only reason you're reading this post isn't just to learn about my "oops", but if so, here it is - while making a recording that's included in the report, I also made a few bloopers. If you'd like to hear them, just so you'll know that, yes, even I make mistakes, rofl, you can download the zip file containing my out-takes from this link. But I must warn you, the first one contains a not-so-nice word that has the letters s-o-b in it.

Oops!

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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

Big Changes to Our Affiliate Program.

If you've ever considered becoming an affiliate for the JanRon Digital Club, now is definitely the time to do it and here's why.

After becoming increasingly disappointed in the number of sales I've been making as an affiliate lately, I decided to do a closer examination of the programs that I promote.

Upon finishing my examination, I wasn't really surprised to find that the bulk of my affiliate commissions come from selling products found in the Clickbank Marketplace.

But even those sales leave a lot to be desired.

That's when I decided to study and re-study everything I can get my hands on about affiliate marketing using Clickbank products.

When explaining the criteria to use for choosing which products to sell from the marketplace, each of the authors warned against choosing vendors that offer more than one form of payment for their products or services.

Now I guess I must be getting a bit dense in my old age, because I must have read that warning a half a dozen times before it finally hit me - duh, that's what we were doing on the JanRon Digital Club sales page!

While I think we made it clear that Clickbank is our preferred method of accepting payment, we also included a small link that would enable those who didn't have a Paypal credit or debit card to join the club using their regular Paypal account.

Well no more! The link for Paypal payments has been removed and now our ONLY method of accepting payment is Clickbank.

This means that our affiliates no longer lose sales when they send someone to the sales page through their affiliate link but they decided to join through Paypal instead.

AND...

...in case you missed our announcement a couple of weeks ago, we've recently done an update and redesign of the JanRon Publishing website.

What this means for our affiliates is, that in addition to the 60% MONTHLY commission they make when someone becomes a club member through their link, they also receive a 60% one-time commission for EACH purchase of any individual products their referrals may make while at our site.

We've already had some affiliates making sales they probably wouldn't have made before this redesign.

I've also been busy adding new resources to our affiliate's area which will help them increase sales, not just for our program, but with all of their affiliate promotions. A couple of these resources include hundreds of videos that can be viewed online detailing various affiliate marketing methods, and a free report package which includes a PDF report that can be branded with our affiliate's links, an audio and a squeeze/sales page.

As I write this, there are currently 87 products listed in the products list on the club's sales page.

Not only can an affiliate promote our 
Club membership and earn recurring commission if their referral joins - they can promote a different product each week for a YEAR and still have products left that they can use for special promotions!

I think you'll have to agree that there's not many other membership sites that gives you 88 chances to earn commissions from one referral.

Yes, the only way to become a JanRon affiliate is to join our membership club, but here's something you probably haven't thought about - as a Digital Club member and an affiliate, you'll have access to ALL of the products you'll be promoting. This gives you the opportunity to try the products out for yourself, which enables you to give a truthful and honest review of the products you recommend. That's something you don't find in many affiliate programs.

Ok, you may be saying, "but I thought the purpose of being a Digital Club member is so I could sell the products myself and keep all of the profit."

That's right, it is. And we very much encourage our club members to do just that. But, the affiliate option is there if they choose to use it.

Let's face it, not every referral an affiliate sends to our club's sales page decides to join. But, we realize that they've put time, effort and maybe even some money behind getting their referrals to our site, so if we can help them get something out of their efforts, we're more than happy to let them take 60% commission on any sales.

Why not join now and you can be promoting our membership in minutes from now. Refer just 2 monthly members and you're membership fee is covered - with a profit left over.

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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products

JanRon Publishing's New Blog

Hello and welcome to our new blog.

After all the naggin, uh, I mean, suggesting, I did to Jan that she start her own blog, I thought it was time I take some of my own advice and start one for JanRon Publishing.

Not to mention that, judging from the reader response we've been getting from our mailing list lately, I would venture to guess that a large percentage of the subscribers on our list(s) are probably not even receiving our emails.

Although, the main reason I wanted to start this blog was to enable more interaction between us and our subscribers and between subscribers themselves. So if you have a comment or question, either to Jan or I personally, or just want to start a general discussion, PLEASE make use of the comments links.

Since I'm the one that does the blathering in our partnership, I'll probably be the one writing most of the posts here, BUT, I will get Jan to do some occasional posts when she can. A big advantage to having this blog is that by having our messages archived here, you'll be able to find past content that you may have missed.

We'll still be sending you email announcements, but we suggest that you also add our blog's feed to your favorite newsreader, or subscribe to our email updates list in the right column of this page. You'll receive ONE email notice per day only on the days we post new content on the blog.

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Sharon Bray-McPherson
Yahoo ID: sbray12bray

Jan Tallent & Sharon Bray-McPherson
JanRon Publishing Digital Products