Well, that’s not entirely true, because I have adapted templates before, and I did do a single test on my own computer just to get the feel for the program. But, nonetheless, Artisteer is a truly intuitive program.

This was the previous design:

This is the new design:

It’s now 3:56AM, and I just wanted to play around a bit with an idea for a design. Before I knew it, I was ready to upload a new theme.

Truly amazing, and I want to thank Britt Malka from Money Making Ideas for having the banner linking to Artisteer. It was truly amazing to get a hold of such a professional program at such a low price. You can safely buy that program if you have ever wanted to create your own themes for your blogs.

You can become a designer for a fraction of the cost of competing systems. Stay tuned as september will unfold lots of new opportunities now that the design is fresh.

I know, because I have been working in a Technical Department where we handled questions relating to satelite receivers. This department was often the last step before customers might have cancelled their subscriptions. People were frustrated, and many called in expecting to be treated badly. They were very surprised when a new team of workers treated them with respect and helped them on their way to being happy customers.

You should treat your customers just as respectfully. They pay your salary – and you must understand this before you can ever grow into a business people will trust.

How Can You Improve Your Customer Service?
There are some key points you can use to improve your customer service. Implementing these points will be instrumental in lifting your customer statistics from maybe 65-70% up to close to 100% satisfied customers.

Beginning action you must take:

• Pay attention to dissatisfaction
• Find mutual ground
• Solve misunderstandings and explain your decision

Phases to remember while trying to solve misunderstandings:

• When customers complain there might be something wrong with your website or payment system. Paying close attention to possible problems can help REDUCE complaints – and will save lots of time for your company when you pay attention.
• Finding mutual ground is the realization that you understand the customer. He/she will appreciate your understanding of their complaint – even when you might have to make a decision that doesn’t fully meet their request (for a refund, reduction or whatever)
• Solving misunderstandings deals with explaining the process more thoroughly. You may want to change things on your website also. A thorough explanation of your decision can help others see why you make the ruling you do.

After you solved the problem:
After the problem was solved, there are two types of problems: recurring problems or single event problems. Single events don’t need fixing under normal circumstances – they may be technical glitches, and most likely won’t happen all that often, but recurring problems need to be taken care of after the customer has gotten a reply.

In Conclusion
There are many companies that don’t take their customers seriously, but you can trust one thing: companies that don’t get this won’t survive. Now that we have the internet people can communicate across time zones, and warnings about not being taken seriously can run across the internet in a matter of seconds.

What are you experiences with customer service? What have you seen as good, and what has been bad?

Thanks beforehand for your comments, and have a nice weekend.

What Is This System All About?
If you sell digital products online you are no doubt aware of the two most popular affiliate networks, ClickBank and PayDotCom.

While both of these are great and I highly recommend each of them, there is a brand new service that really deserves your attention. It’s called PaySpree, and the best part about that system is that ALL PaySpree-members get paid for their sales instantly by PayPal.
Even affiliates get paid for their referred sales instantly by PayPal.

You can expect it to become quite a hit as the lure of ‘instant commissions’ played a big part in the massive success of products such as 7DollarSecrets and the RapidActionProfits scripts.

There are also many products for sale that are just lists of affiliate programs that pay instant paypal commission. And there are many threads in the various internet marketing forums asking about where to find instant commission affiliate programs. Now there is an entire site and marketplace dedicated for these people. PaySpree is the answer to their questions…

As soon as you become a member you can start promoting any product in the marketplace, and you can add your own products so affiliates can promote them for you. All commission payments are handled automatically by PaySpree It is pure win-win for all parties involved.

How Will It Look?
I want to give you a chance to see how these ads could look by offering you an example of these PaySpree ads.

In one concrete instance I discovered that one internet marketer had what appeared to me a copy of a very similar design. He claims it’s pure coincidence, but combined with various other factors he’s just having one too many coincidences to remain credible.

I won’t get into any details about all the nitty gritty, but I will tell you this: I was disappointed when I found out his own customer service was lacking, but I truly lost any remaining faith in his abilities when I discovered this “coincidence”…

He has made numerous mistakes through the years, and even admits to having endorsed a few too many people. The problem is, however, that he himself advocated supporting entrepreneurs – acknowledging he was a small one himself when he started. But he doesn’t fulfill on his promises.

He likes people linking to his business but never links to anybody else. He is a receiver – and in no way gives or shares anything if it isn’t in someway related to benefitting himself.

Once trust is lost, the magic IS gone. I won’t waste any time going into more detail, but will say this: don’t ever let this happen to your business because once trust is lost, you won’t be able to recapture the magic for your audience. The straight and narrow path may be a slow path, but when you maintain a good and responsive reader base it’s more fun than having to keep appearances if you really don’t have what it takes to be a success. Remaining HONEST and CREDIBLE is having real and lasting success, and that will keep benefitting you forever.

You may feel a bit frustrated. You write excellent articles, you have great traffic to your articles, but you aren’t making any money. This is a problem for many writers. They expect a fair share of the income available online, and who can blame them? No one told them the secrets to making money online, but you should know how to monetize your articles so you can get motivated to write even more articles – and earn even more money.

Turning original content into cash can be done in several ways. I will show you three central ways that can greatly boost your earnings online.

1. Turn your article into a cash cow by reading it aloud into a sound file
2. Turn your article into a cash cow by doing a video where you explain your content
3. Start monetizing your site with affiliate marketing banners and Google AdSense

When you follow these tips, you will see a drastic increase in both your traffic and the money you begin to cash in.

Reading Your Article Aloud – The Sound File
You know search engines love your original content. Your articles could score well in that area. But what about those who can’t read? What about the many people who don’t spend time reading? They still want your content, but they might get somewhat lost running through hundreds of words. If they aren’t accustomed to reading that can be an insurmountable task.

But why shouldn’t you then also make use of the chance to attract even more traffic by adding a sound file where you have read your article aloud?

You can even insert it directly on your WordPress blog using the quick addition table in your Dashboard. It will allow you to upload your sound file and add a comment to it so people can get it directly read aloud for them.

Just as when the first podcasts came about, search engines love multimedia – although they can’t understand the content of the media file. That’s what your article is for. But you might as well supplement your content by adding your own sound file.

Doing a Video Explaining Your Article – The Videocast
Similarly, doing a video where you read your article aloud with some screens containing the headlines can all be pieced together in a matter of minutes using Windows Movie Maker. It’s a free program, and truly very intuitive. When you’re finished with your movie, you can upload it to YouTube, and embed this video on your blog. Just as you could add the sound file to your blog, so you can also embed video along with your article content.

By offering people both the opportunity to read it themselves, getting it read aloud and seeing a video with the article presented, you’re getting the best of all three worlds. People like to see, hear, feel or do things when they need to learn new skills. You can offer them three of those four types of learning.

Start Monetizing Your Site With Ads
There is nothing wrong with making money for your efforts. This is the one type of mindset that has previously hindered many in making money online. You shouldn’t let yourself be affected by that type of thinking, but should present relevant ads – either in the form of affiliate link banners or Google AdSense.

You might as well earn some money when people are moving on to other pages on the internet. It’s money in the tip jar each time one visitor clicks.

In Conclusion
You can begin making money online. All it takes is to think a bit outside the box. Once you get started, you can see why I recommended this in my article. Why should you be the only one who isn’t getting paid for making an effort to supply others with quality content?

The answer to that question should be the beginning of turning original content into cash.

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This won’t give you any discounts. But it WILL increase your perceived value because you will now be presented with what is ESSENTIAL for beginning to earn money online (Beginner), what is NEEDED to increase your sales (Intermediate), and what can be done to BOOST an existing online income (Advanced)…

You don’t need discounts to get you started.

What you need is a decent overview that allows you more easily to decide what you really need to get you off to either a good start, build upon your solid foundation or boost an already growing income.

What are your thoughts about such a three-phased system? Thanks beforehand for your feedback.

Before you move forward into the untapped information provided by Eric, you have to be ready to follow the five steps to success. With over one million dollars of product sales in 2007, Eric guarantees that each step will teach you more about affiliate marketing than you ever thought possible.

These five steps are:

• Learn all you can about AdWords
• Create powerful sales copy
• Track your affiliate marketing results
• Using the information you learned
• Finding Your Niche

Step One: Learn All You Can About AdWords
The first step is to learn all that you can about AdWords. Then, you must appreciate the fact that you still have so much to learn about making AdWords work for you. This is information that the underground affiliates, the ones who hold this information secret, don’t want you to learn. More importantly, neither does Google. But, you get it anyways.

Some of the tricks may seem a little down and dirty. But, you’ve got to realize what it takes to play the game. If Google isn’t above hiding this information, then you shouldn’t worry about exposing it.

Step Two: Create Powerful Sales Copy
The next step to success through “The Affiliate Conspiracy” is to create powerful sales copy. From utilizing the best your competition has to offer by creating unbelievable copy template conversions to taking the knowledge you gained to optimize the content you have written.

Step Three: Track Your Affiliate Marketing Results
Once you copy is written, tracking your affiliate marketing with specialized tools designed to help you succeed will be your next step. From testing to becoming automated, your affiliate marketing will become a superior process that cannot be beat.

Step Four: Using The Information You Learned
Although you will find success like you’ve never found before with the early steps of “The Affiliate Conspiracy”, Eric continues with the opportunities to learn about affiliate marketing. Most affiliate marketing programs want you to rely on the Law of Numbers and the fact that you, as well as everyone else, will get your share of affiliate funds.

Not ANY more. Now, you not only have the information you need to begin in the affiliate marketing game, but you also have the knowledge and power to use the elite content network system for your own personal gain.

Step Five: Finding Your Niche
The last step, which is just as important, is to find your niche. Once you have found your niche, you will have found your ticket to success. Of course, you don’t want to actually limit yourself to one niche, if you don’t have to, do you? “The Affiliate Conspiracy” will teach you how to locate, develop, and fine-tune any type of niche available on the market today.

They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but this isn’t a way to boost an ego. Eric can handle his own success. This is about you. You have a step-by-step secret plan that will put you in the same league with Eric himself…if you dare to go there.

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1. What is your line of business?
2. What are the key words that fit your business?
3. Can you build partnerships with others in your niche?
4. Is your niche specialized?
5. How have others monetized your niche?

What Is Your Line of Business?
You need to define your business. But not only the formal business type. You also need to consider related aspects of your business. Let’s say you were building a blog on social media. You might be focusing especially on Twitter and Facebook. But what about including StumbleUpon, HubPages and article marketing to “brand” your name?

You need to clarify your niche so you know where to focus your energy. This also helps you to find e-books, software and other products you can sell on your blog. The better you know your audience, the more you can earn.

What Are the Key Words That Fit Your Business?
In a world of search engine optimization all over the internet, it is highly important that you know the key words you want to penetrate. This helps you identify competitors – and perhaps also in finding potential partners in strategic partnerships.

Can You Build Partnerships With Others in Your Niche?
This is the one part that scares a lot of people the most. “Why would I ever help my competitors?” you might be thinking. But actually you are looking at this the wrong way. When you help others (reach your audience), you also get a chance to reach their share of the market.

You can therefore add to your revenue by supplementing your own products with those from others, and you might even reach a more responsive group of people by entering a strategic partnership with someone who has a relevant audience that might even buy more than your own list does.

Is Your Niche Specialized?
You must be very clear in seeing what type of audience you are targetting. The better you understand your niche, the more effective you will be when you communicate with these people.

How Have Others Monetized Your Niche?
When you know how others have done, you might be able to choose a different strategy to increase your own sales. Those who don’t sell usually don’t push the potential, so when you are talking to your audience you might as well give them an offer they can’t refuse.

Today, we are going to focus on what has worked less than perfectly.

Have you learned anything from those failures?

Have you found alternative ideas instead of those that didn’t work?

For my own part I once published a newsletter about Linux. A couple of years before Linux was really discussed in Denmark. I was TOO early with my idea, and subsequently I never got either the advertisers or the number of readers to make it any fun.

But I also learned one important lesson.

I should NEVER have given up because the niche did become much hotter, and Linux did establish itself as an operating system for everyone. Almost a full year after I discontinued my newsletter, one of the major IT magazines began publishing information about Linux. That could have been a major chance to build great backlinks in commenting many of these articles.

So I frankly admit I committed one of the only things one should never do. Giving up is a coward’s act – and admitting it, and learning from it is important so you don’t ever repeat it.

What have you learned during this first part of this blog series? I hope you have been inspired. Stay tuned.