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Hey you guys! (that includes the female species, too)

I've been putting it off for the longest time… ignoring it.  It's such a big change, but I'm bent on doing it.  My website will be revamped and the change is scaring me!  But it's been one of my goals for a very long time - to fix everything that is broken; to fill in the blanks and make a mark.

I have written down several goals for this Summer - which is a working Summer for me this year. The kids are away on vacation and I am free to get anything and everything on my list done and completed.  Here are the top 5: 

1) Increase my Income (wow - not very original but my highest priority, nonetheless!)  I have several strategies for this.
2) A new car (for me - just want to qualify this - it doesn't have to be a brand new car - not as much pressure on me then )
3) Get organized in business and private life.
4) Attend important Internet Marketing seminars
5) Record new songs (gotta have SOME fun) and make videos (not music videos - videos for my business!)

I'll write something on how I intend to accomplish each of these in the coming days and weeks, "come hell or high water…".

Speaking of lists of 5 things, Carlos Garcia gives away the five top Ad-Networks, the 5 top CPA Networks and the 5 top Co-Reg Networks in a .pdf as a thank-you for filling out the survey after viewing the video. 

What are your top five goals for this summer or this year, and how do you intend to accomplish them?

Angela Wickenberg

TheRichJerk is launching a new product tomorrow called XRay Domination.  It's an interesting product with a staged launch where the narrator, "Ryan", exposes the RichJerk's keywords in his Adwords campaigns.  There was a series of videos, building up suspense and I thought it was a fun launch.

Some people are offended by the Rich Jerk and his language and the way he talks about women.  I know that some people might find this in bad taste, but I am just amused when I read his emails and the copy on his website.  It's like watching a stand-up comedian, or even listening to hard rock music with insulting lyrics, or even the country western music with lyrics that somehow say hurtful things but have a bit of truth in them.  I usually laugh outloud when I read his stuff.  I just don't take it seriously. There's something releasing about it - the way I see it - laughing is always good, and his marketing info is amongst the best on the market.

Last week, Rich Jerk launched his new Rich Jerk Evolution website in very close proximity to the X-ray Domination launch, which is tomorrow.

In fact, I saw at least a couple of marketers who got their promotions mixed up about this. They actually confused the two launches. They thought they were promoting X-ray Domination, but the link was for Rich Jerk Evolution (or vice versa), which is a totally different thing.

Rich Jerk Evolution (aka Rich Jerk 2.0) is basically the new evolution of the original Rich Jerk ebook, formatted as a membership site with various types of content. It costs $29 a month if you pay for the entire year, $59 quarterly, and $99 on a monthly basis.  But being a member of Rich Jerk Evolution will give you the chance to purchase X-ray Domination a full hour before everyone else. And since they’re limiting it to 500 licenses, it could be a big factor. I have no idea how quickly it will sell out (I don’t even know the price yet), but I figured I’d at least let you know.  I hope I can afford it!

There are about 5 major launches going on right now and so there is a lot of noise on the marketplace and it feels hard to distinguish between all of the claims made for the various products.

The X-ray Domination product itself is launching tomorrow on March 20th at Noon eastern.

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A few weeks ago, I purchased a domain name on auction that had a pr 6 with +40k quality backlinks on it. When I checked a few days ago, ALL the pr was GONE as well as the backlinks.  This also happened with the one other domain I purchased on auction.  The one I already mentioned had a PR 6 and the other one had a PR 4.
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After reading this article by Russell Wright of ThemeZoom, http://www.theme-zoom.com/167/are-you-putting-content-in-the-wrong-place/,  I realized that I may have set up my sites in the wrong way, using the content in a way that did not help me.  Even Twittering in a way that was not helping me.

I was a member of ThemeZoom when they first introduced their service back in 2005 or early 2006, but I didn't understand a thing.  Since then, I have changed quite a bit, and ThemeZoom seems to have developed their services as well.  I think the people at Themezoom really put out a lot of quality info. Take a look at the article about how content can be scored and placed correctly or incorrectly, as the case may be. For example, much is talked about the importance of researching your online "verticle market" and "keyword clusters".  It's all very scientific and detailed.  No messing around when it comes to marketing.

There are also articles and video instruction  talking about tests they have carried out and are in the process of carrying out, like the difference between using Tube  Mogul and Traffic Geyser.  Russell Wright says that  you will get ranked for keywords with fewer than 500,000 competing pages on Google when you submit a properly tagged video.  That we should only use You Tube videos on our main site if it has relevance, otherwise You Tube videos should be used on your support sites and only HD quality videos should be used on your main sites.  Hmmm - now that's interesting - that there are quality scores associated with the quality of the audio and visual content on your site.  They talk about where to use widgets, about the purpose of your primary website (you USP of course) and that it is the business question you are proposing to answer with your USP that is presented on the main site, that we should not use spun content on primary website, when you use excerpts from books…

The membership they have is called Krakken and is by invitation only.  I'm inviting you:

<a href="http://www.themezoom.com/amember/go.php?r=171&i=10&s=1">By Referral Only - Qualified Candidate Link</a>

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Stop working so hard!!!

I wanted to let you in on a little secret that I found that is going to make your online lifestyle 1000% times easier. It's the concept of outsourcing!

I'm going to show you WHY, HOW and exactly WHERE I find the best people to do all of the work for you!!!

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Tomorrow is your last chance to get your membership to the
10 Days of WinterGiveaway. After that, you're out of luck.

Every year, Mike Steup runs his 10 Days of Winter Giveaway
- bringing you some of the best gifts from the hottest
marketers around.

This winter is no different, as Mike has brought together
an All-Star line up of marketers, giving you some of their
best products.
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John Reese just released the first part of his new Income.com.

 BlogRush is the name of the service they have finally released
(after many months of development). It’s a free service that will
help any blogger generate more traffic and readers for their blog.

Using RSS technology and some of their own new technology,
they’ve built an amazing platform to help bloggers receive
“mass distribution” for their content across the Internet.
And their system doesn’t spam or abuse the Internet in anyway.
And it doesn’t try and ‘game’ Google either.

What a fresh approach.  I congratulate John Reese and his co-workers
for coming out with such a novel idea and look forward to using it.

Here's a link to join BlogRush:

http://www.blogrush.com/r10238588

You can see it in action here in this blog to the right.

Happy Blogging and Much Traffic To You!

Angela Wickenberg

P.S.  My new website is coming along nicely, behind the scenes
and will be re-launched very soon.

P.S.S. Stay tuned to this blog for coming news!

P.S.S.S.  Join BlogRush here:  http://www.blogrush.com/r10238588