Archive for May, 2008

Every day I get requests from people who want quotes on different projects, and I end up going through the same process over and over…

First I get an email asking about rates. I reply with a request for details so that I can provide a quote. They reply with their requirements, and I respond with a quote, time frame for completion and payment information. If they decide to go ahead, there’s usually a few details to clear up, too.

This process of information gathering sometimes takes several days… so I decided to streamline the process!

I just finished putting the final touches on my new site, Graphics With Impact – Graphics Designed Especially For Internet Marketers. I decided to make it as easy as possible to get the information you need, without wading through sales copy, and with the prices right up front.

Of course, the packages available are not all that I can do… I simply put the most asked-for packages together to make it easy to decide. If there’s something special you need, I’ve included a form to fill out your requirements for a custom project.

Go take a look for yourself! I’d love to get your feedback!

Graphics With Impact – Graphics Designed Especially For Internet Marketers

I just read a great post on Donna Fox’s blog, Why She Buys Reporter about women in Internet Marketing… specifically the lack of recognition from (some of) our male counterparts!

It’s amazing that people in this day and age can make general comments such as, “There aren’t any women speakers in Internet Marketing.”… and say it to one of the foremost female speakers around!

I myself have suffered through the pats on the head and “babe” comments, and have (on several occasions) been patronized as if I couldn’t possibly have an intelligent thought in my head unless a man put it there.

If you’re a woman in Internet Marketer, speaker or not, visit Donna’s blog and comment on her post. Let’s get more visible!

This one of the most significant events in human history. NASA broadcast the landing of the Phoenix on the north pole of Mars today at 6:00 PM EST.

What’s equally significant is the fact that it was broadcast Live On The Internet.

I just finished watching the Phoenix Landing on Mars on the NASA broadcast, and although I’ve never been overly fascinated with space travel I was utterly riveted by the human history unfolding in front of my eyes in real time.

The landing went flawlessly, a testament to all the hard work done by a massive amount of brilliant people from all over the globe. As I type this post, they await the first visual images from the Phoenix to be transmitted, and then tomorrow a team begins the scientific exploration into the depths to find ice – and water… the building blocks of possible life forms that lived on Mars in the past.

I was going to tie all this planning and hard work into a business lesson, but forget it. This event is something I’ll remember for a lifetime, and I’m so lucky to be alive during this time in history – and to have been a witness to this amazing event.

After 19 years he’s back and ready to rock-and-roll once again — The new “Indiana Jones” movie opened today and to celebrate the return of this intrepid adventurer we decided to hold a special “members” only event…

In his guise as “Havana Blake” Tony Blake has put together some very special goodies for you plus the chance to win one of 2 nice marketing prizes you can use for your business…

All you need to do to be rewarded is find the “HIDDEN IDOL” that’s been secreted somewhere on the AblakeForum… it’s in a hidden (but easily found) sub-forum somewhere on the board – once inside all you need to do is click on the idol and you’ll be taken to the secret treasure waiting for you collect… plus the opportunity to enter into the special drawing for one of two fantastic prizes sponsored by GetResponse/Implix…

He’s giving away a 1-year GetResponse Pro autoresponder account ($200 value) and also a 1-year TalkStream video & audio hosting account ($240 value) – 1 each to two lucky winners…

But how do you enter to win?

Simple!…

Become a member – it’s free! Then go look around the board for a hidden forum (it’s easy to find)… inside that hidden forum you’ll find a secret “IDOL” – click on the idol and you’ll be transported to the “Treasure Room” where you can download 2 very cool “Havana Blake ” info products FREE plus enter in the drawing for the big prizes…

This special event runs until Monday May 26, 2008 at 11:59pm – and we’ll announce the winners of the drawing on Tuesday, May 27…

In the secret “Treasure Room” are two special ebooks Tony has put together for you:

“HAVANA BLAKE AND THE SECRETS OF AFFILIATE MARKETING” plus “HAVANA BLAKE AND THE TREASURE OF OPT-IN LISTS” – and they’re yours FR.E.E just for participating – everyone gets these ebooks as his gift!

I hope you enjoy and have fun with Tony’s special “Havana Blake” event – it’s for members only and just another fun way for him to say Thank You for being a member… he’ll be doing more fun events throughout the year… keep an eye out for them!

I just love new, unique ways to drive traffic & increase opt-ins!

The Raffle Site Script was designed to help anyone kick their list building efforts into high gear instantly!

With this script, you can run a raffle offering as many different prizes as you want (digital, home delivery & pickup prizes are accepted), and the script will run fully automated down to running the raffle on it’s own and doing the delivery of digital prizes instantly to winners!

Run Free/for Profit Raffles

You can use the Raffle Site Script to run Free Raffles (raffles in which people get in for free in exchange of becoming a part of your mailing list) anywhere in the world!

Run an Unlimited Amount of Raffles!

After each raffle drawing is done, the script will AUTOMATICALLY archive all the tickets from each raffle for you.

This way you can setup a new raffle every time, choose to run the same raffle every so often, etc. etc. Giving you the flexibility to do whatever you want!

Having More Options = Having More Control!

This script has the highest range of customization possible, which ends up making your websites running the Raffle Site Script act the exact way you want them to, look the exact way you want them to, etc.

Offer ANYTHING You Want as a Prize!

You can offer anything you want as a prize! The Raffle Site Script was made to handle prizes that are either available through a download URL (digital prizes), prizes that are going to be mailed out to the winners, and prizes that are going to be picked up by the winners. You get FULL control!

There’s even more to tell you, so go check out the site : Raffle Site Script – Have some fun with it!

Another Toronto Mastermind is in the works… gathering with a group of marketers out here to talk shop – but this time not at noon!

Here are the details:

WHEN: Saturday May 17th @ 5:00pm — Till WHENEVER

WHERE: The Crooked Cue, Mississauga. ON

The Crooked Cue is a cool place Mike Hill picked out. It has a bar, chill area, lots of pool, tv, food and all sorts of other jazz.

DIRECTIONS: http://www.crookedcue.ca/infoandmapmississauga.html
75 Lakeshore Road East
Closest Major Intersection: Hurontario Street & Lakeshore Road

PICTURES AND STUFF OF THE PLACE:

http://www.crookedcue.ca/contactmississauga.html

Can’t tell you when it will end – the last one was awesome, and lasted about 6 hours!

Among those currently planning to attend are Steve Iser, Lisa Preston, Mike Hill, Jay Deiboldt, Doug Champigny, Teri Champigny, Rick Macaulay, Cathy Sanderson, Mary Green, Dave Allen and more… around 25 have said they’d be there!

Basically anyone is free to attend – the more the merrier! If you’re planning to be in the Greater Toronto Area, or can jump in a car for a road trip, by all means – get your fanny over here! – even if you’re in Buffalo – not that far of a drive.

I highly advise you to bring as many marketers as you know who happen to live in the area – hell, even carpool together. It should be a good networking time.

Look forward to seeing you all there!!