4mostip Newsletter, 21 June 2006

4mostip Newsletter, 21 June 2006

Hello friends and colleagues,

Today I write to share with you some news and interesting
comments from subscribers to our Online Home Business Course.

1. Member Suggestions

Thank you those kind readers who have taken the time to
comment on our lessons and share their experiences.
Your compliments are, of course, most gratifying.

It is reassuring too just to confirm that real people out
there actually do read and benefit from the advice given.

Two letters in particular are worthy of special mention:

1.1 PDF format

Monika, suggests that we provide a version of the lessons
in pdf format for ease of reading and storage.

This is an excellent idea which we will implement.

Because many folks are nervous of email attachments
(for fear of viruses), and

others have problems with large files over low speed
connections,

we will implement a pdf service by providing
you with links to a library on our server.

You can then download lessons in pdf format as you wish if
your internet connection is fast enough to do so conveniently.

I will circulate the links just as soon as I can reformat
and upload the lessons.

Try this link for starters and let me know of any problems
experienced, if you would be so kind:
http://lessons.4mostip.com

1.2 Ebook preparation

Peter, suggests that facilities and tuition to prepare
ebooks SIMPLY would make a good subject for study.
Another excellent suggestion which we will address.

Coincidentally, Jeanette tells us that she has already
started making a simple "ebook" of the course for her own
convenience to file and refer back to - which is just what
Monica needs.

Thanks to your input, I now appreciate much better that many
folks do struggle with the practicalities of ebook production.

Ebooks are a powerful weapon in your marketing armory,
and you cannot afford to overlook their possibilities -
both as products for sale and as viral marketing giveaways.

BRANDED ebooks have massive potential to spread your
name and are worthy of serious study.

We will work something up and circulate it just as soon as
time permits - that's a promise.

So, two excellent constructive suggestions that we shall act
upon to the benefit of all.

Thank you again Monika, Peter and Jeanette.

Thanks too to those readers who replied trying to sign me up
to their programs! Just because I'm committed elsewhere
doesn't mean I don't appreciate your initiative and enterprise.

Selectivity about what to take on is a great challenge
in our world - where there are so many tempting
projects - so cleverly pitched to us.
FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS............

2 How many of you are making money yet?
If not, are you ready yet to be helped?

A sad letter from Bob tells how after 12 years internet
marketing without making money, he is trying his last
project before throwing in the towel.

Well he is a hero for hanging in there so long before
admitting that maybe something isn't quite right
with his approach! Sorry Bob, just wisecracking.
Don't mean to be disrespectful of your efforts, as I know
that you have made serious efforts to try different ways
of working the problem.

Unfortunately, 95% of internet marketers do eventually give
up without ever making a penny of profit. Sad but true.

Some don't deserve to succeed because they never put in
any serious effort or investment.

But, for the other serious contenders, a much better outcome
should be possible.

The good news is our alternative below....

I hesitate to suggest our alternative except to :

(a) folks brand new to this business and ready
to accept guidance with an open mind, and

(b) those who have already tried every which way
of hitting their head on a wall

(it's called "repetitive unproductive behavior"
- like repeated jabbing of the elevator button
when it doesn't come quickly enough for you)

and are now FINALLY ready to listen seriously and ACT
on advice about how to find the stairs instead.

One piece of advice I will give them for free is -
stop switching programs
(the grass is NOT greener next door)

- and instead work REALLY hard on finding
our why you aren't making the first program work.

Otherwise you will simply repeat the pattern of failure
with the next project.

3 Internet Marketing Apprentice Program

My associate Harry Fassett and I are presently working on
details of a coaching/mentoring program to lead a small
group of "apprentices" in creating their own profitable
businesses - using techniques that we KNOW to work -
because we already use them successfully.

We shall be investing considerable time and effort in each
trainee. Our time and patience is limited and we can't
afford to waste it on people who can't or won't
"get with the program".

So, we are presently studying ways to filter out in advance
those lazy dreamers who would just waste both our time
and their own, at the expense of the other participants.

We shall require a level of discipline and commitment to
budget and effort that is unwelcome to the ears of many
gullible dreamers sold on internet hype of instant riches.

Instant riches without systematic and intelligent
investment of time and money don't exist anywhere else,
and common sense tells us all that they don't exist on the
internet either. So, why suspend your common sense
when you switch on your PC?

If any of you would like to put your name forward as
possible candidates then please do write us informally with
a summary of your experiences, objectives and motivations.

We can't promise specific schedules until we get an overview
of candidates' capabilities and needs - and finalize the
terms of our program accordingly.

However, we will give preference to existing subscribers to
this lesson series before considering other applications.

That's it for today folks, except to reiterate how much we
value your input. You'd be surprised how much you can see
that those of us at the coal face cannot. I'm going to post
this newsletter to our blog and warmly invite your comments
and further suggestions at
http://blog.4mostip.com

With best wishes,

Steven Henderson
http://sjh.4mostip.com
mailto:sjh@4mostip.com

P.S. We've revamped our PIPS website - check it out at:
http://4mostip.com
and let me know what we should improve.