Saturday, December 30, 2006

My New Year wish for you for 2007

I received this SMS from a dear friend of mine and I wish this for you in 2007:

May you have a fabulous 2007. May peace break into your house and thieves steal your debts. May love stick to your face like Vaseline. May laughter assault your lips and may the problems you had forget your address. May 2007 be the best year of your life.

I love you.

Dr Loot Gous
http://www.homeworkriches.com/
Home of the MoneyWiki

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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Best Regards

Loot

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Friday, December 15, 2006

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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PS check out the MoneyWiki

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Do you know what is Money?

And now my friends

I created an article about Money - What is it?

Please check it out in my brand new MoneyWiki here
http://www.homeworkriches.com/wikka/Money

Kind Regards

Dr Loot Gous
President
http://www.homeworkriches.com

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Advertise your business in a Wiki

Ever heard of MoneyWiki?

Well this is one of my new projects that I believe will grab the imagination.

You can join for free and discuss in Wiki format all matters relating to Money and more.

Put a few of your own articles/ads there! http://www.homeworkriches.com/wikka

I do not think that a Wiki is a new concept - but I do think that this is one type of Wiki application that I saw very little of so far. So - why not give it a go? You may like it as much as I do!

Try it out!
Kind Regards

Dr Loot Gous
President
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

Friday, November 24, 2006

Please help Theresa

Hi Guys

I really do feel from the heart for Theresa – especially after Thanksgiving day. And I would like to help her. Please read the email below that I received from Michael Cobb on how he wants to assist her. Please click on the link below to assist.
http://www.home-income-team.com/info/loot/signup.html

Kind Regards

Dr Loot Gous
President
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

Mail I received:

Hey Team,

Michael here with an impromptu message that may seem a little out-of-place in an internet marketing forum, but one I feel compelled to share with you.

Many of you have heard of Theresa Gardner. Those of you who visit the forum regularly will be familiar with her warm, happy personality and delightful sense of humor, as well as her eagerness to help others. We are also familiar with her forum photo of herself with her gorgeous little girl, Marie.

Frankly, Theresa (whom I often affectionately refer to as T-bird) is much loved here at HIT, a real treasure.

Well, as often happens to even the most un-deserving of people, life has thrown a rather cruel barrage of personal tragedy Theresa's way.

For Theresa's privacy I don't want to go into too much detail but with her permission I have copied below part of a message she recently wrote about her latest crisis:

Quote:

I haven't been in the forum for some time because of some personal health issues and some of you may know what I'm talking about. But, I thought I'd drop in to let you know I'm still around although a bit shell-shocked and getting myself ready for the battle of my life.

Two weeks ago right after I got out of the hospital, my husband decided to take off on me and file for divorce. Before he did this he was secretly removing clothing and important papers, his personal stuff, a lot of my personal stuff, etc. The last thing he removed was our 6 yr old daughter, Marie. He did this after drugging my tea with sleeping pills. I haven't heard from or seen them since and he left me with nothing. No car, no money, and he's been turning off utilities, phone and my internet service.

Needless to say, I'm now going through a nasty divorce and trying to get my life back in order. My sister is helping me with the divorce since he's cleaned me out of all of my money and she's giving me a place to stay until I can get back on my feet and get my daughter back.

Unquote


I know you're all busy so I'll try to keep the rest of this as brief as possible.

Theresa's most pressing problem is obviously finance, and more particularly enough money to get herself some transport. I did consider with my sizeable email lists simply asking for charitable donations on her behalf, (may have even gotten a few!) but Theresa is a proud lady and I know she would not feel comfortable accepting "charity" as such.

So I have come up with a different way we can help Theresa, a much better way and one that doesn't involve charity. In fact, you can now help Theresa simply by referring people to your own HIT down line... read on.

As you know, when members join and log into the home-income-team members area, they are presented with a "One-Time-Offer" (OTO) to purchase a fantastic package of internet marketing and business building tools. Our OTO uses a "split-payment" system where the purchaser pays 50% commission to the referring sponsor's paypal account, then the final 50% to admin (me).
http://www.home-income-team.com/info/loot/signup.html

Here's where I get to the bit that helps Theresa :)

I have made a slight adjustment to the split-payment system so that for the next 14 days all ADMIN payments (i.e. half of every OTO sold) will be paid direct to Theresa's paypal account instead of my own.

http://www.home-income-team.com/info/loot/signup.html

YOU still get paid your normal 50% (currently $33.50)

So my main purpose for bringing you to this page was not so much to ask for your charity on Theresa's behalf, but to encourage you to get promoting and put some extra effort into referring people to Home-Income-Team.com for the next couple of weeks.

Remember: By building your HIT network you'll be building your "free advertising" down lines on auto-pilot, earning you more traffic and advertising, plus you can earn back-end income from our supported programs as well as the instant "One-Time-Offer" commissions.

And for the next 2 weeks every time you earn OTO commissions, so does Theresa!

So get busy promoting, recruit yourself some new members, make a few sales, and help a friend in need at the same time.

Success to all,

Michael Cobb.
http://www.home-income-team.com/info/loot/signup.html

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Complete Money Making Site Setup FREE

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http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com/pips.html

Dr Loot Gous
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Whistle While you Work

It is simply amazing how the marketing tools on the Internet is growing in leaps and bounds.

One of the latest tools in the marketing arena is Feeds. You sometimes see a small orange RSS sign on a page for a RSS Feed. Or in Blogger they have a similar Feed called Atom.

But this is not new – I hear you say. True. In Internet terms and for the experienced Internet marketer this is old hat already. But for the normal Internet user this was – in my mind at least – a bit out of reach.

If you clicked on this Orange RSS button – you were presented with a page full of code that would make the normal user’s head spin. You required a special RSS feed reader. Just a little too complex for the average Joe Blogg.

But now we have Internet Explorer version 7 (IE7). I predict that this will dramatically increase the use and usability of RSS feeds. Why? Because it is now so much easier to:
1 Know that there is a feed on a page.
2 Subscribe to the feed and
3 Read the feed.

1 Know that there is a feed on a page.
In IE7 there is a setting to play a sound when a feed is found on a page. If this is switched on, the moment IE7 detects a feed on a page – it gives off a little whistle – to make the user attent that there is a Feed on the page. Whistle while you work! At the same time the new “View Feeds on This Page” icon becomes active and changes to Orange. But I seems to like the little whistle it gives off. Maybe one day when all sites have feeds the whistling will become a bit much (and then you can switch it off) – but currently it is new and a new thing one can use to market your site and to ensure people are kept aware of what you are marketing and of the changes on your web pages.
If you have IE7 installed you can for example go to this page: http://www.homeworkriches.com and see what I mean by the feed button in the IE7 toolbar lighting up.

2 Subscribe to the feed
The moment you click on this active RSS feed button on a page that has one – Internet explorer displays the feed and gives you the option to subscribe to it. Very much in the same way as what you can subscribe to a favorite web page.

Once you have subscribed to a page you can also – by going to the Feeds Tab in the Favorites Center (As it is called in IE7) – you can immediately see which feeds had something updated since the last time you looked at it. The changed feeds are highlighted for you. This is simply an amazing tool to keep abreast of any developments on pages of interest to you, as and when it suits you, without being bombarded by a series of emails.

3 Read the feed.
In the past one had to download and install separate feed readers. This was clumsy and not easy at all. The new IE7 Feed reader integration is really nifty and it really makes it easy to read a Feed. One way is to simply click on the feed button if it is highlighted on a page. And the second one is to click on a feed in your Favorites Center. As simple as that.

I can already see two types of feeds: One that simply reminds the subscriber of a change that took place on a page and invites the user to visit the page. The second is including the detail of the change with a link to the real page.

Marketers had to find something that could replace emails as the threat of spamming is simply too costly. And this seems one of the ways they came up with.

I predict that marketers will now start including Feeds in their websites with a vengeance.

Kind Regards

Dr Loot Gous
Is President of http://www.homeworkriches.com/ where you can find a whole series of work from home ideas.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Six reasons why you should think before you speak

Here are six reasons why you should think before you speak - the last one is great!Have you ever spoken and wished that you could immediately take theWords back...or that you could crawl into a hole?Here are the Testimonials of a few people who did....

FIRST TESTIMONY:
I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly,How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?"I turned around and walked back out and never went back.My husband didn't say a word... He knew better.

SECOND TESTIMONY:
I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls

I was unhappy with the women's type I had been using.After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store.He asked if he could help me.Without thinking, I looked at him and said, "I think I like playing with mens balls"

THIRD TESTIMONY:
My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of candy and nuts.As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help.I replied, "No, I'm just looking at your nuts."My sister started to laugh hysterically.

The boy grinned, and I turned beet-red and walked away.To this day, my sister has never let me forget.

FOURTH TESTIMONY:
While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some spent-up energy and ran amok.I was finally able to grab hold of her after receiving looks of disgust and annoyance from other patrons.I told her that if she did not start behaving "right now" she would be punished.To my horror, she looked me in the eye and said in a voice just as threatening, "If you don't let me go right now, I will tell Grandma that I saw you kissing Daddy's pee-pee last night!"The silence was deafening after this enlightening exchange.Even the tellers stopped what they were doing.I mustered up the last of my dignity and walked out of the bank with my daughter in tow.The last thing I heard when the door closed behind me, were screams of laughter.

FIFTH TESTIMONY:
Have you ever asked your child a question too many times?

My three-year-old son had a lot of problems with potty training and I was on him constantly.One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch, in between errands. It was very busy, with a full dining room.While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny, so of course I checked my seven-month-old daughter, she was clean.Then I realized that Danny had not asked to go potty in a while.

I asked him if he needed to go, and he said "No".I kept thinking "Oh Lord, that child has had an accident, and I don't have any clothes with me."Then I said, "Danny, are you SURE you didn't have an accident?""No," he replied.I just KNEW that he must have had an accident, because the smell was getting worse.Soooooo, I asked one more time, "Danny did you have an accident"?This time he jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over, spread his cheeks and yelled "SEE MOM, IT'S JUST FARTS!!"While 30 people nearly choked to death on their tacos laughing, he calmly pulled up his pants and sat down.An old couple made me feel better, thanking me for the best laugh they'd ever had!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, TESTIMONY SIX:
This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks.What happens when you predict snow but don't get any!We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked: "So Bob, where's that 8 inches you promised me last night?"Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard!

Now, didn't that feel good?Pass it on to someone you know who needs a laugh and remember we all say things we don't really mean, so think before you speak!!!!

Kind Regards
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Getting Started: Creating a Business Plan

Getting Started: Creating a Business Plan
Copyright © Dr Loot Gous
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

You're excited. You have a great idea for a profitable
online business. Maybe it is an original idea that has
not been marketed online before. Maybe you have come
up with a new spin on the ordinary. Whatever it is
that has influenced you to start your online business,
be sure that you have a plan before you begin. This is
not the time to “pick it up as you go”. These are some
basic things that should be included in your business
plan.

The business summary should give a brief description
of the entire business and is an integral part of the
overall business plan. After you have completed the
business summary you should begin to list the
objectives or the goals that you want to accomplish
through the business. Next and perhaps most
importantly, you should develop your marketing plan.
The marketing plan will address all the specifics of
the business. When developing the marketing strategy
you should consider the following:

The target market. The target market is the customers
that you expect to see visiting your site. For example
will your product be more appealing to college
students or those who are in retirement?

Consider the competition for your product when
determining the marketing strategy. Choose a product
that will be seen as unique and useful. Visit sites
that are offering the same or similar products. Find
out the cost, and how they are marketing their
product. Finds out the pros and cons of their business
and try to improve your product based on their flaws.

Research the various methods for advertising online.
You should become educated about search engines and
how they work since each one is different. Also be
sure that you know how to submit your site to search
engines. You should be prepared to spend a small
amount of money on advertising, but the profits that
you will gain from the advertisements will prove to be
money well spent.

Think about pricing. Again, look at the competition
and see what similar products are selling for. Pricing
can play a big role in the success of your product
since selling a product well below the average price
may lead customer to think that there is a problem
with the product or that it is not of the best
quality. However, pricing items too high could also
deter customers.

Determine the shipping method. Be sure that you know
how products will be shipped so that you can have
shipping details clearly posted on your site. If you
are shipping things of great value, you should
consider providing shipping insurance. Also think
about shipping outside the country that you live in.

Think about the different methods of payment that you
will accept. If your business does not accept credit
cards, you should be ready to give up half if not more
of your sales. If you decide to accept credit cards
will you use a merchant account or will you use a
third party credit card processing center? Both will
help you get started and the third party processing
center will handle all of the business so you don’’t
have to. You should decide which you will use and also
if you will accept checks or money orders. It is
essential to have a secure server when taking credit
cards.

These few things will help your online business to
become a great success and also provide you with peace
of mind knowing that you have thoroughly thought about
and planned for the opening of your online business.

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Saturday, September 02, 2006

I have a sale on - please hurry

Today I have a very special price for you
(unfortunately the offer could not be for very long
and only as long as stocks last)


CT44 Maxam 44pc Kitchen Cutlery Set
Reference Retail: $61.95
Selling Price of: $19.84!
A real Bargain
(Postage is additional)

You can find it here:
http://lootgous.fscstore.com/
Look in the Cutlery Section

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry.


Maxam 44pc Kitchen Set. Includes cutting board, chef bread carving, utility boning, vegetable, paring knives, meat fork, and 6 steak knives, cutlery wood block 7 pc nylon kitchen tool set, 5 measuring cups, 5 measuring spoons, 5 pc utility set (pizza cutter 2 utility knives potato peeler cork screw), and 6 bonus steak knives. Lifetime warranty on the cutlery. Gift boxed 8 lbs. 4100PT 61.95 Item #CT44

Reference Retail: $61.95
Selling Price: $19.84!
You can find it here:
http://lootgous.fscstore.com/
Look in the Cutlery Section

Feel free to look around – I am certain you will find a host of bargains here. Please let me know what you think of the pricing.

Kind Regards
Loot

Quite frankly my dear

Quite frankly my dear
Copyright © Dr Loot Gous
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

Today is one of those days that I should rather
not be writing anything – yet here I am…

Is it not quite sickening? FREE this and FREE that
Until you feel FREE yourself.

And then you get sipped into the cheapest
Marketing strategy of all – the FREE one.

It catches your eye – it forces you to click the button.

And then you are immediately drawn into a vast net
Of super marketing strategies all aimed at
Claiming up your well earned cents.

You must pay up now…
This offer will NEVER be repeated boykie!
Pay up or forever lose this opportunity.
Ouch – dirty…

And then I nearly, nearly spent my last cent
on a piece of software I dearly wanted
but could definitely not afford right now.

Because – the opportunity will be lost forever.

And so – was it free? Was it really and truly free?

I once heard the saying: “There is no such thing
As a free meal”. And more and more
This is becoming true.

At the end of the day
For one person to earn something
Another must pay something.

Well what can I say?
I am trying not to fall into the same trap.
If I say for free – I mean it.
And still – after all – I need money too.
So after I gave you one thing for free
I sit and I pray that you will go further
And will eventually buy something
So I can earn something.
So I am telling you up front
Please buy from me!

Kind Regards
Loot

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Internet Advertising Options

Internet Advertising Options
By Loot Gous

Copyright © Dr Loot Gous
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

Your online business will likely require more
advertising than a contemporary business downtown, yet
some new to the world of online business do not spend
the time and money to advertise their business
appropriately and are, in turn, loosing money. Your
online business is crammed into the world wide web
along with thousands of others selling the same
product or service as yourself. Consider this
scenario: In your hometown you want to open an art
supply store. In that same town there are thousands
of art supply stores. In order for your business to
be successful, it will have to stand out in some way
from the others. This is exactly what is happening
when a business is opened online. There is so much
competition, that you must take drastic measures to
ensure that you are getting noticed. Advertising can
be done in so many ways online. These are some of the
most successful ways that you can promote your online
business.

Advertising in Ezines is a popular way to promote
your online business. Ezines are the magazines of the
internet; they written on a particular subject and
read by those interested in that subject. Therefore,
Ezine readers are already potential customers and
advertising your site in Ezines that are related to
your business is almost guaranteed to help drive
traffic to your site and increase sales for your
product. You should be sure when advertising in
Ezines that you are not advertising along side
competitors. Ask the Ezine producer if there is a
policy concerning posting competing ads. It is also
a good idea to subscribe to the Ezine before making a
decision about whether or not to advertise in it. An
Ezine that runs fewer ads is a better choice than one
that runs many ads. You can look at the online
Directory of Ezines to find publications that are
relevant to your company.

Pay-per-click programs are an excellent way to
advertise your business without taking a risk that you
have advertised in the wrong place. With
pay-per-click, you can advertise you site and only
pay for those who click the link and go to your site.
Another popular pay-per program is the pay-per-lead
program that allows you to only pay for leads.
Usually this means that you pay for only those who
download a trail, fill out a form or enter a
sweepstakes; whatever you choose. Lastly you can
display pay-per-click banner ads in which your company
would be allowed to place a banner on their site and
you will be charged for every click that your banner
receives.

Opt-In email is a great way to advertise your
business, however it is expensive and it can be
misused very easily. Using opt-in emails, you would
submit your sales copy to the company that will in
turn email it to those on their mailing list. You
should be very careful since some of the companies
that advertise their mailing lists as opt-in email
service is sometimes really SPAM. It is essential
that you have a perfect and effective sales letter
when using opt-in mailing lists. Without and
effective sales copy your money and time have been
wasted.

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Monday, July 10, 2006

Cross Promoting Techniques that Work

Cross Promoting Techniques that Work
By Loot Gous

Copyright © Dr Loot Gous
http://www.HomeWorkRiches.com

Cross promotions are not a new idea. They have been
used by businesses for a very long time. For example,
a real-estate company may promote a certain lawyer to
close a sale, as the lawyer will promote that agency
in his firm. The system is somewhat similar to the
primitive barter system, where people traded items
rather than using money. How can anything primitive
fit into the online world of Internet marketing? Very
easily. Cross promotions are, simply stated, a trade
of advertising space. Instead of paying for
advertising space on a site, you would place their ad
on your page and yours on theirs. There are many ways
to use cross promotions in your internet business that
can be an effective and cost efficient way to
advertise.

One way is to use link exchanges. This is very
effective when doing cross promotions with a company
that is similar to yours, however you should be sure
and never link to a page that is in direct competition
with yours. One of the best things about link
exchanges is that some search engines are factoring in
hits from the sites that are linked to your page to
when determining the ranking. Therefore linking to a
more popular site, can not only increase your
advertising, and traffic, but also increase your
search engine ranking.

When customers or potential customers subscribe to
your Ezine you can use this as an opportunity to use
cross promotions. On the same page that the customer
subscribes to your Ezine, make available the
opportunity to subscribe to another company's Ezine.
You can even exchange ad space in Ezines, and provide
recommendations for those whom you cross promote with.
You might even want to exchange column space in one
another's Ezines.

Writing free articles that inform customers or
potential customers with information that is useful
and accurate can create a reputation for you and your
business. Soon readers will come to know you as an
expert on the subject. In these articles the author
uses a byline to help promote his site. Bylines can
be a way to use cross promotions as well. You can use
part of the space in your byline to recommend
another's product.

If you have been considering writing an eBook, a joint
venture could mean increased profits for you and the
person you are partnering with. Cross promotions
through eBooks are an excellent way to allow for a
wider topic and to promote both your business and your
partner’s business. The eBook should contain
information that will benefit both businesses and
still be helpful to the reader. A good example of
using cross promotions through an eBook is to a site
selling used video games partnering with a site
selling gaming devices. These are two subjects that
would interest the same reader and most likely lead
the reader to both sites.

You should keep in mind that the recommendations that
you make are a direct reflection of you, so choose
your cross promotional businesses carefully. Also
keep in mind that it would be nice as a shopper to be
able to link from one site to another as a way to
"shop around." Since this is usually not beneficial
to you, never link or recommend a site that is in
direct competition with you. Instead, recommend those
who are similar, such as health and life insurance.

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