Ok, in the first post I got you the basics – the publisher’s description and the Table of Contents.

Let me begin by discussing Jack Ma’s foreward.  I won’t steal his thunder, but I will mention one of his examples and what he aims to do through Alibaba.com – to help the Chinese marketplace and, in turn, help American entrepreneurs in the process.

One example he gave was a type of Chinese wine that retailed for $120 but which sold at the wholesale level for a very small percentage of the price. He attributed the massive (and questionable?) price increase to an antiquated distribution system, that, of course, had to add new layers of profit just to survive.

Ma sees his work at Alibaba.com as one of disintermediation. That’s a $3 word for cutting out “middle men”. Using the internet, his idea is for Alibaba.com to become the one “middle man” necessary to connect producers in China with distributors elsewhere in the world, but primarily in the English speaking market who want to distribute the products, add value to them, or use them as marketing tools for their “bread and butter” products and services.

His vision is to see the readers and US users of Alibaba.com use their site to open their own business and find the products they can sell profitably, and in one sense at least, put globalization to work FOR THEM.

Read excepts here for The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide: Insider Tips and Strategies for Sourcing Products from the Worlds Largest B2B Marketplace.

What this does of course is diversify the customer base of Chinese firms… that way if one HUGE customer changes providers, they still have the opportunity to keep production going if they have been able to connect with small businesses who may be less likely to switch as long as they can continue to serve their customers effectively.

So it could be a good deal for all concerned.

I’ll talk more about other interesting things I’ve found in the book.  I don’t have much time to read, but this is one book I wanted to read.

Read excepts here for The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide: Insider Tips and Strategies for Sourcing Products from the Worlds Largest B2B Marketplace.

The official guide to making a bundle buying and selling through Alibaba.com, the world’s largest online B2B marketplace Alibaba.com is the world’s leading global business-to-business online marketplace. People around the world use it every day to import and export products for big profits. But newcomers are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of products and the quantity of information available.

The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide shows you how to ramp up your business or build an entirely new business, using the Alibaba.com brand and web site as your supplier. This practical guide provides simple answers for complex questions, from navigating the site, to finding products at the right price, to branding, and much more. Plus, the book includes best practices for importing, locating and vetting suppliers, and protecting yourself against online fraud.

• An answer-packed guide for all your questions about doing business through Alibaba.com
• Officially licensed and supported by Alibaba.com, this is the only guide you need
• Includes inspirational profiles of people who have used Alibaba.com successfully to launch new businesses or revive old ones
• The first and only step-by-step guide to using Alibaba.com effectively

Alibaba.com gives you the opportunity to make real money online. Here, you’ll find a wealth of inside information that will help you use Alibaba.com safely and profitably.

Read excepts here for The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide: Insider Tips and Strategies for Sourcing Products from the Worlds Largest B2B Marketplace.

Here is the Table of Contents:

Foreword Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba.com.
Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Preface.

Part I Alibaba.com: The Opportunity.

Chapter 1 Alibaba.com Opens the Door to Global Trade.

First a Little History.

Alibaba.com’s Corporate Goals and Values.

Alibaba.com’s Six Core Values.

Alibaba.com Today.

Alibaba.com Corporate Structure.

Alibaba.com’s Programs, Tools, and Events.

Alibaba.com’s 2008 e-Business Champion of the Year: Gene Rumley.

Chapter 2 International Sourcing: This Isn’t Kansas Anymore.

International Sourcing: Your Challenge and Promise.

Your First Sourcing Decision.

Let’s Put First Things First.

Get a Tax ID Number and Register Your Business.

Develop Your Product Idea.

Build Your Prototype.

Create and Test-drive Your Business Plan.

Create a Business Calendar.

Product Sourcing Basics.

Calculate Your Budget.

Safety Checks for Sourcing Products.

Sourcing Internationally: New Challenges and Rewards.

Leaving Kansas: Alibaba.com Opens a World of Opportunity.

Importing Your Products.

Chapter 2 Checklist.

Chapter 3 Keys to Successful Importing.

Your Education Begins.

Your Partner’s Responsibilities and Your Own.

Terms You Need to Know.

Standards, Certifications, and Regulations.

Partners Who Can Help You.

Who Are the Major Players?

Can You Keep It Simple?

Chapter 3 Checklist.

Part II Putting Alibaba.com to Work for You.

Chapter 4 The Alibaba.com Web site.

Let’s Start at the Home Page.

Trade with the World.

Keep Scrolling.

Inspirational Success Stories.

Alibaba.com Partners.

Don’t Underestimate the Bottom of the Page.

Let’s Get You Registered.

Download TradeManager.

A Tour of Alibaba.com’s Links.

Buy.

Sell.

Community.

My Alibaba.

Help.

Alibaba.com’s Search Engine.

Chapter 4 Checklist.

Chapter 5 Finding Business Partners.

You Are the Boss, So It’s All Up to You.

Education through Experience.

Establish Realistic Expectations for Your Suppliers.

Set Criteria for Your Products Themselves.

Build In Your Own Safety Checks.

Fraud: Forewarned Is Forearmed.

Qualify and Identify.

Qualify and Legitimize.

Let’s Find Some Manufacturers.

Searching for Partners.

Posting a Buying Lead.

Those First Few E-mails.

Vetting Prospective Partners.

Do You Like Their Attitudes?

Quantify Them to Qualify Them.

Communication, Communication, Communication!.

Should You Travel to China or Anywhere Else?

Chapter 5 Checklist.

Chapter 6 Working with Your Suppliers.

A Two-sided Partnership.

Alibaba.com Can Help You Learn.

Getting Your Products Right.

Get Graphic.

Ask for Samples.

What to Do When Things Go Wrong.

Chapter 6 Checklist.

Chapter 7 Closing the Deal.

Getting the Details Right.

Your Pro Forma Invoice.

Payment Schedules and Options.

Spread Out Your Payments.

Wire Transfers.

Escrow Services.

Letters of Credit.

Shipping Details.

Forge Good Relationships.

Bill of Lading: The Final Document.

Chapter 7 Checklist.

Chapter 8 Safe Trading.

Educate Yourself.

Alibaba.com’s Safety & Security Center.

Safe Trading Forums.

Other Web-based Resources You Can Use.

Keeping Your Computer Safe.

Security Help Available through Alibaba.com.

Create Your Own Alibaba.com Sign-in Seal.

E-mail Fraud.

Trojans and Viruses.

Protecting Your Computer.

Chapter 8 Checklist.

Chapter 9 Keeping the Pipeline Full.

Your Customers Will Change Your Business.

Your Partnerships Will Change Your Business.

When You Are Ready to Travel, Get In Touch.

Your Expertise Will Change Your Business.

What Will You Do with Your Expertise?

Turn Those Tables and Sell to the World.

Alibaba.com’s Selling Links and My Alibaba Selling Tools.

Now Is the Time to Consider a Paid Account.

Your Uncle Sam Stands Ready to Help.

Chapter 9 Checklist.

Part III Alibaba.com Success Stories.

Gene Rumley—Bell Performance, Inc..

Valarie Moody—Fodeo.net.

Allison Taylor—Jack Webster, Inc..

Mary Miller Pembleton and Gregg Pembleton—Thumball by Answers In Motion, LLC.

Joshua Crumbaugh—Platinum Mortgage, Inc..

Valerie Johnson—Big Feet Pajama Company.

Index.

Read excepts here for The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide: Insider Tips and Strategies for Sourcing Products from the Worlds Largest B2B Marketplace.

I’ll be writing more about it soon, but the reason I suggest it to you is the author himself. I’ve known him quite some time. He doesn’t participate in the “Me too” fill your email box with junk promotions…in fact he’s questioned many of them.

He gives away free marketing information weekly on his internet talk show Stump Markus.

And in this $39 report, he tells you how to easily (really) and ethically (really) get to the top of Google for those “stealth” keywords that can bring you money. He even tells you a free tool to uncover dozens of “stealth” keywords for the top selling affiliate products.

More next week.

But for now, be one of the first to get these tools and put them to work for yourself!

Instant Internet Marketing Secrets

But this new system which pays you PER LINK and PER WORD seems promising.

It’s worth at least checking out. If that changes, I’ll update you again!

But keep in mind you need to keep up until you get $50. That’s when you can get your payout! That may entail several blog posts depeding on what you charge!

Mike Geary, author of the “Truth About Six Pack Abs” writes as a “Certified Nutrition Specialist” and “Certified Personal Trainer” and his statements are quite provocative. Namely, that people wanting “Six Pack Abs” had better do a number of things that seem counter intuitive… like give up so called “health food” because it’s actually nothing more than cleverly disguised JUNK FOOD. The “power bars”, “energy bars” and such only pack on the pounds and create layers of new belly fat. While on that note he also says that people seeking the “Truth About Six Pack Abs” might as well FORGET those so-called “fat burning pills”. They don’t work!

With rhetoric sure to anger some, he decries all the specialized “Ab belts, ab-rockers, ab-loungers, and other infomercial ab-gimmicks” as a complete waste of time. Should you do 10,000 situps instead? No. And neither will pure and exhausting cardio workouts do the trick either if you want to know the “Truth about Six Pack Abs” Geary claims.

In fact there IS no “one size fits all” course of action for creating “Six Pack Abs” truth be told. The path even varies slightly for men and women. Geary outlines a reasonable course of action using natural – readily available foods – and a training regime that goes to no extremes in the area of cardio work or abdominal calisthenics to help clients find for themselves the “Truth about Six Pack Abs”.

The “Truth About Six Pack Abs” is reasonably priced already, but from time to time the author offers lower special prices. Many will find it’s advise responsible and helpful when it comes to losing belly fat.

By way of disclaimer I don’t have “Six Pack Abs” myself – more like the curvature of a barrel!

Learn more about the “Truth About Six Pack Abs” here.

But Paul Forcey, the author of Money By Friday! is a REAL PERSON, not some “fake it till I make it guy” selling you dreams at wholesale!…You’ll find him working from home in a smaller sized community each and every day. In the past I’ve paid him to help me create websites. He always did what he said and provided good value for the money. I know his work saved me hours of testing and tweaking and, most importantly, bashing my head against the wall in frustration!

So as far as being able to tell you that Paul’s someone who delivers on his commitments in my experience is far better than saying he’s my “friend” or that he’s “rich” and has sold millions of dollars of products,etc.

This is an excellent manual for people who want earn extra cash without having to HAVE cash to start first. It’s excellent for students and teenagers too. Teens always want to have money. If you can teach a youth or teen how to start and run a business that generates cash, that can be more important than anything else you give them other than their spiritual heritage!

Here’s what the ebook covers.

40 ways to make extra money by Friday!

• How You can make $35-$60 for 30 minutes “work” (Chapter 4)
• How YOU can make $100-$300 for something YOU do every day! (Chapter 17)
• How YOU can have fun for 1 day and still make $100 + (Chapter 3)
• How YOU can get paid $50-$100 just for being normal! (Chapter 7)

Plus 36 More Ways YOU can have extra cash in your pocket by Friday

Now before you start saying “I don’t have…” or “I can’t…” stop and take a deep breath. Only five of these ideas require that you have a PC, so even if you don’t own a PC you still have 35 ways to make extra money.

Best of all - Money By Friday is just $9.95!

If someone really wants to make money and needs some quick ideas, this is a great little ebook!

But to read all the comments and such makes a very long post just to get to the nub of the issue.

SO…

I have made a slideshow presentation for people and posted it at SlideShare.

You can also see it embedded here:

I don’t think EasyPhotoBiz is a scam at all. But it’s definitely NOT for every one. The new 2008 updated edition has a lower price and more information. If you’re interested in making money with your digital camera, then check out the slideshow and visit EasyPhotoBiz.com!

Please note… while I recommend the program, NO business opportunity fits every person or every location.  This “field rep” opportunity requires you to verify information for banks and insurers. As I’ve said before, I know folks making money this way every day thanks to the opportunity
EasyPhotoBiz.com tells you about!

If you live in the middle of nowhere where the closest store if 50 miles away, this program isn’t going to work most likely unless you move.  That’s just the There’s a full money back guarantee if you find out EasyPhotoBiz is not a good fit for you. So please, ultimately, do your own review. If you don’t like it, get a refund from Clickbank.

You can access the Liveops Review via the link above. Basically it summarizes my discussions with people – both satisfied and unsatisfied with their association with LiveOps. It deals with the question as to whether Live ops is a scam. It also discusses the main complaint I run into regarding the liveops opportunity by people who review it as a possible work at home option – down time between calls.

It discusses – short and to the point – WHY there is down time and suggests things you can do to 1) See the situation as something that may be in your favor 2) how to adjust attitudinally to the liveops environment to make the most of it 3) how to relieve your stress by developing a strategy to effectively use your downtime without hurting your Liveops opportunity.

Developing a “downtime strategy” by considering other online job opportunities can also help you relieve your stress and potentially create income streams that keep working while you’re “playing”.  Creating a “pay to blog” blog site which generates adsense revenue is one such opportunity. You’ll be linked to a resource that discusses that further or you may have your own “downtime options” in mind.

So if you’re considering working with Liveops, you can learn the pros and cons of the Live ops opportunity for yourself with this quick presentation:

LiveOps.com Work At Home Call Center Jobs Review – Truth About Working at Home with Liveops!

So … what is Virtual Smart Agent and how can it benefit you?

This technology is new … it is a very LIFE LIKE stand alone tool designed to “rescue” sales that would otherwise be lost to you.  It’s an “automated” chat solution that’s incredibly “life like” that you can tailor to your specific needs as a site owner.

With the use of the product’s “built in” options, it is possible for you to train your virtual agent, split-test the results, and even build your opt-in list on autopilot!

Some website owners have seen it increase revenues by up to 40%, and it will give marketers a huge competitive advantage.

Not only does it boost sales, but it can also build’s a website’s list on autopilot.

Affiliates will love seeing this on your sales page – it means they are more likely to receive a commission too and encourages them to sell more.

It’s basically like having your own virtual “employee” that never sleeps. It just keeps working for you and building your business 24/7 with no breaks.

Dave Guindon, the product owner, is also an experienced online marketer as well as an advanced software developer. In this product he’s delivered a quality tool and made it affordable for most webmasters.

Does he “over deliver” on what’s offered? I’ll let you decide.

Here is a short list of the powerful features this software provides:

• Increase your website conversions up to 20-40% in a little as 2 weeks!
• Dramatically reduce your shopping cart abandonment.
• Instantly increase the value of each website visitor.
• Improve your website visitor’s experience (builds trust and repeat business).
• Increase your customer loyalty and overall satisfaction.
• Quickly grow a highly responsive opt-in list of interested prospects.
• Reduce labor costs.
• Save time by reducing questions and support requests.
• Up-sell or cross-sell similar and/or additional products to boost your revenue.
• Find out WHY customers are leaving your site.
• One installation works on ALL your websites… boost your entire business!
• Builds your opt-in list on autopilot!
• Auto follow-up emails to your web visitors after they leave your chats!
• And a lot more …

Dave Guindon offers an unbelievable LIFETIME money back guarantee!

I’ve tested several sites using the software and I find that the online marketers who have a product to sell (not an affiliate, but the product source) LOVE this tool.

The only downside? (and the only one that I can see!) is that once customers recognize this tool, they will engage it to see what sort of discount is being offered. That’s not so bad – they were leaving your site anyway!

But, you don’t HAVE to offer a discount necessarily. You can offer an “unadvertised bonus”.

Overall, this is a great product for folks who have their own product to sell to put to use!

So that tells me something about this lady already that I greatly expect. She has produced an online business despite the handicaps.

What is this business? Membership sites.

You know, the kind of sites that charge a small monthly fee and produce that “residual income” you’ve heard about other people making.

The problem is that new folks coming to internet marketing think -wrongly- that the only kind of membership sites there are are “internet marketing membership sites”.

Actually, as Rebecca shows on her site about Money Making Membership Sites there are a huge number of non internet marketing niches that could create a nice residual income for someone with a PASSION about a particular niche.

Now, people with that passion can finally see on video and read by accompanying documents just HOW to set up those membership sites at the LOWEST possible cost.

As readers know, I am a WORDPRESS addict. I love that content management system and, yes, it can be used for membership sites. But there is another open source software product that is tried and tested and perfect for membership sites… Joomla.

In this special package you’ll learn all the tips, tricks, secrets or whatever else you want to call them about creating membership sites with Joomla and a variety of low cost Joomla software components that turn your basic Joomla content management system into a beautifully done membership site that looks as good as any “professional membership site” for pennies on the dollar.

Listen, if you want to get something for “nothing” it’s not going to work. You will have to invest SOMETHING to create a  membership site.

1. There will be your research time

2. There will be your domain name and hosting costs … even if they total less than $10 per month.

3. Marketing expenses either as “sweat equity”, affiliate commissions, search engine optimization, or article marketing.

There’s no way to avoid legitimate costs.

But Rebecca reveals PROVEN strategies for minimizing these legitimate costs however through the use of the Joomla content system.

If you have a passion, if you are willing to find how this niche expresses itself online through keyword research, then this material WILL give you a jumpstart in creating online income streams.

Though there IS a cost to get started, it’s really no different than the start up investment in creating a membership site.

The difference is – if you have found  your hungry buyers – in the ongoing revenue a membership site can generate.

Here’s the details of Rebecca’s  September ONLY  special. You get her videos, her ebooks, and her resource list for creating fully functioning, professional quality membership sites using Joomla with a few specialized components.

PLUS by ordering before September 30th you’ll get even MORE in depth Joomla help. Sure, you will likely be able to figure out everything with her basic information kit. But with the special videos and ebooks in her Joomla course, you will have no reason you can’t get up and running quickly.

Included are a number of special bonuses that let you master things like podcasting, how to master your chosen niche(s),  how to research these niches, and market to build an ever growing subscriber base.

If I were discussing a big book of information I’d say something like “this manual and the accompanying tapes are so huge, they weighed 10 pounds.

Well, in the internet era, I have to tell you that the videos are such large files I had to install a download manager even though I have broadband! Downloading them was going to take me HOURS!

Impatient as I am, I didn’t want to wait that long. I wanted get the scoop on Joomla for some projects I have coming in the near future!

Remember, this offer is only good until September 30th.  If you have ever thought about starting one for yourself (or the idea intrigues you), this special offer is something you should seriously consider.

You’ve probably been holding out thinking it will cost an arm and a leg. It’s only $47.97 for all this information until September 30th! Get your copy now if you’re the least bit interested in using Joomla for Membership sites!