Huh? Why would I say such a thing?

Simple really. If you don’t back up your databases of customers, subscribers, etc., then when your database becomes corrupt, or your webhost screws you and dumps your databases or whatever, then you’ll have to start all over from scratch.

And while your doing that, I will continue to market my products and services. See, you’ll be busy REbuilding, and I’ll be busy prospering. Because I took the time to back up my databases with an automated, hands-free system.

In all the years I have been operating a business on line, it still amazes me how few people take the time to properly back themselves up. People have way too much faith in technology and/or the competence of others.

Either one can let you down. In fact, odds are one or the other will. There’s no way to predict when, how, where, etc. so why take a chance? Especially these days when there are so many ways to stay backed up?

In this article I am specifically talking about databases. Not your local hard drives or not your web pages. Why?

Let’s take these one at a time…

Your hard drive on your local computer…even though not everyone backs up on a regular basis, there seems to be an endless supply of backup solutions - both free and paid - to cover this. There are also many articles and “how-to’s” on the various ways to back up your hard drive. Doing a simple Google search will reveal thousands of discussions, products and more on this topic.

Backing up your web pages…Let me ask you a question. When you build a website, do you build it entirely on line? Or do you typically use an off-line web page builder (such as Dreamweaver, Nvu, Frontpage) then upload them to your web server?

Most people build them off line. I know I do. So to me, backing up all of my web pages is already taken care of when I back up my hard drives. No sense in doing this two ways.

Databases. Now here’s the one most people either overlook or avoid. Overlook because some don’t even realize they are even USING a database (as odd as that may sound). Think about it…these days, you have CPanel hosting complete with Fantastico installer. When you set up a Wordpress blog, some may not even realize that a database is being set up in the background.

Many people also assume their webhosts automatically back up their databases. This is a BIG mistake.  Good hosting services will do automatic backups. But with the popularity of cheap and free hosting, people are more attracted to the 2 GB of storage  and don’t even bother to ask about backups.

Avoid - the biggest reason people don’t back up their database is because unless you know how, it’s technically challenging for the average person.  Some may know how to properly back up using phpMyAdmin, but most do not. It’s intimidating for the average person.

Even those who know how to back up a database fall short in this one last area: consistency. They log in, back up, log out and that’s it. A few months may go by before they remember to back up again.

While this may be better than nothing, if you have an active business where your database of customers grows daily, than anything less than once per day is not enough.

Hope is not all lost though. There are answers out there for you. I can think of two right off the bat.

CPSiteSaver (http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/cpsitesaver/ ): This one is a Windows desktop application. It’s very reasonably priced and simple to use. It will back up your entire website and your databases. There are two “drawbacks” to this one.

1- Since it’s a desktop application, it’s not technically fully automated. You must have your computer running and the application open for backups to take place. This is not so bad if you are on your computer a lot. Just make sure the application starts up with Windows, and schedule your backups for when you know you are on line.

2- It only works with CPanel/MySQL systems. Also not the end of the world as it seems the majority of the hosting solutions out there use CPanel/

Database Backup Generator (http://www.databasebackupgenerator.com ): This one is installed on your website (server side). Also very reasonably priced. The drawback to this one:

1- If you are not familiar with installing scripts, you’ll need to hire someone.
2- Only works on CPanel/MySQL systems (see above)
3- Only backs up databases. To me, not the end of the world if you build your sites off line and you do regular backups to your system.

What I like about DBG is once you set it, it truly is hands-free, set and forget. It will continue to do automatic backups (via Cron) until you tell it to stop. It also allows you to send your backups via FTP to another server, and/or it will email you download links for your backups.

No matter what your preference is, just make it a point to back up the most important part of your business…your database.  Websites are easily replacable. Your database of customers is not.

Remember - there are people out there that will gladly scoop up your customers.

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Internet Marketing is a fun niche. Seriously, I mean that.  I have met a ton of wonderful people, and have been to many awesome places.  Case in point, my recent trip to New Orleans for the start of Mardi Gras courtesy of Jeff Dedrick.

I won the trip because I finished in the top five of his affiliate contest. I had a great time. Name other niches that offer these kinds of perks…

When I decided to try to make money in the Internet Marketing niche, there were a few things I inherently understood as part of the “game”. That is simply this:

If I sign up to someone’s mailing list, I expect to get mail.  Simple, right?

Of course, not all lists are created equal. I try to pick newsletters that offer value in between pitches. But I still expect to be pitched.

So it still makes me scratch my head when I receive emails from list members that complain about getting emails, and about being pitched to.

This isn’t rocket science. On MOST of my subscribe forms, I clearly state that you are signing up to my list and will be receiving emails, which may contain offers from myself or for products I am promoting.

Last week I wrote an email about John Reese’s one hour long IMA video - one which he touted before releasing that it would be the most important email/video you would ever receive…

I wrote about why I did not like it. I also was clear that there was no link. It was simply a statement of my opinion.  MOST of the feedback I got was positive, and in agreement with my stance.

Yet I received an email from someone who basically said, “Hey, I signed up for your 12-part ecourse! I don’t want these other emails, so stop sending them to me!”

I found this amusing because on THIS signup form I DO clearly state that you will receive other mailings from me.

Normally I ignore emails like this one, but I felt compelled to do two things:  Unsubscibe the person and then email him back stating that I unsubscribed them due to their obvious displeasure of being on my list.

I don’t now, nor have I ever claimed to be perfect. Yes, I send out pure pitch emails. But yes, I also send out pure content emails.  That’s how, in my view, this niche works. In my opinion, if this is something “you” don’t understand and accept, then my advice to you is to run as fast as you can from this niche. Find one that does not email so many offers.

You MUST have a certain level of tolerance to play in the Internet Marketing niche. If you like the info, but don’t like being bombarded with so many pitch mails, here’s a very simple solution for you - and one in which I do myself.

Go to Yahoo, or Hotmail or Gmail and open yourself a free account. When you sign up for a list because you want the free gift, sign up with this email address.  Now, what I do is about once a month I log in and scan the emails.

The lists which are 100% pitch, or the person sends me 2 or 3 pitch mails per day, I zap them.  The ones which are awesome content, I forward to one of my other email addresses so I can read it.

And in ALL cases, I try to learn something from the emails - which subject lines got me to open, how the emails are structured, etc.

Do you have desire to simply bitch, moan and complain about these emails? If so then I ask you: “Why are you on my - or any - list then?”.  You like the free stuff, right? There is ALWAYS a trade-off. Free stuff is mainly free from spending cash. You pay by allowing the marketer to email you.  That’s how it works.

Disclaimer: I am not referring to scammers, spammers, or those that lie, or trade email addresses. There are plenty of those. I am referring to legitimate marketers who work hard to build their lists.

Remember - if you don’t like the quality of the mailings you are receiving, simply unsubscribe.

This isn’t rocket science.

As an information marketer, there are a few things we need in abundance…

Content
A Forum
Research
Time

One is about as inportant as the next.

So what do you do when you have very little time to research, or create content? Or even post to your own forums?

Couple of things…you can hire people to post for you, or create content for you. But unless you are already in a position to afford this, then don’t bother. It will get real expensive for you.

Private Label content…this will work IF you spend the TIME to rewrite the majority of the articles to make them more unique. But now we come back to that Time problem again.

Or, you can do what I did for one of my forums…

I found a really cool script that works with a phpBB or vBulletin forum. It adds targeted content - based on keywords - to your forum(s).

What it’s actually doing is searching Yahoo Answers (again, based on your keywords) and looking for relevant information to add to your forum. It works rather well, too.

So now you are getting the fresh content you need, as well as showing activity on your forum, thus prompting others to post on your forum as well.

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/Vumpost

This is an awesome idea. And the script is very easy to install and set up. You can even set the posting to be automatic just by adding a couple of cron jobs (a very simple thing to do) and viola! Fresh content DAILY to your forum.

Go buy this now.

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/Vumpost

Mike

In order for resolutions to actually fit into your life and become completed, they first need to become goals. Here are some basic goal-setting guidelines to help you with your resolutions.
 
Begin by setting up short and long term goals. Then devise a means of accomplishing both and evaluating your progress along the way towards completion. Because once you chart your progress, you will be able to see the different levels or stages needed to accomplish each step towards completing your resolution; i.e. you’ll know what exactly you need to do to complete your goal.
 
Then mark off minor accomplishment rewards along each step of the way. For example, if you are trying to stop smoking, maybe you’ll stop smoking in your car first, then your living room, then your family room, etc. until you finally quit smoking everywhere. So after quitting in each room, take a time out to reward all your hard work. Invite a friend out to lunch. Redecorate an old smoke filled room with fresh curtains and a nice clean rug. This way your road to resolution success won’t seem so long and like drudgery. Plus by enjoying each step of the way, you are actually helping push yourself to your goal completion with powerful, positive giant steps forward.
 
Tips to help with your goal setting are:
 
1) Research and Education – Learn all you can about the resolution goals you want to make. Find out exactly what is involved in reaching your goal so that you can set up a step-by-step plan to reach them. For example, to lose weight, maybe you need to schedule an appointment with your local physician first to get a check up, than ask him or her help set you up with a good exercise and diet program. And plan your program accordingly, revising each month as needed.
 
2) Make your resolution goals manageable. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. There’s always next year. So tackle what’s the most important to you first.
 
3) Attitude is important in order to accomplish your goals. Sure, everyone has a down time or so and things aren’t always perfect. But if you need help with attitude, pick up self-help books at the public library, or read articles on self-improvement in this area, or reach out to your physician if you believe it may be a mental or internal issue.
 
For a free report on setting and achieving your New Year’s Resolutions, check out:

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/NewYears-MRODblog

All the best in the New Year!
 
Michael

I have two valuable resources for you today. One is 100% free - not even an email required!. One is not free, but is ultra important that you check out the site. Especially if you consider yourself a business person.

Ok, the free one - I actually emailed you about this one before, but I got such great feedback on it I thought I would send you the link again, in case you missed it the first time…

This is the first in an upcoming series of training videos by Sterling Valentine. If you have never heard of Sterling, he puts out awesome products, and is also a very dynamic speaker and coach. He inspired me to create a product which I am launching next month.

His video is lengthy, so grab a cup of coffee or whatever you like to drink and enjoy Sterling’s powerful video.

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/EasyCashVideos

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You may recall a while back I interviewed internet attorney Mike Young on the legalities of PLR, MRR, etc. Mike is the attorney for quite a few internet marketers - some very well known ones, too. You can find that recording on my blog at MrOverDeliver.com/blog

Well, Mike has just released his new ebook:

“Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed: How Millionaires Protect Themselves Online…And You Can Too!”

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/LawGuru

What you don’t know CAN hurt you. You can have a very profitable website and still lose everything because you didn’t take the right steps to protect yourself.

Lawsuits. CyberTheft. Investigations…and worse.

If you’re like me, you don’t want to take that risk but you just don’t know where to turn.

Now there’s a solution.

If you’re already a client of Mike’s, or have seen him speak at a seminar, you know that he provides practical solutions because he’s both an Internet lawyer AND an online marketer too. This means he’s one of us.

This book contains simple and easy steps you can take to reduce your risk of being sued or having the government come after youfor breaking laws you didn’t know existed. And believe me, that happens more than you know…

Learn how to protect what you own online and prevent others from stealing your stuff and getting away with it. If you apply what you learn, you will save you a bunch of bucks and and stress over the years. Just preventing one lawsuit alone will make this book the most important one you’ve read since you started doing business online.

In addition to this book being a must-read if you’re serious about doing business on the Web, Mike’s included six great bonuses to help you protect and grow your business.

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/LawGuru

When you click the link, take a look at the testimonials from other Internet marketers about what this book has done for them… and what it will do for you too.

To Your Success,

Michael Ambrosio
MrOverDeliver

Okay, let’s dive right into SEO from the beginning. That would be with your niche.

The biggest mistake that people make when trying to do SEO is that they don’t bother to do research on their niche first to see what kind of demand there is for it and how much competition they have.

They pretty much dive right in only to find out later that they are going against millions of pages in that niche and only 2,000 monthly searches. Good luck trying to win this search engine war.

Brad Callen’s first chapter of his free giveaway book (it’s nice to be so rich that you can just give stuff away) was called “Optimize the Wrong Keywords and You’ll Most Likely Never See Results.” No truer words were ever spoken.

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If you would like to learn how a 28 year old guy made over $100 million dollars (yes ONE HUNDRED MILLION) in just 23 months selling a product that sold for just $60, then click on the link below:

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/12mm
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And yet, so many people never get this. They want to throw up a site with the keywords “Home Business” and expect to see results. They’d have a better chance of getting a date with a super model.

Hey, look…don’t feel bad. I’ve done the same thing.

Brad explains how you have to really get into the basement of a niche. Well, those weren’t his words, but that’s really what he meant. Today we call them long tail keywords. These are the keywords that are down at the end of the search chain.

Now, a lot of people might immediately think, “How can that do me any good? If few people search using these keywords, how do I get traffic?” Well, we’ll get to that shortly. The point is, you have absolutely no chance going against the big boys of “Home Business” or “Weight Loss” or any of the other, what I call, “main keywords.” The reason is because everybody and their grandmother is optimizing on those keywords. So to have a prayer with SEO, you have to go the other route.

Now, that isn’t to say that someday you’re not going to incorporate these main keywords into your SEO. You will, but you have to get in through the back door first. Then you can start pulling in traffic from some of the major keywords.

So let’s say you’re in the niche of “weight loss”, which is a very big one today. The first thing you need to do is go to a keyword suggestion tool (I use Wordtracker) and find out what some of the long tail keywords are that maybe don’t have as much competition.

Here is the URL that you need to go to in order to look these keywords up.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Okay, so let’s go there and look up “weight loss”

As you can see, the weight loss main keyword has over 12,000 searches a month as of this printing. That’s a lot of searches. But if you go to the Google search engine and look to see how many sites come up under the keyword “weight loss” you will find that it is over 45 million sites. Think you have a shot in Hades of putting a dent in this market?

Okay, let’s run down our keyword list to something that doesn’t quite have as much competition.

Let’s look at “weight loss spells” Hey, don’t laugh. It was searched for about 63 times last month.

If you look at the number of sites that are optimized for that keyword, it’s only about 22,000.

Now THAT is a much more manageable number.

See where we’re going with this?

Good. Next article we’ll pick it up from here.

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If it offends you to learn from someone who did spend
time in jail and lost $48 million dollars because of
these mistakes, then please don’t click on this link:

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/12mm
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SEO. What exactly is it? It stands for "Search Engine Optimization", but in simple terms, it is the art and science of getting your web page high up in the search rankings.

So if you had a site on say, “credit repair”, if somebody were to go to a search engine and do a search on the keyword “credit repair” your site would hopefully land somewhere in the first 3 pages - preferably on page 1 near the top of the page.

In practice, this is a whole other ballgame. Why? Because the search engines, which at one time used to be predictable, continuously change the rules on us and make ranking just plain difficult.

For example, when FFA pages first came out and people would post their links to these FFA pages, the search engines would include these pages in their listings and give you credit for having your link on these pages.

But then, as the search engines began to realize that nobody actually went to these pages, they stopped including them in their listings. Now, all those links that people had out there turned out to be worthless. People’s search engine rankings for their sites began to plummet overnight. Most people had no explanation for it.

But the ones who took the time to find out, either through insider information or just trial and error, realized that posting to FFA sites wouldn’t help your SE ranking and only hurt it.

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Traffic Marketing Videos Will Take You By The Hand And Show You "Not Just How To Start", But How To Finish By Driving Bulls Eye Traffic To Your Internet Business. 10 Power-Packed Videos…One Ultra Low Price!

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/seovideos
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SEO is constantly changing because the rules are always changing. However, having said that, there are some strategies which are basic and will never change. If you master these strategies and use them all the time, you have a decent chance of working your way up the search engines.

Some techniques work better than others and there are some shortcuts that we can use today to help get us up the search engines a little quicker. Will those shortcuts work tomorrow? Nobody really knows. But for the purposes of what works today, we’re going to include those shortcuts in upcoming articles.

Just a disclaimer before we actually get into the ABCs of SEO. Because of the volatile nature of search engines, I make no guarantees that the methods you are about to read are going to land you on page one.

For one thing, it is a lot harder to land on the first page of the search engines when you’re competing with 10 million other sites. It’s a lot easier if you only have a few thousand sites to deal with. That is one of the things that you’re going to learn throughout this series, how to pick a niche where you will have the best chance of getting a top spot on the search engines.

One other thing you need to be aware of. Each SE has its own criteria, so landing on page one of a particular search engine doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to land on page one on ALL the search engines. That’s why you want to concentrate on the main search engines and just a few of them. Over time, the rest will come.

SEO is a war. Many today are winning the war because of some of these methods.

So sit back and get yourself prepared for one very intense tutorial on SEO.

In our next article… Choosing a Niche and researching
keywords and key phrases.

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The other day we had Howie Schwartz on
a webinar detailing how he monopolizes
Google. Now he’s back to tell you about
how you can win $10,000 while test
driving his software. This is good…

Dr. Mike and Howie Shwartz are going
to pay one lucky person $10,000 to test
drive their unbelieveably powerful
software, Lead Surpreme 3.0

But Only a select few are going to
get the opportunity to…

Win $10,000.

This is a unique contest for a unique
product. I can tell you this - they’re
so confident in thier latest version of
Lead Supreme that they’re layin’ it all
on the line.

Not only are they going to give you
the opportunity of a lifetime, they’re
going to spoon feed you every single
thing you need to know….step-by-step
for the next 10 days.

So what is this contest all about?

Simple…whoever generates the most new
leads during this 10 day competition will
walk away with 10 grand and a copy of the
software as well (last year they charged
$4500 for the software - and that was
just version 1.0)

–> http://www.mroverdeliver.com/10kContest

Oh, and did I mention that it’s only
going to take 20 bucks to get in on
this deal?

(You’ll have access to the Proprietary
Lead Supreme software and 10 days
straight of ‘how to generate unlimited
leads’ info - if that ain’t worth $20 —
spend it on coffee and a pastry at
Starbucks instead because you’re
missin’ the point.)

So, my advice to you is to head on over
to this site:

–> http://www.mroverdeliver.com/10kContest

And see if you can still get in on the
action since they’re only allowing 1000
people to test drive the software and
actually build a list too.

This is no joke,

You better kick it into high gear if
you want in.

–> http://www.mroverdeliver.com/10kContest

To Your Success,
Michael Ambrosio
MrOverDeliver

P.S. This offer is going out to hundreds of
thousands of people so do NOT wait - this
is the kind of thing that will be truly life
changing for many people.

–> http://www.mroverdeliver.com/10kContest

So there we were last night, listening to Howie go through his intro, etc. when he said "Let’s get started…" and all of a sudden, no one could hear him.

It was kind of comical at first, watching Howie’s webinar presentation, seeing his mouse move all over the screen, clicking this and highlighting that, but not being able to hear what he was saying.

Then the "theories" started to surface…

This was "red hot" information on how to dominate the Google pages - like the top 3, 4 even 5 pages of search results, with ease. Most times within hours.

Some suggested that Google somehow "silenced" Howie to stop this information from getting out.

This went on for over 20 minutes before we were FINALLY able to reach Howie via SMS message.

Turns out Howie wasn’t "slapped" after all. It was a simple istake when he started the webinar using a new system.

Needless to say, Howie was mortified and embarassed. He couldn’t apologize enough.

Even today, 24 hours later, he’s still making it up to you. He’s got some awesome audios, case studies and more - for free, right now - because he felt so bad. He even uploaded the entire webinar in case you missed it or left the call before the audio came back.  Grab it all here:

http://www.conversationdomination.com/mf.html

I was floored the first time I saw Howie present this system while out in San Francisco. He was a breakout speaker. He spoke at 8 AM on a Sunday Morning. His room was suited for about 25 people.

He drew so many people that they were standing not ONLY in the room - but out in the hallway as well.

His information is dynamite!

Howie now offers his long-guarded system to the masses so you can also learn how to dominate almost any niche in the Google Search Engine. Literally in hours. Watch his webinar and see his case studies…

http://www.conversationdomination.com/mf.html

Now, picture this a moment… you have a product or a blog in a niche that you really enjoy. You picked out some well researched "long-tail" keywords and key phrases for your site.

But try as you might, you can’t crack the top of Google. No matter how hard you try. You’re site is somewhere in the bowels of the search results. The 607th page (if you’re lucky).

That is, until you go through Howie’s course/system. You take the time to learn the system and implement it. Then within DAYS, you knock your competitors off the first 5 PAGES in your keyword search results!

Just like that!

Imagine…

Can you?

Watch Howie’s webinar. And help yourself to the other goodies on this page:

http://www.conversationdomination.com/mf.html

Then, if you’re serious about your business, join Howie’s program.

BAM!

To Your Success,

Michael Ambrosio
MrOverDeliver

ARE YOU A PART OF THE CONVERSATION? OR ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF THE CONVERSATION?

Mike and Fabio Welcome You! This Is Your Personal Invitation to Howie Schwartz’s Conversation Domination Webinar! Limited “seating” available - 100 only!!

Monday October 8th, 2007 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time

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What is Conversation Domination?

Well, let’s put it this way…How would you like to own the top 50 to 80 spots in Google for certain keywords/keyphrases? Think it can’t happen?

I first watched Howie give this seminar in San Francisco in September, 2007 and I have been floored by this ever since. Now, you get the chance to see what I have seen.

Register now: http://www.conversationdominator.com/

Seating for this truly eye-opening webinar is strictly limited to 100 attendees. After this webinar you will never look at the web the same way again!

We have a special BONUS as a thank you for participating:  The free audio recording from Howie Schwartz: “Traffic Myths and Lies” ($97 value) Will be made available after the webinar this MONDAY.

Take a sneak peak at what Howie will share:

http://www.mroverdeliver.com/conversation

See you there!