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For years I’ve heard people praise making money with surveys and even seen a few pretty big marketers promote them. So, a few weeks ago I had some downtime (code for being bored and procrastinating) and decided to try a few survey sites out.

After I did some research on Bing and a few consumer/coupon/freebie sites I visit, I decided on two. Over the next week, each one sent me several “new survey available” emails. With each one I had to fill out a questionnaire that took 5-10 minutes to see if I was “qualified” to take the survey. The entire time I’m thinking the survey company should pre-qualify me. Anyway, each and every one I tried, I was told I wasn’t qualified. Maybe it’s because of the amount of money I make, that I’m single or that I’m…. It doesn’t really matter why.

Wish I could tell you which sites I tried but I deleted them without thinking. Anyway, you might have better luck but I’d be willing to bet the majority of people aren’t “qualified” and that the only people making real money from them are the survey sites, the products being sneakingly promoted and of course the people selling guides on how to make money with surveys.

- Garrie

When eBay Pulse closed in September of 2012, it was a shame. As it was a great research tool. Luckily there are some alternatives and here they are.

1. Popular Keywords: A weekly look at the most active keywords on eBay.

2. Catman: Displays top keywords, top bids, top sellers and hot keywords by categories.

3. WatchCount: Shows you the most popular eBay items in real-time, as voted by eBay users.

-Garrie

A quick and easy way to create a product is to copycat an existing one. As a matter of fact, t’s so easy that several of my products are copycats.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not talking about “stealing” someones product and slapping your name on it like in grade school. There is a right way to do it.

The most obvious way to copycat a product is to simply make the product better. Another way is to look at the topic from a different angle by widening or narrowing the target market. You can also simply update old products with current information.

When you copycat, don’t steal someone elses work. Simply rewording or rearranging someone elses work doesn’t cut it either.

-Garrie

A great way to allow people to reccommend your products is to add a links for them to send a tweet on Twitter and share on Facebook. It’s really easy too.

To create a Tweet Link, you simply set the target as:

http://twitter.com/home?status=TWEET

Replace “TWEET” with what you want tweeted.

Example using a text link:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Visit Garrie Wilson at http://www.garriewilson.com" target="_blank">Tweet This</a>

Creating a Facebook share button is much the same but the target would be:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=URL&t=TITLE

Replace URL with the URL and TITLE with the title. (Note: The title is only used if Facebook can’t pull the one from the url.)

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.garriewilson.com&t=Garrie Wilson" target="_blank">Share This</a>

Depending on what you want tweeted or shared, you may need to encode it into a URL-safe string. This can be done at Quick-Encoder.com

You can see an example of use in my free report An Introduction to Giveaway Events.

- Garrie

If you use GetResponse you are going to love my latest script, GRAPISO.

With GRAPISO you will be able to add the email address of your buyers to your GetResponse account without any interaction from them. It’s free too.

Get more details and your free copy at -> GRAPISO.com

-Garrie

Kids today have it easy and I say it’s time to put them to work! Let them earn a little to pay for all the toys they have.

Now I am not talking about violating child labor laws or even making them do any type manual labor. Besides, todays kids are delicate little flowers and can’t do anything physical. I kid. Sort of. What I am talking about is letting them participate in rewards type programs and/or helping you participate in them.

Let’s take a look at my three favorites. Read more…

Let’s face it, most of the people who try Internet marketing will fail. They are nothing more than dreamers. They want and expect instant results and when it doesn’t happen, they jump to the next method telling themselves “this will be the one.” And it never will be.

There may be a lot of different reasons some of these people fail but I think for the majority, it boils down to 4 major reasons. Read more…

I don’t do this as often as I should but an easy way to increase sales, especially affiliate sales, is by making a video showing people the product. This works really well for software, membership sites and graphic products.

If you need software to create the videos, take a look at 20 Free Screen Recording Software – The Best Camtasia Alternatives

- Garrie

I heard for years how great BitDefender was. So, when my AVG subscription was close to expiring, I ordered a two year, three system license for BitDefender. Normally, I would have tested with a trial version but with all the top rankings, rave reviews and a rebate making it free, I went all in.

After a few weeks of using it on two computers, I came to the conclusion that it sucks. Some of my reasons are me being anal but others are more serious issues.

Here is why I came to my conclusion. Read more…

The Internet has been buzzing about Adobe giving away Creative Suite 2 (CS2), Acrobat 7 and Macromedia products. Well, as it turns out, they aren’t.

Adobe disabled the activation servers for them and created new install routines that don’t require activation for current owners.

They are serious about it too. In a Adobe forum thread, Adobe scientist Dov Isaace posted:

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated …

You have heard wrong! Adobe is absolutely not providing free copies of CS2!

What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don’t require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available. (Special serial numbers are provided on the page for each product download.) See .

You are only legally entitled to download and install with that serial number if you have a valid license to the product!

- Dov

Even the page with the serial numbers and downloads for Creative Suite 2 (CS2), Acrobat 7 and Macromedia products even say it’s for licensed users only. So don’t get any ideas!

Garrie