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Hi Friend To unsubscribe from this mailing, please click on the link at the bottom of the page. Recently I heard from a man who had overcome a severe bout of depression. I mean REALLY severe. Suicide attempts and all that. Well, the good news is that he completely recovered. Having been given his life back - he’s now on a crusade to help others who are still suffering. (Actually, it sounds a lot like my story!) He contacted me because he did know a little bit about my story (and my subsequent success on the internet) and he wanted to find out how I did it. How I managed to set up a web site and make money from it. What follows is the letter I sent him with the best advice I could give him (or anyone else, for that matter) on how to make money from the internet. “Internet Cash” - as I call it. (I know this is a little ‘off-topic’ from emotional healing, but since people keep asking me about it, I figured I’d write about it just this once.) Dear S_____ Yes, I do remember you quite well! In fact, you sounded more depressed than anyone I’ve ever spoken to on the phone. Talking to you gave me chills - quite literally! I’m very glad to hear you’re doing so well now. When we spoke last May, I could feel your depression so strongly it actually scared ME. I can only imagine how you must have felt. Thank goodness it all worked out. So, now you’re ready to save the world, huh? And all you need to do is figure out how to get traffic to your website? Maybe I can help. A few years ago I was in your shoes. ‘A Man With a Mission’ - as they say. Full of enthusiasm, but short on workable knowledge. I started by putting up a self-help website that I just *knew* was going to change the world. But after six months I’d logged only twenty visitors. Quite frankly, about 15 of them were friends and relatives. I think they were curious to see what all the fuss was about. (Me and my big mouth - I told everybody I knew about my big plans!) After a few more bewildering months, I finally had to admit defeat. Boy did that hurt. I just had no idea how to get people to visit my site. Things were getting desperate. My friends had finally quit teasing me about the internet and my ‘get rich scheme’ (as it came to be known). But it was eating me alive. Soon I’d have to either renew my domain name or else take the web site down. Plus I was paying $19.95 per month in hosting fees. Every month I paid, it hurt a little more than the month before. At eleven months, I’d had enough. I took down the website. Actually, I just quit paying and then my web host put it out of its misery. Sort of a mercy killing, I suppose… like a wounded soldier on some lost and desolate cyber-battlefield. (In case you’re curious, that first web site was on personal value, and you can read it all at http://www.join-the-fun.com/value.html) I cursed the internet for a while longer, but eventually - like a moth to a flame - I knew I had to go back. Even though I’d probably get burned again, I had to try. I just couldn’t stay away. Anyway, to make a long story short…. After two years of almost non-stop searching I DID find out how to get traffic to my web site. Boatloads of traffic. More traffic than I ever thought possible. And if I can do it, I know you can too. After hundreds of hours searching the internet for some real answers, here’s the three best ways I know of to make money on the internet: 1. Joint Ventures In terms of sheer profit, this may be the single best way to make a lot of money on the internet. I know one guy who made a little over TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in one day by doing just one joint venture. (Or so he said. I didn’t actually see the check, I just know he seemed awfully excited.) The premise is simple. If you’ve got some sort of product to sell and a website to sell it - you find someone who’s already got a lot of traffic (or a huge mailing list) and the two of you work together. They recommends your product to their visitors (or mailing list) and you split the money from the sale of the product. You can hit a ‘home run’ with this idea. The downside is you must already have the product *and* a website that convinces people to open up their wallet and whip out their credit card. (And that’s not as easy as it sounds!) The other problem is that even after you find some suitable joint venture partners, you have to convince them to work with an ‘unknown’… (that’s you!). Cause I can guarantee you, if they’re already successful, they’re getting bombarded with offers all the time. Still, if this approach appeals to you, here’s an excellent guide to doing it the RIGHT way - http://www.join-the-fun.com/joint-ventures 2. Writing Articles For Other Websites This method is fairly simple and straightforward. You write short articles on specific topics and find other websites and ezines to publish them for you. Put a link at the end of your article to entice others to visit your site. - You build name recognition and credibility by providing useful information to the visitors of related websites. - You help the website owners by giving them additional content. - And, you can end up with a lot of people checking out your own website! Plus, you can also combine this idea with the joint venture technique. (Highly recommended.) The bad news is that you actually have to do the writing, and it needs to be somewhat useful and interesting. Since so many people know about this idea, tons of free articles already exist on every conceivable topic. Fortunately, many are pure garbage. I read the article you sent me and it’s very good. I see a lot of potential there. You don’t have to be a literary genius; you just need to be able to put your thoughts down coherently. And preferably, it needs to contain information most people don’t already know! (Which yours does.) If you provide useful info, this can be an excellent way to build a lot of traffic in a relatively short period of time. If this interests you, here’s the best resource available to guide you (the only one you need) - http://www.join-the-fun.com/articles 3. Build Your Own Keyword-Focused Website This concept involves first finding the particular keywords that internet users type into their search engine boxes, and then writing web pages focused on those keywords. Your pages rank high in the search engines, and you get lots of free traffic... all by writing a website built around keywords that people are actually searching for. I started this way because I lacked the confidence to approach anyone with a joint venture offer, and I didn’t think the article idea would work. (I was wrong, by the way!) Find the right keywords, write content optimized for the search engines (to get high rankings) and the people will come. THEN figure out how you’ll make the money. To see a better explanation of this approach - http://www.join-the-fun.com/quick-look To see *working examples* of this kind of approach - http://www.join-the-fun.com/results If you already have a website, check the link below to see how you rank compared to the rest of the internet - http://www.join-the-fun.com/your-traffic Believe me, if you have *targeted* traffic you *will* find a way to make the money. That’s the easy part. The hard part is just getting the traffic in the first place. (I understand you’re not doing this for the money but you still need to be compensated for your time.) Many people want to put the cart before the horse by concentrating only on a particular product they wish to sell. A much wiser approach involves first getting the targeted traffic. To learn the whole story, visit - http://www.join-the-fun.com/buildit Well, there you have it. The three best ways for a beginner to get traffic to a website and to make some money from it. For maximum effectiveness, combine all three! Let me know if you have any more questions. All the best, Mark brought to you by Mark Ivar Myhre The Emotional Healing Wizard fiercely slaying your emotional dragons!