The King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, has reportedly died at the age of 50 after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was rushed to UCLA Medical Center.

Capt. Steve Ruda told the L.A. Times that emergency crews responded to a call at Jackson’s home off Sunset Boulevard.  When they arrived he wasn’t breathing and couldn’t be revived.

Update: 18:23 CNN reporting that Michael Jackson is in a coma.

18:38 LA Times confirms Michael Jackson has died after cardiac arrest.

Email marketing can be profitable for any business, no matter what kind of product or service you are selling. It is significantly cheaper than other advertising methods and it helps build credibility with your subscribers. As a result, you can generate more sales and profits.

The foundation for successful email marketing is a targeted, responsive and permission-based email list. If you have a list of subscribers that trust you and consider you an expert, you’ve completed the first step and are on your way!

Below you will several list-building ideas that will help you make the most of your email marketing efforts:

1. Provide useful, relevant and unique content. Your visitors will not give you their email addresses just because they can subscribe to your newsletter free of charge. You have to provide unique and valuable information that will be useful to your subscribers.
2. Add a subscription form to every page of your website. Make sure it stands out so it is easy to find. If appropriate, you can also include it in more than one place. For instance, your opt-in form might always appear in the top-left corner of your site, while you also include an opt-in at the bottom of some of your popular articles.
3. Make it easy for your reader to sign up. The more information you request, the fewer people will opt-in. In most cases, a name and an email address should suffice. If it’s not necessary, don’t include it here. (Note: If you don’t have a Privacy Policy, put the words “privacy policy generator” into a search engine and you should be able to find a suitable form for your readers to review.
4. Publish a Privacy Policy. Let your readers know that they can be confident you will not share their information with others. The easiest way to do this is to set up a Privacy Policy web page and provide the link to it below your opt-in form.
5. Show your first issue or other sample to your visitors. This lets potential subscribers review your newsletter before they sign up to determine if it is something they’d be interested in.
6. Archive past newsletter issues. A “library” of past newsletters is both appealing and useful to visitors and builds your credibility as an authority. In addition, if your articles are written with good SEO techniques in mind, they can send additional traffic to your web site through good search engine positioning.
7. Contact other newsletter publishers. Introduce yourself and explore ways you may be able to help each other. Perhaps you can introduce other publisher’s newsletters or print articles they have written to your list, with a link to sign up. When you contact them, be sure to tell them why you think THEIR readers would like what you have to offer and why YOUR readers would benefit from their newsletters. This is a win-win scenario; both of you will build your lists faster!
8. Give away bonuses subscribers can use. Create an opt-in bonus for joining your subscriber list. You can write an ebook or PDF report, or even hire a programmer to create downloadable or web-based software. But don’t limit yourself to only a gift for new opt-ins. Remind your readers that the next bonus is coming soon. People hate to miss out on things. If you systematically pass on “goodies” throughout the year, your subscribers are unlikely to leave.
9. Ask your subscribers to pass it on. Word of mouth is a powerful viral technique that works great with email marketing. If your subscribers find the content you share with them to be informative, they will pass your newsletter on to their friends. This can be a good source of new subscribers.
10. Let others reprint your newsletter as long as the content is not modified. Many webmasters and newsletter publishers are actively looking for high- quality content and, if they reprint your newsletter, you will get new subscribers, traffic and links pointing to your site.
11. Include a “Sign Up” button in the newsletter. If you are using plain text instead of HTML, provide a text link to your subscription page. You may feel that this is not required because the subscriber is already on your list, but remember that readers will forward your newsletters to others, or reprint it online. You want to make it easy for them to subscribe.
12. Add a squeeze page. A squeeze page has one goal ? to get an opt-in and build your list. Think of it like a mini-sales letter for your subscription or opt-in bonus. It features a powerful headline and a couple of very important benefits that should make subscribers salivate to sign up to your list. Once created, use a service such as WordTracker to find hundreds of targeted keywords, and advertise there using pay-per-click advertising from Google, MSN and Yahoo.
13. Include testimonials on your squeeze page. This is crucial. Put 1 or 2 strong testimonials from satisfied subscribers on your squeeze page. This can be in any format, but you may find that multimedia (audio or video social proof) is more “believable”. To increase that believability, include full names, locations and/or urls; don’t use “Bob K, FL” as a testimonial name.
14. Blog religiously. Blogging is a great way to communicate with your potential customers, and it creates a nice synergy with your email marketing. Be sure to include your newsletter sign-up form on each page of your blog. You can start a free blog at Blogger or Wordpress.
15. Post on other blogs. Post great comments and information on similar blogs with a link to your squeeze or opt-in page. Also comment on others’ blogs through trackbacks. In most cases, your comments will be posted on their blogs with a link back to your site. This is an easy way to generate new traffic and subscribers.

Let me start off by explaining the biggest benefit of providing your downline members with a viral prospecting system.

It boils down to this…

When you have a viral prospecting system in place for your team members, your downline has the potential to take on a life of its own and continue to grow effortlessly while you’re focusing on more important things such as family and friends.

A gentleman I recently discovered managed to accomplish the difficult task of duplication while  maintaining his full time job and family life.

He mentioned that ever since the beginning of his online ventures he was searching for a system that brought interested prospects in automatically.

He didn’t have time to do the traditional recruiting methods because they required a lot of time and commitment.

What he wanted instead, was a huge downline that duplicated on auto-pilot from his part time efforts.

“But did such a solution exist?”

If it did, he said he couldn’t find it…

So after many years of struggling to build a solid residual income through network marketing he decided it was time to take the bull by the horns (so to speak) and he created a 3 step marketing system that literally exploded his downline within a few months.

The part that amazed me the most was the fact that he didn’t spend a dime on advertising. And his downline is now over 11,460 strong and growing monthly on auto-pilot.

Ultimately I learned that being a successful sponsor involves providing some type of system that helps people build their business, not sitting around wondering why your downline isn’t doing anything.

I guess the quote from Zig Ziglar holds true:

“You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.”

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Many books and tutorial programs have been produced claiming to help Internet Marketers learn the ins & outs of Per Pay Click advertising. One of the latest to hit the market is Commission Blueprint, by Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton. I own this product, I have gone through (more than once) all of the information presented in this package. Plus, I’ve spoken with one of the authors over the phone on more than one occasion.

To be blunt: I think we’ve got a winner here!

No doubt you’ve heard of Google Adwords and Pay Per Click advertising. If not, it’s a method of advertising your product on the Google Search site results page. When a user enters a word or phrase to search, your ad gets placed on the top or right-hand side of the results page if you’ve bid appropriately on that searched word or phrase. It’s called “Pay Per Click” because you actually pay for the right to advertise here, but only when someone “clicks” on your ad.

The Commission Blueprint package offers 14 downloadable videos, 3 manuals in PDF format, 4 landing page templates, a few unadvertised bonuses, and all of the slides from the videos (also in PDF format). The videos come in two different formats (including Windows .wmv) and are recorded in pretty good quality. They carry about 4.5 hours of “meaty” content, and you’ll need several viewings to make sure you don’t miss anything.

Keep your eyes on this blog. Better yet, create an RSS feed for yourself, because over the next few weeks we’re going to highlight the type of information you’ll be receiving in each of the 14 videos. We won’t be revealing details, but you’ll definitely get an accurate feel for the type of information you’ll be receiving should decide to purchase this package for yourself, and get closer to that successful online business you’re working towards.

This package is definitely worth the introductory $97.00 price (which will be “upped” to $297 in the near future, we’re told). So, stay tuned, pay attention, and soak in the info. I think you’ll decide to use Commission Blueprint, as well. As I stated before:

I think we’ve got a winner here!