John Dilbeck Musings

Trick or Treat!

You never really know what you’re going to get when you sign up to build a new website at a hosting company you’ve never used.

Will it be a trick…or a treat?

I have never had a problem with my Site Build It! site. In fact, I just renewed my subscription a couple of weeks ago for another year of what I think is the best website brainstorm, research, design, hosting, and promoting system available - for only $300 per year!

I don’t expect you to take my word for it.

Why should you?

Here’s a chance to try it out for yourself, and for only $100 more to get a second site or a site you can give away to someone in your family, friends, or associates.

That’s right. Until midnight, October 31, 2006, you can buy one SBI site for only $300 per year, or get two for only $400.

(When it comes time for renewal next year, each will cost $300 to renew; the special offer does not extend to renewals.)

Get a friend and buy two sites. Give one to your friend and split the cost. Each of you will save $100 on your first year of Site Build It!

Buy a site for yourself and give one to a child who will benefit greatly from learning a skill set that is highly valuable.

Give a site to a retired parent who wants to pursue a passion for a hobby or any topic that really piques their interest.

If I didn’t already have my hands full right now, I’d take advantage of this offer to start two more SBI sites. Maybe I’ll be ready when the next special comes along.

Cobwebs are for Halloween decorations and abandoned homes, not for websites! Follow the Site Build It! process, find your niche, and put the power of SBI to work to help you build a site that will gather lots of new visitors, not cobwebs.

Tomorrow is Halloween. Don’t miss this special.

Do you have any questions about how SBI can work for you? Ask your questions - free and no obligation.

I love posters and I’ve built an artstore on JohnDilbeck.com that links to items I love, including castles, dragons, wizards, and many other subjects.

Here’s a list of other topics for which I’ve built my own store pages:

Artists

• Leonardo da Vinci Art
• Michelangelo Buonarroti Art

Musicians and Actors

• Johnny Depp Art
• Mel Gibson Art
• Elvis Presley Art

Movies and TV

• Disney Art
• Harry Potter Art
• Lord of the Rings Art
• Monsters, Inc. Art
• Spiderman Art
• Star Trek Art
• Star Wars Art
• Warriors Art
• X-Files Art
• X-Men Art

Places

• Ireland Art

Nature & Outdoors

• Animal Art
• Bears Art
• Birds Art
• Butterflies Art
• Cats Art
• Deer Art
• Dinosaur Art
• Dogs Art
• Dolphins Art
• Doves Art
• Eagles Art
• Floral Art
• Frogs Art
• Horses Art
• Landscape Art
• Manatees Art
• Pelicans Art
• Rainbow Art
• River Sports Art
• Reptiles Art
• Roses Art
• Seagulls Art
• Sunset Art
• Wildlife Art
• Wolf Art

Other

• Angels Art
• Aviation Art
• Believe Art
• Castles Art
• Cowboy Art
• Dragons Art
• Fairies & Pixies Art
• Fantasy Art
• Inspirational Art
• Kings Art
• Lighthouse Art
• Mermaids Art
• Motivational Art
• Princes Art
• Princesses Art
• Queens Art
• Space Art
• Unicorns Art
• Warriors Art
• Waterfalls Art
• Wizards Art

If you aren’t particularly interested in the same topics I am, you can select from over 300,000 items, some of which are sure to be of interest.

Here are some of the topics you may choose to browse directly at the Art.com site:

Art.com offers over 300,000 items from which to choose.

It’s easy to find what you’re looking for at Art.com. You can click on my selections in the menu to your left, go to their site and browse their main categories, or use the handy search box, below.

Top 100

Top 100 at Art.com

What’s New?

What’s New at Art.com

LIFE Picture Collection

The LIFE Picture Collection at Art.com

Other Popular Art

To make it convenient, I’ve put together some samples from a variety of interest areas. Just click one of the following links to see a sample of the art that is available in that category. A new window will open with items that you will, hopefully, find to be of interest.

• Abstract posters and prints
• Animals posters and prints
• Architecture posters and prints
• Astronomy & Space posters and prints
• Book Illustration posters and prints
• Botanical posters and prints
• Comics posters and prints
• Cuisine posters and prints
• Education posters and prints
• Fantasy posters and prints
• Holidays posters and prints
• Home & Hearth posters and prints
• Humor posters and prints
• Inspirational posters and prints
• Maps posters and prints
• Motivational posters and prints

Popular Movies

Movies posters and prints

Popular Music

• Music posters and prints
• People posters and prints
• Places posters and prints
• Religion & Philosophy posters and prints
• Scenic posters and prints
• Sports posters and prints
• Still Life posters and prints
• Television posters and prints
• Transportation posters and prints
• Vintage posters and prints
• World Culture posters and prints
• Youth posters and prints

In addition to art prints, photos, and posters, Art.com offers a framing service so you can do all your gift buying and framing at the same time.

The selection is huge and the prices are right. Order today to avoid the holiday rush and to be sure to get the items you want.

I am a member of a great affiliate program that I’d like to tell you more about. The Art.com Affiliate Program is a fantastic way to make money with your web site.

Art.com has over 100,000 prints, posters and photographs from many categories including fine art, sports, movies, music, celebrities and more. All you have to do is link to Art.com images on your website and you’ll earn 25-30% commission on all sales through the website.

Art.com also offers state of the art custom framing giving you the opportunity to earn greater commissions on framed prints.

They offer a range of linking tools that automatically generate html for products chosen and comprehensive reports to help you track your performance.

Just visit their affiliate program page and sign up for the program. It only takes a few minutes.

I’m sure you’ll enjoy being an Art.com Affiliate.

Want to see some ways to market these items? Come visit my artstore on JohnDilbeck.com.

You’ll see samples of search boxes, text links, and whole pages devoted to specific topics such as castles, dragons, wizards, and many other subjects.

Go to one of these links and see the list of subjects I’ve developed in the left column menu.

You can create your own artstore featuring the subjects you love and you can link directly to the subjects of your choice at art.com without building your own store. The choice is yours.

This is a two-level affiliate program, so you can also earn 5% of the commissions earned by affiliates you refer to the program.

I’ve earned some great commissions from this company. You can, too.

I just lowered prices on dozens of products in my FSCstore.

My FSCstore normally features great prices on products you will want for yourself and your friends and family, but now the prices are even better.

Shop early and avoid the rush.

Winter’s on the way. Do you have an emergency kit in your car?

You’ll look good in the leather garments you can buy at our low, low prices. Need purses, luggage and bags? Shop from our collection.

Our inventory isn’t as extensive as you will find in many other stores, but I think our prices are very competitive. They won’t stay this low for long.

I know I’ll raise the prices by the first of December.

Shop now.

Open your own FSCstore. It’s easy.

Learn more about getting your free store today.

Learn how you can set the prices you want for products you sell.

Buy at wholesale and save on your personal purchases and gifts.

Once you open your store, you can give away free stores, too.

Get your free store today.

Only one week after deciding to stop charging $30 for Make Your Site Sell! and to give it away for free, Ken Evoy decided to give another of his products away as a free download.

Now, Make Your Content PREsell!, which sold for $10, is free and you can download it without even giving your email address.

This ebook, in .PDF format, can be read in a relatively short time span.

If you are attempting to earn all or part of your income through online marketing, you should read this book at least once. There is absolutely no risk. It’s free.

Dr. Evoy, through the information released in Make Your Site Sell! and all the integrated tools and webhosting incorporated into Site Build It! in the years since MYSS was released, has proven that his C-T-P-M model of online marketing works successfully.

What does “PREsell” mean?

It is the job of a merchant to do the selling.

It is the job of an affiliate to offer information of value that will help the reader get into a more receptive frame of mind and then link to the merchant.

This process of passing along valuable information and linking to a merchant is called PREselling.

It is not our job to sell, just to get the reader interested enough to click on the link and see what the merchant offers.

You can learn more by downloading Make Your Content PREsell!, reading it, and learning how to more effectively communicate with the people who visit your websites and blogs.

Don’t miss this free offer.

Today is my daughter’s birthday.

Happy Birthday, Dena!

I hope this is your best year yet.

I love you.

I just created a new Site Build It Webmasters group on Squidoo.com.

If you are a Site Build It! webmaster, you are invited to create a new lens about your SBI site and how you use Site Build It to create your online business.

If you create a lens using the above link, you will be submitted for membership to the Site Build It Webmasters group on Squidoo.com.

As long as your new lens is about SBI and/or your SBI website, I’ll be happy to admit you to the group.

(Site Build It! websites, only, please.)

This is a great way to get one-way links to your site and the pages within it.

Squidoo lenses are powerful ways to build one page websites that link outward to other resources. You can even make money while you promote your site.

Do you have a CafePress store related to your SBI website? Add a CafePress module to your lens and sell your wares.

Do you sell products from Amazon.com on your SBI site? Add the top sellers to your Squidoo lens, too.

Feel free to put your 5 Pillar affiliate links on your lens(es).

Let’s all help each other succeed.

Act On Your Dream!

JD

I don’t usually use three exclamation marks in a headline. That’s just not my style.

But, in this case, I’m going to make an exception and try to pass along my excitement about the announcement I just read.

I’m a few days behind on my email and I just now read an email Ken Evoy sent me last Saturday.

Among other interesting announcements, he told us that Make Your Site Sell! 2002 is now available as a free download. You don’t even have to give your email address. Just go to the link and get your free copy of what I think is the best information about earning an income with a website that is available at any price.

I bought the original version for $17 and was surprised with how much information was in this exceptional ebook.

Not only was there more information than I expected, the very format of the ebook was an example of how information should be presented in PDF format.

Make Your Site Sell! was updated in 2002 to a seven volume ebook with over 1,500 pages of outstanding information about building a successful website. The name was changed to Make Your Site Sell! 2002 in order to reflect this additional information. The price was raised from $17 to $30.

Now, I’ve seen ebooks selling for nearly $100 (usually $97) that only had a tiny fraction of what Ken offered for less than $30. Ken’s motto has always been to UNDERprice and OVERdeliver and this was certainly appropriate for Make Your Site Sell! 2002.

Go to the page and read what is in the ebook. Then, don’t waste any more time, download the ebook and start putting it to work for you.

Don’t add this to your collection of un-read ebooks. If you want to build a site that is successful, read this information, study it and put it to work for you.

Of course, a lot has changed in four years and parts of MYSS is starting to show its age, but I still refer to this information several times a month. I always find something I never knew or things I forgot in the interim.

So, why hasn’t this book been updated and why is it being given away now for free?

Over the last several years, Ken and the folks at Sitesell have been focusing their efforts into making Site Build It! into the the best set of tools for identifying your niche, designing a website, researching and creating the content, hosting it, and promoting it to the world.

The concepts that were presented in MYSS live on in Site Build It, so there really is no reason to update the ebook when Site Build It! puts those concepts into action.

I just renewed my subscription to Site Build It! a couple of weeks ago and it never even crossed my mind not to do so. I have dozens of websites and SBI offers me more value than all the others put together in terms of helping me do my best on the net.

But, you don’t have to spend $300 to get a Site Build It subscription to learn much about the concepts that lead to this outstanding tool.

You don’t have to spend a penny.

Just go download Make Your Site Sell! 2002 and put what you learn to work for you.

Yes, there will be some things that are no longer up-to-date in the ebook, but don’t let that distract you from all the good information and advice you will find.

I can truthfully tell you that I’ve wasted a good bit of money buying ebooks and following their advice.

But, that does not apply to Ken Evoy, Make Your Site Sell, and Site Build It. Everytime I follow Ken’s advice, I make more money. When I stray to other paths to test the waters, sometimes I make money, but much of the time I just lose my investment. That has never been the case with anything I’ve purchased from Sitesell.

My best advice is to tell you to subscribe to Site Build It! and give yourself the best advantage and the best tools to build a profitable online business.

But, if you can’t afford the $300 or if you just aren’t convinced, then put your credit card back in your pocket and download Make Your Site Sell! 2002.

See what created all the fuss a few years ago when MYSS was called “The Bible of Selling On the Internet.”

It helped me.

If you read it and put it to work, it can help you, too.

I am slowly making progress in converting all of my blogs over to WordPress (with the single exception of John Dilbeck And Friends which will continue to be powered by Manilla.)

The more I use WordPress, the better I like it.

One thing I’ve been doing is using categories rather extensively on several of my blogs.

On Syndicate Your Ad, I have a category for every state in the USA, all the provinces in Canada, and other countries as I need to create them. The reason for this is that each category has its own RSS feed and I syndicate those feeds on dozens of Squidoo lenses and other websites.

I’m way behind in blogging these offers, but I decided it was best to take the time I needed to create an infrastructure for promoting the offers. Now that I’ve almost completed that, I’ll get back to updating the blog this month or next. Then, it will be easy to update it every couple of days or so.

I’ve tested several other blogs to see how well they work when generating multiple RSS feeds based on category, and after several months of use, I’m going to convert all of them over to WordPress. As far as I’m concerned, it offers the best value in terms of power, flexibility, extensibility, and ease of use. So, the others will be ditched.

All of this takes time, but by the first of 2007, or so, I’ll have everything working as I want and can spend just a few hours a week keeping them updated.

So, now I have an easy way to generate information that flows from blog to lens, website, and other blog.

Now, I’m thinking about how I can complete the flow back to the originating blogs or if that is even something that needs doing.

I got the idea a few minutes ago when I was looking at my newest lens: Dolly Parton.

On the top right corner of the lens, there is the standard icon for RSS feeds. When I looked at it, the feed showed my description for the lens and it was repeated as a link item with the date of last updating.

As far as information is concerned, it doesn’t look too interesting to me, but it does look interesting in terms of the date of last update. I’m wondering if this is one of the mechanisms Squidoo uses to rank lenses in terms of “freshness” or recentness of update.

How can I use that for myself?

I still don’t know the answer to that question, but I’m going to be musing about it the next few days as I go about my marketing efforts.

Do you have any thoughts about it?