My final tip for 2008

December 31, 2008 – 6:46 pm

Thank you very much for all of your comments on my blog about the birth of our new son. We enjoyed reading them.

As you may have noticed, I haven’t written since then… and I suppose it’s no wonder as to why.

Even though we had a new baby, we decided to keep up our Christmas traditions, so it’s been a very busy time… with little time to rest.

And then when I got home from Christmas at my in-laws, I came home to a dead computer :-(

Fortunately, I had just ordered a new one (I knew the old one was on its last legs when the hard drive started making loud noises). But it has still taken a few days to get my new one set up and tweaked out just the way I like it.

Anyway, I’m back up to speed now, and I’ve got several new lessons in the works.

As this year draws to an end, I’ll offer one final tip…

Never put liquid dish soap in your dishwasher! :-)

In my effort to help my wife with the chore of dishes, I discovered that we were out of dishwasher detergent. So I substituted liquid soap (soap is soap, what difference could it make, right?).

Big mistake, LOL. About 10 minutes later my daughter yelled down the stairs… and I ran up to see a frothy mess of foam all over the kitchen floor.

I guess I better stick to my day job. Oh wait… I don’t have one :-)

So…

Thank you very much for reading this newsletter. I look forward to helping you accomplish your online goals in 2009.

I’m launching something exciting in January, and I’d like to get your input on it.

I’d appreciate if you could take a moment and answer three questions at:

Take Eric’s 3-question survey here…

And as always, you are welcome to leave your comments below.

Have a great day… and a happy New Year!

It’s a boy!

December 20, 2008 – 12:28 pm

This morning at 1:52AM my wife delivered our fourth child!

He was 7lbs 4oz, healthy baby boy. Mother and child are both doing great. What a tremendous blessing. It is definitely one of the greatest highlights of my life.

We have named him Judah. Here is a picture taken moments after his birth:

Judah Holmlund

There is actually a bit of a funny story, as it relates to Eric’s Tips. Last night I was just finishing up the Bonus video for the review I posted yesterday. I had literally just finished stating my conclusion on the Camtasia recording. The screen capture was still running, and at that very moment my wife yelled down the stairs that she was in labor and we needed to go NOW!

So I ended the capture, and clicked “save” as fast as I could :)

Needless to say, I got the recording done but haven’t had a chance to convert it to flash or upload it yet. But I will get it done as soon as we go home, and I’ll also be posting a preview of it on my blog.

Thanks for being a reader. I cherish your readership, and I’m glad I could share this joy with you.

Have a great day!

Mike Filsaime’s Instant Affiliate Website Reviewed

December 19, 2008 – 2:07 pm

I’m going to keep the review short and sweet, and then I’ll tell you about my special bonus.

Today my friend Mike Filsaime is launching a new program called Instant Affiliate Website.

It’s basically a solution for affiliate marketers to easily create a review site, where they provide product reviews and promote products via their affiliate links.

Fundamentally, I think it’s a great idea. My friend Michael Nicholas (co-creator of Affiliate Video Brander) and I have been talking about making something very similar to this. We simply saw a need in the marketplace for it, because there are so many newbie Internet marketers who want to promote products, but don’t know how to build their own review site.

We won’t do it now, because Mike Filsaime has done a very good job of it.

I am recommending it for anyone who wants to integrate a “review” website into their business, particularly for newbies who haven’t yet figured out how to build a website.

Here’s what you need to know about it…

The way the program is setup by default, is to promote all of MIKE’s products. In other words, it’s a brilliant plan on his part, because every customer automatically becomes his affiliate to promote his many products.

If it were ONLY that, I wouldn’t be recommending it today. It might be a nice tool for those of you who actually want to build a shrine to Mike Filsaime’s products, but its value as an affiliate marketing tool would be minimal.

HOWEVER, Mike went far beyond using it as a self-promotion tool, and integrated the ability for you to customize the output and add your own products and reviews. You can also add a blog.

Part of the appeal for newbies is the push-button aspect of it. It automatically generates your site for you on Mike’s domain. Again, if that were the only option, I wouldn’t be recommending it today.

Fortunately, Mike also gives the ability to host the site on your OWN domain… hosted on his servers or on your own web hosting account.

I believe this is a critical element for those who will actually make money with this program.

And that’s why I’ve decided to offer a special bonus for anyone who signs up through my link…

Click Here for a Preview Video of my bonus and the IAW program

ERIC’S BONUS OFFER:

If you order your Instant Affiliate Website through my link below, I will give you a special bonus video that I’ve made which shows you…

-Exactly how to put your site on your own domain with a few clicks

-How to “hack” your site to make sure there’s no footprint for the search engines

-How to customize it beyond what the standard control panel allows

Plus I will give you a special software program (Windows based) which can be used to quickly “hack” and customize your Instant Affiliate Website.

And when I say “hack”, I’m not talking about anything unethical. I’m just talking about being a smart marketer and customizing your site.

How to get my bonus:

1) Go to this link and sign up: Click here to go to Instant Affiliate Website

2) Open a ticket at my helpdesk: www.ericsupport.com
-Register for a new helpdesk account if you don’t have one
-Put the ticket in the Eric’s Tips category
-Use “IAW Bonus” as the subject line
-Paste a copy of your receipt into the ticket
-Allow a couple days for processing

As always, you are welcome to leave your comments here on the blog.

Have a great day!

Mission Trip to India

December 17, 2008 – 7:55 pm

As you might remember, Eric’s Tips subscribers helped donate an extra $10k to help some missionaries when I went on a mission trip to Belize earlier this year.

It was a tremendous blessing to be a part of it. You can see some of the details from that mission trip here on my blog.

In February I’ll be going on a mission trip to India.

We want to help as many people as possible, and that’s where you come in.

You can be a part of our efforts, and receive a tax deduction for your contribution :-)

Get the details at…

http://MarketerMissionTrip.com

I really appreciate your help!

LESSON #29: Uploading a Website Using FTP

December 14, 2008 – 5:17 pm

In the previous lesson, I showed you how to build a web page using HTML. But that page isn’t going to do you a whole lot of good if it’s not on the web, is it?

So let’s learn how to upload it to the web…

(Watch this video…)

Main points:

  • Control panel “File managers” are not the best way to upload files.

  • FTP = File Transfer Protocol

  • FTP Client = a software program that uses FTP to transfer your files

    You can download a free FTP client at: http://filezilla-project.org

    (see demo on video)

    You can “drag and drop” files directly from your computer onto your website.

  • Advanced tip: You can use FTP to backup important files from your PC. Just create a “storage” folder within the root directory (above public_html) of your website.

    Action step:

    1) Upload at least one page to your site using FTP.

    Note: the file should be named index.html if you want it to appear as the home page of your website. (Or index.htm, index.php, etc)

    In the next lesson I’ll begin showing you some tools you can use to make your website look nice.

    As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below :-)

    Have a great day!