I am hoping that this new eBook will help many people overcome their fear of everything Zen cart and enable them to get an online shop selling immediately downloadable products, up and running as quickly as possible.  It will be a “do this, do that and voila” kind of manual based on a site that already sells digital downloads.  I am sick of people writing eBooks from a position of ignorance.  I’d love to say, “okay then, show me the money!”.  In other words, prove it!  Resell Rights Shop has products in it that you can immediately download so the purchaser of the new eBook can see a live shop doing its stuff!  In other words, I have proved it!

Admittedly, Resell Rights Shop has not got many products available but that is set to change over the next two weeks.  I am going to be uploading like a really fast uploading thing!  I am hopeful of getting at least twenty more legally licensed products into the store.  Stay tuned campers and I’ll write some more by the end of the week.  I feel a new Shortie coming on!! Watch Out!

The report is free of charge and includes MASTER RESELL RIGHTS enabling you to sell the report and keep the profits or to GIVEAWAY the report to help others or build your list.

More information on this report is available here.

I have updated Shortie0001 and Shortie0002 to now include the exact same (did that make sense) sales page that I use.  I can’t stress how much that will improve your chances of selling the report or giving the report away!

As a famous superstore keeps on saying, over and over again…….every little helps!

C Ya

John

I deleted the post!  As is usually the case, as soon as I had deleted it, I wanted it back!  There is probably some kind of zen thing there, or at the very least one of those Chinese proverbs; you know the ones, “man goes to bed in evening with coat-hanger in mouth, wake up in morning with smile on face”.  What does that mean exactly.  I can think of quite a lot of things that would make me wake up with a smile on my face (well okay, one thing and I can’t write it here!) but going to bed with a coat-hanger in my mouth would just hurt, really, really badly!  So did someone actually do that then, I mean, go to bed with a coat-hanger in their mouth.  If they didn’t, then how do they know that you wake up with a smile on your face?  Anyways, I digress a little!!

I was fed up and took it out on a poor defenceless blog post.  Instead of trying to rationalise the situation, or at least sleep on it, I kneejerked!  I reacted to the situation and instead of taking a step back and having a thunk, I ploughed right with nil, no, Nada, zip, bugger all consideration for the consequences of my action.  Still, at the end of the day, it was only a blog post!

Back to this post then (collective sigh of relief!).  What does the title mean and why write now (at stupid o-clock in the morning!)?.  Well it means that I have decided to change direction in my erstwhile but realistically fruitless attempts at earning a living online!  I have been trying to do everything; create a product, create a membership, create a shop, maintain a blog, post videos, spin articles, drum up traffic, build a list, create another membership and to what end.  Lots of frustration and nil achievement!  Stuff that then!  And by the way, I’m writing this because a very good friend reminded me in the usual totally unsubtle way that I needed to write a post.  Of course, if said friend had bothered to visit the blog last night, they would have seen the original (now extinct) post and not had to resort to blatant mockery in order to get me to post….thanks though!!

I signed up to the John Thornhill Marketing Masterclass last year and I’ve got about 11 weeks to go until I complete the course.  John is ace and is even acer (!) as of the other day when he sent all members an email stating we had free membership to this years course.  So this is what I have decided to do.  Bin the membership site, blog shop etc and concentrate on two things.

I am going to keep ResellRightsShop going, even though I am extremely disillusioned (more on that in next post).  It would be easy to give on the shop.  It’s a lot of work.  It would be easy if I could do what people on info product sites such as trade-bit do; blatantly ignore the terms of the license, price everything at under a dollar despite the obvious value and earning opportunity if done correctly.  That said, I have put a lot of personal time into ResellRightsShop and don’t want to have wasted that time.  I will therefore keep uploading a product on a daily basis until it is one of the largest (non auction) information product shops in the world, nay the universe!

The second project I am going to keep going is this blog.  I will use it as a sort of buffer for the John Thornhill Marketing Masterclass.  I will start the new course whilst finishing the old course and post regular updates to tell the world what topics we are studying and how they will benefit my marketing campaigns.  As part of the course I will write my first information product and will make it available as a download to my subscribers.  Of course that means you will need something to subscribe to before you can be a subscriber (err, chicken, egg, anyone?!).  Not sure what the product will be yet but probably something on the social networking side of Internet marketing.  There are a hell of a lot of resources out there that will aid any Internet marketer in establishing a secondary “social” list to market to.  There are also a lot of sites out there with resources pretending to help that will actually harm your campaigns.  I have learnt this through often painful experience!  In the meantime, I will maintain the thread of compliant sites, looking at what policies you really need to ensure you don’t have the contents of your bank account taken from you!

So there ya go.  Hope you are still awake and looking forward to the next cunningly constructed (try saying that after a few sherbets!) post.  At the end of the day, there is always someone a little worse off than you are, in my case its the cat and I will have to go and remove my Homer Simpson slipper from it’s backside pretty soon I think!!

That’s all Folks;

John.

PS – I’ve just spellchecked this post and Teco’s aren’t in the dictionary. Ha, sherbet is so that puts Tesco’s lower than a children’s confectionery (even if it is a damn good confectionery and even if Tesco’s sell them, which they probably do as they seem to sell everything else!).

PPS – I managed to change my jeans in the end.  I found the ticket thingy in the pocket!  Which just goes to show………………something!

Resell Rights Shop – Torn between basing the shop on a zencart platform, which is easy to install, complicated to set up but gives a huge amount of control or using WordPress, which is easy to install, easy to setup and easy to control.  As you can imagine I am leaning towards using wordpress, purely from an ease of set up perspective.  Once the shop is up and running I will create a free report aimed at “newbies” (hate that phrase!), technical terrorists (those that think they are technically gifted but can’t programme a sky plus box!) and non-techies (those that admit they are technically challenged!).  The report will document the whole process and may even include video (oooohh!).  Currently I have a holding page in place whilst I work on the shop in the background.  I hope to have the shop up and running for the New Year.

Resell Rights Mania – This will hopefully be the Flagship product.  A membership site benefiting from the fact that I am currently a member of the number 1 membership site for digital products.  Although Resell Rights Mania will not have anything like as many “bells and whistles” as MRR, the subscription price will be adjusted appropriately.  Essentially, I will be passing products onto you at a quarter (possibly) less of the subscription charged by the other 2 “big memberships”, (see future post!).  Again looking at some time in the New Year before the site is up and running.  I do not want to tarnish my reputation by putting out an inferior product despite the obvious financial pressures that we all face.  I would much rather lose money short term, in order to put out a quality product that users will benefit from and thus we all gain long term!

I have two other projects that are not really out of the starting gate as yet so I am not even going to link to them here.  Suffice to say, I will post an article once they are sufficiently up and running.

Cheers

Okay, so whats next?!  Good question!  I have been trying to establish myself as a website designer and secured a comission with a local company to “makeover” their website and to create a blog.  I’m extremely pleased with the results.  It’s taken a while as the project grew as the site developed.  We are almost finished with the main design implementation and I can now concentrate on the social networking aspects.  POV Production Company Limited have been a great company to work with and I am really pleased to be associated with them.

Hopefully this will be a “foot in the door” for me and I can continue to explore the web design niche.  Its a constantly changing landscape with innovative, cutting edge software appearing all the time.  The available resources are tremendous and I am really looking forward to imlementing new designs and techniques.  My learning curve has gone vertical!

Phew!  Quite a long post but I needed to get a lot off my chest.

Enjoy the Blog.

All the best

John