A couple weeks ago, I put up a quick post about Jimmy D. Brown’s is “retirement”  Yes,  Jimmy D. Brown is “retiring” (IE Removing them from the web and no longer selling them) ALL OF HIS OFFERS on the web. He is doing this for several good reasons, which you can read about here.

The first to go were all of his small reports from SR Zone. I got word from him that 2,144 units were sold in the week before he shut the site down. (That alone tells you that his products are great!) He wasn’t kidding about “retiring” this stuff.

His next “retirement” is an interesting one. It’s something that he previously has not released.

Yep, he’s releasing it … and retiring it at the same time!

Jimmy has a content-rich blog that has some of the best internet marketing information around. Almost as impressive as his content is the blog theme he uses at the site. It’s a beautiful design. Jimmy used a custom, one-of-a-kind design for his blog. It was designed and coded for his exclusive use by a first-rate graphics guy. This graphics guy charges $499 per project. Which is too expensive for me!

Over the months that Jimmy has been blogging, many people have asked him, “which theme did you use”? He let them know it was a custom job and explained the price tag. Ouch. Most people can’t spend $499 for a blog theme no matter how great it is.

After getting as Jimmy describes it “a gazillion” requests for his blog theme, he decided to hire his graphics guy to create a theme that is very similar to his own that he could sell to the general public at a very small and affordable price.

He calls it: “Multiple Streams Theme”.

Why that name?

Because it has ten built-in ways to make money just by using the theme at your own blog.

You can read all about it at the Multiple Streams [of income] WordPress Theme page!

IN FACT, if you’re a blogger, I’d highly recommend you buy a copy of the theme right now before you forget. Even if you only plan on being a blogger SOMEDAY, I’d highly recommend you buy a copy of it right now!

This is a limited time offer!

The clock is ticking. On Friday, March 19, 2010 at 10 PM Central time, Jimmy will be discontinuing all sales for the site. If you haven’t purchased it by then, it will be GONE.

There is also going to be at least one price increase between now and then, so if you want it at the absolute
lowest price (which, really IS “pennies on the dollar!”) get your copy now.

This really is a great opportunity to upgrade the professionalism of your blog for a very low price.

This is a time-sensitive offer. Don’t let the Multiple Streams WordPress theme get away!

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The regular price is $15.  You can get any, or all, of these reports for just $10 each. This offer is good until Friday, February 26th at 10PM.  After that time, all of these reports will NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE  for purchase.

Here is a list of what’s available.

1. Piggyback Launches: 3 Surefire Ways To Get A Steady Stream Of Free Traffic For Any New Product
2. Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business
3. How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website With Ezine Articles
4. How To Get F.R.E.E. Traffic with PLR Reports
5. 8 Irresistible Ways To Get Super Affiliates To Enlist In Your Sales Army
6. How To Improve Your Information W.R.I.T.I.N.G.
7. The Upsell Report: How To Get Customers To Spend More Money

You can read through a complete description of each report on the SR Zone website.

I *STRONGLY* recommend you grab a copy of “Homepreneur Habits”. It’s a 65-page “operations manual”.  In it, Jimmy takes you “behind the scenes” to look at how he runs his own business, complete with photographs of his home office. He tells you what software programs he uses, tools and equipment he uses and even a schedule of tasks he performs.  At only $10, it’s a no-brainer!  EVERY internet marketer should have a copy!

Once again, this offer will end on Friday, February 26th at 10PM. I urge you to take advantage of this special discount where you can get each report for only $10!

One thing to note. The SR Zone website will still list the price as $15. Don’t worry.  You will only be charged $10 when you checkout.

Also, you can click over to Jimmy’s blog to read all about WHY Jimmy is retiring ALL of his offers.

REMEMBER, you only have a limited time to order any of the small reports that you are interested in.  On February 26th at 10PM the site will be shut down.  No kidding!

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2010 offers a fresh start and I believe it can work.

Here are my goals:

1. Set aside time each week to work on my business.
2. Limit the time I spend on things that distract.
3. Liquidate the remaining physical inventory from my e-commerce site.
4. Read the latest edition of The 4-Hour Workweek and apply the principles to my business.
5. Re-start one of the courses I subscribed to last year.
6. Start earning some income from affiliate marketing.

Now that I have written down my goals, it is time to start working!

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated

Timothy Ferriss. Crown Archetype 2009, Hardcover, 416 pages, $12.67

Free was definitely the price point of choice.  Here are a few observations that I recall from watching:

• All members of the panel loved GMail.
• Google is a trusted brand.
• They don’t click on ads unless made to. When clicked, they don’t buy.
• Several had hand-me-down cell phones.
• While all used it, most would not pay for Facebook.
• Not all used Twitter.
• They will pay for online services if their friends are there too and if there aren’t free options.

It is important to note that this was a small focus group and it would be a stretch to apply these conclusions to teens and early twenty-somethings universally.  However, these are important insights. Free and good, will attract them. It is hard to get them to pay beyond that.  I think that Guy got a little frustrated in that he didn’t find much they were willing to pay for!  You remember the lean years as a student, don’t you?

Many of these products also offer a forum or membership site to help you with support and questions. I have tried several of these and cancelled more memberships than I kept. It seems that so often once the sale is made, there is no more attention paid to you by the “guru” who owns the forum or membership site.

I’m here to tell you that there is a membership forum that is head and shoulders above the rest. It’s Lynn Terry’s SSWT Elite Forum. I stumbled upon Lynn Terry’s blog a little over a year ago and joined her Elite Forum last October. While I believe she would not accept the “guru” title, I’m here to tell you that she is a true expert in Internet Marketing. You can see for yourself by checking out the SSWT Public Forum.

There are several things that set the SSWT Elite Forum apart from the others.

• Lynn is active in the forum.
• Lynn hosts a brainstorming hour every Thursday for Elite members.
• The Elite community is outstanding. There are few internet communities like it!
• Many of the Elite members are experts in their own right. There always seems to be someone online who can address your problem.
• You can discuss your business ideas and challenges “behind closed doors.” The members (and Lynn) are there to help.
• It’s a great place to build your Internet Marketing network.
• Special deals (including many free items) for Elite members.
• The community gives you a built-in review committee to help you improve your projects.
• The price is right – only $27 per month!

I’m a big fan of the SSWT Elite Forum and recommend that you join up. You really don’t have anything to loose and success in Internet Marketing to gain!

His course is called WordPress for Affiliate Sites.  It is a subscription course that costs $47 per month and runs for about five months.  It does have an option to purchase the entire course at once, but there are a couple reasons to subscribe monthly.

• Course modules are presented on a schedule of about one a week.  This is the right pace if you are doing this course on a part-time basis.
• There is a 14-day money back guarantee offered with the monthly option.  This is not available if you purchase the whole course.

On the flip side, if you are able to focus and do this full time, then purchasing the whole course might be right for you.

Each lesson comes with a PDF guide, video, and action plan.  Some lessons also come with a mind map. I just finished the first lesson. The PDF is 18 pages long, so it was easy to read in a short setting. The video is just short of 37 minutes long.  You can complete the first step on the action plan in about an hour. I did this today, Saturday, and then planned the remaining activities for the rest of the week.  Following this approach, I can make progress toward my goal every week!

I also want to mention that the quality of the materials is very good. You can definitely tell the skill, knowledge, and experience that Andy applied in making this course.  If you are wanting to setup quality affiliate sites, I definitely recommend that you give WordPress for Affiliate Sites a try for the 14 day guarantee period.  I am going to see it through to completion.

• Google Adsense integration
• Ready for Twitter
• Nice graphics for RSS and Twitter
• Configurable ads in sidebar and header
• Contact form
• Featured post carousel
• Big text
• My daughter said it looks professional!

One upgrade I wanted to accomplish was to add polish to my email opt-in form.  I always felt that the standard forms from Aweber didn’t look too good.  I really liked Lynn Terry’s form, so I started poking around the SSWT forum looking for clues.  Well, she pointed me to where she got the graphic! (I didn’t intend on picking the same color that she did, but blue is what matched the new theme.)

I want to share with you where I got the custom email opt-in form.  It is part of a great offer containing 120 Squeeze Page Designs.  When you follow this link, you will have the opportunity to get 2 free squeeze page templates.  One is an email opt-in form and the other is an optimized squeeze page.  Here’s where it gets good.  For only $37 you can have the full 120 Squeeze Page Templates.  You could not even get the email opt-in form completed by a web designer for that price!  I think it is a great deal.  (Of course, I bought it!) It is so important to have a good, Web 2.0, look to your web pages in order to increase opt-in rates.  This package will definitely help you with that!

All in all, I am glad that this step toward building on-line income is complete.  It is time to move on to step 2 – launching my first affiliate marketing site.  I’ll keep you updated along the way.

One other thing that has changed is the project I wanted to start.  I am putting that on hold to focus on something that will generate some quicker cash flow.  I still want to do that project, but my online business has bills to pay, now!

As an exercise in accountability, I am posting here my plans for the upcoming weeks and months.

1. This website needs a facelift.  I am going to update the look and better integrate with social media.
2. I am launching my first affiliate marketing site.
3. Create more affiliate marketing sites.
4. More consistent posting on all of my blogs.
5. Profit!!

As this is a blog about my journey to work from home, I will keep updating you on my progress and what I learn along the way.

This morning, I wrote a post for one of my blogs.  This blog has about three to five views per day.  It is a WordPress blog, so I added a plugin to automatically tweet a link when I publish a new post.  Within a couple hours, I had 30 views.  Now, that is pretty powerful and it doesn’t take much imagination to see how a plugin like this can really get you new readers for your blog.

Here are two plugins that I have tried that automatically tweet your blog posts when published.

1. Twitter Tools – This is what I am using on the blog mentioned above.  It is written by Alex King, who is well known in the WordPress plugin world.  It is configurable and I have included a screen shot of the options page.  As you can see, it is pretty straight-forward to configure.

   

   I found this plugin easy to use and it works like it is supposed to.

2. Another plugin that I am using to automatically tweet my blog posts is a commercial offering called TweetMyBlog.  This is an affiliate-based plugin that gives you the opportunity to make some money.  I have it installed on this blog, but have not made anything from it, yet.  It is free for you to install, but it does have a commercial intent as well as look and feel.  I found the extra graphics too much for many of my blogs, but if your blog is about making money, then this plugin should help you do that.  As you can see below, it doesn’t have as many configuration options as Twitter Tools.

   

   This blog has a few hoops to jump through as you get set up to receive affiliate commissions.  If you are looking to add another income source and increase traffic by automatically tweeting your blog posts, TweetMyBlog is a good option.

Either option I listed above will help you build traffic to your WordPress blog by harnessing the power of Twitter.

Robert is a great example.  He is a high-energy “doer.”  Robert has published a great resource called Time Management on Crack.  It’s all about becoming productive and getting the right things done, right now.  This package includes a 22 page report (packed with information), four videos, and some exceptional bonus content.

Everyone is busy.  You can either decide to work more, or decide to get more done in the time you have.  Time Management on Crack gives you the knowledge, techniques, and motivation to do just that.