Are you sick of your job? Would you like to be able to generate ‘dollars on demand?’ Have you ever imagined what it would be like working from home and making a great living – instead of working in some stuffy office or cubicle – slaving away to line someone elses pocket?

Avani Misra did.
In fact – she was doing it – the freelancing part – but only sort of. She, like many of us – had to do her freelancing under the light of the moon – aka ‘moonlighting.’ And in the beginning her freelancing business wasn’t replacing her day job – not even close.

So, Avani made a decision to fix that – and in a few short months was able to switch to ‘full-time’ freelancing.

She’s now doing so well at her freelancing career that she recently decided to put together a training program to help others learn how to get their own freelancing consulting business both off the ground and running full speed ahead.

This product goes live at 6:00pm EST on 12/28/2011.

Dollars on Demand – Become a Successful Freelancer Membership – Pre-Public Launch Opportunity

This is a no fluff, serious yet entertaining and extremely current and valuable course which will help anyone learn how to make Dollars on Demand, which is what she’s named her course.

This course includes a very well written eBook which breaks down the fundamentals of starting, setting up and running your freelance enterprise. This training also includes access to a membership site which guides you to all the elements of the course, from the eBook to the video trainings – to mind maps and other bonuses.

There’s also a Skype Mastermind room where you can interact live with other people who take the training, which is a great way to stay on top of your goals, let other people know about your goals, and get feedback on the same techniques.

Unlike so many other courses, training, and products available online covering topics like “getting started as a freelancer,’ Avani’s product meets two elements rarely found. One, Avani is always on the cutting edge of technology and two, Avani over delivers. No ‘what the heck do I do now’ moments (so often the curse of the modern day product producer) are likely to interfer with your enjoyment of her training.

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For example – one tip she provides is a link to a site that does writing services for ‘oh so cheap’ – like under $3.00 an article. I just finished buying a course on writing services – and because the previous course was written late 2010 – many of the sites no longer existed, or they were on their last legs. But the site Avani recommends is active and thriving – that’s just one example of her cutting edge knowledge.

Another thing we really appreciate is Avani’s understanding of our desire NOT to waste toner. For her eBook, on the home page of the membership (aka product deliver site) you have a choice of downloading the screen friendly version and or downloading the printer friendly version.

It’s as if she really took our needs as learners, and consumers, into consideration. The advice in her pages, such as “your reputation is important,” shows that she cares about your success – and not just about selling you a product.

And since the course includes lifetime access to her Dollars on Demand memebership site you’ll get the latest information by being part of Avani’s freelancing group.

I don’t have the affiliate link yet – but I hope to get it soon.

According to Ms. Misra, the Dollars on Demand Freelancing Course will go live later today on the Warrior Forum, but will only be available for 14 days.

“After 14 Days on the Warrior Forum,” Ms. Misra stated, “I’m going to take it down so I can get the product ready for public consumption – probably using Clickbank – as a vendor – and definately I’ll be selling the course at a much, much higher pricepoint.”

The purpose of this course is to help anyone with a desire to make a living from home get started in the freelancing world – focusing on project you can do from home using your computer skills.

If you or anyone you know is interested in making money online as a freelancer, consider strongly getting this course while the entry point is low. Having seen Avani’s talent and caring in action – and having seen the course . . . I know, I’m in and I hope you’ll join me.

2011 was a very bad year for Mozilla Firefox. If it had not been a non-profit company, one might have been able to say that profits went down. Market share certainly dropped and talent jumped ship. But the biggest threat – at least one that many analysts foretold – that Google would not renegotiate it’s search partnership with Mozilla – did not come to fruition. And that was very fortunate, especially considering that the Google Search partnership represented 85% of Mozilla’s overall revenue, according to a report from Search Engine Journals, David Angotti.

Assuming this is true, it must have been a huge relief to everyone at Mozilla when Mozilla’s CEO Gary Kovacs announced that Google had renewed the contract for another three years. At the time of the announcement, terms of the agreement weren’t released to the press and most analysts speculated knowingly that the new terms would be far less than the $100 million paid in 2010. When the news finally came out that Google in fact had actually trippled their price, guaranteeing Mozilla $300 million over the next 3 fiscals, the gobsmacked analysts had to wonder what made the search engine giant do it. And whoever ultimately had a hand in these negotations at Mozilla certainly deserves a huge bonus for helping to keep the non-profit icon around for at least a few more years.

Mozilla released an infographic recently to paint a rosey picture of Mozilla and what they accomplished in 2011.

Mozilla 2011 Infographic – Click to See Full Image

Problems with popular long time favorite add-ons used by SEO professionals, and increased frequency of Firefox browser crashings on after the new upgrade in the latter half of 2011 caused many stallwart users of the Mozilla Firefox platform to not only jump ship to other more ‘reliable’ browsers such as Opera, but also caused some users to actually ‘uninstall’ the troublesome Firefox browser from their systems altogether.

Once the darling of all ‘high-tech’ users – Mozilla Firefox has managed to lose it’s luster. Perhaps the temporary protection from the grim reaper offered by Google’s incredible search partnership terms, $300 billion per year for 3 years, will allow Mozilla Firefox to fix it’s problems, rehire lost talent, and regain it’s feet as the preferred browser for the technically inclined user.

Perhaps the new version which is 7 x faster than the old version and uses less memory will fix all the niggling problems and will entice long-term users back into the fold. Or maybe just seeing this rosey infographic will do the trick. We’ll see…

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Mozilla 2011 Infographic – Full Image

In this corner: Dr. Ben Adkins vs. Kevin Riley

Ever wondered how your favorite internet marketers’ use Twitter? Well, here are two faceoffs to look at. The first is between the up and coming Internet Marketer Dr. Ben Adkins (@marketophile) & well respected – been around for a while – Kevin Riley (aka – the Hamster King – from Osaka,Japan.) This infographic shows a little bit about how these two very different internet marketers do their social media ‘thing’ on Twitter.

This next infographic shows two well established internet marketers, Lynn Terry and Mike Filsaime. Here you might notice a male/female differntial – but again – this is not scientific – just fun. For more information on infographics, how to make them and their impact on your business – stay tuned for an upcoming Zizish select product a joint project coming from Heidi White & Avani Misra.

Internet Marketer Joe Finn and Justin Wheeler both are very connected to people in the Philippines – having availed themselves of the talent pool for virtual assistants, writers, and technical support to help them with their internet marketing businesses. Of course, you can’t work with people for years and years – even if they are in another country – without becoming close, and connecting in a human way.

After the Typhoon disaster struck, Joe and Justin and many other internet marketers heard from some of their surviving friends and staff in the affected areas in the Philippines about just how horrific things were when the typhoon hit, and how bad things continue to be.

Instead of just feeling bad, Joe and Justin decided to do somthing. Reaching out to other internet marketers – they decided to put together a Charity WSO and put out a product creators to donate products into one monster charity WSO.

A WSO is short for Warrior Special Offer, which is where internet marketers shop for products, reports, tools and plugins inside the largest forum for internet marketers – the Warrior Forum.

Warriors came through both in contributing to the monster product and on making purchases. Within 48 hours they’ve already raised over $5000.00 – and with 100% of the proceeds going to specific people in need in the Philippines, it’s money well raised.

Here’s the link where you can buy this great list of products – even if you aren’t yet an internet marketer – this will be a great way to help. For those who are internet marketers, there are some products included in this bundle that you won’t want to miss.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/507097-philippines-christmas-typhoon-relief-super-packed-charity-warrior-special-offer.html

For a group of folks that sometimes get a bad rap for being ‘all about making money,’ it’s heartening to see the philanthropic side coming out.

The Zizish Guide recommends this product and applauds everyone who purchases or contributed.

First of all – click on the link below to hear the full 1 hour interview with Dr. Ben.

One of the things we talked about included his products created to help aspiring offliners get going with their business.

His Melt the Iceman product has done incredibly well – and offers a very simple way for even the newest of newbies to start making money by helping local business get more clients.

One thing post Panda that hasn’t changed at Squidoo is the breezey, easy way they help you create articles (lenses – if you prefer) and if you have a small business, a blog, a website or otherwise want to promote certain affiliate products – Squidoo still offers a way to get backlinks at the very least. And for those who don’t really are about making money and just need a place to write – a place where it’s not so blatantly self promoting, scammy or uncooth; a place where you’re creativity won’t be stymied by fears of ‘not getting eZine approval’ – or not being ‘good enough’ for that upper crust blog – then you should check out Squidoo again – if for nothing more than the ease of entry. Anyone can Squidoo.

I recently came across a few products that promoted Squidoo and as a result quickly blasted out a few related Squidoo lenses in the Dog niche.

The first one talks about Dog Kennels, Treadmills and Crates – and why not… with this lens you can get an overview of the types of products available to: “keep em fit, keep em safe, keep em secure!” After that I made a point of ‘logging in’ to Squidoo for 30 days straight. I made a few more lenses, posted on the Squidoo forum a few times, and checked my Amazon affiliates account to see if I was getting any ‘clicks.’

The experiment, while fun and entertaining, didn’t garner enough traffic to earn money either from my Amazon affiliates direct links – or through the revenue share system from Squidoo (although they say it can take months for any of that revenue to show up.)
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The days when a lens could earn $5 a month, and all you had to do was create 100 good lenses to get a decent income – are apparently over – post Panda. but the ability to practice your writing and get at least 1 solid backlink still makes Squidoo a worthwhile arena, provided you don’t place too much emphasis on it.

And if you are going to try and create revenue from a Squidoo lens – you can follow the teachings of several Squidoo masters (most of whom put their trainings together pre-Panda) where the emphasis is on opting out of the easier Squidoo modules with revenue share, and learning how to create your own HTML code and graphics to send traffic straight to your own 100% commission affiliate link. An example of such a page is my Treadmills Kennels lens – which 60 days later hasn’t earned a penny – but you never know. In the interest of speed and simplicity – the remaining lenses created utilized one of Squidoo’s standard shared compensation modules, or some 3rd party Squidoo modules – where 1 of every 10 sales get’s credited to the programmer.

In any case – it’s no profit yet – and despite earning trophies, and the occasional Squidoo Angel Blessing….I’m bordering on the not worth bothering with side of the equation – except for occasional bursts on creative writing not suitable for my existing blogs and of course for that all important backlink.

And, it’s an easy extra product to throw in an offline clients bundle. Does your favorite restaurant have a Squidoo page? Offer to do one for free as a foot in the door for your other monthly services. I mean – why not?

What happens to most people is that they get stuck in the rut of trying one thing and then another, and then another thing, and then another thing after that. Most people get caught up in all the learning that they think they have to have first – and use the need to get still more education as the excuse to ‘still be working on getting their business plan together,’ weeks, months and even years after they first made the decision to ‘try internet marketing.’

Needless to say, this most common of behaviors – in short order – leads many of us to become ‘addicted to shiny objects,’ and when you buy more than you create – your financial house of cards eventually has no choice but to come crashing down.

For weeks I’ve been thinking about creating a support group for the rest of us. Not for the 10-15% that ‘get it’ already. But for those who are literally struggling with what they should and should not be doing to ever hope to have success in their IM business.

For this reason – I’ve recently created The IM Struggler’s Support Group.

It’s basically a private Skype room – for members only – and it cost money (albeit not that much) to join. I do that because I know, that if you don’t pay for it – you won’t value it and use it.

In addition to Strugglers and anyone else that wants to join the room for its amazing networking opportunities – I’ve invited some exceptional talent – some ‘non-strugglers’ to be in the room to ‘assist’ the rest of us with common yet often baffling questions and provide insights, all which can help a struggler move out of their rut and into finally making money and going forward in their IM business.

I’d love for you to join us.

Skylr Monaghan, who I interviewed in recently on The Zizish Show launched his very first WSO October 4, 2011 on the Warrior Forum. It was wildly popular and the dimesale pricing quickly evaporated as tons of early bird offline marketing enthusiast jumped in to get the starter discount. And even though the product is now at it’s peak in the Warrior Forum, at $9.95 – it’s still well worth it.

The strategy he teaches is a ‘super simple’ method that takes very little time to set up – but can net the offline marketer $100 per month, per client. And these clients, according to Skylr are ‘super simple’ to obtain when you follow his unique – but ‘brain-dead-simple’ techniques.

In fact Skylr used these same exact techniques to land 3 clients the week prior to his big launch of Video Killed the Radio Star, the name he came up with for this offline client getting product method. He used the exact same super fast and simple methods he teaches in his course – all while putting the finishing touches on his product launch.

After speaking with Skylr in our pre-show interview for over 2 hours, I’ve come to totally respect and admire Skylr. If you listen to the 1 hour broadcast from last night’s show, you’ll know what I mean. “Get to know the man or woman behind a product,” I always say, “and you’ll have a much easier time deciding whether any product being touted will live up to it’s promises.”

If Skylr says his method is super simple and easy and that it can help you get clients willing to pay you $100 per month each without requiring a lot of your time, the for $9.95 the only question you need to ask yourself is – how many $100 month clients do I want?

There had been some rumors in the wind for weeks that there might be some upcoming good news about California Amazon Affiliate’s status – and last week the announcement was made that a change would in fact happen – but until today, it wasn’t official.

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As former California Amazon Affiliates already know – earlier this year when the State of California passed a Nexus Affiliate Tax law, which would have required Amazon to pay California sales tax so long as they had affiliates in the state, Amazon had no choice but to terminate all California affiliates.

Today, however, California Governor Jerry Brown repealed the Nexus Affiliate Tax legislation for a 1 year reprieve. And just as quick as California Amazon Affiliates were terminated, we were all sent a email earlier today inviting us to “reinstate our accounts.” And to make it super easy – all we had to do was click a link and login using the same account information as we had used before. Of course, no traffic sent to Amazon that resulted in sales during the ban would be paid. We are all starting again from the today – or as soon as we reinstated.

And while some might have known this was coming, the majority of California Amazon Affiliates were probably taken by surprise, albeit pleasantly, with the good news.

Other affiliates who switched their Amazon pages to sites like Skimlinks, or got their accounts banned by submitting false business address information in an effort to sidestep the former ban, are probably scrambling today or will be over the next few days – to see what they need to do to get back into the Amazon fold.

There are many people around the country and the world making thousands of dollars per month, if not thousands of dollars per day as Amazon Affiliates. The termination of these accounts was devastating to many who had not diversified their incomes. For these folks as well as the rest of us getting our Amazon accounts back is great news.

Unfortunately, there is some doubt that this state of affairs will last much more than another year because, the reprieve is only good until September 15, 2012. And unless the federal tax initiative called the streamlined sales tax is not widely adopted by July 2012 then the odds are good California Amazon Associates will be once again terminated.

If you haven’t been exposed to TMN yet – let me be the first to tell you about it.

Talk Marketing Now

It’s an internet chat room that allows Host Speakers to take the mike and the main screen to share teachings, strategies, experiences, whatever related in making money using the internet.

At this time there are only banner ads – and I bet they are cheap. Creator George Sepich needs to create an affiliate program and start charging a membership fee if he wants to really explode this site – but in the meantime you and I can take advantage of the great internet minds by tuning in.

You may want to get some way to record the shows – because they rarely do that for you and some of the ideas and discussions will be repeated listening.

Here’s an example of one day of the weekly line up.

TMN Wednesday Speakers Lineup