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According to Funtonia.com the ringtone industry is bringing in close to 3 Billion Dollars annually. And since teens make up the bulk of the mobile crazed ringtone buyer population, it just proves again that there is big money targeting the young.

Ringtones are downloaded directly to the cell phone when purchased from an online ringtone provider like Funtonia.

Instead of rushing to the record store to buy the latest ’single’ of a popular artist, that cool fav song starts playing when someone calls or texts. Default ringtones that come with the phone are so so boring. Now, everyone can express themselves by hearing bits of their favorites artists whenever they get a call.

Advance searching features make it easy to find the wallpaper, ringtone or entire song or album from popular artists. This link uses the search term “beiber” for Justin Bieber, a currently insanely popular artist.

Justin Bieber – Top Ringtone Request

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Here’s a screen shot of a YouTube marketer who’s going beyond the ringtone and providing a link to the iTunes or Amazon site for the song mentioned in the video.

The Zizish Guide is starting something new in the field of Author & Publisher promotions.

Here’s how it works.

Author & Publishers who have new content such as eBooks, software, books published on Amazon.com or elsewhere in normal hard copy – but available in electronic format for our readers, will be invited to provide a FREE down-loadable copy of their product (for a limited time) – exclusively for The Zizish Guide subscribers.

In exchange, The Zizish Guide subscriber will read, use & review the author/publisher’s book/product and will write reviews (hopefully postive reviews) at a location requested by the author and in other places if available, (including in The Zizish Guide – reviews section.)

Once as a Zizish Subscriber you complete the review(s) using a special Zizish Guide format, you’ll want to come back here to post a link to your review in a special section. You’ll get credits for every review you write and link back to.

Depending on how well this program goes over and how many new Author and Publisher’s sign up, we hope to have some Prizes or Thank You Gifts for our top Zizisih Guide reviewers.

Our first promotion should be ready soon.

Regards,
Heidi White
Publisher, The Zizish Guide

How I got to this point – Warrior Forum (by far the best resource I’ve found.)

If you are new to Internet Marketing, I want to wish you success in your journey. Eventually – when I have a bit more of a success story to share about the things I’m doing that are actually working – I’ll start passing my techniques on.

In the meantime, I recommend you go over to the Warrior Forum, join the War Room and start reading and participating in the forum. I’d recommend you stay out of the WSO section initially and Stay out of the CPA, PPC section as well.

Focus on the Main Internet Marketing Section and absolutely join the War Room (which is less than $40 – one time – and so, so worth it!) Once you have your War Room membership, you can get an almost unlimited supply of free tools, trainings, ebooks, and more from this section Private Discussions
available only to War Room members.)

Most of those free tools will introduce you to a certain Warrior and many will point you to a program they sell that you can buy. It may be hard to resist spending money on these, and if you can afford $7 here and $37 there – go ahead. But, chances are you can learn many of the tips and techniques available in their particular WSO for free by just getting involved in the vast amount of information exchanging that goes on in the Main Forum, or downloading and reading the eBooks, courses and video training available for free to War Room Members in the Private Discussions section.

One bit of advice: You’ll want to spend some time getting a feel for who you want to trust. Some of the people on the forum recommend strategies that are considered Black Hat or that are just plain illegal (such as downloading and changing someone’s video, then reloading it up to YouTube to promote your own site) – but that’s just the way it is. Often they will reveal their morally indifferent personalities in their posts or even in the free stuff they give away in the War Room.

The WSO section is a whole other story. The headlines and sales pitches are intended to grab you and often aren’t true – and most people understand that and they are OK with it.

For example: “This will get you making money tonight!” may be the headline, but chances are it will take a week or longer to implement the strategy suggested. They may not be something you can implement right away either, as they may require you already have something to sell, a huge list of people interested in what you sell, or a JV (Joint Venture) partner relationship that you can tap into to sell whatever it is that will make you rich tonight. See where I’m coming from?

Don’t fall for the get-rich-quick stuff. It all takes work and it’s Oh What a Process, but it’s worth it.

Most experienced Warriors understand that just about any technique will work IF YOU DO IT PROPERLY. But most people either never implement (because they don’t have the skills, resources, knowledge, temperment, desire, time or money to implement) exactly as outlined by any expert. So, anyone who bitches about the fact that they spent $7 on a WSO and didn’t make money that night will not get much sympathy from those who put in some serious hard work before they made any money.

Keep in mind, many of the WSO’s will promise instant success and chances are it won’t happen – so, rather than buy too many programs out of the shoot – try absorbing some of what’s available for free, so you can make your spending decisions more intelligently.

The place is incredible for information and knowledge. I’ve learned so much there – I can’t begin to tell you.

That’s it for now – good luck.

I’ve never pretended to be an expert. In fact, the reason I’m doing this blog is to have a record of my own internet marketing journey. If anyone wants to follow me, great – if not – that’s OK too.

Oh What a Process!

Once anyone makes the decision to begin to learn Internet Marketing (which is the phrase generically used by anyone who attempts to make money online) you’ll most likely go through a process that looks like this:

Phase 1 – A Strong Desire to Change

Something about your life has steered you to look at IM as a way to change your life. Perhaps you hate your job, or have lost it. Perhaps you want to work from home. Perhaps you are tired of making someone else rich. Somehow you got to this point and you are now looking for your piece of the pie.

Phase 2 – Learning Curve

It doesn’t matter where you start in IM, you will no doubt find that there is a tremendous learning curve. Perhaps you just want to learn how to blog, and the mere process of getting your first Wordpress site up, takes a year, or you get bogged down in creating content and praying for traffic – which doesn’t come in.
So, you try to learn strategies for building links or improving SEO and that turns out to be far more complex and challenging then you ever thought. Before you know it, you are overwhelmed with techniques, ideas, strategies, programs, passwords to remember, rules to follow (and break) and so much stuff you might find yourself….

Phase 3 – Overwhelmed and or Stuck

This phase happens to all of us, probably, and no doubt many of us who reach this phase, give up, quit, or settle for doing IM as a hobby instead of as the vehicle to get us out of debt, out of the job we hate and into a brighter financially independent future. But some of us find the power and resources to keep plodding through the challenges and failures so we can actually make something happen and when we do we…

Phase 4 – Build on Little Successes and Scale Up our Efforts

This is the one thing I can say I’m proudest of at this point in my IM career. I’m totally at this phase right now. My successes have been minor so far, but they exist! And I’ve learned how to do so many things I didn’t know how to do before. I know that if I just keep working hard at accomplishing specific tasks that ultimately result in a financial return, and keep tweaking and improving my systems and strategies that I will get where I want to be – provided I don’t quit, because I’m not rich yet.

Getting Started in Internet Marketing

So you’ve decided you want to start an online business? Perhaps you’re tired of working at a 9 to 5 job, or perhaps you’ve been unemployed for months or years and have given up on finding another cushy job with benefits. Perhaps you’ve got children at home and after taxes, gas bills, and the cost of child-care, you’ve come to the conclusion that you’re not gaining anything, really, by staying in the corporate or off-line workplace.

Or maybe you are still holding onto your day job, and burning the midnight oil, hoping to one day replace your income with your online business. Or maybe you’ve already been doing this for a while and you wanted to see what The Zizish Guide was all about.

Whatever brought you here, I want to welcome you.

This blog is really targeted at the newcomer, as you will find many blogs are. Newcomers are like fresh meat in this industry, providing a constant flow of funds to established gurus, trainers and information providers. There are as many ways to make money in the online world as there are ways to lose money and it’s often difficult to know which path to take, which guru to trust and what strategies to concentrate your time on.

Like most endeavors that attract the multitudes, the majority of people who ‘attempt’ internet marketing and online business will fail. And as with most endeavors again, there will always be a percentage of participants who grasp the requirements necessary, find the right methodologies and manage to become raging successes.

And that’s what we want to discover in this blog. What works, how exactly does it work, and how can you and I get the same results by modeling the success of those who’ve already made money in a specific technique.

That’s why we call this blog, “The Zizish Guide.” We want to guide you through all the crap that’s out there. Hopefully you’ll be able to find one example of a strategy employed by others that fits your personality, interests, and abilities.

The only advice we want to offer straight out is to both dive right in and hold back.

Dive right in to learning, using as many free resources as you can find.

Hold back on spending money on the first system that appeals to you.

I know that seems odd for us to say, considering we have banner ads and affiliates that we promote on this site, but we just want you to understand that the average person who attempts internet marketing and then eventually gives up (without making any serious money) usually made the mistake of buying too many systems that promised the moon with great hopes and expectations, only to abandon that strategy in favor of the next shiny bullet when success wasn’t instant.

There are only so many basic strategies and they all can work for you. But nothing that cost $17 is going to make you a millionaire unless you provide the effort. So, we suggest you sign up for our newsletter or RSS feed so you don’t miss any future posts, interviews, product reviews and success case studies. You’ll want to get a general sense of the primary strategies and methods used to make money online, and educate yourself on their basic concepts using free resources (we’ll provide many in our Free Members Only Section – Just Opt-In) and then pick one area to focus on. Once you’ve decided on a method, begin at the beginning, stay focused on your project and let us know when it starts to work out for you. We’d love to write an article about your success someday.