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The new Source Code Gold Mine from Jeremy Burns launched yesterday, and although I am hesitate to say it, he has exceeded my expectations! I have been a customer before, and I knew it would be quality stuff, but this new offer is an outstanding value. You already know how much I like PLR products, but many times they are watered down or some idiot is selling them for a nickel on ebay, thus turning your investment into a waste of time and money. The license agreement for SCGM is much different, and is written to protect buyers from exactly that. If you have never seen one of Jeremy’s offers, then be sure and take a look because you will be impressed. If you have seen them before, I think tou will agree that this one is his best yet!

After a few weeks of debating, last week I decided to go ahead and get the Amazon Kindle, the electronic wireless reading device. I read a lot, about a book a week of fiction alone. So, I was very interested in the Kindle for a number of reasons. I didn’t have any issue with purchasing a few books, and the old ones are around $2-$4, so the price is right. New books generally sell for $9.99, so I was looking forward to saving a few bucks. My initial impression was very positive. The screen is really easy to read, and being able to change the font size easily means anybody can be comfortable. The entire process of buying via either Amazon website or via Kindle bookstore was easy to use and worked quite well. I did send a document to have converted and sent to my Kindle for .10, and this worked okay. The formatting of documents for the Kindle is a bit confusing. They could have made it much easier to just give you a template that works and looks good. A few of the books I purchased did not look exactly right, with extra line spacing every so often, which is kind of suprising because you’d think somebody would look at it before making it available on the Kindle. My biggest complaints were with the device itself. It is way too easy to change pages, and when you see a lot of people saying that, I hope Amazon will listen. The Kindle has a small keyboard near the bottom, and the a small menu you can use for looking up words, making purchases, etc… I tried to get used to the Kindle, I really did…but it just didn’t work like I thought it should. My hope is that Amazon will read the feedback from lots of people with similar issues and design a device around it. In my opinion, they could make the keyboard on screen, since it is not used often anyway, so it would only show up when you needed it. They need to drastically change the page buttons, two simple arrows near the bottom of the device would have been fine. I think they went way overboard on trying to make the page turn feel like a real book. It’s actually a lot easier to just move your thumb down to the bottom to press a button (if one existed there!) and there would not be the issue of accidental page turning. I don’t really care about the other functions of the Kindle, I would have been fine if all it did was let me read. So, maybe I’m a bit strange, but if something is going to replace physical books, let’s make it extremely simple and keep it that way. If I wanted a PDA, I would have bought one. I am still amazed that the page turn issue did not come up in the design phase, unless those engineers don’t actually read, because it could have been fixed easily. I think you will see something similar come around soon, either from Amazon or someone else. The biggest hurdle in my opinion was the on screen reading, and the Kindle fixed that, it just went too far in other ways for me.

As with most other marketers, I’ve sold products via Clickbank for years. But, I haven’t always been really happy with the results either as an affiliate, or as a merchant. I recently bought a guide by Willie Crawford.  He has shared some of what he learned in an ebook that he just finished writing a short time ago. You can get that ebook at Clickbank Millionaires and in it he shares tips, tactics, and some of the strategies that top Clickbank merchants and affiliates have shared with him. Some of these border on blackhat, or unethical and although Willie doesn’t delve too deep into those, he does provide great information and tips on how to increase your Clickbank sales.

I was recently introduced to Rapid Action Profits, which is a system that makes it easy for anyone to sell digital products. Rapid Action Profits also features an affiliate program, you can integrate aweber, and help prevent download thieves. I am working on my first site using this new software, and am excited about being able to offer you guys not only great products, but a very easy way to be an affiliate for me, with immediate affiliate payments.