Well, on to lesson 9 and I am getting my post count up on my “forum” project.  You see, Tony has us visiting forums in our niche to create a presence in an attempt to become a perceived expert.  Kind of dodgy for me as I will never feel an expert on anything but changing diapers (I have had 9 kids).

After all, one could get philosophical and drone on about how article marketing is dying (no it’s not BTW) or the best way to sprinkle long tail keywords in content to please the human eye and the search engines,  blah blah blah

Back to being an “expert” on forums.  If from your own personal knowledge, not a guess or some imaginary blather, you can give real solid help, then do it.

I have to get over the fact that so many folks on the forums are groupies (sorry gang) and hang out for the kick of it like students at the local pub.  Most of what goes on is jabber but once in a while you have a guy in the corner quietly adding to the conversation and generally being a great guy.  He’s the one folks will remember later as the guy who made a tiny difference.  that maybe sparked something in someone else.

There are times to just hang out but for now I need to make my time count so I visit the forums to see if some new gal or guy is beggin for help and try to add by two cents.

Thanks, Tony Shepherd, for the great lesson on forum visiting.  This quiet wallflower will begin to take part to see if I can help someone else on the same road.

P.S. if you are wondering if I am making ann money from my projects, the honest answer is no.  BUT that is not due to the lack of help in Tony’s course – but my own busy life.  I have faithfully done the lessons and only just got my Clickbank product approved (yes!)  So now, I can say I am ready to proceed.  Sales letter is up at http://imtradesecrets.info for all to see.  I will have all the links checked and be live soon.

Why is it that we wait till after someone has broken into our home to install a burglar alarm?  Do we think we are somehow immune to theft and vandalism until we become a victim ourselves?  I, for one, have heard of a rash of horror stories where Internet marketers sites are getting hacked leaving them devastated and angry after losing hours and hundreds of pages of content.

What can you do?  WordPress makes every effort to make their blogging platform hack proof but it turns out that the leak comes in other more easily accessible avenues .   Like your password.  It seems that that is the easiest place to gain entry.  So trick number one is to pick very hard to guess user names and passwords.

You can get a free WordPress security plugin that will plug up the remaining easy to find holes.

Basically, what we need to do is to make out site hard to hack so the “thieves” will give up and move on to easier targets.

How do I know all this?  Thanks to blog master, Craig Desorcy, who just put out “Blog LockDown” – you cannot lose with his excellent instruction and step by step screen shots. Even a technodummie like me can get under the hood of my sites and lock them down.  Read more about it here.

So, what is a little peace of mind worth to you?

OK – maybe this isn’t the cool way to introduce products in Internet Marketing but I am like a proud parent who is bursting to let everyone know of the “new arrival”!

Announcing — Internet Marketer Trade Secrets

Actually it isn’t through all the hoops at Clickbank, yet, so I am offering my new report at a substantial discount.

First of all head over to my website — http://imtradesecrets.info and take a look.  BUT DON’T BUY FROM THERE!

I am going to let this great info go for $17.  Just send me a payment by Paypal to this my email address: hfe (at) olypen (dot) com [remember the @ and "."]  Once I get notification of your payment, I’ll send along the download link with you report and bonuses.

Oh, and if you could, let me know what you think of the package – I am collecting testimonials to add to my site in the future.

Oh, I won’t let it stay at this price for too long.  So, grab it while it’s hot and “cheap”!

Thanks again and thanks for letting me gloat a bit!

P.S. Those of you following my progress on Tony Shepherd’s Internet Marketing Kickstart Course may note that this is my week 5 lesson