5-Star Ebook Diary

Well, I know you have been anxiously waiting for this moment…..

My very first ebook is complete. It is live and I am waiting for the bucks to start rolling in…in fact, I may just put in my notice at the job today

NOT!!!!!

Anyway. You can find the book here:

www.provencreditstrategies.com

I asked several trusted friends to review it over the last week and have received nothing but good feedback.

If you are in a bad credit situation, I think you will get a lot of value out of the book. At least, that is my intent.

Feel free to leave any feedback for me about the sales page or about anything else.

Now, I need to start working on another project. I have been invited to participate in a giveaway event. You can get the details here:

I haven’t decided what I am going to put together for the event, but I have a few ideas.

Until next time…

Here’s to YOUR success!

Ron

If anyone was paying attention to the news earlier this week (Sunday-Monday in particular), you may have seen that there was some severe weather that passed through the northern suburbs of St. Paul, MN. Hugo in particular.

Guess where my wife and I live?? You’re right…Hugo.

Thankfully, the tornado passed about a mile north of where we live, so we didn’t lose our house like about 50 other families did. We did have some nasty hail damage to the back of our house and roof as you can see below:

That’s what 2-2 1/2″ hail stones can do to vinyl siding. As I said, luckily it was only the house that sustained the damage.

The title of the post…..well, I was the dumb one who was standing right next to the patio door window while the hail was hitting the house. The noise that it makes is virtually undescribable. The best way I can describe it is like this: you have made microwave popcorn before, right? Well, you know what it sounds like when it’s popping. Imagine yourself inside of that bag while the kernels are popping around you. That’s what it sounded like inside of our house for what seemed like 5 minutes. It was probably more like a minute or two, but it seemed like a very long time. All I know is that I was standing in front of the patio door and my wife was down in the basement screaming at me to get back down there. I couldn’t hear her.

Here are some links to picture galleries from the Pioneer Press (St Paul paper) and Star Tribune (Minneapolis paper) online.

We were aware of the bad weather coming our way because of the warnings that were on tv and we were watching the skies. But we had no clue of the severity. Again, as the headline of the post suggests, when there are severe weather warnings, don’t ignore them. Make sure you are as prepared as possible.

Til next time.

Ron

Well, it’s been a while…..I am still working on my ebook. Have it almost done. It’s tough working through it to put the finishing touches on.

I have made a major change to the ebook site and upgraded it to a new look. I like it.

It’s much easier to navigate.

I am getting a new header made as I write this and it should be uploaded by early next week.

Take a look through it and see what you think. If you find any broken links or anything, let me know.

I will also let you know when the new ebook is finished and ready for sale. I may even offer a discount for you readers of my blog if you are interested in it.

For now……have a good rest of the week. Memorial Day is coming and the weather is finally changing to warmer here…finally!

Til next time,

Here’s to your success.

Ron

Do you have a website? If so, do you check your traffic statistics through your webhosting company? I do through mine, but I also have my sites set up through Google Analytics. I also have an Adsense account which I check my (very miniscule) earnings once every two weeks or so. I have yet to receive a check for it, but I am getting some clicks, which is a good thing:)

I just discovered something the other day when I was messing around in the analytics section of google. They have a tool in there under content, that is called ‘Site Overlay’.

What this does is gives you a percentage of click on all the links you have on your webpage. I thought that was very cool!

Now I can look at that and I can tell what links are getting the most clicks. Obviously, you can tell which ones aren’t getting any too:(

Any way, the point of this post is: if you have a website, do you track what kind of traffic you are getting, and going beyond, are you checking which links are drawing clicks and which are not?

I believe that analysis is a part of optimizing a website and enticing people to click on your links and buy your products.

Now that is something I have to work on harder.

By the way….new ebook listed: Ipod Idiot Guide. If you have an Ipod, this is the ultimate guide to getting the most out of it. I actually learned a few tricks that I didn’t know about.

I hope you jump over and check it out.

Now go and get your code for google analytics and start finding out what people are clicking on at your site and then work on changing that so they click on more…..

Til next time.

Here’s to YOUR success.

Ron

Before I get into today’s post, I would like to put something out there that I read within the past week or so and that has been sticking in my craw. It comes from an email that I read from another marketer and it just made me think about WHY I am doing what I am doing.

The email was from Willie Crawford and the jist of it was when he decided to ‘become a guru’ (which by the way, I hate that term, don’t ask me why, I just hate it). The portion of the email that got to me was this:
“- I dumped the poverty mentality and realized that there is enough wealth to go around, and figured out how to get my share.

- I realized that money is not evil, although the misused drive to get it can lead to evil. Used properly, money allows you to do tremendous “good.”

- I learned that nothing in life is without risk… and I learned how to take calculated risks that paid off handsomely more often than not.

- Every experience in our lives can serve as a springboard and source of strength , allowing us to boldly move forward

I share just that tiny bit of my background, because my becoming a top internet marketer… someone that some…with mixed emotions… often refer to as “a guru” was NOTHING more than making a decision.

I simply decided that I would do those things necessary to become a success.

I learned long ago that “Successful People Do Things That Unsuccessful People Know That They Should Do - But Won’t.”

I also learned long ago that successful people often DON’T want to do the things necessary for success… things like taking a few risk, work harder but smarter, and showing the discipline to make a decision and then see it through to completion. However, they still do them”

My take out of that is that whatever your mindset is, is what you will bring about. In other words, if you think negative thoughts, you will get negative things and if you have good, productive thoughts, you can achieve whatever you want to.

He also talks about how money is not evil unless you make it evil, which is exactly what God says it is in the Bible.

My biggest takeaway from the words above–successful people take risks and take action; they make things happen; and that is where the title of this post comes from.

As I mentioned in the last post, I am working on an information product, since that is what 5 Star Ebooks is all about. After all, that is, by far, the best selling product on the internet today.

Unfortunately, I can’t divulge what the product is about, but you will know in a few short weeks. I was stuck….I had ‘writer’s block’. I would take the pages that I had been composed and make an attempt to edit them towards a finished product. I couldn’t muster the strength to do it. I was paralyzed for some reason.

Fear? Fear of failure? Possibly.

Until today–er, last night, when the lightbulb FINALLY went on, was I able to feel like I could move on.

Believe it or not, I came up with the title for the ebook. I did a search for a domain name. Registered that today…in fact, just mere hours ago. I am working with Dave at Planet Divinity to do the graphics and cover for me.

Needless to say, I feel free to continue with the project and believe it or not, it has spurred ideas for at least one followup product.

I know this post has been relatively long, but it was something I wanted to throw out there.

Are you taking action? How’s your risk taking? Do you have a positive mindset to attract the good things in life?

Feel free to leave me a comment……

Until next time,

Here is to OUR success….