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MAS Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 7

Hi everyone and welcome to my “lucky 7″ edition of the MAS
newsletter.

“All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists
through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man
who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to
receive it.” -Robert Collier

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Hey, did you know that now you can register your new domains
through My Affiliate Store’s NEW ICANN Certified registrar
service? It’s true!

http://www.MASdomains.net (notice the .net)

When you buy a new domain through this link, you will
automatically be pointed to the My Affiliate Store DNS
servers by default, saving you a step and preventing
confusion from accidentally misspelling a name or pointing
to the wrong place. It couldn’t be easier.

It’s a good deal too! Right now our price for new domains
is a dollar less than GoDaddy. Of course you are free to
register your domains wherever you wish or transfer over a
domain you already own, but we hope you will like the
convenience of using MASdomains.net.

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FREE RESOURCE: SQUIDOO PROFITS
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Hey all you lucky readers of my newsletter! Len likes to buy
stuff–I’m definitely going to take him with me the next
time I go to the mall.

Well this time you all get to benefit because he has bought
some products that he thought might be of interest to MAS
members and they have resale rights which means he has the
right to either sell them or give them away.

The first resource is a 52 page ebook about “Squidoo”
(Yep, another funny internet name). Squidoo was founded by
Seth Godin, author of several marketing books that I have on
my shelf. It is a way for you to make a type of a single
webpage called a “lens” that is about a certain topic with
links out to related stuff. This is a great way to get
external links coming to your affiliate store.

Please don’t pass the link around. It is a gift for our
members only. Get it here in the private forum:

http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=745

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Want to see some examples of how MAS members are using
Squidoo to get those valuable external links back to their
stores? Check it out and get some ideas in this forum
thread:

http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=522
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See you next week,
Sandy

“May good luck be your friend in whatever you do
and may trouble be always a stranger to you.”

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MAS Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 6

“Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You…”

Hi all,

This week I thought it would be fun to do a couple of things
to help us get to know each other as members of My Affiliate
Store. One of the main purposes of our member forum is to
build a community of people for fellowship and support. We
have one of the most friendly and helpful forums I have ever
seen so don’t be shy! Jump right in and let us get to know
you!

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MEET THE MODERATORS
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This week I interviewed our first moderator “llamagirl”
aka Marian from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Yes, she actually does have Llamas! (Pronounced “Yamas”).
She and her husband also breed and train racehorses. Besides
that she is a publishing consultant and is currently writing
a book on publishing. As a self described “Internet
Marketer Junkie” she likes to buy new products to “put
through their paces”.

She joined My Affiliate Store because…

To read the rest of this interview go to
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=700

Can’t log in? Send a support ticket to:
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/esupport

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FORUM TIPS AND TRICKS
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One way we can get to know each other on the forum is by
using an “avatar” which is a picture that represents you
every time you post. See that picture of me in the top left
corner of all of my forum posts? That’s an avatar.

I have just changed the forum settings so that you all can
choose a custom avatar. It would be great if you could use a
real photo of yourself so we can recognize who you are at
live events but if you are too shy, you can use a picture of
your favorite cartoon character or your cat (or your
llama!).

How to add an avatar:

-Log in to your MAS forum account

-Click the top left link on the red navigation bar that says
“User CP”. This is your control panel where you can change
your settings….

For the rest of the instructions, go here:
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=701

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Here is a site critique request by Dr. Mark that turned into
a very useful discussion about putting video links in the
sidebar of your site.

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Question by llamagirl:

Mark,

I love the way you put in a Video section in the sidebar. A
really good idea and one I should use…

A suggestion, though, create a custom page for each …

To read the rest of this post and thread go here:
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=498

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Well folks, that’s it for this week. Looking forward to
seeing more of your smiling faces and reading your
comments. I love feedback from you! Keep it coming!

Talk soon, Sandy

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

Google Teams up with My Affiliate Store
to Provide Unprecedented Support to the
Small and Medium Size Affiliate Publisher!

That’s an eye-catching headline. Could it be true?

What are the benefits to MAS members?

Those are a few of the questions you are asking yourself right now.
Well the facts are that I just spent 3 days in Chicago in high-level
meetings with Double Click Performics.

As you may or may not be aware, in a wave of consolidations and
acquisitions, Google recently acquired Double Click Performics.
As a result Performics is on their way to becoming THE premier
Affiliate Marketing Network.

So, yes it is true. Double Click Performics sees
My Affiliate Store as a premier solution provider for
Publishers and has agreed to work with us to provide you,
our members, with the resources and support necessary to
make your succeed.

Toward that end, here’s what is on the agenda:

1. Performics teleseminars/webinars exclusively for our members

2. Better tracking and metrics

3. Streamlined approval process

4. Data feeds with buyurls to shopping carts instead of product pages
resulting in fewer clicks to conversion

5. Increased Advertiser commissions for MAS members, coupons and
special exclusive deals

6. Change of datafeed buyurl structure for easier use by our members

This is a very dynamic and exciting time in the Affiliate
Publishing industry and very good news for MAS and you, our
members. I have just touched on the tip of the iceberg of
things to come.

Also, in September, I will be attending the
Commission Junction University Conference in Santa Barbara,
California and I have scheduled meetings with senior
management to discuss many of the same things.

Both Len and I are dedicated to making MAS the WORLD CLASS Enterprise
Quality Content Publishing Solution for eBusiness and
dedicated to providing you with the best tools available
anywhere in the marketplace.

I will continue to update you on our progress and of new developments
as they arise. We wish you great success in your online businesses and we will
be there every step of the way.

Bruce

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MAS Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 5

Hi everyone,

We’re doing something different with the weekly newsletter.
From now on I will be posting them to the My Affiliate Store
Official Blog!

No longer will you have to worry if you missed past issues
of the newsletter or would just like to view them all in one
place. If you are familiar with RSS feeds, you can subscribe
to the blog posts. You can even search through the
newsletter archives on a certain keyword.

I’m quite excited about it and I hope that you will enjoy
reading it this way. I’ll send you an email when there is a
new post so you can check it out right away.

So…come on over to:
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/blog

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If you are reading this section of the newsletter, you have
made it to the blog. WELCOME!

I’ll be writing a lot about blogs and how to use them with
your store, but some of you may be wondering at this point
“What the heck IS a BLOG anyway”?

You’ve probably heard the name even if you are not sure
what it is because blogs are a really “hot topic”
nowadays. The word comes from the term “web log”. (Say it
fast and you’ll understand where the nickname came from).

A blog is similar to a regular web site but it is sort of
like an online journal. With a blog you can write an entry
in your journal called a “post” and easily stick it on
your website. It usually goes in sequential order and has a
time stamp for when you wrote that entry. One great use for
a blog is archiving an online newsletter so people can read
past issues. (Hey, that’s a great idea!)

Blogs are usually free or inexpensive to set up. Our blog is
made with some free software called “Wordpress”. I spent
way too much time having fun downloading pretty themes for
it that I found for free all over the web. You can literally
have a blog up and running within minutes.

With a blog, you also have the ability to notify a bunch of
other web sites that you have made a change or updated your
blog. This notification is called by another funny internet
word: a “ping”.

So what’s the big deal about that?

Well for one thing, people like to read blogs because they
usually have a more informal and “chatty” style.
Businesses are using them to make the company seem more
human and like there is a “real person” behind it.

But how this relates to My Affiliate Store is that search
engines are quite fond of blogs because of their popularity
and constantly updating information. There are a couple of
ways that we can use this to our advantage as affiliate
store owners.

-Use a blog to drive traffic to your store. The blog will
attract it’s own traffic and visitors so we can point them
to our main web site.

-Link to specific products on your affiliate store by
placing links within your blog posts, thus boosting their
ranking in the search engines so people can find them and
purchase. Use the blog to mention new products or announce a
special.

-Make a network of blogs in similar topics that all have
one-way links to your Affiliate Store. (Always have your
links pointing to your main “money maker” site that you
are trying to get ranked. Don’t link back to the blogs).

We’ll talk more later about specific blogging and linking
strategies plus ways that you can even make the blogs earn
you extra money.

Pretty soon, everybody who is anybody will have a blog.
Donald Trump has one. Michael Moore does too. Mary-Kate and
Ashley Olsen keep us updated on their exciting lives with a
blog. Captain Kirk is also a blogger.

Why even the famous Len Thurmond has a blog!

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While we’re on the subject of blogs, linking and SEO, here
is a terrific resource that was posted on the MAS member
forum last week by Laura Abro aka “moomal” from Canada.
(Thanks Laura, we love cool freebies!)
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Begin post:

Subject: SEO Fast Start

For anyone who’s new to SEO, check out Dan Thies’s SEO
Fast Start, a free ebook that explains the basics of SEO
very nicely. If you join his mailing list, you’ll also
get…
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To read the rest of this post, go to:
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=616

Can’t log in? Send a support ticket to
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/esupport

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The recordings from the Q&A Webinar on August 11th have been
posted to the member’s area. Go take a listen by logging in
and then going to “Training Videos and Audios”. These are
flash files so they should be viewable by both PC and Mac
users.

Talk soon,
Sandy

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MAS Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 4

Hi everyone,

People are sometimes surprised when they get emails or calls
from me in the evening. The reason is because I usually feel
more alert and creative in the evenings and because,
frankly, I hate getting up early and like to sleep late.
And, as someone who works from home with an internet-based
business I get to do that. Cool huh?

In fact, that got me thinking today about why affiliate
marketing is so great:

1. There are no set hours. I can work whenever I feel the
most productive and take breaks during the day to go out for
a relaxing lunch, run errands, or exercise.

2. I can work wherever I want to. There is no commuting in
traffic or traveling to an office. Even though I have a
separate office in my home, you will often find me with my
laptop on the couch (sometimes with a dog curled up next to
me), or outside on the patio (I love being wireless!), or
snuggled up in the blankets when I don’t feel like getting
out of bed. I could work on a remote island as long as I had
electric power and internet access.

3. A big advantage of affiliate marketing is that I don’t
have to keep track of any inventory. The merchant does all
of the inventory tracking, shipping and customer support for
me after I make the sale.

4. I am not limited as to how much money I can earn. I can
keep building my store at a pace I am comfortable with and
find new ways to promote it.

5. It’s FUN! I get to turn whatever my interests or
passions are into a money making opportunity by building web
sites around them. Writing articles and product descriptions
are not a chore when they are about something that I am
interested in. And that makes work seem like play!

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What does Paris Hilton in a bikini have to do with My
Affiliate Store? Check out this forum post by “Paulster”
AKA Paul Renner from London/Switzerland that really does a
good job of explaining the affiliate store concept and how
we can use it to our best advantage. We consider this one of
the best forum posts so far and definitely worth studying.
Thanks Paul!

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Subject: Learning from MSN - Same business model as MAS!

MSN have the same business model as MAS, so it shows the
potential of our stores.

What was I doing?

Well I just logged out of one of my hotmail accounts and got
redirected to home page for MSN at http://uk.msn.com/

Normally I read the news, weather, entertainment etc. but my
eye caught a photo of Paris Hilton and the title Star style:
Paris Hilton at the beach

So I clicked on the link and it went to…
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To read the rest of this post, go to:
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/forum/showthread.php?t=520

Can’t log in? Send a support ticket to
http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/esupport

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Get comfortable in front of your computer screen, grab a
great big cup of coffee or caffeinated beverage of your
choice, and join us on Saturday for a special Q&A Webinar.
(Like a seminar, only without the jet lag and lost luggage).

We are going to go until ALL of your questions are answered
about site building–or anything at all–so don’t be shy.

When: Saturday

10:00am Pacific 11:00am Mountain 12:00pm Central 1:00pm
Eastern

6:00pm for those in the UK.

Where: On your phone and in front of your computer. You’ll
be able to watch live demonstrations as you listen.

Who: Everyone from beginners to experts.

So here is what you do… Get registered for the webinar by
going to this link:

https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/175723063

After you register, wait for a few moments and you will be
taken to the form where you can ask your questions.

But if you need to go back and ask more questions later on,
you can go directly to the questions page without having to
re-register, at…

http://www.askdatabase.com/gt/askfast.php?a=32233

We will gather a list of all the questions we get and go for
as long as it takes. You’ll also be able to text message
questions through the webinar software during the
presentation.

We’re planning on about 3 hours but it could be more
depending on the amount of questions. If you can’t attend
or have to leave early, go ahead and register/submit
questions anyway because we will record it and post it to
the members site for you to review later.

Looking forward to “seeing” you on Saturday!

Talk soon,
Sandy

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

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MAS Newsletter Vol 1, Issue 3

Hi everyone,

Wow! I can’t believe it has already been a whole month
since I joined the team here at My Affiliate Store. It’s
been a wild ride so far!

First of all, I want to say “thank you” to all of the
wonderful members who have given me such a warm welcome. I
have spoken to several of you personally on the phone and it
has been a real pleasure getting to know you.

I find myself so excited when I talk to someone and we are
able to overcome a problem they are having with something.
That light-bulb-over-the-head moment when they exclaim
“AH-HA! Now I get it!” is such a great thing. Plus, I’m
learning some new things right along with you.

I wish I could speak with every one of you more often but
I’m finding that there is just not enough Sandy to go
around.

So I’m paying close attention to what questions
come up most often to include in some more training videos
and also step-by-step printable instructions with screen
shots. I love the suggestions that you are sending
me–please keep it up!

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TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
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This has been an interesting week indeed. In my last
newsletter I recommended a great resource for checking
duplicate content in your articles and product descriptions
called “DupeCop”.

http://www.dupecop.com/duplicate-content-checker.php

I got a couple of emails from members saying how much they
enjoyed the resource and how useful it was. Then all of a
sudden, in came reports that it had disappeared and replaced
with a generic page! I looked up the domain in the whois
database to see what the status of the domain was (I used
www.betterwhois.com to do this) and saw that the owner of
dupecop.com had let it expire on July 27th!

Well fortunately there is a happy ending because the domain
owner seems to have been able to reclaim the domain name
before it expired completely (there is often a grace period)
and now it shows the status updated in whois as of
July 29th 2007.

Whew! DupeCop still lives!

This experience did a couple of things. First, it gave us the idea to incorporate a duplicate content checker into the MAS software.
Or maybe as part of one of Len’s other software products–such as his article finder that he is currently updating for us.

And second, it gives me a good excuse to share this tip with you.
You can avoid having this same thing happen to you by
setting your domains to *automatically* renew every year
saving yourself the worry of accidentally losing your domain
ownership. You can usually do this with whatever company you
used to register your domain.

For example, I happen to use GoDaddy to register a lot of my
domains. If I log in to my account manager, I can look at my
list of domains and check which ones I want to set to
auto-renew. I just move my mouse over to the word “renew”
and choose “Turn on Auto-Renew” from the drop-down list.
Now on the day my domain is set to expire, my credit card
will automatically be charged the renewal fee.

This is a topic dear to my heart because it happened to me.
I had a pretty cool domain that I had used as a practice
site for an Internet Marketing Mastermind group project and
had done all of these links and articles pointing to it. It
was making me totally passive income for a year but I moved
on to other projects and wasn’t checking the email that I
had originally used to register.

I totally forgot about it until I noticed the checks stopped coming.
Then I found out that the domain had expired, it was too late to
reclaim it, and someone else had already snapped it up. :’(

Of course, you can always register the domain for 2, 5 or
even 10 years in advance, but that can get expensive. Just
be sure that you don’t let valuable internet real estate
slip away–if your registrar gives you the option, set your
domains for automatic renewal today!

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Well folks, the biggest news is that the server migration is
finally completed–HOORAY!!!

Len Thurmond has already sent out an announcement about this
but in case you missed the details, here it is…

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The Servers Have Been Successfully Moved

As you probably already know, we have been switching our
servers over to a much better data center. One that will be
far more dependable, and allow us the growth potential that
we need.

And in the end, we will ALL be far better off for it. The
systems will run more efficiently and be far more scalable!
Plus, we now have a server manager watching them like a
hawk, who is able to make changes and fix problems quickly,
without the intervention of a third party data center
administration, who couldn’t care less about us or our
problems.

If you have ever tried to move a server (or even just a
complex site), you know there are bound to be glitches. And
with a large GROUP of servers like ours, ESPECIALLY ones
with the unbelievably complex systems and databases that we
have in place, it can be a nightmare!

My point is, there may be some issues that we’ll need to
deal with in the coming days. But in the end, it will most
definitely be worth it!

If you should experience any problems or notice anything we
should know about, please put in a support ticket
immediately and let us know. And we’ll get on it right
away.

But Most of All … Don’t Worry! ALL of the sites and
systems have been backed up and your accounts are perfectly
safe.

And in actuality, this move has been one of the smoothest I
have ever experienced! There have been a few glitches behind
the scenes, but you and the rest of our members have really
NOT been inconvenienced nearly as much as I had worried
about going into this!

We have a GREAT team in place, And I can’t tell you how
proud I am to work with all of them! They’ve proven
themselves time and again, and this time, they have outdone
themselves, staying up until all hours of the night and
working together to make this as seamless as possible for
you.

Let me also say here and now what GREAT members we have as
well!

You guys have been very patient with us as we continually
upgrade and make changes, with an eye towards providing you
with the best service possible.

So let me say a hearty “THANKS” to our team, and our
members. You Guys Are The GREATEST

Here’s to Your Success,

Len
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Well that’s it for now folks. Thank you so much for being patient as we’ve been catching up on the support tickets and questions from you.

If you have sent anything to us within the last few days and haven’t heard back yet, please send it again to make sure it was received and so we can get you taken care of.

http://www.my-affiliate-store.com/esupport/

Talk soon,
Sandy

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”