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The first question is, should you really sell in the first place? We find many potential sellers who want to sell for the wrong reasons. They can’t get the reservations they want, are unsuccessful trading their time through the exchange companies, can’t get the property rented or similar such problems. This tells us they probably don’t understand just how to get the most out of their timeshare. Timesharing is an interactive sport. The more you learn about how to use it and the more attention you pay to making reservations at the right time, banking your time, etc. the more you will get back. If this is the problem it might be better to spend some time with the resort staff to find out how to make it work than to give up and sell it. In numerous cases we have given tips to our customers on how to achieve results and had them come back later and express their happiness that they didn’t sell. On the other hand, there are some legitimate reasons for selling. If this is the case then this information will help you.

Suppose you lived in a 100 unit condo property all of which were absolutely identical. Let’s also say that the current market values were $150,000. If you said, “I will sell, but I want $250,000″, what do you think would happen? Right!! You would sit and wait and wonder why your condo didn’t move. Furthermore, it wouldn’t move until you adjusted the price to the current market level. Resale timeshare buyers are not dumb. They know they can steal these units on the secondary market and there is no way they are going to pay more than that. If your price is too high you simply will not sell it.

Another complaint we hear when we quote current market values is “I can’t take that kind of loss. I paid a lot more than that for it.” One time a banker said that to me. He said, “The bank has a lot more than that in it and can’t take that kind of loss.” I told him that the bank had already taken that kind of loss, the only question was when he was going to recognize it. It sounds brutal to say, “I don’t care what you paid for it”, but that is what the buyers do say. Resales do not sell for the original developer price. Does that mean you paid too much to begin with? Probably not. There are not a lot of developers who have become rich in timesharing. Many have even left the field. Chances are what you paid originally just covered the developer’s cost, and the marketing (50% of the price). Remember all those “free gifts”? Guess what? They weren’t really free.

Why this low pricing? Until recently, there wasn’t a good marketing system for resales. What would stocks be worth if there were no New York Stock Exchange? Same problem. In the long haul, we believe resale prices should rise as the current levels present incredible values to the buyer. How long will it take? Who knows? In the meantime, your resale had better be priced right or it simply won’t move.

How do we price it right? The same as with condos, you need to determine the comparative market values (comps). For what price has similar timesharing property been selling (closing)? The best source for this information is your licensed resale broker. The next best source is title companies. As time goes by, this information will become easier to come by. Your property manager might have some ideas as to values. If you follow Timesharing Today over time, you could call some previous sellers whose ads no longer appear and find out if and for how much they sold. That brings us to Rule 1: Your resale timeshare must be priced right (at the going market price).

The general lack of liquidity in the resale business has given rise to a new cottage industry known as the “Timeshare Resale Scam”. In this scenario, you as a potential seller get a call saying, “We can sell your week if you will just send us $350, $500, $2,000″ (your choice). If it will make you feel any better, I got hooked on this years ago myself. I sent them $350 and they put an ad in the local shopping news (on the other side of the country) at a cost of $9. The results were just as you might suspect: nothing.

Some of the frauds such as the recent Oscar Bradley scam (see Timesharing Today issue #30, Nov/Dec, 1996) were very elaborate. In that one, they would say they had the $4,000 value timeshare sold “to an offshore buyer” for $16,000. To guarantee the sale closing within a year you could buy an insurance policy with the British Guarantee Company for $2,000 to $4,000 (whatever they could get). They invited you to check them out by calling “The Timeshare Advisory Council” at an 800 number they would give you. Of course, that was Bernie down at the other end of their boiler room. Sadly, they fleeced a number of timeshare owners before they were driven out of the country. Lately we understand they are continuing the same scam by phoning from England where they are supposedly beyond the reach of the FBI. Their former leader is now in prison.

One of the latest variations of this scam is the “need” for a resale appraisal. They claim that this is necessary because their “lenders” require it. These frauds tend to originate in Florida where there is now a law against front fees for resales. The appraisals are priced at $300 up (Ridiculous). Some of these “Resale Brokers” will give you a list of several appraisers who are acceptable. Some are even offered by respectable national franchisees. Question: Why would their “lenders” need an appraisal before the buyer has even asked for a loan (Most don’t)? The bottom line is that you will be relieved of your money without the production of any acceptable results.

The old saying of “Why buy the cow if the milk is free?” certainly applies here. Why would you pay a listing or “appraisal” (“advance “or “front”) fee when it is unnecessary? Would you pay a broker to list your condo? Of course not. Just shop around until you find a broker who will work on a straight commission. Once you have sent a front fee the incentive to produce drops dramatically (to zero). It is not uncommon for you to be told not to call again to check on your “listing”. Not to say all advance fee deals are frauds, just most of them. If you say no to all, you will be right most of the time. And that brings to Rule 2: Don’t pay any kind of fee to list your timeshare for sale. This is particularly true if the agent is in a different state from the property or says, “We are an advertising agency, not a broker”. Listing a timeshare normally requires a Real Estate License in the state in which the property is located. If they don’t have one, beware!

Free content is great. I love how easy is to enrich a website in minutes republishing free articles written by real expert authors. Furthermore they give me the invaluable ability to profit from niches I really don’t know nothing about.

Lately I have been thinking about how to develop my strategy, and I ended thinking about outsource my writing content creation. The only drawback is the difficulty in finding good writers delivering quality articles for let’s say $5-6 each. I think this is aperfect solution from a business perspective. But in a more pragmatic sense, it is even more sophisticate than I’d really needed.

During my research for alternatives, I’ve found that private label content with limited distribution has exactly the right amount of quality and exclusivity I was looking for. If only hundreds of webmaster have access to the articles and they have granted the right to rewrite them as a privilege for their membership, chances are they will do (for profit and for reputation). Even better, not every article will necessarily be used from every member.

If you are wondering what the best sources of private label articles are I’ve reviewed some of them.

Now I’d like to give you some ideas on how to profit from such exclusive content:

Open a blog. Then, instead of publish the same free articles everyone is using or the same exact news you have just read on another blog, try to give it some real appeal. Forget everything you know about seo and traffic: build value. Use this blog like a business card. Establish relationships in your niche: add interesting comments in other blogs; link it in your forums’ signature; use it to easily get into publisher networks requiring quality partners for their advertisers.

Select a few articles, edit them as needed, put yourself as the author and set an autoresponder course or build a pdf report. Use it to capture subscriptions to your list. Brand yourself like an authority and offer your prospects a good reason to remember you and your business.

While you should not submit private label articles to article directories unless you practically rewrite them fully, you can still use them to promote your website.Articles directories want unique content, and your private label articles are not “so much” unique. But there is plenty of website publishers needing for good content. You may want to contact them privately offering your rebranded articles (whether if you hardly edited them or not) and you’ll eventually gain lot of benefits.

Build laser-targeted content for Adsense (or whatever). Because you can change everything in the articles, you can edit them to better target high-bid Adsense search terms or for seo purposes. Also you could note that as you don’t have to publish the authors’ resource box and none of the other resources he incidentally linked, you will able to keep the traffic on your site (or to drive it where you’ll make more money).

Can you get it? Pratically it’s like writing your own articles. Thus, you can focus on money making, not writing.

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As webmasters, writers and authors we all want to find ways to maximize the profitability of our content. We employ a variety of methods such as Adsense, Yahoo Ads, links to affiliate products of all types but there are a couple of problems. There is the sheer time involved in creating these links and then keeping them updated to the most relevant and profitable products. To avoid a Google penalty you must use text-based affiliate links, as noted previously this can be a monumental task.

Keeping pace with the fast paced changes of the internet can make it time consuming, difficult and expensive to keep all of your content optimized for profits. What’s needed is a breakthrough technology to make it just as easy to keep a website optimized whether you have 10 pages or 10,000 pages of content. Well, the future is here! Michael Fortin and Sylvie Charrier have just recently unveiled what may be the single most important innovation for webmaster since Adsense.

While still in beta stage this new breakthrough is already beginning to turn heads. With just a simple snippet of code installed in the footer of a thousand page website, any group of keywords can be targeted and “automatically” converted to live links to the most profitable affiliate products at Clickbank and Amazon. Also you can target your own or any other product by designating which keywords, again even if there are a thousand instance of those keywords, once from the control panel.

What’s even better is that the program updates the targets regularly and follows the most profitable products without a single edit on your part. If the hottest selling weight loss product at Clickbank is outdistanced by a more relevant and more profitable product, your links will now be directed to the new profit leader. Similarly if a product is eliminated or removed your links never die, they just move the next most profitable one.

Can you imagine the work and expense of going back into thousands of webpages, ezine articles, ebooks and manually changing the links. Please! And can I go back to a typewriter too! Michael and Sylvie’s new software is going to revolutionize the web.

As this is still beta you can expect a few glitches as it is being refined and tweaked. The early birds already there. Remember the day you first heard of his software as one day you may be able to recount to others that you were aware of this before it became really big. I know I though Google’s IPO was sort of high and I would wait to pick it up went it came down.

Currently Clickbank and Amazon are “plugged in” to the system but close on their heels are Commission Junction, Digital River, PayDotCom.com, even eBay. All your content can now be working for you, night and day. The possibilities are mind boggling for a few visionaries legends will be told.

For most good online marketers it took at least a year to get up and running to get successful. They had to budget their time and money well. Don’t assume that putting a huge sum of cash into your business will bring you instant rewards. It is important to spend your time and money on several different approaches to see which ones generate the best hits. You need to remember to be persistent and spend your time and money wisely. When you fail to plan you plan to fail at your business. You want to find targeted visitors that are interested in what you have if you want to make sales.

1. Build Your List

Most online marketers send their offers to many targeted sources and prospects that they have generated. They do this regularly and have great success. It will allow you to build a lasting and trustful relationship with the list members. As the trust grows so will your money. There have been plenty of marketers who have made thousands just from sending an e-mail to their lists.

2. Pay Per Click search engines.

This type of search engine is the way to build high volume traffic immediately. Many hosts will be more than happy to set you up with this and you will be able to see how many people have been to your site. You will also end up paying less per month. You will also want to get Wordtracker to get as many targeted keywords as possible. The more targeted keywords you get the more traffic to your sites.

3. Article Submissions

You want to provide free and interesting articles related to what you are trying to sell to your audience. This will inform them on the benefits of what you are promoting and give it worth. Make sure your articles are truthful and not plagiarized.

4. Regular Search Engines

You will want to get started immediately to be able to build an online web presence. This will help to promote your site and gain you ranking which will move you to the top of the list. The higher on the list of ranking you are the more hits you will generate. You can link your self to a reciprocal linking campaign. This will give you the highest success in search engine rankings than anything else.

5. Forum Posting

A great way to target your market is to join a forum that is geared towards your audience. You can become friends and be helpful with all the people. This will let you gain trust. You want to be friends with your customers when marketing on the net. Visit and join high traffic forums daily and share your experiences with them and offer any advice as much as you can.

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If you have been in the niche marketing arena for any length of time and have a little experience under your belt…you are probably a very focused person and know exactly what you want and where you are going. You many even be looking around to catch the next new wave in online marketing before everyone else does. If so, than this may be just what you are looking for.

By now you have probably just about seen it all. You’ve signed up for everyone’s ‘how-to’ list and all the hottest affiliate programs. And you probably get bombarded with about ten emails a day for all the same affiliate programs you promote. But if you are like me than you want something new and fresh.

Hey! I know! I have been there…done that…and gotten out. It was easier just to change my email address than to try to unsubscribe from everyone’s list. Who knows, it may have even been from one of your lists. I apologize if it was because it wasn’t anything personal. My inbox just went into overload.

See, I live in a foreign country…meaning I don’t live in the U.S. And I would like to share what I think is a very interesting perspective on this whole Internet marketing thing. On top of that, I am going to share with you what I think some of the hottest waves in niche marketing are going to be. And no, it’s not ‘speed knitting’ for grannies!

Recently I built a small site to market my services to a non-English speaking community (literally). As I surfed across the web looking for JV partners, link exchanges, article directories, and all that other good stuff that we so freely take for granted, my little white socks got blown right off.

In the country I live (Brazil) almost no one does this kind of online marketing stuff that we take for granted. What a difference from when I ran my niche sites in English. Out of almost 500 sites I visited, I found maybe five ‘marketing sites’. I found no article directories even after a diligent search. And although I found a few sites with affiliate programs, I found no one who sold affiliate software in Portuguese.

The few sites I found that had an affiliate program had to buy their software in English and then have it translated.Talk about a market with no competition! The field is wide open and ripe for harvest.

And I really have no problem telling you about this, because I am in a very specific niche that isn’t related to Internet marketing at all. Actually, I hope that this article gets your brain to rolling and you come up with products for the Brazilian marketing community. I would probably be one of the first to buy your products.

Let me give you an illustration. I finally got around to putting up an article directory on my site. I took me three full days to get it all translated and set up the way I wanted. And I got to think how badly we need ‘real’ marketing products and services in Portuguese. Today’s whole Internet marketing niche community is geared solely to English speaking marketers.

Now just think about the possibility for a minute of promoting all those well-known affiliate programs you signed-up for to a foreign language community where 97% of the population does even know what an affiliate program is much less sign up for them to compete with you. It would really be rather simple. All you would have to do is set up a niche site and have it translated into the foreign language of your choice. Then set up an autoresponder with a series of emails promoting some great affiliate programs and have them translated as well.

Better yet if you speak already speak another language. You could start setting up some great niche sites in your language, as well as teach others to do what you are doing. Talk about ‘niching’ niche sites.

If this kind of idea interests you then you can take this to the next level. You could purchase resale rights to another marketer’s information and simply have it translated. The other day I saw a rather well-known marketer offering the translation rights to his material. I don’t know about you, but I think that is an amazing concept. Or you could just simply contact other marketers and set up JVs where you translate and market their products and split the profits.

It works both ways. Even if you don’t speak another language you could find someone who is willing to translate your stuff and market it for you. This could really take your marketing profits to whole new level. Imagine finding five, ten, or even fifty people willing to translate your site and products into another language for a share of profits. You wouldn’t have to do a thing, except exchange the money as it rolls into your Paypal account.

I am going to throw more freebie out as a bonus here. If you are interested in doing something in Brazil, I will be more than happy to help. I don’t have time to do the translation, but I can help you find people who could. Or if you already speak Portuguese and just need some tools, I will be glad to help you out however I can. I can send you a list of programs I use that are already translated into Portuguese by myself or others.

As I said before, I am involved in a very specific niche that I think is going to blow everything else out of the water over the next fifty years. But I don’t have time to write about it here, so I will have to save it for another article. Meantime if you have any questions you can contact me via the resource box below.

To your success…and mine. God bless. Peace!

Despite what internet marketing “gurus” tell you, you do not need to have a website to be successful in internet marketing.

You do need some basic tools, but a website is not one of them.

Sure, a website is helpful, especially as a content management tool, and even more so if you sell your own products. But if you are an affiliate marketer, you don’t need your own site.

For affiliate marketing, there is really only one tool you need (other than internet access and email): an autoresponder. You need a good autoresponder that will let you broadcast messages to the list that you will build. Most free autoresponder programs will not let you do this, so you need to invest about $20 per month in a good autoresponder. This will be the best investment you ever make in your business. And, since autoresponder programs are affiliate programs themselves, you can promote your autoresponder program and eventually have it pay for itself.

If you get a headache thinking about HTML, and “coding” your website gives you cramps, here is a simple marketing system that will promote your affiliate program without your own website:

1. The marketing system is to establish yourself as an expert on the products you are promoting. You do this by creating content: first, by posting in forums and submitting articles to article directories, second, by running your own ezine or newsletter, and third, by personally contacting ezine owners and offering your article for publication in their ezine.

2. You promote your affiliate product or program in the resource box at the end of your article. Write a brief description of who you are, what you do, and how readers can learn more. For more detail, see my resource box at the end of the article.

3. The secret to promoting your affiliate product is to promote it via your autoresponder. Since you have written a content article about what you are promoting, you have probably whetted the appetite for more information. So ask for the sale! If you wrote an article on dog grooming, write something like, “For more fr.ee tips on grooming your dog, send a blank email to abcautoresponder.com.”

4. In your autoresponder, write a couple more tips, and then a sentence that refers your readers to your affiliate program.

5. Not only have you promoted your product for a very low cost (only the cost of your autoresponder), but you have collected names that you can market to again and again. These names also become your list for your newsletter.

6. Write a new article every week, and continue sending it to your list and article directories, and continue posting in forums. In no time you will have a nice list, and nice profits coming in, all without your own website!

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