Volume 2, Issue 4 - Sunday February 29, 2004

IN THIS ISSUE:

1. ARTICLE 1: Becoming A Self-Publishing Whiz
2. ARTICLE 2: My Patented 3 Step Publishing Technique
3. SECURITY ALERT: How to Protect Your Passwords From Theft!
4. VIRUS ALERT: What to Look Out For to Protect Yourself!

ARTICLE 1: Becoming A Self-Publishing Whiz

Friend,

Right now, as you read this article online, you are utilizing the greatest source ever created for sharing information! The internet has revolutionized the self-publishing business!

Now you no longer have to go to your local copy shop and spend time and money printing out your work then putting classifieds in your local paper to market your work. Now you can simply type up your work with a word processing program then create an ebook and a sales letter to use in selling your product on your own website and/or eBay.

The internet will expose your work to millions more people then you could ever expose your work to in traditional marketing methods such as the classifieds!

With the internet being created and used for the sole purpose of sharing information you can now use it to share the information you’ve learned or created and make huge profits!

Life is a learning process, you learn something new everyday so there has to be something that you’ve learned that can be of interest to other people!

For example…

Is there a new recipe you’ve created or have you put a fabulous new twist on a recipe of old?  Or, have you come up with a new fitness technique, like Taebo or Pilates, that you use to get fit in a fraction of the time?

Don’t keep your valuable knowledge to yourself! Sell it and make a profit.

In the next coming weeks I’ll introduce you to idea development techniques, and show you how to create your own ezine, and e-books!

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Copyright 2004 OD Ntuk, All Rights Reserved Worldwide

ARTICLE 2: My Patented 3 Step Publishing Technique

Friend,

This technique is the technique I use to develop my ideas into quality information on the fly and continue to develop and sell for profits.

It’s a winning formula that produces over and over again, and will work just as well for you.

It’s quite simple:

1. Develop your own ezine and write your own articles
2. Develop free e-courses by compiling related articles and expanding on them
3. Use the feedback from your e-courses to improve the content then create e-books from the information

   1. Develop your own ezine and write your own articles

Many internet marketers are making a huge mistake!

Allured by the profits that can be made by affiliate marketing they concentrate way too much on marketing other peoples’ work instead of developing their own!

Yes, there’s much money to be made in promoting other peoples’ products but imagine for a second if you were the one that created the product and are sitting back while others’ make you richer day by day, week by week. Marketers make some nice commissions but all that pales in comparison to how much you, as the publisher, rake in.

You see, friend? 

These internet marketers have missed the boat because they have become too small minded! Or, maybe it’s laziness as well. It’s easier to use other peoples’ articles for your list, and its’ just as easy to use prewritten sales letters imbedded with your affiliate link to promote to your list. But, it takes considerable work to write your own material weekly, bi-monthly, or how often you publish your ezine. But, the work more then pays off in the long run!

The more you write the easier it becomes to write material in the future since you condition creativity and writing skills into your mind. And, the more your write the more material you have to further develop into products! 

I will be writing several articles on idea development, and writing techniques in the near future!

2.  Develop free e-courses by compiling related articles and expanding on them

Writing articles regularly causes me to build a collection of work of which I can pull together to create e-courses by compiling related articles together.

These e-courses serve two purposes: 1.) they help me build my subscriber base since people love free information which I offer for subscribing; 2.) they help me take the next step to develop an e-book as they are essentially the notes to an e-book

With a quality e-course you can set up a mini-site just for promoting the e-course or add it to your collection of gifts as an incentive for subscribing to your newsletter. 

Your success online is directly related to your list and the larger your list the more money you can make due to having more prospects to advertise to.

3.  Use the feedback from your e-courses to improve the content of your material then create e-books from all the material

With the feedback you can solicit from your e-course you can then improve it and create an e-book. 

From there you can then stop offering the e-course or turn it into a free ‘teaser’ version of your e-book embedded with sales links! Alternately, you could create an e-book with the 'teaser' information to distribute to different mailing lists which would give the real e-book you're promoting even more exposure then the e-course.

Please, make sure to visit my archive for articles related to this article. Specifically, check out ‘The Most Powerful Marketing Technique’ which, is essentially a fundamental for understanding this article.

Visit the archive:

http://money-mind-news.com/archive.html

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Copyright 2003 OD Ntuk, All Rights Reserved Worldwide

SECURITY ALERT: How to Protect Your Passwords From Theft!

Friend,

Security fraud online is a serious issue that could seriously 
damage you financially if you don't take precautions immediately!

Security experts at Carnegie Mellon University estimate that more 
than a million passwords have been stolen through the internet 
alone!

You need to do all that you can to make sure that your passwords 
are safe so you don't become another unfortunate statistic!

Here are some facts to get you thinking...

If you chose a one-character password, and that character could 
be any uppercase letter, lowercase letter, or digit then there 
would only be 62 possible password combinations. 

If you underwent the same scenario but instead used two-
characters you'd have 3844 possible passwords, and if you used 
8-characters you'd have 218 trillion passwords. 

Although, 218 trillion password combinations sounds like a lot the 
probabilities can be cut significantly since the mass majority of 
account users make the mistake of using recognizable words as 
passwords! With this in mind a hacker could easily cut down the odds 
by using a dictionary hacking program to crack your password in a 
matter of minutes!

Here's what not to do with your password:

The reason that you shouldn't use familiar words or simple 
numerical combinations is because, as mentioned above, hackers 
often use computer programs that can crack your password. 
Dictionary programs can crack your password by passing it against 
every word in both English and foreign language dictionaries till 
your password is breached! You also do not want to invert 
recognizable words as password programs can check words backwards 
as well!

Here's a list of what you can do to protect your password(s):

• Use a password with a mixture of numbers, uppercase and 
  lowercase letters.
• Use at least six characters
• Use a random selection of letters
• Use different passwords for every account
• Change your passwords regularly

All this seems rather daunting doesn't it?

You need to somehow remember several passwords that you shouldn't 
write down? Isn't it much easier to simply remember the name of a 
loved one, a pet, or a favorite sports team as a password? But, 
then that would leave you wide open to attacks from sophisticated 
hackers!

What if I told you that for just $7.95 you could not only 
generate random secure passwords but store them in a password 
protected program hidden anywhere you'd like on your personal 
computer?

And, what if you could easily make that $7.95 back by reselling
the software on your own identical website you get with
purchase?

Friend, would a small $7.95 investment be worth 
the $1,000s of dollars you could loose if your password(s) were
breached?

If you think $7.95 is worth the added protection and peace of 
mind then 'The Password Saver and Generator' may just be the 
security suite for you.


Click Here To Get Your Copy Now!  

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Copyright 2004 OD Ntuk, All Rights Reserved Worldwide

VIRUS ALERT: What to Look Out For to Protect Yourself!

Be cautious of any emails that you may receive that contain attachments!

Be careful even of emails you receive from people you know as complex viruses can now cloak email addresses once they infect a computer by searching the computer for stored email addresses. Some virus can now cloak email addresses off the internet without even having to infect a computer. So, if you receive an email from my address DO NOT OPEN IT. I never send out attachments as I include download links instead.

If you do receive an email with an attachment from a friend and think it may be legitimate but are not quite sure you can simply give them a call or shoot them an email to ask them if the file is legitimate before you go about opening it!

Also, be ware of emails that tell you how to remove a virus from your computer. Often times it’s a cruel hoax designed to get you to delete an important file on your computer which can harm it. This in itself is a virus as it is designed to hamper the performance of your computer.

You may receive FREE McAfee virus alerts by signing up to their newsletter at their website, http://mcafee.com.

Here are two of their newest alerts:

VIRUS I:

W32/Netsky.c@MM

This virus spreads via email and mapped drives. It sends itself to addresses found on the victim's machine and by copying itself to folders on drives C: - Z:.  The virus also attempts to deactivate the W32/Mydoom.a@MM and W32/Mydoom.b@MM viruses.

Mail propagation
The virus may be received in an email message as follows:

From: (forged address taken from infected system)
Subject: / Body : (taken from the following list)

This list is HUGE - so you can review all the details, including removal tools if you think you have it by clicking here.

VIRUS II:

W32/Bagle.c@MM

This is a mass-mailing worm with the following characteristics:

• contains its own SMTP engine to construct outgoing messages
• harvests email addresses from the victim machine the From:
• address of messages is spoofed contains a remote access
• component (notification is sent to hacker)

Messages are constructed as follows:

From : (address is spoofed)
Body : (Message body is empty)
Subject :

There are many more details to this virus which you may review by clicking here.

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OD Ntuk
Publisher, Money Mind News
http://Money-Mind-News.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: OD Ntuk is a multi-faceted entrepreneur with experience in a wide array of entrepreneurial ventures. He brings his knowledge and experience to the table with his unique laid-back and easy to understand writing style. Whatever you may be interested in expect to find it in Money Mind News as he writes articles ranging from home business to marketing and promo, inspiration and motivation to network marketing, and self publishing.

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