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We registered for our own eBay store last week and are in the process of populating it.

So far adding products is time-consuming but straightforward.  We’ve yet to uncover the advances store management tools yet but will be playing this by ear until we get the hang of it.

Unfortunately a lof of items listed are expensive to ship and I’m sure this will cost us sales.  We’ll be overcoming this by packaging a few items together as special promotions but this is a few weeks away.

We’ve added about 50 items so far and itend to add 5 - 20 each day until our complete catalog is listed here. 

Whilst sales from eBay would be great, we conside our eBay store as a compliment to our main Art From Steel site and hope it will bring us brand recognition and new site members. 

Vist the Art From Steel eBay Store Here

We’re working in partnership with an established financial consultants in Thailand to generate leads.

Today we registered a new domain name and have installed a basic HTML template on it.  It will be 3-4 weeks before the site is completed as we’re docusing on two other sites as well.

We registered today with Mark Vurnum’s Lead-Generation Video Course and, based on the first 30 minutes of his tutoriual videos we are impressed and excited to get started.  It seems like the hardest part about lead-generation is finding businesses to buy leads and yet we’ve got this already finalized.

We’ll update you in a few weeks once the site is ready for inspection.

Twitter.com is an interesting new website that helps you keep updated about how your friends, industry gurus and businesses are doing.

The idea behind twitter is you add your friends to your list and get notified whenever they provide a news update.  These updates are limited to just 160 characters of text.  Socially you can use it to update all your friends with a phase such as "going to bed now" or similar mundanities however it’s being used now by internet marketers.

Many internet marketers now have their own Twitter accounts and keep their fans updated with promotions, weblinks etc. 

What’s nice is that the information is not being pushed at you too aggressively.  You can view these updates by logging in to Twitter, by syncronizing the messages with existing messenger applications, or by using custom software that lists your Twitter updates whenever you choose to view them.

We’ve seen Twitter used for shameless self-promotion e.g.  "only 15 more minutes until my special one-time-only offer finishes!!!!", for getting answers to questions (You can sent perivate messages between twitter accounts) and to update people on what websites a programmer is currently working on.

We now have our own Twitter account with the username"  truepotential and we update it perhaps once a day.  If you currently use Twitter please add us to see how our business develops.

There is a chance that Twitter will not grow too big.  The idea is quite a novelty for now but with the popularity of RSS subscriptions, email lists, podcasts, SMS advertising, social networking sites, messengers, voIP clients etc. Twitter may soon be yet another distraction that fails to really offer any value to it’s users. 

That said, we may be wrong, and Twitter could be the next big thing. 

Decide for yourself here

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I recently paid somebody $20 for him to tell me of a place online where I could advertise Clickbank products.

The advert itself costs $500 for 7 days but this person has consistently made $700 or more per campaign.

I’ve decided to give his idea a try. If all goes to plan I’ll make $200 profit in my first week and this will encourage me to upgrade from a 1-week advert to a 1-month advert.

Things may not go to plan but my initial estimates are that for the $1500 it will cost me for 4 weeks of advertising (after discount) if I can bring in $2800 return I’ll be happy enough.

The concept itself is very appealing. It’s little more work than locating a good place to advertisse and risking a bit of money to test it out. If it brings in even $500 a month it’ll be worth my time, although I do hope I can develop this so that it makes at least $1,000.

Aside from a group of under-developed and stagnant websites, I have a portfolio of about 100 domain names.

I’m in no immediate hurry to sell them and I’ve decided to at least let them pay for themselves in some way.

• I have about 12 great domain names for porn websites so I’ll be creating a blogfarm for those.
• I have a great portfolio of Is[verb] and Are[verb] domains that I’ll probably also create some generic blog farm on
• I’m looking to sell either youdocare.com & youdocare.co.uk or checkforspam.com and check4spam.com this year if I can get an appealing price for them.

I still seem to be able fo acquire great domain names without spending too much time on them. In fact three times in this last month I’ve woken up in the middle of the night with an idea for a domain name and I snapped them up. I got isblogged.com which I was really pleased with (I have isblogged.info already) as the domain was already registered last year when I wanted it.

I also got a domain which is very close to one of my competitor’s sites. I searched for the domain literally the day it expired which was a nice bonus for me as it’s a domain I’ve wanted for about a year.

The other purchases I made are

• allscreensavers.biz
• allvideos.biz
• allsoftware.biz

… which I have plans to use with a particular affiliate program I’m registered with. I’d not usually buy .biz domains but the benefits of having three in one set made it worth my while.

Once in a blue moon I learn of a business opportunity that I can automate 100% with outsourced workers. This weekend I lost some Myspace accounts (not really such a problem) but I also got in contact with a company who are able to basically run my entire MySpace money-making business for just a few hundred dollars a month.

Seeing as how I have plans to scale this business up so that it can make literally thousands of dollars a month, I’m pretty excited about how it’s progressing.

I’ve just completed a lesson with a new friend of mine who’s been holding my hand with a system to make money using MySpace.

So far so good. I made $22.50 yesterday (Although half of that will go to my new mentor as I’ll be rewarding him with 50% of my income for the 1st month) and the work I actually did can certainly be scales up at least tenfold.

There’s a bit of tedium involved so I’m going to see how much of the work can be outsourced and how much of the process I can automate or streamline. In theory I don’t see any reason why I can’t bring in $100-$200 a day with this.