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	<title>Comments on: 2010 Second Quarter Goals Update</title>
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	<description>Erica Douglass, &#34;temporarily retired&#34; after selling a successful business at age 26, writes thought-provoking blog entries challenging you to change your life and daring you to become more successful.</description>
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		<title>By: Carl</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-15912</link>
		<dc:creator>Carl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi
Sorry - but I agree with jammer(six)- I think it&#039;s disingenuous to say your goal was to make money from blogging - then switch to signing people up on a profit program and call that reaching your goal. None of your other income categories improved much. 
 
I wish you well in your goals but creating a subscriber base then selling people products is different than blogging.
 
I noticed your profile box says &quot; want to learn from my successes (and failures!)&quot;  - that&#039;s a very different focus. 

Anyway, I&#039;m sure someone will find this valuable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi<br />
Sorry &#8211; but I agree with jammer(six)- I think it&#8217;s disingenuous to say your goal was to make money from blogging &#8211; then switch to signing people up on a profit program and call that reaching your goal. None of your other income categories improved much. </p>
<p>I wish you well in your goals but creating a subscriber base then selling people products is different than blogging.</p>
<p>I noticed your profile box says &#8221; want to learn from my successes (and failures!)&#8221;  &#8211; that&#8217;s a very different focus. </p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m sure someone will find this valuable.</p>
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		<title>By: Anthony</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-14357</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Erica,

Just stumbled across you blog through Yaro&#039;s blog. 

I want to know after looking at your numbers and the money you have made and the sources they came from What lessons have you learned about what products you should be promoting on your blog and where is your energy and time served best - if your goal is to give value to people and make money at the same time. 

Who is your market?
What Products do they need?

Has the &quot;profits Instrument&quot; success changed or &quot;re-adjusted&quot; your focus?

PS You may not have to make &quot;10 products&quot; a year to make 5 figures per month!  Actually it looks like you will make more money if you make less products!!

What is you take Erica?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Erica,</p>
<p>Just stumbled across you blog through Yaro&#8217;s blog. </p>
<p>I want to know after looking at your numbers and the money you have made and the sources they came from What lessons have you learned about what products you should be promoting on your blog and where is your energy and time served best &#8211; if your goal is to give value to people and make money at the same time. </p>
<p>Who is your market?<br />
What Products do they need?</p>
<p>Has the &#8220;profits Instrument&#8221; success changed or &#8220;re-adjusted&#8221; your focus?</p>
<p>PS You may not have to make &#8220;10 products&#8221; a year to make 5 figures per month!  Actually it looks like you will make more money if you make less products!!</p>
<p>What is you take Erica?</p>
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		<title>By: Anthony</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-14352</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Bill, 
Everyone is at different levels. What is &quot;basic&quot; for you - and a waste of time, is very valuable to others. You maybe (and it looks like) more experienced than most &quot;would-be&quot; marketers. There seems to be a few &quot;issues&quot; with Ribotan&#039;s &quot;premium service&quot; and yes if you charging $2000 you would want to have EXCELLENT service with a direct phone 1 on 1 contact, but paying $200 for a step by step course that details a system on setting up a site or two, driving free traffic to it is a great deal. If the purchaser follows through on this, in a years time he or she would have made back 10-50 times the $200 cost.

A buyer is more prone to following through if they have &quot;forked out&quot; some cash, even if a lot of the info in the product can be found freely on-line because the &quot;perceived value&quot; of the product is higher. Plus the buyer can get to the end pint much faster than just surfing from free site to free site.

If the buyer is not happy with the product they get their money back - no big deal.

Anyway, Judge Anthony&#039;s view on the subject!

Peace Internet marketing Brothers and Sisters!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Bill,<br />
Everyone is at different levels. What is &#8220;basic&#8221; for you &#8211; and a waste of time, is very valuable to others. You maybe (and it looks like) more experienced than most &#8220;would-be&#8221; marketers. There seems to be a few &#8220;issues&#8221; with Ribotan&#8217;s &#8220;premium service&#8221; and yes if you charging $2000 you would want to have EXCELLENT service with a direct phone 1 on 1 contact, but paying $200 for a step by step course that details a system on setting up a site or two, driving free traffic to it is a great deal. If the purchaser follows through on this, in a years time he or she would have made back 10-50 times the $200 cost.</p>
<p>A buyer is more prone to following through if they have &#8220;forked out&#8221; some cash, even if a lot of the info in the product can be found freely on-line because the &#8220;perceived value&#8221; of the product is higher. Plus the buyer can get to the end pint much faster than just surfing from free site to free site.</p>
<p>If the buyer is not happy with the product they get their money back &#8211; no big deal.</p>
<p>Anyway, Judge Anthony&#8217;s view on the subject!</p>
<p>Peace Internet marketing Brothers and Sisters!</p>
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		<title>By: Erica Douglass</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-14333</link>
		<dc:creator>Erica Douglass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi KC,

I know some people have already made sales from their PI websites. I just finished my first one last week, and am getting backlinks built this week for it. I plan to build a 2nd PI site as well. I will keep everyone posted on my results via my quarterly income posts.

-Erica</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi KC,</p>
<p>I know some people have already made sales from their PI websites. I just finished my first one last week, and am getting backlinks built this week for it. I plan to build a 2nd PI site as well. I will keep everyone posted on my results via my quarterly income posts.</p>
<p>-Erica</p>
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		<title>By: KC</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-14329</link>
		<dc:creator>KC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Erica,
Congratulations on your huge success.  

I too was torn by my trust in you Erica and the horrible scammy sounding PI website.  In the end I landed on the side of caution.

I am very curious about how the people who had more courage than I do make out with Profit Instruments.  So I hope some of you keep us posted on how it works for you. Good luck to everyone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Erica,<br />
Congratulations on your huge success.  </p>
<p>I too was torn by my trust in you Erica and the horrible scammy sounding PI website.  In the end I landed on the side of caution.</p>
<p>I am very curious about how the people who had more courage than I do make out with Profit Instruments.  So I hope some of you keep us posted on how it works for you. Good luck to everyone.</p>
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		<title>By: Tawra@Living On A Dime</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-13456</link>
		<dc:creator>Tawra@Living On A Dime</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the input. We have about 35 e-books that we sell right now and do well at it.

I have to say that I thought our income of $1000- $1500 a month from Google ads was low. Now I see that we are doing really well so that made me feel better.

I think we need to just figure out a way to streamline things so we aren&#039;t working as many hours but bringing in as much income. So far I&#039;ve found a lot of &quot;little&quot; things that will be &quot;great&quot; improvements for us from your free e-book. Some things are &quot;duh&quot; like changing the title on our header! We are working on that one now! 
Thanks for the great info!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the input. We have about 35 e-books that we sell right now and do well at it.</p>
<p>I have to say that I thought our income of $1000- $1500 a month from Google ads was low. Now I see that we are doing really well so that made me feel better.</p>
<p>I think we need to just figure out a way to streamline things so we aren&#8217;t working as many hours but bringing in as much income. So far I&#8217;ve found a lot of &#8220;little&#8221; things that will be &#8220;great&#8221; improvements for us from your free e-book. Some things are &#8220;duh&#8221; like changing the title on our header! We are working on that one now!<br />
Thanks for the great info!</p>
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		<title>By: Erica Douglass</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-13406</link>
		<dc:creator>Erica Douglass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Tawra,

Glad to see you here! I saw your comment over on Get Rich Slowly. Perhaps in your case, making the switch to instant-delivery digital products might be the solution.

-Erica</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Tawra,</p>
<p>Glad to see you here! I saw your comment over on Get Rich Slowly. Perhaps in your case, making the switch to instant-delivery digital products might be the solution.</p>
<p>-Erica</p>
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		<title>By: Erica Douglass</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-13405</link>
		<dc:creator>Erica Douglass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi! I&#039;ve been working on other projects and haven&#039;t finished setting up my PI site yet :( I need to get working on that so I can show some income from it!

-Erica</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi! I&#8217;ve been working on other projects and haven&#8217;t finished setting up my PI site yet <img src='http://www.erica.biz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  I need to get working on that so I can show some income from it!</p>
<p>-Erica</p>
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		<title>By: Tawra@Living On A Dime</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-13403</link>
		<dc:creator>Tawra@Living On A Dime</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks so much for posting real numbers. We have been running our website for 11 years with little profit until 3 years ago.

We are finally doing better only after hubby quit his job and started working full time on it but... we still don&#039;t make enough that it&#039;s really worth the time or effort. 

Thanks! Tawra</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks so much for posting real numbers. We have been running our website for 11 years with little profit until 3 years ago.</p>
<p>We are finally doing better only after hubby quit his job and started working full time on it but&#8230; we still don&#8217;t make enough that it&#8217;s really worth the time or effort. </p>
<p>Thanks! Tawra</p>
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		<title>By: jammer(six)</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/2010-2nd-quarter-goals-update/#comment-13318</link>
		<dc:creator>jammer(six)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s interesting that you made so much money by promoting Profit Instruments, and yet I didn&#039;t see a noticeable improvement in your other categories. If Profit Instruments really works, shouldn&#039;t we be seeing earnings improvements in other areas?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s interesting that you made so much money by promoting Profit Instruments, and yet I didn&#8217;t see a noticeable improvement in your other categories. If Profit Instruments really works, shouldn&#8217;t we be seeing earnings improvements in other areas?</p>
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