The Extreme Ezine

Extreme Ezine – Social Edition | Nov’09

Welcome to another fine edition of the Extreme Ezine | The Social Edition

The Social Edition is a special part of the Extreme Ezine filled with YOUR links. When I find a great line in my email, a blog post that impressed me or a cool quote I try to add some of them here. Do you know of something we would be interested in? Send it my way and you might find it in the next issue: http://extremeezine.com/contact

Business First:

Promotional Button Pictures:
I’m still waiting for pictures and more participants featuring our promotional button. Don’t forget, you get a featured post for your trouble:
http://extremeezine.com/get-featured-with-our-promotional-buttons/

-= In The Spotlight =-

I Wear Your Shirt

Jason Sadler of iWearYourShirt.com is in this issue’s spot light. I love marketing and I’m always looking for new twists and ideas and I Wear Your Shirt certainly fits the bill.

Jason has setup a website and will wear your shirt for a day and promote it on his blog. He wears a different shirt every day of the week and blogs about today’s shirt with multiple pictures. For 2009, Jason was charging one dollar ‘for the day of the year‘ increasing on a sliding scale each day. For example, Jan 1st was $1, Jan 2nd was $2 and Dec 31 will be $365.

For 2010 Jason has partnered with Evan White in Los Angeles, California. Now the service has doubled, both the exposure and the cost. I can’t wait to see how far this goes eventually. Jason is onto something here and it looks like he’s having fun with it.

How’s business you ask? 2009 is SOLD OUT!! As of today, he’s sold out until mid July where rates are quickly closing in on $400+ a day. By late December 2010 he’s bringing in over $700/day with this clever t-shirt wearing business. I am officially impressed.

NEW -= Latest Blogging Friends =-
Our news blogging friends added to the list @ ExtremeEzine.com/Friends

Online Money by Michelle Adams

Dead Rooster by William McCamment

Free Traffic Tips by Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Teen Blogger Kid by Gary

-= Not So Famous Quotes to Ponder =-

“If they’re [email subject lines are] deceiving, they’re dishonest, and that is a direct reflection on the character of the person sending that email. If they’re dishonest in trying to get me to open their email, what else will they be dishonest about in other business dealings?”
by John Dilbeck

“Take a look at what they are marketing and how they are marketing it instead of focusing on the material they are selling you and there is the answer.”
by Brad West ~ onomoney

“lovely @extremejohn NON FOLLOW FRIDAY”
by Extreme John

“You need to read/listen to others that are more advanced in a technique, more successful, or does things differently than yourself”
by Sheryl Loch

“My life is about living…not aging”
by Nea – Self Improvement Saga

“Myspace sucks. But it’s good business. <- I liked saying that!”
by Cait Hagar

“Everyone should take great pause whenever the government starts getting involved. There’s not too much they have touched that hasn’t turned into an expensive and intrusive disaster”
by Brian D. Hawkins (yes, that’s me) on I’m Just Sharing | How Ready Are You To Give Up Your Rights?
I also made this funny, “I make decent money and my Wife helps me stimulate the economy with each check.“. I crack myself up

-= Great Reads =-

Free Things Of Value:

Free Ebooks and PDF’s
Long time friend and secret admirer (keep that part to yourself, it’s a secret) Sheryl Loch has a nice collection of links for e-books.

This post is several months old but I find myself back there every time I need a new theme:
45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts

Guest Posting:

I’m looking for quality quest posts in the Internet Marketing niche for the Extreme Ezine. I’m sure you can benefit from our traffic and one-way back links. Go here to get started.

Internet Strategist from GrowMap Guest posted an excellent article on MerchantCircle.com How To Turn More Visitors Into Buyers
She also shows you how to do it yourself and more: Did You See Our Guest Post at Merchant Circle?

You are missing out BIG if you are not guest posting. Seth Waite posted an article on Blogussion that really put things into perspective for me:
How We Earned Over 200 Subscribers with 2 Simple Posts

Legal Issues:

I have Peter Lee to thank for a few hundred dollars of my income from the last month. Now I can thank him again for letting me keep it. You don’t want to miss this post if you run AdSense on your site.
Google Adsense Account-Don’t Get Banned

While on legal issues I found a great post listed Kristi’s Fetching Friday (The inspiration for the Social Edition)
5 Smart Legal Steps for Your Blog

Time Management:

Are you tired of hearing people saying they have no time to do the important things? Here’s a couple posts that might help:

Zig Ziglar says, “The basic problem is not lack of time it is lack of direction“. Brad Harmon featured a Zig Ziglar video: Zig Ziglar on Setting Goal

Harsh Agrawal shows us a simple little desktop tool that can help organize time. Oh yeah, it’s free too: Organize Blogging time Time Management Application

Google:

Don’t be afraid of Google:
My friend John Sullivan has known how to manipulate Google for a long time. Search Google for ‘pure juice not from concentrate‘ and then read the following post from over a year ago. It’s pretty interesting: PURE juice not from concentrate-revisited

Big Plans and New Directions:

As we grow and develop we make changes and the cool thing about bloggers is we share it with the world. Here are a couple of my blogging friends that are changing gears and moving forward:

Suzanne Franco with I Wrote You a Letter While I Was on My Honeymoon! I would have used the title ‘It’s All over But The Honeymoon‘ – Just joking Suzanne

Brian B. with Follow me as I turn myself into a professional blogger. And follow I will, I subscribed.

News:

In the news category I have great news. Dennis is back! Dennis Edell of Direct Sales Web Marketing is recovering and back in business with some fresh plans. Welcome back Dennis, we missed you.
What I’m Doing – What You Should Expect In The Very Near Future.

-= Great Lines =-
Subject lines from my in-box that persuaded my to open them.

=> “Why Should I Read Your F&%king Blog???”
by Garry Conn

=> “Why I’m not the “loser” they say I am”
and
=> “I’m going to ethically ‘bribe’ you, Brian…”
by Matt Bacak

=> “This Ain’t a Hobby Brian …”
by Dan B. Cauthron

=> “I Challenge You To NOT Make Money With This!”
by Michelle Hoffmann

=> “Is this ROBBING you blind?”
by Mark Joyner

=> “Aren’t you sick of gurus and their so called newsletters?”
by Adrian Jock
via Solo-Ads.com

=> “Don’t Bend – Link To Your *Free Report* Inside”
by John
via Solo-Ads.com

“Ok, sure I have gas. All dogs have gas!”
by Zed

-= Coolest Pic =-

One of my blogging buddies, Shanker Bakshi has the coolest business card I’ve seen in a long time. It’s very unique, check it out.

-= UPDATES =-

We have merged our Tracker Blog with Your Ad Tracker. The membership site, ad tracking and short URL script still runs on 4U2BN.com for the shortest tracking links possible.

Get Featured With Our Promotional Buttons – I still need more pictures of you displaying our ‘Get Extreme‘ button. The photos will go up on our site and your blog will be featured here as well. If you have already submitted your photo don’t forget to send your ‘post write-up‘ so I can get your featured post up.

Your Guest Posts On The Extreme Ezine
The Extreme Ezine is now accepting guest posts for our blog. I would be honored to have my Marketing and Blogger friends share the Extreme Ezine blog as a host for their content.

Just Ask Someone
Have a marketing or blogging question? Post it to our readers and get the answers you need – Just Ask Someone.

There you have it, another fine version of the Extreme Ezine’s Social Edition. Don’t forget to subscribe to get a copy delivered to your in-box with each issue.