Michaela Cernescu’s Blog

It has been a month with so many events, it is hard to decide among them.

This week we welcome arrival of Amazon’s Kindle 2, wireless reading device.

Amazon Kindle 2

Do you need a kindle 2? Click on the next link.

Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

For all the details about the new features I have created a Squidoo lens , please look it over.

I don’t want to repeat content, I’ll summarize the beneffits of having a Kindle 2:

• You can select to read from Kindle Store: books, magazines, domestic and foreign newspapers, blogs, all Kindle edition
• The price of all Kindle edition items are very low vs. paper
• Internal mempry of the Amazon Kindle can hold aroud 200 non-illustrated titles, available memory is 1.4 Gigabytes
• You can send documents to a conversion service which will send a Kindle file to the device directly for $.10 or to a personal e-mail account for free
• You can play music from MP3 files
• You have wireless access to Wikipedia and Owner’s manual (both PDF format)
• With new Text-to-Speech teature, Kindle can read to you 
• You can download books under 60 seconds, and read them at your convenience, when and where you can. 

I read an eBook waiting my grandson to get out of his soccer practice, or on the bus coming back from Manhattan,  or I read a magazine waiting on a doctor waiting room and so on.

I have a freedom of reading like never before, the dimensions of Kinder 2 are:

• Display: 6″ diagonal E-Ink® electronic paper display, 600 x 800 pixel resolution at 167 ppi, 16-level gray scale
• Size (in inches): 8″ x 5.3″ x 0.36″
• Weight: 10.2 ounces.

As you can see, I can keep my Kindle 2 in my pocket, so do you.

I already gave a Kindle 2 as a gift to my grandson, and Andrew is reading now 50% more then usual, he starts today practicing his Franch reading articles from a French newspaper and he thinks that I am the best grandmother in the world, he realy likes his Kindle 2!

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I already discussed with you my disappointment about eBay banning Digital Products. Since March 2008, all of us have strived to come out with new ideas,  loopholes, and we have been experimenting hoping to find out the perfect idea.

In this effort John Thornhill from “PlanetSMS” emerges as a clear cut winner! 

What about turning your eBooks into physical books?

If the thought has never crossed your mind you should look at multiple advantages of converting your eBooks to physical books:

• You gain more credibility. Yes, as a book author you instantly gain more credibility as you are seen as an expert.
• You get more exposure. Your book can be seen on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, you cannot get better than that.
• You have another product to sell on eBay. With the current eBay rules you cannot sell eBooks as digitally delivered items but you can sell them as physical products.
• You can do this for your own product or for and PLRs which is sitting and waiting on your hard drive
• You have another way to generate traffic and affiliate income. You can add links and affiliate links in your physical book, just as you would in your eBook.
• You have another autopilot source of income as John’s system is 100% automated

If you think that is hard to create a physical book, and publishing it is even harder, think again.

John has created a video series showing you how you can turn an eBook you have rights to into a book in under an hour. This is amazing, isn’t it?

And John figured a way to sell via online bookstores such as Amazon, this is really the worlds biggest online book store, you face an enormous exposure, you cannot get better then being an author on Amazon.

And the beauty is, when a book is sold they are printed and distributed automatically.

Trust me, you will be very busy to spend money an automated system produces for you.
Good luck to you, and read to find out more:

http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/b2book

Until the next time, all the best
Michaela
http://www.ebookscamp.com

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This will be probably a subject we are going to live with for a while! I really believe, that we the people, can pull it through but, in our economy, nothing is going to happen over night.

Being an Internet Marketer, I think as a marketer, and try to analyze the patterns to make events work to our advantage.

Some topics on Internet Marketing are fashionable, we talk about them and after a while we forget about them because new topics emerge as new winners and grab our attention.

“Multiple Streams of Income” was a legitimate topic 2-3 years ago, but it was a limited subject.
Web 2.0 Applications (Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Podcasting and so on) replaced MSOI.  The difference is Web 2.0 is so big and diverse that we will continue to pay attention to it for many years to come, especially because the Web 2.0 produces a revolution, a shift on Internet mentality and habits.

As cannot predict, and definitely cannot see the end of the tunnel for our economy yet, I think it is wise to come back to the Multiple Streams of Income topic and see how we can create them now, as keeping all the eggs in one basket can hurt us. And the good news is, the Web 2.0 knowledge we have, can substantially enhance our endeavor. In other words, we can now have a different prospect of the Multiple Streams of Income topic.

If you have a good job now, and if you love your job, keep it!  But in your spare time you can try other avenues to make money, even if you don’t need them:

• You will sleep better and
• You will be covered in case something  happens

 By all means, I am not suggesting that something really wrong will happen, but I expect the recovery of our economy to be a slow process, and we have to survive in any event.

Generally speaking we have to improve ourselves, enhance, and add new skills as quickly as we can. 

Don’t jump and choose all the avenues I’ll present in 2 Blog posts. Have a good cup of coffee and think it through, see which avenues are attainable for you and concentrate on improving yourself on those avenue(s), only.
I am takeing the liberty to tell you this, because it is a major mistake to spread the activity too widely from the start.  YES, we need more Streams but I suggest to take one at a time and do it right, after you are comfortable with the first one, you can start the next one.  The order in which I have decided to talk about these avenues has a logic and a purpose.  Let’s see what we can do:
 
1. Sale on eBay and/or on other Selling-Channels.

We can make money selling on eBay, it is not as easy as 5-7 years ago but we can still do this and we must add new selling-channels and adopt new tactics on eBay as well.

Steve Lindhorst, former eBay University Instructor, gave us an interesting book “Selling on the River”
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/SOTR3
He explains that there are good benefits coming out of Multi-Channel Selling, we can also sell on Amazon and he gives us all the details about how to do it.

Ebay and Amazon are different, the rules are different, but the audience is different as well and we can fully take advantage of it using both.
I was surprised, intrigued, and delighted as the same time because people are usually biased but Steve is not, he is just an open minded and talented businesman. His position is to use both eBay and Amazon, I think he is right, and his idea is backed by Skip McGrath who is a veteran eBay Seller, author of the oldest eBay Newsletter, and author of a couple of very popular Digital Products, he is an established business person in his own right. I personally learned a lot over the years from Skip.

Reading Steve’s eBook you learn the differences between eBay and Amazon and learn how to sell on Amazon, he kind of presumes that you know how to sell on eBay, but if you don’t it is easy to learn both at the same time.

2. Affiliate Marketing, selling our or other people’s products.

You can do Affiliate Marketing, it is excellent if you already have your own Digital Product, but until then, you can start selling others’ products as an affiliate.
ClickBank is a tremendous MarketPlace where you can find Digital Products to sell. If you need to train yourself on how to do it, I recommend two very good DP which will literally guide you how to do it step-by-step:

The Commission Blueprint
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ComBP

Affiliate Cash Secrets:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ACSV

I used both and I was impressed by the quality and brilliance of the content.

I also recommend Resell Rights Express,
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/RRE

I have it, I haven’t use it yet, it is a new product, but the review is excellent.  Let me know, if you try it first. If I’ll try it first I’ll post a review on this blog.

I don’t want to make this blog too long, you will soon get part II.  You already have 2 Streams of Income to think about, you have suggested training for them, and many more Streams are comming in Part II. The rest of it is up to you, don’t forget that  taking action is crucial.

Until next time, all the best
Michaela

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