Persuade and Profit is all about giving you the right tools and techniques to succeed when it comes to influencing people to take action.

Sure, that sounds good to you, right? Getting more of your audience to salivate and stand in lines to buy your stuff.

We All Want That…

But, who am I? Who is Lawton Chiles and really, why should you care?

I’ve been writing sales copy for Internet Marketing gurus for a few years…and basically have developed a mindset for persuasion.
I’d like to pass that on to you. Cool?

And just for a few bucks which is a huge slash off the thousands I’ve paid to learn this both in time and hours spent.
Sounds like a deal? Good.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

• 30 Subject Lines You Can Steal & Use In Your Ads & Emails…
• The Secret For Rewriting Headlines For Your Own Use
• 5 tricks you can use right now to get great subject lines!
• The Hidden Tools of An Email Rebel
• How To Easily Get Brag-Worthy Email Results
• How To Use Amazon For FREE In-Depth Market Spying!

I love reading fiction. When it is well written, it grabs you from where you are sitting and pulls you violently into the story. You feel the tension being laid out thick like the mortar on the bricklayer’s trowel. The descriptions bloom in your mind so that you actually see what is being described.

That can explain why we feel sort of let down when we see a movie that does not accurately portray the landscapes, the architecture and the people in our favorite stories. How someone can go from being a blonde girl to an African American male from book to movie is beyond me, but it somehow impacts our created world and shatters it into rubble.

Those who like to write fiction can see things that rest of us cannot. Their minds are fertile greenhouses where they plant seeds, nurture the budding ideas and prune them once they are fully fleshed out, so that only the most marvelous parts are visible to the mind’s eye.

My hope is to attract some fiction writers to the Author Development Blog so that we can learn from each other.

I have some good ideas for stories, and will be working on them here as well!

Quentin Pain FIAB, author of the book Accounting for Everyone that launched the British software company Accountz.com has launched the book on the Kindle platform.

The book is aimed at startup businesses and those looking to take accountancy and bookkeeping exams.

Through a series of 12 weekly modules, the reader is taken from very basic steps right up to the balance sheet.

Here’s an extract from the first module:

Accounting for Everyone Week 1

Accounts

Everything is an account! It is the single most important thing to understand in accounting. Forget categories, sub-categories, classesand any of the other terms you may have heard. Later you will understand why, but for now it is enough to know that we have already simplified double-entry accounting: Everything is an Account. Period.

So, what exactly is an account? It is a way of tracking money. Examples we all know are bank accounts, credit card accounts, deposit accounts etc. If a business has a fleet of vehicles they will almost certainly open a diesel or petrol account at their local garage. But for the rest of us, we rarely think of an expense like ‘petrol’ as an ‘account’. But that’s the point. In the world of accounting, everything is an account, whether it is a bank, petrol, sales, loan, VAT, depreciation, stationery, telephone, rent, profit and loss etc. They are all accounts.

The second most important thing to understand is that there are no special accounts. Every account does the same thing. It records the flow of money. There are conventions for naming accounts, for example, accumulated depreciation account (enough to put anyone off!), but once you understand that all accounts are the same, it will really help you get your head around the subject. To summarize:

• Accounts track the flow of money
• Accounts have a meaningful name
• Accounts have a balance (which shows how much we have, how much we owe, how much we have spent, how much we have earned etc.)

So, what do we do with these accounts? First we need a place to show them. And that place is called the Chart of Accounts. It is a list of all the accounts used in a business. A list of accounts is great, but it also needs some structure so it makes a little more sense.

To find out more, please visit Quentin Pain’s blog.

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Lemons are a fact of life. When you get handed a bunch of them, you should juice those babies and sell as much lemonade as you can! You could compare the current economic conditions to a bumper crop of lemons. People are out of work, or working less than desirable careers to make ends meet and they are desperately seeking for the solution.

Bestselling author and entrepreneur Alan Bechtold showed me that publishing is the way to collect other people’s content on your own site for cash flow. In fact, many marketers are trying to get this done, and they need content. Unbelievable amounts of content. And since a bunch of the sites that go up are only using previously published material, a market has appeared for anyone with plans to become a freelance writer.

Look on Google for ghost writer (not the movie). I discovered hundreds of jobs available for freelance writers here on this site: http://www.online-writing-jobs.com/ (I have no affiliation with this site, it is just an example of what you can find if you search for freelance work. Simply being a prolific writer is enough to earn a good living. Now that writers have more tools available to them than ever, this is the best time to take on Freelance Writing as a way to make money. With a little research and preparation, you can create a decent article or blog post for someone else to use that will allow you to take full advantage of your skills while earning a paycheck.

You won’t get rich on one freelance job, but you can take on many of them in a day, so that you can bring in an extra hundred dollars a day if you do enough jobs on a consistent basis.

In fact, as you get better at writing for others, the more repeat business you will receive, just because it is more convenient for a client to request more content from a known entity, than it is for them to guessing who will write quality content from all the hundreds of bidders out there. As you build a relationship with your clients, many of your customers ask for your services directly, instead of going through websites like guru.com.

So if you find that you need extra money, and you have the time to write, you will want to think about becoming a full time freelance writer. You can set out doing it part time until you collect a list of paying clients, but once you attain a comfortable income with writing, you can consider taking it fulltime, because you will find that as you become more efficient, your writing gets even better. Efficiency can lead to even higher paying writing clients, which can set you on your way to financial freedom, because you can negotiate ghost writing contracts where you get a portion of the royalties on the books you write!

Get your first client today!

Micheal Savoie is the founder of the Author Development Network, where he helps writers hone their skills with the help of their peers. Sign up for free at http://authordev.com and check out his Freelancer’s Guide.

I received the following email from a subscriber who was frankly sick and tired of the hype machine that is most of the marketers’ newsletters out there (mine included). I only used the initials, but this could have come from one of hundreds of disgruntled subscribers on anyone’s list.

The bottom line, Michael, is that if one of these offers would actually do what they claim, I would only need that one, however, the offers keep coming because they do not work as advertised.

You know as well as I do that even the best of these offers are hyped and most of them outright mislead people with claims that there are only x copies left and that it will generate thousands of dollars in a short period of time. Even useful products are buried under an avalanche of serine hype that will never come close to being the truth.

I would love for this to not be the case and I would offer my heartfelt testimony to products that work as advertised and there are some such as Tweet adder. But if the majority of these products actually delivered on their promises and hype you wouldn’t need to sell them to your list because you could use them yourself to make your money. I have grown tired of financing other peoples lavish lifestyles by buying these products.

If you feely am wrong then tell me which product can help an unemployed man like myself avoid bankruptcy. I have tried for a year now and I will keep trying, but I can’t afford buying things that then just try to sell my 5 more things even before I get to the product I just bought.

Show my what product to use and if it works you will have a flood of gratitude and testimonies. Sadly at this point it needs to be pretty inexpensive and as far as hard work goes, I have put in 60 hours a week at this.
I wish you the best,

P.T.

My Response

You are right about a good 75% of the offers out there. They really
are too good to be true. Many of them only worked for the person
who created the program because that tactic was new. Once the
beta testers and the JV Partners use it and flood the market with
these tactics, they often become useless (or become less effective
to the point of not being worth the money spent on them).
But another thing you have to think about it whether it fits into your
business plan. If you do not have a plan, you should not be buying
products anyway.
If you decided to start an online business, you should have written
down what it was you wanted to accomplish. Earning $10,000 per
month is not a business plan (I learned that after ten years of not
getting anywhere near my goal).
It wasn’t until I wrote down that I wanted to help people help
themselves that I really started getting somewhere. A lot of times
you get close to succeeding, but something may get in the way.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I retired from my
job before I had an income that was stable enough to keep my
business going. It took me an extra year to reach the point where
cash is not a problem. But I learned the hard way.
Now that I am at a point where I am free to help others, I have
made some changes to my marketing. I do not promote stuff
unless I know the person can deliver on their claims or I
have actually used their product. I never expect the product to
be the "be all – end all" because it may end up being a good
product, but unless I have the right combination of Offer,
Conversion, Proper Funnel, and Targeted Traffic… I won’t be
able to truly duplicate their success.
That is why I am leery of copy and paste systems, because if
they’ve made a lot from one ad, it will not necessarily translate
that it will continue to make a lot of money (especially now that
250 other people are also doing the same ads)…
But the techniques that these people use are valid, I just don’t
buy into the fact that they will work if everyone uses the same
copy for the same products.
If I can give you any parting words of wisdom, it is to first make
your plan, then work that plan. If a tool comes out that really
makes that task easier, then buy it, your time is worth more
than money, because you can always make money… not so
with time.
I may use this email as a blog post to help others too, because
a lot of people are feeling the way you are.
Anyway, even if you aren’t getting my emails anymore, feel free
to email me when you have a question, or need help moving
through a tough area of your plan. I was where you are, and
thanks to some great friends that I have made along the way,
I was able to get through a lot of tough patches.
You can always catch me at my help desk:
http://replytomicheal.com
Have an amazing day!
Micheal Savoie

What would you do if you met a child who would surely die if
they didn’t get medical attention quickly? And by all
indications, that child had no hope for medical attention
because the cost was completely out of reach.

"That’s a sad situation," you say. "But there’s nothing
I can do about it… I’m just one person. They need a
doctor."

Luckily, we know a great doctor.

Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian has dedicated his life to helping
those kids. To date, he’s performed more than 70
life-saving surgeries for those kids who never would
haven’t gotten the open heart surgeries. He’s done that by
raising more than $137,000 through his internet marketing
efforts.

And now, you can help him do more.

And you can profit from this as well by participating in the
NAMS4Kids JV Giveaway. Not only will you get 100s of great
products to help you run your business or your life, but
you’ll be saving lives…literally!

Read this example of one such child below:

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"What do you want to become when you grow up?" the
interviewer on the cable TV news channel asked him.

"I will take good care of my mother," the boy replied.

His name is Vinodh. He is 8 years old. He had just recovered
from heart surgery.

And his words had deep meaning.

Much more than may be apparent at first glance.

When Vinodh was a toddler, his dad abandoned the family. His
mother scraped by, earning a meager daily wage as a
construction worker. On Rs.500 (around $10) a month, she
struggled to bring up 2 children. And one of them had a
congenital heart defect!

She was told he needed an operation. The cost would be at
least Rs.65,000 ($1,300). With no option in sight to raise
the mind-boggling sum, she hoped and prayed – and cared for
Vinodh. Until he became too ill to ignore.

The brave young woman, fighting for her precious son’s
survival, dared to make a desperate effort – and traveled
hundreds of miles to the nearest city where heart surgery
would be available. As to how she would fund it, she hadn’t
the faintest clue!

Or maybe she knew in her heart that there are people who
care. People just like you from around the world who would
reach out with a helping hand, and save her little boy.

Vinodh’s operation was funded through donations from the
Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation. His surgery was one of
the very first success stories of this organization… which
has funded 70 more like his since then.

Is it any surprise then that this young boy’s hope, dream
and ambition is to take good care of his heroine – his mom?

Oh, he said he also dreams of being a doctor.

Thank you – for helping him dream!

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Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian

Chennai, India

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The Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshops have adopted
Dr. Mani’s foundation by supporting his cause. In January,
2010, at NAMS3, we raised more than $1600 from the people in
the room which resulted in surgery for one child in India. 

The students at NAMS saved a life.

If you’ve ever thought about participating in a JV Giveaway
to get great products to drive your business, now’s the
time.

This one is truly different.

David Perdew at NAMS4Kids has called in some favors from a
whole bunch of top online marketers and convinced them all
to give you TONS of free products and services at no cost to
you.

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But of course, we’d take a donation from you for Dr.
Mani’s foundation. Our goal is to raise $10,000 in 72
hours.

You will receive:

-ebooks

-scripts

-memberships

-private label rights products

-self-improvement products

And much more.

You name it, it’s there.

Remember, this is open at 10 a.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 20th.
Sign up now to get in first.

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Stay tuned, I’ll let you know as soon as this is released.
It’s the most exciting news I’ve had the opportunity to
share with you in a long time.

Peace & Prosperity!

Micheal Savoie

P.S. – Listen, just think about this a minute: Good work
comes to you without effort from you. All you have to do is
respond. Thanks for being my subscriber. I know you’ll do
the right thing.

As you know, Yvonne and I use blogs for a lot of our promotions.

Well, we have a pretty big list, too. Part of that list came from the blogs and part came from giveaway events.

Even if you never participate in any giveaway events, you can still build a big list using gifts.

These are a must:

• Your report should cover a hot topic in your niche, and help introduce another product that you can make a commission on while helping the reader solve a problem.
• You should have a professional looking image of your product, and a squeeze page that is very concise – asking for the email address and name of the person.
• If you have a one time offer that you want to show the prospects, it is better to wait until after they click on the
  confirmation link.

Here are three quick tips for building a list fast.

1. Offer a bonus on someone’s paid product.

   Have a high quality report that you can offer as a bonus on the download page of JV partners. This means that your product will be seen by the buyers of that person’s product…

2. Do ad swaps with other marketers.

   Many marketers are looking for opportunities to get their products in front of other people. You can contact other marketers in your niche and offer them to mail out to your list about them if they mail out to their list about you.

3. Offer a download on your blog.

   Each blog you do should have an optin form right on it with a picture of the ebook or report you are giving away.

   When you write posts on your blog, do a search on Google and Blog Catalog for other posts related to yours and go comment on them. If you do 5 comments for each of your own posts, you will find that you will start getting a LOT more visitors to your blog and more comments.

   That is when having your optin form begins to bring you a nice stream of optins.

But the key to all of these three methods is having quality reports on the topic that you are covering on your blog and your list.

If you don’t want to write your own reports, make your own graphics and squeeze pages, you are in luck… You can now get 10 brand spanking new reports that you can use to build your list.

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I’ve got 5 secret traffic sources that are EASIER, BETTER, and MORE LUCRATIVE than Google Adwords…

This Canadian guy I know got banned from Adwords 5 months ago… and now he uses all these secret traffic sources that are similar to Google.

It’s crazy that he could do this in a matter of months but he’s doing over $50K a month with these rare traffic sources…

DO YOU WANT THESE SECRET TRAFFIC SOURCES?

Check out his new video right here:

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The difference between this guy and all the "Guru" guys is that HE ACTUALLY DOES THIS STUFF! He’s been doing affiliate marketing for 6 years, has made millions, and even recently won a CPA Network Super Affiliate Contest where they flew him to Costa Rica…

Check out the Video right here:

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NOBODY is talking about the stuff he is teaching…not even the experts…

This information has never been released to the Guru space and major affiliates are cringing at the information he shares…

HE IS PULLING THE VIDEO IN 48 HOURS so check it out right now if you want a lead on secret traffic sources….

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This isn’t about Google, Facebook, PPV, or any of that stuff. It’s about CPA Networks, Traffic Sources and how he made over $500,000 in 5 months and won a FREE trip to Costa Rica through the Super Affiliate contest:

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This is one of the best ‘Traffic’ videos I’ve seen and I just had to share it with you…

This is not a big goofy "guru" launch. Here is the link again so you don’t have to scroll up:

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NOTE: I am an affiliate of Christian’s and if you purchase from my link, I may make a commission. Thank you.