Just a quick piece of news.

My wife’s book, Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Sins, is com­pletely done and all three sec­tions (each one con­tain­ing five chap­ters each) are avail­able with­out any optins.

In other words, the entire book is avail­able as a direct down­load right off the web page. You don’t need to reg­is­ter, log in, or fill out any forms.

The pre­vi­ous optin form was used sim­ply to notify those inter­ested when parts two and three would become avail­able (since it was writ­ten in install­ments over time). But now that all three parts are out, it’s no longer needed.

The first two are PDFs, and the third one is a video. So if you would like to read and watch Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Sins, go there now. And don’t for­get to retweet this.

Click here to get Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Sins by Sylvie Fortin.

After typ­ing furi­ously for the last three days, my wife has finally put together the first part of a three-​​part man­i­festo, in which she finally exposes some of the griev­ous sins com­mit­ted by many mar­keters on the Internet.

It has shocked a great num­ber of peo­ple, and it will make a lot of peo­ple mad. She’s also tak­ing a mon­u­men­tal risk by speak­ing out like this. But she’s mad, too, and can’t take it anymore.

In it, she not only lashes out at Inter­net mar­keters who use stu­pid (and some­times ille­gal) mar­ket­ing tricks, but also con­sumers of Inter­net mar­ket­ing prod­ucts who per­pet­u­ate them — and what to do about it.

There are 15 sins in all. She will be cov­er­ing five sins in each install­ment, and she’s cur­rently work­ing on the sec­ond. The first five sins are avail­able right now.

This man­i­festo is free and there are no sales pitches.

There is an opt-​​in email form in order to notify you when each install­ment is avail­able. And in it, my wife does offer some links to a few resources, includ­ing some of our own. But they are not nec­es­sary for you to read and ben­e­fit from this report.

Now, an impor­tant warning…

She doesn’t hold any­thing back. If you are squea­mish or get offended eas­ily, then please don’t down­load it. My wife uses very strong lan­guage not intended for younger audi­ences. So reader dis­cre­tion is advised.

Click here to go down­load “Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Sins.”

One of the many tools avail­able that I absolutely love is Amem­ber from CGI-​​Central. Amem­ber not only man­ages my mem­ber­ship sites, it also han­dles dig­i­tal prod­uct sales, deliv­ery, and protection.

For instance, it pro­tects down­load pages, offers back­end sales and automa­tion, allows pro­tec­tion of “exter­nal” fold­ers and files, and it even comes with a built-​​in autore­spon­der. (And that’s just a par­tial list.)

I use Amem­ber with Word­Press for my mem­ber­ship sites, such as, for exam­ple, the all-​​new Suc­cess Chef Uni­ver­sity, among many others.

But Amem­ber does have its flaws…

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Through­out my research, I’m always sur­prised when I stum­ble onto web­sites that are pro­fes­sion­ally designed and seem to offer great prod­ucts and ser­vices, but lack or fail in cer­tain impor­tant elements.

Ele­ments that, with just a few short changes, can help mul­ti­ply the results almost instan­ta­neously.

Gen­er­ally, I have found that there are seven com­mon mis­takes. I call them the “Seven Deadly Sins.” Is your web­site com­mit­ting any one of these?

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