If you ever won­dered how to out­source your work using new and cre­ative ways that get it done faster, cheaper, bet­ter, and eth­i­cally, too, then you need to watch this video.

Called “crowd­sourc­ing,” this rel­a­tively new out­sourc­ing tech­nique — I say “rel­a­tively,” as the term may be new but the tech­nique is as old as out­sourc­ing itself — enables you to cull spe­cific skills from the pub­lic at large.

Often, for lit­tle to no cost.

Whether you’re out­sourc­ing already, plan­ning on doing so, or just want to save time and money, this is for you. Crowd­sourc­ing also allows you to bypass free­lance bid­ding sites that can turn out to be expen­sive and risky, often with less than desir­able results.

This two-​​hour train­ing video is com­pletely free.

In it, Sylvie exposes some of the best-​​kept secrets to get stuff done. Some of which have never been revealed until now. It was orig­i­nally recorded from a pri­vate online webi­nar to our Suc­cess Chef stu­dents, but we’re mak­ing it avail­able for the first time.

The video might be free, but you must reg­is­ter to watch it, as we high­light Suc­cess Chef Uni­ver­sity in the back­end because that’s where the video comes from. How­ever, you get imme­di­ate access to this video on the next page. You can unsub­scribe eas­ily, anytime.

Click here to watch this amaz­ing video.

I’m in Austin, Texas this week to attend a wed­ding — con­grat­u­la­tions to Heather and Bran­don! — and a week­long, pri­vate sem­i­nar with my mas­ter­mind group. But while I’m here, I’ve got some good news and some bad news…

The bad news — for me, not you — is that, a week before leav­ing, I suf­fered a sacroil­iac joint injury. It was likely caused by my bad pos­ture related to my exist­ing her­ni­ated discs, which as a result is caus­ing ago­niz­ing sci­at­ica.

For the first three days, I was com­pletely immo­bile. It took me an hour just to get out of bed! Any slight move­ment would cre­ate shoot­ing pains in my lower back, par­tic­u­larly in my but­tocks, and would go down my leg with aches and a “pins and nee­dles” feeling.

It’s excru­ci­at­ing. In fact, I almost backed out of the Austin trip. But being able to regain some mobil­ity, I took a chance at the last minute. Luck­ily, the air­line pro­vided me with a wheel­chair. Cur­rently, I’m walk­ing with two canes and a back brace.

Now, the good news…

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“If you like to gam­ble, I tell you I’m your man. You win some, you lose some, it’s all the same to me.” — Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades”

I’m get­ting fed up.

It seems to me that prod­uct launches of late have less to do with sub­stance and strat­egy, and more to do with tricks and tac­tics. Blame it on the econ­omy. But I think we need to blame it on some­thing else. Some­thing more sinister.

In fact, have you not noticed that a grow­ing num­ber of mar­keters are urg­ing you to join their “club,” as if it’s some secret, back-​​of-​​the-​​room, clan­des­tine poker game?

Speak­ing of poker, busi­ness is some­what of a gam­ble. And admit­tedly, gam­bling can be prof­itable. Very prof­itable. After all, the more you gam­ble, the greater you win, right?

But do we really need to gam­ble with our customers?

What about the long-​​term? What about build­ing busi­nesses rather than just mak­ing money? What about invest­ing instead? What about invest­ing in your cus­tomers that can pay some­times 10 to 100 times more over the long run?

For exam­ple, some­one men­tioned a new pay-​​per-​​follower pro­gram on Twit­ter. (Ugh. How is that any dif­fer­ent than from spam­mers buy­ing bulk email lists?) I responded, and this pretty much sums up my phi­los­o­phy — it should be yours, too — with:

“I’d hate to treat my cus­tomers like pris­on­ers or prostitutes.”

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Ryan Deiss, who is a friend and mar­keter I highly respect, didn’t see eye-​​to-​​eye with me on some issues. One of them is cer­tainly forced continuity.

How­ever, just this morn­ing he released a new report, enti­tled, “The Death of Forced Con­ti­nu­ity.” I’ve read it, and it’s a good report. I rec­om­mend it.

Granted, Ryan’s intent in releas­ing this report is not 100% altru­is­tic. After all, he is, like me, a diehard capitalist.

Ryan sells a course on how to cre­ate con­ti­nu­ity pro­grams, and he cer­tainly makes the case for his own prod­uct in this report. How­ever, noble or not, he did switch gears and noticed a dra­matic improve­ment in his over­all prof­its, which he shares in this report.

So read it because it con­tains a few very pow­er­ful lessons on the sub­ject of forced con­ti­nu­ity, and what you can do instead to make more money with con­ti­nu­ity programs.

Now, I won’t go into detail with regards to what I feel about forced con­ti­nu­ity (I have done so sev­eral times already on this blog). But let me add a few addi­tional comments.

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As an online mar­keter, it’s impor­tant that you should take every oppor­tu­nity to elim­i­nate bar­ri­ers and chal­lenges to the deliv­ery of your mes­sage to your tar­get audience.

While RSS feeds, blogs, and social media are all the rage right now, noth­ing beats that long-​​reigning monarch of the message-​​to-​​market medium online. Good ol’ email.

As one Twit­ter user, Michael Kern, once remarked while com­ment­ing on one of my arti­cles, “Email is still king.”

For instance, at the time of writ­ing this blog post, this blog has close to 50,000 sub­scribers — grow­ing by about 100 new sub­scribers every day. How­ever, just 15% of that num­ber are sub­scribed to my RSS feed, while the remain­der are email subscribers.

My num­bers are far from being unique. They are the same with a large per­cent­age of blog­gers and social media mar­keters, let alone Inter­net mar­keters with blogs.

With the vari­ety of ways avail­able to deliver an opt-​​in email newslet­ter, such as plain text, text with images, embed­ded HTML, and attach­ments, which one is the best?

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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.

In case you couldn’t make it this week’s webi­nar, I wanted to give you an “inside look” at the lat­est new 8-​​DVD sys­tem we’re releas­ing, with my col­league Ken Calhoun.

Espe­cially now, in this tough econ­omy, this sys­tem can be your “life­line to sur­vival.” It shows you exactly how to out­com­pete by cre­at­ing more com­pelling sales mes­sages. (Whether it’s in web­sites, emails, direct mail, ad cre­atives, Inter­net video, PPC ads, and more!)

It’s a full stun­ning 8 DVDs packed with dozens of proven, spe­cific tac­tics that can make a big dif­fer­ence to your busi­ness suc­cess. But just for a few short days, we’re mak­ing a very spe­cial offer!

If you order by our offi­cial launch date (that’s in early Feb­ru­ary), you can grab the entire 8-​​DVD, 10-​​hour sys­tem for about two-​​thirds off. That’s a dis­count of over 60%!

Why are we offer­ing this incred­i­ble sys­tem at such a low price dur­ing these next cou­ple of weeks?

Because the economy’s tight and we want to put this busi­ness life­sav­ing sys­tem into the hands of as many entre­pre­neurs and busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als as pos­si­ble, before the launch.

So head on over to watch the 9 video pre­view clips now.