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"I've chatted often with Cathy Wagner, and she is very personable, helpful, professional, and available if you have any questions or need good quality advice about how make your promotions enjoyable and profitable. One Stop Internet Business seems, to me, to be (refreshingly) as concerned in my/your success as they are in their own."

John L Barlow
www.mechanized-marketing.com

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www.broket.com

“The free information and free advertising ALONE is worth the visit. But if you're really serious about promoting your product or service, become a Paid Member. Speaking as a two-month-old rookie in the field of web promotion, I can say that I certainly got lucky by stumbling upon One Stop Internet Business Services early in the game. I still have a long way to go, but OneStop has proven to be a great place to start!“

- Richard Olson
StellarGraffiti.com
www.stellargraffiti.com

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- Michael Hamilton
www.planetarycalendar.com

"Cathy's quick, precise response to questions about my site's copy was very impressive. She not only took the time to read it but actually helped me by identifying some areas where I was weak and pointing them out to me. I appreciated her honesty."

- Tony Puck
www.automobilenetmarketing.com

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- Elizabeth Piotrowski
Strategy Ad Service
www.strategyadservice.com

"I am a beginner at netmarketing, not very good at ad writing and I really needed some help with it. After having an ad writing workshop with Cathy, the full page ad I was trying to write turned out to be just great!

"I'd recommend it to anyone who needs a little help, because it's not given to everybody to have the skill to write good ads.

"Thank you Cathy for helping me!"

- Line Massicotte
www.cashintime.com

“I am an affiliate of One Stop Internet Business and promote on my site as well as off my site for Cathy Wagner as she has some of the best resources available for free or low cost advertising of your website. She has shown me better ways to advertise and to get my site seen by more people I would recommend One Stop Internet Business and Cathy Wagner to everyone who needs resources to the internet.”

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www.jodee.biz

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- Jim Hulsey, Owner of
www.goSeeUs.com

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- Carole Cherry
www.dmc-hq.com


Hello,

Welcome Members!

NEWS: TEXT FORMATTING TOOL
Paid Members are probably wondering what has happened to the bonus text formatting tool. When you open it, it tries to retrieve information from it's servers and then crashes every time.

Well, the company that offered it was sold and nobody is making this free tool a high priority in the switch.

The good news is I have found away around the trouble; just use it when you are offline. It will try to connect you, don't let it and it will bypass the "retrieving data from our servers" part and let you pass through to use the tool.

Paid Members who did not get information about this tool in their welcome email or if you lost your welcome email, please let me know and I will send the current message to you with all the info you need to access all of the paid member bonuses.


CONTEST
As promised, here is another chance to win. :)

Every fifth person to send a blank email to catwag@onestopinternetbusiness.com on Sunday August 10 (Eastern Time/GMT-5) with the words "Workshop Winner" as the subject, will win their own Ad Writing Workshop.

It's that simple, try your luck!


CHAT ANNOUNCEMENT
Don't miss the next live marketing chat on Sunday August 10 at 8pm Eastern Time (GMT-5).

I will be continuing the free form discussion format, so stop in, say hello and let's talk about whatever aspect of marketing online that interests you most.

I plan to continue these free form chats through the month of August and then go back to the old Sunday afternoon schedule with selected topics every week.


REVIEW COMPLETE
My review of last week's "awesome new tool" is complete. If you will remember, it was software designed to make it very easy to search for and contact possible joint venture partners to help sell your offer.

WARNING Their ad copy says that you would get 5 free searches during their trial offer, but what they should have said is you may use the software (or open it) 5 times.

In the natural course of using this tool, I was only able to complete one search and mail to the list of prospects I got.

You see, I opened it and searched. I was amazed at the list I got and went to go write a proposal. I opened it again to begin mailing to the list, but only sent messages to 6 contacts to see what kind of response I would get and if my subject line was effective.

After waiting a few days and getting no response, I opened the software again to mail a better message to 10 more prospects. I got a response from these, so I opened the software again to finish mailing to the rest of the list.

So, as you can see, I only got to complete and mail to one search.

With this in mind, I strongly recommend that you think about the keywords you will search for and write your joint venture proposal before you open the software the first time. Be sure that you have time to go through the list you generate before you have to close it.

The results?

I searched for 100 sites with the keywords "Natural Beauty Products":
- 13 entries did not include email addresses.
- Many site were disqualified for offering their own full line of skin care products; someone who has created their own line certainly will not want to add mine to their collection.
- Only 36 total messages (out of a possible 100) were sent.
- 6 received the first letter I wrote, which resulted in no replies.
- I got 3 interested replies asking for their free sample or 10% of the letters that I sent with the better subject line.

After spending about 3 hours (all told) on one search and send, I was glad that I had the software so that it didn't take even longer.

I did check each site before sending my message so I was able to personalize each and be sure that the site I was talking to didn't already have their own line.

If I had done this kind of search manually, I would also have had to search through each site looking for a way to contact the owner. The 13 without addresses could have taken me quite a while to realize that they just didn't have them.

Overall, I wholeheartedly recommend the free trial for everyone to try and I consider the software to be a worthwhile purchase. If you plan to develop many of these types of partnerships with other web sites, you will really appreciate this tool.

This software is not on the site yet. Paid Members who would like to take advantage of the trial offer, reply to this message and let me know, I will send you the URL.


BIRTH OF AN INTERNET BUSINESS
Offline -
I was too late for the classifieds deadline last week, I will submit the ad I wrote next week instead.

I spoke to a doctor about handing out samples of Raiza Creme to his patients. He was glad to have something that might work on eczema and psoriasis. He said he would direct people to me if they liked it.

I have taken steps to set up the next "spa party" at the house of one of the women who attended the first party. This will take some time to plan and execute, but previous results indicate it is worth the effort.

Online -
I have been receiving more requests for free samples from the web site this week (at least one per day) and so I have decided to hold off on changing to form requests for a little while longer.

I know that I would probably receive more requests with the form as opposed to requiring people to send self addressed stamped envelopes, but I also know that the people who are sending in requests now are seriously looking for a product like this.

I can always insert the form onto the site later.

I have some design feedback to incorporate into the new site and then I will get back to promotion and testing longer ad copy.


Have a Profitable Day,

Cathy Wagner
ONE STOP Internet Business Services
Your ONE STOP for high quality marketing
information, tips and recommendations.

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