The site originally had simple Paypal buttons and just a few options to purchase graphics from me but now over a year later, I’m glad to see it grow to where I can finally add the affiliate program.  Now I’ve always hated websites that advertised right up front about affiliate programs because people would use my affiliate link to go to a site and then see that it offered an affiliate program.  Then my prospect simply signs up to be an affiliate themselves and then purchases the product with their own affiliate link

I’m sure you all have had this happen to you in one way or another so I decided to announce my affiliate program on my blog here and also put the link to sign up as an affiliate in the footer of my site at Simple Ecovers.  That way the people you send me may not notice that I have an affiliate program unless they are really looking for it.  So if you would like to join my SimpleEcovers.com affiliate program, I would love to have you on board.

I decided to use Paydotcom as my affiliate program since they are easy to implement.  I have tested and tweaked everything to make sure that you will get paid from all that I sell on Simple Ecovers.  If you choose to promote the $37 ecover package and someone decides to go ahead and order my $147 guru minisite package, you will get credited with the sale. 

Another new addition is my portfolio section and my tutorial section where I will be adding my designs for all to see along with showing you how I design and render images.  Many of you have asked how I do what I do and I want to show you.  I haven’t added any tutorials yet and my portfolio is very small as I have to add hundreds of images still to the plugin that I found.

But in the meantime the site is live and functional plus the affiliate section is ready to go.  You can make anywhere from $10 to $27 per design that I do for clients if you send them to me via your affiliate link.  So go now and sign up as I’ve already made thousands from graphic design and I wish to give you all a piece of the pie.

 ==> Join Simple Ecovers Affiliate Program Now! <==

Until next time…

Simple Ecovers makes me a full time living online but it’s time to switch gears a little in my journey as it’s time to do more than just graphics for people on the internet.  I’ve learned so much about mindset, customer service, planning, list building, product creation and more.  Needless to say my upcoming success will be dependent upon the continuing service I’ve always provided.

Now I haven’t been perfect in all I’ve done online and I’ve dropped the ball in many areas as my focus can become sometimes distracted by life and everything else around me.  But who hasn’t?  I haven’t met one person online or in person who didn’t have struggles and who didn’t have the occasional failure.  It’s in the midst of failure that most successes come from and I’m going to be no different.

As I’m building my list of subscribers I’m going to be trying a few different tactics in marketing that a lot of people don’t do.  Now I know this may go against the norm but I’m determined to be successful by helping as many people as I can.  As a matter of fact I actually sent an email to my entire list last week asking people to unsubscribe.  Crazy you may think but it came from really wanting people to be on my list for reasons other than to  just receive affiliate offers from me.

Now making money online by sending affiliate offers via email to a large list will make you cash but whose lives did you change in the process?  There really is no way to know since all you do is forward people to the next online fad just to make some quick cash.  I know I could do it as I have done it before but for some reason I don’t feel great about it.  I want to really give value to the people on my list but yet I have no products of my own to sell.  ( Not yet anyways. )

Easy solution now that I think of it.  I’ve been online for several years and know how to do many things.  I have no doubt that people are looking for many of the same things that took me hours and weeks to learn.  I am going to begin making content on various things that I know will help my subscribers and for the first time will be placing that content for free on my blog here and then simply send my subscribers here to devour the content.

I will engage them with questions and offer surveys to find out what they want and need.  The more I engage my readers and give value, the money will come.  I don’t want some quick sale but I want a customer.  Even if I share a video on how blogging has helped me, I won’t feel bad recommending them to someone who knows more about blogging like Mathew Wolfe.  You see, recommending someone to make a quick sale might work but then your visitor will have no reason to come back to you.

I want people to always want to come back and see what I have to say so by giving value, I will be able to do that.  I can’t please everybody but I can feel good about the type of internet marketer  I want to be.  So I offer you this to ponder.  What do you want to learn online?  What is it that you think you need in order to progress forward?  I know a lot of the gurus will tell you to outsource the work but from experience, I’ve seen the majority of people online want to actually “learn” how to do things on their own.

Most people don’t have the extra money and the resources to continually outsource like the gurus tell you so I want to create free content that will help you to progress online.  Please, I ask again..  What do you need?  Think about it and let me know.  I await your comments as this is genuine from me to you.  You could either continue to open email after email from marketer after marketer or you can begin to settle down and learn something of value.  I offer this because I’ve been caught up for years in the same day after day routine of reading countless emails only to find myself with less money and lost time.

So again, “What can I do for you”?  Can I help you get your first subscriber?  Can I help you get your first Ecover created?  Can I show you how to write an email campaign?  Can I help you come up with a product to sell online?  Can I help you create your first website?  Can I show you how to make graphics?  Can I get on a Skype call with you and answer your questions?  What can I do to help YOU?

This is no gimmick and this is no scam.  I am a real person with a vested interest in you and your progress.  So please leave your questions and comments below.  I will personally answer each and every one as this is my new strategy for online success and I wish to bring you along for the ride.  Any questions?  Until next time…

For a little bit of background I was in a dead end job being a delivery driver for a top food service industry and was killing myself every day just to make ends meet.  I knew money could be made online and had spent years dabbling around trying this program and that program only to end up more in debt and more frustrated.  So in March of last year I paid 500 for a mentoring course from Alex Jeffreys.

He gave great content and told it like it was.  He broke down how he built his six figure business and told us what we needed to do in order to do the same.  List Building was at the top of the “to do” assignments as it’s a huge key to success online.  As I messed around on my own home computer doing graphics, Alex asked the students to help one another in the areas where we had talents so I began giving away graphics and ecovers to students in our forum.

Word of mouth spread among the students and before long I began to get emails asking how much for a graphic or how much for a header graphic or ecover graphic.  So I threw up a quick website with some payment buttons and before I knew it, I had told my job where to go. LOL

I quit in July of 2009 not because I was making a killing online but because I was bringing in a consistent amount of money by providing a service online that people needed.  I stopped thinking about how to make the millions I would like and focused on how to bring in the next 37 to 97 dollar payment.  That’s when things took off.  By offering graphics, I could make money and work when I wanted.  I simply traded my job for a lifestyle.

Now like I said, I don’t make a killing but I do make money.  And that in itself has beaten that 97 to 99 percent who don’t make a dime.  Now I’ve taken my business as far as I can by doing one to one work.  I can make a couple of thousand a month by doing graphics for customers but why stop there?  After all, I know some marketing and know that I can leverage my time and money.

So during the last year I’ve been working one on one with customers doing their graphics and have lost my vision of the number one thing I should have been focused on which was building a list.  Now I’ve joined another coaching course gearing me toward building my list and once again, this course has a student forum.  Since I had made money from the last forum I was in, I knew what I had to do.

So right off the bat I was asked to be a forum moderator which helped me to place myself in front of the students.  I not only moderate for the forum owners but I began to give service to the students for free.  Two things happen when I do this.  The first is the students see me as an authority in the topics I answer for and the second is since I give so much in the forum, many students will no doubt use me for my services in the future.

This is called forum marketing because I’m able to help others with their issues and at the same time be able to make money later on because I’ve already built a relationship of trust with them.  They also feel the need to reciprocate by doing something in return for the services which I give them for free in the forum.  There is a quote that says that if you help enough people get what they want then you will eventually get what you want.  I truly believe that since I’m seeing it yet again in another forum.

So if I were to tell you one thing it would be this.  Stop trying to make a million dollars online and try to just make one.  Why?  Because when you know how to make one then you can duplicate it over and over again.  Think big but start small.  Don’t get it right, just get it going.  I could give you many great quotes but they will all mean nothing if you don’t take action.  For years I learned and learned and made nothing.  Now I act and money shows up in my Paypal account almost daily.

In the forum I’m in now I’m not even doing graphic work but instead have been uploading websites and configuring Aweber accounts.  I barely learned how to do this myself over a year ago and now have people begging me and offering me cash to do it for them.  For now I don’t take their money but later on after I create another website and set up payment buttons, the people will come.

Why?  Because I stepped in between students and their mentors.  I’ve listened to their questions and concerns and I know their wants and needs.  More importantly, I’ve been where they are and give them words of encouragement.  And in the end, they will gladly pay me to relieve them of the burdens they face.  It will be a win win for everyone involved.  I know you have marketing skills.  Whether it’s graphics, hosting, autoresponder, writing, or even socializing, you have a skill others don’t.

Give that talent away and people will come asking you “how much”  Think about it and give it a try.  I’m proof it works and I know you can do it to.  It’s already been two weeks in this forum I’m in about list building and already people are asking me “how much” and are begging me to take away the stress of the things I find simple.  Many people think I’m dumb for wasting so much time doing a lot of work for free and most of that comes from my family.  But they don’t know.

They don’t know that by offering my services for free now will gain me huge returns in the future.  Forum marketing is not sneaky or wrong.  It’s a great way to offer your service and then patiently wait till people are banging down your virtual doors with their wallets open asking “How Much!”  People want to pay me money, they want to get personal mentoring from me, they want to know how I “know so much.” 

It’s not what you know that makes you money, it’s how you use your knowledge to help others.  Once you get that, then money will start to flow.  I’m beginning to see that I can take my knowledge and show someone how to upload a website and how to configure their Aweber account.  What if I recorded what I did?  Would others pay to see the videos?  Would others pay to see how easy it is for me to do it?  Sure they would. 

What about all the praise and comments people make about me in the forums?  Those would make great testimonials to add to a website that would help boost my credibility and authority.  Add a few payment buttons and there you have it.  A money making website ready to go complete with a service to offer and praise from people you’ve helped.  So many people are looking for the quick buck without doing any work for it but I believe in hard work.

I believe in being honest to myself and to the people who I work for.  To me, I’m a different kind of marketer.  One that cares about the success of others regardless of how much they know.  I want to motivate and encourage.  And if they still don’t get what I’m teaching or saying, I don’t want their money.  I know I can’t be all things to all people so I must know my limits.  But I must also know my worth.  Words to ponder don’t you agree?

So now I give you some homework.  First make a list of your strengths online and of your weaknesses.  Then I want you to take some time to learn and build upon your weaknesses and get help and answers with them.  I also want you to be confident with your strengths and begin to help others who don’t have them.  Be their guru.  You don’t have to know everything online to command attention and be a help.

After a while of helping, make notes of the comments people leave you and also make notes on the problems people face online.  Try to come up with solutions and you will have your next product.  Product creation is for another time and another post.  For now I just want you to see the potential you have to actually make money from first giving a service.  I’ve already told you I’ve sucked at building my list and have joined a course to learn more.  But in the process I became a mini guru to those students who have less knowledge than me about uploading sites and setting up autoresponders.

Who knows, you may see a product soon with my name on it that I can sell over and over again which will increase my already growing business.  Please let me know your thoughts and more importantly, “What can I help you with?”   Until next time…

I came across something that has given me 53 subscribers in just a few hours and by the time this post is up for 24 hours I will let you know even how much more it has grown.

You need to check out The Viral Secret  to spend 10 measly minutes to set up your very own VIRAL list building website that Russel Brunson just launched.

I’m not joking around here. I’ve been tearing the remaining little hairs out of my head to get myself to build a list but it takes a while to motivate myself. If you use Aweber and already have a list name created, all you have to do is plug it in and your set.

The cool thing is that once you sign up and upload your list details, they give you a special link to promote a free list building site to others. Everyone who goes for the free site gets on your list and the whole thing goes 6 levels deep. So now that I signed up, I am on 6 marketers lists all by filling in one form.  After I got my affiliate link and placed it in my browser, I noticed my picture and email newsletter listed in the 6th position on my Free Viral List Building Site.

Now I send visitors to my link and when they sign up, they are automatically on my list.  Of course they have to double opt in to be fully on there but at least they signed up.  Now if just 10 people do what I did and the same thing continues, by the time I reach the number 1 spot on other peoples list building site, I could potentially have thousands if not tens of thousands of email addresses.

In just the time it took me to write this post my subscribers increased by another 6 subscribers.  This truly is going VIRAL.  The best part is that these people are on my list so every email sent is actually sent by me with my list name.  Unlike other list building sites like ListDotCom.com which shows ListDotCom as the sender of the email instead of your own list name.

Only time will tell whether this Viral List Building free site will amass me thousands but for spending only 10 minutes of your time and getting it all for FREE, this is truly a no brainer.  Never mind the $97 upsell as it only gains you extra exposure and doesn’t gain the affiliate any extra cash.  All cash goes straight to Russel Brunson but who cares as the purpose is to grow my list very very fast which it seems to be doing.

As a matter of fact, the time it took you to even read this post is all it takes to set this up and begin building a very huge list in a very short amount of time.  My link has some pretty big names as the 6 marketers who you get to sign up under so be sure to sign up here in order to get some credibility with your free list building site.  I will keep you all posted so until next time…  Check out The Viral Secret!

As this year winds down, Alex has decided to give what I consider the best freebie of the year and I’m not just talking about what Alex has given, I’m talking about the entire online marketing community as a whole.  Alex doesn’t just give you a bunch of rehashed marketing junk but what he’s giving away right now is actual coaching for free.

You are going to see first hand how Alex had his first of many $10,000 days but he’s giving this away for a very limited time and yes, I do mean “limited” as you will be blown away how he did this.  I am currently working online full time and yes, it’s due to what Alex has taught me and continues to teach me today.

You’d be crazy not to go and let Alex teach you for free what I paid several hundred for merely months ago.  Now if was able to quit my job, then there’s no reason why you can’t do the same.  Literally hundreds of people leave Alex great feedback on his blog each time he does something like this and today is no exception.  So click here to learn first hand how Alex had his first of many $10,000 days. 

Alex is offering this for a very limited time and he actually means it.  The vast majority of marketers have no clue that what Alex is going to show you is even possible and once he does show you how he makes massive cash from his genious methods, you will be loving Alex all the way to the bank.  Until next time…

I now chalk this up to information overload and have written a short report about getting back to basics and how to start treating this online thing like a business.

Go ahead and sign up below to get your copy so you can save yourself from information overload.

Update:   I also just wanted to let all of you know that today is a special day for me too.  Because I just did what most of you have been wanting to do for a long time now.  I just quit my job!

Exciting and scary to say the least.  I finally decided that my success lies in the decision to be successful and I’m not just going to wait around and see if this stuff really works or not.  I know it does cause there’s a million people online doing this full time.

So that’s what I’m going to do.  You all can use me as an example because you will see me fail or succeed right here on my blog live.  And now that I’ve gone full time with this, I can concentrate on doing graphics for my friends and pumping out free stuff to help you succeed online as well.

Sound like a plan?  Now remember that you need to get Information Overload and give me an honest review because I’m giving some great bonuses to those who leave the best comments.

You gotta tell me what relieving you of Information Overload will do for you and why you deserve the bonuses that I’m giving away.  Here is just an example of one bonus that you will get.

I’m going to show you how you can email to hungry paying customers in only 30 minutes from now.  I know you are all trying to build your lists but this will create instant cash if used correctly.

Now that I have the time to create and run my business, I will be able to work with you and for you to fast track your business like I am mine.  It’s a win win for all of us.

So don’t forget to grab your copy of Information Overload above and get to really taking this online business stuff serious.  If your only dabbling in marketing online then you really need to decide if this is for you cause in my opinion most of those people are in that 99% who fail.

So get to leaving those comments because I’m excited to share with you my bonus above when it’s ready.  Oh and by the way, you will be able to make money with it because it’s going to be rebrandable.  Until next time…

People begging for money and trash in every corner.  I wondered how a city so beautiful can be this trashy at the same time.  It’s proof that whatever you want to find in any place on earth you can find if you just stop to look around and pay attention.  The same is true with people.  You can either think that the so called “Gurus” are non approachable or you can decide that you will make the effort to stop and take the time to see what is inside of these people.

This brings me to Omar Martin.  I went out to Las Vegas to meet up with my mentor Alex Jeffreys and attend Mike Filsaimes Butterfly Marketing Workshop.  Alex gave us 25 to 30 students some great information and some great training.  He has kept giving as his mentoring program has been finished for awhile now.  I met up with him and some of the action takers he has produced (meaning us students.)

Paula Brett, (hi sweetie) introduced me and some others to Omar Martin, one of Mike Filsaime’s business partners.  As a internet selling newbie myself, I felt like I was in the presence of royalty or something  much like when I saw Alex and Mike but it was a lot different because I decided to start talking with Omar Martin.

The guy was personable and polite.  He was funny and outgoing.  I could see the passion in this guys eyes when he talked of his wife and their desire to have a baby, and of his story from nothing to something.  You see, all of this took place in the social scenes of Las Vegas.  We were not at a convention or seminar.  This all took place at the bar.

Now Alex had taught us that business happens at the bar but I was not sure exactly what that meant until it actually happened.  Not only did I receive what I consider a piece of gold by Omar giving me an advanced copy of Internet Selling For Newbies but he gave me a friend.  I spent the entire night with with this guy and several other of us students of Alex’s.

I picked his brain every chance I could and in every instance he gave the most candid and honest answers I’ve ever heard from someone who has made it online.  Needless to say, by nights end ( or should I say morning ) I had received more information in a social night with Omar than I did with my own mentor  Alex Jeffreys and Mike Filsaime.

In his generosity I found a copy of Internet Selling For Newbies which he gave to a select few of us.  I wasn’t able to immediately go through the material until I came home.  After all, I was in Las Vegas.  I was impressed with the classroom style of teaching during the videos and the easy to follow assignments.  This indeed is a course that even most of us who have been online for a while now could use.

I really wish I could have recorded the conversations about internet marketing that Omar had with us because after speaking with him, I had so many ideas and a clearer focus as to what I need to do to succeed online.  Some of you come to this blog as my peers to discuss business and to have fun with each other but for those of you who feel that you really are a newbie as I do should get a copy of Internet Selling For Newbies as soon as it’s available June 16th.

Omar is proof that you can go from nothing to something in only 18 months.  The number one thing I saw in him that distinguishes him from the others is that he is persistent and pushed forward even when he failed.  He did not blame anyone or anything for his failures but himself.  I think most of us quit at that place where the scale is just about to tip in our favor only to turn around because of frustration and fear.

It would have been easy to be one of those people who say, “Yeah, you only succeeded because you work with Mike Filsaime.”  But the truth is that Omar succeeded because he never gave up and he went to those who knew more than he did to get the answers he needed.  He also took his adversity and make them strengths.  He is one guy I would love to emulate.

Those of you who are willing to do something about your future will see the results without a doubt.  You must be willing to be sociable and step out of your comfort zones.  I did and it paid off big time.  Thanks Omar for the copy of Internet Selling For Newbies and for the fun time we had in Las Vegas.  You truly are one to watch.  Until next time…

I want to thank all of you who have taken the faith to trust me with your graphic design and for that I am grateful.  I haven’t made a killing or anything but the work has been steady and some of you are still waiting for completed projects.  All I can ask is for you to please be patient with me as this is a major “Fail forward fast” moment for me.

Most of us in the internet marketing world still have day jobs, or in my case a night job and do the online thing in our spare time only after we are motivated to find something else to supplement our “non secure” jobs that sustain us from day to day.  I know many of you are in that same boat as me and are currently doing something about it.  Just know that it does take time and please be patient.  It’s so worth it.

The relationships I’ve made with many of you are so much more than customer based.  I consider most of you my close online friends and will get a chance to thank you in person in Las Vegas at the end of this month and look forward to talking with you face to face and getting as much video as possible.  “Plus a few JV Partnerships wouldn’t hurt” LOL

Alex’s mentoring program has helped me so much to just get it going and I thank him for that.  I am sure his seminar for the two days will be hyperactive as he is and his guests will be just as entertaining and informative.  It’s going to be a blast I’m sure.

The next two days folowing  Alex’s event will include me joining an elite group of people getting first hand experience with the Butterfly Marketing script as Mike Filsaime and his colleagues train us and help us set up live, our Butterfly Marketing sites.  I could do this on my own so the money I spent on this is purely for the contact and getting myself out there, seen, and known.  Not to mention I’ve never done anything like this before in my life.  How exciting!

Ironically, in this months issue of Mike’s “The Best Damn Newsletter” this is his number one choice he gives for the reason why marketers are successful.  “Going to events” will do more to your business than any online thing you choose to do.  Direct contact still remains one of the biggest if not the biggest form of branding out there.  The most successful and most profitable JV partnerships occur from the interaction at these live events.

So I must be willing to take off my shy suit and start to communicate more and be memorable.  I must be willing to approach people and introduce myself.  Remember what Alex told us.  He kept asking questions and tried to meet as many different people as he could.  Just look at him now too.  What an example to all of us he is and I can’t wait to shake his hand and let him know what a great guy he truly is.  And I plan to do that to most of you as well. 

Thanks to all of you who give me instruction and who help me to succeed when others just go on worrying about themselves.  It will come back a hundred fold as it has for me.  Thank you, thank you, thank you to some of my friends and customers…..

Gary Simpson, Garry Parkes, Thom Swartwood, Nikki Stephens, Adam Spiel, Chelsea Filan, Sean Beardmore, Dave Pumfrey, Sandra Rodriguez, Harry Harris, Dan Blackburn and many more for chosing me to do some of your projects for you.  It’s fun to work with you and for you.  I wish you all success and hope to see you in Las Vegas.  Until next time…”Hopefully face to face.”

After some poking and prodding from those of you who like my work, I decided to launch SimpleEcovers.com, a website designed to give the online business owner vision for their products and services.  I failed forward creating my site and making it functional for all of you.

In the end I decided that instead of wasting time to get it “just right”, I would just get it going.  I still have to get some information on the site but it’s live and ready for you to get designs for products and services that you need in order to get your own sites live and running.

Making designs for products is fun for me because I like bridging the transformation from visual product to the digital.  Most people who buy online products get them in some sort of digital download and before they buy, they need visual stimulation to help them to realize the value of the product or service they are buying.

I’m sure those of you who choose to promote products through Clickbank or Paydotcom have seen really great graphics for products and some really bad graphics.  I’m sure most of you have skipped right past the crappy graphics sites as I have.  The product could be really great too but if you can’t get past the blurry or outdated graphics that catch your attention right at the beginning, chances are you won’t make much money with that product.

Many of you also purchase private label rights or master resale rights products to sell separately or add to other paid products that you own.  What better way to brand yourself than to get a new set of graphics for that private label rights product and this coupled with changing the name of the product and including your story can greatly enhance your business and your credibility… not to mention saving you time.

If Alex Jeffreys, Mike Filsaime, and others can do it then there’s no reason why you can’t do it too.  I want to thank all of you who have encouraged me to go forth with starting my graphics business.  This definitely will not be the only business I run but is a beginning to offering even more products and services that I have created and plan on releasing in the near future.

With the help of the Butterfly Marketing script and all of the training I’ve received over the past several months, more and more continuity websites will evolve so we all will need to be creative with what we offer future customers online.  If we leverage our time and talents, create JV partnerships and give great value and support, there is no reason why we shouldn’t get our piece of the internet pie.

So go and check out SimpleEcovers.com and let me know your feedback.  If I’ve done work for you please leave some comments on this blog post and I’ll add them to the testimonials section of my site giving you exposure.  I not only want to do your graphics but I want to help you get known online.  Until next time…

This post is to give a little background about what’s been going on and hopefully will stimulate those of you who are just waiting for something to happen to you, to get off of the fence and start considering what you can do or contribute to what I now consider a wonderful online family.

I decided a while back that I wanted to create and sell my own products online and that was it.  I didn’t want to “work” for someone else or be told what to do.  I have some background using Adobe Photoshop and because I am so cheap and hate to spend money, got into creating my own graphics for my websites, blogs, and ecovers.  I purchased certain graphics and action scripts that I could use to create my own stuff and that’s what I’ve been doing for all of this time.

I’m the kind of person who loves to learn at my own pace and is very curious as to how all of this internet marketing stuff works so I spent a lot of time looking at source codes of many websites and learned how to do practically everything on my own without the cost of schools or tutors.

Because so many of you and my fellow AJ students were giving so much, I decided to start doing free graphics for those who I saw were taking action and actually building their online businesses.  I started by visiting blogs and whenever I saw a crappy looking graphic image, I just emailed them and created a new ebook or ezine graphic free of charge.  We all know the value of a product coupled with a great image can give a higher perceived value.

As I have given to several of you who are probably reading this right now, it has been fun for me to get my creative juices flowing to design something to your liking that helps brand you, your business, and or your products.  I thought I would dread “working” for others but have found quite the contrary with graphic design.

A fellow AJ student and friend, Gary Simpson has been prodding me for a couple weeks at least to get him an ad banner linking back to my site to let people know of my graphic ability.  The problem was that I was not sure if I really wanted to do all of this “work” for other people.  It’s a lot more fun to give than to receive and there is no pressure of giving bad quality as I haven’t asked for money in return for my services.

This brings me to today.  I realize that I cannot continue to just give free all of my talents as I still do have a family to provide for and this is the reason I got online in the first place and paid for a mentoring program to help me build a business for myself.  So you all can thank Gary Simpson for what I just did.

Today I registered the domain SimpleEcovers.com and put up a “launching soon” page and put a brand new ad banner on the right side of this blog.  If you haven’t noticed it, just look to your right.  Everyone who I’ve done an ecover for in the last couple months will be my featured graphics and testimonials section as I’ve kept every single email and or comment about what I’ve done for them.

This gives me instant credibility for a new service which I will be offering and gives my “freebie” clients links back to their websites.  It’s a win win for all of us and since I do not consider myself a graphics guru at all, my prices will probably be the best online as I still have quite a bit to learn.  I never thought I’d be making banner ads, twitter backgrounds and ebook covers that cover the internet but there they are.

I still will be doing free work for those who really need it or have a low budget but the end result will be a successful online graphics ecover and minisite business.  And it won’t stop there either.  I’ll be of course continuing to produce other high quality information products as time permits.  Also, I’m not going to go and pimp my business all over the place unless I’m providing real value to other peoples blogs.

I want those of you who are still struggling to know that you do have talents.  Please just tap into those talents and do what makes you happy.  I never in a million years would have thought that I would launch an ecover design site but here it is, almost ready after just a couple months of helping others and a couple of days of building my site.  Don’t let anything stop you from your dreams and I promise you that success is a lot closer than you realize.

I want to personally thank those of you who let me work for you and give what I could.  I thank you for your praise of my work which gave me the confidence to go forth with this business.  You all know who you are and I’ll be over to your blogs soon.  Success isn’t determined by the amount of money you make but rather how you perceive your life.  I’ve made new friends and helped others to succeed.  That’s all the success I need to continue on.  Thank you, thank you, and thank you.  Until next time…