Firstly let both Allison and myself wish you all a Happy Christmas
and a peaceful and prosperous New Year.

This is the time of year where I set out my plans for what's to
come so in this newsletter I have decided to let you into some of
my plans for the coming months and have a bit of a review of what
has changed for us during the past year. And what a difference 12
months makes.

At the start of 2006 I was still focusing on building Adsense
portal sites, I was churning out 10-20 sites a day using my auto
building system which created the sites, and a blog farm at the
same time and then automatically posted links to the blogs every 4
hours . 12 months on and the sites I build are very different , I
now build small 10 page sites with either Adsense or Pay Per Lead
ads and promote them with article marketing and social book
marking. I now build only 1 or 2 per week and I am concentrating on
creating large themed sites with multiple sub domains. I have built
in the ability for me to switch from Adsense ads to CPA ads
instantly this allows me to use 2 copies of the same sites and test
how both types of ads perform.

At the beginning of the year my sole source of income was from
Adsense now it is only a small part of my income my aim is to
gradually ease back on Adsense until it is only earning me about
20% of my income. I have made a lot of progress with affiliate
sales this year and I have some product sites that are earning
consistently. I have also started to make some income on Pay Per
Lead ads. I sold my first products during the year and created my
first list.  (You my dear friends!) .  I have also been writing
online income related articles for a few magazines.  I have also
added the profit sharing sites I mentioned in the last newsletter
as a source of income however this is planned as a long term
residual income so I am just adding the occasional $100 and not
planning on withdrawing anything until late next year.

Around the middle of the year I handed over all the promotional
duties of my sites to Allison since then she has discovered talents
she never realized she had. So as well as promoting all my sites
she now writes articles for people along with e-books. In the last
4 days alone she has written over 30,000 words.  I am seriously
considering setting up a site promoting her article writing luckily
for us we have a neighbor who has had research papers published and
used to write parliamentary documents in England who can help out
if Allison gets too busy. So if you ever need any articles you know
where to come.

Next year is looking good I have a plan in place to hopefully
treble my income between now and late next year.  My plan last year
was to double my income which I had managed by February. So you can
see there is a lot to be said about making a plan and I would
encourage you all to sit down and make a plan before the New Year.
I'll write something in the blog later today about making plans.
(income-academy.com/blog)

My plan for next year involves lots more PPL sites,  a membership
site selling ppl/Adsense sites  maybe a bit of coaching and I have
a couple of  collaborations planned with other people who earn all
their income online. Plus there is something coming in the next
week or 2 that will be huge and may shape the coming year for many
people. I'll write about it you as soon as I am able to.

I have recently finished doing a number of phone interviews with a
friend of mine and he has made them available on his blog
http://www.bloggerwizard.com/xmas-2006/  you'll see them at the
bottom of the page the 2006 one relates to what has happened in the
past year and the 2007 is my predictions for the year to come.

And finally Thank you all for listening to my ramblings over the
past few months I hope you got something from them.

That's it for this year as ever if you have any questions please
feel free to emails me and you'll find this and additional material
on the blog http://www.income-academy.com/blog/

So a peaceful and prosperous new year from Allison, Emily (my
daughter) and myself.

Below is the latest email i sent out along with some further resources..

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Hi guys,

We thought it about time we did an update. At this point I’d better explain something. If you have subscribed recently you will probably receive this out of sequence with the other emails , this is because the first 7 are on an auto responder and set to go out in sequence as they are more general in nature where as I am now going to be sending out these emails in real time, so apologies If you are having to read a couple of messages today.

Sorry if I’ve been a bit quite recently I have a number of projects that I am working on that are taking up a large portion of my time and I feel lucky and privileged that a number of software developers have asked me to test their software. There are defiantly some interesting tools going to be coming onto the market in the next few months.

However there still seems to be a big imbalance in the market that really should be exploited. The majority tools that I get to test all seem to concentrate on generating sites very few actually address the problems of getting traffic and site promotion. There are many tools that will address part of the problem for example if I want to promote a new site. I can use a tool like article post robot to post to article directories, link directory submitter to post links to site directories, rss submit to submit the feeds to feed directories but nothing that will take the links/rss feeds and automatically submit them. If you want to make a lot of money, work on creating a combined site promotion solution.

I’ve been looking closely at CPA (cost per action)advertising since the publicity that surrounded “the Death of Adsense” well obviously Adsense is not dead or even close to it but the very fact that it promoted CPA is a good thing. For example it’s approaching Halloween so If you were switched on you would have created a few Halloween Adsense sites last month to grab the seasonal traffic. I looked at Halloween related CPA products and found that you could give away free packs of Halloween candy on your site and for everyone that signed up for the free candy you would have been paid $1.80. Now I don’t know about you but I am sure that giving away candy is something that most of us could do.

Christmas is just around the corner so why not look and some Christmas orientated CPA programs and add them to your sites, it really isn’t necessary to look at the programs that pay big money like Adsense some of the best money can be earned by aiming at the lower paying programs that most people will ignore.

Finally a bit of an update on what I’ve been doing to earn money over the past month or so.

I’ve been concentrating on 3 types of sites recently Viral Instigator 2 , VP-A sites (virtual property architect) and my own type of sites where I build a small article site with unique articles and then add a commonsense search site to the back of it which is linked to from the article site.

Along with my product sales and a bit of affiliate marketing I have also added a new type of income to my “portfolio” Autosurfing. If you know about Autosurfing you will probably think I am mad. If you don’t know well it’s probably better that way unless you like a gamble. Autosurfing is only to be done with money you have spare I had a spare $60 a few months ago that I was quite prepared to lose and with some careful program selection and some referrals I’ve managed to build that to over $1000 already my daily income from it should be around $100 a day by the end of the month.

As I said only ever autosurf with money you don’t mind losing and withdraw your initial amount asap and then just use profits to upgrade with.

This is getting a bit long now so I’ll finish here. I’ll also place this on the blog and add details of any resources mentioned.

www.income-academy.com/blog

Until next time ..Good luck.

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Ok now for some further information..

You can actually build Viral Instigator 2 sites for free at the moment pete has set up a 50/50 deal where your adsense code will appear 50% of the time and his the other 50% this is ideal if you want to give it a go.

Viral Instigator

I also mentioned VP-A ( http://vp-architect.com/) This is a great system for building and promoting article sites from one interface. It’s excellent if you are experienced and you can identify niches that aren’t well targetted and have a good amount of articles already written for them. I’ve built some sites that are getting a 30% CTR and decent impressions but I have other sites that are doing nothing. I am convinced that the keywords are the key to sucess. I wouldn’t in all honesty reccoment this for someone who is new to the adsense and site building business but if you are experienced, can build templates with includes, then this could be well worth a try.

Finally autosurfing…. I really had a struggle about whether to mention it in my newsletter. Autosurfing Is high risk and you could lose your money but then because of the risk the rewards are high I personally know people who are earning $720 per day every day. I myself started at the end of july with $60 and I now am earning a considerable amount of money, I should be upto the $720 per day limit within 2 months. As I said this is high risk and you only should use money you can afford to lose. I am very wary about reccomending this to anyone but if you want more info I have an ebook you can have that explains it all. Email me at mark (@) trackbikes.co.uk with the subject autosurfing and I will send you the ebook and talk you through things.