I know that I often say that building a list and mailing to that list is one of the most important things that you can do for your online business. Just about everyone else that I know of says the same thing as well, and do you know why?

It’s because it’s true!

Having a subscriber list actually does work and will boost your profits dramatically!

But then why do so many people not have a newsletter yet? I think there’s an easy answer to that, and it’s that maintaining an email list and writing an on-going newsletter can be hard work and tiring for some people.

Having your own newsletter can do wonders for you, but sitting down every few days to write a new newsletter issue takes time. This is why I am happy to show you an amazing idea, something that I wish I had thought of years ago.

The idea : What if you had pre-written newsletter issues ready to be sent to your subscribers, and all that you would have to do is load them into your autoresponder?

How easy would that be? Imagine how simple that would be and the money it could bring in… talk about real hands off money making!

I don’t know about you, but when I was first starting out online I couldn’t afford to get 50 or 100+ newsletter issues written for me, and I sure wasn’t going to write them all myself.

This is where this idea becomes really exciting… you don’t have to write them all yourself nor do you have to pay someone to write them for you!

All of the hard work has been done for you, that’s why it’s called “Instant Newsletter“!

Instant Newsletter makes it so easy to start your own newsletter without doing much work, that can pay off for years to come. You can set it up one time and let the newsletter series deliver the pre-written issues automatically to your subscribers.

For even more profits, you can put in your own affiliate links so that you can be selling products without having to write a single email yourself! It’s worth it to check out Instant Newsletter.

You can thank me in a year from now after you have been making sales without ever having to write an email.

It’s that time of year again when we decide to make the next year better then the last.

But here is a question: Did you work your hardest to make 2008 better for you then 2007?

For me, and for you too maybe, I work hard for the first few months of the year, but then I slack off and things get left behind. The main reason I think this happens is because of the lack of a proper solid plan up front.

Sure, I write out some goals and a plan at the beginning of the year, but it’s not as detailed as what it should be. Therefore it’s easy to take it slow and not work as hard since you dont know exactly what you need to do everyday. How solid is your plan for 2009?

Over the next few weeks, sit down and take a lot of time to write out a proper solid plan for your online business in 2009. Make sure to make it as detailed as possible with incremental goals along the way, leading up to your main year end goal.

Will you join me in making a decision right now to take enough time over the next week or so to make a solid business plan for 2009? If you will, just reply to this blog post with a simple “YES!”. If you want, also include what your goals are.

If you have not yet expanded your online business into other niches, then it might be time to do so, for a few reasons.

#1. Since you are an Internet marketer, you know A LOT more about how to sell to people online then most other people. If you go into a niche, there is a good possibility that you will know more then anyone else about how to market your product/service.

#2. Set up some virtual real estate niche websites to help protect your business. You should diversify and create many different income streams so that not all of your income comes from one or two places. What would happen if those places no longer “worked”? You can watch a video I created about virtual real estate here.

There are a few ways to set up niche web sites. You can either create the sites yourself and/or pay someone to do it for you. Or you can get a big package of several different niche websites which are already made and are ready for use.

Xavier Nelson has a great niche virtual real estate package that might be perfect for you, check it out here.

One project that I am involved in this week has reminded me just how important networking and building up a friendship with other marketers really is for your business.

My long-time online friend Barry Richardson contacted me this week wondering if I would be interested in being involved with a little Christmas giveaway which he was planning on starting. So of course I said yes. The result is this quality little Christmas giveaway.

He and I have talked on and off for years now online, I can’t even remember how we first meet. But due to that friendship we continue to help each other out to this day.

You never know who you might help today who may become a valuable business partner or friend in the future, so get out there on the forums and start networking and building up relationships with other like-minded people.

One great way to do this would be to create a free report for a specific marketer that you want to help out. Then simply send that report to them with no strings attached, allowing them to give it away to their list without feeling pressured into doing something for you (although they probably will later on when they remember what you did for them).

Because Barry had built up a relationship with six other marketers, they all agreed to join this giveaway on short notice. What can you do today to start building a business friendship?

I am amazed sometimes at how creative some marketers can be to create buzz for a new product that they are planning to launch. One recent great example of this is of Frank Kern’s “Infomillionaire” product which has already sold out.

A few weeks ago Frank decided to start a Facebook group called the “Shenanigans Team” which is all about playing jokes on other top marketers. At first I thought it was just a neat funny idea, but it wasn’t until after I saw how much buzz he got from it that I realized it was made to be a lot more then just a fun time.

His first joke was announced all over the Internet marketing forums and groups in a matter of just a week. It all happened very quickly with a lot of buzz being made about Frank.

Even though the buzz wasn’t in particularly about his new product, it grabbed a lot of people’s attention just as he was about to go into pre-launch for the product. He did a great job at attaining a like minded captive audience.

What can you do to create some buzz about you and your product? Think out side the box!