News By Tom Brownsword

I’d like to tell you about two good sources of information that can help you spread the word about your business. Neither of them will cost you anything but time.

The first is Dr. Mani. Yes, he has a last name — and thankfully has never gotten upset when I failed to remember it… But that’s branding for you. I could talk about Dr. Sivasubramanian and you’d probably skip right over the passage — but if I talk about Dr. Mani, you’d be more apt to stop and listen. But they are the same person.

So Dr. Mani (Sivasubramanian) it is.

Dr. Mani is once again running a campaign to raise awareness for his CHD (Children’s Heart Defects) campaign. You see, Dr. Mani is a surgeon… a pediatric heart surgeon — and he uses both his medical and marketing skills to try to raise CHD awareness a couple of times each year. Beyond that, he works tirelessly behind the scenes to provide life-saving heart surgery for children whose families could not otherwise afford it.

As a parent, I thank God daily for my healthy, happy children, and if providing a little link might mean the difference between another parent knowing my joy and… the alternative (which I won’t mention here)…

Well, here’s the link. Please take a moment to click on the below graphic and learn more about Dr. Mani and his CHD program (and PLEASE consider donating to this program):

Beyond the CHD campaign, Dr. Mani also has four different mini-courses going on right now. They are being released on his blog (at http://guydz.com/moneypowerwisdom). All of them will help you learn how to leverage marketing tools. Doing it his way will also help increase inbound links to his CHD site (so if you want to “play along at home”, PLEASE do it his way!).

Here are the topics:

• 10 Day Niche Blog Challenge
• Squidoo for CHD Challenge
• 7 Days to StumbleUpon Supremacy
• 6 Day Twitter Traffic

So go and check it out. Make a donation if you can, participate in the challenges if you can… Do both if you can.

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Next up is Jimmy D. Brown. Jimmy has created a lot of helpful products and I gladly promote them. In fact, the quality of Jimmy’s products are so consistently high that they are among the small handful of products that I will recommend and promote without seeing them (although, to be honest, I do like to purchase them if possible and if they fit a need I have).

Here are some of Jimmy’s products:

Small Reports Fortune (my personal favorite!)
Sales Army Secrets
List Profits System
Subject Line Secrets
Email Strategies Explained (Use this link to get a $150 coupon!)

I’ve also recently signed up for his “Membernaire” course which teaches you how to run a membership site the easy way:

Jimmy D. Brown’s Membernaire

But my main reason for all of this is because I simply want to tell you about an affiliate contest that Jimmy and his affiliate manager, Nicole, are having to celebrate their birthdays. If you’ve ever been interested in affiliate marketing but don’t know where to start, I strongly encourage you to get involved in this contest. It runs through February 15, 2008.

Now I do want to mention that I question the value of affiliate marketing as a viable, long-term business strategy, especially if you want a freedom business. It is, however, a great way to start making some money online with a minimal investment on your part. I know that some of you reading this will be happy just making some extra money — and affiliate marketing works well for that — as long as you promote quality products that are distributed by honest, ethical people (in other words, choose carefully. Please. And I’m not going to belittle you if you just want to make a few extra bucks every month online; that’s fine with me! Free choice reigns…). So while I don’t recommend affiliate marketing as the path to a freedom business, you can make money from it and you’ll learn a lot about online business in the process.

So why am I recommending Jimmy D. Brown’s affiliate contest? It’s simple. There is a list of 16 things you can do to promote his products on the contest page. You can go there and get these 16 strategies at no cost; he doesn’t even want an email address. If you do nine of these things (and sign up for his affiliate program), Jimmy will give you a copy of his “Super Affiliate Strategies” course at no extra cost.

Think about that. Take action. Do nine things to promote a product for which you will receive a commission if somebody buys. Learn how to better market from somebody who makes a good living doing so. Get a product from Jimmy about affiliate marketing. And possibly win some other prizes along the way. And you can then take these same principles and apply them to marketing other products — including your own.

In other words, free learning — and possible cash in your pocket. But only if you take action. You get nothing if you don’t take action.

So head on over to learn more about this affiliate contest where everybody can win if they take action. And thanks, Jimmy and Nicole, for setting up an ingenious program that will reward anybody who takes action — but gives nothing to those who sit on the fence.

Happy Birthday, Jimmy and Nicole. And don’t forget to help Dr. Mani help children.

Thanks for listening,
Tom