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During the fall, in August, I felt like I had been working too hard and it was time to take some time off. I rented a lovely villa at www.villalouhela.fi

So I packed up my kids and my husband and I was so looking forward to the weekend with no hassles, just some relaxing.

When we arrived at the location it was so quiet and so peacefull, just what I had hoped for. The place is really excellent, no wonder they have loads of Russian customers, the place has it all.

They have these excellent grills for the Russian customers for meats on scewers, we had to give it a try. You must start burning wood in the grill early, no ready made coals are being used. We got some lamb from a near by farm and some vegetables and scewered them and placed them on the grill, basted them and grilled them, what a treat.

This villa is fully equipped, it has all modern facilities, including a wireless internet connection for up to four computers! They even have a massaging chair, which I used a lot that weekend.

After dinner all of us went for berry and mushroom picking. The special thing about Finland is something called everyman’s rights. That means that no mather what country you come from, you have the right to go to any forest and collect all the berries and mushroom and you get to keep or sell them.

So my kids went and picked wild blueberries and guess what? I found loads of porcini mushrooms, the kind the Italian are dying for and certainly are willing to pay the top dollar. So this took care of my “just sitting in front of the computer and not excercing at all”-problem. What better way to excercise that go in the woods after mushrooms? ( I also found chanterelles and other edible mushrooms)

We warmed the sauna that is on the same area, on the lake shore and after all that I must admit, I slept like a baby…

ps if you want to know more about traveling to Finland, what is available where I live, please go to www.lintuinmaa.com

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I’m sure you’ve come across this too. You get an offer that says you get something free, but if you take the offer, you might end up paying monthly fees (you can cancel anytime). Or get free alternative for product x, but you have to buy the original first and if it wasn’t what you expected, you get a refund and the free alternative.

So if free really free?

Occationally you might get a free product, but you have to pay for shipping. To me that is fine, it is usally mentioned at the beginning, so it does not come as a surpise.

But you know what they say… there is no such thing as a free lunch…

I have joined the 30 day challenge. I must admit I’m a bit late starting (it started in August) and days just seem to vanish somewhere. Well, it is fall and the mushroom picking season here.

The thirty day challenge is about finding a niche and making money from it in 30 days. It is very interesting and completely free. Like they say: “There is no charge for awesomeness”…

The videos are nice and easy to follow and not boring at all and come with ecxellent content. You can join the thirty day challenge here

What is it about an offer, that makes you want to buy an affiliate product or join one of those MLMs?

These are the things that definately turn me away from the product:

- if the name has the word millionaire in it

- if there are loads of “proofs” about the wealth this person has made from it

- if it clearly suggests that you’ll be making millions with just seconds of work

What I look for in a product is that it makes sense and doesn’t seem to be one of those “magic tricks” but is really something doable.

These days I don’t join anything or buy anything really easy, I’ve joined and bought loads of useless crap, that I want to invest my money wisely.

One waste of money was a dvd promoting a new product. The sales letter stated how excellent if was and all that and how the promotor was even willing to pitch in for the shipping, if money was tight. Well the dvd seemed very interesting, so I ordered it. (I paid for the shipping myself). The product was interesting until I saw the price for joining: $1500! Hilarious price for a product when marketed to persons who couldn’t even afford shipping…

So back to my initial question: What kind of marketing appeals to you??

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If you already have a list, that’s great. But I bet you’d still want to make more money from your list, right?

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There is one thing that I find strange about writing testimonials. For some reason, they are always asked before you can actually see if you are ever going to make any money with this product. I must admit, I’m really not a good liar and to me it’s extremely difficult to write a testimonial before I’ve actually given a try at the product. I’ve once had to write a testimonial to an affiliate site, so that it would meet the guidelines for Yahoo’s PPC advertising. Needles to say, it wasn’t enough and there were more things that needed to do to meet the guidelines.

So when I read other peoples testimonials, I really don’t believe them at all and does not effect me in anywaye. (Except that I find them annoying).

I’ve just enjoyed the lovely fall weather, and I’ve been picking wild mushrooms (chantarelles to be exact) all day, cleaning them and frying them. What a living!

I’ve watched Frank Kern’s marketing videos on his site. In the second video he talks about the rubber neck effect, which basically means, that for some reason people don’t see the pretty flowers on the side of the road, but if there is an accident, they certainly are interested. In the video he tells how he has tested his rates of opened e-mails by changing the title of the e-mail. For some reason the e-mail with the subject “bad news” was the one that was opened the most. Well, guess what. The next morning I woke up, I had my e-mail inbox flooded with “bad news”. What a way to start the morning!

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