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CD Fulfillment and DVD Fulfillment Made Easy and Automated

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Selling Information Products is one of the Hottest Trends on the Internet and many people choose to use CDs and DVDs to supply Customers with their Content. Some people use the CDs for Audio and DVDs for Video while others use them for a combination of both Audio and Video as well as Text Documents. Either way, using CDs and DVDs as a medium to deliver content has certainly made it easier for people to sell their products and services. In comes CD Fulfillment and DVD Fulfillment and using Aqua Websites Professional Version, you will be able to do this with ease.

Some people sell their CD and DVD sets for $1000’s of dollars. I recently purchased a set of 5 DVDs for $995 from Adam Davis and sometime back last year I bought a CD for $2997 from Stephen Pierce – both of these were Information Products and made me many times their cost from the content. So for some of you who are not aware that this is an easy way to distribute content and that you can charge good money for it, please do and know it is only going to Increase and that you can be part of this and make money!

Having your own CD or DVD is one of the easiest ways to form credibility within the marketplace. Using CDs and DVDs for Demonstration purposes is popular as well but with Video on websites now possible thanks to the speed of the Internet getting faster, Demo Videos and Audios can be put on the Internet for free and easier than sending CDs and DVDs out at a cost. So now with Video on the Internet it saves companies the cost on Demo CDs and DVDs but what about people selling CDs and DVDs.

There are a some major issues with Selling and Delivering CDs and DVDs that I have seen my customers face over the years. These are as follows

1. Where the CDs and DVDs have not been produced properly and are returned at a cost to the provider and additional costs and the time involved in having to do that.

2. The time involved in producing CDs and DVDs in-house is a major distraction and uses computer resources that slows down the normal business operations to a point of being annoying.

3. Running out of stock and having to order or produce more CDs and/or DVDs when they are already busy enough.

4. Stuffing the envelopes and getting the Postage/Freight sorted to be sent on time each day and charging correctly for Interstate and International Orders.

5. Keeping everything going on a constant basis all year round when people are ordering and expecting deliveries. In other words it becomes another job instead of being an automated business process and can grow into a logistics problem if not systemised correctly.

So you would agree that running this type of business can be quite time consuming to be able to get it done right? Would you also agree that it would be great to Automate the Entire Process and relieve Businesses of this time and money consuming chore of creating and delivering CD and DVDs?

Well NOW, there is no more time consumed in selling CDs and DVDs for Businesses who choose to use Aqua Wbesites Professional Website Software and CD and DVD Fulfillment!

You see I took the initiative to Set up and Program the Website Software I provide Businesses, to Totally Automate the Ordering of CD/DVD Creation and Delivery to be shipped anywhere in the world for US$6 per CD and US$7 per DVD!

You see CD-Fulfillment is a CD Publishing and DVD Publishing Fulfillment Business. They burn CDs and do CD duplication while you sleep or spend the money you make selling the CDs and DVDs. It is very easy for them to Publish your CD or Publish your DVD and then Duplicate your CD or Duplicate your DVD and then perform the Fulfillment across the world into any country!

I know that sounds so cheap and too good to be True! But it is now possible!

You can have your Aqua Websites Software
order a CD or DVD Files to be

1. Burnt on a High Quality CD or DVD.
2. Have a Matt or Glossy Colour Label placed onto the CD/DVD.
3. Placed into a proper DVD Case.
4. Plastic or Shrink wrapped just like at the shops.
5. Sent anywhere in the World in a rigid Box that protects.

All for US$6 per CD and $7 per DVD!

Let me run through how and what happens in the Set up Process!

1. You set up a Free Account with www.cd-fulfillment.com. Once you have done this, then set up a CD or DVD order which can contain 1 or multiple CDs and DVDs as one Product. You name the Product (CD/DVDs), set your own CD/DVD label and Cover and all details at this point. If you go to their website, you can watch Video Tutorials and see how this all works and how easy it is to set up an account and a CD/DVD Order. Take a peek, it is so easy!

2. You enter your CD-Fulfillment Username and CD/DVD Order ID into the Aqua Websites Website Software I provide and is detailed in full of all the features at www.aquawebsites.com. The process of entering the details into my software is simply entering an Email Address and some numbers and then it is all set and ready for the Customer to order.

Next lets go through what happens when a Customer now orders a DVD from your Website.

1. Your Customer shops at your website, orders and pays for the DVD. Immediately the Order is PAID (must be fully paid for in order to activate), then your website will send a string of information about the order including the Purchaser, Delivery Address and Invoice Number to the CD-Fulfillment website Automatically without you or your customer having to do anything.

2. Your Customer receives Invoices from yourself about their order and successful payment and also receive an Additional Email that is from CD-Fulfillment that lets them know their DVD order has been received and will be shipped within 24 hours.

3. The time it takes for orders to be received is usually 7-10 days to Anywhere in the World! The minimum is less than 4 Business days within the USA and a maximum of 2 weeks to every location on the planet!

4. If there is a problem with the DVD not working when the person receives it, or it is damaged during postage, then the Customer is notified in the package to contact CD-Fulfillment in order to get a replacement. (Instead of you!)

5. You and your involvement for this Order is now reduced to Nothing. OK well you will need to do 2 things – First Pay Your Bill to CD-Fulfillment (30 days in Arrears meaning you pay 30 days AFTER they have sent your CDs or DVDs out) and Second Spend your Profits Wisely. The second part I personally like!

So there you go! A fully Automated System that sends CDs and DVDs to anywhere in the world that will only require you to set up your CD or DVD order once!

Some Important Points and Details are as follows

*      No Initial Set up fees to join and get started.
*      The files for the CDs or DVDs are stored on your website (not accessible to public) and once CD-Fulfillment have obtained the files off your website storage during the set up, then you can remove the files from your website storage.
*      DVDs larger than 1 GB, will need to be sent to CD-Fulfillment in the USA and you are required to pay a US$49.95 set up fee.
*      Multiple CD and DVD sets can be sent and are much cheaper to send the additional CDs and DVDs as the main costs are in the Packaging and Postage.
*      You can send the CD/DVD with a matte based label in a paper based sleeve or a glossy laminated label in a regular plastic DVD case, the choice is yours and the costs so very cheap!
*      You can upload and specify the CD/DVD Label, DVD Covers and even have a document up to 5 pages printed and inserted into the DVD case.

For some time Businesses have been tied down to Digital Products such as document, audio or video files being delivered automatically. By taking advantage of this fantastic service your Businesses can expand it’s opportunities by being able to automatically outsource the creation and delivery of CDs and DVDs worldwide.

The question you need to ask yourself [Firstname] is
-> What can you start selling on CDs and DVDs?

Then head over to my website and order yourself the software that will automate the whole process for you! www.aquawebsites.com

Thank you for reading this Blog, I hope you can see some more ways to make more money on the Internet through Automated CD and DVD creation and delivery!

Please leave a comment!
From Vanya Markiewicz
Chief Programmer and Developer of www.AquaWebsites.com

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How to Bulk Resize Photos and How to Bulk Resize Images

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Bulk Photo Resizer resizes images and resizes photos in secondsFind out about the Free Download version of Bulk Photo Resizer. It is exactly what you need when it comes ot resizing photos.

Original photos are almost never the right size for your web site. They usually take too long to show up on the page, because it takes time for a large file to download. They’re usually to big to fit on the page where they are supposed to. And when you resize the photo, whoever or whatever was in it becomes too small.

It’s hard enough learning to code the page. The last thing a budding webmaster wants to do is spend zillions of hours learning technical details of image processing. Luckily for you, today’s programs bundle the most important features into a single, very affordable program. We will feature Bulk Photo Resizer in this article (it’s free download to try out), and we’ll explain the key things. We’ll cover file sizes, compression, photo resizing, and cropping. Once we’re done, you’ll be able to put images into your web page.

No matter where you got your photos, you’ll need to make sure they are the right dimensions and file sizes for your web site. Dimensions means the size of the picture that you see on the screen. File size refers to how much data the picture contains. The bigger the file size, the longer it takes to download and appear in the visitor’s browser. Web surfers are a finicky lot, so you can’t afford to have a site that takes much time to bring up its images. And the more images there are, the longer it takes for them to appear.

The good news is that you can shrink the file size without giving up much photo quality, by using compression. Bulk Photo Resizer makes it easy to do.

But how big should your photo dimensions be? Start with the screen size of the average monitor. Some are larger or smaller, but many are 800 pixels across. If your picture is really important to the site, then you might want to fill the main column of your page. If it is less important, than you might fill half of your main column and have text flowing around it, or you might place it in a narrower side column. Once you decide on your page layout, you can turn that into real numbers. Let’s say you have a single side column of 200 pixels and a main column of 600 pixels. For the largest, most important picture, that would limit you to 600 pixels minus whatever margin you have (padding) around the picture, so it doesn’t sit flush against the sides of the column. Unless it is very important to your site, you don’t want to have more than one large picture. For a side column, you would limit the picture to 200 pixels, minus your padding around the picture.

Using Bulk Photo Resizer, you can click on Resize and then select custom size to get the exact width you desire. Just set the width, and Bulk Photo Resizer will make sure the height is exactly the right proportion to prevent any stretching of your image. Keeping everything the right shape is called preserving the “aspect ratio.”

If you have purchased stock photos or are able to create high-resolution photos, then you’ll have no problem making a good impression. If the resolution of a photo is not so good, then you might try making it a smaller size so that it is not so noticeable. If you are doing your own photography, be sure to get to know your camera. You can adjust the resolution to a higher level if you need to. This will take up more of the camera memory, but it will be worth it for the really important or detailed shots.

Once you have decided on the size of the photo, there is something you’ll want to do before you resize it. At least you’ll want to do this with most photos. It’s called cropping. When you crop your photo, you are trimming away the outer areas of the photo in order to feature the important objects or people in the photo. Our featured program, Bulk Photo Resizer, makes this very easy. If you don’t like the result, you can discard the change and try again. You can use Bulk Photo Resizer for one picture at a time, or you can use it on hundreds of photos all at once. Our testers told us that it was nearly impossible to make mistakes.

I can think of one mistake you don’t want to make. Be sure to save your photo with a different file name when you make a major change to it. This way, if you decide you don’t like it, you can start over with the original image. I like to add an underscore, and then the number one for the major version, then a letter for the smaller changes. My first change would end in “_1b.jpg,” for example. I might even add something to remind me what I did, if the project is likely to get complicated. For example, “_1b_crop.jpg.” The nice thing about 1b, 1c and so forth, is that it keeps the image versions in chronological order when they are sorted by name in Windows Explorer, the program you use to look at the directories and files on your hard drive and peripherals.

When you save the photo, you will need to know how much compression to use. At least you will want to compress it when you produce the image that will be going onto your website. If you are just saving the image but with plans to do more to it, then don’t add any compression. If it is a .jpg, then keep the compression setting at the highest (meaning highest resolution). If the image is a .bmp, then it will not compress until you save it as a .jpg.

A compressed photo takes up less space, and it downloads to your visitor’s browser faster. The problem with compression, though, is that you lose quality. If you do too much, then your photo can become pretty blotchy. Nearly all the images you see on the web are compressed. The .jpg files are best for images with shades of color or gradiants of light and dark. The .gif files are popular for solid color art such as typical clip art, especially if they use transparent areas to get a non-square shape. The .jpg images can’t do that. They can pretend to, though, by using the exact same background color as the spot they will be in. If you do it right, the background will blend in with the website.

If you are saving your photo in its final form, then you will want to use at least some compression. Bulk Photo Resizer makes compressing your photos quite easy. For compression that is not too obvious, use 80. The scale is zero to 100. 60 is a lot of compression, but the image starts to be noticeably blotchy. You probably won’t be able to tell there’s compression at a setting of 90 or higher, but it will still reduce the file size a good bit.

Remember that other web sites, such as picture posting sites, social networking sites, and dating sites all have rules as to how many kilobytes a photo can be. If they say it must be less than 100 KB, then check the size of your photo in a program such as Photo Resizer to see if your photo needs to be compressed or made smaller. Either action, resizing down or compressing, will give you a smaller file size.

Let me make sure you understand the difference between image size (dimensions) and file size (kilobytes. This confuses a lot of people. The image size is how big your photo looks, the file size is how much space it takes up on your hard drive. Bigger file sizes take longer to show up on a web page because the visitor is downloading them in their browser when they go to the page.

Now that you have cropped your photo, you are ready to resize. Be sure not to enlarge the photo. Bulk Photo Resizer will prevent this. The reason is that when people enlarge digital pictures, they start to get jagged edges, that we call the “jaggies.” I’m talking about the little squares that make up the image. When they get too big, they look like the effect used on TV to obscure someone’s face or license plate. That is called pixelation. You’ve seen pixelated images on the net, and it looks pretty amateurish.

As you might have guessed, cropping the photo gives you smaller dimensions. Bulk Image Resizer keep tabs on this for you. You will know the exact dimensions of the photo.

Of course, there’s plenty you can learn about digital photos and putting them on your web site, but we have covered the most important things: cropping, resizing, compression, and saving. I hope you enjoy creating your beautiful web pages!

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Creating a Website that Makes You Money while you sleep!

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

One of the many things to look for on a successful website is “What is the business model being used?” or, put another way, “How does this website make money for its owner?”

Figuring out the business model on a website is not always so easy, but it can be well worth the effort.

Many people take to the Internet with Traditional Business concepts and ideas. Without educating themselves about the internet environment, they most often make gross mistakes that cost them both time and money. I truly hope you haven’t experienced this and that this email helps you focus on direct, easy steps to making money on the Internet.

The 2 stumbling blocks to success I see most often are…

1. People don’t know how to define a Website Business Model for their current business.
2. People don’t know how to go about creating the Content in the Website – most often taking the long way around to do it.

The first thing most people do is try to sell a Physical Product that they have been selling for some time – a product they are familiar with. Although this can work, it doesn’t always work well on the internet – and the person is left wondering why their website doesn’t do it for them. Rather than going into the reasons why this is so, I’d much prefer to steer you in the RIGHT direction – to follow what I and many other successful marketers see as the Current and Future Trends that will make money for years to come.

Selling Information Products through Text, Audio and Video!
Yes it is pretty simple and perhaps doesn’t sound too exciting to some of you, but it is by far the easiest way to automate a business income on the internet. Before you  dismiss the idea out of hand, you should understand that it is a simple process. Whatever you do well makes you an expert to one degree or another in that particular field. If you create content explaining how to do what you do well, then you are in a position to assist others to succeed in this area. It is this type of information that people seek most strongly on the internet. It is what people most readily PAY MONEY FOR!

Explaining what you do in text, audio or video makes your information easy to access as a digital product. That makes for simple website automation.

Here’s a case in point: One of my favourite clients asked me what would make potential clients come to her website and buy from her? Her potential clients were people, she’d established, who would not accept her sales calls and who never responded to emails that she sent them. Well, I was excited by her question. I asked her what she did in her business. When she explained, I said “Well why don’t you teach people how to set up a business that sells products like yours and stop trying to sell to people who already own that kind of business!” WHAMMO! She nearly fell off her chair. In that moment she really came to understand how I see the future of the internet – and what her money-earning part in it could be.

My client was able to take everything she knew about running the businesses that she was supplying her products to at a wholesale level, and WITH THIS INFORMATION help others set up a new business. What would they then be likely to buy in order to stock their shelves? Naturally enough, her products!

I hope you get the point here. It’s not often that what you’re doing currently in traditional markets will make money for you on the Internet. People want information from the internet. People want to know how to DO things. YOU could be a major supplier of that information in your chosen niche market.

The fact is, you can charge more money and attract more people by teaching them how to Make Money, rather than by trying to sell them something that maybe won’t make them money. People who are looking to move into a New Industry or Profession are always going to need a coach or mentor – at least some sort of guidance to help them along. You can be the provider of this – and in a Digital Format that sells online while you are sleeping, working or holidaying!

And there are so many tools that allow you to expand your business beyond your local territory and into the global market. Selling content in a digital format makes it possible for a sale to be totally automated. Instead of car parking space in front of your Retail Business, your restriction becomes how many languages (other than English) that you can use to present your business globally! Successful website creators understand that the only limits on the Internet are set by their ability to communicate effectively with ALL potential clients – with the aim being to offer them something that they really NEED instead of what they think they WANT.

OK Let’s look at the way content can be created and presented on a website that makes you money while you sleep. It’s a lot easier than you think, but hard to discipline yourself to put the time into doing it. I do the sort of thing I write about here all the time as a full time job. Yes, it keeps me up late at night working at times, but it also lets me live a life that most people dream of, so the choice is yours… The question to ask yourself is what will you miss out on tomorrow if you don’t do it NOW?

I’ve put together 3 Business Models that will help you understand…

Members Area of …..(you fill in the blank)………….
eg. Members Area of Extreme Water Skiing
(Charge people a recurring fee eg. $95/year or $47/month or $9.95 a month)

1. Put together a list of 30 topics that can be 3-5 minutes (500-1000 words) long on each one.
2. Open up a word document and branch out on each topic on 1 piece of paper of the most important/major notes and points that need to be put on that Topic.
3. Come back after completing the 30 topics and open up each Word Document 1 by 1 and add to the base points of each topic. Do not do any more than 2 pages per topic if you can, to avoid a lengthy read for your viewer (unless it is totally necessary – less is more and better sometimes).
4. This is now in text format and can be easily made into Video & Audio files. When you do this they are worth a lot more. For creating Videos, I use Windows Movie Maker which is installed on every XP and Vista machine and is far easier than using Powerpoint or Publisher or any Photo Editing program. It’s just so easy to make movies!
Here are some Tutorials on using Windows Movie Maker on the Microsoft Website.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/create/default.mspx
Here is a Complete set of Videos training you in using Windows Movie Maker
This is a very valuable resource as you can come back to it anytime and keep learning.
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2/
5. Compile this into the Members Area (Password protected) and always be adding, say, 3 new ones each month, so that initially you work hard to get it in place to create the business. As business comes in, you can put more time into the business side and smaller amounts of effort into the content going into the Members Area.
6. From the Videos that you produce, you can make small advertisement-type videos and upload them into You Tube and many other Video Websites that will bring you traffic and help create your profile. (I will be sending an email out all about promoting Videos through external websites other than your own very soon, keep an eye out for it!)

21 Day Guide to …..(you fill in the blank)………….
eg. 21 days to Making your Own Backyard Landscape Feature
(Charge people a once off fee eg. $9 or $21 or $247)

1. Open up a Word Document and put together a list of things people can do 1 day at a time for 21 days. The list must be 1 thing for 1 day and be about 15 mins activity to do.
2. Then go back over and create a new word document for each Day and then write out the base for each day in bullet point form.
3. Finally go back over each of the 21 Word Documents that you created and fill in the details of each Day. Put in any special requirements and activities they might need to do. It is important not to get fussy about formatting the content. Just put it on the screen in front of you, as the formatting in the website must be done later, not in Word, as emails cannot and do not like Microsoft Word copy n paste.
4. Again you can also create the content in Video and place the Videos on webpages in your Website that you provide to people in the Emails you send out.
5. The Emails are then delivered for you each day automatically and all you need to do is answer support emails and keep your content updated.

Ebook on ……. (you fill in the blank)………
eg. Master Guide to Unlocking your Full Potential
(Charge people an average fee of $5 to $97 once off)

Open up a Word Document for each Ebook and then type out the Table of Contents for each Ebook.

1. Create the Title for each chapter and then put in about 5 or 6 bullet points of what you want to have each chapter cover.
2. Come back to each Chapter and then start to write the content.
3. Go to Outsourcing Websites (Elance/RentACoder) and have the ebooks formatted and proofread and turned into ebooks with graphics. I find RentACoder cheaper and has more people bidding on my projects and I have met some people that I look forward to working with on a constant on-going basis due to their work quality.
4. Place ebooks into your Website so that when people purchase them online they are sent automatically for you to their email address and all you need to do is collect the money and answer support emails.

For all of you who cannot stand typing, there is an even EASIER SOLUTION!
Simply put yourself in front of your Video Camera and then record yourself. It is far easier for some people to talk candidly to a camera in order to produce content. Thanks to Technology, these people can get away without typing very much at all!

You see Video Files can have the Audio Extracted (available within my website software) and then the Audio can be transcribed using Voice Recognition Software (I am about to release my own MP3 Voice Recognition software in the next 7 days!) that will create a Text version. So you then have an Audio and Text version from your Video! Content can be created effortlessly, it is just up to you to put in the effort to make it happen! See my new Voice Recognition Software at www.mp3-voice-recognition-software.com

So how do you Automate all this and have a Website that makes you money while you sleep? I provide my software to Businesses all over the world. You can read about it more here www.aquawebsites.com

I hope this has given you some ideas about what you can get up to on the Internet. Quote: If only 5% of Websites are successful, why would we ever copy what MOST people do? Please consider the opportunities presented here for your business, even if just by looking closely at the alternative Business Models. Look into what technology is available right now for you to use. Automate, so that the time you have is optimised. You can really own a Business that provides a growing income with little ongoing maintenance, yet is able to produce income on a constant basis – whether your bricks and mortar retail storefront is open or not!

Here’s yet another Client in my Mentor Programme who has listened to and acted on the advice he was given. What a pleasure to have this man in my mentor program! He’s always checked in with all things related to his website, always made changes according to what he was shown that works by myself and he’s reaping the benefits! In February he had his first Holiday in 15 years – 8 days off – paid for right from his PayPal Account – the profits from his Website!

I’m so happy for him -  and so much more happier to know that he is making an average of more than 1 sale a day of his Ebooks offered on his website. He has promised a testimonial soon and I will be sending you a copy of this and a link to his website, so you can see what he has done. I am so pleased for him, his wife and their little baby girl, as they really have now got a Business beyond what they had before. One that will release them from the prison a retail store can be to a Business Owner. I share this with you as it is not always about making a million dollars, it about changing the income and forever because of it, spend less time to earn it! I mean, every business owner is worth so much an hour (in reality based on hours they spend in a week to how much net profit they pull out) and to increase your income for less time doing it, means you are learning to pay yourself more an hour and this grows and once oyu learn to do it in a small way,you know you are promised the returns when you really set your goals and focus and achieve!

OK, I have really gone overboard and given you heaps so at this point I’ll simply say if you have any questions about this Blog or would like more information, guidance or details in regards to your website, then please leave a Comment!

Thank you for the reading this Blog!

Cheers,
Vanya Markiewicz
www.aquawebsites.com

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