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One of my least favourite relatives made one when he was twenty two and he made the same one every year until the year that he died at eighty five years old. He resolved to be more unpleasant and meaner with his money than he had been in the previous year. He succeeded in keeping that one. A friend, who left school in 1956 made one, that was even more shocking in those days. On Jan 1st 1960 she resolved to loose her virginity, as she said she was sick of holding on to it like the crown jewels. She did not have much difficulty keeping that one. My resolution is much more mundane. I have resolved to get one issue of Path2prosperity News out at least every two weeks. I hope that you will encourage me to keep that by sending me information that you think should be discussed in the publication.

Most of my readers have told me that they found it much harder to sell their products and services in 2007 than they had in previous years and I am one who has neglected a lot of my product marketing and concentrated on trying to build up more working capital in the paid to surf industry. It is a sad fact of life that you need money to make money. You will not succeed online without money to advertise your products and services. Internet sales and marketing is nothing but a “Mugs Game”, if you try to use every free tool and service, that promises to make you wealthy. I have used the paid to surf programs as a means to an end, as I sincerely believe that this is the only way to generate a short term cash flow. I do not advise people to think of these programs as anything but a means to an end. You could end up finding it difficult to un entangle yourself from their system, if you commit yourself too deeply. I have tried to devise some sort of “game rule book” for people who want to make some quick cash to get their online business moving. If you are interested, please click the Cyberspace Jungle banner at the top of this page. Some people have told me that they found it very helpful.


I do not believe that it is possible to make a serious online income, other than in the very short term, if you do not have your own domain and your own products to sell on your own web pages, but there are are exceptions to every rule. I sincerely believe that you have pay for the best products and services. You really do need money to make money but I will attempt to outline some circumstances when this premise does not apply.


Free security products are the best tools for people who are not IT professionals. They are the basics which are not usually incompatible with one another. You can encounter systems incompatibility with the more advanced versions. Use the free versions until you have discovered the best corner of the market, in which you wish to trade and then progress to the more advanced security that is required for that specific application.






This practice has been tried and tested offline and it has been proven, as a very reliable means of catching the consumers’ attention. Software suppliers that know they have a good product, are more than happy to allow web site owners to download it for a trial period. What better way to get a consumer hooked? This is often a very good sign of the manufacturers’ integrity. They want people to know, that the product they have downloaded, is fully debugged and will survive against ferocious competition. Everybody who advertises online needs hit counters and traffic stats and there can be few businesses that can compare with the outstanding record of reliability of Web-Stat for this purpose. I use Web-Stat to track advertising results and I sincerely believe that none of the opposition can even match them on reliability. What other online business can claim that they have had 99.998% uptime over last 6 years? You can download a 30 day free trial from my link.


People in online sales and marketing are like people in any offline business. They move on, change directions, or downsize their operation to suit their own customers. They make donations just like people who donate clothes and household goods to charity shops. There are those who donate high quality products and those whose free tools are bug infected. Take care to find out where the products have come from. I am delighted to announce the fact that I have benefited from the generosity of John Partington, to the extent that I have listed him in my Unsolicited Testimonials web page. I advise anybody who is looking for free software or webmaster tools to bookmark his site and to have no compunction about any software download which he gives away .


When stock markets across the globe start falling there is one Universal reaction. Uncertainty! This is a time to sit back and reflect. Markets correct themselves. There is nothing that anybody can do to alter the situation. The slow down gives us all a breathing space and we can analyse the obvious. Professional opinions are invaluable in the short term but financial systems are evolving systems and long term predictions are are no more reliable than the long term weather forecast. Everybody’s opinion is invaluable. So in what direction are the markets heading. We know one thing for certain. Crime is, always has been and always will be the fastest growth industry. Crime prevention is second. Now is the perfect time to make sure that you have all your affiliate links properly cloaked before the markets start gathering momentum again, which brings me to another trend.

Television networks had the lions share of large Corporations’ advertising revenue until recently. The effectiveness of television advertising is dwindling. People with Internet access are spending four times as much time on the Internet as they are watching TV and ninety percent of DVR owners fast forward their machines to avoid the commercials. Big brand advertisers are well aware of the fact, that their advertising is nowhere near as effective as it was ten or even five years ago. They are turning to the Internet and you can benefit from this revolution.

Web site owners with their own domains, blogs or even a splash page can add code to the site so that a short audio advertisement is played whenever anybody visits the site. You can get paid for these running these advertisements and it costs you nothing. You can also earn by referring others and what is more, you can earn from your referrals’s referrals. This is a real ground floor opportunity and you can get in before the official launch on February 1st 2008. There are comprehensive tutorials on online promotional strategies which include instructions on how to cloak all your affiliate links so that your commission is not stolen. It would be a great mistake to miss out on this very rare ground floor opportunity. Please review the information very carefully.

Nowhere is this trend so marked as it is in the paid to surf industry. People have earned money by promoting hot air, tripe and nonsense and pure “Bovine Manure,” ponzi programs in this industry. This has given the paid to surf industry a very bad name but it is here, where you will notice the trend more markedly than anywhere else. Some of the program administrators have already signed up very large contracts with media companies, who are sharing their customer base with the paid surfing program and its members. I would advise anybody to spend at least $5 to join Surf180 and learn some of the promotional techniques that the owner Travis has utilised to negotiate a very large contract with the media giant LaTravita. You can earn a daily income from this program which offers five different wealth building plans. It may not be as big as MyNetAudioAds but it has a head start. I sincerely believe that there is no way to earn quick money online by any means other than earning from the paid to surf programs. Regard them as a means to an end not an end in their own right.

Henry Ford knew that he was not particularly well educated person, he also knew, that he was not a particularly clever one but he used his intelligence to build an Empire and go down in posterity as a Captain of Industry. Intellectuals were well known for their attempts to belittle Henry Ford, who always had a simple but meaningful reply to their jibes. When asked, if he knew the answer to a complex technical question, his reply could not have been more straight forward. It is a reply that I quote time and time again. The famous Henry Ford reply. “No but give me five minutes and I will find somebody who does.”

A lady, whose knowledge of the subject, strikes me as one of the most erudite on the Internet, hides behind a “persona.” She goes into hiding at times and will only communicate in a lingo which could be Ancient Greek to most of my readers namely “Aussie Slang.” I do have her translation of the phrase “A Bunch of Crock.” It means unreliable. If I can translate Aussie Slang into my style of writing, which I describe as “Cynical Ancient Brit,” I will have some really profound thoughts on the Gold Rush 2008 for the February edition of Path2prosperity News. Please come out of your swamp dwelling, my dear “Croc Gold” and correct any unreliable information that I have published on one of my own web pages. E-currency Accounts.

The first step that would be gold seekers need to take, is to find themselves a reliable gold and precious metal broker. The best advice that I can offer in this respect, is that it makes sense to use exchangers which can be deemed the best of the old and the best of the new. I have used London Gold Exchange and ExchangesPlus and I have no hesitation recommending either of these services. Both score very highly when it comes to customer care and satisfaction.