Why I Bought Joel Comm’s Instant Resale Templates
No doubt you’ve heard all the hullaboo going on about Joel Comm’s Instant Resale Templates since its launch on the 1st of May.
Well, I just ordered a copy this morning and here’s why.
The package includes all of the following components:
Instant Resale Template Collection Components
- 100 HTML Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 HyperVRE Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 XSitePro Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 WordPress Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 phpBB Templates (with Resale Rights) $2,500.00
- 100 Headers in 5 Formats (with Resale Rights) $1,667.00
- 500 New PLR Articles (with Resale Rights) $3,000.00
- Sales Letter with Graphics $10,000.00
Instant Website Starter Kit Components
- AdSense Answers Ebook (with Resale Rights) $150.00
- Squeeze Page Success Guide (with Resale Rights) $97.00
- Getting Traffic To Your Site! - Ebook (with Resale Rights) $97.00
- How to Get Free Web Traffic - Ebook (with Resale Rights) $77.00
- The AdSense Traffic Guide (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- Website Content Ebook (with Resale Rights) $125.00
- Omakase Ebook (with Resale Rights) $79.00
- Chitika eMiniMalls Secrets (with Resale Rights) $197.00
- Color Tips Ebook (with Resale Rights) $77.00
- 2 Bonus Ebooks (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- Multi File Editor Software (with Resale Rights) $297.00
- KaleidoSite Pro Software (with Resale Rights) $150.00
- 14 Video Tutorials - almost 3 Hours (with Resale Rights) $1,400.00
EXTRA Templates & Graphics
- 182 Niche Templates (with Resale Rights) $197.00
- 49 Squeeze Page Templates (with Resale Rights) $200.00
- 81 Video Squeeze Page Templates (with Resale Rights) $169.00
- 306 Basic Templates (with Resale Rights) $297.00
- 80 WordPress Themes (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- 76 Photoshop Templates (with Resale Rights) $199.00
- 5 One-Time-Offer Templates (with Resale Rights) $67.00
- 54 Landing Page Templates (with Resale Rights) $79.00
- 88 Marketing/MiniSite Templates (with Resale Rights) $300.00
- 40 Plain Templates (with Resale Rights) $50.00
- 44 Newsletter Templates (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- 300 Website Buttons (with Resale Rights) $100.00
- 45 Extra Header Templates (with Resale Rights) $100.00
The amounts listed represent the approximate value of each component and in my experience, many of those are low.
For example, Joel includes 500 New PLR Articles which he values at $3,000.00. I don’t know where he gets good articles for $6 a pop, because in my experience it costs at least $10 to get a ghostwriter to write a semi-decent article and then you still have to do some rewriting to make the article presentable.
Too, I’ve spent $250 and more for developer editions of Wordpress templates, which includes a licence that allows me to use the template on more than one site. Joel values his Wordpress templates at $25 each and not only can you use them more than once, you can resell them.
I’ve paid more than twice as much as Joel is selling the whole Instant Resale Templates package for, AND it includes resale rights… AND there’s a whole lot to be made in reselling ‘chunks’ of a package.
All in all, I thought it was a great deal and will be even after the price goes up later on today. (See note below).
Check out Instant Resale Templates now.
NOTE: OTHER affiliates are selling the package for more, but I got a special link from Joel, so YOU can still get it for the original price $97.00. 
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SBI! Owners Speak
I know I haven’t written much about the SBI! (Site Build iT!) web site building recently, believing that webmasters will become more self-sufficient in the long run if they start their business by going the blogging route with BlueHost and Wordpress.
That plan may be too much of a stretch for some new webmasters, however, and where SBI! is an excellent fit.
Rather than list the 100’s of features and benefits of Ken Evoy’s SBI!, I thought it would be better if you saw videos of SBI! owners saying exactly what they love about the website builder.
There are 12 videos on this page and you’ll see why everyone from work-at-home moms, retirees, regular guys and even 6-years - with a WIDE range of interests - can manipulate SBI! with ease.
Better yet, Ken is having his annual I Love SBI! $100 Valentine’s Day Special… valid only until the stroke midnight on February 14th, 2008.
For your viewing enjoyment - and a chuckle - click ‘read more’ to see “A Cowgirl Dares to Dream” by Donna. Read more
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Avoid Mountains of Work - Get a CMS Sooner than Later
If you arrived here via NPT’s homepage today, you’ve already seen the site’s ‘new look’.
Granted, I didn’t change the design very much, but the ArticleLive back-end is absolutely b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l! Now I won’t have to revise and upload 100’s of HTML pages every time I make a change to the basic template - yee-ha!
When I told Anik Singal that I was going to a new CMS, he mentioned that he really liked the original NPT layout because it was ’so easy to find what you’re looking for’. Well, finding the information you want should now be even easier with well-defined categories, featured articles with links to related articles and reviews.
The only downside to changing over to ArticleLive was that I made it a D-I-Y project. Duh.
Ergo, not all of my 100’s of articles are in the database yet, and there may be linking problems from within some of the older articles (if you find an error, please be kind and let me know), but the essential articles are all there and I’ll go through them with a fine-tooth comb to make sure they’re up-to-date and linked to the most helpful resources.
So, words to the wise. Get a great CMS when when you start your site (not 5 years into it) and avoid a HUGE mountain of work later.
Anyway, now that I’ve scaled that mountain, it’s time for some R&R in the Rockies. Yee-HAAAAAA!
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At Long Last… The Perfect CMS!
Well, the Year of the Pig really is already proving to be my year. Not only was I born in a pig year - but I also finally found the content management system (CMS) software that answers many of my prayers… ergo, I now look as happy as the little pig you see pictured here to the left.
Let me explain…
Up until now, I’ve recommended that affiliates - who have little or no knowledge of HTML - put up a blog on their own domain using the Wordpress platform on a cPanel host.
Compared with using an HTML editor to build static pages, blogging with Wordpress is a simple and inexpensive web-based site-building method that allows a new webmaster to get their site online very quickly, and requires only a TINY bit of effort to use Fantastico within the cPanel interface to install Wordpress. Best of all, blogs are traffic magnets.
Wordpress has a few limitations that can be a bit frustrating, however. Although creating categories and sub-categories for posts is simple and straightforward, page (article) categorization is clunky. If you are inclined to make a page for each one of your articles, the list of pages in the interface could just go on and on and ON and a minor ‘clunkiness’ could become ‘VERY frustrating’ in a big hurry.
To solve this problem, I’ve been hunting for a better system for more than a year, and am happy to report that after reviewing a great many free and paid content management systems (CMS), I’ve finally settled on what I think is the very best of the bunch.
That CMS is …
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Are You Being Held Hostage?
Many folks are surprised when they find out that I do most of the design work on my web sites and have been doing so since I started my business in 1998.
You may think that doing your own design is a waste of time and that it is better to outsource it all. And sure, I have outsourced some of my design work, particularly the ebook covers. But I personally find it frustrating to wait for site and logo designers.
Sometimes you fork out $199 for a logo or header graphic which ends up looking like a 2 year-old could have done a better job; or, you hire the same designer that everyone and his brother in the niche uses, and your design ends up looking like the ’same old, same old’ with only color and text variations.
So, I don’t wait for designers… especially when I can do a good job myself in 10 minutes to an hour. Not to mention that it’s fun! For me, it’s a break from the ‘work’ of writing.
What’s ‘fun’ for me however, is a a DAUNTING prospect for others. For newbies especially, designing or building their own website may seem absolutely impossible..
Quite frankly, however, I think it is a far worse prospect for your business when you let someone else have control over every aspect of your site. Too often the webmasters I talk to have been ‘working on their sites’ for six months to a year and more, and they still don’t have a clue how to FTP a page to the server, let alone insert a table into an HTML page.
As far as I’m concerned, that’s like making your auto mechanic responsible for making sure that there is gas in your car and air in your tires.
For example, one webmaster, with whom I spoke recently, spent a THOUSAND Aussie dollars, (about $780 US) to a company for initial hosting and design work. All she got was …
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Halloween Treat… Do You Dare?
BOO! If YOU’ve been thinking of getting SBI!, now is the time to get a move on, while Ken is doing one of his rare ’specials’… buy one, get the next for just $100. Think you don’t need or want 2 sites? Well, here’s a stat for you. Half of SBI! owners own more than one SBI! site. Then again, if you’re feeling generous, you could also give it to a friend or a loved one.
Stay-At-Home-Moms and Webmasters should also take note…
BTW, this offer lasts only until the stroke of midnight on Halloween.
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SBI Valentine’s Special
Still pondering which web host you should do business with?
Here’s an offer that may help you decide…
I’ve been recommending SBI! (Site Build iT!) to new webmasters for years, especially those with a ‘fear of HTML’.
And from now until Valentine’s Day, February 14th, Ken Evoy has a special promo going… get your own SBI! account, and add another one for just 100 bucks.
That’s 100 bucks for a full year of hosting, plus a complete set of ecommerce, market research, site building tools and too much more to mention here.
Before you decide, I invite you to read through real-life case studies of people using SBI to build their online businesses.
Or go directly to the SBI! site and check out the multitude of features that Ken offers.
Happy Valentine’s!
Cheers,
Ros
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