Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Launching of the Ewen Chia's "Stuff Your Inbox with Cash" modular toolkit -- a lesson in elective astrology

How to represent email in the chart? Words, signs, letters, messages, calls, short communication of any kind are represented by Gemini and its ruler Mercury. If you wanted to write an ebook on email marketing, when is the best time to launch it? Since the Moon is the widest possible appeal, such a work should have ideally have the Moon in Gemini, preferably in excellent aspects. That is why I was truly excited when Ewen Chia wrote me that he plans to launch his newest work called "Stuff Your Inbox with Cash" on Friday 3pm, 21st January 2005, Singapore. It is about email marketing: for the first time ever, Ewen and Jo Han Mok are telling it all, giving insights into techniques that regularly make them dozens of $$$. As a part of prelaunch, Ewen offered his subscribers to get the package at $67 instead of $127 which is the regular price from the moment of the launch. Buying the package also allows you to become the affiliate, so there are two questions here:

-- will the book be good on its own, and

-- what's in it for affiliates, i.e. should you concentrate your affiliate marketing efforts on selling this book!?

The Moon in Gemini -- mass email marketing appeal

I've bought the book and will later on write a review about it. But what really got me excited is what I've read from the natal chart: the Moon is in Gemini, and in great trine to Jupiter on 18 Libra and Neptune on 14 Aquarius! What a concidence: without any astrology (as far as I know), Ewen scheduled this launch exactly on one of those two and a half days when the Moon is in Gemini! Seeing that, I asked him when the official launch will be, eventually hoping to learn something more or help him make it even more successful. I made the chart for the given date and time, and then suggested to start the promotion at 3:03pm instead of 3pm sharp, in order to place the Ascendant on 2 Gemini, which would secure money from the whole project. But the pressure to start the site was so great, that he actually started it much earlier and this was even for the better. In this new chart, the Moon is on 11 Gemini, and that is a perfect fit: the 11the degree of any sign has the nature of Aquarius and of the 11th house, which may represent marketing in general. So, in spite of my noble (but actually uninvited) intentions to meddle with election charts, the cosmos new better and put the things aright. The result is that we have a textbook example of overlapping the theoretical meanings in the chart to reality.

Neptune is on 14 Aquarius, and that is money from software. Interestingly enough, this package contains a piece of software called Instant Email Copy which faciliates the mechanics of writing email messages. (From now on, simple ebooks will not suffice any more: the customers will slowly but surely shift towards using software so if you are contemplating a serious ebook to write, please notice the trend.)

The confusion

How do we conclude the real time of the launch? Since not even Ewen is sure of this, I adhere to the rules of horary astrology here, which say that the time to be taken is the time when the message reaches the astrologer. In this case, I take the time when he sent the message to his affiliates, which came as Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:28:42 UT. UT means the time at Greenwich, UK, but Ewen is in Singapore so I added 8 hours, getting local time at 04:28 Singapore, 21 January 2005. This gives a chart with Ascendant at 21 Saggitarius, quite auspicious for a publishing endeavour, since 21 degree is analogous to the ninth house -- publication, syndication, distribution. The Moon is in the 6th house, so "Stuff Your Inbox with Cash" will be best used as an everyday manual. If advertised as such, will reach the maximum of its popularity, and this popular will be, as I'm sure you have already concluded.

Affiliates, anyone!?

Will there be money for the affiliates? Yes, plenty, especially in the first days and weeks of the launch. Saturn rules the 2nd house (money) and is in the 8th house (other people's money), so affiliates will get their own piece of pie, especially since the Moon rules the 8th house and has such good aspects with Jupiter and Neptune. Jupiter will be turning retrograde on February 2nd 2005 and will go towards the natal Moon, which will only increase the popularity and mass appeal. Jupiter will stop on June 4 2005 at 8 Libra, and will leave the exact aspect to the Moon on July 21 2005, so this leaves almost half of a year to cash in. However, Saturn will enter Leo on July 16 2005 and will again be at 4 Leo on April 21 2005, making an opposition to the natal Sun on 0 Aquarius, in the 2nd house. In this period only small money will be coming from this package. In the meanwhile, Mercury and Venus will enter the 2nd house, bringing in more possibilites for cash flow up to February 18 2005, but then Mars will enter the same 2nd house on March 5 2005 up to April 15 2005. This will also make money both for Ewen and for the affiliates.

Interestingly enough, Uranus has no aspects, sitting on 4 Pisces. But it is in the 3rd house and rules it, so classified ads, AdWords and all other forms of "short and small" advertising will also bring money in the end.

The conclusion

When I first started studying this chart, the Moon was supposed to be at 16 Gemini at pretold launch time. But you cannot fool cosmos, and you better not try to. In the actual chart, the Moon is on 11 Gemini, which brings together mass (Moon) email (Gemini) marketing (11th degree). The trine with Jupiter gave the title: Stuff (Moon trine Jupiter) Your Inbox (Gemini) with Cash (Sun in the 2nd house). An excellent example of doing the right things at the right time!

Click here to read more about "Stuff Your Inbox with Cash".

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Dusko Savic is a professional astrologer and healer studying Internet Marketing from the astrological point of view. He also has a degree in Numerical Mathematics, and has written 25 books on various subjects of computing and computer programming. Through his live TV show and personal consultations, he has helped literally thousands of people change their lives, regain their health and find their own purpose on this planet.

http://duskosavic.blogspot.com -- this blog you are reading now

http://topicalebooks.com -- my 'work at home site' with lots of free stuff to download

Monday, January 10, 2005

Astrological Analysis of Locking Empowerism into PIPS

As all the PIPSters now know, Stone Evans, the creator of Plug In Profit Sites, includes Empowerism into PIPS since January 1st 2005. From his blog, I saw that he joined www.empowerism.com on December 15 2004 at 10:15am -- which is almost all the data needed for astrological analysis. I presumed he did this from his normal place of living and work, which is Dallas, TX, so that gave me the final piece of data to make the chart of that event. This is a very significant chart for anyone interested in joining Empowerism within the PIPS programme. From his blog, we see that Stone himself had usual doubts at first, and it is only natural that anyone considering joining Empowerism under Stone wants to know what will be the outcome of all this. A look at the future is needed here, and astrology is the perfect tool in a situation like this.

So, is this a good business decision? This is affiliate marketing and how is that reflected in this chart? Who will be able to profit from this affiliate venture? How long will this opportunity last and when is the best time to concentrate efforts?

It turns out that this chart contains answers to all these questions, and more.

Is this a strong business move?

Yes, very strong. The house of career and business, the 10th house, starts at 23 Scorpio and ends at 17 Saggitarius. Mars, which rules Scorpio with Pluto, is on the degree of 23 Scorpio -- the very same degree on which the 10th house starts. So, the ruler of the 10th house is on the 10th house itself, which is a strong indication of success. The 23rd degree has the nature of Aquarius -- computers, the Internet, networks, Internet marketing etc.

Mars is conjunct Venus on 28 Scorpio and Mercury retrograde on 12 Saggitarius is also in the 10th house, yielding no less than three planets in the 10th house -- this is a business chart allright! Such a busy 10th house means Stone will try to build a large number of followers, positioning himself as the leader, making others follow him blindly but firmly.The 10th house is about making personal and/or professional empires, both literally and figuratively speaking, so it's a nice link to this very name, Empowerism.

The 10th house is ruled by Pluto, Mars and Jupiter. Pluto is on 22 Saggitarius, together with the Sun, which is on 24 Saggitarius. Pluto, the ruler of the 10th house is in the 11th house, meaning that a significant material award is awaiting in the future. Pluto with the Sun here means the will that it will be so, and since this conjunction is in the 11th house, some kind of marketing is in order. Pluto is this animal part of human nature, the mass appeal, something very basic such as sex, power or money, the Sun is the "I will" principle, so in writing marketing materials you should use words such as "will, power, money, sexy, willpower" and the like -- the more basic, the better.

Pluto is on the 22nd Saggitarius, which has the nature of Saturn. In this case, this means long hours of planning the marketing campaigns. In particular, this degree is about mathematics, so freely use words such as "do your math", "calculate for yourself" and the like.

The 11th house is about communities such as forums, lists and the Internet in general, so the Sun and the ruler of the 10th house in it, denote creating an empire through Internet marketing, which is of course what Empowerism is all about.

The Sun is on 24 Saggitarius, which is a degree of hidden things, meaning that for the best effect in your marketing campaign, you could accentuate that through Empowerism you can become richer and still remain largely unknown. This degree has the nature of Pisces, so put some heavy emphasis on the esoteric side of life -- enjoying music, dance, smoking and drinking alcohol... Also, the ability to go to various faraway parts of the world.

What about the money in this chart?

The 2nd house starts at 18 Pisces and ends at 25 Aries. The rulers are Neptune on 13 Aquarius and Mars on 23 Scorpio. The aspects of Neptune are excellent: trine to Jupiter at 15 Libra, sextile with Mercury retrograde at 12 Saggitarius, conjunct the Moon on 14 Aquarius. The trine to Jupiter will give large sums of money, almost effortlessly and through affiliate marketing, since Jupiter is in the 8th house, the house of other's people's money. The Moon on 14 Aquarius is a sure sign of money, providing some basic people's need is catered for. Neptune and the Moon in Aquarius denote computers, new technology, visionary software techniques... It is also an aspect of fooling the masses, fortunately, the Moon has passed Neptune, so there may be some hype in marketing Empowerism but not too much.

Since the ruler of the 2nd is in the 1st house, the largest sums of money will go to people who write about their personal experiences in marketing Empowerism. This, BTW, is what Stone is doing already, as you know from his blog.

Is this for affiliates?
Affiliate money is represented as the 8th house, and Jupiter rules the 11th house and is in the 8th house. This literally is "affiliate (8th house) marketing (ruler of the 11th house)". Additionally, Jupiter is in sextile with Mercury on 12 Saggitarius and Jupiter rules this Mercury and the second part of the 10th house. This is a very strong aspect, and will help even people who do not know how to otherwise make money through the Internet. Finally, Mercury rules the 8th house, thus creating a kind of perpetual affiliate money machine.
Work from home?

Yes, you can work from home promoting PIPS and Empowerism. Venus and Mercury rule the fourth house of home, and they are both in the 10th house, which literally is a "business from home".

Predictions
How is this all going to end? Venus rules the 4th house of endings, and is on 28 Scorpio, the sign it is not good at. However, it has a trine to Saturn on 26 Cancer and Fortuna on 27 Pisces, which is the degree of Venus's exaltation. Venus, Fortuna and Mars form a watery great trine, thus linking all the three houses for money (the 2nd, the 6th and the 10th). The bottom line is that promoting Empowerism can be turned into a business and if you do that, it will work out fine. However, here are the relevant transits:

-- The Sun is on Neptune and the Moon on 2nd February 2005 -- this will be the end of the first wave of recruiting for Empowerism. Up to this date, the marketing materials should be in decisive first voice: "I want to do this, this is my decision only, I want freedom... " etc. etc.

The second important date is 8th February 2005, when Mercury is on the Moon. Use as many logical and wordy explanations as is possible.

The third wave is up to 13th February 2005, when Venus is on the Moon. In this period, emphasize feelings of security, saving for the home and better future, solving family problems and the like. Speak to women.

The next wave is up to 9th April 2005, when Mars is on Neptune and the Moon. Use strong, masculine verbs and actions, men are now your audience. Use adrenaline verbs such as "climb, run, action, compete, war" etc.
Jupiter will enter the 10th and 11th house in 2006 and 2007, which will be extremely positive for this whole enterprise. On the other hand, Saturn is in Leo from 15th July 2005 up to 4th October 2007, so its opposition to the natal Moon will happen from April 2006 up to 2nd August 2006. Then it will be very difficult to recruit new members. This will also be a period of weak cash flow, since Saturn against Neptune, the ruler of the 2nd house, will have your payments delayed. So plan for emergency of this kind in advance. You can tear your money away from Empowerism in that period, or just be plain patient, waiting for the things to speed up again.

All this transits are valid only for the people that follow Stone and may not be valid for the Empowerism company in itself, since that site has its own natal chart. (If someone has the natal data for the Empowerism company, please let me know and I might write another astrological analysis for it.

Another important transit would be Uranus squaring the natal position of Mercury, which will happen in 2006 and 2007. Instead of explaining what will that do to you and your invesments, I'll just say that PIPSters can stick to Empowerism during the 2005 but that in 2006 the whole investment should be reassessed.

The PIPS, Empowerism and you

This is the chart of Stone's involvement in Empowerism. He's already made some money from the whole thing, but then, we all know that he can, that's why we have made him our leader. Exactly how this will turn out for you depends on your natal chart and how it interacts with this chart. Without getting too technical, you are off to a good start if, for example, you have something of the following:

-- Sun in Aquarius, or any other planets in that sign
-- Sun in Saggitarius, or any other planets in that sign.
-- Sun in Virgo, or any other planets in that sign.

The final truth will be, as always, contained in your own natal chart, so it is a matter of personal analysis -- if you want it, I can do it for you, for a fee. Send me a message to

mailto:empowerism@topicalebooks.com

and I shall personally reply to you (this is not an autoresponder address).

If you have similar questions regarding you own site, its destiny and future, give me a call just as well.

This is written especially for the fellows PIPSters for the Warriors Forum, but is also published at my blog, at http://duskosavic.blogspot.com, and also at http://topicalebooks.com/blog, my MEGA site.

Dusko Savic is a professional astrologer studying Internet Marketing from the astrological point of view. He also has a degree in Numerical Mathematics, and has written 25 books on various subjects of computing and computer programming. Through his live TV show and personal consultations, he has helped literally thousands of people change their lives, regain their health and find their own purpose on this planet.

http://duskosavic.blogspot.com
http://topicalebooks.com
http://www.homemarketingguide.com


Saturday, January 08, 2005

Change Your Life for Automatic Sources of Income

I am Dusko Savic, professional astrologer, author of 25 books in computing and using computers. I have a degree in Numerical Mathematics and I can write computer programs, design sites etc. Married, two children. I am also a healer, Reiki master of many modalities, profficient with pendulum etc. etc. My specialty in astrology is medical astrology, and I frequently use and/or advise Bach Flower Essences, which I have found one of the main tools for making life better in general

Recently, I have joined ListDotCom.com. I purchased Diamond membership right away by bying MYOS. (I still had no time to try myself at it but I will.) But, the better part is that I finally was able to download and read Joe Kumar's '30 Days to Internet Success', which affected me deeply. (In case you haven't read it, you must, it is such an eye opener! I do not know for sure, but I presume you can download it from listdotcom even if you are not a Diamond member as I am.) The one strategy that I adopted was from Stone Evans, this idea of Profit Pulling Plug In sites. It is a generic site, fairly plain looking, but shock full of articles written by Stone. The idea is that 160000 new people come to Internet every day, and if you can help them find your site, they will be thankful. And how do you make money with a Plug-In Site? There are five links to SFI, Traffic Swarm, Empowerism, Internet Marketing Center and the like, and whenever someone clicks through them and buys something, you get a slice of the pie. Some of these affiliate programs are residual, meaning that as long as you are a member you are going to get a piece of the income created by your downline. So this is not free, you are expected to pay about $150 each month to these various membership sites, in order to be able to -- eventually -- pull out of it much, much more. (Actually, you really have to pay 25 for Empowerism and 25 for Host4Profit hosting, the rest you do not have to pay for, but then you lose your position in the uplines and downlines.

That is how you invest in your Plug In Profit Site, but how do you make money through it? Well, the money is in the list, but to make the members of your list happy, you must have content to send them regularly to, through your ezine or newsletter. Stone first forces you to get an account at GetResponse and then to immediately upgrade it to PRO ($17 monthly), but the payoff is great: he preloads your account with 201 articles (this is the exact number), that are being sent every other day to the members. That is for more than 400 days in advance! (These articles remind me very much of some Lary Dotson's articles -- 10 Ways to Do This or That -- but the quality is high and it seems people like to read them.) So it solves the problem of content. (If you want to see how this works, send an email to mailto:duskosavic@getresponse.com).

I chose the name of the Home Marketing Guide, both for the site www.homemarketingguide.com and for the newsletter. However, I will not stop at that: I intend to write about my journey to success using the Stone's path. He says he delivers years of Internet Marketing experience and I believe him: he is now reported to receive more than 1 million bucks a year and he is using exactly the same site as mine! In his advertising he promises $5000+ per month -- oh, I'll joyfully settle with that any time! It is not that I cannot earn money through my astrology practice -- I can -- but I am limited to existing working hours, and when I am ill there will be no money either... So, it is imperative to make an automatic source of income, and that is the appeal of Stone's Path.

How is this different to everything else? Stone points you to the only way of making money regularly on the Net: you must have a list, a site, the goods to sell, and traffic to the site or a way to increase the number of subscribers. The majority of activity is getting subscribers to your GetResponse account. And, how does he do that, I hear you ask? Well, he buys the subscribers from ListOpt, PushButtonsLeads and LeadFactory! Simple, and I'll tell you, it seems much too simple! That means he spents 3-600 bucks a month to get new 1000 or 1500 subscribers, but he is richly rewarded: from 1500 subscribers he typically milks as follows:

5 Marketing Course (IMC) Sales = $390 in commissions. *
52 IAHBE (SFI) Sales = $416 in commissions + residual. *
61 Warrior/Host4Profit Sales = $610 in commissions + residual. *
13 TrafficSwarm Sales = $65 in commissions + residual. *
89 Madison Dynamics Sales = $1909.05 in commissions + residual. *
$3455.05 in commissions just for letting my e-mail sales letters do their job! *


Is the money in the list? Yeah, verily, Yeah.

Well, that's Stone, he's much more ahead of the game and his system works for him. What I want to see is whether this will work for me if I apply myself and start working at it. What do I have to do? In case you did not read the books, I'll spell it out here:

Monday -- Grow and manage your pay-per-click campaigns
Tuesday -- Create reciprocal links.
Wednesday -- Setup ezine solo ads.
Thursday -- Devote this day to forum networking.
Friday -- Write your weekly article.
Saturday -- Submit your article.
Sunday -- Smile and take a day off.

There you have it -- the best Internet Marketing activities combined, a synergy if you like. After the first 30 days you continue to do that and that is it! That is what I like at the whole scheme: you finally KNOW what to do, when and where in order to be successful. Once I've read a phrase "swimming in the ocean of Internet Marketing" and I liked it very much. There is so much what you can do, there are so many ways of losing yourself while surfing, downloading and the like... The Stone's Path is your sword to cut all the B.S. through: you get a job at home, all you need is a computer and Internet access, but the income is exponentially higher that any other job you might have, since the autoresponders work for you 24/7/365 and beyond.

Please note that you devote one full day to exactly one type of activity. That is what made Henry Ford so rich: separation of physical activities. First you automate yourself by doing only type of a task, then everything else becomes automated. That is the secret of making yourself rich and until you cannot do that, you will not be rich -- as simple as that! Now I hear your huge sigh of relief: I cannot leave my day job, my family will starve if I do, see Dusko, you are talking OK, but I just can't do it! Then do as I do right now: I am writing this at 0:49 AM while my family sleeps. My eyes are getting blurred but no matter: on Monday I start walking on the Stone's Path and I invite you to do so as well. At first I'll have two different 'bubbles' of activity -- one is astrology, the other is for the Internet and then, hopefully, the Internet will prevail.

This is a path to success but it will cost you in many ways. Working at home can be problematic, please read the related articles at www.HomeMarketingGuide.com. What will it cost me right now? Well, I decided to stop that vicious circle of surfing, downloading this and that, checking the email and clicking all those links so full of promise. (Ironic, don't you think -- I do not want to do exactly what I want my subscribers to do!) From now on, I'll use the Internet and not the other way around. But I'll miss these days of my Internet infancy: a few months ago I unsubscribed from practically all the lists that I was subscribed to and the email box was so empty and sad...

It's all about change of your life. In astrology, Uranus is the planet of both change and astrology as such, so my clients are always on the verge of change. Some get married, some divorce; some are worried about their jobs or careers, the others ask whether to go abroad. Having some chronical illness is a sure sign that you are not living your life as you should -- the need to change everything is paramount in such situations. Here, we are not so drastical, we're talking of a career change only: it will not happen in the real world unless it happens first at your head and mindset. There are two tools (healing techniques, if you will) to initiate change: Bach Flower Remedies and Reiki.

Well, that's it for my first post. Please look up this place often and be sure to send me your ideas, criticisms and anything else my writing provokes at you.

Dusko Savic
www.topicalebooks.com
www.HomeMarketingGuide.com