~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PGOLD XPRESS UPDATE #004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >"I get the facts...I study them patiently...I apply imagination." -- Bernard Baruch (1870-1965), legendary financier and adviser to U.S. presidents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 14, 1999 This is the fourth "irregular" update of PGX since terminating its regular publication schedule. >-----UPDATES----- 1) As predicted in Jan/99, this year has been very generous to PennyGold owners... despite the fact that there has been no major turnaround in the junior mining markets. Wait til this market DOES turn around! I've just written a new UPDATE AND OUTLOOK on the site for SUMMER/99. See that PennyGold Web page for what happens next, and how to profit from it... >> http://www.goodbytes.com/pennygold/update.html Do *NOT* miss this update -- it's important stuff. --- 2) PennyGold has increased in price today by almost $100. Yes, I know that I usually give you, the PGOLD XPRESS subscribers, advance warning. But I felt like getting it all done at once today. So I'm holding the current price of CDN$497 (about $330 in U.S. currency) for one week, until May 21. Just mention that you are a PGOLD XPRESS subscriber and Janice will credit you with the old price (your e-mail address must be in our database as of May 14, 1999 for you to qualify). To order, call the Order Line, 1-888-98-PENNY, and leave a message for Janice to call you back -- leave your phone number(s) and the best time period(s) for her to call you. --- 3) As we start to close in on the 1,000th and final copy, the price will start to quickly go up to its final resting place of CDN$997. --- 4) Finally, some REALLY BIG NEWS. We've launched a book. It's based upon everything that I have learned from creating the PennyGold success. If you have ever THOUGHT about starting a business on the Web... o you can -- it's totally do-able o now is the time. Please read on... PennyGold is all about investing smartly, of becoming better than the 97% who lose money at junior mining stocks. Basically, it's a lot like making withdrawals from the "Bank of the 97%." After a year-and-a-half on the Web, I still don't know of a better piece of software out there than PennyGold. Of course, before you can invest, you have to build a solid nest egg. Which brings us to our new venture... If you don't have enough money to invest, or if you want to build a second (or a first!) solid income stream, *EARN IT*. Most people work for others -- the most you ever make this way is an hourly wage. The true answer is to work for yourself. To do that, however, entrepreneurs have usually had to "bet the farm" to start a new biz. For the next few years, that has changed... The Internet is like a huge opportunity knocking, no it's POUNDING, on your door. Never has it been so *cheap AND possible* to build a business. Open that door... now. Why now? Two BIG reasons... 1) Right now, the Net is SLOW. Big glitzy sites take too long to download -- so it's cheap to develop a solid site that SELLS! And... 2) Search engines are free. You'll never get a better chance to attract targeted traffic for zero out-of-pocket expense. But... in a few short years, it will be much harder to push that door open. You may not be able to even get your foot into it. Why not? Because everyone will be surfing at megabytes per second, and the search engines will have found ways to *charge you* for traffic. The level playing field will be gone. For now, though... you don't have to be rich to "make it." *You just have to be smart.* Janice and I have just launched the book that *WILL* make you smart. Smart enough to earn a substantial income through your own business, with very little at risk. ----- It seems like just yesterday, but it was actually 18 months ago, that we launched PennyGold. Funny thing -- penny stocks had always just been a fun and lucrative little hobby. I originally wrote PG for myself. I was going to use the Web to gather the data. Together, the PG software and Web data would make me much more efficient. But a funny thing happened along the way.... Soon after I got on the Web, WOW! I could see that the Web was the ultimate niche marketing tool. While we made millions in toy and game design, I never had control over any part of the process. On the Web, you do. If you have *a great product* and then design a *site that sells* effectively, and then *attract targeted traffic*, the project MUST succeed. It *MUST* -- there are simply NO OTHER VARIABLES. So I decided to test this concept by revealing the PennyGold process to others -- my own little Web experiment. I wanted to see if it was *really possible* to sell something on the Web. Way back then (18 months in "Net time" is the equivalent of 18 years in "real time"), the conventional wisdom was "NO" -- it was impossible to sell anything on the Web. Today, that answer has changed to YES... except that almost no one is making a profit! Amazon's stock goes up while they keep losing more and more money. Mind-boggling. But PennyGold has been profitable from DAY 1. It gets about 50,000 hits per week, and nets about $1000 per day. For Janice and I, though, the money has always been nice but secondary (or we would have never capped the number of copies at 1,000). There have been two far bigger payoffs, neither of which did we anticipate... 1) The biggest payoff has been interacting directly with PGPers. I've gotten to know many of you. For example, this e-mail from Marvin Smith made me positively tingle with pleasure... ----- "Ken, I'd like to tell you something. I don't know if you keep your old e-mails, but as you probably remember, I was one of your biggest skeptics. I wasn't sure if PennyGold was all you said it would be. In order to prove this I did EXACTLY what you said in your book. When I found my first shell I did not buy it. Guess what, it was Latin Gold. It's now trading at over 50 cents up 700 % from where I wanted to buy it. This has also happened with 2 other companies. After applying all the principles laid out in your book and in the digests I just want to say PennyGold WORKS!!! Ken, this is the only thing that has really worked for me. As you know I've tried everything. This time I've found my niche. Thanks, my friend." > --> Marvin A. Smith, marvinsmith@earthlink.net ----- One of these years, after the junior market turns around and *EVERYONE* is seeing great returns, we're going to do a great, big PennyGold B-B-Q -- we've got a huge roasting pit on the side property, just waiting! It would be a blast to see it surrounded by happy PGPers. And there's been a second important reward... 2) We've learned a heck of a lot about selling on the Web... effectively *and* ethically. I mean... You simply can't have a harder job than to sell PennyGold. Here's what we faced... o It was in a little known, very tiny investing niche. o Those who do know about junior mining stocks have a negative impression about the field -- rightfullly so! o I am an unknown in investing circles. o No trial download (it would give away the secrets). o It has a high price tag. Janice and I started from scratch -- we knew nothing about the Web, not even what html was! I can still remember a patient at my medical clinic telling me to "check out Yahoo!" -- what the heck was that, I wondered -- what a funny name for something! Believe me, if we can go from scratch to the point where we can sell PG, then *you* can, too... ... as long as you have a solid product or service to start with! ... and as long as you are MOTIVATED TO DO IT. Just about everyone has some kind of knowledge, hobby, passion, product idea, expertise (even what you've learned at a current or previous job), or whatever, that could be sold via the Web. If not, they have a friend who does... "go partners." Based on what we've learned, we've published a book called Make Your Site SELL! . We've already sold a few hundred copies. Readers have raved about it. This 800-page monster really does teach people how to make a site that SELLS! One Web guru has called the sitesell site "the most persuasive selling site on the Web, by far." Another said this about the book -- "There is simply no close runnerup (among Web-sales-related books). It's the ultimate Net-selling reference book for entrepreneurs and small businesses." The book's called Make Your Site SELL! ("MYSS!"). And it will show you in simple, practical steps, exactly how to nail what I call "The Big 3"... STEP 1 -- Develop a great product -- position it for Web sales. STEP 2 -- Build a site that SELLS with deadly effectiveness. STEP 3 -- Attract targeted traffic to the site. Unlike PennyGold, which will always simply remain my fun little hobby and wonderful online business, we have much bigger plans for this new business... MYSS! will be our springboard into server-side and client-side solutions for the entrepreneur/small business. Everything from support-to-success Web hosting to productivity-enhancing software for the small businessperson. And we're launching a cutting-edge affiliate program to help us build this business. We're taking our affiliates with us, every step of the way -- or rather, they're taking us! (For those who don't know, affiliates are Web sales partners who sell products on a commission basis. We pay a substantial commission on every copy of MYSS!, and on all future products, that is sold. So even if you don't have an idea for a product yourself, you can build a wonderful business earning commissions on MYSS! and all future products. See the sitesell site for more info about our "5 Pillar Affiliate Program.") We've got some terrific support lined up... a major e-commerce company will be backing it. Some top Web marketing newsletter writers are supporting us, too. If you have ever thought of starting your own biz on the Web, MYSS! contains all you need to know. Please take a look at the site today... >> http://www.sitesell.com/ All the best, Ken P.S. Oh, forgot the *BEST NEWS*. 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Please do not take what I say as investment advice. YOU have to be the final judge in how to best use the information contained in this newsletter (or whether to use it at all). In the final analysis, we all have to be responsible for our own decisions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Written by Ken Evoy, M.D., President of GoodBytes Information Products Inc. (c) copyright 1999 GoodBytes Information Products Inc. >>>This publication MAY be reproduced and transmitted to >>>others, as long as it has been copied in its entirety. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~