Today marks day three of the first official week of textures at smashill. This time you can download 4 different graffiti’s & tags found across the city. (4288*2856 px)

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Today is the second day of the offical week of textures at smashill! Each day there will be a set of at least 4 different textures for your pleasure. Today you can download 4 Green Grass textures (4288*2856 px). Free to use for any of your projects without restrictions. Enjoy.

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There are many fish in the river of ideas, but do you have what it takes to create your own affiliate product? It’s actually pretty easy to create one, especially for creative people like us, but do you think that there is a serious website to cover this issue from scratch?
The sites that offer a guide to affiliate products are usually plastered with their affiliate links and tell you something like this:

Man it’s great to create your own kickass product instead of just selling products from others without offering something yourself

Great. We knew that …. that really helped… not. *sigh*

Back in the days I have been thinking about offering my own affiliate product in the form of an ebook, somehow I never got along writing that, but it’s time to share what I discovered on my research concerning affiliate products & create a short 20-40 page book to accompany this guide and illustrate how it is done.

The idea behind an ebook and creating an affiliate program for it is creating a long term stream of passive income. There is still a big market for good ebooks, but a lot of the niches are saturated, and to be honest, most ebooks offered are not worth what you have to pay for them.

The questions are, how do you find the right partners for your venture and which steps have to be taken to be successful? This guide covers the basic steps from finding a site that will handle your selling, someone that will deliver your digital product and different ways to create a successful affiliate product site.

This guide will not teach you how to create your own affiliate service from scratch, here you will learn how to create your own products and to outsource everything else. So let’s create a product and let others take care of additional promotion and someone else should provide the hardware to handle all the monetary aspects of this side. The set budget for this upcoming experiment will be 100$ for everything from hosting to selling.

Enough introduction, let’s get down to business.

Step 1, finding the - product - publishing - pricing

Narrowing down a niche

How do you choose a niche? Do you want to be part in a hard fought or soft market? Here comes the big secret: It does not matter how hard the market is fought! It only matter how good your product is. A soft market has usually less competitions, but there are probably less potential buyers, hence the soft market. A hard market basically three things:

1. first of all there are probably a lot of buyers

2. there are people who have authority and a name

3. there are a lot of people promoting the products of number 2

Harder fought does not have to be harder to sell stuff, you just have to create a great product. A soft market does not have to be enjoyable on opposite, as there might not be people who are going to buy your product. The golden rule is to make sure you offer an unique product that has big value.

Good niches?

A good niche is a niche where you have a set of knowledge and skills. There is virtually a market for everything, ranging from dating to creativity or internet marketing to name a few of the big niches. Just make sure there are people willing to buy your product.

The pricing?

Depends on your product and your name! For this guide we’ll play wit a product in the price range of 20-30$. To promote the product an offering of 50-70% to your affiliates seems to be reasonable. At least for a digital product.
Basically there are two possibilities, you either look for the big fish and offer expensive products or you sell some small-time stuff and have a supermarket mentality. The bigger and better your name is the more you can charge. A good way is to prove your status by creating a very solid product for a very fair price and offering follow up products and coaching, that will make you the real money.

To be honest, I never understood the price tag of some ebook guides. Most of those books are create to make the no-name author a fortune and offer some basic knowledge that you can find online for free! Do you think a price tag of 50-300$ for a simple ebook sounds reasonable? Go into a bookstore and have a look at the price tags, … tell me how many books you find there that cost that much money. Let’s not forget that most people would be better off with a printed book about marketing and sales management than a get rich book.
So pick an affordable price and start to sell. You want to sell those products to brand and underline your reputation as an expert. In case you create a great product it will sell.

The publishing

Self publishing has never been easier. A nice layout is great, but to be honest it’s not necessary for your first book, you probably don’t have the money for a great designer. And since you are creative, just do it yourself You can hire someone for your next books when you have the cash. In case you want to illustrate something buy cheap stock images and add them. The most important part is to get someone to proofread. Errors and typos have to be avoided at all cost
Then just go on a create a .pdf and add a disclaimer to it.

The goal

This is the first part, we should all have a general idea about what we want to create and should start creating our affiliate product. What’s on the list so far?

1. Pick a niche you have knowledge in.

2. A niche doesn’t matter, they all have advantages and disadvantages, make sure your product is good enough that people will be willing to pay your for it.

3. Pick a realistic price tag.

4. Offer a generous share of your profits.

5. When you publish an ebook it should be available as PDF, you should know how to create one and have someone else to triple check your typing and grammar.

In the next episode we’ll cover how you find partners to sell your ebook, until then I will write a short ebook about creative capital.

Today marks the first offical week of textures here at smashill! Each day there will be a set of at least 4 different textures for your pleasure. Today you can download 4 used wood textures (4288*2856 px). Free to use for any of your projects without restrictions. Enjoy.

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The 80’s were cool, back in the days kids could play games and had enough skills to do some pranks outside the computer world. Once we hit the end of the 80’s everyone seems to be obsessed with computers. What happend to the cool action hero’s? The cool action cartoon series? The nasty looking toys? The playing in the outside world? Ok, most of the music sucked, but there was the beginning of HipHop, which was better back then than most the shit now. Real Punk still was rockin hardcore, and overall it’s been a fun ride.

A kid’s Hero in the 80’s

Growing up in the 80’s makes you part of a Group introduced to a huge variety of action infested cartoons, Heros with more muscles than brains and Plastic action figures. There were not just nice animation and fast cuts, it was real action. Pharmazeutic Bodybuilder lookalikes were the shit, and if you didn’t have any of the figures you were simply not part of the culture. What happend to those mainstream cartoons once we crossed the 90s…. some suckers wearing pyjarmas instead of fur speedos, no more Mutant Ninjas, no battle Kitties, no Robot Cars & Trucks, no Carnival MASKed transformation vehicles… instead we have fuckin Zoo’s and Trading Cards raping everything that has been done by those Cartoons before. I don’t know exactly what, but hey at least those cartoons were cool.
Give us back some oldschool action heros, the good old non pain in the ass sellout fun.

Every hero gets old

Just as the good old He-Man Action Figures went straight to the attic, only a few strange collectors placed their blistered He-Man on an apron, every super hero gets old. Kids need new heros fucking the establishment. There was a need for more special effects, speed & color, but those attributes don’t make up for weak character design. Where are the Riders with a Saber, or the Rangers cruising a Galaxy, Green Mutants rocking the canalization, and Cats rolling Thunders. I don’t want fuckin yellow little monsters, no fuckin oversized dragon bullshit and no retarded rangers without powers.

What happend to style?

Kids should not be forced to think the new shows are cool, those are simply marketing products. With the simple Goal to SELL THOSE TRADING CARDS. Merchandise is cool, but trading cards are evil. That’s why they don’t rerun the oldschool series and just the trash. Kid’s are good consumers, and why give them quality that has not strings attached when you can sell them trash?

The old Superheros and Action figures are just fading memories bound to the playground of your childhood dreams. It’s time to say goodbye, or rather say hi & hello to the collector editions, they will find ways to get your money as well! Cause we all know, men are always a boy at heart.

The 11. coolest action Hero’s out of the 80’s

11. Jericho Jackson, can’t make a list of Action Heros’ without Action Jackson.

[hitting a bad guy with a flamethrower]
Action Jackson: How do you like your ribs?

10. Marshall Bravestar, the Chuck Norris of the Cartoon world.

09. the Galaxy Rangers, riding on metal horses, who wanted to get boys and girls to watch this show? Nevertheless, Gooseman rocked the shit.

08. Saber Rider & the Starsherifs, Metal horses number 2., seemed to be really popular at that time. A cool Kick ass robots, evil Outriders and nasty space ships, simply perfect.

07. Captain Ivan Danko, or I can beat you up with a burning stone in my hand.

Art Ridzik: What, you retire your uniform?
Ivan Danko: I now work undercover.
Art Ridzik: Undercover? You look like Gumby.

06. Dutch Schaefer, the short guide on how to I kill a Predator with wooden sticks.

Dutch: What’s the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils?

05. Conan the Barbarian, never underestimate a barbarian with an austrian accent.

Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

04. The Terminator, naked time traveller blowing a good kicking.

The Terminator: Your clothes… give them to me, now.

03. John McClane, average guy in the street name meets irish tough guy ending. McClane can bleed 10 times more than his enemies and still kick their asses.

Supervisor: Attention, whoever you are. This channel is reserved for emergency calls only.
John McClane: No fucking shit, lady. Do I sound like I’m ordering a pizza?

John McClane: Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

02. John Rambo, Dutch Schaefer’s role model on how to use chopsticks as a weapon. The ultimate guide to surviving in the american wood.

Rambo: I could have killed ‘em all, I could kill you. In town you’re the law, out here it’s me. Don’t push it. Don’t push it or I’ll give you a war you won’t believe. Let it go. Let it go.

01. He-Man aka. Prinz Adam the Wuzz. The prototype of the roided bodybuilder, it does not even matter if he has super powers or is the super wuzz. He’s the prototype Cartoon Superhero Arnie lookalike. He even has a secret identity!

By The Power Of Grayskull, I Have The Power!

This Sunday there are 10 completly free brick wall textures in 4288*2856 px. Here you can preview 8 of the 10 red brick walls, the two others are in it as a bonus. The download link to the high resolution files is at the bottom of the page. Feel free to use those textures for any project, but don’t sell or offer them for download. No attribution needed, but appreciated. Don’t wait and check below for the download link. Enjoy!
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It was about time, after 3 years of blogging svensworld jumped the plank. It’s amazing how good it feels to remove junk, it frees your mind.

the new start

svensworld is a place to share thoughts, findings and tough love. But it’s been like that before or not? Utterly wrong, before this tablua raza it’s been about nothing useful at all. To make a long story short, everything that crosses Sven’s life and is interesting enough to be passed over to tzeh readerz of this blog.
The fresh start did not only restart the whole content of this blog, moreover it refreshes the design and gives it a new groove.

is a restart smart?

Hearing those voices in the back of the room asking, was that a smart move to make? You will be punished by the almighty google! You will lose your readers! Seriously, this page has a pagerank of 2, which already is a joke and to be honest, which readers? There are almost no readers left besides the spammers posting their keyword stuffed links on a nofollow blog and the occasional friend passing by. To answer the question:

yes it is a smart move to make.

Enjoy it and have fun.