this is Ralf Skirr, sending you a New Year’s Gift to help you meeting your goals in 2010.

I’ll keep it short and give you the links to your gifts right away:
(right click the link with your mouse and chose ‘save as’)

http://ibmm.com/Achieve_Your_Goals.pdf

http://ibmm.com/Worksheets.pdf

Many people are using this time of the year to think about the old year that has passed, and to make up their dreams and goals for the upcoming year 2010.

I did this yesterday and today, and my major goal for the upcoming year is to help my subscribers and readers (that would be you) succeed.

If you’re in the process of planning your year, and even more if you have not done it yet, you’ll find these 2 e-books helpful in making things easier for you.

http://ibmm.com/Achieve_Your_Goals.pdf

http://ibmm.com/Worksheets.pdf

To Your Success,
Ralf Skirr

P.S. It’s an immediate download, no strings attached.

But the links will go away in 48 hours.

There is, however, a very boring aspect in email marketing: preparing your emails for your autoresponder software.

Formatting your emails is a 3-step process:

1. Re-format your source text so that the lines are no longer than 50 to 60 characters per line. Doing this, you get better readability and thus more people will actually read it till the end.
2. Next you must create 2 different versions of your message, 1 being plain text, and the other one being in HTML format.
3. Finally you have to search for each URL in your source text and turn it into an HTML hyperlink for your HTML email.

Now, keep reading, as you’ll certainly like what you are about to read!

For me, this is probably the most boring task in my daily work. That is of course the reason why I’m outsourcing it now.

It’s also the reason why I asked my programmer to create a tool for me and my assistant that helps making email formatting fast and easy.

Knowing that you are likely to have to do the same boring tasks, I’m giving the email formatting tool to the public, so that you and your staff can use it too.

Whenever you have a series of messages to format for your autoresponder, just click to my free email formatting tool, and it will help you do the job.

These are the features:

1. Formatting short lines for easy reading.
2. Creating 2 versions for text and HTML email.
3. Creating the correct source code for your HMTL hyperlinks automatically.

If you’re an affiliate marketer, you will be happy to see that it keeps your affiliate links intact.

Here’s how to use it, it’s so easy, your dog could do it in 3 simple steps:

1. At the top, you will find a box where you paste your original text.
2. Then you click the button ”Click Here to Format Your Email’.
3. Like magic and at the blink of an eye, your email is now formatted and ready to paste into your autoresponder without requiring any tedious work from you! Two text fields are now filled with your nicely formatted text and HTML email.

Check it out for yourself at http://www.InternetBusinessMastermind.com/email-formatting.

After the disaster with Myriadnetwork’s hosting earlier this year many of my sites went offline and I had to transfer them to other hosts. I’m sorry to say that I forgot to update the DNS entries for Turbomembershipreviews.com and the site was unavailable for a while.

Today I re-created the site and fortunately no entries or user-reviews of TurboMembership were lost.

Stay tuned for some exciting updates and freebies at TurboMembershipReviews.com very soon.

So what is the site about? John Delavera’s TurboMembership (TM) is one of the best memberships on the internet. Some even call it: “The Holy Grail of Internet Marketing”

But obviously everyone promoting the TM would say this, right?

That’s why I created Turbomembershipreviews.com.

Customers, friends, and enimies of  TM can post their honest, uncensored review of Turbomembership. All reviews will be published (except maybe when someone would publish below the line, dirty language insults – but that has not happened yet.) So no matter if you like of hate TM , please remain civilized with your review.

To keep in touch with the updates you may subscribe to the RSS Feed, I can’t reveal much yet, but be sure there are some goodies in store for you!

So why did my friends warn me?

Because in April the Thai people celebrate the New Year. They call it “Songkran” and funnily it’s not celebrated on the same day in the whole country, but the party moves through the country over the course of several days.

The ‘problem’ with Songkran is that people party several days with THROWING WATER at people. Seriously, you can’t get out of your apartment for 10 minutes without getting soaking wet…

Here are the pictures:

This is Pattaya’s Walking Street at April 18, 2009, a few hours before the official beginning of Songkran. The water is not from rain, but from people partying.

No matter whether you’re pedestrian, riding a motorbike or driving a car, you’ll always get wet.
Ready – Fire – Aim…

Waiting for the next victim…

Well, let’s cool her down a bit…

No mercy. With dedication she pours approximately 1.5 litres right into the poor guy’s face.

Open window in your car?
Bad idea…

Party-time.

Back in my room late at night. The white stuff is something people put in your face wishing you a ‘happy new year’.

Next day, April 19, the party continues on beach road with thousands of people partying.

A closer look at beach road. No cars allowed today.

What? Even the monks throw water…

Woah, Bad Ass Warrior….

One of my German friends and 3 strange strangers under ATTACK!!!

Look closely – the air is filled with water.

We arrived at a save spot.

Making pictures wasn’t easy at Songkran, because I had to watch out for water coming at me (and the camera) all the time.

I’ll be back in Thailand in late June, July and August; I’m sure to post new pictures then.

The moral of this post: if you want to travel or work from the nicest places on earth, make sure to build an internet business. It’ll give you all the freedom you long for.

Well, Jeremy (Jezhunt) suggested I should go for green. It would probably look like this:

Fortunately it’s just a quick Photoshop work.

My hair stylist went for a less dramatic approach and used two colors, one slightly lighter and one slightly darker than my natural color:

This is me sitting in one of the nicer cafés in my hometown Kaiserslautern in Germany.