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I am Ley Gal from Bogota, Colombia. This Newsletter will be published on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. I want to offer you, what I believe are the best marketing reviews I have found during each two week period between issues.  You can also expect an article or tips to write better reviews. Each issue will bring some free resource to download. This is a commercial newsletter and I will include one top sponsor ad, one bottom sponsor ad, and one bottom ad swap in each issue.

Dear Willie

I'm writing this all on an impulse, I suddenly felt I should tell you this.

I've known you for some years now - or rather been familiar with your name. But in the past 15 days, as I've been "working the forums" more actively than before, I've come to learn a lot more about you, and respect you a whole lot more.

The name "Willie Crawford" on a message thread generally gets me to read the full thread these days. And in addition to learning a lot of new things that I'd have otherwise missed, I'm beginning to see just how deeply you care about helping others.

And am reminded - and slightly shamed - by how I've sort of drifted away from a purpose which was as lofty and focused when I first started online in 1996.

At the time, as webmaster of a couple of medium traffic sites answering questions and offering information about heart disease, I was helping hundreds of people every week. It was a GREAT feeling, though I wasn't making any money from it.

And then the e-commerce bug bit, and I got thinking of ways to earn cash from the Web. The first plan worked, a few more evolved, they worked too. And before I knew it, I was stuck in the groove of trying to get my e-commerce ventures to grow and earn more money.

In the process, I put off answering many emails from readers. And today, not many ask me questions from my heart disease website. I miss it. And seem to have missed my direction.

Never mind the fact that 50% of the money I earn online is donated to my Children's Heart Fund, and goes towards sponsoring a kid's heart operation. I still feel I've lost direction.

And now am glad I found it - after seeing your work online.

When Jim Wilson (of JimWorld.com) died, I posted a note on his memorial website, and read the hundreds of tributes made by his friends and mentees. I myself was guided on several occasions by Jim, who helped me get started way back in 1996.

And realized that Jim had left the Internet a better place than when he entered it.

That now has become my ideal, my goal in life.

With Jim gone, I was looking for a role model. You, Willie, are my new model.

Your selfless posts, informative, educational and instructive, backed by an incredibly vast experience with life and online marketing, have already helped - and I'm sure will continue to help - several hundred people, myself included, in different aspects of doing business on the Net.

But not all you write about is business-related. I've read many of your posts that talk about higher things like morals, values, attitude, goodness, religiousness, belief in a higher power, doing the right thing and so much more that go towards making the world a nicer place to live in.

And I just thought I had to write to say "Thank you, Willie".

You too will help make the Internet a better place than it was when you entered it. And I hope and pray you will have the strength, health and energy to keep doing it for a long long time.

Maybe this note is too long - but it is entirely unplanned, written on the spur of a moment, and so rambles a little.
But every word comes from my heart.

Best wishes

Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian EzineMarketingCenter.com