Important announcement

I hope you’re having a great day, and thank you for being a member of The IM Inside Track.

I started this site in July 2015, and see that there have been 856 posts made to the blog, which are, other than an introductory one way back then, either long informative articles on the core subjects of Internet marketing, or a bonus download for members. Most of the articles also have audio versions available.

The site has been a labor of love over the years, and I seem to recall that I originally promised there would be 3 to 5 articles posted each week.

For a while, I posted 6 or 7 times per week, so with 856, the average has been over 285 per year, or 5.5 per week.

But enough about statistics.

This site hasn’t been about profitability. In fact, most months it has failed in that regard.

At the peak, we had over 1100 active members. Now we are down to just over 400. A large part of the reason is that I haven’t actively marketed IMIT in recent years.

Many of the members joined in the beginning with annual subscriptions, in mid to late July 2015, and those subscriptions are due to renew soon.

The membership charge in the beginning was just $1.99 per month, which has risen a few times over the years, but just for new enrollees.

So I want to make a major announcement before renewals are charged.

In order to focus on other parts of my business going forward, I will be slowing down on the posting of new articles to the site.

I will continue to post the bonuses on Saturdays, like I have for quite a while.

And I will post other articles as they are written or extracted from content I’ve licensed.

It will just not be as frequent as in years past.

This new schedule will begin next week.

If you feel you are not receiving enough value from IMIT, or are unable to fully utilize the content inside, now would be a good time to terminate your membership, especially if you have an annual payment coming due later this month.
Most payments were through PayPal, so you can terminate your membership inside your account easily.

If you paid directly with a credit card, you might need to ask me to do the termination manually.

If you remain a member, I do still promise to deliver value that I think is above and beyond whatever price you’re paying.

The 856 (and growing) articles are still available, categorized neatly. I doubt if any member has accessed them all.

Even if you have, refreshing your memory from time to time can be beneficial.

And I can’t promise this, but I’m sure there will be surprises in store for active members going forward, including compilations of the existing articles by category, making it easier to download and read.

This decision has been on my mind for a considerable time, and I hated to take this step, but I feel it is only fair to be open and transparent, especially since the annual payments will be charged very soon.

Let me know if you have any questions, and again, thank you for being a member of The IM Inside Track.

Of course, the free Facebook group is still active and available to all, here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/theiminsidetrack/

Have a spectacular day.

Dennis Becker, the 5 Buck Guy

GPT-5 for Faster Marketing Profits

When ChatGPT first hit the scene, it was a game changer for online business owners who wanted faster, cheaper ways to create content. The early versions could draft a blog post or social update in seconds, something that used to take hours.

But like any new tool, those first releases had limits. You’d often have to break your request into smaller pieces or reword your prompt multiple times just to get what you needed. It was helpful, but it wasn’t perfect. You could get decent work done, but you still had to put in a fair amount of editing and guiding to make it usable.

GPT-5 is now available and can follow multi-step instructions in one pass, and output ready-to-use material across every part of your marketing. The edge goes to the people who adopt the improvements early, while everyone else is still spending their days trying to make yesterday’s tools do today’s work. The longer you wait to make that shift, the more time, traffic, and sales you leave on the table.

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Action Taking vs. Info Gathering

There comes a time when you really have to just start taking more action. You can’t read, study, watch, and learn for the rest of your life if you want to be truly successful.

That might seem obvious on the surface, but is it, really?

If you’re caught constantly learning, there’s never room for taking action. There are only so many hours in a day, right? It’s really important to pay attention to how you spend those hours.

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Beating Burnout

Beating Burnout is a 31 page (6000+ word) guide that teaches people how serious burnout can be. It shares tips on how you can spot burnout, avoid it and maybe most importantly – how to bounce back if you have suffered from it.

Sections Include:

  • Introduction
  • The Burnout Basics
    • What Is Burnout?
    • How Does It Hurt Us?
  • Signs Of Burnout
  • A Burnout-Free Life
  • Beating Burnout
  • Avoiding Burnout
  • Bouncing Back From Burnout
  • Conclusion

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Parkinson’s Law

You know it’s important to set goals for yourself and to work to achieve those goals. The problem is that you may have been working toward the same things for weeks, months, or even years. It’s not at all uncommon for me to hear that someone has been trying to start or succeed with a web business but hasn’t made any real progress over the course of several years.

If that strikes close to home for you, know that you’re not alone. For a variety of reasons, I didn’t find true success in online business right away either. Mindset has a lot to do with it, along with time management.

A huge part of the problem for many people has to do with a lack of deadline when working for oneself. I fully realize that even hearing the word “deadline” might make you cringe. You’re running your own business so you don’t have to deal with deadlines, and now I’m telling you that you need them?

Crazy, right?

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Improve Your Concentration

You know the drill. You sit down at your desk and try to focus on work tasks that have been piling up. Or maybe you are attempting to read the book that has been on your side table for months.

The problem is, you cannot seem to concentrate on the task at hand. Instead of working or reading, your mind keeps wandering. Before you can solve the issue, you need to know that there are five reasons you are having trouble concentrating. Knowing which one applies to you is the first step in overcoming the issue.

Want to know more? Read this special report…

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