Archive for July, 2008

Internet Marketing Sins

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Had enough marketing BS yet?

  • Are you pissed off by the unethical and even illegal marketing tactics that assault you every day?
  • Do you get the urge to do bodily harm to internet marketers using these tactics on you?
  • Don’t even know what these tactics are and how to recognize them?

Internet Marketing Sins shines the light

Sylvie Fortin calls these tactics "sins" and she explains them in clear understandable, but strong, language. You won’t have a problem recognizing yourself, how badly you’ve been treated (and perhaps how you have treated others?).

This is a MUST READ for Newbies

I think it is especially important for newbie beginners in internet marketing to learn to recognize and avoid these tactics, and that is why I seriously urge you to read this revealing report.

You probably already realize that you’ve been scammed by one or more of these tactics, but Internet Marketing Sins lays it all out systematically and comprehensively. I feel so strongly about this that I’ve added Internet Marketing Sins to the Recommended page.

Hammerhead Marketing

I think most of you will have an emotional and personal reaction to Sylvie’s description of getting hammered. I clearly recognized myself as the dreamer in the description of the hammerhead marketing tactic. Maybe you will too.

 

Internet Marketing Sins

What’s the Catch?

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30 Day Challenge with Ed Dale

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

One of the internet guys I trust is Ed Dale. So I don’t have any hesitancy in recommending him to you.

He is offering FREE training for absolute beginners (and you might learn something if you are not an absolute beginner) that he calls the 30 Day Challenge.

My advice to you is simple: Take the 30 Day Challenge !!!

It doesn’t cost you anything except the time it takes you to learn and apply what you need to know to make your first $10 online. OK, so $10 isn’t going to make you rich. But what you learn just might get you feeling comfortable about heading in that direction.

Just go do it.



My Last Word on Automatic Income System

Monday, July 28th, 2008


I undid it

I don’t know if you remember that I started this particular adventure with "Ed, don’t tell me you bought another one of these things." Yeah, I did.

As I worked through the system, I found that I could not view important videos on my Mac. Michael Cheney’s support desk wasn’t any help with that. So the product should have been labelled from the first as a Windows product.

So I did what I’ve been advising you to do with any product that doesn’t live up to your expectations. I got a refund.


PLR Dump

PLR (private label rights) means that YOU didn’t write the ebook or produce the video, or make whatever the product happens to be. Some of the products in this package are PLR pass-throughs and not Michael Cheney’s products.

Personally I don’t like passing off someone else’s work as my own. Probably my science background holding me back.

Despite my personal view on this, a flourishing PLR industry exists and a lot of people sell PLR products on the premise that you will resell it and make your money that way. What they generally leave out is all the work you have to do to be successful at this strategy.


"Automatic" - Not

The advertising sales pitch for this product overhyped the potential to generate "automatic" income. It turns out that you have to do a helluva lot of work, not the least of which is build an online reputation, before anything even close to automatic income materializes.

I’m not dissing work. Work is good. The "internet life style" takes a lot of work. I’m knocking the sales pitches that claim to minimize or even eliminate the work required to make money.

Remember, no matter what they want you to believe, it’s their day job. All the internet marketing "gurus" I know worked for years to get where they are today. And they are working pretty hard to stay where they are.

 

Still want to Start Your Profits Today?

Here’s my sales pitch to you if you think Michael Cheney has a better product for newbies (I think he does and it costs $97, not $497). The product is called Start Your Profits Today.

Click that link and you get 8 FREE videos to help you decide if Start Your Profits Today is just what you need to get your internet money making venture off the ground.

Oh, and that Today part? Be realistic, it’s not happening for beginners in one day no matter what anybody says. But you can get started today.

In any case, I think you’ll find the FREE videos helpful.


PS When you click the link to Start Your Profits Today, you will be taken to a "squeeze page", which means that you have to enter your name and email address to get to the FREE videos. For the name part, I always enter just my first name (and sometimes I make up a name - don’t tell on me - autoresponders don’t know who you are). You can always Unsubscribe from Michael Cheney’s autoresponder whenever you wish.

 


Softcore Copywriting? Terry Dean and Shaune Clarke Reveal Indirect Persuasion

Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
Copywriting is the text you write or the words you say that lead a prospective customer to buy something. You’ve heard this I’m sure, "People hate to be sold, but they love to buy." People buy because they want to. So …

Does good copywriting have to be hardcore?

I’m sure you know from your own experience that the big problem with the copywriting you’ve been told you must use is the hyped up style that makes you sound like a used car salesmen on amphetamines.

If you are like me, you don’t want to use copywriting that amounts to beating people with a stick to get them to buy something.

Maybe there’s a better way!

Finally, Terry Dean and Shaune Clarke tell YOU how YOU can create better sales copy without hype.

Give ‘Gentle Persuasion’ a Try

Discover how to gently persuade your customers to buy by emotionally connecting with them without gimmicks, exaggeration, or swipe files.

Here’s just a taste of what you’ll discover:

- How to quietly lower sales resistance.

- Tap into the deepest dominant emotions in the market
in 30 minutes or less.

- Install multiple layers of assumptions subtly about
your product directly into your target audience’s mind.

- Authentic ways to use big names and other forms
of indirect credibility into your copy.

- 4 "Generic" forms of resonance that plug-and-play
in any market.

Terry Dean , the "godfather of internet marketing", interviews Shaune Clarke to reveal their secrets of "graceful persuasion" copywriting.

Indirect Persuasion Audio and Transcript for $10 with 30 day money-back guarantee, followed by a OTO of “35 Easy Internet Profit Multipliers” for $35 with 90 day money-back guarantee.

 

What You Get

For $10 you get immediate download of an audio interview of approximately 70 minutes and a PDF transcript of the interview: "Sell More Without Hype: Indirect Persuasion Secrets Revealed."

If you decide to buy, you will be offered "35 Easy Internet Profit Multipliers" . You do not have to buy that (I passed on it).

You will also get plenty of links in the PDF if you really like these guys and want to be more involved with them. 

Secrets Revealed?

Generally speaking, I hate marketing phrases like "Secrets Revealed." I don’t think they reveal actual industrial "secrets". But it’s a secret to you if you don’t know it, right? In any case, they’ll only continue to be secrets to those who don’t listen to the audio.

 

Find out more now –> Sell More Without Hype: Indirect Persuasion Secrets Revealed

 


FREE for 30 Days - 1AutomationWiz.com

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Finally!!! 

A complete autoresponder/shopping cart/ecommerce package I can recommend to beginners (and even experienced ecommerce marketers) without reservation.

Do you need an autoresponder that really works with you and not against you?

Do you need a shopping cart that is easy to get up and running?

Do want to put internet home business on autopilot (as much as possible)?

 

1AutomationWiz

Then 1AutomationWiz might be the solution to your problems.

I lucked into a 2 month free trial through StomperNet, but YOU can still get 1 month FREE without being a StomperNet member. StomperNet can be expensive for newbies, and besides they aren’t taking members at this time. Anyway, 30 days FREE will give you the time you need to see if 1AutomationWiz is right for your business.

 

FREE! 1-on-1 phone technical support during regular office hours ($75 Per Hour Value)
FREE! Unlimited autoresponder messages for fast and effortless follow-up sales. ($70 Value)
FREE! Revenue tracking system to measure my advertising results quickly and easily.($50 Value)
FREE! Automated UPS/USPS/DHL/Canada Post/FedEx shipping and pricing integration in "real-time". ($200 Value)
FREE! 31 custom fields for ultra-personalized email messages to convert more prospects into customers.($25 Value)

 

If you just want a really good autoresponder package, you can get that too, but why not take the 30 day FREE trial before deciding?

 

 

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Lawn Chair Millionaire - Do You MLM?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

 

Have you seen this ad lounging around the internet? It comes and goes. Now it’s baaack …

If you are thinking of buying in, you might want to consider these points.

Is It a Scam?

It all depends on your point of view I guess. Actually I think it all depends on whether or not you make more money than it costs you.

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