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FREE Internet Marketing Training For Newbies

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I’m repeating this post for one simple reason. It’s the Best Program currently available for beginners who want to get a start in internet marketing for fun and profit.


 

The 30 Day Challenge with Ed Dale and Partners

If you think that you missed the incredible FREE training of the August 30 Day Challenge, well, you haven’t. It’s starting again today. But it’s even better because now you can proceed at your own pace. In fact, you can start whenever you want.

Need more time?

If you need more than 30 days to absorb what could be an overwhelming amount of useful training for a beginner, you got it. Take your time because Ed Dale and colleagues have arranged to make this material available as long as you want it.

Highly Recommended

I couldn’t recommend this program more highly for newbies. It’s the training you’ve been looking for and you can’t beat the price. But please do all 30 days to get the most benefit.

OPM - Other People’s Money: Got $15K Handy?

Monday, October 27th, 2008

ALERT FOR NEWBIES - THIS IS A TYPICAL SCENARIO

How to Use OPM for Internet Marketing Success

A few weeks ago I got an unsolicited phone call from the staff of Russell Brunson, the famous internet marketer. It went like this.

The Screener - Gatekeeper 1

The first call was from a screener, a person who treats you nicely and asks some leading questions to see if you might be a candidate for the coaching program. If the screener decides that you are willing to "make the effort to be successful", the screener passes you on to a manager for more detailed investigation of your qualifications for the coaching program. To this point, no specific amount of money has been mentioned. The screener never wants scares you off with any specific dollar figure. But you are willing to invest some time and money aren’t you? "You sound like a good candidate for our program so I am going to have my manager call you and give you the details."

The Manager - Gatekeeper 2

The manager treats you nicely and pretends to be your friend for some fun conversation. This person explains what OPM is - Other People’s Money as if you won’t be spending you own money (Please don’t reveal this SECRET until the end of the story: OPM is generally a CREDIT CARD). Then you start talking turkey. Here’s the deal. For a measly $15,000, we are going to teach you how to be a successful internet marketer and we are going to hold your hand until you make your original investment back even if that takes … however, long it takes. And we want to get you up and running quickly so you can make a sufficient profit to pay the monthly bill on the OPM so you don’t have to use your own money (Please don’t reveal this SECRET until the end of the story: the profit you make to pay for the OPM is YOUR MONEY).

Sticker Shock

Whoa! $15,000! I’m just a newbie starting out and that’s not in my ballpark - yet. What? (more…)

HostGator - Hosting for Newbies

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Pay for Hosting by the Month

Short and simple. I recommend HostGator (I am an affiliate) for beginners because you can pay on a monthly basis. HostGator provides quality hosting (I use it) for various other reasons too. Check it out.

Don’t Waste Money on Long-term Hosting

Here’s the thing. If you are just starting out and trying new things, you don’t want to be locked into a long-term contract. If you try something and it doesn’t work, you want to be able to end your hosting without further cost until you are ready for your next effort. Hosting by the month at HostGator will cost you $9.95 and give you the opportunity to try out your ideas without the expense of a long-term contract.

On the Other Hand

If you do want a long-term hosting agreement with a quality provider, HostGator is one of your top choices.

 

Add Your Comments

Do You have another recommendation?

Have you had problems hosting at HostGator?

 

 

Internet Marketing Sins - Hate Mail and Fan Mail

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

We Have Encountered a  S u r r e a l  New World Here

I’ve set some kind of record today, which I hope demonstrates my honesty in a surreal sort of way.

Flying Emails

I wanted to make sure that you would be dealing directly with Sylvie Fortin if you wanted to send her an email so I tested her email link before I gave Internet Marketing Sins my highest recommendation. Made sense to me but it turned out that we had a bit of a heated exchange - she can be very direct if you haven’t noticed yet.

I won’t reproduce our entire email exchange because I am practicing to become a gentleman, and Sylvie Fortin is a nice lady.

Hate Mail?

Part of my email is cited as Hate Mail! Go HERE and scroll down to "Email From E". You’ll find my hate mail there. I’ll leave to you to judge the hateful quality of it.

Fan Mail!

Now here is where it gets surreal. Go HERE and scroll down to "As Seen On eMarketWorks.com". My blog post is cited as Fan Mail! (And my thanks to Sylvie Fortin for the link to emarketworks.com.)

Truth or Truthiness?

How can it be that I’m cited for both Hate Mail and Fan Mail? Maybe that is the price of honesty. You be the judge of that.

The bottom line is that, despite the sometimes crude language, Internet Marketing Sins will give you excellent insights into the internet scammers’ tactics so you won’t be taken in by them.

 

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

 

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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Copywriting - Web Copy That Sells

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

 

COPYWRITING? ME?

Killer copy? That I wrote? You’re kidding right?

I’M NOT KIDDING

Get this book first. Yes, I said "BOOK". For $15 or $20 dollars you can’t beat the buy-in price. And you will learn 95% of what you would have gotten from that $1,000 course, which maybe you don’t need after all.

STOP!

Stop even thinking about buying that copywriting course that has been tempting you and your credit card. No! Don’t do it!

GO!

"Web Copy That Sells" has won the praises of some big time copywriters for its simplicity (and as newbies, we value simplicity). No matter what your product is, you must know what this small book teaches you - the fundamentals of copywriting -  straightforward, easy to understand, and, best of all, easy to apply.

 

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Highly Recommended

This book is without doubt the single most important and cost-effective investment you are going to make in copywriting for your business.


Really, save yourself a lot of money and time struggling with your copywriting. Get this book! I’m stressing this because I did buy the $1,000 copywriting course, and after seeing this book, I wish I hadn’t. It’s a lesson I learned the hard way but you don’t have to.