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Internet Marketing – Shady business?

April 15, 2010 – 2:30 pm
Let me start off by telling you that I am not going to try and sell you anything in this post. Not only am I not trying to sell you anything, I am going to try to teach you to keep your plastic in your wallet, and your wallet in your pocket. The IM business is in a terrible state, and making an honest buck online has never been harder (I'll clarify, making the buck isn't harder, it's easier than ever, but making the honest buck is harder). It seems that everyone and their dogs are trying to turn their prospective customers upside down, shaking for their last nickels, without the customer ever having time to reflect on what it is they're being sold. I've kept my nose out of IM for a while now, turning a blind eye to the promotions that hit my email inbox. I've been working in ...

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What happened?

October 31, 2009 – 3:15 pm
Hi! It's been a while :) Earlier this year, I broke up with my girlfriend since 5 years. Needless to say, I guess, things didn't just instantly go back to normal. Lots of stuff had to be attended to, and I just haven't had the time or energy to pick up my "online stuff" again. Until now. I've been dreading this moment, but now that it's finally here it turned out easier than I imagined. At the moment, I have an exact amount of 0 (yes: zero) products active, and the money I make is tied to a couple of sites that basically manage themselves. Scary, huh? Well, I thought so too, which is probably part of the reason I dreaded the moment I finally find the time to pick up where I started. As it turns out though, the timing is good. December 1st, 2009, will see some changes in the Internet Marketing ...

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Be careful with your testimonials

March 11, 2009 – 3:28 am
Naturally, most marketers and companies are happy to receive testimonials from their customers, positive ones as well as negative ones. The positive testimonials often get published on the company's website, while the negative comments are used to improve products and services. Today I noticed a testimonial on a website, written by none other than me. The problem is I have never heard of the company in question, nor have I ordered anything from them. Never. Never have, never will. Not in a million years. They export car parts (if I've understood it correctly) and stuff like that which I never use since I don't have a car. Or even a license. Never had any need for it. If I was a vengeful person, I would now ask the company for compensation for using my name - and if I weren't compensated I'd immediately start a slander-campaign. That type of campaign can be pretty easily ...

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Review: Google Snatch 2 – Yay or Nay?

September 16, 2008 – 2:00 am
There's obviously a lot of people out there that knows little or nothing about Google, judging by the number of new products that has "Google" in their names. If there comes another product this year with "Google" in it's name, I think it's only a matter of time before big G's lawyer comes a-running. Besides, I'll probably stop reading mails or sales pages as soon as I see "Google" in it/them. With that said, I did actually purchase "Google Snatch 2" despite the quality of the original Google Snatch. Sure, the old one did contain a few gold nuggets, but I expect more from a product with over 100 pages said to contain "no fluff". It wasn't the original product I promised to review though, but the new and updated v2. Google Snatch 2 is close to 150 pages, and the first thing I noticed which was (and is) driving me mad ...

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Here’s a GREAT resource for your multimedia needs!

September 9, 2008 – 11:04 pm
I've recently been involved in several multimedia-centered projects (no, not in the IM-scene where people still think links in flash-videos is new and hot), and I've attended several online and offline courses to learn Adobe Flash and others in order to accomplish what I needed done. I like doing things myself, but I also know that I do not have unlimited time on my hands. My normal route when I can't do a part of a project myself is to go to a freelance site, hire someone to do it and hope for the best. I found a better and cheaper way a while back though... A couple of days ago I talked to a friend and colleague, who had just seen a glimpse of one of the multimedia projects I've been working on, and he wanted to know how I made a couple of the elements I used. I told him ...

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I’ve been away for a while

September 6, 2008 – 8:07 am
I've gotten a couple of emails asking me about the review I promised to have up a couple of weeks ago, so I figured I might as well explain myself here as well. I've been absent for a while now due to medical conditions, being in and out of the hospital all the time. Due to me not really paying attention to what my doctor said about my new medicines, I managed to mix things up taking the wrong amounts of the new ones and my old ones. I was supposed to lower the dose of the old ones, syncing it with raising the dose of the new ones... So I got posioned, and for some reason I managed to get an internal infection as well, just to make things even more wonderful :) I was actually pretty close to not waking up, but luckily other people noticed I started getting worse and ...

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AffSphere – Article Directory For Affiliates

August 15, 2008 – 5:45 pm
Article Marketing - Love it or Hate it? I think there are as many opinions on the effectiveness of article marketing, as there are actual marketers who either use it successfully, or have only tried it with mixed results. I've had my fair share of success as well as failure when it comes to marketing through niche-centered articles, and I sincerely believe in the concept as a powerful way to drive traffic, sales and affiliate commissions. If you've been at it, successfully or not, you know that the success partially depends on what article directory you publish your articles in. eZine-articles and Go-articles probably being two of the most prominent ones. High PR normally means faster indexing, and provided your keyword and keyphrase density is at a good level, you have a good chance at hitting good positions in the organic result lists on the search engines relatively fast and easy. A well-known ...

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Secret Google Tactics – Really?

August 9, 2008 – 8:12 am
I snapped this one up while it was still $9.97, not really sure what to expect from it. I've not been overly excited about Dylan Loh's other products, but I figured I might as well give the guy a second chance when he's selling valuable, secret information on how to become a top earner using AdWords and AdSense... Atleast that's the impression I got when I read the salespage. "How You Can Fuse The Power of Adwords And Adsense Using A *Sly And Sneaky* Formula To Crush The Gurus And Create An Autopilot Income For LIFE – Guaranteed!" After reading this 35 page report, I think it's safe to say that there is no new sly and sneaky formula revealed, that will help you crush any gurus. Chapter 1: Getting Started Dylan sets out to explain the basics, AdWords & AdSense, selling affiliate products, building AdSense sites, using PLR and MRR material and basic ...

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Google Nemesis – Money well spent or down the drain?

July 14, 2008 – 7:50 pm
I'm sure you've been hit by numerous promotion mails giving glowing testimony to the newest kid on the block, Google Nemesis. I've received far too many to keep track of, and I've also tested the service, because that's basically what it is. A subscription based landing page service. A very limited one at that too, I might add. What you get, besides the service itself (at a whopping bargain-price of $67/month) is two videos explaining how to use the service, two reports (How To Spot The Shadow Elite - about finding successful AdWords campaigns to copy - and Creating The Perfect Review Page - since the landing pages are in the form of review pages) and a free copy of Google Wealth Wizard, if you're not familiar with AdWords. There's an upgrade available too, at an extra $47/month, giving you access to "DJK Blueprints" reports, which I'm guessing is a monthly service. Google ...

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Review: The Affiliate Conspiracy by Eric Rockefeller

May 23, 2008 – 2:34 pm
First things first, Eric did one thing I really like in this product. The main report itself is available at $0. Doesn't cost a dime. Kudos for that. What he charges for is the two additional reports "AdWords Best Practices" on how to use AdWords better, and "Relationship Marketing" on how to better create a relationship with your lists, and the set of 26 instructional videos weighing in at around 2 1/2 hours tutorials of what's discussed in the reports, both the free and the two additional ones. The main report was good. Not great, but ok. Eric introduces what he calls his "Autopilot Money Machine", which is more or less standard affiliate practice: Find a market/niche that looks profitable Examine the competition to find out what keywords and ads work best Set up your landing pages on their own domains or on free blogging platforms Set up your AdWords campaigns using the keywords and ...

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