Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
So, I finally managed to get some spare time to read through the whole thing, and there are both negative and positive things to say about this ebook. Most of it is actually positive (yeah, I shocked myself when I just wrote that).
But let's take care of the negative parts first, shall we?
From the salespage:
The Jealously Guarded Secrets Of A Few Very Smart Underground Marketers… Learn Them All & Unleash Your Dreams!
That's not really true. They aren't exactly "secrets", and they aren't exactly "jealously guarded" either. It's true that the techniques aren't something you'd pick up your first month of dabbling with affiliate marketing, but if you know your way around the internet and know where to find the hottest search-trends, you'd figure it out yourself.
Yes. Two of the techniques involve Google Hot Trends. Not very earth-shattering or "jealously guarded". There are a number of products out that names Google Hot Trends as the place to go when trying to determine what you should market next.
The first one involves PPC. If you don't want to spend click-money, that's not for you. The second one involves adsense. If you want a couple of good adsense days til the hot search trend dies off, that's one for you
If you want to make recurring, steady adsense-income, build a content-site. Don't use blogger. I still like the way Alok describes these both techniques, so they made a good read. And technique 2 is very doable. But it won't get you any income in a couple of hours. 'nuff said about that.
Technique #3, called "Underground Niche Profits" - is neither Underground, nor will it make you cash in a couple of hours. It's basic knowledge for anyone doing any type of micro niche marketing. But if you don't do micro niche marketing, and hardly know how to identify a niche, much less a micro niche - this chapter makes for a solid read. But it won't make you quick cash.
Technique #4 involves placement targeting of your adwords campaigns. Anyone with a bit of curiosity and an adwords-account know where to find this. But again, if you don't know your way around adwords, this is a solid read, with step-by-step instructions and some tips on how to make it effective.
Technique #5 is all about piggy-back riding on product launches. Alok tells you where to find info on upcoming launces, how you could steal traffic by registering the right domain name and simply forward the traffic to the real site with your affiliate link. Then there's the blogger-way, the squidoo-way, and again the adwords placement targetting.
So. There you have the recap of what Project Quick Cash is all about. The only negative things I really have to say about it is that
1 - None of the techniques is really a "quick cash"-method. They are fast ways to start generating revenue, yes. But "Quick Cash" they are not.
2 - They aren't "jealously guarded underground secrets". But they are not common knowledge either.
It pleases me to say that this product won't get the "Crap warning" or the "Re-cycled crap"-warning, but it won't get the "Hot Product"-tag either.
I picked up a couple of tweaks that seems to work great so far, so I'm fairly pleased.
Will it be of any use to you? Well, if you read my recaps of each chapter above, and you recongnize and can easily replicate it immediately with success, then it's not for you. If, on the other hand, reading the recaps makes you think "I want to know how to do that" - it's a good product. It's for you.
The price? It says $77 on the salespage at the moment, but if you hit the "back"-button in your browser, you get a $10 discount. Sneaky? Yes. Fair? No. A smart tactic? Hell, yeah!
Now it's up to you to decide. I told you how to get a $10 discount. I'm not going to ask for a refund on this one, even though I do feel uncomfortable about spending $67 on something I only picked up a couple of tweak-tips from, that I only consider "a good read".
Here's my affiliate-link again (you can't blame a man for trying) if you want to check it out.
As always, take pretty much everything you read on a sales page with a large grain of salt.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Yes, that time of year … Christmas giveaway time of year 
James Reilly and Javed Akram are running their 3rd annual Free Giveaway Event. The 30 days of Christmas. From December 1st (tomorrow!) 2007 to December 30th 2007.
Like the last 2 years this year aims to be even bigger & better than the previous ones. You will receive 100s of exciting gifts from some Top Internet Marketers during this special promotion.
Download Hundreds of Free gifts here!
You knew I was going to promote this one, didn't you? Do me a big favour and go sign up.
The Project Quick Cash review should be up shortly, I just took a break to post this message ;)
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I just got this one, so hold off your purchase, and I'll post a review later today.
It looks good so far, but I haven't even finished reading the first part yet … 
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
If you’re anything like me, and probably most other marketers, you’ve tried dabbling with marketing on Craigslist. Tried posting, posting again, and then post again, only to see your posts getting flagged and/or deleted more or less instantly…
Well, my posts aren’t getting deleted anymore, since I learned this new trick …
I’ve had posts remaining in the listings for days, depending on activity in the area, up to a couple of weeks.
All thanks to the method presented in this report.
Go ahead and check it out
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
I got a couple of promotions for this one, so I thought I’d have a quick look at it. If you’ve been thinking of buying Lucid SEO, think again. It’s not anywhere near as good as the sales page wants you to think.
The sales page claims that SEO is a lot easier than most SEO experts and consultants wants you to believe. David, Tim and Roy are absolutely right. On the ground level, SEO is very simple. Basic SEO is just that. Basic. If you do things right, you’ll outrank the competition quite easily. But that’s only basic SEO.
It goes without saying that if you apply basic SEO to your sites, you will easily outrank those that don’t apply basic SEO. The fact is that most site owners don’t apply SEO to their sites, so you will have an advantage over those sites.
The author lets you in on such basic things as applying keywords to the title-tags, using <h1> and <h2> to emphasize titles and subtitles in the content, using the alt-property for images and links, properly applying keywords as anchor text for your links, and using meta tags for keywords and descriptions.
You also get some basic knowledge when it comes to off-site optimization (read: link-building) by using Free Directiories, Squidoo, blogs, comments on other peoples’ blogs, and using articles in article directories.
Then you get a quick summary of the things mentioned above, coupled with a roadmap to get you started doing the things you’ve just been taught.
Lucid SEO is quite worthless to be honest. Go to Google, do a search for seo +forum and you’ll get a lot more information, a lot better information and a bigger insight to what SEO is really all about.
If this guide was another $7 or $9.97 offer, I’d say “go for it”, but it isn’t. It’s $79 friggin bucks. It’s nowhere near being good enough to justify that price. This is complete and utter crap. I’m sorry to have to say that, but it’s the truth.
If you want to learn basic SEO - find an SEO forum and you’ll get a lot of good quality information on SEO - for free.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I’m not really sure where to begin with this one… Is it re-hashed information? Yes and no. But it is available outside of the Google Assassin package. What you get, basically, is access to Affiliates Den, a set of tools to help with your PPC-campaign and online coaching to help you use the tools correctly. Affiliates Den is great, but you can get similar tools outside of the Den for free … The information in the coaching modules is also available in other products that doesn’t cost $67/month. That’s the biggest thing that really turns me off with this product. It’s a monthly subscription.
Now, if you are just starting out with PPC - would this be a good package for you? Actually it would. But if you’re just starting out, $67/month is not a good price. If you could get this package for a one-off payment of between $97 and $147, and get the coaching lessons (the blueprints) on a cd or something, it would be a great deal. But as I said, all the information is available elsewhere in single products that doesn’t cost $67/month. I’m sure the price has increased by now, and I know a couple of people who got in for $47/month. Of those, I only know one person who thinks he got a great deal :/
The coaching lessons are actually decent. But the information is not earth-shattering, and there are really no new tricks and tweaks that will set you light-years ahead of your competition.
The tools are ok, but similar tools (some actually better) are available on the net for free.
As always, Chris’ copy is excellent - in parts even brilliant, and I’m sure you’re going to go for your credit-card when you’re halfways through, but (and this is a big but) what you should do instead is put the copy in your swipe-file. Because that’s propbably the only good thing you will get out of this.
Chris is an excellent marketer, and he really knows what he’s doing, but when he claims he’s going to teach you his “secret” techniques, you need to take that with a grain of salt, because if Chris really has any secrets - he’s not sharing them. Not even for $67/month.
This is a half-decent package, but way too expensive, and the information is available elsewhere. I’m going to have to give this one a “re-hashed crap”-stamp. I really need to come up with some new graphics. I never expected to be torn in half this way
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