Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I have no doubt you have received many promotions for membership sites the past year or so. You’ve probably also received numerous promotions for various products “teaching” how to become rich with membership sites … I have. I’ve also bought a few, and I’ve become a member of several sites producing and purchasing great new material for it’s members to use in their marketing.
Membership sites come and go. Some are great and get constant updates several times a month. Some simply stop adding updates after a couple of months. Others provide updates in a timely manner, but with crappy products hardly even worth reading yourself, much less promoting in any way, shape or form.
I’ve already mentioned Cody Moya a couple of times (who primarily refurbish Public Domain material that you are not “allowed” to resell if you cancel your membership), and Ian del Carmen is another one. Sure, they both update regularly (but some of Ians sites never produce any updates at all), but they limit the members’ rights so much it’s not even funny.
I’m a member of Liz Tomey’s MyOriginalEProducts. Last year was great. New products every month, high quality stuff. But then something happened. There were no products for september, october and november. So I wrote a comment on one of her blogs, asking if there were ever going to be any updates. Suddenly there were products for december, so I figured I should stay onboard. But there has been no products for January either, so my guess is she doesn’t take her membershipsites very seriously… A real disappointment, as I’ve always been a fan of Liz …
Another site that has been great since it opened, PrivateLabelMonthly, also took a nosedive and shut it’s doors for good this month. That is a real shame. I’ve built niche sites that produce income from their material for so long now, I feel kind of handicapped now that they’re gone. Where else am I going to get graphics, articles, autoresponder series, ebooks etc. in well researched niches ready to plug and play?
In June 2006 I became a member of a place called PLAS (PrivateLabelArticleSite) which seemed real promising at first. The members of PLAS were all supposed to get training on how to start our own membership sites selling PLR articles and ebooks. PLAS took a dive, many members were screwed over royally by Burton Clement by paying him $500 to become VIPs of the highest level never having to pay for the membership again. Burton took their money, together with most of the membershipfees, and disappeared. PLAS was reborn as 2PLR, and naturally I became a member of 2PLR instead. Netiher PLAS nor 2PLR ever delivered what was promised, so my PLR membership site died a slow death as well. 2PLR has now disappeared off the face of the earth as well.
A couple of memberships I’m still a member of, and will stay a member of, are the Rich Jerks membership and the Unselfish Marketer membership. Both these sites provide new fresh material regularly, sweeping the Internet for great bargains where rights can be passed on. I’ve also found a new supplier of unrestricted PLR articles (200 per month) and a supplier of PLR newsletters that I strongly believe will fill up atleast a bit of the gap left by PrivateLabelMonthlys’ death.
Enough about me and the memberships I’ve belonged to. What are your favorite membership sites? Which membership sites have been the most disappointing? Do you feel like you’ve been ripped off by any membership sites?
Tell me! I’d really, really like to know!
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I’ve promised you this review over and over again, and somehow I always end up having to set a new deadline for it 
Well, today I spent a couple of hours reading, watching, listening and then doing it all over again.
So what did I learn?
To be honest, not that much. In the ebook Ross recommends choosing other products than just ebooks from clickbank, and goes through the various types of affiliate programs you can choose between. He talks about cloaking links, and recommends one free service for link cloaking. This didn’t exactly feel like news.
Next, Ross explains how to choose the products you want to promote, and reveals Clickbank, PayDotCom, FreeIQ and 2CheckOut. Last time I checked, 2CheckOuts affiliate program was still in beta and not open for the public. And Clickbank? Ross spent the previous chapter explaining why eBooks weren’t the only choice for affiliate marketing, and yet he spends one page explaining how to choose products on Clickbank…. Making any sense?
Next comes the interesting part .. The “Web 2.0 Affiliate Tactics“. I almost started drooling when I came to this part…
Ross talks about Video Tactics for marketing, using other peoples videos and creating your own with Camtasia. He explains Squidoo, marketing wisely on social networking sites. If Ross had asked me, I could have written the social networking page in 4 words for him: “Don’t Spam, Network!“. Ooops. That was three words. Even better
There is one part of this ebook that I did find very valuable….
I’ve found that marketing through blogs is a very efficient method that works well for me. Ross also uses blogging for affiliate marketing purposes. He uses a method that differs quite a bit from mine, as Ross targets the Internet Marketing niche. His method is a very good method indeed, but I’m not convinced it is a good method in small niches where there aren’t 10 new products released each and every week I’m not saying it can’t be done, but when you’re out of products, you’re out of products. You might have to wait for a year to market a new product with this method. It’s still a good method, and if you buy the ebook, this is probably the best part for you too.
The last half of the ebook is about creating, launching and promoting your own product. While I very well understand how “finding affiliates to promote your products” can be seen as “affiliate marketing” if you disconnect your brain, I really wasn’t expecting half of this ebook to be about product creation and launching ….
So let’s talk about the other things that come with this ebook, shall we?
There are videos. If these videos had better sound (so I could at least hear what the man is saying without wondering if I’ve been pressed down a tin can) they would have been great. Ok, maybe not great, but if the sound was better, I could probably have found some value in them.
I got “exclusive mindmaps showing how to set up marketing methods for success”. These are great, but …. Yes, the dreaded “but”. I can’t print these out.. Even if I had a color printer, I wouldn’t be able to read them. The text in the bubbles is hardly visible, as the text is in black on very dark backgrounds… Not made for printing, hence not made for using.
There were audio interviews. I actually did enjoy some of them, like the interviews with Willie Crawford, Simon Leung, Andrew Wee and Tiffany Dow. Those were ok.
I enjoyed Richard Butlers’ report and weekly planner, and I had great fun listening to the 6-part audio course by Daniel Taylor. That guy is friggin hilarious 
If you’re still thinking of buying >> go here >>
And while you’re still here, I would really really appreciate if you click on this link and tell me what you’d like to see next
So, the first review for 2008 is ready, and I hope there will be many many more
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Amazing, isn’t it?
We’re only 4 days into the new year, and I’ve already received tons of crap-promotions.
One that disturbed me especially was a sale of 7 plr products… I feel pity for anyone purchasing that package as they will run into legal problems if they use it. The sellers of that package don’t have rights to resell PLR. I know since I’ve purchased PLR to all the products myself.
It kinda ticks me off that people don’t read the licenses for the stuff they re-sell. It’s not ok to sell illegal licenses. Not at all.
How would you feel if you purchase PLR to a product, and the original author suddenly sends you a mail threatening with legal actions if you don’t take it off the market and tell your customers to delete it? I’ve had it happen… Not fun at all. Others have been sued with no warning for selling products illegally…
Don’t fall for that. If you want to purchase a PLR-package that seems to come from different sources, mail the seller and ask if he really has the rights to sell PLR licenses.
Nuff’said.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and that your New Year-parties were as great as the one I visited
I’m introducing a new feature on my blog this year. When I find something I think is spectacular and I get re-sell rights to it (if I get the rights to resell PLR, I’ll do that as well), I’ll make sure to offer it to you as well. Make a habit of clicking the Special Blog-sale link up in the right corner.
The first deal is a report called “Facebook Social Ads - The New AdWords“, teaching you how to make money with advertising on Facebook. You get MRR to the package and it comes complete with graphics (jpg and psd) and sales-material.
Let’s make 2008 a great year!
Oh, yeah, the Affiliate Marketing 2.0 review is coming up next. I’ll try to have it available by monday. I’m still trying to catch up with everything I didn’t do over Christmas- and New Year-celebrations.
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