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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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Friday, July 20th, 2007
You’ve gotten the promotions. Maybe you fell for the “humor” in the salesletter, or one of the “bud”-videos, or the stupid Mike Filsaime-video. I’ve never seen a promotion this stinky before… It’s obvious the guy is happy about his videocamera but the whole thing is just ridiculous… Let me tell you the worst part of it…
Ok, it’s not a “recycled” product per se, since it’s new But I don’t feel like making a new graphic for this product. What I’m told, however, is that the information has been taught and preached for years. “Don’t reinvent the wheel! Copy and borrow from the masters.“. You are keeping a swipe-file where you store the best phrases, titles, subtitles etc. aren’t you? Great, save yourself some money, this isn’t for you.
This is part of a review I read:
Site Stealer isn’t about stealing the product. It is about stealing successful designs and sales strategies. You have to make them unique to prevent yourself from being accused of copyright violations or stealing, but if you do it correctly you can learn a lot about how to make a successful site.
Site Stealer goes through a sales page and shows you exactly what kinds of things you can “steal” to “personalize” and make your own site.
It is also about “stealing” successful business models. You know certain strategies that can make someone more succesful or make one site more successful. Maybe some strategies that help a site make more back end money than other sites.
Finally he’ll show you how to do your own launch by giving you things like links to forums and ezines and stuff he goes to get affiliates to help him launch his products.
Now if that sounds enticing to you, by all means, go ahead and buy it. But if you’re already keeping swipe-files, and are learning, copying and borrowing from the masters, it really isn’t for you.
Since the information is widely available and has been taught for years, I’d say this is just rehashed info in a fancy new suite. Not my cup’o'tea, I’ll file this under the “crap”-section.
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
You’ve gotten the promotions for Rob Benwells’ Blogging To The Bank 2, haven’t you?
I hope for your own sake you didn’t buy it. It’s complete and utter rubbish. Even if you’re a newbie, this is crap. Honestly. You don’t need it. There are better guides out there, for free, that tells you the same thing.
Get a hosted wordpress-blog, add adsense and affiliate-links, bookmark on social bookmarking and networking sites, research your keywords… Who needs a poorly written guide to figure that out? BTTB2 is just as bad as BTTB1, if not worse.
Tom Dean has a review as well, over at his blog, and he’s not the only one to agree with me.
FFS, Rob, if you’re making as much money as you claim on your blogs, why the F don’t you hire yourself a proof-reader?
Head on over to Tom Deans blog and read his review for more insights, I myself have to go delete this crap from my disk...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
It seems to me like SalesBully will be all about psychological tricks to persuade people into buying your stuff. There’s no secret to the fact that you can make people buy your products by instilling some fear into them by telling them that they will fail miserably in their ventures without your product, that they will go broke or die if they don’t start using the tactics in your guide/report and what-not.
From what I can make of the salespage, John does this by presenting you with a number of “facts”. Like how they used the system to sell out their last product, “GoTryThis” in 7 days, how everyone who tested the system increased their conversion rates by up to 400% (or something, i didn’t really take much notice), and how, basically, you will be overrun by your competition if you don’t buy it.
He uses a bunch of javascript and css-tricks to instill a sense of urgency, and tells you that just because you’re you, you can have this fantastic, “can’t live without it, don’t leave home without it” product for only $177 instead of the real price $297.
I’m not falling for that. There are lots of great guides on how to persuade visitors into buying, and if I buy those I won’t have to shell out $177 and give John my ftp-details.
If you purchase his system, tell me how you liked it. Hopefully it’s more unique than GoTryThis “blackhat” (overpriced piece of junk)
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
You’ve seen the hype, you’ve read all the promo-mails.
If you bought it, good luck, be quick because the ebook comprises of old, rehashed outdated information. When a couple of thousand copies of the ebook is sold, and a couple of hundred people start working it - badabombadabing - shutdown, de-indexing and money wasted.
Here are some comments that made me stay away from this:
This book is a load of complete rehashed bullshit, full of affiliate links & old information that will get your sites banned quicker than you can say “ah crap”
Imo mass content generation like this stopped being overly effective about a year ago, some people still make good cash out of it but it takes a ASS LOAD of automation & work.
And another one:
Just had a quick read and the content isn’t bad, but its basic and freely available on the net. Oh, and he tells you to dish out $2.5k for fantomaster… typical… in fact you dont need to buy the fucking book, coz its basically telling you to buy fantomaster after spending pages talking about how great black hat is and how much money its going to make you. To think this is worthy of a $77 price tag is insane.
Chris is starting to get on my nerves. Adwords Miracle was great, Affiliate Project-X was good, Day Job Killer was … not very good. Duvet Dollars sucked (and yes, it’s Chris’ product although he hid himself behind a female name) and this time I won’t even bother demanding a refund. I’m tired of Chris and his hypey bullshit.
You want to know everything there is to know about “making it online”?
WickedFire Forum is where you go.
Stop buying these overpriced, crappy waste-of-space products.
I know I will.
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Shawn Casey is a marketer I have a tremendous amount of respect for. When I do purchase Shawns products, it’s almost like a sacred moment when I enter the download-area, or membership-area, depending on what the product is. It normally doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. When it’s good - I tell people about it. If it’s bad - I keep my mouth shut. I don’t want to say nasty things about Shawn Casey. After all, Shawn Casey is Shawn Casey.
But this time around, I have a channel to actually tell people about it.
9 Easy Steps To Internet Cash is … A very basic affiliate-marketing guide. Every page has a couple of mp3’s or a video or two, and on each page Shawn has a shitload of affiliate-links. Nothing wrong with trying to make a few bucks extra, but you don’t have to overdo it. One of the chapters basically consists of affiliate-links.
If you’ve read one or two basic introductions to affiliate marketing, keep your money.
If you haven’t, find something else.
This just isn’t worth it.
There was a 7 day trial, which is why I went for it, but days 2,3 and 4 I couldn’t even log in. On day 5 I asked support to cancel my subscription. 5 days, and I had access to the product for 1. Great. Not.
I won’t go so far as to say it’s crap, but if you’ve heard of affiliate marketing, this course is too basic for you.
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
You are bound to receive atleast a few mails about this one.
Apparently, one of Edmund Lohs’ relatives have reached some success using Bum Marketing/Article Marketing techniques.
Out of curiosity I bought this one, although I’m already a member of the best resource for Bum Marketing.
Is it worth the money? Well… If you’re new to the topic, never heard of bum marketing, and don’t feel like signing up at bummarketingmethod.com (Travis was the one who invented the phrase) this could be your perfect introduction.
Most of the information can be found at bummarketingmethod.com, the only difference here is a couple of new resources to post your articles on. There’s a second download with the package that’s called “Articles That Write Themselves” - which basically boils down to this:
1 - Research your keyword
2 - Find other articles about the keyword/topic
3 - Do a rewrite of the phrases in some of the articles, and combine parts of the rewritten articles into new articles
That too, is a well-known trick you can pick up from any bum-marketing site or resource.
Another part is called “Article Marketing Roadmap”. It’s more or less a step-by-step guide that tells you what you need to do in order to maximize your success with article marketing. He basically tells you to offer a free report to get a targeted list, and then sell them your affiliate products. This, too, is a tip available at any bum marketing resource you find.
This product is a fluff-filled conclusion of bummarketingmethod.com
I expected to get a lot of good new information and new techniques on the topic. But I didn’t.
Which is why I think this product is crap. Unless you’re totally new to the subject and want to know what the fuzz is about.
Check it out for yourself, secretarticleprofits.com.
If you know the basics of bum/article marketing, this is not for you. Avoid it. Don’t fall for the sales-letters you are bound to receive sooner or later.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
You’re likely getting a bunch of mails about this new product.
It’s Keith Wellmans’ father, who’s selling his first own product after being taught the affiliate marketing ins and outs by Keith after some personal financial problems. Now I don’t know whether or not the story is true, and it’s not something I’m going to investigate. It’s just not interesting enough. What is interesting is the “big” names promoting it. I haven’t seen a lot of those names promoting anything cheaper than $97 for a while now, so I’m guessing Keith is pulling in some favors to get this sold.
One marketer I really like, have a kind of personal relation to, and value the advise of, recommends it whole-heartedly, although I know said marketer has absolutely no use what-so-ever of the product in question, and would consider most of it as old news and a whole lot of it as uninteresting, which is why I believe most of the promotions at the moment are favors to Keith.
I don’t want to gun it down totally, because it is a good product for someone who’s just turned on their computer and heard of “this affiliate-thingy-ma-jig”.
The person who will have use of this is:
1 - not sure what Cost Per Click advertising is
2 - not exactly sure what OTO means
3 - wondering what a mailing-list is
If that’s you, then Congratulations. You’ve found your introduction to the business. If it isn’t, you don’t need it.
If you want to check it out yourself, here is the link.
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