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What exactly is the best approach to article marketing?

Dotcom Note — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:25:27 +0000

Dinah T. Frier asked:

I am quite new to the whole Internet marketing and SEO thing and I would really love to make marketing online a full-time job. But I am honestly so overwhelmed right now. I have read that article marketing is the best way to market my websites, but how exactly do I go about doing this?

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The Affiliate Code Review: Internet Marketer Invents A Magic Formula

Dotcom Note — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:08:37 +0000

I get this email from a guy who does not send tons of emails every week. So, I thought he must have some good offerings. I opened it. Like any other internet marketers he is promoting his partners’ program, The Affiliate Code, for a commission. Nothing is wrong there. We all do that to make a buck. He also wants me to watch a video. OMG, when is it going to end? From long copy boring sales letters to long and headache causing videos. We have come a long way, baby.

I go to The Affiliate Code website. A flashy page with a video. At least this guy has common human decency to put a video player with a fast forward button. I am happy. He also has an email capture form just like his Jedi Master has told him to do so. In case you don’t buy anything, he will have your email to send endless offerings not only for his own products but for all his partners’ products also. It is a win win situation for him and his buddies.

He starts his sales pitch using one of most headache causing video pitch. He shows all kinds of income proof. I still don’t know why people fall for this trap. I buy stuff where these is a money back guarantee so that I can return it within one week because most of them don’t work. If there is income proofs, I’m very skeptical.

Anyway, I watched the video for a minute or so and entered my email to check out what is inside. Inside, there is a long sales copy and another video.

I also noticed an AS SEEN ON banner on the top with Google, Yahoo, etc. logos. What is this fucking As Seen On? The Jedi Master never stops coming up with ridiculous ideas to extract money from financially challenged people. But you know what, it works.

If you’re buying something based on AS SEEN ON, I am sure you’re not going to make any money from the program.

The course is about a Killer Business System that will make you more than 65K a month without spending a dime. The video is 44 minutes long. The sales copy has lots of income proof.

He talks about his life story. Nothing new here. He was in a tiny apartment but did not like it. Every night he will scour the internet to find a magic formula to make money instantly. He also raked up large credit card bills No wonder!

Then he found affiliate marketing. Whoa, what a discovery. If it took him a so long and a mountain of debts to find affiliate marketing, I wonder what he was really searching on the Internet. Wink! Wink!

And then there he was. Making money from affiliate marketing and doing some crazy experiment in his lab. Finally he invented a complete system. When you use this system, you’ll start making money from day one.

Now he said it. You can make money from day one. I don’t have to read or listen to his boring video any longer. I immediately checked the price. It’s only$77.

This is what I will do. Buy the system using a credit card (never use debit card) and use it for one week. If you don’t make any money, get your money back. Don’t wait beyond one week. He has said that you would make money from day one. Give him one week.

He is also collecting your email when you make the purchase to sell you more products. But wait, don’t buy anything and go into debt just like he did.

Use the system for one day and if you make money, you can always buy later. Don’t fall for all kind of temptation. I don’t know what kind of up-sales he has planned for you. Don’t join any expensive coaching program unless you can make coaching fee from his system.

Good luck making $60K a month.

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Banner Ad Blueprint Review: How To Sell To Financially Challeged People Using Banner Ads

Dotcom Note — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:32:41 +0000

We have come full circle. It all started with banner ads more than a decade ago, then we jumped into pay-per-click. Now the Internet marketer’s delight is banner ads to sell products that people can buy from Walmart for $2. However, don’t worry. Lots of financially challenged people will fall for fake colon cleansing monthly regiment for a mere $40 a month if you use fake news paper style ads as a landing page and flashy banners? You will learn all the techniques for a mere $77 if you buy Banner Ad Blueprint.

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It comes from a 22 year old high school drop out. After going through some Jedi training, he asked his buddies, who are top affiliate marketers, to send out mass emails to people in their mailing list. I received a dozen or so emails about this banner ad blueprint. They all want me to watch a video first.

You know how sick I get when I watch these videos but they are addictive. They are like when you’re on crack. You know it’s ruining your health but you can’t live without it. I go to watch this Banner Ad Blueprint video. It was yesterday. My memory is not what used it to be. So, if I say something that is not in the video, please excuse me.

As usual the guy starts with showing his affiliate account full of money. He tries hard to convince that the account is not fake. Hmm, I wonder “why he is doing that?” May be he knows a thing or two. May be he knows that lots of internet marketers are showing fake accounts.

So, he thought he would outsmart them by showing some kind web certificate as a valid proof of authenticity of the account. Anyway, I thought it was not necessary. Good for him that he is earning more than $50,000 a month by doing banner advertisement and promoting useless but expensive colon cleansing type products to financially challenged people.

I always wonder, if these internet marketers will buy the same products they are promoting for themselves or their family. Anyway, I am digressing.

After making a couple of grands using banners to sell products, he is on a mission to educate everybody how to do it. Altruism has suddenly struck him. There can be no other reasons to sell a $67 ebook (or a video course?) by someone who is making $50K a month.

First he shows you how to sign up and open an account with one of those cost per view ad network (like AdBrite, DirectCPV). Honestly, if you don’t know how to create an account in any web site, you’re not ready for this Internet marketing thingy. If some one has to tell you how to sign up for an account, you should spend more time surfing the web and creating accounts rather than thinking about how to make money from the web.

Like all internet marketers he tells me that I’ve wasted lots of money trying to make money online. Who knows better than him, an Internet marketer? Now he will give me once in a life time opportunity to make money using banners ads. He will show me where to buy banners, demographic research and how to promote useless products to financially challenged people.

But you know, the price is only $67 and he is giving me 8 weeks no risk guarantee.

If you’re interested, you can buy it and if you cannot make your money back promoting usless products to finacially challeged people using banner ads within one week, just get a refund. Nobody loses, right? May be you’ll learn a thing or two.

Holy Shit! Internet Marketer Promises “No More Hype!”

Dotcom Note — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:07:40 +0000

Breaking news, folks. I just received an email from an Internet marketer and he is promising “no more hype!” I received this email just now. He wants me to watch a video. OMG, another video. He then starts defining what is hype. He could have asked me to do a Google search (define: hype), instead, he wanted to take a crack at defining what is hype in the email.

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He talks about how he set small goal (for example making $500 a month) when he started his internet marketing business. And he was making good money. Now everybody wants to make millions. “How can everybody make millions if they cannot make $500″, he asks. Well, he has a video explaining this conundrum.

He wants me to watch the video. According to everybody (who is everybody? I don’t know), this is the best video he has ever made and he is shocked to hear that. I assume that he was thinking this particular video was crappy like all his earlier ones but he was shocked when everybody had great praise for his latest voodoo.

He goes on (in the email. I have not yet visited the site yet). Now he is starting to understand why everybody has good words for the video. Do you know why? Because his latest creation does not talk about hype and fat. It goes straight to the point.

Now, you know what I should do. Wait 5 minutes. This video must be short and to the point, as he promises in his email. I am heading to his site. I will watch the video and report to you all in five minutes.

… (After 10 seconds)

Fuck it man. This is the same site Income Kick Start that teaches you yearlong email spamming business. This is the same guy who made millions from a hospital bed.

Any way, good luck to you all who aspire to make $150,000 a year from a hospital bed.

Affiliate Cash Secrets Guru’s Shocking Confession

Dotcom Note — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:37:07 +0000

You won’t believe what happened today. Finally, an internet marketing guru confessed that for the better part of his life he was wrong. He was doing every thing wrong. I want to make it clear that he did not confess to the fact that all the “get rich quick” books he had peddled in the past was also wrong. To correct for all the wrong things he had done in the past, he is going to sell you another get rich book called Affiliate Cash Secrets for an incredibly low price of $17. I have not seen this low price for a “get rich quick” ebook in years.

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I received this long email about how he was doing every thing wrong in the past to make money from the Web. He took “massive action” by

Creating splogs
Submitting articles that no body reads in article directories
Making fake review pages for affiliate products
Spamming forums and social media sites
Burning his money in Pay Per Click advertising
Using safe list for traffic exchanges (what the heck is safe list?)

He was an utter failure and kept on buying more “make money” books. He received a pittance, sometimes less than the minimum wage, for his massive action.

When he was about to give up the “make money” business, he purchased a super secret marketing course that he felt “make sense”. He immediately learned 5 marketing secrets that brought him cash from people who were desperate like he was prior to his enlightenment through the secret marketing course.

Now, he is sharing his success formula in a small ebook for a mere $17. He had already given away the secrets for free because one of the marketing secret he learned in the super secret marketing course was to give useless things for free to get customers emails to make big bucks by selling more useless stuff.

So “what is his secret?”, you ask. The five secrets are

Buld an email list and spamming others emails with useless products.
Give something for free, like an useless ebook about how to make money.
Don’t use hype but tell all sorts of stories like how you went from zero to million in a few months.
Spam others emails with offers that you believe are good. If you believe they’re good, they are definitely good.
Put your efforts on things that will make more people to buy your useless products.

Using the secrets discussed above, he is raking in close to $20K month after month.

Now you can buy his Affiliate Cash System for $17. It will tell you how to switch your fake affiliate marketing career to a real affiliate marketing business. I guess you cannot go wrong with $17 when there is a money back guarantee. Good luck on your endeavor to start a real affiliate business.

Buying Too Much Internet Marketing Crap

Dotcom Note — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:44:02 +0000

Today I got an email from one of those Internet marketers who regularly fill my inbox. However, the email has some value so I’m going to share it with all. It is about buying internet marketing crap – like those ebooks, expensive courses, viddeos, etc. I agree with this guy. I find most of them are truely crap but their prices keep going up and up. I am producing the email verbatim below. Hope this helps you not spend your money on buying craps that promise you how to make money online without doing any work.

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While I was spending my time learning and reflecting, I realized that a lot of people are spending unnecessary money on things that they do not need. And here’s my thought…

Q: What’s holding you back?

A: Buying too much crap and reading too many emails. How do I know what to buy and what to read?

01 : Buy what you KNOW you will use.

There’s nothing wrong with buying just to learn if you have the money. If you don’t, then buy what you see yourself DOING.

02 : If you have time, then buy what requires MORE work.

Yes, you read that right. Things that allow the “lazy” to enter the market place clutter the profit landscape. There are literally millions of junk sites and blogs because of the ability to “scrap” content into sites.

However, the person who decides to DO more has more control over the results. He or she can also build a more stable business.

If you’re willing to do a little more work, you’ll almost be alone in your niche.

03 : Buy based on interpreted value.

If you have a history of incomplete projects – a pattern of remaining reclusive and disconnected – you believe ahead of time that it’s a scam – then save your money.

On the other hand, if you have found gold in many of the products you’ve bought, you love being around people and love meeting new people – you can hear an idea and know what it could mean to your business – then the event will be awesome!

That’s true for ANY purchase.

Ok I need to go back to rest my brain now.
I’ll talk to you soon.

A Motivation Technique To Make Money Online

Dotcom Note — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:22:12 +0000

In the last week, I saw some great product launches that promised you easy money for less work and super secret formulas to riches. Some of these programs will definitely put you, the aspiring online marketer, in more debts if you’re struggling for money and need some quick money to pay your bills. Some of the highlights of last week’s launches are: a Post Card Mailing System for $2,995, an unbelievable system of Copy and Paste to Make Money Online if you join some Affiliate Classroom, another high priced course called CPA Tsunami, and much more. Today, I will talk about a motivation technique to make money online. And it is free. You don’t have to join any program.

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You see, I believe in making money online idea because I do make money online. But I don’t believe that you can start making money online simply because you join a program that promises pie in the sky; and unfortunately most of them do. One of the most important ingredient of making money online is the motivation.

The Internet Marketers believe that you are motivated and inspired when you see people driving fast cars, enjoying expensive vacations, or living in beach front houses. If you are motivated by these factors and wasting your time watching these type of videos, then I am sorry to tell you that the Internet Marketer has found the right person to hawk their products.

I sign up to receive information about many product launches. There is no other way. I have to give them my email address because the Internet Marketers want to fill my inbox with sales pitches, disguised as valuable information, inspirational stories, etc. Sometimes I have to also give my phone number. I don’t lie. I give my real phone number.

Many times I get calls from Internet Marketing companies and their first question is, “why do want to start a business? why do you want to make money?” These type of questions are extremely moronic for me. As soon as I hear it, I know that they are looking for people whom they can offer motivational speeches to sell their products. Often I reply, “I want to make money for the same reason you want to make money by selling your stuff to me.“

When they ask these type of questions, they are trying to find your weakness and exploit it. For example, if you say “I want to start a business because I want to quit my job.” Now they can tailor their sales pitches and make you feel good that you can easily quit your job if you join their programs. This is exactly how it works. So, be aware of what you are getting into when you are confronted with these types of questions.

You definitely need motivation to succeed in any business and online business is no different. But the real question is how do you know if you have the true motivation that will lead you to success? Or how do you develop that motivation? The first test is the time you are spending in acquiring free or low cost information and digesting it to knowledge.

If you believe that you can make millions by joining a program, specially an expensive program, then you are trying to take the easy path which may not lead to your success.

Lots of information that you typically get when you join a program is already there in the Web for free. You have to just find it. You may counter my argument by saying that, “what if I don’t want to spend my time in finding free information which I can buy it for a price and save my time.“

In that case, you have to first put a value to your time. Let’s say some information costs you $20 but you can get that same information for free if you spend one hour searching for it. What do you do? You need to ask yourself, “can I make $21 doing something else in the same amount of time I am going to spend searching for the free information?” If you can make $21, go buy that information. Otherwise, get motivated to find that information for free.

So, get yourself motivated by searching for free information that you need today.

3 Common SEO Myths Busted by Backlink Flood

Dotcom Note — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:14:25 +0000

To rank higher in search engines, you need to do search engine optimization, or SEO. What that really mean is you need to apply some techniques so that your fake affiliate review sites and long copy sales letter sites will displace higher quality, useful information rich site for a better ranking in the search engine result page. Backlink Flood will make sure that it happens.

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Internet marketers complain that Google is not fair because it is hard, time consuming, and expensive to trick Google algorithm to put Internet Marketers’ fake affiliate review sites, blogs made for promoting affiliate products, and one page long sales copy site on the top of the search engine result page. But now, it is going to change forever.

Every time you use Google to find some useful information, you will see these f*cking, mind numbing, brain freezing affiliate review sites, useless blog sites, and long sales copy sites on the search engine result pages because Backlink Flood is on a mission to render the search engines into useless piece of shit that only Internet Marketers and people looking to buy their stuff will find useful.

How do I know that? This is what I got today in my inbox. Read it and decide for yourself.

1. SEO is a long and slow process, it takes months or even longer to start seeing traffic and results.

2. Article marketing is easy… simply upload a few articles about your niche to high ranking directories, and you’ll get all of the traffic you need.

3. You can’t rank mini sites or sales letters for competitive keywords… you need an authority site, and trying to rank a small site is a waste of time.

Do any of those sound familiar? They’re all common beliefs in the world of SEO, and they’re all just plain WRONG. So, how can you rank your site for your keywords in days instead of months? What are more effective ways of driving traffic and building links than submitting articles?

And how the heck can you rank a minisite for extremely competitive keywords? We’ll tell you in a second, but first we have to let you in on a little secret.

When people like Paul Johnson and Angela Edwards rave about a new SEO product, smart marketers take note. And if you want to stay one step ahead in the SEO game – if you want to get that organic traffic to your site (or keep it coming if you already have it) – then you need to keep up with the latest industry news.

The newest breakthrough is Backlink Flood by Andy Fletcher. Andy isn’t a household name in the SEO world… yet. But he just released a product that’s going to turn the world of SEO upside down forever.

We’re talking about brand new concepts that have never been published before, like Rapid Link Indexing, and ranking for keywords in days that would take months using the old SEO methods you’re probably used to.

If you want to see the answers to the questions we posted above, or you’re just curious to see the product that is taking the SEO world by storm and has the biggest names in the business drooling, head on over to:

Backlink Flood web site and buy their product. Use all the techniques revealed in the ebook and your fake affiliate review sites, affiliate blogs, and long copy sales letter sites will be on the top of the search engine result page and people will flood to your site and buy from you how to make money quick online ebook.