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Dotcom Note — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:23:26 +0000

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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.

Sunday Reading: Affiliate Jump and Free Downloads

Dotcom Note — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:31:09 +0000

The emails on make money online and become a millionaire keeps on pouring into my inboxes. Of course, I don’t waste my time reading all these emails. I don’t even open all of them. I only open the one if the header grabs my attention. Today, the two emails that grabbed my attention are Affiliate Jump that I have already reviewed earlier and where to download boat loads of free online marketing ebooks and tools.

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Affiliate Jump is now approving 100% into their CPA programs. I wonder why they would not when they are getting a monthly fee for each subscriber. People are lining up to pay them a monthly subscription fee with a dream to make millions promoting CPA offers. This is the call to action for the Affiliate Jump in their follow up email to me: Get your account set up right now and within minutes you too will be able to get your share of the huge CPA commission pie.

In their missions for the humanity to remove all the barriers to CPA promotions, it seems they have become very successful in filling their bank accounts. Other CPA networks will not approve all the affiliates and they’ll not charge you a monthly subscription fee if you’re approved. But these guys are ahead of the game and they will approve you into their network, 100% guaranteed, because they don’t care if you are able to make money promoting their CPA offers or not. They will always make money from your subscription.

Another joker sends me an email and tells me to go to this site where I can downloads free gifts, ebooks, online marketing tools and lots of other stuff. Who doesn’t want free stuff, right? So, I go to this web site and the landing page is a long list of free stuff that I can download. When I click on the first download link, I’m taken to another page to enter my email address. I thought, “well it is not that bad and everybody does it to collect opt-in email addresses to fill my inbox with worthless junk anyway.“

You think that my misery will be over as soon as I enter my name and email address in the opt-in form, right? I will be taken to the download page and I can happily download another useless ebook that I will never read and will sit in my hard drive till it dies.

Wait, my misery has only started. After I entered my email address, the auto-responder page instructed me to verify my email. I opened my Gmail account and clicked on a link.

I landed on another page that told me to check my email again for the download link. I went to my Gmail account and opened the newly arrived email with the download link, I assumed. As soon as I opened the link, one smarty pant in a loud voice started to tell me how he had made millions in the last two years using some super secrets.

This joker wants me to buy his super secrets for only $27. But he is honest. He tells me that he cannot guarantee any income for me because he does not know how I am going to implement his super secret. It all depends on my implementation. I wonder why the hell I am paying him $27 if he is not going to tell me the right way to implement his super secret.

Anyway, I could not find a way to stop his nonsense and there was no donwload link that was immediately obvious. So, my quest for a free download ended up in 20 minutes of wasted time.

The Jedi Master has taught his apprentices very well and these Internet Marketers are really becoming very good at doing whatever they are doing to fill their bank account.

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.

CPA Tsunami Review – Launch Your Own CPA Offer

Dotcom Note — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:02 +0000

CPA or cost per action is a raze now. Everybody and their brother is launching CPA marketing courses to make you an expert CPA marketer and a millionaire. If you are confused about CPA and think it is some kind of accounting system, please leave the Internet Marketing field and never comeback again.

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This landscape is extremely fertile. The gold rush is happening right now in front of your eyes but you are not able to see it because the few privileged ones are hiding it from you so that you don’t become rich. But that is going to change because of one guy’s tireless mission to make everybody a CPA offer creator; only if you hand him over close to $2,000 to buy his CPA Tsunami course.

Did you notice one thing different here? He is not talking about making you a super CPA affiliate. He will teach you techniques that you can use to launch your own CPA offers and hire those super CPA affiliates to make money for you. What a genius idea! While everybody and their brother is selling CPA affiliate course for a few hundred bucks, this guy has kicked it up a notch by offering you a course on how to launch your own CPA offer and make millions a day.

I go to his website. Make a mental note of what is happening in his web site as I describe it here because he is implementing some of the same techniques that he teaches to people for $50,000 in his own website to sell his $2,000 product. I see a video and a simple one text box where I have to enter my email address so that he can fill my inbox with his super secret CPA marketing knowledge.

The video on the landing page is confusing. It shows fancy cars, high speed chase, luxury homes, boats and load of other crap that I forgot. “Am I watching a movie trailer?”, I wondered. The video does not tell me any super secrets. For, that I need to enter my email address and go inside the guarded super secret castle. It only tells me that he has the secret and I must enter my email to get more. So I did.

Inside, he has seven videos. Some are short and some are long. “This guy is a master Internet Marketer. He is the legitimate one and others are scam artists”, I paraphrase a person’s announcement in one of the longest video. One of the slide in a presentation video shows, “Yes You Can!” I sat on my chair and tried to remember where did I see that slogan last year.

In the longest presentation style video, he starts his talk by telling the audience that you don’t need education or money to succeed in CPA offer marketing. But I am sure you still need $2,000 to buy his program . I guess, you can borrow $2,000 to purchase his product from your credit card and go deeper in debt. It really does not matter. There is a price to pay for sweet dreams. Nightmares are for free.

His super secret starts with telling his audience “what is web traffic.” His audience is in awe of his CPA knowledge.

Some of the golden nuggets of free information that he delves into those videos are

What is CPA marketing and CPA Network. CPA Network is a repository of CPA offers. Top CAP networks are Clickbooth, CX Digital, Hydra, ROI Rocket, etc.
RFT. Risk Free Trial. Try Before You Buy Concept (what a super secret! I have to give credit to this guy to come up with such a fantastic idea!)
Value trojans. Small monthly subscriptions that you can sneak into the customers’ buying process so that they forget it to cancel and you keep on billing.
And much more…

You learn lots of marketing techniques in CPA Tsunami to take money from your customers by selling them useless products and subscriptions that they really don’t need. The stupid customers will buy these products, instead of saving money for their retirement or nice vacations. But the techniques you will learn will definitely make your retirement secured. Go for it if you want sweet dreams instead of dark night mares.

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.

Push Button Sales Letters – Your Nirvana to Expensive Copywriting

Dotcom Note — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:58:38 +0000

Internet marketers use long copy sales letters and well crafted emails to peddle their products. You may have seen countless sites that have long web pages and you scroll down and down and their is no end to that. It has bold and big fonts, some shiny graphics, lots of testimonials, order buttons that tell you to order right now before the world comes to an end. By now, you should know the kind of sites I am referring to.

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All these sites and emails are designed to accomplish one and only one thing. Suppress your rationality and force you to use your emotions an pull out the credit cards from your pocket.

These sales letters are not easy to write. A good sales letter employs highly sophisticated approaches to appeal human emotions. There are arts and sciences to writing these sales letters. You may have to spend lots of money to get one written by a good copywriter. Until now. This Push Button Sales Letters software is going to change all that. You can use it to create these useless web pages in a minute.

You need a potent and targeted sales letter for people to send money to your bank account. You can create a sales letter that will attract buyers like a magnet by clicking a button if you are using Push Button Sales Letters software. The guy even wonders why all the websites are not using these ridiculous long copy sales letters. Just imagine how the Amazon site would look if they have one long copy sales letter for every product they have in their inventory.

You fill up some blanks and the software creates a ridiculous long copy sales letter. You can choose from seven powerful headlines designed to strip all rationality from the visitors’ brains.

Of course, if you cannot make any sales using these sales letters created by this software then you are entering garbage into the software. You are a stupid. You need to take a break from Internet marketing. If you were smart enough, you would have created the software yourself and would have been making money right now.

Wait, you may have a second option. Because you could not make any sales using the sales letter created by the software, why not sell the same software to other soon-to-be rich Internet marketers? You get an hefty commission. May be you will get your money back and the creator of the software will make more money using your efforts. Now get to the work. Create ridiculous lengthy web pages in the hope of selling something or sell Push Button Sales Letters.

Zero Friction Marketing Review – Grease Your Affiliate Efforts

Dotcom Note — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:00:19 +0000

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If you are experiencing too much friction in your affiliate marketing efforts, Zero Friction Marketing gives you the secret, magic lubrication to remove all the friction between you and the untold affiliate riches. It is a CPA course. Yesterday, I talked about another CPA program called Affiliate Jump. This CPA thingy is heating up and all gurus are eager to teach you how to make millions CPA marketing.

As I am always a sucker for this kind of things, I immediately clicked on the link in my email to land on the Zero Friction Market site. And there it was - a video. Now these internet marketing scripts are becoming very predictable. I was expecting a video and there it was. Besides the video, there was list, like in a spreadsheet column, that showed all the money, totaling $107,129.39 that somebody – mostly probably the creator of the program – has made using Zero Friction Marketing.

Wait, let me check who is the creator. No, it does not say anything at least on the first paragraph of the long sales letter. The income figures are very recent. I think the creator of the program got tired of making so much money that wanted everybody to learn his secret for a hefty $1,000 fee. He thought, “why not? I have this system and I am going to ask for $1,000 to reveal my super secrets.”

I am sorry, the video (not the one I mentioned above) is a testimonial from somebody who is absolutely delighted about the secret CPA program and he has made thousands. The are few other testimonial videos. A gal who made $1,300 in her first week. The last testimonial is encouraging people who are making small amounts of money from CPA marketing, to enroll in the course to increase their earnings.

So, it does not matter. The creator has figured it out and would help newbies and people who are already doing CPA marketing for mere $1,000. Don’t worry you are laid off from your job. Here is passport to show the finger to your former boss.

The best part of the program is you don’t need anything.

No website
No product
No Cusotmer list
No Adwords
No traffic budget

You may be a bum, but you can still make money as long as you can afford the price for the course. As I scroll down the long sales page, I finally located a video where somebody logs into an affiliate network to show the money he has made in a couple of months. It is more than half a million dollars. But he does not tell how much money he has spent on advertising.

So here you have it all. Zero Friction Marketing to remove all the friction you have in your life. I love the names these marketers come up with.

Affiliate Jump Reviewed – CPA Marketing Could Never Be Easier

Dotcom Note — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:00:19 +0000

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I get this email in my inbox that delighted in my ignorance about CPA (cost per action) marketing. He wants me to watch his video at Affiliate Jump site and to sign up with my email so that he can give more sales pitches about some kind of CPA course, guranteed enrollment in CPA programs, instant landing page creation, webinars and more. These webinars and interviews with people who talk about how they are making millions are a sure way to waste lots of your time.

Affiliate Jump would give me all the tools I need to rake in unimaginable profits from CPA marketing as long as I subscribe to the membership site for a monthly fee. I can make six-figure income from the comfort of my home. Who can resist?

I sure cannot resist. So I rushed to the site where I can take my affiliate marketing to the next level, as they claimed. No surprise there. Like hundreds of other sites, this one also has a video and an opt-in form with some nice graphics on the right hand side. He promises to give me instant free access to a $97 value “CPA Profits Revealed” video and ebook.

For his kind generosity, I have to only enter my email in the opt-in box. I was wondering why this guy wants my email again. He already has it. He has already sent me an invitation to watch his video. Why he wants it again?

Any way I wanted to watch the video. I get very impatient while watching long internet marketing videos. I looked at the length of the video. It was 2:43 minutes. I said to myself, “good, it is short and I can watch it without going crazy.” The guy in a t-shirt announces his name and tells me that Affiliate Jump is my ticket to CPA marketing.

He again reiterated that my ignorance about CPA is good and that only the “big boys” should know about CPA. He will help me, for a monthly fee, put myself in the same league with that small previelged group of people who are destined to know CPA and profit from it.

Ok, it confirmed my earlier belief that there is a membership to Affiliate Jump. You have to pay every month and you will be able to create web sites just by clicking a button. I was intrigued. This the the holy grail of internet marketing. Web sites at the click of a button? These instantly created sites will be designed to promote CPA programs. All you have to do is bring traffic to these sites. It is that simple.

As it peaked my curiosity about the instant website creation, I entered my email and went inside the protected area to watch another video. This is a f*cking long video (44 minutes). I had to fast forward it to skip the craps and see only the part where a website was built just by clicking a button.

What I saw in the video made me fell off my chair. I am may be wrong and if so, please correct me by posting a comment. But this is what I believe is one click site creation solution. You create the site using as a sub-domain in one of their main domains. Your site is a sub-domain of a main domain owned by Affiliate Jump. And the site has a bunch of banners pointing to CPA merchant sites. What a genius idea!

You promote the site and send traffic to it but to create the site and enroll in the CPA program, you pay a monthly subscription fee to Affiliate Jump. Even if you cannot bring in real customers, Affiliate Jump will always make money from your subscription fee. What a wonderful business model.

Now sign up and start making money online.

Join Niche Profit Classroom 2.0 and Make Upto $100,000 Per Month

Dotcom Note — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:00:44 +0000

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Yes, that is close to what the creator of the course Niche Profit Class Room 2.0 claims to be making. The creator of this course “Adam Short” has already raking millions. Now he will show you his super duper secret strategy that he has been using to funnel cash into his bank account on auto pilot. It is also called Silent Sales Machine.

You listen to a 15 minute video before you sign up. This is program that was offered earlier(I don’t know when) and it is an upgraded version. Like every thing else for the second generation in the Web, it is called Niche Profit Classroom 2.0.

The video starts with a talk about niche marketing. If you don’t know what heck is niche marketing, you should pack up and go back to web surfing, instead of dreaming about making millions from your autopilot online business. According to the video, your cell phone company is also engaged in niche marketing. Go figure.

According to Adam, the old techniques don’t work. Only the new techniques that he is going to teach you work. According to him the four criteria for the auto pilot business he is offering are:

1. Easy to setup
2. Generate income quickly and the thing is on auto pilot
3. It is long-term strategy
4. The business benefits people.

Now that is what I call a true business. He has combined the unique sales proposition of all the internet marketers and have come up with some thing that you cannot resist.

The process works like this. You build 10 to 100 page websites with articles written by someone from Philippines or Kenya or other similar countries where educated people can write good English but the wage is extremely low. Each site makes $250-$5,000 a month. And build hundreds of these sites. How sweet.

He call it Silent Sales Machine. It generates traffic and profits. You get all the traffic for free from search engines. You can launch one of these site for $30.

He has identified more than 50,000 niche markets. It is not possible to tap into all the markets so he has set up his teaching program.