OK, there is only one Woot. The folks who do that deal a day site are funny, witty and sarcastic. So far the people at DealDotCom are not. Today’s offer on DDC is Content Composer for basically $100 off. Not a bad deal. But that’s not the point of this post.
The title of the DDC deal today is:
Keepin’ Da Content Real, Dawg
WTF? Seriously?
I’m just doing this internet marketing thing so I can pay for time in the studio cutting my sizzling tracks and righteous beats. My only problem is, how to increase my profits so I can start paying for all the fancy cars, the expensive threads, and flying to LA to shoot my music videos that it takes to make it in the Rap biz (you GOTTA have a fleet of Mercedes) I’ve been around long enough to know that quality content is the only real way to boost the income for your online business, and Content Composer is the tool that will make me the money I need to end up on the Top Ten videos on MTV.
Good lord. Who the hell is writing this crap? I can only hope that it is a misguided attempt at popular culture satire. It’s not working. Next deal please!
11 responses so far ↓
Splork // Sep 24, 2007 at 2:59 pm
If anyone reads this post/comment before the CC deal is over today and can offer a review I’d love to hear it.
Mark Ling // Sep 24, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Content composer is crap, I tried it a while back and didn’t like it.
I think that dealdotcom could be pretty good though. Jason Katzenback and M. Wales are pretty smart guys, I’m sure there are a lot of people who are addicted to buying IM stuff will want to get it at a great bargain.
How’s your stuff going Splork?
regards,
Mark
Barry // Sep 25, 2007 at 8:44 am
I find this type of stuff much less objectionable than the page after page after page of copy that I have to wade through to get to the price of just about any product offered by the gurus.
All of this copy is written in the same sty le, by maybe even the same person, maybe using the same copy-writing program, and it’s just garbage. 10,000 words of high-lighted, multi-color, emphasis-enhanced garbage, trying to get you to buy a program and the rights to use the same ad to sell to other sheeple. MLM at its worst.
Cheers,
Barry
Splork // Sep 25, 2007 at 11:05 am
Yea I suppose that’s a good point, Barry.
I’m keeping my eye on the deals, just like I do at Woot. Sometimes there is a gem in the junk.
Roger Davis // Sep 26, 2007 at 3:00 am
Hi Splork,
‘I’m keeping my eye on the deals, just like I do at Woot. Sometimes there is a gem in the junk.’
…and that’s all they want you to do.
That’s the nature of internet marketing. They don’t care how much you whine, complain, blog, ridicule etc. As long as you just keep one eye out for the gems amongst the junk.
But you know what?
When you find that gem, after X amount of time you will be blogging about it, explaining that it was crap dressed in fancy clothes.
My point?
The only gems you need are already in your posession. A brain, fingers, an internet connection and something like wordpress. Bingo! Search over. No need to keep that one eye on the lookout anymore.
And every post on this blog (particularly the one I’m commenting on) demonstrates that you have what they wish they had. The ability to speak, make sense, be listened to and appreciated.
I’m just wondering (and always have) what you could produce if you focussed on one thing, to the detriment of everything else.
If you scrapped the datafeed sites, the article sites and everything else and instead of keeping one eye out for gems, produced your OWN gems and poured it all into one pot.
Maybe you (we) will never know.
But for the record, at this point in time, I stand accused of the same crime.
I hope this comes across as it is meant - a compliment.
Tom // Sep 26, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Barry, what does a one page sales letter have to do with MLM? It’s direct marketing, albeit using templates from Yanik Silver I presume.
Nobody’s forcing you to read the crap. If you object to the copy, don’t whine, just don’t read. And if you’re interested in the price, just click the friggin order button!
Tom
Barry // Sep 28, 2007 at 11:16 am
Tom,
Good points. The one page sales copy and the MLM should have been separate ideas, but I combined them, since the huge sales copy is quite often devoted to pushing an MLM-like product: “Buy this infoproduct and sell it to others, get free resale rights, build your downline,…” Sound familiar?
What they are pushing is selling a product that is used to sell — itself. Sure sounds like a variant on MLM to me.
Barry
Tom // Sep 28, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Barry,
of course internet marketing has components of MLM, such as resell rights and affiliates. But affiliate programs seldomly go beyond 2-tier. Also, MLM in itself isn’t a bad thing, it only turns bad when it becomes a pyramid scheme and the sole purpose is to generate more referrals that generate more referrals.
Anyway, more than one marketer has had his Paypal account shut down because he was presumably promoting on more than one level. That’s a little narrow-minded to me. But it seems as soon as some people read MLM or think they see MLM, their guards immediately go up and they rather shut things down than take a second look.
Tom
barry // Sep 29, 2007 at 8:36 am
Tom,
There’s a difference between most affiliate programs, where I offer links to someone else’s web site in exchange for a referral fee, and resale rights, where I buy a product and offer that product out.
The resale programs smack of MLM. In the resale programs, the program is the product, while in affiliate programs there is a separate product. The IM product is a sales pitch, while an affiliate program is usually something tangible, or separate from the program itself. It’s as if IM is self-referential. This is a simplification, but it’s pretty close to the truth in many cases, especially the ones we’re talking about here.
If you’ve ever listened to the HerbaLife sales pitch, then the comparison with most internet marketing is very easy. A lot of the same terms, hype, sales pitches, etc. And yes, most people are very wary around MLM, for good reason. The only people who make money at MLM are the founders and VERY early members; the sheeple typically get nothing. Same with most of the internet marketing stuff. If you’re in the third level, think about where your customers are going to come from.
Barry
GPT Sites // Oct 27, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I guess that’s just your opinion. Personally, I think it’s creative and had a good laugh.
Splork // Oct 27, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Don’t guess. It is most definitely my opinion.
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