Received an email from the Stompers. They had prepared a video, for me. I may or may not get around to watching it but I thought the points below were quite humorous:
“6. Why our ANTI-HYPE approach worked …and led to
the single biggest launch in Internet History.”
“P.S. I’ll probably take the recording down after a while
because we reveal some really good stuff in it and I don’t
want it passed all around for the whole world to see.”
Now #6 is a load of crap. Anti-hype. Anti-hype is what the author for Project X did on that fateful Tuesday when we also got Clickflip and StomperNet. Single biggest launch in Internet history? Seriously? Even bigger than say, FireFox? Or iTunes? If this is “no-hype”, I can’t even imagine what they would do to hype something.
So they are going to take the recording down. They don’t want the whole world to see what they reveal. Huh. So they put it on the Internet. For the whole world to see. I. Don’t. Get. It.
Very entertaining stuff. Hope they keep it up.
6 responses so far ↓
Splork // Oct 7, 2006 at 5:41 am
Off topic a bit, but I saw the physical world version of hype tonight that didn’t live up to the expectations. I saw The Departed. I am a pretty good student of movies. This was a stinker. Yes all the gurus said it was supposed to be great. “Two Thumbs Up”. “Best Movie of the Year”. “Sensational”. Blah blah blah. I tell you it was long. It was boring. It ended crappy. And there was lot of shifting around in the seats from those around me looking for time and looking for the exits.
Jack Nicholson was just playing another part being Jack. Matt Damon acted like he couldn’t figure out the part. Leo DiCaprio surprised the hell out of me. I’ve never liked him before but I thought he was quite good. The only bright spot IMO.
Similiar to what we experience with many online gurus who can create some crap product and their JV buddies will fall all over themselves to pimp it to their list, Martin Scorcese could film a movie about breadsticks and the critics would say it should win an Oscar. We left disapponted. Not worth the time or money.
Steven Scott // Oct 10, 2006 at 11:42 pm
I am one of the “lucky few” who purchased StomperNet
I usually think highly of Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins but as the previous commenter said, this one’s a stinker!
Same old garbage. I can’t believe they expect people to pay $750 a month for this nonsense. I opted out and will dispute the charge with PayPal
I blame myself for falling into the hype
Splork // Oct 11, 2006 at 3:54 am
Steven, didn’t they have a no risk guarantee or something? Be warned though. I bought Stompin the Search Engines back in the day and asked for a “no questions asked” refund. Jenkins promptly asked me to explain myself (huh?). I did in about 500 words why I thought the package wasn’t for me. He didn’t like my answer. I did get my refund. I thought he was an ass.
At least you realized it sooner than later. Welcome back
Charles Heflin // Oct 11, 2006 at 3:56 am
All I want to know is… Is their core strategy any different than what I am teaching in The Master Plan?
I was going to join just to find out… but I missed it.
Anyone have any comment on this matter?
Thanks,
Charles Heflin
Gary // Oct 11, 2006 at 11:05 am
I was in on the whole pre-launch thing and they just played the marketing tricks book line for line, give something away for free (which gives away very little ‘how’) keep people regularly informed, add on lots of bonuses, create scarcity add on some risk reversal (money back) and presto! Nothing wrong with doing that for sure but yes to say no-hype??? do what! Interesting that I have now read a few people who bought into stompernet being disppointed.
Gary
Splork // Oct 11, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Charles, I doubt you’ll get a response from anybody here. Particulary with the tone that I have set for buying such hyped up products.
Give Marc a shout. He purchased it.
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