“WEIRD Video: $1,035,00.00 in 90 days!”
Who got this email? Who signed up for the video? What was weird about it? That we were stupid enough to sit through the cheesefest trailer and give the jokers our email for 47 more minutes of cheese. Who the hell did the music on this crap? Is it just me or is internet marketing beginning to look and sound more and more like infomercials?
What special formula could they possibly give you? Is it like the special formula for growing new hair? I saw that infomercial too. Is it like losing 30 pounds in 30 days? Yep, saw that infomerical as well. I tell ya, I never wanted anything to do with the crap that is Carlton Sheets, Kevin Trudeau, Don Lapre, etc., etc. And I damn sure don’t want anything to do with this crap, or any like it. Seriously, is this where we are heading with internet marketing? They may make a ton of cash and the lemmings following right along may too. But I will not participate.
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Asking for my email. If you can’t boil your internet marketing business down to a one page summary of why and how it’s going to make me money, then I’m not interested. If I need more info I’ll ask. This way of doing business, grabbing my personal email for another sales page disguised as information, is just about going to drive me insane. I hate landing pages. Squeeze pages and the like. Yes I know the “juice” is in the email list. But dammit, I hate having to sign up for the crap and I’m at the point where I just refuse to make anyone do it on any of my websites.
And now with the video. The time sucking videos. It has to stop. It won’t stop. Now everyone is fancying themselves as some sort of video guru and putting up crappy powerpoint or handheld marketing videos on You Tube and the like. Oh it’s great. Flash your URL at the front and the back of the video and show some stupid video of your cat falling down. All the morons watching, and yes there are plenty of them wasting time watching stupid videos, who will click over to your squeeze page, drop an email and click on a 5 cent google ad. Yay. If you’re lucky, out of the 200 that come by, you’ll make a sale on the “How to Make Furniture out of Your Cat’s Hairball” ebook sold on CrapBank.
I find this all kinda fascinating and sad at the same time. 2007 is going to be pathetic.
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Roger Davis // Dec 31, 2006 at 11:10 am
Hi Splork,
You said -
‘I find this all kinda fascinating and sad at the same time. 2007 is going to be pathetic’
I used to find it all fascinating. Now I see that it’s all pathetic too. BUT -
This is a learning process. And you have a choice. At the point where you find the ‘internet marketing’, the sales pitches, the squeeze pages, the ‘who elses…’ etc almost too sad and pathetic for you to go on, you either disappear off the face of the internet, or you succeed.
If you look back at what you have done, and what you have learnt since you started this blog, you should see that like many of us, much of it has been to go in circles. At the point where you just can’t stand all of the BS anymore, you are on the cusp of realisation.
The madness that you see is people doing what others have told them to do in their $97 products. We have all been there.
Just take a look at the categories of your blog. It’s like the perfect guide of what to avoid. It’s a list of internet marketing BS. Tag and ping, the master plan, VRE, Squidoo, bum marketing….
We are all here to try and gain financial independence, but all we find are ways to tie ourselves into new systems that take away our independence - and don’t produce the results promised. Sounds a bit like a JOB eh?
So what’s my point? You have to pay the price of admission. That price is that we need to learn. But there comes a time where the learning stops. A time where we don’t need ANYONE else to give us the triggers, the clues, the path. We have the seeds of success within us, we don’t need anyone elses ‘help’ or system to follow.
And the danger is that during our learning phase, we are re-programmed to believe that we NEED to follow someone else - we lose our independence - the very thing we are seeking from the start.
The truth is this - the money is out there, but NO-ONE has written an ebook, or created a membership site that TELLS you where it is. You have to take the big picture (your category list of purchases) and fill in the gaps. Join up the dots.
Then 2007 doesn’t look so bleak after all!
Happy New Year, Splork and your readers.
PS - I found this quote from Zig Ziglar a while back -
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.”
And what I’m saying is that the same applies to cleaning out your inbox of trash. Having a clearout so severe that when you fire up the PC, you don’t know what to do. You have nothing new to read, no offers to buy, no BS to digest.
The result - you go to new places that give you a fresh perspective. And hopefully, after getting bored of that, you start creating something. Something of your own…..
The fact that you find it all pathetic now, is a sign that you have learnt the lessons. I say this because I’m in the same place too. Many others have been in the same place, but they forgot to tell us about it for $97 (for some strange reason). My only aim here is to encourage you, and your readers to think about this, and think for yourselves…
Salathe // Dec 31, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Hi and happy new year, and wishing us all a prosperous 2007
Your take on this is probably correct and Eric has also put a very reasoned comment on his blog, one of only 4 I follow including yours
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/pipeline-profits/
However you never know is my motto and sometimes you can get small nuggets from all the rubbish that can be very useful. I think you also need to be aware of what is going on! The real skill is taking the info and doing it in an offbeat way that no one else is considering.
However the over hype and gurus abusing there lists without adding real value is bad!! Read some of the comments on the pipeline profits blog, seems these guys may have some history!!
My last message for 2007 though is relax as sometimes we become so jaded we miss really good opportunities in all the junk if we just look at them the right way
Keep up with your excellent blog though,as is a great no bullshit site for real marketers!! Your postings give me a ray of hope, that there are other marketers like me!!
Reddiance // Dec 31, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Another thing that I really hate is that when I get these gurus emails promoting this or that, their link in the email takes me to a page where you have to put your email address AGAIN so that you get whatever they were talking about in their email. Heck, I’m already in their list. Why do I need to fill out my email id again?
I looked at that video but not all. It loaded too slow, worse than a 1915 film. That guy in the video talked a lot, but didn’t say anything useful. TALK TALK TALK…BUT SAY NOTHING.
Bryan // Jan 1, 2007 at 4:42 am
Wow, Splork.
I am taking the other tact: 2007 will be a great year for me and Internet Marketing. Instead of buying new stuff, I started doing what the stuff I already bought were teaching:
1. Took some Master Resale Rights products, put them on ClickBank. Made back my initial investment so far. Now, I have three products on ClickBank, one to still put up. (It uses a squeeze page, too, and my list is small, but growing.)
2. Learned how to create squeeze pages and landing pages. Built a list of over 1,100 so far in one niche. Made a little affiliate money.
3. Learning affiliate marketing from all of those ebooks I purchased. Planning on doing this now. Filling up the pipeline, waiting for results.
4. Dropping the PLR stuff. *WAY* too much work for no pay. I don’t have the time to re-write a bazzilion articles, add AdSense, spend money on AdWords to create the traffic to get the AdSense revenue, write articles, submit the articles, create a website with a bunch of pages, do the SEO. What a mess. Some people can do this business model, but it’s not for me.
My mantra for 2007 is FOCUS. I plan to focus on one area: Affiliate Marketing. I don’t think it’ll be easy at all, but I think if I can just stay on course, I could create a nice income.
I am still going to invest in my education in IM, but I’ll be much more careful. For instance, I am going to Yanik Silver’s “Underground Online Marketing Seminar III”. I’m sure I can learn SOMEthing there.
This is also the year of attracting what I WANT into my life, not what I don’t want.
Bryan
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