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Yes, I’m UPSET (No Furious) about them and I feel they have no place in Internet Marketing. I take a great deal of pride in NOT using them. I hope this matters to you. It sure does matter to me.

I have seen them for quite some time, but in the last few months, they have been EVERYWHERE!

You know the ones:

“CREDIT PENDING On Your Account”
“Download Request: ZH74L96WE – Please retain for your records!”
“RE: Refund”
“RE: DELIVERY NOTIFICATION”
“Order Confirmation – please save this email”
“Verification Email (Action Required)”

…and the list goes on.

What? Do these “other” marketers think everyone on their list is stoopid? (yes, I know I misspelled stupid) Did you really order something and forget that you did? Did you “REALLY” ask them for a refund?

They are simply playing with your mind just to get you to open their emails and that is WRONG! In my opinion, this is deceptive, unethical and ridiculous, maybe even cheating. You be the judge. They may and I said may even be breaking some of the rules in the can-spam act which is a law not just an “act”.

It is also giving us (myself included) a bad name in this business.  I’m fighting for every “opened” email I can get and yes, people in general are not opening as many emails as they once were. I am not a rich man monetarily, not even close. I am though “rich” in my beliefs that being honest, ethical and sincere is what is expected of me. It IS the right way to conduct yourself both in business as well as your personal life.

I will always believe that a subscriber list whether it be 100 or 10 thousand and worked hard for in a honest and ethical way is better than a “list” of 50 or 100 thousand that was achieved through deception and/or unethical practices or shall we say “TRICKERY”.

Which list would you be proud of? Do you like this being done to you? Do you feel insulted by this kind of marketing?

I bet you don’t care for it and I’d love to hear from you about it.  In a fairly short even one sentence statement, I would greatly appreciate your input.

I have set up a dedicated email address for this and if you would be so kind, please click the link and send me your thoughts on this matter. I will compile all responses after 5 days or so and share them with my fellow honest and ethical marketers plus send them out to you as a newsletter so you can see what other’s thoughts and opinions are.
A fellow IM’er,  Randy Koehler, wrote this email and I agree totally with what he has to say.  If you’ve been on my list for any length of time, you know that I have never sent subject lines like those and never will. If you would like to comment on these subject lines, send Randy and email at
goodmarketing@marketing-your-way.com

Any and all comments are welcome even if you think this form of  marketing is acceptable, I’d like to hear from you because I value every single person’s opinion that this letter will reach. Heck, tell a friend about it if you’d like.

I ask that you not be offended in any way by this email, but if you are, I’d love to hear from you as well. 

————- My thoughts on this subject…..

What I’ve usually do is go through and delete the emails with these or similar subject lines but now I will just be unsubscribing from them even though some that I’ve received have been from well known Internet marketers.  I know they are human just like me and there is no excuse for these sorts of subject line but it is still disappointing to see them using these.

I have received some comments so far from my mailing today on this subject, here is one and I will post more as I receive them.  Please feel free to post your thoughts about this subject and to send Randy your comments as well.

“Hi Martha,

YES!!!!!  I am VERY tired of those kinds of subject lines!  I have
tried to complain to marketers about it but most of them can’t be
reached easily and the few that have replied to my complaint always
defended their actions – so now I handle it much differently…

Whenever I receive emails from marketers with misleading subject lines
(and those I’ve listed below especially!) I ALWAYS do 2 things…

FIRST – I unsubscribe from any and ALL lists I may be on that belong
to that marketer…

SECOND – I delete every single email I ever got from that marketer
(often there are hundreds!).

Extreme?  Maybe – but that’s just how much I do NOT like those kinds
of tactics and if that’s the sort of thing the marketer is teaching then I do not want his emails taking up space in my inbox!
Some of the subject lines that irk me the most (in case you’re compiling a list) say something like…

“Paypal Payment Received” (or some such wording to imply you made a
paypal sale)…
…since I have a couple of websites that take Paypal payments this type of email always feels like a mean, juvenile prank.

“Clickbank Order Received” (or wording to that effect to imply a clickbank sale was made)…
…I also sell a product through Clickbank so these are just more mean, juvenile pranks.

“Re: Fill-in-the-blank”…
…any email with “Re:” in the subject implies that it’s a reply to something I sent (and it never is) – very misleading!

“CANCELLED By myName”…
…then after opening I find it has nothing to do with anything I may have cancelled – I’m relieved at first (because I don’t remember canceling anything) and then I feel angry that someone got me concerned and worried for nothing!

And like you said – the list goes on.

Please forward my thoughts to as many marketers as you wish – post it
on as many websites as you wish – or whatever.  You have my permission
to do anything you wish with any part of this email if it will help with this problem – it really is getting out of hand.

Thank you very much for allowing me to rant and share my irritation -
I feel much better now.

Have a terrific day today! 

Lynn”

Here is another comment…

”

Hi Martha.

Hope all is going well for you. Nice to hear from you.

I cannot agree with you more about these email subjects!

There have been many marketers doing this. I had been on one very popular marketers list since 2007 and got one from him a few days ago. Opened it and unsubscribed without giving it a second thought.

I am a really busy person and do not have time to read emails like these. There is a time set aside to read marketers emails.  When I get one that makes me think I need to stop and take action right then and there, ticks me off big time. Disrupts my time and thoughts.

Very glad you brought this up and as always, enjoy reading your emails.

Sincerely,

Terry Jett”

I received this earlier today and I knew I had to pass this
on to my readers.
Here’s what I found in the ‘Million Dollar Script Box with MRR’
after a cursory examination:

~ epay clone: Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Any redistribution without
permission of Todd M. Findley is strictly forbidden. (in index.php)

~ hotscripts.com clone: site name, email address, etc., from a
known hack / crack / rip-off site (Mafia Scripts) in config.php -
SCRIPT RIPPED OFF

~ imageshack.us clone: index page appears to be directly
ripped-off from image shack as almost every link in it is one of
theirs…

` myspace.com clone: index.php file is branded by ‘liquidice’
which upon a google search turns out to be a hack / crack group.

~ tinyurl.com clone: // Copyright(C), E-FoRuMTuRK LiNK ! . 2006 ,
All Rights Reserved. All forms of reproduction, including, but not
limited to, internet posting, printing, e-mailing, faxing and
recording are strictly prohibited. One license required per site
running E-FoRuMTuRK LiNK – script old & ripped off

~ xdrive.com clone: the config.php file is branded by scriptz.ws
which, upon another google search turns out to be another hack /
crack group. script ripped-off.

Should I keep going on or have you seen enough?

Obviously NetActivated.com will NOT be listing this script
package, and you shouldn’t either…

You could get in SERIOUS trouble for using or selling some of
these scripts.

Pass this on to your lists as well.

 

If you sell digital products online you are no doubt aware of the two most popular affiliate networks, ClickBank and PayDotCom.

While both of these are great and I highly recommend each of them, today I came across a brand new service that really caught my attention. It’s called PaySpree and the reason it caught my attention is that ALL its members get paid for their sales instantly by PayPal.

Even affiliates get paid for their referred sales instantly by PayPal.

I expect it to become quite a hit as the lure of  ’instant commissions’  played a big part in the massive success of products such as 7DollarSecrets and the RapidActionProfits scripts.

I’ve actually come across products for sale that are just lists of affiliate programs that pay instant paypal commission. And I’ve seen many threads in the various internet marketing forums asking about where to find instant commission affiliate programs. Now there is an entire site and marketplace dedicated to them.

As soon as you become a member you can start promoting any product in the marketplace, and you can add your own products so affiliates can promote them for you. All commission payments are handled automatically by PaySpree, it sounds like a winner to me.

I’ve just signed up and had a look around the site and it seems pretty simple and non cluttered, check it out at the link below and let me know what you think:

http://bit.ly/bkoDaj

 

Traffic Annihilator is a new site that says it guarantees more CONVERTING web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost.  So I decided to put it to the test…

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel.  It is easy to read and understand.  Joining the site was easy and painless–they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive–I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes.  Inside the site, you create links and ads–the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into “Traffic Annihilator” links.  You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Traffic Annihilator Ad Generator, which is very easy to use.  You can create as many links and as many ads as you like.  And they are organized in a logical way–links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference.  Also, since the link generator is the tool you’ll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login.  Very smart!

After you’ve created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic.  Just use and promote the new Traffic Annihilator link instead of the original source link you had.  Every time the Traffic Annihilator link is clicked, the page loads followed by a cool slide-up ad window at the bottom.  It displays an ad PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Traffic Annihilator.  So if anyone clicks the Traffic Annihilator image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral.  It’s a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Traffic Annihilator links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members’ links get clicked.  So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally–meaning as you make referrals into Traffic Annihilator (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Traffic Annihilator image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks.  And this works up to 5 levels deep.  So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Traffic Annihilator also.

I didn’t get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated–my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed.  Traffic Annihilator even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays.  That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all–downline emailing.  You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Traffic Annihilator really shines.  They took time to make the emailing often enough that it’s valuable as a user, but no so often that it’s a burden to your downline.  But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again.  Now THAT’s cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Traffic Annihilator.  It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises.  Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

See it and join here:

http://bit.ly/cPBCpa

 

Phil Henderson, the Stupidly Simple SEO creator, knew he had struck gold when he sold 22 laptops from a one a page, free site that took only 10 minutes to set up…

Here’s his story…

“I had been playing about with the usual methods of generating free traffic, you know things like, Squidoo, blogger, blogs, article writing, forum posts etc when I stumbled on this little site. At first I was using this simply to provide backlinks to my other sites. It was so far down the levels of my linking structure so I wasn’t really paying attention to it fully.

Then one day I noticed something weird. The main site I had spent three weeks nurturing using top SEO strategies had been out-ranked by my free one page site I had built!!

I couldn’t believe it… I had invested three weeks of my time and energy trying to get this site to page one of Google and here was this one-page site that had took me less than ten minutes to build out ranking me in under
15 minutes. Yep, within 15 minutes from pressing “submit” this site had hit page one of Google, more importantly it had ranked two positions higher than my fully optimized web site!!

It hit me like a thunderbolt… I stopped all my other activities and looked at that one page in detail. I looked at the way I had structured the post, the links I had incorporated, word count, keyword density, anchor text
absolutely everything that I thought would have given this one page mini-site a better SEO score than my main site. I found nothing of great significance, nothing that I could see making that much difference.

I knew that this couldn’t be a one off and I had to find out why this had happened.

The next four hours were spent breaking down each element of the post into minute detail. I simply had to find that “11th ingredient” and then I found it…

It was staring me in the eye all of the time. Excitedly, I began to churn out page after page and they all ranked on Google in a matter of minutes. The quickest being 3 minutes!!

I had found a seam of Gold and it was time to go mining”.

When I first read the above I was skeptical; however, Phil has photographic and video proof of the examples above. More than this, Phil has agreed to shoot an “over the shoulder” video that outlines the precise steps he takes when building these one page profit pulling sites.

you can view the video at http://bit.ly/cfHWay 

This system really is a game changer and many people who have struggled to make any real money online are using this to pay their car payments, mortgages and even exotic holidays.

Yes this system works; however, you have to know how to work the system.

If you really want a shortcut to online success, this might just be what you have been searching for.

But don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself.

All the best

 

This is my unbiased critique of Pawan’s recent release of ‘RSS E-mail 2.0′

RSS E-mail 2.0 is a 1-2-3 tutorial kit including 10 “watch-over-my-shoulder” VIDEO presentations on the hottest blogging topic at the moment:

- RSS e-mail subscription management and feed content monetization.

The best thing I like about is the video tutorial format; instead of reading a book, you can download the files on your computer and watch them at your leisure.

You could actually see how these “techie” stuff is done, right in front of you, so you can quickly try the strategy revealed inside yourself [it's quite easy, just follow the walk-throughs].

You’ll be grasping what you need to do in order to manage, monetize and profit from your RSS feed content within minutes, if not seconds…

And once your blog is setup with the right RSS feed settings, you’ll be making money almost on ‘auto-pilot’.

If you always dreamed to get paid without too much effort, then RSS E-mail 2.0 provides you with the ideal solution, although getting rich overnight will definitely not going to happen.

What I like about this “insider” video kit is the “secrets” exposed. For example… did you know you could get a new autoresponder account with AWEBER  for just $1.00 [30-day trial]?

Also, do you really know how to setup your first e-mail autoresponder list in 10 minutes or less?

Or, how to create a new blog broadcast so that your subscribers receive free blog updates in their inbox?

RSS E-mail 2.0 explains this and more, walking you bit-by-bit throughout the entire procedure.

I don’t know about you but my Analytics once showed that 85% of my blog readers exit and never return…

But guess what? By adding a simple “form”, I was able to “capture” them, and now I can proudly say more than half of my readers are “returning” visitors.

Would you like to have 50% of your visitors read your post?

Would you like to direct your readers to any part of your blog on complete “auto-pilot” days, weeks and even months in advance?

Just use the power of ‘RSS Email 2.0′, and experience the lifestyle of an A-list blogger

What I don’t like about this product is the low price offer. A more expensive deal would exclude tire kickers; the right information in the wrong hands might do more damage than good! But I guess that’s just me…

It’s in your best interest to put your hands on RSS E-mail 2.0 today if your want to fight poor blog income.
 
Check out the full product here http://bit.ly/4gCfTy  and download the videos today if the price fits you! 

I did buy this yesterday and started watching and implementing the steps as I watched the videos, so far so good.

 

I recently signed up for the NakedPLR.com membership site created by Jeremy Burns the undisputed King of PLR.
 
This review is going to break down exactly what the site is all about and what you might expect when you check out the inside (if you decide to do so).

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First off, we’ll start with a description of exactly what the NakedPLR.com site really is.  It’s tagged as a site that gives you 4-5 new private label rights products each and every month.  These are eBooks on niches that have been researched and are hot topics.

One thing I found that was ridiculous was the price.  In a time where “quality” private label rights products cost $50-$70 EACH on the low end, NakedPLR.com comes in at a stunningly low $47 a month for ALL 5 products which is refreshing!

(you get all past 75 PLR products for a limited time when you join now)

Here’s what in the site with a more specific break down of each section…

NakedPLR’s

This is the section that you’ll go to in order to get access to the current months private label rights products. Each product comes with two documents called the Product Analysis and Fast Action Ideas documents.

These documents contain copy starters to help you create an awesome sales letter for your new eBook as well as keywords and competitive pay per click analysis so that you can start bidding on keywords to get traffic to your website quickly.

You’ll also find market research, potential titles for your product and much more.

Also included are 25 articles for each of the products that you can use to further customize your book, use for article marketing or use for creating reports or other traffic generating materials.

PLR Training

This section is definitely the price of the website.  Most membership sites that say that they are going to offer training fall so short of delivering on the promise that it isn’t even funny.

Believe me, I’m a member of several monthly websites and the offering as far as fresh training is sparse.

So far, there have been incredible amounts of training resources and tools added to the member’s area of NakedPLR that are of extremely high value.  There are over a half dozen manuals and quick start guides that show you everything from how to customize your books each month all the way to making more money from them, multiplying profits and getting cheaper pay per click traffic.

The information included in this training section easily could have been sold as a multiple hundred dollar physical course but Jeremy has included it all in the members area.

I honestly feel that this one section alone is worth every  penny of the membership fee each month.

Site Builder

This section gives you everything that you need to build a hot selling website that you can use to start selling your products.

You get a complete course that takes you through the entire process of using the two documents that come with each product to craft your own sales letter step by step, without writing anything from scratch!

This course is around 100 meaty pages long and could easily be a $97 sales letter customization course all by itself.

Best of all, you also get a sales letter template that aids you in the process with more guidance and the formatting already done for you!

You see people selling sales letter software that doesn’t offer the results this template does for upwards of $200 or more but it’s included in your NakedPLR.com membership.

Bonus PLR’s

This section is loaded with over a dozen products with rights that you can use to start selling right away for immediate profits.

Most of these products come complete with sales letters and graphics and are ready to roll.

The cool thing is that you can use some of the tactics that you’ve learned in the training material provided in the training section and further customize these existing products.

This allows you to create a product fast that’s totally unique to you!

Chances are, you’ve probably seen some vendors selling these products that you’re going to get for free *with* rights.

Download them, use the information in them to profit from and also use them to sell for a profit.

Affiliate Cash

Obviously this section gives you information on promoting NakedPLR.com through the affiliate program.

This section is 100% different from any of the other affiliate programs that you may have been exposed to online.

In addition to information on how to get your affiliate links, you actually get a course on how to start promoting your link and generating traffic to it.

The marketing lesson given here is great even if you do not use your new knowledge to promote NakedPLR.

There are even web 2.0 tactics covered that you’ve seen in many paid courses as well as tools such as press releases, articles and review for your blogs.

Best of all, even if you don’t have a website you can use this information to start generating traffic to your NakedPLR.com affiliate URL and start generating recurring income for yourself using completely free methods!

You could even use the tactics that you learn in the affiliate marketing training to apply to all of your NakedPLR.com products you get every month for fast (and free) traffic.

As you can probably tell, I am very happy with all of the goodies that I receive as a NakedPLR.com member.

Of course, the star is the 4-5 products you get every month with private label rights enabling you to start 4-5 new niche businesses each month but the training, bonus products, tools and affiliate training are also awesome.

Overall, I give the NakedPLR.com membership two thumbs up and I recommend that you take a look at grabbing your own membership.  You definitely won’t regret it.

If you are lucky you will still find there are still memberships left at Jeremy’s NakedPLR site.  I know they are close to filling all the spots..

Have a super day-

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