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You Know You Are An Internet Marketer When…

Posted by peter on June 25, 2008 | No Comments

When you can’t think of anything else to write about, a list of something usually helps you through a writers block.

Here’s my list.

You Know You Are An Internet Marketing When…

1. You buy any product offline or online outside of the internet marketing arena and develop a nervous twitch when you are not presented with an upsell, downsell or one time offer.
2. You see the words free report, and you instantly think “how much is the OTO going to be”
3. You are confident that you can buy any product you want at 2am in the morning
4. Every sales page you read has apparently been written the same day
5. You expenses to earnings ratio is 10,000:1
6. You have at least 73 unfinished projects
7. 90% of your hard drive is filled with ebooks and courses that you have never read
8. You find yourself constantly explaining to your friends and family what an ebook is
9. You’ve advised your real world boss to change all the product prices to end in 7, but you are not sure why
10. You can read a 15 page sales letter in 19.4 seconds and make up your mind whether you are going to buy the product
11. You’ve had to hide the credit card bill from your significant other
12. You know you have all the qualities and information to succeed, but haven’t taken action yet
13. You feel slightly guilty about buying that $997 home study course given that the 5 others that you have ordered are sitting in tha garage. Unopened.
14. Armand Morin has invited you to a conference
15. You can reel off a list as long as your arm of names of great internet marketers, but you struggle to remember the name of your mother in law
16. You know PayPals TOS backwards, forwards and damn near sideways!
17. No one understands “what you do” on the internet and most assume it’s something to do with porn
18. The only emails you ever receive are also being sent to 29,000 other people
19. You did your first email campaign and a school boy error caused the ‘name’ token to not work properly, so everyone got an email that said “Hi %firstname%”
20. You bought a product based on the promised rebate of the affiliate after 3 months and completely forgot to redeem it
21. You’ve written a ’scam’ review to try and promote it
22. You lost your shirt on AdWords but it wasn’t a total failure because as soon as you make another $99.28 in clickbank, you’ll get your first cheque
23. You want to be like Joel Comm and be an AdSense God
24. You also want to be like Mike Filsaime and be a Viral Marketing God
25. You also want to be like Andrew Fox and be a Clickbank God
26. You also want to be like Gary Ambrose and be a Email Marketing God
27. You also want to be like Micheal Fortin and be a Copywriting God
28. You also want to be like Brad Fallon and be a SEO God
29. You also want to be like Ewan Chia and be an Affiliate God
30. You also want to be like Edmond Loh and be a PLR God
31. You also want to be like Russell Brunson because, well, he’s younger than you
32. You don’t want to be like Armand Morin because he’s just too cheesy for words
33. You have tried to see if you can get away with submitting PLR articles to EzineArticles
34. You think PageRank is how your websites are ranked in the search engines
35. You can think of a dozen more things to add to this list

That’s my attempt, there are probably hundreds more, so submit your suggestions as a comment!

Affiliate Evolution

Posted by peter on May 27, 2008 | No Comments

In my last post I talked about the latest internet marketing trend to hit the scene; namely Clickbank and AdWords - essentially falling under the umbrella of affiliate marketing.

Well, lo and behold the latest offering in the world of affiliate marketing…

Affiliate Evolution

Promising to reveal some “unknown” secret that allows you to earn commissions up to 300% (eh?!), this audio product tells you exactly what to do to increase your commissions - sometimes even double it.

At $10 you probably can’t help but lose, and no doubt there is an upsell on the other side. But living in India, I can’t buy this product to find out

Latest Internet Marketing Trends

Posted by peter on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

Internet Marketing is very cyclic in nature. Different aspects become the hot topics, others fade in to obscurity for a while. It seems to me that we are at the tail end of the AdSense & PLR craze that has dominated internet marketing for the last 2 years.

Taking it’s place seems to be without a doubt clickbank and adwords. Everyday a new email lands in my inbox promising riches and success with affiliate marketing through Clickbank, promoted by AdWords. Tales of extraordinary incomes are being told, done by guys and girls like you and me.

First up we have George Pluss (who doesn’t seem to be updating his website anymore - nil points for you, George! [yeah, you probably have to br British to get that in joke]) who’s selling his Unleashing Business package (You have to be a prior customer to get it though).

The package is being billed as a complete solution, he even provides the keywords and ad text you can 
use on AdWords (although how that works when you are competing against 50 other people who are bidding on the same keywords and with the same ads, I don’t know!).

Next, we have Chris from Day Job Killer (a Clickbank + AdWords ebook) promoting a product called The Affiliate Conspiracy (Ooo Err misses!) which is your usual Clickbank + AdWords “how to” guide. The ebook is written by a chap called Eric Rockefeller and he claims to have made over $500,000 profit from Clickbank.

The Affiliate Conspiracy is selling for $77.

A few weeks ago we had Alex Goads‘ Players With Money. This guy claimed to be part of the underground posse raking in huge fortunes from…yep, Clickbank & AdWords. I believe his program is closed to new users at the moment, but you can still signup to see how one guy made $6000 in a day.

The next one to hit the scenes was a 21 year old Mexican who was using AdWords to rake in $16,000 with a $400 AdWords bill. The product is called AdWords Profits and comes in at $47.

Finally I just saw that Alex Goad is promoting another product from a guy that says he’s making nearly $300,000 a year from clickbank. The product is from another “unknown” in the internet marketing arena. It’s called Cracking The Online Wealth Code and if bought through Alex’s link, will set you back $27.

I can’t see if this product also uses AdWords to get the traffic, but it is definitely using clickbank.

So there you have it. The latest trend in Internet Marketing. Clickbank and Adwords. Do you agree?

Hello Technorati!

Posted by peter on April 12, 2008 | No Comments

Just need to make a quick post to say hello to technorati.com and prove that I own this here little website.

Kabizzle’s Technorati Profile

Thanks!