Categories » ‘Internet marketing’StomperNet Presents LIVE 9 Preview Call with Anne HollandFebruary 11th, 2010 by Henrik FlensborgThought you might wanted to know about the preview call with Brad Fallon and Anne Holland over at StomperNet tonight.
Will probably be very interesting, but I’ll personally have to give it a pass since it’ll be 2AM for me. Is your merchant account in danger?January 23rd, 2010 by Henrik FlensborgCame across this blog post by Mike Young today: Don’t Lose Your Merchant Account: 7 Free Resources for Helping Internet Marketers Stay Out of Trouble By now every internet marketer should know about the FTC rules that recently became active that require us all to be upfront about our relationships with people we’re linking to. Was I paid to write this review? Do I get a commission if you purchase through my links? Did I buy the product I just reviewed or was it a review copy given to me? Add to that the bits about “typical results” and you might think that you’re home free. But, apparently not – you can have all these new FTC rules covered and still mess up so bad that you could lose your merchant account. Ouch. Turns out that pre-checked checkboxes could get you in trouble when it comes to up-sells, cross-sells and a lot of other billing practices. I’m not an expert on FTC regulations, so I suggest you head over to Mike’s site to read the full article. There’s also a list of additional resources that you might want to take a look at. More beta testers needed – sigh – this time from Lee McIntyreJanuary 22nd, 2010 by Henrik FlensborgOh great, another “Beta testers needed” email – this time from Lee McIntyre. For “only” $497 plus $39.97 S/H I get 8 DVD’s with footage from one of Lee’s seminars + I’ll have to fill in a questionaire after I’ve watched all 8 DVD’s. Imo Lee doesn’t need to engage 60000+ of his email subscribers to get the 29 beta testers he’s looking for. All he needs to do is turn to the original attendees of his seminar and ask them which additional tools and reports they found lacking when they started implementing what he taught them on the seminar. After creating the tools they could then be offered to the original seminar attendees at a great bargain price. And once they confirm through feedback to Lee that the tools and reports are just what they needed he can then put together a nice big Profit Max package and launch it at the full $1,997 he has planned. There really is no need to let me watch a 13 minute video expecting to find a software developer needing beta testers for a piece of almost-launch-ready software – only to find that there is no software at all. Lee is in essence looking for people willing to pay $497 (plus S/H) to take a survey. But as much as I hate being manipulated into thinking that there’s a piece of software I can help someone get ready for launch, then I think Lee has put together a good deal. Those taking him on on the offer will get the 8 DVD’s plus they’ll get all the tools and reports for free once Lee creates them as well as access to the footage from Lee’s upcoming “Continuity LIVE” workshop. A good deal? – yep, but still doesn’t have anything to do with beta testing. FTC disclaimer: Nobody paid me to write this, and I’m not earning any commissions should you choose to sign up as “beta tester” since it’s not an affiliate link. Guest Posting for Quality Inbound Links and Targeted Traffic by Chriss GarretJanuary 20th, 2010 by Henrik FlensborgJust noticed that Lynn Terry had picked up a copy of Guest Posting for Quality Inbound Links and Targeted Traffic by Chriss Garret for only $10.
There’s a lot of talk these days about guest blogging, and when it’s hard to decide which products to invest in and which ones to stay away from because they are nothing but just pure regurgitated hearsay, then it’s always a wise decision to give Lynn’s Clicknewz blog or her Internet Marketing forum a visit.
Backlinks are still a very important critical part of getting your pages ranked well, but it’s not always easy to get the number of backlinks needed of the right quality and of the best type (DoFollow).
Guest blogging solves 2/3 of that equation, but makes up for the missing 1/3 (number of backlinks) by getting you targeted visitors.
Lynn also has a few other recommendations that you might want to check out.
Just noticed that in How to Increase Blog Traffic – Fast! that Lynn Terry had picked up a copy of Guest Posting for Quality Inbound Links and Targeted Traffic by Chriss Garret for only $10. There’s a lot of talk these days about guest blogging, and when it’s hard to decide which products to invest in and which ones to stay away from because they are nothing but just pure regurgitated hearsay, then it’s always a wise decision to give Lynn’s Clicknewz blog or her Internet Marketing forum a visit. Backlinks are still a very important critical part of getting your pages ranked well, but it’s not always easy to get the number of backlinks needed of the right quality and of the best type (DoFollow). Guest blogging solves 2/3 of that equation, but makes up for the missing 1/3 (number of backlinks) by getting you targeted visitors. Lynn also has a few other recommendations that you might want to check out. Regardless of what you do you might also want to check out Chriss Garret’s The Business of Blogging and New Media blog. Well, here’s a list of some of the most popular blog posts there
FTC disclaimer: I wasn’t paid to recommend either Lynn’s or Chris’ sites, but I do get a commission should you choose to buy his guest blogging ebook through my link  Don’t make the same mistake Michael Holder just madeJanuary 11th, 2010 by Henrik FlensborgI just got an email from Michael Holder from 2nd Income Solution / The Business Junction with a title that started with: “VIRUS ALERT” – yup, all capital letters. Now, I like to keep myself secure through the use of firewalls, anti-virus scanners and adware/malware scanners, and I always make sure that they are kept up to date, but there’s always that tiny risk of something nasty slipping through my defenses. So any newsletter that starts with “VIRUS ALERT” naturally gets my attention. (btw, Michael sent me two emails a few hour apart – the other email had a title that started with “EXTREMELY DANGEROUS VIRUS ALERT “) Inside Michael continues his use of capital letters with this: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS VIRUS ALERT! HUGE VIRUS COMING! PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS Then he continues to talk about how he heard about this virus from a fellow marketer, that it has been verified by Norton Anti-Virus as a real threat and seals the deal with information that it’s been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. Now, you don’t have to have been online for very long to smell a hoax or an urban legend when you see one – and this had all the bells and whistles of a hoax, so I made a quick visit on Google searching for “postcard from hallmark virus” and confirmed my suspicion – it’s all a hoax. It’s an urban legend, and it’s been around for at least 2 years now. Hoaxes as such don’t piss me off, but unprofessional or dishonest marketers do. Michael Holder is imo either extremely unprofessional by relaying information of that kind without doing any due dilligence at all – twice. It’s not even a new hoax, where current information on the subject might not have been conclusive – it’s so old that it’s been a confirmed hoax for 2 years. The other alternative I listed, a dishonest marketer, would be if Michael knew that the “postcard from Hallmark” virus warning was a hoax, but deliberately sent it out to his newsletter subscribers so they could get scared and forward his promo mail to all their friends. It is after all one page with the hoax followed by 10 pages advertising various products, so promo mail rather than newsletter is imo an appropriate term. (one of the advertised products is even a 5 day crash course in “proper business etiquette”…) I unsubscribed on the spot. And I’m not going near anything with Michael Holders name on it again because I simply don’t trust him after he pulled this stunt on me. It really saddens me when I feel that some marketer has deliberately tried to scare me into sending his promo material to all my friends, family and contacts by stuffing a false virus warning down my throat. The really “funny” thing about it all is that it’s less than a month ago that Michael Holder sent me a mail with a title that started with “False Advertising Or Ignorance” where he pounded an unnamed marketer for marketing something as “new” when in fact it had been around for a long time EXTREMELY DANGEROUS VIRUS ALERT!
HUGE VIRUS COMING!
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS
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