Like Allen said here in his comment, you really only need a few GOOD products and just get to work using them to the max. I usaully only buy on recommendations from someone I trust.

This has served me well over the years.

Pete.

i couldn’t fit the whole bookshelf into the camera lens, so i had to take the pic in two parts and then tried to stitch them together. unfortunately their angles were different so they didnt come together properly.

jim

I guess I had to come back after a few days of thought and give you what I find most interesting about internet marketers.

It’s always funny to watch as a big dawg is getting ready to launch a new product.
Ten other big dawgs and a couple of little dawgs in training will bombard you with daily updates on the $72,231 worth of extras they are tossing into the mix.

But that is not what really gets to me. What gets to me is that just about all but a few of the big names wil continue to beat you up with auto responder messages to buy their product well after you have purchased the item from them, not the affiliate.

It is a fairly simple task to set your autoresponder up to accomidate this, but few do; and it is truely something that will make this boy not buy from that person again.

Suppose you went into an old time hardware and bought a 13 mm open end wrench from the owner? Do you think the next time you go into the store he will try to sell it to you again?

You are one of the few people in internet marketing who tells things like they are.

Thanks,

Denis

Word of mouth spreads very quickly with things like twitter and facebook. The good products rise to the top and those less than that die off quickly.

Well-respected teacher, you.

Since last summer, 2008, I’ve been learning Internet Marketing and I’ve run the gamut of hype presentations. And I’ve cancelled out of thousands of dollars’ worth of programs. The best money I ever spent was $39 with Magnetic Sponsoring which connected me up with Mike Dillard, next with you and PPC Domination, and now that $39 investment has begun to provide bits of income.

I’m moving ahead with my PPC understanding and accomplishments, by the way…

I feel more knowledgeable and am putting it all together… I can recognize the hype much more easily and just avoid it altogether. I appreciate YOU, Jim, and love your stories of life in Jordan (partly because I visited there with the Kawar family once upon a time).

I also completely agree with Daniel’s comment. Fake scarcity and the complete lack of integrity that 90% of the marketers out there display is nauseating. I’ve gotten to the point where I only believe the truly large marketers like Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, and the rest of the big names actually sell out their products and can create real scarcity in their markets. I saw a tweet from Mike Filsaime, who I’ve follow and have purchased many products from, that talked about the strategy of a server crash to create excitement in the market. I really hope he was just kidding because that seems really lame and deceptive to me.

At the end of the day you simply cannot afford to lie to your prospects.

The reason I like you and Mike is because respect is a big part of who you guys are as people. I’ll admit that after I got Magnetic Sponsoring and Traffic Formula that I was still pulled in by some of the other fluff. What I’ve come to realize is that there is more than enough information in those two products to get me where I want to go. The only thing I’m missing is PPC Domination. After that, I really don’t expect to buy into too much more crap. I’m only following people I respect from now on. I’m not chasing the hype and the promises because all of them are empty. You guys lay it on the line and say, “This is what it is. If it’s for you, grab it, if not, step off.” In so many words of course. But I like that. And that’s how I am as a person too. I’ve been caught up in being nice and all that other stuff when it’s really not about that. It’s about becoming a master communicator. And now that I’ve made this decision, I’m sure I’ll get there shortly. Thanks for all you do.

Great post – I will always request a refund from these suckers! In fact I have sometimes requested a refund after a quick browse of a product, there really is some junk out there.

I remember one product that I bought on the topic of SEO which looked great on the sales page but was complete junk on the other side. There was a crappy ebook and then a heap of bonuses. All of the bonuses we “not available” and conveniently lead to CPA offers! They also had “free websites” as a bonus and they were only about 90 bucks a month, cheap at half the price.

I feel sorry for the people who don’t understand what these shit heads are up to and I’m sure a lot of newbies get suckered. For some reason I had to go back to that sales page, to get some contact info or something like that and as I was exiting a pop up flashed up, and every time I tried to exit the deal got progressively cheaper until they were giving it away if I remember correctly. I guess they were happy enough with all the backend commissions they were getting. What a joke!

There’s my little rant for the day, thanks for opening up the platform to chat about it.

My advice is use the money back guarantee whenever something doesn’t deliver and straight away so you don’t forget about it.