Sylvie Fortin And Internet Marketing Sins Part 2
Way to go Sylvie.
You are one ballsy lady and you have my highest respect.
If Internet Marketing Sins Part 1 didn’t make people sit up and take notice they must be brain dead. Internet Marketing Sins Part 2 has changed up a gear. It is so powerfully down to Earth and honest it has to be the book of the year for 2008.
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If you have actually done anything with an online business there is something in IMS Part 2 that will relate to you and your online practices. Tactics and strategies pushed onto us by certain gurus at a great cost are definitely having the effect of holding back our business and in some ways could even be hurting us both personally and professionally and we just didn’t realize it.
You will not be able to read Internet Marketing Sins without making a few judgment calls – some good, some bad. Sylvie is unfortunately going to lose friends over this. Although, like relationships in our personal life, anything built on half truths or lies will eventually have issues so maybe “friends” is not the right word.
Make no mistake, this is major cleaning house for Internet Marketing and I sincerely hope that some progressive change happens as a result but it is going to take both you and me to help this along. For my part in the future, if I see any false scarcity scams or upsell hell scenarios or anything where as a list member I am treated as a marketers personal wallet then I don’t give a crap who they are, they are gone from my life. If there is an opportunity to comment on why I am unsubscribing from their list then I shall do so - factually and without emotion.
So, Sylvie Fortin deserves our support on this one and for my part I have identified a few areas which need consideration, (like upsells), and will put my own house in order.
Unfortunately it will be a while before we see the end of total crap pushing yet ANOTHER “I’m cleverer than Google” product like this garbage I just received in my inbox. Whether or not this Google Wealth Wizard 2 (yech), is any good I’ll never know because my fist thoughts on receiving this email were “crap, lies, scammers” so I’ll never look at it. Here’s a section of the email:
“Google Wealth Wizard 2 is now here. 35 year-old former
grocery store worker ‘steals’ the secret hidden formula
that the the wealthy underground Clickbank affiliates have
been hiding from everyone for 2 years, which allows him to
quietly pocket up to $500 per day from Google.”
Comment: Oh Please! The poor boy gets rich has been done to death. The usual secret formula ploy and promise of easy money. This is pathetic in the extreme. The email goes on…
“Basically, a guy called Kenny has just taken the Internet
Marketing world by storm, ‘legally stealing’ a secret
Clickbank affiliate marketing formula that is making him
and other savvy underground marketers over $500 a day.”
Comment: Bullshit. Is anybody with a system that is nice and quietly earning them $500 a day going to ruin this by letting us know the “secret”? Of course not. Why insult our intelligence? And more…
“Some of the underground Clickbank affiliates that Kenny has
‘stolen’ these methods from make even more money than he
does. Kenny calls these underground guys the ‘Google
Bandits’. These guys make more money than you’ve probably
seen in your life, and they’re doing it very easily from
Google, on complete auto-pilot.”
Comment: So I fork out my cash to this guy and become a “Google Bandit”. This super secret Google cheat is not just easy, it is all done automatically so I can actually earn $500 a day by doing nothing which is what auto-pilot implies? Are you on drugs or what?
The rest of the (long), email goes on in the same vein but toward the end we get hit with…
“How can you get your greedy little paws on this
mind-blowing system? Well, you will need to move with
speed, the demand for it is huge, its going to go fast, and
there is no guarantee that it will even stay on sale for
long.”
Comment: And there you have it in a nutshell. If it wasn’t for greed this junk email would never be written. Why are these people telling blatant lies? It’s a digital product. There is no scarcity. Are they going to let money slip through their greedy little paws by suddenly saying “No More Left”?
So, in the spirit of of Internet Marketing Sins here’s the solution for both buyer and seller.
To the seller: Stop sending out these emails which lie and give false hope to genuine people.
To the buyer: If you’re looking for a get rich quick scheme you should realize that online NOTHING can be done on auto-pilot. Everything has to be researched, set up and maintained. If this product was really telling the truth, and could be done automatically and easily just by copying, then everyone with an Internet connection would be making $500 a day using this “secret” and of course we know that is not true.
I am not knocking this product as I have no idea what it’s all about although I can hazard a very good guess. My issue is with the promotion tactics.
As a general note, any product claiming to have insider secrets on how to “work” Google is usually just a guide to Adsense or Adwords or supposed SEO trickery. There are enough genuinely good free products available to get a solid grounding in these topics and there are no secrets involved.
Thank you Sylvie. I can’t wait to see what Internet Marketing Sins Part 3 holds for us!
Ade
Wow! You are very candid with your views and I love it!
It’s about time someone called these snake oil salesmen and sales women on the carpet for pushing bad information.
Stop giving people false hope of making millions of dollars online without having to do much work. That’s a bunch of BUNK!
I spend 90 to 110 hours a week online keeping up with my sites and it’s not fun. I’ve loss most of my hair, my eyes are bad and I’m still no closer to living the million dollar dream.
Thanks Sylvie for telling how it really is.
Checkout my site http://www.SuperAffiliateMarketing101.com for my views on some of these so called “Make You Rich In 30 Days Without Spending a Cent On Advertising Products.”
I enjoyed your post. Of course your kick-in-the-butt advert review will get you some followers, which is good. I do hope the newbie readers will catch on to the fact any business requires work. The only automated websites I come into contact with requires a great deal of work up front before you begin setting your next system.
interesting e-book, i grabing now
Thanks Sylvie for telling us the reality of internet marketing before it’s too late. Great reality check for most marketers here.
Cheers
Nick
Thank you for the information, it’s that I was looking for
Simply fantastic. I always wanted to learn more on this very subject. Any idea on a resource that will hold more?
–Freida
thanks for your sharing info..
Thank you so much, Ade, for supporting this project.
I have to tell you, I’ve been absolutely exhausted lately, and far too close to throwing in the towel.
Here’s why…
I’m a firm believer that unless I can offer a better solution, I have no right to whine about what anyone else is doing. And before I did the Sins report, I naively believed that once people were shown the better solution, they would see the light and stop supporting the bad tactics and the marketers who use those tactics.
I was wrong.
It seems that no matter what we do to try to convince people that the ONLY way to make money is to steadily build a business from the ground up, people will still buy the garbage out of desperation.
I’ve done the report in hopes that people would listen. Apparently, desperation and “I wanna make money quick” wins over good common sense.
Three recent big launches were done the “sleight of hand” continuity style.
All three sold like crazy.
I’m exhausted. Tired of seeing the industry I once loved fall apart and implode. Tired of all the BS. Tired of the ego-maniacs ruing people’s lives and laughing about it.
Tired of seeing people lose everything they own trying to chase a pipe dream, following anyone who tells them what they want to hear.
Just.
Tired.
I’ve always wondered what would make a sane person reveal his secret to major dollars. Personally I were to find a $100 a day system, I’LL NEVER REVEAL IT TO EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY.
Take for example one of the world’s greatest Supermodels, Naomi Campbell. Her body statistics have almost never shifted in a long long time and the whole modeling industry is just dying to know what her secret is and she’s practically vowed to take it to her grave.
I can’t wait for this rag to riches sales copies to fade away.
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