Thinking about joining Stompernet? I highly recommend you check out Niche Profit Classroom first.
If you unsubscribe from every email list that pounded you today to buy Stompernet – imagine how much more successful you’ll be by December 2009?
Seriously, look at the “content” you’ve been getting from this person in the last 30 days. Is it on the “lite” side?
Now multiply the garbage in your inbox by all the people who bought Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula and visualize how many more hyped-out launches you’ll be getting emails for in the months to come?
What if you chose to follow 2-3 really good people you trust and who fit your skills, goals, and learning style, and ignored all the other noise that is distracting you from productivity and actually preventing your success?
What if you proactively sent the people who are bombing you with offers the following email:
From: occam@razor.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 8:47 PM To: UberGuru@mybonusisbiggerthanyourbonus.com Subject: (insert cant live without it product name here).
Dear (Insert Guru Here),
Thank you for your recent email regarding the: (insert can’t live without it product name here). I wanted to ask you two quick questions as I am most interested in your results:
1) How long have you personally been using the (insert can’t live without it product name here)?
2) How much money have you made this month using the (insert can’t live without it product name here)?
I look forward to your response, and will make sure to purchase through your affiliate link if I decide to buy the (insert can’t live without it product name here) once I have done my due diligence.
If you like you can call me to discuss the (insert can’t live without it product name here) at 555-555-5555
I look forward to your response...
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First, do you think you would get a response to this email? Surely not from the “do-not-reply@guru.com” emails – they aren’t interested in actually talking to you – just in “conversion rates” and moving toward that 4-Hour Work Week. Building and hammering an email list with O.P. offers is a great gig.
Second, you already know the answer. How does anyone “get results” from a product that no one has even seen yet? Do you really think these guys paid for the product – much less took the course, watched all the DVDs and applied the information (which takes at least 30 days, easy.)
Today I listened to a totally FREE webinar by Michelle MacPhearson about using Twitter and other social networking tools to build relationships. It was AWESOME.
I”ve edited this post to remove some links that are no longer valid (Scot’s book is mentioned below but no longer available).
Respectfully,
Rick Butts
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I actually took the time to read a large number of the entries in this thread. It certainly became a Who’s Who of Internet Marketing these days.
I realize that this is probably no longer monitored but I just wanted to put one last post in here. This is all about copy writing. It seems that all the best copy writers are now in the Internet Marketing business because there only seem to be two places where such talents are valued. Either the direct mail business or the Internet Marketing business. It’s a shame.
I’ve worked hard to try and explain to business owners the value of strong copy writing and they just don’t get it. Every day I hear, “I can write. Why should I pay someone to do that?”
And yet every day, Internet Marketers prove the value of good copy writing. Any thoughts on how to translate that to the education of business owners or am I wasting my breath?
marc in china –
you missed the action here by several months so I’m sure you aren’t really subscribed to my feed.
we won’t miss you here – and I think you know why.
Rick
Copywriting is alive and well on the web – just not being used by bigger companies because, as always, they have more money than brains.
Copy pervades email, autoresponder messages, optins, offers, sales letters, in fact anyone who doesn’t use good copy principles every step along the way is missing out on giving themselves a raise.
Rick
There are a lot of good points. Thanks for the post good read.
Great post,thank you. At last, some fresh air.
I was wondering if anyone had tried Michelle MacPhearsons product and got the results that she has had without Google cracking the shits and banning them for doing sneaky things?
IS it legit? Will it work long term? Is it just an overnight success or will it increase my income fromnow on?
I won’t ask her because A) I’ll get a support ticket and no one will ever help or respond to me and B) If I did get a response it would probably be what she thinks I want to hear.
I want to know the truth. Guru’s shit me off. I just want the damn truth!!
Cheers,
Amy
Hi Amy.
You ask about Michelle MacPhearsons product and I assume you mean tubinator, which is software for automating the friend request and comment process on you tube.
I have tubinator. I have had mixed results with it. One REALLY important thing about using it is to use the “time delay” feature found in options. This spaces out your friend requests at whatever length of time you specify.
In my experience, you have to put the time delay on relatively high numbers…9 minutes to 12 minutes between requests. Anything less than that and you tube will make you stop after just a few requests.
I never got banned or anything, but I was afraid I would.
Having to go so slowly sort of defeats the purpose of using the software but not 100%. It has still helped me increase the number of “friends” I have on you tube but you can not get a million friends overnight.
I sometimes let tubinator run while I am asleep and at the high time delay, it will send out about 50 requests while I snooze.
My you tube videos still do not have very high ratings though, but it has helped some. With 60,000 video uploads a day, it is very hard to get noticed on you tube.
Tubinator was fairly inexpensive and I do not regret buying it at all.
I hope this answers you question in a fair, balanced and honest way. My experiences do not necessarily reflect anyone else’s experiences but I would imagine my experiences are typical.
Lorraine Grula
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I hate Mike Filsaime and his freaking emails he is the real example of a bullshit marketer!
Hey Rick,
Teena in Australia here – after reading your post I downloaded Scott’s book and holy moley! A breath of fresh air!!
I did the guru-unsub about a year ago, and recently found I’d subscribed to a whole chain of others, so this was a good whack on the side of the head.
Scott’s hit the nail on the head – let’s build relationships with our clients, give them worthwhile information, products and services, and then nurture them by being friendly and honest.
This is the only way to go to build a sustainable business adventure.
Ciao for now
Teena!
occam@razor.com
UberGuru@mybonusisbiggerthanyourbonus.com
Cracked me up!
A really good idea for people who need to waste less time with their e-mails.
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I’m impressed with all the big names of internet marketing assembled here, and what a great exchange of ideas.
Regarding the original topic: Sometimes, when I say something and someone disagrees with me, it gives me an opportunity to assess and digest NEW INFORMATION.
At one time I found value in subscribing to different newsletters. But, now I need to stay focused on my project(s) at hand. I don’t need new information, I need to implement with what I already know. Later on, I will need to gather some of the archived information when I ready to implement it.
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