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		<title>300 Internet Marketers by Brian G. Johnson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian G. Johnson&#8217;s 300 Internet Marketers will be released on 29th March, 2011. Having personally experienced several of Brian&#8217;s courses I&#8217;m more than happy to recommend his latest offering to anyone who is looking to make a solid start in Internet marketing or for marketers who want to cut out all the distractions and master [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Brian G. Johnson&#8217;s 300 Internet Marketers</strong> will be released on 29th March, 2011. Having personally experienced several of Brian&#8217;s courses I&#8217;m more than happy to recommend his latest offering to anyone who is looking to make a solid start in Internet marketing or for marketers who want to cut out all the distractions and master the tactics that actually work and continue to work long term.</p>
<p><a href="http://marketplex.net/route/300-internet-marketers">More Information&#8230;</a> <em>(aff. link)</em><br />
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<h2>Who is Brian G. Johnson?</h2>
<p>Unless you are a newcomer to the Internet world, you would have somehow and by some means come across Brian G. Johnson&#8217;s name. After all, Brian is a highly successful Internet, affiliate and niche marketer who&#8217;s been around long enough to publish countless videos, to write a whole slew of articles, to launch many hundreds of websites and to developed best selling IM products such as Revenue Domains Exposed, SEOPress Formula, Commission Ritual (recently updated and required reading for any affiliate marketer), Auto Content Cash (not one of my favourites) and Halloween Super Affiliate (a value packed niche focused progression on Commission Ritual).</p>
<p>Through his products and under his training, Brian has coached, guided and mentored thousands of students with a rather large percentage of them reaching and surpassing their own personal online goals. As a matter of fact, the Warrior Forum is filled with confirming testimonials that speak volumes about Brian&#8217;s powerful methods and his skilful teaching techniques.</p>
<p>Brian has gained a clear understanding of the nature of the vast Internet marketing arena, he has experienced its many aspects and has then found the precise strategies in order to build his financial empire ($500K in 2010) which he is passionate about sharing with others. And so, Brian provides students only with those powerful techniques and most effective methods which have proven to truly work on his own businesses and therefore will also work on theirs.</p>
<h2>What is 300 Internet Marketers?</h2>
<p>Being launched on March 29, 2011, 300 Internet Marketers is Brian&#8217;s newest IM product on which he has been working for the past six months. It is an intensive coaching program that will make a huge difference in the financial lives of 300 lucky members in 2011 and far beyond.</p>
<p>Why 300? Because Brian is limiting membership to just 300!</p>
<p>Just like with all his other products where Brian over-delivers with step by step tutorial videos, easy to follow PDF documentation and close mentoring accessibility, 300 Internet Marketers has all that a much more. </p>
<p>However, it is also the most unique of all of Brian&#8217;s programs and, as a matter of fact, it is also different from anything else that is found on the Internet for the following reasons:</p>
<p>*	Running between April 2011 and on through August 2011, 300 Internet Marketers is a 5-month mentoring program. Nothing of that equal exists online today.</p>
<p>*	Taking students to much higher levels, 300 Internet Marketers will teach how to build mega online businesses that have the potential to generate 6 figure incomes. </p>
<p>*	With 300 Internet Marketers as a tool, Brian will instruct members how to become high level super affiliates, how to build mammoth mailing lists as well as how to create and then sell their own products and/or services.</p>
<p>In short, Brian G. Johnson&#8217;s 300 Internet Marketers will transform 300 members to online Spartan heroes who will triumph over their competitors in any niche and across any marketplace.</p>
<p>Learn more about the 300 Internet Marketers coaching program with the link below.<br />
<a href="http://marketplex.net/route/300-internet-marketers">More Information&#8230;</a> <em>(aff. link)</em></p>
<p>Related Content:<br />
<a href="http://www.300internetmarketers.co.uk">300 Internet Marketers Review</a></p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing Doesn&#8217;t Have to Suck!</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/08/21/internet-marketing-doesnt-have-to-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email alert from Stuart Turnbull today. The subject line was, &#8220;Buyer Beware&#8230;&#8221;. Stuart is one of the few Internet marketers whose list I still subscribe to. That&#8217;s because, so far, he hasn&#8217;t drowned me in hype or outright lied to me. This makes him an exception and the email he sent me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I received an email alert from <a href="http://stuart-turnbull.com/">Stuart Turnbull</a> today. The subject line was, <em>&#8220;Buyer Beware&#8230;&#8221;</em>. Stuart is one of the few Internet marketers whose list I still subscribe to. That&#8217;s because, so far, he hasn&#8217;t drowned me in hype or outright lied to me. This makes him an exception and the email he sent me today reinforces the point.<br />
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Stuart, who had intended to promote a new product currently swamping the marketplace, instead took a look and decided to warn his list the product might not be all it appears to be. Put another way, he decided to put his relationship with his list above the profits he could have earned for promoting the most hype laden product I have seen in a while.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m not making Stuart Turnbull out to be some sort of online hero. That&#8217;s because I <strong>expect</strong> honesty as a basic standard from anyone I might think of doing business with, call me naive but there you have it. When you see the sheer number of &#8220;super&#8221; affiliates promoting this product (experienced people who know very well the nature of what they are pushing) it makes you think that Internet marketing, in the main, just sucks!</p>
<p>Stuart and a few others like him remind me it doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to take the rare step of naming and shaming the product discussed above. Not because it is any worse than a lot of the stuff out there. In fact it&#8217;s likely you can make some short term cash using it, if you are prepared to make certain ethical compromises.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m naming it because the vendor decided to make a big deal of the honesty angle, liberally bashing (without naming them) other products and marketers out there whilst implying his product is a remedy to all the hype and misdirection. This couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. This product launch is all about misleading the buyer, it&#8217;s all about using every dodgy marketing trick in the book. Fake scarcity, overblown claims, misrepresentation of what you actually get for your money, it&#8217;s all there.</p>
<p>It seems the anti-BS, honesty angle is the latest BS, dishonest angle. This makes the job of decent marketers even harder and it will make the marketplace even more cynical. All so a few individuals can make some short term cash. I guess the idea is there are so many people on the Internet it&#8217;s possible to sting a few and there&#8217;ll be another stream of suckers along when then next &#8220;amazing&#8221; product is ready to be inflicted on the market.</p>
<p>Anyway, Auto Traffic Avalanche. I&#8217;m not condemning the product, just the way it is being sold.</p>
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		<title>Psst! I Have A Killer Secret&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/07/21/psst-i-have-a-killer-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, thanks for reading this article. I need to ask you a favour though, don&#8217;t tell anyone else about it, okay? Let&#8217;s just keep this between you and I. You see the fact is, I have a killer secret I want to share with you. Something that will allow you to hoover up free money [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, thanks for reading this article. I need to ask you a favour though, don&#8217;t tell anyone else about it, okay? Let&#8217;s just keep this between you and I.</p>
<p>You see the fact is, I have a killer secret I want to share with you. Something that will allow you to hoover up free money while you sleep. Really, this is so easy anyone can do it. You don&#8217;t need a list (not of your own anyway), you don&#8217;t need any traffic and you can set the whole thing up in a couple of hours and make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to give you all the details right here in this article, nothing will be held back.<br />
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Let&#8217;s get to it. First you&#8217;ll need to to find an existing marketing product, it really doesn&#8217;t matter which one, whether it works or not, or if has been around for donkey&#8217;s years and is common knowledge. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll fix all that.</p>
<p>Now take the key concept from that product. Let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s a training course on affiliate marketing, you know the usual stuff. How to set up a WordPress blog, how to install a few plugins, how to scrape a bunch of content from other peoples&#8217; web sites and claim it as your own, just the standard stuff.</p>
<p>Now think up a great name. Something like, <em>&#8220;Super Atomising Ballistic Profits Wonga Vomiter&#8221;</em>, is perfect.</p>
<p>Rehash the key parts of the tired old product you have selected and use a fancy-pants graphics tool to create an image of hundreds of CD and eBook covers. In the past 5 or 10 covers would have been enough but the industry has <em>&#8220;matured&#8221;</em> so now we need hundreds.</p>
<p>Now go through the course and take a screencast of you setting up a WordPress blog and installing plugins and scraping content and submitting backlinks. Each screencast should be about 2-3 minutes long, this will help you use up those hundred covers you created.</p>
<p>Make sure you create a unique name for each of the processes. So the WordPress install could be referred to as your, <em>&#8220;Crystal-Meth Crazed Blog Bazooka&#8221;</em>, method. You can&#8217;t over-do it, be as ludicrous as your mind will allow.</p>
<p>Now create a bonus product. A PDF jammed with screenshots from your screencasts will do. Add in a couple of sentences here and there to create <em>&#8220;value&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>While you are at it, go and get a couple of PLR MP3s of people being interviewed in 1997 &#8211; or something equally useful. This will be your, <em>&#8220;Insider bonus&#8221;</em>, for fast action takers (aka. desperate people).</p>
<p>Now produce an official looking graphical seal and type, <em>&#8220;30 Day No Fuss Guarantee&#8221;</em>, across it. Buy a domain, create a support address, install a free support software package and ring your mate in the Philippines and tell him you&#8217;ll pay him a couple of bucks to deal with customer enquiries (ouch!).</p>
<p>Now go to Powerpoint and create a bunch of slides explaining why yours is the ONLY product that works and why everything else is dog shit.</p>
<p>Go to any half decent parking garage in a  London or New York banking district, find a Porsche or a Ferrari and take a few pictures of it.</p>
<p>Now here comes the biggest secret of all, the <em>&#8220;killer&#8221;</em> touch that will ensure you <em>&#8220;crush it&#8221;</em> and end up <em>&#8220;golden&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;If you only take away one thing from this article&#8221;</em> (C)The Gurus, then this is it so get a notepad and pen and make notes!</p>
<p><strong>Spam all the gurus out there</strong>, tell them you have a great new product and ask if they&#8217;ll do a webinar with you to market it. Tell them you&#8217;ll do all the talking and their role will be simply gasping and shouting, <em>&#8220;Wow!&#8221;</em>, from time to time. Tell them <strong>you&#8217;ll pay at least 75% of the sales</strong> to them.</p>
<p>Next, set up a cheap and buggy membership site with a barely functional payment system. Make sure your login page is thoroughly broken and, if you can, get a server that collapses when more than 10 people ping it, that&#8217;s ideal.</p>
<p>Upload your product to Amazon (without protection so it can be ripped by non-payers later), set up your sales page &#8211; don&#8217;t fret on this because nobody will read it and all your sales will come from the webinar, but DO NOT test it all works properly! I know there will be a temptation to run a test but stick with what works for the big ticket marketers.</p>
<p>On the night of the webinar and provided the guru has warmed the crowd up with a stream of, <em>&#8220;Amazing, Jaw-Dropping, Revolutionary, SEO is deader than Lennon&#8221;</em>, pre-sales hype, you should have an eager (desperate) audience of several hundred people to pitch.</p>
<p>Let the guru go first so you can surf on his reputation. Let him tell the audience how you are <strong>revolutionising the marketplace</strong>, even more so than the revolutionary guy he had on another call last week.</p>
<p>Remember those photos of the Ferrari or Porsche? Yeah?&#8230; Yeah? Are you getting it now?</p>
<p>Do your Powerpoint pitch. You know the order, massive proof (use your best Clickbank screen shot even if it has nothing to do with the product), why nothing else but your product works, why you are sharing your secret method (because you love everyone and want to give something back), a painfully slow and repetitive run-down of each and every video and PDF in your product pack (don&#8217;t forget to add, <em>&#8220;Real World Value &#8211; $997&#8243;</em>, next to each item), repeat last step but go slower, put a figure of $196,997 on the screen then cross it out &#8211; because the buyer won&#8217;t be paying that much tonight&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; He won&#8217;t even be paying $96,997, so cross it out, you&#8217;re not even going to charge $96,996, or $96,995, not even $95,997, or (for brevity I&#8217;m going to skip the next 30 steps), $997&#8230; oh no&#8230;</p>
<p>Tonight and just for the people on the webinar, you&#8217;re giving the product away for a ridiculous (must use that word) $497 (or 4 instalments of $297 for the plebs who can&#8217;t count).</p>
<p>Clinch it by stating there are <strong>only 100 copies available</strong>, because you don&#8217;t want this secret getting out!</p>
<p>Now you need to do the product list thing again, maybe a couple more times.</p>
<p>Let the guru end the call. Go to bed, wake up, the cash is in your account. &#8216;kay?</p>
<p>And the bloke the Philippines can handle all the shit while you get on with your next great (even better than this one) product release.</p>
<p>Do this enough times and you could be a guru too!</p>
<p><em>PS. I&#8217;m kidding, this would never happen in the Internet marketing industry!</em></p>
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		<title>Physical Product or Information Product</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/06/17/physical-product-or-information-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are subscribed to a ton of marketing lists you&#8217;ll have noticed a spate of physical product marketing launches in the last couple of weeks. The &#8220;best program ever&#8221;, &#8220;all you will ever need&#8221;, &#8220;please give me two grand of your hard earned cash&#8221;, and blah, blah, blah. I&#8217;m not subscribed to more than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are subscribed to a ton of marketing lists you&#8217;ll have noticed a spate of physical product marketing launches in the last couple of weeks. The &#8220;best program ever&#8221;, &#8220;all you will ever need&#8221;, &#8220;please give me two grand of your hard earned cash&#8221;, and blah, blah, blah.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not subscribed to more than a handful of these lists any more (in an effort to combat information overload and outrageous bullshit) and I keep up to date with what&#8217;s going on in the marketplace via the excellent <a href="http://www.jvnotifypro.com/">JVNotify</a> which is all you need.<br />
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Even so, the physical product push is becoming almost as bad as the last great thing &#8211; anyone else remember the death of Internet marketing and the rise of mobile marketing? Or the death of Google and the supremacy of Facebook? Sheesh!</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s it to be? Physical products or information products? The answer, obviously, is both! Why on earth would you ditch one multi-billion dollar market in favour of another? Exploit both, for heavens sake, and don&#8217;t believe for a second method X is better than method Y because it just ain&#8217;t so.</p>
<p>Why would you ditch Clickbank and Paydot.com where you can pull in 50% &#8211; 75% commissions per sale? Where&#8217;s the logic? Yeah sure, there&#8217;s a lot of competition but do these physical product marketers seriously think selling flat screen TVs or Kindles is a walk in the park?</p>
<p>Come on! The same rules hold true no matter what type of product you are trying to move. Find the products with big demand and low competition and you&#8217;re going to make money. It doesn&#8217;t matter if the product arrives by post or is downloaded immediately. If people want it and you can get ranked on the search engines then you&#8217;ll be able to shift it.</p>
<p>On all my affiliate sites I make sure I have a good mix of the informational and physical. Freebie ebooks are still a great way to build a list. PLR information products can quickly be turned into revenue streams that complement physical products. An example, promote WII accessories on the physical side and game tips and tricks or other information as a downloadable product. Use your list to double up the revenue.</p>
<p>Also consider, how many times will somebody buy a physical product? The answer is once, until it wears out. Yes you can promote accessories and add-ons and you should. But don&#8217;t underestimate the power of the information product in supplementing those physical items.</p>
<p>Have you ever bought a top of the line home cinema system, had an expert set it up for you and then thrown the operating manual against the wall in frustration the first time you needed to configure or troubleshoot the thing? Enter the information product. Whenever you have a problem with anything at all note it down and create a product, then stick it online. It&#8217;s guaranteed if you&#8217;ve experienced the problem then somebody else has too. Probably many people in fact.</p>
<p>How many times have you trawled the Internet looking for solutions to obscure problems? You can&#8217;t even figure out what search you should enter, right? You&#8217;re not alone. Hours later you might have an answer but maybe not. Would you pay $7 or $9 or $12 to save yourself the bother? I would and I do. Regularly. So do other people, I&#8217;m betting. That&#8217;s supposed to be a big part of this game, helping people. Well how are you helping people by throwing away the information product in favour of physical products?</p>
<p>You get my point. Physical products or information products? A good mix of both will serve you well and give you an advantage and don&#8217;t be swayed by $2K online promises and misdirections.</p>
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		<title>Financial Spring Cleaning</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/04/12/financial-spring-cleaning/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The joys of spring. The leaves are reappearing on the trees, the flowers are blooming, bird song fills the air and all those membership subscriptions you thought were a great idea at the time are still pulling money from your bank and Paypal accounts on a regular basis. Time to do a spring clean. Seriously, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The joys of spring. The leaves are reappearing on the trees, the flowers are blooming, bird song fills the air and all those membership subscriptions you thought were a great idea at the time are still pulling money from your bank and Paypal accounts on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Time to do a spring clean.<br />
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Seriously, how many membership programs have you signed up for as you try to make your way in Internet marketing? I ran a check today and discovered I&#8217;m subscribed to at least five services I hardly ever use and provide very little or no value to my business.</p>
<p>These repeat payments come in several flavours and some can be very hard to track down and cancel once you have signed up. Whilst the better vendors provide a clear route to cancelling agreements the less professional sellers make it deliberately difficult.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll give you an example. In January I signed up to a WordPress plugin system that claimed it would automate my affiliate marketing and sales process. Yes, I know, I was a gullible fool back then. Anyway, today a notification of a Paypal charge popped into my email inbox informing me I&#8217;d just paid $47. That&#8217;s $47 in January, same again in February, March and now April. $188 for a system that doesn&#8217;t even work &#8211; my fault, no complaints, I&#8217;m an idiot. But it&#8217;s only by taking action immediately when you see these charges appear that you&#8217;ll put an end to the waste.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what I decided to do, take action and cancel this subscription. So I scanned my old emails and eventually found the login details for my account. Once logged in I looked for an easy way to cancel my membership. Guess what, no chance, not a single mention of how I could cancel my agreement. Oh there&#8217;s plenty of highly visible ways to spend even more money, but nothing on how I could stop haemorrhaging cash on something I no longer want.</p>
<p>Try the support desk, I thought. So I clicked on the support link and it asked me to create a ticket. But first I had to login. I entered my account details, hit submit and was promptly told I needed to register a new account on the support system. Because, of course, the support was being handled by a third party who didn&#8217;t know who the hell I was.</p>
<p>So I registered and was told a confirmation email had been sent. Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes later no email. Added to that, the &#8220;support&#8221; policy indicated even if I did manage to register, a response to any ticket I created might take up to 7 days! Seven days! What sort of support is that? It&#8217;s more of an afterthought, a &#8220;when we can be bothered&#8221; approach to after sales assistance. And fairly typical of our industry I&#8217;m afraid.</p>
<p>But wait! Hadn&#8217;t I signed up to this thing using Paypal? Thank heavens because Paypal lets you cancel an agreement without having to refer back to vendors who make themselves rather scarce after they take your money.</p>
<p>I logged in to Paypal and had a look at all my subscriptions and agreements. Several horrific minutes later I realised I was shelling out a small fortune every month on membership programs I could scarcely remember, never mind use on a regular basis. I went through each one and with a single mouse click cancelled each agreement.</p>
<p>End result? A saving of just over $3,000 per year. I kid you not!</p>
<p>But there are times when Paypal can&#8217;t help, such as when you&#8217;ve given your credit card details to the vendor and they re-apply for payment each month. Unfortunately you have to go through all the hoops to kill these ones off. So that&#8217;s my next job, going through my bank statements to discover who, when, why and how much and putting a stop to anything I find that isn&#8217;t absolutely essential to my business.</p>
<p>I urge you to do the same yourself. Make a list, check your Paypal notifications, reconcile your bank statements. Prune ruthlessly. If you&#8217;re like myself or any number of other Internet marketers I&#8217;ve spoken to you&#8217;ll end up amazed at how much garbage you are paying good money for month after month and how much loss you have potentially exposed yourself to.</p>
<p>Go on, do yourself a favour this spring. Clean out the old, save yourself a pile of cash and set yourself up for a profitable 2010.</p>
<p>Start applying all the things you have learned. Stop buying new products, stop signing up for monthly subscriptions. Reverse the cash flow and start putting money in YOUR bank account for a change.</p>
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		<title>Auto Content Cash For Lazy Internet Marketers</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/03/11/auto-content-cash-for-lazy-internet-marketers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auto Content Cash from Alex Goad, Brian Johnson and Jared Croslow is the latest automated mini-blog solution to hit the market. It promises to build niche and product targeted WordPress blogs that you can set up in under an hour. Custom plugins are then used to auto-generate content so you never have to visit the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Auto Content Cash</strong> from Alex Goad, Brian Johnson and Jared Croslow is the latest automated mini-blog solution to hit the market.</p>
<p>It promises to build niche and product targeted WordPress blogs that you can set up in under an hour. Custom plugins are then used to auto-generate content so you never have to visit the blog again, you just leave it to build itself while you get on with building another auto-blog and then another and another until you have hundreds or thousands or millions or billions&#8230;<br />
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&#8230;because what we <em>really</em> need is a whole bunch more spam sites on the web. We can never get enough of these things, especially when it comes to actually trying to find useful information on the search engines.</p>
<p>I ran a search on Google just yesterday, I was looking for a tool to transcribe my mp3 recordings. I can&#8217;t recall the range of keyword searches I used but no matter what I tried all I could come up with was a whole bunch of spam sites offering the same tool I already knew was out of date garbage. I gave up in the end, I just didn&#8217;t have the patience to wade through hundreds of results only to find each one I clicked lead to a mini-blog stuffed with adsense, download links and the same, utterly uninformative article re-spun to death.</p>
<p>What I was seeing was the wreckage of a previous affiliate marketing effort for a product long since expired. Whilst Google isn&#8217;t my &#8220;bestest&#8221; friend in the whole wide world, I do have sympathy for the guys who try to figure the algorithms so genuine searchers stand a chance of finding what they are looking for.</p>
<p>I guess you can gather by now I&#8217;m pretty damn disappointed by Auto Content Cash. Maybe it&#8217;s the cleverest tool on the block, maybe it does exactly what it claims, maybe the price is a whole lot better than the alternatives out there. But whatever happened to the concept of building a real, sustainable online business? Why are we seeing more and more of these lazy and brainless methods for generating cash with zero regard for the effect on our community and the Internet in general?</p>
<p>The Internet is the most valuable tool we have today. All the other media outlets have long since been captured by the corporations. Television, radio, the mainstream press &#8211; these are all tightly controlled and heavily filtered. Only on the Internet can a little guy compete with the big dogs. So along comes Auto Content Cash and a whole load of other methods designed to vandalise our most precious asset so a few shirkers can stuff their pockets at the expense of the rest of us.</p>
<p>I am massively disappointed to see a genuinely good guy like Brian Johnson involved in this sort of thing. This is the same Brian Johnson who pushed the merits of unique content in his excellent course Commission Ritual. Listening to Brian last night on a webinar arranged by James Jones, I got the impression he has the best intentions as he tries to help people who can&#8217;t make the break and start earning online. But doesn&#8217;t he see that many of these people can&#8217;t earn because they aren&#8217;t prepared to do the hard things necessary to build a decent business? They are lazy and perhaps they shouldn&#8217;t be helped at all &#8211; harsh? Maybe they should just be told to go and get a menial job that requires zero ambition and will be more suited to their perspective on work &#8211; unreasonable?</p>
<p>Some of us are trying to build business that will be around in five and ten years from now. Some of us aren&#8217;t quick-in, quick-buck, rapid exit and leave the mess merchants and some of us are realistic about the game we are in and know we&#8217;ll have to graft to succeed. And what&#8217;s wrong with that?</p>
<p>The creators of Auto Content Cash justify their new product by claiming Google <strong>loves</strong> duplicate content and that, in fact, Google itself is built on duplicate content! Oh please&#8230; how thin is that? It&#8217;s like saying it&#8217;s okay to plagiarise an entire book because you saw its title listed in the index of another publication.</p>
<p>What they mean to say is there are methods available to fool Google into treating the content as unique, such as mixing it up a bit, adding a few links, re-spinning, modifying the title. Google is a robot in the end and a robot is programmed to follow rules and react based on those rules. Once the rules can be deduced the system can be gamed. This doesn&#8217;t for a second imply Google loves the outcome.</p>
<p>At best the philosophy behind this product is aimed at people who want some spare pocket money and don&#8217;t really care how they get it. The sort of people who have no regard for their reputation online because they know they&#8217;ll never be around in one spot long enough to be called out for producing junk and muddying the water for the rest of us.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, automation has its place. There are sites and directories out there that are based on collating the content of the Internet into various formats that can provide a value to the end user. Places such as Digg where social buzz is quantified, article directories where I&#8217;ll look if I want content inspiration, Twitter which is a sea of noise like everyday life. Automating submission to these places is in line with the nature of the sites. Some might argue otherwise but let&#8217;s not pretend Twitter is a valuable index of knowledge, it&#8217;s a disorganised jumble by design so auto-tweeting your unique content blog posts is about flagging value, not killing the model.</p>
<p>But these are not the places I go to if I want to find the most relevant and authoritative resource for quality information. For this I rely on the search engines. If these search engines end up filled with micro spam sites (which is exactly what these adsense sites are) then I have been robbed of the value a tool like Google once provided. So whilst Auto Content Cash is great value for lazy Internet marketers it comes at a cost that is being extracted from you and I and all the other serious marketers who are producing the very content that is stolen and then used against us.</p>
<p>Auto Content Cash itself sounds like a re-hash of WordPress plugin content thieving tools such as Caffeinated Content and WPRobot. To be fair it also comes with a lot of quality content that will be useful for non-spammers, such as SEO tutorials and information on outsourcing and site flipping. And the price is super low, cheaper than buying either of the previously mentioned WordPress tools.</p>
<p>Brian also makes mention of a plugin that quickly allows a WordPress configuration to be cloned and this alone is probably worth the asking price. I&#8217;d be interested in seeing it as I&#8217;m half-way through writing something similar.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s the automation, spam and forget nature of this product that is its primary selling point. The road to hell is lined with good intentions. I&#8217;ve dealt with Alex and Brian in the past and believe they genuinely care about their customers and want to see their students succeed. I just think they&#8217;ve got it very wrong this time and are setting people up with a method that, eventually, Google will defeat. At least I hope so because that will open up the way for those who apply a bit more care and consideration in their business and are building for the long haul rather than the fast dollar.</p>
<p>Auto Content Cash then? A massive thumbs down. This isn&#8217;t the way you&#8217;ll be successful long term.</p>
<p>But if you don&#8217;t give a damn about your industry and have zero standards then go ahead, the price is right and the tools on offer will certainly allow you to keep your fat ass on the couch whilst you watch TV, stuff doughnuts and skim profit off the back of others. You could say it&#8217;s a steal all round. Certainly a no-brainer!</p>
<p>Too honest?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.autocontentcash.com/" target="_blank">Auto Content Cash</a></p>
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		<title>Video Boss, Early Impressions</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/02/22/video-boss-early-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VideoBoss from Andy Jenkins is easily my highest ticket marketing product purchase. I thought long and hard before signing up and didn&#8217;t jump in the minute the doors opened. I knew it would sell out fast so that risky little gap of a couple of hours between launch and buy-in became a measure of how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>VideoBoss from Andy Jenkins is easily my highest ticket marketing product purchase. I thought long and hard before signing up and didn&#8217;t jump in the minute the doors opened. I knew it would sell out fast so that risky little gap of a couple of hours between launch and buy-in became a measure of how much I genuinely wanted to be part of this project.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had a chance to review 20 or so of the early presentations in both the theoretical and practical modules so here are my early impressions.<br />
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I was warned in advance the material would be challenging. I was warned again at sign-up this isn&#8217;t a course for those who aren&#8217;t prepared to commit a significant chunk of time to learning new and potentially complex skills. But even forewarned it still provoked a &#8220;wow&#8221; response when I got a first look at the content.</p>
<p>Two modules are accessible during the first week.</p>
<p>The first is a theoretical grounding in video production ranging from audience research through to post production and distribution with topics such as goal assessment, script writing, storyboarding, pre-production, hardware and software, sound mixing and editing, video formats, etc. broken into sub modules and presented in a series of short but detail packed presentations.</p>
<p>The second module is practical and covers mostly the same topics but this time as over-the-shoulder demonstrations of the theory being applied.</p>
<p>All the while a relaxed, informative and authoritative Andy Jenkins provides narration which is, by design, more in-depth than the key points being covered visually. Everything is expertly paced and it&#8217;s easy to follow along although I&#8217;ve often used rewind to go back and get my head around new ideas as they are introduced.</p>
<p>Once a presentation has ended there is always an urge to move to the next. I&#8217;ve decided to fly through the first two modules in entirety without getting bogged down in note taking and I&#8217;ll go back later and spend more time with each video until I&#8217;m happy I have a firm grasp of the content. This way, the second time around (and third, fourth and fifth I suspect) I&#8217;ll be much more familiar with video production so the learning should start to bite.</p>
<p>But even now the training is paying off. For example, one technique revealed in the practical videos induced a head-slapping moment where a question that had bugged me for a long time was finally answered. &#8220;So THAT&#8217;S how you do that!&#8221; I won&#8217;t reveal the details as it&#8217;s one of Andy&#8217;s &#8220;special sauce&#8221; tips. But the upshot is I am already ten times more confident about getting down to producing video &#8211; from this one tip alone.</p>
<p>In the intro video Andy advises writing out a list of all the things you want to find out about video production that you don&#8217;t know how to achieve. When I prepared my own list I thought it was pretty comprehensive and I reasoned if I could tick it off I&#8217;d be well armed and ready to start making effective video.</p>
<p>It was only by going through a part of the first two modules I realised I didn&#8217;t even know enough to ask effective questions. I found myself in the comical position of having to add questions to my list and then cross them off right away as the fast flowing answers clued me in on what I needed to ask! A bit like the answer <a target="_blank"href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life.2C_the_Universe.2C_and_Everything_.2842.29">42 in Hitch-hikers Guide</a>.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m keeping my head above water but only just. The great thing is I can go back as many times as I want to review the material until I have it nailed. Which is where the time commitment comes in. This isn&#8217;t a course for people who have little or no time to spare.</p>
<p>I had a good feeling about this product right from the first promo video I watched. It was something that cropped up just at the right time for me, I&#8217;d been hunting around for free tutorials and video demonstrations online but was having a job bringing everything together. And of course when you don&#8217;t really know what to ask, a search engine isn&#8217;t much use unless you follow links in the hope of randomly hitting what you need.</p>
<p>VideoBoss has brought everything together under one roof. Yes, it has cost me an arm and a leg and that always gives pause for proper consideration of value compared to outlay. I still have a good feeling though, which has been reinforced by a genuinely well executed training course that is delivering, for me at least, what I expected and had hoped to receive.</p>
<p>There have been a few minor issues, though none have affected me. A few students have had problems viewing the video material and the feedback pages were a bit ropey for the first few days. I believe all this has been resolved now to leave what I have to say is a very polished product considering it is a brand new launch using proprietary systems.</p>
<p>In conclusion, so far &#8211; well executed, real delivery, real value and I&#8217;ll be sticking with it until the end. For a change I don&#8217;t feel short changed.</p>
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		<title>VideoBoss Training Starts Today</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/02/19/videoboss-training-starts-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, in my drive to save money I signed up for VideoBoss! Moving on&#8230; In my first few months of Internet marketing and as my experience grows I&#8217;ve noticed a transformation in my own attitude to what I believe constitutes a truly effective sales pitch. In the beginning, because all the concepts were brand [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s right, in my drive to save money I signed up for VideoBoss! Moving on&#8230;</p>
<p>In my first few months of Internet marketing and as my experience grows I&#8217;ve noticed a transformation in my own attitude to what I believe constitutes a truly effective sales pitch.<br />
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In the beginning, because all the concepts were brand new, I&#8217;d lap up every word on those mouse killing sales pages and squeeze pages. A few months later and I can&#8217;t stand the sight of them, all I do now is scroll, scroll, scroll to the price&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;and hit the buy button! NO! I have <em>got</em> to stop doing that!</p>
<p>But really, once you get a taste for this industry you can quickly decide if a sales pages is going to work for you or whether it will waste your time. That&#8217;s because you learn the handful of techniques that most marketers tend to cluster around.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I made a zillion dollars BEFORE I woke up!&#8221;, &#8220;Absolute MORON finds the secret to generating unlimited income while he skis!&#8221;, &#8220;This product is a SCAM, please click my affiliate link!&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>BORING!</strong></p>
<p>But effective, of course. Or else nobody would be doing it. I wonder for how much longer the effect is going to last though?</p>
<p>Because video is what&#8217;s really grabbing me and shaking out the cash from my pockets these days. A single page containing a well produced video gets my attention and interest on so many levels.</p>
<p>All the big guns are dropping the epic sales pages in favour of the video production, music, effects and in-page interaction included. Which isn&#8217;t an absolute measure of what works and what doesn&#8217;t, but again I doubt these guys get out of bed before their people have calculated the net worth of moving.</p>
<p>Internet marketing aside, I&#8217;m into video anyway. I&#8217;ve always wanted to hone my rank amateur skills. I have written page after page of content over the years and always found myself wishing that text could somehow be just a little more expressive. I know there are tricks and techniques and markup to get the tone or the point or the subtlety across. But it&#8217;s just so much easier with video where you can speak naturally and people get what you mean.</p>
<p>So VideoBoss is a bit of an indulgence. I think it&#8217;ll be a huge help in the future for my marketing efforts but I&#8217;m also excited because this is kind of like going back to school.</p>
<p>I really hope it lives up to its <del>hype</del> billing. I&#8217;ll keep you posted on how I&#8217;m getting on because I&#8217;m sure places will open up in the future for those who missed out first time around.</p>
<p>Plus, of course, I&#8217;ll be treating you to example of my developing talents as I learn. I bet you can&#8217;t wait, but patience, patience&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Cash System X Review</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/02/18/cash-system-x-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned I&#8217;d give you a review of Cash System X from Jonny Andrews which is due to launch on 2nd March. If you&#8217;ve found you really can&#8217;t get it together and make a start with your first web site, product offer and email campaign then this system could be what you need to finally [...]]]></description>
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<p>I mentioned I&#8217;d give you a review of Cash System X from Jonny Andrews which is due to launch on 2nd March.<br />
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If you&#8217;ve found you really can&#8217;t get it together and make a start with your first web site, product offer and email campaign then this system could be what you need to finally kick a business into existence.</p>
<p>See what you think, you can find the CashSystemX review (non-affiliate) at <a href="http://cashsystemxreview.net" target="_blank">http://cashsystemxreview.net</a></p>
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		<title>Video Boss &#8211; This is the Best You&#8217;ll See on the Net!</title>
		<link>http://marketplex.net/2010/02/14/video-boss-this-is-the-best-youll-see-on-the-net/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Boss is back with his third instalment and it&#8217;s every bit as powerful as the last two gems. It really is masterful, but because it&#8217;s so effective and has such a WOW factor, here&#8217;s a tip. To really grasp what&#8217;s taking place, and after you have watched the video once all the way through, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Video Boss is back with his third instalment and it&#8217;s every bit as powerful as the last two gems.</p>
<p>It really is masterful, but because it&#8217;s so effective and has such a WOW factor, here&#8217;s a tip.<br />
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To really grasp what&#8217;s taking place, and after you have watched the video once <em>all the way through</em>, watch it again but with the <strong>sound muted</strong>.</p>
<p>Andy Jenkins uses sound so effectively in his videos it can (will) distract you from the basics that are taking place beneath the tidal wave of sound.</p>
<p>Here you go with Part 3:<br />
<a href="http://www.thevideoboss.com/posts/traffic-boss" target="_blank">http://www.thevideoboss.com/posts/traffic-boss</a></p>
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