Look out around the traps for the new Mike Filsaime product. It won’t be hard to find. All the “inner circle” dudes will be helping their “buddy” out by spruiking it up. And I will probably rant about the whole offer later because it totally makes me laugh is so incongruent.
But tell me, what freaking market is he going for using this kind of graphic? Rainbows, pink, a well groomed man (who is probably obsessively neat). Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just sayin’
Rating: Alternative lifestyle? Mike can has it
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This entry was written by , posted on December 20, 2008 at 8:56 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged gay, mike filsaime. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Interesting that on further research into the Wayne Mansfield name that was compared to Ed Dale we come up with a Wikipedia entry that just BOGGLES the mind with the description of the heinous activities that Wayne Mansfield apparently got up to.
Extract:
Wayne Mansfield, of Perth in Western Australia, was the head of direct marketing business T3 Direct Marketing, operating under a series of two-dollar companies, and in 2005 became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming.
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ACMA’s complaint in this matter was upheld[5] in the Australia Federal Court on 13 April 2006. The Court imposed a penalty of AU$4.5 million on Clarity1, and AU$1 million on Wayne Mansfield, on 27 October 2006[5].
If that was me I would have changed my name AND left the country.
And Ed Dale would have been uber pissed to be compared to the kind of scum he truly detests.
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This entry was written by , posted on December 18, 2008 at 4:23 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged ed dale, spam, wayne mansfield. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Yep the following leaked email proved what I thought
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Subject: Don Fleece Update
The Don Fleece prank was a massive success. For the first time since 1983 or something, John Reese was away from his computer for like 10 straight hours while he was out Christmas shopping. (Probably buying really nice stuff for me.)
And that just happened to be the time when we launched Operation Winter Storm.
Anyway – HOLY SHIT!
Apparently some people actually thought Don Fleece was *real* and called John’s office. One person even asked if they should return Traffic Secrets because they heard John ripped off some other guy,
There were apparently two threads on the Warrior Forum for a while.
I think two or three people there thought this was a marketing ploy to re-launch Traffic Secrets or something …or perhaps those posts were just made by team members. Hard to tell.
Ol’ Johnny was flipping out for about 30 minutes or so until I fessed up. Then we (naturally) had a laugh. Or 50.
What really amazes me is how big this got and how fast it all grew.
We were only “live” for about 10 hours and in that time it seems like lots of people were hearing about this new Don Fleece guy.
That was a surprise to me. I figured we’d just get John’s attention and have a little joke on him.
I’m amazed at how fast the Traffic Secrets buzz left our little group and went “main stream”.
And this brings me to a point I hate to admit:
ED DALE TOLD ME SO.
God I want to vomit from saying that.
A few years ago told me this whole social media thing was gonna be huge. I scoffed.
Crow never tasted so good.
Anyway – we have an official TRUCE with John.
And the rule is that whoever gets Punked last gets to pick the next …umm …well …victim.
So we’ll see who (Eben) John picks (Eben).
There’s someone (Eben) I’d nominate but it’s ultimately up to John.
Eben.
Talk soon,
Frank
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Now for those watching at home remember the following facts
Ed Dale is in the middle of the 30DC+ launch thingo, and so is Eben Pagan in the middle of a launch.
Get those names into the psyche of your followers Frank, pump up the jam… doesn’t do for them to be too fixated on just your products when you have the “buddies” to help out.
Rating: So subtle it’s like soft satin..slides over your mind and leaves you purring
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This entry was written by , posted on December 16, 2008 at 6:52 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged eben pagan. shenanigans, ed dale, frank kern. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
To some non- IMers the long sales letter = Nigerian scam. That is how self-styled social media specialist Stephen Collins fell into a bit of a hole when he accused Ed Dale of being associated with some form of flim-flammery after spotting the sales letters for Dominiche (web site selling course) and the Thirty Day Challenge.
Now it is my belief the days of the sales letter as we know it are numbered. The functional illiteracy that is sweeping the interwebs will put paid to that. If you aren’t able to explain in 3 lines or a 90 second video then you have NO hope at all making sales to this and the next generation.
True, they (sales letters) are around, and those unfamiliar with them can will make some erroneous assumptions ( luck of the draw unless you are in the biz, knowing who is full of shit and who is good).
So it is light sabers drawn at 20 paces tomorrow when both men meet to discuss their various view points. My bet is that Ed will win some, but not all of the argument. Purists really dislike the conversation being sullied with any form of commerce. The irony is, they make money from being experts in that they don’t like to see monetized. Que sera.
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This entry was written by , posted on December 15, 2008 at 10:16 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged ed dale, nigerian scam, trib. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I have been having a good chuckle to myself watching the “shenanigans” going on in Frank Kern’s world. In particular I enjoyed watching the mass movement of a great deal of his followers to perform various deeds to play a “prank” on John Reese.
The “prank” seemed to fall flat because whatever was going on behind closed doors was hidden to those taking part. If John Reese really did think something was going down, a video or recorded phone call would have been some nice proof that the ends justified the mean(s).
Prank my right…arm… Sif Frank wasn’t testing something, or proving something, or at the very WORST flexing his power over a large group of people to see how far he could direct them.
Still, watch out kiddies. If Franks starts asking you to wear black Nikes and shave your head, you might want to consider for a nanosecond why you are being so suggestible.
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Or so some of the hysteria on twitter would have you believe.
Long story short (and jeez does Chris make short stories LONG) Chris Brogan is an advisory member on some board for pay-for-post mob Izea . Izea want to run a campaign for K-Mart to get bloggers blogging about the K-Mart shopping experience, so they hook up Chris as one of the guinea pigs.
Chris does the business and also hands over the ill gotten booty to Toys for Tots, all thoroughly disclosed on his blog. One would think and open-and-shut piece of marketing.
But NO!
Because Chris writes such long blog posts with such big words, the Twitterscreamers are left floundering at line 3 and make up their own minds. Chris brogan is a pay-for-poster, the lowest of the low.
Dear oh dear!
I see that we need to include a new version of blog accessiblilty that has been round in the scientific and business worlds for a long time. The ‘abstract”. If you have readers who cannot read more than two paragraphs you must include this to save your integrity online.
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This entry was written by , posted on December 14, 2008 at 8:19 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged chris brogan, izea, kmart, pay-for-post, twitterscreamers. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
We can do this one of two ways. You can buy my ad space because you WANT to be featured here, or because you don’t want to be here.
Some might not WANT to be associated to a wildly successful, but maybe not of your taste, kind of site. That is fine! You can PAY me the monthly amount not to put one of your affiliate links here. I will instead put up an ad for Kiva or similar.
The smart people will WANT to PAY to be on this site.
The really smart people will want to get in early and negotiate a long term deal before things get really hectic and I have to charge a gazillion dollars more for the privilidge of the site carrying your brand.
Click HERE to contact me for my reasonable rates
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Enjoy a bit of fun about our time of most stress…the LAUNCH!
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Miracles do happen! This past couple of weeks a high profile continuity site with a loyal following, finally got their shit together and paid out affiliate commissions (some of which went back 18 MONTHS).
Sources tell me there were some very happy people who had kept quiet while waiting for their payments.
Luckily all the grumbling about this issue was kept behind closed doors. Doesn’t do to let it leak out you don’t pay your rainmakers.
Rating: Paid up! i.e. no imaginary Christmas
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Some weird stuff happens in the IM world, usually caused by some weird people. So when a week or so ago I came across the story of the business relationship that had gone bad and ended up with claims of paedophillia I was not so surprised.
After reading the long rambling blog post that could have been written by the unabomber himself I came to a startling realization. If people like this are making money on the internet, imagine how much you can make if you are actually SANE!
Rating: amazingly bad taste – even from IM
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There is so much that happens in the IM world that just does not get written about. Mostly because people are scared that if they do it is going to cost them money.
Thing is this shit is too good to just let disappear.
I will be blatantly upfront about this blog is here to make me money. I want people to buy my ad space, choose my links over others. Why? because I will be supplying entertainment, gossip, scandal and whatever else I can get my hands on to make life fun while we do these things and humans being the imperfect creatures they are will flock here to see what is new in the zoo.
Also being upfront I am going to tell you that this blog will be totally anonymous. There may be one author, there may be more than one. They may be male or female. young or old, cat or dog….
Feel free to get as controversial as you like in comments, like I said, this whole place is meant for fun and traffic.
Look at this as the Perez Hilton of the IM world, but also realize this is written in a very tongue-in-cheek satirical way, and is ion no way meant to be taken seriously.
Oh and I reserve the right to change the names of people to protect the innocent…if I so wish.
To make me and you feel a little better about what I am doing here, I am going to donate a 10% gross amount of all earnings to Kiva.
So on with the show!
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This entry was written by , posted on December 9, 2008 at 1:23 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged gossip, imbitchin, internet marketing, kiva, scandal. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.