yo yo! you checking out that top piece of video marketing expertise, Maria Andros

decided to check out this website of hers she was talking about.

videomarketingqueen.com

OOPS!

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Thing is, you can go to the site help page, get a link directly from there to an email register page, (put in any old bullshit gmail account you care, oh proxy yourself up the wazoo I guess if you are totally paranoid) and go straight to the download page for the entire $497 course.

C’mon internet marketers, get your shit together and at least have someone with half a brain putting your honey pots together. Pay a college kid or something, but stop GIVING YOUR SHIT AWAY because I won’t pay for anything that is that easy to just take. You disrespect me as an internet user and your customer by not even bothering to have a login and password to get your stuff.

Because I am a nice person I won’t link the link here. If you bought **** Blueprint this week…. well you could have had it for nix. Probably still can.

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The latest podcast (#12) has an enormous serving of irony with the chatty pie.

The majority of  the podcast covers people complaining about the content of the double-opted-in emails they receive when a large launch is underway.  Ed Dale is correct in saying “unsubscribe” to anyone that goes the greed road and floods you with that kind of crap (mind you that will mean MOST of the marketers, even the very best ones you subscribe to will fall to your sword- and GOOD I say).

The biggest peeve was signing up for one thing and getting another. Not letting those marketers push stuff at you that you didn’t agree to in the first place. Which is why it was refreshing when IMTW  launched to be told that the podcast will be pitch and plug free of the presenters businesses. Great stuff – integrity!  Information without sales. A glass of cool water in this burning landscape.

And then Ed Dale plugs Michelle MacPhearson’s latest launch.

Just a mention – but he did.

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He’s what I would call more of a “I’ve gotta launch” tweeters than someone who stops to genuinely interact.

So, Brad votes for his friend in the Shorty Awards and tweets about it. 11 hours later he comes back to tell everyone he is “crankin’ up energy on Twitter as I engage some awesome new Twitter strategies. Only ONE catch, it requires “listening”"

Funny – Brad doesn’t seem interested in listening himself.

He has 7261 followers and follows 6749 people. He can’t possibly be listening to any one of those people unless they send a Tweet directly to him.

But look! He makes it quite clear he does not have to be one of those listeners. That only applies to the rest of the Twitter population (the ones who buy his shit)

And as well as sending 13 (of his 262) tweets in just 1 hour, he starts telling US how to use Twitter.

Apparently it’s all about listening (us not him) and then us all clicking on his link that automates a message to our own updates saying “@shortyawards I vote for @dhollings in the Shorty Awards Finals for #socialmedia because… he offers great Twitter Tips” (good news is that the intelligent among us at this point don’t actually click our update buttons).

Talk about burning long term relationships for a quickie on the side! (though that could be his strategy, he doesn’t use his account and now people are all talking about how crazy he is, and he sees it as a worthwhile sacrifice)

Brad, Twitter is about relationships. Give and take. Don’t Twitter only when you want something from us. Listening goes both ways. You may be a “guru” but I can turn you off with the click of the mouse.

Oh…and look….I did!

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Which is why Lynn Terry is apparently fishing a stiletto from her tonsils after this Twitter post

“If you’re using WordPress Direct, now would be a good time to quit. http://bit.ly/uMn5″

Far be it from me to call Lynn slow, but HELLO, that blog post was two months ago and was addressed in the comments by her Internet Marketing This Week partner Ed Dale.

What was the point of Lynn making this point I wonder? Especially when she was a guest of Ed Dale at Over The Edge 2 and would have sat through a presentation by the founder and marketer of Wordpress Direct, Marty Rozmanith.

I know if I was partnered with Mizz Terry at this stage I would have a face like I just sucked lemon.

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Film editors…

You screw up… you disembowel the entire gig.

And your fabulous excuse doesn’t fix anything.

No one wants to hear it.

Wonder how much that screw up with Stompernet really cost….

p.s. hahah I screwed up myself…apologies RSS feeders!

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Question: Have you seen the new PPC Spy thing being bandied about? For fun go sign up with a gmail account or something just to get to the second video. Now ask yourself one simple question – are you stupid enough to sign up for the platinum product.

The premise this product is being sold on is fatally FLAWED and the flaw is so easy to spot. Yet I bet a gazillion greedy people out there will go “hey I’m leaving my brain in my wallet and pulling out my credit card”.

Who is the ONLY market that will buy the Platinum upgrade? Idiot wannabes

How many idiot wannabes will upgrade? Lets be generous and say 5000

That is a market of only 5000 you are hoping to have purchase through one of your affiliate links. WTF!!!

What are those idiot wannabes going to buy from your links? NOTHING! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHING!!! They will buy from their own freaking affiliate links if they are buying something.

If I was going to market this product I would have sold the basic package for $97 and had the affiliate link revenue go to a charity of my choice (the few cents it will make). That at least means idiot wannabes are doing something useful other than being mindless cud chewing bovines.

Also…why is Mike Filsaime promoting this product. One would hope you do not end up on one of his “suck the newbies dry” mailing lists. I bet he is laughing his ass off right about now

So if you are reading this, that means you are one of the first to understand the power of this and take action with it it to make money. Join me in using this great software and make sure to upgrade. It would be silly to not upgrade now. Just plain silly.”

Mike Filsaime
MarketingDotCom.com

Silly? Yeah i wouldn’t be able to write a decent testimonial either if I was laughing as hard as Mike probably is.

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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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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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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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