Will Forced Continuity Continue to Lurk in the Sales Process?

There seem to be two trends I am encountering often lately in my marketing ventures. First is the "forced continuity" tagged on to product purchases. It's quite the rage and many customers are pretty rageful about it. This involves a marketer selling a product from a sales page and then attaching an ongoing newsletter or membership program that the purchaser is likely to be unaware of. Most of the time, the language on the sales or order page that describes the continuity program is veiled in weird language or made to sound like something else or is altogether non-existant. A recent example… Continue reading

Internet Marketers Do Not Always Deliver

So, what's the best way to handle it when you join a membership and then the creator does not deliver as promised? The easy answer is just to say "quit," but that's not how I want this to turn out. I purchased a wso on the Warrior Forum a short time ago that promised 2 rewritten sales letters a month for some popular Clickbank products. Along with this are some graphics and an autoresponder series designed to encourage the reader to purchase the ebooks. The quality of the product is excellent and the copywriting is outstanding. I am extremely… Continue reading

WordPress Blogs Get All My Attention

WordPress blogs have continued to be my focus. I have a number of niche blogs that I use to display eBay auctions and I have been updating these. I really, really like how they're turning out. I guess you could say I'm synthesizing much of the information I have collected over the past months about optimizing WordPress. These are some really fun plugins that I've started using on my blogs: Adman - allows you to automatically input some text or code at the beginning, middle, or end of all your posts. I'm using it to insert an optin… Continue reading

Cloaking and Tracking — Another Techno-snag

I wrote the following lines a few days ago, and just before I published them, when I went to my GoTryThis dashboard to look up a link, it was very obvious the program was not functioning. "Accomplished a bunch of odds and ends today. Feels like a whirlwind but feels good. For the past 18 months I have been using GoTryThis on a server that has not been very reliable. This morning it was down for another 7 hours. That means none of my affiliate links work either. Not cool. I decided to move the GoTryThis script and… Continue reading

Where Have I Been?

Well, I committed to a "One Page A Day" challenge for the month of February, organized by Eric Giguere of AdSense fame. I have subscribed to his blog and read it regularly. Good stuff. Back to the challenge. The only rule is to publish 1 page of content online per day. I haven't gotten off to a very good start, but I will finish strong. I'd like to rebuild some momentum with this blog and this should help. I rejoined the 3WayLinks.net program. My focus continues to be on building links and… Continue reading