Your online marketing success is dependent finding  marketing gurus who you can trust to deliver good up to date information backed by by great customer service. After all you did shell out your hard earned cash to pay these marketing gurus !

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Your online marketing success is dependent finding  marketing gurus who you can trust to deliver good up to date information backed by by great customer service. After all you did shell out your hard earned cash to pay these marketing gurus !

This post follows on from my report   can you trust an internet marketing guru  So here we have the marketing gurus bad boy’s list.

Marketing Gurus Hall of Shame

• Chris Carpenter

I purchased Google Cash Detective 2 (GDC2) from Chris at $2000. It is a great product, but some months ago it suddenly stopped working. There was no explanation and he did not contact any of his customers to let them know what was going on! I submitted many tickets to his help desk, but nothing….

And to top it all like many marketing gurus he has the nerve to continually promote other people’s products to get the affiliate commissions. Do you think that I would buy anything you recommend Chris when you don’t ever sort your own product out. No way fella! He’s one of those unhelpful marketing gurus.

I know that GCD3 being launched, but its going to be hard to recommend that with my hand on my heart to you guys.

• Amish Shah and Jay Styles

I have grouped these marketing gurus together as I purchased a product at $3000 from them which turned out to be beta version of what now being marketed. You can probably guess what it is. There were countless problems and quite a lot of the people within the forum were complaining.

Unfortunately, I was pass the refund period but did ask these marketing gurus for one anyway. I must say in defense that one of my payments was reversed, so I did get a part refund. So these marketing gurus were trying I guess…

However, just to give you an example of the lack of customer service from these marketing gurus. The part of the system that created a blog was being changed, but when we the customers asked for the training on how to actually use this new version as it had dramatically changed, we ended up waiting over 5 months to get it. Oh it was actually made ready for the new launch…. Funny that, what a co-incidence! Am I being a bit cynical here?

With the new product was launched the forum was removed and archived, so the new customers obviously cannot see all the negative stuff. These particular marketing gurus cannot expect me to buy anything from them   i will not recommend any of their stuff to my subscribers!

One thing here guys, the customers of the first version have had their accounts upgraded to the new launch version, so it will be interesting how that works.

I will keep my readers informed……So perhaps things maybe changing here. Again this is a real shame as their is some great stuff in the course materials.

• Howie Schwartz

I have got loads of emails from Howie and was of the opinion that he was one of the good guys. But I bought his Mobile Money Sites product and all I had to do was count the money, the sales letter said, it’s all done for you he said, we will send you the traffic he said. You can see all your stats, well that’s sadly true…..

I know that there are no guarantees but the product cost $1495 and net income after 6 months later, get ready for it drum roll please …………$11, yes that all folks!

Now that’s no good for online profit then is it Howie?

Despite contacting his customer service many times regarding the traffic and revenue or lack of it. There only response was to offer a 6 month offer on one of his other products. That is OK but if the mobile course does not work, there no guarantees that this one will either!

Do you think I will be purchasing anything more from Howie? Mmmmm, need to think about that… This is real shame as i thought that here was finally someone that i know, like and trust. I think trust just went out the window!

Guys I am sorry to be so negative and this is bad Karmer but these guys have caused me to be this way, and they should know better!! web profits

Marketing Gurus Shame On You!

To all of you marketing gurus, the sad thing is that you have let not only your customers, and yourself down but reinforced the fact that there are lots of crap on the net and some of you cannot be trusted.

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This article is going to inform you about my experience of using Google adwords to try and make web profits. This is going to be a long rant and I am going to get energised if you know what I mean, so you have been warned!

Well what can I say, Google, Google, Google, you guys are a pain in the A^*S!  Sorry readers but you will understand shortly. My first experience of using the Google adwords to make web profits was in mid 2010 when I put together a blog using a not so magical system to build autoblogs to make web profits but that’s another story in itself….

But before then I had bought a course from another couple of Guru’s AM & AN about Pay Per Click traffic which was very good, but these guys let me down as well. Do notice a pattern here? Please read “Can you Ever Trust Internet Marketing Gurus”

Web Profits Are Go….

Still back to my story, my site was built with about 100 pages of copied content from other sites with an accredited link back to each site. Yes I know this is duplicate content but at that time Google did accept that as all the content had links back. The offer I was promoting was free make up samples to make web profits, hummm… I hear you thinking, a guy promoting women’s make up! Well yes that’s a good market ladies and gentlemen. So the clue is, go where the money is being spent for maximum web profits but again that’s yet another discussion.

I had my Nice put together a you tube video for me that introduced the site to visitors and I thought that was a nice touch. We had all the pre-requisites that Google required namely, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, About Us, Contact page and a site map. There were plenty of links to other articles with different categories and the site looked good and I thought we are on our way to making  web profits at last!

Web Profits Warning!

To get maximum web profits I set up both a search and display campaigns and launched the ads on Google. Well the ads ran for about two months and my click costs were reducing every day so I thought this is going to be good for my make money web businesses and my web profits.

Well then one day Google stop running the ads and informed me that I was not complying with their policy’s etc. So that was the end of any expected web profits from that site. The reason they gave me was because although the landing page for my site was the actual page were the visitor ended up, I had a tracking site details as the destination URL and they considered this to be a bridge page.

At this stage, my Click Through Rate (CTR) (number of clicks per 100 impressions) was around 16.2% with a 8.4% conversion factor with Cost Per Click (CPC)of $0.07, so on track to nearly double my money. The offer payout was $1.25 per email submit. So this was looking good for my online web profits.

So I complied with Google’s request, direct instruction and removed the tracking site stuff. This was quite annoying as in business you need stability to make web profits. In other words, a regular steady dependable income online. But to get to that point you need to be able to test and track what works best, to be able to make maximum web profits.

So the ads ran again and the click costs were now down at $0.05 per click and I was just starting to make to make good web profits online, when the ads stop running again!

I contacted Google to find that they had changed their policy’s again and now my site was considered as “Arbitrage” as more than 30% of the landing page was taken up with promoting the offer. This was because the Video, banner and words below it were more than half the page. No good for web profits!!

So once again I changed the site so less than 30% of the landing page could be considered as “Arbitrage” and I even moved the banner so that it could not be seen without scrolling and asked Google to re-activate. This is not a good practice because if you do not attract someone attention within a few seconds visitors will be gone from your site as soon as you can say Google B£$&&^!ds. Sorry….If a visitor to a site has to scroll to find something they probably will not do that, so any potential web profits go out the window.

But to my dismay they refused and still said it did not meet their terms and conditions. When I asked them what the problem was I just got the generic email response blah blah blah ….. AAAAAAAAAAGH! This is not good for my web businesses.

So I reluctantly deleted both campaigns. Although this does not matter to Google as now they know that I own those two sites. So in essence they are telling me what I can have on my site.

Fast forwards to April 2011. I put together a 14 page site all with unique content that I paid someone to write for me. By the way you can check a site content uniqueness by using copyscape.com. This was so I could comply with the latest Google update and give provide good relevant info for my visitors.

There were optin forms on pages on the site and I had a cloaked link on my home page which I believed was OK as it was not on the landing page from the Adwords ads and so I set up the ads and let it rip.

………….awaiting web profits

But again my ads did not show up and Google said it was because of the link that they had actually clicked that linked to a clickbank offer. Well how the hell is someone supposed to promote affiliate offers Mr 800 Pound Google Gorilla!?!

Now the only way to make any money would be promoting offers via my email list. But I wanted to get some quick profits off the bat when someone visited for Pete’s sake!! So that is the end of having any links on your site even to the likes of Amazon or anywhere else.

I removed the link and contacted Google once more to be told the link was still on the site. This was strange I thought as I had removed it from the home page. Then I checked my site again and could not see any link until I checked the source code and there is was on my thank you page – of course I thought I had forgotten all about that one, so to be fair to Google in that case they were correct. Shame they are NOT fair to their other customers, namely their advertisers!

In an effort to be open with visitors I added a disclaimer page that highlighted the fact that I was an affiliate marketeer who could make a commission if people bought a product through a link and the opinions on the site were my own so not to be

miss-leading in any way. I even put a copy of this on my home page!

So I contacted them again and said sorry but all the links have been removed and guess what they said.

Your Account Is Permanently Suspended, What the F&*$!

I could not believe this, what was so wrong about what I had done?? I had tried to comply with every instruction. They said now that my site was misleading and promoting un-substantiated products?

I contacted Google and asked them to actually tell me what the actual problem was and where on the site it was. But as usual they just came back with their generic answer “we cannot answer specific questions blah blah blah blah etc.

This is a bit like going to your doctor and saying I have an illness and the Doctor reply’s “Well you need some pills”. So you ask what pills and he says,” You need some pills”. And so it goes on.

Google that’s really helpful for your customer namely, ME! NOT! so no more web profits with adwords then.

So I did a bit more research and checked other sites to find that Google allows ads promoting magic spells?! And they are telling me that my site is miss-leading?!

It gets even worse. Even though I deleted those two campaigns as Google knows those sites are mine they will always be associated with my Adwords account. So unless I make major changes to those sites I will not be able to advertise with Google for any other web sites. What!!!!!

You’re having a laugh Google! Other sites I found promoting similar products were just one page opt in sites and they are approved?!!! I just wanted to make web profits and tell the world how great Google Adwords is!!

You allow sites that advertise magic spells?!! And I am making un substantiated claims??? So if you want to make web profits forget it with this lot.

On Line Marketing Web Profits Alert!

So learn from my mistakes, here are my marketing tips when using adwords to for your internet marketing website landing page. Note this only applies to google and web profits.

• Do Not Have Any Links to Affiliate Offers.

• Only Sell Your Own Products Within Your Site.

• Always Use Unique Content.

• Place Opt in Forms In The Sidebar.

• Have a Diclosure Page For Web Businesses

• Place Links to External Authority Sites

• Sell To Your List To Make Web Profits

   

So Guys unless you have your own products with the sales order page on your site forget trying to promote affiliate products because you will not make any online web profits using adwords.

Best of luck to you and I will now continue getting my traffic with the likes of Facebook, Bing and other sources that continue to bring forth great web profits..

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When you are looking through the sales page or video of the latest Internet Marketing offer. Oh by the way I do not usually buy anything that does not have a video presentation on the sales page these days..  just too lazy to read I guess.

Sorry back to the point…

When someone is promoting an offer and showing you their clickbank proof of earning web profits always make sure that the presenter shows you that these sales are affiliate sales and not vendor sales. What do I mean by that I hear you ask..

Well I have found that a lot of marketers will either show you clickbank screen dumps of web profits and that let’s face it, this can easily be faked…

Or the web profits money they are making is from actually the sales of the thing that they are trying to sell you, namely the latest internet marketing offer. The web profits money is generated from their vendor sales of their own product.  So if the video presentation shows them logging in just make sure that they use their affiliate id to show eb profits. Of course this will be blanked out for security reasons but at least you will know that it’s the real deal.

Oh before I forget….Another thing, on Clickbank you have the ability to show the actual sales figures including any refunds or charge backs, so also make sure that you can see that, as that is the actual web profits being generated.

Just One More Thing…Sales Don’t Matter… Only Web Profits

“What the f%*&” I hear you say. Well, its web profits that matter. You need to know how much did it cost to get the sales on Clickbank – how much did it cost to get the traffic for those sales?

So $$$$ Sales minus traffic cost-refunds-charge backs = $ Actual Web Profits

If it’s not on the presentation write to them and ask them to show these details. Unfortunately, most of these guys will not respond because they are trying to trick you into buying their latest marketing offer on how to make money on line.

N.B. You probably know this already!

If you own a product, you will be the vendor and will get vendor sales. But if you are promoting someone else’s product, you will be an affiliate and generate affiliate sales and web profits.

You can apply all this to any offer of course not just on Clickbank, just make sure that you feel confident with the presentation and don’t get tricked into buying crap.

On a slightly different note, if you buy any product that has a guarantee always note the day you bought the product and when the guarantee period is up. A lot of marketers sell you the fact that there is a 30-60 day money back guarantee.

But here’s the hook, they also know that a lot of people will not take any action and will forget when they bought the product and not get refund they deserve and that’s how they make and keep their money!  So what I do is keep track of this on an excel spread sheet or you could even put it on a diary of some sort.

Just one more thing, yes I know I’m sorry, I do go on……….

If it’s a Clickbank offer and the sales letter says, “only 300 will be sold”. That’s a load of B%&$ S*$%.

Why, well because the Clickbank system is not capable of restricting sales to a fixed number!! Bet you did not know that! Did yah! More to the point if you had a great product why would you want to restrict the sales, Duh!

But just be careful out there!!

Kindest Regards

~Geoff Matthews~

Best web profits

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The internet is predominantly a TEXT-based medium.

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Part 1 in this 2-part series which teaches you how to create a brand new income stream, breathe new life into your dead or even hot-selling products and get your web site to convert more traffic into buyers -part 1 of 2

The internet is predominantly a TEXT-based medium.

Most web sites consist of pages and pages of text, or even sometimes ONE LONG sales copy page, called LONG-COPY.

Personally I find this interesting, because since the introduction of television, our attention spans have decreased, and society is breeding a generation of “audio learners”. We like to either LISTEN, or watch a video, to learn something new.

If you already grasp the concept that INTERNET MARKETING is all about conversion rates (or closing the sale) then you KNOW you need to harness every available tool to convert YOUR visitors into buyers.

One way to increase your conversion rate overnight, is to start using audio on your site or as part of your marketing process.

Would you like to give yourself an “instant pay raise”? Or even START making money online? Again you do it with AUDIOS.

Is there something that THE BIG GUYS of internet marketing have that you don’t have? Are the gurus smarter, better, and faster than you?

Let’s assume NONE of that is true … because likely it isn’t true at all!

But if you aren’t successful yet … one thing you DON’T have in place is a SYSTEM. A Step-By-Step Process. Maybe you feel like you’re beating yourself over the head chasing the dream of making 5 figures in a month … because you just KNOW that other people are doing it.

Watch part 1 and part 2 for full information on how to get free distribution rights to this video about internet audio.

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