Mid Life Marketer’s Kick Start

This is a bit of a lesson for all us marketers who want to do things right and ethically! Soren Jordansen is a bit of a name these days and he seems to have a pretty good grasp of the code for cashing in on web based business. So it was interesting to see his post squawking about being scammed. I have seen this program on and off for the last 4 months or so, I would guess but I had always been a bit dismissive of it as it seemed to be a statistical non-starter. SJ’s experiences prove it was far worse than a non-starter. Here is the gist of his post on his own blog…

“A couple of weeks ago I decided to purchase and test Marl the stock trading robot (doublingstocks dot com). I fully anticipated it to be hogwash, in fact if you do a search on Google you will find plenty of people complaining about these scam artists. But I decided to test it anyway (remember I did this so you don’t have to).”

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Well, well, well; I was just about to go to bed, when I thought I’d just check on the progress over at Prosperizer… and boy has there been some progress. Prosperizer has relaunched with Project Monday Payday. I said I would post the information link as soon as I got it so here it is, complete with a pretty exclusive report to whet your appetite:

Project Monday Payday

I guess, you still want to chase away the Monday blues! Dream of turning Mondays into a high day?

A project born of the inventive minds of Paul Ward, Greg McKenzie, and the Simons Tofield and Marriot; first hit the streets last November. In February, it evolved into a full on monetized powerhouse to nurture new starters into the online marketing world.

NOW; ahead of European requirements, Prosperizer is Metamorphosing.

Mondays will never be the same. Keep your eyes open and your ear to the electronic earth.

PROJECT MONDAY PAYDAY is coming!
You will be the affiliate making money on a Monday EVERY Monday!

Prosperizer is set to become the UK’s business building club with the mostest. With Lift Off planned for Monday, the UKs sharpest marketers, are preparing for a revolution in the way money is earned on the Internet. This goes way beyond the usual free ebooks about abundance and prosperity.

Have a look at the latest extract from Simon’s Secret Diary
diary3.pdf

Well, those International Moneyspinners are at it again. Paul W, Greg Mc, and the two Simons M&T: are cooking up another humdinger of a project that brings in another raft of opportunities in small business marketing online.

This is one project that has the capability to banish the Monday Blues and brighten up the gloom and doom that the media is peddling about 2008.

Because of my direct connection to 2 of the founding members of project MONDAY PAYDAY, I am in the unfamiliar position of being able to get you in early at the top end of the tree. You would be wise to get in quick, because your earning potential is so much higher in the upper levels; as with most programmes.

Unfortunately, because I’m not actually a founder myself, I’m not privy to all the information that will launch this baby. However, as soon as the info emerges, on Monday April 28th, I will be posting here to get it out to as many interested folk as possible. Watch this Space!!

If you want a little more tantalisation - have a sneaky look at the page from Simon’s Diary that is doing the rounds at the moment. This promises to be a big BIG launch without the usual over hyped “Mass Control” hysteria.

The Secret Diary Files

Several weeks ago I became aware of a project known as 1on40. What’s that all about, you might be wondering, if you haven’t come across it yet. This company makes a promise. They promise to get your chosen website(s) to the number 1 position in the search results for 5 individual key words (or phrases); within 120 days and for the rest of the blurb bit I’ll quote them…

Pay nothing for our unique service until you see your web site at the NUMBER ONE position on Google and the other 39 TOP search engines for the 5 keywords. Get top result for once - FREE.
Once at NUMBER ONE position we will leave YOUR web site there for 7 days to prove our ground breaking service. Then you need to start paying us (bidding), for our ‘THEN PROVEN’ service and carry on having tested our service without risking your money like you would on other ‘hyped up SEO services that underperform or simply do not work’.

Well I thought, on that basis, it’s got to be worth a poke. I found the website a little confusing to get into at first: while I was submitting my first web site’s details. Gradually I became accustomed to it’s particular style and discovered the underlying logic. At first I thought you could only submit 1 website per person. However as we discussed this on the Prosperizer forums, it became clear that the company’s only stipulation was that you could only submit one web site per email address. The company also expects a secondary email address but doesn’t seem to mind if this is the same one each time. Not wanting to “take the mick” I put some of my main web addresses in to 1on40 and created some new email accounts at Googlemail, my own provider and also from my main domains. Job sorted! I had noticed peripherally that it mentioned something about checking your accounts each week, but somehow that had faded into the background.

Well the weeks have passed and while I have been concentrating on other projects such as craigslist, I had assumed that my web sites would be quietly cruising up the Google charts to their number one slot for free and I only have to think about them again when the floods of traffic arrive.

As so often happens, I got a wake up call when I returned to the Prosperizer forums after an over long absence. One of the guys was saying how he had a regular task every week of logging into his 52 1on40 accounts to touch base as “required”. You know that sinking feeling … you’ve just missed an obvious basic step. You’ve just dropped a great big boll@*k. Well I went back to my 1on40 accounts expecting to find everything shut down because I hadn’t been checking religiously like my friend.

But what did I find? My accounts were intact no problem, submissions progressing! Cue, quick sigh of relief! Naturally, I had a close look at the TOS at this (belated) point. The weekly check is strongly recommended, but is not a condition of maintaining your account. It would be if your content was at all borderline though, or likely to stray into dodgy territory.

Unlike the Craigslist fiasco, the 1on40 project was on track and …
1on40 were continuing the beta phase - you can still submit sites FREE

So why should you bother to take any notice of this? Well most people I have spoken to about this have commented “…must be a fiddle…”; “… ooh I’m not sure about these submission services…”, but in these early days it’s a NO BRAINER!.
They don’t ask for any money until they deliver their promise! Even then you only have to bid for your place and there’s no reason to assume that the bids will have to be extortionate. In fact the company seems to have a policy for keeping a level(ish) playing field regarding bid value / earnings. Again I’ll quote directly from their website.

You and YOUR clients can ONLY start bidding the very second your web site appears as the first result on each of the TOP 40 search engines. Until then we do not want a CENT from you for our service.

This page will change to an easy to use bidding interface as soon as your web site is 1st on the Top 40 search engines. It will display a list of web sites you have submitted and allow you to use your credits to bid on keywords for each. You will have 7 days to make your bid. If you miss the bid deadline someone else will bid on your keywords and your site will plunge back down Google’s results.

It is very important you log in to both your client and affiliate member area at least once a week to check your submission status for new messages or updates and your affiliate news page. If you miss an important message/update you may suffer delays, invalidate a submission or lose your affiliate status and have to start again.

Bidding… How much does it cost me?

Acceptable bids can vary between two prices we offer you depending upon the profit you are earning from our service relative to the products and or services you are selling off your web site business.

We have a process to ensure fair bids which always equate to 10% of your gross profit. This is an excellent way of paying us. Bidding is always fair (never over 10% of your gross profit) and can be paid by credit card or PayPal to ensure you can claim a refund if we do not keep our side of the bargain month after month.

Now this company has already attracted attention from the big boys. As pointed out by Rodney Brooks in his
Affiliate Home Business Solutions back in February!!

“The proprietary software company Submit Expresso Group who own and operate the search engine submission service 1on40 has been approached by Search Engine giants Ask.com as a buyout. Submit Expresso Group has turned down the offer of over 100 Million US Dollars for the company as its intention is to list the business on the London Stock Exchange in August 2008 which is not only more beneficial to its founders but also to its clients and affiliates alike. A buyout at this time is out of the question as the value of the company will be tenfold once the client base has grown to 10 million as projected by its stock flotation in August 2008.

With the end of Beta stage looming at the end of March, 1on40 is expected to see first gross profit of over £30 Million GBP (60 Million USD) which will establish it the main SEO in the world. Having established itself in a hard to break market using a free Beta version will have added to its overall value which will be paid out as dividends to its numerous loyal affiliates in August 2008 on flotation.”

And don’t forget the little(?) guys. Terry from Oz tried it out and has been running his hub page review for a while now. I don’t and won’t get anything from these guys so take a look. Terry’s Blog

BUT if you do decide to take the plunge PLEASE join up under me, cos at the moment my team is only as big as Billy no-Mates’ team

Don’t miss your chance - the doors will be closing on the Free phase very soon - it looks like some time before April 28th. This is one thing I will trumpet. Get in NOW…

Sometimes we dive in so deep with projects we’re pursuing that we miss the most obvious first steps and waste our best efforts. Last time I posted, I said I was going to let you know how I had got on with Craigslist. I had put a big effort into setting up an advertising programme on that portal, following the steps in Mike Dillard’s Building on a Budget (BoaB) course. Sadly every single one of my ads was ghosted. My original plan for a 2 day hit and everlasting automation - and zillions of leads … became a 2 and a half week marathon of unique ad writing and organising followed by crushing defeat!! Additionally I had neglected a lot of other work in trying to apply the lessons from BoaB. Well I haven’t steeled myself for the return match with Craigslist yet, but I have been catching up on my other neglected areas of work.

I decided that I really ought to check what I was displaying in the traffic exchanges and check out the hits and misses - so to speak. I got a shock when I started checking the contents of the “My Web Sites” sections of the accounts I hold. Outdated links, links with typos, Web sites not enabled … I could go on but the list just gets more embarrassing. Like I said at the start, I had dived in and got involved at too deep a level in too many programme’s at once, completely failing to check whether I had set up my accounts properly. The up side of that, was that I did at least have thousands of credits sitting “in the bank” ready to be unleashed. So I have had a day and a half of solid graft, up until my ex-wife brought the kids back from their holiday, to get my accounts in order. I am looking forward to some better responses over the next few weeks.

The advice we are given, by the experienced marketers we look to for tips and tricks, is to constantly check and recheck our ads responses. Slowly I am beginning to understand just what that means, but a couple of interesting patterns did emerge. Despite the poor set up of my accounts, I was still getting some traffic and there were some TXs which were clearly more responsive to my ads. At present my top 3 would have to be:

CosmicRay’s Top Three Traffic Programs

Stan’s the MAN - he has set up a very responsive site with (even better) hungry users.

Paul Kinder has obviously learned his business from the top eggs!! Traffic Splash is giving me the second best response rate.

Matthew will give you lots of insider info with his exchange; Web Biz Insider.

These 3 are the ones that have been working best for me personally. What I have used as a kind of umbrella to organise my surfing activities is a programme called Vital Viral. Effectively this provides a programme where you can promote all your traffic Exchange affiliations at one fell swoop. If a member signs up in vital viral and subsequently joins any of the other exchanges below you they are added to your downline instead of some other promoter’s downline. There is also a very helpful support section which gives great advice about how to organise your surfing sessions; particularly - how to use multi tabbed browsing to use your time more efficiently - and importantly - how to give other advertisers at least a few seconds of your time so that the whole Traffic Exchange phenomena is a REAL benefit and remains a 2 way street.

While I was setting up my websites in HitSafari I chanced to look through their forum and found that it had a very well set out series of tips. I’m not entirely sure why, but the information here is much more accessible to us normal “non-geekers” than the info in most of the other forums I’ve checked recently. if you are new to TXs this is particularly helpful. Although I’ve only recently reactivated my HitSafari account, it is apparently well up the rankings at present and getting good responses. And - it does have the free option so you can’t really lose.

Well I hope that you newer traffickers will find the information helpful - remember, these are just my impressions - warts and all. CYA next time.