I’m BACK with a Vengence!

February 5, 2008 Filed Under: Internet Marketing

That’s right boys and girls, I’m Baaack!

Granted, no one is reading my blog anymore (I guess that is what happens when you fall off the face of the earth only to resurface 4 months later). But that doesn’t matter! I am confident that “if I build it, you will come.”

So what is it that I’m building?

I’ll get to that but first, let’s talk about my sabbatical.

I never gave up on Internet Marketing. In fact, I’ve developed a very profitable Affiliate Marketing business! It wasn’t easy but it has been a TON of fun. I’ve had a few failed campaigns and a few successful ones but at the end of the day I learned a very valuable lesson:

Internet Marketing Guru’s are destroying internet marketing! I am PISSED OFF at the quality of the educational material that is being hyped up day in and day out across millions of emails, sales pages and teleseminars!

First it was the Thirty-Day Challenge. Ed and Dan worked hard to provide us with quality information to jump start our Internet Marketing Career but on the whole, the program was a disaster! Don’t get me wrong, I learned a lot but I also wasted a lot of time and effort. I am grateful for what Ed and Dan put together but as a consumer (I know, it was free) I am entitled to an opinion and this is my place to express it.

It started with TumblrGate, which crushed the hopes of hundreds of newbies. It was as if we had won the lottery, watching everyone’s reaction to how fast and high they were ranked using Tumblr, then the smack! Dreams were crushed, hope was dashed….

But we still had the secret sauce, that would save the day! Wait, what was the secret sauce? Oh that’s right, we never found out! Hell, I even joined the Immediate Edge hoping to find some sauce but all I got was some crappy Facebook app covered in gravy! (There’s $194 down the damn drain, but that’s right…. the 30 Day Challenge was free).

I’m not even going to get into the disaster the Immediate Edge turned out to be. I spent the first month trying to help design a facebook app….(how is this helping me sell this stupid affiliate ebook?) The second month I spent reading emails about this great referral network they were working on but I had to “stay a member” to access it. The only problem, no one could ever tell me when it would be complete! I quit!

Then came the PPC Classroom program with Anik Singal and Jeremy Palmer. Being new to Internet Marketing I didn’t know either of them but the program sounded AWESOME! A step-by-step guide and a inside looking into Jeremy’s multi-million dollar affiliate business…. perfect!

Perfectly disastrous! Nothing was complete, I paid over $500 and the product didn’t even ship until 3 weeks later! Jeremy’s infamous keyword tracking tool that garunteed to show you exactly which keywords were converting and which one’s weren’t…..NEVER WORKED! Those step-by-step tutorial classes turned out to be philosophical discussion filled with fluff and little value.

Lastly there were the numerous $47 ebooks on ezine marketing, PPC traffic, getting a “list”, growing a “list”, spaming a “list” and how to piss away money on common sense techniques for emailing your “list.”

I’M PISSED!

So that is where I’ve been, learning a valuable life lesson!

“the only source of knowledge is experience”
-Albert Einstein

So that is what I did. I lost over 30 hours and $400 on my first affiliate marketing campaign. I lost about 65 hours and only $150 on my second campaign.

But now I’ve got it right! That’s right, I am making a nice stream of income from Internet Marketing!

You can too! And I’m going to show you how. That’s right, I’m going to actually deliver on what every other Internet Marketing Guru has promised and failed to deliver. We are going to walk, step by step through launching an affiliate marketing campaign.

No holds barred, full frontal Internet Marketing.

Tomorrow I am going to outline exactly what we are going to cover but you can be sure it will be all-inclusive!

Since this will be a small group, no more than 50 people, I will make sure that ALL of your questions get answered, all of your problems are addressed and that you MAKE SOME MONEY!

It’s time for a change, time for Internet Marketing Guru’s learn the value of customer loyalty and the principle of over-delivering.

Oh, did I mention that this is going to be FREE? That’s right, I’m not here to make money off of you (another first in the Internet Marketing community).

I learned a lot from all of the programs I mentioned above, and while I flamed them for all of their bad qualities. There were positives in each course. Do I think Ed, Dan, Anik and Jeremy are bad guys? Of course not, however I think there were valuable customer relationship lessons to be learned by all of them. I’m just here to share what I know so take advantage of it!

~Think Critically

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Comments

5 Responses to “I’m BACK with a Vengence!”

Caroline Middlebrook on February 6th, 2008 4:54 am

Hehe fond memories. I was also a little disappointed in the Immediate Edge. I’m sure there is a lot of great information in there but you have to be interested in all the various projects and I didn’t fancy doing a Facebook app at the time so I quit after the second month also.

Anyway congrats on having some successes now, we live and learn!
Allison on February 6th, 2008 8:00 am

Though you seem to despise what others do, you yourself are creating a list here, and taking the same tone as those you don’t wish to emulate?

Show me your results, talk to me like I am not a moron, or highly excitable house frau. Leave the !’s in the sock drawer and I might be able to hold back on the urge to throttle you…

Caroline Middlebrook would be someone to emulate in that regard I would think
Michael Mosby on February 6th, 2008 8:01 am

Allison, thanks for actually reading my babble. I didn’t think anyone was

What I despise is the lack of appreciation for the customer in Internet Marketing. Now don’t get me wrong, I am sure there are some out there who are providing a great service (I just haven’t found them yet.)

Caroline Middlebrook is awesome! (sorry, there I go again with the ! I’ll calm down, I promise I think is some ways we are similar. Neither of us claim to be a guru but we’ve made a commitment to making money online and we want to share the lessons we are learning through the school of hard knocks.

I have always appreciated her blog, she is kind, sweet, eloquent and very intelligent.

I, on the other hand, am brash, excitable, undignified and not really that bright.

And you are right, as far as delivering value to their readers, Caroline is a great example to emulate.

And I strive too. (but in a different tone)

I do apologize if I came off like I was talking to you like a moron. That was not, is not and never will be my intent. That is definitely not the tone I meant to take.

I enjoy public speaking. Standing in front of a large crowd and delivering a presentation full of emotion and passion is a great feeling. So my blogging style tries to do the same thing. That is the reason for all of the bold, italics and ! I want my blog to be aesthetically engaging as well as mentally stimulating.

My goal here is not to sell you anything. I am just going to walk step by step through starting an affiliate marketing campaign, everything from picking the product, to setting up the webpage, choosing keywords, developing a sales funnel, etc. Just sharing some lessons I’ve learned to anyone who’s interested without charging hundreds of dollars for an incomplete program, ignoring your questions, or sending you affiliate links to my buddies new product launch.

Again, thanks for reading. I hope you stick around and see value in what I’m offering and if it sucks I would be even happier if you expressed that opinion so I can make adjustments so that next time it will be better.

Thanks~
Mike
Craig on February 6th, 2008 7:32 pm

Hi,

I just stumbled across the 30 Day Challenge site today and found this blog via one of your posts in their forum. I’ve decided to start researching Internet marketing as a possible project I might be interested in pursuing. I read about folks making money online and I have to wonder if I couldn’t do that also.

Great post. I’m going to subscribe to your blog to see what you come up with next.

BTW, I didn’t notice anything wrong with the tone of your post and was not turned off by the exclamation points. To me, it just seemed that you were passionate about what you were writing about and wanted to express a high degree of emotion in your writing. Rock on!

-Craig
Michael Mosby on February 6th, 2008 9:28 pm

Craig,

Thanks for joining me. This should be fun!

And thanks for your comments. I’m a passionate kind of guy.

Don’t hesitate to ask questions as we go along.

Talk to you soon,
Mike