Jeff is offering a course that he sold (at live events, much different pricing to online of course) for $1997 10 months ago, for only $47 to his subscribers. Seems like an fair price for what is on offer. As usual, when you leave the page you get a pop-up, and the next page offers you an even better deal. Experienced IM product purchasers have worked this out, and always exit before buying, to see if they can get it cheaper.
However, in this case, the exit deal is much, much worse. Instead of a one-time price of $47, the new price is $9.95. And the small print says that after 14 days you will be billed $47 each and every month. Yikes!
It’s here: http://coolsitetocheckout.com/sbp_discount
7 Days Only - Full Resale Rights on 47 Products - Only $97
http://epicfiresale.com
Firesales often provide good value, but rarely are they must have products. Jeff Alderson has been around for a while, and his products IMHO tend to be useful in a timely manner - that is, riding on the crest of wave. But these products tend to become stale quite quickly, as we realise that what they provide isn’t so great, or when better or free products of a similar nature come along.
That’s not why I’m writing about this firesale!
The reason for this post - it’s the first firesale I have ever seen that virtually doesn’t mention the products. The sale page is just* a video. Eric goes on and on and on about what great markerters they are, what great products are on offer, and what they are worth, and how you can resell them, or just use them. If you are quick (and the video cannot be rewound), you will see box covers of the products flash by…He doesn’t actually name the products in his ramble! This is marketing at its purest, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone takes it even further and makes zero mention of what the products are at all.
*OK, smart purchasers know to leave the sales page, because often a better off comes to you via an exit pop-up. In this case you can actually see the products listed. But I figure most purchasers will be buying just from hype, and not by analysing what is on offer.
Marketers that have one or more hit products tend to do very well from a bonus activity - flogging similar products to their list. If someone was willing to pay $999 for your product, there’s a good chance that they’ll buy an associate’s product as well.
Developing your own product costs tens of thousands of dollars. Promoting someone else’s product to your list is essentially free, and you can earn just as much. This is because typically joint venture partners receive 50% commission. So whether you are the product owner or the affiliate, you get 50% of the initial purchase(s).
This has created a strange ecosystem in which dozens of marketers with large lists promote every slightly decent (yet expensive) product that comes along. Sometimes they don’t even write their own copy! These days there are few endorsements from marketers that you can rely on, for the majority of them are simply after a quick buck without caring about the quality or usefulness of the product they are pushing.
Joel Comm is one marketer who I do rely on. He has respect for his list and only promotes products he believes in. Here’s some of his thoughts from his most recent blog post:
Over the past thirty days I have been approached to promote and/or endorse no fewer than FIVE $2000 products.
I have rejected every one of them. My unwillingness to promote these products has probably cost me somewhere in the ballpark of $50,000-$100,000 in commissions.
I would rather sacrifice those commissions than sell myself out for more money. That’s precisely what I believe is happening in the Internet marketing world.
Powerful stuff. After a few years of making my millions online (and no, I’m not planning on selling my secret to you, because it really does make money), I am resurrecting this blog. The concept is the same - out those who sell weak or overpriced products, identify who is trustworthy, and highlight any excellent products should they come along.
The email says “Free with coupon!”, or “Only $1 with coupon”. With the “regular” price being $97 or $147 (for the templates / private label / articles / whatever…) it seems a bargain. The mile-long landing page is standard - and at the bottom is the price and link to buy. Follow the link, and the catch is revealed - you will be billed $97 or $147 per month membership for Private Label Wholesaler or AdSense Wholesaler.
Yes, you can cancel at anytime, but in my experience they don’t make it easy. You’ll probably have to search through the help file to fing out you need to submit a support ticket. All designed to limit the number of cancellations they get.
In my book this is very deceptive. There is a massive difference between $1 and $147/mo. There is no information provided about the monthly service they are signing up for.
Offering rebates that people may forget to claim is OK.
Offering a monthly service that people may forget to cancel is OK
Offering a virtually free product, and bundling in a very expensive subscription product at the last stage is DECEPTIVE, WRONG & A BIG WASTE OF MY TIME
Examples:
http://marketing.us/supergraphicsplr/
http://www.marketing.us/mrrplrsupersale/
Also, I love the line:
STRICTLY LIMITED TO 50 COPIES AT THIS PRICE!
Most people would have arrived via the “only $1 with coupon” email, so it is easy to limit sales to 50 at full price when nobody is paying full price.
This was in my inbox today:
I just found out page where you can discover how to get google ads
free.
Check it right now before page is gone
http://codymoya.com/getting-google-ads-free/
Thanks
Cody Moya
PS. Make sure to check it Right Now. I do not think Google will
allow this page to be up for much longer
This came out many months ago, and people who bought it were very disappointed. The “free” part is exceptionally misleading, because they say that by making a profit from the ads, they are effectively free. That’s like saying that any profitable business has no expenses, because by being offset by income they are “free”.
It’s wrong, and even wronger to peddle this crap.
It’s being pushed by heavyweights like Joel Comm today. Leung once worked for Google in the AdWords department, so that really helps his sales pitch. And the initial “report” is only $2. Is he giving away a valuable product so as to build a list of loyal fans who will buy his next report for a higher price? Almost - all that’s missing is the valuable product. His $2 “report” takes 34 pages to tell us that Adwords marketing has become more difficult lately, and to survive you more than likely need to increase your knowledge and skills in this area.
Few who heard of this report will find any use for it. As an introduction to this “Recognized expert among the top Internet Marketing gurus” (his words), I’m not inclined to buy his Adwords Heroes report, the actual report he is promoting. If this “Death of Google Adwords” is the teaser, I’ve had a good laugh for $2.
They describe themselves as a “Marketplace for Ideas”, but from the videos/audios/pdfs loaded to date, it looks like a collection of advertorials from net marketers. Which means that it is not “information” but sales pitches disguised as information.
Then again, they have made room for paid content, like this one.
If all this becomes is a WikiPedia of Promotions, I guess that is a good thing
Visit FreeIQ and make up your own mind.
They say it can’t be done - this journalist says it can…
Basically, the Digg filter must look at things like “do the same clumps of users dig an article within 24 hrs, and nobody else”, and look at if they dig anything independently… So to game the system, vary the people in your gang that dig each article, and make sure they dig other things on their own. It can’t be caught, and according to the article these diggers can earn 50c per 3 digs - lots of money for folk in India or Eastern Europe.
Shawn Casey is the promoter, but the responder to my queries was Eric. The offer is a link from a PR6 site (evotechnolgies.com) for only $10+
Check This Out!
I've got site with a Google Page Rank of 6.
(as you know, this is a very high rank!)
We were not doing much with the site so I
decided to turn this into an easy shot
for you to get a high-quality PR6 link
to your site!
...And unlike the people that want to charge you
$50 to $100 each and every month to get and
keep a top quality link like this, I'm not
going to do that.
...This site has 313 backlinks - including 182
in Google - so you know that the spiders are
crawling all over it and will get quickly
directed to any site that you add.
Plus, with incoming links like this, we know
that the site will stay highly regarded by
the SE's and continue to be a strong inbound
link for many years to come.
Well, the Google Toolbar gives it a PR6, as does every PageRank checking site I know of. But when I do a backlink search on Google, I see a whole bunch of sites that DO NOT link to it - you cannot find EvoTechnologies.com anywhere on the page or in the code. The backlinks are precisely the same backlinks for whenigrowup.net (which just happens to be a PR6).
Is this a Google glitch, or is it a new way to fake PageRank?
If every link sells for the maximum cost (big, underlined, in color), the most they’ll make is $4500, so I doubt Mr Casey is in on any dark practice knowingly…
…If it’s not a glitch, buying links based on PR is now much more difficult