Thanks again for all the great information. The comments on this post are also tremendous and very helpful.

You’ve convinced me to look into WordPress. I thought the February 2007 upgrade to Blogger.com had incorporated most (if not all) of the advantages WordPress formerly had over Blogger.

However it may be that wordPress is still a tad better than the new improved Blogger.com.

Many, many thanks and keep posting!

I would love to vote henry gold as a teacher.

Well,John Reese is not abusing me as his list member inspite of being a very rich marketer

Hats off to both of you

It seems like everyone has jumped onto the bandwagon and are trying something or another. I can certainly agree with Debbie with respect to looking on the internet for information and then becoming lured into the internet-marketing-type of info product thrashing saga.

But with Henry’s help we can reasses what our initial intentions were, and then focus on our goals. Build a vision for our online business and then make steps towards that objective.

As an example. If we pay attention to all the types of businesses down at the local shopping mall, all of them make money. So why would we open up a shop that will represent every one of those same shops when all we need to do is focus on just one that we’re good at.

Likewise, the internet should be treated with the same respect. Instead of getting abused by all of us.

I think in 2007 we need to be very frugle with our online businesses and protect our lists like we’d value our loyal customers at the local shopping mall.

I think we need more heores like Henry who will speak up and put their reputation on line in an attempt to set the record straight.

Let’s hope it’s not too late.

NOT BAD to try their luck to attract new individual interested in making money online/ internet marketing….

For me email marketing is no longer become effective way to make your sales ratio increase….most people now simply ignore and straight away DELETE the msg…eventhough they were opt-list! No more interested to look what is the msg all about bcoz ‘IN THEIR MIND…THIS MUST BE SOMETHING RELATED TO PROMOTING A PRODUCT’…

This is the scenario now in email marketing…

Myself also a subscriber to many of well-known marketer…and to let you know the TRUTH…most of them keep sending the email/newsletter daily promoting whatever they want…AND EVEN SOME OF THEM SENDING TWICE or MORE MSG DAILY! My inbox always flooded with hundreds of emails daily promoting a new product!

Eventhough i still new on this..started about a year ago…but i believe internet marketing becoming a game for some people who just want to take advantage of other people (what i mean globally)…99% of the internet marketer’s mind was fully set just to make money daily without concerning the community and its trend…”WHO CARES!!the markets are HUGE and its GLOBALLY..we dont event know who is our customer”….

Just my opinion…

Again Henry, thank you!

Leanne

One good thing about what has gone on is that - at least for me - it has provided a FILTER, finally! And we begin to see the true heroes rise up. The real mentors. The ones that are the real armed guard, and not the clowns in the foxholes.

Edward (above) - brilliant! You said: “One BIG marketer boasted almost 50 amazing bonuses if you bought ‘that’ product from him …EVERY one of the bonuses required you to sign up for yet another obscure marketer’s mailing list! After several emails complaining to him, I finally received an answer from an ‘assistant’ saying that I could just get a free email address and use it to get the ‘free’ bonuses. What sincerity there is in this business at times!”

I picked up on this somewhere after the Christmas giveaways last year. And created a new email address: Tumuch.Stuff [AT] 1gurl.com - which, LOL, has brought a huge laugh from some of those I am subscribed to, and quite frankly, probably got others real P.O.’d and I do not care. I then filter those mails into an Outlook Express folder, and keep THEM on my “maybe list.” After a few mails there are tons I send to my ‘cancelled’ folder, and some go into my ever (now) dwindling folders of those I read, and some I truly take to heart.

I’ve been on the Net since 1994. Helped BUILD this thing. Through Korporate (Sprint PCS Wireless webmaster, to Lucent Technologies, to State of CO), and then 10 years of education, and into the first brigade of online educators, for that brief flash of light where it was pure, and purely dedicated to lifelong and distance learning. Then the schools figured out the rape effect of the DOE and the student loan programs. Poor DOE will, like most governmental slugs, figure it out in about 20 years. And the use and abuse of highly skilled technical instructors began almost immediately in that first year online. Adjunct is NO way to go.

It amazes me that just recently we’ve heard the mantra of Content is King! All of my sites since 1995 when I began with that crashy AOL WWW Gateway, have been high content. This is not news. People are not up here to see 10 pages of Google with nothing but ADS. They are here for real information.

The Google Slap (don’t get me wrong, I have Adsense sites and it was consistent if not huge, income - when I too, albeit with all legit content sites, got hit by the Slap)…. the Slap was a GOOD thing, ya’ll. In fact, that is, I believe, what is behind all of this recent rah rah raw and hoopla and hype. LOL, gotta make those big bucks some way! (Although Henry succinctly pointed out the reality of those Big Buck$$)

Sorry to ramble, Henry … you indeed, pushed some real buttons, as we all see here today.

I applaud you. And oh… no way will I ever unsubscribe! Truth be told: Let the truth be told!

Thank you for this eye opening page, today. I laughed but I cried with the others. Cher…. feel free to contact me, flashdiva (at) gmail.com, as I also with others above, would like to help.

Leanne
a.k.a. Tumuch Stuff

I was thinking today that maybe I should just go threw all the ebooks and software and how-to-do’s I own and just set up a web site that will give them away or sell them for $5.00 each just to cover up my web expenses. No, just give them away. Period.

I would love anyone interested in emailing me more of their experiences and possible between all of us we can put out an ebook with a title something like; “This is what not to buy to become successful in internet ecommerance” Because thousands of dollars later; I still believe it is possible for all of us to make money and produce respectable websites that the average person will want to come too. This world wide business and there is room for anyone willing to work hard and run an open and honest business and give back by helping to keep the internet a respectable place to be.

Someone mentioned about all the bonuses and stuff they’ve purchased and don’t have a clue what to do with the stuff…I open folders and think what the —- did I buy this for? I can’t even figure out how to extract some of the files let alone use them or expect someone else to buy them.

I also have unsribed and have only kept 4 respectable sites I WANT to remain in good member standing with because the quality is great and I trust them.
Thanks Kathy

Sincerely,
Deborah Reid

Henry,

It’s funny that I took a break from even looking at anything from Internet marketers for more than a year. I came back and tried to subscribe to quite a few of the new big-name marketers…and I simply couldn’t stand being on their lists.

Every email they send is about the hot new business opportunity or lesson someone must pay $997 to learn. And here’s their $13,583 bonus package that really isn’t worth much of anything at all.

Here’s a principle I’ve talked about for a long time. It really doesn’t matter how much you “gross.” It only matters how much you get to keep. Sure, you may tell everyone how you earned $500,000, but when it cost you $600,000 to do it, that’s not too impressive. It’s also not too impressive when you earn a high income from a series of mailings and your list won’t respond anymore.

So before I get started on a rant, I want to simply say this is a great post Henry…and I hope as many people as possible read it.