Two things that I like to use for building my subscriber base are list builders and JV Giveaways. Instant List Empire combines the two together in a single program.

Add in an owner, the most important piece when looking at list builders, that understands and will grow the membership and you usually have a winner.

Now it is too early to say that this is a winner yet as it just launched on Sunday but the early signs are there that it will be.

Then why aren’t you waiting to do this old bald one?

Because list builders work best when you get in early oh evil one. Add in the fact that my gift I added has already added subscribers, the membership is expanding quickly and I trust Guido to make sure it will continue to grow.

Looks like he should hit his 5000 member launch number quite quickly and then the bonus of 1000 advertising credits will end.

Almost makes sense but I am not sold yet.

Well, would you like it better if I told you that you can earn instant payments when people upgrade. You have numerous other ways that you can advertise such as login offers, text links, banners and solo ads.

Instant money! I always like instant money.

Yeah figured you would but it is the value of the advertising that you should be excited about. You always look just at the money and not as close to the value of programs as you should be.

He is offering an additional 1000 advertising credits for people that join during the launch phase so there is another reason to join sooner rather than later.

I guess so but tell me more about the money.

It is a free program evil one but he does offer an excellent upgrade when people join that can’t be matched later inside the program. So people can use it as an adverting resource. That is the key even though you can make some cash with it. Quality advertising is always the reason for joining. Making extra money is secondary.

Not to me it is not. Think you are going soft in the head talking about value and quality. Talk money.

Well you have seen both sides and if you want another quality advertising resource and the chance to make some cash from it (put that in for the evil one even though the advertising be good is where the real money is)…

Check out Instant List Empire today.

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Occasionally there is something worth getting excited about and Dr Mani’s launch on Monday of his 47 Hearts book to the Kindle is one of them. Grab the book if you use the Kindle and you can get a ton of bonuses.

I loved the book but all of the above is not why I get excited about this.

Then why not old bald one?

Very simple old evil one. Call me old and see if it is not returned.

The reason is that all of the money generated goes to funding a heart operation for a child. None of this is being done for personal gain.

The only one that gains on this at all is Amazon. See every dime that Dr Mani gets will go towards funding these surgeries. Helping children get the care they need is what gets me excited.

Even I can get behind something like that and it is damn rare that we agree on anything.

So if you want a quality book and you use the Kindle check out 47 Hearts and grab your copy on Monday the 14th. If like me you don’t use the Kindle you can download a free app to read the book on your computer.

Details are here at CHD Awareness.

Less than $3 can get you a nice package of gifts and help a child at the same time. Lets add even more children that have been able to have life saving surgeries to the 70+ that have already been lucky recipients.

Make sure to Tweet this post, mention it on Facebook, bookmark it at your favorite site or write your own blog post to promote this launch and lets get as much awareness as we can.

Even the evil one agrees with me for once. (And yes I am writing this date down becuase it is a rare thing.)

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Got an email today from a list I am on and it discussed a topic that got me thinking. Always a dangerous thing. It is something I have seen over and over but never registered properly.

The discussion was on why people ignore free or low cost resources.

But that is what everyone wants.

That is what people say but you can give them proven systems for free, walk them through it step by step and it will never get applied. Now there are exceptions but if everyone wants QUALITY free information why don’t they take advantage of it.

Because they don’t believe it is why.

That may be so. Will have to think about it a bit before deciding on that.

Either that or they have become jaded. Yeah that is it everyone figures anything for free is just a pitch to suck them in.

That might be a bit closer. There are any number of teleseminars and webinars each week which are supposed to cover a topic and end up being a tease for a pitch at the end.

Now there are exceptions to that but it may be a big part of it but it was happening before the current spate of teleseminars and webinars.

Well if that is not the case maybe it is just laziness. People want it done for them and don’t want to expend the effort.

Well we have come up with three potential reasons for it.

• Non-belief
• Jaded
• Lazy

Will be coming back to this topic because I have a couple ideas I plan to test out first but both the evil one and I would love your input on this topic.

Why don’t people use quality free resources?

Yeah we want to know what you think about that.

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Adsense Alive Pro is a new release from Doug Champigny. Now some have said that Adsense is dead. You have seen the reports but those are always from someone that has something to sell. Like a lot of things it is easy to poke at something if it gets people to want what you are selling.

Adsense is still viable and I get regular direct deposits from Google to my bank account.

Yes ,we like deposits to the bank account. Oh yeah! But what is included in this package.

Good question evil one. Doug has put together a great package with everything to get someone started.

The silver package includes…

• 30 Adsense Alive WordPress Themes
• 2 videos as a bonus
• • How to install the Adsense Alive themes
  • How to install a Secure WordPress blog
• 300 PLR articles on 30 different niches
• Instant Adsense Profits video series
• Multi Niche Power Blogging video
• Affiliate Marketing with Adsense blogs video
• WP Stealth Links Plugin

Everything you need to get started creating your own Adsense empire and add affiliate offers too.

Sounds good what is the catch? Nothing is that easy for sure.

Clever you are my evil friend. Yes you need to do work and you will need to create or buy additional content. You will need to take the time to create backlinks. These are covered in the videos but yes this is not copy and paste instant money.

Despite what the various hypey sales letters tell you, it takes effort to be successful.

The key is that Doug has supplied the training, a starting point with the article package and the WordPress themes to make it easy to get started properly.

You will need hosting and to buy a domain or two.

Damn! Why don’t you ever find anything that doesn’t take that WORK thingy. I just want instant money.

Well anyone that is like you and does not want to put in the effort should save their money. Of course that goes for any product for sale.

This will make it easy and supply the knowledge people need but it is not a big red easy button. It does cut the learning curve and make it easier for someone to be successful but only with effort.

Now Doug has added a gold option too. This is personal use of all of the above items and the resell rights to..

• Adsense Alive Theme Pack
• Instant Adsense Profit
• WP Stealth Profits pluigin

So you can set up and sell each of these products as your own product. He even added a special bonus for Gold purchasers for resell rights of Blog Flipping Secrets. Another way to make money by selling off the blogs once you have created some income from them.

So who should get what? You are confusing me and that gets me pissed. You don’t want me to be pissed.

When are you not pissed oh evil one? Good question none the less.

If you are looking for an income stream using Adsense and affiliate marketing the Silver package is all you need.

If you have a list already, understand how to set up a product online then the Gold package gives you some additional ways to generate money.

The choice is yours but if you are not in the latter experience area, the Gold version could lead to information overload as your focus should be on creating your Adsense blogs and taking time to learn another skill like adding and promoting resell rights products can lead to confusion.

For me personally, the Gold package would work because I have a list of potential buyers for the products and could get the products up for sale in an hour or two.

For someone with less experience, the set up time would be much more and would keep them from actually getting the Adsense sites up and running.

Check out Adsense Alive Pro Bundle and grab the one that will work best for you.

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Jon Olson, Tim Linden, et al released a new program for new traffic exchange users called Click Track Profit. They actually have a very good idea and are doing some things I like. However…

The concept behind the program is excellent but the execution on the front end is confusing at best.

Yeah confusing is an understatement. Too much like a pig in a poke. Something I rant about quite frequently.

Well I have to agree. I know the people behind it so I wanted to take a look at it. Quite truthfully if I did not know the people involved I would not have even signed up.

Initially after signing up I stil wondered why I did.

Yeah but we are not the target audience so they say but..

If we have trouble understanding it how will their target market which is new marketers that just started?

I agree and did not really understand what the program was until talking with the owners in a conference they held. In trying to be different a few mistakes were made on the front end.

With all of those complaints though they have a great idea and the implementation once you understand what they are doing is good.

Another downline builder mainly for the owners programs is good?

If that was all that this was, and that is the impression you get on the front end, I would agree with you. There is more. A lot more but it is not explained well.

They targeted this to help new people effectively use traffic exchanges and at the same time not overwhelm people and confuse them. They failed that step on the front end in explaining what they were offering.

Once you get inside and start doing the steps that changes.

You really don’t find the stuff that makes this helpful until you have added your referral ids into the downline builder or joined the programs that you don’t belong to already.

A big thumbs up for that. I run from any program that makes you sign up only under your referrer.

I agree 100% with you there. After you finish those steps and each step has a video explanation to make it easy for people to follow through then you get training.

The training is the good part and they have set it so you only get it dripped to you. This makes it quite easy to avoid being overwhelmed which is one of the problems new people have. Information Overload.

They have made it easy to just apply one lesson at a time and because you don’t get the next lesson until the next week you can grow your knowledge gradually.

For someone brand new this looks to be a solid addition. The upgrade and the OTO have more to do with random referrals and follow through for people that don’t add their referral ids so that part depends on what people are looking for.

They did not launch it with a big JV push so it should be easy to get referrals for new people if they follow what is taught and if they improve the explanation on the front end.

Yeah I agree which is damn rare. Not something for me to get excited about personally, but a solid starting spot for people new to using traffic exchanges.

Yes good for brand new people looking to learn and not get overwhelmed or as a referral item for someone who targets those people.

Better for the experienced person to do their own training and build a better relationship with people but not a bad replacement if you don’t have the time to set that up.

Does lack a good affiliate tool box which would be a help and I am sure will be added in the future.

Check out Click Track Profit here.

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Rarely do I get into any politics here on this blog. That being said after watching what happened this past week in Egypt I am a bit concerned about some pending legislation in the US Senate.

The Egyptian government shut down the internet and more with the troubles last week and the Senate is dealing with a bill that has the possibility of allowing this country to do the same.

The potential to do that scares me and even though it is meant to help “Homeland Security” one of the great parts of the internet is the free flow of information.

This has the ability to allow the government to do what Egypt did with the internet in this country. Turn it off temporarily.

Each person will have to make their own mind up as to how serious a threat this is.

You can find the information on this bill – Senate S3480 at http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/?FuseAction=home.Cybersecurity

Keep yourself informed.

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Traffic is one of the keys to having a healthy business. That is why so many of the latest Clickbank hidden offer type sites address it. It is one thing that everyone needs so they play on that with there push button, secret loop hole, instant commissions crap.

They sure do and it pisses me off. Read a damn letter and still don’t have any idea what the hell you are buying except for it is the latest and greatest.

That is not what Relentless Traffic is. No secret push button solution here and it comes from a marketer, Joel Osborne, that I have met and talk to regularly. He is someone that uses what he talks about regularly.

Joel does make a big promise as you can see from his headline below.

Instead of offering you the latest and greatest methods, Joel covers 6 ways to generate free traffic that worked in the past, work now and will continue to work for you.

You mean there are no loop holes or instant riches offered? Gee why are we discussing this? You gone soft in the head old bald one?

Because there are all of those others that are exploiting people with the latest loop holes. Rather talk about the things that I use every day that work.

Hmmm. Hard for me to argue and you know how rare that is.

Now the thing is that these tactics will take that 4 letter word that people hate to use and are not a big red button. But…

They worked in the past and they will continue to work in the future.

This report is 23 pages and lays out a solid plan for getting free traffic and doing it consistently. It covers the basics and allows a new marketer to understand what they need to be doing regularly.

It is done in broad strokes and the only complaint I would have is that it covers just the basics. At less than $10 though it is well worth the investment.

WTF? Why are you reviewing something that is that cheap? No money in it for us at that rate? You are wasting my time.

The reason is simple my angry twin. People need the basics and helping them with that is what we do. It is not always about the money although I know you disagree.

This is for the person that is not getting much traffic and is just confused on how to proceed. It is not for the experienced marketer that is getting good traffic although they might find a tip or two that would be worth the investment.

It is important that people get solid information without ending up in up sell are exit pop hell.

Besides if you help people they will come back and trust that you are recommending things because they are worthwhile and not because you can make a good buck with it.

Well you wrote this much so I guess I will go along. It will help new people and that aint all bad but I really would like to make a few more bucks on it.

Now that I got permission from the evil one let me sum it up.

If you are confused about all the information on traffic and want something that will work now and into the future this is a good investment.

If you are experienced in traffic generation, afraid of that work thing, looking for an instant solution, then this is probably not for you.

You can make your own choice by..

Check out Relentless Traffic here.

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Okay I am doing my best Jim Mora impression while reading the title. It is a constant wonder to me when I talk to people and they have absolutely no idea what is working and what is not.

Oh you never heard the Jim Mora Playoff rant? Get ready to laugh and watch this quick video below.

There can’t be anyone that has not seen this you old bald bastard. Even made it into a commercial you see every damn week end.

I’ll ignore that and get back to the point of this discussion. Tracking is something that all too many people just a) don’t understand or b) are too lazy to do it.

That is not the point here. The point is for me to make fun of you – chrome dome.

No you are over stepping again. Your job is to provide your non PC (politically correct) view point to what we are talking about. Keep it up and I’ll go back to blogging with the turtles.

Oh! You mean I am supposed to tell the reader they are an idiot if they are not tracking in some way shape or form what is working and what is not?

Not exactly how I would word it but that does make the point. May offend them a bit which is not a good thing. Will have to track the traffic here to find that out.

So now I am subject to what people like. That will be the damn day.

We all are if you want to get better results and create a better business. If you can’t measure it you won’t know whether any changes you make improve things or make it worse. If you make it worse then you get muzzled. If you entertain and people like it better than you get more leeway.

Hmmm. Not sure I like this tracking crap if you try to muzzle me.

Well if the reason you are not tracking is you don’t know where to start then check out this free report – Tracking Your Way To Profits.

There are a variety of services that will help you to track including quite a few free services like Google Analytics. Taking the time to check your results can save you a lot of time and money.

Guess I’ll be quiet now before you censor me.

Good idea so lets close with a question. Are you tracking what works in your business? Leave you comments below.

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One of the things that makes me shake my head is all of the gimmicky crap you see each week.

You mean you don’t want to push a button and be doing 6 figures a month?

Sure I would love to but it is a pipe dream. I am sure there are some things that can be used to tweak what you have to make it explode but that only works when you have the basics covered.

If you don’t understand the basics you are in trouble and nothing helps you. You need to understand certain things first.

Ah you spoil sport. People love the idea of instant riches and you, you old fart keep using that 4 letter word with people – WORK. You know people don’t want that.

Yes that is true but you do need to understand how to build a list and then drive traffic to it. Then you need to understand how to improve the conversions from there. Do that and you have the ability to become successful.

Back to that damn work thing again. Doesn’t sell so people offer all the crap.

No there are people that do offer the real thing. One of the reasons I like Marlon Sanders. Real information that you can apply. His step by step courses like Promo Dashboard walk you through what you need to do.

May not seem sexy but it is what people need to do to be successful even if it does include that work thing.

Good luck old fart people prefer easy even if they don’t work because they get to avoid work.

So what do you think is the evil one right and gimmicks will sell while real information won’t?

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Time to get back to writing regularly again. Maude’s doctor visits slowing down so should not be spending as much time in waiting rooms as we have been.

I sure as hell hope so getting tired of the damn places.

Me too oh evil one.

That does not mean though that there is not a lot of stuff to rant about. The crap never seems to end.

Getting tired of the latest launch hitting my inbox. Occasionally I find something worthwhile but…

You mean you tired of the damn exit pops, salesletters that promise instant riches and no idea of what you are buying except it will make you rich?

Yes that is true. Unfortunately though it works so that is what we are seeing more and more of. Hate when I can read a whole sales letter or watch a video sales letter and don’t really know anymore about what they are selling than what I did when I arrived.

You mean like the one yesterday we looked at that talked about the software they paid $25000 for that made hundreds of thousands and then they were gonna sell a 150 @ $37?

That kind of thing?

Yes. Now I may be old and bald but if my math still works 150×37 is a lot less than $25000. Add in an exit pop to buy the same thing at $27 as one of 3 left. The whole false scarcity ploy. Then another exit pop after that although by that point I was just trying to escape. The offer had no credibility with me.

Damn hard to do at times with all of those exit pops. Unfortunately too many are sucked in by that crap kind of marketing looking for the big red easy button. That is why they are being used more and more every day.

Evil as I am not even I would recommend marketing that way.

Yes as long as people buy through this stuff guess we will only see more and more of it. The good thing though is it is making it easy to keep my inbox clear.

Every time I get an email that sends me to one of these types of offers it is an easy unsubscribe.

Oh yeah we canned 5 yesterday how many will we get today? Can I hit the unsubscribe? Can I? Can I?

That is our take and we would love to get yours on this type of marketing. Leave your comment below.

Technorati Tags: crap, credibility, evil one, exit pop, launch, marketing, ploy, scarcity, video sales

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