The Twitter Spam has arrived
Twitter has been around for more than a year now, but unlike myspace it took some time to take off. Where MySpace had friend adders and friend trains, twitter is now catching up as well.
First it was the auto-follow that some of the largers twitter users were using, John Chow, Guy Kawasaki and a few others all followed you back if you followed them.
Than came the websites that let you submit your username and as long as you followed everyone that followed you, your name would stay on the list. John Chow actually started one of these sites called twitterfollower you may be wondering how he plans to monetize this site, I imagine that once he gets enough people on the site he will be able to sell the top spots on the site, at the moment his username is at the top of the list though.
Than came the twitter games. Companies like Spymaster and SNOD are filling up your twitter timeline like so much facebook quiz applications that I usually remove anyone that tries to "kidnap" or "hijack" me.
Now finally we come to the competitions. Much like President Obama won the election using a grass-roots campaign strategy companies are now using twitter as a free source of advertising. Its pretty simple, hold a competition that you give away a free kindle, iphone, or camera for following and retweeting a phrase and you are automatically entered into the comp. It’s great because essentially the company is spenindg very little money to get a large amount of publicity. One company called squarspace has actually gamed this quite well, rather than having you follow them, they would rather you use the hashtag #squarespace which helped them get to the top of twitter trends a few days ago.
How long before Twitter comes in with a bitch slap on sites/services like these? It’s a shame that everyone is making dollar off of twitter except for the people that actually started the site?
What say you?
Please Put Your Images Back So I Can Hotlink Them
This email exchange has been around for almort forever, but I still can not help laughin hysterically everytime I read what this person has wrote to the webmaster of a site that he is hotlinking images from.
Obviously this person thinks its his GoD given right to steal images from one source without credit. If I was the owner of the website I would have replaced the hotlinked images with goatse or some other very disturbing pictures.
Reminds me of the time that a blog scraper got in touch with me asking why I wasn’t posting anymore as he loved to include my posts in his very informative "blog"
Don’t Get Ripped Off By BlogProfitz A Scathing Review
The newest product making its way around the Internet Marketing Blogosphere seems to be a product called Blogprofitz.
What is Blog Profitz? You could read one of the many many paid reviews and plugs that they are getting and spend a nice chunk of change finding out or you could just STEER CLEAR.
Essentialy what Blog Profitz is doing is holding you and your money ransom, and that is after lying to you.
There are a number of things wrong with this product not the least of which is the pricing structure.
Scam #1: The Price
$19 A month for 3 blogs
$49 A Month for 10 Blogs
$99 A Month for 25 Blogs
$149 A Month For 50 Blogs
$249 A Month for 100 Blogs
Let me tell you something right now. Blogs are not the greatest money makers in the world. John Chow did not start making $40,000 right off the bat. In his first month he made $300 with adsense. That was AFTER having about 5 front page digg stories, and getting featured on a top 100 blog for his secret toilets post.
Autoblogs CAN make money, but you have to take into consideration ECONOMIES OF SCALE. You need to pump out 100’s of blogs to make 10’s of dollars. 1 autoblog will not make you $10 a day. 3 Autoblogs is not enough money to cover your first month installment.
Scam #2 The Content:
They promise to help you pull:
- RSS Feeds
- Videos
- Artciles
What really makes you think that with your hastily put together autoblog you will start to out rank the original author, youtube, and sites like eZine? The simple answer is YOU CANNOT! It can also lead to a DMCA notification against your blog host. Imagine you have 100 blogs hosted with wordpress.org (The suggested hosting provider by Blog Profitz) and they get a DMCA notification. Do they take down one blog or just shut down your account altogether? You figure it out.
Scam #3 Server Hosted:
You are going along making your site perfect adding RSS, youtube, and articles. Perfecting it really, than lets say you forget to pay who wants to bet good money that all of a suffen your affiliate links are interchanged with company ones?
Scam #4 Affiliate Networks:
At this point in time the few affiliate networks that are partnering with Blog Profitz are companies like Clinkbank, and Amazon. So really anyone that is willing to auto-approve is okay, You will never see a reputable pay per performance company team up with these jokers.
/rant
Gyutae Park wants to give you $50
His words not mine. I just got my hands on his newest ebook which is voer 115 pages long and the before I could even skim through what I was reading I saw this amazing headline:
…In fact, if you do not learn 3 new things whilst reading this ebook I will pay you $50.
Sounds like a big claim, but I am sure he would follow up with his claim. The thing is that this is a encyclopedia for newbies. If you are just starting to want to make money online this is the ebook FREE OF CHARGE that will help you earn some monies on the internet.
Go back through this blog and take a look at the last time I have tried to get you download or buy someone elses product. I don’t think I have ever done it, and again this is not a paid review.
Back to the book now.
The 115 page mega e-book covers about 13 chapters. The first chapter is a breakdown/background of Gyutae, who he is, what he does, where he’s from. The purpose of chapter like that is to make you feel connected with the writer. Selling doesn’t sell Emotions do.
After that it jumps straight into what you you need to get started with for making websites/blogging.
The last chapter focuses on Guerilla Marketing. I am pretty sure one of the methods that he has listed is a federal crime, but other than there are 15-20 methods of Guerrila Marketing listed. No publicity is bad publicity. Do you know one of the people that made the most money from Acai Berry actually had his myspace ad featured on TMZ because he used a picture of Kim Kardashian (I don’t give a fuck if I spell some psedo-celeb name wrong) as a before/after picture? Do you think he had to worry about adspend anymore? TMZ gets over 1 million page views per article so that dumb fuck just got really really lucky. Not really the best example of marketing but hey luck comes to those who strive.
For some reason I have cursed alot in this post for that I would like to apologise to all the virgins out there.
Shoemoney and Motive Interactive hold Massive Contest
The month of June has brought out affiliate networks with a force that needs to be reckoned with. They are promoting themselves like crazy this month, and I’m sure it has pissed nickycakes off to no effect.
No longer are they sending gym bags with swag in them, they have pulled out all the stops and are trying to get your traffic by any means neccessary. (BTW when was the last time you saw a blogger in the gym?)
Shoemoney and Motive Interactive are holding what can only be seen as throwing down the gauntlet to all other affiliate networks. The prize package that they have put together is amazing, and whilst the highest prizes are quite high (you have to push over $500k in revenue to the company) there are two other great ways to win.
Here is what you need to do to win
2.) Follow @Motive and Tweet this contest on Twitter. Just “tweet” the following from your Twitter account and you are automatically entered to win a new iPod Shuffle each week.
“Follow @motive and @mubinahmed join Top Rated CPA Affiliate Network Motive Interactive to make money and win big prizes! http://xr.com/s1g RT 2 WIN! “
3.) Blog about this contest promotion. If you have a blog, simply link back to ShoeMoney’s contest blog page and talk about this contest. Then you will be entered to win a new Xbox 360 Elite plus two games.
I’ve already tweeted about the contest and I thought since I’m already doing it why not do it right and make sure I get some people signed up and try to win the xbox.
Are you following Mubin on Twitter ?
