OK OK OK enough is enough.

Ok, I have had it...

After spending the last month learning, educating myself, and reading endless "Informative" email after email, I finally found the truth. Everyone wants mine and your money. They talk out of both sides of their mouths, and their motivation is with a forked tongue.

I have listened to person after person say: "In this current economic crisis, we need one another..." Well, that is very true. We do need one another... TO BE HONEST!

I have watched millionaire after millionaire, or just the wealthy, pull people into calls, webinars, and such, only to have the back end to say : "For $500 you can sell our product, and make money."

What happened to being there for one another? If the economy is SO BAD how am I supposed to shell out $500 for some program, just to resell it?

If I had a product (And very soon I will.) I will have an open affiliate program. WHY? Cause everyone deserves an equal chance to MAKE MONEY. Not just a tight knit group of people, who sell the same thing to one another. Why do you have to convince me, that your product is so GREAT its worth $500? After that, its like this.

I paid $500 or whatever the price is, for your product and now I have to lure others into our circle and sell them the same thing, and that's how I make money. That is PYRAMID marketing, and died with the ON FOOT excel program I was in years ago. Remember Amway, Avon, etc...

I write this with total passion, and disappointment and disgust. Allow me to elaborate some more.

These people in a "network" tell me, use twitter, blog, network with people, do this, do that, don't buy leads. Only to turn around, and tell me, thats wrong and stupid and that I am just following the herd. OK... Did you not just tell me to do these things last month? Or did I just dream about social marketing and networking?

So which is it "GURUS"? Do we listen to you, or do we learn on our own through our own education, experiences, failures and successes?

Ok, (Shaking off the filth and lies)... This is what I have been doing. NOT BUYING INTO ANYTHING that cost over $20. Why? Well, the only service I know that cost $500 is to have my car tuned up, a plumber if a pipe bust, or minor surgery.

I also listen to what EVERYONE is saying, and take it ALL in... I mean every bit of it, if its junk or not. So the next time I see junk, I throw it away as junk should be.

Here are my suggestions:

1.) Research the program you are buying into, or registering free for.

2.) BE HONEST with everyone, hype marketing is effective, but be honest about it. We all need motivation.

3.) READ READ READ LEARN LEARN LEARN. You can never know too much.

4.) Be yourself, you are selling yourself here people. No one is going to buy into a program thats profitable and free, if your not yourself. Personally, lately, everyone is doing this "How can I help you..." routine, and once I balk at their offer, they disappear.

Now that I am done, start looking at the emails you are getting, who are they from? Allot of "gurus" promote multiple items, and are telling everyone something different. I am not speaking about ALL gurus, there are good people out there. But as in any business, once the public wakes up, and learns, they take over and a revolution begins. Time for old money to leave, and new money to come in. SEE YA SHARKS...

Thanks for reading guys. Hope you found my tirade entertaining, and informational.

Random marketing rant: Spam and Bots

Ok, so I have been twittering a bit lately.

Over a 48 hours period I noticed the same bot posting the same link, with a different Ad type before it. I clicked it several times, only to find it was a product called "Twitter Trick" or something like that. At the bottom was the original price of $7 crossed out, and is now available for $5.00! WHAT A DEAL, from a  spam bot that treats us with no dignity what so ever!

To my surprise, everyone is aware of this, and this person is still posting. In my opinion, it is going to be people like this that make sites like twitter, another overwhelmed ad depot.

Now, I have also been receiving spam, only a silly level. No warm invite, no hello, just "HEY RON, wanna make money in 24 hours?" HELL NO, I say to that.

NOW, a certain percentage of the people they spam may buy into their product. I however, will not buy a product, no matter how high quality it is, from a spam email. As a matter of fact, I contact their affiliate company so they are not ruined by spammers. I should have more to do with my time other than reporting spammers. But these are the people who are ruining the chances of honest people. People like myself and others that want to help people, make a little cash, and help others do the same. not take their money and run.

 If enough spam emails pop up with your name or a business name in it, your reputation will be tainted to a degree. This is very important if the program you are in is being spammed. It could effect your future revenues, and that is not good for anyone. 

(REPORT SPAMMERS TO THE PROGRAM THEY SPAMMED YOU FROM.)

I suggest, once a company or individual bust a spammer, to add their name to a database. That we could search and know not to do business with them, or to assist them and turn them into a dignified marketer.

"My suggestions to you."

Treat your leads, clients, or customers with dignity, a charitable attitude, and NEVER ask for money. Show them what you are offering, and not by force. Just simply make it available to them. If you are offering something of quality, and are available to answer questions, people will run to you and hand you money. I say that not as a money hungry marketer, I say that as a consumer in this country.

If you treat me with respect, show me the way, and are always available, I will work with you forever. Treat me like another lead, be disingenuous and try to get in my wallet from the first date. You are done, however I may contact you to offer you some tips to help bring integrity to your approach.

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