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Hello Everyone

 

My name is Rick Ouellette

 

It's a pleasure to be here and to meet all you amazing people part of Marketing Check Point.

I have been trying to make money online for about a year now and bombed out so far.

Tried just about everything so now im trying affiliate marketing. I will see how this work's out.

My funds to invest in my self or anything for that matter is 0 to none.

Have not worked in almost a year. So trying to get off the ground with all the free resources i can use.

I hope to learn a lot from all the experts here.

 

Have a great day 

 

To your Success

Rick Ouellette

 

Ps I started my first website if anyone would like to check it out and give me some feedback on how i can make it better.

Maybe while your there pick a post and leave me a comment i would appreciate any advice i could get.

Martin here,

 

Retired after 40 yrs of administering anesthesia.  Still like to dabble in hypnosis.  Have been on line over 20 years and find marketing fascinating. California is home for me and my wife.

 

I spend 1-2 hours a day testing new sites.  I try my best to weed-out the scams.  When I find a site that meets my criteria, I test it a few more days to see what kind of response I get and then I recommend it to my private list called, the  "Active Players List"

 

My criteria can be seen here:        http://sensible-mark...g.blogspot.com/

 

My fav saying:  "Emotions are stronger than intellect".

Hello Matt, how are you?

How does reputation points work?  I could not find any where it is listed.  Is there a place I missed?

Thanks,

Phyllis

 

You earn reputation when people press the green upvote icon on the bottom right of your posts, and you lose reputation when they press the red downvote icon.

Great guidelines. Works for me

Should we get on the topic of timers and no timers again lol :D always a huge debate there. Honestly Trafficswirl has been pushing out some nice conversions for me over the last 3 months. I would say that's one of the musts to try and keep your ads in rotation on.

Hi everyone,

 

Iv made a few posts here and forgot to introduce myself. ..

My name is Jonny and iv been online marketing for around 4 years now.

 

I have never limited myself to any certain area of internet marketing, and am always open to take on new money-making methods.

 

If you want to connect and/or share some ideas etc, let me know!

 

p.s. This site is pretty awesome.

 

 

Regards,

Jonny

 

 

This is awesome, Darren. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to share and maybe get a few referrals in the process.

Thank you Darren

If someone isnt paying commissions for MONTHS but the site is still up then you arent going to get paid. I dont know who he is, but seems like another on the list. I have been hearing about this person, mathew graves and john bell for months to the past couple years - and even longer now. Many, many owners are not paying anymore it seems like.

 

It pisses me off even more today than it did 6 months ago, a year ago, 2 years ago... because me and a load of other owners pay their dues to people, despite paypal and whatever problems. Plus answer support tickets.

 

And I see so many promoting and buying from them still... still.

They dont deserve it as they dont do the work to deserve the time & money affiliates put into what they do! (aka members)

I've been seeing, in a certain part of this arena, that they are saying "TE's are Dead" or that they "will be in a year" or "dying".

 

It is propaganda.

 

It's THAT part of the arena that has been squashed.

 

..."that part" meaning this closed off, cultish, small part of the arena that was separated from the real internet marketing world out there. Their followers follow every word of their teachers, webinars, false knowledge and even false history of how long they have been in business or the false level of success that they had in the online world before 2010-2016.

 

In those years, that part exploded in which alot of people moved from being affiliates of sites and programs...

to being sudden site owners and so everyone and their momma had a TE or a mailer.

But they werent told that having a carbon copy of a script, or even partially 'custom' modified, and competing with 1000 other sites .. that it would be an eventual problem. Believe me, it is NOT the first time it happened. A script has been sold to death before.

 

On the other end, people were also told to invest into trafficmonsoon, collect badges, collect coins, surf for pennies, and basically whatever made them money, they told their followers to do it - and they did because they had respect for them - based on FALSE history told, and/or schmoozing.

 

Back to the scripts:

The same site script being sold over and over again ... just with a different domain name, theme and graphics. Of course it was severely downgraded ALREADY before ppal and monsoon happened, in that part of the arena or "industry" as they call it.

 

It just made the scripts sellers, 'launch manager', badge and coin collecting sites, etc a lot of money.... then they use excuses such as: penny surfers, paypal, trafficmonsoon, to jump ship or blame the collapse on the very people who followed them and bought from them.

You know... "they dont embrace change", "they are just penny surfers", "they dont want to invest or learn", "offering money for surfing did it"..... etc...etc...

 

...while many ended up losing thousands a piece who bought into the propaganda (false info and teachings), mods, launch managers, follow my 'friends' new launch, etc.

 

 

What gets me is that its not dead in the real internet marketing world and straight up BS if anyone says it.

 

Is easyhits4u dead? Is Trafficadbar dead? Leadsleap? What about the others? Or even my own? No.

Still alive and kicking. They ARE traffic exchanges with or without variances.

 

So if someone who used to praise it galore and make tons of money off people teaching about it, suddenly says its dead and want you to go to crypto.... think long and hard about how they have abandoned that very thing they called themselves a teacher on (traffic exchanges) before doing it.

 

So... if someone else says its dead but viral mailers are the next it thing.... think long and hard on why the person who used to teach people and praise TE's... and sell those scripts... now want you to follow them into viral mailers (*cough* safelist in disguise). Think long and hard again because, I'm sorry, that has been around literally 20 years and has been the trend for - 20 years. It is NOT new.

 

Paypal didnt kill them. Trafficmonsoon didnt kill them, in which they actually benefited greatly from trafficmonsoon btw.

I saw it myself, I saw the webinar(s) with scoville that they had, and the biggie: Scoville told me himself how much they benefited.

 

Also. There is NO difference of a viral mailer to a safelist or a plain mailer, period. It's a ploy to make it sound special and something different from the usual email advertising safelist. They are not viral and nothing different. Stop spreading false words.

 

So again: TE is not dead. But the inexperienced teaching the inexperienced is.

 

Thanks for letting me scream.

-Maryanne Myers

I would do a free something to generate opt-ins, but nothing else.  Giving away freebies on your site that you want people to get in and ultimately purchase things is not a very good route to go, from my experience..

 

..but giving them a free guide on how to do something as the hook for opting in to your email list - then providing value to that list and later advertising that site you want them to get in and ultimately purchase things, can be very effective -- you've used the freebie to get them in (the hook) but then once they were in you've built a trust relationship by providing legitimate, actionable, value; so when they get to the point in the funnel that you want them to begin purchasing, that barrier is much smaller because they already trust you and your judgement.

Hi,

If you use safelists, I am posting this for you. There is a scam that is online where you (the intended victim) suddenly find yourself looking at an official looking webpage (It could look like it came from Microsoft or your Internet Provider) with a loud and repeating warning that your system has been infected with some sort of virus. Furthermore, it instructs you to call a number to have it removed.

 

DON'T CALL THAT NUMBER AND DON'T PANIC! It's all a scam! To clear the page and the annoying alarm hit the ESC key. To be on the safe side, You can log off and run your virus scanner just to make sure! (I can't emphasize the importance of keeping your virus scanners up to date).

 

It is important to remember that these pages are set up to get you to panic. To the uninformed, they are very effective.

 

The reason I post this is to warn everyone of these pages and what NOT to do. I ran across one a few days ago and then again two days ago when I was working through some ads in one of the safelists I belong to.

 

To Your Success!