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Does anybody know what happened to Scott Douglas? I'm still a member of his program Lucrative Traffic and was for a while. Earned some commissions and already more than a year, after countless emails and support tickets, I not only received no money (supposed to be paid on 1 and 15 of each month), but haven't received any response either. Does anything happen to him? I've known his name and reputation for many years. Didn't expect anything like that from him. Earned some commissions in TE Profits too - the same result. Many of us had hard time sometimes - but a common courtesy is at least to answer an email. Alexei Z.

Regarding Scott Douglass: after close to a dozen emails and support tickets not only the money he owes me is not coming, but there is even not one response note. I've even placed TE Profits in the downline builder in my Cash In On Banners program -wasted some valuable advertising space. I'm taking this and other programs of his out of the CIOB and my mailings now. Sean Supplee isn't serving his reputation well by having his name next to Scott's in some programs. By the way - Lucrative Traffic is not paying either - and Sean's name is next to Scott's in it. I haven't made any worth mentioning money with EmailXProfits and would like to hear from others about it.

Server move shouldn't take so much time. All necessary changes are prepared ahead of the move and the transition itself even with a large company is 1-2 days, sometimes less. I agree, his first mailers are good, got above decent response from them. The way he advertised his clones should have mostly the same people in all of them.

I was able to use the money I've had on Payza to purchase advertisement from European vendors. Now Great Britain is off too, but I'm happy that I haven't lost much, used almost all funds. In general, I leave as little as possible on these online accounts. I still use PayPal but no PayPal buttons, no IPN, only manual processing.

I've been with AIOP from the beginning, and although I promoted it practically only through my own programs (like Cash In On Banners), I've made some very nice money with it and used and still use the products with satisfaction. AIOP went through the PayPal hurdles much better than a lot of programs and I expect them to deal with the loss of Payza well. Only lately, being distracted by health problems and being still active in music to some extent, I've discovered for myself some interesting and usable aspects of AIOP marketing plan. Doesn't seem to be utilized by any AIOP Teams I know about. Working now on creating a decent presentation. To early to disclose the idea.

After a few months just stopped using it. Effect / Time spent ratio is way too low.

I'm a creator and owner of Cash In On Banners program. For all interested - new features are added pretty often, Login pages are very popular, they are displayed at login on all my 4 programs. Paid banner advertising on the site (for CIOB members) is one of them that gained popularity fast. As many know, upgrade is paid member to member only, the administration is making money as all members, only from upgrades of personally enrolled and passed up members. Welcome.

Every Day In Every Way I'm Getting Better and Better! One of the few affirmations/positive whatever I really can relate to.

Renown behavioral linguist George Lakoff has written about the effect of words quite a lot. His idea (that I like) is that hearing a word or expression many times changes neural paths in the brain and that causes one to think about concepts in a particular way.

"Hard work is good - other people's hard work." Mark Cain

For getting anything from free memberships, Herculist (in my opinion and experience) is about the worst I ever used - and I used dozens of them. I use LeadsLeap for tracking, so I can see the opens and Herculist is usually at the bottom of the list I never tried high priced options, some report good results, but then good Solo ads services produce better ROI, although you have to invest more in a lump sum.

Tried twice to get anything out of it. Got plenty of annoyance and unbelievable mountains of emails from them. Never again.

I don't remember who said something to the effect that americans never will be for any social changes, because most of poor and lower income people feel like unlucky unsuccessful millionaires. This mentality reflects online even more than other areas, because it looks like there this unfairness could be corrected and they finally could become what they always though they are destined to be - millionaires. And online marketing makes good use of this mind set. You are told to follow your dreams, never quit, set your goals high, and practice "positive thinking" (which essentially means - don't even notice the signs of problems, always expect positive outcome, even where there are obvious signs of coming troubles.) Books and courses for salesmen and entrepreneurs are teaching pushing prospects' buttons, create the atmosphere of trust, make the prospects believe that they need and want whatever is sold, that it was the prospect's idea first that will lead to a purchase. There are many additional tricks - "scarcity", "fear of loss", "desire of having" - and countless more. Now think for a second, wouldn't all that I've listed work great for a con man too? Or a cult leader? Or a politician?

So, I see that there are people thinking about the matters of morality and legality in our business. I'd like to continue and even post some of my thought right now, but my wife is expecting me to pay respects to the breakfast she made. So, here is just a bait: have you ever noticed that the qualities and skills required to be a successful salesman and a con man are similar, if not downright identical? Not mentioning the politicians or cult leaders. The other day somebody posted a well known Zig Ziglar's quote "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." Well, being a "bad nasty boy" I've paraphrased the last part of it this way: "...if you will just help enough other people to want what you want to sell them". Am I being cynical?

Lately I've started thinking a lot about honest programs and their operators, about badly run programs and companies, and deliberate scams. May be because in November of 2016 I've turned 80 and am tempted to look back on my life's pretty diverse activities from several angles. One of the conclusions I came to - it's pretty easy to define scums (not that easy to recognize in time). It's much more difficult task to define a thoroughly honest company. If anybody is willing, I'd be glad to receive some input on this matter. I'm personally guilty of participating in some questionable enterprises, either with temporarily lowering my moral criteria intentionally or just not wanting to think about some holes in the company's integrity. I'll start with one of the features that I consider important and that most of the time are just swept under the carpet. If we wouldn't consider buying the product without expecting to make money from the attached compensation plan, should we accept the marketing as honest and/or fair? Want to add anything?

Well, I'm guilty myself of not posting here. Unfortunately for everybody (and for myself) I cannot call myself either "positive" or "negative" person, I'm trying to be realistic and see things and the world as it is, not as it ought to be (to paraphrase Ambrose Bierce). Here is a little, not very serious post of mine on Facebook: http://affordablewealth.com/img/good-bad-things.png

Is there anybody else but Captain KIrk who posts anything? Is there anything scary in posting???

After a few months with this program my opinion is: Unless you are at least a Silver member, you get practically no exposure for your ads. Nobody ever sees Bronze ads. Silver you can see, but they are displayed in pretty unattractive manner. I've made some money with GBL - less than expected with the effort I've put in.

Here is one of my favorite "motivational" books: Living Without a Goal by James Ogilvy Seriously.

I've lost my interest in these kind of games long ago. In general, my reaction may be wrong, but the moment I see too many games on the site or the design like for preschool playing room, I don't want to go ahead with it.

It's correct, we have to use Gmail, if only because many programs require it. In reality I've noticed that professional emailing services often say that the best deliverability is with your own domain, of course if it isn't compromised (by spamming, for example). My own experience supports it - I often have important emails directed to my gmail spam folder, with my domain email is sorted by the rules I set up myself. But... yes, we have to use Gmail.

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. (John Lennon - among others)

What I've said, return on time invested is extremely low, and if I'd be interested in games I'd play bridge or poker. Every minute wasted on zuubee games - less time for more important things and also making real money.

I' encountering Zubees here and there, even click of them and go to the website, etc., but never was able to understand how they worked, may be because i didn't see the benefits. I've spent some time reading the posts and replies and did understand some, but now I still cannot figure out why. The "ROI", so to speak, seems to be very low. I mean time investment. I still, may be wrongly, think that I grew out of similar games about 60 years ago.

A lot of so called "motivational" quotes are really good and helpful. Unfortunately quite lot of them are just platitudes. I guess they can help some and serve a good purpose - not for me, sorry! Example: Napoleon Hill: “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” OK, if he says that the mind can achieve, not a human being, I agree. In the universe inside my mind everything is possible. Not so in the real world. If you conceive and believe in something that goes against the laws of the universe, the best you can expect is a big disappointment. And in my long life I've seen a lot of those, not only disappointments, but much worse. Sorry if I sound not exactly "motivational" for some.