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We Are Never Too Old To Learn!
Posted by: | CommentsI have never been afraid to take an amused look at myself. It does us all good to do that from time to time and this category has and never will have, ANYTHING to do with business, strictly personal anecdotes.
Any Ladies reading this will no doubt have a laugh at this but my wife of 26 years (almost
) bless her, taught be a small but so helpful thing the other day and afterward I was of a mind to create this category and post!
Having been long-sighted for much of my life I do of course need glasses (cannot live with contacts and [to my knowledge astigmatism cannot be solved by laser] hmmmm… must check on that again… ).
So when I get in the family shower (I have three children all between 17 and 23) I am faced with a plethora of BOTTLES [ God only knows what half of them are ] and not being able to read the wording on the bottles it has proved to be a lottery as to which similiar bottle is shampoo and which is conditioner – and it has been for years now, a —huge— frustration when I get it wrong! “Damn bottles, why don’t they shape them differently or something!”) etc…
Apparently they do a number of things: (ha ha ha!)
- The writing when the bottle is (naturally) stood up is right way up for shampoo and wrong way for conditioner!
- It follows that the one with the flat lid (so it will stand) is the Conditioner and the other shampoo.
Laugh at me if you will (I don’t mind) but life is sometimes ‘fun’ when you are so humbled by the obvious.
And THAT is all I have to say on that one!
If you feel brave enough
share your funny-side below!
Merging Social Buzz With Campaign Management
Posted by: | CommentsI really must get down to building campaigns and far more than I currently am but as some of you may know I have been trying to get Wordtracker integration fixed within Keyword Elite ( Bryxen Software) product. Unfortunately their support guy ‘Jim’ has really pi**ed me off by his playing email tag over the last month, evasivness and eventual rudeness! The end result being this flaw means I cannot exploit my Wordtracker subscription, they couldn’t give a damn as it ‘might’ be fixed in V2.0.
We eventually arrived at….
I just got off the horn with the Programmer.
They are working on the new version.
There are no more updates/fixes going to be created
for the current version. Please be patient while
they work feverishly to get 2.0 ready for all users.
So when I asked when it would be out the response I got was…
No exact date has been set yet for the release of version 2.0
That is what I was told when I spoke with the programmers.
So I’m none too pleased (could be days/weeks/months – surely not years
and although Keyword Elite is a good tool it is the organisation behind it (or rather their approach to customer support that is causing me to look elsewhere for something better. Any suggestions of tools that you think are really good – appreciated.
But I digress
Now good things do come out of the bad or so it seems and that was the case today.
I came across a very useful and informative blog with a brilliant post about using social buzz in combination with keyword research (nothing new there – you might say) but seriously check it out because the range of free tools discussed are indeed very very useful.
Read That Post Now don’t pass it by – You WILL miss out otherwise!
In fact the overall Blog is a great find.
The link above (like all my links) is cloaked and ONLY functional from this domain, just my thing. If you are interested in getting a copy of the software that does this (and a great deal more – I am offering a special to members of the forums I post in (you will know me as LatentSynergy) just p.m. me as a member there and i’ll arrange the Level 3 pricing for just $15 (at the moment).
To learn more visit: YourlinkMaster – The only cloaker you will EVER Need.
The testimonials are genuine BTW.
My Arbitrage Conspiracy ‘Experience’
Posted by: | CommentsThis is one product/program I would never (now) recommend to anyone.
First off at $2,211 (3 installments of $737) it has for me personally been the biggest (by far) stupid mistake I ever made — strong words I know but nonetheless fully justified in my opinion. I bought this following a personal (commissioned no doubt) recommendtion from Eben Pagan who in general I view as being trustworthy and highly professional — we are not all perfect (me included) and sadly he got it very wrong this time.
When you enter a 12 week program (as this is) then you can kind of get caught up in the hopefullness that there will be a great idea just around the corner. It’s a bit like being offered a ‘as billed’ goumet menu, choosing the starter to find it wasn’t that good, then hanging on for the next course in the hope that it will be better — but it isn’t, so you keep working through the list and by the end of the menu all you are left with is the expense and an upset stomach.
I can honestly say I have NEVER witnessed such persistence from any any authors in asking for and bribing (with prizes) for the best testimonials (split into written and video) on such a scale ever — anywhere. In fact I would go so far as to say that if that was what I had set out to purchase then I would have been ecstatic - it was and continues to be that blatant.
Where for me the authors went wrong was their complete lack of transparency – who are they (really) I still don’t know.
They were hyped as having this incredibly thorough approach to PPC and to be frank I have listened (very attentively) and learnt perhaps one or two useful snippets and that is all. The ‘course’ was advertised as been THE thing for both ‘newbies’ (I hate that term) and experience marketers alike.
Whilst I would not say I am experienced’ (by that I mean someone earning good money from AM) neither am I an absolute beginner and I have therefore found the whole thing to be pitched at those who may have only just succeed in posting their first web site. I found myself feeling cheated at hearing explanations I had learn’t years ago (for free) out of general on-line interest, certainly not ‘Golden Nuggets’ as postulated by the presenters.
This ‘course’ may well have been popular for those who are starting from scratch, I can see value in it for them. But it was never pitched specifically that way and was therefore dishonest in its marketing.
To make matters worse, they made is clear that a great deal of work was needed if using free tools…. BUT if you bought what they would only recommend as being beneficial to members because they use them themselves apparently, (at a discount – and also a fat commission to the organisers) then you would be significantly more productive and therefore your chances of being a success would be significantly improved.
That’s not how it should be played in my book.
If the course is setting out to recommend tools and by design rather than accident then it should be honestly declared at the outset, that opportunities to purchase effective tools would be offered and at a discount (honest enough if stated) and that potential members should budget accordingly or follow the course on a purely manual basis. If following the recommendations you could I guess double the course fee.
Yes I realise that such up front honesty might half their initial sales — it would ensure a very happy course membership. I have seen far too many posts elsewhere lamenting the failure of members to make any money at all and I myself have fallen behind from an action perspective but that has been purely down to illness and hospitalisation.
I for one will be seeking a course fee refund. The original offer made at the outset was to refund unsuccessful members who had put the work in their $2000 course fee (single instalment) plus an extra $500 for giving it their all.
I shall not ask for the $500 extra as that would be unreasonable as it is not the organisers fault that I have been unwell. But I will look for a course refund as I firmly believe the marketing was grossly misleading and also the content to be very very thin on the ground, like in week 12 video 6 ’how to install the LPGEN software (promoted)’ hardly the sort of content toward the end of the course when more advanced topics would be expected and where the authors of LPGEN explain that anyway when you buy it! (I didn’t by the way) and beleive me there is more that is worse (again) in my opinion.
So if you are reading this I strongly advise you NOT to even consider it, and whilst no doubt some members may have done well, the testimonials are not freely given (without an awfully large amount of encouragement) like at the end of almost every video/webinar.
If you are looking for a PPC training environment where everyone is helpful, responsive, admits they are not perfect and does not push tools down your throat and in fact provides many of them within their sites for free, then I can recommend two programs that I am personally a member of and I am totally happy with them both.
So check them out (I’ll be doing specific writes ups on them later when time permits)
These are honest organisations that over deliver- teach a lot – do not BS you and both cost a hell of a lot less too.
They are in no order of precedence:
KeyWord Elite
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve not owned this product for too long but it so far seems to be (on the whole) quite good although I have found (for me) a significant bug in it [ The fully licenced wordtracker integration does not work] which I am sorry to report is not being addressed at anything other than a snails pace by the software authors which is a shame as in general I think it is shaping up to be quite a useful product.
So what does it do?
The short answer is quite a number of things (some as yet unexplored) but for me the main objective is generating large lists of keywords/keyword phrases related to a ‘seed’ keyword/phrase you give it in order to get started. This tool is resident on your own machine (PC only not MAC [so I use it under a virtual machine emulation ‘vmWare-Fusion’ that creates a virtual windows xp machine on my MacBookPro). When you first run it the program visits a licensing server against which your rights to use are established and if all is well it fully launches.
A nice ‘feature’ being that the licensee is permitted to have up to 3 installations (home/work/igloo) or wherever.
To be continued!
Actually I will not develop this post further (see merging socialmedia for some background).
I therefore cannot in all honesty therefore recommend it.
I do think Keyword Elite is a very useful product and providing you are happy to accept some of its failings like full Wordtracker integration — which I am not (as that is the part of my reason for buying it in the first place) coupled with and I have to say this — An unhelpful Support Desk then go ahead.
I had told them that I was unhappy not getting a clear indication as to a fix date and got as a reply (and this is incredible — wait for it….)
Email your receipt to refunds@clickbank.com
and they will process your refund asap, Thank you
and take care.
JimSoftware Support Team
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RFY-264048
Department: Keyword Elite
Priority: High
Status: Closed
Enough said on that one!