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My all time favorite marketeer Frank Kern has just released a free video on Core Influence.
I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t think that this is pure marketing gold. I actually paid $2000 for his Mass Control course where this video is part of, and you can get it for free now. This guy makes $8.000.000,- a year ON HIS OWN, so he definitely knows what he’s doing. Besides that, he’s the most relaxed guy you will ever see in your life, and also the 9th worst surfer in California.
Not only can you view his free video, but if you refer this video to 3 other people you will also get access to a brand new video where he reveals his most up to date secrets.
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Phishing has been around as long as the internet but so far I personally never had an attempt on any of my accounts, until a couple of days ago….
I got a directmessage through Twitter from Ashley (twittername Ashleemikel), it said: “you look funny here http://www.thephishinglink.com”. I will not post the real link she used because there are always people who are stupid enough to fall for it anyway after they’ve been warned. So in essence what it does like any phishing attempt, it redirects to a site that completely LOOKS like Twitter but if you look closely you’ll see that in the URL twitter is just the subdomain. It could like look http://www.twitter.securelogin.com or something. It’s the oldest trick in the book, but I bet a lot of people are still falling for this one.
I decided not to unfollow the scumbags, but rather keep checking what they come up with and already they have stepped it up notch. Now they’re making all kinds of online quizzes which you can fill out and in the end they want your Twitter login. Oh my god, I do not want to make a guess of the people who are buying that. So that was it, I informed Twitter of their practices and hopefully their account will be banned by the end of the day. But since the most easiest thing to do is making another Twitter account, I don’t think this is going to stop these guys.
This is what their page looks like right now:
More info on phishing on this Twitter page
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Before the Affiliate Summit West I was barely using Twitter. Off course at the time I knew there were lots of people making a decent amount of money with it, but I also knew you have to have A LOT of followers to make some serious money and I didn’t have any at that time. But some of the sessions on the ASW about social media did get me interested in the phenomenon everybody’s raving about.
At one session they started talking about ‘hashtags’ and I looked at my friend (who is a Twitter addict) with a big frown upon my face and asked him what the …. these things were. He then explained the functionality of those thingies with the weird name. So for everybody that still doesn’t know what they do, don’t feel stupid like I did, but they’re used to categorize your post. For instance you put #marketing (where # is the hashtag) in a post. Later people can search on that hashtag and they will see all messages that have been written by other Twitterers using the same hashtag. Pretty neat.
At the ASW I did some tweets about the sessions and put the #ASW10 hashtag at the end of my message. And surely enough, soon the followers started pouring in. All super targeted visitors because they were all either at the Affiliate Summit or at least interested in internet marketing. So using general hashtags to get targeted followers is a pretty neat option.
After I tweeted about #marketing, #affiliate marketing, #internet marketing and so on I was gaining a few hundred followers. Nothing to get excited about yet. My next option was to try just following other people who are in the same business. I gathered a list somewhere on the net of all the internet marketeers that were using Twitter and I just followed them all. And that’s when things got serious… Within days I got over a thousand followers. Although that was fun, I saw that at that point I was following (and still am) more people than were following me. And that’s kind of a bummer because you want to have the followers/following ratio as high as possible. Also I used to actually read the tweets from the persons I was following. Now it’s just impossible to keep track of.
Then I decided to join Socialoomph.com. This website provides all kind of services, but as far as Twitter goes it lets you set automatic thankyou messages for new followers, schedule tweets, automatically follow people who follow you, unfollow people who unfollow you and a whole lot of other things. It also features banner auctions were you can bid on having your Twitter profile posted on their homepage for a day. I entered one auction and I bid $10 and won it so my profile was on their homepage for a day. I don’t have any idea how many followers I got from that, I only know I got 22 visitors to this blog from it through the link in my Twitter profile.
The latest thing I tried was Sponsored Tweets. It’s a neat system that lets you buy a sponsored tweet from a GREAT number of Twitterers, OR, if you have enough followers, lets YOU place a sponsored tweet and earn cash from it.
I decided to have 3 topdogs in the internet marketing business place a sponsored tweet for me. Shoemoney, John Chow and Jonathan Volk. I got some pretty interesting results back from it. Of course, the main goal was to get more followers, but it’s impossible to track how many you get from each but I wanted both followers and visitors to my blog so either action was fine.
Here you can see what the results were for this blog:
I won’t specify the prices I paid for it, but where I paid 100% for Shoemoney (92k followers), I paid 33% for John Chow (50k followers) and 11% for Jonathan Volk (17k followers).
Obviously Shoemoney delivered the most clicks with that much followers, but his traffic was least interested in this blog. They had the least amount of pageviews, least time on the blog and the highest bounce rate. Then came a surprise. Jonathan with ‘only’ 17k followers comes in and sends me 126 visitors with a high average time on site and a very acceptable bouncerate. John Chow delivered the least clicks but then again he is very active on Twitter so your sponsored tweet quickly becomes old. But his traffic liked my site best of all.
So, there are definitely some good opportunities in sponsored tweets, but you’ll have to try the different Twitterers out before you know anything, and my god, there are a LOT.
My next goal is to get some more followers too and do some sponsored tweets on my own. If you are not following me already, you’re missing out!!! You can follow me here!
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Among my daily routine is one very important element I do every day because I think it’s crucial for your campaigns. What I do, is checking all of the competitors ad’s and what they’re doing on the places I advertise. This might be Adwords, sites I do media buys on or in this case, a big social media site.
So going along the ads and keeping track of the affiliates who have been promoting their offers for a long time, (because you know they’re profitable then), I came across a totally new campaign that I have never seen before. The ad said this:
Tried everything to lose weight?
Let America’s top Coven cast the Ultimate Weight Loss spell for you
today. Confidential service, guaranteed results.
“Weight loss SPELL”, excuse me? Did you say SPELL? What the hell is this? So obviously my curiosity got the better of me and I immediately clicked this offer. Then I landed in a magical world with high priestesses, warlocks and witches. Thise site reminded me of the good ‘ol days where I was running my level 60 mage around Azeroth in World Of Warcraft.
Anyway, so, what can one get at this site. Exploring a bit I immediately found out that they’re not kidding around with their spells! My god! So, you want to shed some weight? That’ll be $47, but of course you don’t want the standard spell, you want the very best they have to offer, the ‘coven spell’. Add another $235 then. Want to stop smoking? That’ll be $1069,- at least if you want the complete package, you COULD settle for less. But I think the best deal they have is the ‘Bags of money spell. Have this one cast and you’ll be driving a Lamborghini to your boat in Monaco in NO TIME, and it’s only $37.
Why the hell would they be advertising when they have the ability to have as much money as they want? They just enjoy scamming people or what?
Now, what do you think. Do you think people are actually falling for this? I know, desperate people do desperate things, but COME ON, you have to be freakin’ kidding me? I first saw this site online about 9 or 10 days ago and they’re still going strong with their advertising, so obviously it works. From a marketing point of view this stuff is genius, but even when I could make a ton of money with this, this is where I draw the line.
Now, if you don’t see any posts from me again soon, then you know those witches have gotten to me and casted evil spells over me. Muhahaha hahaha haha.
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Past Sunday it was Superbowl time. Now, I know for a fact that for millions of Americans this is the most important day of the year, but I’m not really interested in the sport. In no sports at all, hence my 260lbs. Anyway, what IS interesting, from a marketing point of view, are all the Superbowl commercials. This time I think the company that we all know so well, the big G, rocked them all!
Ok, so they had to pay a few bucks to show it, in fact 30 secs = $3.000.000, so with their 52 seconds it’s close to 6 million, but I know for sure that they were spot on with this one. Little had to be spend on the commercial itself, what the heck, even an intern that has 2 days of video editing experience could have made it, but I know for sure that this one touched a lot of people hearts. How cool is it to make you make up a story in your head by only showing searches and results.
I can only say one thing: kudo’s for Google for making this masterpiece!!!
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