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Sunday, May 21, 2006
Learn Quick then Earn quick
On may 19th Darren Rowse of problogger wrote about Adsense video program, just like all other post from Darren this was also very motivating article. In Darren's own words - "(I) came across a product that I wish I'd stumbled across in my first months of blogging" and "Michael earns over $19,000 USD per month using AdSense (that's more than $600 a day) and has obviously spent a lot of time researching how to get the most out of the ad network." I never trusted such "get rich quick" products so on reading the article I told myself that why a respectful blogger like Darren Rosse is writing about it. On reading the comments from old visitors to his site I found that I was not alone in doubting such product, one Andy Merrett also wrote a comment (cynical?) expressing similar doubts.

But Andy was out numbered, corned and was called an ass and finally was made to apologise (for his mistake??). Anyway Andy took others' advice, bought the product and reviewed the product. He concluded his review by stating -

"This course is not for even moderately competent AdSense users and website publishers. If you are an absolute beginner, with no website, no content, and no way to generate revenue, then you will probably get a lot from this information.

If you've read a few free Internet marketing sites, looked at successful websites, and are confident in testing on your own site, then I don'’t think you'll find much here to help you."

But of course, even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day and if its been recommended by A-list bloggers then I think a new adsense user can learn a thing or two from it. You might quote Brian and say that the product is backed with NO RISK, 100% Money Back Guarantee, so you have nothing to loose. But how true is that ? Even if you spend two hours watching those videos you have wasted twice what you could have earned in an hour doing regular work (note that you are not suppose to skip any videos). Then there is an issue of your blog's credibility. If such product doesn't delieve what they (and you) promised then how many readers you expect would go through all the trouble of ordering and getting refund for your next referred product.

Like Brian wrote recently - money is not in being on the A-list, money is in fan list. So if you don't want to loose your royal readers you should give enough importance to the things that affect your readers.

 
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5 Comments:


At 1:08 PM, Anonymous Andy Merrett

Nicely written up summary of events I think. I'll be totally, brutally honest and say that I did question the motivation behind Darren recommending this product. I have a lot of respect for Darren, his work, his Problogging journey, his communication of it all (and for free). And I have very little respect for this whole 'buy this product and I'll refer you to twenty other products that you must get to improve your ranking/earnings/s*x life (oops, sorry! ;)'

Anyway, it's all done now. I've seen some interesting links between 'professional internet marketers' that make me realise that it's quite a closed club - a lot of self-promotion going on. Much like a lot of the blogging A-list. I have little respect or time for either.

 

At 7:55 PM, Blogger Jack

thanks for the positive feedback Andy, while writing this post the only thing that was on my mind was whether I was doing justice to your case and so your comment is a great relief to me.

Just like you I also have great respect for him but I never fail to point out when he makes a mistake.

And yes you are right, its all over now(for the time being :p)

 

At 12:36 AM, Anonymous Andy Merrett

I'll add a link to this article from mine - I thought the trackback might work but it doesn't seem to have done.

 

At 6:20 AM, Blogger Jack

thats right Andy, blogger doesn't have trackbacks. I am thinking of moving my blog to a different platform so that you don't have to go through all that trouble again :-)

 

At 9:57 AM, Anonymous Andy Merrett

Ahh but I thought your link to my Wordpress blog might TB. Never mind.

 


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