Guru Watch

Pimp of the month..

2006-08-23T07:38:00.000-07:00

Yes it's that time again and this time it goes to Simon Hodgkinson who is obviously after Michael cheneys crown as the big pimp on the Block.

In the past week he has reccommended membership millions , Ewen's affiliate cloning program and leonard Paynes Reverse polarity..

I can't say anything about membership millions as I've not seen it..but I know for a fact that noone has seen Ewens complete cloning program so not sure how anyone can reccomend it ..maybe it's the high commission...(nah can't be that!)

And as for Reverse polarity..probably the most ill concieved program of the year..cloaking is soooooo 2oth century!

So guys before you go and buy anything.. why not ask the person selling it to prove that they have actually read it or tried it..

Buyer Beware..

2006-08-08T10:41:00.000-07:00

I got an email from Justin Blake to day offering me a great offer of:

"REGULAR PRICE $97. Save over 50% if you order by Friday 11th August as a preferred subscriber of Justin Blake

Click Here to order now for just $47.77 "

Wow I thought I'd better check that out ..so i did Firstly it's not a new report i saw the same report 4 or 5 months ago...and I was sure it was less that $97 then...

So I did a bit of Detective work (ok i looked at the affiliate details on clickbank..and what did I see??

""The selling price of the ebook is $27.77 and you earn 60%.""

Only one word for This SCAM!!!! Shame on you Justin

Busy Day Today!!

2006-08-08T09:54:00.000-07:00

Wow it's been busy today every guru worth his name and a few that aren't have sent me a personal invite to buy Mike Filsaime's Scattergun Marketing for poor people or Butterfly Marketing Lite.

And wow what great bonus's ..free tickets to an after seminar party in Las Vegas.. hey guys a lot of your clients don't live in the US!! Of course they wouldn't dare try to sell to you at a party with free drinks would they.. I think I'd probably walk out of a Pick Pockets convention with more money in my pockets!!

Now don't get me wrong I think Mike Filsaimes Is a real marketing genius , it's just he seems to have spawned a class of Internet marketer that I really don't like and who don't seem to have any scruples left...

It's a pity because a lot of them could make lot's of money online whilst giving us plebs good useful products

Finding new depths..

2006-07-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

Well how low can these so called gurus go??

Well todays new low is brought to you by Eric Holmlund. Who by his own admission is "doing very well on the internet" Great thats good for you Eric I have no problems with people being sucessful and it's to be encouraged especially If motivates those of us who aren't doing so well.

What really gets the award for plumbing new depths is that Eric has a medical bill of $7,000-$10,000 following the birth of his daughter (congratulations on the daughter not the bill) so what does he do take it from savings ..NO.. Launch a product that will help some of us earn money? No.. Hold a seminar to show us how to build our online empires.. No, Not Eric he launches one of those crappy 500 word sites where you pay a ridiculous amount for a link on a site with no Page Rank.

Well done Eric, stick your hands in the pockets of your loyal subscribers who proably haven't got 1% of what you have in savings..

Do these Gurus live in the same world that the rest of us do??

Below is what eric says on his blog...

"As you may know, I’m doing very well on the internet, so it’s not a matter of unpaid hospital bills. However, our health insurance doesn’t cover any maternity-related expenses, which means we’ve got a nice $7,000-$10,000 to pay out-of-pocket.

Rather than pull that money out of savings (where it’s earning interest to pay for our kids college educations), I decided to do what I do best and put together a little promo to cover these costs. "

------- ------ The most prolific IM'er?

2006-07-26T05:12:00.000-07:00

Well, if you are on this person's email list you'll know by now who I am refering to.

Yes Michael Cheney (wow 2 mentions in a week) Michael has to be the hardest working man in Internet marketing. He never lets 2 days go by without ensuring that we have another amazing offer to read.

I feel myself so lucky to be made all these special offers that he must spend hours searching for. I really expect to get a 2 for 1 double Glazing offer next.

Of course Michael is english so he will appreciate the scarcasm in this posting...

Come on Micheal how about increasing the signal to noise ratio and actually giving us some tips on how to increase our online incomes not just try to squeeze the last coin from out of our pockets. Get off your ass and add some value to your list..

Just in case you missed any of his emails check your junk mail folders on these dates

Jul 26, 24,20,18,13,11,10,7,6,4,3
Jun 30,29,27,26,23,21,19,18,15,13,7,1
May 31,26,17,16,12,10,9,7,6,4

10 reasons you know you are an IM “Guru”.

2006-07-23T04:55:00.000-07:00

10. Every family event , Birth, Wedding, Christening or Funeral is seen as a potential source of sales and the Ideal opportunity for an impromptu Seminar.

9. You approach the local paperboy and offer him 50% of sales to your new product in return for use of his “list”

8. You start to use words and expressions like “skyrocket” and “Explode your Income” in day to day conversations

7. You write your wife a note to tell her you’ve taken the dog for a walk and it stretches to 8 pages

6. You phone your local Wal-Mart and ask If you can get your shopping “even if it’s 2am”

5. You and your friends idea of fun is seeing who can get a poorly written book to no1. in Amazon

4. You get embarrassed in the showers when you find your friend has a bigger list than you.

3. You decide to sell your car but won’t tell anyone the price until they are in the bank and ready to pay

2. You take your youngest kid to a new school and then try to upsell to your oldest kid and tell the headmaster that he will never see this offer again

1. You can’t see the irony in the last 9 reasons

I am sure there are loads more reasons feel free to add your own to the comments section and i'll publish the best

Whats the Hype Today Jim???

2006-07-22T01:32:00.000-07:00

Well Today our Guru's have a hard decision to make with 2 "massive" Must have items that will "sky rocket" your Income. And what are these items?? well the first is a "Free" portal generator that makes you jump through so many hoops you'll be happy to get the credit card out in the end and pay for all the bits that make it useable..

The product is hyperVRE and the marketing is true Butterfly Marketing (so someone must have actually read butterfly marketing.)

The second product that is being massivly hyped is a bit of software being marketed from a site called gottrythis. This is a nasty mean piece of software aimed at stealing affiliate sales..yes despite all the nice things said about it Thats what it does it's a piece of main stream adware.

So 2 pieces of black hat software being marketed as main stream must have products. Wow these guys are getting lower all the time!

So now instead of showing us and teaching us how to do things properly they are content to sell us products that will allow us to cheat.

Here is what I've recieved about these 2 products in the past 24 hours or so. If I went back a few more days or deleved into my overflowing junk mail folder there would be much more. If I've missed anything please let me know..

Dirk Wagner -hyperVRE
Keith baxter- hypervre
Phil wiley HyperVRE/GotryThis
David Hooper HyperVRE
Shawn Casey Gotrythis

Finally A special award today the Incestuous offerings award.

Yes guys my special award goes to Matt Callen and Michael Cheney who are promoting each others offers at the moment. Wow how lucky was it that they both had great products at the same time!! Actually Michael Cheney may well be up for a special award soon based on the amount of marketing emails i recieved from him this month.

Thats it for the day..

I've had enough!!

2006-07-20T23:18:00.000-07:00

We want mentors not Guru's ! Once again iI open my email today and found loads of offers for programs and software that I must have all reccomended by Internet marketing "guru's". Well sorry guy's most of you no longer deserve the term Guru. A guru is someone who is supposed to bring enlightenment and teaching not a sales man who emails you every few days to try an sell you something.

When did it all go wrong? Personally I think it went wrong at the end of 2005 when all the hype started about butterfly marketing and everyone with an email list hyped it up just to get their 50% commission and at $997 ticket price it was worth their time.

At this point the majority of "guru's" lost all credibility with me and in my eyes became morally corrupt. Since that point there seems to be a clique of marketers who just hype each others products irrespective of whether it is rubbish or not. Look at the recent offerings from Joel Comm. Adsense templates, If anyone knows that prebuilt sites just don't work for adsense it should be Joel therefore this was a cynical ploy to earn money from people he should be helping not relieving of money. And then he comes out with link sizzler and 500words.com $50 minimum from a site with a pagerank of 0. Come on guys get real? oh and before any comments about it all about the traffic..have you seen the alexa rankings for it?? Going down faster than a lead balloon.

I am going to use this blog to track who is promoting who's offer. Lets see if we can find all the members of this little cartel and maybe shame them into earning their titles of Guru..

Give us what we want guys knowledge...