I’m NOT impressed Peeps! – Should You Get It?…
Randy’s Ramblings March 16 2007
Happy St Patrick’s Day – if you celebrate it.
Well I’m sorry to say the new product still isn’t done!,
Or rather – It Is – but there’s a bug in the script I wanted to use!
So after nearly 2 weeks at it, I’m now playing the waiting game… [frustrating or what?]
On another note – did you see the controversy over the ‘Tell A Friend’ Scripts?
It did give me a good gloat …lol, to see the big boys suddenly shut up about it due to it being against most autoresponders terms of service. 
Needless to say – I feel very satisfied at my opinions and Not trying to give you links to spend ca$h that would have been wasted 
Oh – that reminds me, my subject line…. [can you tell these messages are only vaguely planned....lol]
I’m NOT impressed Peeps! -Should You Get It?…
So what’s all that about?…..
Well people, I don’t know why, [maybe 'cos He didn't get enough new subs from the 'Tell A Friend' script - lol],
But Mr. Filsaime has suddenly released a Free ‘Resource Report’!
Now I know he has a new ‘Butterfly Service’ due for release soon – so it could be that he is wanting to build up his contact base to maximise prof’ts for his new sale?
Either way – some marketers are ‘Raving’ about how this is his personal rolodex of services he has built up his empire with, and only been given to people who paid $5000 to attend his seminar, [Yeah Right]!
It did enough to get me curious [I like to know what they're up to].
Here’s my initial thoughts…… whoopee doo! – Here we have basically a list of referral lnks to his own sites or ones he earns nicely from if we click!
What’s more – nobody has even bothered updating it, It still has a link to overture – which is no longer working!!!
And to further wind me up – it claims that 50% of marketers use prosponder for their autoresponder service!
Rubbish!
There I said it – so sue me Mike!
Prosponder happens to be Mr. F’s Private Label Brand of Aweber! – Now I don’t doubt that 50% use Aweber – I do – It’s the best in my opinion, and I wouldn’t be without it, But I think it’s a bit much to mislead people like that.
Oh chance for a quick link to Aweber...lol
Anyway Peeps, you can probably see what the “I’m NOT impressed” part is about….lol
Now for the – “Should You Get It?…”
This will make you raise and eyebrow, [hehe] – Let me ask you a question first….
Do you need good resources to advertise your links?
If you answered Yes my friend, …check this out …
By grabbing the ‘Resource Report’ [and then deleting the flippin thing], You’ll be sent to a OTO [One Time Offer],
Here’s where it gets interesting -
[You may want to check my blog I've posted a Review of ListDotCom, ]
The OTO offers, among other things, a Lifetime Diamond upgrade in ListDotCom – which on it’s own cost $197, and is well worth having IMHO [see my review]
*BUT* – It also throws in a Whole Heap of Usefull Goodies as well.
Things like the $97 Butterfly Manuscript [well worth having]
100,000 credits in ‘Instant Buzz’ worth $147
Plus Elite membership to Instant Buzz worth $197
And Elite Membership to the Fr’ee Advertising Blog, another $197
And Heaps of Products [Mostly Good - but some are old now]
He Claims the Value to the deal is Over $1200, and although I wouldn’t use all of it -
I CAN assure you guys, that the bits I’ve mentioned above make it a ‘No Brainer’ – <- I do hate it when people say that, don't you? ...lol
Seriously - It's a deal that can and will make you money - just read my ListDotCom Review and you’ll see why I rate it.
I won’t get you in my downline with this offer Peeps – but it is the better deal for you than just grabbing LDC.
So check my Review here
and then go and Grab [Then Delete] the ‘Resource Report’ here.
Then have a good read through to see what else you get, Regardless if you ONLY bother with the traffic and list stuff – it’s really excellent value.
As ever – it’s your choice, I know I Ramble on a bit …. but I do believe it’s something that can really help you make some Ca$h.
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b>Ok – now I better find something good that’s Free – for anyone who doesn’t have any ca$h to invest right now….lol
No Worries People, I have just the thing…lol
Here’s the tale, I came across a site that is basically an affiliate program that promotes to a few niches, one of which is the ‘make money’ niche, the others you may not want to look at. [well you might as they are good money niches - but not to everyones taste]
The thing is – regardless if you want to promote any of their products, they give you FULL, Unrestricted access to ALL their training material and forum to help people from complete beginner right through to marketing Pro..
I joined, and even before they approved my free account – they sent the access links!
By the way guys, There is NOTHING to buy here… it really is just an affiliate program [naturally they'd like you to promote some of their products].
Without even touching on the advanced stuff – I can tell you there are a total of 22 seperate guides in the getting started section,
What’s more – I read the first few …and they really are no fluff, no hype, good quality info – designed to help you learn and earn.
Pop along and grab a free acount and have a look for yourself, If you don’t want to use the info to promote their products – that’s your choice,
Either way you’ll love the info! [It's better than some stuff I've paid good money for!]
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It seems I’ve Rambled on – probably more than I needed to …again..lol
Incidently – I just checked my stats from this weeks mailings to ListDotCom that I mentioned above, 4 sales and 6 new subscribers
Hey – even I need a break from reading through my own Rambles
In fact, I’ll call it a day here with a reminder that anyone who didn’t get the ‘Niche Marketing On Crack’ ebook that I mentioned last week [It's on the blog if you deleted it ]
You really should consider it.
I’ve learnt a great deal of good stuff from it, and Andrew [The Author] has been in touch to say he’s developing some software that will automate the whole process, which will be great for newbies and technophobes like me!
I’ll let you know when he brings that out – probably 3-4 weeks time.
Here’s the link to his ebook again – ‘Niche Marketing On Crack’.
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Ok – wrap up time, Don’t forget to check the blog and leave a comment or email me, As ever I love to hear from my peeps
Finally,
As usual – I do hope you benefit from the time you’ve invested in me and my Ramblings
So here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!
Til next time
Warm Regards to You and Yours,
From Me and Mine.
Randy
http://www.monthlybargains.co.uk
http://www.lotteryprofits.ws
http://www.RandolfSmith.com
P.S. In case you lost the l’nks in my Ramble here they are again
The Resource Report [Only good for the OTO]
The Free training from MoreNiche
Aweber Autoresponder
Niche Marketing On Crack
My link for ListDotCom [in case you'd rather I benefit from you joining...lol]
Review of the List Building Membership Site – ListDotCom
My Straight Talking Review of – ListDotCom
Before I get into the pro’s and cons of this service, Allow me to get a couple of points in the open and out of the way.
Am I an affiliate — yes I am.
Will I benefit – Yes either by either more people to mail to or by monetary gain.
So am I trying to sell it…… Yes and No – I’m giving an honest review of what my opinions are, whether you join or not will have to be based or whether or not, with the help of my review, you decide if it will help you and your endevours.
If it will – then take on board whaat I’ve said.
If it won’t – then I’ve potentially saved you money and effort.
So with that said let me tell you about the service.
*What it is*
A membership Site designed to help you build your own list of opt-in subscribers. It has free and paid membership options which I will discuss further on.
All the members are in the ‘money making’, ‘opprtunity seeking’ niche.
Unlike a ‘safe list’ with the way the membership is set up – each member would receive no more than 20 emails every 3 days, so their inboxes would not become overly full. This in theory keeps the quality high.
*What it’s supposed to do*
The general theory (and again how the site is set up) is that members are encouraged to ‘bring in more members’ in order to gain more mailing potential, making the site very ‘viral’, and thereby potentialy building you a large list of members from which to build your own personal list from.
*What the sale page claims*
The sales page is filled with people giving testamonials as to the effectiveness of the site.
It also offers membership ‘bonuses’ to the value of nearly $500, (some of which you would actually use at some point).
It also claims you can ‘Potential’ have a list of millions build and be gaining ‘potentially’ 3000 subscribers per month.
*The options available*
Free – Bronze,
Earn income from upgrades, and email your your downline every 15 days.
Free – Silver,
Refer 10 people yourself with a further 20 Referrals on Your Second Level.
Earn income from upgrades, and email your downline every 10 days.
Free – Gold,
Refer 50 People on Your First Level with a further 50 Referrals on Your Second Level.
Earn income from upgrades, and email your downline every 7 days.
Free – Platinum,
Refer 100 People on Your First Level with a further 150 Referrals on Your Second Level, and 200 on your third.
Earn income from upgrades, and email your downline every 3 days,
Also — Platinum members can shut off incoming broadcast email from other members.
Platinum members have their ClickBank ID’s inserted in Top Sponsor Ads placed in email broadcasts in their entire 20 Level downline network.
Platinum members have their ClickBank ID’s inserted in ads in all of the ClickBank Products owned By Admin in the Featured sites section of the members area. This apply for members in their entire 20 Level downline network.
Pro Membership – Cost a One Time $97
Pro members get the same benefits as Diamond members, except they can email 1000 Random Members Every DAY For Life! Plus earn from upgrades.
Diamond – Monthly Cost $79.95
As per platinum, Plus email 5000 every 2 days. Plus a heap of extra bonuses valued in excess of another $500 (current selling items). Plus earn from upgrades.
Diamond Lifetime – One Time Offer – $197
The lot…. 5000 every 2 days, the extra bonuses, heaps of training, clickbank inserts etc. Plus earn from upgrades. etc. etc.
*What I’ve found*This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.I joined around a year ago as a Life time Diamond member and paid the OTO price of $197,This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.I joined around a year ago as a member and paid the OTO price of $197,I have Never had any clickbank sales from my links being placed in any Top Sponsor ads.
This is where I give you my honest appraisal of my membership of this site.I joined around a year ago as a member and paid the OTO price of $197,I have had any clickbank sales from my links being placed in any Top Sponsor ads.I have not actively promoted the site as an exclusive product in any ads, But – I have mentioned it in emails to one of my lists of around 500.
I also had descriptions and links on 2 websites that I run, The one with the list of 500 and another with a list of 600.(Both Sites also mention other list building sites).
#Sidenote# – it could be said that I should have more activley promoted the site and it’s benefits, However, I joined to promote other opportunities, Not to become a sales person for this site exclusively!
I have actively used the mailing feature to send emails to random members regularly, and I’ve also used some of the bonus products.
The Results I’ve had are that I have gained a downline of 6 people on the actual site, all free members.
I have used the mailing to advertise to and gained approximately 650 subscribers to my own lists as well as making sales for products I have been promoting.
#Sidenote# Again – it could be said that with better subject lines, email copy or products, I could have had even better responses, and I’m not about to argue there, I have found some weeks my response has been zero to minimal, but other weeks I’ve done really quite well with both sales and new subscribers. So it’s definately something that does require thought and testing!
*My Conclusion*
My honest advice would have to be – If you were thinking of joining as a free member, then I believe you should already have either, a large list OR lots of other places to promote to in order to build your downline and benefit from your membership.
If I had joined for free I would not be happy with the results at all.
That said – I’m sure it could be said that I didn’t really put everything into the promotion of the site, Even now, I would not want to’push it’ onto anyone on my lists if it’s not going to benefit them.
I personally feel the sales page is over hyped, and it would not surprise me if the testimonials were from people who already had a big list to promote the site to. ( just an opinion – not factually based )
If However, you were thinking of joining as a Paid member – Then I believe you would get Value for Money.
Personally I wouldn’t go with the Diamond monthly option at $79.95 when there is a Pro Life option for a One Time $97 and a Diamond Life option for $197!
By paying the money you at least get to send your ‘Random Emails’ to either 1000 members every day of 5000 every 2 days, This way you would be able to build up your own opt-in list ‘Regardless’ as to whether you had as poor a recruitment record as I have or not.
So in a nutshell-
I personally wouldn’t bother with the free option, regardless of the great sounding sales page. However – I would have no hestitaion in recommending either of the One Time paid options, Provided that you have your own AutoResponder to capture names and build your own list into.
*Added notes*
Just as a point of interest, One campaign I have just done resulted in over $300 commissions made within 6 weeks mainly sending an email to ListDotCom random members, as well as adding people to my own list, So I have more than covered my investment in the Diamond membership oto option.
That said – there was nothing spectacular about it – in that when one works it out – it must have been a total of 125,000 emails sent for 11 sales which works out at 0.009%
Nevertheless, I’m still happy to continue sending my emails and gaining subscribers, and with the sales I do get – it ticks over nicely.
So – If after reading this review, you’d like to go read the hyped up sales page for yourself, you’ll find it here.
I do hope this review has been of benefit to you, if so and you’re not one of my people – Do feel free to join my newsletter at my Monthly Marketing Bargains site.
Regards
Randy Smith
P.S. See the P.P.S. For a Mega Deal to get some Extra Benefits From !
P.P.S. If you are considering the Diamond Upgrade – Grab it from the OTO at Mike F’s Resource Report, (Just Scrap the Report…but grab the oto – You’ll get loads of other stuff thrown in!!) If the deal is still on!
Do They Really Think You’re Stupid ?
Randy’s Ramblings March 03 2007
Hello Peeps,
It’s me again, and it’s march already !! Flippin eck! (Can I say that?)…lol
So how was february for you? – Good I hope , I quite surprised myself in february!
I had thought with all the time I put into the Kids Hearts project – that my income would suffer. But instead it turned out I had a terrific month (maybe the powers that be thought I should do ok for trying to help a worthy cause?)
One of the things I’ve done rather well from is a really good new ebook I bought. I’ll tell you about that in a bit
But First …. (Here I go) … I wanted to have a ‘Ramble’ on about How Stupid some of the ‘big name’ marketers must think we are.
Hey – I’ve nothing against them making money, and I truly wish I was writing to you from my luxury mansion with you reading this on your cabin cruiser…. (Really I wish, I wish).
Maybe one day folks, What gets to me tho’ is when I feel they’re trying to take advantage !
Like everyone I’m sure, I started getting emails from people who attended the 5K a ticket seminar, All telling me how wonderful it was, what a fabulous education, and even a hypnotist show……and NO Product Promotion!!!
(Big deal – One of my friends is a big time hypnotist, holds the world record for the fastest stage induced trance blah blah blah ……and I get to see loads of his shows without spending 5K)
But CRIKEY people, before the seminar is over – I’m suddenly getting multiple emails from all of the attendees promoting the organisers “Latest, Greatest, Must Have Product”????
So what happened to NO promotions??
The Next thing we hear is that there’s a fued brewing ….. and 2 other marketers are offering a similar product for free!
I assume by now you must know I’m talking about the ‘Tell A Friend’ scripts being touted to us?
Now I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon and tell you that you must have them!….Why …… because I DON’T think you’re Stupid !
While they all argue over which is the best or easiest …… and how some massive names with ginormous lists made a couple of hundred thousand more etc…etc..etc.. I was just sitting here ‘thinking’.
Here’s my thoughts…..
If I came across a site that asked me to input the names and emails of 3 of my friends….. in order for me to get a discount or freebie —— My first reaction wold be to stick in 3 fake addresses! After that – I’d put in 3 of my own!
The LAST thing on Earth I would do —- is actually add my friends details without having asked them first!!!
Why? — well for one thing, I’d consider it Rude…. if I suddenly started getting a hundred emails a day trying to sell me things…… I’d be pretty upset to discover my so called friends had just added me, here there and everywhere!
Secondly ….. IF, … If they product really was fantastic AFTER I had checked it out …. Well then I’d prefer to personally tell my friend….. wouldn’t you too?
What’s more – If there was an affiliate program – Then I’D be making a few dollars for my efforts….. and not just passing all my friends addresses straight onto Mr Guru’s lists !!
I mean – Why would I give up my potential sales BEFORE I even knew who might be interested?….. and why would I let Mr Guru send the info to Friends of mine that I knew wouldn’t be interested anyway?
So that’s my big gripe this week peeps, The fact that ‘They MUST think we’re all STUPID’!
And hence – there are no links here to recommend any of the 3 competitors ….. If you want to buy a viral friends script ….. You’ll have to google for one…… or check your emails for someone else’s link!
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Well that’s got that off my chest, ….. oh I feel so much better now….lol
Next on todays agenda.
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A quick reminder that I still have the 52 Piece Software Package I mentioned in my last entry.
Well you do need a special deal for putting up with me …lol
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Oh yeah …. Before I forget and run out of daylight hours for you to be able to read all this people, I’d better tell you about the ebook I mentioned that I think is Excellent!
I’ve gotta tell you the story behind it tho…. lol
It started when I logged in to one of the good forums I’ve mentioned before………
I saw a thread that was starting to grow at quite a rate ….. So I thought I’d take a nosey… (As you do)
What I saw was a heck of a lot of people ALL saying great things about a new ebook written by a young but respected marketer…
So ok – I was impressed —- BUT what impressed me more was some of the names that I recognised – people whom I know don’t BS, or suffer inferior products without spouting off about it !!
To see these people doing nothing but speaking positively about this new ebook REALLY STARTED to peak my interest…… ….LOL….I was nearly Tempted to have a look at the sales page
(I’d spent enough already in February – so I got back to what I was supposed to be doing…lol)
Long Story Short —
Then – I got a PM (Private Message) from the forum owner —- (I’ve had 3 or 4 from him in over a year)
He doesn’t usually mention anything about products people discuss in his forum …. only on a RARE occassion!
So when he said :
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“Crazy name – Killer method…
Anyone about to give up on Internet marketing should get this book and give it one more shot. It really doesn’t get any easier than this.
Highly recommended..”
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I knew I had to check out the sales page then peeps …… So I did — suffice to say – I bought.
I don’t like to spend good money when there are so many cheaper ebooks and reports around guys ……. *But*
I have to say – while this is still at half price I AM GLAD I BOUGHT IT !
AND (having Now Read it)
I can highly recommend it to Everyone I know …… I just can’t envisage ANYONE being disappointed with this ebook!
So without further ado peeps – click here and see what you think:
**Sidenote** — It really is something we should all have a copy of guys…
Ok ….obligation met – I’ve told you, the rest is up to you …lol
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BTW peeps – Did you Grab the Freebies last time?….. cos they change ‘em after every Sunday, and it finishes today!..
Totally Free PLR Products With UNrestricted Rights…so you can even sell them on ebay
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And how’s the Lead Capture Page coming along?…Did you get a chance to look at my instruction page?… I hope it was of some use for you if you don’t have any sort of site yet..
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Well you must be due a coffee by now ….. Or you might have fallen asleep at the keyboard already (My Fault – I’m Sorry)
So just before I go – I wanted to let you know some news
I’ve been working on putting a product together with that 7 doIIar script I mentioned , I’m hoping it will be ready before I’m next due to write you.
IF — I get it finished …… I hope you won’t mind too much if I get in touch? – so be sure to subscribe to my email version to hear about it first.
Then you can promote it and keep the ca$h
That wouldn’t be too bad – would it? …… So no promises,
But if you see another ‘Randy’s Rambings’ hit your inbox ….do take a look – it will be worth it (If I get it Finished…lol)
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On that note – I’ll wrap up for this week peeps,
And don’t forget – I’ll be posting this on my blog www.RandolfSmith.com, (edit – it’s here…lol) So if you’d care to comment – do stick a link in your comment to any site you’re promoting. (That said – I may have to turn comments off — I’ve been getting 25 – 30 a day from the people seIIing tablets and stuff?????)
Either way – if I do you can still email me …. I always love to hear from my peeps
As usual – I do hope you benefit from the time you’ve invested in me and my Ramblings
So here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!
Til next time
Warm Regards to You and Yours,
From Me and Mine.
Randy
www.monthlybargains.co.uk
www.RandolfSmith.com
P.S. A few people have been asking me about building their lists….. so I Promise to find time to get some Reviews of List Builders done as soon as I can….. If you’re desperate to join some before I do – email me and I’ll point you in the direction of my best performers
