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Re: Twitter Updates TOS

DogScout — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:53:03 -0000

Ads are better tham spam tweets any day. There is a ton of useful info in a lot of the links in tweets, but even more that is not helpful, that goes to squeeze pages and places that take advantage of people who have lost their jobs that try to squeeze another $47 out of them for information that is not comeplete and sometimes designed to discourge the buyer from succeeding (as to prevent extra cometition).

Ethics in Internet marketing is lacking. There are some great IM programs that can really help people make a few bucks, but the message that it is easy or quick is a dis-service to many. There need to be more 'gurus' helping in a postive manner, like the Dan Kennedy, Bill Glazer Inner Circle or Terry Dean or Bill Mcrae that give tons of useful free content and support to those that most need it and that deliver the compete actions nessesary too create a viable and long term income from marketing on the net. As well as honest people like Perry Marshall and Glenn Livingston that teach who a tiny 1-5 person business can get more business by moving some of their ad budget to PPC and teach how to make that work, once again leaving nothing out and over deliverying to the ones that buys from them over and over again.

Twitter affiliate programs that I have seen linked to, most fall into the catagory of 'steal from the poor'. Obviously, it is not Twitter's job or even in their ability to rate each program and make a moral decesion as to whether a tweet links to junk or worse, so closing off ads comepletely isn't the answer.

They could, however make a decesion as to whom they accepted banner and side ads from and what programs they would acept be linked to. I would like to see less spam tweeters even if it meant a banner ad on top of each page and rotating side ads. (They have the room to do that.) It would give Twitter more control over what they allowed in the way of advertising. (I could go on... But I wont.)

Re: @pennjillette The Vermeer project; Is that for TechCrunch50? Looking forward to hearing about it! Good luck, and love P&T BS! › TechCrunch50 Aggregator

DogScout — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:26:54 -0000

Can it be better than The Aristocrats?... Nope.

Re: Teleseminar Marketing works better in a “Bad Economy?”

DogScout — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:52:30 -0000

Wow, I like that teleseminars are even more powerful in a bad economy. I think you are 100% right. If you can come off as a leader, those who let fear rule their lives will follow, if you are able to lessen their fears just a little. I have noticed a large influx in seminar invites from those selling IM systems. The real step will be brick and mortar owners getting invited to seminars.
I would like to see some posts on how recorded seminars can be transcribed and then edited into a book. That book can then be sold to a publisher for status gain or made into an e-book or mp3 and sold for big money and it adds a product that can be sold at other teleseminars!
Thanks,
Mark