I knew the OWM review would wind up getting under people’s skin – especially because people love Jennifer as a person. Got another unsubscribe – this time because I let Dorothy have her say in my comments area and they weren’t very nice about Jennifer. This person was appalled that I would give Dorothy a platform to disparage the way Jennifer does business online.

He thanked me for helping him all this time but said because I let Dorothy say those things, he’s lost all respect for me. I won’t email him back, obviously, but if you happen to read this know that I’m not in agreement with you.

If I did NOT allow Dorothy to have her say on what her personal experience was, THEN I would be an unethical marketer. If I filtered what my subscribers experiences were, THAT would be wrong of me. THAT would make me the kind of marketer who makes things look great through rose colored glasses in hopes that you would click on my link and buy her OWM product.

THAT would be dishonest.

Now if someone comes here and says something racist or threatening, sure I’ll delete it – I don’t want that kind of stuff here. But her honest opinion of what she thinks IS relevant to the conversation we were having. Everyone deserves to be heard and a blog – a peer to peer socialization and exchange of information IS exactly the perfect place to do it.

I’m sorry you feel the way you do – this is not Avatar – it’s not utopia – and there ARE bruises to be seen on each and every marketer’s body of work – even mine.

Tiff

I got an unsubscribe this morning that’s unusual for me but I want to share it with you because it’s a lesson in how we see things so differently – and how you, as an online marketer, will have to deal with disgruntled customers/prospects. Now with an unsubscribe, you don’t contact them after that – so the frustrating thing is, you can’t argue your point. But you really shouldn’t anyway – it’s what this particular person experienced and you have to understand it’s just a point of view thing.

Here’s what he put in the comments (he’s on my TiffanyDow list) where it asks why they’re unsubscribing:

“because it’s all about you…rarely do you give info that is helpful to me. I’m not looking for handouts but when you spend so much time talking and doing things for yourself you’re not helping me.”
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My BFF’s nephew is on American Idol – and every Tuesday he gets to sing a song and he needs votes! So if you watch it or just want to do me a favor, vote for him – you can call it in or text it in. I’ll put up the number later when the show airs from 8-9 Central standard time. Here it is: Vote 1-866-436-5702 or Text VOTE to 5702 via ATT

Thanks!
Tiff

So I finally finished up my One Week Marketing analysis and I’m ready to give you the final thumbs up or thumbs down review decision. Today I analyzed the One Week Marketing Action Plan – just a quick overview of what to do on each day. Again, I think it’s more than a week UNLESS you have 100% of your time to devote to this. There is a TON of writing involved, too – so if you’re seeking a make money fast deal, this isn’t it. Well, I take that back – I DID have money within the first week of finishing my tasks BUT it wasn’t a get RICH quick program for sure.

I bought OWM on February 6th. I started working it February 8th. My first sale was February 21st. But then again, I wasn’t able to work on it every single day, remember. My lenses were published February 11th. So it took 10 days to make the first sale. That first sale, as you’ll recall, refunded. But I made 3 other sales besides that one – one on Feb 24th, Feb 27, and Mar 2.

The Checklist wasn’t much different from the Action plan – just has some check marks besides it or blank spots to add notes. (But hey, it looks good on the sales copy to say you get an action plan and a checklist Just sayin…)

The One Week Marketing Mind Maps were a waste of space to me. I’m not a mind map kind of girl, though – maybe you are? I don’t need someone to visually show me that my EZA and my blog posts link to my Squidoo lens which equals affiliate money. I already know that. Continue…
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Someone had asked me if it’s possible to do a free trial period with DLGuard. I wasn’t sure, since I don’t yet use it with a membership site, so I went to the product owner, Sam Stephens, to ask him.

Sam told me, “Yes, it sure can (depending of course, on the payment processor). I assume you’re using Paypal? Then you can set up a free trial when you create your membership group.” You can use DLGuard’s membership system for PayPal, ClickBank or LinkPoint or you can do a single purchase tag with any processor. Whenever your member cancels, DLG removes their access to the site if you’re using PayPal. With LinkPoint and Clickbank, since they don’t have a notification feature, you just cancel their memberships yourself by searching for their name in the DLGuard system and click on the Mark As Refunded link by their name.

Here’s what the simple form looks like when you add a membership group and you set it up with a Free Trial for your prospective customers (this is just the Free Trial section):

So right now I have a bunch of plates spinning in the air. I can’t add even one more or they’ll all come tumbling down. Here are some updates on what I’m up to:

1.) My case studies – I have one going for One Week Marketing, one for a WSO someone said was a scam but I want to see for myself, since it had a lot of good feedback, and one I’m working on for a future product of my own for affiliate marketers. I also have an AdSense case study going and OMG I want to add one more – I want to go back to Affiliatenaire with a new niche. Maybe even pair it with my Bearded Dragon niche stuff. Not sure yet. I just know I love that program and I want to use it on a niche right now.

2.) My 52 on Squidoo lens challenge. I just finished another lens today – I’m always tooling around with ideas. For this one, about a particular Zojirushi Rice Cooker, I not only did the OPSEO strategy I learned in Info Product Killer, but I also went above and beyond and did mini articles for all of the description areas of my lens – including Amazon modules and even the guestbook! As an FYI, I was happy yesterday when I saw my Amazon Kindle lens made another $104.90.

3.) Article Marketing. I’m outsourcing content like a demon and posting it up all over the place. I have a couple of writers and I give them batches – one for my Bearded Dragon project, one for my AdSense case study topic, and another to build backlinks for my PLR Mini Mart. The bad thing there is, EZA won’t accept anything on PLR (grrr) so I am posting it to my blog on the site and to my Warrior Forum blog, which also ranks highly When the ghostwriters deliver the content, I post it to blogs and article directories and sometimes to my lenses.

4.) Product Creation. Of course, I’m always working on products – eBooks and PLR, too.

It’s a full plate and I feel blessed to have these opportunities.
Tiff

Well other than the fact that it gave me a nice link to Magic Article Rewriter, the Free Traffic System sucked for me. I submitted the articles and nothing – no stats, no submissions – and no way that I could see to contact them. It’s been a long time, too. On the other hand, Bob – a friend of mine online – says he wound up seeing 8 articles published so far but he recommends that I invest in Magic Article Submitter to go with Magic Article Rewriter.

Bob did, and he said he registered 354 articles and 45 got published with 91 waiting for review. According to him, you get to pick the directories and categories you want to submit to AND you get a link back to the article so you can see where it’s been published.

Bob also said, “What I also like is that you can spin the title to get different titles. You can also spin the keywords in the author resource. You get 2 links. And finally, you can take the article you have spun and paste the code exactly as it is into the form. With Free Traffic System you have to manually spin any keywords and it uses a different symbol. I don’t know about the paid version of Free Traffic System, but what I submit I have no idea where they are posted in the free version.”

So I may see if I can add that to my order.
Tiff

If you have a product for sale and you want to add a free bonus, how do you do that via DLGuard? This short DLGuard review video will show you how:

I posted a full Digital Download Protection Product Review and included this video, but there’s more text on the other page.

So yesterday I got an email from YouTube saying that one of my videos (Make Money on Squidoo) has become eligible for revenue sharing with YouTube. It’s the first time I’ve ever gotten that message and it’s because it had about 16,000 views and great ratings I guess.

So I figured what the heck – I enabled it and agreed to the TOS, etc. You’d assume YouTube liked the video if they were inviting me to join a special group of ad revenue users, right?

So this morning I log into YouTube and I have a warning – I’ve received a strike against my account and my video has been deleted. I no longer have this video because keeping all these videos takes up too much memory, so it’s gone forever but here’s what it was about:

I logged into a lens and I showed people all of the opportunities they had on a lens to make money – like text links, Amazon modules, eBay modules, ad and co-op revenue, etc. That’s it. I just showed people, that’s all.

It said it was spammy. I’m thinking the person reviewing it must be one of those Internet Marketer haters (kinda hypocritical of one of the biggest ad earners online, I’m guessing).

Anyway – I’m pissed.

If I’d declined the invitation, it’d probably still be up online and ranking #2 in Google and #1 on YouTube for it. Guess I’ll make another and replace it. My advice? If you’re in the IM niche and you get a similar invitation for a money making video, DECLINE ad revenue.

Tiff