I think you have written a really great article and I respect your ability to stay true and congruent to what you believe.
Keep it up

Web 2.0 is the way to go. Look at the popularity of You Tube etc and let people help tou add content.

Do a search on Web 2 and you will get some ideas.

You have a great blog – I’ll be returning.

Regards
Murray
Don’t click

We love ya, man. Don’t let Scott (or anyone else) bum you out. You keep doing what interests you and pursuing your passions and instincts. And when it’s time to move on, move on! You don’t owe us anything more than what you’re already doing.

That said, mucho thanks for all the interesting info you pass along. I’ve made my living writing for 20 years (copywriting, journalism, advertising, you name it) but just started my own blog a few months ago. So your info-sharing is very welcome for us blogging newbies (blog-bies?).

Tom
“Attract More Customers” blog
http://www.mainecreative.com/blog.htm

I too dislike the kind of ad copy you talked about. But I guess if it works, maybe I will have to try to learn how to do it.

I have wordpress set to not make any comments from new people go live until they have been approved by me at least once. This really helps reduce the amount of SPAM that goes live.

Hence your first comment, the one above this, did not go live until I had manually approved it, which is just now.

Scott there are many of your comments that are right on the money. Yes I do get bored quickly. Yes I am obsessed with PageRank. Yes I might decide to stop posting to this blog tomorrow.

I make no promises at all with this weblog – I write what I want, when I want for whatever goal I feel is important to me during any given time. I hope that people get something out of my writings and based on every comment so far up to yours it appears I’m succeeding at that goal. Even if I did stop blogging tomorrow I think there are a lot of valuable articles and audio here online that people would keep coming back for.

The only thing I’m not is a one of those “trying to get rich the easy way” as you mentioned – I thought some of my articles were I talked about persistence and patience being the only way to succeed online would have proved this point.

A question for you Scott – what would you have me do differently so that you could “get me”?

I hope you not another one of those trying to get ricj\h the easy way over the internet.

I like what Alan and James have done with this

http://www.yourkeywordassistant.com/keywordlessons.html

and this

http://www.yourkeywordassistant.com/

Short, simple and still compelling. The guys are tracking their results and if things don’t work you never know that page might triple in size, include testimonials, ps’s, guarantees, and all the long page sales letter bells and whistles and find out that it works better.

As an online marketer it’s hard to step into the shoes of your potential customer by only using what you like and dislike because you are not your own potential customer.

At this stage am using my blog to gain some credibility and build up a poptential customer base.

I too want to be different in my offering – those long sales copy sites are becomming a tad boring IMHO – they’re so cookie-cutter in style that I can’t believe they still work. Do they?

Hopefully my sales pages will be a third of the size, still with all the sales pitch et al but less on th BS (and no PS, PPS PPPS …) and no buy this before this deadline which surprisingly is on the very same day (don’t believe people fall for that one).

After you have a bunch of products that are all for one niche I recomend using 1 as the flagship product and the rest as the backend sales. You can still market them all, but focus on one. This will make it easier, and once you have customers built up you can get more sales out of them b/c they know and trust your products allready. They will discuss your products in discussion forums and advertise for you even!

But there is a much more profitable way of marketing your products and making much more money. You can sell the resell rights to your product for hundereds of bucks a piece, only sell 500 copies though. You could make 100,000 bucks in a cupple of weeks and then move on to the next product. Meanwhile you still have your products on the market anywase. They need to be automated.

This allows for fortunes to be made.

You should contact me and we can discuss some things that I don’t want to post about(worth to much $$$)

I’m quite familiar with the NameSqueeze entry page technique. NameSqueezing will be something I test with once I have the backend products built up.

Do you currently use any Dave?

Think of it this way:

You can set up a 1 page website, set up an autoresponder, then sell! Its all automated so after its set up there is no work at all.

Then you move on to the next project and continue to build. You can repeat this forever, and keep growing.

The other thing that you should do to be successfull is learn the art of the namesqeez.

This allows you to gain information about the person before you even present your ad to them, so it can be customized and will convert many more people.

The 1 page adcopy is the most powerfull method of making money still. Its just direct sales techniques that where developed 100 years ago, and still work!!!

With gen y things are changing a bit, but its still the same.

Dave
http://www.how-to-market.blogspot.com