Starting An Online Business From Scratch

Thanks For Following…Here’s A Sales Page

This post will seem a whole lot more level-headed than my previous rant about telling your readers the truth.  It will also be a lot shorter.  Here’s the gist.

You see somebody has just started following you on twitter. You click their profile link and they appear to be somebody who has put some thought into their profile and site.  You say “What the hell?” and follow them back.  Within minutes you’ve got that automated message telling you thanks for following me and here’s some crap sales page to go waste your time with.  What do you do?

A. Delete the message and go on with your life

B. Follow the link, and send them a direct message telling them how much you appreciate the info

C. Click on their profile again and unfollow them

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Doing What We Can

I just received an email from Jay Stockwell of SpeedPPC asking his affiliates to help in any way they can to get the message out about the Australian flood victims.

Here is the link to the post:

Flood Relief Appeal

In the email, he talks about the devastation that’s happening right now and that the full impact won’t be known for quite some time.  He urges anybody who is interested in purchasing his top-notch Pay Per Click software suite to do so now for two reasons:

1. For the next 3 days, 100% of the proceeds(aside from the credit card processing fee)will go to the Australian flood victims. Neither Jay or myself will make a cent from this.
2. As an extra incentive he’s discounting SpeedPPC Pro by $100 and will also give you access to the PPCBootcamp Course (worth $200) for free.

I just wanted to put out a quick post to get the word out for anybody who is thinking about purchasing SpeedPPC and who might need an added incentive.

Make sure you purchase SpeedPPC using the special link in his blog post above.

Thanks for your attention!

Jeff

Rant Warning

I just finished reading a post by a blogger I’m going to be following much less in 2011 and it’s got me so pissed I have to post about it.  My main issue is that they report their success but not all of the methods involved in it.  Let me explain.

The Whole Truth?

It seems innocent enough to report to your readers how you did in 2010, right? Yes and no. Yes, if you disclose EVERY method you use to accomplish your goals.  No, if you don’t. For instance, this blogger’s business model involves buying and building over 100 sites/year.  Nothing wrong with that if that’s what you want to do.

My problem comes when the people following them make the mistake I have in thinking that building 100 plus sites/year is the BEST way to make money online.  Again, no problem if you have all the info. Let me illustrate my point.

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Taking Stock Of Your Sites

I recently joined a new ShareASale program and received emails from Matt McWilliams the Affiliate Manager for the Legacy Learning Systems product I’m going to be reviewing. One of the emails that he sent talked about being compliant with the 2009 FTC disclosure rules. In it, he mentioned the FTC had looked over all of the affiliate sites for this product and noted that NONE of them were compliant.  At the very least, it got my attention.

Thanks to Matt, there was also a link to the FTC document, FTC plain language rules page and the DisclosurePolicy.org page where you can get a simple disclosure statement to add to your blog or site.

After reading the FTC rules I discovered that NONE of my sites were strictly adherent to the guidelines even if they all did have a disclosure statement on them.

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Crowd Mountain Money

I participated in a joint venture site that reviewed Michelle MacPhearson’s Crowd Mountain and received compensation for links that resulted in sales.  It was always just a little money so I didn’t pay much attention to it.  When she re-launched in April of 2010, the money jumped up and up until July I got paid what I was owed.

Then, everything got weird real quick!

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