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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Free Advertising Content with PRIVATE LABEL REPRINT RIGHTS....By Hook or By Crook!

Greetings,

Here's a neat way to leverage a small one-time payment into a long-term monthly membership to an Article Content Site with PRIVATE LABEL REPRINT RIGHTS - which would normally cost you either $24.95/mo OR the contribution of 1 Article. If you're filthy rich, or an expert writer, then by all means skip this whole article. Otherwise, read on...

[And if you're in a rush and can connect the dots on your own, here's the only 2 links you'll need to put this technique into action:

Click Here for the Viral Articles Package with Private Label Reprint Rights,
Click Here for the Private Label Content Membership Site.


Whether or not you actually take advantage of this nifty little technique, you'll at least understand have an even better evaluation of how I come to think about things. There's something I've been wrestling with for the past few days. Some of you have probably already heard about it...

A NEW Private Label Reprint Rights Article Content site. I wrestled with this because I didn't really want to get involved in yet another marketing frenzy, but this one in particular has a significant potential value attached to it.

What this means, in a nutshell, is that ANY TIME YOU NEED AN ARTICLE OF ANY KIND AT HIS SITE, YOU CAN NOT ONLY GO THERE AND GET IT, BUT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER THE HECK YOU WANT TO IT or WITH IT (legally, of course).


You can revamp it, retool, rename it,
reword it, even stamp your name on it AS IS.

Whether I actually need it or not right now, I do like the concept of it as a valuable resource SHOULD THE NEED FOR IT ARISE. But it would be totally remiss of me if I did not at least mention this to you because many of you DO have a strong need for CONTENT that you can PRIVATE LABEL and pass on to your visitors.


By having private label rights, you won't be required to link to the author's site at the end of the article either, thus keeping your sales process alive.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO NEED MORE STRENGTH IN THE WRITING DEPARTMENT, OR DO NOT KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT A TOPIC TO START WRITING ABOUT IT WITH CONFIDENCE. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO COULD WRITE, BUT WHO ARE JUST TOO BUSY DEVELOPING OTHER PARTS OF YOUR BUSINESS....THIS IS A WORTHY VENTURE. It's a very good idea to look at this very closely....


(especially since I'm going to tell you how to get it *virtually* FREE!)
*** Let Me Explain How This Works ***

Either you pay $24.95/mo, OR you contribute 1 original article per month.


READ THIS NEXT PART CLOSELY,
BECAUSE THIS IS THE GIFT I BRING TO YOU.

Let's say your bills are mounting and you don't want to pay $24.95/mo. And let's say that MAYBE you could write an article but aren't sure you could write many, or aren't sure you could write any that would be acceptable to the site owner. How do you get all of that FRESH PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT for you to ultimately use IN ANY WAY YOU WISH...without having to pay $24.95/mo, or make herniating attempts at writing an article from scratch every month?

Here's how you get all that PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT for what amounts to virtually a one time payment that will have lasting benefits for many many months, perhaps even years.


Click Here to See the Master Genius' Idea Unfold

There it is....for a fraction of the cost of a long-term membership, you can easily obtain the modest package OF PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT like you just saw, THEN rework, retool, rewrite, rename, and stamp it with your name, and there's your "1 article per month" contribution, giving you unfettered access to what will be 100s and 1000s of new, fresh, private label content for you on a site full of a much more massive range of topics - a site which is dynamic and alive with new content coming in all the time, and now you have the key!


IS THIS DECEPTIVE?

Heck, no! It's no more deceptive than a marketer using hypnotic copy and NLP to influence your thoughts and alter your perceptions of what you think you need. It's leveraging what's at YOUR disposal to keep from getting devoured. There is nothing to say that 20 lamb can't dig in and kick the crap out of a wolf. And please don't take offense that I just referred to you as a lamb - it's how many marketers see anyone that isn't part of their exclusive inner circle.

Notice this does not suggest one lazily copy an article from the package and submit it exactly as is, The agreement is that your contribution has to be something you exclusively wrote. With your pre-written package of Private Label Reprint Rights content, you have 199 templates to rewrite in your own words - you can tear the pre-written material apart, add in your own thoughts, give your own opinions, etc, without having to start from complete scratch AND STILL COME UP WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL. With millions of articles floating around the web, do you really think that even the one's that were written from scratch are all completely different? No way - just keep it informative, make sure it's not a lazy duplicate of the original and if it's something they don't already have, YOU'RE IN!

And, as far as I'm concerned...if I read correctly and there's no SURPRISES in the small print, your ONLY requirements to be a member in good standing, to get access to all of that FRESH, PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT, is either to pay $24.95/mo OR to contribute 1 original ARTICLE per month. So take your pre-written templates and just make them uniquely you. What do you have to lose? Nada.

As long as you have the rights to the first package allowing you to alter the article, and then put your name on it,

who cares where it comes from?

As long as the site owner's approve of it,
who cares where it comes from?

As long as it meets the requirements of the program, thereby granting you access to an even larger stash and variety of FRESH, PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT to use in any way you wish,
who cares where your contribution comes from?!?

THATS THE BEAUTY OF PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT...you're now able to leverage a SMALL ONE TIME PAYMENT for a modest package of PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT RIGHTS - into a SUPER HUGE LONG-TERM ACCESS TO A LARGER STASH OF PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT OF A MUCH WIDER VARIETY!!

You heard it here first....I'm sick of people wasting money or of being convinced they need to spend more than is necessary, so I think of, and share, creative ways for you to save it. And that you will.

And if you're going to be a success in this biz, you need CONTENT - AND PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT means you don't have to promote someone else's business just to share a useful, and/or intriguing article with your visitors and list members.

Here's the two links you need to get access:

Click Here for the Viral Articles Package with Private Label Reprint Rights,
Click Here for the Private Label Content Membership Site.


Remember, that a ONE TIME minor payment can be leveraged into a lifetime of virtually FREE PRIVATE LABEL CONTENT....and if that's not enough, all of your tweaking and revamping might turn you into one heck of a writer after all!

YOU'RE WELCOME! :-)

Your friend,
Sam Freedom
ps. Please feel free to post your comments - up or down, left or right. :-)
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Free Advertising by Winning Hearts and Minds, Not Controlling Them.

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[NOTE: There is a valuable download at the end of this article]

Let's revisit the Law of Inertia:

"An object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion until enacted upon by an external force."

This is one of those topics which, at first glance, doesn't seem terribly exciting. In fact, a title such as the one above might even make you yawn at first contact.

But just think for a second - it's like exercise. Or just about ANYTHING that's good for you. The mere thought of it doesn't excite most people. Even STARTING to exercise, or make the effort to do what's good for you seems to be anything BUT exciting.

HOWEVER....ONCE YOU GET GOING.....LOOK OUT WORLD!

"Get out of my way! I'm exercising! I've been waiting 20 minutes for that bike! Hey pal, I'm on that machine, I just went to get a drink."

Or, after a few practice walks, you go further and further until one day you realize, "Wow, I kinda like this!" and your 1 mile walk turns into a 5-city tour requiring a new pair of soles for your shoes.

And if this hasn't been your experience recently, you know darn well what I mean. Once you get up off your backside, shake off the cobwebs and start moving, inertia is still the rule: an object in motion tends to stay in motion...

So what does this have to do with sincerity?

There's a lot of manipulation going on in life. Today's children are, despite our best intentions, brought up in a culture where the protection of "free speech" has such a broad definition that noone even knows what the truth is in anymore - and the organ in us that senses truth is either severely undernourished or extremely atrophied.

What results is that we have to make a lot of concessions and compromises on what we instinctively know to be right and honest. Then we spend a good amount of time convincing others and ourselves (same thing really) that our decision was prudent or judicious when it is, in many cases, just an attempt to make the best of a bad situation.

No doubt there are wide-eyed optimists amongst us who tell us "it's not really that bad." but did you ever wonder why they have to say that? And then there are those who insist we're all going to hell in a handbasket and their manner of expressing it suggests they'd already been there once or twice.

So where is sanity? There's no doubt that in our most lucid moments, we all want it. Most of the time, we want it instinctively, but rarely consciously. Rarely do we say, "I'm going to do whatever is required of me to represent sanity in an otherwise insane environment." It's just that it's a colossal undertaking and creatures of comfort have no business embarking on a journey to a "new land" where the journey will, without doubt, have many uncomfortable moments.

What does this have to do with marketing?

Depending upon your length and breadth of experience in the internet marketing culture, you'll have some degree of awareness of the techniques used in order to get you to buy something. They are deceptive at worst, inconsiderate at best. And truly fun and informative purchase experiences are few and far between.

When a person goes to see a magic show, they know in advance that someone is going to be entertaining them with sleight of hand, deception and mental trickery. This is recognized as a form of entertainment, and the price is known in advance.

In the internet marketing culture, the prospect has no advance knowledge that they're about to encounter deception and mental trickery, and of a kind so effective - that many who succumb to it become violently supportive and defensive of it after the fact. And it comes as no surprise that such people, believing the tactics to be, "just the nature of selling", go on to use such tactics themselves. Why? Because they're effective. Just like any number of drugs are guaranteed to get you high - and people like results, and people like to feel good. And people would rather feel as if they are in control and doing the manipulating rather than being manipulated.

If only it were that simple.

And the price of the product on the deceptive SALES (show) letter, isn't known until the bottom of the sales page.

But here's an argument typical of a lazy thinker:

"Yes, but you can easily scroll down to the bottom of the sales page and see what the item will cost."

Reply: But that's not the price of what it costs to READ the sales letter. To read the sales letter (see the show) costs no money. And most, if not all, people (except the most battle-weary), will read the sales letter no matter what just to see if the ensuing product price is justified. In fact, many sales letters get read for the same reason people watch Jerry Springer, "Let's see if this guy's full of BS or not...", "I can spot BS a mile away, noone's gonna pull one over on me."

And so the sales letter is read through those ultra-vigilant eyes and WHAM - in comes the NLP, the hypnotic copy, the deception, the manipulation, the trojan horse. Yes, even the brightest and most aware amongst us will succumb to this without formal training because those who wrote the sales copy DID have formal training. Think in terms of juries. Jury members have NO formal training in being a critically thinking jury member - but lawyers on both sides of a case DO have formal training in jury selection and the manipulation of jurors opinions.

In reading ad copy, my friends, you have almost ZERO chance to resist. Why do you think some marketers openly - OPENLY - gloat that their products on hypnotic copywriting can make prospects...

"...want your products like a school of frenzied piranha"?

But wait! You didn't buy anything after reading the sales letter, so that must mean you resisted, right? Think again. Doesn't it reek of truth that the mind is like a stomach and anything that passes through it would have some kind of an effect on the psychological body? So you didn't buy the first time, or the second time, but unbeknownst to you, you're becoming more compliant, taking the techniques to be more and more normal.

In other words, your natural resistance to the psychological toxins begins to break down as you develop a TOLERANCE for it. And pretty soon, you're hooked and now it's no longer a game of "buyer beware" or "making prudent purchase decisions", but rather a matter of

AVOIDING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS.

Pretty soon, you may find yourself acting strangely. Maybe you don't see it, and instead of waving this off much like an addict would at the suggestion of there being trouble, you'll courageously look to the people around you for feedback.
  • Does someone think you're on the computer way too long?

  • Are you making quite a few purchases of programs, scripts, apps, services, etc, that seem to be getting you nowhere?

  • Have you declared bankruptcy somewhere amongst all this?

  • Do your aspirations include being able to rub elbows with internet marketing big names at a high-priced seminar someday?

  • What kinds of things do you keep telling yourself in order to maintain this HUNT for the MISSING INGREDIENT to your online success?

That's just a very small number of questions one might ask him or herself, but they're not to be taken lightly. This is a very real problem - people are regularly being manipulated to make purchases. And the people using the techniques not only have no scruples about employing the mental manipulation, they actually believe it is their sacred right to do so.

Now you're not being asked to blindly believe what you're reading here.

But that being said, you are now at least armed with information that can be used as an antidote someday - information that can open a window and let some light shine into a process that can only run unimpeded in darkness (unconsciousness). Now, whether you agree or disagree, are for or against the idea that insidious mental manipulation is in regular use and that not only do most people have no idea of it, but also have ZERO resistance to it, you can never quite be the same way around it again.

Each time you encounter it, a kind, gentle voice will matter of factly mention, "Hey, there's an example of what the article was talking about!"


Now What?

Alright, we've established that mental manipulation, deception and trickery is not only existent, but also flourishing. So what does one do about it?

Almost nothing.

You don't defeat it, or undo it, by fighting it directly. It's defeat is by first weaning one's self off of the toxins themselves. That means though you might "PASS a LOUNGE" on the way to work, but you don't have to stop in and take a DRINK.

"Oh, but I just needed to use the bathroom!" (Famous last words...)

If I had to choose between using a toilet in an opium den and going in my pants, I'd go in my pants. THAT is because I understand the nature of mood/mind alteration and that "mental resistance" is no resistance at all.

The solution is to align yourself with the kinds of marketers who SELL, but do so ethically - and who do their best to fully disclose the terms of involvement - marketers who don't see you as one of "my people" on a list somewhere, but who see you as a real person struggling to achieve a new standard of living. This doesn't mean the marketer has to hang out with you at a barbecue, or entertain long email conversations with you, but they should respect you and treat you with dignity during the sales process from A to B and cordially answer any relevant follow up.

When you make it a conscious practice to align yourself with decent folk, even if at first, you start to YAWN and feel stiffness or discomfort, it can only result in a good outcome. And if your "organ of conscience" is not starved to death or severely underdeveloped, it is telling you right now that this is true. Align yourself with people who understand that serving your needs also serves theirs, and will also serve unseen individuals for generations to come.

And THAT, my dear reader, will result in the best kind of advertising that even money can't buy and greater happiness for...."As you do unto the least of my brethren, you also do unto Me."

Here is a download link for a report by Dick Sutphen entitled,


"The Battle for Your Mind."
(if you don't have Winzip, you'll need it and can get it here: Winzip )


Sam Freedom says, "Don't be afraid. It's only the truth." ;-)

Best wishes, until next time,
Sam

[This is post written by the author about Mind Control. It includes a link to a startling report that reveals how mind control is, and can be, used regularly. You may link to this page, but you may not copy any part of it without the author's permission.]

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Thursday, March 03, 2005

Get Free Advertising by Having Your Leads Opt Out!

"Come on," I can hear you say. "You're telling me to get my leads to opt-out of my list and somehow that will get me free advertising?! Are you nuts?!"

No. Just controversial. At some point, maybe you could look again at the title of the blog, please. Ok? Thanks.

Ahhhh, the sweet joy of being able to say,

"I made $400 this month just from people opting out of my mailings!"

But how the heck did I do it?

I'll tell you, but on one condition. If I show you, then you have to both BOOKMARK THIS BLOG and SIGN UP ON THE MAIN PAGE to receive notification of when I publish new posts. Naturally, this will be on the honor system.

But rather than just hammer you with bland, empty words, I'm going to show you a picture, because a picture really is worth a thousand words. So click here:

(will open in a new window)

Now have a look at the breakdown:

1. Give the customer a sweet goodbye because you never know when they might come your way again *wink wink* ;

2. Like a good servant, ask them what it is they'd like to do. Just like an experienced customer service representative, no need to take things personally. Be willing to hold the door for them on the way out after wishing them well, but just make sure there's a really great tempting advertisement on the wall next to the door, on the cab waiting for them out front, etc, etc....

Although it might seem more proper to ask, "Where would you like to go now?", you want them to DO a search, not really THINK of where else they would like to be, so "What would you like to do now?" gives the freshly opted out person a subtle suggestion to take action by using the search box. (Studies suggest that 30% of the people leaving a web page at any time are leaving to perform a web search, so why not be right there for them with the solution?);

3. Your search engine box that leads to your advertising network. Go to the top of this blog OR the opt-out confirmation page via the link above and use the search engine. On the resulting search results page, you'll find my search portal on the front side of my 5,000 billboard strong advertising network. The ad on the top left, the banner, the logo, the ad over the search results, and possibily some on the right, are all mine. And if they're juicy enough, do you think they might get a click or two, or more?

Now, a click or two might not seem like a lot to the newcomer, but as you build up your online empire, a "click or two" here and a "click or two" there, add up, and if you employ viral marketing, or offer tell-a-friend scripts and any other number of free advertising, and traffic generating methods, it snowballs and pretty soon you look up and say, "Whoa! Where'd that list come from?! And how did I just happen to start making so many sales??"

So what we're doing here, and brilliantly so, is getting free advertising by capitalizing on exit traffic. And it's all perfectly above board. Just because someone opts out of your mailing list, doesn't mean you can't toss a few bones in front of them as they're on their way out the door. After all, it's not like you could present them with *everything all in one place*! Or could you?

Your FREE One Stop Biz Opp Page!
(make sure your speakers are on, you'll love it!)

So if a prospect is saying "Sayonara!" then just throw everything at them as a way of saying, "C'mon! There has to be *something* you like!", however, in this unique, personally designed example illustrated in this post, there's something very important to realize:

NONE OF IT SUGGESTS ADVERTISING!

They are saying goodbye. They are leaving. They are on their way out the door, and they think they are just being served up a simple opt out confirmation with a simple, ordinary search box offering a commonly performed search and a commonly added "copyright" Just a bunch of simple, ordinary things seen on non-sales sites all over the web, right?? *wink wink*

Which leads us to....

4. Offer them something FREE they can have immediately. Always remember -- instant gratification drives web activity. In this specific example, they aren't being offered a free download because it might cause them to think, "Ok, what's he trying to sell me now?" and they'd be right, of course. Instead, they're offered a version of what's right in front of them - their very own search engine. And not just any old search engine, but a fresh new concept in search engines -- a FREE email search engine -- that leads to your very own free advertising network.

5. Copyright everything. That doesn't mean one is actually required! Think about it...do you think anyone *really* needs to copyright that page? Here, click here and take one more look. Like it's a masterpiece or something, huh? Like I'd be totally beside himself if I found out someone had copied me, and I would immediately run to a local courthouse to file papers. ;-) No way. That copyright link should be on *every single one of your pages* without exception. It is the most subtle form of "backdoor marketing" -- free advertising -- at it's best because the prospect thinks and feels as if they are discovering it for him or herself. So make that link juicy and be honest - it should actually point to what its name suggests.

Well, there you have it; yet another powerful tip to increase your repetoire of free advertising tips and tricks. Share them if you must, but share them sparingly so that they continue to work for you for a while. And if you share them, make sure you get something for them in return. ;-)

Talk to you soon!
Sam Freedom

ps. While you're here, take a look at my new downline/traffic builder that is gaining wide acclaim with more and more major businesses. You'll be hearing more about it in the very near future - "The 2 Step Knockout for Unlimited Free Web Traffic". If nothing else, at least enjoy the free download and 1 or more of the free advertising methods listed on it. Just take a few minutes and click on the banner below for the powerful adventure of free advertising methods combined.

Take care and bye for now, really!



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Saturday, February 12, 2005

How I Discovered the 2-Step Knockout (Humor)

[This originally started as a post I began on
a forum and it was titled, "BEWARE!" If you
insist on reading while having liquid in your
mouth, please do so at your own risk.]

Subject: BEWARE!

Message: Sam Freedom has a blog.
It came as a matter of consequence.
I had irons in so many other fires,
that the only reason I started a blog
was when I set my perpetual traffic machine
in motion. And since one of the lesser
known methods incorporated was the right
use of a Blog Ad Exchange, I naturally had
to start a blog.

The Perpetual Traffic Method is about as close
to really perpetual as it comes....I've even
devised it to keep up with the current birth
rate, inversely proportionate to the amount of
people using the internet. And I've also worked
into the formula, the gradual liberation of women
from all Muslim countries which will see a huge
surge in internet use.

Also factoring in will be twice as many sea turtles
laying twice as many eggs this year thanks to a
team of scientists. This translates into a flourishing
turtle poaching community along the shores of Brazil
which means less homeless children and more turtle meat
for everyone, plus increased use of internet access.

I know that all seems very difficult to comprehend,
but imagine how *I* felt. I was painfully close to
the final product but for one peace which, owing to
a sharp knock on the skull, appeared to me out of nowhere.

It happened on a late december evening.
An icicle fell off of a brothel that I swear I was
just walking by and fortunately it half-gatored and
instead of goring my skull, it just slightly squashed it.
And I came to with a pack of 5 feral dogs gnawing on my
right leg. It wasn't so much the gnawing the bothered
me but it was the WAY they gnawed.

It reminded me of my uncle jerry when he at a lamb leg.

Anyways, so I shooed them away and, as was customary in
such situations, I proceeded to fashion a tourniquet from
a white silk tie my fiance had bought me just before she
left me for a Brazilian turtle poacher. But no sooner had
I finished tying the tourniquet then...you guessed it...

...another icicle.

Only this time, since I was closer to the ground, it had
ample time to full gator and it expressed itself as a
medieval battering ram but with the precision and strength
that only a lengthy partnership with gravity could produce.

I awoke to my left leg being gnawed by a pack of feral cats --
I'd tell you how many but there were too many to count. And it
was my left leg, so thankfully, my tie, my last memory of my
unfaithful fiancee, remained intact. And being a cat lover, I let
them gnaw for a little longer before I shooed them away, but I
invited a gentle smaller one to come back and gnaw a little longer
so it could catch up to the other cats in size.

Oh right, the missing part of the formula...

Where was I? Oh yes, so I laid back down and started to reflect
on the frostbite that was deading the nerves in my gnawed legs.
But before I was completely paralyzed and left to freeze to death,
I saw a comet in the night sky. And that's when it occurred to me.

The missing ingredient!!

You'll have to see for yourself, actually. It's in an article
titled, well, see if you can find it -- we've only just begun so
there's only 3 articles for you to peruse, but I think the very
first one you read (the 3rd one as of this writing) will be pretty
entertaining in it's own right.

The address is in the link.

Sincerely,
Sam
The Gnawed Legs Foundation

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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Free Advertising in the Grey Zone: CHAIN LETTERS!

Mornin' folks (at least, it's morning here),

I tell ya, I take care of my peeplez. So today, I'm sharing a hearty free advertising secret that anyone can put to use IMMEDIATELY. Remember the first post and all that talk about controversy? Well, what could be more controversial than free advertising through chain letters? ;-) Yeah, that's right -- free advertising via CHAIN LETTERS.

Quick, call the cops!

I'll spare you the brief history of chain letters, but I'm not really talking about those illegal things that pretend to be from the National Wellness Foundation or that tell you to send a $1 to the 5 people on the list OR ELSE...but just the kinda sort thing you'll see right here:

SMILE! (opens in a new window)

Now for those of you who made it back here, congratulations! Do you see the powerful potential in that? As long as the advertisement is cleverly inserted and runs with the theme, feeling or sentiment of the viewers, you're talking about a real winner for your online business. When you clicked "Search", and found yourself in my advertising network (which, at this point, extends to over 3,000 different spots on over 3,000 search portals, and growing), an ad TARGETED specifically for you came up in 3 places:

1) Top Left Spot;
2) On Top of the Search Results; and
3) On the Right Side Billboard Tower (a bonus showing for pro members)

That's because I've pre-loaded that search box with a keyword phrase on which I'm confident most of that target audience will gladly and curiously search. And that means -- FREE ADVERTISING -- because in my search portal back office, I've PRE-SET those 3 ads with the phrase "COOL_STUFF_FREE". It's a VERY powerful backoffice in that regard. There's so much power to it, that I'd have to write about it in another letter, OR you can begin an investigation on your own:

I WANT A FREE SEARCH ENGINE FOR MY EMAIL AND ALL MY SITES PLEASE!

Look, you can even insert it in your blog! Leave the keyword in there, and click "Search" to see what ads I pre-loaded with it.

Internet search by SearchEstate

The potential with this is amazing! Since free advertising through LEGAL "chain letters" is the focus here, I'll leave that for another post. Just remember--

1) While I use the controversial term "Chain Letter," it does not refer to the ones we've all come to know as illegal. So be responsible. If you need a definition of what's legal or not, start with this:

Chain Letters Explained

2) You must never sell anything in the letter. Simply sending your friends a letter of good cheer that truly makes them smile HAS VALUE. Making it easy for someone to perform a web search HAS VALUE. It's not a dull, unimaginative letter, often sent by strangers, suggesting ill fortune if certain rules aren't followed. This is friend to friend saying, "Hi. How are you? I love you and want you to be happy!" and since statistics show that 30% of the time people leave a website it's to go to a search engine. Well, then, isn't it a great courtesy to save them the extra click? ;-)

3) Though I'm using a certain company's search box to illustrate this, they are in no way shape or form affiliated or linked with this blog. This is just one man's idea - and as you'll soon see, I've many of them. And furthermore, I'm not saying anyone SHOULD do anything -- remember, this blog discusses those borderline, grey areas of marketing and dares to provoke discussions on it. As an old saying goes,

"Play rough, but play fair."

Now, if you haven't figured it out by now-- someone sends you one of those letters, and as always, they leave all their friends names in forwards. Well, it's my understanding that as long as you're not directly advertising, and the names did legally show up in your inbox, you're well within your rights to "REPLY TO ALL" with your search engine box in the reply (mine is set up as a signature file after I edited a little bit with an HTML editor.) and an added note saying,

"Hey, THANKS for thinking of me. As always, this is awesome; keep 'em comin'! But since 30% of people leaving an email or webpage are headed to a search engine, wouldn't it be a great courtesy to send 'em one *IN* the email?!! I've included one to show you. You can use it or get your own. Luv ya!"

Then each of them sends it to 15 friends, and so on, and so on. Your spreading good cheer and making it easier for everyone to perform a search! How thoughful of you! ;-) Just a little ingenuity can go a long, long way, folks...! And that's exactly what I'm here to show ya...

Your friend,

Sam Freedom
Where to now, Jeeves?

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Monday, February 07, 2005

UNLIMITED Free Advertising via "The 2-Step Knockout"

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Free Advertising!

"THE 2-STEP KNOCKOUT FOR UNLIMITED FREE ADVERTISING!"

You see it all over the web, but is it really free advertising? In some cases it is, but either it is pitifully small advertising and requires no effort on your part (and therefore remains pitifully small) or it promises the potential for a huge return but an effort is required of the advertiser and even then there's no guarantee of results.

So why bother?

I mean, if the free advertising being offered were so great, wouldn't the advertising company be able to charge a reasonable fee for it? Or maybe it's the advertising company that benefits the most by offering free advertising, as some of you well know, due to the "UPGRADE." Yes, "Become a PRO member" and you will receive yada yada yada. Some of it can be good, but most of it isn't worth it. Only if they succeed in bamboozling enough people with free advertising claims can they make those claims come even close to true.

But I discovered a secret about free advertising, but it's not a true secret because a few here and there already realize it. But very few understand how to put it to use. It's the closest thing to a perpetual motion machine there is. The true perpetual motion machine is LIFE -- humanity, in particular, and if you can tap into that movement, you can get some SERIOUS free advertising....BY COMBINING METHODS INTELLIGENTLY.

Instead of laying it all out here, I've created a page of several key free advertising resources that, when combined, will unleash massive amounts of traffic, but you must see for yourself!!

"THE 2-STEP KNOCKOUT FOR UNLIMITED FREE ADVERTISING!"

I tell all the people I train, the following:

If you don't have the money to buy high quality targeted advertising, then you must resort to free advertising. But work SMART, not hard. If you have to spend 1 hour to learn the system, and then 1 hour per day working it, then IT SURE BEATS SITTING BEHIND A DESK FROM 9 TO 5 EVERY DAY AND HAVING TO WORK HOLIDAYS AND WEEKENDS, AND MISS LOVED ONE'S BIRTHDAYS AND SCHOOL PLAYS, ETC.!"

So when it comes to free advertising, THINK SMART! And I have. And I'm giving the blueprint to fellow marketers because I don't like hype and fanfare, and hypnotic marketing and lying and all the things that some random kid without a high school diploma puts into a "report" (sounds important) and tries to sell for $97 dollars. So I'm giving it for free, because it didn't cost me a dime.

So I've brilliantly combined 4 already powerful free marketing methods (more soon to be added) at the following site:

"THE 2-STEP KNOCKOUT FOR UNLIMITED FREE ADVERTISING!"

Please let me know what you think, folks.
Sam


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Saturday, February 05, 2005

Oh the Joy!

Welcome to what should have been titled,
"Sam Freedom's Controversial Internet Marketing Blog" but lacking the foresight that anyone in their right mind might want to go over 50 characters in a Blog title, I was, begrudgingly, forced to rethink my strategy. And by a strange twist of fate, I actually like it. So this will not result in the complaint you expected at the beginning of this paragraph.

Now how do I put this?

THIS BLOG has one aim in mind and one aim only -- the
controversial transmission of neat, cool, effective, brain-engaging, eye-popping marketing concepts via anecdotes, lectures,
silliness and anything else just plain controversial. No
olds barred.
So, if you think you might not be able to handle it...GET OUT
NOW while you're still basically happy!

Now let's not assume controversial means "evil" or "bad." It just
means -- controversial. Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary defines "controversial" as --

Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or arousing controversy
2 : given to controversy : DISPUTATIOUS

Now that's not very helpful, is it? So let's try "disputatious"
which is a word I never thought to use before today. So not only have I learned
something new, but I am also going to abuse that word for a while like everyone does when they learn a new word they like. Ok, let's have a look --

Function: adjective
1 a : inclined to dispute b : marked by disputation
2 : provoking debate : CONTROVERSIAL

Now THAT'S much better, dont' you agree?

You'd better not. This is a DISPUTATIOUS blog, so maybe it's time you stopped agreeing so darn much. But don't push yourself too hard. Once we get into the marketing stuff in the following DISPUTATIOUS posts, you'll have PLENTY of time to build and flex your
CONTROVERSIAL and DISPUTATIOUS muscles.

There are only a few requirements thus far -- keep it clean,
keep it above the belt, and no blatant advertising. Yes, we're all marketers here, so I used the word blatant on purpose. When you come in, please don't hide. Make yourself known -- dare to reply, stand up, speak out, make yourself known, let us know there's a new sheriff in town, or that the town isn't big for all three of us, or whatever, but don't just sit there and read like a chimpanzee trying to figure out what it's looking at....say something! You're a marketer for cripe's sake!

Are you ready for the first DISPUTATIOUS post?

Very truly yours,
Sam Freedom
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