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Envelope Stuffing
Envelope stuffing in my opinion is definitely a scam! Please do not get involved in this one as I did. Well, OK it was 20 years ago and I was young and looking for an easy way to make money at home.
The concept is pretty simple and works like this: you answer an ad that was placed in a newspaper, magazine, or direct mailed to you. This ad will tell you that you can make money for every envelope you stuff. You send in a small fee to get your "distributor kit" which shows you what to do to make money envelope stuffing. They send you a flyer telling you to put in similar ads like you responded to, make copies of this flyer and then do the exact same thing!
At the end of the day, there is no product, no service, just this repetitive mailing of the same info if you try to do this. I didn't try it once I saw the lack of a real product, and that in itself suggested scam to me. Save your time and money and see what I do to make an honest internet living.
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Seth Godin, marketing genius, online entrepreneur, and founder of Squidoo.com, has opened a new social networking site, and membership is by invitation only, at this point. He has now opened it for another round of participants. You can get the information on his blog in this post: Are you in the tribe? He has an interesting way to qualify new members and to keep out the tire-kickers. I followed the steps a couple of days ago and was invited to join the Triiibe. (Yes, that's three "i"s in the name. He has an interesting explanation, in that it takes at least three people to become a group, and that the domain he wanted was already taken.) The Triiibe is hosted on Ning.com, a site that I really like and which hosts my Squidoo Marketing community. (If you use Squidoo as part of your marketing mix, you're invited to join us there.) When I made it into Triiibe, I found almost 1,000 other people interested in the same topics I am, which include leadership, tribe building, marketing, and so forth. I'm trying to catch up on some of the conversations and I've met some interesting new people and was happy to see some of my friends there, too. Seth is on to something here, and if you're interested, don't let pre-purchasing his next book stop you from joining the Triiibe. Act on your dream! JD
For the last several years, this blog has been my primary blog. It hasn't been my only blog, because I've tested several dozen blogs on a variety of blogging platforms. So far, this one has done the best in terms of search engine results and the number of people who have been kind enough to visit and read what I've been saying. You may or may not know, or even care, but this blog is powered by Userland Software's Manilla server. It was developed by Dave Winer and all the team at Userland, and, in many ways, Manilla is still the most powerful blogging platform I've ever used. However, WordPress has come a long way in the last couple of years and now I can do more of what I want to do with a WordPress-powered blog than I can here. It has been a difficult decision. It's always difficult to change horses in mid-stream, and I'm very happy with what I've been able to do here, but there comes a time when you have to change to move forward. So, I've decided that my primary blog will now be 21st Century Affiliate Marketing and I invite you to visit it. If you want to keep up with what I'll be writing there, I invite you to subscribe to the RSS feed or via email. There are two main reasons for the change. (1) There are many plugins available for WordPress that make it very easy to extend the functionality of what I can do. I don't plan to overload 21st Century Affiliate Marketing with a lot of plugins, but I've installed several that help me do what I want to do there. (2) It will be much easier to comment on my articles on 21st Century Affiliate Marketing. Here, you have to register in order to comment and you have to be logged in when you want to do so. Many people over the last few months have told me that they would have replied, but they just don't want to register for another online account. I can appreciate that. I'm getting to that point, myself. On 21st Century Affiliate Marketing, you do not have to register or login in order to leave a comment. I think that's important and is one of the main reasons I'm making the change. One thing I don't like about the default WordPress setup is that all comments are tagged with a "nofollow" code so the search engines won't go to the URL you specify when you make your comment. I think that's wrong. I know that the intent is to reduce comment spam, but I think it's the wrong way to fight it. So, I've installed a "dofollow" plugin so you'll get a bit of linklove when you leave a comment. I've also installed a plugin called CommentLuv that does something very interesting. When you leave a comment, CommentLuv will attempt to find the last thing you wrote on the site you specified. If it can find it, you'll get another link to that last posting. This assumes that the site you enter is a blog or other site with an easily found RSS feed. Finally, I've installed a plugin called SezWho, which links to a service that aggregates your comments on multiple blogs, if they have installed SezWho. SezWho provides a ranking service and you can rank my articles from one star to five stars (five is best), and you can also rank all the comments. I urge you to rank what you read on 21st Century Affiliate Marketing. It's easy. All you have to do is click one of the stars. Click 5 stars if you love it and think it's great, or click one of the others if you don't . Remember, ranking should be based on the quality of the writing and clarity of presentation, not on whether you agree or disagree. However, nobody can dictate what you do. So, regardless of what criteria you use, please rank what you read. And, please comment if you have something to add to the discussion or if you have any questions about the articles or other comments. A blog only comes alive when there is regular interaction. The bottom line is that, on 21st Century Affiliate Marketing, you'll get a minimum of three links when you leave a comment, if you leave the URL of your blog when making a comment. I like to discuss affiliate marketing and related topics, so don't be surprised if I follow the link back to your blog and join in the conversation there. Those are the main reasons for changing my primary blogging efforts to 21st Century Affiliate Marketing. There are others, but I believe these are the most important to you. I hope you'll follow me to the new blog and join in the conversations. I look forward to sharing what I know and learning from you. Thanks for reading this blog over the last few years. I'm not going to close it right now, and I may leave it open and write here now and then, but it won't be nearly as active as 21st Century Affiliate Marketing. Act on your dream! JD
Ray White announced earlier today that he has made major changes to the Private Success Team sign up page, including new graphics and a simpler design. Starting today, new Private Success Team members will only need to sign up for two programs rather than the three that were previously required. SFI Marketing Group remains our main affiliate program and Soaring4Traffic is the traffic exchange that will be promoted to meet our traffic needs. Ray just announced a new email series that will provide all Private Success Team members with a better understanding of what our goals are and the process we take to build everyone's downline in both programs. If you wish to start building your list and promote the Private Success Team system, the email series will be available for you to copy and modify. It is highly recommended that you sign up for this email series to better understand the direction we are taking. You are invited to sign up to my customized version of the Private Success Team message series. You may sign up here: http://johndilbeck.com/splash-pages/pst-splash1.html This new email series is a total of eight messages spread over a period of about two weeks. Each member will be allowed and encouraged to copy the original messages and to create a customized series for you to promote the Private Success Team. This is a great way to promote and build your list at the same time. Ray added that we are in the process of adding more splash pages to our system in the near future. This new email series will be encouraging new members to join us in the forum for questions, comments, or concerns. We sincerely hope that you will join us so we can work together to help each other build our teams and grow our businesses. Please drop by the forum at your earliest convenience. If you are not already a member of the forum, come and join us right away. http://www.creativemeasure.com/forum Ray has been hinting that activity in the forum can be rewarding as he has plans to reward those who participate. We hope you join us in the Private Success Team and start promoting it right away. Let's get back to business and work together to build this team. By the way, don't forget to login to your Soaring4Traffic members area, click the Downline Builder link in the left column, and be sure to enter your referral username for the Private Success Team. We will be sending more members to the downline builder, so don't miss out on getting a referral. Similarly, the traffic exchange downline builder in Soaring4Traffic will be promoted for our new Private Success Team members to join other traffic exchanges. Make sure you have your referral IDs entered. Come join our Private Success Team and we look forward to seeing you in the forum. Act on your dream! JD
As you may already know, Ken Evoy first released the Affiliate Masters Course in early 2000 as an email autoresponder series. Later, it was rewritten and released as a free downloadable PDF ebook. He just announced the newest version of the course that was updated in an August 2008 edition. I just wrote about it on my new primary blog... Ken Evoy releases updated 2008 edition of the Affiliate Masters Course. If you are interested in affiliate marketing and want to learn from one of the best training courses available, go get your copy now. It's a 704 KB download in PDF format. It's free. Act on your dream! JD
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