All these new launches are “KILLING ME”.

All I wanted to do was to create a site to help you understand what the new launches are about and if they are worth investing in. Well…that has become a problem since the new launches have far out weighed the ability to reveiw them all.

Don’t get me wrong here, I am not deserting you! I simply am unable to keep up with all the new stuff being introduced to the marketers…

Now what I want to say is simple, don’t buy it cause it sounds so good! Remember, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!”

Now, I can’t say anything about the new launches since I have been unable to keep up with them. What I will say is to beware of what you are purchasing. Before your purchase you need to remember the 3 w’s. What are they?

1. What will it do for me?
2. Why will it help me?
3. Who says so?

As long as you remember those 3 things,  you are able to keep your hard earned money in your pocket!  DON’T buy cause it’s there, buy if it will help you in your business.

I am a frustrated marketer just like you. Tired of spending thousands of dollars on “cra;p” because “EVERYONE” promoted it. THIS NEEDS TO END!!  For both you and me!

Look, I don’t blame any marketer for trying to earn money. That’s why they started a   business in the first place. Isn’t that your reason too?

You can control what you spend though. $17 bucks here or $47 bucks there seems like a pitance. Now add it all up. That pitance turns into much more than you wanted to spend!  Don’t beleive me, Go add it up!

Hey, I’m only saying this since I have been there and don’t ever want to go back. Use your brain when looking at new promotions and think HOW IT WILL HELP YOU!!

Walter Gavurnik saying until next time.

What do I mean by “WHITTLE IT DOWN” ?

That’s pretty simple but, you need to know “why!”  Whittle it down means to look at all those emails you receive and decide which ones are important to you. WHO have you bought from, WHO did you buy from again? What about all those other promotions? If you didn’t purchase, unsubscribe from their email.

Why you ask? It’s pretty simple… If you didn’t purchase their product whith the first or second email, it’s pretty obvious you will not purchase on the third, fourth, etc…

I know rule of thumb is to resend again and again since users usually take around 7 -8 times before they purchase. That was then and this is now. You are now a smart, independent marketer. You have become numb to all the launches and promotions! You KNOW what’s on the horizon!

Were you able to make money with the last promotion you purchased?
Did it help your IM business at all?
Would YOU purchase from the same marketer?

These are all questions you must ask yourself. If you answer no to them, UNSUBSCRIBE from their list. It’s very unlikely they would send you anything you are interested in or will help you today, tomorrow, or in the future!

Do yourself a favor, WHITTLE IT DOWN!!

I’m sure you have seen all those sales pages which promote something and they have the date of the sale. But, you wonder how they do it? That’s pretty simple with PhP.

This is all you need to do. Rename your page to .php. That tells the browser you are using a server-side script. You then need to add this at the top of your page before anything else!

<?php
$today = date(“M d, Y”);
?>

Now you can put <? echo $today;?> where you want todays date to be.

I have seen too many people use the meta redirect for affiliate links. I know it works and all but, what are the consequences? The spiders don’t like  the meta redirect. This just tells the spider to look at the new page and not why!

You really need to use the 301 redirect since it tells the spiders your page has moved permantly. Here is how to use it;

When you send a visitor to your affiliate link, make a new folder for the link. So, if you are sending them to an affiliate program called your xyz.com, make a folder named XYZ. Now your affiliate link will look like http://yoursite.com/XYZ. Inside the XYZ folder you want to create an index.php file. It’s important to use the .php extension so the browser knows how to handle the file.

Now you create/update your index.php file with this;

<?
Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.AffiliateLinkHere” );
?>

If you have 3 or 10 or 100 affiliate links, just create a new folder for each and use the above code in your index.php file for each folder.

A better way is to create a folder in your web root named Recommends. Inside that folder you would create all the other folders for your affiliate links. In this way when you promote http://www.yoursite/Recommends/YourPromotionName , the user is redirected to your affiliate link.

Hope that made sense to you. If not, please post your questions and I will answer them all!

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This is almost too funny. I recived an email from two marketers about the same thing. One was from Scott Drake and the other from David Canham. It seems they are accusing each other of inapropriate actions. You may or may not have gotten these emails so let me copy and paste them here so you know what I’m talking about.

Can you say IM confrontation?

Begin Email Quotes:

Scott Drake says:
“I was just about to send out a message to promote David Canham’s new giveaway when the following popped up on my Skype:

[4:25:41 PM] David Canham says: what your not going to upgrade you cheap bastard?
[4:26:15 PM] David Canham says: (mooning)

NOTE: the (mooning) text will display a man figure bending over and exposing his Butt as to say Kiss My A&%

With the Maturity at this Level I am now Recommending everyone to stay away from such even. Don’t worry David will have his boss Guido promoting for him.

I am sure David will follow up on this message with some sort of justification or accusation as he is good at doing that like the accusations against Scott Case that he posted on IMCops.com that that we had to delete because they were false.”

The confrontation continues…

David Canham says:
“I’m not sure if you’re on Scott Drakes email list or not so I don’t know if you got the defamatory email he sent out about me.

I have known Scott for over a year and was in daily contact with him through Skype. We were friends for a while I guess until he took something personal.

The comment I made to him today through skype was made in jest and he conveniently cut out that part of the message before blasting it all over the internet.

I currently have criminal charges through the Internet crimes division pressed against Scott for an illegal hack into my server so maybe this is why he has responded as he did.

I do my business with the utmost integrity and honesty and always treat my customers as I would like to be treated.

Whether you choose to stay on my list after his comments is entirely up to you. I hope that you do but if you don’t I understand.”

End Email Quotes

What does this all mean? It means that impropriety is taking place in the IM business. I sent an email out to both David and Scott and guess who replied first. DAVID! What he had to say made much more sense than the noreply from Scott.

Now, I’m not saying either is right or wrong but, owning a hosting business myself, what David had to say made so much sense to me it’s incredible! All his i’s were dotted and t’s crossed. To me that says a TON about David and his marketing practices. On the other side is Scott and his case. I never received a reply. It could be his spam filters prevented my email from getting to him, or maybe he uses an email which he doesn’t get or does not open very often. All I know as of writing this is that Scott NEVER replied and David has!

Why am I sharing this you ask? To help you and your marketing, that’s why! You want to avoid confrontations like this. You want to be a respected member of the IM comunity. No one will ever trust you if things like the above ever happen to you!

For the record, the email from David Canham was very convincing since I own a hosting company. I know how it all works…

If you have received these emails, please let me know what you think about the rift between David Canham and Scott Drake. I would love to hear your comments about the whole thing.

Got a new launch? Did you produce a new launch? Want a review? This is not your typical product review. I am not like consumer reports where I purchase your product to review it. Here is what it’s about…

If you have produced a product and know it’s a good one, tell me what it is and send me a copy for review. I will happily tell what I like or dislike about it. You can take it from there.

If your product is good, it will get GREAT exposure, if not, you better go back to the drawing board on it…

I’m willing to bet noone takes me up on this simply because they are afraid to have it critiqued and let the world know what type of crap they are promoting. Or is it crap? Only my review will be the determining factor.

GB
Walter Gavurnik

Have you been getting caught in all the promotions lately?
You know the ones, everything you need to create thousands of dollars online
if you buy x program?

I keep getting caught in the same crap as you. I finally decided, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Don’t buy all the sparkling new stuff which arrives in your email box. All you are doing
is helping the person promoting it and NOT YOU!

Who is more important to you? The person selling the program or YOU and your family?
That’s what I thought. Do yourself a favor and STOP GETTING CAUGHT!

I’m sure you get all the stuff in your email that I do. It’s okay to click and see what it’s
all about. Just don’t buy it cause it sounds good. Do some research. Find out about the
person selling it. Google the sellers name and product. You could be amazed at what you
may find out…

I am able to say this since I have almost 500 gig of resale/plr crap on my hard drive and
haven’t earned a penny from any of it! I really hope you are not the same as me since I
know the dollars invested for 0 return!

My decision has been to “stop buying”. I have done it “Cold Turkey”!
Now I want you to follow me in my IM foot-prints.

IT’S TIME TO STOP BUYING AND START EARNING!!

Within this blog I will show you programs which do work and not all the crap which
arrives in my email. My intention is to become the “Ralph Nader” of internet marketing.
The consumer, both online and offline needs to be aware of everything out there!

I will tell you I may not post daily or weekly. I do expect to post at least once per month.
The more comments I receive, the more I will post. That my IM friends is a promise.

That’s it for now. Please leave a comment if you have time and remember to tell your
friends about this site.

May God Bless,
Walter Gavurnik