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Way back in 2000, I bought an ebook called Nothin’ But Net, by Michael Campbell. It was this book about a guy that did all his business on the internet.

Having been “online” for awhile at that point dialing into BBS sites with my 9600 modem on my 8086 computer with amber monitor, (Okay by the time his ebook came out I had a 486 with a 56k modem) anyway, I was sure this new internet thing was only the feeding ground of unscrupulous scam artists, selling $1 pamphlets for $19.97 and calling them ebooks.

I guess that hasn’t changed much, has it?

I’ve been following him ever since and thought I’d plug his newsletter, he’ll give you a copy of two of his best, no nonsense and still work ebooks, “Clickin’ it Rich” and “Revenge of the Mininet”. I just reread the Clickin’ It Rich action plan on Wednesday, and it’s still relevant.

They’re as practical today as they ever were.  Like John Reese and Jack Humphrey, he’s a member of my “good guys” on the internet list.

Here’s the affiliate free link:

http://www.internetmarketingsecrets.com/

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I just came across a new site belonging to this guy with a mohawk up in in Alaska.  Now having spent some time up there, I want to warn you to not let his mountain man appearance fool you, this cat is definitely living in the 21st century.

Jay Jennings lives with his family up in Wasilla, Alaska, about a 45 minute drive north from Anchorage. (I had my first moose sausage with eggs there) He’s a fellow home-schooler too.

Anyway, back to the review. His site has some really excellent posts, including this one, 3 Steps to Making $100k Per Year that soothes the aching pain in my lower back area caused by the “Guru of the Month” club.

He has created some really excellent software, one being Article Architect.

Article Architect will help you research niche topics, find loads of information about the topic so you can write great articles, will help you write the articles and keep track of them, and even help you submit them to as many article directories as you want.

Do you want to drive more traffic to your sites with article marketing? Article Architect will help you do that!

Do you want to make affiliate sales using articles with bum marketing? Article Architect will help you do that!

Another favorite is his Sonic InfoBuilder I’m using it right now to build some info products for readers of this site.

I guarantee that you will be refreshed by this guys no hype site. He’s a new FortuneSeeker favorite.

As you can see, I took John Reese’s BlogRush widget off of my site. In fact, I took it off all my sites.  A protest that I don’t think will turn the world on end, but it does make me feel better.

For those of you that don’t know, the BlogRush widget is supposed to be a blog traffic exchange. I mean who doesn’t want free traffic?  See my post below.

Well, it all started the other day, when I submitted a new blog of mine, SynchroBeats.com, an information blog on binaural beats.  When I say new, I mean brand spanking new. It only has one post, but I’m working on about five different ones. I didn’t want to just slap up a bunch of regurgitated crap that’s on most of the other sites promoting binaural beats. I’m really excited about this site and want it to be special.

I’m convinced that these binaural beats have relieved alot of the stress I was under and I have a clarity of thought I haven’t had in a really long time.

So, anyway, there’s a new procedure over at Blog Rush, in that all blog submissions are now being reviewed by a live person to be sure it’s not a spam site (at least, that’s what I thought). So I put the link on my site and went to bed.

The next morning, I went to my site to write some articles and I noticed the widget was gone. So, I logged into the BlogRush dashboard to see if the site was down or something and was shocked to see that my blog was rejected!!! I’m a spammer?? I don’t even have adsense on this site. I do have some links to products I’m representing, but give me a break.

Not only that, all my other blogs were now under review.

Man, I don’t know who John Reese got to review these blogs or even what the criteria is, but obviously I’m not good enough.

I started giving it some thought.

For the last month I gave him a free place on my site to post links to other peoples blogs. What little traffic I get, could be lured away by a competitors blog on my site. Tell me again why this is good for me?

I thought I’d do some checking of the five or so regulars on this widget, most of them didn’t even have the widget on their sites. Where’s the exchange??

Now he wants the widget displayed prominently and said if we don’t like it, leave.

Hey John, I left.

I would ask anyone trying to monetize their site, going through the hassle of creating quality original content to generate natural search engine traffic, why you would invite your competitors to your site to take that traffic away?

I don’t see the value or the benefit and anyway, I don’t measure up to the other crap on the network.

My advice? Join Authority Site Central, real traffic and amazing content to help you grow your blogs to the money source they can be.

You see I’m just one of the little guys trying to make a go of it.

I woke this morning and had an email from someone that I had unsubscibed from. It seems they will re-subscribe you to another list when you un-subscribe. That’s a Filsaime trick to keep you on his list.

Anyway, this opt-in spam was promoting a Russell Brunson “FREE” report, the IM-Myth.

I was actually quite impressed with the content and amazed at the stuff he had in this free report. Why? Because he was doing all the things I detest in IM marketing guru’s.

Let’s have a look:

1. The FREE report is filled with links to his pre-launch of his next program. 
2. Sign up for the FREE report and you’re dropped into another squeeze page (One Time Offer). You know, you’ll never see this offer again.
3. It’s for a valuable CD and only costs a dollar.
   1. Or Does it? You see, if you opt-in to the deal, you’re giving up all your contact information and signing up for a $40/month membership program.  The beauty of this technique is explained in the IM-Myth report he gives you for free.  I was amazed.
4. If you opt-out, he brings you to a “Make Money Giving this Report Away” page with Bonuses.

This is where I was feeling like I was getting scammed.

The first bonus was a “Make up to $264 a day with your own FREE money making affiliate website.”

It’s free, except for the $20/month hosting deal. You see the subtlety? You’ll make $264/day, who wouldn’t spend $20/month for that?

And I love the fake countdown thing. FAKE??? How can you tell? Here’s the code from his source code.

  Better
  Hurry - Only 350,

154, 27 Websites Left

  Website Was $1,297

Now Free 

Then came Bonus #2 something FREE from Dan Kennedy. Is there anyone as good as DK? I’ve learned alot from his stuff, but like Russell, you sign up for his membership deal for free, I mean $19.95 for shipping, and then you sign up for another list and your automatically signed up for $40/month. Hmmm. Sound familiar?

Bonus #3- Mike Filsaime   RUN AWAY!!!!

My suggestion is pick up the free report, it is amazing and has information not available anywhere else that I’ve seen, but steer clear of all the bonuses, unless you want your pocket picked clean by the best of the best.