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		<title>Watchout for those &#8220;Dime Sales&#8221; and &#8220;Friday Specials&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 09:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the ones&#8230; They start out at 5 to 7 bucks and go up 5 to 10 cents every half hour. Most times they are a bundle of 4 to 10 Ebooks and scripts and hyped up to look &#8230; <a href="http://billoertel.com/blog/watchout-for-those-dime-sales-and-friday-specials/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know the ones&#8230; They start out at 5 to 7 bucks and go up 5 to 10 cents every half hour.</p>
<p>Most times they are a bundle of 4 to 10 Ebooks and scripts and hyped up to look like they are worth a fortune, &#8220;BUT&#8221; <strong>YOU!</strong> can have them for just pennies on the dollar.</p>
<p>Well guess what folks&#8230;.. 90% of those (If not ALL), are &#8220;FREEBIES or Donationware&#8221; that you can have just by doing a simple Google search and many times they are ripped-off clones.</p>
<p>I use-to-be on a list from a guy in Canada; every week he has a bundle of products for just 7 bucks. Well about two Christmas ago he had this Super-Duper Packaged deal &#8220;Just for his Loyal Subscribers&#8221;, As a Christmas Special&#8230;. YEAH RIGHT!!!!</p>
<p>He bundled up a bunch of FREE products and tried to sell them for $97.00!!!!!</p>
<p><strong>WOW!</strong> What a nice Christmas present he was having at your expense!  </p>
<p>Understand something: &#8220;They don&#8217;t care about you!!!! They only care about their wallet and maintaining their fat 6 figure bank account &#8212; <strong>AT YOUR EXPENSE!</strong> They will do whatever it takes to get the money out of <u>&#8220;YOUR WALLET&#8221;</u> and into their bank account.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a good example I just got in&#8230; one of those Friday Specials.</p>
<blockquote><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
(Not the whole ad &#8212; just the title and the last paragraph)<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
Product 1: My Download Area<br />
(Master Resell Rights Included)<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
 Even if you already have a thank you page, you can<br />
replace it with the &#8216;My Download Area&#8217; script to save<br />
you time and have your products available to sell<br />
within the shortest possible time!</p>
<p>(Here&#8217;s the Alert I got in the same batch of emails)</p>
<p>PRODUCT ALERT!!!<br />
It has been reported by several sites that the product &#8216;My Download<br />
Area&#8217;  a rip-off of someone elses product which you can d/l for free<br />
from: <a href="http://files.lordmattandyou.com/my_downloads/">http://files.lordmattandyou.com/my_downloads/</a></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re selling it &#8211; well you know what to do&#8230;&#8230;<br />
And if any of your customers or peers are &#8211; please let them know&#8230;<br />
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p></blockquote>
<p>This is happening <u>EVERY WEEK!</u> You are being <strong>RIPPED-OFF!</strong></p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve said in other posts the good guys are hard to find because of all the scam/rip-off artists that are out there. </p>
<p>It really goes back to that old saying: <strong>&#8220;BUYER BEWARE!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>To Save yourself a bunch of money&#8230;. &#8220;IF&#8221; you see something that you think you &#8216;MUST HAVE&#8217; then jump over to Google and search for it and make sure to check out several sites as they might be all promoting the same product at the same price&#8230;. so go deeper into the results pages maybe 10 to 15 pages deep&#8230;. you just might find out it&#8217;s a freebie or 10 to 30% cheaper on another site.</p>
<p>Another thing is to wait a couple of weeks and watch how fast the price drops.</p>
<p>One other thing is to watchout for the &#8220;Fear-of-Loss/Greed Trap&#8221; (they pull this a lot!) &#8220;Buy it now cause it&#8217;s going up to a billzillion bucks tomorrow!!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>HEY! If the dam thing is over priced to start with, why would I buy it at a higher price?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>Bill</p>
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		<title>Why Can&#8217;t I make any Money Online?!?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 10:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you starting to feel like a lot of the time and money you&#8217;ve spent on ebooks, software and training programs/courses for your online business has been in vain? You are not alone. In fact, getting good &#8220;High Quality&#8221; information &#8230; <a href="http://billoertel.com/blog/why-cant-i-make-any-money-online/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Are you starting to feel like a lot of the time and money you&#8217;ve spent on ebooks, software and training programs/courses for your online business has been in vain? </p>
<p>You are not alone. In fact, getting good &#8220;High Quality&#8221; information is often quite difficult. You have to do a lot of searching to find the &#8220;TRUTH&#8221; and not a rip-off.</p>
<p><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JMF8JaytkjE"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JMF8JaytkjE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></p>
<p><center><a href="http://3KeysToProfit.com/report/OnlineIncomeConspiracy.pdf"><strong>Get the Free Report Here</strong></a></center></p>
<p>In fact, as it turns out, there are some people who WANT you to keep wasting your money like that &#8211; without getting results. They are the agents of the so-called &#8220;Online Income Conspiracy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Luckily, there is a simple 3-Key system, so that ANYONE having the <strong>desire</strong> and the <strong>willingness</strong> to do the work, can apply tasks to increase their online income &#8211; using the tools and training you have already spent money on. (What good is it to have a the tools you need to succeed, but haven&#8217;t a clue how to use them?!?!?!) </p>
<p>Learning this system has two powerful benefits.</p>
<p>The first &#8211; it will help turn what you already know into increased online profits.</p>
<p>Secondly, it will keep you from ever being duped, (RIPPED OFF), by the conspiracy guru&#8217;s again and again. The 3-Key system virtually guarantees any future purchase you make to help your online business will actually be a good investment. (You may have seen the term &#8220;ROI&#8221; which simply means: &#8220;Return On Investment&#8221; and <strong>THAT&#8217;s</strong> what you should be thinking of and looking for.)</p>
<p>Knowing this system, you&#8217;ll quickly be able to spot the cons and the scams and avoid wasting your money on them ever again.</p>
<p>Kevin Riley and James B. Allen (The Good Guys I told you about), have just released a FREE report that reveals both this &#8220;Online Income Conspiracy&#8221; that has been working against you AND the &#8220;3-Key&#8221; system that will improve your online income and release you from the conspiracy&#8217;s stranglehold.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t even need to provide your name or email address &#8211; just click, download, read&#8230; and be enlightened and armed with a potent formula for success.</p>
<p><a href="http://3KeysToProfit.com/report/OnlineIncomeConspiracy.pdf"><strong>Pickup Your Free Report Here</strong></a></p>
<p>I can personally tell you that Kevin is a straight shooter and an &#8216;overdeliver-er&#8217; &#8212; He&#8217;s proven his worth time and again, so please checkout his ebook and see for yourself.</p>
<p>Bill</p>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m Getting Sick and Tired of GRUUUROOOS Rip-Offs!!!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never fails&#8230; Week after week &#8212; day after day I get hammered with sales from the GRUUUROO&#8217;s that &#8220;HAVE THE ANSWER&#8221; to make you filthy rich over night, if you just buy their super-duper widget. &#8220;My &#8216;WIDGET&#8217; will do &#8230; <a href="http://billoertel.com/blog/im-getting-sick-and-tired-of-gruuurooos-rip-offs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It never fails&#8230; Week after week &#8212; day after day I get hammered with sales from the GRUUUROO&#8217;s that &#8220;HAVE THE ANSWER&#8221; to make you filthy rich over night, if you just buy their super-duper widget.</p>
<p>&#8220;My &#8216;WIDGET&#8217; will do everything to make you wealthy &#8212; make your morning coffee &#8211; and service you breakfast in bed&#8230; and it &#8216;ONLY&#8217; 297/397/497/997/1997/ etc&#8230;etc.&#8221; </p>
<p>I even watched this so-called marketing woman yak for 90 minutes and then without batting an eye asked for <strong>$9,997.00 For &#8216;HER SYSTEM&#8217;!!!</strong> </p>
<p>But what really amazes me is that most after just two weeks go by:</p>
<ul>
<li>A) It&#8217;s now selling on eBay for 5 bucks</li>
<li>B) The &#8216;system/technique&#8217; doesn&#8217;t work any more</li>
<li>C) They NEVER mention it again.</li>
<li>D) They&#8217;re sell some &#8216;new&#8217; widget!</li>
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<p>I wonder how many actually <strong>&#8216;READ&#8217;</strong> the disclaimers, (you know that fine print in faded out gray type so you either can&#8217;t read it or just ignore it.) </p>
<p>In short, it&#8217;s basically: &#8220;I lied; the only one who&#8217;s going to be making any money is me because you were stupid enough to buy this crap.&#8221;</p>
<p>I ran across one of the &#8220;FEW&#8221; honest guru&#8217;s articles about how he was at one of the hyped up seminars and the guy was there selling his super-widget email program and the people were fighting to throw their money on the table for a copy&#8230;. The Honest Guru ask the other &#8230; aahh? person? Why he did that? and didn&#8217;t he know that technique of emailing didn&#8217;t work any more??? He&#8217;s reply: &#8220;Sure! But a got a garage full of the crap and I got to get rid of it!&#8221;</p>
<p>Another GRUUROOO said he paid only $250 to get an ebook &#8216;AND&#8217; the sales page written by a ghostwriter and made over a million bucks thru hype! (It wasn&#8217;t worth 10 bucks &#8212; OH Right! You never sell anything for even money, It&#8217;s always has to end in a &#8220;Seven&#8221; ($9.97))</p>
<p>Then you&#8217;ve got the <strong>&#8220;CLONE PEOPLE &#8212; THE COPY CATS&#8221;</strong>; They take whatever is &#8216;hot&#8217; that week &#8212; buy a copy, (And many times it&#8217;s thru their own affiliate links), then ship it off to a freelancer to tare it apart and make their own cloned copy with less features. And again sell it at a hyped up price. (There&#8217;s one guy in the UK that&#8217;s done that several times. He made one cloned product, (totally buggy)&#8230; made 1.5 million and left everyone sitting while he went on holiday to India. About 3 to 4 months later he was at it again.)</p>
<p>OH! For all of you out there trying to make it in the marketing business &#8212; You ever get those emails that say: &#8220;Sell my widget and keep 100% of the money, Paid directly to your PayPal account!&#8221;</p>
<p>Well guess what?! You do that and you just built up that guy&#8217;s eMail List and not YOURS! Cause &#8216;HE/SHE&#8217; gets the customer&#8217;s name and email address not you!</p>
<p>One guy lost hundreds of his customers, cause the GRUUROO he was promoting/selling for got all the names and email addresses of his list.</p>
<p>And that brings up another point that &#8216;piss me off&#8217; &#8212; You&#8217;ve <strong>PAID</strong> for the product, BUT you can&#8217;t have it <strong>until</strong> you give them your name and email address&#8230;. in a sense hold something you&#8217;ve already paid for for ransom. If You don&#8217;t put the info in there; you can&#8217;t download the product even thou you&#8217;ve paid for it!</p>
<p>YES! There are still a few good/honest marketers out there, but they are dam hard to find. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome&#8230;.. I&#8217;m an &#8220;Old Fart&#8221;, so I&#8217;m not going to be fancy here, but I am going to try and warn you about: &#8220;The Good &#8212; The Bad &#8212; And the UGLY!&#8221; Like rip-off eBay sellers and Brand Name Vendors &#8230; <a href="http://billoertel.com/blog/introduction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome&#8230;..</p>
<p>I&#8217;m an &#8220;Old Fart&#8221;, so I&#8217;m not going to be fancy here, but I am<br />
going to try and warn you about:<br />
&#8220;The Good &#8212; The Bad &#8212; And the UGLY!&#8221;</p>
<p>Like rip-off eBay sellers and Brand Name Vendors that sell junk.</p>
<p>And of course if I find something that&#8217;s good and at a good<br />
price I&#8217;ll let you know about that as well, and hopefully I might<br />
even come up with a product or two; (Who knows&#8230; stranger<br />
things have happened). <img src='http://billoertel.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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