I am sure many of you have already come across several different “quick money making programs” and “get rich schemes”. And I am sure you must have seen hundreds of sale letters and sales pages that go on for ever and ever, repeating a zillion times just how great the product is and how miserable your life will stay if you don´t get that excellent product instantly.

Personally I am getting really tired of all these sales pages and emails, I think they are just too long. Boring and repetitive in order to really work, and I almost instantly click away. Thing is… they don´t disappear.

More and more of them keep popping up, so there must be people around who are making big bucks with them. Proof that showing long annoying and repetitive sales pages actually do work.

A sales email I received this morning got me thinking.

These guys are paying a $1.00 for every person you find who will download their report for free, plus another $0.50 on second tier. And of course the report is about “making money through affiliate marketing” or really nothing more than yet another long sales pitch for an upcoming clickbank product we are really not going to be able to live without … and yes, if you promote their free report, your clickbank ID will be nestled in future updates, giving another potential commission income.

Anyways, I did download the report to have a quick read through and see what they were about, and found it was actually pretty funny to see how they put at work the same method they write about and recommend, warming people up and making them exited about a future release soon to come.

Giving away their big “secret” on how to sell, thus doing the exact same thing with the free report itself. Pretty clever really but yet, I just can´t seem to shake the feeling that many of the sales practises online are focussed on selling stuff to people who don´t really need the product in the first place and actually should not spend their money on those products, being better off focussing on things that really matter.

If you want to have a look at the report, feel free to do so and let me know what you think of these tactics.

Is it the way to go in order to become a successful affiliate marketer or do you feel that real personal recommendation, the more honest and sincere road, is the one to success?

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Over the last few days I have come to realise just what a fabulous medium Blogging is, especially the bloggers with many visitors have a tremendous power. What they decide to do with that power is of course up to them, but I would like to take the time to applaud one of them.

I will be adding others to the list further down the line, whenever I come across a blogger who is trying to help others in need, in order to try and help spreading the word.

Gary R. Hess of ImpNerd is auctioning off 4000 EC´s on Ebay and donating the money to Unicef. Now, I had a little look on Ebay and his EC´s are only worth around $10.00 at the moment, a ridiculously low price if you come to think of the amount of publicity you can get with 4000 EC´s, so if you are in need of EC´s or just want to be nice, please bid!

He has recently added a note saying that anyone who wants to donate EC´s for this cause can contact him in order to alter his auction, so if you have EC´s lying around and want to do some good with them, please go and visit his blog.

Maybe, between all of us, we can make his auction the biggest ever!

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