Sales Tactics and Free Reports
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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great post.
nice blog.
too bad my entrecard ad was refused.
*shrugs*
Can’t win em all.
sir jorge’s last blog post..Stop Trying To Sell Me Crap
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Mirjam Reply:
March 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
thank you Jorge,
To be honest, I only looked at the description of your blog and felt it was not relevant to this one, your last post is though! Better luck next time
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Another good one. Makes me think about actually giving it a shot. Keep it up.
Jim – Just a Guy’s last blog post..Off In My Own Little World
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Mirjam Reply:
March 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Hey Jim!
Thank you for your comments!
You just might
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I have email like this hundreds a day and I never take a look at them. I think, personally, it does not work at least for me
BaseGuardian’s last blog post..Heroes aren’t born, they?re built.
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BaseGuardian Reply:
March 5th, 2008 at 9:18 am
You know what, I’ll give it a try
BaseGuardian’s last blog post..Heroes aren’t born, they?re built.
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Mirjam Reply:
March 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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I’m definitely not into these types of “sales” schemes. I don’t really believe in the validity of them plus I feel like it’s a waste of my time. For these sales programs, I feel like people who participate get really involved within the first couple weeks, then either forget or lose interest to keep trying and that’s why these programs make money, because a lot of people stop doing, and more join on to the team.
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Yes, I agree with you. I also do not see why people would buy these kind of things.
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But I guess that if only 0.1% of millions of people the mail was send to buy the theng, you would make good money.
Btw, I did not buy the thing, sorry for your affiliate link
Olivier.
Olivier – Mindfulness guy’s last blog post..A handy mantra
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Mirjam Reply:
March 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hi Olivier,
just to be clear… the report is a free one, not trying to sell ya anything 
thanks for commenting
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These sound like good, sound tactics to employ. I think one of the biggest mistakes made in internet marketing is trying to take short cuts. If you set things up well from the beginning, it holds you in good stead for the long term.
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Mirjam Reply:
May 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I do agree with you there, too many people come to affiliate marketing thinking they will be rich instantly without having to work at all. When that does not happen, they turn around and scream scam faster than anything else.
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