[quote] I DO believe it’s a GOOD IDEA to subscribe to email newsletters for market research. I am getting lot of product ideas from those promotional emails. Here is what I have done in my email program:

1) I created a seperate Identity in my Outlook express email program. (File->identities-> manage identities). I named that identity as ‘Marketing Research’. Then setup a gmail account exclusively for this purpose.

2) I created seperate folders for PLR offers Master Resale offer, product launch announcements, etc.

3) Then Created an email filter to forward incoming emails to related folders automatically.

4) Every day I spend around 30 minutes to scan through those folders.

This is what I am doing with that information:

When I browse the PLR offers folder, I can see all the PLR products and who is started the offer and originator of the PLR package etc. If its a new offer, I immediately purchase that PLR product and promote it into my list ASAP.

When I browse new product pre-launch offers folder, I immediately read their salespage and see whether its marketable and if I found its very hot, then immediately post a work in RentACoder to create a duplicate of that software/script with few added features.

I don’t post all of my techniques here.

Rick, I am a regular reader of your posts, but just cannot agree with you. Ross’s advice is NOT “the worst.” [/quote]

ME: I’m not saying I agree with it all, but it reinforces what Ross was saying about sorting and cataloging. Nothing wrong with having a large database as long as it doesn’t take too much time to manage.

Hope you had a nice Father’s Day, Ross.

And if they are – they can still listen to the audio.

I hope you appreciate the satire and humor intended.

You’ll get plenty of traffic from this video – and a healthy debate is good conversation.

http://rickbutts.com/268/ross-goldberg-worst-advice/

One thing I should make clear is that we all have thoughts about how to do business online. Even if you aren’t “teaching” others how to do it, you think your way is best.

It can always be beneficial to remove your blinders and try to think of something from the perspective of other people.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Rick based upon the comments about him from mutual friends, but… My way is not the same as his and his way is different from Stompernet’s and Stompernet’s methods are different from…

I could go on and on here.

They all work for specific people.

There is no “one” system that will work for everyone.

You can make videos for people, but what if one of your customers is blind?

You can write an amazing book, but what if someone is extremely dyslexic and has a huge amount of trouble reading?

Your system works for you, it also works for your customers, but never forget the refunds you get from people that claim “you suck”. Your system didn’t work for them.

No matter, the educational value of being on many successful marketers lists is very beneficial, and many of them do provide a lot of content…

But the people who throw mud at Stompernet are often the same people who secretly wish they could afford to sign up… I know I once did, even though they did provide a lot of useful content early in the launch, but everything they offered was way out of my range and I began to resent the fact that they were offering me the “key” to my online treasure chest and I had no way of getting it short of selling my wife’s van and renting my dog out to the neighbor…

My thinking, too has changed since I have met many of the Stompernet faculty and have done calls with one of them. My income has increased to the point where I could afford to sign up if that was the direction I needed to send my business.

I disagree with Alice, though, on the aspect of not learning anything that you could use on a niche product from an IM marketer’s newsletter…
Since tactics to makes sales work in almost every niche and can be easily reformulated for knitting supplies and golf clubs. In fact they tend to work better!

That is my buck fifty’s worth!

Micheal

If you read my post, you will see that I agreed with you about following 2 – 3 specific marketers that you can trust.

I also stated fairly clearly that you should not allow every marketer to mail you every day to your main email, but to keep them at a separate email address where you can check them at your leisure to see what is going on around you.

You can suffer from paralysis of analysis or being locked in a closet, I prefer to analyze what I choose.

I do also need to say that a newbie doesn’t belong subscribing to every list until they are comfortable with their level of knowledge. Only then will they be able to see through the offer and find the marketing message.

As far as using a “dofollow” philosophy, this blog is not here for authority, it is here for me to voice my opinions. My “Authority” blog will use the “dofollow” philosophy. Not this one.

My specialty is traffic and I believe that a blog doesn’t have to fit one standard.  I think I’ll stick with things the way I like them, but thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks,
Ross