I've never been disrespectful to anyone who was not FIRST distrespectful of me. If you'd like me to show respect to you do the same and I will always reciprocate. It might be obvious to you, but it does work. I'm still curious to see how much money you have made with all of your supposed "Knowledge" of Internet Marketing. If you have not made at least six figures, I really think you are, as they say in Texas All hat and no cattle. Prove me wrong. Brandon PS. When I blow my own horn I want to sound like a friggin 747 passing over your head.
Quote from Brandonf: I've never been disrespectful to anyone who was not FIRST distrespectful of me. If you'd like me to show respect to you do the same and I will always reciprocate. And that has what to do with the points I made above to your question? Except to avoid your issues once again?] It might be obvious to you, but it does work. I'm still curious to see how much money you have made with all of your supposed "Knowledge" of Internet Marketing. If you have not made at least six figures, I really think you are, as they say in Texas All hat and no cattle. Prove me wrong. The issue is not what you used to make. It is that you are a spammer in "sheep's" clothing. It is somewhat pitiful how low you seem to have fallen. I am relatively convinced of your health ailments, and feel much sorrow over this. But that does not justify you being the Artful Dodger. If you need money, perhaps you should ask people here. Maybe EliteTrader would give you a short-term free sponsorship while you got back on your feet, based on your history. Then at least you would be legit. PS. When I blow my own horn I want to sound like a friggin 747 passing over your head. You do. That is the problem. And now, you are mainly dragging this out to continue rambling on seeking more publicity. That is why I stopped posting about your trying to build your brand and pretend to be a "teacher.". EliteTrader deserves you. Happily, only a few people seem to be clinging to your stuff, a few starting to realize they are not going to be making much money. Perhaps one or more are your alias. I still don't know whether to feel sad or frustration with your situation. I wish you were completely healed and free of this. But I also wish you would stop with freeloading. Frankly, talking to you makes me feel guilty, as I mostly want you to have a happy life. But I also wish you would respect other people's business without pickpocketing. The most likely thing I will do, is eventually put you on ignore. I see you posted before I finished editing... *sigh*
Yep me, Nato, the Warsaw pact, the trilateral commission. The most powerful forces on earth! btw, somehow even though "no one" is "paying attention anymore" I seem to still be getting about 100 views or so to the main modules and my PM box is full. You are trying to pass yourself off as an expert on Internet Marketing and slandering me by claiming that I am a spammer here on ET. I'm simply asking you to back up your words.
Aren't you supposed to be defending people who rape little girls over at http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=150707 ?
If I bring nothing but aggrivation to your life I would encourage you to go that route. In terms of money I was pretty clear in a thread about a month ago that having had cancer followed by the flesh eating strep pretty much wiped out my savings. I've been lucky to have had some site's that continue to bring in money and to have maintained a few monty management clients as well. Last year's trading was the "worst" year I had in $$ terms, but I was happy in terms of what I did on a relative basis for my clients. In terms of my own finances right now I owe the hospital about $130,000. I'm told that I'd likely be able to sign up for, and get, medicare coverage, but I am still capable of making money and so my ego simply won't let me do it. I have no problem with the many people who are truely in need who are helped by the program though, it's just my choice. Right now if I wanted to run a sponsorship on ET I could probably swing it as I've still managed to bring in more money in the last three months then the average person in my home state does in a year. I appriciate your concern for me and the community, but I really think you have jumped to the wrong conclussion about me. In terms of this particular project you can go back and read multiple times where I have been very open as to exactly why I'm proving the info here. As a side note this has not probably been the most productive thing I have ever done in terms of promoting my trading website. People can come here and obviously draw the conclussion that I'm a salesman. It's not hard to go from that too well he just knows sales. It's not true, but since the business I'm building (both trading and home based business) is not really targeted towards ET I really don't care either. I'm posting here honestly trying to help people. Obviously I'm hoping to help myself in the process, but my biggest concern really is to give back to the community. I think I have spent more then enough of my time going back and forth with you and sparky, so from now on I'm going to stay to task. Brandon
Very cool keyword tool for those of you who are bidding on keywords with any of the PPC engines. check out spyfu. I have no interest or stake of any type what so ever in Spyfu. They do have an affiliate program, but I'm not signed up for it. I do use the program and have found it to be very useful .
1) Medicare or medicaid. Don't worry about ego. Your tax dollars paid for this program in the first place 2) You may also find some relief in negotiating with the hospital to settle the debt for a lower amount. There are usually debt counselors or possibly lawyers good at this.
1) My bad. If it would have come down to life or death obviously I'd have signed up for all the help I could get. Luckily though I have the ability to create products that really do help people, and I'm a loudmouth, and even when I'm on my back in a hospital I can get people to look at me. I've also been very lucky to have met great friends, people who typically charge a lot of money for writting a sales letter or setting up a back end and they went ahead and did it for me on credit until I could get back on my feet. 2) I did that. When I found out that insurance companies typically only pay about 50% to 60% of what an uninsured person pays I got on it and basically told them that they'd have to work something out with me or I'd have to declare chapter 7, which in my mind is probably right up there with dying in terms of things I don't want to do, and with it being unsecured debt they would not see anything. They cut a deal, and if anyone else ever finds themselves in a similar situation PLEASE feel free to get ahold of me and I will help you. I got nothing to sell, and I actually would never even sell a product in that market because I just feel like I'd be taking money from little old ladies, and that's not what I'm about. Anyway thank you for the feedback and advise. Take care.
<b>Testing Your Google PPC Campaigns on the Cheap</b> So wouldnt it be nice if you could test your Google Campaigns at about a 30 to 50% discount and then know for sure if your Google Campaign is gonna work before you spend the big bucks on Google? If you got have a brain your nodding your head in agreement and have concluded that yes, that would be great. If you have the brain of a flea you also realize that most PPC courses are not worth the digital paper they are written on, and so your more than a little skeptical. ------- The above intro sales pitch was actually writen for your benefit. I'd suggest you look at it several times and learn from it. I ain't got nothing to sell, so I'm not gonna spend the hour and a half to two hours to put together a proper piece of sales copy though. Now I'm gonna spare ya'll the sales pitch crap and just get down to how ya do it. Read the above though, as it's a great way to lead a buyers interest into what you are gonna offer. What I got is not brain surgery or anything, it's simply Yahoo. Here is what I have found with Yahoo. More important than what I have found, it's also what some of my friends who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on PPC have also found. Simply this. While Yahoo does not scale nearly as well as Google does (ie your gonna have a hard time spending even $1000 per day for an active term on Yahoo, Google can do for you before lunch) it's actually a lot cheaper, between 20% and 50%, I've seen some keywords up to 80% cheaper on Yahoo then they are on Google, but in most cases you save about 20 to 50% on the keyword. The next cool thing about Yahoo PPC is that they are actually, at least in the tests I've done and those that my friends have done, a tiny bit more responsive then Google traffic. But every little thing you can do to boost your business by a few percentage points can really add up if you let the effects of compounding work for you. The two big drawbacks of Yahoo is, as I mentioned above, that it does not scale nearly as well as Google. Frankly though if your not spending several thousand dollars a month on PPC that is probably not a concern for you yet. The biggest drawback is that the initial setup on Yahoo Search Marketing is rather of a pain in the ass, at least that's been my experience. One cool thing with Yahoo is that they have coupons all over the web. You can find a lot of coupons for $50 to $100 worth of traffic witih Yahoo, and in a lot of cases they even let you use them if your already a subscriber (something the Google gods wouldnt be caught dead doing). If you find, for example, a $75 Yahoo certificate they might say, as a current subscriber, that after you spend something between $75 annd $150 then they will give you the coupon. I know guys that have their assistent look for Yahoo coupons every morning because if getting a free $75 to $150 in traffic can send your costs plummeting without having to resort to cutting costs in places youd rather not cut them. The thing with the Yahoo campaign that is great is that if your campaign is not very effective in Yahoo's network the chances are it's gonna be a flop on Google too (remember I said that Yahoo's traffic is a little more responsive) and a flop on Google is more expensive. I'm also planning to test MSN, but I have not done so yet so I don't have any results to give you on that, but I have heard that MSN traffic and results are pretty comparable to Yahoo but cheaper still. I've heard (but dont know yet 1st hand) that they are slightly less responsive, so it turns out that both MSN and Yahoo will cost you about the same amount. But just be aware that with this I am giving you second hand information. Finally before anyone's panties get all up in a bunch I don't have anything to sell you to teach PPC tactics. The truth is that most of the stuff out there is a scam because the algorithms change so fast. Most of what is on the market is "black hat" stuff that works for a few months and then gets you booted from the network once they catch you. (Yes, the stuff produces KILLER results up until they point you are banned..but what the hell is the point of getting some nice short term gains if you screw yourself out of long term profits....I know, I know, I know, someone shoulda taught the boys on Walll Street that lesson..but I digress here). I also don't have an affiliate product to promote. In fact there are really only two courses out there that I feel are worth what you pay for them. Once is about $80, the other is my buddies that costs $2000. The $2000 course is obviously completly inapropriate for anyone but the big dogs like riskfreetrading, but he already knows EVERYTHING cos he read it in a free ebook or ezine, so he might not get anything from it either. The best advice I can really give you with the PPC stuff is just to tool around with it. Follow the advice of the posts I have given you guys going back a few pages, and be sure to know the rules that Google and Yahoo and the gang use. If you know the rules, and you figure out what they want, you will do very well. With Google the key thing to remember is the only thing they give a shit about is the USERS experience. They really don't give a damn about the advertisers (as my friend who spends millions of dollars a year on PPC found out....for the record I have a correction to make on the $7million figure too. He spent that much 2 years ago when his biggest niche was very very hot and very very expensive. Now he's down to about $4.5 or so. He's also told me that he is of the opinion that TWITTER is the next big thing. He's a guy who has sold over $100million in infoproducts of every sort you can imagine on the web since 2001, so I tend to default to him, even if I think something is a little silly...like TWITTTAAAAH. Brandon PS. Here is an example of the scale that Google allows you to move up to vs what Yahoo can let you do. I've got a friend who sells weight loss products. He has no problem spending a few grand a day on Google's search and content networks. However with Yahoo he struggles to get above $600/$700 bucks. Now that's still a lot of traffic and nothing to sneaze at, but Google could probably spend $7000-$10,000 per day for him if he wanted to. PPS. When you set your campaigns up be sure to set up seperate campaigns for the search network and the content network. Google's default is to have you running in both at the same time, and the stupid tax for keeping that default setting usually will run you 10 to 20%.
Well it seems that our mutual friend Common Sense has passed way. He died in Minnesota, but few attended the wake because the buses would not start. Minnesota now requires that all diesel run on a 2% biodeisel blend. This is a great idea except that it gets cold in Minnesota, and when it gets cold biodesil turns to GEL. Turns out, the engines on school buses wont run on gel, imagine that! So because the buses wont run on gel when it gets cold in Minnesota several Minnesota school districts had to cancel classes. Can't start the buses, kids can't get to school if you can believe that. But, that's not actually the worst part. School nurses had to treat several children for hypothermia because they got stranded on buses who's heaters wouldn't run since the engines don't run on gel! Imagine that! So the solution they have come up with in Minnesota is to let the buses idil. Yep, you know, run them 24/7 and use more of those evil fossil fuels that they are so bad for us that we should let our children become hypothermic and miss class. The lawmakers in Minnesota think that this JEL is such a good idea, that they plan to eventually require all diesel sold in Minnesota to run on twnety percent blend! Yep, JENIOUS!!! With a friggin J!