Last W2
When I began this blog I was self-employed, although not entirely in an occupational area I wanted to stay in. I thought I would leave a digital paper trail toward my goal of doing for a living what I really wanted to do. Too long I have been doing what I do just for the pay check and not for the satisfaction of doing something because I actually enjoy doing it.
Ironically, I now have a real job with a real W2. I am now a teacher at a Technical College. It’s all doing about the same things, except now I have really good insurance and a much steadier paycheck. However as most of you will no doubt point out, it’s still not doing the things that I would really enjoy doing with my work day.
On the positive note, this should give extra negative motivation to break out of career I’m in and get into something I want to be in. For once in life I would like to do, think, ponder, and act about only one thing during my day.
So, in a way this is starting over in the quest for the REAL last W2.
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Pooh Marketing
My kids are into Pooh as any little kids are. My personal favorite is the classic, ‘The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh’ and we all spent hours watching it over and over. But, then came the much anticipated, Pooh’s Grand Adventure, which really stunk, in my opinion. That one was a poor attempt to capitalize on the earlier success.
What does this have to do with Internet Marketing? Probably nothing, but one particularly obnoxious tune in the movie was where the Friends were doubting where they were and Rabbit was sure that all they had to do was follow the map. Remember, though, that the map was just something hastily drawn up by Owl, the perceived authority.
Rabbit sang:
Never trust your ears
Your nose, your eyes
Putting faith in them
Is most unwise
Here’s a phrase you all
Must memorise
In the printed word
Is where truth liesIf it says so
Then it is so
If it is so
Well so it is
A thought’s not fit to think
‘Til it’s printed in ink
Then it says so
So it isNever trust that thing
Between your ears
Brains will get you nowhere fast
My dears
Haven’t had a need
For mine in years
On the page is where
The truth appears
That’s the mentality of normal people when it comes to the internet. If it says so, then it is so. They see Jenny lose weight and blog about it with the Dynamic Duo available to try for free and they eat it up.
Then Sally, then Jessica, then Becky, all the same pictures all the same stories, all the same offers. They see Brian and Jeff and Mike all rake in thousand’s with Obama grants and line up for theirs. If it says then it is so.
Aff Marketers are so quick to capitalize on this mass naivete to the detriment of us all. Fleece them for a few months with this, until they wise up, then fleece them with this other thing for a few months till they figure it out.
How long will it be before the common folk all say “Buyer Beware”?
The internet is a gold mine. The sheer population numbers involved stagger the imagination. Just a dollar from each person online today would more than set anyone up for life. If we kill the goose to get our golden eggs quicker, there may not be any more eggs for anyone, ever, and then won’t we look real stupid.
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There Are Thieves and Then There Are Thieves
Ripping off campaigns is s a fact of life in this business. Some clever, original marketer finds a technique that works well, then some idiot either outs the lander on a forum or chat room and every lazy punk kid marketer out there wants to just copy the thing verbatim and run the offers. That probably isn’t going to change as long as the internet contains advertising.
Then, there’s the process of finding someone successful to *cough* copy *cough* (ripoff). You do a Google search of your intended keywords and then start immediately clicking the Sponsored Ads in the right pane of Google SERPS. Got to check out the old competition, right? Well, yes that is true. Know thine enemy. Not everyone knows, though, or stops to consider that every click on those links costs somebody some cash. This is, after all, PPC — Pay Per Click.
While you’re looking for campaigns and landing pages to jack, you’re jerking the cash right out of your competitors pockets. And it’s a good chance that it’s probably somebody you pester with stupid n00b questions in the chat channels. You get stuff to steal, Google makes a little bit and the poor aff marketeer loses money and potential market share.
Tip 1: AT LEAST right click on the add, Copy Link Location (assuming you’re smart enough to use Firefox) THEN copy the link into the address bar. Strip the link down to its location and then go there and steal them blind.
OR better yet.
Tip 2: Download the SEOBook Toolbar. It’s a very useful toolbar that will automatically display backlinks, Yahoo linkdomain info, PR, etc. The best feature is on the Competition part: Show PPC Destination URLS. When it is active, the destination URL of the Google Sponsored Ads is listed under the ad. You can then easily visit and get ideas without costing the hard working, non-douchebag, aff marketer a ton of clicks for your laziness.
Get the toolbar and quit being quite as big a douche.