The sequel to our Traffic Heaven video is now available on YouTube (or just scroll down a bit to see it!). We have given it the title "Traffic Heaven is in Your Mind".
There are a couple of reasons for this. In our efforts to be on the first page of Google for our own brand name we find ourselves competing with lots of sites selling the 1968 first album by the British "psychedelic rock" group Traffic – Heaven in is Your Mind. This came as something of a surprise to me because in Britain the LP was entitled Mr. Fantasy on its UK release in December 1967! The album only achieved cult status in the US at the time, but the original Rolling Stone review was prescient in declaring the album "one of the best from any contemporary group".
The second reason is that, as regular readers of our blog will know, in our view success at internet marketing is largely in your mind.
The video includes more musings from the Traffic Heaven secret headquarters on how Frank Kern managed to get a completely free trial to Traffic Geyser to promote the relaunch of his Mass Control marketing system, and a plea for Michael Koenigs to give us one too. After all, our need is much greater than Frank's! We also entertained a completely unexpected visitor. Take a look:
Many thanks to Liz for allowing us to include the conversation we had about the absurdities of starting a business with no cash on top of a hill at Christmas.
Filed under Audio Visual by on Jan 20th, 2008. Comment. 
This may be slightly outside our current remit, but in another capacity I just bought the recently relaunched Affiliate Video Brander (Wealth Warning! – That is an affiliate link). Imagine, if you will, that our reviews are admired throughout the Internet Marketing fraternity for their honesty and thoroughness, and that we were offered a review copy free of charge by Eric Holmlund and Michael Nicholas. Here is our verdict:
Affiliate Video Brander Sucks
We created a video to demonstrate why we say this so bluntly. Filmed partly on location at the Traffic Heaven Secret Headquarters, and partly screen capture, here is the first rush:
I don't know about you, but for the last few days my inbox has been bombarded by people promoting Affiliate Video Brander. I wonder if any of them have actually tried using it? Now I'm also getting emails from marketers enticing me with all the wonderful extra bonuses I'll get if I buy from them, as long as I can wait until January 30th, when everyone who has bought resale rights is allowed to start selling their own version of the product.
The resale rights licence states that "WHILE THIS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN TESTED AND PROVEN TO RUN ACCURATELY, IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF ANY USER OR COMPUTER INCOMPATIBILITY ISSUES, THE RESELLER ASSUMES COMPLETE LIABILITY" so I guess that means the buck doesn't stop on Eric or Michael's desk after January 29th. It will be very interesting, not to mention entertaining, to see how this one develops over the next few days and weeks.
P.S. I clicked the "Publish" button about 10 minutes ago. This page is currently ranked 114 in the Google natural search rankings for the keyphrase affiliate video brander and is at number 20 for affiliate video brander review. Our new YouTube video is ranked at number 6 on a Google Video search for affiliate video brander
Filed under Audio Visual by on Jan 25th, 2008. 1 Comment.
As our regular readers will know, here at WWW Gurus we like to keep close tabs on our position in the natural search rankings. In the course of this research I stumbled upon a wonderful blog post entitled Affiliate Video Brander – What a piece of …
Since reading it I've been wondering what Dave had in mind for those dots in his title. Maybe you've been asking yourself that question too? To try and settle the issue once and for all I've set up our very own Affiliate Video Brander poll, which you can see over to the right of this post. Please cast your vote and let us know your opinion on this contentious matter. We'll keep you updated as the voting progresses.
Unfortunately the Internet Marketers Anonymous web site seems to be having some connectivity issues at the moment. Who knows, maybe another marketer with the same host is having a big launch today? Nonetheless I urge you to keep on trying if you can't get through at first. The post is the best thing I've read on the internet for a very long time. In case you have problems accessing the site, here is the video from YouTube that led me there:
On to the results of my natural search research. Currently our YouTube video about Affiliate Video Brander has moved up to number 5 on a Google Video search for affiliate video brander. YouTube limits videos to 10 minutes duration, so we have uploaded a longer version of the video to Google Video itself. After being processed at Google the quality is less than wonderful, but nevertheless it is ranked at number 7. Dave's video is ranked at 8.
Filed under Audio Visual by on Jan 26th, 2008. 6 Comments.
A buddy of mine bought an e-book, then an e-course too. Later he bought some more. He learned that you have to give people what they are hungry and thirsty for. You have to give them what they are desperate for.
Then he learned that you have to put fear into their hearts. Into their guts. If they don't buy the latest offer the price will go up. If they don't buy it now, it will be gone forever.
He worked his fingers to the bone at the keyboard of his PC, 3 hours a night for 4 weeks. Three different niches, three different sites. He checked his PayPal account:
"My Account Overview"
"PayPal Balance"
$0.00
As he types, he has no yacht, no affiliates, no list to speak of.
As I type, there are 4 on the DOC-MS ™ list.
It is not a limited class.
We have no “downsells” or “second chance offers”.
If you want a head start come to http://www-gurus.com/blog.
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Filed under Internet Gurus by on Jan 29th, 2008. Comment.
On January 4th we drove to Putsborough Beach on the Atlantic Coast of North Devon to check out what the forecasts suggested would be some excellent surf. We also took along our Sony Handycam to see how it performed when trying to film moving targets. You can see the results in the video below.
We also happened to catch on film Ralph Freeman, bassist with local band The Universe Inspectors, arriving and then catching a short ride on his trademark yellow board. Nothing unusual about this you may think, but Ralph is no ordinary surfer. He is not generally to be found sharing a modest beach break with my kids and I, along with several dozen other hardy souls. More often he can be seen being towed into giant waves such as Oyster Falls off Downend Point at Croyde, which had been working nicely earlier that same day . Ralph is also reputed to be the first person ever to surf the reef just past the point from Croyde, which is named Ralph's Reef in his honour.
The other unusual thing is that the summer before last Ralph broke his neck whilst surfing Croyde at low tide, and was initially paralysed. It's great to see that a local legend has apparently made a full recovery from his injuries.
Many thanks to Ralph for giving us permission to share this extremely rare footage with you.
Filed under Surfing by on Jan 29th, 2008. 1 Comment.
