In our customary fearless fashion we have performed a thorough review of Frank Kern's Mass Control System, and here is our verdict:
Frank Kern's Mass Control Sucks
Now we haven't been provided with a free review copy by Frank, in much the same way as Michael Koenigs failed to provide us with a free trial of his Traffic Geyser service, so how can we be so hasty in our judgement given that the product doesn't launch for another hour. At least when we declared that Affiliate Video Brander sucks we had tried the product. We even made a video demonstrating it's shortcomings.
Well, it's all down to the marketing. We're very familiar with the way the pay per click game works, and if you've been following our progress here on our blog you'll see we learn fast. These days we're no slouches at the natural search game either. The fake review page, such as Frank Kern's http://www.masscontrolreview.com, is familiar territory for us. How can we sure it belongs to Frank you may ask. It's got his picture on it, sure, but as we well know using an affiliate video brander is all the rage these days. Well it's an educated guess, but Frank provides a link to the site in yesterdays press release "Mass Control Marketing Revealed By Maniac Surfer Frank Kern".
Now let's go take a look at the search listings in the run up to zero hour by first of all doing a Google search for Mass Control. MassControlReview.com is right there on the first page at number 5. This time let's search for Frank Kern Mass Control. You can see at number 4 in the paid search listings an ad entitled Frank Kern Sucks? Now this is a title we'll be going to use later on if we find a need to give our traffic an emergency boost. The thing is though, if you clicked on our ad you'll end up on this post, which is undeniably of the opinion that Frank Kern sucks. Now click on that other ad. You'll end up on another fake review page that says "A brutally honest review of Frank Kern's Mass Control." However for some strange reason there is an affiliate link at the bottom saying "Click Here to Invest in Mass Control AND get your Limited Bonuses" in big blue letters.
Excuse me just a moment. It's less than 45 minutes to launch, so I'm going to go away and click publish, and come back and finish this post after I've had a cup of coffee. Always assuming I'm not feeling too sick to drink it, of course.
P.S. I never did get to drink that cup of coffee. Not for the reason you're thinking though. I watched our search results for an hour or so, firing off emails with progress reports. We got to number 1 on Google for our longest tail target keyphrase before that hour was over.
Content with that I went for a walk with Dave, the amazing guy who does the music for our internet videos. It was good to clear the stench from our nostrils. The sun had already gone down, so we didn't make it all the way to Traffic Heaven. Nestled in the hills, gazing out towards the ocean with a fresh breeze in our faces, a nagging /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,28/extmode,week/date,2010-12-01/">cialis 20 mg tablets thought started at the back of my mind. Some people might find it disturbing, but in all the circumstances I found it remarkably refreshing.
"What if the masses don't want to be controlled?"
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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 /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,99999999/extmode,cal/date,2060-11-01/">cialis tablets for sale 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.
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A big white box finally arrived on my doorstep this morning! This contained "the complete first season" of the Next Internet Millionaire reality show including one DVD of special features. From the subtitle maybe another season or two can be expected?
The Secret Classroom home study course itself consists of 12 additional DVDs containing the full presentations of all 12 internet marketing gurus that appeared on the show. There is also a spiral bound book of "bullet points" from the 12 presentations. The DVDs are very professional, but some extra proof reading would have improved the book! Nonetheless there are some great quotes to be gleaned within its pages. Here is one from each of the gurus:
"Most people do not apply the information that they learn" – Mark Joyner
"Success leaves traces" – Armand Morin
"Prove to people that what you are selling them works" – Jeff Walker
"Attack the weakness in the leader's strength" – Marlon Sanders
"People tend to overestimate what can be done in a year and underestimate what can be done in 5-10 years" – Brad Fallon
"Find something that works. Replicate it. Scale it" – Kristopher Jones
"The second word in 'Viral Marketing' is marketing. Something can go viral and not make /component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,flypage.tpl/product_id,58/category_id,6/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,28/">generic brand for cialis any money" – Mike Filsaime
"Most people are 'afraid' of making videos" – Michael Koenigs
"Bad copy kills companies" – Ray Edwards
"If you can't be found, you are dead" – Dave Taylor
"It is more important to know a market, than to know about marketing" – Perry Marshall
"You are only as good as your reputation" – Rich Schefren
A more detailed review will follow when we've had a chance to look at the course DVDs, and also at the one time offer "Closed Door Sessions". These are interviews with 11 of the 12 gurus conducted by Heather Vale, apparently not seen or heard even by the contestants on the show (Heather didn't interview Kris Jones for some reason). I'm particularly interested to discover what Michael Koenigs has to say about using videos to generate traffic!
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Kasia and I have spent the last 10 days in Poland, the first night in Warsaw and the rest of the time in Lodz. We'd booked an apartment which came complete with a broadband internet connection, so we could keep blogging over the festive season. However the apartment proved to have one or two problems with regard to the other purpose for which we needed it – sleeping. It was right next to a restaurant, and therefore both noisy and smelly! We changed to a much more pleasant apartment which was due to have broadband connected before Christmas, but by time we left on the 29th TPSA had still not got the phones working, let alone the broadband internet or TV over IP.
With the conspicuous lack of consistent posting we've fallen back somewhat in the Google natural search rankings for some of the keyphrases we are targeting. For example we have dropped back from 9 to 16 for traffic geyser michael koenigs, and from 61 to 96 for traffic geyser. For Secret Classroom we are down to 167 from a peak of 85. Google has decided to rank a totally different page yet again. This time it has settled on the full blog, rather than an individual post.
However things have improved considerably for our own brand. Although this website has dropped back to 26 from a peak of 19 we are now firmly on the first page of the Google rankings for Traffic Heaven via a couple of different routes. Our Traffic Heaven YouTube video is now at number one, and our one page website at trafficheaventhemovie.com (which currently contains a grand total of 46 words) is at number 5.
For some strange reason we have also moved up to number 5 in /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,28/extmode,flyer/date,2300-10-01/">cialis 20mg tablets the Google rankings for blogger gurus. Actually we would feel far less embarrassed if Google decided to list us on the first page of a search for WordPress gurus, where we already seem to be at number 79 on AlltheWeb and 87 on Yahoo. This is slightly surprising in view of the fact that this post contains the first ever reference to the word "WordPress" we have made on this site. I guess it has come about because there is a link to WordPress.org in the "Register" section on every page on the site.
More videos from us soon, including a couple from Poland. Watch this space!
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We have now left a vast quantity of largely inaudible footage on our cutting room floor. (Sign up on the right if you'd like to see some of it). The video is now definitely entitled "Traffic Heaven", and you can see the /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,28/extmode,cal/date,2107-08-01/">medicament cialis first cut below. One or two more edits still need to be made and we need to add music, maybe also a few more English subtitles for the hard of hearing! Hopefully you can now get the basic idea though. Feel free to let us know what you think by adding your comments at the bottom of this page.
On the traffic front we are starting to get a trickle from the Google natural search results. For example somewhat unexpectedly, since we are not explicity targeting the term, we are already at number 2 in the Google rankings for the keyphrase handycam connection. For the terms we are targeting we have now risen to 9 for traffic geyser michael koenigs (ahead of both Eric Holmlund and Joel Comm 
), and 61 for just traffic geyser. We are still at number 1 for traffic geyser heaven and after starting at 60 four days ago we are now ranked 37 for the title of the video: Traffic Heaven. For Secret Classroom we have had a slight setback. Google has got a bit confused and now has us ranked at 147 for a Russian translation of our blog which no longer exists!
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It's now just over an hour since I posted the article about Traffic Geyser, and I've set SEO Elite off to do it's thing again. Where do we stand on the natural search rankings now? Well we are moving up for all sorts of keyphrases on a variety of search engines. Now I know that I have a weird sense of humour, but it for some strange reason it causes me great amusement to discover that we are currently ranked 17 on AltaVista for "blogger gurus" (without the quotes) and 21 on AllTheWeb for "adsense gurus" (again without the quotes). This is hugely entertaining, but is not really very likely to put bread on the table.
I have a feeling that it will be ultimately more relevant that my recent post is now ranked by Google at 16 out of 796 on a search for traffic geyser michael koenigs. Interestingly this is a few places ahead of Joel Comm's own YouTube review of Traffic Geyser. We are also in position 101 out of 238,000 for just traffic geyser. To round things off we have also inched up to 104 at Google on a search for Secret Classroom.
On the traffic front Google Analytics reports that we got a few clicks on the natural search results yesterday, a lot of which were undoubtedly just us testing things. We also got 13 referrals from the Warrior Forum. A tiny trickle of traffic is a whole lot better /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,99999999/extmode,flyer/date,2060-10-01/">who makes cialis than nothing at all!
To the best of my knowledge total sales still stand at $0.
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We urgently need to get one dollar or more into our currently empty PayPal account. We're going to try to do that by selling at least one copy of a very low cost product from one of the experts from the Secret Classroom. A quick bit of research revealed the ideal ebook – Joel Comm's Adsense Traffic Secrets.
To discover this little gem I headed over to 7dollaroffers.com and browsed around. As luck would have it a couple of products from Joel Comm himself are on sale at $7 dollars a pop. The advantage of 7dollaroffers.com in our current predicament is that 75% of all sales we make are paid directly into our PayPal account, which is just perfect. The disadvantage is that this is a statistical thing. On average we get 3/4 /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,28/extmode,view/extid,57/">cialis tadalafil side effects of all sales, but the first sale might go straight to the PayPal account of the owner of 7dollaroffers, and we'd still have nothing to pay for our 14 day Traffic Geyser trial. If that happened we'd have to wait for the second sale, and there's no telling how long that might take, because we're still only getting a trickle of traffic.
Is there any kind soul out there who could do us and our experiment a tremendous favour and buy Adsense Traffic Secrets or one of the other $7 products from us? Alternatively if you happen to know Michael Koenigs' phone number please give him a call and ask him if he could make us an irresistible offer that we cannot possibly refuse, even in our currently dire financial state.
Thanks very much in advance.
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Earlier today I received an email which included a link to some early Xmas gifts from Joel Comm. One in particular caught my eye. Only $1 for a 14 day trial subscription to Traffic Geyser which is the latest brainchild of Michael Koenigs, one of the experts featured in the Secret Classroom.
It sounds like the answer to our prayers. Loads of traffic and a front page Google listing "in a matter of hours". Now I know that I'm biased, but personally I don't think we're doing too badly in terms of getting on the front page of Google. We are certainly lacking traffic just at the moment though. Apparently the Traffic Geyser service makes it really easy to create videos then upload them to a series of Web 2.0 sites. It's the latest thing in traffic generation. Lots of people get to see your video, which generates huge quantities of traffic and you zoom up the Google natural search rankings in no time.
It sounds like just what we need and we're desperate to try it out but there is one small problem. We still haven't made a sale. We are determined not to put any money /component/page,shop.recommend/product_id,59/pop,1/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,1/vmcchk,1/">safe cialis down, not even one measly dollar, until we can do so out of profits generated from this business
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