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
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Our very first video, tentatively entitled "Traffic Geyser Heaven" is now in production!
We still have made no sales, so it looks like we've missed out on the $1 trial for Traffic Geyser. I wish I knew what Frank Kern had to do to get his absolutely 100% free trial of the service, and therefore some extra free publicity for the relaunch of his Mass Control marketing system. Not being in possession of Frank's contacts it looks like we'll have to make our own video, and promote it any way we can that costs $0 or less.
We waited for the weather to improve yesterday, and by late afternoon at least the rain had stopped so we shot about half an hour of footage. As you will see in a day or two conditions were against us, so we have a lot of editing to do. In the meantime I just recorded a screen capture video courtesy of the free version 3 of Camtasia. We are now sandwiched between Eric Holmlund and Joel Comm in the Google natural search rankings! Take a look here.
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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 than nothing at all!
To the best of my knowledge total sales still stand at $0.
Filed under Internet Marketing by on Dec 8th, 2007. Comment.
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 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.
Filed under Internet Marketing by on Dec 8th, 2007. Comment.
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 down, not even one measly dollar, until we can do so out of profits generated from this business
Filed under Internet Marketing by on Dec 8th, 2007. Comment.
