i have noticed a certain shift in internet marketing ezines. Some few years back you could subscribe to an internet marketing ezine and recieve reports and tips on getting more exposure to your site. Nowadays, the same "gurus" are sending us mails which are just cleverly crafted to sound as if they are giving you free information but at the end of the email its just a cloaked affiliate link wanting you to buy something. You wil find that in the same month the guru will have "discovered" (am beginning to dislike this word ) 10 diifferent report/software etc which he/she promises you "amazing" results to getting traffic and making you more money if you only "buy it now at the special introductory price before it goes up". You get to wonder if they ever use them anyway I was looking at some of the past emails i have recieved from one of the "gurus" in August and these are some of the lines he uses: "Time is running out...Click Here NOW:" "This Offer Good For Next 24 Hours Only.." "Get Trained By The World's Top Internet Marketers.." "Would you be interested in learning more? If so, click on the link below." (cloaked affiliate link) "Act quickly or you'll lose out!.." and the same "guru" is using a no reply email which looks like "do-not-reply@websitename.com" What if i want to ask more questions???
This is what marketers get your email for, to sell you more stuff. If their first offer didn't help you don't expect much more from the second. Cheers.
whatever happened to teaching us for free then recommend a product. in fact it has reached a point where you read the word "amazing", "special", "discover" and your brain automatically goes off from buying mode. I think since we people learning stuff about internet marketing are so much used to being sold something that some of this "trigger" words have been overused that they have lost their power
I disagree. Those "marketers" are mostly targeting to newbies, and believe me there are so many - millions - of them out there, enough to make this crap business work.
I was thinking the same thing recently. Seems IM is more and more about marketing the IM niche to each other. There are so many newbies who have come into the game through the wrong routes (ie, buying a get rich quick ebook on ebay), and so think that the way to do it is to sell on the same book, or claim they have found the "secret". Even some "gurus".. although I'd rather call them veterans are selling this magic secret to riches - http://underamillionaireswings.com/.
The "superstars" in mainstream marketing aren't usually anything special. There are 18 year old kids making more than them but they don't have a fan base of thousands of newbie webmasters who they helped make $5. If you look around this business you'll notice the sheer number of people happy to take .10 cents a post or some other lowball figure. If they make $3 a day with some "gurus" material they turn into fans for life and praise them all over. More fluff than stuff.
I usually recieve mail from some reputed sites like marketing profs & CRM gurus, though it has some good information but at the end I usually find a promotion or event tags there. However I don't feel it bad as the content worth that much.