Sideshow Marketing

After waiting for 10 or 15,000 emails to arrive flogging Traffic Secrets 2.0,  Voice of Reason Rick Butts takes on the super-affiliate army pitching legend John Reese’s latest bag of tricks.

Rick seems to think that affiliates are just whores for promoting a product that returns them a commission … if they compromise their principles for personal gain.  Somehow he can tell who’s sincere and who’s not.

He admits that John Reese 1.0 had something good to offer in 2005.  “It was a seminal work of great value.”  Rick doesn’t seem to know or care about what’s in TS2.0.  He “simply cannot imagine a “course” being worth more than a couple hundred bucks”.

OK.  I get it … I guess.  It’s not ok to sell a load of crap - unless it’s only a couple of hundred bucks.

Does it make sense to pay for something that saves the business owner time and trouble enough to justify the $ outlay?  Or is the Free University of the Web with its massive time investment the only way to go?

In less enlightened business universes, one doesn’t expect to purchase a million dollar business for free or $47 or $4997.  But then I guess there aren’t as many magical beans available outside IM.

Dr. Mani weighs in with a prescription for his friend John Reese and fellow gurus.  Child-like is good and childish is bad.  So “man up” if you’re a pro.

It would seem that working at the controversial edge gets response, while playing nice and polite gets lost in the noise. Is John really that thin-skinned, or is this all part of marketing the message?

Read the good doctor’s  Rx at  Blogging for Influence and Attention.

Don’t take my word for it folks.  Read John Reese’s grilling of Mark’s canard about Apocalypse 2.0.

The Death of Twitter joins the ever-lengthening obit list on the www.

So stop spamming for fun and profit, and follow the gladiators in their fight to the death of (your choice here).