Adland Digest #436 - Feb 04, 2005: are you a follower or a leader?

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                                         Vol. 1 issue #436 Feb 04, 2005

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Food For Thought (2)
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1. Gurus and the devil’s advocate
2. Being a Business Person

From: Kindra Martinenko

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1. Re: Monopolizer

Alexander Sullivan, Amalia Sotiriadou

2. Re: Russ Wilson/Webintel - Digest #435

Mark Wade

3. Re: Spyware???

Sandra Hicks

4. Re: Is Reality Millioms A Scam?

Rudolph Burgzorg

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1. RSS Feeds

From: Kindra Martinenko

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Time for another Digest folks! I hope you are all enjoying reading it and
participating in it as I am enjoying moderating it :) You know, I have published |
other newsletters in the past, and it usually feels like you are just “shouting in the
wind” for all the response they got. Perhaps it was my fault, I don’t know…
Certainly Bogdan did a wonderful job eliciting your participation in this Digest and
I truly hope it keeps on coming!

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Gurus and the Devil’s Advocate

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I like to play the “devil’s advocate” quite often. I find that debating an issue back and

forth gives people a much better understanding of the “whole picture”. Plus, I have

never learned to take someone’s word at face value – it goes against the grain!

This is one reason that I’m quite sceptical when a “guru” tells me that he (or she) has

the perfect solution for me to make a lot of money. My question for the day then is:

How much do you believe in the “methods” that are making the rounds on the

Internet that will make you rich and successful overnight – or at least within a year

or two – how eager are you to try them and what have your results been?

When it comes right down to it are you a follower or a leader?

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Re: Being a Business Person

From: Kindra Martinenko

I would have to say that yes, I am a "business-person". Not so much in my

schooling, but in how I conduct my business in a professional, ethical, and hard-

working manner. I think that on the Internet, a good business person is willing to

reach out to customers rather than sit and wait for them to come knocking on your

virtual door. You still have to connect in some way, and never let people forget that

there is a human being with real-life decisions to make behind that computer.

I recently was told by my eye doctor that if I didn't cut back on Internet use, then my

eye-pressure would be aggravated...since I am getting close to having Glaucoma, a

degenerative eye disease. Consequently, I had to tell my entire Ezine subscriber base

that I would no longer be publishing my Ezine, which was easily taking me about 15

hours per issue to research for and write (it was a substantial ezine). Luckily for me,

I have a great subscriber base with little attrition and I frankly, at times I didn't think

that anyone was reading my newsletters. After I sent out the email about having to

discontinue the Ezine, I got an overwhelming response from people letting me know

that their thoughts were with me and how much they enjoyed my Ezine. That really

made me feel good about what I was contributing and reaffirmed my decision 6

years ago to become a part-time Internet Marketer.

So I guess the big difference between a brick-laying business person and an Internet

Business person is a computer sitting in between you and the customers. I see the

Internet as a tool for helping network and reach out to people all around the world.

Business on the Net is conducted at the speed of thought, rather than through board

meetings, brick laying, and hand-shakes.

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Re: Monopolizer

From: Alexander Sullivan

I commented on the article that was recently written concerning Monopolizer. I too

thought it suspicious that a company could make good on the claims it provide PAID

signups to my business. It's an idea that could work if the people involved are

ethical.

As of this date, I've received several emails from the company informing me that my

order is soon to be fulfilled and they wanted to make to sure my URL was correct.

I've done this process at least 5 times with each "update".

Now, their email address is no longer valid. It appears that once again, the internet

company has been scammed by unsavory characters.

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Re: Monopolizer

From: Amalia Sotiriadou

Guess what? Much to my shame, I have to admit that I bought into Monopolizer’s

claims too. When I first saw the site, I thought: “This is too good to be true” and my

second thought was “if it is too good to be true then it probably isn’t true”.

Unfortunately I had a third thought – the fee they charged wasn’t too big and IF they

happened to be telling the truth, I might come out way ahead. Fully aware that I was

probably kissing my money goodbye, I kissed my money goodbye. For three months

they kept promising and I kept waiting, They even said they mailed me some money

from a parallel promotion they did in order to compensate me for the delay. Needless

to say, I never saw that check. The last letter I received was sometime in December

and I haven’t be able to reach them since, Scam? Technical problems? I have no idea

but I would certainly not recommend them.

Amalia

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Re: Russ Wilson/Webintel - Digest #435

From: Mark Wade

Hey Russ,

I too appreciate your feedback.

I guess it's just the "idealistic" inner child in me LOL. I suppose I would rather have

seen you with http://webintel.com/ than a redirect as far as branding goes. That

would, to me, be more in tune with "I'm certain that you know the importance of

'Branding' so that you stand out from the crowd, and gain recognition."

If you click on that link BTW - that site is being auctioned off as of today (01/31/05).

Plus, the pop-ups are annoying (which could send sales away) and it doesn't appear

you have control over them, I may be wrong. Do these pop-ups have anything to do

with you or what you advertise? Aren't they Bravenet's?

I'm not a member of Search Estate, got a lot going on elsewhere that I'm happy with,

so, how much control over what shows on that page do you have?

Well, that certainly looks like it boils down to control eh?

I'd personally rather be able to change whatever I wanted to on my page.

That being said, let me be the last to tell you that change is necessary if it’s working

for you. If, as you asked, to make it better from a salespoint...

Other than that, the page looks like it should be just fine.

Have a great day,

Mark

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Re: Spyware???

From: Sandra Hicks

I use Zone Alarm and Ad-AwareSE. I got these right from the site. I know that Zone

Alarm stops a lot of things from coming into my computer, I think. Now you have

me wondering. Will be interesting to see the comments from this thread.

Sandra Hicks

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Re: Is Reality Millions A Scam?

From: Rudolph Burgzorg

Digest Members,

This question was posted on scam.com. My reply is as follows:

Forum Members,

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If you click on this link

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It is called "Interesting Article", and is on the left menu under the "Questions and

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