Such An Easy Decision...

You send me a mail with the header Confirmed: Your 1st Sale Online and there had better be a commission figure inside. But no, affiliate DrSuzanneG decided to promote Affiliate Silver Bullet with that headline and then cut and paste a standard sales email into the body. Bye bye Dr Suzanne, ggaf_hm list at aweber, Dr Jon and Affiliate Silver Bullet as a whole.

Seriously, that would have had to be some ace piece of copywriting to overcome the disappointment I felt at being suckered into opening that mail up. A sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach at being tricked again isn't the way you want to maintain our relationship.

Meanwhile, I'm still in two minds about Conversions Confidential. Nice piece of sales literature - I'm sure there are things I could learn from it. But George Brown's endorsement isn't worth what it once was. After all, he tried selling me Miracle Traffic Bot and SEO Linkvine. And he doesn't answer my emails when I tell him what's garbage and what's not. On the other hand, he films his videos in exotic locations with reasonable production values, which lends credibility when compared with unshaved hoodie-wearers transmitting from run-down student bedsits.

I finally opened up CB Pirate. Who told them that a Pirate map was the best way to orientate the new user? If I have this right, then they have already set up all of my squeeze pages and sales sites and all I need to do is get some traffic to my individual links. This is one of those many instances where I bought the product but didn't have the time or the inclination to sit down and study it. Looks like I might have missed a trick. I can remember exactly what tipped the scales in their favour - they showed a Clickbank account with pennies, pounds and low hundreds in commissions, rather than the thousands of dollars of unstoppable income that most advertise. That little bit of restraint and humility on their part (even if it was faked) earned them a sale. Marketers take note... or maybe I'm not that typical a consumer!