I see you’ve started your comment with an insult to me. No problem, I don’t take offence easily and I’m not a putz so we won’t fall out over that.

As you can see I’ve approved your comment here, on this off-topic thread.

Since you’ve raised this point so directly I am going to expand on my view to clarify it for you.

The problem with those post comments you made is that they added no value to the original blog post. Short posts along the lines of “I like these posts” or “Good comments everyone is making” generally look very spammy. And frankly your comments, coming as they did right after each other, did not look considered and valuable.

Blog comments can be a very valuable source of extension to a blog post, but yours appeared to have no discernible intrinsic value. At least I couldn’t discern any.

As I said in the other comment I made, that’s my personal take on it and I can be as wrong as the next person. I’m not a mind reader and I make no claim to know for a fact what was in your mind when you made your commments.

I just think inane comments that look like a beginner splogger has made them are a waste of time for everyone concerned.

Does that make my position clearer?

Wouldn’t you agree with me that considered debate and comment is of more value?

I follow on to your comment on another post. I don’t intend on getting the top post, but see that you are sad that you will not. This month you are only listed as the second highest poster didn’t show.
I’m trying to get this right, you are going to fight so hard for the first posting position that you have to insult people? Any comment I make, you will reply to?

Childlike, no?

I suppose testing and tracking should be an obvious thing that people need to know about, but over the years traffic generation has always seemed the ‘obvious’ topic of interest.

Personally, I use a tracking script I installed on my sites as well as the AWStats on my Cpanel and I find the combination very powerful. Knowing who’s visiting, where from, when, how often and why is a pretty good base of information. With that information you can offer more of what your visitors want and perhaps re-work what they don’t want.

I’ll be honest - some of the things I’ve seen have surprised me, but I can’t argue with the numbers. In fact my most popular site is one I didn’t spend much time on. How’s that for ironic? And it’s not this site!

Hi again

If you send me a personal message on my support desk with your domain I’ll take look at what you’ve done with the site and see if there’s anything I can suggest that might make it better.

When you’ve had the chance to read the post over at Robert’s please pop back and let me know what you think. I’d be glad to hear your opinion.

@Matt

Thanks for dropping by. I’m absolutely certain that the term ‘legendary’ was the wrong word to use. In the context I meant it a more appropriate word would have been ’sometimes’.

Every payment processor hits problems sometimes and that’s still the same now. Not one of them, that I have personal awareness of, has yet reached a state of perfection. It would be unrealistic to think otherwise.

Your comments about Mike being human, like the rest of us, is a good point. But here’s the thing: I’m a minnow compared to him (actually, I’m a minnow compared to a lot of marketers) so his ‘off the cuff’ remarks about me have a great deal more power to hurt me than any carelessly chosen word I use could hurt him.

That’s why I felt it important to respond.

But I’ve taken your assessment of his reply and looked at it again in the cold clear light of morning. What’s very interesting to me is that I think I agree with you 100%!

I think maybe I took it more seriously than I should have done! In fact, I think I reacted to his remark the same way he reacted (so I thought) to mine. How embarrassing is that?

The lesson: Mike Filsaime and I appear to react the same way to perceived slights. So it is possible to think like a guru.

Imagine that. I wonder if I could turn that into some kind of post?

“Mike Filsaime concurs with Amin Motin on response tactics in blog posts”

Think that one will fly?

I don’t think I’ll try that though: it might be going a bit too far!

Guess I should really go over and add something to Robert’s blog to indicate what I think now I’ve had time to think.

I was just reading the comments on Robert’s post and spotted the trackback to hear so had to come take a look at what else you said..

now I’m hereI guess I’m gonna have to leave some sort of comment (I’ll blame it on the vodka tomorrow morning). ;]

to be fair, as you admited in your reply, your “legendry problems” comment was a bit open to be taken the wrong way and possibly spark a reaction, although I’m guessing you weren’t expecting Mike to turn up and reply in person, let alone take it the wrong way, apparently.

I think without the “legendry” part Mike would probably have read it differently, as I’m sure he would admit that any affiliate program system that deals with the kind of numbers we’re talking about is bound to have some problems, that’s life/business.

In fact I think he does in his reply, or at least he mentions everything has pros and cons, and PDC has had some bumps along the way. It’s unavoidable when you’re building a business as big as PDC1 is becoming.

In fairness to Mike, his reply is even handed and reasonable in the most part and his “sarcastic” retort at the end may have also been a missplaced (”throw away”) comment, in the same nature as your original “legendry” comment.

after all, he too puts his pants on one leg at a time (I assume), just like the rest of us, and has “off” moments.

it’s also always worth remembering that the written word is not a perfect form of communication and it’s easy for missunderstandings to occur, smileys help, but it’s still not perfect. I believe he did sign off with a “smile”.

I hope that he’s had chance to read your reply and perhaps he’ll turn up here to post a reply…

Cheers,
Matt Garrett

[note: spellinfg mistakes sponsored by Smirnoff]

P.S. please I still need your advise.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

I’ve just read a few threads at the Warrior Forum and I see a lot of people are doing those awful ‘Scam’ reviews. A lot of them are using Mike’s name. I can understand why he’d be annoyed about that so maybe he is a little stressed. I think I would be too, under the circumstances.

I don’t know why the whole world jumped on that “Product X is a scam” type of advertising. Well, I do know why and it’s an awful shame.

Funny thing, I get a reasonable slice of my monthly income via PDC so I wouldn’t leave it under (almost) any circumstances!

Amin

P.S. I just took a look at your blog and apart from the shock of seeing the same theme in use (well, it’s a good theme!) I enjoyed this post you made. I’ll be looking for the full details when you finally reveal them!

Just popped over to Plank’s blog and left a comment. I do not think you are over reacting.
Seems to be just a little bit touchy, obviously stressed.
Do not worry though, I think you got the sympathy vote.
Best wishes
John

If you can find a good article writer it’s always easier than doing it yourself. The problem for most people is the cost. If you pay $7.50 for a 500 word article (about the going rate for a good article), then it will cost you $150 for just 20 articles.

For most people, paying that much on a regular basis may not be possible. Of course getting just a single article may be worthwhile, but usually it is better to have more content, rather than less.

This is where PLR makes it possible for large numbers of people. What you’re doing is trading a little sweat equity in return for the savings of not buying a unique article.

It’s scary to think of taking the money you earn online and giving it to someone else, but if you think about it the biggest businesses in the world do the same thing. They pay people to do the work. A business with 1 employee is unlikely to be able to do as much as a business with 10 employees.

And if you think about it, what you’re doing by outsourcing your articles is taking on an employee of sorts.

Anyone who starts to make decent money online should certainly consider paying someone else to do some of the work for them. Having your articles written, when you can afford it, is a good way to release your time to work on your online business and make it grow. Just make sure you get good quality articles, or you’ll still have to edit them anyway.

Amin

You’re 100% correct. Poor quality PLR material is certainly harder to edit than good quality material.

Of course, I think you probably know that the vast majority of people don’t even use the PLR material they buy and of the ones who use it only a few make any changes to it.

Of that few, only the smallest percentage actually make enough effort to turn the article into something that will reflect well on them.

That’s good news for everyone who actually takes ‘pen to paper’, as it were. There’s just so little competition that it’s possible to do really well. Your return on investment of time can be very high.

Amin

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Thanks for letting me know about that. It’s a bit weird though because the page comes up just fine for me.

I’m not really sure what’s causing it, but it’s happened a couple of times before. Did you get your downloads ok? If not, just let me know and I’ll sort that out for you.

Robert’s stuff is great if you’re into blogging and building websites - I get most of his products.

Amin

Just seen you comment on Robert Planks blog and came here for the first time.

Looking forward to your traffic tips.

Thanx
Anish

PS: I subscribed to the list and when i confirmed the aweber notification, i was redirected to the page http://www.sublime-products.com/articles/thanks-for-subscribing/ and its coming up with a 404 error page

Thanks for your input.

The system at PayDotCom does not actually send any money to the affiliate. What it does is calculate everything for you and the affiliate so you can both see how much commission is due.

But you still have to pay it yourself. PayDotCom do let you download a mass pay file that you can use to import into Paypal and pay all your affiliates in one go. That saves typing in all the details for each affiliate, but it’s not quite what Sean said he wanted.

When you say you want a page that meets Clickbank’s requirements, which requirements did you have in mind? Are you talking about the wording on the page, or the actual implementation of the download integration with Clickbank?

That latter is outside the scope of a standard thank you page and you would need some additional software to do it unless you wanted to send customers to an unprotected download page. Of course for some sales that might be ok.

If you give me a little more information of what you were thinking about I’ll see what I can do.

Amin

I see that what you’re wanting is very much a ’show me what to do’ rather than just a ‘tell me’. I think most people learn better by being shown, don’t you?

Let me put something together for the Adsense sites and I’ll see what I can do about installing the WordPress themes for you. I think if you see that done you’ll be surprised how fast and easy it is.

Amin

In answer to Sean’s question (the first one), doesn’t paydotcom.com work like that? And charge less than Clickbank? I think I read that they do.

What I would like is a thank-you page and sales page for the Facebook report I bought from you. Not for selling resale rights, but just for sellling the book itself. I’d like the kind of page that meets Clickbank’s requirements.

john