The height of “Anything For A Buck” was displayed today when I received an email from a marketer selling “Mega Blog Creator”.  Not only is this software about 4 to  5 years old, it’s creating blogs from a php template system and is not related to WordPress in any way.

If you have any character in this business at all and are not just looking for a quick buck (they are selling this one for $4), there is no way you should offer anything to your customers that’s not on the WordPress platform when it comes to blogging. This product is from back in the day, when blogging was a “new thing” and the WordPress platform was not yet the “standard”.  The funny thing is, in the same email they offer WordPress PLR Blogs AND that $67 dollar blog install (simply outrageous) we spoke about before.  So where’s the parody?  Apparently they’ve just pulled some old dusy product out of the archives they could throw out there for their “birthday sale” but the only one’s that will be celebrating that purchase are themselves and the few affiliates they find with no conscience or that don’t know any better to promote complete garbage.

I grow tired of marketers like this that love to slam other marketers while preaching that they are the ethical one’s who are just looking out for their customers.  Well this should show quite clearly that they don’t have ANY regard for their customers at all by offering something like this when they should be directing their customers to the WordPress platform for so many reasons.

Recently I saw a new announcement for a Blog Install Service.  I expected to see a reasonable price like $19.97 or something along those lines….but NEVER expected $67!

Has everyone completely lost their minds???

First of all, if you are just a LITTLE BIT net savvy, you could install WordPress EASILY by yourself.  Not to mention that almost every reputable web host has a “One Click” install option for WordPress.   Even if you are not sure what plugins you should use, there is a virtual TIDAL WAVE of tutorials not only at WordPress.org but all over the net.

We’re not even mentioning other options you have such as Fiverr.com!  Searching just the term “Install WordPress” I found over 100+ gigs offering WordPress Blog Installs for only $5 and many offered not only everything this $67 blog install service did, but even MORE!

In additon, there are literally TONS of offers out there to install WordPress for $10, $20 etc that will give you everything you’ll ever need and more.

I don’t want to offend anyone, but if you actually would consider spending $67 for a blog install, you’ve either got money to burn OR you’ve simply lost your mind!

Here are some resources to check out before you slap down that $67!

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

http://www.fiverr.com

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=How+to+install+wordpress&aq=f&aql=f

And trust me, these are just a few of HUNDREDS of thousands!

Folks, a WordPress Blog install is about a 30 minute job even with additional plugins and some custom features so at the $67 rate, you are paying $134 per hour!!

If you’re looking for a complete shopping cart solution for WordPress without the excessive price, then WPSalesBuddy is the answer!

WP Sales Buddy handles all of your sales and downloads via the paypal shopping cart system and even handles membership solutions and subscription based products.

Addons for WPSalesBuddy include those to handle an affiliate progam, coupons and much much more.

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So just released today is a new plugin called WP Hot Clickbank Offer.  It’s pre-loaded with 15 offers that the developer’s think you should promote or as they put it “they searched for the 15 newest and best selling products”.

The first problem I see is that you apparently are stuck with the products THEY think are the hottest sellers.  I don’t see anywhere where it says you can change them.  So if you have a niche blog, you can’t customize the products to match your niche.

Secondly, I see it becoming outdated pretty quickly.  Products on Clickbank turn over very quickly and unless they plan on being “married to this plugin” and providing updates regularly I don’t see where it will keep up.   They say that they’ll “send out updates” when the products start to “go out of style”.  They also say they don’t know if they plan to provide the plugin with any other niches.  So there you have it.  You can’t customize the ads to meet your needs, you’re stuck with what they think you should promote, and unless your blog is an “internet marketing” blog, the ads won’t be very relevant.  Heck, the clickbank links aren’t even cloaked!  Why would you want a plugin where you can’t control it’s content?

Chalk this one up to yet another lack luster attempt to cash in on the hot plugin market.  There’s just too many free plugins at WordPress.org for Clickbank that allow you to control what you advertise.

If you want a truly flexible Click Bank plugin with lots of nice features that is equally easy to use, you’re better off getting the CB Cashlinks Plugin.  It’s only about $7 more than the starting price for WP Hot Clickbank Offer (which is a dimesale so it’s rising after each sale) and it’s the best $$$ you’ll spend when it comes to paid ClickBank plugins.  Not to mention you can customize it’s content.

Well all the rage today is the release of MobiPro, the mobile site content management system script!  It’s quite a nicely featured system and geared towards both the “somewhat newbie” all the way up to the very experienced.

As with most of these “reseller” products, you’ll find varying prices from reseller to reseller.  BUT, here’s something ELSE you’ll find!  Different reseller’s are charging EXTRA for developer license rights.  So you’ll pay one price for the “Personal Use Rights” and then pay EXTRA to be able to use it on your client sites.  That is except in the case of one reseller who is selling it for one low price ($17) with the developer license included (unlimited client sites).

One reseller (who renamed the product to MobiConnects) was trying to fetch $77 for the developer’s license while others are at $47 or more!

Grab your copy today with an unlimited client site Developer’s License INCLUDED! 

FanPagePro2 is HERE!  The reviews are in and everyone is saying this stand alone Fanpage Solution (doesn’t require WordPress) is HOT!

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After months of building, testing, and debugging, these guys have created the most powerful Amazon plugin WordPress you will have seen.

They literally dared beta-testers to try to find a similar plugin that is as effective and powerful as my creation – nobody has succeed yet.… and they won’t.

Allow me to introduce you to WPDollar.

No longer do you have to struggle for hours on end populating your WordPress blog with Amazon affiliate links. No more mundane tasks.

WPDollar has the power to put the entire process on autopilot for you.

Check it out now here: http://bit.ly/q2PQQS

Let me put it this way: WPDollar is an All-in-One plugin that automatically pulls relevant information from Amazon and seamlessly displays it on your WordPress blog as text ads, banner ads, and review posts. And your affiliate link is included in all of it. This absolutely ingenious plugin will enable your conversions and revenues to skyrocket – completely ‘hands free’.

And don’t worry about the installation process. If you can hit two buttons, you can do it. WPDollar is plug-and-play. It practically installs itself and there are a load of tutorial videos.  You can forget about international compatibility issues. There are none! WPDollar has been extensively tested and is proven to work in all international versions of amazon, including the UK, Canada, Japan, France, and Germany.

Don’t worry about the plugin displaying ads on your blog that “don’t quite fit.” WPDollar allows you to target only specific categories you want per each campaign and set the ad size, ad type and more. Each and every affiliate link placed on your blog will be an exact match. To make this offer even better 10 Niche WordPress Blogs are included so you can have your own auto-commissions amazon blog network up and running in not time.

If you are an Amazon affiliate “guru” or even somebody who is only vaguely interested in Amazon, do yourself a favor and check out WPDollar. After a simple install, there is no need to complete tedious tasks or to even outsource them so somebody else can slave away doing them. Why? Because WPDollar does it all for you. No other plugin is more ‘turn-key’ than this.
Instant amazon affiliate commissions await.
Check it out now here: http://bit.ly/q2PQQS

PS: They may take this down at any time as it’s going to Clickbank so act fast:  http://bit.ly/q2PQQS

Wouldn’t you prefer knowing exactly who the marketer you are purchasing products from are rather than their trying to make you think they are something they are not?

Now don’t get me wrong, there are some pretty successful marketers out there, and many will have nice cars and houses but do you really care?  Is the kind of car they are driving or the house they live in getting you good customer service and quality products?  Unfortunately, not always.  In some cases it means just the opposite.

I have even seen some cases (I’ll leave the names out of it) where the marketer pictured himself in front of a big sprawling home and standing next to a Ferrari, only to find out when you google the marketer’s address from their domain whois information it comes back to an apartment building in some small town.  I remember there use to be one of the “guru’s” that used to teach people to have these pictures made as part of their sales approach to “imply success”.  Well in my book, it implies deceit.

Remember when the “virtual office” was the big thing?  They would picture some big fancy office building along with their address which was actually the address of a service that was located at that big fancy office building that forwarded their mail  to them (probably to that apartment in that small town).   I see many marketers today that have addresses that have something like “Suite 200″ on the street address only to find out it’s ACTUALLY the “box” number for the mailbox they rented at the local Mail and Ship store in town.

The big problem with this is, if you DID ever have a problem with individuals or companies that use this tactic and wanted to send them registered or certified mail, you’ll never get THEIR signature on the return receipt because “Bob the counter clerk” is actually the one signing for all the mail that comes in every day.  Now I am sure there are some marketers that just never thought about this prospect, but I am also sure that some are doing it as an intentional way to avoid having to deal with you.

Personally, I have no problem letting people know who I am.  I do internet marketing full time, I have a wife and three kids.  We have a modest home, 2 cars (one fairly new and one a few years old) and I either work from home or from a small office I rent in town.  Luxury living to us is being able to take a couple of weekend getaways more than we normally would have or when the air conditoning stops working we can pay to have it fixed without using a credit card.  Maybe an annual pass to the amusement park for the kids or a summer camp.

I never found the need to buy those “status symbols” and frankly, even if I had $200,000 to blow on a Ferrari, I am pretty sure there are plenty of other things I could spend that money on and feel a lot better about it.  I certainly don’t feel I need those things for my customers to feel comfortable  doing business with me.  Prompt and efficient customer service, quality products and honesty is the key to that success, not what I am driving or what my house looks like (though I just put down a new lawn and it DOES look pretty darn good!….lol).

I guess the moral of the story is, “perception” is a big factor when it comes to marketing, but when it smacks of “flaunting”, especially when it’s staged, does it really mean anything at all?

This marketer is on a roll!  Now he’s selling WP Blog Tweet Plugin, yet ANOTHER plugin that you can find FREE in the WordPress.org directory:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=tweet&sort=

When you have marketers like this, it just makes it that more important that BEFORE you buy some plugin thrown into the Warrior Forum, check the plugin directory at WordPress.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

He misleads folks further by having this in the sales copy: “Got Serveral Twitter Accounts That Need Updated At Once”  <—-not a typo, it’s how it’s written

Yet, in the message thread below the sales pitch, he admits to this:

“The tweets are posted to between 1-10 random twitter accounts from your account
list, but are not able to post specific posts to specific accounts.  If
you only enter 1 account in the account list, then every tweet will be posted to
it.”

Hmmm, looks like the FREE Twitter Plugins have alot more capability huh?

And of course, the same “drones” that follow these WSOs mindlessly are in there singing it’s praises…..at least on this one there are a couple of people asking actual meaningful questions.

When I saw this one, I couldn’t figure out what was more pathetic…..PAYING for this plugin (there are free plugins at WordPress.org that do this) or just having it on my blog to begin with!  I mean, unless I am running a “literary” blog or something like that, what conceivable reason could there be to have it?

And then…..this post in the Warrior forum where it’s being sold just proves the fact that some have their cronies come in and praise everything they offer…..get a load of this BS comment:

“I’ve just brought this amazing WP Plugin. I’m
excited to has this software that I has been pleased with favorite poetry
showing at the end of my blog post.”

No…what’s amazing is that you PAID for this!!  And the fact that you are excited about it?   Come on…..Really???  This just gives the Warrior Forum a bad name in my opinion.

Geez, the least this marketer could have done is sought out someone that can type in correct English before coming in to praise this absolutely incredible plugin! <–sarcasm

This marketer has a history of offering plugins you can get for free for a price, but free or not, this one is just the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen….and I am not sure who is worse…the marketer selling it or those promoting it for the commissions.

Hey, if you want poetry on your blog, more power to you.  But don’t fall for this garbage.  Head over to the WordPress.org site and search “poetry” in the plugins directory.  Instead of putting poetry at the end of EVERY post, this free one will just place it in the sidebar, which frankly makes more sense!