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Happy Holidays 2012 from Robert Plank (Free Kindle Books for You)

December 25, 201251 Comments

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year... today I want to give you three of my bestselling Amazon books 100% for free. Here they are:

I recommend you Ctrl+click to open each of those links in a new window, then the page "should" say purchase price for today only is $0.00, click the button and add them to your account, even if you don't have time to read them yet.

You can read these books whether you have an actual Kindle reading device, an iPhone or iPad (just install the app), or read it directly through your web browser.

Please claim your three books, post a comment below letting me know you've done it, give each book a quick read and leave me a quick review on Amazon. Thanks again!

Plimus Bans Internet Marketing Products (Because of $37 Clickbank-Style Offers)

June 19, 201195 Comments

Plimus (the payment processor) has now officially banned internet marketing products:

Valued Plimus Affiliate,

We wanted to advise you we are no longer supporting Internet Marketing (IM) and Business Operations (Biz-Ops) products, for which our records show you are an affiliate. This does not affect any previous sales referrals you are due payment for. Payouts of those will proceed without issue. Since the product is no longer offered on Plimus there will be no future commissions to be earned.

Thank you for marketing one of our vendor products. We hope you will go to the Plimus Marketplace and find new products for you to promote and earn commission on. If there is something we can do to assist please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely,
The Plimus Team

I'm actually surprised it took this long. If you haven't heard of Plimus, here's what happened. You may have seen "blind offer" sales letters... the ones that say: you don't deserve to be on this page, make money from home, earn a residual income, run this software and make money.

"You're 6 clicks away from making a million dollars."

"Don't trust the gurus, they lie to you,
by the way I am a guru, you should trust me."

"If you want 6 times as much money just run the software 6 times."

Most of this "traffic" and "marketing" software was usually something simple like a domain name finder, email harvester, blog comment spammer, bulk page generator or something similar... not even worth $10.

The sales letter hyped up the "results" of the product showing you tons of earnings screenshots... telling you this ISN'T AdSense, this ISN'T SEO, this ISN'T product creation... buy here to find out what it is.

As you can imagine the refund rate on this was pretty high. Payment processors like Clickbank can tolerate a pretty high refund rate but this was even too much for them.

What happened: these products were banned from Clickbank they all moved to Plimus... and now they're banned from Plimus.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a small percentage of marketers "ruining it for the rest of us" ... it was bound to happen eventually, just like:

  • "Biz opps" and "multilevel marketing" are banned from PayPal
  • "Internet marketing" mailing lists are banned from MailChimp
  • "Non-typical results" are banned according to the FTC
  • "Make money online" products were originally banned from Facebook Ads
  • "Work from home" videos are recently being banned from YouTube
  • "Get rich quick" products are banned from Google AdWords
  • "Social media" products are banned from Clickbank
  • "Public domain" (non-unique) content was recently banned from Amazon Kindle

The moral of the story is: tell me exactly what your offer is and be very careful about relying on results and income claims to make your sale.

If you're selling software, I just want to see screenshots. If you're selling information, I just want to know what the information is. And most importantly (this was huge back when AdSense courses were coming out)... if your system makes $10,000 per day... why is it only $37???

What do you think about all this?

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