Comments on: Why Honest Internet Marketing Is Damn Hard

By: Brenda T. Fanning

Brenda T. Fanning — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:48:14 +0000

I like the great updates you have to give here.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:04:48 +0000

You’re an interesting person, your rawhtml plugin has helped me change one of my company’s ancient html websites into a wordpress site tremendously. I’m also using your rawhtml plugin as the basis for another plugin I’m developing. I’ve been programming for many years, but not in php/wordpress. Man I hate learning ‘another cms’ thing… jeez what a task trying to learn the hooks/api here.

Lol… I fully understand the IM gig with aff though! I’ve done the exact same thing! rotflmao.

Anyway, IM these days in what I would call ‘main stream’ areas is all about following the idiot dollar… the guru crowd per se. It’s hard not to open those guru emails just to see what idiot do everything guaranteed to make you big bux etc. They’re just making money off the masses that are desperate to find the magic bullet answer to their financial problems.

You’re entirely spot on – still today, as you were in 2007 when you first wrote this post.

Thanks for your inspirational work and common sense!
:-)

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:31:34 +0000

Hmm, thanks for the comment.
By now I make about $900 per month with mostly whitehat SEO and AdSense. But it’s still pretty bleak – the earnings have flatlined at that level and finding worthwhile niches is hard. So I’m looking into other strategies again… but it’s gotten only marginally easier compared to the time I wrote this post.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:57:27 +0000

Hello Mr. White Shadow , great to see your post because this is exactly what i am thinking for past few months, I signed up for clickbank , made 1-2 niche websites but tell you, the real satisfaction comes in coding stuff rather than selling some BS that even you wont wanna buy . I yearn to earn hefty bucks on the WWW but without killing the geek in me so i tried this web scraping stuff recently i did some youtube fetching and stuff cyberjadoo.com and hope to do things like this more but anyways you gave me that confidence boost that i was lookig for becoz i want to earn from my brain and not my BS superfluous promises to my product buyers blah blah ..
Keep up the good work .. BTW i’ll be trying your Blogsearch scraping script soon .

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:25:42 +0000

Clik: Wow, well… I just don’t know what to say. I didn’t really expect to get any reaction with this post; I was just tired of it all at the time and wanted to “let it out”.

As for the suggestions – you’re welcome & use them at your own risk. My ideas haven’t helped me become rich yet, so they’re just that – ideas, not “proven strategies”.

Thanks for commenting ;)

By: Clik

Clik — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:56:32 +0000

I’ve been researching things for a while now, had to stop playing music because of a shoulder replacement surgery. (don’t ask) This is the first post I have read in all the blogs and marketing-esque sites that really speaks to me without all the BS. I appreciate this blog. Keep it up! And keep the suggestions coming as well, they are refreshing and offer real ideas. Kudos

By: PlugIM.com

PlugIM.com — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:03:42 +0000

Why Honest Internet Marketing Is Damn Hard…

For one, many whitehat strategies require that you create unique, quality content. This doesn’t come naturally to most people……