It may be time to revive an old blog of mine called Stupid Marketer Tricks.

Internet Marketing has become increasingly ridiculous in its approach to sucking money from people online.

For those of you who might have followed blogs of mine in the past, yeah… I’m the guy. A few Internet Marketers have read my posts before, and have figured out ways to blast me without mentioning my name or my blog URL. That’s interesting. They think I’m full of crap, but they won’t point you to my blog.

Maybe that’s because something I posted hit home. Maybe something I posted characterized them a little too close to home. Censorship isn’t dead on the Internet. Those who don’t want you to know the truth still have ways to make sure you don’t hear it.

Simple truth is: There is no single, foolproof way to make money online. But some Internet Marketers, and their followers, will keep trying to get your money claiming they have that Utopian formula, system or blueprint.

I’ve built up a credit card debt over $10,000 believing in these charlatans.

It may be time to resurrect the Stupid Marketer Tricks blog, so others don’t follow my lead.

Spelling on the Internet is atrocious.

I’ve been online since 1996. I’ve been in chatrooms, discussion boards, Usenet newsgroups, instant messengers, and thousands of webpages. Make that millions of webpages.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Take offense if you will, but don’t get me wrong.

I was just an average student in high school. I failed World History twice, and had to go to summer school twice because of it.  I had a 1.0 grade average in Algebra, although I passed Geometry with flying colors. Go figure. But I had a 3.8 GPA in “English.” That included spelling, grammar and literature.

I still can’t write for beans, and thank heavens for Firefox Spell Checker!

But what I’m talking about is the common words that ANYONE should know how to spell and use correctly. Examples:

“Their going to visit they’re relatives.”

“Star Wars is better then Avatar.”

“This is rediculous!”

“I can teach you how to make more profit that anyone else.”

Typo’s? Maybe. In too much of a hurry? Perhaps. But come on… I’m LMFAOAPMP!

Gosh, Firefox doesn’t know acronyms! LOL!

Well, the Internet has become all about Entertainment, hasn’t it?

I’m entertained

There are reasons why you would NOT want to follow some big names on Twitter and elsewhere.

Internet Marketers have taken to Twitter and other social networking sites, like Facebook, like bees to honey. Or perhaps like flies to that other stuff. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, of course. When trying to promote yourself and your brand online, it would appear that social networking is one powerful way to do it. It’s helped me immensely.

Let’s talk about Twitter for a moment.

Many Internet Marketers now ask you to follow them on Twitter. Often, they say that following them will give you “first crack,” if you will, at their latest upgrades and newest products. This benefits them tremendously, of course. But is it good for you?

If you purchase a product from a marketer, and become an affiliate for that product, it may well NOT be. Why would you NOT want to follow that marketer from that point on?

The way Twitter works allows all of your followers to see the “tweets” of all those YOU are following, including that marketer. Naturally, that marketer is posting his links to his products. So, as a result, while you’re tweeting your affiliate link to his product in the hopes of making a commission on sales, he is posting his own tweets to all of YOUR followers. He is posting his links to his own pages in DIRECT COMPETITION to you!

Thus, once you purchase a product from a marketer that you hope to promote for profit, it’s better to un-follow that marketer, lest your potential sales be overshadowed by his. You want your followers to see YOUR affiliate links, not his.

The same is true of Facebook. Once you friend or fan an Internet Marketer, virtually everything he posts shows up on YOUR wall — his links and pages. Why let him promote what you should be promoting on YOUR SPACE?

Just food for thought, of course. Your comments are welcome.

Internet Marketers, I have a question for you.

How do I end up receiving multiple duplicate e-mails from you on a single e-mail address?

I’m serious here. I buy a product and during the purchase process, or perhaps during the insipid OTO process, I have to give you my e-mail address. That’s fine. It’s the S.O.P. these days.

You have my e-mail address, given to you voluntarily ONCE.

So how is it my e-mail box is chock full of your duplicate messages day after day?

One mail per day is already too much, but several, all to the same address is ludicrous. How does that happen? And how willing are you to make it stop?

I’ll post examples, in full, with all pertinent mailing info here, if I have to. You won’t like it.

I get a kick out of celebrities on Twitter.

You see them on TV, saying “You can become my follower!”

And everyone gets excited.

Why?

There isn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell that they’re going to follow you back. They’re concerned only about you getting their messages. They don’t give a rat’s ass about you or what you might have to say.

Huh… especially if what you have to say is “Join my MLM program and learn how to make money!”

Is there really something weird here?

Check out some celebrities on Twitter. Look at their folloing to followers ratio. If they have millions of followers and are only following a few hundred, check out those few hundred. Who are they, and why is that celebrity following them?

You might be surprised.

Well, as it turns out, many Internet marketers selling Clickbank-related “how-to” and (ahem) educational materals are selling them on the cheap. The products are either sloppily thrown together videos or e-books, or products that Clickbank itself would never approve for sale on their network.

Clickbank, after all, has a sterling reputation to uphold. They don’t let just anybody sell just anything using their system.

Clickbank operates a sophisticated affiliate program. If you offer up your product to be sold through, and thereby represented by, Clickbank, it has to meet their standards. If you’re running a 7-dollar script or a dime sale, they might not let you do it through their system

Hence, a lot of marketers looking to make a quick buck sell their (ahem) Clickbank Tutorials outside of Clickbank itself.

That should be a clue, folks.

Don’t get me wrong. Just because a Clickbank Tute isn’t sold through Clickbank itself doesn’t mean it might not contain good material. It just means it’s not necessarily up to Clickbanks normal product standards.

Think about it.

If you wanted to “expose” a politician’s indiscretions, would you do it through his publicist?

Sometimes I talk too much.

Well, phooey. What is a blog for, ferpetesake?

I just got a check from Clickbank, and I don’t know what I did right, but I’m sure as heck gonna find out!

Why don’t many marketers actually USE Clickbank as their payment processor when selling a product that teaches how to USE Clickbank? Well, maybe it’s just because they have their preferred affiliate program set up to use Paypal or some other.

Simple fact is that Clickbank works. You should set yourself up there, if you haven’t already.