General Knowledge Facts

I saw something at the Warrior Forum yesterday that I suppose shouldn’t have surprised me, but did.  It’s not so much that a lengthy blatant spam post appeared in the main forum, but the marketer who posted it.  I wish I’d taken a screen shot of it before the mods nuked it.

Well-known internet marketer, Terry Telford, graced the Warrior Forum long enough to post an ad for his $497 retirement package.  He didn’t even put much effort into trying to disguise it as something other than spam.  Did he really think he could get away with it?  I reported the post as spam, then looked at his profile to see when the last time he posted was.  Six months ago.  Damn nice of him to show up after six months to try and sell the Warriors something without ponying up $20 to put it on the WSO or Classifieds Board.  I guess he thinks he’s special or something.

What also cracked me up was the one response to the post.  A long-time forum member, one who actually has a fair amount of clout in the forum, instead of reporting Telford’s post, replied in glorious ass-kissing fashion by offering to promote the $497 package.  Again, I wish I’d taken a screen shot.  It was truly pitiful.

So, how do you combat that stuff?

1. Report the offense ASAP, and get it removed.  Spammers typically don’t waste their time spamming forums that nuke their posts quickly.
2. Let other people know.  Especially when it’s someone who knows better. 
3. Don’t do business with the spammer.  I got an email from Telford this morning, and promptly unsubscribed from his list.

On November 13, 2009, Bryan Kumar started a thread at the Warrior Forum titled $50,000 Before the Holidays – My Plan.  His post caught my attention in a way that I knew I shouldn’t ignore it.  So I decided immediately upon reading his plan to launch a similar project of my own.

My goal is to generate $50,000 in sales by midnight December 31, 2009.  Bryan’s goal is to attain $50,000 before Christmas, but because part of his project includes distribution of the plans of the participants, I wanted the distribution of my own plan to contribute to my sales goal as it’s part of the same project.

Bryan is not using any of his existing customer lists to attain his goal, so I’m choosing to do the same.  Many newbie marketers don’t have lists of their own yet, so it only makes sense that a duplicatible system would include list building as part of the plan.  My plan is about using existing resources to generate quick income.  And by existing resources, I’m talking about resources that someone who is yet to be successful in generating any decent online income would have. 

I’m also going to assume that most people following this have a full-time job.  My main gig is as the marketing guy for Incansoft.  I won’t be shirking my duties there to work on this project, and I also won’t be including my income from Incansoft as part of this project.  This project is a part-time deal for me and can be duplicated in less than four hours a day.

You can follow my progress at Making Money Fast.