Jimbo On The Loose
I wrote a year ago about James (Jimbo) Patterson and his
crooked schemes. Among other things, one of his scams was a company called New Leaf Associates. In this scam, Jimbo promised to erase your debt and clear your credit record for a fee of $4,000 to $6,000. As you might guess, this was bupkus and New Leaf Asociates was shut down by the
Florida Attorney General.
So imagine my surprise when I got an email from Jimbo with his latest offer. Jimbo is claiming to sell a Coastal Vacations level 3 package, which lists for $7500, for only $4000. This offer, of course, is only available through Jimbo. It appears that Jimbo wants me to send him the four grand and he will get me the package. I don't know if this is a legitimate offering from Coastal Vacations or not, but I gotta tell you, Jombo is a crook and I wouldn't touch that offer if my life depended on it.
So here is the moral to this story - it helps to have a long memory and be wary of emails from James "Jimbo" Patterson
SFI Bronze Team Leader
I am now a Bronze Team Leader (BTL) with SFI! This requires 2 personally sponsored Executive Affiliates (EA) and 10 Sales Volume Points (SVP). I had three of my affiliates upgrade in December which allowed me to meet the requirements. This is pretty exciting since I have been working this for some time. I think I have determined some steps to use to motivate my affiliates to become EA.
On top of that, my sponsor, Hannes Johnson, became a Silver Team Leader (STL) when I made BTL. STL requires two personally sponsored BTLs, 10 EAs and 15 SVP. I was the second BTL and made Hannes quite happy.
So now my goal is to continue to recruit new affiliates and to also help my EAs advance to BTL.
If you want to start making money at home I will help you build your business. Go to my
SFI Signup Page, fill it out, submit the information and then send me an
email and I will get with you on how to build your team.
New Content Provider
I signed up for InfoGoRound, a new provider of web content. They have thousands of private label articles that I can use to add content to my site. I can put my own resource box on them but for the moment I have not decided on how to do this. Since I have multiple sites I'm not sure if I want to mention all of them or just selected ones depending on the site I'm posting the article to. I am hoping this additional, and frequent, addition to my sites should help my page ranking.
If you want to check out the articles you can find them
here.
Getting Results
It has been a couple of months since my last post. I have been quite busy working on my site. On of the top internet marketers, Erich Winnecke, has been mentoring several folks that have Plug-In Profit Sites. (You can get yours
here.)
I also got a copy of SEO Made Easy and have been working through the steps outlined there. As of today this site is ranked #8 out of 516,000 on Google for the keyword "workathome". I still have more work to do and I have launched a new site
Ways To Make Money.
I'll post more on my activities later.
Initial Results with Visitor Finder
I posted a few weeks ago that I was going to try a service that was recommended to me by Erich Winnecke called
Visitor Finder. I purchased 10,000 bulk untargeted 24 hour unique traffic. This is full page popunder traffic with no returning visits within a 24 hour period. This cost me $17.95.
Now granted, untargeted bulk traffic for a home business site is not exactly the best but I figured it would give me an idea of thier service.
They delivered the 10,000 visits within about 19 days. They provided a tracking site to indicate how many visits were delivered and how many were left. I am fairly confident that the really delivered because I have a couple of different tracking sites.
So what was the result? I made about $25.00 in Google Adsense profit and got a couple of sign ups for my newsletter. Not very earth shattering but it made me decide to try their "Ultimate Traffic" package. 10,000 language, category and country targeted, 24 hour unique visits for $74.95. I have targeted the U.S., English, Business and Finance category. They estimate that it will again take about 19 days to deliver the traffic.
I also have tried another traffic site, My Traffic Butler. They have a package that is supposed to be 10,000 visits to category targeted 404 traffic. 404 traffic is sites in each category that are no longer online. My Traffic Butler purchases those domains and then redirects any hits to them to businesses that purchase visits from them. So far I don't see much business but their traffic is delivered more slowly. I started that campaign on September 19th and as of this morning they have delivered 2,005 visits.
I will post again on the outcome of these campaigns.
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Issues With RM4
As part of the
Plug-In Profit Site I received a free copy of Reciprocal Manager. This is software for managing link exchanges with other web sites. It was relatively easy to learn and I currently have about
170 links. There were a few minor bugs but nothing I couldn't deal with.
Kevin Ocaiso, the creator of RM which is currently at version 3.3, was working on a major upgrade. He had several new features he wanted to add and felt that the best course of action was to hire programmers to build version 4. This was a complete rewrite.
Unfortunately, RM4 has turned out poorly. There have been some major issues which have resulted in Kevin giving up on this upgrade. I was trying to upgrade my own links into RM4 and, following their advice, tried out a test upgrade. I was never able to import the links from the prior version. I submitted a support ticket but it has been several days and no resolution. Kevin stated that he hired the same programmers to handle technical support also and that hasn't worked out very well either.
So today Kevin sent out a
message that he was scrapping RM4 and going back to RM3. He has fired the programmers and will attempt to fix the known issues with RM3 while still planning on a new upgrade.
Kevin has provided previous upgrades at no charge for current users and offered the same with RM4. He has taken full responsibility for the current dilema and I admire him for his openness and willingness to do the right thing. I sincerely wish him the best of luck and I will continue to use RM.
Free Viral Won't Make It To 1 Million
A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a new traffic service called
Free Viral. The theory behind it is that when someone signs up under me they have to view 6 web pages, the first being mine. For each subsequent referral my web page moves down the matrix. In order to get this going I set up an AdWords campaign. I now have 25 people signed up on my first level. So far so good.
Now comes the part I have no control over. Those 25 people need to get people signed up under them. If those each of those 25 people signed up 25 people that would get me 650 page views (25 X 25 = 625 plus the original 25). If that continued through 4 levels that would be over 400,000 page views. The problem here is that I do not have access to email addresses or web sites of the people that signed up under me. The owner of the Free Viral site does and he sends out emails periodically. But I cannot encourage them personally.
This lack of my ability to contact them bothers me somewhat. I am essentially helping Free Viral build their list but not helping mine. On the other hand, there is the potential for substantial traffic. So I guess I have to take the good with the bad. Traffic Swarm has the same issue. I can see the first names of the people in my downline but not their contact info.
All in all this is progressing. I don't think I will get 1M views this month but I will keep on promoting and see where it goes.
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