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Posted By: Jim
Friday, 25 March 2005, at 5:25 a.m.
In response to:
Pete: http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi?read=92848 and
Patti: http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi?form=92861 and the
"Who is Cody Moya" thread: http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi?read=92538
Who is Pete?
Part of "Cody's" JV venture maybe? who knows... or to quote Pete in an earlier post to me... "who cares?".
Patti makes a very good point and everyone should approach these with a little skepicism and do their due diligence before getting on a multitude of mailing lists just to download a bunch of "free" products. Yes... done that myself and now I'm starting to get SPAMMED by some that I've never heard of and I KNOW I didn't sign up for. No... I did not sign up and forget... I actually created a new email box just for this particular JV and I made notes of which ones I signed up for. And now, this email box is starting to get spammed.
Anyone that has ever signed into one of these JV events knows that it's a marketing event that is targeted at getting people on their email list. As I previously stated, I don't have a problem with this... but, most of these "newsletters" that you have to sign up for to get the "free product" have no real content and are only advertisements for you to buy their latest affiliate "product". Yes, you can unsubscribe and most of them will unsubscribe you. Then there are others who (despite their claims that they don't sell or give away your email address) that get you on spam lists. I know this to be a fact, because since I participated in the Xmas Giveaway by Mike Filsaime, I'm starting to get "newsletters/ads" from a few that I've never asked for from people I've never heard of... i.e. SPAM!
In addition, as Patti also pointed out, you can find most of these give-aways elsewhere... sometimes you still have to sign up for an email list, although there are many sites that just let you download them for free. The other aspect is that a LOT of them aren't worth your wasted time of downloading.
There are some good "guru's" out there and some good information and worthwhile products... one of which is Cory Rudl, as Lesley will certainly vouch for (http://www.friendsinbusiness.com/details/coreycourse.html). If you do your due diligence, you will find that he is highly recommended by most everyone. There are many others as well... such as Andy Williams at ez-search-engine-optimization.com, who actually puts out a great newsletter with real content, not a daily email telling you that... you just gotta buy this latest, greatest "fill in the so-called product".
I do want to say that while Cody may be a great guy and may have a good product, I was not able to find anything about him. Maybe Pete could tell us... but who is Pete? Maybe Pete could get Cody to come here and give us some real background, maybe contribute some knowledge, and tell us why we would want to trust him?
Jim
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