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Re: You might be right about that

Posted By: Steve MacLellan <steve@homebusiness-websites.com>
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 1:15 p.m.

In Response To: You might be right about that (Bluto)

> But I am a glutton for information. I try to keep up on the latest
> marketing and SEO info as much as I can.

I guess so! If the site you linked to is yours, you must have read a ton of eBooks. I noted where it says:

When I first started working on the Web, I never dreamed I could make the kind of money I’m making today. To be honest, I didn’t even intend to. At first, I just wanted a bit of extra cash to supplement my real job and maybe put a little money aside for the future. But what I discovered amazed me! Within just a few short months, my little online business was raking in thousands of dollars every day!

Of course who ever wrote this does not identify themselves on the website. To me that shows a lack of credibility. I've always felt that an honest person doesn't mind putting their contact information on their website... because they don't have anything to hide.

One of the first things I look for on a website is an "about us" page. I like to know who I am doing business with. I like to know if they speak with experience, and try and get a feel for whether I believe they are qualified to be imparting their wisdom on me. Sites that don't have any mention of the author must have something to hide. But this can't be yours and frankly I'm surprised a man like you Bluto, would leave a link to such a site.

canada-work.gif 178x66 Especially after I saw one of the adsense ads that promotes them bad people up north. I'd like to think that a man of morals and high integrity wouldn't sell his soul for an adsense click -- not if it was going to dupe unsuspecting visitors, who may make a purchase from some unscrupulous rascal. And to THINK! I might have clicked that link! LOL.

Of course it isn't up to me to decide if you're guilty by association to that site. Not that I'm a religious man, but:

According to the Gospel of John, the Pharisees, in an attempt to discredit Jesus, brought a woman charged with adultery before him. Then they reminded Jesus that adultery was punishable by stoning under Mosaic law and challenged him to judge the woman so that they might then accuse him of disobeying the law. Jesus thought for a moment and then replied, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.”

You should tend to your "own patch of weeds" without throwing them over the fence into your neighbors backyard.

Regards,
Steve MacLellan

homebusiness-websites.com

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Unscrupulous Marketers - is it just me? (views: 1302)
Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 4:51 a.m.
- Re: Unscrupulous Marketers - is it just me? (views: 1249)
  Steve MacLellan -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 5:40 a.m.
  - Re: Unscrupulous Marketers - is it just me? (views: 1245)
    Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 6:10 a.m.
    - You're too much (views: 1248)
      Steve MacLellan -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 6:26 a.m.
      - Re: You're too much (views: 1245)
        Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 8:04 a.m.
        
        Re: You're too much (views: 1274)
        WaltP -- Sunday, 19 February 2006, at 5:55 p.m.
- "Politically Correct" is not in my vocabulary, but honestly... (views: 1243)
  MaaMaw -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 5:55 a.m.
  - Re: "Politically Correct" is not in my vocabulary, but honestly... (views: 1425)
    Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 6:07 a.m.
    - "Perhaps it's just me," but... (views: 1278)
      Cathy Bryant -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 9:14 a.m.
      - You misunderstood (views: 1223)
        Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 2:21 p.m.
        
        I did??? Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... (views: 1225)
        Cathy Bryant -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 4:36 p.m.
        
        Re: I did??? Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... (views: 1286)
        Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 5:21 p.m.
- Re: Unscrupulous Marketers - is it just me? (views: 1263)
  DaveB -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 9:14 a.m.
- It's just you (views: 1266)
  Mel. White -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 7:53 p.m.
  - Re: It's just you (views: 1236)
    Michael Webster -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 8:09 p.m.
    - BINGO!! (DNO) (views: 1213)
      MaaMaw -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 6:37 a.m.
  - I was talking abour unscrupulous marketers, not scammers, BIG difference... (views: 1267)
    Bluto -- Monday, 13 February 2006, at 8:38 p.m.
    - Another clarification of what I mean by unscrupulous internet marketing (views: 1296)
      Bluto -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 5:31 a.m.
      - I OBJECT!!... (views: 1240)
        MaaMaw -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 6:56 a.m.
        
        Definition of Unscrupulous (views: 1294)
        Bluto -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 7:35 a.m.
    - Perhaps you're just buying too many ebooks? (views: 1244)
      Bill Carton - the Roadie -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 7:55 a.m.
      - You might be right about that (views: 1241)
        Bluto -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 8:42 a.m.
        
        Re: You might be right about that (views: 1252)
        Steve MacLellan -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 1:15 p.m.
        
        Re: You might be right about that (views: 1239)
        Bluto -- Tuesday, 14 February 2006, at 2:10 p.m.

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