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The Viral Secret is a new list building product launched by the king of micro continuity, Russel Brunson.

The very impressive signup page certainly will attract a lot of people, specially once they see all the big names involved: Mike Filsaime, Jeff Dedrick, Ewen Chia, David Guindon, Frank Astheimer, Todd Gross, Derrick Van Dyke, etc. I confess I too felt attracted but then…

I’ve started reading other marketers’ opinion. Here are some of them.

A comment posted by Adin Martin on Bob Serling’s Blog (http://www.power8marketing.com/P8blog/?p=70#comments):

” You actually caught me at a bad time because I just received an email from someone I thought I trusted and clicked on the link and it was just another pathetic big-name-big-hype-big-promise-no-action guru deal.

By all accounts 6 top ‘gurus’ are going to work their fingers to the bone building our list, for free of course, when it just turns out to be another used car salesman tactic to get you to sign up to 6 lists and hit you with a $100 OTO.

On top of that they are playing the old MLM c**p game of showing how easy it is to grow a huge downline – we’ve all seen this stuff over and over again and I’m really pi**ed! ”

Daniel McGonagle, by email:

” I’m rushing this email out to you because I see some emails hitting my inbox talking about a new Viral list building product or service.

Yes, you can build your list and let others build a list under you but it’s doesn’t really make much business sense.

What if someone under you is building a health-related niche list and you’re building technology-related list?

How does that benefit you?

I’ve seen these services come and go over the years and frankly I think they’re all sucker’s bets that only really benefit the
owners of the program and the “first movers”…

Dave Lovelace, by email:

” Puhleeze.  Same story, different face.  These are time wasters and not your BEST option for buildling a REAL list that you OWN.
Listen, when others come on board to ANYTHING for their own selfish purpose, then how the heck will you benefit from that?
—————-The only person who really benefits from this or any other list-building matrix is the one who created it.”

Despite all the above opinions, I signed up because I wanted to find out exactly how it works.

Surprise, surprise…After you enter your personal information, you are requested to sign up for six newsletters (or are they seven?). You are then offered a $97 account upgrade, followed by a $47 downsell, if you don’t take up on the first offer.

Inside the members area, you find out that you need an Aweber autoresponder account and – of course – it’s Russel’s affiliate link that takes you to the Aweber signup page… While you are in the members area, every time you click on any link you are reminded that you are NOT an upgraded member and then the upgrade offer shows up.

Oh, about the newsletters: four out of the six marketers hit me with some sales pitch before sending any useful information.

Would Adin Martin be right when he stated: “I am sick of seeing people with hopes and dreams being treated as no more than a wallet to be prised open by these patronizing gurus.”? What do you think about?

P.S.: I for myself think that spending a lot less money (less than 10 bucks) you can signup for MMaco mail, present your offer to 150 million people and build your own personal mailing list. Read this blog post to find out more.

Viral Traffic Seeds, now set to launch on 22nd February, is a new online advertising site that promises to generate extra traffic with very little effort or cost.  So I decided to join it just as a test… Here’s what I’ve found.

The site looks very professional and clean and is easy to read and understand.  Joining the site is also easy and painless. You will be offered 2 upgrade options but they aren’t really required unless you want to get the maximum benefits off your membership.

The Members Area is so well laid out and intuitive that anyone can immediately figure out what to do and get it all up and running in just a few minutes.  What you really do inside the site is create links and ads: you enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into “Viral Traffic Seeds” links.  You then create ads for anything you want to promote using the Viral Traffic Seeds Ad Generator.  You are free to create as many links and as many ads as you like. They are organized in a logical way–links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference.

Once you’ve created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic.  All you need to do is just use and promote the new Viral Traffic Seeds link instead of the original source link you had.  Every time the Viral Traffic Seeds link is clicked, the page loads followed by a cool slide-up ad window at the bottom.  It displays an ad PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Viral Traffic Seeds.  So if anyone clicks the Viral Traffic Seeds image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral.  It’s a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Viral Traffic Seeds links get clicked) you earn credits that get your ad displayed in the ad windows when other members’ links get clicked.  The more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

That’s when it works virally: as you make referrals into Viral Traffic Seeds (either by promoting it or just using it and having visitors click the Viral Traffic Seeds image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks.  And this works up to 5 levels deep.  So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Viral Traffic Seeds.

Viral Traffic Seeds also tracks the results so you know how many clicks and ad displays you had. That’s another impressive extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all: downline emailing.  You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Viral Traffic Seeds is different.  They took time to make the emailing often enough that it’s valuable as a user, but no so often that it’s a burden to your downline.  The best part about this feature is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now that’s cool.

It is not possible to test the full effect of a big downline yet or the full features because it is in pre-launch now. But overall I have to say I am impressed with Viral Traffic Seeds.  It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to increase their web traffic and site advertising with less work and a very low cost if compared to other types of advertisement.

You can visit the website and join HERE.

A few months ago a thread by Martin Avis on the Warrior Forum stirred up some heated opinions and comments. Martin’s initial post was directed to newbies and reinforced the fact that there is no “easy” way to make money online, it all requires work, sometimes a lot of work.

That’s not exactly what is promised by just a few random headlines I’ve collected from the sales pages of some of the latest product launches. Here are just some examples:

” How To Totally Eliminate The Hard Work To Making Money Online & How YOU Can Easily Copy His ‘Lazy’ Pure Profit From A Couple Of Hours Easy ‘Set Up’ As Many Times As You Like…” (automatedcashformula.com)

“Amazing New Secret Formula Reveals How Anyone Can Easily Generate Thousands Of Free Visitors Every Month Like Clockwork… And… Effortlessly Turn Them Into Massive Mountains Of Cold Hard Cash Faster, Better & More Effectively Than Any Other Money Making Method Ever Discovered!” (authorityblueprintx.com)

“Punk-Kid PROVES His Piece of Junk Windows 95 Computer Can Generate An Alarming, Automatic 5-FIGURE MONTHLY Income And SWEARS You Can Do It In Just Minutes A Day…859% Guaranteed!” (nichefunnelsystem.com)

“Revealed! These 2 marketing masters will show YOU how to create Internet cash-flows  so rapidly…so easily that any faster method would probably be illegal!” (projectcovertpersuasion.com)

“Exposed! A New Job Crushing System That Will Drown Your Sites With Endless Mayflower Parades Of Free Traffic While You Hardly Lift A Finger!” (marketingonthefringe.com)

“If You Have 30 Minutes A Week, Then You Can Make Six Figures A Year Online.” (simplesixfigures.com)

How’s that for examples of hype and false promises? And those experienced marketers pick on newbies because the newbies want an easy way to make money online when that’s what they are promised all the time.

But thank God it is Christmas.

That’s right: thank God it is Christmas and we will have a break.

For a couple of weeks we will not have these hyped up product launches, we will not receive email after email promoting crappy reports and videos or ridiculous FREE CDs  that are never free (just give them your Credit Card number to pay for S+H…), we will not have our inbox flooded with internet marketers ad swaps.

For a couple of happy weeks we will not have to read salespages with pure-hype headlines and made-up stories to trigger our emotions, we will not have to read that the reason this marketer will reveal his “inner secrets” to making millions online is that he “wants to give back”…

For a couple of weeks we will be free from internet marketers bullshit.

Let’s all thank God for this gift. Seasons greetings to all!