Thanksgiving Fun Stuff

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year.  I spoke with a friend of mine who sells cars for a Cincinnati Ford dealer and he was able to take some time off because they have been seeing great traffic and sales from our Automotive SEO service. That is what the Holidays are about.  Spending time with family and enjoying time off from work.

Different than trying to promote other people multi level products like this netaudioads program that failed.  Just be careful with what you get involved with.  You are way better off to work your own business or build your own asset.  Don't keep looking for the next get rich thing based on some goofy recruitment program.

Why this Failed

I deal with people all over the country helping them with their online marketing initiatives.  In a recent conversation with a Cincinnati Ford dealer I asked them their thoughts on Auto Played Audio.

He Stated "I really hope all of my competition starts using auto played audio and videos.  It will increase the bounce rate on their sites and will offend surfers if it is being used to drive traffic in the form of advertising."

This is the exact reason this program did not perform well.  Interruption marketing is really a dead marketing paradigm.  Car dealers are better off to divert a small portion of their adverting budget to automotive seo versus looking for more ways to interrupt peoples lives.

That is excited when dealerships contact us to build out dealer microsites for them our most recent conquest is for a Greenville Chevy dealer.  We built them a site to help drive traffic to them and their Chevy Silverado inventory it is performing nicely and converting leads like crazy.  The customers that land there were already looking for what the dealer sells and did not get flagged to visit by a very obtrusive audio ad.



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Shams Exist at all Levels Not Just Affiliate Marketing

Payperplay is probably dead as far as viability for the publishers and not there are even former members of the program that were highly supportive of it reaching out and letting the world know of all the problems they have experienced.  I really hate that this failed for some of my online friends.

On another note other shams exist in online marketing and big time players really sock it to car dealers.  I am not going to get into the details here but some use alleged education as a way to push their product thus causing car dealers to ignore other effective means of promoting their website.

One of the most ridicules things I have heard in recent times is one vendor tells dealers to not worry about SEO on their site and dealer search engine marketing provides more value.  That reeks of perversion and used as a way to encourage them to spend money on pay per click platforms for dismal traffic results versus getting higher traffic numbers from natural traffic.

More on winning on localized traffic for affiliate marketing

I set up a wordpress blog that is getting national traffic for certian search terms.  In two day in existence it has made enough to buy a dinner out.  Not bad for something that I only have to work on every now and then.  It will probably take about for hours a month to maintain now.  It will probably build very targeted traffic for terms like Bennett Chevrolet and 2009 Shelby Mustang pretty fast.

The downside to this is it may not last and require more work than I plan, but that is ok by me.  I do not have to worry about recruiting downlines or getting blamed in back rooms for destrying a membersite.  The thing with Netaudioads is it was destined for failure from the start and most of the content I published about it was probably over looked by many but ther was plenty of content about how bad an idea it was even if they had someone decent at the helm.

When you put people in charge of something that has had as many life and financial problems as the people they had running this thing coupled with the other obvouis concerns you wind up with what you got.

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Why don't people just drop it?

I did a post a while back about an interaction I had with imagic lab when I was an internet sales manager for Carl Gregory Hyundai. Basically my interaction with an over aggressive salesperson lied to me and the owner was aloof when I questioned him about it.

At the time I asked that a set up fee be waived in exchange for some free promotion at my blog and they shot down the request without even visiting the site. At the time my profile in the industry was not on the radar and the blog was new and did not get much traffic. No it is one of the top blogs in the niche.

I did not make any character judgments just blogged about my interactions with their unprofessional staff and my interaction. Now it looks like he thinks I personally attacked him. The problem is for him his past is as shady as certain "Host" we know and commentators at my blog have pointed out his past before he started imagic lab. I hope I am not the moron he is referring too.

Traffic stats show he of had an attorney to review the content. Now when they try to access the site they get a custom error message. What ws even more funny is when they kept refreshing in an attempt to get past it. I guess they really do not understand technology that well.

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Perfect use of junk like this

I revived this blog only for one reason and that is to provide value to others who looking for ways to expand their business. The problem with most internet marketing promotions that require you to recruit other people that the real money makers are at the top and everyone else if just fodder in the machine.

Just the other day I was speaking with a friend that works for a Newark car lot and he was expressing how he needs to find other ways to supplement his income or improve his business. One of the best recommendations that I could give him was to start a car dealer blog.  While this may not be the the end all be all it will allow him to get traffic that he could not get to a typical car dealer website.

Another friend who works for a Loveland used car dealer told me that his traffic has been way up over the last few weeks because of SEO efforts they have been doing to their site.  At the end of the day a strong seo campaign coupled with other online properties it will allow dealers the opportunity to reach out and strike other markets.

What does this have to do with NetAudioAds?  Not a thing it just allows me to use this site for things that can help others not hurt them.  It did its job getting the truth out about their problems before people got burned good thing a few people listened, others are just hanging on chasing a Internet dream.

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