Another Group of Scam Artisit - Fowler Maxwell, PC

Just recently had to defend myself in court with Fowler Maxwell, PC in Camden County Magistrate Court due to not paying a bogus bill for shoddy work.  I will have the judgment back from the court in the next few days as the judge did not rule on the case.  If the judge sides with them  I will appeal his verdict.  Any judgment from a Magistrate Court in the state of GA can be set aside if the defendant chooses to appeal the case.

Right now my opinion of Fowler Maxwell is that they are incompetent and greedy and if I lose in this action due to them filing suit they will probably have the same problem that Netaudioads had when they relaunched an affiliate program by excluding the first group of affiliates they defrauded.

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Its Official - The Car Business would Never Adopt This

I have car dealers as clients all over the country.  After the relationship is built them I bring up NetAudioAds and Pay Per Play.  The conversation usually turns into a "You gotta be kidding" conversation.  Recently I shared the idea of auto played audio advertising with my friends over at Peoria VW- a Phoenix Volkswagen Dealer and at first they thought the idea was kind of cool, until we discussed what it really meant.

After they understood that many people would not even hear the ads because of internet use at work and the fact that when people hear audio online it actually has no call to action unless the content is geared to allow a conversion it would turn into just another annoyance.  My friends at Beechmont Ford a Cincinnati Ford dealer realized this from the very start.

My friend Chris Cox at a Bradenton used car dealership also agreed that that auto played audio advertising would just be a huge waste of bandwidth and do more to damage a dealers reputation in a marketplace than drive traffic to their offerings.  Its a good thing that people understand that some things are just better off left out of their marketing mix.



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Why Do People Do This

Recently I was trying to help a local dealer maximize their online exposure, Golden Isles Nissan, and was met with an interesting problem.  When I was an internet manager for another dealer I created landing pages going after competing dealers by name and forgot to take them all down when I was no longer in a dealership.  They even resorted to threatening to have me arrested, very similar to what Sam Deeb and Larry Host did when I started blogging about voice to page, after they discovered this.  What they do not realize I do not take to threats well.  So now their online competition has just gotten a little tougher.

As one of the top automotive seo firms in the country we have enough collateral and understanding of what consumers search for to create lead generation properties going after their customers that will provide more income that any relationship we would of ever had with Golden Isles Nissan.

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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.

Maximizing Income from Traffic

Affiliate program participation requires traffic for you to be successful in your efforts.  Now that I have completely extricated myself from the membership style affiliate program and concentrating building my Automotive SEO firm however this does not stop us from participating in CPA style affiliate programs.  One thing that we do as part of portfolio to help market dealers is we create supporting seo assets to help boost client sites.  Each one of these properties have to pay their own weight versus relying on client income to pay for these assets.

Lately we have been creating a group of automotive listing sites targeting specific areas and products such as Texas direct auto and Greenville Chevy dealers.  These properties allow us to drive link equity to our clients while monetizing the traffic that hits these sites.  Once these sites start building traffic then it is time to concentrate on others, a rinse wash repeat strategy.  Then you wind up with a portfolio of properties that produce revenue on an ongoing basis.

Eventually we will be offering a course for people to get that will give them step by step process for setting up these income generating properties to use for their own income sources and revenue generating money sites.

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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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Using Squidoo for Multiple Streams of Income

I love to use squidoo for affiliate product promotion and but now I also help dealerships with full service online promotion.  I have personally used the platform for personal promotion of service and now I am using it for landing pages for clients as well.

I made this lens for a Cincinnati Ford dealer and it provides very relevant content and links to things such as their F-150 inventory.  The nice thing about using squidoo for business promotion is that is leverages the content of many to help your contnet get found.  It is just a great way for advertising.

This is very different than using things like auto played audio, which no one wants to hear.  You can build pages to promote your offers very effectively. 

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Vanished Gone Outta Here

Well it looks like Voice2Page has finally closed shop permanently.  I am glad I played an instrumental part in helping the first batch of affiliate get the money back they paid into their old program.  I feel really sorry for all the people wh thought that they were poised to make money from the relauch.

Whe I first started blogging about the impending fiasco a little over a year ago many people really took it as a way to lash out against me.  I am sure I will be blamed in part for this in closed back rooms and seedy hotels in Las Vegas.  I can live with that.

What is cool though is all of the business I have geenrated from showing others how I can rank well in the search engines for various terms.  I am not regarded as an Automotive SEO expert by many.  One thing that can really provide a testament to my own abilities is that I was able to get a fresh site to rank on page one for Ford F150 Price Quotes in a matter of days.

On to my next project...

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Teh BPA Audit - Was it a Hoax?

I had received information that the audit from BPA Worldwide for NetAudioAds, PayPerPlay and Voice2Page was coming under scrutiny and today when I searched the BPA site for voice2page's status it looks like the report was pulled down.

What does this mean?

It is my assumption based on other information and this fact that possibly BPA decided to pull the audit report because the stats they were provided are comming under question and their reliability could not be trusted.  Lets face it.  When you have people that have never performed ethically at any interaction it is suprising that BPA did not dig deeper the first time around.

Oh well it looks like the Internet community has been another bad affiliate program and to think all the people who said I was full of it when I started blogging about this program destined for failure.


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Larry Host the Ghost has Surfaced - Out Scamming Again?

Had a pretty interesting call this morning from Larry's newest victim in over promising and under delivering and taking money for work undone.  This seems to be a common trait of his that keeps resurfacing.

While I cannot confirm the story I was told he was living in a weekly rental hotel room in Las Vegas and his most recent victim has paid him thousands of dollars and he has yet to deliver anything.  If anyone is wanting to find out how to contact this company leave me a comment with your email address and once verified I will give you their contact info.  From the shenanigans described that he is doing according to this source it is borderline extortion, hopefully they will take my advice and file reports to that extent.

A word of caution to anyone wishing to hire him to do anything be very careful. He has consistently lied to people in when he was part of Voice2Page, NetAudioAds and PayPerPlay.  Right now it is listed that he has Absconded from probation in Michigan and is wanted.

I have better things to do with my time like helping a New Jersey Hyundai dealer cut down on their dealer.com search engine marketing cost, that really wondering what the hell Larry Host is doing.  It is just sad if he is working a new scam.



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Does it Have What it Takes?

I am working on a landing page for a friend of mine the help them sell 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid SUVs and I really do not like the layout well but feel like it will work well for its desired purpose and not force them to rely on search engine marketing to get leads for the vehicle.

I can assure you a little bit of search engine optimization goes a long way in finding buyers of products versus dismal referral traffic that things like pay per play could deliver with their key to page platform.  Having auto played audio instructing a surfer to perform an action is like a pop up.  To internet marketers it really is not a distraction but to the general public it is a bane versus aggressive SEO.

SEO help people looking for your product find it versus the spaghetti marketing intrusive advertising offers.

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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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Harnessing the Power of Squidoo for Affiliate Marketing

For those that have not been living under a rock you have probably heard of Squidoo.  One of the great ways that you can leverage it is to have different profiles for different things.  I have someone I am mentoring on using Squidoo for affiliate marketing and she has taken the bull buy by the horns.

She only has around 20 live "lenses" but they are generating a nice income for her. This special profile she is using only targets geographical automotive affiliate products.  Her content is mostly car buying tips and then pushes lead affiliates.  She made over $500 in October just from affiliate conversions this does not include the money she will make from squidoo directly.

One thing that is a given.  As long as squidoo does not change their terms of service it is an awesome income generation tool.  You can be rest assured Seth Godin will stand behind what he does and probably aready has it in place in the even of his untimely demise squidoo will be around long after he is gone. 

Something to think about before you just jump into any affiliate program or putting your good name out there to promote something.  If you do not have an account at squidoo get one here.

Ok it is time for me to get back in the trenches.

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No Need to Waste this Space -

I really hope for all that have been involved with Pay Per Play that a lesson has been learned. That things that sound to good to be true actually are. I really feel sorry for MK and even more so due to his health. I do not want to loose lose the real value of this property so I will be using it more so for helping people find other useful things on the web.

Internet marketing is a great way to earn income. What is funny to see is industries missing it wide in their online marketing initiatives. On thing that can be done when you find a soft niche like Tulsa Chevrolet Dealers you need to capitalize on them.

So I have a protege that I am working with to help them dominate the Tulsa automotive market area!!

DOA as Promised

I had shut this blog down a while back because it really served no purpose anymore and really it probably does not any longer.  What has been interesting to see is that some of the staunch supporters who actually went after me for pointing out the holes and problems that voice2page and netaudioads has had in the past are now really out to make sure they never have a chance.

I really wanted to see this company succeed, due to the fact I am friends with people that have stakes in the company.  I wanted the mass number of people to make sure that they followed through with the things they were promised due to the fact they have a past of not doing the right thing running affiliate programs in the past.

Now it is just an after thought to add this site back to the mix. However google still looks at it as very relevant content because it was ranking number two for the search term netaudio ads even with blog closed to readers.  Now I will revisit here once a week or so and post interesting things that are found on the net as it relates to affiliate marketing.

Like now I have an apprentice that is attempting bum marketing with some user generated content sites to generate affiliate income via lead generation.  Her first keyword group she is going after is Tulsa Chevrolet Dealerships.  It will be fun to see how fast we can get a squidoo lens to rank for it.  Now it is on page five.  I think in a few days it will be on page one.  We shall see..

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The BPA Audit for NetAudioAds - PayPerPlay - What a joke!!

I have reviewed the preliminary audit from BPA and I have to say I cannot believe that it took BPA over 4 months to compile data that could be found in a simple stat program. With voice2page the ones providing the "data" measured and not using any tracking provided by BPA to NetAudioAds it really says nothing. The data was provided PayPerPlay and presented in a format that the untrained human eye can read. Awstats inside of cpanel does the same thing.

Folk you have just waited for a bunch of nothing based on the content I saw. The report lack integrity. BPA has no certification that the data provided to them is accurate other than maybe a signature from a convicted felon. They should of provided NAA with a tracking code to imped in the JS if they wanted to provide factual data.

This reminds me of stuff I hear from idiotic automotive gurus. Lots of noise that is about nothing just like the launch that has yet to happen with NetAudioAds.

Four Months After Launch - Still Waiting

Netaudiads seems to have lost all of it's steam to the point even the zealots are tired. They are starting to see that the hype machine that was built has been abandoned by the founder of Pay Per Play.

As they were in the process of building their initial pool of MLM bottom feeders Charles Heflin took to blogoshpere defending the adveertising medium dubbed, NetAudioAds, when main stream bloggers spoke out about how bad of an idea the product and compensation plan really is.

Below is a capture or a comment that he left at SEObook.com.



He made a few statements in this comment that are pure comedic at this point.

"We have procured over 66,000 advertisers"

In conversations in the past with Charles he said these are the numbers that are being fed to him by voice2page and now it is evident that this is a 100% false statement. Now they keep playing the shell game with their publishers about an audit report before advertisers are willing to come on board. In spite or their original claims touting advertisers and Charles attack in blog comments.

"Who cares who ranks #1 for NetAudioAds"

With the repeated contacts I have had with the likes of Sam Deeb and other small investors in the company it is an issue for them. I have had repeated contacts and veiled threats from these individuals about taking down this site.

I don't know what your opinion is of a company that uses deception to build their marketing list, but I know mine. I just wonder how the handful of publishers that are hanging on for the "ramp up" can still believe anything coming from "NAA Central" as it does look like the original front man has jumped ship like he said he would if they did not deliver on their promises.