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Exactly what to put on your report to Utah Div of Consumer Protection - what they need to know in order get your refund to you. Exact statutes. - Robert Worstell

There's a real simple way to help Utah Internet Scams not profit from this recession - pay it forward. Tell 5 people the three steps they need to take to get a refund and get them to help five others with their own situation. Why should scammers keep making money when the rest of us are worried about keeping our jobs?!? - Robert Worstell

Thought I'd drop this in here. Recently found a link to it in Twitter, so maybe you're interested.... - Robert Worstell

Another site to complain about your Internet Scam on. These guys are trying to reform the industry from within. Check them out. - Robert Worstell

New petition online to get Utah Internet Scams shut down - read and sign today! - Robert Worstell

How scammers in Utah are protected by the politicians the pay, the credit card companies, the telephone companies - and keep their profits because they buy off everyone who complains... - Robert Worstell

Nothing like investigative reporting to get the low-down on a scammer like Thrive Learning Institute. - Robert Worstell

Boy this is thick. Class warfare. Look - the uneducated and uninformed pay taxes. Smart people (super rich or not) put everything in corporations and do not have a personal income. Reason? Corporate taxes are less than income taxes. And practically, with our Internet markets, you could factually move everything offshore and live comfortably here in the US - without an income and the corporation paying all your expenses. It's doable. Practically, if this author spent more time figuring out how the whole tax system is rigged, he'd applaud the smart people who keep their tax dollars under their own control. - Robert Worstell

Just another approach to farming - what farmers don't tell you about some of the animals they raise and then have to take to market... - Robert Worstell

Another Thrive Learning / Bright Builder Internet scam story. Here, as a tool of Colton Moody, they are participating in an attempt to buy the Attorney General by contributing to his campaign (Call centers gave approximately 1/4 of Atty Genl Shurtleff's war chest - most controlled or influenced by Moody.) - Robert Worstell

One of the most recent rip off reports about Thrive Learning/Bright Builders where they prey on older Americans. - Robert Worstell

Just updated this with an easy contact form. Get your free copy... - Robert Worstell

Warning: This book contains proven techniques telemarketer scammers don’t want you to know… Just released so you can scam-proof your family and friends from Internet scams and help them stop telemarketers - the last thing we need in these times is more useless credit-card debt. - Robert Worstell

"This is an add-on I have been using for awhile that will put your Google Reader on steroids. There is a link on the page to a video showing some of the awesome stuff this will add to your Google Reader.This is really worth checking out if you are using Greader" - Ron"micronet"Harwood

Pretty good, but slower than Greader. Like the recommended stuff, but I can get as much from Google Alerts - just not in the sidebars. But do check it out... - Robert Worstell

Thanks for the comment Robert! I would say It depends how you set Feedly up. I find it just as easy to scan my feeds just as fast as in Greader. As for recommended stuff with Google alerts, you have to first chose your keyword, as Feedly brings back more in many ways you would never know about... P.S. Feedly has added Many more features and posting/sharing options since my video.Now Tumblr,Facebook,Better twitter to name a few. - Colossal Marketing™

"Hold on, please - then set down the phone until you hear the disconnect signal." - Robert Worstell

I use Firefox - I gave up on Flock and its faults. Firefox is what Flock is built on apparently, and if there are any features from Flock you want to bring in, I'm sure there will be an Add on somewhere. - san

I used to use Flock but it seems to get buggier with each release, so I just use firefox with extensions now, I mean afterall, all Flock is, is a glorified firefox, you can get the same thing with extensions in Firefox. The funny thing is, Flock is built off the firefox engine, so would love to know how they have made such a mess of it lol - Howie Douglas from twhirl

Can't find out what actual sales are - so it's a guestimate... - Robert Worstell

I got it at #1 on Google for all English countries for "my keyphrase" and #3 for all English speaking counties as "mykeyphrase" the seems dandy to me! - Lance Carr

I've had that happen to me - but the good part is that the site keeps its position while the social bookmarks, etc. fade away. At least they should be able to find your site from the bookmarks, videos, et al. - Robert Worstell

The other way is - create a squeeze page. Drive traffic via PPC to squeeze page, build a small email list, launch email autoresponder sequence, convert to affiliate product sales. It seems one advantage of the 2nd way is that it's less effort consuming and faster too. Which method should I choose? Would love to hear how other 30DCers are testing niche viability, and pros/cons of each method. Many thanks gang :-) - Ritesh Lal

Thanks Marysia, you're a treasure trove of info. I did some research of my own after posting my question, and Blogs do seem to better than static sites for google ranking. Caro on 30DC forums says "Robert (GuruBob) who heads the Lab, has done extensive testing. Blogs have demonstrated netting better results more quickly in moving up the search results pages." - Ritesh Lal

I'm pretty sure the point of all this is that it's not the product, it's the marketing. If ten thousand people are selling it, that's a pretty good clue that people are buying it. YOUR JOB is to get people to see your offer before most of the other peoples' offers. - Davey

You have to legally have their permission to give something away - unless it's not in copyright, like public domain stuff. And then there is stuff that people want to go viral - with their links and offers in it. So... it depends. - Robert Worstell

Each niche has it's own affiliate product and bonus report, however, so I'm not sure if I'd need three opt-in's on the home page, one for each in a static area above the main post area. Please tell me what you think... Thanks. - California Jerry

One concept I'm toying with is wordpress categories as subdomains - and then interlink the content. Each subdomain to have it's own template, so 3 opt-in lists are possible. Still on the drawing boards... - Robert Worstell

I guess so. As long as they are aren't no-follow links. - Art Y.

Ginger, not sure what your (9) means? Do you mean 0.9? ie if you only have spammy links then that will affect 90% of your Google love, but if you also have good backlinks then it will only affect 10% of your Google love? - Isha (Marysia)

"A new graph of the Gartner hype cycle for emerging technologies has been popping up on a variety of blogs. If you haven't seen it yet, the graph charts the path that many nascent technologies take from launch, through irrational exuberance, through disillusionment and ultimately to that 'a-ha moment' that leads to measured and rational mainstream adoption. It's classic 'Crossing the Chasm' stuff..." - Robert Worstell from Bookmarklet

On ezine you must not have same article that on your blog. You need to rewrite it, they don't allow same content. On other sites I don't know exactly, I think you can have them. - Mitja MG

From ezinearticle (on Twitter) regarding the issue: http://twitter.com/EzineAr... - Roger Carr

@Catherine, I don't think that's at all over the top. I'd suggest you do it. :) - Peter Gibson

Especially works if you give them an (advance) copy. Get free reviews from an ethical bribe. - Robert Worstell

congratulations on your progress! My first thoughts were, "Would that be considered unsolicited commercial email? Do spam laws only apply to the general public?" I think it should be fine, just a thought. - Tim Brennan

I listen regularly and I don't jump around, but I also do other stuff and zone out sometimes while I listen. - Carl Pruitt

I love podcasts & audiobooks. It puts me in a really positive and productive state to go walk in the park while listening to Tony Robbins. I just can't get that same effect with video or reading. One of the best podcasts ever was the one with Ed roaming around London looking for markets. It you listen to it when out and about, you actually start to see the world from a marketing perspective. - Tim Brennan

Unfortunately a lot of spammers will send emails suggesting you signed up for something you didn't then offer an unsubscribe link. The minute you click it you confirm you are a real person that they can spam some more! - Lisa

I agree and by learning the hard way by using one of my branded email addresses in the beginning. Gmail is the way to go for sites that you are not so sure you want to have a long relationship with them. - Karen Purves

This marries the effectiveness of subdomains with the ease of wordpress. - Robert Worstell

I have used e-junkie.com. It's free, but I have had a few problems with customers being able to download it. - Peter Johnson

Lulu.com has nice options for publishing both as download and printed copies. - Robert Worstell

Congratulations! :) I haven't published an ebook yet, so I don't know about marketing one though... - Art Y.