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While perusing some other sites, I ran across a link to Splork's site LostBallInHighWeeds.com.  Splork is an Internet Marketer who's been around a few years.  He seems to be doing okay, but not stellar.  He does however, appear to have a pretty good grasp of what's going on out there, and muses on his various techniques.  The refreshing part is that he neither does the A-lister "I know everything" act, as a matter of fact is quite disdainful of it, nor is he an exasperated, "I don't know what I'm doing" hopeful either.

Take a look at his post, I Almost Bought Commission Blueprint to see what I mean.  Here's a couple of snippets, so you'll get where I'm going with this:

I decided not to buy Commission Blueprint. I was almost seduced by dreams of making money with Adwords. I’m glad I saved my $297 $77.

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So you go out to the web and look for “Commission Blueprint reviews” and you come upon page after page of bullshit Squidoo Lens, Hubpages and domain name ripoff review sites that pretty much say nothing but rewrite the product’s salespage. You know, the same shit that gurus tell you to do to sell niche products. There is never a true review. Why? Because it’s too new. Nobody has used it long enough to know if it really works. Everybody is too intent on selling it.

If the damn thing was so great, don’t you think that the gurus would be working the program first instead of trying to make a few grand pimping? The product says it has made a half a million so far this year on one product. If it’s so badass why bother being an affiliate marketer? Just work the Blueprint. But no one knows if it works because they are too busy getting you to buy it.

It was about halfway through the post I really felt a sense of kinship with Splork.  I've been looking around and these kinds of overhyped sales BS are everywhere.  Even many legit products have the in your face marketing popping right out of the page at you.  I'm not sure if it's worse in the IM field or simply more prevalent.  I think you have to read between the marketing lines, because you certainly can't beleive what they say.  Even then, you can't ever be sure.  At least Clickbank has a good refund policy.

I confess to spending too much of the rest of the day wandering through his site.  Some good stuff in there, go take a look.  You'll probably find yourself adding him to your feed reader like I did.

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