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[cosmokid]

I wanted to offer a short review of a product I bought recently. It's from Alexis Dawes, author of Desperate Buyers Only. You may have seen Desperate Buyers mentioned at the Warriorforum. It's a must have eBook about how to target your eBooks toward hungry, desperate, audiences.

She has a new product out recently - it appears to be a soft launch, because I've not seen her advertize it at all and I only stumbled upon it because I was checking for updates to her blog and she mentioned it there.

Anyway, it's a new product called TypoGold. Alexis and her coauthor Jaclyn have really got the use of typos down to a science. And they've even created a proprietary software accessible only to buyers of the Typo Gold eBook, which allows you to instantly do searches for the most popular and common forms of typos around your keywords.

So if you're trying to get extra traffic from typos, and you're wondering which of a dozen variations of typo might work the best, you'll be able to get that info easily.

Also the eBook goes into a lot of detail about typos in general. How they work, etc.

For instance, it's not just misspellings that are common forms of typos. Web surfers have a lot of common habits as far as dropping certain letters accidentally or adding double letters.

In Typo Gold they go into all of this in great detail so you can better understand how typos happen and how to make use of them.

They also provide some great tips on how to work typos into your website.

I know I've struggled in the past with how to target typos in my websites without looking like an idiot. As a professional writer, misspellings are a huge pet peeve, so I bristle at the thought of taking my carefully written baby web pages and purposefully adding misspellings to them just to get some extra traffic, even though I see the value of targeting typos.

Well, Typo Gold has some great workarounds - ways you can work typos into your sites without turning them into a mess.

Anyway, I found this product really great and useful. Warning - this product, like many of Alexis Dawes's books, is a bit pricey ($97) but in this case since you also get access to her proprietary software for studing typos, it's more than worth it.

Okay, I just wanted to share this here, because of the many marketers doing stuff onlin, Alexis Dawes is one of those hidden gems - not a flashy guru, just a solid, reliable producer of fabulous material.

(And no, I'm not an affiliate for her yet, although darn it, I need to be!)

You can find her material at typogold.com.


Jennifer
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[PhiltheBear]

I haven't seen this one from Alexis but I will check it out.

Her Desperate Buyers ebook is terrific (perhaps slightly overpriced but what do I know). I got involved with her when she was putting together 'No More Smelly House' and she's a lot of fun. She's a terrific writer and a great fount of knowledge. There's always something that makes you say 'Damn, I wish I'd thought of that!
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[Tony - guruscam man]

It's great when you find a 'non-guru' gem among marketers for sure.

Desperate Buyers is a good workable system.

Soft launches are also a clever way of operating. I'll be she's still selling 'Desperate Buyers' every day.

That's the thing about it - with soft launches the sales just pile up. Every product you create just keeps on gently pumping money into your account and doesn't stop just because your 'latest' product has been launched, whereas a lot of guru products seem to die as soon as their next big thing is pushed out.

That said, if you're making half a million from each big launch.......??

[cosmokid]

You know, Tony, you make an interesting point --

There must be tons of IMers who never bother with a "big" launch.

I mean, maybe they just quietly put their product up, notify their list, and on to the next thing, you know?

With good SEO practices, a few viral reports, and some forum postings the traffic should come - with or without an excessive amount of JV's.

I'm one of those folks who is quietly doing JV's on the same product all the time. So while I did some in the beginning, it's not like I stopped doing them. The product has done well in sort of a perpetual "soft launch" stage.

I'm at the point where I'm getting more and more turned off by the big guru type launches. If someone I respect offers a unique bonus that they've created, I'm more likely to check it out, but the brain does get numb after a while when you receive the same offer (often with the same exact text) from ten to twenty people at once.

Unfortunately, when gurus I respect promote questionable stuff like the Russell Brunson material, I'm starting to press the unsubscribe link more and more frequently. To me, a marketer's "street cred' really does go down if they involve themselves with questionable stuff.

(Keep in mind I haven't actually seen the Russell Brunson product myself. Some people say it has lots of good points about offline marketing, which is fine. I'm just saying that buying an interview from a former convict and penis pill promoter maybe doesn't rank up really high just now on my "To do!" list!)

Jennifer

PS I think there's a ton to be learned from various "adult" marketers like that guy Woody Maxim who writes about what he learned in the naughty word 2 trade and how others can replicate his techniques in unrelated markets. So it's not that I'm against things that are risque - just against stuff that might be junk!
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