Internet Marketing Tools and Their Marketers
Now as every Internet Marketer knows there are certain tools that makes your life easier. These tools normally fit in to three main categories namely:
- Niche Research
- Link Acquistions
- Content Creation
And all of these three have an abundance of tools an IM can pick, though of the tools there are only a select few that are useful and these tools normally have an HEFTY price tag attached and to justify this price tag there is always the promise for free updates for life and every increasing uses for the software.
Though what if you fork over $150 or even $40 and the product creator ‘forks’ you over? what method have you got for recompense?
Well let me vent some anger my naming and shaming…I know its not a good tactic but yes.
Shameful Marketer: Mr Brad Callen
You may have heard about his new product Keyword Elite 2. Now this product may be good and not just hype however; after being spammed by a dozen or so emails selling this product even though I had already brought Keyword (and SEO) Elite a year or so ago I did not get the free update promised.
SEO elite is more more or less a defunct piece of software, though I’m not to fussed as I use Market Samurai in its stead now, and KE v1.0; while yes it still functions though I was promised FREE UPDATES FOR LIFE when I forked out the $197 or so for it when I got it so I expect to get free updates NOT being told to fork out another $200 to get KE 2.0 which SHOULD have been a FREE UPDATE as was promised.
Shameful Marketer: Nathan Ridley
Now he is the genius behind Traffic Android; and as you can see by my earlier review of it I loved this program; It helped automate small tasks that were vital for anyone who new a little about SEO.
However come August the online version of the software died out due to lack of updates and stopped working and V3.0 hasn’t even started to be worked on yet! So now its a piece of nothing that does nothing…oh fun!
Luckily I haven’t come across any other products that have ‘died’ on me… How about you guys have you had any experience with any ‘Shameful Marketers’ ?
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Some companies say their “Free updates” only include minor revisions, such as v1.0 to 1.2, 1.3, 1.6 an so on. They can “basically cheat” by simply changing the version number to v2
Sorry to hear that
yep the ’small print’ messes it all up!
i hear what you are saying – I want to transfer seoelite to a new computer – guess what 5 days and waiting they havent bothered answering the support tickdet. I still like seoelite for the kw rankings – I havent used keyword elite since I bought market samuria
I did use SE for ranking alot and still do but i’m phasing it into Market Samurai now with thier new rank checker module.
Though with the bad there is the good as well… we just have to hope the next IM product you get is the good
What a bummer. Lucky for me I’m not one to pay for these sort of products. I probably would if I was running an online business, but seeing as I don’t I find the expense unnecessary. At least if I do decide to take this path, I know a couple of tools not to buy.
OK, just a quick question, what plugin do you use that accepts the comment without reloading the page?
Hey Sire; I’ve been using ajax comment reply: http://zhiqiang.org/blog/plugin/ajaxcomment for a long time now; the bad side is you cannot deactivate it or all the comments lose their settings :p
Though yea a very useful plugin.
Is there any reason why you would want to delete it? I mean did it do something crazy that made you want to get rid of it only to find it couldn’t be done?
No it didnt do any thing stupid; but its a side effect you should keep in mind
I have been thinking about buying Keyword Elite 2.0 every since I heard about it, but I understand that it only supports English language (and not Norwegian as I was hoping for). I also thought that the free updates for life would actually mean free updates for life, and not just small revisions.
So far, I haven’t experience any programs that have “died”… but I’ve stopped using a few because I didn’t find them as useful as I was hoping for
- jens
KE 2.0 does look interesting to say the least, but I wont be buying it simply because of the reasons I have mentioned above.
I suggest you check out the free version of Market Samurai; its keyword research module work in different languages I think ( I have at least used it for that a few times) and I think its fairly useful a tool.
Thanks. I’ll try Market Samurai. It would be awesome if it supports Norwegian.
I get spammed by mr Brad Callen all the time. Shameful!
That really sucks to hear about your bad news, sorry man
-James
There are lots of micro niches generating tool out there. For free of course google adwords tool. market samurai also offer 12 day free.
Pretty controversial.. Well the end thing here is that most marketers dont deliver the promise they pitch to people. Thats why its hard to promise things..
Sorry to heard about the issues you got with the updates. As i read onother post, with which i am fully agree, most of the “serious” companies do not need agressive advertaising to sell their product, but in your case i understood they kinda spammed you with this. I have some principles when is coming to buy some products on internet and that is one of them.