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How Did You Score?
As a few of you.....anyone out there? lol know Scott Reynolds and I have been having an ongoing discussion on a different thread about such things as twitter, the "dreaded" list as well as being burned with affiliate marketing and I should add, multi level marketing ( there is a distinct difference by the way)
Scott and myself (as well as others I am sure) question the aspect of list building as well as the whole concept (?) of being an affiliate or promoting affiliate products or services in general.
I think that as owners or in the administrative part of businesses, we have fallen down on our job in some regards and we need to smarten up!
In this current economic climate, it seems that we the owners require of our affiliates a bachelorette, an instant messalogy, and a masters degree in social networkology and if we are honest we expect our affiliates if they are females a doctorate in flirtation and from our males the "hawkers" mentality of sell sell sell. I think it is way overdue that we as owners teach the affiliates to be knowledgeable in the many different areas of the industry and put the well being and even the financial responsibilities at the forefront of their many obligations. Its all about people and its all about having a conscience and the moral ethics to build a good relationship with our front line workers.
Many of the affiliates that we are talking to have been so burned by the business of affiliate marketing as well as having been indoctrinated to do as they do, without thought.. that as Scott said to me, everyone is running away. Where does the fault lie? As owners we need to take some responsibility in what we are doing or have done and as people who want to make that extra income, they need to stop and examine what they are doing, the whys and the hows.
It is so easy to get sucked into that next pie in the sky and it is easy to fall into the statistical trap of..if we promote this or that....if we get a thousand people on a list...then surely I will make the money! WRONG!
As you can see by the subject line of this thread - How Did You Score? I have come across a quiz that I think will prove useful to many ( or at least that is my hope). To start turning things around, we need to start using some common sense and to also learn about the business of marketing. I invite you to take this quiz and see how you did, there really are no winners or losers in this quiz, just a way to maybe start thinking things in a different way.
I would love your feed back. Share how you did and maybe even tell others to come here and take the quiz for themselves.
READY?
1.
You are approached online by a very chatty fellow who apparently can barely stop jumping around about some e-book hes just discovered. ” Its full of SO much helpful and INTERESTING information on making money online that, instead of going out and doing whatever it was that he read in the e-book that’s making him practically p** in his pants, he instead decided to go out and completely waste his own time by looking for newbie strangers who look to need a helping hand.
He claims that he can get you this incredible piece of e-book material for but a mere $60.00 since he knows a guy, that knew a guy… or something blah, blah, blah. On the other hand, you were about to drop that $300 on a campaign you'd been researching and tweaking up until launch time. You figure that the e-book this guy’s talking about HAS to be good with the way hes been going on. Either that or he just had too much coffee or something…
Balls in your court, champ. What do you do?
A. Roll the dice and spend your $60 on this once-in-a-lifetime e-book that you've been bombarded with so much information about.
B. Tell him he can take his e-book on how to sign up for an account with Adwords and shove it ..where?
C. Inform him that you're going to need some time to mull over the decision, but that hes welcome to stick around and tell you more about the e-book. Because that would be a GREAT idea!
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2.
During your present quest to trek through the mean streets of an affiliate marketing chat room, you are presented with a link to what SEEMS like it is just meant to help you out. Apparently its to a website that teaches you all about web SEO in a university type setup online! At least that what some random stranger has told you, complete with several smiley faces after each of his statements. The link is right there in front of you. What do you do?
A. Seek safe haven at this… Web SE University place.
B. Ignore it and continue asking EVERYONE why they think your Wordpress hosted Adsense account was banned.
C. Get off of everyone's case and go actually try your hand in some actual affiliate marketing.
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3.
For whatever reason, a particularly agitated message board member has decided to absolutely go OFF on you as if he were participating in some live and officiated debate about how PPC is better than the “garbage” SEO that you’ve been trying out. While you were originally going to just walk (or scroll) away, he definitely struck a deep nerve when he called SEO garbage.
That Jerk! What do you do?
A. Be thankful you've finally found someone to give you some guidance even if that guidance was the complete opposite of everything you’ve known and was also insulting and degrading.
B. Get back to work because arguing over the Internet is like arguing in to a mirror. Arguing on the Internet is dumb! Yeah!
C. Take it one step farther and make a post on the message board forum telling everyone what he did to you and that you’re NOT pleased with what he’s done.
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4.
What do the following words mean to you (if anything): ˜tracking˜ and ˜testing˜?
A. Everything
B. Why did my Adsense account get banned?
C. They are two of the Ts in the Quadruple T Philosophy line of Internet marketing strategy
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5.
Max is split-testing a PPC campaign with 42 different Ad groups which all contain 23 different keywords except for one which actually contains 17. Now, REALLY quickly and WITHOUT using a calculator, which of the following numbers is closest to how many total keywords Zack has in his campaign as a whole?
A. 1,000
B. 875
C. 450
D 0
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That wasn't that bad was it? Its not like you aren't going to lie about your score if you fail. It means you are on the road to maybe finding out how to do things properly and inst that what it is all about?
Answer/Moral Analysis:
Since I’m pretty sure we all know the right and wrong answers in the questions, let’s instead take a look at the morals that you were being taught through these somewhat exaggerated real-life examples.
But first, just in case you were wondering, here’s the correct answers:
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. D
The moral of Question #1:
Don’t talk to shady strangers trying to sell you things. It will never end well. On social communities, develop relationships FIRST.
The moral of Question #2:
Doing ANYTHING with someone you don’t know at ALL is risky, do you really think you should be clicking links too? Learn everything there is to know before you do anything. Ask questions and do your homework.
The moral of Question #3:
Time = Money
Time spent arguing = Wasted time
Wasted Time = No Money
No Money = :(
The moral of Question #4:
If you don’t know what testing and tracking refer to then, you best go find out. Because they’re very important indeed!
The moral of Question #5:
Make sure you read things carefully. You never know what the end result will be if you don’t. Knowledge is indeed POWER.
Scott and myself (as well as others I am sure) question the aspect of list building as well as the whole concept (?) of being an affiliate or promoting affiliate products or services in general.
I think that as owners or in the administrative part of businesses, we have fallen down on our job in some regards and we need to smarten up!
In this current economic climate, it seems that we the owners require of our affiliates a bachelorette, an instant messalogy, and a masters degree in social networkology and if we are honest we expect our affiliates if they are females a doctorate in flirtation and from our males the "hawkers" mentality of sell sell sell. I think it is way overdue that we as owners teach the affiliates to be knowledgeable in the many different areas of the industry and put the well being and even the financial responsibilities at the forefront of their many obligations. Its all about people and its all about having a conscience and the moral ethics to build a good relationship with our front line workers.
Many of the affiliates that we are talking to have been so burned by the business of affiliate marketing as well as having been indoctrinated to do as they do, without thought.. that as Scott said to me, everyone is running away. Where does the fault lie? As owners we need to take some responsibility in what we are doing or have done and as people who want to make that extra income, they need to stop and examine what they are doing, the whys and the hows.
It is so easy to get sucked into that next pie in the sky and it is easy to fall into the statistical trap of..if we promote this or that....if we get a thousand people on a list...then surely I will make the money! WRONG!
As you can see by the subject line of this thread - How Did You Score? I have come across a quiz that I think will prove useful to many ( or at least that is my hope). To start turning things around, we need to start using some common sense and to also learn about the business of marketing. I invite you to take this quiz and see how you did, there really are no winners or losers in this quiz, just a way to maybe start thinking things in a different way.
I would love your feed back. Share how you did and maybe even tell others to come here and take the quiz for themselves.
READY?
1.
You are approached online by a very chatty fellow who apparently can barely stop jumping around about some e-book hes just discovered. ” Its full of SO much helpful and INTERESTING information on making money online that, instead of going out and doing whatever it was that he read in the e-book that’s making him practically p** in his pants, he instead decided to go out and completely waste his own time by looking for newbie strangers who look to need a helping hand.
He claims that he can get you this incredible piece of e-book material for but a mere $60.00 since he knows a guy, that knew a guy… or something blah, blah, blah. On the other hand, you were about to drop that $300 on a campaign you'd been researching and tweaking up until launch time. You figure that the e-book this guy’s talking about HAS to be good with the way hes been going on. Either that or he just had too much coffee or something…
Balls in your court, champ. What do you do?
A. Roll the dice and spend your $60 on this once-in-a-lifetime e-book that you've been bombarded with so much information about.
B. Tell him he can take his e-book on how to sign up for an account with Adwords and shove it ..where?
C. Inform him that you're going to need some time to mull over the decision, but that hes welcome to stick around and tell you more about the e-book. Because that would be a GREAT idea!
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2.
During your present quest to trek through the mean streets of an affiliate marketing chat room, you are presented with a link to what SEEMS like it is just meant to help you out. Apparently its to a website that teaches you all about web SEO in a university type setup online! At least that what some random stranger has told you, complete with several smiley faces after each of his statements. The link is right there in front of you. What do you do?
A. Seek safe haven at this… Web SE University place.
B. Ignore it and continue asking EVERYONE why they think your Wordpress hosted Adsense account was banned.
C. Get off of everyone's case and go actually try your hand in some actual affiliate marketing.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - -
3.
For whatever reason, a particularly agitated message board member has decided to absolutely go OFF on you as if he were participating in some live and officiated debate about how PPC is better than the “garbage” SEO that you’ve been trying out. While you were originally going to just walk (or scroll) away, he definitely struck a deep nerve when he called SEO garbage.
That Jerk! What do you do?
A. Be thankful you've finally found someone to give you some guidance even if that guidance was the complete opposite of everything you’ve known and was also insulting and degrading.
B. Get back to work because arguing over the Internet is like arguing in to a mirror. Arguing on the Internet is dumb! Yeah!
C. Take it one step farther and make a post on the message board forum telling everyone what he did to you and that you’re NOT pleased with what he’s done.
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4.
What do the following words mean to you (if anything): ˜tracking˜ and ˜testing˜?
A. Everything
B. Why did my Adsense account get banned?
C. They are two of the Ts in the Quadruple T Philosophy line of Internet marketing strategy
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - -
5.
Max is split-testing a PPC campaign with 42 different Ad groups which all contain 23 different keywords except for one which actually contains 17. Now, REALLY quickly and WITHOUT using a calculator, which of the following numbers is closest to how many total keywords Zack has in his campaign as a whole?
A. 1,000
B. 875
C. 450
D 0
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - -
That wasn't that bad was it? Its not like you aren't going to lie about your score if you fail. It means you are on the road to maybe finding out how to do things properly and inst that what it is all about?
Answer/Moral Analysis:
Since I’m pretty sure we all know the right and wrong answers in the questions, let’s instead take a look at the morals that you were being taught through these somewhat exaggerated real-life examples.
But first, just in case you were wondering, here’s the correct answers:
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. D
The moral of Question #1:
Don’t talk to shady strangers trying to sell you things. It will never end well. On social communities, develop relationships FIRST.
The moral of Question #2:
Doing ANYTHING with someone you don’t know at ALL is risky, do you really think you should be clicking links too? Learn everything there is to know before you do anything. Ask questions and do your homework.
The moral of Question #3:
Time = Money
Time spent arguing = Wasted time
Wasted Time = No Money
No Money = :(
The moral of Question #4:
If you don’t know what testing and tracking refer to then, you best go find out. Because they’re very important indeed!
The moral of Question #5:
Make sure you read things carefully. You never know what the end result will be if you don’t. Knowledge is indeed POWER.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Scott Reynolds on -
B, C, B, A, D
Did I cheat? Read my posts to figure it out.......
Cool quiz Diane! Thanks! I like your answers... lol
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Permalink Reply by Diane Bjorling on -
hey Scott, thanks for feedback...always appreciated! cool quizzes that teach... not an unusual method, but one that if done correctly can get a person to open their minds? i am curious, did any one of the questions make you think ...and why?
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Permalink Reply by Scott Reynolds on
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Hi Diane, I did stop and think on questions 3 & 4.
3 I stopped because I sometimes like to turn the negative into a positive conversation. But you are right, it usually is not worth it.
4 I stopped because I did not consider tracking and testing as "everything" until I read the others and knew it was the only possible choice. Certainly without tracking and testing you have "nothing".
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Permalink Reply by Diane Bjorling on
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I am not sure if it was even fair to put in that question, but thought, what the hey...cant hurt to see if people understand the terminology.
there are so many words we use in business isnt there? Tracking and testing is not the only things people need to look at, think about and learn how to do. The reality is that running a business, being an affiliate marketer, doing anything online when it comes to creating a worth while income s a sharp learning curve. It really does not matter the size...it is all the same in terms of business management...methodology, tools that we use and the list goes on.
thanks for coming back...lol..now i need that coffee
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Permalink Reply by Angie Smith ( Angies Freebies ) on -
Great quiz!! A couple of the ?? got me thinking. Thanks for sharing this very interesting and informative post!!
~Angie
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Permalink Reply by Diane Bjorling on
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Hi Angie... number one, thank you for accepting my invitation and coming in to try out the quiz. I am curious, which questions got you thinking and why?
I am glad that you found what i wrote interesting, i do try ......lol.
Considering I am on the other side of the street in terms of marketing per say, where do you feel we as owners, admin need to be doing to help you guys?
I can read forever and a day, but without talking to people all i will have at the end of the day..is theory. To me it is important to hear from you...so please say anything you want, because I really am interested in your viewpoint?
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Permalink Reply by Angie Smith ( Angies Freebies ) on
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Thanks Diane, I appreciate the interest in my thoughts. I am very new to this and my mind is literally jumbled with so much info I am not sure if I have actually learned anything or not. The 4th and 5th questions are the ones that made me realize I still have no clue. LOL! I am currently trying to move my blog to a website. I have obtained angiesfreebies.com through godaddy.com. I am hoping this will generate more traffic by having an actual website. Plus I am looking forward to having more control over designing my website.
As far as what do I expect from admin? Uhhh, not sure. So far I have been really happy with the kindness Scott has shown me. He has featured my blogs and my profile. Like I said before I am very new so I really do not have any expectations other then to hopefully receive traffic. I am learning as I go. I love the fact that you guys are really involved and always comment on everyones post. It really stinks to post something and not get a response.
Thanks for asking my opinion. I have really enjoyed being a part of this group. I also invite you to check out my blog (soon to be a website) Angies Freebies.
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Permalink Reply by Diane Bjorling on
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Hi Angie :-)
Just went to your blog and will return there after i answer you.
Just to clarify..and dont go red faced...lol, Scott and I are friends going back a few years now...how long Scott? Scott has passion and knowledge borne from doing many things on line and he really has great ideas and the willingness to help people the best way he can ( my plug for Scott for the day...lol)
My business partner and I ( Tim Southernwood) are doing something different, but the best thing about any business connections is that we respect and help each other as we can. we happen to be friends also, which means we can laugh, argue and learn from each other...so a win win situation.
I noted something in what you said "I really do not have any expectations other than to hopefully receive traffic." In any business you have, we need and it is our lifeblood to have future customers come to us and buy what we are offering. But what kind of customers are we looking for? The ones who are interested in what we are doing. Many people online especially have blogs or websites and they have no clue on 1. how to set them up. 2. how to manage a business and by the way, welcome to the world of owning your own business :-) 3. how to get the customers 4. how to harmonize your business so that not only will it help you but may possibly help you extra avenues of income.
As Scott will tell you this business is not easy and takes a lot of time and effort to build. It wont happen over night..it may take at least 6 months to really get anywhere and I am being kind. Ok that is the down side. The upside.... once you get yourself organized and that means learning time management techniques and finding the right tools that will work for you and the iron determination to make your business work for you no matter what..then i do believe that people can and will succeed on line.
Set your expectations higher... learn everything you can from those who will take the time and effort to teach you the PROPER way to have a business. You are going to fed so much information that your head will swim, but the good news is...you don't have to decide anything until YOU ARE READY...kewl huh?
I agree with you that it is very frustrating that people will not leave comments and you know what...they are losing so much when they dont. Number one when people post a comment ( by the way I really wish they would change that wording...it should be joining a conversation) not only are they talking to you with something of value..but guess what? they are also getting known for their own business.. there is a reciprocity to what is happening. you get fresh content when someone answers you...they get a new pair of eyes to get to know them and what they are doing...a win win situation. I teach my people that when they have a blog..to seek out others who like what they like and join in the conversations...why? how do you get to know a person if you dont talk to people? It takes time and effort, but the rewards are fantastic.
taking air here....lol.... going to look at your blog now...
let me know how i am doing in the talking department...lol
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Permalink Reply by Scott Reynolds on
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Diane....... Yup, we have been friends for a while eh? Hopefully you will hang around here a while so MegaTr's can benefit from the "Dianeness". It sure is nice to have a good lively online conversation......
Angie, if you only knew how many hours of mind numbing research Diane has logged...... anyway.... what she posts is the way it is....
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Permalink Reply by Diane Bjorling on
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you are a hoot... Dianeness? oh my....makes me sound like a disease or something.... maybe the "something" would be better.
i have researched haven't i... would you believe that right this moment i have 23 tabs open.....oh my poor computer....lol. But to do things right this is what you have to do...research, look at everything and the learning just never stops.
You are indeed the mechanic and love to take things apart and figure them out...in a way another way to research... i don't thing there is any one way, i just happen to get so into it that like i said on my profile, i have to be reminded to sleep.
Speaking of profiles, that is something everyone should do, create a well thought out profile for all your social communities. I have 3 different profiles that i use. There is a reason for this. On the personal communities that are just for fun, i sure am not going to talk in anyway about business, so my profile reflects this. On any advertising communities i have a different style of profile that will reflect pure business. On some of the more social media style communities i have created a profile with the aim of keeping people interested, showing some business thinkings and adding the personal touch to show people i am a real person. Normally I don't have profiles as long as the one i did on here, but was working from a different set up...i should add some kind of images...meh...for another day. I would suggest the people create at least 3 profiles, thinking of good keywords and keeping it all interesting and for goodness sakes keep your words positive. Never use words like... " i am trying or " my aim is" or other such things. Focus on what you have done and keep everything "successful" people want to know what a person has done and is good at....see what i mean? I keep mine on a notepad and I make the time to change them every so often ( approx 3 months) the reason? people are notified that you are around and it will tweak them to see what you are doing. got to love it....lol
well i think i have talked myself out and i still have to deal with all those tabs.
will i stick around? keep things interesting and you bet ya...i will be here.
all you have to do is call..hmm wasn't there a song like that.....lol
seriously... if you need anything, i will always do my best to help...you know that.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Reynolds on
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Dianeness...... a virus in search of truth that never stops once it gets started........ lol
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Permalink Reply by Diane Bjorling on
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LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL tada...me in mornings when i have not had sleep researching...lol...
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