Went though my email and clicked on one for a product called Chronic Commissions.

I thought this looks good i’ll take a gamble and try it.

There were several upsells before your taken to the members area for additional coaching and extra campaigns to take advantage of.  What they didn’t say is that you have to pay for traffic and their method was buying solo ads from other marketers until you had your own list setup.  You are also encouraged to setup with awebber.

All I have to say is a lot of clickbank products are missing a lot of information from their sales pages.  In the make money from home niche there are a ton of snake oil salesman trying to get your money.  A lot of them will promise the moon and then upsell you to death.  They will say you only need to do this and you find that there are 5 other things you have to do or pay for to make everything work.

In the case of Chronic Commissions, Caleb does not reveal that all of the traffic sources are paid sources.  It is frustrating that he says in his sales page he just turned them all on, but for a hippie bum in debt and his bank account frozen due to debts, how did he get the money to pay for his traffic??  I asked for a refund I hope I get it or I’m out over 50 bucks.  For all Internet marketers that read this, when there is a product launch that your considering promoting,  do your research and ask yourself is this product misleading?

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Howard#

Hey guys after researching and playing around with several options, I thought i would share my research on autoresponders

Werll i have finally concluded my research and here are the results.

MY thoughts about autoresponders
From what most people say, you should go out and pay for awebber, but wanting
to stay away from monthly payments on credit card.
I thought i would try for myself some of the free autoresponders that work on
my server.
first of all there is a basic autoresponder though cpanel and a program on my
server called GNU mailman.
This software is good but is designed more for a discussion forum style of
mailing.  Great free solution, but one thing i couldn’t figure out was how to
configure the subscribe page, so i could connect it to the blog.  GNU Mailman
has documentation but not full instructions.  Basically if i used this i’d
still be scratching my head.
Confused I marched on to the next program i could find
Pommo mail server www.pommo.org
Got it up and running but uuugh the subscribe/ unsubscribe again was a night
mare and even though i tried with pommo a few things.  I had a bit of trouble
understanding the template it said in the documentationcustomized by editing SMARTY templates.  It wasn’t too smart for me.  Either I
did not give it enough time to figure out, as it just confused me. Pommo was nice enough and customizable, but it wasn’t quite my cup of tea.
ah well on to the next one
PHP list.   www.phplist.comI was impressed with this software.  It was really easy to get up and running
but alas even though i could get it going, it doesen’t allow you to write
emails subquentially.  Though subscribe/unsubscribe was easy enough to
implement PHP list is a good option if you want to send out more of a email
broadcast to your subscribers.  (pity it didn’t do the sequential mailings)I did like PHP list it has a easy configuration.  It was also easy to navigate
and understand and it was very well documented.
Next there was Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager 4.0 Lite.  http://www.drquek.com/
This software was great to set up as it had complete instructions, and it
walked you though  it step by step.  There are a few versions of this
software.  I am currently trying the free version.  A word of warning though
if you go with the free version you will have to manually unsubscribe people
with the free version.  The pro version of course has this functionality.

My final program i found and it’s free horray it’s called Dadamail.dadamailproject.comThis program is the winner in my books.  It is easy to setup, good
indtructions.  I really like the customization and it’s easy to understand and
use.Finally I now have a autoresponder that i can use for free and runs off my
server.  For all server based solutions there are a few things you will need.you will need to setup a my SQL Database (google it it’s not hard to do) it
runs as a CGI script so you will need to find the cgi-bin folder on your
server.  (if you are not sure you can always look with the file manager in cpanel)

This is the best one yet, that i have found it’s free and it has all the features that a internet marketer could use.  so this is the one i am working with.  Now I do have to issue a few words of warning.
For the marketer who is on a shoesting budget and not tech savvy, I have to
agree with the guru’s and say get a autoresponder service.  So for those on a shoestring budget and want a email service for free to get started i recommend Mailchimp or free autobot.

http://www.mailchimp.com/ (this service allows 2000 subscribers for free and has a pay as you go pricing plan)

http://freeautobot.com (this service is free but is ad supported, their service is supported by add you see on their page)
Well I hope this has been helpful.  If you have any questions please leave me a comment at the bottom of this post, and i’ll be happy to reply.
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Hi guys I admit i haven’t logged in to my own blog for a while. I was going though the comments that all of you have been leaving me. First of all Thank you guys for the comments. I have to say there were a few that were sharp but truthful. I appreciate your honesty and feedback.

To answer a few people wanting to know about the blog software it’s self. Yes it is wordpress I use the following plugins All in one Seo pack, and Pingler. i also have a mailchimp widget installed.

I was also asked why my writing has gone so wonky. I started out with very informative posts, and some of them are just plain boring, one reader said. To that i reply yes some of my posts will be lenghly and chock full of information. They are also tagged as Tools, or advice. If i feel like talking about something random I will usually tag it as general ramblings or rants N raves.

I was asked if i do newsletters, and the answer is currently no I do not have any mailings to send out. future consideration will be held on having a newsletter. For the person who said they were getting multiple messages from the Rss feed when comments are left on posts, you are subscribed to the comments RSS feed http://howardsinfo.com/blog/comments/feed/ and not the actual feed http://howardsinfo.com/blog/feed/ double check which feed you are subscribed to. If you are subscribed to the comments feed you will be alerted when a new comment is left on my posts.

I love your comments and inquires. Keep them coming guys
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Howard#