Adding Hundreds Of New Subscribers To My List this August, how about you?

Hey guys,

I've just signed up for the Social Marketing JV 2010.

It's one of the largest Giveaway Events of the year and if you want
to add new subscribers to your list, then this is the place to go to.

For those of you who don't know what a Giveaway Event is, let me try
to explain it in a few words.

A giveaway event is basically a place where several internet marketers
create a Team to add new subscribers to their lists.

Every marketer enters a Free Gift into the giveaway event that people
can access once the giveaway event opens.

Also, every marketer promotes the giveaway event, that's how people
find their way to the event.

The Social Marketing giveaway event is currently in Pre-Launch, that's
the phase when all the internet marketers signup and add their gifts.

If you read this, you are invited to join us in this Pre-Launch phase.

Be aware that this is not a free-ride… you'll either have to promote
the event or you can upgrade your account to add gifts (and other stuff
like banners, special offers and your profile with links to your blog,
website, twitter and facebook).

Are you ready to join the Team?

Then signup now, for the Social Marketing JV 2010

I'll see you inside!

The Australian government today released plans to further shame pensioners and unemployed people living on welfare payments, under the plan they will control where and on what pensioners and unemployed will be able to spend their welfare payments.

This disgraceful move by the Australian government will further increase the shame most recipients of welfare feel and is a return to the old class system .

Not only is this move by the Australian Government unconstitutional it is also discriminatory and stinks of the same stench apartheid raised in South Africa, most pensioners and unemployed already feel like second and third rate citizens without the government not only reinforcing those feelings but making them blatantly obvious to everyone in the supermarkets and stores.

These people are not children and don't need parenting by a government that can barely control it's own waste spending, it is presumptuous and an appalling abuse of power.

It's about time politicians realised that they are simple employees paid to do a job, paid for by these same people they now want to shame and belittle before the nation.

No they no longer pay taxes but heck the majority of them especially pensioners have worked hard all their lives until illness or old age prevents them from finding further employment and have paid their share of taxation some have even put their very lives on the line in service of their country only to have some rich kid politician who has never dirtied their hands with real work tell them how they should spend the meagre handout the government gives them fortnightly.

they are constantly under attack by people saying they are paid too much when the reality is they are far below the poverty line sure you can get by if you cut out all pleasure eat frugally and only buy low code or out of date groceries, by the time they have paid their utilities,rent & purchased a little fuel for the car (if they are lucky enough to own one)they are left with very few dollars for entertainment or replacing worn out clothes etc.

Overlooking a citizens basic constitutional rights and pushing the country back into what could only be described as a feudal system where the disadvantaged are treated like peasants while working class and the politicians who act like their are aristocracy instead of the public servants they really are look down their noses and laugh in their faces as they are forced to line up in separate queues in the supermarkets and shops to purchase their food.

Even where they can line up with the "normal" people they will still feel shame having to use the special cards issued to them to make purchases cards that stand out and mark them as part of the lower class, why not stencil the word peasant across their foreheads or tattoo them with a serial number like Hitler tattooed the jews before he pushed them into the gas chambers or lined them up in the ditches they had just been forced to dig so burying their bullet riddled bodies was easier.

Australia is not a police state we are supposed to have a democratic and fair system of government but todays announcement simply highlights just how far from those ideals this country is and indicates that we really live in a dictatorship one controlled by a few over privileged people who use mass hysteria and blatant threats to control the nation.

Will this current plan be the straw that breaks the camels back and plunges a nation into civil unrest crime and poverty ?, it just might

These days we hear a lot about "Live" search, in fact quite a lot of programs have adopted the "Live" craze and while the name may imply that the program works in a "Live" or real time environment the fact is they don't MSN Live still uses a database of results to deliver as do all the other so-called "Live" applications.

At Kooiiii we prefer to label our search system as a "Real Time" search system because unlike MSN Live and most of the other major engines we don't rely on huge databases or indexes of sites to deliver our results, when a person performs a search on Kooiii the results are drawn directly from the web by lightning fast bots that are able to scour the web for sites that match the search criteria.

The proof in the pudding so to speak is to check the social search functions of Kooiii make a post or signup for an account on any of the listed social networks then perform a search directly afterwards and you will see your post or username in the results pages, web search images etc take a little longer to show up mainly because the bots for these engines are somewhat slower and do rely on a small database of cached searches to provide the searcher a fast response, after all you wouldn't want to wait days for the result page to load.

See while social sites may have several thousand pages the web is actually made up of many billions of pages and sifting through all of them can take quite a long time.

Kooiii search is the next generation of search systems it has the ability to search either a single network or an entire string of networks for the information you desire at the same time it is able to pull results for a web search or image search from it's repository, a small cache detailing where the web bots have been and what they were looking for it is then able to create a results page targeted to the search criteria.

But Kooiii is not just a Real time search engine it's front end is a full on social media site simular to twitter where members can access the Kooiii facilities either through their pc or on their mobile or iphone, this includes access to the search engine, kooiii also incorporates it's own K.A.R.T. advertising server offering earning opportunities for publishers and quality laser targeted advertising for companies and people wishing for their sites to be seen.

Kooiii also has an Article Directory containing over 8000 articles with more added on a regular basis, users can also submit articles through this directory which uses the standard publishing format, together all these systems spell Promotion on a massive scale in Real Time positive results can be seen almost immediately.

So forget "Live" and instead concentrate on Real Time because it is the Future here right now at Kooiii.

Rare for us to promote and offer from a traffic exchange here with the exception of our own Traffic Fire Storm but this news must get out to all those seeking traffic and visitors on a limited to non existent budget.

Deep Space Traffic sent me a little message today.

They are celebrating several new features and for a limited time are paying $1 per active referral, and up to 70% commissions to recruit people to this highly active Manual traffic exchange. Yes that's $1 per free members referral when they become active and surf at DST but this offer is limited time only.

A traffic exchange for those who don't know is a system where you earn visitors for your website by visiting other websites in a surf window. DST offers huge bonuses, great contest, and pays cash money on both upgraded memberships and credit sales to your downline. Their team surfs are a lot of fun and have had me personally earn over 13,000 credits in my first 5 days at Deep Space Traffic.

Best yet, my first referral upgraded on the one time offer for $19.99 a month and my commission off that sale is $13.77 a month. I am hoping to see a lot more sales by the end of the day.

Like I said above we normally don't promote other traffic exchange systems on My Viral Blog but this one is paying out some huge cash to get rolling and is brought to you by Kjell Skogsoy from Lords of Traffic.

Visit DST today!!

Thanks for your time,

Andy Zeus Anderson

One of the most important tools in a marketers toolbox is the microblog, no other form of free promotion can get visitors to your site faster than a microblog.

Now there are many sites on the net offering microblogging apart from twitter and sometimes using one of these other sites can be more beneficial than posting on twitter alone.

Some of the other microbloggers deal only with certain niches and for targeting these are ideal places to launch your product or service that fall into a certain niche (most products and services belong to one niche or another) SPNBabble for instance deals mainly with search and advertising while Hot Spot Social is focused on the Internet Business community and social media as a whole and deals mainly with business networking and link building.

Most of the Microblogging sites allow you to place a URL within your post but you have to remember a microblog is small normally between 160 and 200 characters so keep the text short and link to the information rather than try posting all you need to say in the microblog, most will have found this post simply because it is linked to my microblog demonstrating the power a microblog has.

When joining a microblogging community it is important you read their rules in order to avoid being banned for spamming, be sure to fill in your profile giving as much detail about yourself as possible (the more people know about you the more they are likely to accept you in the community), be honest never try to embellish your abilities as you will quickly get found out and be shunned as a fraud.

Be active in the community never just post and leave, your post will quickly disappear from the activity feed so you will need to re-post daily, you may also receive some comments about your post, be polite and answer them even if the comment is upsetting replying with a thank-you for your input can be more upsetting for the commenter who probably just wanted to get a reaction from you.

Follow people, the fastest way to get followers is to actually start following people you come across in the community, most times they will reciprocate and follow you also, following a person means when they post you should be notified of a new post most times you will receive an email notification likewise when you post your followers will all be notified providing instant  promotion of your new post.

Your Avatar is important it should reflect who you are, personally i prefer to use a good head shot photograph of myself but you could also use your brand or logo as effectively.

Check your spelling when making a post and use proper language skills, if people can't understand what your saying they are going to dismiss your post as rubbish.

Don't forget to check out all the facilities offered at the microblogging site, some are pretty cool and can be a great tool for promotion .

Most of all remember microblogging works and if your not already using them then you are missing out on a ton of free traffic not to mention the links your posts will provide back to your main site.

Seems 2010 is going to bring with it a fresh batch of sites making preposterous claims in order to scam web users out of their money, too often my business partner Andy and I come across these sites pretending to offer an unbelievable business opportunity when in fact there is nothing of the sort to be found.

One recent site we came across http://ismyblogs.name/ is one such site lets look at what makes this site a scam.

1. It makes a ridiculous opening statement "WATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE HOW I USED THIS BLOGGING SERVICE TO
RANK IN THE NUMBER 1 SPOT IN GOOGLE IN UNDER 2 MINUTES".

Anyone with even a small amount of experience on the internet knows that this is just not possible (unless you own Google that is), even using the best submitters available it will still take the better part of the day for Google to visit and schedule your site/post for indexing it can then take several days even weeks before it appears in the search results .

2. This site claims to provide Free submission to 800,000 search engines 

This is another false claim as even the best submitters do not submit to that many engines or directories and if they did submission would take months as most require some form of manual submission and in a lot of cases confirmation via email.

3. potential signups through 5 levels.

Now if this were possible it would be great but most payment processors will not allow payment to multiple tiers, apart from this there is no clear product being sold, to be a legal business you need to have either a physical product or service, Paid Membership in the opportunity is not a qualifying factor for legal status.

further lets look at what the above site offers as it's affiliate payment system (this is copied direct from the site)

• POTENTIAL EARNINGS LEVEL 1 – 10 new sign ups = $10 to you each month (this covers your blogging service fee)
• LEVEL 2 Your 10 each sign up 10 = $100 to you each month
• LEVEL 3 These 100 each sign up 10 = $1,000 to you each month
• LEVEL 4 These 1000 each sign up 10 = $10,000 to you each month
• LEVEL 5 These 10,000 each sign up 10 = $100,000 to you each month

If this were possible don't you think every adult on the internet would be members after all $111,100.00 a month is far better than most company managers earn why everyone would give up their jobs and just do that , well they would until the power went out and the phone lines quit and the food became impossible to get because all the shops were closed and nobody is growing food or running the essential services like electricity or water, after all we would all be on $1,333,200.00 a year incomes that require little or no work , not that there would be anywhere to spend the money anyway making it valueless.

The Bottom line is don't be sucked in by these scams, sure they may pay out a few dollars to the few that get in on launch but for the majority of the members no such income is possible, they are mostly designed to be short lived with the owners pulling the plug as soon as they see membership tapering off and the number of complaints rising.

Look for the real product or service in an opportunity and do the maths remember there are only so many people on the internet and while some quote the world population they don't mention the figures include people in poorer countries where only a small percentage of the actual population can own a computer let alone connect to the internet.

Remember the old Adage "If it looks too good to be true it generally is"

The face of the internet is changing and for many sites it will be time to make massive changes or face extinction, advertising and good content will not be enough to guarantee survival it will require a  lot more effort on the part of site owners in order to maintain traffic numbers and positioning on the search engines.

It will be important that site owners and webmasters ensure that evey piece of content on their sites is also registered on as many social networks as is humanely possible, the greater the saturation of pingbacks from the social networks the better they can expect their sites to perform, of course this means tons of extra work.

SEO and site submissions will fade in importance replaced by social bookmarking and good marketing practices, various forms of advertising will still be a strong influence in a sites prominence on the internet but without the addition of social linking sites will suffer badly in the coming year.

Socializing your site will entail a little more than simply installing one of the many social bookmarking scripts though, site owners and webmasters will need to establish a strong presence within each network, building friendships and groups of followers, these are extremely important as these same people will be the driving force behind your sites promotion and the root source of your sites traffic, initially you will need to establish your self within the network and it is a good idea during the first few weeks to post often but avoid any direct advertising of your sites, many networks will only allow advertising is certain locations and it is imperative you stick to their rules or face being banned.

When joining a network it is always a good idea to use your real name over an alias and where possible a photo of yourself (I suggest a good clear head shot photo over a full profile as it allows viewers to look into your eyes and establish a sense of trust).

Avoid making outlandish claims and avoid conflict at all costs, you can still prove your point with out getting nasty and gutter talk will upset more than just the person it's aimed at, be polite at all times and remember you are trying to build respect and trust, it will pay off in the long run as people begin to see you as a pillar of the society.

Once you have established your self within these communities it's time to look at ways you can promote your sites, my favourite is to include links within my signature as this will be seen in all areas of the network and in most is not deemed to be against the rules.

There are 4 main traffic areas in most social networks where you need to be very active these are

• The Network Forums.
• The Network Article section
• The networks Groups
• The Networks Blogs

Most networks also have a classified section however i would not waste time or money there as people generally visit a social network to meet people and gain information not to visit the classifieds (would you go to the swim pool to do your grocery shopping ?).

Posting articles in a social networks article system or blog system needs to be done right in most cases you will be allowed to use some html and this is very handy as it will enable you to put links to relevant articles on your sites within these postings, forums and group areas are normally controlled more rigidly and posting of links is generally frowned upon so you will need to rely on your signature to get people to your sites.

Performed correctly social bookmarking will rocket your sites value and turnover, it will expose your products and services to millions of users and with the launch in 2010 of Googles Caffeine search system and personalised search will see it gain page 1 on a regular basis across a much wider range of queries, You will be seen as an authority figure in your field and could even see approaches from other companies wanting you to feature on their pages and in their publications.

As a webmaster your New years resolution should be to become hyper active as a social networker and Survive the coming Netquake.

2010 will go down in Internet history as the year SEO died, with the looming release of Googles Caffeine and Personalised Search the death bells are sounding for what has been the backbone of Internet life.

Meta data and code structure will become almost redundant under the new systems as sites are positioned on their traffic numbers and content popularity, traffic figures will be determined by the use of google analytics primarily and while the numbers can be artificially inflated by the use of traffic exchanges and surf bars it should be noted google will discount this traffic and possibly penalise sites found using these methods.

Site owners will be encouraged to use good Marketing , Advertising and Social bookmarking methods to deliver traffic, For SEO companies this means changing their operations away from on page optimization techniques over to Search Engine Marketing and Social Marketing Optimization, In some cases it will mean complete re-training of their staff to encompass the new requirements.

The new system may also see the demise of the page rank system as we know it with sites being ranked on their position in the results rather than on their code structure,meta data and content.

The reshuffle will certainly upset some site owners as they lose their coveted page 1 positions replaced by sites that have good followings in the social area but have had very little SEO performed, it's not all gloom and doom though caffeine and personalized search will prove a fairer system for site owners.

Site structures will also change as site owners realise that using a blog based cms offers a fast track into the new Search results, sites using scripts like wordpress will find meeting the new requirements a breeze thanks to the scripts adapability and ability to encompass social bookmarking, these sites are also much faster to load and certainly much easier to maintain and keep up to date.

certain SEO aspects will still be required like keywords,descriptions,alt tags and titles but using a blog based script allows the site owner to manage these without having to pay an expert, adding and updating site content is also much easier requiring only basic knowledge and the ability to use a wysiwyg editor which is normally built into the script.

So why has Google decided to kill off SEO, well as the demand for greater speed and delivery of information grows it has seen the need to change how we access that information and how we find the sites carrying it, the Search algorithms have grown more and more complex over the years and still struggle to deliver relevant material, SEO has been largely a game of guesswork between seo companies, webmasters and Google which further corrupts the results delivered to the public, under the new system much of the guesswork is gone companies will have a clear understanding of what they require to gain good positions in the search results and their regular users will play a big part in how well their site performs, results will become more relevant for the user based on their surfing habits and we should see an increase in overall speed as sites become more user friendly.

As the title suggests in this post I am covering Keyword research, a task that can be frustrating and time consuming, however it is important that you research the keywords used in your site, marketing and advertising properly .

To start with you are going to need a good keyword research tool, one that can check and compare results from several different sources is best as while you may be aiming to score well on Google you cannot afford to ignore results from other engines like Yahoo or Msn Live etc as these will also play a huge part in how well your campaign fares on Google.

Often Search companies will supply these tools for users and Easysearchlive.com is no different  you will find an extensive tools page here http://velocitymarketerhosting.com/seo-tools/ (Velocity Marketer Hosting is owned by Easy Search Live).

To start your keyword research you first need to decide what niche your site fits best in try to drill this down as accurately as possible for Velocity Hosting this would look something like this Web Hosting>low cost>unmetered. this establishes the core keywords most relevant to your site or campaign, we would then use the keyword tool to compare the top 10 results on the major search engines this will then leave you with a generated list of keyword/phrases that the top 10 listings on the search engines have used, (sometimes this list can be quite extensive) and the number of seaches performed using those keywords/phrases.

Keeping in mind the top few results are likely to be quite expensive in a PPC campaign and competition on various search engines will also be extensive select a few that have reasonable traffic (it is better to have a few keywords rather try to compete for the top keyword phrase).

By this time you will definitely be looking for a cup of coffee and that niggling sensation is the start of the headache so it may also be time to reach for the Tylenol.

Having selected your keywords/Phrases it is time to check what it is going to cost you to run those keywords in a PPC campaign, you need this information because if they are outside of your budget then it is pointless using them on your site (Marketing and Advertising campaigns get better results when the keywords match those of your site).this can be quite time consuming also and be prepared to revise your keyword list or start from scratch.

Time for another coffee and a bunch more tylenol

When you have finally sorted out which keywords you will use it's time to start drawing up your marketing plan, now the key to a good marketing plan is to keep it simple try to avoid over complicating what should be a simple process.

You know which keywords are going to be used so lets order them according to importance, next we want to look at how we are going to use them and where, some will be suitable for anchors in textual advertising  while others will remain simply as extra tags or be used as content anchors on your site.

We need to identify where and when we are going to place our advertising ie Google adwords and determine exactly how much of the budget to allocate to that campaign  (each keyword/phrase is classed as a seperate campaign), Our Target Audience and the start and end date of the campaign.

the next phase is to design your adverts ensuring that the chosen keyword for each appears at least once in the ad content.

Be sure to  write all this up and place it where it can be a visual reminder, I personally like to use a whiteboard next to my desk for this purpose as it allows me to check on what i have done or what needs doing at a glance.

Launching your Campaigns:

a mistake a lot of first time advertisers and marketers make is to panic because it's been a week with no indication of a result, campaigns need time to work and patience is the key here, my campaigns normally run for a minimum of 6 months with control checks evey month and a revision check every 2 months this allows sufficient time for the campaign to propogate throughout the web and allows for proper modelling of the results, campaigns that are under performing may need tweaking at the 2 monthly revision and this can be a simple as changing the wording of the ad slightly or simply changing the colors used.

Constant changing of the ad is detrimental to it's effect remember it needs time to be seen by the Internet community and your Target audience so make changes subtle and leave some time between them.

When performing the monthly checks what you are looking for is the number of clicks each ad has received and what your ROI (Return On Investment) has been for the period, you are also looking to see that your ads are in fact being displayed and that there are no errors in the ads (sometimes a webmaster can change the formatiing of his/her site and this can adversly affect the formating of your ad, it may now contain extra symbols or spelling errors or the colors may have varied from the original, in which case some urgent repairs may be required.

In closing my tip is "Don't rush things , think the campaign out thoroughly and keep a big box of tylenol next to the coffee pot "

Anyone who has ever used PPC (Pay Per Click) Advertising knows that to get a listing under the top used keywords means spending copius amounts of money on each of the main keywords even then there is no guarantee that your bid will be beaten 5 minutes after placement.

I hope through this article to show the reader alternative tactics that will produce the same sort of results received when you successfully win the bidding war but without spending all that money.

The first step in any successful advertising campaign should always be keyword research closely followed by the development of a sound marketing plan which encompasses exactly where the ads will appear.and what their content should be.(i'll cover this in more detail in future posts)

Now for small companies struggling to make an impression on the Internet there are alternatives to competing with the large corporations in PPC advertising, rather than looking to bid on high usage keywords they are better off spreading their available budget across a broad range of lesser keywords the results will only be slightly less than if they had gone for the major keyword, in fact in some cases they will gain results that surpass those using the major Keyword both is traffic and positioning as they gain more exposure.

The other option small business owners can look to is CPM (Cost Per Month) advertising, this form of advertising rotates users through the number of slots available for each keyword guaranteeing exposure in the top 10 places, this form allows for accurate budgeting and has simular results to PPC without the bidding war on top keywords, a shining example of this is the ISEDN form of CPM advertising.

The bottom line is small business should not even consider competing in bidding wars as this will ultimately lead to failure

In the old days of SEO it was important to make sure your sites code was valid to W3c standards and that your Meta data was correctly formatted, sites required loads of 2 way and one way links and a constant stream of fresh relevant information.

With the launch of Google's Caffeine  SEO has been tossed on its head, 2 way links (reciprocal)  are basically worthless and your meta data and code standard moved down on the weighting scale, instead it is now imperative to employ Google analytics into your site structure if you want to stand any chance of making page one of the search results.

Caffeine depends on information gathered by Google analytics in order to rank and position your site according to user information collected by analytics, Google have also started a personalized search system which is also integral to how your site is positioned in the results.

So what does this mean for SEO's and site owners, well for starters it means most SEO's will have to rethink their strategies and in many cases embark on a complete restructure of the sites under their care since the strategies they have had in place will no longer have the same effect as before.

The key to the new Caffeine system is Traffic and lots of, the more traffic a site receives the higher it is going to rank and position and it's part of a clever ploy by Google to increase it's advertising sales while raising the bidding war for top spots on the major keywords, site owners will need to increase their advertising budgets if they want to stay in the race for traffic and sales, SEO will be overtaken in importance by SEM and SMO and the costs incurred by site owners will rise tremendously forcing many small businesses to leave the Internet scene forever.

Meanwhile those that have relied on carrying the Google advertising on their sites and who have basically put Google where it is today will continue to receive breadcrumbs in return for their efforts, very few of the millions of site owners carrying Google adsense on their sites see decent levels of income from the Search Giant many on approaching the monthly claim threshold see a degradation of the ad quality supplied to their sites as Google chokes off the click rate and restricts their earnings forcing them to wait even longer to meet their $100 monthly minimum.

In some cases they will have their accounts terminated with out just cause and lose the income from their labors, (this has personally happened to me and while google did send me an email stating they would send me a check for the balance of my account  a lousy $36 they did not offer any sufficient reason for canceling my membership nor have i seen any sign of the check after 4 months).

To me it would seem that Google while putting on a face of performing a public service is changing it's systems in order to feed the Giants Greed and need to totally control the Internet and it's users.

Caffeine and Personalized Search are just another Tactic being employed to achieve this, Google is trying to play Big Brother to the world and decide for all of us what we see on the Internet , it is collecting information on each and every user despite the fact in some cases this is a breach of privacy (Germany has already raised this issue regarding Google analytics and is considering a Ban on it's use on .de tlds) It's maps system poses a security nightmare for countries even though sensitive areas are blacked out we are talking only a small area and when you think about it from a strategist point of view those black spots make ideal targets for a nuclear attack after all land a bomb within a kilometer of the black spot and your guaranteed to wipe the target out if the blast doesn't do the job the radiation will and they must be considered vital to a countries security to have required blanking out, so thank you Google for painting all those bullseyes .

The information they collect can also pose a threat to every Internet user notice the rise in spam and Internet scams lately and the fact a lot of it is personally addressed to you, well the people behind those annoying emails get their information via sites that collect mountains of data on it's users and their surfing habits the main repository is of course Google.

Now it may seem i am slamming Google quite a lot in this article but like the Berlin wall it's no use attacking with a toothpick if you want to make any impression that could cause them to reconsider the effect they will have on the general population of the Internet you need to use a large sledgehammer or two.

Yes some people will benefit from Caffeine and Personalized search but it won't be the small business man or in many cases the family members who turn to the Internet for information or to purchase needed items a little cheaper, those that are going to benefit most are the large corporations followed by the larger companies that can afford to plow an extra million or two into it's yearly budget, and of course Google.

For the families it's just another intrusion into their daily lives another struggle to find information they need as the Google index gets turned on it's head and well shaken put enough money into a lie and it becomes fact, control the flow of information and you control the world.

I sit at my desk trying to nut out a new article concerning my favourite subject "Search Technology" and the phone rings, reluctantly i reach across and pick up the receiver and some one starts excitedly telling me in broken english i have just qualified for a new mobile phone, I politely tell them i am not interested and hang up.

As i return to my labours the phone rings again and again i answer, this time the same voice in broken english tells me i can have free phone calls for a year, a little annoyed i again tell the person i am not interested and could they please refrain from calling me as i need to work on my article.

Hanging the phone up i consider taking it off the hook as all these interuptions are destroying my concentration, but i leave it on the hook because i am expecting some calls from clients.

All is quiet for 10 minutes when the phone again rings, this time it is someone new offerring a free roof inspection again the english is barely understandable and as i say No Thank You the person launches into how they can give me a new mobile phone if i agree to the inspection, not wishing to be rude i patiently wait until they have finished their sales pitch and i again tell them i am not interested and could they please take my number off their lists.

I am in the process of hanging up when the phone signals a second call coming in so i quickly press the button to take the second call, surely this has to be a real call and not yet another spammer wasting my time, but no it's the first caller again trying to give me a mobile phone, by this time my blood pressure is well on it's way up and i curtly tell the caller that for the last time i am not interested in what he is offerring and to remove my number from his list.

I settle down to get some serious work done as time is slipping away and i would like to get my article submitted, alls quiet once more and i secretly congratulate myself that i had stopped the spam callers from interupting my day, surely they have got the message by now that i have a huge NO Sale sign posted by my number.

Paragraph 3 or what should have been paragraph 3 was interupted by a knock on the door, resigning myself that this was not my day i get up to answer the door only to find a small asian looking man with a poorly made badge and tatty clipboard launching into yet another sales pitch about – you guessed it mobile phones, what is it with these guys heck to me a phone is a phone and as long as it works i don't care if it's the latest technology or has 3000 games built in, I quickly and rudely interupt the sales pitch to tell this intruder that if he don't get the hell off my porch i'm gonna set my dog on him when the blasted phone rings yet again.

This is the final straw, I storm back into my office wrench the receiver off the  hook yell a few obscenities into the speaker and throw the phone out the window, kissing goodbye to a partnership deal i had spent months working on in the process, Life isn't fair.

Our world is fast becoming overloaded by spam, spam created by small brained people that think if you hassle a person long enough with your offer they are eventually going to buy, become annoying to the point of violence and your guaranteed a sale, Now i have seen this work in TV advertising where the ad is so obnoxious in it's delivery (a common one is the "Where do ya get it" ad which is delivered in a high pitched grating voice) that people actually buy the products on offer, but there has to be a limit to where and how companies should and can advertise and I feel the phone is not a valid vehicle for advertising in this manner.

Spam is definitely annoying and moreso since it does seem to work for the companies that use it they record good sales numbers regardless of the millions of people they have upset along the way, it needs to be stopped or at least regulated in such a way that it does not impact on a persons daily life to the point where they become violently abusive and have their mental and physical health put at risk.

So if you get spam in any form it should be reported don't buy in the hope they will go away buying has the reverse effect it increases the amount of spam 10 times over the only cure is to make spam useless as a sales tool "No Sales = No Spam" as these unscrupulous marketers move on to find new ways to dupe you out of your hard earned dollar.

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The Social Spark plot thickens as I finally received the following message though not a response to my support ticket.

Thank you for your blog submission!

Unfortunately, as per our terms of service, blog postings for remuneration through our service should only be made on blogs, and not Websites, message boards, online magazines, social network sites or other services established solely for promotion or commercial profit.  An example of a blog can be found here: http://blog.izea.com/

Thank you!
John C @ SS

OK and here is what has me confused as I go through blog after approved blog and find nearly every blog has paid advertising placements, we don't. Nearly every blog has paid text links in addition to popup ads on many. We don't and most have Google ads which yes we do have them.

Now we do have a handful of banners on our right sidebar that are websites we own with most of those seervices offered free of charge just as blog hosting here is also free of charge for our readers. Heck we don't even put ads on your free weblogs, we have a simple footer link to our blog and you are free to monetize your blogs as you see fit.

Izea, what gives? Why can Networked Blogs, Bloggers Choice which is yours by the way, and others linked to the left sidebar see that this is in fact a blog and not the party handling our review? The message points to your blog as an example which has every post related to Izea services and how best to maximize the earnings made with IZEA and Social Spark. Read our pages and like you we write industry related articles and press release announcements for our programs.

Like you we are a legal business with full license that pays taxes, but unlike your blog we also provide training that can be used even if you do not use our services as well as articles on news and politics, post on thoughts of the day, and website development and promotion. We monetized our blog, isn't that what your program is? A way to monetize blogs? Are you saying that I can only use you to monetize this blog?

Still waiting on a defined answer added my phone number to the support ticket so you can call and I can talk to a live person.

Andy Zeus Anderson