When Gurus Have To Resort To Spam

It is a very sad day when well known and very successful Internet marketing gurus (and I use that term in the most derogatory way in this case) have to resort to spam. I am going to tell a very short story and then tell you what the ultimate repercussions will be if you decide to resort to things like this. I won't mention any names here, but if you manage to find my name and shame site (no URLs will be given) you can read all the dirt about everybody there.

Okay, so I happen to moderate at this one forum. Anyway, I wake up this morning and I see this thread title. It looked interesting. I then see the person who posted it and I said to myself, "Wow...I can't believe he came to this rather obscure forum." Then I took a look at the post itself. It was a blatant advertisement for some seminar that he's running at $200 a ticket. I thought to myself, "As successful as you are, you have to resort to spamming a forum?"

I know what he was thinking. Nobody at this forum who is anybody is going to know who he is. He'll just be another name in the crowd. I guess what he didn't count on was me being a moderator there. Or maybe he didn't care. Maybe he just figured, "What the heck...I'm (name goes here) and I can do anything I want and nobody is going to say anything. After all, I'm (name goes here)."

Yeah, when you start believing your own press, that's when you get into trouble.

Anyway, it really bugged me that somebody at his success level had to resort to spamming a forum, no matter how small the forum may be in comparison to the HUGE world he manages to fit his over-inflated ego into. There is bound to be somebody there who will recognize him and spread the word about his cheap tactics.

And that brings me to the point of this article. Believe it or not, contrary to what YOU might be thinking, the Internet is a SMALL place, especially if you're in the "make money" niche. Everybody knows everybody else and somewhere out there is somebody frequenting a forum or social site who will see these tactics and have the clout to make a big enough stink about them. And when negative press gets around, it gets around.

So think twice before you spam or cookie stuff or whatever nasty things you THINK you can get away with.

Somebody is going to catch you who you will wish to God didn't.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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Comments (1)

Sep 15, 2011
astralnexus said...
Very interesting point. However, which forum were you talking about? If its an internet marketing forum, then the logical choice would be to post there for his seminars. Would it not?
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