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T H E S E V E N D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G

H A L L O W E E N S P E C I A L

T O D AY ’ S T O P I C S

• The Deadly Sins of Online Marketing

• True Horror Stories of the Results

• How to Avoid the Temptation

• How to Recover if you’re a victim

• The Eighth Sin?

• Live Q & A Session

T H E D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G

T H E D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G

• Lust

‣ inordinate craving for pleasures

• Gluttony

‣ desire to consume more than that which one requires

• Greed

‣ desire for material wealth or gain

• Sloth

‣ avoidance of physical work

T H E D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G

• Wrath

‣ inordinate feelings of hatred and/or anger

• Envy

‣ desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation

• Pride

‣ excessive belief in one's own abilities

# 1 B U Y I N G L I N K S

# 1 B U Y I N G L I N K S ( G L U T T O N Y )

• Have you ever been tempted to buy backlinks

‣ “They’re only $5 bucks!“

• Buying backlinks will NOT get your site ranked higher

‣ Horror Story to follow..

• Build your links by providing link worthy content.

# 2 S H I N Y G U R U S Y N D R O M E

# 2 S H I N Y G U R U S Y N D R O M E ( E N V Y )

• Following self proclaimed guru email lists

• Product launches

• WSO’s

• Fancy pants sales letters

• All of this stuff are merely convincing words with empty promises

‣ stop following the clan of gurus

‣ unsubscribe from their email lists

# 3 TA K I N G N O A C T I O N

# 3 TA K I N G N O A C T I O N ( S L O T H )

• Learning.. Learning.. Learning..

‣ Reading

‣ Watching Videos

‣ Chatting

• “Why is my site not ranking!?”

‣ What have you done for it lately?

• Take action RIGHT AFTER you learn

‣ “procrastination is success’ worst enemy!”

# 4 A R T I C L E C U R AT I O N / S P I N N I N G

# 5 A R T I C L E C U R AT I O N / S P I N N I N G ( P R I D E )

• “All I need to do is write one article and I’ll spin the rest…”

‣ spinning articles will get you nowhere

‣ they don’t make human sense

‣ you WILL get caught by the search engines and penalized

‣ your readers will not come back

• “I don’t need to write as I will curate other authors’ articles…”

‣ this is worse than spinning as you’re taking other articles

‣ and adding a few ‘editorial’ comments about it

• Write your own content as YOU are YOUR best voice.

# 5 S T E A L I N G N I C H E S

# 5 S T E A L I N G N I C H E S ( G R E E D )

• Someone tells you their niche in a forum or WA

• Someone asks you your thoughts on a potential niche

• You watch a live niche walkthrough WAbinar

‣ and you take the niche from right under them

• Enough said…

# 6 B L A C K H AT S E O

# 6 B L A C K H AT S E O ( W R AT H )

• “Google sucks!”

‣ “I am going to game the system and outrank everyone!”

‣ by doing backhat SEO…

• bhSEO is unethical practices of search engine marketing

• essentially it’s a combination of all 7 sins.

# 7 S H O R T C U T S T O S U C C E S S

# 7 S H O R T C U T S T O S U C C E S S ( L U S T )• Show me the quickest path to success.. as I need the money now!

• Maybe you’ve been told how you can make billions of $$ in days

‣ seen screenshots of:

‣ cars, houses and bank accounts

‣ and you WANT that!

‣ automated software

‣ damn gurus.

• Regardless of how alluring these may be

• It simply doesn’t work and is not evergreen

T R U E H O R R O R S T O R I E S O F T H E R E S U LT S

H O W T O AV O I D T H E T E M P TAT I O N

H O W T O AV O I D T H E T E M P TAT I O N

• Think of your online business as a building or house

‣ you can’t skip out on a few studs or bricks

‣ as it will eventually collapse

‣ running a business is NO different

• If you’ve been tempted…

‣ go into WA and ask about what you’ve been tempted with

‣ someone there will talk you down to reality

H O W T O R E C O V E R I F Y O U ’ R E A V I C T I M

H O W T O R E C O V E R I F Y O U ’ R E A V I C T I M

• OK, you got duped..

‣ accept it and move on.

‣ nobody will judge you (except yourself)

‣ you’re not the only victim

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Q U E S T I O N S ?