When I first started using the web as an entrepreneur in 2002, I saw everything through rose coloured glasses. It was a perfect world, where everything worked as people said it did.<\/p>\n
Over the years one scale after another has fallen from my eyes. Steps prescribed by many (but of course NOT ALL!<\/span><\/em><\/strong>) experts yield nothing like they promise or claim to get.<\/p>\n A lot happens behind the scenes that the average person cannot detect or unravel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n If no one is buying back links, why do people still keep sending so many emails offering them? And if no one is buying Facebook likes, Youtube views etc, how come I still get such offers?<\/p>\n They're obviously getting patronage - else they would have gone out of business long ago! <\/strong><\/p>\n In light of the above, how do I know that<\/strong><\/em> expert did not BUY his own thousands of LIKES and VIEWS?<\/p>\n Yet he may offer to \u201cteach\u201d me how to get similar results by writing articles and publishing a newsletter!<\/p>\n So you can have someone using doing naughty things Google says not to e.g. buying links. They go to great lengths to cover their tracks.<\/p>\n The idea is often the same. To do everything possible (legal or not) to get themselves in front of as many eyeballs as possible online.<\/p>\n Click here to watch this shocking investigative\u00a0TV report<\/a> video trailer. In it, film-maker Chris Atkins<\/a> uncovers how some businesses purchase fake Facebook 'likes', Twitter followers and YouTube views to promote themselves.<\/p>\n Click here to watch this shocking investigative TV report video trailer. In it, film-maker Chris Atkins uncovers how some businesses purchase fake Facebook 'likes', Twitter followers and YouTube views to promote themselves.<\/p><\/div>\n See what I mean??<\/p>\n When I took care to begin studying these groups of people, I noticed they had a few things in common. <\/strong><\/p>\n They often employed hype in their copy and offers, targeting large numbers of people promising to turn your fortunes around overnight.<\/p>\n \u00a0And you rarely needed to do anything, know anything or how to do anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n Just jump on by paying a little cash and you\u2019d be made for life. <\/em><\/p>\n Now, in my candid opinion, only greedy and\/or lazy people take up such offers. And I\u2019m neither. Which explains why I've never been \"had\" by them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Of course what they offer rarely works as promised. But these guys are good at \"selling\" their stuff :-))<\/p>\n They always have a follow up that explains what steps you need to take to improve your luck. At some point they\u2019ll also bring in another \u201cexpert\u201d who\u2019s decided to do YOU<\/span><\/em><\/strong> a favour, by sharing some new \u201csecret\u201d formula with you.<\/p>\n Right now, in my honest opinion, there\u2019s a webinar and teleconference pandemic on the web. Everybody is teaching something someone else needs to learn.<\/p>\n For the bad guys amongst those offering these events, it seems to me that their key strategy is building of mailing lists. Then they relentlessly \u201cwork\u201d those lists.<\/em><\/p>\n Someone\u2019s bound to buy something eventually \u2013 especially when they keep sending tempting offers that will be potentially appealing to the more lazy\/greedy of their subscribers.<\/p>\n NB: Keep in mind that some of these guys have mailing lists running into hundreds of thousands of subscribers. You can therefore imagine how lucrative this whole arrangement can get!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Yep. Must give thanks to the good guys at Google. They sometimes set-up things in ways that punish innocent website owners too. But very often that ends up being only a temporary side effect of any new measure they take, to sanitize the results they give their users.<\/p>\n In time, if the good guys who are affected keep doing the right things, they eventually get plenty of love from Google. I know this because that\u2019s what I\u2019m getting today.<\/p>\n About a year ago, I certainly could not say that!<\/p>\n Sorry, but I can\u2019t help you there. You will have to do your own thinking<\/em><\/p>\n A good first step will however likely be to purge yourself of any laziness or greed. That way, when they come with their offers, your thinking will be much smarter!<\/strong><\/p>\n However, having watched the above mentioned video<\/a>, my worst fears have been confirmed. I no longer know what to believe about certain aspects of using the web.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why I never let the number of Facebook likes or Youtube views anyone waves in my face, sway me. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n You see, after taking time and great pains to test\/develop something that works for me online, I sometimes deliberately announce it in an article. Just to see what will happen.<\/p>\n On more than one occasion, I\u2019ve noticed some strange occurrences.<\/p>\n One example: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Up till 20th August 2013, my Excel-Heaven Custom Spreadsheet Software Development Service facebook page<\/a> had been getting steady trickle of LIKES weekly. This began mainly after I began linking to it, and the related website<\/a>, more often in my blog posts<\/a> and email newsletter issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n But since the day I wrote an article criticizing buying of Facebook LIKEs, and also highlighting the new results I'd been getting without buying LIKEs<\/a>\u00a0, NOT ONE SINGLE<\/strong> new LIKE has been added to that page.<\/p>\n \"Strange\" does not even begin describe it. Scary is more like it. I mean, what kind of coincidence is that???<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Note that the day Iwrote the article, it already had 39 LIKES. On the day I published the post, the page had gotten 42 LIKES. Just within a 48 hour interval.<\/p>\n But from that day I published thepost discussing those results<\/a>, NOTHING\u2026<\/p>\n Hmm\u2026make what you will of that. <\/strong><\/p>\n As for me...\"I know what I saw<\/strong>\"(like the guy in the horror movie told his disbelieveing friends!)<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s only fair that anyone ask me the above question. I may be screaming foul play and still be a part of the whole mess.<\/p>\n People do that in real life \u2013 that's what \u201cduplicity\u201d entails.<\/em><\/p>\n The simple answer in my case is however \"No\".<\/p>\n I do not, have not, and will not lie about what I do online \u2013 or the results I\u2019m getting. <\/strong><\/p>\n I have no need to. <\/em><\/p>\n You see, I\u2019m based in Africa. Over here, Internet use remains a fairly expensive venture for most people. And connectivity can be often quite erratic \u2013 making it even more costly.<\/p>\n This means I need to ensure I make the most productive use<\/strong> of my time online.<\/p>\n If I was not getting decent rewards for my web marketing<\/a> efforts (by way of sales of my products<\/a> and services<\/a>), I would have shut it down long ago.<\/p>\n I would not be so committed to publishing articles Mondays to Saturdays (sometimes Sundays)<\/a> here.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not all. <\/em><\/p>\n That\u2019s mainly because they KNOW that MY<\/strong> web marketing was what led them to find me - often via search engines.<\/p>\n In other words they know it works\u2026 and that makes them willing to PAY<\/strong> me to do it for them!<\/em><\/p>\n Of course, like I said earlier, you'll probably have no choice but to take what I say as the truth. <\/em><\/p>\n Those who have the skills, or means, to do relevant checks should be able to verify some claims or assertions I make. Some people send in enquiries via my contact forms just to \u201csee\u201d.<\/p>\n I do my best to respond to their enquiries.<\/em><\/p>\n Sometimes, to avoid having my time wasted, however, I \u201cask\u201d certain email enquirers to call me.<\/strong><\/p>\n I should mention that my website\u2019s terms of service<\/a> allow me to mention names, reproduce emails, and discuss details, relating to transactions I engage in (up to a point), with enquirers.<\/p>\nA Real Life TV Report That Confirms What I\u2019m Saying<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>For me, what\u2019s important here is that we will probably NEVER know those who have used the services of the crooked guy \u00a0in the video. Even worse, many of us may have taken serious business decisions based on the results people like that have shown us!<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
You\u2019re asked to jump on to his\/her list to learn the new XYZ formula. Eventually, you may have to pay a little cash to LEARN\u2026and LEARN\u2026and LEARN\u2026.!!!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Google\u2019s Algorithm Updates Confirmed My Suspicion<\/strong>s<\/h3>\n
So What (and\/Or Who) Do YOU<\/em> Believe Now?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
If one man with 1,000 facebook IDs can work overnight to add LIKES to a client\u2019s page<\/a>, imagine how many people MUST be using his services!!<\/h3>\n
But that\u2019s not the only thing I NOW question:\u00a0<\/strong>Maybe it\u2019s just me. Maybe I'm just too daft to get it right...or some \u201cdark forces\u201d are against me \ud83d\ude42<\/h3>\n
So, What About Me. How Can You Be Sure I've Not Been Lying (or I'm Not Doing So Now)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
I\u2019ve kept my website \u2013 www.spontaneousdevelopment.com<\/a>\u00a0- constantly updated, via relentless web marketing, since July 2005. Over 8 years!<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
My clients would NOT pay MORE money for me to write (or re-write) their website content. Or to ghost-write articles\/special PDF reports on their behalf, for web marketing systems I setup for them.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Final Words: In the End Though, You'll Have to Take My Word for It\u2026Or Move On \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Most of the names I mention in my articles are for real people \u2013 subscribers, some clients or both (e.g Oladipo Mann stayed a subscriber to my newsletter for over 3 years<\/a>, before finally buying my Feed Formulation Handbook, and software<\/a>). <\/strong><\/h3>\n