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You were sneezed upon. You were cheated. Your work was stolen. You were not paid for the work you've done. And that already happened to you even before you've come to the Internet. Now it repeats all again online.

You know what? It shows.

Beautiful, just beautiful. And to the point. No offense to Perry Belcher, he actually one of the few who also gets it, but that interview with Seth Godin goes straight to the heart of the issue.

All social networking sites are not actually social networking. They are just the tools that make social networking easier and father reaching. You still have to do social networking yourself, you just can reach more people, but robots cannot make friends! That's not Futurama yet and your spambot is not Bender.

In the end, what any Internet business needs is the traffic and good conversion rate. Even the product is secondary to that, because it's a much easier part. If you are a beginning Internet marketer, both traffic and conversion rate are your huge pain, because they are really hard to get right.

Have you ever seen a page with a whale carried by a lot of small birds? If you tweet regularly, I bet, you have. What it says, is that the Twitter got over capacity and cannot handle your request at the moment. What does it mean to you and how will it affect you in the future as an Internet marketer? After all, Twitter is a great source of free targeted traffic (did you see my review of Bill Crossby’s Twitter Traffic Machine?)

Will viral marketing work for you?

Viral marketing is a craze but will it work for you?

You may think, duh! Everybody's doing this! It has to work!

Well, everybody was buying stock in 1999... until December, and then again in 2006-2007, until 2008. And everybody will chase another latest Internet marketing scheme or newest product today, tomorrow, in ten years.

The truth is, none of those techniques are silver bullets, but mot of them work if you know how to use them and when to use them. Viral marketing is not an exception.

I promised that I will let you peek at my records. Here are some. My notes from listening to Keith Wellman talking about his Easy Sales Formula. Later I will publish some other note. By the way, if you can drop a comment if that's valuable at all, that'd be great.

Anyway, fair warning: that's not a real transcript, that's just my notices during listening to the call. So, if you want genuine stuff, go directly to Keith and his system. Also, I don't know, maybe Eben will get a real transcript and productize it or make a free report out of it. That sounds like high quality stuff to do so.

If you noticed, I am building my mailing list. See this form on the right? By the way, if you have not subscribed yet, that's what you shoudl do.

However, I was also testing. Most people do the opt-in process like on this diagram: