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	<title>Joseph Chmielewski</title>
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		<title>Unbelievable WordPress SEO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just how fast can you get a WordPress Blog indexed by Google?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sometimes wonder if Google begins indexing before we actually post to our Blog.</p>
<p>Here is the results of a test for <a href="http://www.josephchmielewski.com/recommended/quick-site-creator.html">Quick Site Creator software</a> and the amazing speed of WordPress at getting posts indexed.</p>
<div id="attachment_110" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 360px"><img class="size-full wp-image-110" title="wordpress-google-indexing" src="http://josephchmielewski.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wordpress-google-indexing1.jpg" alt="Amazing Speed of WordPress Blogs Getting Indexed by Google" width="350" height="140" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Amazing Speed of WordPress Blogs Getting Indexed by Google</p></div>
<p>Just how fast can you get a WordPress Blog indexed by Google?</p>
<p>Of course, the Blog is established; but this is pretty fast!</p>
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		<title>Test of Quick Site Content Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quick site creator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[site seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subdomain backlinks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These Keyword-Rich sites were created in about two hours last Sunday…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These Keyword-Rich sites were created in about two hours last Sunday…</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://affiliates.0bookpromotion.com">http://affiliates.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ebooks.0bookpromotion.com">http://ebooks.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://extras.0bookpromotion.com">http://extras.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://marketing.0bookpromotion.com">http://marketing.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://online.0bookpromotion.com">http://online.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://podcasts.0bookpromotion.com">http://podcasts.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://publicity.0bookpromotion.com">http://publicity.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://resources.0bookpromotion.com">http://resources.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://secrets.0bookpromotion.com">http://secrets.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://self-publishing.0bookpromotion.com">http://self-publishing.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://services.0bookpromotion.com">http://services.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://software.0bookpromotion.com">http://software.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://tools.0bookpromotion.com">http://tools.0bookpromotion.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://webhosting.0bookpromotion.com">http://webhosting.0bookpromotion.com</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://josephchmielewski.com/recommended/quick-site-creator.html">The software that preforms this magic</a> is adaptable and customizable&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Spanish Learning with Technology Workshop</title>
		<link>http://josephchmielewski.com/teaching-spanish-with-technology/spanish-learning-with-technology-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching Spanish with Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san antonio tx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Language teachers in the San Antonio Texas area can profit from a free workshop. The workshop focuses upon Spanish Language Learning and Technology.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Language teachers in the <strong>San Antonio Texas</strong> area can profit from a free workshop. The workshop focuses upon <em>Spanish Language Learning and Technology.</em></p>
<p>Workshop Title:</p>
<p><strong><em>Global Communication and Today’s Foreign Language Students</em></strong></p>
<p>Presenter: Rosa Shely, Spanish teacher, Earl Warren High School</p>
<p>Date: <strong>April 10, 2010</strong></p>
<p>Time: <strong>9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.</strong></p>
<p>Location: Northside Activity Center, Culebra just inside 410.</p>
<p>Cost: <strong>Free</strong></p>
<p>How can you get today’s foreign language students interested and consistently involved in class?</p>
<p>How can learning Spanish be relevant to them?</p>
<p>How about taking your students on a &#8220;virtual trip&#8221; around the world?</p>
<p>How about your students being active customers at their own &#8220;Latin American restaurant?&#8221;</p>
<p>Let them see and experience how Spanish is integrated in our community&#8230; here, nationwide, and globally.</p>
<p>Emphasis on today&#8217;s global communication through today’s technology will be the focus;</p>
<ul>
<li>Planning, using, and posting podcasts</li>
<li>Designing, and tailoring to your class available PowerPoints</li>
<li>Using Google Earth and computer based games such as Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, among others to incorporate the material you want to include</li>
<li>Using foldables</li>
<li>Using current Spanish music videos and music CD’s</li>
<li>Real &#8220;telenovelas&#8221;</li>
<li>Active participation in Spanish debates</li>
<li>Experiencing Latin American art through the use of Cornell notes and directed activities</li>
</ul>
<p>Participants will be involved in actual lessons and receive their own packet with all the presented activities guidelines/handouts, and game templates.</p>
<p>Remember to bring your own laptop and a flash drive! (Recommended, but not required.)</p>
<p>Teacher In-service credits available.</p>
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		<title>Web-Drivel Filter (Web 4.0 and Web 5.0)</title>
		<link>http://josephchmielewski.com/twitter/web-drivel-filter-web-4-0-and-web-5-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much modern content on the Internet is trash, drivel and re-hash.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So much modern content on the Internet is trash, drivel and re-hash.</p>
<p>Marketers and SEO folks multiply content, fabricate comments and outsource link-building so that words abound like so many high-calorie but empty of nutrition fluff-foods.</p>
<p>Google and Bing will have arrived when their algorithms learn to dump this SEO junk before indexing it, and find really satisfying content.</p>
<p>Web 4.0 and Web 5.0 content will be as similar to real foods (i.e., organic vegetables, fish, meat and potatoes, salad, fruit, stir-fry) as junk food (i.e., fast-fat, bloat-enabling, tummy-protruding, gout-intensifying, not-fit-for-pigs) content slop is not.</p>
<p>One marketer complained the 15,000 Internet Marketer accounts were canceled by Google. A lot more of these drivel-mavens have to go. Perhaps Google could join forces with the FTC and shake out the dead wood, rotten wood and warped wood that comprises most of Internet Marketing today.</p>
<p>The Internet is a true &#8220;Buyer-Beware&#8221; marketplace.</p>
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		<title>7-Figure Code Reply Letter:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will take some time before the current crop of Internet Marketing "gurus" learn to transition to the new FTC requirements for transparency and accurate (no fine print) advertising. So look for quite a few other "gurus" to retire or go out of business.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mike Filsaime <mike.filsaime.mail.queue@pro-sender.com> wrote:</strong></p>
<p>(Note: This is my response to a copyrighted E-mail message sent by Mike Filsaime concerning the sale of his 7-Figure Course. That message could not be reprinted here because it contained a copyright.)</p>
<p>Quoted copyright from that message&#8230;<br />
&#8220;(c) 2009, MikeFilsaime.com, Inc.<br />
3555 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Suite C, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779, USA&#8221; </p>
<p>Here is the text of my E-mail response to that high-powered sales message&#8230;<br />
_____</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t need another copy of the 7-Figure Code. I already have two printed copies. I don&#8217;t need another copy of the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript. I have one printed copy, and I also have an electronic copy.</p>
<p>I also don&#8217;t want to spend $15 for more copies of the same materials, and I don&#8217;t want to sign up for any more of your newsletters. I found that Matt Bacak&#8217;s and Russell Brunson&#8217;s newsletters to be much better for my needs than your newsletters.</p>
<p>I expected that access to the online 7-Figure course materials to be free, as advertised, but the $15 is not free.</p>
<p>Since I read the 7-Figure Code and Butterfly manuals, I am not sure that the online 7-Figure Course content is worth $15.</p>
<p>Please provide the totally free online content that your ads seemed to promise.</p>
<p>Since I read your defensive E-mail concerning all the people that wrote comments that you deleted and who posted Blog comments; I know that lots of other folks believed that the offer ads failed to live up to the promises that those ads made.</p>
<p>Subtle or distracting wording probably fails to meet the intent of the new FTC regulations that require transparency.</p>
<p>&#8220;Totally free&#8221; means absolutely no cost. $15 for shipping and handling of products that we don&#8217;t need is a cost that is substantially higher than &#8220;free.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you have trouble unloading 10,000 copies of these (not really free) manuals as your last E-mail plea suggests; even though E-mail sales pitches were sent to over 1,000,000 E-mail addresses touting the offer may indicate that&#8230;</p>
<p>1.) The market was already saturated with these manuals<br />
2.) Each person received hundreds of the same E-mail offers as I did<br />
3.) The perceived value of the manuals failed to exceed the cost of shipping and handling<br />
4.) Folks were irritated (even angry) that the free offer turned out cost $15.<br />
5.) Electronic copies of those manuals could have been placed on a DVD (with a higher perceived value) and sold at cost, including shipping for $1.75.<br />
6.) The flood of negative Web 2.0 social media publicity cast too much doubt as to the value of this offer</p>
<p>Hopefully, you didn&#8217;t print all 10,000 manuals ahead of time, and only your reputation, not your pocketbook,  suffered from this launch.</p>
<p>It will take some time before the current crop of Internet Marketing &#8220;gurus&#8221; learn to transition to the new FTC requirements for transparency and accurate (no fine print) advertising. So look for quite a few other &#8220;gurus&#8221; to retire or go out of business.</p>
<p>Hopefully, you won&#8217;t be one of the high profile marketers that the FTC chooses to use as a test case to compensate for the FTC&#8217;s lack of investigative, regulatory compliance and enforcement personnel.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Joseph Chmielewski, M.S., L.P.C.</p>
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		<title>Open Letter to Congressman Lamar Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reject the gridlock-oriented party politics of the past and get behind our president. President Obama is a novice and learning the ropes; and he needs your guidance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congressman Lamar Smith<br />
2409 Rayburn<br />
House Office Building<br />
Washington, DC 20515</p>
<p>Dear Congressman Smith:<br />
 <br />
Here are the comments that you requested.  Your survey card was crafted in a way that guarantees that the answers reflect a narrow, politicized (party) view of pressing issues.</p>
<p>Here is what you need to know, and what you need to do.</p>
<p>Reject the gridlock-oriented party politics of the past and get behind our president. President Obama is a novice and learning the ropes; and he needs your guidance.</p>
<p>What you need to do is learn from President Clinton’s playbook and develop legislation that is moderate and centrist.  Both the Democratic platform and the Republican platforms are stilted and dangerous. Neither party has enough answers to benefit our country. Both party platforms get issues wrong more than they get issues right.</p>
<p>Your cooperation by doing what is right for our country means rejecting the extremes of both parties and helping President Obama get on track. By your extreme resistance, you are driving President Obama into the arms of the extremist Democrats who you vow to resist because their ideas are just as bad for our country as the ideas of extremist Republicans.</p>
<p>Your resistance to doing what is needed (moderate, centrist) for our country guarantees that President Obama will become a Carter-like “One Term Wonder,” but the backlash to the extremes of President Bush go too far in the other direction…and our country continues to suffer for lack of moderate leadership.</p>
<p>Obstinate and wrong-headed Republican and Democratic policies, sticking to extremes and lack of cooperation make both parties look like children on a sandlot…one has the ball, one has the bat…and no one gets to play because they can’t  agree.</p>
<p>My advice to both parties: Grow up! Put our country’s need before party ideology. Finally do the job that you were elected to do. Or, go home and let country-first, party-politics last folks replace you.</p>
<p>Send President Obama the kind of legislation that makes him look like the best president ever, quit squabbling. Send legislation that is good for America, legislation that Democrats can’t refuse to get behind because they would look like quacks, charlatans and idiots.</p>
<p>Right now, both parties look like stooges…hostages of their party ideologies.</p>
<p>It is time for creative, collaborative thinking and cooperative action.</p>
<p>In a way, the scandals reflecting lobbyist and special interest influence in our legislative process act as a smokescreen and a distraction from our legislative dilemma; i.e., trusting in two political parties to do the work that we need when neither of those parties has the wherewithal to deliver unless they work together on centrist common ground.</p>
<p>Please quit being a Republican and become an advocate for America. Reject Democrat ideology and reject Republican ideology, and build a coalition of folks who want real change.</p>
<p>President Obama was elected to bring change to our country because his predecessor damaged our country and our country’s reputation. But, that change was supposed to be a benefit to our country. We were supposed to see cooperation, not a Democratic agenda that will prove just as defective and just as detrimental to our country as that of President Bush.</p>
<p>So, take true leadership and get off the Republican stonewall. Stop the Democratic mule that is heading over the precipice by offering the carrots and sugar of reasonable, cooperative legislation that will stop their blind charge to disaster in its tracks.</p>
<p>Please do what our county needs, and please do what our country needs soon.</p>
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		<title>Sneaky Marketing Trick: Is it Ethical?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethical marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I loose confidence in a product when I suspect that the promoter needs to use a sneaky trick to get me to buy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fireball E-mail comes with a lot of marketing hype, and big promises. But, are those big promises going to pay off for purchasers?</p>
<p>And, has the product jeopardized its credibility with a &quot;sneaky marketing trick?&quot;</p>
<p>I loose confidence in a product when I suspect that the promoter needs to use a sneaky trick to get me to buy.</p>
<p>The program promises to create a viral E-mail system similar to Google&#8217;s Gmail. This software then can then provide free E-mail to people that sign up. Then, the outgoing mail has a branded message similar to the branding that HotMail made famous.</p>
<p>Sounds good, so far&hellip;</p>
<p>But, here is the sneaky part.<br />
<span id="more-81"></span><br />
The product launch was suppose to offer only 500 copies. (Create scarcity.)</p>
<p>But, lots of affiliates were signed up. (The affiliates receive 50% commission.)</p>
<p>So, who is going to promote a product where only 500 copies are sold for half of $147?</p>
<p>Answer: Not many, but what if the 500 copies is only a ploy?</p>
<p>Here is a extract image from an E-mail message that I received on 7-22-09. (The sender&#8217;s name has been blocked out in case they didn&#8217;t know what is going on.)<br />
<a href="http://www.josephchmielewski.com/not-recommended/fireball-mail.php"><br />
<img src="http://josephchmielewski.com/images/fireball-offer.png" /></a></p>
<p>And, here is what the sales page said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.josephchmielewski.com/not-recommended/fireball-mail.php" title="Fireball E-mail not as scarce as we thought" target="_blank"><img src="http://josephchmielewski.com/images/fireball-mail-7-22.png" /></a></p>
<p>Notice that I have to act at once.</p>
<p>But, what happens if you link today, 7-23-09?</p>
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<p>Seems like the offer is still available. Maybe I&#8217;ll consider buying tomorrow?</p>
<p>Or maybe I won&#8217;t!</p>
<p>As I said, I loose confidence in a product when I suspect that the promoter needs to use a sneaky trick to get me to buy.</p>
<p>It is difficult to see how this product is &quot;sold out&quot; when a script is running, and it is difficult to believe that this sneaky strategy was unplanned. The reason: it is running a date script&hellip; that inserts the current date into the sales page:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.josephchmielewski.com/not-recommended/fireball-mail.php" title="Fireball E-mail not as scarce as we thought" target="_blank"><img src="http://josephchmielewski.com/images/fireball-free-script.png" /></a></p>
<p>As far as the script itself, the script does send and receive E-mail messages, and does provide Google AdSense ads to users.</p>
<p>But, if the product were truly viral, at one Gigabyte (1 GB) of mail storage, the product could violate the &quot;Terms of Service&quot; of your Web Hosts.</p>
<p>I checked with my Web Host, HostGator, and the installation of Fireball Mail didn&#8217;t seem to be against their &quot;Terms of Service,&quot; as long as the folks that sign up for the free accounts do not use those accounts to send SPAM. (You&#8217;re in for a real hassle if they do!)</p>
<p>Other violations of your Web Host&#8217;s &quot;Terms of Service&quot; are to use the system to distribute pornography, viruses or materials that infringe on other people&#8217;s copyrights.</p>
<p>Another caution is ensuring that minors do not sigh up for one of these free E-mail accounts without parental permission.</p>
<p>The <em>Fireball Mail</em> test system was noticeably slower than Gmail, even when the software has a minimal load as a &quot;demo system.&quot;</p>
<p>Summary: The software does what it says it does, so there shouldn&#8217;t be a need to employ sneaky tricks to market and sell it. And, although marketers might have a use for yet another free E-mail system, it is difficult to imagine that others would find such a system useful when Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Live/ HotMail are so well established.</p>
<p>The problem? Sneaky marketing tricks deflate credibility for this product.</p>
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		<title>Do the Astral and Causal Planes qualify as &#8220;Parallel Universes?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then, we learned that the Sun was the center of our solar system. Now we know that the Universe is about 13 billion years old, and that the Earth is more like the "dust on the dust on the dust of the dust" in importance, size and grandeur.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At one time, the Earth was considered to be the <strong>center of the Universe</strong>. Narrow thinking?</p>
<p>Then, we learned that the Sun was the center of our solar system. Now we know that the Universe is about 13 billion years old, and that the Earth is more like the &#8220;dust on the dust on the dust of the dust&#8221; in importance, size and grandeur.<br />
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But folks with expanded perception tell us that this &#8220;huge, billions of  galaxies&#8221; physical universe hangs like a tiny little basket with a golden halo in the incredibly wider, broader, deeper and multidimensional reality of the Astral Plane.</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to quit thinking that the physical Universe is the center of creation?</p>
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		<title>Rejecting Blog Comments: Zero Credibility?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With upcoming FTC regulation of the Internet Marketing space, all affiliate relationships will be required to be divulged.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I followed a Twitter link to the Advanced &#8220;Twitter Marketing&#8221; sales page. From there, a Google search lead to the TeamChampigny site (not on the first page of Google Search). I attempted to place this comment there, but it was rejected. (Rejecting honest comments torpedoes credibility!)</p>
<p>Here is the issue&#8230;</p>
<p>Many of the Marketers who provided testimonials for the &#8220;Advanced Twitter Marketing&#8221; product also created sites with the standard&#8230;</p>
<p>* Reviews<br />
* Domain Names as variations of &#8220;Advanced Twitter Marketing&#8221;<br />
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Of course, this affiliate relationship leads to doubting the product&#8217;s value since the social proof comes from folks with a vested interest.</p>
<p>When I write a review, my reputation is on the line, and there cannot be any profit motive influencing the straight talk, &#8220;tell-t-like-it-is&#8221; review.</p>
<p>With upcoming FTC regulation of the Internet Marketing space, all affiliate relationships will be required to be divulged.</p>
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		<title>Ethical Issues of Paying Employees who Bring in Huge Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any employee that studies, observes a real Guru in action, and cannot "convert" their on-the-job-learned expertise into a business of their own probably lacks the mind set for Internet Marketing success.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeff Johnson produced some great SEO insights, and his Blog ideas bring quick Google Search Engine rankings.</p>
<p>However, I was concerned to hear Jeff&#8217;s repeated reference to &hellip;his guys.&quot;</p>
<p>My concern was that Jeff Johnson continued to refer to &quot;his guys&quot; as $8.00 per hour employees. He also pointed out how much money he made on the SEO campaigns that these &quot;guys&quot; ran for him.</p>
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<p>My concern is with the ethics that would allow an Internet Marketer to make millions from the work of minimum wage employees. It would be difficult for me to justify keeping so much money for myself if I had employees that were doing most of the work required to earn that money.<br />
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The ethical path seems to be, at a minimum, to pass on cash bonuses to these employees for the work that they are performing.</p>
<p>However, in a later video, Jeff Johnson points out that he allows these employees to &quot;learn the Internet Marketing trade&quot; by checking out and studying the $100,000.00 USD library of training products that he has available.</p>
<p>He also pointed out that one of those employees, a relative no less, failed to take advantage of these training opportunities, even when encouraged.</p>
<p>Besides realizing that Jeff Johnson has to pay these employees whether he makes money or not; and that health care coverage for employees, if he provides it at no cost like he should, is exorbitant.</p>
<p>I am sure that Jeff Johnson was emphasizing the $8.00 per hour employee overhead to seminar participants so that they might consider delegating (or outsourcing) much of the time consuming SEO work that low-level employees can perform, so that the business owners can concentrate on running their businesses.</p>
<p>Any employee that studies, observes a real Guru in action, and cannot &quot;convert&quot; their on-the-job-learned expertise into a business of their own probably lacks the mind set for Internet Marketing success.</p>
<p>These employees seem different than the highly paid copywriters, ghostwriters and behind the scenes managers that promote and run the businesses of the Big Name Gurus.</p>
<p>The entrepreneurs are &quot;risk takers&quot; while the rest of us sit and wait in the comfort and security of our predictable (if not limited) prosperity.</p>
<p>Jeff Johnson communicates a sense of personal confidence that, if it rubs off on his &quot;guys&quot; would be more valuable than their monthly paychecks.</p>
<p>And, Jeff Johnson sells plenty of high-end products that his $8.00 per hour &quot;guys&quot; cannot manage, for example his PayPal payment plan for his affiliates. He paid a programmer to get that software script developed correctly, and the cost of this payment to affiliates that avoids the 3% payment fee skimmed by Paypal shows that he takes cares of people who work for him.</p>
<p>So, check out <a href="http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/go.php?811268" title="Join Jeff Johnson's free Underground training lab" target="_blank">Jeff Johnson&#8217;s free Underground Training Lab</a>, and decide for yourself whether he cares about his people enough to pay them well.</p>
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