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Message From jl
Each year, iCop participates in the Annual Internet Toy Drive,
in affiliation with the official U.S. Marine Corps "TOYS FOR
TOTS" Program. As always, our launch date is Thanksgiving Day -
November 22nd.
Going into our seventh year, this has now become a tradition.
One more thing that makes me proud about iCop members!
YOUR name and the URL to your main web site can appear on our
“Partners” page at www.internettoydrive.org/partners.html IF you are willing to do the following:
* A solo feature mailing, Top Ad or personal endorsement to
your list(s) announcing The 6th Annual Internet Toy Drive
* Regular classified ads or reminders in each ezine issue or
affiliate newsletter up and until the close of the drive on
Christmas Eve.
* Posting of banners or graphic images that will link to the
Internet Toy Drive web site on applicable main pages of your web
site(s).
* Contact the *bigger* sites/lists/companies you know so we can
include them as partners immediately. Or, put them in touch
with Rick Beneteau directly:
* If you own or moderate an Internet Forum or Blog, PLEASE post
a personal appeal and please keep following up.
* Consider using this email sig file:
Needy Children Need You NOW!!
The 7th Annual Internet Toy Drive
And, finally,
* Send us an email telling us you'll commit to helping, along
with:
1. the name and,
2. the URL you would like placed on the "Partner" page of our
web site: www.internettoydrive.org/partners.html
You can send it to Rick at:
admin@internettoydrive.org
All the promotional stuff is here:
www.internettoydrive.org/images.html
I'm always proud to watch the energy with which iCop members
participate in this project. I know you won't let us - or the
KIDS - down this year! So, let's get ROLLIN'!
P.S. Thanks to iCop Founding Member, Heather Colman, you'll
find a really COOL new graphic to use here:
www.internettoydrive.org/images.html#Floating
I was afraid I was sounding a bit hysterical the past couple of
weeks. However, from the email I've received, apparently, that
isn't the case. So, I thought I'd share some of the thoughts
I've received with you, today.
It's true ... I've gone berserk over the state of “internet
marketing” to the point where I plan to separate iCop from it
completely. I never intended for iCop to be a part of such a
sleezy industry.
Now, I COULD go to my room, and curl up in the fetal position,
to have my melt-down. Or, I can have it right out in public and
entertain you while I do it. The public version is WAY more
fun!
I'll be working on changes kind of behind the scenes until after
the holidays. But, come January 1st, things will start hoppin',
and iCop members will be included. By March 1st, our
transformation should be fairly complete.
Meanwhile, some of you have already sent me some terrific ideas.
Thanks for that! Many of them WILL be used. For some other
comments, see below!
I'd really appreciate it if you would help me build our
subscriber list. Please don't forget to invite your friends to
subscribe to The Internet Marketing Trade Journal!
Just forward them an issue with a note telling them why you like
it and give them the following link:
http://www.i-Cop.org/trade-journal.htm
P.S. Do YOU have the iCop seal on your web site? It's the Seal of Integrity in Online Business; it gives you prestige and turns your 'almost buyers' into satisfied customers.
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Thanks so much!
Allow me to share ... [The following messages (in response to my melt-down) may have been edited for space.]
------------ This is exactly the kind of krap I was talking about last week. When I first started in the advertising business with Marion you could easily tell the good from the bad, but now they are all wearing the same pants! There didn't used to be this much BS on the net but, like you, I saw it coming. It has made it almost impossible for an honest person to make money online. I think it is too late to try to clean up the net we need to work on individuals. There may still be some hope there in places.
Dan Beal
------------ Loved your rant. Probably should have been said a long time ago.
Tom Koziol
------------ I totally agree with you regarding the amount of junk sent to us. That's exactly what it is, and I mark it as such in my email client, and delete them. What surprises me, and I guess it shouldn't, is that a lot of this "stuff" is not done by unknowns, but by some of the most trusted, and I use that term tongue in cheek, "Guru's" and/or "Internet Marketers."
Jude Sutton
------------ Super-great editorial.
Joni Groves
------------ I cannot believe that some people spend so much time dreaming up these schemes when they could probably make more money legit by offering good products backed up by good service. Keep up the good work - you deserve a pat on the back.
Thanks
------------ The internet and its associated techniques and technologies are a tremendous boon to legitimate business, and we will certainly continue to expand our activities in these areas. Any moves you make to get rid of the 'Get Rich Quick” mob has my vote. They're a blight on any medium- magazines, direct marketing, TV or whatever. The BS they purvey is almost always without value whatever the medium of promotion. It's a great pity that the words 'internet marketers' have been attached to this group. It devalues the value and potential of the internet, and tragically demeans the word 'marketer'. I'm an internet marketer! I'm a Marketer of 50 years standing (first business in Year 8 high school); I've been a Member of the Australian Institute of Marketing; I run a real-world business that markets via the internet. How have the BS -artists and charlatans appropriated the most fitting words to describe what I do? Anything you can do to change their label to a more accurate one has my support.
Best wishes,
------------ I haven't been connected with you for long [3 or 4 years], but I admire your "faithfulness to the cause". When I started, it was fairly mild [coming from a Real Estate Agent's background]. Lately, it has been so hard to try to connect with marketers of "integrity". Most have become just 'pushy salesmen' [like days of old]. iCop has been a sort of refuge for me, where I can come, read and connect with some semblance of "right and wrong". Please, keep up the good work - we're with you in the fight.
Vern Brown
------------ Like you, I've been in kind of a funk lately. It also seems that we are on the same page as far as the state of affairs, both online and offline. Just last evening I was telling my 24 year old son how disturbing it is for me to see the total lack of accountability, respect and decency that sadly, it seems, is the norm these days. And yes, I too have grown increasingly disgusted with the way so-called "gurus" are becoming nothing more than carnival hawkers on the internet marketing midway. It is for that reason that I recently unsubscribed from every "ezine" that didn't send some type of useful INFORMATION mixed in among their barrage of advertising. I decided several weeks ago that the time has come to step away from the "internet marketing" crowd and start catering to the common, everyday folks that log on to the internet every day. That is, in mho, where the real success will ultimately be. I'll be starting a complete redesign of my website in the near future. By the way, I just visited the iCop homepage and LOVE the video. It really adds to the professionalism that iCop is known for.
Sincerely,
------------ It's bad enough when they fleece your hide once. What's worse is when they rope you into $29.95 monthly subscriptions, having perfected the art of writing "killer" sales letters. It's all too easy to fall into the trap of subscribing to three or four. Before you get your wits together, see the writing on the wall and cancel, you've blown hundreds of dollars. Really, there ought to be a law!
Kevin O'Leary
------------ I subscribe to about a 100 news letters and even those that have occasional useful information have slid into the gutter. The only reason I haven't dumped a lot of those is the good laugh I get out of them. What has probably burned me the most though is the information products that on the surface appear to be decent for the price. Than you find out they're setup in PDF with a type size that a blind person could read and over 3 inches of padding on top, bottom, and sides. On a couple of occasions I redid the e-books to word format and a 40 page report was reduced to a 25 page report. Honesty is definitely out the window. Please keep up the excellent job that you and iCop are doing.
Jim “JD” Daniels
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Volume V - Issue 44: November 19, 2007
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