John Reese Defends Himself (and Internet Marketing)
Today, John Reese took a couple bloggers to task, including one who writes for Mashable. (disclosure: John is a friend of mine)
If you’d like to hear the perspective of someone who is both a good human and a great marketer, you can read his reply to these guys. Calling John an “e-book salesman” is kind of like calling Tiger Woods a duffer.
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Good point Brad. John adds value to the marketplace and over delivers. But alas nothing like a little controversy to stir the internet marketing pot. Thx 4 your 2 cents.
Michelle
[...] John Reese Defends Himself (and Internet Marketing) – Today, John Reese took a couple bloggers to task, including one who writes for Mashable. (disclosure: John is a friend of mine). If you’d like to hear the perspective of someone who is both a good human and a great marketer, … [...]
Brad,
Well actually Tiger may be a duffer for a while
Just kidding. Seems like a little controversy once in a while stirs the old internet marketing pot. Sometimes for good, sometimes not. I am continually amazed at the line that divides folks who want the web to be both free and marketing free — and the entrepreneurs who harness the space, add value to the marketplace, over deliver and expand the value of the marketing dollar. Can’t we just all get along?
Thanks for the space to put in my 2 cents.
Michelle
I agree. It is true that there are hoards of ebook salesmen who provide the basis for negative stereotyping of internet marketers. However, lumping John Reese in with them is extremely unfair. John is one of the few internet marketers who constantly strives to provide real value to his customers and will often sacrifice early profits to reap even greater rewards through future reciprocity. I hope he does not let the negativity of a few keep him from continuing to help so many people who could benefit from his knowledge.
Just to echo the remarks of a previous post, that being, lumping John Reese in with ebook salesmen, is unfair…simply put, it’s character assassination. John Reese is an Internet Marketer who operates with the highest integrity and is totally committed to the success of his students AND non-students alike, with the high quality content that he provides. If you want a real education around driving traffic and all its nuances, John Reese will lead you to the Promise Land.
Amazing to see that the points being pressed against John were easily dismissible. I loved the graph showing how the blog site received more traffice that mashable over the last 2 years.
The ending was fantastic! The web will grow and strengthen by others generating revenue from honest business pratices. Sure nebulous individuals will take advantage of people. However, on the honest will survive in the long run.
-James
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I think John lost some of his high reputation and expertise (I can’t find the right words to express it…) through even answering such stupid blog post… There are people who have problems with making money…or with people who make money…or with people who are more clever than themselves…and there are even some communists out there
… My point is: you can’t respond to every freak that is out there. And if you do, you sort of come closer to his level which is below yours.
Example: If I (or you) wrote a blog post which said that Tiger Woods is a duffer, would he respond to that? I don’t think so. He would think: “Yeah, whatever, let the children talk while I stay on top.”
Have a nice day.
He worked really hard on his post, so I won’t say anything too bad about it. I haven’t completely read the other side of the story, but judging by the title, I get a glimmer of what its about – internet marketers using social bookmarking sites to gain traffic and result in $$$ (dollars). This is old news, and has been talked about by Internet Marketers for over a year. Jack Humphrey has really gotten on the bandwagon for profiting from the traffic, but most importantly, his main course is on *getting* the traffic – not so much what you do with it…
I think John can’t offer proof of anything by having people look at his twitter history… Marketers can still “talk” about using social bookmarking, without doing a marketing campaign… and even if he did, why test with his own, regular account, and run the risk of losing it? Personally, I’d setup a test account to test with, and write up the results for the eBook, later.
Anyway, the as mentioned in my cable provider disclaimer, my Internet service is for entertainment purposes only and no one will be held liable for anything… so I can’t take anything on the Internet too seriously, eh? Who cares if marketers use social bookmarking sites to make $$$ – everyone should be doing it! So lets get out there and get busy!
Okay, let me qualify my last paragraph… my Internet service is for entertainment purposes, but subject to the Terms of Use agreement and federal and state laws…. of course… I don’t think there’s going to be a federal case soon about marketer’s using Twitter for their purposes…
Yeah,
Or Seabiscuit was just like my lil pony… right!
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John Reese is a god and im pleased he didnt bit his tongue when it came to responding to that mashable garbage.
I am an Internet marketer and I sell ebooks and that’s great! The more I sell the richer I get.
I’m sorry, I just don’t get it! Where is the problem?
Alex
I have viewed many of John’s articles and can say that the quality and marketing ability he has is matchless. Certainly not a duffer Brad.
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I am working towards getting $397 put together from my marketing efforts to put the course to the test. I am really excited because everything I have received from him has been spot-on. For example, creating software that tracks things…brilliant paradigm shift and explains why previous ventures of mine flopped.
What’s wrong with ebook? I won’t become an internet marketer if wasn’t for ebooks.
This “who’s his face” guy. Know nothing about internet marketing. Can somebody please tell this guy that the knowledge of internet marketing spread because of ebook salesmen.
Just like in history, when book salesmen and saleswomen go house to house to sell books. That’s how knowledge spread all across the continents.
The internet is the ONLY marketplace making consistent gains today. The Dow tanked another 500 points yesterday and regular investments are in the toilet.
Internet marketing is where the real money is at, and the short sighted have no idea what they are saying.
let them wallow in their misery- the rest of us will continue to make money online- including the best of the best like John Reese and others.
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I agree with whats wrong with ebooks, I have personally ordered over 100 ebooks in the last 3 years. As long as I learn something new it’s worth the $47.00 investment. I have not been unhappy with many of the books I bought.
If it wasn’t for ebook salesman I would be nowhere near where I am today.
Thanks, John and all the other legit ebook writers.
I have tried to read as much of what John has to say as is possible. I have always found him of very high integrity and a quality guy. There will always be attackers. Shame.
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I notice people do things like this–become accusing–because they quite often have their own “issues”. Jealousy. Envy. Fear. Lack.
Internet marketing is no different than any other business. These things really get in people’s way. This is why I have created my “Thought Shifting (TM) for Internet Marketers” program. I identify and erase major issues in the way of you being able to freely make money yourself… Then it doesn’t matter what others do.
Warmly,
Pam
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“Journalist”… unfortunately some of them just have to resort to creating controversial articles to attract ratings.
Reese is the bomb! He gets it done.
This is good publicity. Controversy sells.
Tony
I totally agree with Pam’s Comments. I have so called friends who have issues with me doing business. Even though they consider themselves my friends when I meet them they only want to know if I have failed recently. I believe this to be their weakness?
I have the same belief as John Reece “No risk, no reward.”
John Reese is Great Industry Leader.
Value is important in this industry.
Reese delivers
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Jason Dandridge
You can attempt to belittle just about anyone by negatively exzagerating what they do. But personlly I’d be happy to be as well off as John is, even if I had to drive around with “Ebook salesman” magnets on the side of my car.
John Reese obviously has a high reputation if everyone defending him. He’s beyond the “Ebook salemans” title and everyone knows he’s a great internet marketer.
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Brad – just stomping around your site – thanks for the love
Nick
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You know how controversy sells! This guy’s got it figured out!
N
You know it’s interesting. The world of online marketing is fairly similar to outsourcing in the fact that there is consistently need for defending yourself. Just last week I heard someone calling the marketing crowd a quick getting rich marketing ploys. Hopefully with time people will get to understand it better