Hi James

Thanks for the opportunity to pose a question again.

For anyone who has stumbled on this blog post I’m referring to the occasional opportunity that the individualistic Internet Marketer, James D Braush, presents via his own eponymous ‘blog (to whit: http://www.jamesbrausch.com/?p=827 )

I’m a previously confessed fan of some of James’ products and if you scroll back you’ll spot some previous relevant posts already on this relatively recently established blog. The reason for this is that I like the simplicity of James’ approach to pursuing commercial success on the ‘Net and I guess it also has something to do with that instinctive ‘gut-feel’ that the the Brauschian method seems to sound more convincing than the plethora of ‘latest/greatest/web tool’ offers that tumble daily from the realms of most of the ’self-professed guru-guild’ (who shall naturally remain nameless!)…

So to the inspiration for my ‘question’…

In a recent trawl through some of the nether regions of the ‘Net I came across a slightly amusing old thread (summer 2006) on a forum that related to several apparent forum regulars getting rather ‘hot under the collar’ having ‘uncovered’ a number of James Brausch Interns posting what amounted to ’spam’ posts about how ‘great’ they thought JDB’s products were. These posts and the the related links that had been ‘divulged’ to James’ Intern site were all removed way back then…BUT this got me thinking…

QUESTION:

James, given the general thrust of your Internet Business development methodology – based around “Traffic + Copywriting + Product = Successful Internet Business” – where your ‘traffic getting‘ activity seems to focus on article submission (using your unique article submitter, ArtemisPro in particular of course) and sales are maximized through the optimizing of copywriting (involves your brilliant tool Glyphius, naturally) and products are developed (using the techniques taught in courses like: Info Product Creation)…

Would you also advocate the use of complementary methods that could be seen as ‘gray’ if not exactly ‘black’ activities, including things like forum spamming, to stimulate traffic (for as long as you can get away with it)…or was this (example cited) just a bit of testing of this approach using your ‘pen named’ acolytes (undertaken as a typical Intern task, in the normal process of your automated business)?

And if I am allowed supplementaries: I noted that one commenter on the aforementioned threads, suggested that you fairly firmly advised against using Adsense/ppc whilst regularly exploiting this approach profitably yourself (the theory being that advising ‘followers’ against ppc reduced your competition, hence ppc costs)…was this a fair observation? And do you actually think using Adsense or other ppc is a GOOD thing to do in the process of building traffic? (If the answer is yes, are you ever likely to have a tutorial product for this traffic getting method?)

Thanks. in advance, James (assuming I get the trackback picked up) — And sorry we never made it to CR, a bit of a greater challenge from UK than from US I think — plus we’ve had too much hassle trying to complete our move to Spain! (I’ll let you know when we get settled there you & the family would be welcome any time ;-D)

Al

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