This site provides valuable information that I consult nearly daily. On occasion, I find an ad that interests me, so I follow the link. Darren has never asked me, or any other visitor, to pay for the information he provides. An informercial tells you NOTHING other than what you COULD earn. I don’t see cheesy ads here of people claiming to have made X dollars in Y months, and then not providing any information. Darren always provides details.

And there’s certainly nothing wrong with his putting together a course explaining some of the more esoteric points.

Problogger has been invaluable to me as I have started up my new website because Darren has pulled a ton of good information into one place for me. I will shamelessly provide excellent content to my readers and will eventually serve to promote my services and affiliate realationships in the real estate world. By the way, I also shamelessly stole the name from Darren and some of the ideas of the site as well. Maybe a better debate is on the ethics of using other people’s ideas in developing your own products. I stand on the shoulders of giants.

If someone thinks that this site is like informercial, then why to complain. You have every right to say what you feel like. But if its not for you then, you can hunt your different path.

Success don’t come easy.!!!

Alrighty then…Later,

http://www.internetsalsa.com

Either way, take what he says with a beachload of salt :)

eric’s decision is kinda true – why are there so many spam sites around: because of google. yeah, i think larry page is kinda aaway from his goodness. He’s trying to make money so we do.

Internet is a new market just like diet pills etc business.

So is there something wrong?

I’m a consultant in my day job. What consultants do best is compress experience and jumpstart situations where the purchaser does not have the resources (time, people) but does have the money and the desire to have a problem solved or an opportunity explored.

Darren, I see you as a true consultant with two purchase models for people with different mixes of resources and requirements. You’re up front about the fact that you’re trying to make money: what else would “professional blogger” mean?? Is anybody here so naive that they don’t understand that you’re trying to build a brand?

By the time it gets to be a year old, I want my blog (eventually blogs) to be a consultancy too, but just on more mundane and probably less profitable topics in which I actually have an interest.

Of course, just like the TV informercials, our results may (and definitely will) vary. My site is a less than a month old. My goal is to earn $1 in revenue in January! If I’m so stupid as to think that what you’re describing is a magic bullet, then I may as well go buy the infomerical programs instead.

Yeah right Paul. Your credibility decreases by the minute.

Grow up Paul. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I would note that I wrote a similar post noting that much of the information provided by asking “Lesko” is available for free from the government. Lesko is the guy in the clown suit that tells you he can show you how to get money to pay your mortgage, go back to school and work on your invention. I noted that the information was available free, but I also noted that:

“Of course, if you’re overwhelmed by the amount of information from online sources you may want to buy a print book or even pay someone knowledgeable to walk you through the process of getting a contract or grant. Just realize that the information is available for free at FedBizOpps.gov if you want to do your own research.” (http://opportunity.tom-hanna.com/?p=29)

The same applies to the argument that the information provided here is all available elsewhere. OI course there is good information out there to be found. There’s also a lot of garbage. And this blog and a few others are pretty good at filtering out the garbage.

-Eric from Subnixus

Thanks a lot Darren for all your work on this site and for sorting through a lot of the information on the web for us.

Bill

Personally if I were you I’d take the necessary action to block Paul from your site.

He’s obviously little more than a stalker and a couple of lines in your htaccess file will shut him out forever.

He brings nothing positive to the discussion on your blog and you don’t to be continually harrassed by him.

You seem to be flogging a dead horse – there is nothing that Darren has done that is any different to what any other affiliate marketer has done.

You on the other hand obviously have little knowledge of affiliate marketing and I suggest you spend some time reading some of the better affiliate marketing boards out there in the real world.

No one out there asks for full disclosure and I didn’t realise just how much of a twit you really were till you mentioned that term.

In affiliate marketing it’s up to the individual to assess a person’s recommendation and act according to that assessment – and after being involved in affiliate marketing for many years I’ve never seen anyone expect what you seem to think is your right to have.

I find great content on this site, maybe it is all available at other places on the web, but to me much of the material is unique.

And why would I go anywhere else to try to find it when Darren does such a great job of presenting it here? He also has the knowledge to filter out what works and what does not which can be hard to do if you are not experienced in the area.

I will probably never take the course since so much great information is available for free here. But if he ever holds a speech here in Sweden I would surely go if it was not too expensive.Sometimes I will click the ads, and I have no problem with Darren making a few bucks from that.

I think it is good if he can support himself from blogging because then he has more time and motivation to publish more of the same kind of quality content that I have become accustomed to.