Any suggestions on my vendor pitch page?

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If any has any suggestions for improvements to my vendor pitch page, I would appreciate it. I'm fairly happy with it, but want some more expert opinions. Also, it was originally a harder sell, and I don't know whether to go with that, or with it's current version.

Specifically:

Am I missing anything that would help my affiliates convert sales?

Is this page attractive to you for promoting as an affiliate? If not, why?

Is the pitch too soft?

Thanks in advance for the help!


(Moderators: If this is the wrong part of the forum for a web site review, then I apologize. I wasn't able to find a specific section, and this seemed like the best possible option. I'll be happy to re-post it in the correct place if necessary.)
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    My overall feel is I am being sold on something that might influence my opinion or help me better understand the crisis, but I don't see any urgency in what I can do NOW to protect myself.

    There is an increasing sense there will be a double dip recession, and the markets could hit new lows. Bond prices are close to the days preceding the Lehman collapse, and a long flat market often proceeds a powerful collapse. Should markets hit new lows, could unemployment double? Do we need to at least take some steps to be prepared? Have you thought about what's in your pantry? How would your strategy differ if we had deflation vs. hyper inflation? The end of 2010 may be the time when you need to know about all of these things and be able to make decisions to protect your family, etc.

    I don't think "Junior in High School" provides a sense of expert status. I would rather know how you predicted this crisis (like Roubini) and how the second crisis will be much worse as states trim budgets and literally start releasing prisoners.
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    • Good advice. I'll restore the harder pitch, then ask you via PM to see if it has a better impact.
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      • Ack. don't have PM ability yet. Please look again, and see if this has a better impact.

        Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author Vogin
      Well, I'm about to begin the third grade on University of Economics, so I know a thing or two about this stuff.

      First, your example with Argentina doesn't fit well. While it's true, you can't simply compare Argentina and the USA (at least I assume it's for the US readers). Argentina never was nor it probably will ever be a world super power.¨

      I don't know, it all seems like you want to shock your visitors to buying and my BS detector just went off. I know a lot of things are about to turn bad, but that is just too much in my opinion.
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      • Originally Posted by Vogin View Post

        Well, I'm about to begin the third grade on University of Economics, so I know a thing or two about this stuff.

        First, your example with Argentina doesn't fit well. While it's true, you can't simply compare Argentina and the USA (at least I assume it's for the US readers). Argentina never was nor it probably will ever be a world super power.¨

        I don't know, it all seems like you want to shock your visitors to buying and my BS detector just went off. I know a lot of things are about to turn bad, but that is just too much in my opinion.
        Hi Vogin,

        I don't think that they teach much Hayek in most universities these days. He basically had an argument with Keynes that the real issue was that government stimulus was like a drug that required ever increasing amounts to keep the economy from crashing. It took close to a century, but I have a mountain of evidence that we're now at the breaking point, much of it in the form of analysis of BIS international monetary and derivatives data. Of course I don't present it in that way in my report, as I'm writing to help people out, not to get published in an economics journal.

        But you do make a valid point. I am coming up against a population that has been told that we are going to be okay, and that the government can help us. My analysis indicates that it can't, and that an ever increasing number of people are going to realize this soon. But I want to warn and prepare people prior to the tipping point.

        Oh and you are right, Argentina never had a reserve currency with a full five collapsible points of equilibrium. That's five uses where the value of our dollar could collapse if the rest of the world were to lose confidence due to our overspending or our economy weakening... In other words, it's not truly similar, in reality it actually has the potential to be much worse. It would be more accurate to compare our situation to a fast-forward collapse of Rome, but that's even less accessible to a general audience.

        So, do you have any suggestions on rephrasings?

        BTW: PM me with an email, and I'll send you something of interest that may go toward proving my intents and legitimacy.
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      • Originally Posted by Vogin View Post

        I don't know, it all seems like you want to shock your visitors to buying and my BS detector just went off. I know a lot of things are about to turn bad, but that is just too much in my opinion.
        I actually don't blame you. I was extremely shocked about our current situation when I finally got a clear view of it. It does seem like "too much", until you start to look at things like the fact that Goldman Sachs has a notational derivatives exposure equal to the eight largest economy in the world, with highly insufficient reserves to support any counterparty risk or unexpected price moves, and this type risk exposure is shot through every major bank, investment house, and hedge fund in the world.

        It's like the conditions preceding the sub-prime real estate crisis x10.

        But the really scary thing is that it's actually only a symptom caused by the real underlying issue.
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        • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
          Originally Posted by The Rogue Economist View Post

          I actually don't blame you. I was extremely shocked about our current situation when I finally got a clear view of it. It does seem like "too much", until you start to look at things like the fact that Goldman Sachs has a notational derivatives exposure equal to the eight largest economy in the world, with highly insufficient reserves to support any counterparty risk or unexpected price moves, and this type risk exposure is shot through every major bank, investment house, and hedge fund in the world.

          It's like the conditions preceding the sub-prime real estate crisis x10.

          But the really scary thing is that it's actually only a symptom caused by the real underlying issue.
          What is the real underlying issue?
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          • Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom View Post

            What is the real underlying issue?
            It takes about twenty pages of narrative to give people a true appreciation of the issue. However, I'll try to give you the quick cliff notes.

            Our currency is very unique in the current world. Most of the world's currencies are only in use in their own countries. Ours has five current uses:

            1) Use within our own country.

            2) Use (due to a changeable agreement with Saudi Arabia) as the currency that oil is bought and sold in.

            3) Use as a reserve currency. This is where a country intentionally holds dollars in their vaults to back their currency. This is similar to holding gold to back a currency, as dollars are seen as keeping their value.

            4) Dollarization. This is either the intentional or black market replacement of a country's currency with another, more stable currency in a time of cirsis. It is called dollarization because that is the replacement currency that is most commonly used.

            5) Many of the world's investments and assets are priced in dollars. This is mainly a function of the sale of American assets as a result of our consuming more than we produce. Those extra dollars have to go somewhere. Our stocks, bonds, businesses, real estate, and many other assets all have a heavy foreign ownership. In addition, dollars are transacted across countries as a secondary valid currency. The Euro is now doing this some, but nowhere near to the extent that ours does.

            Every one of these uses have a very large pool of dollars associated with them. If confidence were to be lost in any one of them, a dumping of dollars could occur suddenly.

            Lots of information left out here, but fast forward to today.

            1) The four international uses for the dollar have created an extra, external demand for the dollar. What this means is that the dollars that we have spent on products haven't always come back as purchases of our products. (trade deficit)

            2) Some of our trading partners, like China, have been able to intentionally devalue their currencies against ours to create a trading advantage. We can't do much about it either, due to the fact that the dollar is used in 80% of the world's transactions. If we devalue against one, we devalue against all.

            3) The external demand for dollars has allowed our government to overspend without the expected impact to our economy. (inflation) Instead, much of this has gone out into the world.

            4) 1999, Congress repeals the Galss-Steagall Act, a post-depression law which was intended to keep banks from getting into risky speculation, which was one of the factors that led to banking collapses during the depression. This law was repealed to allow for the merger of Citi and the Travelers Group.

            5) Without Glass-Steagall, our banks have been very busy speculating. The world's banks, investment houses, and hedge funds have made over $605 Trillion in interconnecting bets between each other (OTC derivatives) and the number continues to grow. Many of these agreements are so speculative that several countries have had to amend their gambling laws to allow for them. This is exactly the same kind of speculation that heralded the Great Depression, only we now have the entire world doing it with computers. (This is what's eating Europe right now, although their goernments don't want to admit it.)

            6) Because of the depressive effects of our money not coming back to us combined with other countries buying our capital with our own money, several things have happened. Our businesses have moved overseas, our citizens have had to take on debt to keep up their standard of living, and our government has had to repeatedly "stimulate" our economy with spending.

            7) Our government and economy is now showing cracks towards breaking. Our Fed has our interest pegged at a red-line ZIRP (Zero Rate Interest Policy), older ways to stimulate the economy have completely lost their effectiveness, and financial crises have become increasing as we are faced with a having to repeatedly shock the economy with stimulants, resulting in surges and crashes that are coming at ever decreasing intervals.

            8) Our government is now at the red-line for financing. There are now indications that the government is making zero interest rate loans through the Fed, which is not audited, to banks, which use them to then buy government bonds. In other words, the government is beginning to finance itself. This is a terminal stage indicator of a government that is financially collapsing.

            So, we're mortgaged to the hilt, and the world is flush with our dollars and assets. The recent trillions of dollars that our government has spent has only paused the current credit implosion in progress. This was the "recovery" part of the double-dip they keep talking about, and it was an illusion created by a desperate flurry of overspending. Meanwhile we have over $100 trillion dollars of foreign owned cash and assets just waiting for a run for the exits.

            I keep looking for a flaw, but everything points to a complete crash and reset of our currency.

            My actual report, when you include the crisis report, the free solution report, the glossary, and the references, weighs in at 112 pages, so I've obviously left out a great deal here. But I hope that this at least comes close to answering your question.
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  • Profile picture of the author mizesean
    Looks good to me on first blush, I wonder if you are building a list of prospects and marketing that page to them, or just cold marketing that page?
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    • Right now, I have an affiliate support page that I'm working on that will suggest strategies and resources for pre-selling prior to sending potentials to the pitch page. I just started learning the marketing side of the business, and am learning as fast as I can, but still have quite a few some holes.

      Can you point out some good threads for what you suggested?
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