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Forum: Copywriting 9th August 2024, 05:26 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,037
Posted By elmo033057
Re: This Company's About To Sack Copywriters For AI

I wrote about this on the WF a long time ago and everyone told me I was full of Ka Ka (to put it lightly) and that I was a paranoid delusionist.

(If you search around you can probably find that...
Forum: Artificial Intelligence 18th October 2021, 07:21 AM
Replies: 55
Views: 2,267
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Would you use AI for copywriting?

I just lost a long-term well paying client to Jarvis AI.

I wrote several extensive posts on this subject years ago, and it became a rather long thread. A lot of people were telling me I had...
Forum: Copywriting 28th October 2019, 06:33 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 801
Posted By elmo033057
Copywriters that Advocate Cold Calling

Dan Lok: Dan has all sorts of videos where he talks about how he got started as a copywriter using cold calls. Watch one here: Lok on Cold Calling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnOogaIV30)

In...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th August 2017, 05:58 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 676
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Is the customer always right?

Steve,

The customer is NOT always right.

I bend over backwards for my clients and customers, but there are those times where they are totally wrong.

Let me give you an example:

I had a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2017, 06:14 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 2,191
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Can you still make money from ebooks in 2017?

Sure, you can make a lot of money with eBooks.

I know that the copywriter Bob Bly has written and co-written hundreds.

However, Bob is a workaholic. He has made audio courses, video courses,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th June 2017, 08:55 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 763
Posted By elmo033057
Re: can i start my freelance career in Internet Marketing without the need to build a website ?

I can't believe that anyone serious about starting an online business would ask a question like that.

Pardon if I sound blunt, but Internet Marketing is just like any other business or skill; it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2017, 09:23 PM
Replies: 80
Views: 4,401
Posted By elmo033057
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2017, 08:28 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 465
Posted By elmo033057
re: Help with starting over

Dude,

Internet Marketing is a one million pound beast. It is just like any other gig, you have to at least work it 4 to 8 hours a day.

If you have no skills at this game, I would suggest you...
Forum: Website Design 15th June 2017, 09:02 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 206
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Photoshop VS Paintshop Pro

Morris,

Thanks for commenting on my post.

Photoshop is awesome, but it is very expensive. I taught technology at a Christian school for the last 5 years. Most private schools can't afford...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th June 2017, 08:54 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 342
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Basic Blog tips?

Great question, Amut!

First of all, if you are going to do blogging for any business purpose, try to have a long-term goal in mind.

Blogging can be a lonely and discouraging endeavor. ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th June 2017, 06:49 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 207
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Good places to advertise in

Craig,

Here's a list of some of the places I've used:

Google My Business
Bing Places for Business
Yahoo Local Listing
Yelp
Merchant Circle
Yellow Pages (YP)
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th June 2017, 09:30 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 691
Posted By elmo033057
Re: My new website does not get any traffic from google

Anyone making fast progress in Internet marketing needs to be looked at more closely.

Neil Patel is an Internet Marketing genius but it took him years before he actually made a wad. Actually,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th June 2017, 08:21 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 269
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Advice please couple issues!

Hey Matt,

I think it's great that you're giving it your best shot and starting an online business. It's not easy to do, but that's why the rewards are so much sweeter.

To answer your question...
Forum: Copywriting 29th January 2017, 12:22 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 5,363
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Is the Age of Copywriters Over?

Ray Kurzweil, big-time inventor and director of engineering at Google says human intelligence in computers is a mere 15 years away. By 2029 they will be able to easily write and read at human...
Forum: Copywriting 26th January 2017, 10:24 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 5,363
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Is the Age of Copywriters Over?

Here are a few other articles of interest.

The Watson computer that beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy was tasked to write a movie trailer. Here are the results: Watson Writes Movie Trailer...
Forum: Copywriting 26th January 2017, 09:01 AM
Replies: 102
Views: 5,363
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Is the Age of Copywriters Over?

Unfortunately, the same thing was said about mathematicians that worked for NASA.

Everyone can become obsolete in this new world. Sooner or later, the software will become cheaper, and everyone...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th January 2017, 08:39 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,194
Posted By elmo033057
Re: what's the hardest thing about affiliate marketing

Mike,

In my humble opinion, there are two main aspects of Internet based business that are difficult.

1. Traffic
2. List Building

Without traffic, you won't build a list very fast. Without...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th January 2017, 07:52 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 858
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Where to start with affiliate marketing for a complete newbie

Maybe you can learn something from my story.

I invested $30.00 on an eBook which was titled, "How to write and Sell and eBook in 30 Days". I bought the book and without thinking too much about...
Forum: Copywriting 4th January 2017, 12:22 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 5,363
Posted By elmo033057
Is the Age of Copywriters Over?

Looks like Goldman Sachs is investing $30 Million into software that's already churning out copy that's better than human copywriters can.

Weve run 4,000 campaigns and our average uplift on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th December 2016, 06:09 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 783
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Is There a Clear Path to Success?

Apparently, you aren't married or planning to get married.

(Don't mention that I said this to my wife...Please!)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th December 2016, 03:02 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 783
Posted By elmo033057
Is There a Clear Path to Success?

Everyone wants to be the next Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg or Walt Disney. However what are you willing to do to get there? If you believe that the successful just happen to fall into these lofty...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th December 2016, 09:52 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 307
Posted By elmo033057
Re: What you think of my blog and traffic question

Chesatochi,

You're doing a great job of getting your site put together, you've selected a niche market and have your email collection in place. Here are a couple of ideas that should help you.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd December 2016, 06:32 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,886
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Best Way to Drive Traffic? (besides Google and Facebook)

You have to do several things to get traffic to your site; one magic bullet will not solve your problem. Here’s one way you can get people to come to your site or blog:

Commenting On Other...
Forum: Social Media 22nd December 2016, 08:35 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 356
Posted By elmo033057
Re: How Many Social Media Platforms Do You Recommend To Use?

I personally use 4:

Google+ - I post all sorts of blog posts and articles on the communities
LinkedIn - I use it a lot and re-purpose posts and articles on the blog section
Facebook - I post...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 22nd December 2016, 08:05 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 274
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Are You Ready For Real Change this New Year?

Discrat,



I totally agree. I just ordered a book from Amazon called "Why People Fail" and it listed a whole group of factors on why some people don't "make it" in the world of success.
...
Forum: Email Marketing 22nd December 2016, 03:45 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 585
Posted By elmo033057
Re: The Real Money is in the List

To: jbsmith, EPoltrack77,and Randy McLean,

Gentlemen,

Thanks so much for the kind words and for commenting. Sometimes writing is a rather lonely business. I really do appreciate your...
Forum: Email Marketing 22nd December 2016, 06:25 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 585
Posted By elmo033057
The Real Money is in the List

In case you havent heard, building a tight, targeted list is the way to go if you want to make enough money to create a living income and beyond.

Next to traffic building this step should be your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st December 2016, 06:26 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 268
Posted By elmo033057
How to Actually Get Started With Fiverr

Quite a few new and budding entrepreneurs are interested in making money using Fiverr. If you are brand new to the world of online business, you may want to give it a whirl. You probably wont make...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th March 2016, 08:08 PM
Replies: 249
Views: 7,090
Posted By elmo033057
Re: My website hasn't made a single sale! Help needed!

Man, you did a ton of work on this. I love the fact that you really hung yourself out there and took a risk.

Awesome!

I think your site looks great, but as many have pointed out already, it...
Forum: Social Media 15th March 2016, 08:11 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 859
Posted By elmo033057
Re: I'd love your opinions on my new social media marketing startup

To be totally honest with you, in the context of what your business is, I'm not really sure what a shout out is.

And that's the point.

A very large number of people use the Internet...
Forum: Social Media 14th March 2016, 08:57 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 859
Posted By elmo033057
Re: I'd love your opinions on my new social media marketing startup

There's not enough pull or influence in your copy to get someone to try this.

Personally, I shy away from glitzy looking sites like this that don't really show or tell me what I'm getting involved...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th March 2016, 10:18 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 852
Posted By elmo033057
Re: How can I write an ideal article?

Basma,

Since I am an advertising copywriter, I like to take great pieces of advertising copy and rip them apart in an attempt to find out what makes them tick.

I do the same with great blog...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2016, 05:02 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 6,165
Posted By elmo033057
Re: I Wrote a Book and It Is Killing Me

My advice to you is to do whatever it takes to keeps the lights on and the baby fed. Once you have money coming in you can regroup and try it again.

Seth Godin's first book didn't sell well at...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st January 2016, 06:51 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 3,166
Posted By elmo033057
Re: How to get Qualified Traffic to your Website?

I would use forums that are related to your niche. If you are in the real estate business then join communities and forums that are in that arena.

I think the days of half-ass content is over. ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st January 2016, 06:24 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 995
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Link building is outdated. Don't bother

I disagree. You can still be proactive in your approach, it's just that most people suck at building a decent site or writing anything of value that some one would want to link to.

People will...
Forum: Copywriting 4th November 2015, 10:14 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,180
Posted By elmo033057
Re: To All The Discouraged People...

How are the booklets distributed? Are batches of them given back to the businesses to hand out or are they delivered door to door? Are there any kind of contracts or agreements with the people that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th July 2015, 06:12 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 62,466
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Make money from porn. Has anyone ever done it?

Is this just one of those posts that's
here to gain some sort of weird attention?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th July 2015, 06:33 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 942
Posted By elmo033057
Re: A Simple, Humble Newbie From Hawaii...

Since you appear to really want to learn this stuff, I’ll help you as best as I can. Here's a path you can take. It's not one you have to take, but basically, most IM involves these steps.

Step...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th July 2015, 05:04 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,503
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Praying for IM success

If you think any type of marketing is easy, then you need to watch this video by Seth Godin.

Seth Godin on Failing Until You Succeed - YouTube

Remember, he's failed many more times than he's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th July 2015, 04:48 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,289
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Need a landing page / opt in critique

Good job! My eyes were immediately drawn to your orange button.( That's the color that unbounce recommends from doing studies.)

Instead of such a large picture of the book, you could reduce it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th July 2015, 02:06 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 764
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Need to Make Fast Money..

Nevin,

Once again, Mr. Steve is the voice of reason crying out in a land of unrealistic opportunity.

He is 100% correct!

If you really have that many followers they are totally worthless if...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th July 2015, 10:58 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 917
Posted By elmo033057
Re: How many hours a day did you spent at first?

Man, Terrance is absolutely right. He's the kind of guy that'll really make it big someday, so you should follow his posts. Excellent!

Yeah, time is irrelevant. You need to do what it takes,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th July 2015, 05:03 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 942
Posted By elmo033057
Re: A Simple, Humble Newbie From Hawaii...

Sharkdude,

Helping you out without actually seeing your site and without looking at the way you're trying to convert is hard for us to do, If you are trying to get people to take an action that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th July 2015, 10:50 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 1,151
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Newbie from NY

Miss QT,

I think the first thing you should do is to brainstorm what niche you're going to be in. If you are going to be working in a subject a lot you might as well do some soul searching and...
Forum: Copywriting 20th April 2015, 03:58 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 10,760
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Gary Bencivenga --- I'm not impressed!

Amen my friend...Amen!

God Bless,

Elmo
Forum: Copywriting 18th April 2015, 05:06 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 10,760
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Gary Bencivenga --- I'm not impressed!

For some reason, this conversation reminds me of this...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ki5swWRIYKY/VTLilMrnr5I/AAAAAAAAEeY/CMZjQQfVGN8/w771-h398-no/CarlSpeckler.jpg
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th April 2015, 08:35 PM
Replies: 217
Views: 28,179
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Making My First Million Online- My Story

kk075,'

Man, that was awesome! Thanks so much for posting it. I'm going to copy it and read it a couple of times in my "inspirational" file. Once again, thanks so much for the incredible post!...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th April 2015, 08:31 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

Kursat,

Great video, man. Thanks so much for posting it on here, my friend.

God Bless!

ELMO:cool:
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th April 2015, 08:29 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

Antonio,

Come to think of it, you're right. I have noticed a few folks that act like they're really annoyed when people post a question on here. Some of it comes from the fact that they've seen...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th April 2015, 08:24 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

Ceeczar,

Amen! there are some people on here that do nothing but waste YOUR time.It's almost as if you feed them hordes of ideas, they'll somehow get the work done.


Thanks for the comment! ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th April 2015, 07:01 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

KK075,

Man that's INCREDIBLE! WOW! I mean, that story is just amazing. Yeah, you never really know how you''re impacting other people's lives when you do something like that!

I had a really...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th April 2015, 09:29 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

Dear friends.

Thanks so much to all of you for responding to my OP. I really did read all of them and I do appreciate you.

I see many people on here that go way out of their way to help others...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th April 2015, 11:08 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

Originally Posted by Cali16 View Post

I think it would be very interesting to remove signatures and "thanks" for a week or so and see who continues to provide helpful responses...

Discrat,
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th April 2015, 09:42 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

KK075,

Thanks so much for the great response and the link if you can find it! Don't go to too much trouble looking for it, things like that can get buried over time. You should see my desktop!!! ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th April 2015, 08:31 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Re: Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

Jason,

Man, I feel your pain on this one. I have never seen more nitpicking in my life than on forums! Some people act as if they slam you in some way, other's will somehow see THEM as the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th April 2015, 06:53 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,045
Posted By elmo033057
Your Attitude SUCKS That's Why You're In Neutral

The way to tell successful and serious entrepreneur or Internet marketer is by the way they conduct themselves on a forum.

There seems to be an awful lot of “tire kickers” that go on the WF and...
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