Totally And Utterly Disgusted!
I want to tell you why I am totally and utterly disgusted with what I found this weekend…
Friday night I decided to start looking into all those offers that are being made with the $7 script. (If you haven’t seen this pheneominon, you can see it at www.New7DollarSecrets.com ) I bought about 16 different offers. It cost me a little over $100, but I was looking for ones that I thought you might be interested in.
Well not only would you have not been interested in them, but you would have hung me for telling you about them. That’s why I ALWAYS read and use a product before I send it out to you. Out of these 16 products only three of them where any good, and I’ll tell you about those three in just one moment.
I just can’t believe all the crap that is being put out online right now. It’s truly unbelievable, and quite frankly makes me sick. I work my butt of when it comes to creating products for my readers. Why? Because I have an incredible reputation for putting solid information out there. If I didn’t you wouldn’t be reading this right now.
People who create crappy products and try to pull a fast one on you to buy it are plain and simple “crappy people”. It’s terrible to do that to someone, and after this weekend and going through these products I am totally disgusted!
Please be aware of what you are buying! Buy from people you trust and people who not only try to get you to buy, but who also give you good content. Recently John Reese wrote an incredible report that I got to read this weekend (You can get it for fre.e at www.income.com/images/reports/rebirth.pdf) where he plainly states that people selling crappy products would all soon be a thing of the past. You have to give good quality content both free and paid if you want to survive.
It doesn’t matter if it’s only $7. Put everything you can into everything you create, and you’ll see that everything will work out for you… 
Okay, it wasn’t a total loss this weekend. I did find 3 reports that were really good. So good I bought the resell rights to them, so you can buy them from me for the same $7 but you don’t have to give your email address to someone else to get them.
They are….
1. Becoming A Super Affiliate With Bum Marketing - www.tomeymarketing.com/products2/bumaffiliates/
I’ve got to admit. I love this “Bum Marketing” stuff. There are some great tactics, and I have learned a tremendous amount about making quick and easy marketing from this stuff. This is a great ebook about how to use bum marketing to make money as an affiliate marketer.
2. Social Media Riches - www.tomeymarketing.com/products2/socialmediariches
This entire ebook is about things you can do online to get paid. No, these are the scam things that you see everywhere, these are legit sites, that pay you to blog, write reviews, upload videos, and a ton of other tasks. I tried one out this weekend that I’ll be telling you about next week, and I actually got paid $5 for writing an article, and have been offered $15 for a video I uploaded. Very cool read…
3. $5 A Day Jr. - tomeymarketing.com/recommends/5ADayJr
This one is based on the book $5 A Day which I loved. If you can’t afford the whole deal, get $5 A Day Jr.. It’s totally worth the $7. (Note: This one I couldn’t get resell rights for so you are buying it from someone else and not me. You will have to register to get your download link.)
Last but not least for those of you that missed it, I also reviewed two resell rights products last week…
1. Easy Blog Traffic - www.tomeymarketing.com/products2/easyblogtraffic
You can read the review for this product at: resalerightreviews.com/2007/04/26/easy-blog-traffic-review
2. Golden Keys to Instant Cash With Bum Marketing - www.tomeymarketing.com/products2/goldenbum
You can read the review for this product at: resalerightreviews.com/2007/04/26/golden-keys-to-instant-cash-with-bum-marketing-review
Okay that’s all for today. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be creating a lot of videos and tutorials for you. There’s a lot cooking, but I don’t want you to get lost in it all. Read and learn and take notes on what you learn. There are a few awesome systems I have come across, a few kickbutt products that are about to be released, and a few other things.
I’ve decided since the next few weeks are going to be a bit hectic, I had better put my creator hat on, and make sure you are understanding what is going on, and how to use what is coming out. So stay tuned…
Posted on May 7th, 2007 by Liz Tomey
Filed under: Main, Marketing Products Reviews, Liz's Resources
I would love to know the ones you thought were ‘crappy’. After all, better safe than sorry I say.
Thanks Liz!
Tammy
Hello Liz,
I thought your email about the $7.00 offers was interesting, but I have a somewhat different opinion about $7.00, and here’s why:
Yes, there is probably a lot of garbage in those $7.00, but is it really so much different than the really expensive garbage, other than the price?
You seem to be implying that only the cheap offers are garbage. That’s a common myth in internet marketing.
You know, I have bought cheap offers and expensive offers alike, and let me say that some of the $200 to $1,000.00 dollar internet marketing courses and resources are as much garbage as the $7.00 stuff.
I know a lot of people who just started this thing called internet marketing won’t believe a word I am saying here, but others who have been involved in internet marketing for any length of time will probably know exactly what I am talking aboiut.
The gurus always say “raise the price of your product to increase percieved value”. Funny thing about that though, is that perceived value is exactly that. Perceived, which means not real.
This in turn means that whenever you buy a pricey internet marketing product, there is a good chance it will be just as much garbage as the $7.00 offer.
At least with the $7.00 dollar offers, you can try something out without taking too much of a financial risk.
When you shop online, you have to shop just as you would offline, and remind yourself that more expensive doesn’t necessarily mean better.
I’m really amazed sometimes at how many people who take a whole lot of other factors other than price when they buy something in a brick and mortar store, will all of a sudden forget all about that, and assume that nothing online is good unless it is expensive.
Case in point. I have gotten more value out of your products, which are often less than $50.00, than I have gotten out of some of these other internet products that you have to take out a loan for, in order to pay for them.
And no, I am not trying to suck up. ;D
I really do get a lot more use and help out of a lot of your stuff than I do from a lot of other things that are being sold by owners who can’t stand to price anything that is theirs for less than three digits, no matter how useless it is.
The perceived value marketing tactic doesn’t fool a lot of people when they shop at the neighborhood mall, so I don’t know why it does when they buy something online. Go figure. ;D
Misato Katsuragi
There’s an even bigger problem with “crappy products”. It’s that a beginner looking for a place to start won’t know the difference.
These promulgators of this valueless information are good at copywriting and hype. They get someone, who is unable to judge good from bad at that point, all excited and willing to spend more time and money on doing something that won’t ever go anywhere.
I read your comment on this issue with great interest and it’s so common to hear in this IM that people are claiming that so and so product is crab.
Liz, can you share your reason for this?
Maybe as a guideline for us not to fall into this trap.
Hello Liz,
I completely agree with you on all your sentiments about the inundation of low quality products being sold on the INTERNET.
I have strong feelings on the subject. So much that it really extends beyond the scope of a blog comment.
So I will help in reducing text glut on the internet by stating that I can clearly see “diamonds on top of the sea of coal” You are one of those diamonds!
The net result is that all your communications rate a priority read when it hits my inbox on my email client.
To me that is the distillation of your effort. I will consider your advice, information, promotions, offers and sales before many of the other marketers out there.
It is a constant evolution. To be honest I am aware that I am in a way paying for certain people to learn their craft. This a very low level truth in the basement of life that not many people realize. So I pick carefully.
I am bold enough to say that the INTERNET marketing sphere will realize that people will begin to demand:
Quality Solutions to their problems.
There are successful people who make a great living of convincing people to chase the “successful person” in order to be successful. This will always work as there are quite a number of people willing to follow. I wish them continued good health and success to their followers.
I am crazy enough to think that I am successful by working WITH people who are successful. Whether its buying their products and services to integrate with my business or to collaborate in some product or service.
Your very actions, and products successfully convey to me that you are collaborating in my success.
I am not alone. You have a large following. Keep up the great work Liz Tomey!
Regards,
Dexter Babcock
www.GetDexter.com
Misato,
My point was crap products in general. I was just ranting because I had bought several $7 products that were crap. I talk about the other expensive crap out there too.
My point is people who produce products have a responsibility to create superior products and only put a price tag on those no matter what the price is.
I was speaking out on bad products, and I totally agree with everything you said.
Especially the part about my products. 
Just kidding, but I really do appreciate the comments. Thank you VERY much for being active not only as a customer, but here on the blog too. That’s better than any amount of money you could ever spend with me.
Liz
Dexter… Wow… Are you sure you weren’t paid by someone to make that post.
Just kidding. Thank you VERY much. As I just said to Misato. When you guys post stuff like this it’s better than any kind of money you could ever spend with me. It means the world to me and I truly appreciate it.
Keep reading and if there’s something I can cover in the newsletter here, please let me know.
Someone suggested that I do an RSS video tutorial a few weeks ago, and my programmer and I just got it done. Except now it’s a full blown site, but it’s free.
I actually do listen to all you guys…
Liz
Oh… and… You guys… Check out Dexter’s site. He’s got an AMAZING voice. Dexter, I’d love to feature your audio, and even a blog post of why you should use audio here and over at LizTomey.com if you’d like to do something?
Just go to www.LizLive.com Start a ticket and let them know the ticket needs to be sent to me because I said so.
My husband runs the help desk and sometimes he’s too good of a filter. 
Liz
Mustaffa and ga…. I’m going to write a post totally dedicated to this. I’ve put it on my “to do” list so look for it in the next newsletter.
Liz
Hi Liz
I agree. The amount of crap out there definitely destroys a lot of the potential for internet marketeers. I see a lot of skepticism because of the infamy of some twenty people having created a mutual network of “recommending-one-anothers’” products - thus confusing a lot of people about who truly stands 100% behind his or her products.
Thanks for sharing.
Absolute kudos to Misato Katsuragi, on May 7th, 2007 at 6:19!
I completely agree. In fact, I’ve sometimes actually received MORE benefit from some of these $7.00 products than I have A LOT of the $37.00, $67.00, $87.00 and on up!
I’d rather learn one pertinent, simple thing that could HELP me with what I’m interested in for $7.00 than a WHOLE LOT of airy FLUFF and NOTHING in many of these ‘higher-end’ products. And I’ve bought quit a few myself… Sheesh! What a sheer WASTE of my time, too. I could already have had my own product done by the time I finished some of these long-winded ‘pieces’. Those are TRUE crap.
Anyway…
Not EVERYONE is a rip-off. Maybe, just MAYBE, some of the producers of some of these type products are HONESTLY PROUD of their product and their accomplishments at marketing them. This should not shout ‘DISHONESTY’ or ‘CRAP’ merely on the face of subjective opinion.
I know it’s more than I’ve actually been able to do. I’ve been too busy reading $100.00 and $200.00 CRAP! ‘How To Do This’,… and ‘How To Do That’… when NONE of it tells me HOW to do ANYTHING, just WHAT to do. I already know WHAT to do! That goes for most of these videos I’ve ran across lately, too!
What’s up with that? If someone writes a book on HOW to do something, then, if I buy it, it had BETTER tell me HOW to do it! You can bet I’ll refund that puppy in a New York second when it doesn’t!
This page disappoints me and causes me anxiety. Makes a fella feel like he’ll just never have a genuine shot at it for fear of so much NEGATIVE criticism despite the noblest of intents and purposes. Sad.
Whatever! lol…
PS) To be fair, I HAVE purchased some really GREAT products, and some were what I’d call expensive, too. I merely felt compelled to comment so as to keep in check everyone’s subjective view of just what the definition of ‘crap’ is: PERCEIVED VALUE!
Hello Liz,
Reading your blog is very encouraging. And perhaps, I would say, quite courageous on your part.
I don’t know if some marketers would take exception to what you’ve just said. But for us consumers, and aspiring marketers, I’m sure we appreciate what you’ve voiced out.
Perhaps, it would also be helpful if you could give us a glimpse behind your conclusions as to how you classified products as great and crappy.
A list of criterias would probably help. It will help in help elevate this from the realm of personal preferences to objective, quality standards.
What do you think?
All hail the mighty Liz Tomey!
She is one of the few marketers who has the guts and the integrity to tell it like it is and walk the walk.
If the product has Liz’s name on it, I always know it’s going to be non-”crappy”. I have been active in internet marketing and other niche marketing areas for over 5 years and I can personally testify that people like Liz and Misato are right.
Here’s the typical product creation scenario:
1) Hire a programmer/ghostwriter at some website like elance, rent-a-coder, etc… (usually without checking their previous work for any quality)
2) After you receive the “product” don’t bother testing it thoroughly or even do any spell checking of screens/pages etc… If it looks good and you can hype it it’s ready to go! Who cares if it’s ready or if it even works.
3) Get some jv partners who also follow the above steps and deluge everyone with emails about your “fantastic, awesome” new product.
4) Sell the software/ebook with one of the bonuses being lifetime updates, but then NEVER update the product! In fact, the faster you can abandon all support for it the better!
5) Laugh all the way to the bank.
6) Lather, rinse, repeat ad nauseam.
Thanks Liz for NOT following the above “standard practices”. It’s what separates the truly professional from the wanna bees in any profession, especially internet marketing where the hype typically over-rules the reality.
I’m a computer programmer with 25+ years experience and I know the kind of rubbish being foisted on the unsuspecting newbie on a nearly daily basis.
Let’s all try to be more like Liz and “do the right thing”!
Thanks for letting me rant.
Jeff Penchoff
Thanks for an awesome article. I thought I was the only one who thinks this way, but you do it better, with style to boot.
My first business opportunity that I bought was Don Lapre’s classified ads riches (or something like that). It was pure crap, designed to get your name and address and then back-end you to death. I forget the cost but it was less than $50.
Later I bought a marketing product by a certain guru (let me refrain from revealing his name). This one costed me $140. While it was not crap, it was not good either.
To cut a long story short, I’ve bought all kinds of stuff at various costs, up to $600 (I don’t never go above that). What I’ve learnt is that the cost of a product is not always proportional to its value. Sometimes I have gotten better value from a free product than an expensive one
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I originally wrote Social Media Riches. Glad you liked it
Hey Alex!
Great job… It was a very good read and had a little something for everyone!
Liz