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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009“Internet Marketing made me bankrupt” I could barely hear his voice. It was shaking and I could only just make it out to be Homer’s voice. I’d not heard from him for ages and he was in fact the last person I expected to hear from – especially after his re-union with Sylvie Fortin. I [...]
Mass Control Control
Monday, February 16th, 2009If you haven’t received an email about Mass Control over the past few days I’d love to hear from you about your email filter! I was going to bring Homer out of hiding for this post but as he’s sulking and I’ve been so busy elsewhere of late I decided I just had to get [...]
Office of Fair Trading To Snag Bad Gurus
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008In the “real world” I needed to keep up to date with some new(ish) UK legislation re dealing with customers and read a document produced by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading. Man, I know how to party!! This came hot on the heels of my post – internet-marketer-responsible-for-prison-sentences Rapidly skimming through the report I [...]
Internet Marketer Prison Sentences
Monday, October 13th, 2008The headline read “Internet Marketer Responsible For Prison Sentences” In an unprecedented move the courts today sentenced thousands of unsuspecting “would be” internet marketers to anything from a £1,000 (say $2,000) fine to 5 years in jail for deception. Despite their pleas of “we had no idea what we were doing was wrong” the judge, [...]
Randy The Hermit, Homer & Sylvie Fortin in Threesome
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Randy, The Hermit, has entered the fray! This is what happens when you take a holiday. I’ve been away for just over two weeks and I return to an unprecedented upset. Randy (The Hermit) is upset with me for not giving him credit for introducing Homer to Sylvie Fortin. Michel (Sylvie’s husband) is clearly upset [...]
Homer Gets Into Bed With Sylvie Fortin
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Image via Wikipedia Michel Fortin will be livid – or so you’d think. His wife, Sylvie Fortin in bed with the Guru Fodder Homer! Actually, he’s delighted. Sylvie has just released a report Internet Marketing Sins in which she slates all of the tricks, scams and sales hype that poor old Homer has fallen for. [...]
How To Ensure Your List Constantly Increases
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Image via Wikipedia Homer actually called me today. He is starting to trouble me. At some deep level some of the things I’ve been saying seem to be getting through. Maybe he is not destined to stay guru fodder for ever! He told me he was confused. Which one of the 10 links to join [...]
Homer Gets Sick In The Free Deal That Wasn’t
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Image via Wikipedia Homer Wants An Ice-Cream Sitting at his PC, adorned as always in his perfectly ironed pseudo satin pajamas, Homer heard the distant chimes of the Ice Cream Man’s Van. Could he afford the time away from the world he inhabited? The cut and thrust of the Make Money Online the Bad Guru [...]
The Forced Continuity Credit Card Dance
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Image via Wikipedia Homer has been very quiet for the past week or two. I thought maybe he’d found “the light” and settled down to get on with building his business. I should have known better! Marge called and told me the sad story… “Marge, this is the one! And it is only $1. We [...]
Scarlet Pimpernel Marketing – How To Avoid All Of The Longer Term Problems Of An Online Business
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Let me introduce you to Phil McLikbanck. Phil was brought to my attention by our long suffering friend Homer. Once again Homer thinks he has found the pot of gold and the “no work” easy answer but I fear the worst. YOU WILL ALREADY KNOW PHIL, or someone very much like him. We know them [...]
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