He’s taken over the bookstore and asked me to install a hidden camera to see if he’s doing it right.

Just so you know, Homer (AKA as Mr Roy) has somehow convinced Marge (who he calls Margaret at home) to join him for his first few days in charge. She’s not one to face the public though so she’s keeping a low profile.

I really can’t see it working out – she’s so short of patience normally but you never know with Homer – he must have something about him.

For many of you this may be the first time you’ve seen Homer in the flesh – don’t be alarmed!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Personally I thought he handled that first customer very well – but will it last?

Will Marge come out of hiding?

Will Homer make a success of the Wong Fook Hing Bookstore?

Keep tuned.

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As you know he has been in big trouble of late but with some skillful negotiating we managed to get refunds on all of the internet marketing courses he recently signed up for and his credit card company are no longer hounding him. He went away, cap in hand, and promised not to spend anymore on courses and “make money” products.

And today he was excitedly telling me he’d given up internet marketing for good.

He went on to tell me he had bought a bookstore of all things from a certain Mr Wong who for some reason wasn’t doing too well. My eyebrows raised – “why oh why Homer can’t you just do something straightforward” I thought.

“It was a bargain” he told me, ” it is in the centre of town and has loads of passing trade and a website – but the last owner tells me the biggest potential is the telephone / postal service. Apparently he gets hundreds of calls a day but for some reason people keep putting the phone down as soon as he announces the name of the shop.”

“I can’t think why Mr Wong isn’t making any money from it. I know I can – I’ll even have a section where I’ll sell off all my internet ebooks. I’ll print them out and make a fortune – I have enough stock to last several years without buying anything else.”

OK, Homer I said – take me to take a look at the store.

My heart sank. Does that guy never think?

So who cares about product names!

Sometime I despair – I know Homer will be back on the internet marketing trail after he’s answered the phone a few times!

As usual Homer failed to do his research

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Hot on the heels of my expose earlier Sylvie admitted as much in her comment left here.

She kindly gave me advance warning of the revelations made by “John” on national TV.

John (aka Homer) is seen here in his first TV interview:

Some deep, dark secrets are revealed by Homer here and I strongly recommend you don’t caught up in such a tangled web. My guess is the perpertrator of this horrendous “opportunity” was no less than the guy who wrote to me in March 2008

Here’s why Success Is Only Possible if You Take One Bite At A Time

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Well, I think it’s funny!

And I don’t mean funny – ha! ha! – I mean funny – strange!

Ever since I revealed the , er, “relationship” between Homer & Sylvie Fortin I’ve seen less and less of him. In fact he’s been so quiet of late I thought he’d left the internet scene altogether.

And today you’re about to discover the reason why…

Homer has started a new career. Now I don’t know whether Michel Fortin meant to let the cat out of the bag but his blog post today did just that!

Clearly Sylvie decided to rekindle something with Homer and offered him a part in her epic film that has just been released. You can watch the full length feature below.

Homer of course would jump at the chance to become a celebrity and of course would be taken in by the business opportunity presented as the plot of this outstanding movie.

Sylvie, if you are planning a sequel be warned that Homer will undoubtedly be immersed in a new direction – he has clearly seen that making money by using a ghost writer is the way to go!

Now it’s obvious she couldn’t use his real name and how she persuaded Marge to co-operate I haven’t yet found out but anyone who knows Homer will immediately recognise him in this video.

Click here for more information and a demo video!

I’m only prepared to let this slip without asking Sylvie for my share of the Royalties for Homer’s appearance because I like her Success Chef program so much.

But if I find out Homer has been nominated for an Oscar there’ll be trouble!

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Following my earlier revelation Sylvie interrupted her writing to admit to her brief, albeit unsatisfying affair with Homer.

Read her revelation here:

Sylvie’s admission

On a serious note, thank you Sylvie for being such a good sport and joining in the fun.

You may wish to follow Sylvie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sylviefortin

The AntiHype

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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 with me for introducing Homer to Sylvie. He’s been around here again looking for evidence! You can still see him below as I write.

Sylvie, however, appears to be the only happy one out of them all. She’s not retracted here positive comment about Guru Fodder “a Must Read” from her blog – so that’s my assumption anyway.

And here I am caught up in the middle of this messy threesome – Homer in his pajamas, Randy Baustert – the introducer – & Sylvie Fortin whose only “crime” is to write an excellent report slamming some of the underhand marketing tactics used online.

So let me put the record straight.

Randy told me about Sylvie’s report – The Internet Marketing Sins. I took a look and liked what I read. So Randy, thanks for the introduction. Randy is already known to Michel & Sylvie Fortin – if you don’t know him you should. He runs an excellent site called Marketing Beginners – and you can read more about him at his blog. Although he lives in the Virgin Islands his time spent living in the UK sounds very interesting – see Being Randy In The UK

Loads of innuendo’s in that lot!

I thought the report would be great to quench Homer’s thirst for internet marketing products. In fact, secretly I believe Sylvie was actually writing about Homer in part of the report. (If so that suggests she knew him long before Randy told me about the Internet Marketing Sins report – the plot thickens!)

Now, in all of this mess – Homer has gone quiet again. For obvious reasons I can’t ask Marge what has happened for fear of adding another dimension to this farce.

My conclusion is I should leave them all to sort themselves out. Perhaps in future I should simply say -

Read Internet Marketing Sins by Sylvie Fortin – it’s outstanding.

But if I did, I wouldn’t be The Anti Hype would I?

The AntiHype

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I first heard of him last night, so it’s real coincidence I’m going to his manor today.

Ziggy is a Polish immigrant who sweeps roads for a living.

So what’s that got to do with the internet?

Quite simply, Ziggy is now an internet celebrity as a result of his very own style of sweeping. He takes his ipod with him and dances as he sweeps. Without the internet the videos of him dancing would not be seen and he would not have become the tourist attraction he is today.

Clearly, Homer has a thing or two to learn from this guy – how to get internet exposure.

I can just see him doing a twirl or two in his Guru Pajamas. Anything for some exposure. I just hope he remembers to button up properly!

Which reminds me I must check with Marge to see if he is out of his hypnotised trance yet.

On a serious note, this is exactly the type of outrageous publicity that Joe Vitale talks about (see Hypnotic) and although Ziggy doesn’t appear to have an agenda, marketing seems to be about daring to be a little different!

The AntiHype

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“Hi, I’m (name removed so as not to add to unemployment figures) and I’m your HelpDesk agent” (Sounds like the opening gambit at an AA meeting – not that I’ve been to one)

“What can I do for you today?”

Yes, I’m sure you’ve been there too. The trouble is it all too often goes rapidly downhill from this point.

“I’m trying to move my site from the existing hosting service to my hosting account with you and I need a little help in understanding the process.”

“Do you have Mysql”

Here we go – a techie trying to live in the real world. I thought of saying “no, it’s just a cold” but thought it would only confuse matters.

“Does it matter? I’ve fully backed up the whole site and have it on my hard drive”

“OK just ftp it to your account”

“But what then? The FAQs say only part of site can be restored from back up”

“Just a minute” - sound of thumbing through HelpDesk reference manual volume 4

“You’ll need to send a request to the help desk to restore for you”

“Aren’t you the Help Desk?”

“Yes”

“Then why am I sending you a request when you know what I need”

“It’s the way the system works”

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please rate the quality of your HelpDesk assistant.

I’d rather not on the basis I’d hate to be accused of accelerating his departure!

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“Hi, I’m (different name but again removed so as not to add to unemployment figures) and I’m your HelpDesk agent”

“I received an email telling me my files had been restored but their not in my cPanel under File Management”

“Let me look into it for you – I’ll be pleased to help”

Sounds promising!

“No, they’ve not been restored”

“Why have I received an email telling me they have?”

“We sent another message after that saying that the username has already been used on that server”

“I don’t understand what that means but where have you restored the files”

“We haven’t – we need you to give us a new user name”

“But why tell me you’ve restored the files if you haven’t?”

“We haven’t restored the files because we need a new username”

I just lost the will to live! What is he talking about?

“OK, I have no idea why you can’t use the username I created when I opened the account but now try XXXXX”

“I’ve added it to the ticket”

“So what happens next”

“I really don’t know what they’re going to do about this”

“Is this the Help Desk?”

“Yes”

“Perhaps you could H-E-L-P”

“The best thing to do is wait for them to respond to your ticket – it won’t be long”

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How do you think I look with a beard? I could have grown one by now as I wait with baited breath for the HelpDesk guru (had to slip that in) to let me know how they’ve HELPED! Still it won’t be long.

I’ll post again as soon as I have a reply.

The Anti Hype

P.S. This is really happening as I post – in relation to another blog I’m trying to move. I do have some understanding of what needs to be done but for someone like Homer, who as you know is technically challenged, this would be even more of a nightmare!

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Having read it is best to use both the complete name with and without hyphens Homer went ahead and bought both.

Personally, I think he could have come up with something a little more “catchy”

I found these posts while looking into Homer’s new idea and thought you might like to read them too. Don’t think Homer has anything to fear, even from the “World’s Worst Domain Name?” This Thursday: NamePros Live Domain Name Auction - NamePros, a long established domain industry community has been holding live domain name auctions via their chat rooms for a long time now. RJ, the founder of NamePros was kind enough to allow DotSauce to plug their popular domainer … World’s Worst Domain Name? - Create a domain name which, upon verbally communicating to someone over the phone, would cause either the recipient or speaker to commit hara kiri, or to step in front of a moving bus. So here’s what I came up with (the name was so long … Domain Names – How To Pick One - A re-hab for obsessive Domain Name acquirers? Anyway. Whilst trying to find a name for my new killer website I came up with quite a few, that whilst quirky and describing the new site quite well, were too bloody long. …

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Could this be Homer & Marge out for a Sunday afternoon drive?

Let me know what you think.

The Anti Hype

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