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Three Wise Men – Part 1

I really did catch a lot of grief from my blog post the other day at:

http://www.shmoozewithben.com/dreams/stop-chasing-the-dream

but I can handle that.

What did cause my blood to boil though was the negativity that I felt in the comments.

There was an overwhelming feeling that people have been screwed time and time again both emotionally and financially. That really upset me. You see, I don’t think that the people who made those comments are naive. What I think the problem is, is that everyone needs a direction to follow and it is difficult to know who to follow.

I have been in this business for quite a few years now, so have been able to sort out the chaff from the barley.

We are all in the business to make money, and I don’t see anything wrong with that, but what I also like to see are people with truth, honesty and integrity.

I thought that what I would do in this post is tell you about a few people in IM that I admire and why. There are many more, but let’s save those for another day.

(In no particular order) Continue reading Three Wise Men – Part 1

Affiliate Links And Cookies – part 1

If you have read one of my emails, then you will know that almost all of the time when I make a product recommendation instead of putting the full link, I put something like:

http://www.clarifywithben.com/recommends/someword

This is called link redirecting, and I do it for several reasons:

1. People hate to click on long senseless links, so this makes it much more friendly.

2. If you are partaking in a large launch then some spam blockers don’t like it if you put the same domain name as hundreds of other people are also using.

3. I am able to easily track how many people have clicked through my link.

4. It is easy to frame pages meaning that affiliate details are not easily shown and a whole host of other reasons which I will go over in a future post. A few people have asked me recently how I do it.

I use a piece of software called Redirect Magic, available from http://www.redirectmagic.com . It’s free and it’s also pretty powerful.

I actually bought the whole site a few months ago and so made it free as I wanted others to be able to use it without having to pay for it.

So, if you want a free link cloaker, then go to:

http://www.redirectmagic.com