Sometimes I’m stupid enough to subscribe to some online marketing newsletter. I got two this week from different “marketers” whose content was almost identical. They went something like this:
Want to make money off your blog?? I make $100000000 a week off my blog! Here’s How! Click here for this magic formula! Drive Traffic! Make dollars!
And of course, clicking takes you to an order page where you can shell out some hard-earned money for a PDF containing their “magic formula”.
Well I like you, dear readers, so I’m going to tell you their secrets, absolutely FREE! Here’s the trick to “monetizing your blog”:
- Put up a newsletter subscription form
- Write some nonsense about how much money you make off your blog, even if you don’t – this will drive traffic
- Blast your users with stupid annoying emails promising them the secret to blog monetization
- Put these steps 1-4 into a PDF and sell it for $30
It’s recursive!
2 Comments
another recursion: stupid is as stupid does
hehe yeah, I’ve thought about the same thing! i find it somewhat annoying too. it’s like you are decribing johnchow & co here.