The truth is that I have been uncomfortable about their direction since they decided to become GVO.  And since that time I have had a series of downtime related incidents that have caused me to look elsewhere.

I have never actively marketed GVO or Kiosk as a business opportunity, because frankly, I knew that the average punter could get cheaper hosting elsewhere.  Occasionally I recommended Kiosk’s services to people who were serious about having multiple domains.

Briefly I toyed with the idea of becoming a webhosting reseller at a local level, but while I was toying with that idea, I began to have some serious service issues with GVO.

Some people (particularly MLM heavy hitters) love GVO, I have no argument with them.  I have my MLM residual income streams that I find easier to promote naturally as part of my business and quite frankly, I could never really see how I could fit GVO neatly into my business.

I would have probably stayed with GVO, it it weren’t for some serious downtime issues I’ve had over the past week.  It is a hassle to change hosting providers, particularly for somebody like me with seven active websites and a dozen or so more sitting on the server.

But matters came to a head and  quite a few business associates pointed me in the direction of Host Gator which sells incredibly affordable web-hosting packages from as little as $4.95.

I switched.

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Let’s cut to the chase.

Most product launches go over old territory.  Clickbank, adwords, adsense, cpa offers.

They all include screen shots, and “video proof “of their successes.

None of them tell you that these guys have probably worked their butts off for years to get the level of success that they claim to have.  None of them say how much money they spend on Google Adwords.  None of them say how many staff they have working for them.

How many people work for Mike Filsaime for example?

Do you think he sits at home by himself and has these wonderful ideas that he diligently writes the program for, then produces the product, writes the sales copy, prepares the launch material and buys the traffic.

If you do, then it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee.

I have nothing against Mike, he’s a great marketer with some good products, but his business is so upscale that you can’t hope to emulate him unless you’re prepared to upscale like him and to take the risks that he undoubtedly took.

Nothing is easy.  It takes work, time, patience and research and frankly none of it is overly sexy (apart from when the cheques come in)

Yes there are good product launches that come along, I have reviewed several over the past 12 months.

Yes there are innovative ideas and techniques that people employ, but simply copying and pasting the published methods of an alleged guru along with the thousand or so others doing exactly the same thing won’t cut the mustard.

And here’s something else that these guru’s do time and again.

They get you in for $47, $77 or $97 and then they say look you’ll earn a little bit doing this but if you want to supercharge your efforts you need access to my inner circle and it costs (normally on a monthly basis)

And here’s what really gets up my nose with these “Adwords champions” at some point they’re going to spill the beans and say they learned everything they know from Perry Marshall.

The same book that I read once every couple of months.
The same book that has taught me more about marketing than any other.
The same Perry Marshall who’s emails I look forward to every week.

These guys know no more than I do about Adwords.

If you want to know about Adwords you go to the best source Perry Marshall.
At the very least you should take his 5 day free course

He is one expert that I trust.  Who else is there?

Let’s see.

Affiliate marketing?  Rosalind Gardiner

Complete Overview of Traffic generation? Graham Hamer

Starting from Scratch? Site Build It

I could go on, but the point I making is that without exception these people have been around for years.  They know what they’re doing.  they practice what they preach and they stand by their products.

They don’t regurgitate somebody else’s drivel wrap it in electric fluff and then spruik it through JV partners.  They don’t have to.

Because they know what they do works.

OK, I think I’m done.  I feel better now

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