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So I’m a regular reader of Shoemoney. A fan as well. Over the past few weeks there has been tons of buzz about Dennis Yu ever since his post up on TechCrunch (read here). Well I guess Shoe must have had enough and decided to write a no-holds-bar post about his experience with the dude. Pretty good stuff and pretty funny. Here’s a snip.

“So whats the story in the end. Well I feel embarrassed. I fell for it. AND I was leveraged to get other people to fall into Dennis’s crap. I have heard people tell me Dennis used my name and told people he did everything from run our ppc campaign, to geeze just about name it. Each time I hear that I’m like damn… I’m sorry…”

http://www.shoemoney.com/2009/11/16/dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-of-a-con-man-in-the-affiliate-industry/

All I can say is he is just flat out retarded. Make your own judgment but that’s mine and I’m sticking to it.

Mikey.

photo credit: Andifeelfine

I’m sure you’re all aware of the new “guidelines” going into effect as of Dec 1st, 2009 (if not go here to read about it). These new guidelines make it incredibly confusing for us internet marketers. WSJ online tries to sum it up and here is an excerpt:

“There are also practical objections. For example, if you get a free copy of a book and then post a comment about it on Twitter, how many of the permitted 140 characters must be dedicated to the disclosure? Do employees of a company have to disclose the fact of their employment every time they comment on its products through their personal Facebook accounts?”

Read the full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574480942272744448.html

Shoemoney also has a good post up about the subject here: http://www.shoemoney.com/2009/10/08/what-you-dont-know-about-the-new-ftc-rules-on-disclosure

I personally find it confusing and retarded! I can understand their need to try to weed out all the fake advertising going on but I think they’re going a little to far with this one and I hope they take it back a few notches or at least put CLEAR and UNDERSTANDABLE rules in place and not the “vague” rules that are about to go into effect.

Mikey.

photo credit: pfala

Here is a great post by Shoemoney talking about rebills.

http://www.shoemoney.com/2009/07/16/the-only-thing-worth-promoting-is-rebill-offers/

I personally promote them and have not had any issues thus far, but I do stay away from the “Google Fast Cash” ones…. Lets just say a birdie has told me that canceling those types of bizopp offers can be extremely difficult.
Mikey.