This is the 4th post in the series of the Arbitrage Conspiracy Review ahead of the imminent product Sex, Drugs and Lazy Internet Millionaires release.  So far we’ve looked at different aspects of the course – we Introduce the Arbitrage Conspiracy, we looked at the mindset and focused on the free tools of the program. What we would like to do in this article is talk about some of the things Arbitrage Conspiracy (AC) did not do that we wished they had. These things fall into two main areas of teaching method and customer service. The other big issue for us was discussed in our post Mindset, we were frustrated AC alluded to but did not develop the idea that Arbitrage Conspiracy is more than PPC it is independent income generating strategy. We won’t revisit that in this article. Suffice to mention it here.

The course promised a ‘real ‘peak over the shoulder’ while a campaign was built and to our mind they never actually delivered. They never took us, step by step – at least not the way we had imagined, through a campaign. we thought they were going to start a campaign or two for students to follow through throughout the course. Instead, they logged onto sites and programs to show how they worked – but they never walked us through a campaign. That said, the lessons were comprehensive and covered every aspect of PPC marketing AC style. And we are very much ‘monkey see monkey do’ type people – so watching a campaign would have been useful.

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Hi All. We just had to post this. Yesterday we received a link to a recently recorded webinar between Aymen and Shawn Casey (another internet guru). I listened to that interview and was delighted to hear Aymen talk because he articulated the points we have been writing about. We are posting this for those of you with no direct experience of Aymen/Arbitrage Conspiracy so you can hear for yourself. Have a listen and see if you can hear what we have been describing then decide for yourself if you think it’s good value or not. Enjoy.

As an aside, we find that whole “7 Steps to Internet Income in 7 Days” irritating internet marketing hype; you know ‘if you eat nothing but raw food for seven days you could completely transform your intestinal health…’ Yeah right. Statements like that are meaningless, annoying and they get you to listen. We are not sure if that kind of hook is a good thing because it sets up unreal expectations. Fortunately they do counter it by discussing the demands/realities of building a business and that’s what this is – a business.

So ignore the marketing silliness, listen/watch the video and we think you will find some valuable information.

Another post in the series of the Arbitrage Conspiracy Review. If you have not read the others Introducing the Arbitrage Conspiracy or the Arbitrage Conspiracy Mindset articles have a look before you read any further.

One thing we really liked about the course that Arbitrage Conspiracy did not do was try and sell heaps of other products. This was a breath of fresh air compared to other courses we had bought into. Moreover Arbitrage Conspiracy/Aymen only mentioned possible paid products after they discussed the use of free tools. And whenever Arbitrage Conspiracy did recommend buying products they were clear if they were product affiliates. Of course they were affiliates and yet their honesty felt like they were being transparent about their relationships. But like we said, the emphasis was always “start using free tools” which really was a nice change.

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This is the second review in a series about our experience as Arbitrage subscribers ahead of the imminent product Sex, Drugs and Lazy Internet Millionaires. These blogs are written to help you decide if the Arbitrage Conspiracy (AC) Program is a good fit for you or not. Like I said, we joined AC Internet Marketing virgins; we had surfed the net. Until then, Netty had never clicked on a sponsored ad because someone told her they were ‘people trying to sell stuff‘ and as she had only ever searched for information she had never clicked a paid ad; how ironic. Going from that to Internet Marketing has been mind blowing.

Being completely honest, we didn’t know the word Arbitrage is a term in it’s own right. It means the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset to profit from a difference in the price. In other words, you buy as you sell – a perfect fit for Pay Per Click (PPC)! For more information visit Investopedia or Wikipedia.

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No doubt by now you have all heard about the new guidelines that come into effect on December 1st 2009, yep the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Testimonials and Endorsements in Marketing.  These new guidelines are changing the Affiliate Marketing landscape and some of us say ‘its about time!’.   Marketers most affected will be those working in the US market as other major nations such as the UK and Australia already have some advertisement and endorsement guidelines.

Lucky for us we are members of Tru-Guru and as a consequence we subscribed to Matthew Bredel blog site “inside the marketing mind”.  Anyway, Matt undertook an interview with a corporate lawyer called Linda Goodman a well known Internet lawyer/attorney from TheGoodmanLawFirm.com. Matt and Linda had a lengthy discussion on the changes and the effects of the new guidelines on affiliate marketing. Matt has generously allows us to download a copy of the interview so you can hear it yourself…

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Essentially the changes means that there will be more attention paid to truth in Internet advertising – Yahoo!  We were thrilled when we heard the news because we had been scammed by those infamous flogs ourselves – when we were very new to the Internet. And think about it – more and more are coming online every day… Internet virgins are ripe for the flogging – so to speak. Anyway – for our money’s worth, honesty is just the right thing to do. Thinking about it, because we are on the net, in a kind of hall of mirrors, marketers need to be even more honest – if you know what I mean… because of the medium. Folks cannot see, touch, examine the product. So we have a duty of care to make sure people make as an informed choice as possible… anyway back to Matt.

Though we have never met Matt we know he is an ethical guy. How? Well apart from anything else, he was the only guy (until today our time) that has taken the time to try and explore or explain what the looming changes actually mean. Until today the other marketeers mentioned the changes but none had gone to the trouble of sharing that knowledge with members. And, when we contacted him and asked if we could use his interview he made every effort to help us. The more people who know about this the better. BTW today (Aussie time) The Arbitrage Conspiracy hosted a webinar about those same issues. Unfortunately I missed it but it will no doubt have been recorded. We will let you know when we hear anything about that – the more information and points if view the better.

Remember, the new laws come into effect from December 1st 2009 – so hold onto your hats. It will be very interesting to see how many offers are left in the CPA networks then huh? how many sell their products before it come into force !!!

For more resources have look at Endorsement Guides or download the Text of the Revised Endorsement and Testimonial Guides.

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You must have heard about Arbitrage Conspiracy and Aymen by now. A rags to riches story with all the elements? Nice guy born in a poor African country goes to Canada and ultimately makes it big on the Internet? Aymen et al make it big time – earning up to $100k a day on PPC marketing (when they really  ‘ramp up’ campaigns) and all the while managing to maintain their honesty and integrity. Aymen’s story can be read in his latest report Sex, Drugs and Lazy Internet Millionaires.

Why are we writing about Arbitrage? Because when The Arbitrage Conspiracy first launched in 2008, we bought in. We had just spent some money with a big Internet marketing guru who promised a quick result and we were sadly disappointed (more about that program/marketer in another series). And then along came Arbitrage/Aymen.

Now at that stage we were PPC virgins; we had listened to the guru who said it was impossible to make money with PPC, I suppose because he hadn’t… so, we had obediently avoided it. Then we learnt about Arbitrage and decided to give it a go – because of the generous program guarantee as much as anything. As I said, we had just done a program where we stayed in longer than we should of and missed the refund date… Anyway, we signed up and we are glad that we did.

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