Read Me and Go Nuts:

Today I started reading Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging. I am also trying to get focused by deleting from my mailbox tons of offers received after buying an e-book that started this avalanche of offers.

They came in droves. Offers from list building techniques, creating traffic, pay-per-click schemes, and so forth. Regardless of the subject, they are in common in:

- All offered “FREE” admission into their program;

- All are a mile long resulting to loss of thought and information overload leading to decision paralysis.

- All are full of endorsement from people nobody knew leading me to suspect that their books are not as good as they claim, otherwise why need all these people to speak for it.

- All have syntax problems making me wonder why they couldn’t get good enough proofreaders if they are making tons of money.

- Upon  scrolling down, I am lead to another site which dashed my hopes to pieces. All inducements of “FREE” this and that are the veritable spider’s web. All cost a fortune.

Oh yes, some are playing it coy with warnings of scammers – those offering “get rich quick” schemes that are nothing but sugar-coated balloons. Sadly they, too, are not a whittle different from the rest.

A site starts with a list of subjects regarding blogging. Upon opening it, the first page contains primers to food supplements.

Alvin Phang suggests never to hard sell. These guys do without a conscience. My reactions and questions regarding their offers are answered by more offers of the same; my requests for review of my posts are answered the same way.

One creatively asked me what I will be doing in the next 3 minutes. I answered “Trying to make sense out of your offer.” He never bothered to clarify or explain but submitted the same offer.

The “FREE” website that was supposed to be a freebie from the e-book I made the mistake of buying was the first disappointment in my blogging life and it ushered in more. And it was not free after all.

The brighter side?

Kontera is very proactive, diligent, and patient. And after  having survived from one disappointment to another, an  offer came that is hoped to be the silver lining in my dark clouds of blogging.