Hi Mary, Thank you for pointing out official policy here at Adlandpro. It IS important for people to know. The issue in this thread is not to suggest that anyone is breaking the rules here, but rather to point out that doing things in a way that people find rude and obnoxious, regardless of the rules in the medium being used, is a huge marketing mistake. "I have one nerve and you are on it" lol!! I love that quote! Like you, I have no idea who the author is. God bless, Dave

Hi Tony, Actually, I have a blog called Rantings! It's a bit out of date... The magic in network marketing is that there isn't any magic. It's all about building relationships (that's why it's called network marketing). The most important thing you can do is forget about making sales and concentrate on meeting people and taking a real interest in them. It may seem to be the slow way, but believe me, it's way quicker than trying to convince strangers to buy your ebooks. It's important to note that network marketing and direct marketing are not necessarily one and the same. Direct marketing concentrates heavily on making sales and not on building relationships. What that means is, once you do make a sale, you might never sell another thing to the same person. While I don't recommend that approach, you CAN sell a ton of product by doing a joint venture with a person who has a large, very active list and who will create stunning ad copy for you. If your ebook is something that catches the eye of someone like that, you can often negotiate a deal where they will get a very healthy percentage of every sale made by them. If you do a JV, it's important to try to get the email address of everyone who downloads your product and then to follow up with them. Rather than trying to sell them something else right away, you can ask them what they thought of your book and work on getting to know them. Then, the next time you have an ebook or something to sell, rather than trying to do all the work yourself, you can present the opportunity to sell it for a small percentage to your list. (Network marketing!) Some of them will want to buy your new ebook, too. That's not magic! :-) But it is a lot of fun. God bless, Dave

Hi Norm, Once again, you've shared a great point: At the end of the day you are left with a reputation - both as a business and as a person, it is better to learn early how important these are. This is the KEY issue that people MUST think about in all their forms of advertising. Advertising in a way that people find rude, regardless of whether it actually breaks any rules or not, is business suicide. For anyone reading this who doesn't know Norm, yet... here's a plug for Norm: He has many years of real world experience in marketing and really knows what he's talking about, so pay attention to him!! Thanks Norm! God bless, Dave

Hi Mary, Hmmmmm... it seems that the person who used the title, "Let me expose you," most likely needs to take a lesson in the proper use of the English language. "Let me expose you" in understood far differently from "Let me give you some great exposure." (or something similar!) God bless, Dave

Hi Dave,

wow - people will start thinking you are my agent! Thanks for the compliment.

Having shown my erudition -now is the time for me to reveal my ignorance - and oddly enough it is on-subject, i.e.Spam,  and about which I need some help.

In contacting some advertising agencies (promoting my books), I was advised by one or two - via an automated notice, that my site was on a 'blacklist for spam'.  Only one or two contacts have been rejected on this basis, not all of them.

Bearing in mind that I have never ever send anything that could remotely be called spam, and I almost never send multiple addressed e-mails either, I am at a loss as to know how this has happened.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how one gets this sorted out?

Many thanks,

Norm