So, there you are, laying on the beach with your laptop and cocktail.

You’re in your shorts “working away” while your kids play in the sand and your wife watches from the palace you had built on the cliffside.

This is the idea, though, isn’t it? With internet marketing, you set it up, let the customers click away, and the money just comes rolling right in. Then, you’re a millionaire!

Mike Filsaime hates to break it to you, but that’s just not the way it is anymore. In his free downloadable report, “The Death Of Internet Marketing” he explains how things are changing (there’s WORK involved in this business!) and what you must do to keep up.

In short, internet marketing as it has been done over the last few years, died and forgot to lay down.

Quite a claim, isn’t it?? Well, here’s how it works:

In today’s market, there is too much competition, too many products, too many marketers, and too few clicks. That means it’s harder to make money through internet marketing.

The internet is flooded with marketers. It’s not just a few well-known gurus like it used to be.

And it’s incestuous; everybody’s learning and copying from each other. Now, you have marketers marketing to marketers, and everybody knows the tricks.

The result of this is mass sharing of ideas – a good thing. But the downside is that it’s harder than ever to make money with the internet.

In the book, Mike Filsaime attacks internet marketers for their shoddy business practices. He critisizes them (including himself) for mistaking efficiency for effectiveness.

He cites the legends of offline marketing, the guys who made it in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He says that almost all the internet marketers he knows today would not have made it back then.

It sounds harsh, but he includes himself among them. And he’s not just cutting everybody down, but suggesting ways to improve your operation to make more sales. The book is full of useful information to help marketers keep up with the changes occurring in the internet marketplace.

“The Death Of Internet Marketing” is a hard-hitting report, and it’s not just hype and a flashy title. Mike Filsaime calls a spade a spade. He tears today’s internet marketing apart, and shows solid ways marketers can improve their business.

So, don’t shed any tears for internet marketing. It’s not really dead, he just said that to get your attention.

In the Sunday Times this morning was a report which claimed that nine out of ten emails are spam.

Apparently the amount of email spam in the last 5 months has trebled.

One month ago I decided to sign up for SpamArrest to stop all unwanted email before it gets anywhere near my inbox.

Read more on my site:

How to Stop Receiving Spam Mail Immediately

Since registering for SpamArrest I have received 18,379 emails of which only 869 were allowed through the SpamArrest filters. That gives a massive 95.27% spam rate.

Busy day today for mail, I got volume 21 of the eBay Kommando newsletter from Streetwise – edited by the “eBay Kommando” himself, Oliver Goehler.

As per usual there were 3 sales letters in the package:

(1) The Driver’s Survival Handbook which is a staple addition,
(2) An 8 page letter selling a DVD containing self defence secrets for women… and
(3) Another sales letter for the Terry Wilson package which I have already mentioned several times.

The newsletter itself was a little different than usual, this time around Oliver spent 4 pages describing exactly how he put together a profitable “real-life eBay project”.

It was very interesting, Oliver seems to combine direct mail strategies with eBay to great success. By that I mean that he writes a sales letter about the product he is selling in his eBay description. He directs the letter to any viewers, selling the benefits of that particular product.

The remainder of the newsletter contained some usual features such as the “Powerseller of the month”, “eBay seller interview” and the “Ask the Kommando” section where Oliver responds to readers questions about eBay.

Oliver also covered some tactics to use for the festive period, spilling his secrets for “Successful Christmas eBaying”.

I haven’t covered Oliver Goehler’s eBay Kommando newsletter yet on the main site but I will put this on the “to-do” list so expect a review soon.

I have already covered another of his products, click below to read more:

Oliver Goehler and Streetwise Marketing/NAP Publishing

Last week I ordered Jonathan Street’s “Blog It” package from Canonbury Publishing. As promised I received a PDF version of the manual to download immediately with a hard copy to follow through the post.

It was delivered quickly and landed through the letterbox with quite a thud.

To be honest I was very surprised at the amount of material I received. Jonathan has obviously put a lot of work into this package.

When you order you receive a huge, thick A4 printed manual running to over 100 pages.

It’s labelled as the “Quick, Cheap & Easy Way to Start Your Own Profitable Online Business”.

Also in the Blog It package is a DVD style box containing 4 CD-Roms full of bonus material. The CDs are:

(1) The Blog It Bumper Disk
(2) “Growing Your Blog Empire”
(3) “Blog Traffic Explosion”
(4) “Expanding Your Blog Empire”

These CD-Roms are designed to be used on your PC.

I’ve had a quick look through the CDs and there is a lot of information on them – loads of videos and eBooks which accompany the main Blog It manual.

As for the manual, I will be working my way through it over the next couple of weeks so please expect a full review in the very near future.

Jonathan Street is known as the “Internet Income Detective” and I get the feeling that he has really done a lot of detective work for this package.

More to follow…

In the meantime, if you want to know more about this opportunity, please visit the website:

Click Here for the “Blog It” Package by Nick Laight and Jonathan Street

I am not a fan of these sites which claim to show you how to make an income from filling in surveys online.

One famous site claims that you could:

“…make $25 in 8 minutes, over and over again, sitting at home in your pajamas…”

It’s all a load of hot air designed to make your get your wallet out and spend $39-$100 for a list of links.

In fact, I got an email from a subscriber today which confirmed that paid survey schemes should definitely be avoided unless you want to earn pin money:

Hi Ben
The competition is a great idea, I thought my experiences in the world of Filling in Surveys would be a good entry, as I am still smarting about it.
Particularly as they seem to be doing the rounds again.
I paid about £60 to a company and received links to about 300 websites
Of these, around 60-70% were American and of little or no use. Around 20% seemed to be ok and I spent a few weeks filling in surveys, but either my profile didnt fit or the rewards were just not worth the time.
But worst of all, around 10% were in fact, porn sites masquarading as survey sites, and although I got a warning once I had entered and didnt open up the porn, I inadvertantly infected my computer with a virus.
This resulted in it being necessary to strip out Windows and AOL and have it reinstalled at a cost of £150.
So members should be warned if they are considering this method of making money.
As far as I am concerned – ITS A SCAM.

Regards Mike

Thanks for the contribution Mike.

Please take heed – online paid surveys are not the huge “cash cows” that they are made out to be!