It’s not me doing it. I imagine it is a man called Marion who pretends to be girls on forums whom I outed and got banned from GFY recently. He is clearly trying to get my sites blacklisted for spamming. However, it doesn’t impact me at all as I get very little type in traffic. It’s all direct links.

So, just let akismet do it’s thing, and we can all move on!

Then I saw they had an AOL email address and I decided not to mail them because they are clearly very fucking stupid.

So yes, I judge people based on email addresses.

But they came back, with a different account and did it again. Same thing. Admins kicked them off and edited the pic again.

Now they’ve come back AGAIN and are STILL doing it. I tried to help them, and they just spammed more.

This really is a fucking stupid thing to do because you’ll end up alienating the very people you wish to do business with.

Now what you should do is this:

1) Lurk on the forum for at least a few weeks. Read the board. Get a feel for it.

2) Post responses to popular threads, just joining in like a normal person.

3) That’s it.

Don’t spam, don’t try and ignore the admins, don’t be a cunt.

Someone posted on a forum asking how to set up billing and went for verotel because they didn’t have a long QC process.

Nothing wrong with Verotel, but by only going with them, you’re making a mistake.

There are two big Internet Payment Service Providers, (IPSPs) Epoch and CCBill. Both been around over 10 years, both good and reliable. Then there are a couple of smaller ones like Segpay, Zombiabiioioi etc that will offer you a much lower rate at a much higher risk.

A few years ago they Epoch and CCBill started playing nicely together with cascading billing. This means if you try and join a site via CCBIll and CCBill refuse your card, your deets get parsed to Epoch and they might well accept it.

This alone will add 10% to your bottom line.

They both have different scrubs (the software they use to say if they think it is fraud or not), so one may accept a card the other declines. And viceversa. They also will now parse affiliate codes. So you can get paid out on an Epoch sale if you sent traffic to a CCBill join. All good.

Easy to set up, easy to implement.

Then you add a third payment like Segpay so you can pick up anything the two big guys refuse.

Also, here is a massive tip, unless you do two joins a month, remember that an IPSP’s rate is ALWAYS negotiable. So just ask for a discount. You’ll get one.

Hope that helps some of you. Any questions, email me or post a comment.

Thanks.

Surely, this makes it the best porn blog in the world?

But it could get better. I could shake things up. I could get in a guest blogger. Someone with loads of experience who writes well.

Hmmm. Maybe I am…

Maybe you will bloody love it!

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Do you use that essential data? What can we do? Any ideas?

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Definition – define your prospect’s need or problem

Identification – identify a solution to that need or problem

Proof – prove your solution solves their problem/meets their need

Agreement – get them to agree it solves their problem

Desire – instil a desire for them to have your solution

Action – close the deal

The main thing is to actually ask lots and lots of questions of your prospect. So you can get information that you can then ‘use against them’ when selling. So Paul Markham could call people up and say:

Where do you buy content from? What kind of content do you buy? What makes you decide which company to buy from? How often do you buy? What prompts your purchasing decision? Do you have an annual budget for content?

Etc. This is the definition stage. So you conclude the Definition stage with a little note book full of all the things you will use to sell to him. He buys content, price is his motivator, he buys once a year, he doesn’t care where it is from.

You then identify your product as a solution:

I sell content cheaper than anyone else, it’s very high quality but very low price because it has been sold many times, I have a blowout sale once a year and that it happening now.

Onto proof.

So if I could prove to you that I had exactly the sort of content you have a budget for, and it is currently cheaper than anything else and I can deliver it all to you tomorrow, would you consider buying it?

How can the prospect say no? Of course he has to agree to that.

You then instuil desire. Paul could do this by bringing out all the famous publications that have printed his work.

Then finally you close. I always prefer the assumptive close. “So, how many gig do you want? 10 or 20?” This assumes the sale has been made and it’s now just the numbers.

Hope that was useful. If you want more on sales, let me know in the comments.