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PPC Bully Honest Review: How To Spy On Your Competition

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Like many marketers, I am always reviewing my approach to enhance profits. Lately, I have been focusing on how to create greater pay-per-click income. pay-per-click campaigns can really chew up money if you don’t stay right on top of them.

So I was intrigued when I came across PPC Bully. The opening page on the website said:

“Hire your competitors to work for you … for free!”

“PPC Bully displays your competitors’ winning combinations of Keywords, Ads, Landing Pages and even Merchants, enabling you to know up front what works (and what doesn’t).”

That sounded great … but a little illegal. How could you even do that and not get thrown into jail or slapped by Google? I was more than a little suspicious.

But I have to admit I was pulled in by the possibility of KNOWING my PPC campaign would be profitable BEFORE I launched it. Even if it felt like their promises were overdone.

Their website was really simple and colorful. The graphics showed very clearly how complicated a normal PPC campaign is …. and PPC (pay-per-click) IS really almost like Vegas, because you are taking a crapshoot that your ad, keywords, and placement are going to work. You don’t know until you spend your money.

In marketing they call it “testing.” I call it “gambling!”

Anyway, After I watched the VIDEO TOUR, I was almost in … but not quite.

But they got me with the PPC Bully LIVE DEMO … they actually let you tryout a simplified interface of the tool. (If more marketers were brave enough to do this, they could sell a lot more stuff. But you don’t see this kind of opportunity very often.)

After doing THAT, I was telling myself, “This thing really works.” I was tired of struggling to make my pay-per-click campaigns profitable. Maybe the big-boys knew something I didn’t, but I was ready for some help.

The PPCBully techniques and tool seemed so simple …. plug in your keywords, sit back, and wait for a week or so while the software decides what campaigns and ads have ALREADY been successful …. then you pattern your campaign after THEIRS …. well, if it worked, it was pretty much a no-brainer. And I could make my money back in no time ….

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather bet on a “sure thing.”

So I bit the bullet, dived in, paid my $49, plugged in some keywords in a niche I had been working and … waited. About 10 days in my case, because I had to go out of town for a few days and couldn’t get back online.

When I got back I discovered …..

It worked.

And that is when I decided to write this PPCBully review. The system shows you with little “dollar signs” which campaigns and keywords you should take a look at. It is like having a PPC PROFIT ROADMAP …. just fall-off-the-chair simple.

I took the information it gave me, tweaked it just a tiny bit, and loaded up my own Adwords PPC campaign in my new market. A month later, I was rmaking over $100 a day most days on the campaign.

I know, that isn’t much compared to the major players out there (and there is no guarantee that you would do the same thing,) but a lot of people work 8 hours a day to make that much … and I am making that off of ONE campaign — doing NOTHING.

It just sits there and churns out cash for me every day. (In fact, I had surgery recently, and it kept adding up the cash on autopilot while I recuperated.)

I’m pretty excited to test out some new markets with PPC Bully.

A couple of PPC Bully negatives, though.

1. First of all, you have to take the time, 1-2 weeks, to gather the “intelligence.” If you are trying to use pay-per-click to grab some quick cash, this is not the way to go.

2. Because it takes some time, PPC Bully is also not good if you are trying to “milk” a product launch … because you will not have the information fast enough for the big products.

However, if the launch is a product with “legs,” PPCBully is a great way to ride out the initial hooplah, then quietly collect some cash from a more stable market with less PPC ad competition/high ad costs (and after the launch-goons have hit, grabbed their quick money, and moved onto another hot new product — you can still be making a nice little income.)

3. If you are dirt poor, PPC Bully costs $49/month. There are two ways to look at this:

(a) If you don’t have any money, pay-per-click campaigns are NOT the best way for you to start out anyway. So PPCBully would not be a good choice for you.

(b) If you are a budding entrepreneur starting out with PPC, listen carefully. You are VERY likely to lose MUCH more than $49 a month if you just “take your best guess” about too many PPC campaigns without actually KNOWING what will work. If you aren’t careful, you can crank one up before bed, let it run overnight, and wake up with a $200-$300 Google bill if you aren’t careful with your settings or make a misjudgment.

PPC Bully evens the playing field, and gives you MUCH more of a fighting chance of succeeding. It just takes a little more patience, especially when you have a hot idea and are itching to throw it up on the Google wall and see if it sticks.

My PPC Bully Review bottom line buying advice ….

If you are SERIOUS about using pay-per-click to drive traffic to ANY program or website, you need PPC Bully.

It is user friendly. Plug in some keywords, and wait for the dollar signs to appear on your profitable keywords.

It is not high tech. No software to load. No scripts to wrestle with. Just sign up, login online anytime, and load new keywords or check your results. That simple.

It is cost-effective. Pay-per-click is an awesome way to drive traffic, because YOU can control “turning on the spigot.” Traffic on demand. But it IS more risky, because a bad campaign can cost you a bundle.

If you are an average marketer without the natural “Midas Touch” that a chosen few seem to have, then PPCBully is EXACTLY what you need to succeed.

PLUG IN THE KEYWORDS.

WAIT.

FIND THE WINNING CAMPAIGNS. $$$$ = Ca-Ching!

PATTERN YOUR CAMPAIGN AFTER THE WINNERS.

It can’t get any easier than that.

Panasonic Viera TH 58PZ800U - Compare Plasma TV Prices

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Plasma TVs are usually provided with larger screens, better contrast ratios and better colour reproduction than other TV types. They are thin, and aesthetic in appearance. Imagine an analog TV with a 58″ screen. It would take up half your front room and require a tractor to move it!

The demands of HDTV are particularly well suited to Plasma TVs. Action sports and fast paced movies are well within the domain of a plasma TV. The colour definition of some of the top plasma TVs such as the Panasonic  VIERA TH 58PZ800U offer beautiful pictures and superb motion reproduction. Computer games are also particularly well suited to plasma TVs as well.

Plasma TVs with lower resolutions can also cope with the demands of HDTV, provided that they have the required rescaling capabilities. The larger versions are often less expensive than equivalent LCD TVs, and in some cases comparing very favourably in terms of quality of picture.

One of the real advantages of a Plasma TV over LCD televisions, is that under normal light, LCD’s have to block light to create blacks. The reason for this is that LCD’s (as opposed to Plasma TVs) are back lit, and can deal with colour reproduction differently.

If you are after a home theatre experience, then a large plasma TV such as the Panasonic VIERA TH 58PZ800U, a 58″ monster, will fit the bill nicely. Capable of outputting through 4 speakers, the 58PZ800U gets 5 star reviews wherever you look, and is a great value television.

With the advent of HDTV, you will discover that your TV delivers five times the resolution of a regular analog TV. This is before taking the picture quality into account either, which is superb. Digital TV will also provide broadcasters with the ability to offer multiple channels of surround sound. Anyone who hankers after a home theatre experience will be drooling at the thought of a complete home cinema package, which encompasses everything that a Plasma HDTV  has to offer.

As is often the case, you should compare plasma tv prices before making a final choice. Prices do vary a lot, especially when using the Internet as a means to make a purchase.

 

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Stop smoking with Nicocure Patches

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Have you ever noticed that non-smokers always seem to think they are an expert on how to stop smoking? How can a non smoker know what it is like trying to quit smoking? Yet everyday, these so-called experts go on and on about how quitting smoking is just a question of will power. As an ex-smoker who tried and tried again to quit only to fail repeatedly, I promise you the problem is much more than “will power” or lack of desire to stop. Drop for drop nicotine is more lethal than rattlesnake venom or even strychnine and three times more deadly than arsenic. Studies have shown that tobacco can be harder to quit than heroin or cocaine. Now that just blows my mind! Nicotine is considered to be one of the most addictive substances on the earth so to have the best chance of success with quitting, once and for all, you’re going to need a little extra help.

Products made to help you stop smoking are to numerous to list. Don’t believe me? Just take a look around at your local pharmacy, you’ll see countless items to help you stop smoking. The biggest problem is, they don’t work! It seems these products continue to feed the addiction. Most of the patches and gums have nicotine in them. Thinks about it, would you give heroin to a heroin addict? You need to remove the chemicals from your system, not continue to rely on them. It just doesn’t make sense. These “nicotine replacement products” are just another scam.

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) it is called in the industry is pulling a fast one on the consumers. Smokers are supposed to believe that the same natural poison found in cigarettes is now a medicine and that it is somehow different from the nicotine molecule found in the tobacco plant. The truth is that the same farms supply both the pharmaceutical and the tobacco industries with the nicotine used.

As an alternative to all the nicotine replacement products, Ultra Herbal offers an all natural solution with their Modern stop smoking aids like Nicocure from Ultra Herbal is a popular alternative to all the (NRT) products on the market today. Does Nicocure really work? Well yes, according to the manufacture their patches are reported to be both the fastest and the safest way to quit smoking. Apparently Nicocure Patches can reproduce the same properties of nicotine but without any of the negative side affects. Just like when your smoking, your brain will release dopamine. This means no suffering through the mental and physical stress that goes along with quitting.

When using the Nicocure Patches the desire to smoke is almost non-existent even if you do try to smoke a cig, you will find that the Nicocure makes the taste extremely unpleasant. Trust me you will not want even one more puff. So does Nicocure really work? Well remember how I referred to myself as an “ex-smoker”? YES, Nicocure does really work!

Remember to consult with your physician before taking any medical advice.

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