Comments on: Two IM Bigwigs + Killer Domain + Hungry Market = ??? CRAP! http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/ New and Classic Tools, Information, Advice and Discussion on Internet Marketing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:13:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Stephen Spry http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/#comment-347 Stephen Spry Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:09:31 +0000 http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/#comment-347 I was surprised when I went to the blog just now to see some of the feedback these guys had already received... about how "wonderful" it all was... Have we lowered our expectations so far? That's really sad. Stephen I was surprised when I went to the blog just now to see some of the feedback these guys had already received… about how “wonderful” it all was…

Have we lowered our expectations so far? That’s really sad.

Stephen

]]> By: Stephen Spry http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/#comment-357 Stephen Spry Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:25:41 +0000 http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/#comment-357 Update... some 12 hours later... the blog has a new skin and certainly looks a lot more professional, and more in line with what I would have expected from people of this calibre! (I think my yet to be published - and unlikely to be - blog comment may have had some effect) Apparently miscommunication was to blame - i.e. the "blog guy" didn't get told to update in time for the launch. However I still remain slightly disappointed... you know what they say about "first impressions"... well that's amplified when the promises made result in high expectations which aren't initially met. <B>Lesson to be learnt?</B> Check and test everything :) Update… some 12 hours later… the blog has a new skin and certainly looks a lot more professional, and more in line with what I would have expected from people of this calibre! (I think my yet to be published - and unlikely to be - blog comment may have had some effect)

Apparently miscommunication was to blame - i.e. the “blog guy” didn’t get told to update in time for the launch.

However I still remain slightly disappointed… you know what they say about “first impressions”… well that’s amplified when the promises made result in high expectations which aren’t initially met.

Lesson to be learnt?

Check and test everything :)

]]> By: Anne Tyrell http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/#comment-384 Anne Tyrell Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:48:38 +0000 http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2008/03/29/killer-list-building-idea-done-wrong/#comment-384 I totally agree with everything above. I don't class myself as an 'expert' or anything but even I know that registering a domain etc comes AFTER your market research, or is that taken as having been done. If this is for newbies, it is misleading. And as the previous writer stated, where is the information about list building?? I totally agree with everything above. I don’t class myself as an ‘expert’ or anything but even I know that registering a domain etc comes AFTER your market research, or is that taken as having been done. If this is for newbies, it is misleading. And as the previous writer stated, where is the information about list building??

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