Why Women Make Terrible Bum Marketers: Part 1 ( of Many more to come)
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This really has nothing do with marketing advice ( ok, maybe it does a little bit ) but I have come to the distinct and decisive conclusion that women make absolutely terrible bum marketers. Now for those of you who ( thankfully) are blissfully unaware of online money making little monikers and so forth - bum marketing is essentially the process of churning out of large quantities of short informative articles designed, mas or menos, to drive boatloads of backsides to your niche marketing sites, obstinently for the purpose of making the money making process so easy, even a bum could do it. Now being the bleeding heart liberal type, and especially around Thanksgiving, I prefer to think of them as housing challenged but that is neither here nor there. One of the primary vehicles that a bum marketer employs to earn his ( or her) trade is the process of submitting these articles to sites with good page rank and trust, almost ensuring your highly focused, carefully keyword crafted article will catapult to the top of the search engines in short order gaining you fame, fortune and lots of page one SERP back links. For the most part - as Travis outlines in his four or five page free bummarketingmethod course ( which is well worth reading and does a much better job of explaining the process than my half hearted attempt above) this process does indeed work, and works very well.
But that has really nothing to do with my point here.
One of the best areas to write and submit articles on - especially on ezinearticles.com - is the love ,dating and relationships section. A good article here is guaranteed to get a lot of views on the SERP's and even on the directory itself, and ultimately, if you do your job right, is fairly easy to monetize with a good landing page, affilliate program redirect, or whatever it is that you are selling on your own site. One of the best ways to get ideas for your OWN articles - is to seek out and find the best and most widely viewed articles in the categories you want to attack. If you see an article has been viewed a lot, it is usually relatively easy to quickly cook up your own better version of the same article and unsurp the occupant of that spot with your own.
What I find sort of humorous is, you can ALWAYS tell the male bum marketers who are writing in a female voice or pen name. Obviously, far more guys are going to read an article about "what a woman wants in the bedroom" than they would if some guy named Joe wrote it. Of course though, you have to realize that Joe really is writing it, and just calling himself josephine. Which is all well and good, no blood, no foul - all fair in love, war and article marketing as the great saying goes.
What is really funny though - is you can ALWAYS tell when a woman is writing the articles instead. They tend to be much better, more detailed, and make far less mention of the fact that your girlfriend really likes chicken wings and football as much as you do.
But they also usually have this sort of Oprahesqe drivel that I really have a hard time reading.
"If you are dating a commitmentphobe, the first step for you is to acknowledge the truth: over his problem you have NO CONTROL. That is right - NO CONTROL. That means that you absolutely, positively, definitely, and certainly CANNOT FIX IT. No matter how patiently you wait, no matter how much you love him, and no matter how many times you tell him that it hurts you, his problem will still be there.
I will go a step further - you are helping him keep his problem. That is right - you are "enabling" him to continue with his fear of commitment. How? By loving him unconditionally minus a real commitment; by not having your own boundaries; by forgiving him and taking him back after break-ups without any real change on his part. The only reason to ever take him back is if he shows up with a ring, a proposal, and the desire to set a date for the wedding. Anything short of that merely hooks you back into the same old, same old."
I'm not even sure what any of that means? Do women really think like this? The only reason to take him back is if he shows up with a "ring, proposal and the desire to set a date for the wedding?" What kind of half assed advice is that for people in a relationship crisis? And this woman has all sorts of national awards and accomodations in her little resource box, CNN, FOX, Wall Street Journal, etc….My made up woman's PEN NAME is giving better advice to the ezine articles community on commitment phobia issues and I'm just making the shit up. I feel slighted that I'm not getting any media invites for what I think is some pretty damn good advice ( and a pretty good clickbank product for sale on my site ) as well.
For what it is worth - my articles have much better readership numbers, which does to show you that the ezine articles community is sophisticated and discerning with where they invest their reading material trust.
That's all for today..