I’m sure that anyone writing a blog has heard of the brand new blog referral system - for want of a better phrase -from John Reese. Anyone who knows anything about Internet marketing or is indeed in any way associated to Internet marketing, will know the almost legendary status of John Reese.

Amongst his incredibly successful products was the groundbreaking training course called Traffic Secrets, which made John Reese $1 million in a day (on launch day)! It was a lesson for everyone in how to launch a product properly and not only this, but to provide an excellent product offering superb value for money.

So it goes without saying that any new product from John Reese is liable to get most Internet marketers’ immediate attention. The new release I’m talking about is BlogRush. The whole concept seems to have caught on like wildfire throughout the blogging community. Indeed we ourselves have applied to go on the network.

But something caught our surprise the other day! Now it’s not usual to see any Internet marketing guru challenge another guru, in particular when it comes down to the efficacy of his particular product - least of all, in public. After all, when it comes to product launches, they all seem to need each other to maximise their profits and convince their lists that the product they are promoting carries their endorsement.

It’s a practice which I personally do not like.

And we touched on this matter in other postings. It’s really quite irritating to get several e-mails about the same product from several different people, but written in the same words. You know full well that the person concerned has no idea if the product is any good or not and yet just to make money, he’s quite prepared to endorse a product sight unseen. I have long ago learned to discard such e-mails immediately. Anyway I digress.

I was shocked to read that uber tester and multi talented Internet marketer, Jonathan Leger had actually come out completely against BlogRush and stated quite categorically that the program did not deliver the results that he had expected.

Of course, Jonathan being a tester that he is, produced the results to prove his point and the results were crystal clear. He was clearly giving more than he was receiving in terms of credits within the system and as a result he has removed BlogRush from his blog. It should be said, that the article was written in a very constructive way and I’m sure that John Reese, being a talented individual that he is, will no doubt make the necessary improvements in the system to make it work more effectively.

But I must say, it was quite refreshing to see a Guru such as Jonathan Leger take such an open and constructively critical view of another top internet marketers product.

Well we finally succumbed to starting a blog! Long overdue as many would say. So what are we about at Internet marketing 247? Well we have been doing web site development, search engine optimisation, copywriting, Internet marketing and of course affiliate marketing since 1997.

It’s been fascinating to see over all these years how the Internet has evolved and developed at warp speed! Making money on the Internet many years ago used to be a breeze. How this has changed so quickly and so radically over the last few years. No doubt a lot of this is due to the fact that the search engines have become more savvy, but in addition to this there are many, many more people online who are trying to make money using the same or similar methods.

In the early years of course, moneymaking on the Internet used to be the preserve of Americans and Canadians. Following them, where the British, the Australians and Singaporeans. So much has changed since then and making money on the Internet has become a truly global phenomenon, which has presented many more challenges to seasoned Internet marketers such as ourselves.

As anyone who is in this market will know, the subject of making money on the Internet has become truly saturated and as a result we have all been forced to look at other avenues of making money, of which there are many — and that is the beauty of the Internet! There are just so many ways to make money through this amazing medium.

So we intend to use this blog to write about general Internet marketing and other related subjects. If we find a piece of software that we like, we will let you know. If we find an affiliate program or an e-book which we particularly like, we will of course let you know. However, we do intend to express opinions about other matters as well — some of which might be somewhat controversial.

As much as there are many positive things about this amazing industry, there are several negative things as well. People who are veterans of this industry will know very well what we are writing about, but people who are new to the industry may well be unaware and we intend to help them wherever possible. In fact, for our second article we discuss the merits of the 2020 challenge by Michael Green and the role of certain super affiliates in the promotion of it.

We certainly hope that you will enjoy reading out blog and please feel free to send us your comments and suggestions! To your success!