Stomping The Search Engines 2 For Free - “Moving The Free Line” Multiple Times - Too Much?
Posted on 5:54 am by Paul ColliganToday at 11a Pacific / 2p Eastern, something amazing happens … Stompernet gives away their $497 product (Stomping the Search Engines 2) for a shipping and handling fee of $9.95.
And this is the full product dear friends. They could have done a major 7 figure launch (which I would have examined as well) but instead are attempting to “move the free line” in some mighty ways. That’s what I want to talk about here.
The cat’s out of the bag now - they’re giving away the Stomping the Search Engines 2 product for trying out their ‘Internet Marketing Journal’ The Net Effect. The first month of that one is free too - the goal is to bring people into a (very reasonable) monthly subscription model.
Below is a video from a Ustream broadcast I did yesterday on the topic if you want to get ‘deeper’ into the details:
The $800 a month Stompernet membership is worth it’s weight in gold but this solution (and the journal will go at $40 a month) brings in a considerably larger audience.
It’s a bold move. They’ll either rise to the top with this or … it won’t be pretty.
How do you think it will end? Did they “move the free line” too far?
5 Comments »
September 3, 2008
girl said:
No, I do not think the free line was moved to far….
if this is a quality product, you should do well -
and I’m anxious to see how this works out - I think giving away something like this to get clients for a $40.00 a month product is reasonable…
(it’s hard to not compare this to frank kern, but I think he messed up) when you give away freebies (shipping only cost) to ONLY 2000 people after blasting it out thousands, etc (he had to know how many people he was reaching). - I’m thinking he messed up.
a. people seeking free (or low cost training) are new and probably can’t afford $2000 a month, so I wonder how many actually stay with that system
b. you damage your reputation - I’ll always keep one eye on frank kern and anything and everything he puts out…I doubt I’ll ever trust him - he seems like a scammer to me. Even after I make a sustainable, long term business (which I plan to have) and can afford frank kern, I doubt I’ll ever want to associate with him.
Who am I? I’m an average, all-American girl - nothing special about me. But I did go to the stompernet site and tried to see if frank kern was a “member of the faculty”.
So - how do I think it will end? Very well for everyone!
You will have clients that are truly interest and more likely able to afford your product, and your clients will have a helping hand to get them where they want to go with their online business.
If this product is quality, it probably will turn out very well for you…your customers should stay.
September 3, 2008
jmbullis said:
I watched the presentation and I was impressed. Now that i know the shipping cost ithink I will take full advantage of this offer.
September 3, 2008
kelly said:
…opening at 2pm, no wait.. 3pm… no wait, 4:30pm… past 4:30pm now. Kinda hoped they weren’t going to play this game, smells like good ol’ internet marketing BS…
…and yes, I’ll wait and still jump at it like everyone else. You can’t beat this information. (sigh)
September 3, 2008
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September 10, 2008
Steve klein said:
I think it was too far this time. Have been following them for a while but this time, something was missing.
Not sure if it was the lack of innovation or maybe the fact that it was a recent “Frank Kern” technique being tried out. All in all having Dan Thies SEO Fast start on Video didn’t seem like such a big thing (no disrespect, I love Dan’s stuff)