It always bugs me when an Internet marketer puts down his competition in a sales letter just to make his product look better. You know, if you make the others look bad, then you think your idea looks good and that keeps folks from looking at the holes in your product. Same with Politics in the country!

It even bugs me more when it is my product they are trying to blow holes in. And what makes this worse, is that I haven’t even released my  product yet, nor do I have a launch date for it!

I did approach whom I thought were trusted marketers and asked them to do a Joint Venture with us when I did launch. We didn’t hold back and told them exactly what we were doing cause I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST THEM!

What happened next I never expected.

I just NEVER expected to see our trust misused and our product concepts held up (incorrectly I might add) next to their competing product as if ours was something to sneeze at. Hello! I guess I should be flattered that they thought that if I launched it it would pull sales away from them.

But, I still couldn’t believe it.

The truth of the matter is, when it comes to SEO, there is a lot of ways of doing the same thing, and there are holes in ANYTHING that is going to manipulate the search engines. So when a guy says he is white hat and then asks you to pay him to get access to his network of sites to yes, manipulate the search engines, he ain’t so white hat. It is still about tricking the search engines. And, I will not say I am not tricking the search engines, cause I am!

And, I have been doing it a long time, and, I do it well!

I could rip their product apart, but don’t want to do that as I still have some respect for these guys (although I don’t know why now) but I guess I still believe in just keeping it real and talking about why MY products WORK.

So, what do you think?

Is this business as normal or should we expect better things from folks we have beers with in the bar?