Putting the Ryan Deiss Perpetual Traffic Formula to the test

Beware. Keep your hands in your pockets and your credit cards in your wallets, Ryan Deiss is pan handling again. His latest information product is the optimistically titled Perpetual Traffic Formula. Let’s cut straight to the chase. Like all internet marketing courses, subscriptions, membership sites and ebooks, this almost certainly isn’t worth a dime. Ryan Deiss claims his perpetual traffic formula will drive perpetual traffic to your... Read More

The Twitter Traffic Machine scam exposed

It’s time to expose another Twitter scam. The Twitter Traffic Machine, the brainchild of self titled social networking evangelist and professional monopoly player Bill Crosby, makes it’s ugly presence felt all over the Twittersphere with alarming regularity. The reason for it’s obscene level of penetration is pretty obvious to anyone used to this sort of junk. It’s seen as an easy sell and is picked up by thousands of con artists,... Read More

Choosing the right blogging path

In a week that has seen the news dominated by revelations of dishonesty, profiteering, racketeering, and tax fraud in the political establishment it seems fitting that the following story found it’s way onto my radar. Don’t worry, I am not going to link to the person behind the following scam. I will quote from his blog but I have no intention of giving this particular cheat the benefit of any Upstart Blogger Google juice. The story begins... Read More

Brute Force Twitter scammers fire back with a cease and desist order

Last Friday’s blog post, in which I exposed Brute Force Twitter as a scam and revealed its so called secrets step by step, has ruffled a few feathers. Regular readers will know that Upstart Blogger is no stranger to controversy having had near legal encounters with many self appointed gurus who happen to get annoyed when I burst their bubble and ask difficult questions. Don’t worry. This latest cease and desist order, despite being issued... Read More

The Brute Force Twitter method that guarantees thousands of new followers every day exposed

If you’ve been active on Twitter, or even just setup a Twitter account and searched for a few guides on how to grow your following, you’ll have probably bumped into the latest get rich quick scam known as Brute Force Twitter. It’s yet another one of those ridiculous schemes that use a one page website with the all important centered text to try and convince you to part with $97 in order to learn some magic secret that will allow... Read More

Why I decided against writing a typical April fool’s day article

I’ve just deleted my original April fool’s day post. The working title was The reverse funnel atomic pay per click blogging secret to a six figure blogging income in just four minutes per week. It was quite clearly a swipe at the pro blogging establishment. Here’s a quick excerpt from the text that I just deleted. It’s here. The most anticipated blogging method ever released. Fresh from the amazing minds at the Chorowphoriss... Read More