Merry Christmas 2007
My family and I would like to wish all of you a very merry Christmas. Below is the family picture we sent out this year. As you can see, Dino — one of the stars of the pet fence guide — is still alive and kicking, although at 16 years old he doesn’t have much longer to go. Everyone else is doing fine — the new puppy isn’t really a puppy anymore, either!
Now on to other things… I’ve received some questions about AdSense Resurrected, which has been delayed again. It’s surprising — I found out at the same time as everyone else — but apparently Mo and Zeila were unhappy with some of the outsourcers they’ve been using to create some of the materials for their packages. While outsourcing can be beneficial, it also brings a whole host of different problems to deal with.
Remember that AdSense Resurrected isn’t my package… I’ve contributed some software to it, yes, but ultimately it’s Mo and Zeila’s product and their show. They control the launch, the affiliate program, etc. My software’s only part of it. The software is a version 1.0 — there are a lot of features to come — but it’s good enough to start selling. You can certainly use the software today (and I have a number of customers who already do so) to build some great AdSense sites. But it looks like the general public will have to wait longer… more details as I know them! In the meantime, read this post and this post from Zeila for more information.
In the meantime, have a happy holiday!
Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.
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17 Responses to “Merry Christmas 2007”
Eric, who holds to rights to AdSense Resurrector? Can you release your software or is already possible to purchase it?
To be honest, I think you’re being lied by adsenseresurrected. Here are couple of things.
- They said they want to sell it for 1 million books for $17. This is the same guy who said they have millions of revenues.
- These guy has failed to fullfil their promise, for so many reasons. It’s ridiculous.
- They change desicion every hour.
- They change the pricing, everytime they blog.
Don’t be fooled by this guy named ‘rich’. I know singapore, there’s no one would name their children ‘rich’.
Just released the software by yourself. Come on you are a trusted guy with several printed books, and they are ruined your pride and dignity.
Scott,
we hold the rights to AdSense Resurrected. AdSenseResurrector was developed by Eric, and he might offer that to you, without AR elements.
Orca,
it’s obvious you have not been reading anything on this blog, or on our blog.
Zeila and Mo Rich are our online pen names, and not our real names.
Well Eric, you can go ahead and sell AdSenseResurrector to these people. The way I look at it, without AR, they would still be stuck with the problems that everyone been having with AdSense.
Good luck with that.
Zeila and Mo Rich
Z&M, I wasn’t implying the knowledge contained in your ebook was not as important or more important than the software. Just that it would be a good software tool with or without AR. Can you shed some light on your current plans for releasing your book?
Scott,
we have already released the book and the software to a few people. We want to see what’s their first reactions. These people are not our friends, or family. They are just like you.
We didn’t want biased reviews, like we had in the past. We had about 10 testers, and they had at least made $4000 from AR within a month of starting AR.
Our plans are as such:
soft launch: gradually select people to get AR and ARtor, and get their testimonies
hard launch; could be anytime soon (it depends on the outsourcers really)
We really hate to make people unhappy, but some things are beyond us. For example, when we promised we would announce the winners for our 1% contest, we selected the winners, and they have just received 1% of our AdSense Earnings for the month of November, via paypal.
Things like that are within our control. But as for the launch, we just didn’t have control over it, as mentioned by Eric, the package materials, were outsourced. It’s the Christmas season, and everyone doesn’t want to work.
We’ll try to launch before new year.
Zeila and Mo
Eric, can we buy some of your software? I mean I have been waiting for AR for awhile(like everyone else)so if you have some software that can make some adsense websites, then please release it!
Z&M, It’s good to hear you are releasing your book soon. People are always going to be unhappy about something, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Let me know if you need an additional tester.
Kim,
you are missing the point. Eric, please let her buy the software if she wants to.
There are many software out there that can help you generate millions of AdSense websites. But the question you need to ask is, are you going to make money from these websites?
We didn’t use any software for our websites, we outsourced the development to companies in India mostly. But what we did more importantly to bring traffic to the websites, again and again, was more important.
But good luck with that. We wish you all the best.
Scott,
we are so tight right now managing the testers, so we are not ready to accept more testers.
I believe the outsourcers are now ready to start delivering again. We should be able to have the hard launch before 2008. Fingers crossed.
Zeila and Mo
The software is mine, so yes, I could release it separately. In fact, I did make an earlier version (PLRSiteBuilder) available for sale briefly to people on my mailing lists. But I have no plans currently to release it separately. I guess everyone will just have to be patient a bit longer. (And that includes me!)
Hmmm, the plot thickens. I wrote Eric privately a few days ago about my dissatisfaction with this runaway train he’s hooked himself up with. I’ve bought a book from Eric in the past and used software from him before, so he’s a known quantity … and I consider him a friend … he’s never cluttered my mailbox with this wait for weeks and weeks hype, only to fail to deliver as promised.
Silly me, I thought the reason for waiting weeks and weeks was to finish the product and do the testing … not to wait until the announced release date arrived and _then_ announce the course materials were not done right and (apparently) testing hadn’t been completed.
I know the scarcity method of marketing brings proven results but that doesn’t mean I like being used as a pawn in it. As we say in Colorado, this is not my first rodeo, I can see through the unseemly hype … and I wonder if Z&M have fallen into the trap of believing their own marketing?
I am interested in trying out a piece of software that makes finding high paying keywords and building a site around them easy … I am not interested in the rest of this manipulative “ballyhoo” … Zelia got pretty offended in the past when I termed their “come ons” “crappola”, but when you promise, promise, promise and then aren’t ready to deliver, what other word actually fits? (nothing personal, the actions speak louder than the words).
The true formula for internet success is, under promise and over deliver … this program certainly seems to have it backwards, or so Dave opines.
Dave,
believe what you may.
Zeila
It’s not really about “belief”, Zelia, it is, as I’ll state again, a matter of actions speaking louder than words … facts of empty promises, not my beliefs. Be well.
Dave,
how many times have you wanted to launch something so big, that it would many people rich?
If the answer is at least one, then please keep talking.
We don’t need the money from AR, and we can choose to sell it to anyone we wish. As it is, we promised we will launch, and we did. But just not to everyone.
We have accepted a few more people to have access to AR just awhile ago.
Be Well,
Mo
I do understand that problems can occur with outsourcing or whatever. But it bothered me greatly yesterday that I wasted my time on Christmas Day, waiting for the release of the product, that was so hyped by Eric and the Rich’s, and not reading until the next day that the release is delayed until whenever. I don’t see why a statement could have been released on say the 22nd or 23rd, saying there will be a delay in the release, rather than waiting till AFTER the release time to say anything.
That’s like if I invited someone to a Christmas party, and then they came and my door is locked and I’m not home. Then I call them all the next day and said “Sorry, I had to cancel because I didn’t like the caterers’ prices.” Would anyone like that?
I was so looking forward to the release and so it was a letdown to me that it didn’t happen yesterday, and I didn’t get notified about it till today. As I said, I understand stuff happens, and I am still looking forward to its release to ALL of us.
1) Unrealistic Expectations
2) Wishful Thinking
3) Overly Optimistic Schedules
4) Insufficient Planning
5) Probably Contractor Failure
6) Probably Requirements Gold-Plating
7) Probably Developer Gold-Plating
In other words, “Classic Mistakes”.
Z&M, don’t tarnish your names and your country’s name any further. Deliver as promise or go back underground as before.
@ Rich,
Thanks for writing the way I should have written, you said it very well. Just to explain something here, I used to be a project manager for a living. My office devloped hundreds of significant size software products. On some I was the lead, on others I was the worker bee helping my boss lead.
Did we ever fail to meet deadlines? Of course we did! Like everyone else writing here we were humans … and software is software. But I’ll tell you one thing, in the 15 years I worked for that office we _never_ did …
We never, ever, announced a delivery date on a major holiday then waited until after that holiday to announce we had fallen behind. That would have been just plain rude and tantamount to treating our customers, the reason for our being, as dirt.
All our products were outsourced … we had no programmers on staff and contracted out all the development work. Did our contract members of the team sometimes fail to deliver as needed? of course they did. But we worked as a team and we never, ever tried to shift the blame to them, publicly.
There was one office, us, who had the responsibility … internal schedule slips, bickering, even “firing” of contractors when on behind the scenes … never in front of our clients … because we certainly got the credit for our team’s successes, so it’s only proper that we took the blame for our team’s failures.
This has turned into a very good discussion and object lesson for those who plan to contract out projects of significance.
Rule One .. bad news is not wine, it does not improve with age. Communicate with those expecting of you on a _timely_ basis.
Dave, thanks for the kind words. I’ve worked with computers for 30 years, with customer service most of that time. I do know that if you are upfront with customers and tell them ahead of time a deadline won’t be made, 90% of them will be glad they are at least kept in the loop, though they may be unhappy about the delay. If you aren’t upfront with them and wait until after a deadline to tell them about your problems, 90% WON’T be happy with you keeping them in the dark like that. That is where my unhappiness lies.
While I am here, I don’t like this “let’s take our ball and go home” attitude Zeila and Mo are showing. I would think they’d be apologetic about the delay and their lack of communication, but instead if we dare to be upset about it (at least in this blog), then they threaten to call the whole thing off, they can do whatever they want and the heck with everyone else. I think this type of attitude should be kept in mind when it comes to future support for this product. Thank you.