Hello, Dobee ...

On August 29th, you wrote:

"Blastomatic:

"Is it legitimate?



"Is anyone familiar with Blastomatic?

"It is posturing itself as a Free ad submission tool, allowing one to submit 12 million ads. Is it legitimate?

"Please advise!"

On October 15th, Admin gave you his spin on it.

May I offer you mine? ... From the perspective of a regular person such as yourself who has used it and gotten good results with it?

Definition

Blastomatic is an effective, yet free, online ad submission service that will submit 12 million of your ads, in less than ten minutes, to all the major free classified sites, link sites, and boards across the internet.

Search-engine ranking rules change frequently, but one thing always remains constant: link popularity.

The more webpages you have linked to your site, the better the chances are that you will be ranked higher in the search engines. Yes, you still need to pay attention to Meta Tags, Titles, Descriptions, Keywords and Content, but to achieve a really good ranking, you must have others linked to your webpage, as well.

Blastomatic has taken all of the most popular link pages and created an automated system giving you the ability to post on them easily ... and not just FFA sites, either. Your information is placed into millions of classified ad sites as well, thus greatly increasing your link popularity. Although a cutting-edge viral software tool of this type could normally set you back about $350 or so, the good news for those of us who are on tight budgets is that we can use Blastomatic free of charge forever to boost our website traffic and build a profitable business from home.

Use

Enter your ad, sit back, and watch as your ad is submitted live to AdLandPro, 1America, 5StarAds, AbleWise, ClassifiesForFree, BestMall, Links2u, FFANet, DTL Network, WebSitings and many more well-known major ad sites.

Notes

•no software to download
•no waiting; immediate real-time submissions
•wysiwyg; watch submissions and responses live
•only real major classified ad sites
•all categories supported (biz opps, health, auto, computer, etc)
•membership and login sites supported
•major link sites
•submission success reports and verification

Comments

1) If I chose to do so, I could publish an ad which would be perfectly within its rights to make this claim: "We dare you to take the challenge of finding a better deal than Blastomatic!"

2) Blastomatic is the most powerful ad submission system in the world. Best of all, I get to give it away for free!

3) No other ad submission service can compare to the "high-tech" service my prospects will receive from Blastomatic. Most companies charge a fee and provide an inferior service. I get to provide top notch service with a great product for free!

My Own Personal Experience With Blastomatic

Before I "pushed the button" on this thing, I fired up Outlook Express (which had been sitting unused in my computer) and set up some folders and did what I could in the way of getting as prepared as possible for whatever might happen as a result. 12 million ads is a lot of ads, it seemed to me, and even if only 1 in 10,000 responded, that would still leave me with 1,200 responses to contend with, and to me that seemed like a lot ... enough, certainly, to induce me to get serious about dealing with them.

It was 10 days ago exactly that I "pushed the button" and I haven't been able to do anything else since!

And I am hopelessly behind!

I will never catch up.

What I should have done before I pushed that button is lined up some people to share all these responses with, but I didn't think of it.

Types of Leads

Now let me tell you about the nature of the leads I'm getting. They seem to have sorted themselves out into about 4 groups:

The first group is what I'll call "premium leads" or people who saw the ad and want the service and also want to know what I'm doing and how I'm managing to attract 20-30 people to my business each week and so on and so forth ... serious marketers, in other words ... the kind that we'd all like to have more of. Status: I am up to 97 premium leads total since a week ago Friday when I did my thing with Blastomatic. Correction: I just checked my mail. I have 3 more! That's 6 total today alone. Now I'm at an even 100! It seems like every day I get a few more than I got the day before. About the best I seem to be able do with the rest of them is just count them as they go buzzing by.

The second group is what I'll call "pretty good leads". They filled out the Blastomatic form, all right, but they didn't click the link in the verification email the Blastomatic system sent them, so they're just sitting there in this huge pile waiting for me to send them a little message saying that, if they want the service, then they have to let me know by clicking on the link. Status: There are 267 of these "pretty good leads". I'm sure if they heard back from me, they'd hunt around for that verification email and send it off. Correction: That's 267 *so far*. By this time tomorrow, there'll be more. I guess what's happening out there is that more and more folks seem to be seeing my ad as more and more time goes by. I don't know how else to explain it.

The third group is what I will call the "reverse marketing" group. That is, they saw my ad and had the happy thought of sending me an email containing what amounts to a counteroffer. I thought I was immune to those, but guess what? There've been two so far that I couldn't resist! I picked up the phone and called and bought!

The fourth group is really a subset of the third group. That is, they're reverse marketing me, all right, but they're doing it through a proxy of one kind or another so that it's impossible for me to call them or write them. They're hoping I'll go straight to their website and buy their stuff, but I've taken a position on that and it's this: I'm not going to buy anything from anybody who is not willing to identify themselves to me and provide me with some means of getting in touch with them.

As to the status of groups three and four, it's thousands. Literally. Maybe as many as 5,000 total in the last 10 days, I don't know. I lost count.

Strategy: Now that I've taken a position on the subject of anonymous marketing, if I were opening each of these messages, then I would save the ones that included a phone number and email address within the body of the message and delete all the ones that didn't. And then I would come here to this forum -- in fact, that's exactly why I *did* come here! -- and put up a flag and ask if any of you all know how to write macros for determining whether or not a message has a phone number in it or an email address within the body copy somewhere or a name or any or all of the above? Providing I get an email client other than Outlook Express, I suppose, huh? That's probably not robust enough for the kind of programming it would take to relieve me of the onerous duty of opening thousands of emails?

Not that it really matters, I guess. If I just take 10% of that estimated 1200 or 120 premium leads and run, my one blast will have been very well worth what it cost me, which was 10 minutes of my time.

But the whole point of Blastomatic is that it's intended to be repeated!

And get this:

Now I'm starting to get all these emails from owners of classified-ad sites saying my weekly ad has expired and won't I please post another one!

Geez!

Would you like to know what my ad said?

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Free -- Traffic -- Webmaster Special --

We have designed a very sweet little viral
program for you. It allows you to build up to
10,000 *verified* leads/day 4 free.

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That's it!

You can only have 40 characters in the headline and 25 words in the body copy.

And you're probably wondering about that "Webmaster Special", aren't you?

:-)

Well, I haven't finished telling you about Blastomatic, yet!

See, there's this little form the company has fixed up that webmasters can put on their sites so that their *visitors* can "push the button" right there on the spot!

And that's not all!

There's a entire behemoth behind the scenes of this Blastomatic thing that I haven't even mentioned, yet, and I've been talking here for two hours!

But suffice it to say that this is just the tip of the iceberg ... that there's all kinds of tools tucked behind this one that you don't have any idea of and won't until you go through the drill of signing up on somebody's Blastomatic page. If you don't know anybody who has one, then you can use mine. The link to it is in my sig file.

Does this help, Dobee?

I'm not a Geek Admin with 8 years and 8,000 posts behind me (and I freely admit that I don't perfectly understand what he's talking about when he mentions "spam lists" and "free-4-all pages"), but I know how to do what I do, and I'm good at showing other people how to do it, too, and I think my experience with Blastomatic speaks for itself, don't you?

Furthermore, I think the best way for you to determine if it would work for you or not is to try it yourself and see.

And further furthermore, as Charlie Chan would say, there is probably not a single thing wrong with your business at this moment that 20-30 more customers a week wouldn't cure. "Working on more fundamental online marketing techniques" as Admin has suggested is all very well, but money in the bank by this time next week is even better!

Here's some tips:

1) For your first blast, I would suggest you offer a free product or service that you think would help people with their online business. This will make it easier for them to trust you, and what you want to keep in mind is that people buy from people they like and trust.

2) Do up a simple little web page where you can put a form so they can leave their name and email so you can autorespond to them with your free product or service, or send me a message through this board and I'll help you get set up with one. You can increase your results by 400% or more if you set up a system like this.

3) Choose a mail set-up that's different from your good email set-up. You really do want to keep these two things separate. Trust me!

4) Just as a precaution, ask around among your friends and associates to see if there's anybody who'd like some extra leads or extra traffic so that, if you can't handle it all in a timely manner, it doesn't get wasted and the people who responded to you don't get frustrated.

5) It's my understanding that we're welcome to "push the button" once a month, unless we change the text of our ad, in which case, it's once every two weeks. Even though I'm getting those letters inviting me to post again after only one week, I think I'm going to ignore them and stick to a once-every-two-weeks schedule with a different ad each time because I don't want to be perceived by any of the other boards as "spamming" them with too many ads.

6) One thing to keep in mind as you do this is all the webmasters out there who are trying to get classified-ad scripts going on their sites. Where do you suppose they go when they want to plug into a source of incoming ads?

Regards, Elizabeth ...

P.S. My own website is temporarily parked awaiting changes, but my Blastomatic site is active. In fact, as I write this, a fortune in additional servers is being installed because the service that's a step up from Blastomatic is about to offer a blast to 2 *billion* places. Free!

:-)

Regards, Elizabeth ...

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Attention Webmasters:

There is a form available that you can put on your websites for the convenience of your visitors who would like to have their ad blasted out to over 12 million locations for free. Those who fill it out become premium leads added to your list.








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Online Marketers:

There is a lead-capture page available which is very effective at generating premium leads when put into an exchange such as TrafficSwarm with a tracker such as AdMinder. Here is access to these services:

http://ShowYourWebsiteHere.com

http://TrakYourWebsiteHere.com

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Offline Marketers:

There is an excellent brochure available in pdf that you can personalize and give away to anyone who is interested in spreading their ad all over the internet. Here is what it says:


BLASTOMATIC

12 Million Ads For Free

Advanced Internet Marketing System

Push Button Marketing - Drives Your Traffic Wild

Webmaster Program Available - Absolutely Free!

FREE! Live Ad Submission Service

Blastomatic is an effective, yet FREE, online ad submission service that will submit 12 million of your ads, in less than ten minutes, to all the major free classified ad sites, link sites, and boards across the Internet. Enter your ad, sit back, and watch as your ad is submitted live to Adlandpro, 1America, 5Starads, Ablewise, ClassifiedsForFree, BestMall, Links2u, FFAnet, DTL Network, Websitings and many more well known major ad sites.

No software to download;

No waiting -- immediate real-time submissions;

WYSIWYG - watch submissions and responses live;

Only real major classified ad sites;

All categories supported - biz opps, health, auto, computer, pets, etc.;

Membership and login sites supported;

Major link sites;

Submission success reports and verification.

Quit wasting hours, even days, manually submitting your ads to the free classifieds. To submit one classified ad to over 150 classified by hand will take you all day. This system submits to 12 million in less than 5 minutes!

http://eadams.blastomatic.com

Elizabeth Adams
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The above brochure can be very effective when used properly. The way to do that is make a stack of copies of it and pass them out locally whenever and wherever the occasion warrants it ... at opportunity meetings, for example, or on bulletin boards and kiosks. The point, here, is that people will flock to take advantage of a free service that brings traffic to their website and that, in turn, will bring more traffic to your website and more leads to your business.

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