Entries from December 2007 ↓

I do not only try to help consumers with when dealing with credit and collection issues through several blogs that I author I also mentor several people who are affiliate marketers.  In recent blogging on a new advertising platform being launched called Pay Per Play - NetAudioAds I have pointed out several inconstancies in their marketing materials and have received many libelous comments and blog post directed towards me.

The first time I gave the founder of Pay Per Play a pass for doing this because he had some of the information taken down.  Yet he continues to publish blog post insinuating that I have libeled NetAudioAds - Pay Per Play and Voice2Page.

Being someone that holds the law to it’s highest standard I would never publish anything online that was not fact or opinion, nor would I intentionally discredit an individual, unless they cast the first stone.  Big companies are one thing that participate in illegal activities.  Personally attacking someones beliefs with lies and misinformation is another.  I tried to keep my emotions out of this one and when I saw the newest libelous post on their blog on Christmas Day it sent a shiver down my spine when I though I had a gentleman’s agreement with them.

Pay Per Play, NetAudioAds  and Voice2Page think they can push me around with intimidation tactics and false claims in an attempt to discredit me.  The fact is I don’t really care what others think of me or their outlandish claims.  What I do care about is someone lying in their comments and website content when it is directed at me.  If I have screwed up and done something wrong or made false claims that is ok it would be justified.  But I have not done these things.  Now they will have to feel my wrath personally and professionally.

I hope they had a Merry Christmas because their New Year revelry will ruined before the launch of the new program when they receive service for their libelous blog comments and post.

In a recent interaction I had with a credit repair forum administrator over stolen content from here it reminded why I chose not to participate very much in these venues.  Forums are social animals and are generally used to feed the egos of their creators.  If you disagree with a forum owner you usually meet strong retribution from them under many aliases and the rally of their supporters.

Forums do provide a resource if you are having trouble with a specific issue and you generally get opinions. good and bad, from many sources.  While forums use does require you to spend hours doing research in their environment before you can really understand the depth of knowledge needed to deal with credit repair or dealing with collection agencies.  Regulars in forums want you to research before you ask questions, this is understandable, but many only find them after having an issue hit them face first

If you do enter many of the credit repair forums on the net you need to be prepared to be flamed if you do not agree with the regulars or point out lack of proper resource acknowledgment.  The best piece of advise to offer people that are looking for forums is to stay away from ones that have little activity or a small user base because you will not receive a varying amount of opinions given your situation.  You are better to use the collective value of forum participation versus a linear everyone on the same page atmosphere.

In my opinion the best credit repair forum on the net, with a broad range of experience is:

• Creditboards (I am not associated with them nor have they asked me to promote them)

I will not list the ones to stay away from here but one thing you want to watch for is active participation by several users.  Stay away from forums that tout small user bases or if you see the same poster in many place as the most recent commenter as the knowledge shared in these arenas is biased to one set of opinion and does not provide a diverse range of experience, they are more to allow self proclaimed gurus to flaunt their opinion.  For the most part they claim to be a credit info resource, while some of the info is correct, the personalities you encounter make them a waste of time.

I make my living using the Internet as my only source of income.  In a recent debate inside of a niche that I was considering returning to people have decided to take pop shots at me and claiming that I have issued lies at on one of my blogs dealing with the Downline Integrity Brigade.  I have offered those individuals the opportunity to issue a retraction and they have not done so at this point.

Many times in the heat of passion we all make statements that we wish would not of made and that is the only reason I have offered them the opportunity to retract their statements, although that is not a requirement because they are not a news source.

Many times people forget what is published on the internet is recorded and precautions need to be taken to make sure you do not open yourself up to a lawsuit for libel and defamation of character.  It is a fine line to walk but calling someone a liar or implying that someone is lying without first had knowledge is the definition of libel when you put it in print.

On a personal opinion if you are considering getting into the world wide web as a portal to earn income I would shy away from any program that implies that they are a member of the Downline Integrity Brigade.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has allowed a rogue affiliate to tarnish their good name and instead of removing the affiliate from their online marketing program they are apologizing to the affiliate for not being more clear in their terms.

The long and short of the problem with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is that they had an affiliate violating their agreement and when a consumer felt like they were slighted by the affiliates unclear website terms they filed a Rip Off Report about Green Mountain Coffee Roster’s Affiliated website. The webmaster of the site then proceeded to denigrate the consumer and use threats of lawsuits and legal action to get the consumer to retract the comment.

The webmaster also used an alias to expose the consumers real name. The webmasters real name that she has used in communications with me and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is Donna-Lee Moore-Stout and Ms Moore-Stout as of this writing has not issued the consumer an apology for her actions in the same public forum that she used to attempt to belittle the consumer.

By allowing this webmaster to remain in the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters affiliate program GMCR is doing a poor job to protect it’s most valuable asset - Their Customers.