What is Mike Filsaime's Viral Friend Generator?

Mike Filsaime has created a new product called Viral Friend Generator. Like seemingly everything else that Mike touches, Viral Friend Generator has caused a great deal of controversy and won a number of supporters. Surprisingly though, not many people know what it is.

So what is Viral Friend Generator? It is the next step in the evolution of "tell-a-friend".

I'll pause for a second to give you an opportunity to collect yourself.

I know that "tell-a-friend" sets off alarms in most people's heads. And it should, based on how it has been used in the past. But Viral Friend Generator has a number of features that make it very different from the "tell-a-friend" programs we're all familiar with.

First and foremost, everyone has to opt-in in order to receive emails about your program. There is also a "do not email me again" link in every message that ensures that folks who do not want to receive your emails never receive another email from you.

Viral Friend Generator allows you to increase your traffic. The "tell-a-friend" feature of the program normally allows users to triple their traffic. Now, that comes at a price -- the reason that people tell their friends is that you are incentivizing them to do so (i.e. you are paying them). But in the end, you end up with more traffic than you had originally.

You determine what your traffic is worth. You decide what you want to pay your customers for referring others. You set all of the rules for what it takes for your affiliates to be paid. It sounds complicated, but it takes about five minutes to set up.

Tell-a-friend programs have a bad name, and often rightfully so, for a lot of reasons. But if you have a quality website, with quality products, and you send quality emails, you will not have spam problems because of tell-a-friend.

But Viral Friend Generator is still tell-a-friend with new bells and whistles. Before you invest in it, consider what you are doing with your online business. If it's right for you, great. But keep in mind that you are putting your website and your reputation on the line when you use it. Before you buy Viral Friend Generator, I suggest you learn more about it.

For me personally, the jury is still out. Yes, I am using Viral Friend Generator. But only very selectively. I'm not sure that I'm comfortable enough with the product to really use it. To do so would risk ruining my online business and I'm not yet ready to risk that because of some new "tell-a-friend" features.

Michael M Thomas is an executive for a Fortune 500 company by day and an affiliate marketer by night.

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Tom Kulzer Says No To Mike Filsaime's Viral Friend Generator

In case you haven?t heard, AWeber has banned the usage of Viral Friend Generator and any other Tell-A-Friend (commonly referred to as TAF) scripts. So what does this mean to us as affiliate marketers? It means that anyone who bought Viral Friend Generator since its new launch risks having their AWeber account pulled for violating their anti-spam policies.

Tom Kulzer, CEO of AWeber.com has this to say on the matter:

?TAF forms in nearly all instances work the same way. A website visitor sees your TAF form and types in 1-3 different "friend?s" email addresses. The website itself uses a script or some other backend program to physically send those emails on the visitors behalf to the "friends" that have been entered. Those emails are physically sent from the website owners machine and not the friend themselves.?

Basically AWeber?s stance on the idea of TAF scripts is that they are spam. Their reasoning behind it is that because the email is originating from the offending website?s server and not from the actual person?s email servers, it is unsolicited. And as you well know, sending unsolicited email is a dangerous business and could even be against the law.

Tom went on further to say that because there is no way of authenticating whether or not the person filling out the TAF form is an actual friend of the recipient, it is too easy to exploit a TAF form for email spamming purposes. Because of this, AWeber will not allow anyone who utilizes their services to use TAF scripts on their website. Instead, he suggests using alternative means such as including something in your newsletters encouraging current subscribers of your mailing list to pass your newsletters on to their friends and to also include instructions on how non-members can sign up. In fact he even gives a small snippet as an example of what to add to your mailings:

?Thanks for reading! If you know someone who could benefit from this, feel free to forward it to them! Not a subscriber yet? Like what you?ve read? Sign up to get future issues delivered straight to you: http://www.example.com Until next time!?

The concept of whether or not TAF scripts are spam is still up for debate, but AWeber?s stance is very clear ? if you use their services, you cannot use TAF scripts at all. They are standing strong on this one and even go so far as to say to their customers:

?You don?t have to agree with our position on TAF. But we do expect you to respect it, as we respect your opinion. If you feel that TAF is a necessary element to your marketing, that?s fine, and your decision to make. Just understand that it?s not at all something that can be done with AWeber, so you need to seek out another email solution if you?re going to use TAF.?

All is not lost, however, as AWeber is not the only autoresponder company in town. As a matter of fact, the very creator of Viral Friend Generator, Mike Filsaime, has his own autoresponder service called ProSender. And I?m sure he?s not going to ban you from using his own product.

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Free Affiliate Income Generator Critique

Some affiliate marketing packages give you so much information that you're confused as to where to start. Others give you such a defined system that there's no room to grow. Pawel Reszka has put together an affiliate marketing package that gives you the best of both worlds with his Free Affiliate Income Generator.

I must admit I'm impressed with the way Pawel has been able to blend an easy to read and understand presentation with precise descriptions of how to put his plan into action -- something you don't find in most online marketing packages.

Once you get into the Free Affiliate Income package, you'll find the first chapter contains an explanation of what affiliate marketing is, how to pick the most profitable items to promote, where to find these items and exactly how to become an affiliate for the items you want to promote -- short and sweet.

As you read on, you'll find that the package starts to narrow it's focus to the meat of the system -- exactly how to drive a flood of free targeted traffic to your affiliate links.

Free Affiliate Income Generator Criticism

I have to admit, finding something to criticize in Pawel's package is a challenge. The information presented isn't laced with filler, it's to the point and easy to understand and it's everything you need to know to start making money online but here goes --

Possibly, the chapter titled Super Charged Linking Tactics could have been explained a little more clearly. You may have to read it twice before you fully understand the strategy Pawel is detailing.

Given the importance of the Super Charged Linking Tactics of Free Affiliate Income Generator, the graphics used to illustrate the flow of links to gain high search engine ranks could have been a little easier to follow -- that's all I got.

Free Affiliate Income Generator Benefits

Here are just a few of the topics covered in the package: how to generate affiliate income with free targeted traffic, finding profitable niches, choosing the right affiliate program, outlining your business plan, how to manipulate search engines, creating lenses with Squidoo, free press releases, super charged linking tactics, what to do next and much more.

Google Adwords can be extremely expensive and very hard to master. The same holds true with paid advertising campaigns. Obviously, there must be a less expensive (or free) way to create an online income. Well, there is. There are numerous free resources available to online marketers. Most are overlooked or not used to their full potential.

Free Affiliate Income takes advantage of many of these free resources and develops a system where they all work in concert. The idea is to create a network of targeted traffic resources, all working together as a unit and to do it all at no cost -- mission accomplished.

And don't forget the free bonuses -- They're not the usual toys offered with most packages.

Recommendation

There are many money making guides available on the Internet. So, the pressure's on to create a system that contains more focused, quality information and intuitive strategies that actually work. You will not be disappointed with the Free Affiliate Income Generator System.

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Mike Burke is the author of numerous Internet marketing articles and has an affection for making money online. Visit http://www.starttheprofits.com for more online money making tips.