All the sordid details revealed…

OK, I got lots of comments and questions – so I thought I would give you all of the sordid details…

A few days ago one of the sites that we mentioned in our "No Secrets" video had made some changes. Basically, they introduced a new "no linking" strategy.

I'm going to give you all the details about what happened, and possibly WHY it happened.

There's a lot of information in this post… so it's going to be a bit long. But I think that you will find that it pays you back many times over for the time you spend reading it.

But first I have one important announcement…

— Re-Opening SMARTS for 24 Hours —

I will give all the details down below, but we've decided that we're going to re-open SMARTS for a final 24-hour period.

And we are going to open it at the ORIGINAL discounted price. In other words, we are turning back that $600.00 price increase.

But only for 24 hours, starting Monday at 2:00pm Eastern time.

http://www.stompernetpresents.com/SMARTS

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OK, just about two weeks ago we released our "No Secrets" video. In that video we gave a bunch of new strategies for using social media sites to build your business.

One of those sites was scribd.com

To see the exact strategies we mentioned about scribd.com, check it out here:

http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural2/

The part about scribd.com is right at the 27:20 mark in the video.

(HOWEVER, if you haven't seen that "No Secrets" video… don't skip ahead – the entire video is completely packed with strategies and tactics for social media sites. Go watch it now.)

Now this is where it got interesting – and it proves the power of social media. That "No Secrets" video went viral. People started talking about it, blogging about it, passing the URL around.

And it was viewed many, many tens of thousands of times.

Naturally, many of those people put the strategies to work. In fact, lots of them got almost immediate results… they even posted comments about their results on this blog.

But, of course, with SO many people viewing the video, well let's just say not all of them used the scribd.com strategy the way they were supposed to.

And just a few days after we released that video, scribd.com made some changes.

http://blog.scribd.com/2008/01/support-for-html-uploads-discontinued.html

Now this post is NOT about bashing scribd.com at all. It's their site, and they are completely free to set their own rules.

And I imagine our video sent an insane amount of traffic to their site. And since this was a free video, those people did NOT have the benefit of our SMARTS coaching program… so some of them may have abused the system.

Inside SMARTS we are very, very clear on how to use the social media sites AND stay within their rules. The bottom line is that you need to stay on the right side of the social media community – or you could get burned.

Here's another key point – these social media sites are constantly changing. They come and go, they add rules and change rules.

And that's why we've built up a SMARTS community. Basically, you have a whole team on your side — from all the people in Stomper Labs to all the HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of other people joining SMARTS. This has already blossomed into a long term social marketing community – this community will be our radar screen and keep us at the cutting edge of the Web 2.0 world.

In other words, there are HUNDREDS of social media sites (actually, we currently have 1,920 in our SMARTS database… and we add more every week.)

Now obviously, no one person can keep track of all those sites, much less learn how to use them effectively. That's what our SMARTS community is all about. It's like having hundreds of other people watching your back.

As sites come and go, get stronger or weaker, our community will have their finger on the pulse of the social marketing world.

So that leads us back to SMARTS and our decision to pull it off the market last Friday…

Now I will admit that we were a bit hasty in our decision. When in doubt, I will always – ALWAYS – overreact on the side of protecting our SMARTS community. That's going to be my first instinct.

Basically, when it comes to the community, it's a case of "shoot first and ask questions later".

But I'm not "Attila the Hun", and I'm always willing to reconsider.

And that's what I've done this time – so this is what I'm going to do…

As I mentioned up above, we're going to re-open SMARTS on Monday… but only for 24 hours. After that, we'll close it for good – or at least a long time.

And if you look at the way we've run StomperNet (which is STILL closed to new members), you know that we stick to our word on that kind of thing.

One more thing – because of the general "weirdness" of the way we pulled it off the market without warning, we're going to go one step better…

We are going to TURN BACK the $600.00 price increase, and you can jump onboard for the initial discounted price.

To get in on this deal, go to:

http://www.stompernetpresents.com/SMARTS

Remember, this deal is available from Monday at 2:00pm Eastern until Tuesday at 2:00pm Eastern.

That's it. After that, it's gone.

Best regards,
Andy Jenkins

P.S. If you still haven't seen the "No Secrets" video, http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural2/

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