This is another one of those articles that is long overdue. The hypocrisy of marketers.It runs rampant in the Internet marketing community and it's starting to make me sick. We condemn others for doing things that some would say are less than righteous and then we turn around and do the same things or some that are even worse. The stone throwing in this industry is incredible. Let me give you a specific example.



I recently wrote an article on article writing itself about being parrots, reporters and creators. The article was totally in my own words, though the concepts were certainly not original. There is very little in this world that is original. As marketers, we are well aware of this. I mean let's be honest, how many ways are there to tell somebody what Bum Marketing is? And yet, merely for writing an article on the above concepts, I was called many names that I dare not print here. For more details www.achieving-liftoffs.com.If you read the article and compare it to anything else written on the subject, you will see, beyond any doubt, that the concepts, while not created by myself, were expressed in my own words and in my own style. This is in essence, being a fair if not great reporter. Parroting a bit? Maybe. But certainly not outright theft. Otherwise we'd all be forced to write about our experiences in the bathroom because anything else would be off limits. And then how unique are bowel movements?

You're probably wondering where all this is going. Well, here is where this is going. Before you get on your self righteous horse. throne, or whatever you want to call it, you better think long and hard about your own practices as a marketer. And I'm not just talking about your articles. I'm talking about the products you market and everything else about your business. For more details www.website-conversion-mastery.com.The snake oil that people sell (snake oil is not an original concept, so dare I even use the phrase?), some of it should be tossed out with yesterday's trash. Yet, under the rules of free trade, this garbage is allowed to exist. So much for fair.

It is this hypocrisy that sometimes makes me ashamed to be an Internet marketer. No wonder we get such a bad rap. We're so busy beating up on each other that outsiders can't help but wonder if the dungeons under our homes aren't filled with corpses of the dead prospects we've butchered and mutilated with our products that don't do anything but line our pockets with cash.