Comments on: The Lazy Hippy - An Introduction http://www.thelazyhippy.com/2007/04/lazy-hippy-introduction.html Ethical internet marketing advice, tips, tricks and general ramblings... Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Si http://www.thelazyhippy.com/2007/04/lazy-hippy-introduction.html#comment-37 Si Fri, 25 May 2007 22:37:31 +0000 http://www.thelazyhippy.com/2007/04/lazy-hippy-introduction.html#comment-37 Thanks! It's great to hear from someone thinking the same way as me! It's easy to make money online if you've got no ethical standards, especially if you sell the get-rich-quick dream. However, there are plenty of ways of providing useful information, services, etc to people and make money at the same time. The best advice I can give anyone just starting is to visit <a href="http://wickedfire.com">wickedfire.com</a> and read loads! That place has taught me more than anywhere else and they don't let people sell you crap unlike other forums. I love Bill Hicks and that shit makes sense, but I bet even he smoked a certain brand of cigarettes... Like it or not marketing is here to stay and a lot of marketing provides a useful service - showing a consumer the benefits of a certain product. People are lazy, I can understand that! They are happy for someone else to suggest a product that will for fill their needs. As ethical marketers, our responsibility is to ensure that we don't promote crap. Hippy/Hippie? - I understand that both are correct, one being a variant of the other. Personal preference, but I prefer Hippy! Thanks! It’s great to hear from someone thinking the same way as me!

It’s easy to make money online if you’ve got no ethical standards, especially if you sell the get-rich-quick dream. However, there are plenty of ways of providing useful information, services, etc to people and make money at the same time.

The best advice I can give anyone just starting is to visit wickedfire.com and read loads! That place has taught me more than anywhere else and they don’t let people sell you crap unlike other forums.

I love Bill Hicks and that shit makes sense, but I bet even he smoked a certain brand of cigarettes… Like it or not marketing is here to stay and a lot of marketing provides a useful service - showing a consumer the benefits of a certain product. People are lazy, I can understand that! They are happy for someone else to suggest a product that will for fill their needs. As ethical marketers, our responsibility is to ensure that we don’t promote crap.

Hippy/Hippie? - I understand that both are correct, one being a variant of the other. Personal preference, but I prefer Hippy!

]]> By: Craig http://www.thelazyhippy.com/2007/04/lazy-hippy-introduction.html#comment-35 Craig Fri, 25 May 2007 17:56:56 +0000 http://www.thelazyhippy.com/2007/04/lazy-hippy-introduction.html#comment-35 Dude, thank you. I've recently discovered affiliate marketing and all the related 'make money online' fields, and am starting to dip a toe in the water. However, there's a Bill Hicks sketch which keeps running through my mind: ~~ "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Kill yourselves, seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good. Seriously. No, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show." ~~ I'm also extremely lazy and the thought of earning a living from my laptop, wherever I am in the world, is ridiculously tempting. Doing so in an unethical way, however, is not something I could justify. Thanks for showing me that a 'third way' is possible (if you'll forgive the use of the New Labour marketing slogan!), and that lazy hippies (by the way, the singular form should be 'hippie'...) can get in on this business too. (I wholeheartedly agree with your "money in itself has no value" paragraph.) Dude, thank you.

I’ve recently discovered affiliate marketing and all the related ‘make money online’ fields, and am starting to dip a toe in the water. However, there’s a Bill Hicks sketch which keeps running through my mind:

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“By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Kill yourselves, seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good. Seriously. No, this is not a joke. “There’s gonna be a joke coming…” There’s no fucking joke coming, you are Satan’s spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourselves, it’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show.”
~~

I’m also extremely lazy and the thought of earning a living from my laptop, wherever I am in the world, is ridiculously tempting. Doing so in an unethical way, however, is not something I could justify.

Thanks for showing me that a ‘third way’ is possible (if you’ll forgive the use of the New Labour marketing slogan!), and that lazy hippies (by the way, the singular form should be ‘hippie’…) can get in on this business too. (I wholeheartedly agree with your “money in itself has no value” paragraph.)

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