I am not sure what you mean about me “twist[ing] this into an 'us vs. them' battle.” There is no “them”, there is just us and we are engaged in a conversation about a certain nomination that for some reason you refuse to acknowledge.

Further, I am completely at a loss to understand what you mean by me “building this story.” There is no story — Just a nomination of Frank Kern with a link to a video that expressly positions his work at the zenith of Integrity in the IM space. Please do yourself a favor and watch the video–I promise you will be amazed.

Peace, my brother. There is enough paranoia and anger in the world.

Kindly,
Mark

Again, my nomination of Frank Kern is NOT a “fake nomination.”

You say “I just don't believe you're Mark Passion. You sound like somebody who is nominating himself… or his best buddy.”

I fail to understand your logic. I am not nominating myself, I am nominating Frank Kern. I am not Frank Kern nor in any way associated with Mr. Kern other than as a raving fan and customer.

(You keep deleting the link to the evidence I provide for his nomination. Have you actually watched the video? By repeatedly deleting the link, you deprive your readers easy access but they can, of course, find it readily through Google.)

Interaction between IM customers will be huge this year, and if you don't deliver both value and killer customer service, everyone will know about it in Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.

With Respect,
Mark

I am not sure what you mean about me “twist[ing] this into an 'us vs. them' battle.” There is no “them”, there is just us and we are engaged in a conversation about a certain nomination that for some reason you refuse to acknowledge.

Further, I am completely at a loss to understand what you mean by me “building this story.” There is no story — Just a nomination of Frank Kern with a link to a video that expressly positions his work at the zenith of Integrity in the IM space. Please do yourself a favor and watch the video–I promise you will be amazed.

Peace, my brother. There is enough paranoia and anger in the world.

Kindly,
Mark

Again, my nomination of Frank Kern is NOT a “fake nomination.”

You say “I just don't believe you're Mark Passion. You sound like somebody who is nominating himself… or his best buddy.”

I fail to understand your logic. I am not nominating myself, I am nominating Frank Kern. I am not Frank Kern nor in any way associated with Mr. Kern other than as a raving fan and customer.

(You keep deleting the link to the evidence I provide for his nomination. Have you actually watched the video? By repeatedly deleting the link, you deprive your readers easy access but they can, of course, find it readily through Google.)

Interaction between IM customers will be huge this year, and if you don't deliver both value and killer customer service, everyone will know about it in Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.

With Respect,
Mark

http://twitter.com/traderpassion

Still looks fishy to me, Mark.

Your tweets are disingenuous. I'm not preventing nominations of anybody. What I'm preventing are fake nominations. There is a difference.

But I suppose it's to your benefit to twist this into an “us vs. them” battle or whatever. First of all, it's not that simple. Second of all, why is it to your benefit to build this story?

Ryan

Disinformation campaigns are common among blog comments because it's so easy to pretend to be someone you're not. Are you disseminating a little propaganda here, Mark?

Also: My blog is not a democracy, and it's not a republic. It is a dictatorship.

Sorry if that offends you.

Ryan

P.S. I have no problem with legitimate nominations. And you're comment — “but I did follow your guidelines” — is quite telling.

Because I didn't say: “No fake nominations.”

Okay: So maybe you and your “girlfriend” really did nominate a couple guys from the same laptop 12 minutes apart. I just don't believe you're Mark Passion. You sound like somebody who is nominating himself… or his best buddy.

Disinformation campaigns are common among blog comments because it's so easy to pretend to be someone you're not. Are you disseminating a little propaganda here, Mark?

Also: My blog is not a democracy, and it's not a republic. It is a dictatorship.

Sorry if that offends you.

Ryan

P.S. I have no problem with legitimate nominations. And you're comment — “but I did follow your guidelines” — is quite telling.

Because I didn't say: “No fake nominations.”

Okay: So maybe you and your “girlfriend” really did nominate a couple guys from the same laptop 12 minutes apart. I just don't believe you're Mark Passion. You sound like somebody who is nominating himself… or his best buddy.

My entry to your excellent blog was NOT a fake!

Sorry to have to correct you, but my nomination of Frank Kern is quite legitimate. (As is that of my girlfriend for Ryan Deiss!). We wrote our nominations on the same laptop, right after each other given our joint visit to your blog. Is there something wrong with that?

I'm not sure what you hoped to achieve by publishing the IP address– Is that meant to somehow silence my voice and cancel my vote through some cloaked threat that you can hunt me down via a simple-minded IP lookup??

Please keep an open mind and please do allow everyone to link to Frank Kern's simply remarkable “State of the Internet Address” at

http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=65

If you have some real evidence or verified data that Frank Kern should NOT be nominated, then by all means please post it publicly so that we can all see it and make up our own minds. Your censorship of the link smacks of totalitarianism. Let's keep the web open for everyone to decide for themselves.

I'm sorry if my nomination offended you but I did follow your guidelines.

Thanks!
Mark

Marlon Sanders. Marlon was the pioneer of the infoproduct salesletter.

His stuff is always easily consumed and offers far more value than it's very affordable cost. I've known Marlon personally for many years, and he is and always has been the real deal.

Marc

It's quite difficult to say one name and let it go at that. So let me share several that have had a dramatic influence on me…

Alex Mandossian. I have learned quite a bit from him, about speaking, about presentation, about info products and more.

Ken McCarthy. I've spoken at and attended over 6 The System events. You can learn a lot about email marketing if you get on Ken's list. He's a sane voice in often a world of noise.

Jason Fladlien. Like Kenneth Hu commented, Jason is an amazing implementer. I buy pretty much everything he comes out with because there are always some nuggets and gems that even experienced marketers like myself often miss.

Sean D'Souza. Sean's work is quite thought out and I always learn new things from him. His book “The Brain Audit” really gets into the psychology of buyers. I also think Sean writes some of the better subject lines for email marketing.

Michel Fortin. There is no one better not only in terms of copywriting advice but also conversion. I also appreciate Michel being so open, transparent and real.

Sherman Hu. I love Sherman's enthusiasm and how he embraced social media before many of us even knew the term.

Glenn Livingston. As a creative at heart, I'll admit that some of Glenn's stuff is definitely advanced, yet I love the process in which he approaches a market. His market segmentation approach with Google Adwords was one of the smartest I've seen.

Robert Plank. I started buying Robert's products while he was still holding down a full time job and doing internet marketing on the side. I like how he implements fast and is all about completion. His products are easily consumed which can't be said for a lot of infoproducts.

As others have commented, it's hard to not only list one, but not list many. There are several others who have influenced me as well I haven't mentioned.

One more thing.

I also factor not only marketing smarts but who someone is as a person. As we discussed in the “Internet marketing is on life support” post, integrity trumps just about everything. It's hard for me to embrace someone's marketing teachings if I don't respect them.

My 2 cents and change,

Marc