Free Products – Great but what gives?

Hi all,

Well I for one am all for Free products. As an Internet Marketer and someone who provides training on how to make money online, I give away free products all the time and like to download my share also. Why not …. everyone likes free products.

But what gives with marketers of today? I know everyone like to make a dollar and i am all for making money … but give me a break! When you click a download link nowadays you get sent to a squeeze page that starts off with something like “Could I Interest You” or “Look at this special offer” and so on …. and then it goes through about 20 items they want you to buy. At the very bottom of the page you will see a link that reads something like “No Thanks take me to my free gift”.

Now at this point all is not to bad … However … You then get a second similar page of 20 or so items to buy … then a third and so it goes on. Yesterday I got 5 such pages before I got to my actual free gift to download.

Now I don’t know about you, but 5 pages full of product advertising to me is well and truly over the top.  Has the “Less is More” principle gone out the window? What ever happened to “KISS” (keep it simple stupid).

I have a Freebies pages that contain a few fee products and sometimes 1 or 2 purchase items and do very well for them. But I always make my freebies the main point as that is what the customer came to the page for in the first place. I teach that style and format  also in my training.

To be honest, when I go to obtain a free product and get hit with all these sales pages, I either just leave and don’t bother with the download or scroll down each page at such a rate I don’t even notice what is for sale and do this through every page until I get to what I came for in the first place .. my download.

Now is it just me that feels this way and am I the only one that flies through sales pages with annoyance till I get to the download? Am I teaching all wrong?

I would be very interested in your comments. So please leave me a comment and then go to my freebies page and get yourself some free stuff fast ….Freebies.

Thanks Luke