Tom Palmer's A.I. / Digital Marketing Research Lists
Tom Palmer / FantasticPlaces

In researching the current A.I. / Digital Online Marketing craze, I have found a wide variety of pitches, marketers and user tools.

Below are several lists of the links I have found so far. I am currently in the process of compiling them.

I hope you find them useful. Have fun exploring. - Tom

 
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A.I. / Digital Marketing Creators

A.I. / Digital Marketing Resources

 
Having been a small business marketer myself, I have taken an interest in the latest AI - Digital Marketing - Side Hustle craze that is sweeping the internet.

Over the years, I have operated a couple of mail-order / retail T-shirt businesses. I have sold numerous items on Ebay. I have sold photographs on Etsy, posters on Cafe Press, and stickers on Red Bubble. I have sold hotel reservations as an early affiliate marketer. And I have made decent money selling videotapes directly online through a celebrity fan site.

I also have considerable marketing experience working in the advertising industry. I have worked for a handful of ad agencies, some of which are America's very largest (DDB Needham and J. Walter Thompson). I have produced both printed and interactive materials for major companies like Kraft, Oscar Meyer, Heinz, Ralston Purina, McDonalds, Helene Curtis, Dayco, Merck, and many more. See Career History
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So what you will find in my web pages here, are the links I am currently compiling in regards to digital entrepreneurs, their business strategies, and resouces they use.

What you will see is a series of short videos promoting various marketing tools and techniques. This is very reminiscent of the old pitches from the 80's and 90's by individuals with "get rich quick" schemes. The perveyors would always go on about how they had a special program that they used to become wealthy. And they would show us their fancy cars and houses and clothing. Strangely, however, they always seemed to be more intent on selling their training courses to average people, than to be satisfied with operating their fortune-making business enterprises.

The same appears to be happening today. You will see scruffy-looking young men in baseball caps and charming young housewife-mothers going on about how hard is was to make ends meet. Then they discovered one of several money-making systems and today are raking in hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per day. And they have no trouble showing you their income statements. Still, it seems odd that they would be content to make countless little videos aimed at helping others get rich, instead of just sitting back and letting their passive income streams enrich their lives. There is obviously money to be made in creating short videos in which they promote AI tools and learning courses. And if you watch enough, you will begin to see some of the same people appearing over and over again, hawking specific tools and business techniques.

Now, this is not to say that these digital marketing methods don't work. They probably do if you learn how to properly execute them. But it does seem somewhat deceptive and self-serving to bait individuals into watching these enticing visuals, in order to get them to use the resources that are recommended.

Anyway, please feel free to sift through the information I have gathered and educate yourself with it. That is what I am doing. Best of luck to you and may my efforts improve your life to some degree.

Some ongoing observations:

1. The AI digital online business environment is exploding, growing and constantly changing. You must keep up, learn and adapt. (It very much reminds me of the dot-com bubble of the 90's when Netscape first went public.)

2. A lot of the techniques in the promotional reels / videos are good. Your ability to execute them appropriately and efficiently is what will determine your success.

3. Ultimately, you must locate the best combination of tools and channels that works for you. You must find AI tools and digital resources and put them together like TinkerToys in a unique configuration that connects you, your offerings and your customers. The people who have been successful so far have been very clever in crafting production and delivery flows out of the multitude of options in front of them. Pay attention and see if there is a way to adapt what they have developed to align with your particular needs, goals and desires.

4. Upon closer examination, and after having looked at additional reels, it appears that 1 of 3 things is happening. 1. The promoter is trying to sell you a mentoring program and/or get you to join a group. They are looking to collect e-mail addresses by giving away free materials, and are trying to gain followers to their pages. Evidently, this is a quicker, easier way to make money than the method outlined in their "system". They might also try to coerce you into pluging yourself into their pre-existing automated marketing system, where they take care of a lot of the actual work. 2. People are making money by driving viewers to specific apps, pieces of AI-oriented software, and websites. 3. Influencers are attempting to generate income by racking up numbers on their viewership counters.

All of this comes along with a severe degree of hype and fast-talking. In fact, many of the pitches today sound virtually identical, which suggests that presenters are copying one another, or are being coached. This is very reminiscent of the multi-level marketing days of the 70's, 80's, and 90's. There was Mary Kay, Avon, Amway, Shaklee, NuSkin, Sunrider, Herbalife, and many more. Promoters were also trying to get people interested in sure-fire real estate and investing schemes. 900 numbers. Chain letters.

5. I have clicked on a number of links that offer free online business guides. These eventually come (via an e-mail link) in the form of a PDF or web page. As a result, I am now bombarded with daily promotional e-mails from dozens of individuals who want me to join a group, attend a seminar/webinar, purchase a more detailed business plan, or engage in a one-on-one phone call with some marketing expert.

If nothing else, there is usually a minutes-long video from the program founder that is available to watch. These videos are all remarkably similar in the stories they tell. Typically they state that the narrator has found the one true income method that really works and that it is totally unique. And after droning on about all the trials and tribulations they went through before finding the business model that lead to wealth, and showing you all of their students who have done well, they want you to hurry up and buy in. The problem is, trying to see through the intense amount of hype to determine if the system being offered is of any real value. Maybe, maybe not.

6. Also, I have tried "following" a number of the individuals who make digital marketing video reels on Facebook and Instagram. Some of these entrepreneurs have contacted me and have tried to interest me in investing in BitCoin and other commodities, with their help and guidence. In fact this has become almost universal, with each "digital creator" offering virtually the same pitch. It goes something like this:

    "Would you be interested if I enlighten you more on how you can earn meaningful profits constantly alongside your daily job?"

    "Have you heard of stock market, Etf, index, affiliate marketing trading where you can be making $10,000 usd in 30 days without stress?"

    ( Or - - "Have you heard of stock market, Etf, index, affiliate marketing and crypto trading where you can be making 4300 usd in 48hrs without stress?" )

    ( Or - - "For me personally, I've found success with trading off BTC / ETH / USDT / and that helped me generate more than $260,000 in trading profits during the months of 2022." )

    "All you need is to register the brokerage account and verify it. Then you'll have a start up capital to fund your brokerage account for trade, I'll then pair my trading signal to your account which will enhance your profit, after withdrawal of your profit I get 10%."

    "My recommendation is to coach you on the whole process whereby you can earn profits constantly alongside your daily job...."

    ( Or - - "I will be coaching you through a process and you will able to make over 550% ROI weekly, I'll be in charge of your first trades so you don't make losses and from second. I'll coach you to do it on your own, but I will be entitled to 10% off your profit that will be my commission.." )

    ( Or -- "Well I can coach you through a process and you will be making over $10,000 to $20,000 in just 3 to 5days, I'll be in charge of your first Affiliate progress so you don't lose and from the second I'll coach you to do on your own. But I will be entitled to 10% off your profit that will be my commission for helping you trade." )

    "All you do is on the platform which you will see your deposit and profits and you can be able to withdraw the funds once it is due for withdrawal so everything is done by you, all I do is pair my account with yours to enable your trade go on and you start making profits which after this you will thank me later."

    Some have even suggested that you can't do digital marketing until you have mastered digital trading. I find that to be a very suspect ploy.

UPDATE: As it turns out, the individuals who contacted me are frauds, copycats of the authentic digital creators that I originally followed. I did research to see and there can be anywhere from a single hoaxer to literally dozens. evidently a person or group is out to scam individuals such as myself who are interested in online marketing. So beware. Actual online marketers rarely have time or reason to contact their followers and make them their Facebook friends! I'm sad that I was duped and had to go back and "unfriend" all of these unscrupulous people.

7. As time goes by, it appears that established reel-makers are slowly running out of topics to discuss. More and more, they are just making personal comments onscreen, or are putting general messages in their footnote sections as they dance or gesture in the background. There are also a number of new creators coming online, who are producing video reels with content copied from other people. - Also, many reel producers are now featuring work at home jobs over digital marketing techniques.

8. Well, it appears that the latest big trend is to make money selling courses using the Master Resale Rights for those courses.