Review – Outrageous Mastery

Posted under self-improvement

 

I received an email touting this new self-improvement product. It got my curiosity up – so I went to check it out.

It was a beautiful business model. Perfect. The sales letter was exceptionally written. There were testimonials touting the success of the program. I read on and on, waiting to get to the $197 price tag.

Oh, it’s $147.

But wait! You can get volume one for only $17! And a free month in the ‘Club’. After that, it’s only $37 a month. Groan. But I wanted to know the secret that was promised to be inside that ebook that would change my life.

But wait! You can have all three volumes for $97. No, just give me my download.

The story went on and on about a woman who had a tough life and managed to come out ok. While she tried to hint at some magic going on – you weren’t going to find out what it was unless you bought the other 2 volumes.

Oh brother.

I guess the book was interesting enough if I had been reading recreationally. It certainly didn’t deliver any revelations or magic life changing secrets.

The sales letter is so good, I’m sure she’ll make a ton of sales.

It’s a great lesson in applying the perfect business model if you’re interested in doing something like that. I’m sure she must have paid a copywriter for the sales letter. She had a low priced product upfront that practically anyone would grab. Then the higher priced upgrade. And a monthly income generator. It was the perfect application of Butterfly Marketing in a niche market.

The product itself was mediocre at best.

At least I learned a lot about being a Mormon woman. But I really could have done something more productive with my time today.

Oh well, it was a nice break I guess.

Strawberry Oreos

Posted under food & drink

 

ohhh - have you seen the Strawberry Milkshake Creme Oreos?

I’m an Oreo lover. How about you? Double Creme is the best - well, until now. I love these strawberry cremes. It says they’re a limited edition.

Hey, no one ever said that I never eat junk food…

So what do we need to do to keep these on the market? Buy a lot? Write to them? Call them? I wonder if they have a blog? I’ll have to look. Nope, I don’t see any place to submit comments. They do have a cute site though.

I haven’t liked a lot of the new Oreo products. The Cakesters are awful. So are the chocolate covered Oreos. The white chocolate covered ones were ok.

I do like all of the 100 calorie packs.

But nothing beats the Strawberry Cremes, or Double Stuffs!

If you tried them - let us know what you think…

 

 

Ocean Spray Energy Drinks

Posted under Product Reviews, food & drink

 

I love the benefits of cranberry juice. It’s not a high ranking favorite on flavor, but it does so much for you I make it a point to drink some almost every day.

 

Now I know from the videos contained inside High Energy Eating, that Ocean Spray is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to using high fructose corn syrup. As the President of the company said in the interview, “it makes cheap ingredients taste good.”

 

So it caught my eye when I saw the new energy drinks saying 50% less sugar. Plus B vitamins and green tea extract. Hmmm. They were on sale, so I bought each of the two flavors.

 

We opened the raspberry cranberry one first. I expected to taste something really tart, I mean with 50% less sugar, right?

 

It was sickeningly sweet. I was like, what the heck? My daughter said it tastes like cough syrup.

 

I went back to the label. In the ingredient list – there it was  - Splenda. That icky really sweet chemical tasting stuff. Sigh.

 

I opened the cranberry one this morning. It’s not as bad. But to me, artificial sweeteners taste bad. And I don’t like the idea of ingesting chemicals any more than I have to.

 

So far none of the energy drinks have passed the test. You’re better off washing your multi-vitamins down with a glass of real juice. That’s what

we’re going to stick with.

 

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