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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingfan.com/scam-alert-evergrowth-community-system">Scam Alert! &#8211; the Evergrowth Community System by Ambatch</a><br/><br/>By <a href="http://www.marketingfan.com">Marketingfan.com Internet Markting Blog</a></p>
Just today as I finished my thesis, I got a mail, with one of those irresistible offers - today it's Ambatch and that Mr. Kelvin Hui 

[quote=Kelvin]
Have you ever dreamed about achieving your financial freedom through publishing business yet you are still struggling? If yes, then congratulations! It is because 
...bla bla sales copy removed...

<b>The Game Rule Has Changed</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingfan.com/scam-alert-evergrowth-community-system">Scam Alert! &#8211; the Evergrowth Community System by Ambatch</a><br/><br/>By <a href="http://www.marketingfan.com">Marketingfan.com Internet Markting Blog</a></p>
Just today as I finished my thesis, I got a mail, with one of those irresistible offers &#8211; today it&#8217;s Ambatch and that Mr. Kelvin Hui 

<p><blockquote><br />
Have you ever dreamed about achieving your financial freedom through publishing business yet you are still struggling? If yes, then congratulations! It is because <br />
&#8230;bla bla sales copy removed&#8230;</p>

<p><b>The Game Rule Has Changed</b><br />
hehe&#8230; once again</p>

<p><b>Community is the ultimate answer to your question. Community is the final solution of your problem.</b><br />
hehe&#8230;<br />
</blockquote></p>

<p>Community is the answer. Like &#8220;building&#8221; a community? or &#8220;running&#8221; a communtiy? or just &#8220;THE&#8221; community? </p>

<p>Anyway, long story short, they tell you that having a striving community will lead to your (financial) success and offer you a so-called &#8220;tempting&#8221; package to reach that goal</p>

<p>The goal of &#8220;Traffic With Loyalty&#8221;</p>

<p>Well, frankly my whole <a href="http://www.marketingfan.com/a/communities/how-to-motivate-online-community-members.php">master thesis on Development, Maintenance and Increase of User Motivation in Virtual Communities</a> is just about to answer this <span class="caps">ONE </span>question</p>

<p><blockquote><br />
How can the motivation of users in virtual communities to contribute content be increased?<br />
</blockquote></p>

<p>And I tell you, it&#8217;s not about those $99 tools that Kelvin tries to push thru to you with very shady techniques.</p>


<p>They offer you </p>


<ul>
<li>Built-In Community Website Features (an area for you to put MyBlogLog script!  <span class="caps">LOL</span>)</li>
<li>Built-In Web-Advertising System (another free area in the blog template &#8211; may use AdSense or other web advertising scripts by just copy &#038; paste advertiser&#8217;s javascripts! <span class="caps">LOL</span>)</li>
<li>Revenue-Sharing switch &#8230; (you can exchange Adsense publisher IDs &#8230; <span class="caps">WOW, </span>fancy, eh?)</li>
<li>Built-In &#8220;Push-Button&#8221; Content Generation System &#8211; for a community website, it requires hundreds of new content messages every day to generate &#038; stabilize traffic. Folks, this is <b>pure garbage</b> as it&#8217;s not the quantity, but the quality that attracts <strong>loyal human traffic</strong> as advertised&#8230; and besides that &#8230; we&#8217;ve seen &#8220;content spinners&#8221; (as spam content generators are called) for the past years&#8230; did any of them succeed?</li>
<li>Seeding Traffic (300 pre-generated users &#8211; &#8220;included in EverGrowth, they can post message &#038; visit your website everyday; so that would make your community be more interactive!&#8221; &#8230; even more BS)</li>
<li>Ready-To-Use Membership System (wow &#8230; &#8220;the ready-to-use community membership system&#8221; is like register, login, logout, my profile, forgot password, &#8230;) did you know that you get all that for free and working A <span class="caps">LOT BETTER </span>and secure (captchas, etc.) in content management systems like <a href="http://drupal.org">Drupal</a> </li>
<li><span class="caps">SEO</span> Super Friendly Architecture (&#8221; there are around 37,000 pages get indexed in search engine within 1 month &#8221; &#8230; this pseudo English should say that they have clean urls&#8230; another free feature in every content management system)</li>
<li>Multiple &#038; Optimized Adsense Template (once again it screams <span class="caps">MFA </span>- made for Adsense sites)</li>
<li>Human-Installation Services (&#8221;we provide human installation services for everyone who purchased EverGrowth Community System.&#8221; &#8230; well if you need that)</li>
<li><span class="caps">SEO</span> KickStart (&#8221;we provide a permanent PageRank 4 backlink for you to start your great web-empire!&#8221;)</li>
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<p>End of the feature description of this scam&#8230; <br />
Did you notice anything noticeable among those 11 features ? </p>

<p>Ok ok &#8211; I hear you, a <span class="caps">PR4 </span>link, but that&#8217;s not worth $149, is it?</p>

<p>Now here&#8217;s the best part&#8230; the disclaimers</p>

<p><blockquote><br />
Important Disclaimer: When you use build-in content generation system, different languages will provide different results; and there may be different risks while using English version &#038; Simplified Chinese version.<br />
</blockquote></p>

<p>Of course &#8211; if you get <strong>nothing</strong> for your money, you shouldn&#8217;t expect to get <strong>something</strong> out of it.</p>

<p>(I think that whole page was written by someone with a mother tongue that doesn&#8217;t have word articles like &#8220;the&#8221; &#8230; usually India&#8230;)</p>

<p><blockquote><br />
Refund Policy &#8211; Sorry, there is NO refund for such amazing offer.<br />
</blockquote></p>

<p>Check this&#8230; this is the first email marketing offer in a <span class="caps">LONG </span>time that has a no-refund policy&#8230; how scammy is that.</p>


<p>The production options</p>

<p>A) the whole crap above for $149<br />
B) the whole crap above and a domain and webhosting for $199 &#8230; what a bargain&#8230; a .com domain and 5 mb webspace for $50 a year&#8230; <b>take it now or never</b> &#8230; <span class="caps">LOL</span></p>

<p>Final words from Kelvin Hui</p>

<p><blockquote><br />
we truly believe this system will help website owners!&#8217;<br />
</blockquote></p>

<p>Kelvin, I truly believe you a snake-oil seller at best, or even a scammer&#8230; </p>

<p>None of your promises of generating &#8220;loyal&#8221; traffic is addressed with those crappy features you deliver with your overpriced web script&#8230; an overpriced web script that has features people get for free in <span class="caps">MANY </span>places!</p>


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