Salty Droid: Internet Marketer, Lawyer, Menace, or Maven?
Who is Salty Droid?
Before answering that question, let’s address the conspiracy theories.
Q: Am I really Salty Droid?
A: No.
Q: Is “Salty Droid” a pseudonym for Ben Mack?
A: Although Ben Mack’s outing of Paulie Sabol did make him a prime candidate, and Ben likes to use multiple personalities online, he is not Salty Droid. If he stopped saying {bleep bloop}, he’d be even less suspicious.
Q: What about Frank Kern or Jason Moffatt?
A: Dude. No way.
Q: Is Salty Droid a law firm client?
A: No.
Q: Do I know who Salty Droid is?
A: Salty Droid appears to be who he claims to be. Read his bio.
With the amount of traffic that Salty Droid’s site is getting, there are a lot of readers in the Internet info product marketing arena. Whether you like or dislike the content, the site is raising awareness of ethical lapses in Internet marketing…and it is apparently being done without monetizing the site or for publicity. Speaking of publicity, the following quote comes to mind:
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants;
electric light the most efficient policeman.”
- Justice Louis Brandeis
About the Author
With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 15 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young is President of the Internet Ethics Council and creator of Website Legal Forms Generator software. He helps entrepreneurs protect and grow their businesses online.
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Surely you aren’t trying to suggest that he’s telling the truth? That’s just ridiculous!
“Surely you aren’t trying to suggest that he’s telling the truth? That’s just ridiculous!”
Funny, when asked by numerous people if I know who Salty Droid is my answer has always been the same.
“Yes. I do know…read his bio and you too will know!” followed by ~ “Salty Jason Droid is also a friend I can depend on.”
Recent questions;
Q- “Is Salty Droid Mike Young?”
A.- “No, without question or hesitation NO!”
Q- “Are you {Karin} Salty Droid?”
A- “Again, a big fat NO. Read his bio…I am not a lawyer”
Q.- “Why are you friends with Salty… he is all about negativity and he swears too much?”
A.- “I am friends with Salty because I make friends with a lot of people who are about Promoting Awareness~ his choosing of the way he delivers the message is irrelevant to me.
If I listed all of the questions and answers this would turn into a blog post and not a comment.
Hope that answers a few more questions!
P.S. – Salty’s blog DOES get a lot of traffic, followers, and comments…Salty started with a free wordpress blog… he has not studied or uses “SEO” {he is totally against it!}
for someone who is not monetizing, or is not after publicity it is a great lesson for many, and something to pay attention to….
Salty just knows how it works without using the methods taught by the gurus…
With the exception of;
Provide Content and Blog Regularly…
Salty could probably wrap that up into a package with a neat little bow around it and call it an “info” product at at the low buy now price of $XXXX. ~ but he won’t, he has too much class to do that.
Salty Droid is great! He really brings out the issues that need attention. I only wish the scammers would take him more seriously.
This industry needs more people like Salty to speak out. I should re phrase that – He could do with less hatred and profanity since I believe that may be hurting his creditabilty, but the posts he makes bringing these scammers and their latest shenanigans to light are golden and right on target.
I do see one connection here. Both you and Salty apparently attended law school in the DC area.
I see an opportunity for another blog to fit into this “niche” between you and Salty by developing a blog focused on the current scam of the week that is more targeted such as Salty’s but with less profanity. One that is strictly focused on the issues and makes people who may be on the fence about buying think about how whatever is being marketed as the latest greatest thing is really a scam and how it’s preying on the desperate or naive who want to believe.
Mike,
Agree with your comment and the need for a scam-of-the-week type site. Speaking of which, that .com is for sale for $250. You wouldn’t happen to own it, would you?
As for the DC area law school issue, Georgetown (mine) and George Washington (Salty Droid’s) are two separate and distinct schools. If Salty ever chooses to disclose his identity, you’ll discover we did not attend those schools at the same time and it was highly unlikely we both lived in the D.C. area simultaneously.
Best wishes,
-Mike
Karin,
Mea culpa. I forgot that some conspiracy theorists suspected you are Salty Droid. Should have included that in the original post.
As for a Salty Droid info product, he’ll need to develop some IM guru “street cred” with a criminal history (or at least claim he was in a gang). Being a lawyer or a member of the ABA doesn’t count. Repeated references to Al Capone, the Daley political machine, and doing things “the Chicago Way” would be a great start.
Best wishes,
-Mike
Sorry I don’t own the .com for it. Sounds like you should go for it, Mike, or encourage a fellow IM friend to do so.
Just think, you could help a lot of those poor losers and suckers, uh oh, I mean Warriors, out over there in that cesspool of misinformation and WSO’s. I now hear complaints that the mods over there are deleting threads when they become too controversial such as the Stompernet thing and some other offer I read about but don’t recall.
It’s really too painful to log on to that forum and as with most forums, a waste of precious time. But you and Salty really rock along with a couple of blogs are worth the read. Keepin’ it real!
Didn’t mean to imply you and Salty went to same schools, I realize they are two different schools in DC.
awh…………. come on; so who is the salty froid?
any clues to make reading his blog a little less profane and a little more fun?
Liz,
Jason/Salty Droid appears to be who he says he is.
As for his blog content, asking him to tone it down would be a waste of time.
Yes, the “salty” language can be a turn off.
But that’s his choice.
I’m sure that if there is a market for a polite version of what he’s doing, someone
will create a blog that does it. Why not you?
Best wishes,
-Mike
mike
I don’t want him to turn it off
i just want to be able to send him an email
I would like his help finding the best SEO
thank you for this opportunity
liz
Liz,
E-mail him at SaltyDroid@gmail.com
Best wishes,
-Mike