Comments on: Image Of Famed Actor And Grammy-Winner Will Smith Appears In Club Asteria House Organ Just Above ‘JOIN NOW’ Button; No Immediate Comment From His Publicist

By: BULLETIN: Club Asteria Reconfigures E-Magazine, Removes All Content Related To Will Smith; Famed Entertainer’s Likeness Appeared Above ‘JOIN NOW’ Button

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:31:46 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:19:18 +0000

littleroundman: Well, SURPRIZE, SURPRIZE.

The image of Will Smith has mysteriously disappeared from Club Asterias’ September edition.

I wonder how THAT happened ??

Props to you for this, LRM. Covered here:

http://www.patrickpretty.com/2011/09/18/bulletin-club-asteria-reconfigures-e-magazine-to-remove-all-content-related-to-will-smith-famed-entertainers-likeness-appeared-above-join-now-button/

Thank you,

Patrick

By: littleroundman

littleroundman — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:59:07 +0000

Well, SURPRIZE, SURPRIZE.

The image of Will Smith has mysteriously disappeared from Club Asterias’ September edition.

I wonder how THAT happened ??

By: Gregg

Gregg — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:45:47 +0000

Maybe not specifically, but they’re not going to be surprised. Same with the interview with Will Smith, it’s legit, but not like he had any idea Club Asteria was going to use it. The E-zine is a service where you pay a fee and get to pick from a list of interviews, articles etc… and then you go in and add custom content to make it appear it’s your big budget production. It won’t let you alter the content of any of the articles, but it lets you add the custom sub-headline to make it look, well, like you did a bit more than pay a few hundred bucks for it. A few of the other articles in it are by some more or less well known people, too, for instance, Mathew Lesko who most people recognize from infomercials (How to get government assistance and grants)

It’s just another trick, putting lipstick on a pig. The internet, and companies like this make it easy for someone to look like a legitimate business, even a successful one, when in fact it’s just an illusion.
I don’t want to say anything bad about the E-zine publisher, from what I can tell they do a lot of work for small town businesses and otherwise legit companies, but anything that looks so good will attract people who will use to to sell deceptive opportunities.

By: littleroundman

littleroundman — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:17:01 +0000

One wonders if Hay House publishing and the author Louise Hay are aware of the fact they too are being used as pseudo promoters of Club Asteria.