You Could Make Eight Thousand Dollars a Month - Ya Right!
Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote that article about making money on the internet! Any way with the holiday season and some well deserved time off now over, I can get back to business, and in this article I want to continue discussing the premise that a lot of the internet marketers who are trying to sell you advise or programs about how to make money on the internet are basically phonies. That's right, they are simple trying to get you to part with your hard earned money but really don't deliver! If you read the first article, you'll know that I believe that there is no such thing as a "free lunch"! And what I mean by that is that no one can promise you that you'll make tons of money on the internet if you buy their system for $197.00 or $29.00 or whatever! No one period! So following up on my first article, I received another email from the guy that I bought the first system from. If you remember, that system automated the submission of articles to various article services and was suppose to be automatic - a push button system that would generate tons of targeted traffic which it did not. Well the new system that my guy was now selling was twice as good as the first one and would definitely make me all kinds of money if I simply followed the instructions contained in the system. And of course this new improved system was marked down from $ 249.00 US to an incredibly low $49.00 US. Well I had to take one for the team here and I bought this new improved system. It used the same methodology as the first purchase - it tried to up sell me by adding in more components, in this case training videos, for an additional $169.00. Needless to say I didn't opt in. After reading through the information that I was sold, I found out what this system was suppose to do. It was to show you how to use the Pay per View methodology to buy traffic for your web site. It supplied a list of well known PPV suppliers and recommend a couple of them which I'm quite sure the author was an affiliate for. In other words, if you used those particular PPV networks, the author was compensated for what you spent. So here again, I think you can see that this author capitalized on all the FREE information that is available about using a PPV advertising network. As I have found out, sometimes the hard way, all of these so called gurus really don't know anything more than what you can find out for FREE if you do your homework. The fact of the matter regarding this package was that the information was fundamentally correct, the author simple got the costs and the time frame wrong. The information he supplied to indicate the success of his methods were either fabricated or were in fact a listing of his Clickbank account where he was selling his system. Conned again you might say. Well not really because if you are reading this then you now have the information you need to avoid these types of offers. And believe me there are hundreds if not thousands of them out there. I think I'm on at least 15 or twenty mailing lists now. I get on the average 6 to 10 emails a day from these people and they all purport to have the next big system that will make me thousands of dollars if I only buy their system. The humorous part to this is that I will get two or sometimes even three of them all selling the same thing, but swearing that it's their unique offer that no one else has - you can only get this offer from me - kind of thing. Now I'm not saying that everyone out there that is selling or in some cases giving away information about how to make money on the internet is a fraud. But it's getting tougher and tougher to figure out who's not, that's for sure. If you want my list of those to avoid then contact me through my website and I'll send you my list. Now I want to let you in on one particularly funny promotion that being sent out by a number of these marketing gurus. It starts like this - A financially broke guy spent his last cent on a trip to Vegas. He 'accidentally' bumps into an internet marketing GURU there and buys him 'endless' rounds of drinks. While desperately searching for answers to success... he gets the guru TOTALLY drunk to reveal his secret weapon. A secret weapon that has NEVER been spoken about before... until NOW! Now if you think about this, how in the heck can a "financially broke" individual who has just spent his last cent afford to buy all these drinks in the first place. Secondly, talk about coincidence! You just happen to meet an "internet marketing" GURU! Wow! And finally, how did this poor soul know what questions to even ask? If you've seen this, I honestly hope you didn't buy into this guy's crap. It's just another give me your money and I'll tell you how to get tons of traffic to your web site fraud. It just won't work and you'll be out your money. But remember, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. So I hope you got my point. You have to be extremely caution when some one tells you they can show you how to make tons of money on the internet. If it were as easy as these guys claim, then we'd all be millionaires and that's just not the case. Unfortunately, I have to say, in the majority of cases that I've seen, it's simply buyer beware! So don't get sucked in, keep your wits about you and remember, if it's too good to be true, it probably is and you should pass it up! So until next time.....Dave Needham is a freelance PHP programmer who specializes in all things PHP and WordPress. He lives in Vancouver, BC and enjoys the laid back lifestyle found on the West Coast of Canada. His website, [http://www.daveneedham.ca]http://www.daveneedham.ca, is the place to find his musings on programming issues, helpful howto articles and many free downloads. 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