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There are definitely many scams out there especially on the Internet. Because everyone is hidden behind a computer monitor and the fact that ones identity can be easily hidden makes the Internet a perfect place to scam people. The disturbing thing about it is that many of the people who are involved in scams on the Internet are considered honest people in the real world and would never think of getting involved in this type of thing if their identity were known. Just goes to show you that many people will lie, cheat, and steal if they know that they can get away with it.

The definition that I found on the word scam is ‘to defraud; swindle or to deprive by deceit’. Because there are a lot of gray areas when it comes to scams I will give you my perception of what I think a scam is. It’s pretty easy to scam someone and come off like you delivered on your promise of what a product does.

I’ve seen and I’m sure that you have too, so many products out there especially digital, and member sites, that make outrageous claims that kind of deliver on what they say but doing it is nothing like they claim. I’m sure that you have seen and probably have tried some where the sales page implies that all you have to do is buy their product and do practically nothing and the money will roll in by the truckload only to find that it will require some real knowledge and serious work on your part. I’m not impartial to hard work but I do have a problem with someone telling me that I don’t have to do much only to find that its a complete lie. The marketer figures if they tell you that a lot of work is required you won’t buy their product. While some may not call something like this a scam because it gives you a workable strategy to get there. Deceiving people to believe that there will be little work to do when in fact, there will be, makes it a scam.

My perception of a scam is when you are made to believe that a product will do something that it does not do. A great example of this is the ‘Get Google Adwords Free’ e-book. The sales page leads you to believe that there is some kind of loophole in the Google adwords system that will allow you to advertise for free. The e-book tells you to sell ad space on your landing page to offset the advertising costs through adwords which is the same as getting your adwords advertising for free. The deception of the sales page and the reality of the strategy makes this a scam. While the sales page never says that there is a loophole in the adwords system, you are lead to believe that there is.

While there is no foolproof way to identify whether what is being advertised is a scam or not there are some things that you can look for that will help you determine whether it is a scam or not.

Be very leery of websites that display their earnings. This is done to give you a picture that you will attain the same results if you buy their product. You will almost always see some kind of earnings disclaimer somewhere on their website to protect them from being sued when their product doesn’t deliver on its claims, however, the implication of attaining the same results is there.

Watch out for marketers who do reviews by slamming one product and then proceed to try to sell you another one. This is the oldest ploy in the book and has worked very well for years, and still does. The problem with these types of reviews are that they are very biased and are written to sell you another product. In most cases, the marketer has never used any of the products being reviewed. This is not always the case but it is something to be suspicious of.

Another thing to look out for are the marketers who claim that they have been scammed over and over again until they finally found a product that works. These marketers are the worst because they feed on the fear of being scammed and they use this technique to let you know if you don’t buy their product that you probably will get scammed buying someone else’s product. This type of thing is almost always a scam.

Stay away from online job sites, survey, and data entry programs that require you to pay a fee because these are scams. No legitimate company will require you to pay a fee to do a service for them. It works the other way. Legitimate sites will always pay you to do the service. The rest are scams.

I know that almost every sales page on the Internet uses a lot of hype to sell their products. It’s just part of selling on the Internet. The ones that you want to be suspicious of are the ones that are over hyped and make outrageous claims. Always keep in the forefront of your mind that if it sounds too good to be true, it most certainly is.

As I said before, there are a lot of gray areas when it comes to Internet scams and most Internet marketers will do just enough to keep themselves out of trouble but many of them step over the line in order to make a sale and it is up to you to use common sense when considering to buy something online. Before you buy any product run a Google search on the product to see what others are saying about the product in question.

I know that this is not an easy thing to do when you’re not making any money but it is very important to do if you expect to have any level of success at all.

Here’s what generally happens to most marketers. They setup an online business do some work on it and when the expected money doesn’t come they decide that there is no way that he or she can make money online and they usually give up. This is not the attitude to have with your online business approach because you will never succeed because you won’t stick around long enough to find out what the outcome will be.

In contrast the marketer who is making money will approach their Internet business with a different attitude because he or she is making money and will be motivated to do the things that they need to do to keep their Internet business thriving and moving in the right direction.

You cannot approach your online business with the attitude that it’s not worth putting in the time and effort when you are not making money.

It takes time to get an online business off the ground and making you money and that is why it is important to approach everything that you do as if you were already making money. Approaching it in this way will not only help keep you motivated it will also help you visualize what it will be like be successful and hopefully you will learn a lot in the process.

Moaning that you’ve spent all of this time and done all this work is not going to get you to where you want to go. It takes months to get a solid foundation built and if you don’t hang around long enough to build it you will end up with nothing.

You have to ask yourself this, do I want to stay where I am right now or do I want to have control over my life? It seems to me even if it were to take a year or more to get it there that it would be worth it. You have to decide whether or not you want to end up with nothing or be working for yourself no matter how long it takes.

My advice is to stop buying into the hype and build a solid online business that will support you for many years to come and approach it as if you are already successful because it is what will keep you motivated and will keep you going until you attain that goal.

Make a list of the things that you need to do on a daily basis and make sure that they get done. If you do what you are supposed to do consistently you will get there. Don’t put unnecessary pressure on yourself because it will cause you to make poor decisions and most importantly don’t ever stop learning. If you are persistent and consistent there is no way that you will fail.

I read an article over at ezine articles called how to get rich online. While I agree with some of the points in this article there are some things that I don’t agree with.

One of the points of this article states that you need to find a problem and solve it or improve on a product that is already out there. Let’s face it, most of us are not capable of doing this and it is totally unnecessary. You can make a lot of money online without having to reinvent the wheel.

Another thing that the article says is to start an affiliate program of your own so that others can promote your newly created product.

While all of this sounds great it’s not very realistic. As I said before most are not capable of creating their own products on their own. Unless you have a lot of money to invest so that you can hire someone to create a product for you, this is something that you probably don’t want to consider.

Staring your own affiliate program is a lot easier said than done. I ran my own affiliate program several years ago and can tell you that there are a lot of headaches associated with running your own affiliate program. The biggest problem is that you have absolutely no control over how an affiliate will promote your product. You can set all kinds of guidelines on what an affiliate can or cannot do however, it is the final decision of the affiliate marketer as to whether he or she will follow the guidelines of the affiliate program or not.

The problem is that many affiliates will do anything to make a sale. You will have to deal with your affiliates spamming people. If the spamming problem gets back to your hosting provider you will be shutdown without notice. There are many other problems with running an affiliate program, spamming happens to be the biggest problem.

The article goes on to say that you can’t make a lot of money without the help of others. That couldn’t be further from the truth. If you find a product that is not very competitive that pays a high commission you most certainly can make a great living online.

Research, dedication, and hard work are what it takes to do well online. You absolutely do not need to depend on other people to get you there. No one will take better care of your business than you will. The biggest problem is that everyone is looking for the easy way out. Do a little bit of work and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in a relatively short period of time.

Here are some things that you should consider before you decide to sign on with a merchant as one of their affiliates. You really should check some things out to keep you from wasting your time and effort promoting someone else’s product or products.

Check out the merchants pitch page and view it as if you were the potential customer. You need to know first hand if the sales pitch is convincing enough that it could entice you to buy. If the answer is no, move on because chances are everyone else will respond the same way as you. Besides, it’s pretty hard to sell something that you don’t believe in yourself.

If you think that the product is good but the sales page sucks check with the merchant and find out if you can use your own sales page to sell the product and whether or not you can bypass the merchants sales page altogether. This may or may not be a problem. Many merchants want their affiliates to send their potential customers to their website. To be honest most affiliate merchant sales pages are terrible and the fact that most of the big guys will make you send potential buyers to their sales page really cripples most affiliates.

It seems like every affiliate marketer jumps on whatever product is hot at the time. The fact that these products are very hot makes them very attractive. The problem is there will be a lot of competition and a lot more super affiliates selling these hot products. It is almost impossible for the average affiliate to compete under these circumstances.

It may be better to take a look at the not so hot affiliate programs that are out there. Just because a product is not as hot as some of the others doesn’t necessarily mean that it is not a good product. There could be several reasons for it such as the product may not be as well publicized as the others. The big name products generally have a network of big name gurus promoting it while the smaller guy doesn’t have that luxury.

It seems to me that it would be better to fish in a smaller pond where success is more likely and there is not as much competition and will give you a much better chance of making money.

With an affiliate program that is not so popular your chances of being able to promote the product the way that you want to will be more likely because the merchant is probably not making that much money and will be more willing to bend than the big guys.

Do some research over at Clickbank and Commission Junction to see if they have any little gold nuggets sitting there. You may find some great products that no one has taken notice of.

I don’t look at the smaller guys myself. I do intend to some time in the near future when I’m not so busy to see for myself what they have. I figure that it is much easier to be a big fish in a small pond than it is to be one in a big pond.

What’s up with that guy who has been scammed 37 times? It seems like I could run a search for apples and that ppc ad would still come up. He must be using every keyword and keyword phrase known to man. His advertising campaign must be costing him a fortune from all the clickthroughs that he must be getting. Unless he is a really dumb marketer he has got to be making money with the thing because that ad has been there for a long time.

I did click on the ad to see what he was doing so that I could add some good tidbits to post here but unfortunately there really isn’t anything to tell. What he is doing has been done many times over.

He offers a free report that reveals the three worse scams that he found. That free report is nothing but an email with three lines of the types of products that are scams. He doesn’t even name the products. Of course you are required to subscribe to his list in order to get the report. I opted out as soon as I received his email.

His pitch page is nothing special either. Same old review type of thing. He basically says out of 37 products that he bought 35 of them were total scams which leaves me with the question why does his ad say that he was scammed 37 times when he says on his pitch page that he was scammed 35 times? He also goes on to say that he had spent $4800 on the 37 products that he bought. He gives the impression that the 37 products were all information products. That would be about $130 on average, for each. That sounds pretty high considering the average ebook costs somewhere around, $30 to $50.

He also linked to the testimonials on the two sites that he was recommending in his review. I see nothing special there because just about everyone is doing that anyway.

There is nothing different about the two products that he recommends either. I know that one of them is good because I have read it. I can’t tell you about the other one because I never used it. They are not new products. They both have been around for a long time. So there’s nothing special there.

If you are waiting for me to tell you that I found something special that he is doing with that ppc campaign, sorry to tell you that I found nothing that would explain why he is doing so well.

The only thing that can explain it is for some reason people believe that review. I don’t know why because there’s nothing new or different about it from any other review that I have seen.

Since November of 2006 I have gotten nothing but product launch after product launch emailed to me with promises to be the next big thing on the Internet that will change your life forever. The newest one of that long list is Day Job Killer that was launched today at 11:00 AM EST.

Day Job Killer is supposed to help people quit their day jobs (hence the name) and promises to teach you sneaky and underhanded techniques that only the Guru’s know about. It goes as far as saying that the ebook will teach you how to steal traffic right from under their noses. There are a bunch of supposed unknown strategies in there that you would need to get the ebook in order to find out about them.

The ebook was written by Chris McNeeney the author of Adwords Miracle and Affiliate Project X. I have read Affiliate Project X and will say that it is very informative and well written.

I generally like the stuff Chris sells but I have real doubts about Day Job Killer as it sounds too good to be true. I’d have to say that it probably is. People have been sucked into this thing big time. The fact that you can’t even get to the order page to order this thing tells me whatever strategies that are in there will be saturated within a day and become useless.

The fact that Clickbank is so overloaded with traffic from this thing tells me that this product will be useless come tomorrow because so many people will be using the same strategies in the ebook that those strategies will be so diluted that they probably won’t work at all. Of course who knows if they do in the first place.

I’m guessing that Chris will make more money on this product than he has made on all the products that he has sold combined and will do it soon. That’s saying something since he is over a million dollar a year marketer. I’m not surprised by the success this thing is having because just about every big marketing name with huge lists are promoting this thing.

I know that Chris has been legit to this point. I question if he is with Day Job Killer. I hope it is because there aren’t many out there that you can trust. I’m definitely going to pass on this one. There is too much competition. Besides the only secrets to being successful in any business are hard work, a great attitude, and a lot of motivation.