Real World Businesses and the Make Money SCAM!

Posted on 11. Jun, 2007 by Dave in Business

This is something I fell for in my once desperation for Internet Wealth. At times It was just curiosity (could it be done) I was interested in seeing if any of these so called techniques worked in making easy money. While some do work in the short term you will end up chasing the latest techniques, never really getting anywhere in your dream to make a living online. I have spent money on eBooks that promise the earth but deliver very little. What this has enabled to do is learn how to ignore this false world and stop listening to these guys. I know more than them, I don’t need to buy their stuff!

If I could give you one bit of solid advice it would be to stay away from Internet Marketing (ClickBank Products) no matter how much you start to enjoy it! – you’ll end in the forums, following the sheep, being lied too, buying stupidly over-hyped products which ultimately lead to nothing. You have been warned!

Internet Marketers have built this false world up where money comes easy (over-night). Once you’re in their world it can be hard to get out, but you must. They seduce you with NLP words and emotionally targeted words, this is how they build a solid following of naive money makers who buy the products they pump out every month! These guys will keep buying their Shit and making them more and more rich. It’s like a drug to the GOO-RUU the more the sheep buy the more they pump out.

In the real world, you follow a simple formula, a process that has no secret tricks, no special piece of software to make you rich. You get an idea and make it happen with hard work and determination, the rest you’ll learn along the way. I will try and give out as much knowledge as I know on the Industry as a whole but the rest is up to you.

A real world, solid business whether off or online takes work, hard work to get started and run, but once you’ve done this the rewards can be Astounding!

The new POLL has begun – Real World Business or Make Money Products?

The last poll was an astounding overall victory for “Consumers are People Too” (funnily enough) 67% of you have the right qualities when it comes to making a living online in my opinion. Customers/Consumers are me and you, treat them no differently in business. The other 24% of you – you should be ashamed of yourself!

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12 Comments

admin

11. Jun, 2007

I think Clickbank has an obligation to make sure due diligence is done when accepting new products. Possibly this may or may not be the case (who knows for sure?)

The fact is, a lot of products on there marketplace have very, very dubious content.

Alex said: What about StomperNet or Perry Marshall and John Reese? Are they thinly diguised scam artists too? The likes of StomperNet, Perry Marshall, John Reese to name but a few, it’s difficult to say as I have never studied or bought anything from them. I would say, start a business without the intervention of an Internet Marketer. It’s simple STOP LISTENING! start DOING!

They are highly trained Marketers and are very clever at what they do – I suggest reading all Marketers are liars :)

Jeremy Steele

11. Jun, 2007

One thing I am curious about is how ClickBank operates without being shut down by govt.? The thing has so many scams being sold through it and a lot of pyramid schemes as well.

Alex Goad

11. Jun, 2007

Where does one draw the line?

What about StomperNet or Perry Marshall and John Reese? Are they thinly diguised scam artists too?

How do you tell the difference?

admin

12. Jun, 2007

John, I realise how this looked, but if you check again I was referring to what Alex Goad had mentioned.

I forgot to put in the reference to Alex Goad, which I have now done :)

Shane

12. Jun, 2007

I’ve seen some scary stuff in the world of offline business as well. One guy I know of had a briefcase of “contracts” ready to be fulfilled. He peddled that stuff around and sold his “services” to many companies for about 5 years.

I’ve also seen guys raise millions in private investment capital and have nothing to show for it after a few years.

Snakeoil salesmen have been around as long as snakes have. And they’ll probably be selling the dream long after all the snakes are long gone.

John

12. Jun, 2007

Adie said: “The likes of StomperNet, Perry Marshall, John Reese to name but a few…I it’s difficult to say as I have never studied or bought anything from them.”

So why mention them in this context? It sounds to me like you’ve made a judgement without any facts…

However out of those three, I’ve only come across Perry Marshall’s definitive guide to adwords which is a good product for those that don’t know how to use adwords.

The others I just couldn’t say…

I’d have to agree with Shane, I’ve come across plenty of snakeoil salesmen offline too.

John

12. Jun, 2007

Adie,

Ah, I missed that. Well the start my comment doesn’t make much sense now either… :-)

Community Building Blog

13. Jun, 2007

What exactly do you consider a ‘real business’? I don’t promote ClickBank products, but I don’t sell tangible products either; I sell advertising on my sites – does this fall into your definition of a ‘real business’?!?

- Martin Reed

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03. Jul, 2007

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28. Feb, 2008

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