You know I have been doing this online money making thing for 5 years now and most of the people who try to make money online are people who are teaching others how to make money. I wonder how many of these people have actually made money themselves using the techniques they preach.
I always try before I sell... and I would hope a lot of the other would as well It is the only way you can passionately sell a product is if you believe in it, if it works then you know you have a good product that will sell itself with little effort. There is no point selling something you don't believe in, nor have never even used your own techniques.. otherwise you aren't a 'sales' man, your a 'con' man I beleive in my Facebook ebooks, they ahve made me money.. why not share that with others.. A key to an Entrepreneurs success is to give.. thats why you will see so many how to get rich type ebooks.. we like to give back to people who have made us wealthy
Whenever I see someone praising (and trying to sell me) a new 'get rich quick' scheme, the first thing I do is google it - if the first page that comes up is a whole load of sites / salespages trying to flog it, then it's obvious that nobody's making money from the scheme, they make it (or try to) from selling it on
The biggest thing for sale today is information. "How to sell" is just another piece of information evident in not only the products you mention but any time you pay someone else for services in an area you aren't informed in. It's not a new concept and it's not going away any time soon.
With thousands of new users joining the Internet everday it's no wonder why there is such a thirst so to speak on "how to" do this and "how to" do that. People are on the hunt for knowledge. However, as a freelance writer I don't mind. The more people that want those "how to" manuals, eBooks and articles written for their website the busier I am. It does get a bit much sometimes though when you are writing the same content over and over again and trying to make it unique and put a different spin on each thing you write. As for those who are selling all the "how to" make money on the Internet they aren't making what they claim to be. I write a ton of that stuff for clients. They want people to think they are making these supposed thousands of dollars each month to try and get others to join whatever program they are in, mostly MLM stuff. You have to keep in mind that as long as people are searching for "how to make money online" people will continue to write about it and sell themselves as the teacher who are at the top of their game. That is just my 2 cents on the matter. Great forum by the way.
Apparently they all are working from their one bedroom apartment, placing tiny internet classified ads... like Don Lapree. Most of them I have seen are scams that noobs fall for. While new on this board, I have 10 years in this business. So I can see a scam coming a hundred miles away. Funny how people who've been around a year are willing to, "get you da hook up wit mad skilwz for $30 to make phat coin". :-/ A lot of it is not all the pitchman's fault though. I have talked to many who float their ideas by me, and many want to believe. They are like Fox Mulder who think everything they're read is a good idea, and if they throw a site on the net. Members will come, or they have delusions of grandeur. While the pitchman takes advantage of many, he's merely an opportunist cashing in on the naive. Myself I could actually DO e-books that help people in step by step "how to" sites, or whatever. But I simply can't be bothered. Sure, there is money in it. But there are bigger dollars in working on my own stuff, then trying to be an internet, late night, crazy like a fox, pitch man.
The majority of the sites people are attacking are simply MLM/ pyramid schemes where the only product is to sell how the scheme works. Whilst it is a strange concept it is potentially a fairly sound one. Yes the vast majority of people that join them never see anything close to their initial investment back but there certainly are a very small minority that do exceptionally well out of it (and certainly not all of them are con men). These arent new things at all though, selling how to sell predates the internet by a long way. The most basic old one was to post a notice in the local paper saying "send me £5 to find out how to make thousands"... everyone who paid got a letter saying "post a notice in your local paper telling people to send you £5 in exchange for the info on how to make thousands". I have to say that I am always so surprised that there is such an out cry over them. Yes there certainly is a lot of false advertising ("I made $50,000 within the first two days" etc) but then there is a ton of false advertising by large "respectable" companies all the time but they just tend to be a little more clever by selecting at least slightly subjective elements like "best ever"
You are actually much better off to sell products that are of interest to the general public - or a niche. For example if you work on a pet related site promote and sell pet books, guides, and supplies. Niche sites like pets, health, travel, cars, etc etc do much better in actual earnings - in my opinion. If I had a method to make thousands of dollars per week, or month, what would be my reason for spending time promoting and selling my "method" for 19.95 or even 99.95? If it were me I would just make my easy thousands and spend all my time having fun. This is the first thing that always comes to my mind when I see these "make tons of money easy" type guides and ebooks.
Exactly. When you step back and think about it. It's very simple common sense. Who would give you the keys for free?
I would never do a MLM and hate their spamming etc but dont agree that they are as evil as many make out. A system would make you money because you are promoting, stop promoting and stop getting paid, money saved by someone earning thousands of dollars a month is not going to last long once they have stopped earning. On the other hand there are also those that just enjoy working, my ex-boss was a co-founder of a now international insurance company that is in the top 5 in multiple european countries. Unsurprisingly a 8 figure salary plus shares etc but he still chose to work 14 hours a day 5-6 days a week because he enjoyed what he did and certainly not because he needed the money.
Agreed. I do not have to do anything else, or take on another project, and I make more than the 'average American'. I also, through automation, have cut my actual required maintenance work down to a few hours a day. If that. That said, I spend my time working on new things, researching, and reading up on things that inspire me to work on even more. I enjoy my job, so it really isn't work. I probably still do 12 hours a day I would guess on average. More when working on some new concept. But I could just sit around in my drawas watching TV if I wanted.
I always work my products so I know any weakness, then I fix it, before I let it loose on the public! The figures I quote are the actual figures I have made using the respective systems.
One down, and a million others to go. Many do not, and talk in hypothetical. Just check a buy and sell forum, and you will see plenty of "Potential Millions" or other ridiculous claims.
Making false claims is nothing unique to MLM - there are plenty that make up false testimonials for their services (seen many brand new sites with 100+ testimonials listed - know they are new as we created them), many claim to be the cheapest but a quick look on froogle or such shows they arent... the bigger brands go for much more subjective things like "best ever" as it is harder to disprove a subjective statement but there are certainly a few where the proportion of people that will think their product/ service is the best ever is going to be tiny
What people don't understand is that the majority of e-books have a good intent, but it is presented in a way that decieves the average joe trying to make money. E-books aren't a rigorous scheduele, step by step, on how to make money. E-books are more of a guideline, or blueprint, and it still requires alot of innovation and work for the customer to become successfull. If an E-book gave a step-by-step exact way to make money, then that market would be flooded so quickly the E-book would be useless. The true moneymakers online are the ones who apply self-taught, or E-book taught, internet knowledge and combine it with innovation and hard work. Sure, There may be 3-4 people that can effectively make money throught his E-book phenomenon, but the majority of people make money through the "guidelines" that they learned themselves or found in an E-book. "Get Rich Quick" books should be re-titled "Get Rich Quick (If you know what your doing and work hard)"