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WHAT CONSTITUTES A SCAM?

DayJobNuker — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:47:48 +0000

First of all, the biggest scam or scheme of 2009 is not going to involve Bernie Madoff who stole over 50 billion dollars from his clients. By far the biggest scam of the year, and in the history of the United States, is a little something called the stimulus bill of 2009. Never before have the taxpayers of America been scammed out of trillions of dollars. But hey, we voted for the guy for President right, so who is really suprised? You get what you vote for.

Now on to the topic of work from home jobs and online money making scams. There are so many different programs, schemes, systems, and ways to make money ebooks out there that is is hard to differentiate the real ones from the “scams”. If there were only one way to make money online, it would be easy to tell which ones worked and which didn’t. But there are about a million ways one can go about making money on the Internet and just about as many opinions. What might work for one person might not work as well for another. Just because something doesn’t work for someone doesn’t necessarily make it a scam.

There is an online money making system / membership site called Site Build It. Now, right from the start I want to say I know very little about it other than I have looked at it in the past, seen the hefty $300 price tag, and run the other way. There is a new review here -> Site Build It Review that seems to be creating quite a stir. The comments following the article are where all the action is and where things really get interesting. It appears all the folks from Site Build It have banded together to defend their “community” and are attacking anyone who criticizes their beloved overpriced product. The comments after the review are vicious and relentless. Kind of reminds me of the Liberal left in this country.

To me, a scam is something where you buy into a product or idea and have no chance of getting anything out of it. For instance if you want to work from home stuffing envelopes then you will no doubt get scammed. Another typical scam is assembling products from home and now there is a another scam called Google jobs. These ”ways to make money” are not real and they are set up and carried out by someone who’s sole intention is to take your money and give you nothing in return and no way to recoup your losses.

Site Build it doesn’t seem to fit this model at any level. From what I can tell, it is just a way overpriced place for newbies to try to get started making money online. For $300 per year you get a domain and access to a membership site where you supposedly have lots of information that will get you started. Then if you want a second website it is another $300! A third website will cost you another $300! WOW! Have they ever heard of free Blogger blogs? Would anybody who has any experience making money online ever join? Definitely not. Is it worth $300 per year for what you get? It could conceivebly be worth it for the first domain because you get the membership site but $300 for each additional domain / website? LOL LOL

It seems though, that if you are persistent and take it seriously, you can probably make money with Site Build It. They don’t just take your money and run or give you absolutely nothing in return like a real scam would. What they give you is extremely overpriced, but they do give you a means to succeed if you really want to and are willing to put in the time. Whether it is enough to overcome your $300 starting hole you have dug yourself is open to opinion.

My opinion is that Site Build It is not a scam but just another one of the many online programs set up to overcharge noobs because they just don’t know any better. When you are naive and clueless, you are always open to being taken advantage of and overpaying for things. Kind of like where we are in this country right now with the bailout. Are the bailouts a scam? I sure think so. Is the stimulus bill a scam. I know that one is.

How I Made My First $2,000 In Affiliate Marketing – A Step By Step Guide

DayJobNuker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:37:55 +0000

I hate ebooks about how to make money online. You see them everywhere and they range in price from single digits all the way into the thousands. The authors all claim to have the best and only “system” or ways to make money you will ever need. If you think about it, why are they offering to tell you their secret and not just doing it themselves? Is it because they can make more by selling their “system” than they can by actually doing their system?

I have bought a handful of these work from home jobs books, just like you probably have, and never once did I feel that I got very much of value in return. Most ebooks will give you nothing more than a lot of general information that you can find online for free. The fact is that half of these ebooks are probably written by people who’s only source of income online is selling the very book you just bought! They probably don’t know much more than you do other than how to gather information off the Internet and put it into ebook form.

The prices they charge for their ebooks on how to make money online is often ridiculous. How many times have you bought a book in Barnes & Noble for $27.00 or more? I never have and it would have to be a very thick good looking book that I have skimmed right there in the store for me to shell out that kind of money. Why then are people willing to spend that on an Internet download that they know nothing about other than the authors trumped up sales pitch on how he is going to teach you better than anyone else how to make money online?

I frequent the “make money forums” and continually see posts from people who are frustrated and have yet to make a dime. Some have been trying for a week, others for 6 months, and some even for years. This post of how I made my first $2,000 online is for you. It is for anyone and everyone who is and has been frustrated by Internet marketing and just doesn’t know where to start. It shows that it can be done by someone who knows absolutely nothing.

This is an actual STEP BY STEP guide of how I made my first $2000 in affiliate marketing. My methods were a bit primitive but nevertheless I did it and I made that money without spending a dime. This is EXACTLY how I did it and I want to say again I did it with ZERO out of pocket expense to me and that I did it in about 3 1/2 months time. Not too bad for an absolute beginner.

STEP ONE

Pick an affiliate product to sell. This unfortunately may be one of the hardest steps and you could fail on your first try. There are so many products to choose from and so few ways to find out which ones are selling and may be the right ones for you to try to sell. I suggest signing up at ClickBank or Commission Junction. You want to make sure that the first product or products you try to sell are not Internet marketing related. Selling “how to make money online” products is almost impossible when you yourself don’t know how to do it. Leave that to the more experienced people.

You want to start out selling things to people who are less apt to understand that you are trying to sell them something so that you can get a commission. My parents, for example, would be a great target audience. They have no idea that some links are affiliate links and others are not.

My first products were the two Warcraft guides (Joana’s and Brian Kopp’s) which are sold through ClickBank. I might have gotten lucky that Warcraft was one of the especially hot online RPG games at that time (that’s why I chose them) and within about 2 weeks of starting I was making an average of about a sale a day. Not everyday was the same, some days I might have made 3 sales and other days none, but one a day was the average.

I then diversified a little and also started selling some health related items from Commission Junction. Those were targeted at women who I thought might be a little less likely to know about or care about what an affiliate link was.

Step Two

After you have selected a product that you would like to sell, you need a destination for your prospective buyers to go. You need a webpage of some sort. I wanted to start out for free and therefore did not want to buy a domain. I did not know how to buy a domain and if I got one would not have known what to do with it. I had heard so much about WordPress and Blogger as being great free blogging platforms that I signed up with both of them. I must say that I did not know anything about their terms of service and I still don’t (I don’t need to anymore because I have my own domains). I have heard that some users have had their accounts terminated for having too many affiliate links on their free blogs. Just remember that if you open up a free blog you really don’t own it. Keep that in mind before you spend too much time making it look just perfect.

(Since I wrote this I have been told that affiliate links are against the TOS for WordPress. Nevertheless, I got away with it but you should try Blogger instead. Just do a similar thing with Blogger as I have outlined below)

Step Three

I started with WordPress so I will use them as an example. Click on the “sign up now” button which will take you to a screen that will ask you for a username, password, and email address. Pick your username and password and type in your email and click the “Next” button. You will be taken to a page that looks like this:

This page is where you will choose your blog name (domain). Pick a name that is sort of neutral. In other words, pick a name that can go with any product you may decide to sell such as “reviewsite” or “reviewweb”. Don’t pick a name like “JoesBlog” because that will look strange if you are promoting things on it. Finish filling out that page and press “Signup”. If you have no errors and have picked a blog name that no one else has then it will take you to the final page that looks like the picture below.

Step Four

Now that you have a blog and have named it, the next step is to choose a layout for your blog. You will need to get into the “Dashboard” of your blog and click on the “Presentation” tab along the top. Once you do that you will find about 5 pages of thumbnail pictures of the different blog layouts you can choose from. I suggest choosing one that looks the simplest and the least like a “blog’ that you can find. I have had success with the “WordPress Classic” theme that is shown on the 5th page (at the time of this writing) of the blog layout choices.

Click on the theme you decide is best (you can easily change it if you decide to later) and then click the “Activate This Theme” in the upper right hand corner. Another good theme you might try is the “White As Milk” theme on the same page.

Step Five

The next thing I did was to make a landing page on my blog where the visitors would “land” and hopefully click my link to the seller’s ad. For this I did a lot of copying and pasting. I went to Brian Kopp’s Warcraft front sales page and copied sections of his page and then pasted it on to mine. I had to do a lot of tinkering with this as things don’t always copy/paste as you want them to. Centering things and aligning them was another challenge for me as a beginner but with a lot of trial and error I got it to look OK.

To get the page as clean as possible I had to delete everything I could find like the default post and the blogroll. I then had to click the “presentation” tab and then the “widgets” sub-tab to get to the sidebar. I then dragged the “links” widget up into the sidebar which got rid of some of the other stuff on the side of the blog. Also, go here if you need to know how to make a basic hyperlink.

For this tutorial I have opened up a free WordPress blog (called “reviewmeplease”) and I have recreated the exact landing page I made when I first started out. It is not for the Warcraft guide but for another ClickBank product. Click HERE to see that example of the landing page I made for the “Stop Sweating and Start Living” ebook. All the affiliate links have been disabled. It looks like WordPress shut this example blog down even though I had no links on it. This is why you need to use Blogger or have your own domain.

This is not the best landing page you will ever see and in fact it is quite poor. However, I did it all for free and that was what I wanted. I hoped that I could get a few potential buyers to my page and they would be interested enough in learning the “Stop Sweating” secret that they would click through to the more professional seller’s page. Once there, it was up to the seller to make the sale. My job was just to get them there.

Step Six

Now I had to get targeted traffic to my site/blog/landing page(s). I used Craigslist exclusively for this. You have to make sure you post your ads in the correct sections or they will get flagged for sure. In the case of the Stop Sweating product I posted my ad under “Services Offered’ and then “Beauty Services” and it looked something like this:

Do Away With Those Underarm Sweat Problems (Title)

This book will reveal a 100% all-natural step by step
process that you can use to quickly and easily
eliminate your underarm sweat problems forever.

Please click HERE for more information.

I made 5 variations of this ad which was quite easy to do and I had each variation on an Excell spreadsheet. I would then make a post of each ad variation in five different cities. I could then change Craigslist email accounts (I had 10 of them) and make the same posts again in 5 more cities. I had to be very careful not to get too ambitious and post too much as I would then run the risk of having every ad flagged and deleted. You can read my article about how to post to multiple cities on Craigslist to see how I did it.

That is exactly how I made my first $2,000 dollars in affiliate marketing without spending a dime. I just kept posting on Craigslist which brought free targeted traffic to my blog/ad and sales started trickling in. I was making $16+ per sale of the Warcraft guides and $20 to $25 on a couple other health related products. It took about 3 1/2 months from my first sale to make $2000.00 and my expenses were ZERO.

It was very beneficial for me to start for free as I needed to build up my confidence. In the very beginning, I was a pure 100% newbie and I did not know whether I could ever make a sale. I had to find out somehow and I certainly didn’t want to spend hundreds of dollars in the process. I learned a lot and figured out that, yes, you can make money online after all.

As I previously mentioned, I believe the biggest challenge is picking the right product. It remains that way for me to this day. Again I stress to pick products that will appeal to the general public – the everyday man or woman. DO NOT TRY TO SELL THINGS TO THE MAKE MONEY ONLINE INTERNET MARKETING CROWD.

The sheer number of products available to try to sell makes the decision tough. My related article discusses how you can test affiliate products on Cragslist for free. Craigslist is a wonderful resource if you learn how to use it but it requires patience as some of your ads will be flagged and deleted no matter what you do. Just remember that it is free and “free” is a very nice cost.

I hope you have gotten some value from this step by step guide to how I made my first sales in Internet marketing. There are many ways to get started but this one worked for me. Let me know if you have any questions or comments by leaving me a note in the “comments” field.

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PROJECT PAYDAY REVIEW – INCENTIVIZED FREEBIE WEBSITES (IFW) – Part 3

DayJobNuker — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:40:22 +0000

This is part 3 of a 3 part Project Payday Review and an explanation of how incentivized Freebie Websites work. Good money can be made if you know how and you don’t even need a website to do it! You can now get Project Payday for free by just clicking my link and giving them your email address. They will then email you to let you know how you can get it for free. Please read Project Payday review part 1 and Project Payday review part 2 if you haven’t already.
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In parts 1 and 2 I covered the basics of freebie websites and discussed how to get started and maybe make a little money. Now it is time to make the bigger money by “jumping the fence”. This is the part I like as this website’s name and purpose is all about nuking your job and working for yourself!

When you are a complete beginner, you pretty much have to learn the ropes by fulfilling other peoples referrals and learning as much as you can. Project Payday is free and will help you with this. You have to fulfill one offer yourself on every website anyway before you can yourself go for the bigger dollars and items. Once you do that one offer though, you are free to go recruit your own helpers.

This is definitely where the good money is made. Would you rather be a little worker bee fulfilling offers for someone else or would you rather have a whole horde of newbies working for you? Some of the successful traders do this full time and spend most of their day trying to find others to work for them.

At first it would be smart to choose the smaller prizes or cash amount so that you can make sure you are not juggling too many plates at the same time. As a trader, you will want to learn everything you can because if you are going to be successful at finding newbies willing to work for you and fulfill offers for you, you will often have to walk them through it. You will be the one paying them the money and leading the way therefore the more you know the better.

Once you get the hang of it and build your reputation and PayPal account up, you can start going for the three, four, and five hundred dollar cash prizes. Then you will be needing as many as 10 different referrals and you will have to make sure you can deal with that many people and have everything go smoothly.

Once you reach the stage where you are the trader, you no longer have to worry about credit card bills, keeping track of offers, and remembering to cancel the offers you signed up for. You will do everything through PayPal including paying those people working for you and getting paid by the referral websites. Your only challenge will be setting up shop in the forum, recruiting others to work for you, making sure they understand what to do, and keeping track of them.

If done correctly you can make well over a thousand a month with only a minimal amount of work. Some people make over $2000 a month. As with any job, though, the more you learn and the more work you put into it the more you can make. There are many different freebie websites to get involved with and many of them allow you to do unlimited offers. If you do it correctly it is like running your own little business.

I hope this Project Payday review has been instructive and sheds some light on incentivised freebie websites and their money making potential. Some people have turned it into a work from home job. Remember to read as much as you can and get help with Project Payday before you get in over your head if you decide to give it a try.

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