Don't fooled by Internet Marketing
Scams!
PLEASE
NOTE: The
reviews on these pages are not for the faint
hearted.
Do
not read them if you like feeling sorry for yourself as they
can be quite scathing.
We've spent a lot of time
online doing a lot of research to get past all the
hype.
The internet is a great place
to do business and billions are spent each year online. While
the internet for the most part is a great place to buy things
with most sites and site owners being honest, there are a few
who are out just to make a quick buck at your
expense.
Now because not
all internet marketing campaigns are as honest or as
ethical as they should be, it's highly possible that you're
about to be sucked into the latest gimmick or product the same
way that people used to be sucked into buying snake
oil.
These are the people you want
to watch out for, they promise the earth and sound legitimate
enough, but they're wolves in sheeps clothing.
Just the other day I got an
email from a Guru I trusted implicitly because of how much
money their own product had made me with one of my blogs.
The email was about how to hijack sales from marketers, I
thought it sounded interesting, if not a little devious. So I
checked it out and bought it.
I was
HUGELY
disappointed with the lack of content in the
product applied for an immediate refund. I haven't
received a reply from these people now for a week and my trust
for the person who recommended them to me is gone.
Know The WARNING SIGNS
And Recognize Them
There were warning signs that
I shouldn't have ignored, but even the best of us do at times.
They had their own payment processing instead of going through
a reputable payment processor like clickbank. Then there was
the ridiculous amount of upselling as I tried to purchase only
the original product. Then there was the guys photo on the
front of a magazine that said internet marketer of the year,
but I'd never heard of him before and he didn't have any free
videos on youtube.
I'm glad I only invested $17
in his product, but I still want it back because his idea
wasn't anything new and was in fact the same technique
available free elsewhere.
We don't only review money
making opportunities, but most of the products we review are
electronic in nature, like eBooks and courses on
DVD.
Here's what makes us different
though, in a previous life we used to download a lot of
bootlegged material off the net, movies, games, ebooks you name
it. Personally though I've always lived by the philosophy that
if anything I've downloaded for free is good enough I would one
day buy the products. Our bookshelf is now full of stuff we've
spent our hard earnedd money on. However a lot of the
relationships we've built with online merchants started out
from downloading their stuff free off the internet.
Now don't expect us to tell
you how to do that or anything like it, because as we've grown
up we've come to understand how wrong piracy is. Do also
understand though that as time has gone on, those people who
offered products so good that there was enough of a demand to
pirate them, are also the ones worth trusting. We can know this
for sure because no pirate in his right mind would post
anything that people didn't want. It's a lot of effort to go
through and the reputation of a pirate is based on how much
QUALITY content they can deliver to the masses.
Taking Out The
TRASH
Another point to consider is
that both of us that run this site have been in the marketing
game both on and off-line for 20 years between us. We've
knocked on doors in countries that don't speak english, we've
called homes telemarketing, we've made blogs on how to fix your
xbox. In short, we've been around and we have an understanding
of sales techniques that allows us to
cut through the
crap and
just show you what works.
We have a theory here at 'Is
It A Scam' that says most of the important things in life are
either a 1 or a 0. We like to refer to it as the Binary Code,
nothing to do with computers or the da vinci code, that's just
what we like to call it. Either the product does what they say
it will (a 1) or it doesn't (a 0).
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