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Exactly right.
Posted By: Patricia Griffin In Response To: Re: At the risk of my Board Buddies thinking I've lost my mind... (DaveM)
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 4:39 a.m.(pst)
>> Now this is just a guess, but as his daily emails continue, I would
>> bet he's going to be pushing Wealthy Affiliate pretty darn hard. He'll
>> give me enough info to wet my appetite, but of course I'll have to join
>> his "program of choice" to really find out how to get rich doing
>> what he's doing.Yes. That's what I did, and that's what was sent. Now... the stuff that was sent wasn't truly horrible (unlike some) and had some value if you had never tried internet marketing before.
BUT... the ads (they were well done, but they were ads) that promoted Wealthy Affiliate (with promised goodies) eventually annoyed the dickens out of me. The teasers implied you could make money with anything, but it soon became clear that the way he had made his money was with sending people this free information -- an ad to join Wealthy Affiliates.
And that was the "secret" to his success. There's nothing there that helps you if you were, say, marketing books (like me) or anything else.
>> So far, I haven't found a single internet marketing guru that truly
>> offers free information, or unbiased program and/or product reviews. And
>> why would they? The only reason they are doing this is because they make
>> money when we sign up for the stuff they are promoting.Well, nobody that CALLS themselves an Internet Marketing Guru. I've seen some solid advice that was free here and on other forums but the folks don't have the gall to call themselves "gurus."
>> They KNOW that 95% of the people will do absolutely NOTHING with the
>> information they purchase or that is given to them. So, they probably
>> aren't too worried about the market getting saturated and causing them to
>> lose money to the competition.I think it's because the information is badly written and much of it doesn't work. The days of "people will send you money because you have a website" are long over (if they ever were here.) And for most folks "sign up for clickbank and sell products" actually turns out to be more effort than it's worth. You have to pick the right products and go to the right places and tweak ads and so forth.
It's not bad if you have no life. But if you've got a spouse and a house and a job and kids and all, there just isn't any way you can spend all that time to get the results.
...everyone keeps hoping, though.
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