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FIB - Scams 101
Re: Renegade Pro by Ann Sieg?
Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: Renegade Pro by Ann Sieg? (Anne)
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at 12:43 p.m.(pst)
A quick eyeballing of the messages over the past few days show that there's been a lot of problems on their end. They claim the issue is with rackservers and system overload, which sort of makes me a tiny bit suspicious. The system has apparently been around for awhile but it's being re-launched as a 'university' and you get the chance to be one of the "affiliates."
It seems to involve "affiliate marketing" along with being one of her downlines in SBI ("Site Build It.")
So... are these new tricks? Doesn't appear to be.
What bothers me, I guess, is that this "course" like so many others, "teaches" you how to set up a "business" by being an "affiliate reseller"... of products that they produce. Now, businesses do resell things from other businesses, but if we're all reselling shoes that we bought wholesale from Buster Brown, who's going to make the other things we need (like pants to go along with them?)
My advice is to go into something that you know something about and where you have contacts and forget the "affiliate selling" bit. For instance, Andras Nagy who posts here about once a year really loves esoterica and books about the kabballah. He's done a lot of studying with it and has set up his own publishing company to print new books and reprint old ones.
Another friend is a poet who self-publishes books of her poetry. Still another friend does dog portraits by commission... and so on and so forth. The difference between these real businesses is that they always have an 'in demand' product.... whereas 'affiliate resellers' constantly have to keep juggling and struggling to find the latest hot thing that everyone's buying for the next 6 months. You waste more energy chasing your tail than you do chasing a business that can grow.
As Andras says, find out what interests you and build a business around that!
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