Avoiding Recycled Make Money at Home Junk and Ripoffs
How many make money from home type opportunities have you purchased in the past twelve months? Out of all those purchases, how many did you actually take action on? How many were rip-offs or said the same thing like find a niche, select the right keywords, create a product, build a website or blog, optimize it for the search engines, link back to it by writing articles submitted to article directories, capture opt-ins and send them a five day ecourse containing your affiliate link? We are paying hundreds, even thousands of dollars for the same old information whether it is in a PDF file, online membership, videos, DVD's or 10 pounds worth of manuals and books mailed to us.
Are you unable to stop buying everything new that comes out every week? Do you find all these make money from home opportunities irresistible to the point were you order without reading the entire 30 page salesletters? What does it take to stop? Get the government to regulate all these sites? Do you need to see a psychiatrist? How about canceling your Internet access and pulling the plug on your computer? These solutions are probably too drastic for many of us.
Here are some things you can do to give yourself a "time out" or "cooling period" before you click on the order button.
As you probably know, the emotion triggered by a salesletter drives orders.
Many sales pages use stunning graphics, videos and testimonials to accomplish this.
What you can do to minimize these effects is to highlight the page, copy the content and paste it on a text editor such as Notepad.
What you have is just the text of the sales page.
No graphics or videos to distract your reading.
When you come across a sales page that shows a picture of a new home that was supposedly purchased from the money the opportunity promoter made working at home, you should look for their physical business address.
Enter that address into Google maps and select the street view.
If you don't see that new home on the street view, but instead see clunkers parked on a dirt road and a few mom and pop shops, then you probably have the address of a mail drop.
While you are still on Google, search for the name of the opportunity followed by "complaints" or "reviews.
" If you do see complaints, sift through them and see if the promoter has made a reasonable response.
Beware of fake customer responses to complaints.
You can't always trust the "reviews" either, because they are usually written not by actual customers, but by promoters or affiliates who make a commission if someone buys through their links.
If you can't come up with information trying these methods, you can turn to the BBB or Better Business Bureau.
They provide reliability reports on businesses if someone has filed a complaint or ask them to make an inquiry into a business.
These reports show the types of complaints filed and the number of times they occurred and if they were resolved.
Buyers' remorse is no fun.
It happens many times with make money from home type of products.
Don't let your buying impulse get out of control and put you into the hole.
Give yourself a cooling period by using some of the techniques we described and don't buy if the offer looks fishy.
Copyright © Leroy Chan
Are you unable to stop buying everything new that comes out every week? Do you find all these make money from home opportunities irresistible to the point were you order without reading the entire 30 page salesletters? What does it take to stop? Get the government to regulate all these sites? Do you need to see a psychiatrist? How about canceling your Internet access and pulling the plug on your computer? These solutions are probably too drastic for many of us.
Here are some things you can do to give yourself a "time out" or "cooling period" before you click on the order button.
As you probably know, the emotion triggered by a salesletter drives orders.
Many sales pages use stunning graphics, videos and testimonials to accomplish this.
What you can do to minimize these effects is to highlight the page, copy the content and paste it on a text editor such as Notepad.
What you have is just the text of the sales page.
No graphics or videos to distract your reading.
When you come across a sales page that shows a picture of a new home that was supposedly purchased from the money the opportunity promoter made working at home, you should look for their physical business address.
Enter that address into Google maps and select the street view.
If you don't see that new home on the street view, but instead see clunkers parked on a dirt road and a few mom and pop shops, then you probably have the address of a mail drop.
While you are still on Google, search for the name of the opportunity followed by "complaints" or "reviews.
" If you do see complaints, sift through them and see if the promoter has made a reasonable response.
Beware of fake customer responses to complaints.
You can't always trust the "reviews" either, because they are usually written not by actual customers, but by promoters or affiliates who make a commission if someone buys through their links.
If you can't come up with information trying these methods, you can turn to the BBB or Better Business Bureau.
They provide reliability reports on businesses if someone has filed a complaint or ask them to make an inquiry into a business.
These reports show the types of complaints filed and the number of times they occurred and if they were resolved.
Buyers' remorse is no fun.
It happens many times with make money from home type of products.
Don't let your buying impulse get out of control and put you into the hole.
Give yourself a cooling period by using some of the techniques we described and don't buy if the offer looks fishy.
Copyright © Leroy Chan