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…or is everyone else tired of all the ‘get rich quick’ nonsense scattered about the Internet?

When you spend as much time as I do working on and trawling around the Internet you can’t help but stumble on sites – no matter how much you try to avoid them – all promising to make you rich with absolutely no effort whatsoever on your part.

I really enjoyed this parody of those types of sites.

Click here to see the site.

I received a case study today, from someone who’s list I added myself to – a former “friend turned ‘get rich quick’ on the Internet blogger”. You know the type – I talk about them enough here! This person has gone down the usual ‘I’m a guru’ route, selling people freely available information and advice…

If you’ve read much of this site – you’ll know the thing I really hate is people who lie and cheat unsuspecting newbies out of their hard earned cash. This case study, boasting about how successful his content blog was, is full of unsubstantiated claims. He claimed massive use (far beyond anything that could be expected for the niche), without having the courtesy or good sense to back it up with even a screen shot of his stats.

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He was very clearly over-stating his income from the site, the sales of his useless ebooks, and – this is what really pssied me off – his earnings from Google Adsense. In truth, he didn’t actually state his Adsense earnings – he did, however accompany the text with this image…

Perhaps at best it is misleading, it is designed to mislead – of that there is no doubt. But I say, in not saying it isn’t his – it’s downright fcuking dishonest. I’m sure you won’t be shocked to hear that the author’s day job is running a real estate agency!

So, what does it suggest – that he made $332 today, and $288 yesterday. No he didn’t!

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Earlier today I was asked by a friend to check out whether a particular website was a scam – it happens a lot!

Whilst looking into the site in question I stumbled on a link to peoplestring.com – a social networking site. Nothing new there I hear you say! Thousands have sprung up on the back of the success of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter… But this one is different – it’s free to join and they claim that they pay you to attract people to, and use the site.

The only immediately apparent catch is that you have to accept a certain amount of junk mail. Not really a problem, getting it sent to a Hotmail account or similar will minimize that inconvenience. The principle is that you get paid for recruiting new members and there’s also an ‘upgrade’ (you get a percentage of if people buy that from your links) – which entitles people who pay $200 to a larger stake in the profit share they describe, which is based on their advertising revenue (this I wonder about when Facebook and Twitter are reportedly losing money on a daily basis!).

It’s all very MLM, and seems very ’spammy’ with your ‘make money on the Internet’ sharks… But – the key thing here is it’s free! I like free! So, I’ve signed up to see if what they say is true… I’ll be back to report on if it works or not…. If  you’d  like to help with my ‘experiment’ click here and join….

If you know me, or if you’ve read much of this site you’ll know that I have have an intense distaste for ‘get rich quick’ schemes and all those morons out there trying to pitch themselves as an ‘Internet Guru’ with little or no knowledge of the Internet or indeed business of any kind (or often with failed business careers behind them).

This is NOT my car - much as I wish it was!

There are a few people out there doing ‘make money from blogging’ thing really well and with a genuine desire to help others. And for each one of them there are a million imitators cutting and pasting their content, who are quite prepared to lie and cheat you out of your money for bogus ‘courses’ promising to mentor you into making millions just like them – they haven’t made millions yet, you are their best hope. Their sites are illustrated with pictures of Ferraris, big houses and screens shots of massive Google Adsense or Clickbank payment screens (the names always blocked out in an attempt to make you believe it’s actually theirs – trust me its not).

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