Make Money Online Scams And Frauds
The make money online niche is a rather large lucrative niche, and therefore is overpopulated with both the experienced as well as budding marketers. When this happens it seems to breed scams and frauds, they just come out of the woodwork!
A case in point is all the “membership” sites springing up. A post by Lis Sowerbutts about just such a scam called Teaching Sells: Does It Work? prompted this post as a matter of fact.
The Internet is full of offers for everything under the sun (just about everybody is out to make a buck seems like) and many of these offers are weak rehashed info that is easy to find for free (you just have to learn to read between the lines when looking for information online.) Some of these offers are just scams and frauds pure and simple! I have been online for over a year now and I can count the number of ebooks I’ve bought on one hand. I just HATE paying for anything I can get for free, and in case you hadn’t noticed the Internet is full of free information, so don’t spend your hard earned money on the next “get rich quick” scheme that comes around!
You’ve come online to make a little (or a lot) extra money right? Well that is not a very difficult thing to do (relatively speaking;o), as far as researching, putting together a business plan, etc. That’s not to say implementing your business plan will be a snap though. It takes work-real work-if you want to earn extra money online. Anyone can make a couple of hundred dollars a month online, but if you expect to pay the bills and spend most of your time on some tropical beach somewhere, expect to put in some (bull-not just some-a lot!) of time and effort, at least when you’re getting your “Internet real estate” ie. websites, blogs, articles, hubpages, squidoo lenses, landing pages, high quality info products (no more scams and frauds ok!) in place. I didn’t realize how much work writing was!
Let’s take a look at some of the ways I’ve decided I could earn extra money online:
- Building authority sites: You can build sites that are ongoing and supply a ton of good useful information, you’re shooting for hundreds of pages of content here, and that my friend is a lot of work. Not a get rich quick method of making your online money for sure. ENatures Remedies is an authority site I’ve been working on.
- Niche blogging: A niche blog can be only a few pages (10 is a good number) and can make you money for years without much work. But (and this is a large BUT) you will not hit the bulls-eye (as far as making money goes) everytime-guaranteed! So expect to be constantly making new blogs (creating content is damn hard work) as well as trying to get traffic to your existing sites (a lot more work in itself!) The old cliche “build it and they will come”…is just not true anymore. You can find lots of small niche blogs in just about every niche especially if there is money to be made.
- PPC advertising: This can be very easy to set-up and run, and can make you a ton of money very quickly! But (again this is a big BUT) you have to spend money to make money with PPC and quite often (especially for the beginner!) it can cost more than you make! If you are looking to make the quickest money online with the least amount of effort, become a PPC expert. There is a lot of money changing hands in the PPC world.
- Email marketing:” The money is in the list”, is an overused cliche but true nonetheless. This too can be lucrative without a lot of work, but building a list of thousands doesn’t happen overnite (believe me I know!) So expect to spend time building your list. I for one don’t like the idea of telling everyone how they REALLY, REALLY need every offer, or launch, or whatever, hell some of these guys (and gals too) send emails multiple times each and every day. They of course have to always try every marketing ploy known to man to try to get you to open their email to begin with, and than every other marketing ploy known to man to get you take them up on “the next big thing”! Sorry if I sound cynical, but I’ve signed up for hundreds of marketers email lists (to learn the ropes, I’ve since unsubscribed to most of them) and have seen the “tricks of the trade” over and over ad nauseum!
- Create your own product: I haven’t done this yet (the wheels are turning though) but this could be a fairly easy way to make some cash online. First off, you don’t have to create an info product about “making money online” lets be clear about that! I would suggest you create an ebook about something you know a lot about, it could be anything, as long as there are people willing to pay for your expertise. You could then put said info-product on ClickBank or one of the other info-product networks. You would need a landing page (don’t get me started on these mile-long landing pages) and would have to handle complaints, and returns and such. If your product was of high quality, and sold briskly, I would imagine you could make money quickly.
In Closing
While I realize this list is not exhaustive (I didn’t really research-I just wrote), these are actually the ways I’ve thought I would like to make some extra money online. If you want to add your own suggestions-please do-I would love to hear about them in the comments!! I think one of the “tricks” to earning some money online is to choose the way/s you’re going to make your share and stick to it! Don’t have too many irons in the fire, especially if you’re just starting out. Follow through on what you start before going on to something else, become an “expert” at whatever it is you’ve decided is going get you your share of the pie!
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Very true Eric, give some people the ability to screw somebody out of their money and they just can’t resist.
I think there are no special ways or tips or tricks to earn money online. All you need is some research, commitment & hardworking. I agree with you that make money niche is really productive & overpopulated. It’s really hard to find programs which are real & which actually make us some money. By the way Google adsense is best program & affiliate marketing is good if you know how to use it.
Very true, Audrey. There still are little things you can do, like:how and where you get backlinks, which, how many, and the timetable you use for publishing articles, etc. I would have to agree though, research, commitment, and hard work are most needed!
Very informative and interesting post. Thanks for sharing this, Its very useful for all of us. I wanna to read some more about this topic. I am looking forward to you for this.
You’re welcome Watt.
If you are tired of the corporate world, and you are looking for a way to break out, you may want to consider starting a small home based business. This can be one of the best ways to gain both financial and personal independence.
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@how to make money from home legitimately cent percent agree with you I was an accountant but now I am an internet marketer and only this point “personal independence.” will make me internet marketer from an Accountant.
I really hate the membership sites. They don’t make anyone money except for the site owners.
You are right in pointing out the fact that these days hundreds of web sites are uploaded with such advertisements,(Work online now and Start making money).
Not all “work at home and make extra money” offers are necessarily scams and frauds Treadmills. So are really pretty good actually, and the best ones I try to offer you here on Cashblog! ;o)
Some of them (membership sites) do offer a good value Sioux City. The Keyword Academy for instance, only a buck for your first month!
That would work for me too Rok.
Yep I agree Nesliah.
I’m generally pretty skeptical of anything that requires me to sign up and become a member before I can really see what’s on offer. Nothing is worse than paying for or even signing up for something and receiving something completely different.
It’s a pity that scams erode the trust of customers who could make legitimate purchases online, but I guess this’ll always be the case, online or offline.
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I’d have to agree Ravi. Also it pisses me off when you are offered something free that sounds really great to sign-up for someones list and after signing up you never really “find” that great thing that was offered! I sign-up for all these lists because I just love the free stuff, but in reality they want to inundate your email with offers to buy something…sometimes several times a day and/or duplicate emails to boot! Sorry Ravi, I just had to get that off my chest! lol
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I will Monika.
Thanks for the information! Glad that I know about this now. No doubt, this will help me a lot! Hope to read more stuff about it! Keep up the good work…
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Hi, what a good post on Work From Home-Earn Extra Money With A Cash Blog » Don’t spend you money on the next “big thing” save your money and just do what works!. The fact is that it is hard to find good posts on such topics. However, today as I was search for earn quick money,I came upon this information here. I am satisfied and think my search should end here.
Its really a sad reality that these fraud & scam sites are still proliferating & making money out of hard earned money of honest people who just wanted to learn. Its good that we have site like this one giving valuable information for free. Thanks for sharing your insights!
You’re welcome Claire.
Thank you for offering this information and giving the resources to find it. It is refreshing to find bloggers that go the extra step for their readers. These are the blogs that are truly destined to succeed.
Thanks Corrinne.
It has been said that evil always triumphs because good men do nothing. Your a good man for exposing this evil scams. More power to your site.
Thanks Faren.
The online betting systems are a huge scam niche. And they’re all based on the Martingale system, which is inherently flawed.
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Most all scams we’ve seen require a registration free but promises to get you back the money within the first few days. Many scams don’t actually offer a service, but a package, or trivial product to help you get started. Make sure you read their full terms of service.
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Sounds good Mikel, thanks for your imput!
i also want to earn money online that is why i make lots of webpages and monetize them.*~.
Me too, Zak, me too.
Internet Money is actually great because it is a passive income, specially if you have lots of active websites.,’”
I can’t say enough how true this is. I always tell my readers that they should think long and hard before paying for anything. I’ve made over $8000 so far since I started making money online and I’ve NEVER paid to sign up to anything or paid for any eBooks teaching me how to do anything. I’ve learned everything I know right from the internet for FREE. The problem most people have, is that they hate to do the research, so they would like to buy one eBook that has all the step by step info they need on making money. What they fail to realize, no such eBook EXISTS because there is NO step by step on making money. It’s all work over a period of time, and things you must research and learn to do over time. Then is when your income truly starts to increase!
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So true TriNi, so true! You just got to create money-making content and lots of it.
There seems to be a lot of people talking about making money doing affiliate marketing these days, but to me the best way to make money online is to start an ecommerce store. Rather than promoting somebody elses product and making a slim commision, why not sell the product your self, make higher margins, and have a bunch of people becoming affiliates to your ecommerce site.