In my last post, I talked about me being scammed and cautioned also people not to rush things because making money online is now crowded as niche for an online home business. And there are people out there ready to devour the unsuspecting searchers of money through Internet. Ebooks are given as gifts of overpriced guide of a guru or gurus.

Well, I just assumed those things. I was scammed, that's it!

It is innate to people of being curious. They clicked and still clicking links. So, be it. If nobody clicks, no one could make money online. Just avoid those landmines.

If you could see the links up above, those are Google Ads. These ads are oftentimes parts of any web pages, may it be dynamic pages or static pages. Well, I do clicked on those ads even though I know that some of them could lead me to sites that possibly offering me ‘get rich quick’ schemes promising me millions. Yes, I clicked hoping this one is different. There you go, an ad offering me of making not only $1,000.00 a month but $100,000.00. More, a new home business that could make money online without even spending any cost, a guru offering me to duplicate his system that gave him a mansion and a car. An ad like this could be the answer of one’s dream. But, WAIT.

Those ads could shatter your dreams forever.

Let us take a look of ways of limiting your chances of falling victim to another Internet business scam. You must do these first before going full blast with your Internet home business. I always do these. It is stupidity to fall into the same trap for the second time.

1. Search with Google or Yahoo the name of the Guru/s who is/are offering you a system. Try to look for what other’s say about him/them.
2. If the site is promising you a ‘too good to be true income’ system, the possibility of being scammed is high.
3. Ensure that the program has a money back guarantee for at least 2 months or more for you to try the program and return it later if it doesn’t work.
4. If the program says you could duplicate the system, think of the scenario that millions came to know the system first before you. You are competing with millions.
5. Try to check the business if this is registered. Establish the authenticity of the business first with Better Business Bureau or the likes.
   

It is better to become skeptic first than to lost time and money with scam programs. It is hard to trust someone we do not know.

Lastly, the knowledge you gained from any Internet searches could not make you money overnight. It needs perseverance, commitment and constant learning to make it effective. Apply your knowledge to one business, duplicate it and expand. (I am still trying to do this, LOL.)

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When I put up this blog, all I want to do is to journalize my journey of making money online through a blog. As I stated in this site's About Me, one of my friends, after talking to me, put up a sales page and maintained it for awhile and I also reported that the sales page do gave us some dollars enough only to meet the cost of domain name and cost of a year hosting. That sales page (I will not put a link here because we learned later that the MLM we promoted sucks!) was dedicated for a MLM company and for some months we did have referrals that gave us commissions. As novices of this niche, make money online, we fell as victims of nicely worded sales pages, we jumped into the bandwagon thinking only what we get in return, that is, making money online BIG TIME! and without even analyzing and knowing the credibility of the company we were in.

As only consolation for us, the sales article we used was given by the MLM and we did not put our pictures and full names on that page. I just can't imagine how devastating for us if we did those things. A newbie blunder but it served us good.

For all those who happened to be part or lured in to our sales page, I regret being part of a scam. I was scammed too. We were scammed. We folded the sale page and we did learned our lessons the hard way.

And why I am telling this here? Well, if so happened that you dropped by this site looking for opportunities of making money online or for a simple reason of knowing some stuff that pays you while doing some internet writing or just by being curious of the thing: blogging for money, then you will take some extraordinary efforts to pick good marketing programs. Picking the wrong one will destroy your credibility especially so, if the first clients you have are your personal friends or friends of your friends and family members.

While doing some researches on this niche and by blogs hopping, I learned a lot. This make money niche maybe is dirty and crowded but there are also true people who made money online by helping others. They help people through their blog posts as well as their ebooks. But, be careful. Some ebooks are good, some are good only in sales pages. Remember that. I have already learned those things and they almost made me bankrupt!

Well, don't grab an ebook when they push on you too much by giving extra free credits or ebooks or programs or putting days counter before they pull off those stuffs. Those are legal marketing tricks: STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT! Mostly, these ebooks are good as junks. You could wait for some time and search for a review for those particular ebooks.

Well, we are too late a hero to earn extra money on this niche and we do not need to rush anymore. Let us try to learn and take the knowledge somewhere and there we will make money online BIG TIME!

While doing your research, grab only free ebooks from blogs or bloggers who are giving away their ebooks which they paid for some dear sums of money. I'd like to give you an example, Sir Russell Bravo of russelldotcom.com is giving away his collections of ebooks and he also posted an article about The Truths Behind Ebooks in his site. Go there and grab one.

I will also give you some free stuffs here. I love these books, Make Your Knowledge Sell and Affiliate Masters Course.

I will be giving away some more in the future.

I hope you've learned something.

Thank you.

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