Internet Marketing Narcissism: Is This You?

The more people I come across who have tried and failed in Internet Marketing the more I feel that the IM bloat has been puffed up by too many scammers who are choking their customers in their own flatulence.

Every day I see some new ‘get rich quick’ scheme, most of which have sales pages full of so much fluff you could wipe your ass with their gleaming words. But gleaming words often turn into gleaming turds; the substance is rarely there. Sure, some folk offer free stuff to squeeze page you in to getting their auto-responders and buy their sub-sequential offers, yet the paid result is rarely satisfactory.

ClickBank and Warrior Forum downers

ClickBank have one of the highest money-back requests. The Big Suck is mostly poorly-explained information and prodding the poor wannabe for more dollars to get some system up and running, after stating on several sales paragraphs that ‘you don’t have to spend a dime’ or words to that effect. Having tried valiantly many wind up only making their Internet Masters more money, while they lose.

Be it the Warrior’s Forum (often referred to as the “Worrier’s Forum’ as nervous wannabes tremble their lips at the thought of losing more money if they buy another let down) or some other forum on sucking money from people, it seems these days that Internet Marketing is about… ahem, Internet Marketing.

Do your scam background checks

If you don’t already know, the best thing to do if suspicious about a sales offer is to type in the name or website of the offer and follow your search term with ‘scam’. Of course this is a minefield, side-stepping the dung of some robot golem who may be raising the scam flag but later expounding the virtue of said ‘offer’, simply because he or she is an affiliate.

While the ‘Affiliate Pyramid’ is often the cry of those who have failed, bottom line is: you CAN make money with affiliate marketing, you just have to go BIG TIME to do it. The Big Solution is to invest your time and confidence and indeed some money to get something up and running to return you something. Be it e-books or physical products, be passionate about what you are promoting, add some reviews, background info, your personal touch or whatever. But before you do all this, thorough background research on any offer is a must-do. It will save you big time. For example, do you want to be sucked into some highly-promising sales page that tells you nothing, cough up the money and find out it is some third party Herbalife or ‘how to lose your friends’ Amway plan? Forget it!

I wonder how they sleep at night? I feel relaxed knowing I am not promoting someone’s affiliate marketing plan for its own sake as it seems every man and his beast is doing this sort of thing and it’s making everyone else ‘look baad, okay?’.
“Hi, what do you do?”
- “Oh, I’m an Internet Marketer.”

Ewww, what would you think? Is this person like a real estate salesman, used car dealer, lawyer or banker? Unfortunately these days more than likely you’ll be meeting a person who might as well say,
“Hi, I’m an Internet Marketer who Internet Markets Internet Marketing stuff to other Internet Marketers who promote affiliate Internet Marketing on Internet Marketing for Internet Marketers and newbies wanting to be Internet Marketers selling stuff to Internet Marketing wallabies, ahem, wannabes.”

See what I mean?

Internet marketers used to be seen as entrepreneurial good guys who can help those like you take advantage of ever-changing technology and the way we shop and make money online. But these days, the image is tarnished as more scammers with resources fill the cloud and consequently turn that cloud brown. Many Internet Marketers who promote themselves and spawn more affiliate robots for the sake of IM world money-making dominance fail to see that the backlash will eventually swallow them whole – and I do indeed hope that the Masters of Evil cashing in on gullibility are held accountable.

Right now, look at what you do, who you help – and who you ignore. You are a mentor, you are offering something tangible that people can benefit from, you are NOT there to simply take their money like so many of them out there do already.

Beware the Internet scam monsters

Imagine all those affiliate robots out there, expounding the same robotic rhetoric, like a bunch of stomping, marching, steaming poo golems with toilet paper shems in their mouths groaning, ‘Sign up with meeee’.

Don’t let these IM guys unleash their affiliate monsters on you!

Putting the potential oxymoron aside, it’s a nasty future any decent Internet Marketer would want to avoid.

Karin

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