2009. augusztus 28. - írta: Patai László

What Makes a Business Internet Money Online Opportunity Legitimate versus a Pipe Dream Scheme?

Affiliate Marketing is an online marketing technique to provide real work at home jobs.  It has been associated with many different names; Bum Marketing; Article Marketing; Internet Marketing, Online Marketing and if you are new to the world of the internet, you need to identify the difference between what differentiates a scheme to take your money as opposed to a legitimate Business Internet Money Online Opportunity to make you money?

I am going to identify programs you will need to clearly understand in order to avoid the pitfall of being asked for money to make money.  These pipe dream schemes are more numerous than the legitimate programs out there like Affiliate Marketing.  To become an Affiliate Marketer quickly and effectively I give links to 2 resources that provide blueprints to the methodology or processes for making money online this way.  However, before you try these legitimate blueprints to make money online be aware, and I hope not already painfully so, of several of the pipe dream schemes that are out there:

(1)    The Get Rich Quick Scheme. Easily spotted because they ask for a lot of money to teach you how to make money.  They sound too good to be true. Your intuition will alert you to the fact they are not legitimate.  They use the guise that they are giving you a bargain.  One program listed a savings of over $23,000 dollars if you simply invested $597 dollars today.  Sure…

(2)    The Ponzi Scheme. We all have seen recently how painful this type scheme bilked multi-millionaires out of money by the master mind Bernard Madoff. The Ponzi scheme is out and out fabrication or lie that a legitimate business is behind an offering using false documentation and products to deceive the consumer.  This can be done so effectively that even the rich can be taken for millions.  Be sure that who you are dealing with is legitimate!

(3)    The Matrix Scheme, Elevator Scheme, Escalator Scheme or Ladder Scheme.  These are schemes involving the exchange of money for a product.  But you will not get the product but given an opportunity for a side bonus of being added to a waiting list for a product of greater value.  Ultimately you paid for a product and get nothing waiting for the better product.  Pretty sneaky and beware.

(4)    The Paid-For Opportunity Scheme.  The "Paid for" is work of some kind that you are paid for. In this age of the computer, it can be simply doing web page hits or surveys.  They can even appear to be legitimate and you might get $.50 for a 3 hour survey or $.05 for 1,000 clicks on a web site.  Sounds pretty profitable, huh?

(5)    The Internet Pyramid Scheme.  In 2003, The FTC disclosed what it called an internet-based pyramid scheme. Customers would pay a registration fee to join a program and purchase a package of goods and services.  The company offered "significant commissions" to consumers who purchased and resold the package. The FTC determined that the company’s program was instead a pyramid scheme because it did not disclose that most consumers’ money would be kept, and that the company gave participants material that allowed them to scam others. What people will do for money?

(6)    The HYIP Scheme.  The High-Yield Investment Program (HYIP) scheme is a type of Ponzi scheme.  It is an investment scam that promises an unsustainably (unbelieveably) high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested by newcomers. You will have to pay money to get money.  Beware.  They will appear legitimate saying you will get returns of 100 to 500%.  Honest ones usually invest your money in such things as commodities, financial instruments, offshore stocks, and other investment programs that can return, maybe up to 3% daily, if all things are going in the investments favor.  A far cry from 100 to 500%!

(7)    The Payment Randomizer Scheme. This is the newest earn money fast on the Internet schemes that claims you do nothing but collect money.  Upon your initially signing up for between $1 to $20 you get a user id that will be associated with a button on the page that randomly, when the next person clicks on it, may pay you money.  The page or website will demonstrate enormous cash making opportunities based upon your initial investment.  It’s just pure gambling with very little return on your investment.  Who is making all the money?  The founder’s of the sites who are charging the initial fees.  You’d be better off doing (4) above.

The famous entrepreneur and founder of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, P.T. Barnum was quoted as saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”  Don’t be that sucker, but research legitimate business internet money online opportunities like Affiliate Marketing and you will eventually be successful.