Hi All:
I just had to post about this because I'm so disgusted with myself... For MANY years (too many to think about) I've been searching for something to do online that would/could generate a full time income.
Unfortunately, I'm also what you might call a biz-opp junkie so I spend most of my time looking in all the wrong places. You name it: MLM, affiliate marketing, doublers, triplers, ecurrency trading... It seems I've tried it all.
I realize there are probably some "legitimate" mlm or network marketing companies, but they all seem to have the same stigma attached to them. You have to spend all your time trying to force your opportunity down the throats of family, friends, co-workers and the like, and very few ever experience real success. Most businesses of this type don't really care about selling the product or service, it's just all about "plugging into the system".
Lately, I've been letting myself get sucked into these deals where you pay some small price (or monthly membership fee) for a training package that ends up teaching you how to advertise your "business" using traffic exchanges, FFA networks, ad blasters, email blasters, etc. The problem is, all you're advertising is a automatically generated cookie-cutter duplicate of the same web page that sucked you in to begin with. The idea is, they train you to use all these free non-effective marketing tools to recruit other people in to do the same exact thing you are doing.
The problem is, each time I read a well written sales pitch, it sounds like it might actually be legit and/or different, so I grab the wallet and shell out some money to find out. I think I spend more time requesting refunds than I do actually working on the so-called business.
So, does anybody know of any TRULY legitimate ways to make money online? And please don't start bombarding me with more "opportunity" crap that I've already spoken of above. I've seen it all, and I'm started to get to where I can smell a scheme coming from a mile away!
What would be great is to hear from some folks who are
actually doing it right now. Maybe you could share your story and talk about what business you are in and why/how it works.
By the way, if you're into something good, but you can't share the name of the company/product/service until I visit a website, fill out a form and/or attend a conference call, then it's probably an "opportunity" I don't want to know about.
Hmmm, maybe I should post a poll about this subject, but first I have to think up a good question and poll choices.
Dave