How Do You Seperate The Online Scams From Legitimate Ones
Are you tired of being scammed on the Internet by people selling make money online or from home? How do you separate the good from the bad? Well, if you are like me, you got took a time or two before I figured it out.
Here are the most helpful steps to get you started:
1. Figure out exactly what you want or sell.
2. When you discover what you want to sell (or think you want to sell), research the website thoroughly, and check it out. The easiest way I have found to do this is to type in your search engine the name of the company or website URL then type in legit or scam.
3. Read the reports carefully with a reasonable open mind. If you find negative reports, look for the frequency, and how many recent posts. Don't forget there a "haters" out there, not knowing what they are doing, think 1 million dollars should fall in their lap, and when they fail, the blame the site they spent money on as the culprit. The last time I checked my bank account, 1 million dollars did not fly in it.
4. If you find a deal like I did that offers a reasonable product(s), at a reasonable fee, then look for comparisons through your search engine.
5. I chose a drop ship company, that generates your own personalized website that sells over 1 million products. They handle, shipping, inventory, web site updates. I sit at home, work on ads, selling, running the business, not running to the post office to ship.
6. HAVE AN ADVERTISING PLAN IN PLACE FROM DAY ONE. I use Google AdWords and AdSense. With AdWords, you can pay a small pay per click fee. On my website, I installed Adsense, which allows Google to place ads on all of my pages, and each time someone clicks on Google's ad, I get paid. So they offset each other tremendously, and I am not paying huge advertising bills. Google has a $75.00 coupon to start your advertising plan.
7. Do not purchase the Search Engine Optimization Plans, insert a free site map, so your pages get indexed on the web. Keep in mind it takes a few days to get your site indexed and showing before you will see it.
8. Do not purchase the keyword ebooks, or ideas, follow the set up on Google, they do all the keyword tracking for you.
9. Insert a website tracker for free, that allows you to see a lot of information, like location, date, time, how long they visited your website, what pages they looked at, a wealth of information which will help you target your audience.
10. Be conservative, look for the cheapest way to set all of this up. I do not recommend email campaigns until you are making money.
The biggest warning I can give you is be very careful. For instance, when you find an product website you are interested in, be sure all of the terms are explained up front, not after you buy and sign up.
Here is my idiot blog on me. The first website I purchased is a flat fraud. They did not tell me the product was until I bought the rights to the website. Then come the upgrade charges. So I now proudly own 11 e-books with eleven domains, that in 9 months, have not sold 1 - not one. The plan includes indexing your e-books with the domain, and when I type in my URL, I have only found it once or twice through all of the major search engines. They have a website tracker that shows how many visits you get each day at your ebook site. It is a fraud, if I can't find it on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., how is anybody else going to see it? Stay away from this site: http://www.homewebsitecenter.com/ You can click on the link, just do not sign up.
If you look at the home page, what are you selling? Oh well, live and learn.
On to more positive endeavors. Here is my website, I now run:
http://www.johnsgeneralstoreonline.com/Store/home.asp
You can purchase the rights to the store for as low as $149.99 investment here:
http://www.johnsgeneralstoreonline.com/Marketing/DD_index.asp
Here is the web tracker I use for free:
http://statcounter.com/
Here is the link to Google AdWord (75.00 Coupon):
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/adwordscoupon/?site=na-ha-by-all-uc&utm_term=na-ha-by-all-uc&utm_source=na-ha-by-all-uc&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=en
Here is the link to Google AdSense:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/yourspace/index.html
Above are all of the links you need to start your own home online business. Again, common sense prevails. Google did not get as big as it is by cheating people. Above is a website, advertising, and selling campaign, and a free tracker to monitor your performance. It is that simple. Do not buy anything else. Maybe I should write and E-Book on what not to do online, and post it on my e-book website. Maybe I could make a dollar then.
John
