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Okay folks, here is the deal. If you are so broke that you are sitting on less than half a paycheck in the bank, then sit tight until you have a little bit of money saved up. You are not going to make any headway in working from home on affiliate marketing if you have absolutely no cash to put out on making the thing go. Running yourself further into the hole is not going to help. Besides, the reason you are where you are now is most likely (not always, true) a result of rash buying decisions. Thinking someone is going to show you how to makes millions for $17 is not the way to go.
Quit it. Quit taking chances on $17 promises. Just for chuckles and at the request of a friend, I have spent the last few days working through several offers in order to see what was what and whether there was any value whatsoever and, sad to say, there is very little. One of the core purposes of my writings is to let you know what works; what I have found to be legitimate and also what is absolutely hogwash. This means in addition to things I know are working, such as a good quality health and beauty product based business that builds repeat business by design, I also have to report on what does not work.
One fellow has a new twist and I decided to play. He says if I do everything he says to do in his newsletter everyday, I will make $1,000 in 30 days. We shall see. I mean, he could be right. I was certain there would be an upsell going in. He did not disappoint. If his steps make me a grand in 30 days, I will recommend him to you and show you the check. No, I do not expect to have to show you that check.
Go to work if you have a job. If you do not, find one. Be frugal, save a little money for emergencies, be practical. You did not get here in a day and you won't get out in a day. Some folks, more than a few, have managed to have significant money coming in after 90 days. You are going to need a little money for operating expenses as you promote your affiliate site, right? You have to generate leads, do you not? There are ways to do this; this is a business; business means you have costs.
Scenario: You are barely able to meet your needs needs from your paycheck. Creditor after creditor is breathing down your neck. You have $25 in the bank until you get paid on Thursday - you with me? Hard freaking times indeed we are talking here. You are out on the web looking for some help and voila! a by gumption- GAH-ron-TEED program for $17.00!
That is it! $17.00 measly little old dollars, not even the price of Chinese for two folks from a decent hole in the wall place. You think about it. Naaaah. You know it probably crap. Still, it might be for real. Maybe. You putter around for the next hour, rereading and rereading and rereading. Hope begins to grow. Finally you cannot help yourself, you whip out your credit card, enter the number and what is the very first thing on the welcome page? Yup...if you REALLY want to be successful, you need THIS!
...whatever this may be. For another $79 you can have it, too! (or $39, or $197 or whatever.)You are burning a little around the ears right now, mostly because you are feeling like Ricky Ricardo when his steering wheel was stolen and the thief was trying to sell it back to him. It said he would show me everything, did it not? Yes, it did. You are not crazy. You are wrapped in the moth, funnel cloud, two and a half gainer upselling system. No, you say, then again, hit cancel to again become subject to the next discounted price.
Please do not fall for it when you are dead broke. Admittedly, some of these systems will work if you have some operating capital. If you do not, you are killing yourself and your spirit by one disappointing bad purchasing decision at a time. Besides, I know for a fact if you stand your ground long enough they will get the price of the next sell right. But again, you still have to have operating money to make it work.
Now, I am all for working from home. I want it again so bad I am hitting the sack a lot of times at midnight and getting back up at 2AM. Why? Because this is not easy. Were it easy, it would not be possible for folks to earn $100,000 a year doing it. The difficulty is what makes it worth the juice. If it were not for the fact that I have an awesome job, I would already be working from home but my goal is to have my online business matching a multiple of my job.
I am here to help you. I don't want your last dime because if I take you last dime, you will have nothing with which to work your business. This is called stupid and counterproductive. You will get frustrated and my name will be mud and if you have been paying attention you know that is not what I want. If it sounds too good to be true, it might be, but not always. Keep a wary eye on the lookout is all I am saying.
Unlike MLM or network marketing, in order to get started, really started, in affiliate marketing on some kind of fast track, you are going to have to spend some money and even then you are talking a crap shoot. The best programs I have seen out there from a professional standpoint and what they give you are going to cost you a $1,000.00, period. There may be some programs out there that you can get into and get started but do you really have the time to try to figure out what they are not telling you in the $17 programs? I mean, sure, you will get some value, perhaps even enough to make your money back, but this is not going to be a breakout program like an MLM business that sells a consumable product that actually has a demonstrated benefit and can indeed be started for less than $500 in most cases. Several good ones can be started for less that $50.00. Lord knows if you are living hand to mouth you probably are not getting proper nutrition anyways. Being involved in a health based business will probably help you achieve better nutrition as a side benefit.
As for the freebies? Get all you can get and read them. They have value. They are designed to get you on the track to spend money in order to make money. Anything here that is free is designed to help you get started. I recommend them and give them away because in my opinion I believe they will help you get started. You are going to need to dig in and go to your gutcheck and start putting together some financial resources in order to prime the pump.
These things may not be what you want to hear. Some master marketers may find this article infuriating. Everything I have written here is true and based on my experiences since 1995 when I started my own Internet Service Provider. I don't have a problem with the concept of upselling, but when you tell someone you are giving them everything for $17 and then try to upsell them to a $77 dollar product have you not just repudiated your own words? Tell them you are giving them very basic, limited resources and sell it. Any less disclosure on such a thing is not how I would want to run my business.
There are four main ways to become a millionaire in the USA. They are:
Work for Microsoft. As I understand it, Microsoft has created some 3,300 millionaires.
Work with a network marketing company. To date, this method has created some 2,700 cash flow millionaires and outright millionaires. These numbers will surpass Microsoft sometime. Will you be one of them?
Own a dry cleaning business. Yes, sir. A dry cleaning business has that most beautiful of words in the capitalistic world built right into it. Those words are repeat business. Last I heard the number was somewhere around 1500 or so.
Pharmaceutical sales. Yep. I admit I don't know any further details because calling on doctor's offices holds no appeal to me.
A $17.00 act of desperation is not going to get you rolling in ANY of these fields. So, get hold of yourself, start putting back what you can, READ (I have a list, get them from the library, email me and I will provide it free) and relax. If you have a spouse talk to her or him. Discuss what you want to try to do and what changes can be made to create the resources to pay for getting started. Top Ramen noodles are good and will kill the beast until you can afford better. I know this from personal experience.
Visit me at my Earthtiger Systems' Blog, http://earthtiger.info, where I review business issues, working from home both as a contractor or in business for yourself, and various resources to speed you on in your efforts.
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