The Internet Marketing Spy

Those of you who know me, know that when I started making money online I got scammed big time. The saddest part about it was that the woman who I got scammed by was recommended by a friend. Not necessarily for the program she sold me on, but for another free program she had.

At the time I wasn’t very impressed with the free program she put together. But she was featuring Marianne Williamson, the famous love attraction coach, that my other friend had recently been working with. Speaking to the other friend she mentioned that Marianne Williamson was a woman of principles who only hangs out with other people who are genuine. So I decided to give it a try.

She was trying to position herself as an Internet marketing specialist. At the time I didn’t even really know what Internet marketing was, but I knew that I needed to start making money online soon.

So I signed up for the course to the tune of almost $6000 and a few months later the class began. It was clear that she had no idea what the heck she was doing. She taught very convoluted concepts that made no sense to any of the 30 women, well supposedly 30 women, who were on the calls. Yes, this class was given by teleconference.

Within a month, I realized I made a big mistake, but still tried to make the system work. The woman who sold the course really didn’t know what she was doing.

She claimed she had a money back guarantee, but nobody ever saw their money back — even the few of us who actually demanded it back. In fact she even threatened us on the last day of class that we would never get her support going forward should we ask for our money back.

A lot of people got scared from this experience and decided that they would just avoid Internet marketing all together and go back to their traditional jobs. But not me. I wanted something different. I understood the value of the Internet because I had already have some small successes on my own with the Internet.

I immediately set to work and began researching different ways of making money online. And I’m so glad I did. Now even though I don’t make the millions of dollars this woman apparently makes scamming people, I do make a decent amount of money and soon will be surpassing my husband’s salary which is — well let’s just say he makes a really good amount of money.

And over the next coming months, I know that we will be living the Internet lifestyle. It just goes to show that you shouldn’t really be afraid of the Internet. Yes, there are scams on the Internet. But that doesn’t mean that everything is the scam.

In fact I bet that you deal with just as many scams in your personal offline life even more than I do online. For example I know very few people who trust their doctor. their dentist, plumbers, electricians or even their mechanic. And honestly how many people do you know really trust lawyers –  at least how many people do you know really trust ALL lawyers?

A friend told me that her elderly parents were charged $8000 to have a tree removed from their roof, only to meet someone else a few weeks later and said he could’ve done the same job for $800.

So in any case I just wanted to illustrate that not everything on the Internet is a scam. If you have dreams of becoming very wealthy or at least quitting your daytime job or being self-employed, then you need to just be smart, be safe, be aware and learn from your mistakes because the Internet is an amazing place to earn a fantastic living.

You might want to check out the small business scam article that ran in CNN this past month. It features yours truly on page 4!

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/smallbusiness/1111/gallery.scam/4.html