DirtyTactic Watch out for Spam and Newsletters sent through unsolicited e-mail
Sometimes you'll encounter newsletters and unsolicited e-mail that you know you never subscribed to get. No matter how good the sales pitch it is, if a company resorts to sending unsolicited e-mail, it's an indicator of how little they know about proper e-mail marketing.
If you are on multiple lists, it's worse, because now, when someone launches a shiny new rock, you get a ton of e-mails trying to get you to buy this thing through their link, all from the same guy, not to mention all the other lists you are on.
When you've read several of these e-mails, you realize they are all pre-written cookie cutter sales letters from the Host site. They're not even original; they all look very much the same, with the same sense of urgency. The only difference is in the links that, of course, all lead you to the sales page for whatever product or system they are flogging that day. Of course they all try to offer bigger and better bonuses to get you to buy through them.
DirtyTactic The Unsolicited Phone call
Once you've signed up on a site to get free information on for instance, working from home, you have no idea where your personal information is going to end up. On mailing and phone lists of course!
I get these phone calls from different companies that I have never heard of, sometimes 3 or more a week. All of them start the same way, "we understand you are looking for information on working from home". I REALLY hate these calls because as soon as the person on the other end starts talking all I hear is "Heya, howz about this little beauty right here, just came on the lot yesterday etc..." You get the idea. You can almost hear the slime dripping off their words. I used to listen politely and then try to let the guy down gently, this tactic hardly ever works. Once they have you, you can say no all you want, they just come back with "Really? You don't want to be successful? Why not?" This Tactic of trying to shame me makes me so mad; I could chew a Quarter and spit Nickels. Now I just stop them in their opening monologue, and tell them simple I'm not buying anything today. Frequently, that doesn't work either, so I started telling them, "Yes, I was looking, but now I've found something that keeps me really busy and I just don't have the time to take on anything else". That gets results, they wish me a nice day, I suggest they take me off their list and we go our separate ways.
DirtyTactic Bonus Overload
You may look at the same offer from a bunch of different marketers and wonder who to buy from. You may decide based on the bonuses, but be careful, one bonus or twenty, the problem is they all take time to learn and implement, furthering the distraction from the original program you wanted.
DirtyTactic Watch out for weak bonuses!
The Gurus may offer you, what they say, are $50,000.00 worth of bonuses, but watch out. These "Bonuses" have sometimes, been around for years and are not only marketable anymore, but out dated as well. Some of these bonuses really have nothing to do with the program you are working on, so are they really a worthwhile bonus?
DirtyTactic Survey sites are list builders!
One of the biggest scams out there are survey sites "Divorced mother of 6 makes a full time income from home in just 4 hours a day doing surveys", what a crock! First you pay them to sign up, then, you have to find all the survey sites out there on your own and sign up to them. Way more than 4 hours right there. Okay, so now you are all signed up so you sit and wait for all those 10 and 20 dollar surveys to come in. It takes sometime week for one to show up and then it's for only 2 dollars, so you do it, thinking the next one will be bigger. The next one comes and it's a 10 dollar survey this time, now that's more like it. You crack your knuckles and get ready to start the preliminary questions that come up first, to see if you qualify. Sometimes you fill out 10 of these questions (a lot of personal Information) and a pop up appears with the I'm sorry you do not qualify for this study or this survey is full, at this point they redirect you to another survey, yup, you guessed it, this one only pays a dollar. It doesn't take long to realize, you've been had because now you're getting more of that unsolicited e-mail. Another lesson learned.
In Summary:
There are also many more sneaky strategies being employed than I have addressed here in these articles. Psychological and manipulative tactics abound, but where can you find real genuine knowledge?
I'm absolutely sure, that when confronted, these guys would all say it's just clever marketing. If treating people like they're stupid is "marketing" then I've got the wrong idea, but again, they do it because they can always catch a certain percentage of the newbies. It works sort of like Spam works. There will always be someone to fall for a good pitch from these bottom feeders. I've been there.
The whole thing irks me. I have bought products from some of these guys because I trusted them. Imagine my disappointment when they too start pelting me with shiny rocks. They're pretty much all the same.
I don't want to be those guys!
I'm in the process of taking myself off the lists of gurus I no longer trust, which is pretty much all of the "wealth creation" or "get rich quick" funnel marketers, while reassessing what I'm doing. I suppose, these experiences have brought me full circle. Perhaps I needed to go through all of that to get to where I am now. Perhaps you do too. Writing this article has been very freeing and therapeutic and I'm hoping this article helps you to avoid some of the pitfalls and disappointments that I have suffered.
Stay tuned.
Paul Ineson
About Paul Ineson:
Paul Ineson is an Internet marketer who has seen ups and downs of online marketing and has vowed to help others avoid the pitfalls that sometimes goes with it. He is currently building a team of like-minded individuals in an MLM, which in his opinion is the safest and most rewarding way to invest a little and gain a lot online.
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