Archive for March, 2010

A Guru’s ATM!

Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

Are you a Guru’s ATM?

Some time ago when I first became interested in internet marketing, I recall doing what most of us do when getting started in that I watched countless videos and signed up to numerous free and paid courses and news letters which had my inbox groaning under the weight.

I remember when online videos first took off as a marketing tool and I still recall my feelings of exuberance when I watched my first one, fully believing at the time that I’d found my future in the product it was promoting.

It was a new system unlike anything ever done before. It thoroughly trashed every other single method of making money online such as affiliate marketing, list building, email marketing, blogging, forum marketing, article marketing and every other system previously developed. It even went so far as to give eBay a blasting when at the time eBay was probably the most successful form of making money online there was!

It went on to show proof of how “Their System” had made this person 20K in as many days and yadda yadda yadda……

All you needed to do was to go to a certain web page where you submitted all your details including your phone number and they would be in touch within a few days to tell you how you would become rich almost overnight.

Sure enough a few days later when answering the phone in my home on the North East Coast of Northern Australia, I was greeted by a very friendly and heavily accented American voice that proceed to tell me how, by investing around 15K I could easily make around 5K in no time at all.

Now I’m no mathematical whiz kid but that idea didn’t seem to be what I had in mind when laboring through the initial video and filling in the form with all the little boxes which simply had to be filled in so precisely.

When at the end he finally asked me to sign up and I declined, he abused me for wasting his time at which time I simply hung up. I couldn’t believe it when the phone rang a couple of minutes later to have him call me back to berate me a little more, not once but 3 times after I kept hanging up. Obviously after the third time I just unplugged the phone.

I later found out that the person who called me was actually representing one of the biggest and most well known internet marketing gurus there is.

Another one was the guy who was making 250K per year with Adsense. He only wanted $297 to reveal his brand new never seen before cutting edge system.

Adsense????? Who was he kidding?

The above are just a couple of examples of how these so called gurus want you to be their own personal ATM’s and over the next few posts I’m going to attempt to outline how to avoid becoming a slave to these sharks even though you may only be a tadpole in their midst.

A clue: How to Stay focused!

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About the Nostalgia Page.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 5:03 pm

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This really isn’t the nostalgia page at all. The nostalgia page is in the above margin above the header but I just thought I’d introduce it here.

As a result of the feedback and comments I received about the “Older than dirt” post I thought I’d reserve a special page just for nostalgia.

Since this blog is really from a baby boomer for the benefit of other baby boomers, we should see some amusing and maybe “lump in throat” memories emerge.

The whole idea is to just go to the nostalgia page above and write about a nostalgic memory. Preferably your post should be about things that no longer exist such as the way things were done “back in the olden days when WE were kids”

However you don’t have to be a baby boomer to post on the nostalgia page.

Any interesting stories you might have about the past are welcome. Maybe you heard something from your parents or grandparents which will be fine.

I’ll start it off with a few and hopefully others will add to it as time goes by.

Just click on the nostalgia page at the top of this page or click here to start.

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Making eBay a Home Based Business.

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 11:28 am

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It almost goes without saying that one of the most popular ways to make money online is with eBay; However there really aren’t that many people who make a lot of money by selling on eBay. While there are several reasons for that, the one which stands out is that most people just don’t know how to become rich using eBay.

These videos are free. Can’t wait? Just click here to have a look.

In the past I’ve actually made money on eBay but really it was quite by accident that I did! On 2 occasions that I can remember, I bought something on eBay, only to find out when it arrived that it wasn’t what I wanted. The first item was a spray gun because I was painting a car but by the time it arrived I’d finished the job. And the second was a book which upon reading I found I didn’t like.So, I re-submitted the items and put the original starting bid price on them, plus a little bit more to cover the shipping costs I had already paid.

What happened next in both cases was that someone bought the items for more than I had paid for them and so turning me an accidental profit I didn’t expect. Of course that was just a small example of how to use eBay and I probably made about $5 on each of the 2 deals but if I was to repeat that 100 times obviously I would be making some good money.

In my case however, it’s just not practical because I live in a region of Australia where the nearest post office or shipping facility is too far away to warrant the expense of the time and travel. And of course there’s always the risk that the items bought to sell, either don’t sell or sell for less than I paid for them.

However, in having said that there are people who have been able to make a veritable fortune from eBay simply because they DO know what they are doing. My mentor Alex Jeffreys made very good money on eBay by firstly buying Motor bikes from Japan and selling them in England and then by selling CDs.

Another person who springs to mind is Francis Ochoco who was the first ever eBay Entrepreneur of the year. Francis has become instrumental in creating a series of eBay tutorial videos unbridled in detail in how to become rich from eBay. Below is a little of what he says about the Videos. Read the rest of this entry

The Need to Back Up!

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 pm

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Well it’s been 2 weeks since I last posted here and with justifiable excuses sliding from my over crowded mind, I’m going to ignore most of them and tell the truth.

I stuffed up, but more about that a little later.

The weather here has been playing havoc on my satellite internet connection with heavy rain blanketing out the satellite signal at the most inopportune times. For example when I’m halfway through a particularly large download or when trying to update my blog with a new widget, I see the little revolving circle which defines a loading, spinning merrily around while in fact nothing is happening.

On checking my modem, I can see only 1 or 2 bars lit signifying a signal too weak to effectively carry out the task at hand. (It needs a minimum of 4.) Such is one of the prices that need to be paid to live in a remote region of Australia. Beautiful and serene as it may be it does have its drawbacks.

However that’s only one of the things that have slowed me down over the past week or so. Read the rest of this entry