How to Prevent Poverty in the Internet Marketing World

Once again, Blog Action Day has amassed numerous bloggers throughout the world to raise awareness of a certain issue. Last year I did a little volunteer copy writing to help the environment, and this year I’ll be helping an issue that hits a little closer to home.

That is… poverty. See, poverty is a common theme amongst almost all “Make Money Online” bloggers. Not just on Blog Action Day, but almost every single day.

Whether it’s the story of get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong, or getting scammed out of lots of money, to hard work with mediocre results and measly checks or income reports that are nothing in comparison to the $30k (or more) that JohnChow.com makes each month. I see it all, over and over again.

In most cases, it’s their own fault. I try to tell you not to waste money on these ebooks, and you can’t expect tremendous results for little work. But for Blog Action Day’s sake, I’ll do what I can to help solve poverty.

And to do that, I present… How to Prevent Poverty in the Internet Marketing World.

This is not a get rich quick scheme, rather, tips to prevent wasting all your money! Here we go:

1. Do NOT Buy Every New Ebook

The easiest way to end up broke is to buy every new ebook that comes out. After you buy a few (at $67 a pop,) you’ll realize that each one says the same thing. If you’re going to buy any of these “make money online” ebooks, then buy one. Just one.

(Investing in your education is great, but when it comes to these ebooks, quality is better than quantity!)

But even better, download one for free. You can actually get a free ebook at JohnChow.com. Or if you don’t mind having the information slightly more scattered, read the “Super Affiliate’s Guide to…” posts at ZacJohnson.com.

Just saving your money on ebooks puts you a giant step ahead of most people!

2. If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Is

While the common saying goes, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” it needs to be altered for the internet marketing field. In this arena which is rife with schemes, scams, and sleazeballs, you need to go by this mantra:

If it sounds too good to be true, it is!

Here’s just one example - “guaranteed traffic.” This is where you get 100,000 visitors to your website for $2.50. It sounds too good to be true, because it is. The “visitors” aren’t actually human visitors. Instead, they are just robot computers registering impressions on your site.

So you lose time and money and waste bandwidth. And if you have advertisers, and they catch on to this, they’ll be pissed!

3. Start for Free

Now let’s save some more money! You can save some serious money by starting out for free. Domain names and web hosting aren’t that expensive, but $10/month saved is $10/month earned! Kind of…

The easiest way to do this is to start up at Blogger. Yes, I hate Blogger, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a use for it!

Head to Blogger.com, start a blog, put some Adsense ads on it, and weave in some affiliate links. You could do some link building, maybe make some “linkbait” style posts for social media sites, and end up getting some traffic. Seriously.

It’s not likely, but it’s possible!

Source : http://internetmarketingsucks.com