Like a lot of people, I’m always looking for ways to make more money. Nowadays, with just about every consumer good you purchase going up in price on a daily basis, you’re faced with two obvious choices: cut back on what you spend your money on, or find ways to bring in more income to buy the things you want. It’s pretty much always been that way in life, but the choice between cutting back or trying to earn more is becoming more critical. One week, the price of gas is $3.29 a gallon. A month later, it’s $3.89 a gallon. Of course, I live in the MIdwest where the price of gas might be fifty cents to a dollar a gallon cheaper than what it is in more heavily populated areas like New York or San Francisco. Even being a consistent Walmart shopper, I still notice the prices on everyday items like milk, bread, laundry soap, etc., taking daily jumps. What used to cost about $40 after a trip to Walmart soon costs $45, then $50, and then the next thing you know, you’re trying to decide whether you want to buy a bunch of toilet paper that’s on sale and make the laundry soap you bought last week last a little longer, or just buy enough toilet paper to get by on until the next payday. So the desire for more income becomes a more attractive proposition than constantly cutting back.
I think it’s safe to say that many of the so-called internet gurus who claim to be making $100,000 a month online don’t deliver what they promise. It’s unlikely that many of them are making the amounts of money many of them claim. You can look at screen shots of earnings online all day long, but you don’t know what their expenses are. This is my opinion, but I think most, if not all of them. are frauds. It’s amusing to do a Google search on many of them to read about the complaints many of them get, only to find some disinformation placed by people who support these gurus, who swear they made some money using their systems.
Once in a while, I get tempted to try to see what they’re up to, by buying one of their products. I bought one from a well-known guru making the rounds on the internet right now. I can already tell that if I make any money using his system, it will have to be some sort of personal adaptation of the product which I will have to figure out on my own, and thus I could have saved my money and not bought his product. About all I’ve noticed an internet guru’s products are good for, is giving you a little motivation perhaps, but the method by which they actually make any money still remains a mystery.
Practically every one of these internet gurus bore you to death with a half-hour or hour long video in which they seem to want to talk incessantly about themselves. They’ll have some weird hard luck story in which they either had to eat peanut butter for every meal while they waited for the system they were working on perfecting paid off. Or that their parents lost their home. Or that they had some crummy, dead-end job that didn’t pay the bills. They’ll waste so much time trying to commiserate with you that there’s hardly any time left for them to tell you how they’re actually making any money. I’m convinced the half-hour or hour long video is designed to simply wear down your sales resistance rather than offer anything of valuable content. It’s as if this guru trying to sell his product is so intent on getting you to feel sorry for him that you’ll buy his product.
I bit on one of these, not because I had that much of an expectation that my fortunes were going to be turned around that day like the guru promised, but because I thought it wouldn’t hurt to just get some fresh ideas. I did get a few of those, to be honest. I was immediately irritated when I paid $37 for his stuff (I clicked to close the window first, so that he’d come back at me with a discounted price instead of paying $47), and he tried to upsell me to something else for $197 that promised to do all the “research” and “heavy lifting” without any work on my part. I thought, “Wait a minute. Didn’t I just fork over $37 to get started on the lifestyle of my dreams?” This guy hadn’t delivered on his first promise, so why spend any more money to see if he’d deliver on his second. Or his third. This guy wasn’t done peddling stuff yet.
I was then told I needed to sign up for web hosting. None of this surprised me, but I noticed that all this guru had to do to sell his product to me, was direct me to a landing page at Clickbank. So why the expensive web hosting? Most likely so that the guru could get a commission off of the sale. I don’t know much about web hosting but I did know he was trying to sell a very expensive web hosting product.
So after making an initial $37 investment to make money on the internet, I was pitched (upsell, they call it) more services costing $197, which were promptly lowered to $97 when I refused. I refused at the second price as well. All the time, I was being told about how this guru normally charges as much as “$35,000 to give his customers the knowledge to make hundreds of thousands of dollars online.” He was also promoting “coaching,” which has been pitched to me before by other gurus. Coaching usually runs in the thousands of dollars, so I didn’t bite on any of that either. It irritated me further, when the guru suggested I fill out a questionnaire to see if “they had the time to set me up with a coach.” I think it had more to do with seeing if I was enough of a sucker, who had the means to spend $3,000 and up, to spend time with a coach. All throughout this guru’s spiel, at the introductory $37 level, I was promised “I wouldn’t have to buy my way in.” Well, it turns out that’s exactly what you have to do. Supposedly, this guru gives you sixty (60) days to try out the introductory package and if it doesn’t deliver, you can get your money back. I doubt if this guru keeps his promise to refund money, but I will give it the sixty days. And if it doesn’t perform as the guru promised, I’ll ask for the refund to see if they keep their promise. If they don’t, which I would fully expect, the $37 loss is not going to ruin my day.
As I said earlier, I did get some ideas that I might be able to apply to some money-making ideas I have had previously. But as for the guru delivering on making “fast commissions,” you can forget about it. I’ve left the guru’s name out of this in order to keep things simple. There were three others I was taking a look at, before I decided to take a chance on this one, but the modus operandi on the other three was virtually identical. A boring half hour to one hour introductory video in which someone’s sob story gets told with scant hints of pay-per-click and search engine optimization being mentioned to give the impression there was some sort of business opportunity being offered. I feel reasonably certain these gurus make their money off of selling and hyping themselves and their self-styled products and not off of selling products for which you can earn affiliate commissions. They all make statements like, “I used to waste my money on every money-making scheme out there until my brother/cousin/sister-in-law/co-worker tweaked one of them and then the commissions just started rolling in.” I think if any of these systems actually worked, they wouldn’t be selling it. It would probably be surprising to see what any of these gurus do to make money and what their expenses are. They all seem fixated on making “$100,000 a month,” when maybe all some people want to do is make an extra $500 a week. It’s all because these gurus want you to think you have to go through some sort of process of trial-and-error, spending a lot of money on their junk before a way to make money actually materializes. And because they’d love for people to think that if they’re actually earning $100,000 a month, that even if that claim is overstated, a would-be buyer of their products would be happy earning just half that figure. It all seems like smoke and mirrors to me.
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