My situation is not unique. I lost my job, cannot get another, and I need to live.
Not having $49.95 to spare for every conman out there wishing to tell me the "secret" of making $1000 per day (per week will do fine for me, thanks) I had to come up with some rules for myself in order to protect my dwindling cash reserves.
These programs were chosen because they live up to the following criteria.
- There is no fee to join.
- There is no compulsion to "upgrade" after joining for free.
- There is no need to pay to see my commission.
- There is no monthly fee that cannot be taken out of my earnings.
- There is no compulsion to build a downline.
- There are other discounts that make membership worthwhile.
Most programs and systems will charge you $49.95 to join or they will let you join for free but then you cannot earn unless you upgrade, which is a con job right there. (I am aware of those $0.99 and $1000+ programs as well, trust me).
Programs that charge a monthly fee to "cover administration charges" are all fucking liars.
I was into web development for more than 10 years and I can tell you that once a website is up and running there are no damn "running costs".
If you are paying your ISP for the webhosting and the Internet bandwidth it does not matter if 10 million people visit your website everyday or no one visits it for months. There are simply no "running costs".
Any business out there that pretends to benefit affiliates but wants to charge for installing a ready-made affiliate management software on their webserver has a cheap mentality. Just the sort of thinking that will haggle for 2 cents when there are millions involved.
I choose to stay away from them no matter how much good reputation they enjoy in the market.
Rule 1 is simple: As an affiliate you are going to work in order to promote their business. The only direction in which money flows is from them to you. If a business says it needs your money to support you then stay away from it. You are being lied to. You might still make money but you are associated with liars. Read the Bible or check your conscience. This is not honest.
Rule 2 is like this: If a business is not willing to take any "running cost" or "joining cost" or "upgrade fees" - or any kind of money it expects from you - out of your earnings then that business already knows that you are not likely to succeed so it is making sure that it cons at least one person out of their money and that person is you. This is not honest either.
Rule 3: If a business is more concerned with you building a downline rather than selling its products then it has nothing worthwhile to sell. All it wants is hundreds and thousands of people acting as its web promoters because it is so damn cheap it does not even have an advertising budget. That is where your money goes. To help that company grow big while doing nothing. In short, you do all the hard work, you pay the company, and you do not have shit to show for it. There are countless people who have been burned by affiliate programs.
Rule 4: There are no secrets, no special programs or systems, nothing miraculous about making money online. Anyone selling any system, program, or secret is a liar and I mean every single one of them, even the big names. I have read more than 200 eBooks and I can tell you they all say the same fucking thing. Do you really think that a 100,000 people reading the same 200 eBooks can keep the contents a secret or the system patented? The only people benefiting from the sales of these trash electronic publications are the authors. They tell you absolutely nothing and make you pay for it.
Rule 5: There are no short-cuts. The moment a program says it can make money fast it is lying. Some programs have now started saying that they will not make money fast in an attempt to sound honest. They are not. There is only one way to find out if any program is honest. It will never ask you for money and it will give you money. If a fortune 500 company that is on television does not do this then it is a fucking con. What? You don't think con artists can appear respectable and admired by society? Of course they can. The more social credibility they have the easier they can con you.
Anyway, at present I am an affiliate member of more than 50 programs but I have only included a few of them here because they match my established criteria.
I am also in the process of writing my first eBook about how the Internet is being used to con people in the name of affiliate home business opportunities and what people need to lookout for before handing over their money.
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