14 ways to spot a fake “guru” from a thousand laptops away!

This is an easy drill. Why? Because the fakes outnumber the real guys by ten to one!

But how can you tell the difference?

1. They send you dishonest or miss-leading emails, such as:
   
   “Thank you for your order – it's free!”......but you didn't place one.
   “Urgent, re your new website – it's live!”... but you have to sign up and pay for it.
   “You just earned a commission!”...then they add, “if you do (blah) you will see this message.”
   “Your commission check is ready.”....but there isn't one.
   “Click here to confirm your payment information is correct.”... but there is no payment.
   
   These are all actual emails I have received and are “guru” tricks to get you to open their emails.
   
   
2. Their video is dramatic and runs like the trailer for a blockbuster movie. You are electrified!
   
   
3. THEY INSIST THAT YOU NEED NO technical knowledge!
   
   
4. They make it all sound so easy any newbie could do it.
   
   
5. Their program costs no more than $37.00 and if you reject it they will give you a $10.00 or even $20.00 discount. (Do you really believe a program costing $17.00 is going to change your life? Just wait for the up-sell.)
   
   
6. They tell you their program will work for a newbie as well as for an experienced professional

(but if it interests the pro it will be way over the head of the newbie, and vice-versa.)

7. They show you screen shots of their accounts earning them huge sums of money. (Easily faked)

8. They 'forget' to mention you need to buy a domain name and web hosting to access their “free” website.


9. They never say anything is just “free.”. No, it's “absolutely free” or “totally completely free” or “guaranteed totally absolutely free.” (There is a catch coming up. The more adjectives in the phrase the more it will actually cost!)


7. 10. Their sales letter (copy) is loaded with hype and superlatives. Example: Instead of saying, “You could make some good money with this” … they say things like, “money will flood/gush/pour like an avalanche, bursting into your bank account until your bank manager phones you up implying that you are selling drugs!!”
   
   
8. 11. Their video may start with the presenter driving up to a fancy mansion in an exotic car. (Probably rented for the day.)
9. 
   12. Once you buy the program you will be hit with a “must buy” up-sell that is going to cost you another $200.00.
   
   
   1. 13. They talk a lot about how much you can make but say little or nothing about what you will have to DO to make it.
      
      
   OK! I could go on because there is more, but I'm sure you get the picture. The bottom line is the “gurus” k now what you want to hear so that is what they tell you even though it isn't remotely close to reality! They have one object in mind. To SELL you something!
   
   There is no free lunch my friend! If you want to achieve the Internet Lifestyle you WILL have to acquire some skill in this industry and actually do some work. You know this is true and you know you CAN tell the hype from the truth, with the help of this checklist!
   
   
10. 14. Now this last point is the 'acid' test. Ask yourself what product or service will you have to deliver and in what quantity for you to get all the money you are expecting. If you can't figure this out it's a scam for sure!
    
    The way to wealth is to over deliver!
    
    Of course we all secretly want the easy life and want to be told it's out there to be had for little or no effort. I'm sorry if I'm bursting your bubble but wouldn't you really rather know the truth?
    Ask anyone who has truly succeeded in life (by whatever standard you chose) and they will tell you it took a lot of hard work! At least with the Internet you know that if you get it right the rewards can be huge!
    
    Brian WINGATE
    Tujunga, CA
    30 Dec 2012
    
    
    

Getting Started Selling Online - Costs!

For the purpose of this article we are going to assume that you already have a computer, an internet connection and a location to work from - even if it is the local Starbucks!
Now let's have a look at what else you will need to get started and what it will cost. I am going to assume that you are (almost) as broke as I was when I started and that you are not ashamed to take a freebie if you can get it.

First and foremost you must have a web presence: in other words a website or blog. There are places on the web where you can create your own blog for free and as an added bonus get free hosting too. Every website on the internet requires hosting. This is the remote server where your website is stored and if someone goes to their computer and types in your web address (URL) the host server will present your website to that person. Hosting typically costs about $10.00 a month. Click below for a hosting service used by 8 million websites.

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Wordpress is a web builder software and an excellent choice with over 60 million users. For more information on how to set up your own website just go to Google and type in "build a website." You'll be swamped! You also need a domain name. Every website needs one - without it nobody could ever find your site. There are many sites where you can register for one and they cost approx $12.00 a year for a “dot com” suffix (recommended). You should preferably sign up for at least 2 years.
OK. Very good so far. Now you have (or are creating) a website and it has a domain name and you have a server to host it for you. What next? How about a product to sell/promote? That's easy. If you don't have one go to Clickbank (free sign-up) and visit their "Marketplace." There you will find more than 10,000 digital products and you can become an affiliate for any of them at no cost.
Next? You will need CUSTOMERS! (usually called "traffic".) This is a major topic and is the make-break point for many marketers but we are not going to get into it in detail right now. There is however something your website will need to get ANY traffic. It's called a squeeze (or landing) page. This is where you capture the name and email of your visitor, add him to your list and eventually sell him a product. Once you start to build a list you have potential customers to communicate to and this can be done on automatic with the use of an auto-responder which is the software you use to communicate regularly to your growing list of customers - on autopilot! Typical cost is about $20 a month and there are many choices.
And one more thing!
You should have a free gift available to offer your visitor in exchange for his name and email (a little bribe.) Think you could create this yourself? If you are a newbie - maybe not, but you could go to http://www.elance.com and pay a freelancer about $20.00 to write one for you. Get a good one. Remember this is the first contact your prospect will have with you so make it worth his while because you want this prospect to trust you and become your customer, over and over.

All the gurus will agree: "The money is in the list!" The game really starts when you have a growing list to mail to.

 So... the cost of starting an internet marketing business? If you are frugal you could do it for under $100.00. This is outrageous compared to the cost of ANY other business start-up! What, no commute? No gas bill? No business suit? No office politics? No Office? No inventory? No support desk? No merchant account? No! None of these things are necessary if you are signed up as an affiliate.

 No wonder the Internet is growing so fast! Go for it!honest and trustworthy system and mentor go to:


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Finally a Guru you can Trust! - Guess who?

Why create your own website?

If you  google "free website" you will see there are plenty of ways to get a free website, and most of them also provide free hosting, so why bother to build your own? Actually this blog is one of them, provided by Blogger.com but I can tell you that what you can do with it is pretty limited .
At the other extreme  is a program like Dreamweaver that costs $300.00 and is hard to learn - definitely not for beginners. They are called HTML editors and you have to understand what you are doing to use one. The professionals use them to create sophisticated websites.

Using a basic program like Blogger.com is a good place to start. It gets you participating and started on the learning curve and it gives you a web PRESENCE quickly and for free and that is a thousand times better than "thinking about it!" But you want to make some real money online, don't you? If so you will, sooner or later, want to graduate to a full professional website and ultimately be able to create as many of them as you want.

If you plan to take this business (Internet Marketing) seriously rather than be a dabbling amateur you need to know how to build a real website, how to correct it if something goes wrong (and it does) and how to modify and fine tune it as you get feedback and make progress with your sales. If you have a techie oriented buddy you could get him to do it for you or just hire someone, but if you do that you will never fully understand your website, which can only lead to frustration and uncertainty.

It's like the difference between owning you car or house and renting one. Let's take an example from Auto Racing. Who is more likely to become the champion, the driver that can only 'drive like hell' or the driver that also fully understands the mechanics of his car and can nurse it across the line in third place and get those vital championship points? you get my point.

Now here is the GOOD news! It's not that hard to create a "proper" website, and you will feel so much better about this entire business opportunity when you do, and there is great satisfaction in admiring your own creation and knowing that you can tweak and improve it as necessary.
If your goal is to eventually have your own private ATM you would be well advised to find out how they work!

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Why create your own website?

This is a GOOD question! After all you can get a free website on the internet any day of the week so why go to the time and expense of building your own?

The answer is critical! Coming up in a day or so!

Brian WINGATE

No Online Sales Yet? - Want to know why?

Probably the main reason a new Internet Marketer isn't making any sales is because of a lack of overall plan and the understanding that it takes a process to get there. There are many processes or routes to online sales and no one of these is the only one or the only right one!

Here is a sample of one process to successful sales, proven to be workable over and over again.

1. Establish a web presence – website or blog.
2. Get a domain name for it and have it hosted on a server.
3. Go to a website like Clickbank and get signed up as an affiliate with a hot selling product - one you like.
4. Ensure your website has a landing or squeeze page so you can begin to collect names and build your list.
5. Write some articles and post them on the internet so you start to get some traffic.
6. Make sure your articles have a link back to your blog or website.
7. Get an auto-responder, watch some tutorials until you figure out how to use it and start sending emails to your growing list.
8. Get your first of many sales!

Now you must admit this is a simple and inexpensive process but if any of the above steps are missing – it won't work! And don't expect this to happen overnight. It may take you several weeks to do the above steps if you are doing it part time. I know we are all looking for instant gratification these days but that is a false hope and doesn't lead to wealth.

Just think of all the techniques I HAVEN'T mentioned! PPO, CPA, Joint ventures, Social Media, Keyword Research, Publishing E-books, etc, etc.

You see, a problem with beginners is they hear about all these more advanced techniques and believe they have to know it all before they can start. This would be like a trainee pilot needing to know instrument flying, night flying, navigation, aerobatics, formation flying, etc. before taking his first 10 minute solo flight! He'd never get off the ground.

The newbie is probably being bombarded daily with emails and sales videos from various gurus determined to sell them something at a time when their understanding is at a minimum and their hopes on a high! Kind of like a wide-eyed virgin walking into a military brothel! What this results in is LACK of FOCUS! It's easy to spend the bulk of your computer time reading your emails or worse, browsing around on Facebook. But does that get you any sales? Probably not. The way to get the sales flowing is to work on developing and improving your own site without spending too much time on other peoples (getting sales for them!)

By all means get some help and advice. Find a good teacher/mentor and stick with him. Develop a plan or follow his and start unsubscribing to the other 8 or 10 gurus who have you on their auto-responder and are going to hound you until you buy! You can't follow them all because they are all recommending different programs and you will be tempted to cherry pick what you think is the best from each of them and this will guarantee your failure!

The gurus love to promise you the “Internet Lifestyle” and brag about all the vacations they are taking. You could easily get the idea they do it all from the beach on some exotic island. The truth is more likely that they have been working on the internet HARD for quite a few years before they were successful and now they have an office and at least half a dozen staff helping them make their millions. Please don't buy into their fantasy world. I'm sorry to have to remind you but if you want the money you have to do the work!

Find a simple workable plan and FOCUS on it and you will do fine. Jump all over the place chasing the latest hot idea and you will get nowhere. Believe me – I tried it!

Brian Wingate

1 July 2012

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Online Marketing - No Sales Yet?

The above is the subject of my next blog - posting later this week We are going to look into this, isolate the most common problem and come up with a viable solution. And here is a hint. This is something most gurus don't want you to know.
Why?
Because as long as you are struggling and confused you will go on buying their products! But what happens when the money starts to roll in?  I HOPE  the first thing you will do is pay down and eventually pay off all your debts!  And then what?
Take off and have some fun! No need to go on buying more software etc, if the program you have is working - right!
Check back in a few days for the simple answer.

Brian Wingate
25 June 2012


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