Do you want to make money online? If you know anything about the topic, then you probably know about internet marketing. It's an incredible, wide-open playing field where there a many ways to make money - lots of money, if you know what you're doing.
However, many people who make the most are marketers who offer a product that will supposedly help you make money online. Now, there is nothing wrong with this. Quite the contrary: there are hundreds of decent courses, maybe even thousands, that will help you make money online if you just dedicate yourself to learning the system and actually applying it. Most people who do not make money online either give up too early, or simply buy one internet marketing product after another without fully implementing any of them, hoping for the magical lottery ticket that will make them cash effortlessly.
It doesn't work that way. You actually have to work. Not hard, necessarily, but you do have to put in a certain amount of effort.
But this article isn't about the hundreds of excellent products and marketers out there. This is about the scammers who are preying on desperate people's need to make a lot of money, and are too trusting when buying products.
Lately a whole rash of products have come out with telltale signs that they are bad news for buyers. Here are some of the warning signs:
- If a product claims you can make $400,000 profit in one month (or some other ridiculous figure in a short amount of time), it's probably bogus.
- If a product tells you repeatedly what it is NOT, but will not reveal what it IS, then that's a danger sign. Examples: products that say you can generate a ton of traffic to websites, but it's NOT Google! It's NOT Facebook! It's NOT pay per click! It's NOT email lists! But the site will never reveal what the 'secret' is until you buy it.
- Although you won't know this until you actually buy it, but if a product is very cheap (say, $37) but offers three, four, or five rapidly increasing upsells, then the initial product you bought is highly suspect. Upsells are nothing more than products that a seller offers when someone has bought an initial product, and it's a good business practice: "You want a hamburger? Well, would you like fries with that? How about a drink?" See, two upsells right there. And many legitimate internet marketing products have legitimate upsells. But when you see a $37 product with a $99 upsell, then a $267 upsell, then one for $497, then even possibly one for $1999, it's a fair guess that original $37 product is not very good.

