Adventures In Internet Marketing: How I Fell For A Losers Deal And Still Came Out Ahead
I was new to internet marketing (still am), and leery of scams. But I was also eager to make money. After all thats the point, right? And so I was ripe for the picking.
The program looked very promising. It came with a friendly face. I would be able to make lots of money, and the site would be virtually free. And not only that. Everything would be done for me.
For someone who was still struggling with putting together her first website, this sounded almost too good to be true. As it turned out, it was.
Part of the reason I fell for it was that it appeared to be an affiliate program (or rather a whole network of them). I had just discovered those and was rather taken with them. As it turned out, though, the affiliate portion was really structured more like a multi-level marketing scheme. You have to fill up both legs of the pyramid in order to get any pay-out. And so on.
Hundreds of dollars later, I had received a check for a grand total of $11 (which was a partial rebate on my own purchase). It wasnt entirely the programs fault. I could have worked the...