By Timothy Scutchfield
There are always wild stories circulating about overnight wonders that built a website and became instant multimillionaires. Those stories are myths. They aren’t true. Don’t believe a word of it! There is no such thing as instant online success, and believe me when I tell you that you ARE going to have to work for the money that you earn online.
Most of these myths contain a grain of truth. That grain of truth is used to make a totally ridiculous claim sound plausible. You need to always look below the surface.
Most of these mythical overnight-wonder myths come to new Internet marketers in the form of unsolicited e-mail. We call unsolicited marketing e-mails, SPAM. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 specifically forbids SPAM. Of course, only law-abiding citizens actually abide by laws, so as we all know, there is still SPAM and lots of it out there circulating around the Internet.
When you get e-mails that offer miracle overnight online success, ask yourself these four questions:
1. Does it promise money without work?
2. Does it promise money for doing simple and unimportant tasks like reading e-mail?
3. Does it sound too good to be true?
4. Does the “expert” fail to provide verifiable proof of their claims?
If you answer yes to any one of those four questions, delete the email, resist the ploy, and block the sender so your time won’t be used up with any more of the junk.
You’ll see offers online, too, that can look absolutely legitimate but that are in fact scams. For example, NOBODY can really guarantee to put your site in the top seven search results on search engines, NOBODY can show you how to make millions of dollars without lifting a finger, and NOBODY can show you how to become an overnight millionaire. Those are scams — all of them.
The fast way to earning a comfortable living online is to find a respected and successful internet professional and follow their formula. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. You just need to find a wheel that will work for you. Once you decide upon your expert, the next step is to read their articles and books; watch their videos and take their courses.
This method will give you a fighting chance to be successful online. And best of all, you won’t be wasting your time chasing work-at-home myths and scams.
Thank you,
Timothy Scutchfield
Contributing Editor
www.Top5OnlineJobs.com
